GRINS and GRIPES
Delighted or dismayed by something in your community? Share your thoughts in
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The woman and her son in the back Suburban who stopped on 1-73 to check on me after I had blown out my tire. That was very kind of you, and you put a smile on my face! Jessie, who found my driver’s license, which apparently dropped out of my pouch while I was on the A&Y Greenway, and mailed it to me. I had been looking all over for it, and am super appreciative to have it back. All the people who stopped to see if my husband was OK after he had come off his bicycle on Witty Road on
the morning of Friday, July 16. We are both very grateful. Oak Ridge Fire Department for clearing the entrance to my driveway when a big limb fell across it Saturday (July 17). Elizabeth at Bugle Boy Farm. We love your eggs and blueberries – and they’re even delivered to our door! Thank you for serving our community with your working farm. You are what makes Summerfield special. All my neighbors on Brookbank Road who are proudly flying those beautiful American flags. Oak Ridge Fire Department’s Captain Wyatt and the crew he sent to our
home to install two additional smoke detectors in two rooms with very tall ceilings. They were thorough and very respectful of our home during the installation. GreenGo Buggies. Congratulations on your expansion! Thank you, also, for revitalizing a building in our Summerfield community and bringing life back into that section of U.S. 220 that needed some TLC. The nice man who stopped his car to help me when I turned my cart over and fell at the Lowes Foods’ shopping center. Your kind gesture meant so much to me! The cyclist gripe from the last issue, “Cyclists who... well, just cyclists.” I’ve been reading this paper for eight years and I’m a cyclist myself. That was the funniest gripe I have ever read!
The lousy person who stole the catalytic converters off of the Laugh & Learn Child Care Center bus. Those children rely on field trips four days a
week and you took that from them. Shame on you! Banks that try charging a fee for cashing their own checks! Just say: “I’m sorry, I do not consent to that. I require the full amount I’m due, as specified in the check that I have presented.” Works every time! Summerfield Fire District and town council. Do you think building a new water tank system in town will be less expensive than using the hydrant at Creative Leadership to fill the water trucks, as you do now? Editor’s note: We reached out to Summerfield Fire Chief Chris Johnson to give him an opportunity to respond to this gripe and here is what he wrote: “The money that would be used to build these water tanks would be money already allocated by the state to the towns and not all from Summerfield taxpayers. There are other factors that must be considered. Because fire grows so rapidly, the goal is to get water and personnel on scene ASAP. The reason we utilize the hydrant at Creative Leadership is because it only
