The Snowmen of Beloit – BIFF 2011
Monday, February 14th, 2011 08:31 am GMT +6 by RickM
Filed under Neighborhood Discussion
The Snowman is a gift to Beloit showing our support to Beloit International Film Festival and to the movie, Snowman, produced by Diane Hendricks.
The idea of building a snowman was easy but it could not have been done without the backing of many businesses and hard working friends to help make this possible. I would like to show my appreciation by giving thank yous to all of the following.
First of all I would like to thank City Manager, Larry Arft and his staff for going along with the idea and helping to make it possible to build the snowman in the location that it is in. Thank you to James Heidt, Heidt Engineering and thank you to Steve Eldred, First National Bank, and to his employees for giving up parking spaces.
Thank you to Bob and Todd Halderson, Custom Ditching, Gustavo Simental and Alan Herstad, Herstad Landscaping; Brad Ballou, Bill Ballou Masonry; Bushel and Pecks, Bagels and More, and Nikki’s Cafe for coffee and food.
And I could not have built this snowman without the hard working, crazy friends: Larry Diehls, Mark Flessner, Jeff Livingston, Doug Cash, Sharon Carr, Bruce Fernihough, Danielle Clifton, Sean Laughlin and Dan Boutelle. Thank you guys!
Enjoy the snowman and see you at the movies!
Bill Dorr
More on BIFF, The Beloit International Film Festival here…
The Bald Eagles of Beloit Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 05:40 am GMT +6 by RickM
Filed under Neighborhood Discussion
The Rock River bisects downtown Beloit WI. One block south from the primary east-west road, Grand Ave. brings you to where at least seven Bald Eagles have taken up residence to live and feed from the Rock River. I’m not a videographer. I’m simply an owner of a flip video so pardon the video quality. If you’re patient you’ll see three instances of the Eagles feeding from the River and at least once where I was able to capture seven of the eagles in a single frame. I hope this is indicative of the ecosystem of the Rock River here.
The video does not do justice. Had to be there. They’re amazing. It’s certainly worth a brief walk down the path along the river to watch them.
Enjoy.
Rick
01/17/2011 Update: Turns out I was wrong… there aren’t seven Bald Eagles roosting but TWELVE!
Here’s what they really look like, from the one who actually knows how to take a picture, Mr. OldOnliner.
You can see his other work here.
