Cards Win Home Opener!

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

The St. Louis Cardinals improved their early season record to 5-2, defeating the Houston Astros by a score of 5-0 at Busch Stadium this afternoon.  The Cards lead the N. L. Central Division.

Clark Kant and his new buddies skipped their group therapy session this afternoon to take in the Opening Day festivities at the ballpark.  Clark told me he had three hotdogs, six Bud Lights and some nachos and cheese.  He really enjoyed his first Cardinals' Opening Day ceremonies and game.

Clark was apprehensive about checking himself in for psychiatric evaluation on Thursday of last week, but he now says it is the best thing he has ever done!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com

Weather Reports

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

We don't do daily weather reports here at Hermann Hearsay.  That's just filler material anyway!  And it's pretty old-fashioned.

Instead we presume that our readership is sophisticated enough and computer literate enough to go to The Weather Channel at www.weather.com to get all the latest in local weather conditions and weather forecasts on their own.  We don't really need to spoon feed our educated readers! 

We also recognize that our readership is a very mobile segment of society that travels alot for both business and pleasure.  Consequently, many of you will be needing the weather forecasts for your travel destinations.  At The Weather Channel just type in your destination city, state and/or zip code, click on the "Search" button and you'll have all the weather information you will need for your travel planning.  And a few of you live in far-flung places like Japan, France and Puerto Rico, so the weather conditions and weather forecasts for Hermann, MO are of absolutely no interest to you folks anyway!

So, if you don't already have The Weather Channel saved into your "Favorites", please do that right now before you forget it.  Don't depend upon us to tell you every damned day what the weather is or what it will be!  We have more important crap to do!

And if you're too lazy to go to www.weather.com on your own, then just walk outside to check the weather conditions the old-fashioned way.  The fresh air will do you good!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com

Whatever happened to the Gasconade County courthouse project?

Subject Jimmy Oldsun, Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

Remember when the restoration of the Gasconade County courthouse and expansion of county office facilities was a big issue around here?  It was all the talk.  It was covered almost weekly by The Hermann A-C and HermannMuenster.com.   And lots of GCCS money was spent to develop project scope and architectural renderings for various options here in Hermann.

Remember when a certain self-interested faction from Owensville got that Proposition B thingie on the election ballot back in November of 2008?  Well, the good people of Gasconade County rejected the idea of moving the county seat to Owensville.  Take that, you Owensville wheeler-dealers!

Remember when the GCCS (Gasconade County Courthouse Society) held their controversial annual meeting of members one warm summer evening in July of  2009?  I was there seated in the second row.  I paid my $10 for a GCCS membership.  I heard the speeches by Jon Held, Glenn Warnebold and many, many other "concerned" citizens.

Remember that ill-fated "resolution" offered by GCCS Treasurer, Glenn Warnebold, the one that was unanimously defeated by the GCCS membership?  Poor ol' Glenn couldn't even get his own wife to vote for the resolution!

Remember all those occasions in county commission meetings after Prop. B was defeated when angry citizens of the county challenged Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost to quit delaying and get moving with the courthouse project?  And remember how he would always respond by saying he was just waiting for someone to show him the plan and the money?  Guess ol' Ron just didn't comprehend that he had a responsibility as the key leader of the county to develop those plans and find the sources for that money!

And what about the GCCS?  Where are they?  Where have they gone?  My understanding is that they haven't had one single board meeting since their first annual membership meeting back in July of 2009.  My understanding is that Jon Held, President of the GCCS, has completely given up on the courthouse project.  Or is that just Hermann coffee shop talk?  Maybe meetings are being held in secret?

And where is the intense coverage by the local media which were all over this story not so very long ago?  Is it just easier to cover car crashes, restaurant menus and morel mushroom findings by the locals than it is to ask the necessary tough, hard questions of community "leaders" and county "leaders"?

Well my fellow Gasconade County citizens, was all of that just much ado about nothing?  I'm reminded of that mindless remark made famous by a TV sitcom many years ago ...... "Never mind!"

What do you think?  Is this a story you would like to see Hermann Hearsay investigate and pursue?  Should we jump on the story since no other media outlet in the county seems to be pursuing the story?  Would you rather us to investigate this story or would you just as soon we cover car crashes, mushroom findings and restaurant menus like our competitors?  Should we dare to push some of our community "leaders" and county "leaders" with the tough, hard questions that are begging to be asked?

Tell us what you think!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com

Update: Clark Doing Well In The Psych Ward

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

Clark asked me to pass along to everyone that he is doing just fine!  As you may recall, Clark checked himself into a St. Louis mental institution to begin a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation on Thursday of last week.  The photo on the right was taken of Clark in a group therapy session with four other patients on Saturday afternoon.  Peculiar thing ..... in Clark's group of five, there are four daily online news service reporters.  The other fellow (the one with the beard) is an unemployed nuclear physicist.

This fun-loving group of patients, led by Clark, escaped from the mental institution after their group therapy session on Saturday afternoon and commandeered a couple cabs to give them a ride over to 'The Hill'.  They had a splendid Italian meal at Cunetto's.  Clark says he would highly recommend the
restaurant to our readers.  It seems that Clark is bonding quickly with the other patients at the mental institution.  People seem to like him wherever he goes!

Clark thanks all of our readers who have sent him dozens of text messages wishing him well, and he especially wants to thank The Happy Shoveler who brought him an exquisite cut of prime rib, a baked potato, some au jus, and a fifth of Crown Royal this Sunday evening for dinner!  Clark says the prime rib was absolutely delicious ..... to die for!  And the Crown Royal wasn't bad either!  He told me that the prime rib he had this evening ranks right up there with the best prime rib he has had at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.  The baked potato was really good too, but he would have preferred Matt Penning's famous German potato salad.

Clark confided in me that the folks at the institution have conducted electo-shock treatments on him three times thus far.  (Clark says the treatments hurt a little and make him thirsty for Diet Pepsi.)  They have also asked him to look at ink spots and tell them what he sees.  (Clark says they just look like ink spots to him.)  In addition, they have played word association games with Clark.  (Of course, Clark did really well with the word association since he's the #6 journalist in Gasconade County and learned lots of words up at Mizzou's J-School a long time ago when he went to school there.)  Clark feels he is excelling in the group therapy sessions.  He enjoys all of his fellow patients and is making some great new friends!

Clark says to tell Mr. Noedel and Mr. Vonk of CNL that he initially resented their unkind suggestions that he might be mentally unstable.  But now he's glad he listened to them and check himself in for psychiatric evaluation.  He says he's learning a lot about himself and would recommend the experience to them as well. 

We anticipate that Clark will be released on Friday, 4/16 ........ provided, of course, he doesn't pull anymore stunts like escaping from the institution as he and his buddies did on Saturday night!  Clark and his friends are just itching to bust out of the place on Monday afternoon so they can go to the Cardinals' home opener!  Don't let 'em catch you, Clark!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com