May 2010 Newsletter
Calendar of Events…
May 3 - City Special Meeting 7:00 p.m. - Council Chambers
May 4 - Ambulance Meeting 6:00 p.m. - Ambulance Bldg.
May 7 - Chamber of Commerce 7:00 a.m. - Feeding Station
May 10 - Jaycee Club Meeting - Jaycee Club
May 11 - Park and Rec. Meeting 7:00 p.m. - Council Chambers
May 11 - Senior Pinochle - Tekoa Community Church
May 12 - Tekoa Fair Association 7:30 - Prairie Grain Office
May 17 - City Council Meeting 7:00 p.m. - Council Chambers
May 25 - School Board Meeting 7:00 p.m. - District Board Room
May 27 - Distribute Commodities 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - City Hall
May 31 - Ambulance Board Meeting 7:00 p.m. - Ambulance Bldg
++Notices++
~Special City Council Meeting on Monday, May 3, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the
City Hall Council Chambers.
~CITY HALL WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY, MAY 31, FOR
MEMORIAL DAY.
~Feral Cat Solutions Trap, Neuter & Return Program of Humane Society of the
Palouse in Moscow, Idaho. SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC: MAY 9, 2010. For Feral
(wild) & barn cats ONLY. No house cats allowed. Cost is $25.00 per cat. Includes
spay/neuter, FeLV/FIV test, FVRCP/rabies vaccines, & ear tipping for identification.
Advanced reservations necessary. Email hsopfcs@gmail.com or 509-334-7099.
~The Tekoa High School Class of 1950 has plans in place for their 60th class reunion.
It will be held during Slippery Gulch Days, on Saturday June 19. Organizer Tim Daily
of Portland Oregon has directed his fellow graduates to meet for dinner and a
program at the Airport Ramada Inn of Spokane on Friday night. The next morning,
they will ‘hitch up their buggies’ and head for Tekoa for breakfast and the annual
graduates ride down Crosby Street, during the Slippery Gulch parade. Tim’s hopeful
they will all join in this fun summer event. For more information,
call him @ 503-252-2006. Class of 1950 will see you soon.
~Farmers Market~
If you are in the market, (no pun intended), to buy fresh farm eggs, honey,
bedding plants, bird houses, crafts, produce, etc., the 1st Saturday Market is the
place to be. Starting May 1, and every succeeding first Saturday of the month, all of the
bove and more will be offered at the market. Amy Warwick will be at the June Market
to sell and sign her book. The market will be on the corner of Crosby and Warren from 9 to 1. We still have room for more venders. Call Sandy DeHan at 284-2313, or email at sdehan@msn.com. See you on May 1st!!!!!
COMMUNITY CLOSET
N. 404 Fairfield
May 11 and 25 - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
May 18 - 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
June 8 and 29 - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
June 15 - 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
FREE CLOTHING FOR ALL!!
WATER CONSERVATION TIP FOR MAY ~ To save water and money, try
washing the car on the lawn! You get the grass watered and the car cleaned at the same time. Also, the soap in the water gets rid of some pesky bugs!
~Messages from the Mayor~
Are you ready for some sunshine? That thing about April showers is holding true….
only now with the wind. We can be thankful, however, that we are not encountering
floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and the drought!!
I’m not sure what this all has to do with business at City Hall, except I really don’t
have a lot to report this month.
We applied for an airport grant that would improve the road entering the facility, as
well as developing a model of what the airport could look like once the recently
acquired acres are incorporated into the airport facility. Airport grants require the
city to pay 5% of the total cost of any development. Consequently, it’s hard to
pass up opportunities to upgrade the airport.
The city crew (Duane and Rob) are planning to lay some water lines this summer.
The plan was initially to contract this type of work, but the costs are totally
unreasonable. We are going to do as much as possible each summer, knowing
ultimately we will need to contract out that portion of replacing water/sewer
lines that require tearing up main streets in town. We will know this month (May)
if our grant to upgrade the reservoir and replace well #2 is accepted. These projects
will only be a minimum cost to the city.
It’s not that I haven’t enough to do, but I recently read through Tekoa’s Comprehensive
Plan that was prepared in 1981, during Don Prince’s administration.
(What a lot of work!!) According to this plan, there is a process we are supposed
to follow for things like land sub-division, for example. We probably should
have been familiar with this document a long time ago. However, there are
some very interesting facts in this plan that I bet few people know. For instance,
before our town was called Tekoa, what was its name? First one to call
City Hall (284-3861) with the right answer will have his/her name in next
month’s newsletter!!
Now, on to Slippery Gulch. By the way, does anyone really know how our
celebration day got its name? Again, call City Hall! It now appears certain we
will have a grass volleyball tournament made up of teams of 2 or 4 individuals.
More information will be forthcoming. Angie Rambo reports that the dessert
auction, to help finance our fireworks display, is May 15, at the J.C. Club.
A Sloppy Joe dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7:30, and the dessert auction
will start at 7:30. There will be a live and silent auction. Lou St. John reports
that there will be a roping event at the arena, both on Saturday and Sunday.
*The fireworks dessert auction date has been changed to Friday, June 4. The time is still as scheduled.
I will end my newsletter with two reminders: First, be looking for two new
signs entering Tekoa. Also, our engineering firm will talk about the future of our
waste water plant at the May 3 City Council Meeting. It’s important that Tekoa
residents understand the predicament we are in, both with our water and waste
water systems.
The float preview will be sometime during the week of May 10. Watch
the reader board.
From your Rambling Mayor….
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