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March 20th

We See around PR

SUNSHINE

  Lots of outside repairs getting done

 

Here a crew is reproofing the ‘old swimming pool’ building --- presumably upgrading the repairs from the 10/10/10 storm

 

The placard advertising a hot dog sale by non-profit group front of Safeway  

 

 

BC Stats ---infoline

Lumber exports to US tracks their housing starts --- which only minimally recovering --- what struck me as most interesting is that value lumber exports now equal to what it was in 1994

Source document

 

From the same issue of Infoline

Again – the point of interest is how coal exports now exceed softwood lumber --- with China the largest destination

 

 

Supermoon

Because took so long to ‘come-over- the- Mountain’ our full moon was not as spectacular as those who saw it first on the horizon --- went around town to see ‘how high’ the tide would get

 

Breakers is always a good benchmark for a high tide --- but nothing spectacular

 

Again the top of the piling as marker of highest tides

Perhaps the QIN HAI waiting to take on Canola

 

CN waterfront is an important local asset --- Locals flock down here on sunny days to walk --- and is potentially our premier tourism asset --- thus the ‘talk’ of CN enforcing ‘Trespass’ --- CN cop said to be scheduled here later in year, etc

 

 

He troller called the Moodie Blue – and had a logo on it that said ‘Research’

 

 

Excerpt from Minister Bell’s letter

Old Boys at SQCRD

I am skeptical that ‘we’ should be sending these guys (thanks to PR taxpayers) to UBCM etc to lobby for what amounts to Electoral Area rep Bergman’s source of income --- logging --- and casting it as a ‘regional concern rather than personal

Created by LG on 21/3/2011

Last updated on Monday, March 21, 2011