In less than three weeks, you can pull out the screwdriver and ditch your front license plate.
Ohio Senate Bill 179, a movement to overturn last year’s vote to abandon front plates, appears to be dead in the water. That’s not surprising, given the chaos 2020 has wrought.
Eliminating front plates on July 1, 2020, was part of the 2019 Transportation Bill. A majority of legislators accepted the fact that most drivers hate front plates and that eliminating them (the plates, not the drivers) would not only save taxpayers $1.7 million a year but decrease growing conflicts between those rectangular pieces of metal and modern safety features like adaptive cruise control, lane-departure alerts and parking guides.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol and others howled, claiming they couldn’t possibly catch the bad guys if vehicles didn’t carry front plates. Never mind that crime waves have not been reported in any of the five states that abut Ohio — none of which require front plates.
Front-plate fans found an ally in state Sen. Jay Hottinger, whose district covers parts of five counties, including Holmes and Tuscarawas. Last July, he introduced the bill to overturn the earlier vote. It was referred to committee in September and had its first hearing in December, but stalled after that.
Fortunately.
Crappy art
Methinks the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District had too much time on its hands during the coronavirus lockdown.
The group has launched a photo contest involving ... dog crap.
Couldn’t make this up.
“Participants are required to take a pledge to pick up their dog waste and dispose of it properly and send in a few sentences and a photo about their dog’s weird poop behaviors,” says the news release.
The contest runs through Labor Day.
“Participants will receive a dog bandanna that reads, ‘This is a nudge to clean up my fudge.’ [Our] staff will pick the winners in September and award prizes ….
“Dogs often do weird things when they poop – they lock eyes with their human, they spin around, they bunny kick, etc. People love their dogs and we want to hear about it.
“There are over 90,000 registered dogs in Cuyahoga County. A dog poops twice a day (on average). That is 45 tons of doggie droppings a day!”
Weeeee!
But there’s a method to the madness.
“When rain and snow melt, it washes the poop and bacteria into our waterways, polluting our rivers, streams and Lake Erie. The pledge, bandanna and contest bring awareness to the issue of dog waste and encourage pet owners to clean up after their dog.”
Trick photography
I seriously doubt the Summit County elections board is going to vote for me anytime soon.
I took a shot at them last month, saying the group “displays the American flag backward on the wall behind its members.”
Reader Wayne Darlington begged to differ. He said it was a photographic quirk. “Apparently in this world of COVID-19, you haven’t had to participate in very many online video meetings,” he told me. “… The images are reversed.”
I said, “Woah. I’ve done FaceTime. I’ve done Zoom. I’ve done Houseparty. And I’ve never seen any images reversed.”
He said, “My iPhone camera reverses things in selfie mode. I’m guessing the phone being used to stream the BOE meeting to Facebook is in selfie mode so participants can see it is capturing everyone or all of the activities.”
Mea culpa.
New home
The 58-year-old Corsair Model Aircraft Club will live to fly another day.
As I reported last month, the club is losing its home field on July 1 because its lease is ending and the owner of the property, an 8-acre field on the Kent-Franklin Township line, wants to build a house there.
Club Vice President John Ashley says his group is finalizing an agreement to share space at Jetway Airport, a small private landing strip three miles northeast of Ravenna.
Another model airplane club, the Thunderbirds, is already there, but has no objection to sharing.
Good thing. We don’t need any dogfights over Portage County.
Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com. He also is on Facebook at https://ift.tt/1xR7T8Y.
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