As I was waiting to go up the hill in the line of traffic after the fireworks this year, I saw a woman pushing her baby in a stroller. She hit one of the bumps in the sidewalk and the stroller did a stoppie.

If that baby hadn’t been buckled in, it would have gone flying in the air and landed hard on the sidewalk. It made me wonder how many other babies got a hell ride that night on the sidewalks of our Great Grand Coulee Dam. I mean, those sidewalks have been in that condition for many years. I wonder how many babies really have gone flying in that amount of time.

My next thought was that Coulee Dam is going to get sued and will lose when they do, and then townspeople will all be upset when they all knew years ago it needed to be fixed.

So get ‘er done, Coulee Dam, before some baby that doesn’t know the tuck-and-roll move gets hurt badly!

Shelly Stine