Let there be Light

"Volunteer" Corn

Sewer raccoon corn farmers have had to step a teensy bit further into the domain of above-ground Waukeshans in order to grow their corn. It seems that their crops need sunlight also.

An alert newspaper photographer snapped the above picture of corn growing out of the sewer, but the editors evidently chose to keep the lid on the lurking activities of our vast subteranean population - which is kind of the often wrong emphasis-placers - by terming the protruding growth as "volunteer."

Instead of calling unwanted-by-coon corn farmers attention to their peeking cornstalks, the local deciders have gone with a weed interpretation.

There is some "fair"ness in our fair city after all. Now if only the up-in-arms gripers could leave Mayor Larry alone about the color of shoes he chooses to lay on the above-grade surface of this commonly-held ground, all might be better off. The intended harmony of Providence will, in any case, prevail.