Lannon Lantern
THE
AN UNOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER
“A LIGHT IN THE DARK” VOLUME 1, ISSUE 6
Is Reading a Lost Art?
S ince when has reading be-
come a lost art? Warning
signs are there for just one rea-
son—TO WARN YOU! The photo
above, taken on Friday, July 2nd
illustrates the point. Is that your
child in the polluted water? There
were about 25 adults and their
children swimming and playing in
the water at the time. The MSM
local news web site also carried
the story. Do we care so little for
our children’s health, much less
ours, that we swim and play in
infected water? Don’t forget that
in some cases, serious illness and
death can result from E-coli expo-
sure. Why should we worry? Our
children never get water in their
mouths or in cuts on their skin
when they play in the water.
TM
FOR LANNON, WISCONSIN 53046
AUG 1, 2010
person had a legal written contract with the
funeral home, and fortunately, had saved a
copy for 15 years. A competitor honored the
contract and got the person's business instead.
My Dad made arrangements and paid for a
beautiful gravesite on a hill overlooking some
ponds 10 years prior to his passing. When the
funeral procession arrived for his burial, it
went to a swampy site at the lowest part of the
cemetery. The funeral director had
"conveniently" changed the sites without my
Dad's knowledge. As you can imagine, my Mom
was beside herself with grief. Fortunately, we
had a copy of the contract and had the situa-
tion corrected, but it required re-burial and
some legal pressures. What about warranties?
Do we file them away or toss them, hoping the
manufacturer will keep accurate records? If
you don't register the item, good luck trying to
get a warranty replacement. The original
sales receipt or warranty is an impor-
Where is the responsibility
here? With the parents?
With law enforcement? Are
tant document. Consider a fireproof
safe, scanning the document into a
computer to be saved on a CD or DVD,
we giving the attorneys more
or putting those documents in a safe
ammunition? If you want to
deposit box. Save yourself some time,
swim in a potential toilet, stay
money, and grief by keeping important
at home, and you can avoid
documents in a safe place and let
the sunburn and the sand in
someone know where they are in an
your shorts. emergency.
R.I.P.?
K eep contracts and important
documents in a safe place!
They could come in handy at a
later date. Consider the recently
publicized case of a funeral home
who "lost" the contract and plans
for a woman's burial. They initially
refused to honor the contract be-
cause they couldn't find any re-
cord of the arrangements. The
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PESSIMIST’S CLUB
A weekly meeting of the new
Pessimist’s Club will be held at
Quarry Coffee & Café in Lannon,
each Wednes-
day morning at
6:30 AM. Let’s
commiserate
together over a
great cup of cof-
fee and a fresh
and tasty pastry or muffin!
SHARE THE ROAD
B ike and motorcycle fatalities
are on the increase. Be alert
and share the road. The number
of motor vehicle versus bicycle
accidents increases daily and fa-
talities are on the rise! Take re-
sponsibility as a driver and watch
out for the bikes. Take responsi-
bility as a biker and follow the
rules of the road. Some general
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rules from the Wisconsin DOT:
Train yourself to scan for fast mov-
for Bicycle Riders are: ing (it's hard to tell speed) bicycles
Ride at least three feet from
the curb or parked vehicles or
and motorcycles in the opposing
lane to you when turning left, and
scan sidewalks and crosswalks for
debris in curb area and in a
pedestrians and bicyclists using the
straight line.
sidewalk and crosswalk as a pedes-
Don't swerve in and out
trian. Always scan to your right side
around parked vehicles.
sidewalk before you leave a stop
Always ride in the same direc-
light or stop sign. And to the left
tion as traffic.
and right side sidewalks when on a
Sidewalk riding for bicyclists
one-way street. Let’s all be safe on
past the learning stage and
the roads!
being closely supervised by
adults can be more dangerous
than on the road, obeying traf-
fic laws. It is also illegal unless
the community has passed
an ordinance specifically
permitting sidewalk CALENDAR
riding. This can be age- VILLAGE MEETINGS (Village Hall)
restricted, location- Aug 9 - 6:45 PM Finance/Personnel
restricted or based on Aug 9 - 7:00 PM Village Board
the type of property
Aug 16 - 6:00 PM Municipal Court
abutting the sidewalk.
Obey all traffic laws. Aug 26 - 7:00 PM Plan Commission
Be predictable! Let other users
know where you intend to go Support your local
and maintain an understood Businesses and
course. Organizations
And for motorists:
Bicycles are vehicles. They be-
long on the road.
Cyclists need room to get
around potholes, sewer grates
and other obstructions.
Leave at least three feet when
passing bicycles, more room at
higher speeds.
Change lanes to pass any bicy-
cle traveling in a narrow lane.
NOTE: Copies of the Lannon
Lantern are distributed to local
businesses, and on a limited
basis, to some household paper
-boxes in the Village of Lannon.