I guess Camp Hill's stuff doesn't stink

If you live in Lemoyne you may have noticed that this year your sewer bill is double the amount of your water bill.  - if you have no idea what is normal, sewer bills should be about half your monthly water bill.  By comparison our sister town of Camp Hill pays around $70 a quarter.  Both towns are serviced by American Water Company.  The only difference is that when you drive off the I 83  Lemoyne exit or drive down 3rd street in Lemoyne it always smells like sewer and in Camp Hill they dump their waste directly into the creek from the pumping station and it always smells like roses.  There are a number of things that don't add up with this story but before we explore them we must bring up the resent news that Penn live has taken it upon themselves to spearhead a public right to know campaign for some unknown reason.  They are asking that the people in Lemoyne who are behind on paying this outrageous bill, have that information be public right to know and get published......in Penn live via The Patriot News online magazine most likely.  

The Patriot-News requested data on sewer accounts that were at least 90 days past-due as of July 31, 2013, including at least the account name, number of days past due and the balance.

The delinquent sewer information request came on the heels of sewer rate increases in Lemoyne, which raised residents’ bills between 37 and 62 percent, depending upon usage. The borough has about 1,800 residential and commercial customers.

The borough refused to provide the information, and Michael Cassidy, borough solicitor, said the data is exempt from disclosure under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Pennsylvania Fair Credit Extension Uniformity Act. - Penn Live

I can only imagine the people in Camp Hill want to know who is poor in Lemoyne because I can tell you none of us poor folk in Lemoyne give a flying f%k who knows, we just want this outrageous ill planned financial disaster corrected.  It should also be noted that Lemoyne Boro after three months sends the people of Lemoyne a letter explaining they are taking a lean out on your property when the sewer bill isn't paid.  They give you a deadline too. I plan on taking them to the cut off date on this every time, which I have since we have moved here because I know unfair when I see it.  I know corruption when I see it, and I don't care to play.  When we bought this house we were over charged 144,000 gallons over the course of three years.  American water corrected the problem, and we have not had a water bill in two years because of it.  Lemoyne however never honed up to the fact that their bill which was directly based on water consumption at the time, was also way too high.  To get American water to pay up, I had to fight tooth and nail for over 4 months.

I don't believe the public has the right to know anything about how citizens struggle with crippling utility bills that mirror extortion and feel more like a mugging.  The public has a right to know why its government is putting the screws to the public, not the other way around. 

As you drive down market street in Lemoyne ask yourselves why we are paying to have brick walkways run across the street that do nothing but wreck my car's suspension because of how uneven they are or why for two years we have been butchering the side parking with jutting curbs and planting arrangements that look more like dead weeds and do NOTHING but abstract a drivers view of oncoming traffic.  Why did we spend tax dollars on this when our sewer bill is double of monthly household water bill?  I've heard the plan too... "This was to keep water from run off erosion in Lemoyne"  That is complete BS.  It is not doing that nor will it ever do that.  For one, after two years nothing is growing in these sidewalk spaces, and even if it did, the curb would still let the water run down the hill just at it always has.  All that money should have been put into this sewer problem.

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My Morning Blog Day One

I have to say this is not the morning for this, but you have to start sometime.  Around my house the talk of starting to write blogs professionally is a hot topic.  I want to do this.  I want to, but I must find the time.  If i treat it like a workout, and set aside 20 minutes a day to start, that might get me somewhere.  Soon my uncle and Co owner of our general contracting business will be calling, and I'm going to have to stop writing.  Tomorrow I will give this more time.

So am I the only one who still doesn't get how they did the Jackson thing Sunday night at the music awards?  I've heard about 20 shows tell me they are going to revile the secret, and each time at the end, nothing but smoke and mirrors.

The Rangers are off to a great start!, 2-0 in the series.  I can tell I'm going to have a good summer if this trend keeps up.  We already got rid of those penguins and now I can almost see the cup coming into view.  It's been since 1992 I think.  that is too long.  So LETS GO RANGERS!!!!!  besides, whomever you were hoping would take the cup, we can't let the Canadians get it.

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Spring Clean Up Weekend

I spent most of the weekend cleaning out my garage.  It was well worth it.  Now I've also started cleaning out my computer, and blog.  I love the blogger app, but i'm still torn with the WordPress version.  New dynamic themes and content that I need to update.  What better time than spring to get these things done.  I'd also like to see me start up the tools in the shop and get some things done in there as well.   Most of the things I need to get done are around the house, literally in the yard.  Since this winter was out of control cold, we burned through almost all of our firewood pile.  Leaving a very large area of mostly mud in the yard.  The big question whether or not to turn it into a garden, or plant more grass.  I've been wanting to switch our grass over to "Bermuda" grass.  Most people don'd like or plant it in the north east because it turns brown in the winter.  I dont care about the grass turning colors when it gets cold.  The plus is that it is like a carpet outside.  The most rich and dense grass I've ever seen.

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