Here it is, the day AFTER tax day.. And to think, the paper says I have been working for Uncle Sam full time since January 1..Makes me sick!....Finally some nice weather. Actually it has been nice for a couple weeks. Lots of buds, birds, dust, green grass, golfers, a few convertibles, etc. Get out and get the 'stink blown off' as my Dad would say. I gotta tell ya, the BIG hole a the corner of 5th street and 12th ave IS A HUGE HOLE! I guess that is what a $20million dollar hole SHOULD look like. Park in the Library lot and walk to the edge of the hole some evening and take a look down inside..WHILE you are there, TRY to return a book to the handy dandy 'driveup book return' at the newly remodeled Coralville Library. Impossible. I HOPE the Library Committee and our City Council has NOT paid for this. NOT good. Clearly sold to the voters as part of the $8million bond issue was a 'driveup' book return. YOU be the judge. Now 1st avenue bridge over Clear Creek is half demolished. We have to weather the construction to get to the new bridge..Just think, people will come to a game this year and say, 'geez, they 'got a new bridge',,,, NEVER having to suffer thru the traffic snarls like the rest of us! Coralville will ride herd on these guys and get it done. MORE shuffling coming on the Strip and on 1st Avenue. UIHC has announced a HUGE new hospitial project in River Landing. If I recall 2 large hospital buildings with a total of 200,000sqft. (a HUGE amount) will be built, and the City of Coralville will build and leaseback ( I think) another parking ramp on that site. ANY town in Iowa or even the Midwest would do this in order to attract a rock solid business like a huge hospital. IT is time to ENJOY summer in Coralville. Have you eaten at the Brown Deer Golf Course? Take some friends some evening and have a cold 'drink' and a burger on the BIG patio, or get in the carbon burning ( I love it!) car and head to C.R. to see a Kernel's game. WE go there a lot! E-Z to go and also enjoy baseball....Walk across the Iowa River at the Iowa River Power Restaurant. STOP in the middle of the bridge and envision the 'long ago' grist mill on the site of the restaurant, horses, men working, etc.....THIS is the epicenter of the City of Coralville. ..Drive out to IHOP on the west end of the Strip, park your car, and walk part of the Clear Creek Trail System. ..Walk from Hy-Vee east to 1st avenue and back....Long walk, but this is Old U.S. Highway 6, Boston to L.A., right thru Coralville..Take time to see the Old School, the 'bend in the road' , the 'Mormon Rock', the Duck Pond, and more!! ...Open the windows in your house and let the wind blow thru!!!

IT is a great day in Coralville!!.........ALL days are great in Coralville.