Observations...

The Eggs and Issues breakfast Friday featuring the two county commissioner candidates, sponsored by the Grove Chamber, has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Not a good sign; either everyone has made up their mind or they just don't care about county government...Downtown Grove is looking much better and the first phase of the Revitalization Project is due for completion in just a couple of weeks; the new light poles should be installed by next week, and the trees will wait until cooler weather in October, say city officials…They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Not exactly. We're tired of seeing our photos and words in print in other area newspapers. First, it's against the copyright laws, and second, it is plagiarism, the ugliest form of journalism. We don't make a dime on this blog but the newspapers doing the copying do. The next time it happens, we're going to sue in court. Our policy is that if we cannot cover the event ourselves, we don't steal stuff from other newspapers…Grove Rotarians were treated to a really bad report card on the general health of state residents by State Senator Brian Crane of Tulsa this week. After dining on a nice lunch of fried chicken, mashed taters and gravy, we were told Oklahomans smoke too much, drink too much, don’t eat right, don't exercise, have abundant heart disease, a shorter life expectancy than the rest of the country and getting shorter, and we rank 10th in suicides. So get out there and eat your five servings a day of fruit, two servings a day of vegetables, give up Chicken Fried Steak and gravy, exercise at least 20 minutes a day, quit smoking, and knock off on the suicides. We Okies need to improve our image…