Dr. Iron and Missouri News

First, if you read this anywhere near Memphis, Doug and Bonnie left yesterday for Memphis. They will spend the week overseeing the construction and installation of a fountain at the National Metals Museum. So if it is convienent you might stop by later in the week to see how things are going. I will post photos once they return to Lesterville.

Second, you would have to live in some place like Lesterville not to know about all the legal/political fighting going on over Ameren and DNR. The News-Leader in Springfield stated that Nixon was off the case and the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis ran a story that Nixon says he is still on the case. Here is Reynolds County we only get a local paper once a week (Thursday) and I'll bet it take at least another week for a small article, but we'll know right away who the new third grade teacher is in Lesterville.

Except for those people that want to see Ameren brought to their knees, I don't think most local folks care about all this. We would like to see the state park back to normal and the mess at Taum Sauk cleaned up. I think most local folks are even infavor of rebuilding the upper reservoir and getting the plant back in operation. What we would like most is for life in paradise to get back to normal.