Friday, August 19, 2011

Potluck #20

Thanks everyone for your visitations and postings!

Just putting up another Potluck to get one on the front page.

It smells like Up Dog around here.

What's Up Dog?

Not much, what's up with you?

22 comments:

Donna Wilson, Color Guard Coach said...

What's up.....let me tell you what's up. It is so good to see the kids all excited to be back together at school. Band camp, football camp, cheerleading camp. Nice to see their smiling faces again. They are a great bunch of kids filled with pride to be a Bulldog. It is my honor and privilege to coach some of the best members of the Morrisville community.

Jon said...

Yeah Donna! That makes my day brighter.

Anonymous said...

Cops: Burglary suspect leaps handcuffed into river

Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:00 pm | Updated: 7:56 pm, Fri Aug 19, 2011.
By BEN FINLEY and GEORGE MATTAR Staff Writers | 4 comments
MORRISVILLE — A handcuffed burglary suspect escaped police custody Friday afternoon and leaped into the Delaware River, leading to a dramatic capture on an island 30 yards from shore.
Fire rescue boats carrying cops and a K9 dog, named Jessie, motored to the spit of brush and trees, which is between the Calhoun Street and the Trenton Makes bridges. The man was captured as police officers shouted at him and dozens of people watched from the top of Morrisville's dike.
Morrisville police Officer Bill Smith, who was one of the cops who captured the suspect, suffered heat exhaustian and a leg injury, Morrisville Lt. Tom Herron said. Smith was taken to a local hospital but is doing fine, Herron said.
The suspect, identified as Emanuel Haskins, 41, was taken to an area hospital after he said he was injured, Herron said. He faces a slew of charges, the lieutenant said.
The incident began shortly before 2 p.m., Herron said, at the Colonial Gardens apartments. A resident there called 911 to report a burglar in the house.
Morrisville police Officer Bo Luna was one of the officers who responded. He encountered Haskins, who was carrying a television and matched the description of the burglar, at Crown Street and Trenton Avenue, a block from the river and on the opposite side of the borough from where the burglary occurred, Herron said.
Luna asked Haskins why he was carrying the television. Haskins allegedly said he was just evicted from his house.
After being handcuffed, Haskins took off, Herron said.
Minutes later, Herron and Smith spotted him near the canal. They chased him but he ran into the Delaware Canal to get away, Herron said.
The chase led to the river, which was the only place for Haskins to go to avoid capture, Herron said.
Jesse Wright, a Morrisville resident, was driving by and said he saw the suspect standing in the Delaware, which was waist high.
"The cops were yelling for him to come to the shore," Wright said. "From my perspective, it looked like he was still trying to get away. He tripped, and then got up again."
Eventually, Haskins waded to the island.
The effort to capture the suspect soon involved police from Falls, Lower Makefield, Trenton and the Pennsylvania State police as well as the Morrisville, Yardley-Makefield Falls and Trenton fire companies.
At least two fire company Jet Skis and two larger fire boats entered the river. One, carrying police and the dog, landed on the small sliver of land jutting from the river where Haskins was waiting.
Amid several shouts from police, the man was wrestled into the boat.
"The river is never the answer," Herron, the Morrisville lieutenant, said about an hour later. "It really isn't."

angryyet.net said...

wow Morrisville you really have your hands full with this board don't you. keeping up with your blog and your board videos is a fulltime job. good luck you will need it but angry says seems you need some changes in november, what are you comtemplating? www.angryyet.net

Anonymous said...

This might as well be Morrisville. Angry has a point. For once, let's elect responsible people in Morrisville.

"Deaths reveal a small town's mean streak"

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/21/mesquite.murder.suicide/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Anonymous said...

Kudos to the Morrisville Police on that risky capture!
Kudos too on the idea electing responsible thoughtful intelligent non-mean-spirited people who can communicate openly. Especially on the school board. Don't be fooled --- it's only happening a little bit now because they're pandering ---- feeling the pressure of their bad decisions and there's an election coming up.

Wanda said...

Regular business meeting of the school board is Weds 7:30pm in the LGI room at high school. There are many things on the agenda...watch the video from last wednesdays agenda meeting on mv.org so you know what the board will be approving/voting on. SEe you there

Wanda said...

Tech school Joint school board meeting is tonight at BCTHS 7:30pm Wistar Road Levittown, Conf. room, 1st building on your right pulling into main driveway

Anonymous said...

Heads up to anyone who is collecting SS disability.

http://news.yahoo.com/social-security-disability-verge-insolvency-090119318.html

Anonymous said...

Hopefully this was not survey of the MSD school bored.

http://failblog.org/2011/08/22/epic-fail-photos-probably-bad-news-thats-almost-three-quarters-of-the-population/

wanda said...

I attended the Tech joint board meeting tonight- some highlights:

Marlis Mihok sat in for Jack Buckman as Morrisvilles rep.

2011-12 enrollment total= 1408 students 9-12 (up from last year but does not say by how much)

Morrisville sending 51 but had 56 slots open to fill. There were other applicants from morrisville but not going for various reasons (you will have to ask your board why)

$21,534.51 budget was approved (morrisville voted no)

PIA committee reported- they did a survey re: their freshman academy. 1089 students responded. 89% said the 9th grade experience is important. 81% said it helped them pick their careers by exploring all options. 86& said 9th should stay as is, Tech to remain comprehensive high school 9-12. They received even more Parent surveys back and those numbers were even higher than the kids, in the 90%'s for keeping it 9-12. The balance of kids said they would enroll in Tech no matter what grade it started in.

Teachers took a 2 year pay freeze.

Next meeting 9/26/11 7:30pm

another respectful meeting held by BCTHS, all boards and admin working together, respectful of each others opinions, thoughts and ideas.

there is much more in their agenda booklet which is an impressive document by itself, articles on students achievements, highlights on articles in paper, upcoming events. you name it, its in there.

Wanda said...

Morrisville School Board business meeting to be held this Weds, 8/24, 7:30pm in LGI room

Anonymous said...

From the other thread:"Lack of trust is a BIG problem. Their answers might work on somebody who isn't following things, but among people who are more involved, you'll hear about a big credibility gap that's especially prevalent among the current board members up for election/re-election."

Credibility gap? It's more of a canyon, perhaps an abyss. The prevarications perpetrated by certain individuals undermines all trust in the local governmental bodies of Morrisville. It's enough to create the apathy that seems to infect so many in this town. Whoever assumes the mantle of leadership will be a villain to enough people that the brush tars all liberally. "Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss."

Anonymous said...

Nobody's perfect, but most current school board members are so far from it that it's almost ...

Path-o-log-i-cal
1. of or relating to pathology
2. altered or caused by disease; also: indicative of disease
3. being such to a degree that is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal [a pathological liar] [pathological fear]

I don't think the "new boss" would be the same as the "old boss" in this case.

Especially when there are only 4 opposing candidates running for 6 open seats on a 9 member board.

angryyet said...

Angry says morrisville cant you see through that rose colored glass push through the fog make em answer you make them include you its hard to read these things and see your town keep goen down it doesnt have to be that way www.angryyet.net

Jon said...

Wanda, thanks for the update on the Tech School meeting. Just 1 clarification. When you said:

"$21,534.51 budget was approved (morrisville voted no)"

I think you meant $21,534,573. See 7/3/2011 BCCT article below.


Morrisville rejectsTech School budget for 2011-12

Posted: Sunday, July 3, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 9:37 am, Sun Jul 3, 2011.

Morrisville rejectsTech School budget for 2011-12
By GEMA MARIA DUARTE
Staff writer Calkins Media, Inc. | 0 comments

MORRISVILLE SCHOOLS — The Morrisville School District didn’t approve the Bucks County Technical High School budget for the upcoming school year.

“The total tech school budget for 2011-12 was $21,534,573,” Paul DeAngelo, Morrisville’s business administrator said. “(The) total district share was $18,258,957; Morrisville’s portion was $930,293.”

All board members voted not to approve the budget at last week’s school board meeting, except for school director Gloria Heater. She was absent.

The district has been holding payments for months, because officials believe the tech school is overcharging. The district was charged about $740,000 for the 2010-2011 school year.

But at Wednesday’s meeting, the board voted in favor of making a $522,027 payment “in good faith.”

Jon said...

Also, as I noted in a 7/2/2011 post:

This year's tech school budget = $21,534,573

Last year's tech school budget = $22,513,051

Change = DOWN $978,478 (-4.35%)


My point: When you hear someone say the Tech budget never goes down, and Tech enrollment never goes up, know that they're full of it and spewing bogus rhetoric. We should be able to have a rational discussion about issues without resorting to untruths as a way of life.

Jon said...

Did anyone see this article in the Sunday Phila. Inquirer about a bill in the PA legislature to limit lame-duck school board decisions?

http://articles.philly.com/2011-08-21/news/29911932_1_board-election-board-members-board-meeting

Jon said...

This was an interesting one too.

Corporations may be people, but they bleed green
August 21, 2011
"Corporations are people, my friend."
- Mitt Romney, Aug. 11
Stephen Baker is a former Business Week senior writer
I've been thinking about people I know. Apple comes to mind. It's terrific at electronics and has a great eye for design. It's far richer than everyone in my neighborhood.
Another person I've known for years is General Motors. It almost died a while back.
Enron, which passed away in 2001, wasn't an especially nice person, or an honest one. But people will be people.
You might find this hard to believe, but these people need money more than we do. For them, it's like oxygen or food. If they come up short, they get eaten or die. So you really can't blame them for laying us off, slashing our benefits, or moving our jobs offshore. They do it to survive.
On the other hand, you shouldn't take them too seriously when they talk about, say, clean air or childhood nutrition. If anything threatens to cost money, they tend to be against it, because every dollar they lose puts these people closer to extinction.
Now, there was a time when the government was considered a person, or at least "the people." It looked out for the population's welfare and education. It built roads and chipped in for retirement.
This turned out to be an enormous, expensive job, and we soon began hearing that government's taxes and regulations got in the way. If it didn't back off, people like GE and Exxon Mobil would take their jobs elsewhere. Government was no longer the people but rather a thing - a bad thing, at least for certain people.
Fortunately, government is run by politics, and politics runs on the stuff these people are built to amass: money. So these people can weigh in, investing in politicians who see things their way. Their argument is simple: If they aren't free to make lots of money, they'll go somewhere where they can, leaving us in bad shape. The best way for them to make money is to shrink this thing - the government - that has its hand in their pockets and writes irksome rules.
Money is so important to these people that it can cloud their judgment. A decade ago, many of them chased the illusion of ever-expanding wealth and ended up making a boatload of bad bets. Two of these folks, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, were eaten. A third, Lehman Bros., died. Others faced grave danger and threatened to carry the economy down with them.
So these people held their noses and asked the despised government to save them. The government borrowed trillions of dollars to do just that and avert economic collapse. Yet that rescue appeared to make the government even more dangerous. It now was deeper in debt, which meant it might have to raise taxes on the very people it rescued.
Fortunately, these concerned people got relief from the courts. Early last year, the Supreme Court ruled that everyone - all kinds of people - should benefit from the First Amendment right to free speech, which included giving unlimited and secret campaign contributions.
Given this opportunity, some people had more money to give to politicians than the rest of us. And naturally, the first Congress elected after this ruling tended to its patrons' interests. Who wouldn't? It promptly carried the battle to its donors' enemy - the government - and came within a whisker of starving it of funding.
In the end, it appears, government of the people, by the people, and for the people might not perish from the Earth. But it will be brought to heel by and for a different kind of people. And now some folks, like Exxon Mobil and Microsoft, have a higher credit rating than the U.S. government. You might call it a people's victory.

Wanda said...

COLLECTION OF TOILETRIES FOR HOMELESS VETERANS

For the month of August, disposable razors, deodorant, baseball caps and snacks specific for diabetics will be collected at the following locations:

Morrisville Free Library Burns Pharmacy
Mannino’s Pizza Anthony’s IV Pizza & Pasta
Sam’s Plaza Shoe Repair (Giant shopping center)

Last date for the collection will be at the Mayor’s Picnic on Labor Day. Items will be donated to Stand Down 2011. Volunteers are needed for Stand Down (weekend of 9/9-11 at 7321 New Falls Road, Levittown) - contact Ed Speller, Chairman, at 267-560-5011.


MORRISVILLE ZUCCHINI 500 RACE
Monday, September 5, 2011
Children and adults can take part in the first inaugural zucchini race held during the Mayor’s Labor Day Picnic on Labor Day at Williamson’s Park. Zucchinis will be available for 60 contestants. Space will be provided to decorate your racer on-site. All entries must be at the track by 12:30PM for the 1PM race! For more information, visit MorrisvilleFirst.com or the community TV channel 22.


MORRISVILLE COMMUNITY FLEA MARKET & YARD SALE
Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 8AM-2PM (rain date 10/1)
Flea Market: Vendors wanted!! $15/10x10 space at a great location: Elks Lodge parking lot at 835 West Bridge Street – just off Route 1! Raffle baskets and 50/50 will be available.
Residents: For $2, have your address listed on a map of active yard sales! (Deadline for map entries is September 16th.) The free maps will be made available at the flea market, Morrisville Library, Borough Hall and local Morrisville businesses.
To register or for more information, contact Susan Krushenski, 215-932-971 or mvfirstevents@gmail.com

Wanda said...

ALL YEARS MORRISVILLE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION---

Bring your Chair and your cooler to Williamson Park (The Island) on Delmor Avenue in Morrisville, PA on October 1, 2011 for the First All Years Morrisville High School Reunion social.

Gathering starts at 1pm until dusk. Come out and reminisce, enjoy live music and old friends, no matter the year, don't let this event pass you by.

Any local businesses interested in donating food, door prizes, coupons in exchange for free advertising in the program as well as local artists and vendors who would like to join us on that day please send an email to wandakartal@yahoo.com with your contact information. You can also locate the event on Facebook at ALL YEARS MORRISVILLE CLASS REUNION

Wanda said...

Registration for 2011-2012 Delmor Lanes Youth Bowling season will be held this Friday (at delmor) August 26 from 7-9PM and Saturday August 27 from 6-8 PM.

Elementary to High school, you do not need to know how to bowl, they have great coaches to help develop your child. Fun parties, Tournaments, end of year banquet, etc.

Email league for info: dyljuniors@hotmail.com