Culver

Rebuilding Together Thank You

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We received a nice letter from Rebuilding Together today thanking us for our assistance to the Culver Lions Club.  One of the hardest workers in the Culver Lions Club is Leroy Bean and he is a former ECC employee.  Currently Will Pearson in our office is a member of the Lions and has helped them with recommendations and estimates for a home here in Culver.  We have loaned tools for the project and put them in touch with reputable sub-contractors for some of the work.  Over the years we have also served as a storage facility for excess materials that the Lions have accumulated for use on projects such as these.  We’re happy to be able to help them with this effort.  The work they are doing is admirable.  To steal the Culver Chamber of Commerce’s tag line, the Lions and the work they do in Culver are things that makes Culver “A Nice Place to Be”.

CCMS Career Day 2010

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April 23rd was Career Day at Culver Community Middle School.  As discussed here earlier, I volunteered to speak as a Landscape Architect since April is National Landscape Architecture Month.  The schedule called for me to speak to five different groups of kids in 20 minute time slots. 

Speaking for 20 minutes wasn’t really a big deal, though it was hard to decide what level of detail would be interesting to 7th graders.  Of course the nightmare scenarios were 1)  a sea of blank staring faces or; 2)  a horrible reinactment of “Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader” with me as the brunt of the joke.  As it turned out, the worst part was a planning mistake on my part.  I was right that 20 minutes of material wasn’t a big deal, but by the time I was doing the third presentation I began to forget whether I was repeating myself since I remembered saying it before to the previous group.  By the end, I also realized that I wasn’t used to  talking that much!  My throat was actually a little dry and scratchy.

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In a Magnanimous Fit…

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I got an email from ASLA last Friday suggesting that I volunteer to speak at the local school since April is Landscape Architecture Month.  In what must have been some kind of a magnanimous fit I fired off an email to the Culver School Superintendent volunteering to do just that.  Wouldn’t you know it, April 23rd is Career Day at the the Culver Middle School and they were thrilled to hear that I was volunteering to speak that afternoon.  Five 20 minute rotations of about 15 students each.  Wow…

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Jack Jordan

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Becky and I were invited to a meet & greet fundraiser for Jack Jordan at the home of Carol & John Zeglis last week.  Carol and John are always wonderful hosts and make everyone welcome.  There were a lot of new faces there, but it was still a comfortable setting.

Jack Jordan

Jack and his wife,  Hope, were very personable.  He has the basic Republican positions, but with a strong “anti-politician” message.  One of his issues is term limits and he has promised no more than three terms.  I wish I could believe in that… I want to believe in that…  It seems though, that those that run for political office quickly become  politicians.  The number of incumbent politicians that believe in term limits is significantly less than those using that platform plank in their first run for office. 

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