Fat, friendly feline is 'mayor' of village

ရြာကေလးရဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္...

၀ါး၀ါ ့သ္ ေဒသရဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ဘယ္သူလဲဆုိတာ အမွန္ေၿပာရယင္ေတာ ့အိပ္လုိက္စားလိုက္၊ ေလွ်ာက္သြား
လိုုက္လုပ္ေနတဲ ့ ( ထီးထမ္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္သမား လုိ ့ေတာ ့အရပ္ထဲဆုိႀကေလရဲ ့) ေကာင္တစ္ေကာင္ပါပဲ...

 ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ကုိကုိေႀကာင္....

တစ္ကယ္ဆုိယင္ေတာ  ့လူဦးေရ ၉၀၀ ခန္ ့ရွိတဲ ့ရြာကေလးမွာ ဥကၠဌႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္နဲ ့ရြာသူႀကီး ( ၿမဳိ ့၀န္၊
ရြာ၀န္ လို ့ေခၚယင္ပုိမွန္မယ္ေပါ ့) တစ္ေယာက္စီရွိေနခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ဥကၠဌႀကီးက လူသားစင္စစ္ၿဖစ္ၿပီး ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ ကေတာ ့အေၿခေလးေၿခာင္းရွိကာ ေညာင္လုိ ့ေအာ္လိုက္
လူေတြရဲ ့ေၿခေထာက္ကုိ တစ္ခ်က္တုိးေ၀ွ ့လုိက္လုပ္ေနတတ္ကာ ရွယ္ရြန္အရပ္ကလူေတြရဲ ့ခ်စ္ခင္ႏွစ္သက္
ၿခင္းကုိ ရရွိေနတဲ ့ေႀကာင္တစ္ေကာင္ၿဖစ္ေနတာပါပဲ....

ရွယ္ရြန္ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ သို ့မဟုတ္ ဖရက္ဒီလို ့အမည္ရွိတဲ ့အဆုိပါေႀကာင္ဟာ ရြာ၊ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ခန္းမမွာေနထုိင္
ၿပီး ေရခြန္၊ အိမ္ခြန္လာေဆာင္သူ ရြာသားမ်ားကုိ ႏွဳတ္ဆက္တတ္ပါတယ္...
သူဟာ တစ္ေန ့ကုိႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ သူ ့ရဲ ့ရြာကေလးကိုလွည္ ့ပတ္ေလ ့ရွိၿပီး ေက်းရြာစာတုိက္၊ စာေသာက္ဆုိင္မ်ား
ကုိေတာ ့ေနာက္ေဖးတံခါးကေန၀င္တတ္ၿပီး  တည္းခုိခန္းတုိ ့ကုိလည္းေရာက္တတ္ကာ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၊ ရြာခန္းမ
အေရွ ့ဖက္ကေတာအုပ္ထဲကေနလည္း ႀကြက္ဖမ္းလာတတ္ပါေသးတယ္...
" ဒါဟာ သူ ့ရဲ ့နယ္ၿမဳိ ့ပါပဲ...လူတုိင္းဟာ သူ ့ကုိပဲအေလးတစ္မူရွိႀကပါတယ္...သူမ်ားလမ္းၿဖတ္ကူးေနၿပီဆုိ
ယင္ လူေတြကရပ္ေပးၿပီး သူ ့ကုိအယင္ဦးစားေပးႀကပါတယ္...သူက ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္၊ရြာသူႀကီးကုိး..." လုိ ့ရွယ္
ရြန္ ေဒသေလးရဲ ့စာတုိက္မွဴး စေကာ ့ ဗင္ကီ ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

Truth be told, the mayor of a Walworth County community is a layabout who spends much of his day eating and sleeping.
Actually, the village of 900 has a president and a mayor. The president is human and the mayor is a four-legged tabby cat who wormed his way into the hearts of Sharon, one meow and one leg rub at a time.

The cat known as the mayor of Sharon, or Freddy, lives at the Village Hall, greeting folks who come to pay water or property tax bills. He meows to go out twice a day to make his rounds in the small downtown, visiting the post office, the back doors of restaurants and at least one tavern, as well as stopping to catch mice in a wooded area across from the Village Hall.
"This is his town," said Sharon Postmaster Scott Vinke. "Everyone looks out for him. If he's crossing the street, everybody stops and gives him the right of way. He's the mayor."