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Chuck Libes was a Scotts Valley public works employee in the late 1980s. He wasn’t the world’s best speller, but he was put to work making some street signs for Lockewood Lane.

 

“I made the signs and spelled them wrong,” he admitted in an e-mail to the Press-Banner. “I looked in the map book because I don’t spell well.”

 

Apparently, the map book was wrong, too.

 

“I put them up and then I noticed they were different than the others,” he said. “I was new, so I just let it go so I wouldn’t attract any negative attention.”

 

That’s why Lockewood is spelled two different ways along the road — with the “e” and without.

 

The city “chose not to continue my employment” one day short of the end of his one-year probation period, he said.

 

“It’s OK because I really hated the job,” he said. “Trying to look busy drove me crazy.”

 

Libes lives in Boulder Creek, and since his city stint has owned a towing business and a music store, worked for bands and is about to open a Felton business, Dr. Chuck’s World of Cars and Guitars.

 

“I intend to have my sign made by a sign professional who has spell-check,” he said.

 

Check out  What a difference an "e" makes, originally published on Friday, September 19, 2008.

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