examples of the culture

The past winter months have been cold and snowy, but red-berry trees growing between library parking lot and West Washington Street, here in Bradford PA, held tight to some fruit throughout freezing temperatures  --  trees that appear to be the same variety as those growing within various areas of Stuart FL that cover sidewalks with red fruit.  Pine cones dropped from a tree growing in the Jackson Avenue area resemble cigars (or vice versa) but also (arguably) dog-walker excrement.

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Immediate sales-marketing calls have been received as a use of new PA telephone numbers addressed, necessitating Internet website use to put such numbers on direct-marketing 'do not call' lists  --  but a call still came in yesterday, again from the Olean Times-Herald which is situated within close proximity to St. Bonaventure University, some of whose team players are said to have stabbed a number of Jamestown Community College team players recently following a get-together arranged using influence-network telephone call-demand methods.  Because these new Pennsylvania telephone numbers here have been entered into the 'do not call' list, such sales-call contact might well be another entrapment believed to 'allow' attack-calls to be made to the sales-caller as military-style information networking activity.

By the way, Olean NY and Bradford PA have a regional two-hospital agreement by which information is shared about Bradford's unique Tun'a Creek/Valley environs and Olean's local headwaters of the Allegheny River; the two cities also have agreements inked between two borderlands regional YMCA premises.

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Last week a roll of film was taken into CVS drug store to be developed (one set of prints only); apparently during that effort a major blaze was somehow ignited in Salamanca NY that destroyed a furniture store and other business addresses within that locale (a former 'Fancher' furniture store, bearing the name of a woman who died from cancer in the Oakland CA area during her television reporter/announcer career within past decade).  A roll of clear and viewable negatives was received from CVS, but only half the roll was developed such that a return to the store/pharmacy was necessary; whereupon the work was finished (after the NY border blaze was contained and extinguished) giving me, however, three pics of one photo that shows a house with jet-run overhead.  Naturally, one pic was taken to the photographed house and left in the mailbox, but whose gift is the pic? will surely be an energy-sapping issue perhaps during the next century of regional sturm-und-drang.