Help the Chamber: Eat, Drink, and Sleep with Someone in Madison!

As noted last night, Madison's hurting for tax dollars (3% decline in bed-board-booze tax revenue over the firsty half of this year). But there's hope on the horizon: the 45th Annual Prairie Village Steam Threshing Jamboree is this weekend, August 24-26. Three jam-packed days of steam power, parades of antique tractors and cars, train rides, Old-Time Fiddlers, plowing contests, flea market, and more full-tilt family fun. (Hey, but be careful with those golf carts -- pedestrians always have the right of way!) Come for $6 (kids get in for $2) for a day, or get a 3-day Jamboree pass for just $10 (it may take you that long to see everything). Plus, you might even fall in love, like Mrs. Madville Times and yours truly did. (No kidding -- we had our first unsupervised date at the 2001 Jamboree! See MDL's Prairie Village Times, available in Tuesday's paper, for the full details.)

Of course, Prairie Village is its own municipality, so to really help out cash-strapped Madison and the Chamber, be sure to spread some green love in our fair city as well. While you're at the Jamboree, chow down at the Prairie Village Cook Shack. But stop in town as well, hit the rummage sales, enjoy cold beverages and hot gizzards, and spend the night with a friend in any of our fine lodging establishments so you can be rested and ready to make the front of the line at the Village Auxiliary breakfast.

Hang in there, Sascha! We'll get you that 30% funding increase yet!