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A beautiful fall day and sunset But Rupert also in decline --- the symptoms are broken booze
bottles on streets and broken business windows down town etc But what about the kids? Should we just turn our gaze? National
Geographic sponsored tour in town – but Adventure Tour’s
catamaran finding whales to watch Port Authority needs public scrutiny Etc |
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Image to right
was striking focused light of declining sun --- while the image above was so by
the way it accented the reds on different buildings (not nearly as striking
in pictures as in ‘real life’) |
Setting sun
enriches colors |
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More Vandalism
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Last
time I showed how 2008 crime
stats have PR first ‘regionally’ and especially the vandalism – like the new
‘crop’ of broken store windows this weekend
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Vandalism is
a symptom |
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Not
clear from the ‘stats’ if this is mainly a bar crowd problem or a youth
problem --- I will argue later that mainly an alcohol fuelled one --- but it
would help if we could see when these window breakings occurred – after
midnight etc--- do they slack off once the kids go back to school? |
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Skate
Boarding down 2nd Avenue --- 2 of the 3 boys --- presumably
dangerous – and kids ‘flaunting’ rules --- maybe ‘we’ should say something |
Do we ‘owe’
these kids? Should we just look and walk away? |
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When
I passed this kid and an equally young friend – their conversation was about
60$ spent (by someone) on so many grams of something --- I was surprised kids
this young would even knew the vocabulary |
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National Geographic
Sea Lion was at dock around noon ---- partnership with Linblad Expeditions (see
their link etc)
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Tourist ship
in town Sunday |
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At
same time Adventure Tours catamaran was
about to leave for a City West sponsored whale-viewing tour. Again
this is sign of how much things have changed recently – it is not the fishers
but the tour boats who now most aware of what is happening out on water etc |
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Port Edward Harbour
Authority – and accountability |
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The
incident started in Port Edward Council meeting – but deserves wider
attention --- Most the docks locally are controlled and run by the ‘Harbour
Authority’ – and a subsidy is paid by DFO --- but times have changed since
the ‘deal’ originally struck – much of the commercial fleet is gone and now
it is the sports fishers that need dock space (and locals that can not afford
the 2T$ minimum for just applying to Yacht club) etc – more later |
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Fall Flowers
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This
grass has 2 phases – one going to seed and drying out – the other freshly
‘flowering’ (green arrow and insert) – I see salmonberries also sending out
‘fresh’ shoots --- suggesting that day length is being used by the plants
‘sensors’ – tricking them into thinking ‘spring’ is here |
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Town in
Decline |
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The
chair apparently thrown from balcony --- saves a trip to the dump ---
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2nd
Ave & McBride as used car lot --- 1 & 2 have been there several weeks
– 3-4 showed up this weekend |
Decline
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And one of
the fish plants has sprayed its vacant lot with herbicide – looks like had applied
to all the alder – you’d think they’d be more worried about the fish that to
use pesticides so wantonly – more later
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Created by LG on 13/9/2009
Last updated on Monday, September 14, 2009