"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Friday 22 June 2012

A Couple of Odds and Sods

I have had a talk with the Director of Parks and Recreation about the fence around the park on the August week-end.
The rational is as  follows ; festival patrons like to buy a beer and take it elsewhere in the park. L.L.B.O require a fence around a beer garden. The five foot high chain link fence is deemed to be that fence.
There is no permit from the town. There is a requirement from the L.L.B.O. 
The town puts a fence around Machell Park for the same reason. People like to take their beer to a picnic table in the park while 
feasting on ribs. The fence satisfies L.L.B.O. requrements. 
There is a difference. 
The town's fence  at the rib fest, as I recall, is a snow fence. It does not prohibit people from entering without paying an admission fee. It is not a barrier to people wishing to access their own park.
It is clear I am spitting into the wind in my opposition to allowing a
public park to be exploited for private gain.
There are no echoes of support from  Council colleagues.  The situation  therefore will remain unchanged. 
Unless residents take matters into their own hands and refuse to be barred from entering  their own park by a resident of Snowball.
Or...here's a thought...they  call the bylaw department and demand access to the park.
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I erred in identifying the properties in the vicinity of Hilary House 
being touted as potential for something or other in connection with the heritage aspect of Hilary house. 
They are not  on either side of the doctor's house. They are both   due south of the house.
One has had a plan for town houses on it, approved by the town seven years ago  and for sale ever since. Obviously not at the right price. The second is John McIntyre's house.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should really put all this stuff into a book which you could then self-publish on the web.

Possibly CW could provide some technical oversight.

Anonymous said...

Johns House, oh how interesting that he does not cry a peep about the museum being hijacked and now we may see why.
He stands to benefit possibly from and through the Historical Society.
What a quaint and crazy little messed up town this is.