4 - The Morrisvillo and Preston Progress, Wednesday, July 31,1996
Our Neighbors Speak
Do you plan to watch the televised portions of the
Republican and Democratic conventions?
TOM STEWART
PRESTON
Probably portions of them. A lot
of it I don't care about.
JOE SCARANO
PRESTON
No. It’s a foregone conclusion
who’s going to be nominated, so
I probably won’t be watching.
CANDICE DAVIES
MORRISVILLE
Maybe some small parts of it.
I’m more interested in the inde
pendent platforms.
ALAN HEROSIAN
PRESTON
Maybe a little of the Republican
convention, not the Democratic.
I’ve got to figure out who the
vice president is going to be.
ANTWANNETTE WATSON
MORRISVILLE
Probably not. I’m in school and
I just don’t have the time.
DAVE CLARKE
MORRISVILLE
Probably not. If that’s
on, then I’ll watch it.
Cleaning up, comparing notes, on a trip home to mother’s
By Roxanne Powers
Every year I fly home to visit
family in East Texas, and every
year I go armed with a planned pro
ject. Yoii see, it makes me feel bet
ter to be able to help my mother,
who lives alone. (Unless you count
Bo, who isn’t much help what with
that extra set of legs he carls
around.)
This summer I went with a "let’s
just wait and see what needs to be
done" kind of attitude. My first few
days there, my mother kept me oc
cupied visiting other family and
friends, and just generally keeping
her cottipany while she ran errands.
Finally, on my third day home I
came out dressed in sneakers and
with my sleeves rolled up. "Okay,”
I said, "time to get to work. What
are we doing to the house this
year?" "Well..." said my mother,
"Fve got a repairman coming to do
an estimate, but he needs to get in
the attic crawl space..." "So what’s
the problem there?" I bravely ven
tured. "The crawl space is above
the garage storage room."
"And...???" I prod with benign sar
casm. "...And you can’t get in the
garage storage room because of all
the clutter,” she replied sheepishly.
"Ahhh...thusmyjob?" ”Oh,
noooo!" mother replied in mock in
nocence, (it had to be mock in
nocence, because surely mother
knows by now that I’m on to her!)
"I can do it myself, 1 just need
moral support." With affection, I
teased, "Yeah right, mother...in the
first place, you’re not very convinc
ing at the martyr stuff, and in the
second, you’ve got Bo for moral
support!” "No I don’t" she said and
laughed, "He doesn’t like the heat!"
"Oh well!” I rejoindered, "We
wouldn’t want him to sweat all
over his Hermes collar!"
When we opened the door to the
approximately 4 by 12 storage
room, I thought, "Piece of cake!
The lawn mower alone takes up
half the space!" Two hours later,
we had the garage floor covered
with two piles of assorted items,
each of which was twice the size of
my mother’s Audi. ' Well, I can see
that you want this pile to go back in
the storage room, but I don’t see
how we’re going to get this pile to
the dump...unless you think Amer
ican Airlines will let me borrow
one of their planes for about an
hour.” "No need to do that," she
said facetiously, "I’ve circled three
names of hauling services in the
newspaper. You can call them while
I clean out my lunch box." "Huh?”
"I said..." "No, no, I heard you.
But...clean out your lunch box?
How big a job can that be?" "Well,"
said mother, "it’s not really a lunch
box, it’s a six-pack size igloo
box..." "Never mind,” I said. "I
don ’ t think I need to know this. ”
Back inside, I sat at the kitchen
table armed with the newspapa
and telephone, while mother stood
at the kitchen sink with the lunch
box before her. I chuckled.
"What?" she asked suspiciously.
"With all your talk of cleaning out
your lunch box, I just thought of
Paige. The things that child can
pack into her b^k-pack! You’ve
never seen anything like it. I don’t
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know where she gets it from.
When no response was forthcom
ing, 1 looked up from the paper to
see my mother wearing her per
petual know-it-all grin, and with
great dramatics, she began to pull
items from her lunch box while
sing-songing "You doooooon’t???"
From that lunch box she pulled a
half-eaten apple wrapped in a damp
paper towel, a baggy filled with
nail clippers, a comb, hair bands,
bobby pins, a comb, a paperback
book, a canned drink, a bottle of
water, a can of sardines, some
crackers, a peach, a regulations
handbook, paper napkins, aspirin,
crossword puzzle, a dictionary, a
set of keys, an address book, a
walk-man, a small tool box...
Mayor opens new office for visits
By Ron Page
Aside from some sort of window
accent such as a valance or partial
drape, perhaps a cover for a side
chair, and polish to make the brass
pulls shine on the mahogany desk
and matching credenza she pur
chased herself for the room, Mor-
risville Mayor Margaret Broadwell
has established herself in her office
at Town Hall where she can be
found every Wednesday from 1 to
2:30 p.m.
"That’s not to say I won’t be here
at other times," the mayor said,
"because I plan to be available to
anyone who may have something
to discuss about town business. But
I do plan to be here at that time on
a regular basis."
The office of the mayor drew
public attention just after the elec
tion in which Nfrs. Broadwell won
office. The first notice came prior
to her induction when the Board of
Commissioners voted to abolish the
office that had existed in previous
administrations, and then moved
the desk that had been there into
the town planner’s office. Mayor
Broadwell was left with a smaller
version of the desk, a lamp, along
with three chairs, one upholstered,
a bookcase, and a black, 2-drawer
filing cabinet.
The office is the one formerly
used by recreation director Alan
Carroll before he moved to the
Community Center Building on
Morrisville Parkway. The room is
the first on the left after entering
the Town Hall’s double-glass doors
to the vestibule area.
After a failed attempt by Com
missioner Mark Silver-Smith to
have the commissioners ap
propriate $750, and when that
failed, $500 for furniture. Mayor
Broadwell decided to make the pur
chases herself. During her
endeavors one of the local mayors
suggested she visit another elected
official in Wake County whose
business was moving and furniture
was available.
"1 was looking at the furniture
when a representative from Modem
Office Mechanics in Morrisville
suggested I look at some furniture
available at their site. That’s where
I found the desk and the matching
credenza which they allowed me to
have at a very reduced price," she
explained. "I bought the couch be
cause I liked the neutral colors."
Mayor Broadwell said she plans
to do some sort of window treat
ment, and she probably will make a
covering for a side chair. She also
tried polishing one of the pulls on a
drawer and said it turned out to be
brass. "I plan to polish the others
on both die desk and credenza. I
enjoy crafts and those sorts of
things,” she said.
She said she looks forward to
meeting residents at the office, ad
ding that a few have already
visited. "If someone can’t make the
time on Wednesdays, they should
just call for an appointment and I'll
meet them here," she said. "They
can call me at my home, 467-1623,
to make them."
By Cynthia LaChapelle
The Preston Community Associa
tion elected for the first time two
homeowners - Frank Stoltmann
and Chuck Gibson - to its board of
directors during an annual meeting
held July 16.
Returning to the board will be
Preston developer Tim Smith, as
president, and Vanessa Jenkins and
Robin Rose as representatives for
Preston Development Co.
Smith, who chaired the meeting,
announced that two additional
homeowners would be elected to
the five-member board next year,
one of whom would take his place
as president.
In his presentation of the budget.
Smith announced that homeowner
dues would be raised from $180 to
$240 per year for 1997. Because
the developer retains majority
voting, there was no vote taken on
the issue.
The new budget calls for
$300,000 in expenses, an increase
from the $283,560 spent in 1996.
Few budget items increased and the
developer contribution dropped
from $166,860 to a proposed
$130,240.
When homeowners questioned
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the rise. Smith cited bylaws allow
ing a 15 percent per year increase
that could be imposed retroactively.
Smith and Slolunann encouraged
those present at the meeting to par
ticipate in the Architectural Review
Committee, which was formed
after last year’s annual meeting.
Also discussed was an idea to
form committees for a newsletter
and to welcome new residents.
Those interested in serving may
call Stoltmann at 481-4303 or Gib
son at 467-8940.
Other discussion included the use
of fines for non-compliance of
covenants, the handling of viola
tions, and the installation and
maintenance of plantings at signs
and entrances.
At its July 29 meeting, the Ar
chitectural Review Committee
elected new members to fill posts
vacated by chairman Stoltmann and
Gibson.
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