The Notebook
Chamber exec Marge Keehfuss is busy planning the Montrose Chamber of Commerce’s 125th anniversary. Plans include a party, a parade and other activities to involve the Chamber membership and citizens from the surrounding area. Dates: May 2 and May 5. More to come.
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The Harlem Ambassadors will be in Montrose Saturday to play a team of “locals,” in a benefit fundraiser for the Montrose Education Foundation, Inc. The game starts at 7 p.m. inside the Lloyd McMillan Gym.
The Montrose team will include such athletic luminaries like Steve “Give Me Two Shots a Side” Skiff, and Chuck “Open Wider” Alexander, and Jock “It’s Not Spelled Jacque” Fleming.
Other team members include: Martin Maloney, Aaron Plankis, Sarah Plankey, Kevin Plankey, Anna Fleming, Jake Borner, Chuck Terrell, Billy Hutto, Justin Mashburn, Jessica Cunningham Griffin, Eric Sanchez, Bob Cooling.
Tix: Montrose/Olathe School District Administration, 126 S. 5th St.; or, Dalby, Wendland, & Co. And, at the door, but they’ll cost $2 more. Info: 249-7726, 249-7701.
A big renovation is underway at the City Market South. There will be new checkouts, facelifts on the departments, even a coffee shop. The completion date is May-June.
City Market South was the first major retailer of the Montrose “south” development, which is now thick with retail, restaurants, banks, professional offices and a mall. It opened in 1996.
I didn’t know there would be any math…..
The Notebook erred yesterday when talking about former big-league slugger Frank Howard. He’s 70, not 60.
Recommended……
A few years ago, I read a helluva good book, ‘The Bureau and the Mole’ by David Vise and thought, like many often do, this would make a good movie. Five years later, there it is, on the big screen, entitled ‘Breach.’
It’s the story of Robert Hanssen, who for 15 years until his arrest in Feburary 2001, spied for the Soviet Union and Russia, using his FBI clearance as a counter-intelligence specialist. His FBI bosses called him “diabolically brillant” and over time, he amassed more than $1.4 million in payouts, but lived a subdued suburban lifestyle. The FBI became suspicious as more than 50 investigations were compromised and several counter-agents were killed because of Hanssen’s treachery. He copped a plea, and agreed to serve a life sentence in solitary confinement 23 hours a day at Super Max, in Florence, Colo.
Most spy thrillers are exactly that, thrilling. But the Hanssen story and subsequent film is a story-telling of how the Bureau methodically unwrapped its most notorious spy. Chris Cooper stars as Hanssen, opposite Laura Linney as the FBI boss in charge of exposing him. Ryan Phillippe plays Eric O’Neill, the FBI agent who partnered with Hanssen at the end to seal his fate. O’Neill is listed as a consultant on the film.
It’s showing in friendly confines of the San Juan Cinema, on East Main.
Way to go, Francie Smiles! Ten years, “all clear.” (And an ongoing local source of humanity, hope, and can-do by example.)
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