Somebody (please!) either lengthen that microphone holder or replace it with a hand-held microphone that the speaker can hold up to their own mouth and still maintain a modestly erect posture. It is embarrassing to me just watching from the cheap seats. The point is obvious - the speaker is placed at a disadvantage when addressing the council by being forced into body language of abject supplication. And tall people don’t have a prayer of being heard unless they assume the posture of a retching sop addressing a toilet bowl. Most individuals of moderate height are forced to bend way over to get their mouth close enough to the podium microphone to be heard. And if you think that’s no big deal, go find the olde rhyme about “for the want of a nail the shoe was lost”. It’s that pesky little microphone down at the Public Comment podium in the council chambers that I think could use some serious IT intervention. Though I have only once seen the problem which precipitated this decision, and agree that simply jotting their votes on a slip of paper which is then passed to the City Clerk may be too cheap and simple to contemplate, I’m willing to acquiesce with blowing $5K of our money so that any big city visitors to our council chambers don’t laugh out loud when a vote is taken. Our City Council recently voted to spend $5K for a nifty new council voting contrivance that allows for council members to all vote on an issue just like they do in the big cities with lighted indicators and thorough technological regard to all the legal requirements of secret voting and realtime transparency. Imagine! We would have avid flag-waving marchers coming-in from everywhere to proudly strut in our world-famous and increasingly massive flag march. Perhaps we could conjure a sort of Moore’s Law from the high desert air around us and double the number of marchers every decade.
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I, for one, am ready for an upgrade to 2,000 flags. Good for her and good for us! If we had more flags there would be more marchers. It was wonderful! Mother Nature blessed the event by offering a day of truly perfect weather for this distinctive occasion, suggesting her tacit approval of our boisterous and unselfconscious patriotism. Our remarkable little politically “Red” island (in a vast politically “Blue” California Ocean) marched with a thousand American flags last Saturday. The Congressman Kevin McCarthy Merit Award was created to recognize outstanding high school students who have demonstrated exemplary school citizenship, volunteerism, community service, involvement in extracurricular activities, leadership skills and have earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher.Įarlier this year, high school principals were invited to select one outstanding graduating senior per school to receive the Congressman Kevin McCarthy Merit Award.Here’s another weekly potpourri of thoughts and observations about breaking news and Valley things both great and small. Miss Randi Hensley – Rosamond High School.Miss Elizabeth Avalos – Mojave High School.Miss Rabia Karimi – Lancaster High School.Miss Rachel Sparks – Desert Christian High School.Miss Taylor Steele – Desert High School.Miss Samantha Spellman – California City High School."These accomplished young men and women give me confidence that our brightest days are ahead of us, and I am proud to present each of them a merit award to honor their hard work."
"These awards are about more than grades and academic performance they are about the character of these students, their commitment to their community and the values they uphold," said Congressman McCarthy. Included among them was Burroughs High School student Heidi Yi. Congressman Kevin McCarthy announced the recipients of the 2011 Congressman Kevin McCarthy Merit Award in East Kern and Los Angeles Counties.
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