Howdy, and welcome to the new Community Bulletin page for the town of Leverite. We are still in the process of shifting management since the old “Uncle Jack,” Jack Winthrop, passed last year, and the new “Uncle Jack,” Jack Mason, didn’t want to carry on the responsibility of keeping everyone up on news and events. This is, of course, no failing on his part. It is a big task keeping up with all the goings-on around here, so the staff of the Leverite Historical Society applaud Uncle Jack for not biting off more than he felt he could chew. Our little town can get pretty big at times, and with friends and family spreading across the globe, you could say the whole planet is covered in Leverite.
Uncle Jack will still be offering up bits of reporting and doing fact checking work. So if something is incorrect or spelled wrong, he says you can blame him.
[edit: I never said that exactly -Jack]
With summer upon us, the Leverite Gem and Mineral Society will be holding a first-aid workshop for rockhounds, titled “Snakebite and Heatsroke” which will cover a wide number of emergency situations that can crop up when you’re in the field. The workshop is free and open to the public, and mandatory for Society members. Elain Keats said she would be really embarrassed if anyone died out there after they had invested the time and effort to put this material together, and felt it important to note that it doesn’t cover specialty subjects like “confined space entry” or “crocodile attacks.”
On the subject of minerals, Mayor Amundsen says that a sealed bid has been received on the property bordering the north end of the quarry. Even though the bid is sealed, sources close to the process say the interested party, a developer out of Colorado, has put in a five-digit offer against the parcel. When asked for comment, the mayor got rather grumpy, commenting that the walls in his office offered absolutely zero privacy. “I may as well sit out at Stumpy’s with The Council of Old Guys and let everybody else herd goats.” When asked for clarification on his statement, the mayor rolled his eyes and sighed before walking back into his office.
The Council of Old Guys these days is comprised of Art Song, Ken McKesey, Jack Mason, and Buster. Olaf Amundsen, the mayor’s brother, is a probationary member of sorts, but his lack of an opinion of the subject of the current gas prices in town has put him somewhat at odds with the group.
Officials with the Forest Service are once again issuing back-country passes to hikers and campers following the alleged bear-attack on the couple from Portland. The couple, JJ and Julie Dupres, where found bludgeoned to death and drowned near their campsite, their food and recent catch missing. Agent Selena Sun with fish and game said that “…while [this attack] looks like a textbook bear mauling, there have been no bears in this area for at least sixty years.” She added that it was probably the work of drug user or crazed serial killer lurking in the woods. Either way, it is best to carry flares and some kind of bear spray if you will be enjoying the sites along the river north of town for the next few weeks.
This issue of the community Bulletin is made possible by a generous gift from Edna’s Diner. Edna would like to remind you that Alexander was “The Great”, not for the good he did, but the number of nations he destroyed.
