Archival Correction for the Bake-In
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Sarah Plimpton announced she would bring her archival binder to Saturday’s Bake-In to correct the Herald’s claim that the lane’s major blizzard occurred in 1947. Her archives, 1994 soil reports, and eyewitness accounts place it in 1994, requiring a change to the Dobrowski twins’ snow-display placard. She said Mr. Higgins agreed and planned to review the evidence over tea.
Yolanda Bettencourt turned the gathering at #8 into a “tactical session” at 4 p.m., arranging tea and deviled eggs and assigning roles: Halvorsen would provide weather data, Dale Pruitt would bring 1994 repair logs, Sarah would manage the recipe board, and Higgins would observe from her attic. She also treated the dog under her porch as accounted for, assigning its “threat level five” to five deviled eggs. Dale volunteered to inspect wobbly porches and bring his repair logs, prompting HOA president Bev Lindqvist to issue notices saying he lacked authorization, his own porch-light wiring violated an earlier notice, and his logs were not approved sources.
The dog, Otis, reported being under #6 during the argument and later receiving an egg at #8. Bev claimed the egg might be payment for silent testimony, but Halvorsen’s log placed Otis at #6 for seven minutes, with no food there, and the egg at #8 after the alleged inspection. He agreed the dog’s route could be logged, but not its opinions. Higgins complained about poor “troop discipline,” while Sarah said she had documented Otis’s movements and suggested his routine might relate to the mail carrier. She also drew attention to the squeaking weather vane at #11.
Herald editor Mrs. Alden repeatedly misreported the event, attendance, weather, the vane, and the canine story. Yolanda corrected the date from Wednesday to Saturday. Halvorsen stated that only nine residents plus the dog and cat made eleven potential attendees, that the vane’s 3.2 kHz squeak came from bearing friction, and that rain was likely after 4:30 p.m. He also logged the two lost gloves. Alden’s later “correction” still misrepresented his findings, while the town’s reminder that porch stairs must be firm and even by Friday appeared to concern Dale’s uneven stairs.
Frank and Franny Dobrowski disputed
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yesterday
FRANNY: The program is on our hall table, Halvorsen, the ink is blue and it says 1987. My shoes were wet, that's how I know it rained.
FRANK: Those were different shoes. From the flood in '89.
FRANNY: The flood was in the basement, Frank, not the street. My good shoes were in the hall closet.
FRANK: The hall closet flooded in '89. The program was in the drawer. Dry.
FRANNY: It was under the tablecloths! Mother said to keep it dry.
FRANK: The tablecloths were for the lemonade stand. Which was 1991.
FRANNY: The lemonade stand was for the repaving! Give me the keyboard.
FRANNY: That's all. FRANK: It isn't.Venomous
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yesterday
The program on your hall table is a photocopy. The original, which was in my possession for verification, is indeed printed in blue ink on card stock, but the date is embossed, not inked. It did not get wet.
The basement flood of 1989 occurred on September 12th. I have the rainfall for that day: 3.7 inches. Your hall closet is at an elevation of eighteen inches above the basement floor; given the recorded water height of ten inches, it would not have flooded.
The tablecloths for the lemonade stand were used during the repaving project of August 1982. The stand itself was operational for three days. I have the temperature logs.
As logged. R. Halvorsen, #11Furious
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yesterday
FRANNY: Two green chairs, yes, I remember, they were from the shed. The red cooler had the ice. The check was from the school indeed, for the carnival, not the lemonade stand.
FRANK: The chairs were from the Bettencourt's garage sale. And the check was from the PTA, not the school.
FRANNY: It was the same thing, Frank! Honestly. Sam, how did you know about the chairs? You weren't even born then.
FRANK: Sam knows because Sam is always in the kitchen. That's not the point. The point is the stand was for the '82 repaving, not the carnival.
FRANNY: It was for both! We moved it. Give me the keyboard.
FRANNY: That's all. FRANK: It isn't.Venomous
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today
The check was issued by the PTA to cover the materials for the lemonade stand, as logged in my files. The amount was twelve dollars, and it was deposited on July 23, 1982. The two green chairs were from the shed at #5, not the Bettencourt garage sale, which took place two years later. I have that log as well.
The stand was in operation for three days during the repaving, and was not moved for the carnival, which had a separate stand funded by the aforementioned 1991 check. There were no red coolers involved in the carnival.
As logged. R. Halvorsen, #11Venomous
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today
FRANNY: The Bettencourt's garage sale was August of 1984, Halvorsen, not 'two years later,' and those chairs were definitely there. I bought her chipped flower pot that day.
FRANK: You bought the flower pot in 1986. The chairs were from our shed, I remember carrying them.
FRANNY: If they were from our shed, then why did they have the Bettencourt's garage sale price sticker on the leg?
FRANK: That sticker was from the school book sale. It was for twenty-five cents.
FRANNY: It was a dollar fifty! Honestly. And the red cooler was absolutely at the carnival, Sam saw it.
FRANK: Sam saw it in our kitchen last week. That's not the same. The check was twelve dollars, yes, but it was from the PTA for the lemonade stand materials, not the school.
FRANNY: The PTA is the school, Frank! Give me the keyboard.
FRANNY: That's all. FRANK: It isn't.Venomous
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today
The Bettencourt garage sale was August 17, 1984. I logged the rainfall that day as 0.2 inches, requiring them to move items into the garage. The price sticker on the chair leg was indeed from a school book sale, but that sale occurred in October of 1983; the sticker color was yellow, not the blue used in 1984. The twelve-dollar check from the PTA was deposited on July 23, 1982, as previously stated. It was for lemons and paper cups, as itemized on the attached carbon copy in my file. The cooler was not present at the carnival; the carnival stand used a rented ice chest.
I have delivered a copy of this file to your door.
As logged. R. Halvorsen, #11Furious
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