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Sea, land, river PEOPLES
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Spring in air – from Alders to
dandelions What is going on behind
Credit Union – Pay parking? Another sign of spring is Carnival in town Then there is the
post election worries And don’t forget the 2011 PR budget And more ‘unsightly’ stuff |
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Signs
of spring |
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We see the alder trees are about at half leaf |
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Another sure sign of spring is htat
the tennis nets are up and people are bragging about their first game of
season |
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And the dandelions seem to have gone into ‘full bloom’
around town – pretty late this year --- and varies with sun exposure Even old PRDN is abloom --- sans employees |
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A
new concrete pad seems to have been added – the blue arrow Some
knowledgeable people speculate that could go pay parking – so far those using
it have done so for free etc |
And
what is going on Behind Credit Union? |
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Another
sure sign of spring is that the Carnival is in town They
lucked out and got a beautiful Saturday afternoon – evening |
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Leftovers
from the election |
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The image below was a Nathan Cullen poster that has since
been removed With the Harper majority one can anticipate that the Enbridge
pipeline and offshore tanker traffic will be more likely --- but see |
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Sad
day for Democracy in PR |
Monday
will be Citizens only chance to ‘stop’ tax rate increase |
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I
will return to this Monday before the meeting |
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As I posted earlier --- we don’t really need a tax
increase as there was apparently a mistake --- we don’t have a 480T$
shortfall – the paperwork said only 4T$ ---- but presumably Council will just
pretend the error was not there and continue --- unless the Citizenry shows
up and speaks out |
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This
is the way public input is meant to be done under the Community Charter Even
Kitimat who is again facing a very tough year had a
‘3 day budget marathon with public input back in February |
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Oh
yah, then there is the junket to China |
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Says only cost 5T$ each – but that is not clear if from
the grant or in addition to grant from paperwork |
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I
have clipped this out of the online Agenda package |
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Derelict
town |
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The owner claims those old furnaces and washers etc are
not his --- his are still in the house --- he offered to take them to the
dump/ recycling if fee paid – but City refused (I heard it was done in an
in-camera meeting – thus not technically legal) |
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More
Derelicts |
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While the old
Home Hardware Buidling gets much of Coucnil attention – there are numerous
bildingsin worse shape – but no one on Coucnil ever mentions them --- perhaps
owned by more important people – or at least with better connections at City
Hall
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Hey
I liked this guy’s parking Sure
he was probably only there a few minutes – I saw him retuning from the Credit
Union(??) seemingly with cash in hand etc |
Created by LG on May 7th 2011
Last updated on Sunday, May 08, 2011