Cattle folks will love this part of the plan...

[srkruzich]

   Do have any idea how things really work in Emergency Services? Or do you just listen to your own recycled rumors and crap stirrers who have something to sell.

Sure do, they close up shop over the weather!  LOL.  The folks out in the weather just shit out of luck.  But FEMA workers are sitting nicely in their luxury hotels

"My'' big brother Gov't? You are indeed a fool! Do you have any idea the lengths the fire companies have gone to, on their own time and money to set up outdoor cooking banks to feed people who are literally starving? Huge kettles of soup and chili etc.

Your absolutely right and they are getting cited by the health department for not wearing hair nets and carrying around meat thermometers out there in the elemnets!   Gotta love Big Governmnet regulations you know.

[Diane Amberg]

GRRRR. No local fire companies ever close up because of weather unless they were part of the emergency and got severely damaged as was the case with Sandy. If you think we sit around waiting for FEMA you are very wrong. I don't understand why you all are so hard on us. Most of us are unpaid volunteers who do what we can because we care.
Some of you don't get the difference between just sharing what's been going on, as is labeled in the one thread, or twisting things around, so no matter what I tell about I'm "bragging! Do you do that to your local people when they are singled out for awards? Are the 4-H kids" bragging" when they get their photos in the paper? The math and science and music winners? Are beautiful flower and bird photos bragging? I think not! Family photos? bragging? Really? Please note I have never posted a photo of anything from here! As much as I would like to, I know how rudely I would be treated!
You have people who don't live in Elk County who are free to post daily doings and photos of their garden etc. and I really  like
seeing them and hearing about their families and trips.
There has to be something terribly wrong with a few of you who have nothing better to do than try to bully me!
 Ross , I have no ties with the NW and we are a mid Atlantic state, hardly north of you at all...please get it right. Also tell me what I ate that was so funny.
 Jar, you "brag" about your homemade wine, your home made jerky and that crazy bunker. etc. so what's the difference? Why do you assume anyone is interested? You brag about your military service...and how long ago was that? Do you know the difference between bragging and justified pride? If you say something it's pride but if I do it's bragging? How rude! So you do things for others. I can't imagine why you wouldn't.
 I really do know what you few are up to and have been warned about it... and you would be amazed by whom. You figure if you insult me often enough I' ll slowly have nothing left I can safely write about and I'll  leave. Wrong!
 You are giving good examples of how to bully and show what the word "ridicule" means. I suspect you have some come- alongers in training out there and you are showing them how backward and immature some Elk Countians can be. You are very successful at it. Aren't you tired of this? Yes, this is off subject. Tough. Don't set standards for me that you don't adhere to yourselves.

[proelkco]

Good Post.

[Ross]

Good post, my eye, good crap is more like it.

Look at me I'm a hero, I volunteer, pat me on the back, that's what that;s about.

I'm working a major catastrophe by sitting on my fat butt counting donations. Wow I'm impressed.

I'm a volunteer for the fire dept, whoopie.

The firefighters out here in the wilderness are the real hero's they volunteer for the job and actually dawn the firefighting gear and and operate the equipment to put out fires.

The firefighters in the cities are paid good wages to do the samething. Hero's are not paid professionals, they are paid professionals with retirement benefits and health benefits and savings benefits.

Real hero's, are usually unpoken hero's that help their neighbors and never thing twice about it. Thanks for showing a real volunteer and hero Jarhead. Job well done. And it didn't take some fat cat and his organization to tell you to do it, so the organization could take credit for it.

I seen to remember konnected kounty kommissioner Hendricks NGO elk konnected, llc using Elk County Schools yearly program of the students doing community services by cleaning up the town, They tried to get West Elk to do it in howard for elk konnected, llc and they were turned down by the School. But wpouldn't that have shown good headlines for elk Konnected, llc for all the volunteer work of the kids. I think it would have.

No real hero's don't ask for praise, do they!

There has been an out pouring of help in Moline most people don't know about. I can't be specific because I don't have the right to expose anyone of the people that care and do out of love and caring. They know who they are and they know why they do it. And it's not for praise.

This is real volunteering and it is what mkes Elk County great, not some self serving NGO, not some headline in the news paper, it is the good people of Elk County.

And I am not talking about the self serving people of Elk County, but the quiet hero's of Elk County.

[Patriot]

Patriot,
To hell with Meatless Mondays----reading a pity pat party is lots more entertaining.
While I have your attention Patty---did I ever tell you I plow numerous gardens for people and do not charge them----use the 5 ft roto tiller on my baby tractor and till garden spots and never charge. Did I ever tell you I catch, filet, bag and give away probably a pick up load of fish every summer to elderly people that can't fish. Hell, while I'm patting myself on the back, did you know I have mowed more yards than I can count to help old people or people that are gone some where and their yards need mowed----for free !! I do cut the city out of money once in awhile because I bush hawg vacant lots and such---for free---to save the land owner from having to pay the city to do it. You know why you didn't know about any of this ? It's because that's what a lot of people in Elk county do to help their friends and the elderly and they don't need to announce to the whole world that they did volunteer work---they just do it and keep it to themselves. I would tell you about all the heads of hair my wife washes ,cuts and sets for free to women who are not able to do it but she aint a braggart like me so I won't---oh yea, she cuts their fingernails too---but don't tell anyone I said it.  Sorry I came across as wanting praise---I don't---just wanting to make a point

Well golly bee geebers, jughead.  I never knew you were so humble.  I guess there's a bunch of us radical bullies who need to look in the mirror and reevaluate our miserable, good for nothing lives.  Goodness knows that with people like you in the world, the rest of us just don't measure up.  Thank you so much for the glimpse into your life.  It's a valuable lesson to us all.  I would praise your wonderful deeds, but I know you aren't bragging or looking for credit... you're just trying to help us all see what greatness we could achieve if we would just invest the time & energy that you do in being a great human being.  Thanks.  We outsiders are forever indebted to special folks like you.

Maybe I'll start by appreciating the Meatless Monday people.  After all, they're just trying to save us from the evils of beef consumption.

[jarhead]

Quote from Diane:
Jar, you "brag" about your homemade wine, your home made jerky and that crazy bunker. etc. so what's the difference? Why do you assume anyone is interested? You brag about your military service...and how long ago was that? Do you know the difference between bragging and justified pride?


Diane, did you not read my post ? I plainly said I was a braggart so why are you so upset ?

Quote from Jarhead:
but she aint a braggart like me
PS:I will let you in on a little secret---I don't really have a bunker. It's just a plain ol storm shelter/ cellar---but don't tell Warph or Larry.

[Diane Amberg]

 Warning...off topic ..if you value your sanity, don't read! This is retort to some smart Alecs.
My fire company has all volunteer firefighters. None are paid ,not the chief or the officers or any of us, as I have told you before. Why do you deny it? Yes, I'm very proud of firefighters who go to a lot of personal risk, in our case for no compensation, and hundreds of hours of training away from their homes and families. If you don't see that as at least as valuable as cutting lawns for free then to H...with you.
  Newark is not a "Big City". We do have some first line paid EMTs because we are too busy now to do it with all volunteers any longer..so stuff it ya big dummy. You don't know what you are talking about...as usual.
 Sharing local fire stories, usually among ourselves, is just what all firefighters do. It's not a ploy for thanks.  You shooting
off your mouth doesn't make it so, either. We learn a lot that way, especially in regards to safety.
As I have said several times before, I have never been paid for anything I do for my fire company or local parks either.
I have never asked for, nor expected the recognition I've received over the years. Shouldn't I be pleased to be noticed? Why do you lie about it? Why does that make you so angry? It can't be anything but jealousy, now can it? Or maybe ya don't like getting older and are more insecure with your own abilities...is that it?  Ya can't do what you used to? hmmmm? You couldn't even pass the physical now could ya!?
There must be some reason why you make battering me around so important. Now I wonder what that could be? Some have made some suggestions to me about that, others are as puzzled as I am.
 We have only one fully paid fire company in the entire state and that's Wilmington Bureau of Fire. So what. A lot of Delaware is rural and has little fire Companies. So what?
Newark's fire district has a lot of rural area too. We cover about 28 square miles, including Newark proper.
   As far as other volunteering that goes on ,you don't know either because we don't talk about it anymore than you do .Big Whoop.Ya ain't that special! People everywhere should be helping each other. That's what good Americans  should be doing, isn't it?
 When you lose your life cutting someone's grass for free, I'll be impressed and send flowers. What you do of course is very nice and I'm sure is appreciated by the receivers of such work, but I didn't know it was a contest, especially such a dramatic one. There they go puffing up for each other again.
  Ask how many volunteer firefighters die each year trying to save lives and property. I know of none that plowed or hawged to death. . Just remember ,you are the ones making an issue of it. I've just been trying to have pleasant conversation for several years until you all put a stop to my ability to do so by loosing the hound dawgs of war on me.
Now, if you really think your local fire service and EMTs are such unsung heroes ,why does the one take his night shift on an old sofa when the other guy has a bunk? What kind of local support is that! That shows some appreciation doesn't it?   So yes, look in the mirror and see who is there! Blah,blah,blah
Ross, the families of the 343 really appreciate your loving attitude and firefighters don their gear they don't "dawn it'', although there have been some times when I did see the dawn come up after some very long nights.
Jar, I'm not the least bit "upset" with what you wrote. I find the non humiliating posts very interesting, but for some reason I'm not allowed to tell about what I've been doing, that's what I don't understand. Why should I have to fight for every word?
  If you aren't interested, just don't read it and leave the ones who do enjoy my posts alone!!  Why pick on them too? Ross was just very rude, without cause, to someone who liked my post. Was that to try to humiliate the writer... and then he says he wants people to post..Why ,to set up victims?  Are there no decent people left?

[jarhead]

Wow !! I tell Patriot about mowing yards and such---no mention of Diane at all---and now all this hate---because I mow some yards "then to hell with you " ??---I'm a" smart alec" for addressing Patriot---"stuff it ya big dummy" ??
Unbelievable !!
As for the "I know of none that plowed or hawged to death" then put a bunch of smiley faces after is is very rude and hurtful. Since you know of everything that goes on in Elk county I'm sure you were aware that my wife's uncle, Cleo, did loose his life from bush hawging, a few years back. He got wound up in the power take off. If you want to attack me it's OK but I think it's very cold hearted of you to attack my wife or her family that way when she has never done a damn thing to you.
Oh, and a plowing death? You might want to check with your "contacts" because just a few years ago I was 2nd on the scene to a local farmer near Oak Valley who was plowing and his tractor ran off a creek bank and over turned on top of him. I'm sure some of his relatives read this forum and take great offense to you thinking it is funny. Oh yea, the famer who was killed by his tractor---later his son lost his life to a hay baler. No, farming is not dangerous---so you stuff it !!

[Patriot]

... It can't be anything but jealousy, now can it? Or maybe ya don't like getting older and are more insecure with your own abilities...is that it?  Ya can't do what you used to? hmmmm? You couldn't even pass the physical now could ya!?...  When you lose your life cutting someone's grass for free, I'll be impressed and send flowers...  I know of none that plowed or hawged to death. .

Wow.

As for the "I know of none that plowed or hawged to death" then put a bunch of smiley faces after is is very rude and hurtful. Since you know of everything that goes on in Elk county I'm sure you were aware that my wife's uncle, Cleo, did loose his life from bush hawging, a few years back. He got wound up in the power take off. If you want to attack me it's OK but I think it's very cold hearted of you to attack my wife or her family that way when she has never done a damn thing to you.
Oh, and a plowing death? You might want to check with your "contacts" because just a few years ago I was 2nd on the scene to a local farmer near Oak Valley who was plowing and his tractor ran off a creek bank and over turned on top of him. I'm sure some of his relatives read this forum and take great offense to you thinking it is funny. Oh yea, the famer who was killed by his tractor---later his son lost his life to a hay baler. No, farming is not dangerous---so you stuff it !!

Ouch.  Damn Diane...  Looks like your mouth is overloading your &#! ...........  again.

I've just been trying to have pleasant conversation for several years until you all put a stop to my ability to do so by loosing the hound dawgs of war on me.

Ahhh, the victim cycle returns.  Diane... this must be yet another lack of self examination, because I see no 'hound dawgs of war' loosed on the 'all about me/personal story' posts that you regularly submit to the 'What are you doing for excitement' or games threads.  Of course, the former is where most of your life story should  be told... Politics really isn't the place... and never has been.

[Ross]

   Are there no decent people left?

Apparently not up there.

After all this is the Elk County Forum in Kansas and we mainly discuss what is happening here in this little county and you try to compare it to that metropolis of
New Castle County, Delawareand it's popuation of 541,971 which in no way compares to Elk County, Kansas population 2880 now does it?

Nor does Newark whose population is 31,454, does it, that far excedes the population of our whole county. The population of Newark is nearly 11 times that of Elk County. By the way a population of 31,454 is not considered a small town by any means in these parts. So, get real will ya?

New Castle County Government is the largest local government in Delaware. There are about 21 boards in your county and we only have one, the County Commissioners.

Newark is the home of the University of Delaware. We only have a High School.

Your county even has an ethics commisssion, something we could use I suppose.

Yoiur Community Voice in your City is at http://www.cityofnewarkde.us/CommunityVoice/Ideas?initiativeID=Quality-of-Life-Improvements-5#moreInfo perhaps you could communicate there improve your communities QUALITY OF LIFE and really make a difference in Delaware.?  And get and give some respect at home in Delaware. Maybe.