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Due to a summer staff shortage at Rogers 20 Cable, there will be no on air broadcast of the July 7th Council Planning Meeting tonight.
Come on down in person - 59 Carden Street. It’s a full agenda….
LP
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Harcourt Church, Dean Avenue, Chapel 2nd Floor
City Councillors Leanne Piper and Lise Burcher will be in attendance.
The ousting of local Conservative candidate Brent Barr is a stunner.
I’m so glad municipal politics is not tied to the political party system. I don’t consider myself to be an indoctrinated member of any political party. I have voted all over the map since I cast my first ballot at 18. If our current City Council was beholdin’ to party ideology or an oligarchical master, would the best interests of our community be served? I think not.
Leanne
I happened to be in the right place at the right time this year! I’ve always wanted to see the dam go down behind John McCrae School and I happened to be biking by this Monday at 2:00 pm as the dam was lowered. Very cool - very noisy! I came back around 6:00 pm and the pond was about 80% full. I estimate it takes a full 4-5 hours to completely fill, depending on water volume in the river.
According to the GRCA staff on site, the dam is not for flood control - it is solely for the purpose of providing recreational use of the river. Without the dam, the Speed - Eramosa portion of the river would not be navigable by canoe and they get a lot of pressure every year for the dam to be lowered to kick-off the canoeing season. Makes sense. But it would be nice if the dam could be raised for the OPIRG Speed River Clean-Up.
The Speed River Clean Up this year will be Saturday, June 9th. This is always a great family event!
Thanks for visiting. We’ve decided to move the FIVE ALIVE blog to a more interactive space. It’s not much fun to write about Ward 5 issues and events if we can’t hear back from you in return.
We’re new to the whole blogging thing, so please don’t be too hard on us with formatting and design comments - but we certainly appreciate your input on anything that will help us to make this forum useful and relevant.
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LP
