Nixon's Head
06-08-2007, 10:52 AM
The dog should have bitten a little harder.
HENDRICKSVILLE — Gov. Mitch Daniels combined small-town pleasure with state business this week, spending the night at a farmhouse near Gosport, then rising for breakfast at Rose’s Diner down the road in Greene County.
Shaking hands with patrons, he said the Hendricksville establishment, a regular stop during his 2004 election campaign, is a special place. “It’s on that list of sentimental favorites,” he said.
Along with breakfast, Daniels got an early-morning tetanus shot after being bitten by a family dog that was startled when the governor rode up on his motorcycle.
Dawn Durnil of Ellettsville, a nurse at Southern Indiana Pediatrics, administered the shot after being summoned by her brother-in-law, a state trooper who was accompanying the governor.
“You don’t really say no to this,” Durnil said, staying at Rose’s to have breakfast with her sons, Harrison and Ryan.
Daniels was in Bloomington Wednesday to break ground on a $12.5 million project to widen West Ind. 48 from Curry Pike to Oard Road. It’s part of Major Moves, funded with Daniels’ lease of the Indiana Toll Road to a Spanish-Australian consortium.
Thursday, Daniels presided over another Major Moves project launch: a $158.2 million project to widen U.S. 231 between I-64 and the Ohio River and add new interchanges at I-64 and Ind. 162.
He unveiled a highway sign near Dale, in southern Indiana, honoring Abraham Lincoln, then headed to Evansville for a ceremonial signing of “C.J.’s Law,” which requires new mobile homes to be equipped with emergency weather radios. It’s named for a 2-year-old boy who died in a November 2005 Evansville tornado.
Earlier Thursday, Daniels stopped at Walnut Grove Spring Water near Bloomfield, which supplies bottled spring water to several high-end restaurants.
He said he used to harangue his daughters for buying bottled water when it comes free from a tap. “But if Hoosiers can make some money selling this good, pure water, I’m all for it,” he said.
Daniels said he started accepting invitations to spend the night with Hoosier families to stretch campaign dollars when he was on the road campaigning in 2004. He continued the practice as a way of making connections with Hoosiers and hearing about their deepest concerns.
“It quickly became our modus operandi,” he said. “I’ve often said, you learn a lot the last hour or two before bedtime.”
Source (http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2007/06/08/news.qp-6740537.sto).
HENDRICKSVILLE — Gov. Mitch Daniels combined small-town pleasure with state business this week, spending the night at a farmhouse near Gosport, then rising for breakfast at Rose’s Diner down the road in Greene County.
Shaking hands with patrons, he said the Hendricksville establishment, a regular stop during his 2004 election campaign, is a special place. “It’s on that list of sentimental favorites,” he said.
Along with breakfast, Daniels got an early-morning tetanus shot after being bitten by a family dog that was startled when the governor rode up on his motorcycle.
Dawn Durnil of Ellettsville, a nurse at Southern Indiana Pediatrics, administered the shot after being summoned by her brother-in-law, a state trooper who was accompanying the governor.
“You don’t really say no to this,” Durnil said, staying at Rose’s to have breakfast with her sons, Harrison and Ryan.
Daniels was in Bloomington Wednesday to break ground on a $12.5 million project to widen West Ind. 48 from Curry Pike to Oard Road. It’s part of Major Moves, funded with Daniels’ lease of the Indiana Toll Road to a Spanish-Australian consortium.
Thursday, Daniels presided over another Major Moves project launch: a $158.2 million project to widen U.S. 231 between I-64 and the Ohio River and add new interchanges at I-64 and Ind. 162.
He unveiled a highway sign near Dale, in southern Indiana, honoring Abraham Lincoln, then headed to Evansville for a ceremonial signing of “C.J.’s Law,” which requires new mobile homes to be equipped with emergency weather radios. It’s named for a 2-year-old boy who died in a November 2005 Evansville tornado.
Earlier Thursday, Daniels stopped at Walnut Grove Spring Water near Bloomfield, which supplies bottled spring water to several high-end restaurants.
He said he used to harangue his daughters for buying bottled water when it comes free from a tap. “But if Hoosiers can make some money selling this good, pure water, I’m all for it,” he said.
Daniels said he started accepting invitations to spend the night with Hoosier families to stretch campaign dollars when he was on the road campaigning in 2004. He continued the practice as a way of making connections with Hoosiers and hearing about their deepest concerns.
“It quickly became our modus operandi,” he said. “I’ve often said, you learn a lot the last hour or two before bedtime.”
Source (http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2007/06/08/news.qp-6740537.sto).