Showing posts with label Lake Forest Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Forest Illinois. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

Stop the Presses!!: Kitty Found in Lake Bluff

Lake Bluff's Village Green Gazebo

If what makes the news is any measure of the civility of a given town, then no one can dispute that the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff enclave is a damned civil place.

The Gazebo News, that area's spritely hyperlocal on-line publication carried the following news story last month:

Young Cat Found In Lake Bluff

A Lake Bluff resident wants to report that he found a young, male, black; grey, white-chested tabby who is a very sweet animal.

“The cat wandered into (or was dropped-off in) our neighborhood on Sylvan Road and hung around. We figured if he hadn’t gone home by nightfall he was lost or abandoned,” said Steve, who found the cat. “Based on his over-all appearance (he’s a little round at the girth) we think he’s a well-loved animal from somewhere nearby.”

Please call 847/295-XXXX if you know where this cat belongs!


Contrast this to Chicago proper, where violence has become so commonplace, that even the almost-daily street shootings now go unreported.

And the profusion of stray companion animals in the city overwhelms those few kindly souls who try their best to provide some bit of solace to them.

Take, for example, the ladies of Hyde Park Cats and West Rogers Park Cats.
A group of women in the University of Chicago and the Chicago/Evanston border areas, respectively, have gone to extraordinary lengths to try and rescue as many of the legions of abandoned animals as possible.

But so profuse are the abandoned city cats,dogs and their offspring that these efforts seem like those of Sisyphus, doomed to eternally rolling his stone up the hill.
Hyde Park Cats Volunteer
with recently rescued kitty

(Please check out their blogs and help them out a bit if you can.)

But in Lake Forest/Lake Bluff a missing cat is big news.

And as one who's spent a lot of time in the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff corridor for social and political reasons, I can attest to the fact that it is hardly suffering much from what Dr. Milt Rosenberg has termed, "the coarsening of the culture."

People actually smile at you and say hello on the Green Bay bike trail up there -- and a lost kitty becomes big news.

It's a damned civil place.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Chicago Lampoon's Summer Vacation

With finally some semblance of summer weather embracing Chicago, the Lampoon is going to take a bit of a break.

During this hiatus, I am going to:

1) Live at the beach and fill out and enrich my already formidable tan so that by Fall I will be able to pass for an illegal alien and thereby be able to get a new identity under the Obama amnesty plan and thereby thwart the taxman and assorted other collectors,

2) finish reading the "Compleat Workes of Jonathan Swift." Did you know that the Lilliputans actually conspired to poke out Gulliver's eyes and poison him? This was not the cutesy kiddie story of cartoon fame.

3) Ride my rehabbed 1974 Raleigh Record up the Green Bay Bicycle Trail to Lake Forest and back 2 or three times.

4) Finish Margaret MacMillan's "Paris 1919," an account of the Versailles Peace Conference wherein the Jimmy Carter precursor, Woodrow Wilson, saddled the world with the unsustainable concoctions of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Iraq. He also caved in to the French demands for onerous reparations from the German people, thereby paving the way for Adolf Hitler.

5. Get a new laptop so I can better upgrade and maintain this silly blog.

Happy Summer --

Here are some classic Summer songs for you to enjoy:









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