a quest continues

Following from the use of old stoves to support a new business here in marshy Martin County, FL, decades ago (see back issues of the Stuart News) was come the Chowchilla debacle in northern CA where a school bus was suddenly taken over and buried near that small city, causing trauma among schoolchildren and 'authorities' alike.

Chowchillans in southern FL continue to investigate the incident informally and so a significant number of Asian-theme restaurants now operate in the region to feed that non-documented investigation, some with 'authentic' Asian-heritage workers. Since the age 55+ condominium complexes have been permitted set-up in the region, largely populated with 'honorable discharge' company retirees, the number of 'foreign'-bloodline deaths have increased, including the death in past months of a local Japanese-heritage woman in her 40s.

Paradoxically, the entertainment industry is the cultural snafu since the recording industry uses "freedom of the press" as if the ethic is a law that permits them to seize, copy and sell any and all original recorded music. Entertainers who also maintain military-status roles, however without performance truth-in-advertising, have been thought to be "know-it-alls" from whom accurate counsel can be routinely solicited and instant action initiated.

The Chowchilla incident has been a socio-political boon for those CA inhabitants who now claim property rights in the state of FL as a sort of grievance action different from natural relocation selection.

Last night when I walked through a parking lot to the mail-box in the Ocean East Plaza beside a Chevron station, the extra extra long cord attaching a camper-type RV to the Chevron electrical outlet was a reminder of those kinds of interests who have extended themselves into this region and others using oil-company energy taps to maintain a para-military presence -- all while 'backing' peers and arts interests who have made entertainment the corrupt industry it is today. Sadly, the precedent used to continue an "anything goes" attitude prevalent within entertainment domains is that the first recorded/printed music was anonymous (different from 'not known').

As a pedestrian in 2006 when I arrived in northeast Stuart to visit relatives, the most obvious deficiency noticed was the lack of sidewalk entrances leading into the plazas situated on SE Ocean Boulevard. Paradoxically, the plazas also shelter medical-mall installations, although the only way to enter them from a sidewalk is to walk on vehicle-dominated asphalt roadway pavement. One plaza nearby Kingswood condo complex also houses a supermarket; the only way to walk over to it is to traverse cement-curb roadway 'linings' that are about a foot wide at the side of the plaza entrance where multiple lanes of traffic are controlled with a traffic signal.

Since an information tip was telephoned in to a regional Palm Beach television station about the hazardous status of the post-hurricane reconstruction effort, the supermarket has ostensibly changed ownership as advertised but no designated walkways into the plazas from sidewalks have been forthcoming. A 'private road' sign has been placed on an asphalt vehicular/pedestrian pathway situated beside the Ocean East plaza which advertises a theatre and that passes a small wooden bridge extending to the plaza parking lots; this sign suspiciously resembles the one placed at the entrance of an FBI parking lot in Buffalo, NY in the 1970s in the Kenmore District.