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Best In State

This is brother Mark (center) receiving the award for Best Water Operator in the state of Illinois for 2010.  This award was from Illinois Rural Water Association which had its annual conference in Effingham in late February.  Once back in Aledo, the city officials were kind enough to throw a bash for him.  Nice thing to happen to you, to be recognized for your work throughout the state.  Congratulations, Mark.  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

As luck would have it he and several Oakview Country Club members flew to St. Petersburg last week for a weeklong golfing trip.  Brendan, Rachel and I drove up to the Holiday Inn where they were staying to spend a couple hours with Mark and some of his comrades.  I was able to get his autograph, on my bill.  Thanks for the fun night and the autograph.

Oh, yes, and I knew him back when he was a snot-nosed cry baby.


Oh, and an entry to the blog that will make no sense to anyone except the two of us.




Watch the Soviet ambassador — the guy in the black Homburg and overcoat off to the left of the screen — at about 3:10 he begins to lose it watching Sellers improvise much of this scene and you can see he’s barely able to keep from laughing.  Oh, and Mark, Seller's Colonel Mandrake was a takeoff on Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai.

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