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In the midst of a freeze, Hillsboro gets update
HILLSBORO In the grips of the worst cold in decades, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 16, the Hillsboro City Council heard from Mark Chesney of Kansas Power Pool with an update on power and on the city’s power meter reader project.
Chesney said “a heck of a lot” of electricity is generated using natural gas, rather than coal, and gas prices rolled down to electric companies.
Chesney commented the prices of natural gas were “breathtakingly expensive,” while “the sport market price for electricity makes you swallow hard.”
While Hillsboro was not subject to one of the rolling blackouts across the Midwest, Chesney said cities that did experience blackouts had “very little notice. Some cities got between zero and five minutes notice before the power was interrupted and saw a duration of up to 120 minutes. This was not comfortable. It can be explained; it’s not at all comfortable.”
Jasper the cat burglar prowls Christchurch neighbourhood on the lookout for socks, undies and bikinis
10 Dec, 2020 07:38 PM
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Jasper the cat. Photo / Supplied
Piles of socks, underwear, leggings, and even a bikini have been mysteriously going missing in the seaside suburb of Sumner in Christchurch.
But one resident has identified the thief – her cat.
Mette Kristiansen says her one-and-half-year-old cat, Jasper, has been caught red-pawed with ill-gotten gains clutched in his claws.
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Advertisement We got him when he was a kitten and started doing this burglarising about Christmas last year, she said.
Jasper s main target seems to be socks, but he had also claimed gardening and working gloves, leggings, and shoes.