IS IT TRUE that today the City County Observer is saddened to learn of the passing of a great American poet and civil rights leader Maya Angelou?…Ms. Angelou had a way of cutting through the clutter of everyday life and delivering one line observations on life with clarity and felling that all could understand?…here are several of our favorite Maya Angelou quotes for our readers to enjoy as they go about their day?
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
IS IT TRUE we are once again going to back away for a day or so from the chaotic circus that the release of the 2012 audit has become?…when the forest fires of the day have burned themselves out we will readdress this subject as factually as possible without giving a stage to sensationalism?
IS IT TRUE there have been many newsworthy stories that seem to be ignored in the last 10 days and among them are the facts that it has now been over 2 months since HCW of Branson, Missouri applied for a franchise to brand the downtown convention hotel as Doubletree and no word of any acceptance or rejection letter has been announced?…it seems as though the economic impact study requested by Dunn Hospitality is taking longer than anyone expected?…this and the other fact that the lot on which the hotel is planned to rest on has not yet been pronounced to be shovel ready?…this is a far cry from a golden shovel event first scheduled for early January and later postponed because the ground was frozen?…it is difficult to know which was sillier, planning to stick a golden shovel into frozen ground or figuring out January was cold in SW Indiana after announcing the event?
IS IT TRUE the fate of the McCurdy still hangs in the balance as we are about to start yet another summer with Mayoral beanstalks about to grow and snakes seeking shelter from the heat?…as Evansville does have a problem with rats in the downtown it is appropriate for the rats to have a historical shelter in which to live and a nest of snakes to feast on them?…we really aren’t talking about rats and snakes here folks but it does make a good story?…these rats may even have names?
IS IT TRUE it seems as though Peoria, Illinois is considering making an incentive offer to get the LST to move from its Evansville dock to a shoreline dock in Peoria that will be withing walking distance of retail establishments and restaurants?…with location being an important drawing point it will be interesting to see how this once touted as a magnificent tourist attraction for Evansville will play out when it becomes decision time?
IS IT TRUE that we are also heading into another summer with the Mesker Amphitheatre in worse condition than it was last year and with no events planned?…season pass holders of the Evansville Zoo are also telling us that the skeleton crew that is on staff is strained to do the upkeep and that the Zoo is really looking pretty shoddy?…with that we will leave our readers with one last quote from Maya Angelou that is particularly relevant to the travails of Evansville for the last 50 years?…it gives hope and provides focus on where the real problems have resided?
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
