By Harold Henderson
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Antiques are where you find them. The weekend of February 10 Eagle River, Wisconsin, will host an “Antique Snowmobile Derby,” featuring “re-enactment of the very first snowmobile derby, which was held at Dollar Lake”–all of 33 years ago.
Oops! I forgot to be chemophobic there for a minute! A press release touting alleged “HIV and AIDS cures by holistic experts” recommends, among other things, replacing dental fillings that contain mercury and nickel with “pure plastic.”
Sprocket politics. “The past 20 years of building new roads to accommodate sprawl development has produced a regional roadway system that is too expensive to maintain,” Randy Neufeld, executive director of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, is quoted as saying in the organization’s December/January newsletter. “We need to position bicycling not as another special interest depleting the shrinking pot, but as an investment many times more cost effective than capacity expansion.”
