Mayor Jon Flickinger March 8, 2010

Subject: Maplewood

Jon, I've included 26 pictures around the Maplewood area and as is plainly evident this area of Bicknell needs help.

I am not suggesting that the city go down there and start issuing fines as it is obvious that the people there cannot afford it but I am suggesting that the city or a sponsor such as Good Start take the time to assist these home owners. I only mention Good Start as I understand that this is what their purpose is.

It appears to be obvious that many of the home owners cannot maintain there own homes so I would suggest that either the City of Bicknell or a sponsor such as Good Start put together a program to provide dumpsters, trash stickers and volunteers to help clean up the area. I would also suggest that grants be applied for to assist home owners in reclaiming their homes and property from deterioration.

I can see a huge deterioration in this area from 7 or 8 years ago; I understand that the bills created by the City of Bicknell has placed undue burdens on many home owners which I am sure has added to the inability of Maplewood home owners to maintain their properties.

I understand that at this time Good Start is trying to set a project that would help Bicknell and are looking at replacing the gazebo on Main Street with another gazebo on Main Street which would be well received if not for the obvious needs in Maplewood.

I understand that Bicknell lost the opportunity to apply for a community grant and that is a shame and is partly my fault because I never took the time to look around Maplewood until I lost my mother who has property located there; on the other hand I am not the mayor, a council member or the head of the Bicknell Good Start.

I see that you, acting as the mayor, are attempting to temporary repair some of the pot holes around Bicknell and that is a good thing but it appears to be well past time for you to take a look at Maplewood.

Jon I commend you for applying for a grant to build and/or repair properties around the West 2nd Street area but that area compared to Maplewood is like Beverly Hills compared to a land fill.
It is also certain that the ditch along White River Avenue needs to be dredged out to allow proper run off of the low wet areas in Maple Wood which would relieve the problem of mosquitoes during warm weather when people can be outside.

I believe, as I have told a lot of people that, Mayor Jon Flickinger truly loves Bicknell and is trying to revitalize it as well as he can but I know that the problems are many and getting worse daily but Bicknell is too small of a community to allow one section of town to become a slum. If I can help contact me.

Best regards
John R. Stanczak

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The Vincennes Colonial/Contra Dance Group will hold another Contra Dance on Friday March 5th in the basement of the Old Town Players Theatre in Vincennes.

The Theatre is located at 432 Broadway and practice of Contra and possible other types of dancing will begin at 7 pm with Contra dancing in earnest from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

Admission is free and instructors and dance callers are Ruthie Gilmore Strong and Ron Ackman.

No experience is necessary and people wanting to dance can come as singles, couples or the whole family.
This is the 10th anniversary year for the group having started in 2000.
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Doctors it seems have indestructible policies or at least this is true at Dr. Tom Kirkwood's office.

It seems according to his office staff that if your name is not in the computer system that you are not a patient of his any longer.

According to his office staff the computer system drops your name if you have not visited him within 3 years; so healthy people need to take notice.

Can they add your name back? Of course but it is a problem that requires a lot of hell raising because they are not taking any new patients.

If you are able to convince the office staff that you really are a patient of Dr. Kirkwood for years and they, the office staff, choose to re-instate you as a patient they will only re-instate you as a new patient which means that they will not except your insurance on the first visit even if they are already using the exact same policy when treating your spouse, children or those with whom you are the legal guarding so it is cash up front.

I guess if a person were very understanding and this policy actually assisted those who are most likely setting in his waiting room at 4:00 PM for their 2:30 PM appointment but it does not seem to help keep appointment schedules on time.

I personally chose to change doctors but everybody else needs to check the rules not only at Dr. Kirkwood's office but every general practitioner to be sure that the office is what you believe it is.

Both my mother and my family considered the doctor to be not only our doctor but a friend as well; I guess I woke up suddenly.

The doctor didn't even visit my mother in the hospital which is where he sent her after treating her for many years and charging many thousands of dollars for office visits to the Miners Union and Medicare, at least to my knowledge but I will be checking with the miners insurance and Medicare for additional charges, I was also shocked when I found out that my wife has been too healthy over the last 3 years to still be one of his patients, even though he sent her to a doctor who specializes in the treatment of diabetes which is the only medical problem that she has been treating for that is until she got the flu and I called Dr. Kirkwood's office to get an appointment at which time we found out that she had been forgotten by our family doctor.

John R. Stanczak

My mother passed a short time ago and her children whom I am one of looked for her will for a couple of days with no success so my sister decided to get in touch with James P. Levell Attorney because this office was the one that helped our parents when they were making out their wills several years ago.

My sister called James P. Levell's office actually to ask the secretary if the law office had any copies but the secretary promptly forwarded her call to

I'm looking at the Bicknell newspaper and next to Love-A-Bears is once again a picture of our esteemed city councilman Gary Goodwin being released from jail on a work release program. I guess he owes $25,168.85 plus a fine of $1,000.00 and will repay it at a rate of $700.00 per month which seems a little

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Old Town Players community theatre will present Neil Simon's hit comedy
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Today is "Groundhog Day." Many of you will remember the Bill Murray movie of the same name.  Murray plays a weatherman who is forced to relive the same day over and over and over again. Only when he finally gets the day right is his curse broken.
 
This plot is strangely similar to what we have seen in recent years from borrow and spend Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle. Politicians are forcing us to live through the same pledges, the same broken promises, and even the same political campaigns that we have seen many times in the past. 2010 is our opportunity to "get it right," to break the curse once and for all.

The story line makes for a funny Hollywood movie with a happy ending, but in real life one can only see the