Snack shack sacked: The new Antelope High School – price tag about $107 million – has great stuff but is missing something: a football stadium snack bar. Isn't that necessary?
Principal John Becker heard Antelope didn't get one because none of the other schools in the Roseville Joint Union High School District got them when built.
It's a sort of a domino theory: Antelope didn't get it because Granite Bay didn't. Granite Bay didn't because Woodcreek didn't. And so on, back through Oakmont and the original no-snack-bar school, Roseville.
Assistant Superintendent for Business Services Gary Stevens sees it a little differently. Any time you build a new school, there's a limit to how much money you have and what you can put in. The snack bar gives way, not because of precedent, but because it's not used much outside football season, and because there have been other ways to pay for it.
"The boosters have been the focus point on this," Stevens said. They generally raise the funds to build the snack bar to raise funds. That may change with the district's sixth school, he said. …
Busted bus: John Madden, on KCBS last week, said his Madden Cruiser overheated coming through Auburn on the way to Terre Haute, Ind. Apparently they took care of it quickly, because the CHP had no reports of the bus troubles, and Madden was in Nebraska by the next day.
And no word on whether the bus breakdown led – as it did in the Rick Moranis flick "Little Giants" – to Madden aiding a team of junior misfit footballers to win a championship. We'd check the old video for insight into the new breakdown, but the old VHS doesn't fit in our DVD slot and, besides, our telestrater isn't working. Wham! …
Wonders of our world: We've always wondered about the Upson Downs Road in Newcastle. We're not the only ones. Tony Plescia has also been wondering. Plescia thinks it traces its origins to the show "Mame," in which a family named Upson lives at a home dubbed Upson Downs. We thought it had something to do with the English racetrack, Epsom Downs. Who knows? Maybe the son of a man named Up raised eider ducks for pillows. Anyone know the real explanation? …
We got decked: That was the response of a couple of readers who noticed some of last week's headlines had [DECK] at the beginning. It was a computer coding glitch. To put the paper together, we use a variety of codes in brackets. [TEXTRR] means regular text, ragged right. [BIGCAP3] is used for the big letter at the beginning of the column. [PUN] is used when I write something stupid. (Kidding.) None of these codes are supposed to show, but for some reason, codes for secondary headlines in our redesigned Bee mysteriously did. It won't happen again. [WE HOPE.]
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