This is my YouTube video of the week. If you like motorcycle stunts, you will love this.

Posted by a Jordan resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbW1LxW-9w.

I’m not a huge fan of the NBA, although I would consider myself a big fan of NBA playoff basketball. The regular season, with so many games, just gets so long. And one player can routinely win a game for his team. But the playoffs are more like a chess match with each team given up to seven games to figure out how to beat the guys on the other side of the floor.

It is with delight that we respond to the Guest Editorial by Jesse Coghill in this week's "Jordan Independent"! His comments on many current and past local businesses and their dealings with their customers brought back many memories for us! It would be great if he would consider writing a regular article for our newspaper, to create more of the nostalgia we experienced reading today's article. Let's hope that, with our support of our local businesses, we will continue to keep that "flavor" to which he refers alive here in our wonderful community! Thank you, Jesse!
Ellie Pekarna

Sports Illustrated named Kirby Puckett and Bert Blyleven the best baseball players to wear their respective numbers.

Puckett, No. 34, was in a class with the likes of David Ortiz (who wears the number as a tribute to Puck), Rollie Fingers, Nolan Ryan, Fernando Valenzuela. 

Blyleven, No. 28, was in a class with Sparky Lyle, Steve Blass, Tom Herr, Al Leiter, and Randy Myers. 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0804/mlb.best....

My sons' lost their father ,Wally Cobb in that tragic motorcycle accident on May 1st. His oldest had to go to prom without him. Who is to say that guard crossings would have help,but what will it take to put them there? Another tragic life taken. Please come together as a community and insist that they are put there. There won't be a day that passes by that we won't remember him. Just don't put another family through this same pain,if it can be avoided!

Now that I’m getting married to a wonderful woman, I don’t really have to worry about it, but when a recent newspaper article mentioned a Web site that can help people pick a neighborhood in which to live based on the number of single people there (along with several other factors), I was intrigued.

Man, I feel old.

I never remember my dreams unless they are really good, really bad, or important enough to tell someone. So that's why I'm telling you about this one.

One day last week, I woke up excited about an exceptional interest rate that I got. That makes me feel old, because interest rates really do lack excitement, even more so for a young person. 

Other things that I've realized that make me feel old:

- Four years ago, I messed up my checkbook to the tune of having an extra $1,000. My only purchase: a lawnmower.

Redoing Park Drive could cost more than $425,000.

The Jordan City Council asked for cost estimates for improvement to Park Drive, which runs alongside the Mill Pond and through Lagoon Park. City Engineer Carol Caron presented three concept plans, each of which included 90-plus paved parking spaces, and the council asked that the design include just a couple fewer parking spaces and a little bit more beach area.

"I'm envisioning that beach space is going to be at a premium," Mayor Ron Jabs said. 

Jordan will make another payment on the Well No. 8 project.

Tonight, the city council OK'd spending of $62,007.69 from the bond proceeds it borrowed last year.

The well is located at the water treatment plant, which is near St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in lowertown Jordan.

City Engineer Carol Caron said the well has been fully drilled and televised so that city officials can see its level of production.

"It looks like it's going to be a very good well for us," Caron said. "A lot of water." 

If the Jordan City Council wanted more streetlights along Highway 282, they would cost an average increase of $2,500 apiece.

Months ago, the council authorized Xcel Energy to install a dozen 150-watt streetlights along Highway 282 at a cost of $90,055, or about $7,500 per light. Late last month, the council talked about adding four more streetlights -- two near the intersection of Highway 282 and East Street, two west of Mertens Street and near the highway bridge over Sand Creek.