Garbage gone
A Beaconite who lives in Cane Garden Bay often has noticed a garbage truck that for months was parked on the side of the road near Rudy’s Bar. It sat undisturbed, with garbage rotting in the back. That changed this weekend. As a Beacon reader pointed out, the truck was removed at some point in the last few days. Where it went to is another question. The same reader said that a garbage truck was recently parked at the bottom of the road leading to Sage Mountain, though she couldn’t say for certain if it was the same truck.
‘Uncomfortable’
Beaconites love visitors, especially when they are family. It is an opportunity for them to play tour guide by visiting beaches and other attractions around the territory. However, one Beaconite was shocked when he was instructed where to sit on a public beach by two employees of Valley Trunk Estate, a rental property on Virgin Gorda. When the Beaconite and his family arrived at the Valley Trunk beach, it was empty of people as it often is, but 14 chairs and seven umbrellas were set up on the sand. The Beaconite had no intention of sitting on the chairs, but he did set up his belongings about 10 feet away from one of them. Apparently this was not sufficient for the employees of the nearby villa. The Beaconite and his family were first warned by a man clapping his hands and waving them off like stray dogs. But the Beaconite, who is aware that all beaches in the territory are public, stood his ground and placed his belongings down to take a swim. Later, however, another employee approached the Beaconite and asked him and his family to move farther down the beach away from the chairs. He explained that his guests, some of whom were arriving in a dinghy, might feel “uncomfortable” with them so near — even though no one was sitting in the chairs or on the beach at the time. The Beaconite and his family were ready to leave the beach anyway. Besides, they would have felt uncomfortable if they had stayed any longer.
Classifieds kerfuffle
In general, Beaconites are fairly technologically savvy, but when Andrea Douglas began mysteriously receiving e-mailed applications from a host of jobseekers replying to ads other than the one she had placed in the newspaper last week, they were as puzzled as she. It turned out that through the desktop equivalent of autocorrect, Ms. Douglas’ e-mail address appeared in several help wanted ads in the classifieds section. Jobseekers whose inquiries went to the wrong address have already been notified, but Beaconites want to publicly apologise to Ms. Douglas for the inconvenience all those messages caused her. Beaconites have fixed the word processor setting that caused the error, so it won’t be happening again.
New takeout option
A Beaconite was thrilled this week when the Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant opened near the Beacon office on Main Street. With limited choices of restaurants close to where he works, walking to get lunch sometimes can be a 30-minute ordeal if he wants something different. On deadline, finding a bite to eat quickly is especially important for all the Beaconites. He hopes the restaurant will succeed and be on Main Street for years to come.
Trimming traffic
While walking to work on Monday morning, a Beaconite was pleased to see a crew trimming overgrown bushes on Main Street. However, she thought the timing was a little off. The workers’ large truck took up almost half of the road at about 8 a.m., threatening to cause a traffic jam. Perhaps such works should be conducted when there are fewer vehicles on the road.
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