Monday Council notes on a Sunday
Cobourg Council gets back to it on Monday and nothing startling in the agenda. The only potentially contentious item is a letter from a Bay St resident who sent a letter asking that "improvements" be made to the Victoria Park "situation". 
There is no letter as such attached to the agenda just a table that outlines "suggestions" that would improve the area. The question is now; improvements for whom?The list is published on the right. If taken as submitted the overall effect of banning cars from Paul Currely Way would be to impose gridlock on other streets. It should be noted that on busy weekends all the streets in Corktown and lower Cobourg, on the East side are used. So making the Bay Streeters happy would inflict pain on other householders in the area. And is it fair that the Bay Streeters would enjoy their BBQs whilst denying the same pleasure to visitors?
It would appear to the BR that this letter would only divide the community and not welcome visitors to the world they (residents) enjoy. As this letter is being referred to Staff for a report all suggestions for the improvement of the area should be included, the status quo is an option, but the suggestion about more toilet facilities is a good one. So let's have a public meeting about this and really hash it out.
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If you want a touchy-feely moment that really pleases (most of us; we know who don't like it!) watch the beach video again here
3 comments:
A public meeting on the Visitors issue would be like opening a Pandora's Box of Social Evils, featuring intolerance and bickering between the overly entitled closed minded status quo supporters and the rest of us who accept the concept of diversity and respect for the other people we share the planet with.
It will be nasty if it is allowed to happen, and let's face it, the status quo always wins in this town at the end of the day.
It will,however, make great fodder for this frequently brilliant Blog.
It's quite deep in our nature to be status " quoters ". Evidence ; the anthropological vignette playing in the friendly little burg. Who's your town ? Cobourg, X-burg, Rota-burg,... pika-burg...?
Eighteen or so months ago, the Northumberland Interfaith Coalition sponsored a public meeting on the issue of tolerance, which at the time was highly charged following letters to the local gazette by Gordon Gilchrist and others on the subject of immigration and related issues--we all remember those letters, don't we?
Proprietor Gary of the Beamish House offered his dining room for a two-hour discussion on a wintry Sunday afternoon.
Moderated by Carole Payne of the NIC, the meeting was a wonderfully inclusive event in which all attendees participated, including Mr. Gilchrist, who was welcomed.
I attribute the meeting's success to preparation by the NIC, along with, do doubt, the frosty weather, the Sunday afternoon schedule, and the smallish location at the Beamish.
Perhaps the upstairs room at The Cat in Cobourg would make an equally suitable venue for the current issue, given a competent sponsoring group and somewhat cooler weather.
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