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Home My WebLink AboutHighlands Guinea-1989 a 4.11 - , . Don Boyett SOLE COUNTY tgTrp:.. Debra Creighton remain:another wild- mg the t s e m to remwe: o like d to the Hoods."And one.mason l we moved to the Fe #re.u, f/k��n moo woods'"And Connie Pile,who with her rs:"7'r ry poor husband was house-sitting for son Jun co»trrzverslal ne they're down from North Dakota, � though it did scold bird amusing, even her from a rooftop Galloway Court runs through a w�she was OUtwalking. in thicket of oaks along Soldier's Creek "He's so funny, says Gauchat of the mein Highlands, the mettadevelap- she and controversial neighbor. rthw'est corner&EWin- ber husband watch ttgqtmrgh that ter Springs. It's one of those quiet as the birdtatots neighborhood cats. neigborhoods where nothing ever hap- The ;brew complainants were not pens.Until now. ;, home, but Bob McIntosh, head of This week the.neigtl was County animal control, s e i tit yp thrice concerns: The bird c walking on �relict; their roofs; damage which that might -y cause,and the creature's morning rev. sills. back yeNo Kitty Degrenea, manager of The Highlands Homeowners 1 :- On a knows it a3s:Yes, there Hasp.been Association, where about the bird's peeking in s m some sky- .' The split lights, and oP his:inability to any a is lopsided: tune."But,hey,we lots him." J.`a""� Three resi- dents have called for the bird's eviction; most everyone else wants him to stay. But the law is on the side of those three, and a trap has been set for the guin- ea's capture and removal. . "And you want to know which side I'm on?" Flo Gauchat anticipated as I polled the neighborhood Thursday morning. "Put me down as extremely / Lj D' /� upset," she said, then launched into O i reasons she favors letting the bird alone.They are legion. r ,t y J 4 Don - `yeu Strange how something so seeming- SEMINbLEt:tluNTY Ebrron.-.. ly trivial can upset a tranquil neigh- bm'haod. While the issue has caused som$people to speak to like-thinks Fowl run amok starts neighbors once ignored, it has created /,fin p schisms as well; even some house- "' among neighors holds are split over the evictonm,r- ture issue. Yea, Valerie Bryant signed an evic- 171,E bird is no_longer cute, Bryant time petition for the Highlands guinea_ protests;he's a pest. He(IBgMendera Fora year she put:$f-with his WI- refer to the bird as a"he")perches on wanted hellos at her patio door with no a Dower box and sings his off-key sdng more than muffled protest.But when a into her living mom; to be heard she neighbor suggested aste and learn- must scream no the phone. His`day ing that the normal g —dutch is 30 begins at g a.m. beneath the bedroom eggs,that iris the limit,. window the Bryants blue an alarm, "Imagine,"she exclaims, "THIRTY- on guineas,' It's not that the do bein are anti-: bird Still, though, the African.fowl con- ; y take pride in being environ- mentally conscious'But, they say,the tinues to peek through skylights, tromp on roofs and scream his mucous woods in eve ihabitat.-Those nivt- 'k-TRAP, k-TRAP, k-TRAP" along woods 1W hi be country in his native ofra Soldier's Creek in the northwest Win- oa,hut in e h would he a mate - a ter Springs development County ani- Entitle hsaautd haves wand mil control has a cage,trep at one end "'ISM just check out his smile and I.of Galloway Court,but,e no avail.The OninsasMra beat for the Llyd,'rsga.:, Friends of The Guinea see to that: Brs`ant,clueing her argument. - They keep tripping the trap. And most of the cul'pdtsare adults, says..Bryant, who has a video camera monitering the cage. / 9d'9 Herschel's neighbors miscpanhandling pet moved in two years ago."He came to be like a pet to Good bye; Herschel: Sue and Craig us" Mrs. Greek says. Each day he would come to Ciosek's 16th anniversary was last the back door and either peck on it or yell to be fed. Thursday. It was a bummer. That was "He liked whole-wheat bread — wouldn't touch the day Herschel died. - white bread. He was a health freak. He would eat Herschel — or Buckwheat, or Co- from our hands." m'ere or,as a few preferred,names not Herschel was also particular about his drinking fit for afamily newspaper— was the water,preferring lawn sprinklers at the Cioseks'and guinea fowl that, depending on the one other home. When thirsty, he would come into household,brought smiles or curses in the yard and give out a yell.Someone would turn on The Highlands. For 255 years, the old the lawn sprinkler and he would drink his fill and be guinea screeched and panhandled on his way. Court along Galloway and up Galloway Did foul play have a bearing on Herschel's pass- in Prawling west-side Win- ing? HSprings development. His friends admit such crossed their minds, con- eys. Some o�hbyy; others, by oft sidering the divisiveness Herschel caused. But all angered by say they prefer not to think so. Herschel was given his raucous cans and his prancing proper burial without autopsy, and his friends hope across their roofs, had animal control neighborhood wounds will heal set a trap. That effort failed when "I'n admit," Mrs.Ciosek says, "I would like to see Herschel's friends kept tripping it,and a replacement,But I it's best to let the matter hard Peelings grew. guess Some neighbors didn't speak for die also." Hers- more than year. James Dai domain, kept whose tab yon was just the start.. He H ButBut no matter the side taken, most figures the guinea was an escapee cam Prmn the afar[. Ht noers will miss.the old bird. once nto Th from a farm that For some it will mean old the along contemplative mplance into The Highlands.s th sleeping later warden a erschel: hem moo, sees both hero and at or not being startled by the bird's loud coward in Herschel hem l that ei he hb overcame great c rituaL Marguerite Quinn will miss a(bib, odds and became a symbol for a neighborhood;cow- ard in that he succumbed to begging. Still, he says, Each day about noon he would perch "Herschel was an institution,the king of the culde- on a fence rail outside her kitchen sae" window and screech, "Ka-trap Ka- Neighborhoods need institutions to bring them to- trap," Quinn would respond with gather, to get people talking among themselves, to just"Com'ere,rnm'ere." make them more than ust another subdivision. Immediately. he would hop to the Henschel was that.He will be missed. ground and head for the front door f a or of bird seed and bread. m I think he got to thinking com'ere was his name,"pays Quinn,whose vis- iting sister once tagged him as Buck- wheat."I'll miss him terribly." It was soon-to-be-14 Joey Ciosek from across the street who brought the sad news to her Friday morning. Joey's mom said she and her son no- ticed the bird acting strange and kept him in their back yard, against cats. By evening guarding him husband came home they realized something was seriously wrong. He called the Audubon Society and was referred to a farmer off Curry Ford �� Road. Herschel was bundled into the car but was dead on arrival. Herschel had settled into the neigh- borhood by the time the Cioseks Please see BOYETr,5