How do I get a job like this?
The HKPR Health Unit has released a list of restaurants who have been awarded "Eat Smart" badges. Without releasing the criteria for such badges they are as good as useless. Do they sample all the meals, study the menus or just sniff around for cockroaches?Looking at the list only two establishments in Port Hope got a badge: Mr Sub and Subway. The rest of the County was well represented. I can imagine that the owners of the fine restaurants in PH don't think much of this award. Anyway back to the lead, I would be perfect for the job of EatSmart tester. According to the love of my life all I ever do is eat junk food, ergo I can recognise it and any place serving it will not get a badge!
Have you driven about the Beer Store lately? Because if you have you will notice that when you go to drive North on Division from Munroe there is a new sign facing you. A "No right turn on Red". Wondering about this, I travel this intersection daily and hadn't noticed it until a passenger pointed it out to me, just who ordered this and when did this take place? I phoned the Police, thinking that a change in traffic signs might have something to do with them. Deputy-Chief Cromlish (deputydave) told me he knew nothing about it so it hadn't been placed there as a result of being a dangerous intersection. I then phoned Public Works and spoke to "I have been here so long I am part of the furniture" Ted MacDonald, the major domo of traffic. "Yep we did it!" he said. Acknowledging that the funny shaped intersection is a bugger to put lights on he said, "You can't have it both ways, either make turns from Park St illegal or allow the pedestrians priority on the arrowed green light from Munroe!" "This way it is safe" Telling me that this is the last change to a $100K project the traffic controller was only installed last week. This installer allows a Pedestrian walk to operate on the green arrow. Now we all know that every single driver who turns on a red knows that the pedestrian has the right of way - don't we? But just to be sure Ted put up a sign disallowing right turns on red. No word yet for the local GM dealers about just which one is going to disappear. Cobourg has two - Thomas Pontiac-Buick and Spencer Chev-Olds. Talking informally to a local GM salesman he agreed that consolidation will take place. But who will be the top dog; Thomas or Spencer?
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Am sure the Health Unit website will explain the criteria for earning an Eat Smart badge.
Without seeing it I will predict it will be low fat with none of those nasty trans-fats allowed; low sodium; sugar free; plenty of organically grown veggies and meat portions so small you'll need a magnifying glass to find them. And no alocohol or desserts either.
Remember when you drop dead jogging you want to be perfectly healthy without an ounce of fat on your body.
This entry is from hot dog cart girl!
The Division/Munroe/Park streets' intersection makes this driver crazy! Living on Munroe means dealing with it every day at least a couple of times. They keep fooling with it but have yet to find a solution that doesn't leave drivers at risk of rear end collisions.
The latest idea, the ban on turning right on the red at Munroe, causes such line ups there that drivers are unable to exit either the No Frills or beer store parking lots, causing back ups at both places as well as on the road itself. Crazy!
It is rare to come off Division onto Munroe from the north and not encounter the car in front stopped to turn either into the beer store or No Frills. Either way, it's speed braking time while praying the guy behind you doesn't slam into your back end.
Then there are the drivers, unfamiliar with the intersection, who freeze when they see the red light on Division and just stop where they are, in the middle of the thing,preventing everybody else from getting through. Can't blame them though, all of us are trained to stop on a red light, it takes time to learn that in Cobourg, at this particular spot, one ignores it instead.
The only positive outcome from these traffic changes is that they provide entertainment for the beer store employees, who have been seen gathered at the store window, just watching and waiting for the next fender bender to happen. They usually don't have to wait too long.
DJO
Well, DJO, the Division-Munroe-Park intersection is certainly more challenging than anything we have in Port Hope.
On the bright side (and doesn't everything have one) you can now give up Eating Smart for Drinking Smart by walking to the Beer Store and back home, knowing that no one will run you over crossing the street.
I myself bike downtown with empties and bike back home with full ones, losing weight and fluids in the process. I drink to avoid dehydration--that's the bright side for me.
Right now the beer store in Port Hope seems almost totally inaccessible, whether on foot, bicycle or car. That construction just keeps on and on...Worth your very life trying to get in there for some suds.
Am waiting for an uproar in that fine town when the locals note that the construction sign locates the company in Cobourg! Now I guess we're stealing Port Hope construction jobs along with the hospital and everything else.
Oh No! Another big fight looming.
DJO
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