Quickies: Casino update, EGF to keep PD, FD apart
* It looks like the idea of combining the East Grand Forks fire chief and the police chief position into one is no longer on the table.
Council member Henry Tweten said police chief Mike Lealos isn't retiring until 2008. And it might not be that easy to find someone who can run both the fire and police departments, he said. "That's the $64 question," he said. "It takes an unsual person to do both."
Eastside actually tried the combined chiefs position back in 1997 and 1998. Ed Leier, on loan from the state, temporarily filled the position for a year and a half before resigning.
* Whatever happened to that casino? Grand Forks City Council member Doug Christensen wants to know after months of silence from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. He's requesting the administration to get some sort of update within, say, a month. The tribe was supposed to come up with an economic impact statement earlier this year.
* If you noticed the brick flood memorial in downtown Grand Forks is gone, don't panic. City spokesman Kevin Dean said it's just been temporarily moved by contractors building the Elite Brownstones condos. The plaques that used to be on the memorial are on display in the north building of the Corporate Center at the corner of DeMers Avenue and North Fourth Street.
* Traffic signs (or lack of) is the big topic on My Grand Forks. If enough people post their gripes, maybe we can get together a wish list.
* What is it about the name Grand Forks and flooding? The town of Grand Forks, British Columbia, is on emergency footing because of the threat of flooding. Wikipedia says GF, BC, is a town of 4,000 on the border with Washington state.
* Sweet! Model U.N. enthusiasts in EGF. I used to be in Model U.N. in college. I got the Russians to stick it to the Serbs. That was cool.
Update 9:33 p.m., 5/26/06: Never too late to do a correction, I guess. Tweten actually said the chief is retiring "next year" and being the math genius that I am, I wrote "2008." It's supposed to be 2007.
Council member Henry Tweten said police chief Mike Lealos isn't retiring until 2008. And it might not be that easy to find someone who can run both the fire and police departments, he said. "That's the $64 question," he said. "It takes an unsual person to do both."
Eastside actually tried the combined chiefs position back in 1997 and 1998. Ed Leier, on loan from the state, temporarily filled the position for a year and a half before resigning.
* Whatever happened to that casino? Grand Forks City Council member Doug Christensen wants to know after months of silence from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. He's requesting the administration to get some sort of update within, say, a month. The tribe was supposed to come up with an economic impact statement earlier this year.* If you noticed the brick flood memorial in downtown Grand Forks is gone, don't panic. City spokesman Kevin Dean said it's just been temporarily moved by contractors building the Elite Brownstones condos. The plaques that used to be on the memorial are on display in the north building of the Corporate Center at the corner of DeMers Avenue and North Fourth Street.
* Traffic signs (or lack of) is the big topic on My Grand Forks. If enough people post their gripes, maybe we can get together a wish list.
* What is it about the name Grand Forks and flooding? The town of Grand Forks, British Columbia, is on emergency footing because of the threat of flooding. Wikipedia says GF, BC, is a town of 4,000 on the border with Washington state.
* Sweet! Model U.N. enthusiasts in EGF. I used to be in Model U.N. in college. I got the Russians to stick it to the Serbs. That was cool.
Update 9:33 p.m., 5/26/06: Never too late to do a correction, I guess. Tweten actually said the chief is retiring "next year" and being the math genius that I am, I wrote "2008." It's supposed to be 2007.
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