The Blog Monster

Viewers look at the newly revealed fiberglass elephant at the South Rock Island Township Hall. The elephant will be debuted at the local St. Patrick's Day parade. (I put this in here not for it's merit as a photo but because I found it absurd that they thought a $16K elephant was going to bring back a political party.)

Jeff Oetzel, 16 has put in almost 10 hours of snow shoveling at Centennial Park Skate Park. On Tues. Mar. 2 Oetzel and friends ride and clean the snow so they can start riding on a regular basis. (I was out feature hunting and got a call to go to the skate park. In BG I'd trudge that way but Davenport doesn't know that PJ's use the skate park as a last ditch effort for a picture.)