Culver Coffee Company Oktoberfest Beer Garden
This Saturday, October 19 from 6-midnight is our OKTOBERFEST BEER GARDEN at the Brockey Insurance Parking Lot. This is what’s in store!
- 6:00-8:00 Live Entertainment-Hutch!
- 8:30-11:30-Live Entertainment by Acoustically Speaking!
- Randy’s Famous Brats! And the ‘heart-attack special’ burger that he says you won’t want to miss!
- Firepits, Hay Bales, Pumpkins Galore
- BEER AND WINE! Including our local brewery- Evil Czech’s beer in the mix!
It’s going to be the biggest and best beer garden yet, you won’t want to miss it!
Come check out our addition to a great fall festival weekend in Culver. Our 7th Annual Oktoberfest Beer Garden is sure to be a memorable one!
“The Culver Coffee Company” & “Brockey Insurance”
MUST BE 21 or Older with Valid ID
Cover Charge of $3 from 6-10
* This post is reprinted from an email from The Culver Coffee Company and is posted here in support of their local business.
What’s a WECS?
Depiction of the large scale WECS’s that the Concerned Citizens protested at the County Level
Representatives from the Concerned Property Owners of Marshall County requested that Culver change their zoning ordinance regarding WECS’s and as a result, the Culver Plan Commission held a Public Hearing on an ordinance change at their August 2013 meeting. (WECS is the acronym for Wind Energy Conversion Systems and applies to any device that takes wind energy and converts it to usable forms of energy.) The initial request was for Culver to match the County’s zoning requirements which currently bans commercial WECS’s and allows residential systems with a Special Use Permit in selective zoning districts. Unfortunately audience members requested that the ordinance be tweaked to further restrict residential systems as well. At that time I spoke up and reminded the Plan Commission that they had recently created an A1 – Agricultural District with the intention of mirroring Marshall County’s A1 district. This was done to eliminate discrepancy protests to extending our Territorial Authority. The Commission agreed with my argument but still had some reservation so they decided to table the issue.
At the September Culver Plan Commission meeting the topic came up again. Russ Mason, Building Commissioner, had conversations with some farmers and had made some minor tweaks to the height restrictions for WECS’s. Audience members also spoke up and protested the allowance of WECS’s in residential areas even under the special use requirements. I again spoke up with two points:
Audiologist Humor
I was at an Audiologist conference with my wife, Becky, the last few days. Below’s a sample of Audiologist humor from the Resound blog. You’ll see what I’ve been putting up with for the last few days. Putting up with it at a resort retreat wasn’t bad though. If I’d been healthy it would have been better. I came down with a cold the day before we left and I’m still fighting it now. Unfortunately for Becky, all of her quality time with me has resulted in her catching it now too.
One thing I’ve decided. Audiologists like corny jokes… and Alcohol… Lots of Alcohol! So here you go…
Audiologist Pick-up Lines:
- Want to come over and study forced oscillation and resonance factor?
- Trust me, I am a doctor.
- I bet no one can put you in a supine position faster and better than me.
- Want to learn the log roll?
- Two words: Fixation denied.
- Ask me about down ten up five
- I know the Sabine’s Reverberation Equation. Want to come and test it out in my boudoir?
- We do it periodically with frequency and great amplitude.
- Between you and me, we can make Longitudinal waves and Transverse waves.
- Let’s measure how loud and how far your voice can propagate via simple means of compression and rarefaction.
- Bone oscillation. Need I say more?
- Audiology. We bring the “Oooo?!” in Otolaryngology
- Allow me to find your natural frequency
- Does the word tinnitus ring a bell?
- Someday I will find the cure to tinnitus (that ringing noise you hear in your ears) and win the “No Bell” prize.
Creative Electrical Follow-up
I got the picture to the right from my cousin, Joe Easterday at Van Haren Electric, after he saw the previous post. He said this was sent to him by one of his electrician friend when he was working at Gaylor Electric. It is amazing what some people think is acceptable…
Too many novices take electricity for granted and don’t realize the risks involved.
Creative Electrical Repairs
Damaged Electrical Box I Reported
I pulled into a client’s facility a month or so ago and noticed an electrical box that had been knocked loose. I know how these things can be overlooked. Sometimes they are noticed, but then forgotten by the time you walk inside where something could be done about it. I snapped a picture, sent it to my contact and suggested that we could fix that for them since it was a code violation and potential safety issue. We weren’t called, but someone “repaired” it. While the solution was creative, it doesn’t exactly meet code.
Someone’s Zip Tie Solution
Let us help you with simple electrical maintenance issues like this. Creative electrical repairs are generally frowned on by code officials. Something like this is a safety and liability issue. It’s not the best place to skimp. A “solution” like this can actually increase liability! If something happens now, there is no doubt that someone knew the problem existed.
