Our Meeting With Mr. Mowszowski

We are taking a couple of weeks off because with have a very important meeting with a certain Mr. Mowszowski in Israel.

He has not quite arrived but we are certain that he will be on time being his mother’s son.

Funny thing being in the news business our attention is pretty much pulled this way and that. The most important story is the one we are currently working on.

That was the way it was until we first heard about Mr. Mowszowski’s upcoming arrival.

Suddenly and for the past nine months the most important story is him and probably will stay him until an equally blessed event happens along in the near future.

One thinks a lot about the future when one is told of a grandchild. And one thinks a lot about the past.

Our Anna, Mr. Mowszowski’s mother is named after our father’s mother, that previous Anna had a grandfather name Joseph Neiderman. While we had no idea we were Neidermans until this year there are only four generations separating us from Joseph who was born and died under the Romanovs and lived when scientists actually debated whether a man could travel faster that 35 miles per hour and live.

We wonder what wonderful things Mr. Mowszowski and Mr. Mowszowski’s children and his children’s children will see long after we join Joe Neiderman on the family tree.

When we do join Joe, we hope to meet him and perhaps share a few words. But who knows what awaits us when we shuffle off this mortal coil and venture beyond that hilly borne.

But we will drink to him when we meet Mr. Mowszowski, Mazel Tov Joseph and to all the others both known and unknown in the family tree, we made it to another generation Mr. Mowszowski will do us proud.

Two years ago  we had over a dozen candidates run four three seats on the West Wendover City Council.

Only one person actually won a clear majority of the vote.

That wasn’t democracy, it was chaos. Even before the filing period begins this spring we think it would be a really good idea if our city council instittute a primary election to piggy back on the county primary to be held June 12.

City Clerk Anna Bartolome says it can’t be done. We beg to differ. and perhaps a little research by city Attorney Gary di Grazia could find a way.