Soccer Tryout for Geneseo Club Soccer begins this week, and in fact the first run is on Wednesday.
If you are are a regular player, let your friends know.  I'm not sure the word has gotten out as well as past years.
Thelink hereis to the sites homepage.  Check out the club page for details.

This year seems to me, to be one with more cross-over than normal.  It may be just my personal perspective, but I thing baseball/softball started earlier than normal, and now I have soccer/softball conflicts earlier than any previous year.  does anyone else have this perception as well?

Hopefully we can have a cloud free Saturday night.  For those of us that watch the night sky, we have had a treat these past few months, with Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn all roaming about in our night sky merging together here and there.
On Saturday we will get a great view of the moon.
Check this out for more on the moon.
http://now.msn.com/living/0430-moon-full-perigee.aspx

Not sure how many people were out today, there may have been 100-200 runners of the 5K today at the PTA fun run held at 1:30pm.  I just made it back in town from hiking in the Mississippi Palicades and cloudy weather to change into my running gear and hurry out to the race sight at GMS.  At the start, a gun was fired, and within 30 seconds of the start rain started pretty good. Within 2 minutes we had full on downpours on all the runners.  WOW a really soaker.  I ran terrible, I think I beat a couple of young kids maybe 8 years old, and someone walking thier dog and pushing a stroller.  I think it was a wakeup call about how my walking 10000 steps a day does not translate into running at all.  The rain cut short the activities for my family.  We ran the 5K, and 1 daugher ran the 1/4mile, and like most everyone else, we went home with our tail between our legs.  BAD RACE DAY.  No one really got overheated, but there were alot of freezing race fans.

I saw this article online at the Republic site.
http://www.geneseorepublic.com/featured/x586054160/Kiwanis-Club-starts-Young-Professionals-group
I am interested in supporting what the Kiwanis Club does.  If you don't know what they do, check this out their page link below.
Their stated goals are altruistic and noble.
 Mission Statement: “The Kiwanis Club of Geneseo,  IL is dedicated to serving the children
of the world and to improving their  quality of life.”
 Vision Statement: “ We plan to be our  community’s finest service organization by
engaging local adult and youth  volunteers and by providing financial resources
to serve the children of the  Geneseo Community and the
world.”
http://geneseo.net/kiwanis/
I've never had time to make any kind of regular meeting in person, but I will definitely encourage anyone with interest to contact thier membership committee.

This week, if you look up to the West at night, you can still get a glimpse of Jupiter and Venus.  They passed in the last week and now you can witness them further separating.  Also Mars can be seen shortly after sunset in the eastern sky, and is nearly due west before rising to the south as midnight approaches.  I get a pretty good view on the edges of town, particularly on the West end of town.  Take a look before Jupiter will dissapear from view.

Updated....They have a listing now for the documentary
http://www.geneseoparkdistrict.org/theater/index.php/special-showings
This is a first.  Breaking story, if not breaking, at least not listed on the
Central Theatre page yet, nor in the newspaper yet.  Maybe they will find my post, and
link to it.  I Doubt that.  Given the history and temperance in Geneseo, this is quite an accomplishment.
Check out this Trailer

I got this note from the producer of the film directly.  I can only assume this is all accurate.  I'll just post the entire piece directly.
Modern American Cinema
523 Polk  Blvd.                                                                                                                           
Des Moines, IA 50312 
For Immediate Release:
Templeton Rye Feature Length Documentary Plays in Geneseo in March
 (Des Moines, IA) – Greetings from Modern American Cinema! We are proud to
announce Kristian Day's Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye  will
be playing at The Central Theater in Geneseo, IL.
Saturday, March 24th at 5:30 PM
Sunday, March 25th at 1:30 PM
 Location:
The Central Theatre
111 North Street
Geneseo, IL 61254
 Kristian Day’s documentary film chronicles the history of the infamous
whiskey cookers of Carroll County from their outlaw days of Prohibition to when
the liquor became legal in 2006. During the Prohibition Era, west central Iowa
farmers cooked whiskey in their barns and machine sheds to supplement their
income in the harsh times. The finished product was of such a high quality that
it quickly made its way to speakeasies in Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha
through Italian gangster Al Capone. For almost 80 years the product was
considered illegal until it was introduced in 2006 as a legal brand of top shelf
liquor.
 "This film uncovers a part of Iowa's history that has been kept in the dark
for almost a hundred years,” says Day. “I wanted to tell a story of survival and
community spirit without taking away the mystique that it has carried with it
for so long."
 Day, 26, a native of Rock Island, Ill., went to high school in Cedar Rapids
and attended the University of Colorado at Denver in the music industry studies
program. In 2008, Day began directing and producing his own movies. His short
films have played all over the world including Austria, Greece and Italy. His
films have also been screened at various festivals in cities across the United
States including Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.
 This movie is the third movie in Day's MADE IN IOWA documentary series, which
has previously included Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer (available on DVD) and
Templeton Rye: Iowa's Good Stuff (30 minute short), which aired along side the
Ken Burns' series Prohibition on Iowa Public Television this past October and is
currently available on Amazon's Video On Demand. The ongoing series tells the
stories of the innovative people, places and ideas that have influenced Iowa’s
culture.
 Modern American Cinema, LLC is an independent film production &
distribution company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Founded in 2010, the company
specializes in creating full-feature narratives and educational documentaries
for international distribution.  The directors fanpage can be found here. http://kristianday.com/ 

This is a great article about gas prices and our community response to it.  Take a look.
http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-gas-prices-geneseo-022312,0,3316962.story

Calendars are great.  How many do you manage, or check regularly, or worse, don't check at all because they change frequently, or are irrelevant most of the time for your life.  How many of you use google calendar for your personal or business calendar?  Its pretty cool, and you can link to it with another google calendar very simply.  They can remain color coded, making distintions fairly easy as well.  The city of Geneseo has a google calendar.  The High School has an easily exportable calendar.  Not much else out in Geneseo makes Calendar integration easy.  I'm working on changing that.  A Community Calendar hosted by mygtown will have to suffice for now.  Maybe down the road, the Park District will integrate theirs with the Chamber and the City, and we will have something.  I've thought about creating (copying) some software scripts (Java) to scan and learn Calendars like a good friend of mine taught me, and put this all together for everyone.  But...If the park district and the Chamber were to do this, it would save me a ton of work.  I have a family, and a life, so I hope they accomodate this for us all. 

I've been thinking about all the businesses in Geneseo.  The Chamber does a great job of listing Chamber members.
I can't argue with all the good the Chamber does to benefit Geneseo at all.  But they are not perfect, and they don't list non members of the chamber.  I have no interest for or against any business (for the most part).  So I plan to create a listing of every local geneseo business also.  This list will appear on the businesses page here.  I don't know all that I want to put there.
If you have some suggestions, facebook pages, or web sites that you want me to link to, please send me a note.  I'm going to start this, and see if I can get anyone to comment on this.
thanks
Brad