It was refreshing to see not only that the West Wendover Needs Assessment be revised but also the apology for the original screw up.
That it took have a year to be fixed and that the apology came from the authors of the report and not the mayor, the city council or the city manager who read and approved the report.
Well maybe the didn’t read it.
But if they didn’t they should have apologized for that.
Yeah some may have been embarrassed but it is a simple question of taking responsibility.
It is called being a grown up.
We would also like to see some mea culpas for the Wendover Gas fiasco.
Remember it was just a year ago we were told by some of these same city fathers that if West Wendover did not step up to buy the gas company all heck would break loose.
Children would freeze, the schools would close heck there might even be earthquakes if our public government did not step up to the plate and buy the company.
Well it didn’t and everything is pretty much okay.
The private system worked just fine.
Wendover Gas found an investor and its clients have seen an uninterrupted supply of gas not only through this winter but for future winters.
Those four years of doom and gloom, emergency interventions predictions of impending apocalypses turned out to be a steaming pile of BS
The question is did they know it was a steaming pile of BS when they were saying it? Or later?
Its is pretty much a lose/lose scenario any way it is sliced.
If they knew they were serving up BS they were dishonest if they didn’t then they were just stupid.
Thankfully the project was shut down before the city found itself building a gas pipeline and us paying for it.
It was precisely for that aspect that the gas story was the most important story of 2013. It signals a fundamental change in West Wendover philosophy that private sector growth flows from government.
Even with our multimillion dollar city hall, our Victorian street lights and our monuments to the past vacant lots are still too numerous and private businesses too few in West Wendover.
Every year we marvel at the speed time passes. And it seems to be passing faster. Logically it even makes a sort of sense.
For our grandson a year is fully 50 percent of his time on earth. For us it is a mere 53rd part.
Still it is a bit unsettling to see days weeks months and years fly off the calendar when they used to hang around for much longer.
One the other hand, time passing at a breath taking pace is infinitely better than it stopping altogether.