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Show p Oinions Thursday, June 23, 2011 he Gunnison Valley Gazette Page 8 Water under the bridge Blah, blah, blah... By MARK HENLINE For months now we have all been watching and waiting to see how high the water was going to go this spring. The city has prepared as best as they could by closing the east and west bridges and by building dikes along the low spots to keep the river in its course. They have also placed sand bags, two high, along the top of the retaining wall under the Main Street bridge in efforts to keep the river walk open and dry. As the river has continued to rise over the past couple of months it has become a ritual for many in town, including myself, to go watch and see if the river would come over the walkway and flood the dragon. The river is wide under the bridge and many believed it wouldn't get that high, but last Wednesday evening it began trickling over the sandbags. By the next morning the walkway was flooded and the water has continued to rise. It is now Tuesday and the walkway appears to be just part of the river. I guess the question now is, will the dragon be damaged? Hopefully it will just be some mud left behind to clean up when the water subsides. In last week's paper I tried my hand at being a food critic. I talked about what I enjoy eating at the local restaurants. My son Connor read the article and reminded me that I had left out his favorite, the Lakeside Grill. Shari Malmgren started the Lakeside Grill about three months ago at the club house at Palisade Golf Course, but you don't need to be a golfer to go enjoy their food. The restaurant has a great view of the golf course out two sides and a view of the Palisade Lake out of the other. They are open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My favorite is the cheeseburger with homemade fries. My wife likes the homemade potato chips the best. For good food and a nice view, it's the Lakeside Grill. Do Your Best If you haven't been by the Gunnison Barber Shop lately it's worth a visit. Todd and Marie Neil have made it into one of the most charming hometown businesses in the valley. The barber shop is located next to the theatre and is open Wednesday and Thursdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. There is no appointment needed. Just walk in and visit or read the paper while you wait your turn. While you're there take a look at the pop bottle collection that Todd has acquired over the years. It's really impressive. Visiting the Gunnison Barber Shop is almost like taking a trip back to a simpler time, one that many of us hold fondly in our memories. 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Who thinks to ask how a street got its name? Whatever we're told as we grow up, we just accept. The way it is listed on the corner street signs is the way it is. There weren't street signs back then anyway. Kid Alley was at its peak in the 1930's. The street wasn't paved, and most of the traffic on Kid Alley was farmers on tractors making their way to the fields west of Centerfield. There was a ditch that ran across the street and a wooden bridge built over it. You worked your activities around your water turn. You put the dam in the ditch, and your lawn and gardens were flooded for a few hours. During the day the residents of Kid Alley did chores—and when you were old enough you got a job. I'm not saying "old enough" by today's labor laws but old enough to be away from home for the day and old enough to earn a quarter or so to help with the family's expenses. There were jobs in the fields—thinning beats and helping with harvests, and in the beehives, or maybe in the flour or feed mill—back aching work—things that most kids would never fall for today. But on Kid Alley where the families were large and money was tight, where everyone knew they played a role, it was part of your life to go to work when you could. No whining, no trying to talk your way out it. You packed a lunch and took your thermos and went to work! Often it wasn't easier at home anyway. There was washing to be done in the old wringer washer, weeds to be pulled, and vegetables in the garden to pick and to bottle. There were chickens and other animals to feed. You might as well go off to work because you wouldn't be laying around at home even if you didn't have a job. There was plenty of work to go around. After supper when the sun went down, the kids of Kid Alley played kickthe-can. No matter that you should have been exhausted from a man-size day of labor. There was fun to be had. Boys and girls, young and old, gathered for the game. Hiding places were abundant. Sometimes you were forgotten and no one kicked the can and you just stayed hidden through more than one kid being "it." The kids of Kid Alley maybe didn't go to church as often as they should have. But you learned values just by the way living was done. Give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Tell the truth. Be kind to each other. Look out for the other guy. Mind your ma and your pa. Share with others. Do your best. Those kids of Kid Alley turned out all right! You might even know some of those kids. Many stayed in the Gunnison Valley and most had kids of their own who produced more kids. So the names live on. There were the Buchanan's and the Draper's, the Rasmussen's and the Christensen's, the Follett's and the Allred's. The Sorensen's and the Jorgensen's, and the Jensen's. You do the math. How many kids do you figure grew up on Kid Alley? 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