I don’t mean to brag but I just ate an entire sleeve of Girl Scout cookies. The iconic shortbreads.
Get your own. I like you but I’m not that into sharing.
A tip of the hat to the crew of folks who were busy picking up a crazy amount of trash along Hwy. 152 east in the areas of Green Hills and Platte Purchase. Bag after bag of gathered trash lined the roadway in that stretch as I traversed my way on a recent Sunday afternoon to the new Green Hills Library. That’s the one with the gigantic fork standing outside.
By the way, who is doing all that littering?
These shortbreads are addicting. Working on the second sleeve now. I may need an intervention. And a treatment program.
Speaking of that new Mid-Continent Library at Green Hills, the facility is impressive. I’m a little confused as to what this whole “culinary-inspired” concept is all about (looks like some commercial grade kitchen equipment will soon be able to be put to use by someone) but the facility has a great book/activity section for the young ones. My grandkids loved it, sometimes at a level too loud for a library. We went back two consecutive Sunday afternoons.
The fact we headed to the Green Hills library on two straight Sundays made me discover the Platte City branch of the Mid-Continent Library is not open on Sundays. I’m no library connoisseur but this seems strange to me. Sunday is really the only day of the week Guy Speckman and I have time to celebrate our admiration for the Dewey Decimal System but can’t do it in Platte City.
Here’s something that didn’t get a lot of publicity but is very important to note. File this away for a time when you need to pull it out during political discussions. And something tells me we’ll need it sometime fairly soon.
The number of felonies committed in Platte County declined in 2022 compared to the previous year. In other words, the number of serious crimes in Platte County actually decreased in 2022.
Clip and post this on your fridge next to your grandkids’ artwork.
I dropped in on a quarterly meeting of Platte County’s elected officeholders one day last week. David Cox, county assessor, was not present. Chatter inside the administration building indicates this is not a surprise. In fact, chatter inside the county complex indicates someone may need to put out an all points bulletin/attempt to locate alert for the county assessor. Maybe put his picture on a milk carton.
On this week’s front page we used the headline: “Health director pushes back against commissioners” only because “Health director stitches county commissioners in a clown suit” wouldn’t fit.
“Open your books!” county commissioners exclaimed to a taxpayer funded agency whose books by state law are already open.
Here’s a detailed movie review for you.
“Knock at the Cabin.” Just don’t. Waste of time. Waste of money.
You’ll want to check out what I’m calling our music section on page 8 this week. In addition to a half page ad from Blake Shelton’s people is a piece on Kansas City musician Emma Jo, who is ready to release a new single. Emma Jo has ties to Platte County, specifically to The Landmark.
Conrad Dobler, former offensive lineman for the St. Louis Football Cardinals back in the 1970s, died on Monday at age 72. Dobler, who openly embraced the reputation of being ‘the dirtiest player in the NFL,’ died in Pueblo, Colo. Cause of death was not immediately announced.
In the very early 1990s, Dobler was a sports talk show host on KCMO Radio (now the station known as Sports Radio 810 WHB). Dobler’s show was on the office radio every afternoon in The Landmark. The Landmark’s very first intern–Jamie Walker–would often get on the office phone and call into the Dobler show to offer his hot takes on the Kansas City sports scene. Sometimes the takes were for real, sometimes tongue-in-cheek. Those were good times and provided us a lot of laughs back in the day. Former Landmark editor Clay McGinnis would just shake his head at our goofiness.
It was Walker who first let me know about Dobler’s death on Monday. The former Landmark intern, now a blackjack dealer or pit boss or something at Argosy Casino, sent a text giving me the news. (If you ever are in Argosy, search for Walker and tell him hello and that you read about his days of calling into the Dobler show. Walker will be easy to spot–he will be the only 6’9” dealer in the blackjack area).
Anyway, I am Facebook friends with Bob Mayhall, the man who served as the producer/co-host of Dobler’s radio show. “It was the most fun I ever had,” Mayhall, of St. Louis, said Monday of his time working with Dobler. “He would get to the station at noon and we wouldn’t stop laughing until the show was over. It all seems a blur now. I don’t know how I ended up in Kansas City or in the studio with him but I’m glad I did,” Mayhall said.
In the 1990s I bumped into Dobler one day while standing in a ride line at Worlds of Fun. We chatted briefly and then he asked if his wife, who was walking toward us from a distance, could cut in line. Neither I nor anyone else nearby would be brave enough to tell the dirtiest player in the NFL no.
Sad sidenote. In 2001, Dobler’s wife Joy fell out of a hammock and became a paraplegic because of the fall. National media reports in recent years indicated substantial medical bills caused financial hardship for the Doblers from that point forward.
RIP Conrad Dobler.
(For detailed movie reviews and much more, try emailing Foley at ivan@plattecountylandmark.com)
