We love to visit Lair O the Bear Park. LyNette, Weldon, Kayleen and Rob are pictured at the park in 2022 at what we know as "the family tree". This park has many trees, a stream named "Bear Creek" and big hills up into the mountains. 

Weldon and Marlene's ashes now rest in this park at an overlook of Bear Creek on the Bruin Bluff trail.

While Weldon's ashes were not at the Memorial Service, his hat was. It had become fashionable to see Weldon donning this hat when we visited together during the later years of his life. 

This photo, where Weldon was with great grandson Bennett and daughter LyNette was taken at the Mineral Museum on the campus of the School of Mines. It was probably a toss-up as to who was more curious, Bennett or Weldon. Curiosity spans generations. Maybe Weldon's hair was as wild as Bennett's and that's why he wore 'the hat'.

There were 41 shootings in Chicago the last weekend in August, and no arrests. The police aren't staffed or supported to make a meaningful difference in Chicago crime reduction. Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) and Gunshot Detection Systems (GDS) have also been in the news. These tools are meant to help police. The professed worry is that these systems, deployed in many municipalities, may violate personal liberty rights, especially if misused. 

This worry is a peculiar confluence of agreement between the far left (defending the liberty of individuals who may have used automobiles and/or guns in the commission of a crime) and the far right (defending the liberty of 2nd Amendment advocates and just personal privacy). Admittedly the cause for the worry may be different, but there is unity in worry and little or no forbearance for the public good these devices help assure.  If the focal point for no forbearance with devise existence centers on the potential for "misuse", why wouldn't the proper course of action be to prevent the misuse? And, aren't there so many other devices, starting with our phones, where the risk to one's liberty and/or privacy are in far greater peril? The hysteria around these devices doesn't make sense.