Sent to a WHOPPING 125 subscribers monthly (well, most of the time).  News As It Happens has 85 subscribers.

IF YOU HAVE NEWS TO REPORT AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT IN OUR NEWSLETTER OR on our BLOG, EMAIL IT TO US.  WE ACCEPT NEWS THROUGH THE 3RD WEEK OF THE MONTH.  NEWS AS IT HAPPENS AND BLOG NEWS IS ACCEPTED AT ANY TIME.

Ahhhh, spring has sprung but who really cares?  Winter was pretty much spring as far as we can tell, so spring is not a big surprise like it normally is. Wait, we take that back.
Saturday the 20th was 76.4 degrees on our front porch under the roof. That IS a great start for spring with one exception. It’s pouring down rain on the 21st as we write.

This webmaster thinks Index gets more rain than other areas in the N.W. I know there is another city in Washington that gets the most rain of all of us but memory does not serve me right this moment.

HAPPY SPRING.
 

UPDATE 8:00 am 03.22.10

CRAZY WEATHER.  When we got up this morning, it was 45 degrees outside.  The news stated the snow level is 2500'.  It is now 39 degrees outside and the wall has snow on it.  Normally the wall gets snow when the snow level is 1500' or so.  That's some crazy stuff.  Do you want to know what the weather is at this very moment?  LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW and don't pay attention to the news.

Community Garden Project
 

The Community Garden Project is well underway. The cleanup and tilling began a short while back.

Thanks to Dana Starfire for sending us the photos of the tired people!

http://wp.me/p9u6l-fB

Broken Links
 

We have taken the time to attempt to repair or delete the broken links on the blog. A lot of the links targeted for news tend to go stale over a period of time and some news links want you to pay to view the old news after a week or so.

We installed a program that monitors the links for us and lets us know when a link is no longer valid. We will keep the story intact but the link will no longer be HOT.

Odd Photo Posted

Have you seen the odd photo of the Climbing Wall? One person commented it looks like Alfred E. Newman (that gave away the comment posters age)……Maybe it looks like Mr. Feinbein! Oooops, same magazine, different category. That gives away MY age.

http://wp.me/p9u6l-fH

Earthquake Information
 

Thanks again to Bob Foster, our animal control officer, for sending us important information about earthquakes and earthquake preparedness.

Earthquakes have been in the spotlight quite a bit in the very recent past and Foster has first hand experience in this matter. See his latest article at http://wp.me/p9u6l-fp.

Correspondents Wanted

If you have some time on your hands and would like to contribute your musings and writings about The Town of Index, please email your article to us. If we accept your article and you wish to be a regular contributor, we will open an account for you to login to our blog and post at will.

We can walk you through the process quite easily. Your first couple of posts will be monitored and reviewed before posting live but after that, you will have free will to post live (we need to be comfortable with what you are contributing before handing the reigns over to you).

Renewed

Thanks to donations from last year, we were able to renew IndexWa.org for another year. Please consider a small donation to help us out. Your donations keep our software up to date and help offset the expenses of running the website. There is a donation button on the right hand side of the Blog, via Pay Pal.

You may also snail mail donations to P O Box 94, Index, Wa 98256.

Come on. Don’t make us beg. :)

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This Months Quote:

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
- Al Gore -


Ed

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