Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell tries to create a time machine in order to travel back far enough to be the first to ever write a city memo. His contraption inevitably does little besides puff clouds of black smoke, which coincidentally spell out this city memo.
Safety First
Puppet shows, second
The Fire Department took the opportunity during Market Days to teach some important safety lessons, Aspell writes. Lesson No. 1: Inducing a brain freeze is not the best way to extinguish heart burn.
Lt. Tim Robinson joined with Concord Hospital staff and Boy Scout Troop No. 86 to teach hands-only CPR to more than 200 inpiduals. Feet-only CPR remains in the beta stage. Assistant Fire Marshall Ken Kiehl presented his popular puppet show on fire safety and arranged to have John Southwell, from the New Hampshire Fire Marshal’s Office do a demonstration with his arson dog, Andre. Could an arson dog be referred to colloquially as a hot dog?
Water water everywhere
Except in these houses
Staff from the General Services Department responded to a major water leak on South Street last Wednesday, Aspell writes. First responders were seen carrying a value pack of Bounty paper towels.
A valve for a hydrant failed and had to be replaced, leaving 12 residences without water for approximately seven hours. The rest of Concord continued to gleefully enjoy access to free wetness. Cleaning and pavement patching was completed the following day.
Damage control
Trees fall down, go boom
General Services responded to several trees down and had to close some roads until the evening of July 20 following a damaging thunderstorm July 19, Aspell writes. Crews continue to clean up damage to more than 15 trees at Riverfront Park near the Everett Arena. The damaged trees are threatening to sue for damages, estimated to be in the hundreds of pine needles.
