W
ho turned out the lights?”
Mayor Tifanny Curnutt sent a message with this caption to those on the city’s email distribution list last week.
(Not on the distribution list? With the city’s website features not functioning well, you may send an e-mail to mountaincitytx@gmail.com and let the city know you want the city’s emails. The city will respond.)
The friendly city reminder said, “It is required that all homes in Mountain City have a functioning front yard light. Please take the time to make sure you are in compliance.”
Mountain City was designed with front yard lights, rather than bright overhead street lighting. Your light provides lighting for those walking at night.
Keep yard lights burning. It’s the neighborly thing to do. And, it’s a requirement.
Two days later another city email broadcast hit inboxes. At that exact point in time, it was the citizens asking, “Who turned out the lights?”
(Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read about the widespread power outage.)
Quickly citizens began communicating on Nextdoor.com and Facebook, comparing notes.
Out and about in Kyle, I saw the chitchat. Still, when we pulled into the drive in the rain, we tried raising the garage door. Duhhhh.
Home in the dark, we ate Jack in the Box tacos by candlelight and waka waka light. Oh, the romance.
Waka Waka? It’s a powerful solar light with a battery that lasts up 80 hours after a day in the sun.
The solar light was developed for people in under-developed countries who have no safe and dependable light when the sun goes down.
The WakaWaka website explains, “The alternative for light for living off-grid is kerosene. Problem is, indoor pollution from kerosene fuel kills more people than AIDS and Malaria combined. And every day thousands are burned and disfigured by kerosene fire.”
The city message that came when the lights were out in Mountain City gave notice that the tree limb pick up process is in progress. Tree limbs put out after the Sunday, August 7 deadline will not be picked up, as they were not included in the bid provided by Gil’s Tree Service.
On Ash, a family placed a sign on their retama tree trimmings in English and in Spanish warning of thorns. What a neighborly thing to do.
The topic of dog poop pickup arose at the recent council meeting. Picking up after your pet is the neighborly thing to do. And, it’s a requirement.
It was in a City Council meeting a few years back that I learned some people do not want dogs pee’ing on their mailbox because the odor is offensive. We cut KissMe off from checking his p-mail.
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