Mendon's
'city bird' is an ostrich, former Webmaster says
By M. Kathryn Hanberg
February 29, 2008 | MENDON -- An ostrich is an interesting
animal to have as the city bird, but on Mendon City's
Web site, that is what it says.
Upon investigation of why the ostrich, of all birds,
is the city bird for Mendon, a new story appeared. Rodney
Sorensen, resident of Mendon, explained that this Web
site is actually his. He had the Web site up and running
for 11 years until the city asked to link their site
to his.
"I told them they could, but then they erased all
my URL sites," Sorensen said.
Mayor Mike Morgan said it was a misunderstanding that
got out of hand.
"A few years back, we had a person working on our
city Web site. They didn't really know what they were
doing and asked Rod if we could link to his site. They
borrowed too liberally from Rod's site, and it got out
of hand," Morgan said.
That is the reason the ostrich is labeled the "Mendon
City Bird," said Sorensen, "because the mayor and everyone
keeps hiding their head in the ground like an ostrich.
They ignore that there is a problem."
Morgan recognizes this has been an issue in, but says
they are in the process of putting up another site.
"Just don't worry about it," Morgan said.
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