Dedicated grassroots with smart leadership can make a difference. But that means people need to be willing to do more than complain.
Per publisher George Gramlich:
Folks -- What local, grass roots efforts can do. Pueblo County is hardcore, blue collar blue, and these patriots turned it red. It can be done. But you have to get off your ass and do it.Read the whole two-page article at the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel.
David,
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, do you remember Vern Estes? No looking with google or bing.
Anyway, that's the Pueblo (well okay, Penrose) I remember. No more 'basement bombers' -- safety first and all that.
No, and Googling was my intro.
ReplyDeleteEstes Industries.
ReplyDelete* http://home.pcisys.net/~gelder/estes/estes-bldg.jpg
Model Rockets
* http://www.vintageestesrockets.com/timeline/index.htm
Astron Alpha.
* http://www.vintageestesrockets.com/k-kit-registry/kits/k25-astron-alpha.htm
Model Rockets used to be advertised in Boy's Life.
Vern and Gleda are still with us, and still the same great and humble folks they always were.
ReplyDeleteSeriously?
ReplyDeleteVern is a hero of mine. I wonder how many lives he saved with his invention.
All about 'Mable' !!
* http://www.vernestes.com/images/Sport%20Rocketry%20Articles
/EstesArticle-Part2-Reduced.pdf
He did his part to make America great.
* http://www.vernestes.com/
Outrageous that Frank Lautenberg and the BATFU tried in 2009 to destroy the industry with their anti "ammonium perchlorate" regulation.