On the first Saturday of each month, the Lansing Boy Scouts conduct a can and bottle drive to help send local scouts to camp. They were doing well last Saturday with literally a truckload of cans and bottles half way through the morning. Bruce Barber and Dee Hayes were working hard with a group of boys, sorting the cans and getting them in shape to turn in for cash.

The scouts get six cents per can. All the money they raise goes to sending local scouts to camp, and for equipment. When they do well, the proceeds entirely pay for camp. "Next week they're going to Camp Gorton," said Mr. Barber. "That was my Boy Scout camp," he said, adding that it is part of the Boy Scout council just South of ours.

August 6: 19 Lansing swimmers traversed Cayuga Lake on a near perfect Saturday morning last weekend. The swim was to raise money for the All Saints Roman Catholic Church and Lansing United Methodist Church's Youth Mission 2006, a trip to Saint Johns, South Carolina next year.

At 7:30 boats picked up the swimmers at Myers park to ferry them across the lake, where they began their swim. At 9:10 Adam Hardie and Lisa Patrican arrived at Dan and Eve Brown's dock on the Eastern shore. "I'm going to need a nap today!" exclaimed an exuberant Mr. Hardie. They reported that the water was calm, and they didn't think they were affected by the current.

By Dr. Verbos Metikulos

ADVANCE RESERVATIONS:  The linguistically impaired always reserve their seats in advance.  It's part of their advance preparations.  They always want advance warning if there's a problem, so they plan ahead.  At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, these patients, who say they stay up until twelve midnight and get up at eight A.M. in the morning, are called temporal retentives.