[Vision2020] Fw: What is it with Idahoans and Bathrooms? And a Thank You...

[Linda Pall]

Re: [Vision2020] Fw: What is it with Idahoans and Bathrooms?Thanks, Joe! It shows what a snowed-in day does to people that I ahd the time and inclination to call national talk radio and fiddle with the Washington Post IN THE SAME DAY!!!

Seriously, I have so many to thank for all the kindnesses I have received during these days of the White Tornado... Snow shovelling, brushing off the car about 795 times, battery cable rescue activity (two tiems if you can believe it!!!) at the Mall with my new-to-me (!) car, offers to shop for food, gifts of food and those warm, endearing phone calls and e-mails ("Doin' okay? How's Ella the Dog? Do you need somebody to (choose as needed) shovel, shop, brush, clean, cook, walk the dog, cuddle the dog, accompany you on the piano while you sing, play the flute or scratch on the violin???"). They have all been kind and ALL been appreciated. So many of the offerors have been V2020 that I felt it was appropriate to say this in this forum.

You're great, Moscow! Thanks for caring. I'm doing reasonably well, still practicing lkaw and teaching at WSU (Business Law Coordinator for the College of Business) and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension is being held at bay... no miraculous cures but still breathing and happy to be here. Happy 2009, Everybody... shovel-ready plans are alive and well in Moscow: Palouse River Ball Fields and finishing the 1912 Center!

Linda 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joseph Campbell 
  To: Linda Pall ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: What is it with Idahoans and Bathrooms?


  In case no one else knows, Linda was on NPR today! Pretty cool! Thanks, Linda! Best, Joe

  On 1/5/09 3:49 PM, "Linda Pall" <lpall at moscow.com> wrote:


    Dear Visionaries,
     
    Here's a comment from the Washington Post that Idahoans around the country found interesting today...

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401504.html
    Here's the bit if you don't want to play digital tag:

    A Lavish Bathroom at Interior

    If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this month as interior secretary, he'll have a snappy, scarcely used bathroom in his fifth-floor office, thanks to Dirk Kempthorne, the outgoing secretary. 

    Seems Kempthorne spent about $235,000 in taxpayer funds renovating the bathroom a few months ago, which included installing a new shower, a refrigerator and a freezer and buying monogrammed towels, department officials told our colleague Derek Kravitz. 

    The General Services Administration approved and partially funded the project, an Interior Department official said. The GSA paid about half the cost to refurbish aging plumbing, which needed to be replaced within four years. 

    But department officials say much of the money was spent on lavish wood paneling and tile. Among the choice items found in the new bathroom: wainscot wood panels extending from floor to ceiling and cabinet doors revealing a working refrigerator and freezer. 

    "If Gale Norton needed to shower, at least she was conservative enough to go to the gym in the basement of the building," one career employee quipped, referring to Kempthorne's predecessor. 

    An initial investigation by the department's inspector general, Earl B. Devaney, found no wrongdoing on the secretary's part because the GSA had approved the project. 

    Copyright 2009 The Washington Post




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