Mercury spill clean up in Columbus

Those of us who are a certain age and living in Columbus were probably amused, or not, at the thought of the $300,000 mercury spill clean up at the local Volunteers of America last week. We used to play with that much mercury on a desk top when I was in grade school in Forreston. I'm not sure it was for science class--we probably just couldn't go outside to play so the teacher brought out some mercury.