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		<title>When will Rudd return?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/when-will-rudd-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Australia Day kerfuffle in Canberra was not Prime Minister Julia Gillard&#8217;s fault. I&#8217;m sure she had no prior knowledge of - nor did she authorise &#8211; her adviser to stir up the aboriginal tent embassy protestors into an ugly mob that resulted in some dramatic, if not outright bizarre &#38; embarrassing, footage of the PM being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12420&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards 500,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nothing better to do?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time tomorrow (Sunday 29th January 2012), the counter on this blog will click over to 500,000 views. Not that I&#8217;m a stats man or care very much, but it just surprises me that so many people would read the tripe I put out. Actually, the 500,000 would have come much earlier if I hadn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12414&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is this newspaper trashing its own town?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/why-is-this-newspaper-trashing-its-own-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional relocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albury-wodonga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a screen shot of today&#8217;s Border Mail website. The Border Mail is a very large regional daily newspaper published out of nearby Albury and is part of the Fairfax group. Look at the stories it constantly highlights &#8211; they&#8217;re all very negative and usually about crime, violence, bashings, knifings and vandalism. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12407&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Rod &#8216;crisis&#8217; meeting</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/hot-rod-crisis-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Rod Run]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t be able to attend the forthcoming meeting between Bright tourism operators and the Northern Suburbs Hot Rod Club because I&#8217;ll be away at that time. There&#8217;s not much point anyway, as we are already fully booked for this year&#8217;s November event (as most holiday unit owners would be), so I don&#8217;t see how I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12400&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, they&#8217;re not meant to blow up?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/what-theyre-not-meant-to-blow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odd news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bogans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jet skis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrolheads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing wrong with this Border Mail story  is the headline, &#8220;Blast tosses jet-skier in air&#8221;. I would have gone for: &#8220;Blast tosses tosser jet-skier in air&#8221;  A MELBOURNE father has had a lucky escape after he was thrown 1.5 metres when a jet-ski exploded on the Murray River near Rutherglen yesterday. &#8230;  a witness, Brad Huggins, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12388&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our local Ned Kelly&#8217;s plan to ambush the Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/our-local-ned-kellys-plan-to-ambush-the-prime-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alpine council elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julia gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local legend Ray Dyer - of unknown occupation - was so nearly an Alpine councillor in 2008 when he campaigned in his faux Ned Kelly suit (made from cardboard, I believe) and with his goat &#8230; all over the bloody shire. It didn&#8217;t matter that Dyer seemed to have no particular platform or a clue about the issues; he still polled very well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12372&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A great investment !</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/a-great-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grevillea Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal/family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright property for sale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly 10 years in the business, and following the extensive renovations we commenced over 5 years ago (now finally completed!), Leanne and I have decided to place the GG holiday units up for sale. As they&#8217;re strata titled we&#8217;ve put them up for individual sale, not as a whole. We&#8217;re keeping the house and we&#8217;ll be doing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12363&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message for Mark</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/message-for-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Rod Run]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get elected to council your role is to listen to and consult the community. And, when you hold the so-called &#8216;portfolio&#8217; of tourism &#38; economic development - as Alpine councillor Mark Steven does - your role is especially to listen to and consult the tourism industry &#8230; and to represent their interests. Your role is not to come out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12343&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Rod Run under threat &#8230; again!</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/bright-rod-run-under-threat-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Club wants accommodation owners to take a hit For the second time in recent years the organisers of the enormously popular Bright Rod Run are threatening to take the event away from the town. This time the complaint is over concerns that entrants are being &#8220;ripped off&#8221; by accommodation providers. In his letter to last week&#8217;s Bright Observer (below), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12323&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A cheap and disingenuous trick</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/a-cheap-and-disingenuous-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[council rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It’s a cheap and disingenuous trick. It’s time for council to acknowledge that economic development &#38; tourism benefits ALL ratepayers, not just those it thinks it can slug with extra rates.&#8221; The above is a quote from the summary of my submission to the Alpine council concerning the proposed introduction of a 30 to 40% surcharge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12308&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bathroom renos</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/the-bathroom-renos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grevillea Gardens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bathrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cement sheet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GG renovations that we started 5 years ago and finished in 2008 included fitting out 7 new bathrooms. I thought it might be about time we did up our own bathroom (and laundry and toilet) and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing for the past 3 weeks. My work is finished and now it&#8217;s up to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12302&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The ongoing saga of the Mt Buffalo Chalet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would you want to change this &#8230;. To this? Well, if you could get it for nothing, I guess you would! I am not the slightest bit surprised (or upset) that the State Government has rejected the proposal put forward by local consortium Mt Buffalo Community Enterprise Ltd (MBCE) for a $51 million conversion of the Mt Buffalo Chalet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12285&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beatles trivia</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/beatles-trivia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will keep me up all night. We just switched over to Channel 7 to watch The Amazing Race (a show I actually enjoy) and caught the end of some stupid quiz show where the last question was this: &#8220;How many Beatles&#8217; songs have a woman&#8217;s name in the title?&#8221; As if anyone would carry that information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12271&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forty seven reasons to dump Michael Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can a national cricket side like Australia that dismisses its opposition for just 96 runs and leads by nearly 200 on the first innings, end up getting belted by 8 wickets in less than 3 days? I dunno, but maybe ask our &#8217;boy&#8217; captain Michael Clarke how his side only managed an embarrassing 47 runs in its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12257&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11.11.11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odd news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembrance Day 2011 &#8211; Nirvana for Nerds and Numerologists The heading of this post &#8211; today&#8217;s date &#8211; is a once in a century event. It&#8217;s only in the 11th year of a century that there can be a line up of six identical numbers. According to some people out there this is apparently of some significance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12252&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flood alert?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/flood-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update Wednesday 9 Nov @ 11 am: This ‘flood’ looks like a non-event so far. I’ve spent all morning clearing the gutters in anticipation of a deluge that looks like it won’t happen. Oh well, had to clean them anyway.  Have we become too &#8216;Disaster Paranoid&#8217; ? I might be going out on a limb [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12242&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Rod Run 2011</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/bright-rod-run-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bright accommodation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to expand the event into a whole week? The 21st. annual Northern Suburbs Bright Rod Run was held in brilliant sunshine and warm 30 degree weather, and was bigger and better than ever. Honestly, this event is so popular that I think it&#8217;s time the organisers looked at holding it over a whole week embracing two consecutive weekends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12218&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pokies &#8211; a sensible solution</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/pokies-a-sensible-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just limit the size of bets! I&#8217;ve never liked Andrew Wilkie&#8217;s gun-to-the-head approach over gambling reforms. Not that I&#8217;m a fan of gambling (I think those who can&#8217;t resist the temptation are fools and we all know about &#8216;a fool and his money&#8217;), it&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t think this dweeb from Hobart &#8211; who only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12199&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special rate to be dropped?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED POST Commercial-Industrial rate to be replaced by a (lower) differential rate At long last the Alpine council seems to have finally acknowledged that the 48% surcharge it has imposed on properties like mine for the past 15 years under its Commercial &#38; Industrial special rate is far too high and an unfair burden on local business owners. At [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12201&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rods are arriving</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-rods-are-arriving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All week there&#8217;s been a steady trickle of customised vehicles arriving for The 23rd Annual Bright Rod Run to be held over the weekend. But today (Thursday) they are already pouring in for what looks like being the biggest (and longest) event ever. Maybe it&#8217;s time they extended it? Anyway, I&#8217;ll do my usual photo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=916178&amp;post=12194&amp;subd=alpineopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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