Many shop windows bear his picture; elderly matrons name their roadside tea stalls after him.
Their roadside bombs and high profile attacks, though still deadly, no longer have the shock effect they once had.
It is hoped that other local authorities will introduce such measures into their roadside maintenance schedules to help wildflowers that have been pushed from farmlands to the margins.
How the Taliban have caused growing carnage with a massive escalation of their roadside bombing campaign, which has killed more than 2,000 civilians to date.
The Boulder Daily Camera newspaper reports that tiny "yard signs" have started to appear outside their roadside burrows, bearing the logos of the Romney and Obama campaigns.
The Taliban were observed dismantling some of their roadside bombs along the route, but the following day the deal broke down.
Hundreds if not thousands of family citrus farms and their roadside stands have disappeared since the 1960s — victims of freezes and disease, highways that diverted customers, corporate consolidation, and the relentless pressure on growers to sell their land to developers.
As Ossoff and his eight-year-old foe performed their roadside lightsabre act, dozens of supporters raised handwritten signs, many of which read, "VOTE YOUR OSSOFF!" Cars honked approval as they passed.
Jesús Tudanca and his sister Mercedes started their roadside caff 25 years ago and have seen it grow into a sprawling complex of petrol station, restaurant and cafeteria, shops, banqueting rooms, a children's playground and picnic area, two-star motel and four-star hotel.
"The reprisal and counterinsurgency tactics of the C.A.R. security forces have affected the lives of over one million people," the report said, "and have forced an estimated 212,000 civilians to abandon their roadside homes and live deep inside the bush, too fearful to return to their burned villages in case of repeat attack".
