Four Pharmacies?
Does Monmouth really need FOUR pharmacies?
We already have Axline and Shopko in town, Brent Family Pharmacy in Oquawka and multiple pharmacies nearby in Galesburg. The new Monmouth Walgreens is nearing completion, and just recently I noticed a sign in front of County Market proclaiming that its newly renovated store will be home to Warren County Pharmacy.
Methinks at least one of these Monmouth pharmacies will go belly-up. You can be sure it won’t be Walgreens, the new big boy muscling in on the block. I’m hoping that Axline’s drive-through, home delivery service and customer loyalty will save this local business.
Perhaps Axlines should look to ally itself with the County Market venture. They certainly need to consider expanding their hours. As a physician prescribing medications (most often by direct-to-pharmacy email prescription), I can say with absolute certainty that Axline loses a significant amount of business because they close at 6 P.M. Right now that business usually goes to Shopko. We’ll just have to see what happens once the new players open up.
Shameful Sportsmanship: Washington Football Coach Darrell Crouch
Washington Panther’s football coach Darrell Crouch should be ashamed of himself for his horrific show of sportsmanship on Friday night. Ahead 49-13 in the 4th quarter, Crouch ordered his starting line-up back in the game, passed the ball multiple times, called an onside kick AND a fake punt. The final score was 57-13.
Here is Crouch’s defense, per the Pekin Daily Times:
Crouch wasn’t happy that Pekin played its starters for much of the second half, tried two onside kicks, and blocked a punt.
“When you do that, you’re saying the game is back on,” he said.
Say WHAT??? Crouch apparently expected the team that was BEHIND BY 36 POINTS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER to lay down, quit, and put in their 2nd team players. What kind of delusional world does this man live in? What exactly was the point of rubbing the Dragon’s noses in it like that?
Crouch set a very ugly example for his young players on Friday night. Let’s hope they don’t learn his lesson of poor sportsmanship.
Meanwhile, Back in Dragonland
Well, well, well …
Reputation, image, brand matters. Those of us that live here, work here, we know what we’ve got. It is a very vibrant and beautiful community. If we don’t take a little bit more control of what our reputation is … others will do it for us.
Pekin Mayor Rusty Dunn, quoted in the Daily Times.
The Pekin City Council is also creating a Human Rights Committee specifically to address issues of racism in Pekin.
Hmmmm. What former Pekin resident & blogger brought these ideas up again & again over the past three years? This guy, maybe.
It’s good to see Pekin waking up to reality.
Cookie Litter
While browsing the website of the Aledo Times Record, I came upon an article recounting a horrific crime. On March 20, 2009, Nicholas Bernhardt flung a plate of cookies to the floor at the Country Bank in Aledo. Miscreant! When arrested on an outstanding warrant (failure to appear, Mercer County), he was found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana & drug paraphernalia. We can all breath easier since this dastardly fiend was apprehended and brought to justice!
Nota Bene …
Obviously Mr. Bernhardt had not yet partaken of his cannabis, or he would have consumed all the cookies instead of hurling them to the floor! Hehehe.
Quote of the Day: Response to Tea Party Crew
The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my fellow small-governmenters, but this country is a democracy, and you didn’t lose your country, you just lost an election. You had your chance for eight years. You blew it, and you lost. What Obama is doing is what he was elected to do. The principled response is not a massive, extremist-riddled hissy fit a few months in, but a constructive set of proposals to build on universal care for a more market-friendly and cost-conscious system in the future. You have to win some political credibility for that; and then you have to beat the man you lost so badly to last year. That’s the civil and civilized way forward for the right. It also seems, alas, to be the one they are currently refusing to take.
Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, September 14, 2009
“Massive, extremist-ridden hissy fit” – what an apt description of the Tea Party movement.
