DEAR HELOISE: I have read your column off and on for years. I think it was on or about June 9 that your column included a letter from a reader who had a suggestion for using a worn grill brush. I cringed when I read the suggestion not that it wasn t a good idea, but because no one should ever use a wire brush on their barbecue grill.
There are numerous things to dislike about the Group Living Amendment now before the Denver City Council and scheduled for a vote on Feb. 8. One of the most glaring is the statement made by the cityâs Department of Community Planning and Development (CPD) in its presentation material when the Group Living Proposal was first submitted for public review. It read: âWe have exclusionary regulations with roots in classism and racism.â
That seemed to me to be a rather harsh and unreasonable statement being that, when I first took up residency in the neighborhood where Iâve lived for 45 years, I was not informed about the racist/classist nature of the neighborhood nor did I become aware of that state of affairs until the truth of the matter was revealed, thanks to CPD.
THE ROONEY BIN: Tis the season for holiday lighting battles
Jackie Rooney
Putting up decorations an exercise in frustration but worth every minute
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” Maya Angelou
“No-o-o-o-o! No-o-o-o-o!” my dismayed spouse the Binmeister shouted when he went outside on Thanksgiving eve and saw our neighbor s house and trees ablaze with holiday lights. Once again, they beat us in the annual unofficial lighting competition.
Binmeister had repainted the centerpiece of our traditional display, two white wooden deer; one with a bright red nose. Spurred by the thought of being the first on the street to put lights up, he was all set to spend Thanksgiving Day whistling Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer while untangling strings of lights and roasting the turkey in his Big Green Egg.