Brian Gladu, Director of Security for the Pyramid Mall, is excited about the bike patrol program. He instituted the program this summer to increase his peoples' visibility and effectiveness in the areas outside the mall. He sent two of the mall's nine security officers, Lieutenant Josh Aumick, who is head of the bike patrol, and Patrol Officer Pete Wright, to the Ithaca College Police Mountain Bike Training School, an extensive training course. Josh Aumick, who is a licensed EMT, was very excited about the program. He recruited Mr. Wright to take the course with him, and oversees the program.

Donald and Marjorie Sharpsteen have had a booth in King Ferry for four years. Mr. Sharpsteen started simply selling his jade trees from his pickup truck, but it went so well that they invested in a tent and began selling dishware, old vinyl records, and dishware, among many other things. "We've had people from up and down Route 90 all day," said Mrs. Sharpsteen, who noted they couldn't get set up fast enough on Friday with all the shoppers that came. The Sharpsteens were also selling jade trees as well as luscious looking fresh beets.

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Lansing's Advice Column

Dear IMO,

My husband and I love to mulch our gardens.  Every spring we get one large truckload of the shredded variety and spread it about 3 inches thick in our beds and around the trees.  I prefer the dark brown color since it gives the property a finished look.  It costs more than the "plain variety" but I think it's worthy every cent.

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By Saber S. Poder

STRAIGHT-LACED:  Mrs. Shirley Markem Lowe, of the D.B. Wesson High School English Department here in Underbelly, Texas, tells me I shouldn't use the error as my title.  "That's what they'll remember, young lady."  As with straitjacket, many dictionaries allow misspellings of strait-laced.  But strait means narrow and restricted, or such a water passage, as in the Straits of Magellan. Straitened circumstances is a circumlocution for having severely restricted finances.  So strait-laced is not only correct, it makes more sense: strict; morally hidebound.

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