Local Boomershoot ads are out


BOOMERSHOOT! MAY 1st, Long range shooting at explosives, limited positions available. http://www.boomershoot.org


This link will go dead in four weeks.  But until then the ad above will reach the following areas:

The Exchange serving Spokane, Stevens, Whitman, Pend Orielle, Garfield, Ferry, Lincoln, Adams, Grant, & Latah Counties — Distribution 31,000

Nickel’s Worth serving Northern Counties of Idaho & Western Montana (Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, Shoshone) — Distribution 37,000

Moneysaver serving counties around Clarkston & Lewiston area (Clearwater, Idaho, Lewis, Nez Perce, Whitman, Asotin & Garfield) — Distriubtion 34,600

Giant Nickel serving 8 counties around the Tri-Cities area (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, Burbank, Benton City, Finley, West Richland, Eltopia) — Distriubtion 33,000

So about 135K people will have the opportunity to see the ad.  Last year I just ran a similar ad in the same areas for two weeks and I got several entries from it.  This year I started a little earlier.  I’m hoping to completely fill up this year–even with the expanded shooting area.  As you might guess the first 80% or so meets expenses and the last few entries are profit.  And I really need some profit to pay back the loan on the explosive storage magazine.

Adventure postponed a second time

Tonight I got a call from Dave saying he wanted to postpone the Boomershoot Adventure again.  The weather forecast is better than last week but still we expect wind (10 MPH with gusts to 20) and possibly rain.  Now it’s next week or never.  It’s getting too close to the big event and I have other things I will need to do.  It’s got to be frustrating for Dave and his dozen friends too.  Oh well.  What else can you expect for Boomershoot weather?

My youngest starts her first real job

I just got a call from a local motel.  They asked for Xenia and said she starts work in the morning.  Kim already works there and Xenia decided she wanted money to spend on stuff and Kim helped her through the process of getting hired.  Kim will also give her a ride to and from work so that all works out really well.

Another one is leaving the nest.

heavy sigh

Update from the farm

I got an email from Doug, one of my brothers on the farm.  He had some rather surprising news.  He’s now teaching math at the high school.  I’m sure the extra income is welcome but there were other reasons he took the job…

The big news around here is that I am now teaching algebra I, algebra II, pre calc and calculus at the high school. The teacher had a baby in February, they went through 8 substitutes and couldn’t find anyone who could/or would teach. After the last one quit, I called the teacher, she talked with Jerry Nelson and the next morning, I was teaching. The teacher returns May 9, I have taught one week, I am off for spring break now, but I have five more weeks to go.

It is very stressful, but also very interesting. Certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity. I am teaching in Farley’s old room, I have Lisa in precalculus and Amy in calculus. 92 students, 5 classes, I kicked two kids out of algebra I the first day.

Amy and Lisa are his daughters.  Jerry Nelson is the principal.and was a classmate of Barb and I.  Farley was a teacher when Doug and I went to school there.  Doug has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and in Electrical Engineering.  I’m sure the math comes easy for him but teaching it and dealing with all the kids has got to be, as he put it, “very interesting”.  I’ve considered teaching at various points in my life but had the opportunity come up I’m not sure I would have accepted a full load with one day’s notice to start work.  Doug has done some pretty gutsy things in his life though. So I guess this shouldn’t be too surprising.

Quote of the day–Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood

At first glance, it may seem odd or even perverse to suggest that statutory controls on the private ownership of firearms are irrelevant to the problem of armed crime; yet that is precisely what the evidence shows.  Armed crime and violent crime generally are products of ethnic and social factors unrelated to the availability of a particular type of weapon.

The number of firearms required to satisfy the crime market is small, and these are supplied no matter what controls are instituted. Controls have had serious effects on legitimate users of firearms, but there is no case, either in the history of this country or in the experience of other countries in which controls can be shown to have restricted the flow of weapons to criminals, or in any way reduced crime.

While the number of legal firearms owners in Britain has been declining due to a hostile gun control bureaucracy, crimes involving firearms increased 196% between 1981-1992.

 

Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood of the West Yorkshire Constabulary
Criminal Statistics England and Wales 1992, p.34,65