out. I don't know if this is a woman thing. I was having lunch with my wife today. Out
of the blue, she just leans over to me and goes, Pete, I just want you to know. If I ever
get really sick and I'm in the hospital, it's okay if you want to move on with your life
and see other people. You feel how tense it is right now? That's how tense it was. She
meant it to be sweet, but she really just freaked me out. Like next time I have the flu,
she'll be like, this is Julio.
I don't know if I could change the way I'm the one. I'd be your friend. I'm your friend.
I don't know if I could change the way I'm the one. I'd be your friend. I'd be your friend.
They will be mine. They cross my mind.
My sign has yet to come until then.
Too many walls have been built in between all. Too many dreams have been shattered around all.
If I seem to give up, I'll still never win.
Taken my heart. I know this strength is within.
Good morning at 709. It's Tuesday morning, but that's the 16th of April.
You pay your taxes. You weren't listening earlier. I reminded you that's how Al Capone got it.
He didn't pay his taxes. This guy murdered people all over the place, but they couldn't get him for that,
but they got him for payment, lack of payment of taxes. That's how they got him.
So I went to, well, let's go pretty in this area. I should introduce you first.
When you get that microphone up, I say, you can hear everything you're saying.
My wife and I love to go to cemeteries. We travel.
And every go on a road trip, we stop at cemeteries. And my wife researchers, these researchers, these cemeteries.
And we went to Mount Carmel in Chicago. It was buried there, Al Capone.
And buried right across from him is another gangster.
What's his name? I'll think of it in a second.
And there's another gangster not far from him. They're all buried there.
They couldn't get along in life, but now they can get along six feet from each other at the cemetery.
So I stood there at Al Capone's grave, and I know he's just six feet underneath me.
I mean, that's kind of world famous gangster, and I'm standing right on top of him.
And how are you feeling? Were you feeling a...
Well, I know it's gangster.
If I was standing on top of him in the 1930s, I would be next to him in the grave today.
But, you know, I can't think of the guy's name.
Oh, he was the florist. He was the guy who did the flowers for the massacre.
Oh, I can't think of his name. Oh, Banyan. That's it.
Oh, Banyan. He's buried right across from him.
And who was the guy who was dating somebody from the Maguire sisters?
I can't think of his name as being on there.
Anyway, in his Muslim Liam is his casket and some photographs.
And there's a picture of him with a woman.
It's not his wife. It's his mistress.
That's who they put in there with him for eternity.
Wow.
What a conversation.
All right. Melissa Caprillian is here.
She is your fifth district alder.
And I'm getting used to saying alder.
Good.
I'm getting used to that fifth district alder.
And she's also on the county board.
She's also vice president of...
I'm trying all these things you're running.
That's a busy thing.
But they don't meet every week, do they?
No, they do not meet every week.
So it's pretty well balanced throughout the whole month.
Are tax dollars being spent wisely in the county and the city?
Lots of things going on.
So there's a lot of new things.
And everybody went to the poll just a few weeks back.
So the results are in.
And we will be having some swearing in of the new body soon tonight.
Oh, David Mack.
Yeah.
Yeah, he invited me to come by.
And I got to remember that.
Let's see.
You can either watch an old date line episode or go watch a David Mack.
I'll think about that over lunch.
No, I'll go.
You know, David Mack will be around for a couple years.
The term is two years.
And not only David Mack, but Sandy Wideners coming back as well.
So two people who both were served on the city council in prior years are now back.
And so you've got some historical knowledge and wisdom coming back on.
And it should be interesting.
The county board also.
So all of the county board was up this term for the city.
It was.
Do you have a run for reelection?
I had a run for reelection for the county board.
That's right.
You want to guess?
Yeah, I did.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I didn't know the county board was all up.
Yeah, every seat was up.
I voted.
I think that way.
Yeah, I voted.
I just didn't.
No, I'm not.
Yeah, I'm not.
They redistricted.
So I don't cover that part of.
Oh, because I didn't see your name on there.
I know I voted and I didn't see your name.
You know, here's something they got to change.
On the wording of the propositions on the back.
Oh, yeah.
You know, my wife voted one way, but she meant to vote the other.
Because they weren't it and such.
Who words these things?
Well, I wouldn't know why it sounds like a double negative almost.
It's not, but that's what it sounds like when somebody says,
I don't not do that anymore.
I mean, you do do it.
That's it.
But that's the way they word these things so you're confused by it.
Why can't they have somebody like me just write a one word sentence on there
and explain what it is?
Wouldn't that be a lot easier?
There's a lot of processes in government.
A lot of times it's voted on.
So how does the actual wording of it?
That one that referendum didn't come from the local level.
So we have.
Give up their name.
Give it up.
Oh, my gosh.
I can't.
You're making me sweat here.
Name names.
Name names.
But we've seen it at the local level too.
Where the wording is really important.
It's confusing.
It's confusing.
Yeah.
Because you're trying to sit there and analyze what you're trying to read.
And not as a line of people in back and be waiting to vote.
I can't believe only 300-someone people.
Yeah.
It's hard in the spring elections.
We'll see it more.
So usually when the bigger seats are up and the mayor seats up or if it's presidential election,
you'll start seeing those local numbers rise greatly.
But in between there, you'll see those numbers pretty low.
So you really got to get out there when you are running for office.
My wife voted seven o'clock in the morning.
She was number two.
I voted about nine thirty-ten o'clock.
I was number sixteen.
I still love that.
That was amazing.
Oh, yeah.
And there were people voting later on in the day.
We're like one hundred.
I mean, that's used to get more people voting than that.
You can't force them to vote.
Yeah, can't.
But, you know, Don, I would argue that it's the most important vote to have is for your local election.
Because you can feel the changes sometimes within that same week when things are voted on at the local level.
A lot of times the things that are happening at the federal or state level,
you don't feel those effects for a while.
So, you know, those local elections are important to stay close to.
Well, you can be like Putin and get a hundred percent of the vote.
And that's something, huh?
A hundred percent of the vote.
Because you know what happens to people that don't vote for them.
They wind up exploding an airplane or taking poison in an airport or doing something like that.
Well, that's not happening at this level.
No, that's why you're so lucky to have the voting we have in this country.
I know people complaining on was rigged.
It's not rigged.
It's not rigged.
Somebody's got to win.
Somebody's got to lose.
That's right.
And the losers don't want to lose, but sometimes they do.
That's exactly right.
You know, because you put, it's a vulnerable thing to put yourself out there.
Oh, I'd never do it.
I don't know how you people run for it.
I don't know how you get involved in politics.
I would never do it in a million years.
You know why I like radio?
Because I don't have to deal with the public.
Except for the occasional guest, I'm all alone.
You can see the building.
Nobody's here.
Well, the public gets to deal with you, though, and we enjoy it.
Yeah, but I don't have to deal with the public.
My entire life, I've never had a job in a store or anything
where I actually had to deal with people.
And I couldn't do it because even if you're working at Culver's,
there's going to be some of this not happy way the way the burgers made.
You know, my daughter worked at Cousins when she was 15, 16 years old.
It was her first job.
And she'd worked me on the counter.
And, you know, they make the sandwiches right there at Cousins.
And this guy didn't like the way it was made.
So he said to my daughter, look at this, and he threw it at her.
And the food was all over.
And she was crying.
I mean, he just threw her sandwich at her.
And she's dripping in.
Now, our uniform and everything is soaked with whatever it was.
And she didn't even make the sandwich.
All she did was sell it to him.
And so people came from behind the, you know, the Cousins
as thick as this guy out of the store.
But still, that's some nerve doing that.
It's our service.
And it's character building.
A lot of us have started out in our younger years in customer service.
And it does build some character and help you navigate different personnel.
Not me.
And so I'll tell you that some of the common complaints coming in right now.
Sometimes they're very seasonal.
And the ones right now are alley pavements.
The alley assessments have just come out.
So I says, all those with alleys in our district are hearing a lot.
People get those assessments and they're quite high.
And so we'll get those complaints coming in.
Loud vehicles.
Now that the weather.
My wife wants to set a camera outside.
And not only allowed, but speeding.
So we've got, you know, we get cameras.
But this is a nature camera where every time this movement
10 seconds it makes a recording.
She said she wants to do it and show it to people at the council.
Look what's going on on Main Street.
People are driving like lunatics out here.
And nobody's stopping them.
Yeah.
So that, you know, that's a year-round complaint.
And that goes even before I was born.
I had problems with speeding.
I don't know if it was here on the show or somewhere I read in the past about.
There was a carriage.
And we're seeing there was in the newspaper an article about a speeding carriage.
Like a horse carriage?
Yes, a horse carriage.
So, you know, it's always an issue of speeding.
But another common complaint coming in is noise.
So with the season, whether the noise is coming from the vehicle,
coming from houses outside activity from children or neighbors who are partying
or bars, you know, when they're open.
I just have motorcycles.
They're allowed to do the noise on motorcycles.
But cars aren't.
Yeah.
And they do it and they speed.
It's 30 miles an hour where I live.
And those cars are going 40 and faster than that.
Because I could see them going down the street.
Anyway, well, let's get ready to get us here.
We're going to talk about some of the things going on in the city in the county
that you'll be interested in hearing about.
There are some things, right?
There are.
Okay, good.
Now, just a moment here.
WRJN Radio.
Home town radio refresh.
Pacific media station at 7.19.
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We'll be right.
We'll be right.
We'll be right.
At 7.22, Melissa Ceprelie, this is her, she's your fifth district
altre, and also your county board supervisor.
You tell me you let's know a podcast on cravings.
I did.
It's the hidden brain.
If you've ever listened to that and they were talking about cravings,
why it's so difficult?
Why we give in to cravings.
So it was just recently published that episode.
Why do I like black and white cookies so much?
Why do you like black and white cookies so much?
Done.
Well, I like the way they taste.
But if I don't have them in the house, I don't crave them.
But if I see them in the kitchen, I got a, I get a, I sneak one, and then I go, maybe
one more.
And I'm going, I'm headed to the shower and I'm grabbing the cookies.
Yeah.
And I think, well, this will be nice.
I'll just relax in the shower with these black and white cookies.
And you don't get many of them.
They're very tiny.
The ones I used to get in New York are huge, but these are smaller.
That's a good thing.
And then you don't have any cravings?
Oh, we, yeah.
I do have cravings.
But I will tell you, being vegan for as long as I've been vegan over 30 some years, I
can have a bland or diet.
Hold on.
I'll get some crab grass in the backyard.
You can, you can munch.
There's a lot of edible grasses out there.
So I wouldn't be disappointed.
So you'd probably be great if you were lost in the wilderness somewhere.
You'd be picking berries off trees, eating pine cones or whatever.
As long as I successfully identified them that they weren't poisonous.
So I would love to be able to get into foraging a little bit.
The step on mushrooms picking them up off the ground, wiping the dirt off them and eating them.
And I could help you survive too if you were there.
No, I, let's do a black and white cookies growing on the trees.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
So girls, oh, girls got cookies.
Oh, there's a meme and it's so true.
The guy says, I was clean for a year and then it's so my dealer on the street.
And there's a little girl selling her cookies.
That's how I am.
I'm clean for a year that my dealer is on the street selling cookies.
Temptation.
Oh, I can't get enough of those girls got cookies and they know it.
Yeah.
So I'm at the parade, the downtown parade for St. Patrick's Day.
Who sets up shop next to my wife and I sitting there?
A girl scout thing, whether cookies and everything.
So I was avoiding it and they said, I give me two boxes of the lemon cookies.
They're all very smart.
Oh, yeah.
And now they're at it.
I used to see them at the supermarket all the time selling.
And my wife snuck in two boxes you bought from me.
But then at the end of March, they're all gone.
Till next year, they don't sell in April.
Well, there are some doops out there and people swear on the all these,
there's all these Facebook.
Oh, there's only one girl scout here.
Okay. Well, the girl scouts would love to hear you.
Okay. So tell us what's going on here.
Lots going on, especially now that it's after, you know, the elections behind us now.
And so it's focus, focus on business.
But the dam, the dam was voted to be removed if people have been following them.
What dam?
The warlock dam.
You're removing it.
Where have you been?
I've been here.
For the last 14 years, this has been a discussion.
And it's been a contentious one, too.
But a lot of people have educated themselves.
A lot of the Army Corps of Engineer has said it's scheduled to be removed
in the third quarter of 2025.
And they'll remove it in sections.
Why?
Lots of reasons why.
So it hasn't been free flowing for over 100 in some years.
And the health of the river, quite honestly.
And so the approval of this project, it got brought forth by the Army Corps,
maybe about a decade or so ago,
of why it needed to be removed.
And we had a lot of presentations on it.
Hopefully we'll start to see the river go back into its natural state.
So when you remove the dam, there's still a waterfall there of some sort, right?
Yeah. Well, the dam does impede the river's health, though.
You know, it was man-made, dam.
And it leads to poor water quality and algae growth.
And so there's also the warmer water temperatures that's harmful to the wildlife.
And they say the dam is unsafe, as well, for posing a danger to people.
I know many people have fallen off the dam.
We have a lot of recreation that goes on there.
That's where people go fishing more like dam.
They love it.
We are well known for our fishing, so...
The beavers have built a new one, don't worry, though.
They will.
But there was a bit of contention on it, but education prevailed.
What else is going on? That's going to upset me.
Sorry to hear that, but a lot of people are attached just because of the memory of it.
You have to start attaching yourself to the health and benefit of these natural resources.
So you're telling me, people should go along with change.
Yeah.
The one thing people don't like in this world, change.
It can be hard for some.
No, that's good, if it's for the health of everything.
It is for the health of the river, for sure.
And we just had an extension of the contract for smoke down the water.
So a lot of people love enjoying that location.
And also the oasis.
There's been an extension there.
Oh, really? Okay.
Yeah, the gentleman who's running it, Jose Felix.
He is going to be having, again, another year in a row.
There's a carnival at the oasis around the end of May, so...
My mother used to love going to the oasis.
And as a matter of fact, I have pictures of her.
Even with her oxygen tank she had with her.
She used to love sitting there at the oasis.
And I've got pictures here somewhere of it, but I'll show it to you in a little while.
Oh, we are there.
I love it because it's got wheelchair access.
Oh, look at that gray.
He's showing me a picture of my mom at the oasis.
And if she is drinking her peanut collada at the oasis.
Oh, that's one of the palm trees where I see that they were put back there.
And lots of people enjoying that space.
She used to say, take me to the...
She didn't call the oasis.
She would take me to the lakefront today.
I want to be in a collada.
I love it.
And we used to sit there and, you know...
Anyway.
Well, enjoy that asset.
And you know, there's more things going on right along our water.
I feel familiar with 32 Main Street right over there.
The Old Bell, the Harper Marina, right by the bridge.
So we've had a contract.
Counties had a contract for the last, since 2020, some years.
There was an extension.
There's a group, Campbell, capital group, who's been working.
I'm building up that site to about 260 apartments to go there.
So it's been some years.
The Old Main Marine?
No, it's not.
No.
The Bell Harper Marina.
Bell Harbor Marina.
I get to tell me where that is in a second.
Where by the bridge?
Oh, yeah.
Hold on a second.
It's 729WRJN Radio, hometown radio refresh to Civic Media Station.
Melissa Caprillian in studio today.
She's your fifth district author and also county board supervisor.
We're coming up at just a moment.
Some news coming up straight ahead.
I see things when I drive that intrigue me.
I drove by a car dealership.
And every car on the lot had a balloon on it.
Every car.
And I wondered, well, what led to that decision?
That didn't just happen.
There was a moment in time where that was decided upon.
I just wish I was there.
They probably sent some new salesman into the GM's office.
Other guys asked me to come in and talk to you.
We're not hitting our quotas.
We're not getting any drive-ons.
Or one, if you might have some ideas.
Oh, yeah.
Let me show you why I'm in charge.
We're going to move these bad boys.
We'll mind to make fun of that.
It must work.
They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
I guess people drive by.
Well, that's it for my day.
I am headed home.
What?
Are those balloons?
I don't know what they're trying to, but I'm buying one.
You're not too late.
So, please, be good-bye.
And I'll try not to ride.
All those fears you've overcome
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And someone who is greedy for you
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And let's see.
One, two, three, four.
Put a line there.
Oh, I'm usually more organized.
Actually, I'm not more organized.
If you have a question for her, you can text me at 262-300-7445
or you can download the Civic Media app and go to WRJM
and type in your question that way.
But if you just want to do it quickly now, 262-300-7445-262-300-7445.
And I'll remember to check it.
Yesterday we had somebody from Sam and Aram in here.
I didn't check.
He had a whole bunch of people had questions.
I never checked.
You had to get used to these new features.
I love it.
These new, fangled things, text messages.
My goodness.
You know, my father went his entire life
with never picking up a cell phone.
He left that to my mother.
My mother had every app.
She was on every possible thing there was.
She was downloading stuff all day.
Instagram and all this stuff.
My father didn't want to think about it.
My 90-some-year-old grandmother, Texas.
She Texas more than some of the younger folks in the family.
I saved all my mother's phone messages.
She left me.
And they're all the same.
My mother spoke with her thick New York actions.
So I'm not making fun of her.
She's gone old.
Donald, where are you?
I haven't heard from you today yet.
Where are you, Donald?
To Donald.
Call me.
Call me right away.
And this went on all day long.
Oh, my God.
So I used to call her like 12 times a day.
Donald, where are you?
I didn't hear from you today yet.
Donald, the water's not working here yet.
You didn't bring a newspaper by.
Where, Donald, where are you?
And this went on all day.
And I saved all the messages on there.
Oh.
So I can listen to them.
That's something you can really cherish.
It's okay.
So what else is going on?
What else do we need to know?
Lots of things.
Truly, there really is quite a bit going on.
You know, the old corner house.
Yes.
The old one on the 20.
How about 20?
On Highway 20.
It's been a staple.
But it's been closed for some years now.
There was a young lady who's come in.
And she's going to be bringing in heralds chicken
a nice bar.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So people might not be familiar with it around here.
But it is the oldest black owned franchise in the country.
So I think the popular in Chicago.
The corner house moved to the lakefront area.
That's right.
And now they were there for years on Highway 20 on that corner
hence the name of the corner house.
So when is that going to take place?
They just got their license approved last night at the council meeting.
And so they have six months.
It's part of their conditional use.
They have to get that up and going within these six months period.
But they talk about there's been doing some cleaning out.
And they're hoping in the next few months.
It'll be open.
I just passed there the other day.
And I wonder what was going on with that place.
Now I know.
Yeah.
And I have a place to sit down.
Because you're here telling me, yeah.
No, I'm here telling you.
All right. Good.
And what's the name of it?
It is going to be heralds chicken and ice bar.
What's an ice bar?
I guess it's part of the franchise.
I'm not familiar with it.
And it's heralds chicken.
So even though I will tell you a story.
I mean, being a vegan.
I had my-
Oh, that's right.
You could even go there.
I did.
You know what?
They are going to be exploring some options.
Because within this franchise, they do give them some rights to-
You can't even go out for the night.
But you know my-
You can eat ice.
I can-
Yeah, there will be a bar.
I'll give you some ice.
Okay.
Some of that's vegan.
I-
My-
My mother-in-law, my ex-mother-in-law.
She for like five some years after getting married.
This was years ago.
She would give us a gift certificate for the corner house.
For a steakhouse.
And finally, my ex had said,
Do you realize Melissa's vegan?
She's like, yes.
So I was like, how dare you?
You're going to marry my-
My boy and not half of me need me.
So I'm making sure that we give you a gift certificate for a steakhouse.
But for us, vegan steak houses actually are great.
They offer vegetables and potatoes and things that go right alongside your-
Potatoes are good.
You can eat potatoes.
Yeah, yeah.
So there are plenty of options.
Truly.
They're really good.
Oh, I like that.
I like everybody from the city to become by opening night.
And you're there.
Hmm.
Do you have any bean curd and-
And it's all grass I can have?
There's a-
You know, I just end up looking at what other people's side dishes are.
That's offered on a menu.
So it's not that hard to navigate.
And I've been doing this for over 30 years.
All right.
I'm not making fun of you.
Which I am making fun of.
Oh, that's okay.
That's okay.
Tell me, if I told you, if I had to kill animals, I wouldn't eat them.
And that's the reason why I'm not eating meat now.
Right.
I'd be a vegetarian if I had to go look at, you know, Arnold the pig from Green Acres
and say, thinking of a ham sandwich.
No, no, no, no.
It's difficult, right?
And you can see the face of what you see.
I know.
Yeah, that becomes hard.
But talking about animals, but not eating animals, the zoo is having a beach clean up for Earth Day.
So people like to take part in bigger projects.
So on April 20th from eight to nine thirty at the zoo, they'll be doing a clean up.
I think they had like 50 people last year in the years past.
And they're hoping to exceed that.
So if you're looking to partake in a community event, that's something to do.
Talking about more spring cleaning.
The city has lots of loans out there.
Grants that you could tap into if need be when you're thinking about projects around your house.
There's the reap program.
We just talked about it a little bit city council last night.
And it's a recene energy efficiency loan up to ten thousand dollars for a loan up to ten years.
And anybody could qualify within the city limits.
So there's no income requirement for that one.
You have to be up to date on your mortgage and taxes and things like that.
That's something great to tap into.
There's a website to give you a more broader thing of grants or loans.
And it's called build up per scene run by the CDA.
And it gives you some grants and loan programs that could be available to help with your spring new projects this year.
My wife one year, you know, after the fourth of July, what that hill looks like by the lake front.
Yeah.
I mean, it looks like, you know, Yucca flats after the blast.
And there's garbage every one day.
She said, well, well, let's go clean it up.
No, I'm not cleaning it up.
I yelled at the slabs who made the mess.
I'm not going to, you know, she went up there and helped clean up that hill.
That's part of being part of the community.
We necessarily don't make the mess.
No, it's part of the community is not making it a mess.
That's part of the community.
It happens, though.
There's just that there's this balance down.
And there's going to be people that are irresponsible and the people who are responsible.
And if we want our community to look a certain way, we have to partake it.
Hey, in front of my house, I live by son picked it out perfectly.
He said, there's always garbage in front of our house.
There's a convenience store a couple of blocks away.
And he says, I'm sure a physicist can figure out how long it takes to drink a can of soda
and eat bag of potato chips.
And it's the exact distance from that store to the front of my house.
Because they're always dropping their garbage in front of my house.
Because that's how long it takes to finish the potato chips and drink the soda and drop the can on my lawn.
So I picked the perfect location.
They don't finish it before my house or app.
They finish it right in front of my house.
And I'm always picking up their garbage.
You know, they in.
I tell you.
What a gripper.
What a gripper.
But you know, if you're over by the wreck center, right off of six street,
if you're familiar with that environmental center, right where mound kind of comes out.
And it's six right there.
And so right where the river is to Lake Michigan, open up to Lake Michigan.
So if we were to throw something in there, it takes about an hour to get to Lake Michigan.
So if you pollute it.
Did you try this out to verify this?
Well, I was part of a great program.
Hopefully if you haven't had them on your show yet,
something to consider.
It's called the watershed program.
And they educate students within Unified School District on the watershed.
And we would talk about pollution and do water quality tests.
So the children can get connected with their water.
They live on a coastal community.
Only through one thing into the water once was on a cruise.
And somebody in our group was there and he had this beer bottle that actually had a lid
that you can pull and it sealed itself.
I mean, airtight.
So we said, why don't we put something in there and note and throw it over board
and we'll wind up somewhere.
So we wrote a note in there.
If you find this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We put our business cards in there, which was stupid.
And I'll tell you why in a second.
We put a band-aid in there in case they hurt themselves, breaking open the bottle.
And we put, and we put a visible dollar bill in there so they can see the dollar bill.
Impidest open.
Yeah.
So we threw it over board right off the, near Cuba,
off the coast of Cuba, we threw it over board.
And then somebody from the ship said, you know, that's a crime.
You could be punished in prison for throwing stuff into the water.
And the guy said, well, they want to know who it is.
They said, they want to know who it is.
We put our business cards in there with our phone number.
Oh, my God.
And I work here at the time.
So it was, they throw it over.
Nobody ever responded.
Have you ever responded?
It still might be out there.
You hear great stories like that.
Yeah.
I'll do it here.
Knock on the door.
The FBI will be here.
It was frozen back about 30 years ago.
You threw something over board.
We just founded the other day.
And by the way, we cut our finger.
Thanks for the, thanks for the band-aid.
And a dollar bill.
A dollar bill.
That's so anyway.
Now, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's telling us.
No, I'm so glad to remember that.
Because the marriage in here this week, and he left.
And he told me about it.
Yeah.
So those, I mean, I've always practiced it.
And so the part of why you register within the city and pay
to get a sign is just so case for your neighbors do call in.
And your grass is growing.
They, you can't get a violation for having to exceed what
our height variance is what we have right now.
So it's great for pollinators.
Why not?
You know, we're looking.
And you know, I was telling the mayor.
My wife went to the Wisconsin State Fair once.
I said this bee thing, honey bee thing over there.
And the honey bees were disappearing at the time.
And they don't know where, why?
Where?
Because you need them.
And so we talked about that.
And then she said, don't mold the backyard in May.
And so what I do is I trim it.
I can't have the whole backyard.
Look, you know, we were there with a pith helmet doing a tiger hunt.
So I mow it a little bit of the time.
But I always leave that area that's got the dandelions,
whatever they use to pollinate.
And I keep going on a little bit until I get to the end of the month
and bam, I let them have it and do that last part.
But yeah, we don't mold the backyard.
Because that's where all the stuff is there.
I love that.
I love that.
And it's really great.
And also saves on resources too.
And then the bees pay you back by stinging you.
So it's a thank you from the bees.
A little love tap with a stinger.
So there's more going on, right?
Yeah, so much going on.
OK, but you got to hold it.
OK.
You're getting people hanging in there to listen to the rest of it.
Melissa Caprillian, my guest.
I always love having her.
And here she is your fifth district all there.
And also your county board supervisor.
She's got double duty there.
She works for you in both ways for the county and the city.
It's 749 WRJN Radio.
Home town radio refresh to civic media station.
Don't forget the Padres in town tonight to tick on the brewers
at Family Field.
That'll be at 605 on WRJN Radio.
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