Tattered flag The seniors from the Senior Center at Friendly Inn
on Crest Avenue gave a new American flag to replace the tattered
one in front of the American Legion Post next door. Why has it not
been raised?
Tattered flag
The seniors from the Senior Center at Friendly Inn on Crest Avenue gave a new American flag to replace the tattered one in front of the American Legion Post next door. Why has it not been raised?
George Shebib, a stalwart member of American Legion Post 444 in Morgan Hill said he just received the flag last week and hasn’t had time to put it up. He was happy to learn that the seniors provided the flag; he hadn’t been told where it came from.
The new flag, in all its glory, will be flying this coming week, Shebib promises.
The Legion Post always take a significant part in the Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day ceremonies organized by Morgan Hill’s own hero, Eddie Bowers. Watch for news of the ceremony, taking place this year at 9am on Monday, May 30, at the Veteran’s Memorial downtown at Monterey Road and First Street.
Need wipers? Use your headlights too
Alert the media so they can alert the masses. Judging by what I saw at the last terrible rainy day, obviously the majority of the public is not aware that as of Jan. 1, a new law was enacted that says when weather needs you to turn on your windshield wipers, you also have to turn on your lights! I don’t see it happening. Ignorance of the law is not justification because every driver who has a license is required to acquaint themselves of the laws that are passed. So do a public service and maybe some people will read it and turn on their headlights, because when they’re little tiny dinky gray cars in the fog, and their inundated by water, you can’t see them! And another thing, merge lanes are for merging. Have a good evening.
You have alerted the media via the Red Phone, and the Red Phone is alerting the masses – or at least some – via its column. However, it would like its readers to know that although this is indeed an authentic vehicle code, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles Web site, it won’t go into effect until July 1. The penalty for failing to comply is $96.
The code (VC 24400) reads as follows:
“During darkness and inclement weather, a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, shall be equipped with at least two lighted headlamps, with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle, and, except as to vehicles registered prior to Jan. 1, 1930, they shall be located directly above or in advance of the front axle of the vehicle. The headlamps and every light source in any headlamp unit shall be located at a height of not more than 54 inches nor less than 22 inches.”
‘Inclement weather’ is a weather condition that is either of the following:
(1) A condition that prevents a driver of a motor vehicle from clearly discerning a person or another motor vehicle on the highway from a distance of 1,000 feet.
(2) A condition requiring the windshield wipers to be in continuous use due to rain, mist, snow, fog or other precipitation or atmospheric moisture.
This section shall become operative on July 1, 2005.”
But the Red Phone would like to kindly suggest that in order to avoid dangerous situations before July 1, use your head. And if it’s stormy and raining enough to cause the need for windshield wipers, your headlights couldn’t hurt either.
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