Start celebrating Father's Day on Saturday morning at Oak Hlls with 9:00 coffee, 10:00 tee time, great lunch, cash prizes and appropriate beverages courtesy Scheppers and Fechtel. Home well in advance of your own evening festivities and/or 5:00 Mass.
Three person scramble. $80.00 All proceeds go to lour ocal Kiwanis Club Projects for local kids.
Call Bryan 635-3084 or Oak Hills 645-6532 to reserve your slot.
The Jefferson City and Cole County Capital Improvement Sales Tax programs have been well supported by voters for thirty years, supplying essential infrastructure and equipment to the community.
I just wish they'd get that "capital" and "capitol" thing right on their signs !
The SQM Task Force reported this incident at the local Walmart. Do they really mean "40" . . . . . or something else ???
Misused apostrophes are fun to catch, but there is another Pervasive Punctuational Problem that is tearing at the foundations of Western civilization:
Superfluous Quotation Marks ("SQMs")
There are only two reasons to use quotation marks: (1) when you're actually quoting what someone said or wrote; and (2) when you're using a word in it's non-literal sense, e.g., someone "going nuclear" in public meeting, or a project being "in the ditch."
Lately I've seen many examples of quotation marks being used . . . for no reason at all. My first example is from son David at Mizzou. During the film festival this weekend he caught a "twofer." An AP violation and an SQM.
This New York Times article documents a phenomenon I observed just today. I was looking at a problem parking easement with a 65 year old client and he concluded by telling me it would be "way cool" if I could figure out what he should do.
Background: he has a young adult daughter.
The times article cites a Journal of Voice piece that studied "uptalk" and "vocal fry" as discenable trends.
Some friends have stored a few things with us, possibly to be transported to their new Virginia home when we travel there for a family wedding in the Spring.
I've pondered the label on this bag for several days.
Why is there an exclamation point? The friends are very literate. One is a journalist. The punctuation could not have been accidental.
Should I peek inside?
OK, then TAKE THE TEST.
Here's the real question: If you score less than 50% are you qualified to vote ???????
High Street Beat is the personal weblog of John Landwehr, a partner at Cook Vetter Doerhoff & Landwehr and a former Mayor of Jefferson City. Your comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.