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A nice
passer-by called these flowers ‘Snow Drops |
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And
the flowers are a good indicator of how late the season is this year --- I have
an image of same spot blooming about 2 weeks earlier in 2007 |
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New Deck at
Cow Bay |
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A
fellow who knows that sort of thing mentioned that looked like ‘Oona River
Cedar’ to him --- he said the fellows had just finished about 10 minutes
before I took this picture |
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Is trench
for drainage???
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Working on the
‘trail’ along tracks Cow Bay to Hays Creek |
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note
the ‘chipped’ up trees --- Presumably from Asplunde – as I saw pine leaves
among the wood |
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This trail reminds me of Bedard
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First
Herb pond told me he doubted if I had interpreted events correctly because
his impression of Kathy Bedard was that she did not manipulate the system for
private benefit --- quite the opposite Plus
a person who works with several non profit groups recounted how one of her
groups had built something for the City – say a bus shelter or some such ---
It would be feasible that City could give them a Charitable donation slip if
they needed it to ‘receipt’ some donor |
So
perhaps that is what the whole process meant – not ‘partnering’ organizations
– but working on same project – like a bus shelter --- and for that City
Could give a charitable donation receipt --- in the case above if someone had
donated to building this trail and wanted a receipt for time operating
machine etc ---- it is a very grey zone --- the Tax Act presupposes much more
Municipal involvement – in fact ‘controlling the $$’ --- but it is a reading
of same ‘facts’ that I interpreted as ‘conflict of interest’ |
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This
seems to be what the City is basing their argument on for ‘partnering’ –
note it must be a City Project--- and City must control expenditures ---
neither point is in the original ‘policy’ |
Are you a branch or agent of a Canadian municipality, or are you raising funds for a municipal project? Where a Canadian municipality agrees to receive your monetary contribution, control the expenditures, and issue official receipts to the donors in the municipality’s name, you do not need to register a new charity. Source
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/t4063/t4063-08e.pdf |
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And speaking
of wood cutting |
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Note
the logs that have been neatly cut from trees cut down – they disappeared
soon afterwards – presumably someone in know removes logs for their fire
place – at city expense for cutting wood up etc |
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I am told
the Credit Union may have bought the old DQ site --- if so I hope they deal
with that missing support soon |
More rumours
about property |
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And
some people are saying the main reason the fire hall is being pushed for ‘replacement’
rather than ‘repair’ is that the Crest covets the property |
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Sale of
SQCRD?? |
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Some say Kumar
wanted to sell it too – until he did the math – SQCRD pays about 3600 per
month ‘rent’ to the City – and I hear the Archives and Biotoxin pay SQCRD
$912 rent a month --- that comes out to about 54000$ rent a year – the city
would have to get a million dollars and invest it at 5.4% interest to equal
that or 4.3% interest if ‘we’ were to let BioToxin and Archives go fend for
themselves --- not likely to get that kind of interest – nor that kind of
selling price in Post September 2008 financial environment |
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Hays Creek
Sewer line replacement |
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The
city is looking for about 4 million dollars in grant money for this project
--- Some of the line replaced as late as 2005 I am told But
look closely at the line – it appears to be a single non separated sewer –
not the kind of thing that is needed when city eventually puts in sewage
treatment So
shouldn’t we be separating sewer lines first? In preparation of sewage
treatment? |
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Stimulus
funding Heard
story about a lower mainland municipality that got X amount from Feds last
year – they will get the same amount this year – but now it will be called
‘stimulus’ money – and that municipality will have to do the paperwork to
‘prove’ it is not just same funding but ‘stimulus’ $$ |
More later
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Created by LG on
March 01, 2009
Last updated on Monday, March 02, 2009