Thanks to everyone who stopped by for our Spring Bake Sale and Flea Market.

We sold over 90 pancake breakfasts and sold many unique treasures and delicious food.

We couldn’t have done it without your support. Thanks.

Well, this was an interesting problem.

It was morning when my bus driver called to tell my brother and I she would be late.

Okay.

We went to the end of the driveway at 8:30am and waited until 8:45am when I went up to
check the answering machine to see if she called us. There was one message from Northway
Bus Lines. I hit ”Play” and hear this:

“Hello this is Northway Bus Lines calling to inform you that your child WILL
NOT be picked up today because the bus driver can’t make it up a hill. Bye.“

Shortly after I call my brother inside because we will not be going to school today,
I get a phone call from our bus driver, Sarah:

“ Hello Darling”
“Morning Sarah!”
“I seem to be stuck on the corner hill”
“Oh my! Not that hill!”
“Yes that one, they are sending a sand truck”
“Is it glare ice?”
“Why else would I be stuck on the hill?!?”
“Do you need help?”
“No, I’m fine. Gotta go, my cellphone battery is gonna die”
“Bye.”
“Bye”

Apparently, from what I heard, the sand truck did come…but got stuck in a snowbank.
It took two big towtrucks to get him out, and finally, after SEVEN HOURS stuck on
Ella Rd. Sarah was freed.

SEVEN HOURS!!! That is rediculous! If it were anywhere else, they would have sent a
messanger boy to check on her, or send help faster.

When I got on the bus the next morning the first words that Sarah said were: ”I was stuck
on your road for 7 hours yesterday”.

Comon you can’t leave a bus driver out in the rain with no food! That is insane!

Since winter is over we can relax right? Not unless the potholes grow too big…

-Alek Luopa

Let’s get this straight…dial up is terrible.

In fact, while I was writing this post, my internet disconnected several times! I can’t stand
this lunacy any more! I was reading a Popular Science magazine at the Espanola Library,
when I came across Meraki.

Meraki creates a wireless internet network by placing little systems called ”repeaters” within
range of one and other, duplicating the same connection over and over again.

Let’s say that there is a high speed internet connection in the Den Lou area. We connect
that connection to one of the repeaters which creates a range of about 1-8km. We then place another repeater within that 1-8km and it repeats the connection again. We can continue doing this
along roadways until the whole of Beaver Lake is covered! All we need then is to connect an adapter to the person’s computer(s) and you have high speed internet all from one connection.

For more information on this, please go to meraki.com

So with spring finally here after one of the longest winters you’ve ever seen, pothole season officially begins.

Hoorah…

For example, me sitting on the back of my school bus on my way to and from school is like being in some earthquake ridden country when the next big one goes off. Hobbling off the bus, butt now flat, and getting into school is relief for a short time…but knowing that I have to go through it all over again sucks.

Here’s something that irratates me, one of those Greater Sudbury trucks came down the road recently (listening to hard rock and chewing gum) and did a drive around on Ella Rd. All he did was put very small red sticks that marks the bumps. The question is…can you see them?

Only if you’re looking for them.

So as we hit bump after bump…nursing our squarish bottoms, we ask the question, why doesn’t the City patch up some of the baddies?

I don’t know.

On behalf of the Beaver Lake Sports and Cultural Club, we’d like to thank everyone for the most fantastic Winter Carnival of all time. Thank you to the volunteers, the pancake makers, the student volunteers, and everyone who came to make this the best ever. We will now be able to put some much-needed money into the Beaver Lake Sports and Cultural Club Access Fund for a wheelchair ramp.