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Revitalization as
potential boondoggle --- could owners turn into an apartment building and claim
‘revitalization’? — Who knows but we as voters will be asked to approve the
legislation next Monday |
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Inattentive
Council?? Oversized trucks on
streets Ferry managers’ car
allowances Tomorrow: managers’
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Found Art – by tourist ·
SQCRD mtg August mtg? ·
Spruce decline |
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Presumably
the ‘over-sized’ truck delivering mail – and then will go down alley etc to
get back on highway |
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We used to have By-laws
about this sort of thing – but then we too should probably turn a blind eye
as it is ‘our’ mail --- and road repairs will hopefully be sometime in the
future |
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City
Council in ‘automatic pilot’ mode?? |
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I was told by a former
Council member that the car allowance for the Airport Ferry ‘managers’ was
because they had to do a lot of running back and forth with collection $$ etc
---- Assuming I understood correctly, that would be an older job function
that is no longer needed—thus the monies are now collected by airlines --- of
course that too is another boondoggle (or incompetence?) --- we subsidize all
those unpaying ‘greeters’ etc because City Management had not done their
homework – (who will collect the $$, etc) --- and as I stated before the fee
increase bylaw was treated (publicly) as another typing mistake – shades of
the 5M$ mistake earlier |
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Light post
detail as found art |
Found
Art – a tourist with camera was happy to show me their discovery of a ‘Jackson
Pollack’ like design –as image below --- I was wondrous as we were standing
on the bridge to section 2 – ‘Where did you see that?’ I asked --- she
pointed to the lamp post (in need of fresh painting) |
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SQCRD meeting
--- and Northern Trust $$$ --- It is who you know in this town |
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What ever
happened to the Mt Hays ‘zipline’? And one
might question the lack of vision shown by ‘our’ representatives --- signage
and ziplines are aimed at either cruise or auto traffic tourism --- Is that
our only future option?? |
The grant
was for signage etc --- note this was same meeting that turned down another
Community Group request for funding as ‘no money’ |
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Provided in paperwork
was this summary of what has been paid out previously and how much $$ remains
– we see North Pacific Cannery has already received 30T$ |
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I will do
the these referrals tomorrow |
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But note the ‘irony’
in that Directors usually accept the agenda ‘as written’ ---- thus they have
inadvertently voted to accept a meeting in August – contrary to what was said
in meeting when next one would be |
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Sitka Spruce
locally in decline – disease or climate change or both? |
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This
one is at advanced state of decline – usually only a few branches seen dying
(image below left on McBride street)--- accompanied with needle loss--- I had
a chance to investigate a small tree accessible along that same street --- (see
below) |
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Shades of
Brown |
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At
some point these are going to have to be dealt with by City and Crews – so
better to get a handle on what is happening and how long a ‘window’ we have
to deal with it |
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Symptoms |
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This
is a live branch on an accessible (small) tree – Note the discoloration – no
obvious sign of aphids nor beetles etc --- just blotches of brown where
chloroplast being destroyed – which slowly ‘covers’ whole needle etc |
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Low Cloud etc
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At least not
raining as yesterday --- hopefully system has moved thorough |
Created by LG on 22/7/2010
Last updated on Thursday, July 22, 2010