Code Neon Blue!

It was crazy busy down here in Lamar on Saturday, particularly if you happened to be the governor of one of the more popular western states. (Hint and Google marker: That would be Bill Ritter and Colorado.)

His 11 am agenda item was the ground-breaking ceremony at Four States Feedyard for a new ethanol plant. Temps still hadn’t topped 40 degrees, but at least it was sunny and not too windy. After Bill and the other guest workers scraped away at the hardpan soil with their shiny gold shovels for a few minutes, the ground was declared broken and we all had a really excellent BBQ lunch.

It’s a big deal for Lamar and Prowers County, but usually the big city news types don’t pay much attention to us. So I was very pleased when I opened my email from the Rocky Mountain News this morning and found a link to a story about the new plant.

But then I read it. Four very short paragraphs, and, to paraphrase David Allen Coe, they never even called us by our name.

This:

“LiquidMaize, a Denver company that manages small-scale ethanol, broke ground Saturday on the plant north of this southeastern town.”

and a mention of Prowers County was the closest we got to state-wide fame.

Oh, well. I hear fame is over-rated anyhow.