An interesting proposal
Tucked away in this story here, about the activities of the Port Hope Pier Group is an interesting statement - "And finally, due to 2010 being an election year, a community action task force is looking to find and support candidates for the next municipal election."
Hmmm, not only is this growing group looking to the community in its grass roots activism, but it is also looking to make sure that it gets its way in landuse decisions, which affect the area, by making sure they have the votes. This move may well succeed as it is being driven by well known civic activists who are known for their heritage tendencies. this is an intelligent move and has a precedent in Cobourg. Prior to an election a couple ago (I can't remember which one, but it may have been Delanty's first mayoral race) a few of us used to gather at various places in Town to discuss the elimination of train whistles. Peter D started to appear and support us, not long after that, and he has obviously conveniently forgotten, I will not mention the word "dotage", Bob Spooner turned up at the meetings. After the election a 2300 name petition appeared at Council and a "champion" who was socially acceptable to Council spoke about the elimination of the noise and thus they were banned. So with a mixture of the votes, friendly candidates and the right social movers the Pier may be saved after all.
BTW if you want to support the Pier Group go to the Rally:
"The rally takes place on Wednesday, March 3 between 7 and 9 p.m. at theCapitol Theatre 's AK and Bob Sculthorpe Room. "
Hmmm, not only is this growing group looking to the community in its grass roots activism, but it is also looking to make sure that it gets its way in landuse decisions, which affect the area, by making sure they have the votes. This move may well succeed as it is being driven by well known civic activists who are known for their heritage tendencies. this is an intelligent move and has a precedent in Cobourg. Prior to an election a couple ago (I can't remember which one, but it may have been Delanty's first mayoral race) a few of us used to gather at various places in Town to discuss the elimination of train whistles. Peter D started to appear and support us, not long after that, and he has obviously conveniently forgotten, I will not mention the word "dotage", Bob Spooner turned up at the meetings. After the election a 2300 name petition appeared at Council and a "champion" who was socially acceptable to Council spoke about the elimination of the noise and thus they were banned. So with a mixture of the votes, friendly candidates and the right social movers the Pier may be saved after all.
BTW if you want to support the Pier Group go to the Rally:
"The rally takes place on Wednesday, March 3 between 7 and 9 p.m. at the
6 comments:
I guess if we support the "pier group" concept in Port Hope then we shouldn't throw stones at the Dutch Oven "senate" in Cobourg. Both seek to drive their own political agendas.
Gee, I guess I missed it. When did the Dutch Oven Conservative Cronies elect an executive committee and invite interested parties to join? When did (you'll have to excuse my little editorial outbursts) those dreary old right-wing Rotarian, self-serving farts ever try to 'save' anything except maybe their own tax money from falling into the hands of the government? What truly 'public' interest project did they ever use their waning influence to champion?
Do tell.
Do they matter? Really! Think about it. Fossils.
Fossils are dead nouns, whereas the electorate are living verbs.
Dead nouns in a river might impede the flow of verbs for the short term, but verbs have a way of seeping, of overflowing, overthrowing, setting up a new normal.
Those right wing Rotarians do a tremendous amount of good in our Community and lead the fight to eradicate Polio throughout the world. If that is right wing, count me in.
Nobody is saying Rotarians don't do some good things along the way, but they wield a little too much power in the communities they operate in for my taste.
Many people are excluded from public participation because they don't fit the mold, and Rotarians and their ilk are the first ones to deliberately push them away.
I'm sure many of them don't even know they do that, but the big guys who run everything sure know it, and relish the experience.
Is there some chance this right wing Rotarian loving anonymous is our union hater too? Just wondering...
No. That's called 'fireproofing'. Fireproofing is when you disguise all the other not-so-nice stuff you do with a motherhood initiative that the simple minded ooh-n-ahh at as if it was the ONLY initiative your organization engaged in.
Gee. I guess it works, huh?
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