Lake Village Gazette

A whale of a story If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her . a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed gently around-she th...

4) The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an xceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates built the US Railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have be...

Hi everyone We have 210 fires here in Florida, over 43,000 acres have burned. Tuesday, we had smoke here at Lake Village, but not today. We had a great sunset Tuesday evening, a bank of clouds with a thin space just above the water. So, the sun went behind the clouds, but then peaked out in the thin space just before setting! 3) Now we have an early named storm. A subtropical one, Andrea is coming our way. All we should expect is some much needed rain. Now Alligator Alley is closed due to fires. 4) Does anyone know of a day-old bread store in Sarasota? I heard it is pepperidge farm outlet 'somewhere' off Beneva. 6) Having trouble canceling commercial mail addressed to the dead? Now there's help: the Direct Marketing Association's Deceased Do Not Contact List. Register the deceased person's information for $1 online at https://preference.the-ma.org/cgi/ddnc.php. Or write DMA at P. O. Box 1270, Carmel NY 10512. INclude the name, date of death, your name, ...