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Glad You Asked: Is there a law regarding how many bird feeders one can put in their yard?
By Journal Times staff
My neighbor sets pans of seed, nuts and bread on the ground, along with a large pan of water, to bring in large numbers of birds to entertain their cats. But we also get skunks, cats, mice, moles and raccoons leaving destruction and feces.
The poor man’s petting zoo in your neighbor’s yard is illegal. Call the Environmental Health Department at (262) 636-9203 if you want the feline variety show to stop.
“We definitely don’t want to encourage wild animals,” said Marsha Fernholz, Racine’s director of environmental health.
Fernholz and her colleagues can bring to bear the weight of Racine’s city ordinances.
Subsection “c” defines feed as “the offering, throwing, spreading and /or leaving of any food item that is commonly eaten by birds or stray animals.”
Whatever happened to the little boy who played Ralphie in the movie “A Christmas Story?”
According to the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com), Billingsley recently appeared briefly in both “The Break-Up” in 2006 with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. He also appeared in “Elf” in 2003 with Will Ferrell.
He’s also a producer on “Iron Man” starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role as crime-fighting millionaire Tony Stark. The film is scheduled for a 2008 release.
Billingsley also helped produce “The Break-Up” and “Zathura,” which came out in 2005.
And there is no information to support him ever shooting his eye out after finally getting his Red Ryder B-B gun.
Is St. Jude’s Ranch for Children accepting Christmas cards?
Not anymore. Sending them Christmas cards at this point will actually hurt their efforts.
The cost associated with handling so many drew from funds St. Jude’s used to care for children. At one point in recent years they were receiving more than one million parcels of Christmas cards per month.
So the three St. Jude’s ranches — in Boulder City, Nev.; Bulverde and New Braunfels, Texas — no longer accept Christmas cards. They do, however, accept the bar codes from Campbell’s Soup labels. And cash is always welcome.
St. Jude’s did accept the cards for years, and its residents made and sold new cards as a fundraiser.
Four children die each day as a result of parental maltreatment. St. Jude’s exists as a means to break the cycle of abuse and provides loving homes to abused, abandoned, neglected and other ‘at-risk’ children from infancy to age 21.
Let us know if you’re aware of an outlet for used Christmas cards. They’ll start arriving at our homes any day now …
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