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by George Capron
The
following are excerpts from some of the calls that George received during
his radio show on WBRV-WLLG The Moose, as well as observations he made on
the air during the week of January 21st, 2008:
- MONDAY, JANUARY 21: Yesterday’s
lake-effect snow brought the most snow into the Highmarket area, with
11.9 inches measured, and total snowfall for the season now at 97.8
inches. Boonville received 4.2 inches and a total of 78.3 inches.
Singer-songwriter John Stewart died Saturday in San Diego, CA, after a
massive stroke or brain aneurysm. John joined the folk group, the
“Kingston Trio” in 1961. He wrote “Daydream Believer” and the Monkees
took the song to number one on the charts. Actress Suzanne Pleshette
died Saturday night in Los Angeles, CA, at 70. She portrayed Bob
Newhart’s wife on the Bob Newhart Show for six years. In 2006, she was
treated for lung cancer and died of respiratory failure. Her husband,
Tom Poston, died in April 2007. On Friday, January 19, John and Jackie
Broadbent of Forestport became new parents of a daughter, Katherine Ann,
with best wishes from Grandma and Grandpa Broadbent. This morning there
were “sundogs” on both sides of the sun at 7:30 a.m.
- TUESDAY, JANUARY 22: Happy 42nd
anniversary wishes to Glenn and Sharon Sweeney of Carthage from Chib,
Dorothy, and the Monnat family. Jim Devoy of the Number Four Road in
Watson celebrates his 85th birthday today, with love from his family.
Congratulations to David and Amanda Crofoot on the birth of a son on
January 21. Dad is currently in Iraq. The classic comedy TV show, Rowan
and Martin’s “Laugh-In,” premiered on NBC this evening in 1968. the show
ended in 1973. The show was brought back for the 1977-78 with a
different cast, but wasn’t as popular. It was this morning in 1997 when
an ice storm coated everything with a layer of ice nearly a half-inch
thick. All roads and schools were closed. I drove to work on my
snowmobile by trail, as no one else could get here.
- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23: Heavy
lake-effect snow, creating poor visibility, brought the need to close
most schools from Lowville to Carthage this morning. Visibility ranges
were from zero to 200 feet at times. Happy 43rd anniversary wishes to
Dave and Marlene Pritchard of Boonville, from family and friends. This
morning in 1976 was frigid. Here at the station the temperature dropped
to 34 below zero. In was this morning in 1971 when the lowest
temperature in the U.S. was recorded at Prospect Creek, Alaska. The low
reading was an amazing 80 below zero. The first Frisbees were produced
in 1957 by the Wham-O Toy Company. Mattel Toy Company brought the toy
from Wham-O in 1994.
- THURSDAY, JANUARY 24: The
long-lasting lake-effect snow never reached Boonville yesterday.
Highmarket measured 7.8 inches and here in the village only a half-inch
was collected. In the past 19 years, the most snowfall up to this date
was 149.2 inches with 51 inches on the ground in 2003, with the lowest
being 48.15 inches in 2000. The least amount of snow on the ground was 3
inches in both 1995 and 2006. Beer lovers might like to know that the
first canned beer was produced by the Krueger Brewing Company in 1935
and was delivered to Richmond, Virginia. Today, canned beer accounts for
half of the $20 billion U.S. beer industry.
- FRIDAY, JANUARY 25: Happy 84th
birthday wishes to Edward Morak of the Number Four Road in Watson, from
son Dan and wife Colleen. Tomorrow Francis Lahah of Route 12 in
Boonville will celebrate her 90th birthday. She builds the whirligigs
you see out front of the unfinished furniture shop. Best wishes from her
family. It was January 26, 1994, at 9:20 p.m. when the roof of the
Boonville Bowl caved in. None of the bowlers in the building had any
injuries. On tomorrow’s date in 1978, the lowest barometric pressure in
30 years was observed at the Jackson Hill Weather Station. The low
pressure brought in snow of 11 inches in depth that day, adding to the
58 inches already on the ground. The winter of 1977-78 had a snow total
of 318 inches, which was the second highest total in Boonville weather
records. The most snow measured was 343 inches the year before.
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