the high school year is coming to a close.
Desperate parents from all over have been hitting this post heavy in the past week.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Too late --
they are likely already leaking. The only questions are ... how much poop in the Rideau will be enough? And WHEN will Dolt ante up the cash ?
Engineering consultants have advised Merrickville-Wolford Township that recent inspections indicate that three sewage holding tanks serving the village “are most likely leaking due to corrosion.”
A statement issued by the township today said the engineers’ report confirms years of statements that failure of the sewage tanks was imminent. The testing confirms there is rapid deterioration of the tanks in the small township system “and indicates the contents are most likely leaking into the surrounding ground,” the report says.
Too bad the strip mall in Iroquois won the Liberal lottery --
$1.1 million nearby South Dundas Twp. was granted in provincial restructuring funds to spruce up a shopping plaza in Iroquois.
In order for the project to qualify for the public funds, South Dundas council is acquiring ownership of the pedestrian walkway and canopy outside the mall stores.
Of course, you have to elect a Liberal to get cash for the really important stuff.
That's where Merrickville went wrong. Partisan politics of the most disgusting kind.
Engineering consultants have advised Merrickville-Wolford Township that recent inspections indicate that three sewage holding tanks serving the village “are most likely leaking due to corrosion.”
A statement issued by the township today said the engineers’ report confirms years of statements that failure of the sewage tanks was imminent. The testing confirms there is rapid deterioration of the tanks in the small township system “and indicates the contents are most likely leaking into the surrounding ground,” the report says.
Too bad the strip mall in Iroquois won the Liberal lottery --
$1.1 million nearby South Dundas Twp. was granted in provincial restructuring funds to spruce up a shopping plaza in Iroquois.
In order for the project to qualify for the public funds, South Dundas council is acquiring ownership of the pedestrian walkway and canopy outside the mall stores.
Of course, you have to elect a Liberal to get cash for the really important stuff.
That's where Merrickville went wrong. Partisan politics of the most disgusting kind.
A ray of hope ?
Sounds like Mayor Dennis Staples is hinting there maybe be some sunshine ahead:
Staples says he is still optimistic Rideau Regional could be used as a health care facility that would benefit people of the area.
Meanwhile, there could be good news ahead for Smiths Falls concerning the fate of the Rideau Regional Centre and the Hershey Chocolate plant, both slated to close within a year.
Staples said yesterday six or seven organizations or individuals have expressed a serious interest in either acquiring or exploring alternate uses for the facilities.
Staples says he is still optimistic Rideau Regional could be used as a health care facility that would benefit people of the area.
Meanwhile, there could be good news ahead for Smiths Falls concerning the fate of the Rideau Regional Centre and the Hershey Chocolate plant, both slated to close within a year.
Staples said yesterday six or seven organizations or individuals have expressed a serious interest in either acquiring or exploring alternate uses for the facilities.
In a few short years
of Dolton rule Ontario goes from being the economic engine of the Country to sucking on the tailpipe of equalization payments.
Good job, Dolt.
Good job, Dolt.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Scouting is REAL
environmental action !
Wow ... what a week 2nd Smiths Falls Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have had !
First off, all groups signed onto the annual Pitch In! to clean up the Town of garbage pigs have left laying around for the weekly meetings. Really ... I believe it's a disgusting character flaw to leave crap laying around. I had my children conditioned by 2 that littering was unacceptable. Period.
Anyhow our kids did a great job of cleaning up the assigned locations .... to the tune of about 120 hours combined. GREAT JOB !
Just imagine how spiffy the Town would look if each minor hockey team put an hour and a half in repaying the community a bit for the mucho deneros they receive ... and ya, that's a challenge.
This weekend the Cubs held a fundraiser for our big year-end trip .... and holy freakin' holy. Grand-slam is an understatement. This year we decided to get seedlings from Ferguson Forest Center in Kemptville and sell them for 2 bucks a pop at some fine business locations in Town. A really big Thanks !!! to those who allowed us to peddle our wares ! Well ... we initially ordered 300 to sell and ended up running very early Saturday morning for another 400. SOLD OUT .... early Sunday. So, with the trees that were purchased for Cubs to plant there are over 1000 new trees in Lanark County.
Does this look like a dump?
It is, or was .... and you'd never know .... save for the signs and test well heads. For the past 15 years, Scouting groups in Lanark County have been reforesting the old Drummond/North Elmsley dump. We're just about done completely rehabilitating the land back to deer paradise. Next weekend there's 300 more going in, and that's just the Smiths Falls group !
And now, the reward. I'm really looking forward to this .... overnight in the barracks at Fort Henry in Kingston !!
No classroom experience will equal the excitement and fun of the Soldiers' Overnight Program. It is by far the premier learning experience we have to offer. Immerse your students into the lifestyle of Fort Henry's garrison, exposing them to actual routines of the 1860's. In essence, your students will become soldiers for 21 hours at the Citadel of Upper Canada. Your students will be provided with an Interpreter to teach and guide your class in their experience as soldiers in the British Army in 1867. The following is a list of activities that your students will participate in. These will be much more in depth to allow your students to immerse themselves in the living history and fully appreciate the experiential learning:
* Guided Tour
* Issued uniforms
* Muster
* Schoolroom
* Fatigues
* Barrack Room Inspection
* Ghost Tour
* Flag Raising and Lowering
* History Hunt /Historical Detectives
Wow ... what a week 2nd Smiths Falls Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have had !
First off, all groups signed onto the annual Pitch In! to clean up the Town of garbage pigs have left laying around for the weekly meetings. Really ... I believe it's a disgusting character flaw to leave crap laying around. I had my children conditioned by 2 that littering was unacceptable. Period.
Anyhow our kids did a great job of cleaning up the assigned locations .... to the tune of about 120 hours combined. GREAT JOB !
Just imagine how spiffy the Town would look if each minor hockey team put an hour and a half in repaying the community a bit for the mucho deneros they receive ... and ya, that's a challenge.
This weekend the Cubs held a fundraiser for our big year-end trip .... and holy freakin' holy. Grand-slam is an understatement. This year we decided to get seedlings from Ferguson Forest Center in Kemptville and sell them for 2 bucks a pop at some fine business locations in Town. A really big Thanks !!! to those who allowed us to peddle our wares ! Well ... we initially ordered 300 to sell and ended up running very early Saturday morning for another 400. SOLD OUT .... early Sunday. So, with the trees that were purchased for Cubs to plant there are over 1000 new trees in Lanark County.
Does this look like a dump?
It is, or was .... and you'd never know .... save for the signs and test well heads. For the past 15 years, Scouting groups in Lanark County have been reforesting the old Drummond/North Elmsley dump. We're just about done completely rehabilitating the land back to deer paradise. Next weekend there's 300 more going in, and that's just the Smiths Falls group !
And now, the reward. I'm really looking forward to this .... overnight in the barracks at Fort Henry in Kingston !!
No classroom experience will equal the excitement and fun of the Soldiers' Overnight Program. It is by far the premier learning experience we have to offer. Immerse your students into the lifestyle of Fort Henry's garrison, exposing them to actual routines of the 1860's. In essence, your students will become soldiers for 21 hours at the Citadel of Upper Canada. Your students will be provided with an Interpreter to teach and guide your class in their experience as soldiers in the British Army in 1867. The following is a list of activities that your students will participate in. These will be much more in depth to allow your students to immerse themselves in the living history and fully appreciate the experiential learning:
* Guided Tour
* Issued uniforms
* Muster
* Schoolroom
* Fatigues
* Barrack Room Inspection
* Ghost Tour
* Flag Raising and Lowering
* History Hunt /Historical Detectives
Friday, April 25, 2008
Like I said ... Dead.
The Rideau Regional Centre (RRC) is not the solution to the problem of clogged emergency departments at area hospitals, Ontario Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman said Friday.
In an interview with The Recorder and Times, Smitherman said a proposal by two Opposition Progressive Conservative MPPs to use the facility to free up acute-care hospital beds is “just not a good fit” for the health-care system.
Say Hola! to Mexican chocolate
Coming very soon to a convenience store near you:
Production at The Hershey Co.'s plant in Monterrey, Mexico, is under way, the company said Thursday. The company would not reveal much more, except to say it expects to ramp up production there as the year progresses.
The Monterrey plant is the centerpiece of the manufacturing realignment program Hershey announced in February 2007. Hershey intends to eliminate at least a third of its manufacturing lines in the U.S. and Canada and shift some production to the 200,000-square-foot Monterrey facility.
Production at The Hershey Co.'s plant in Monterrey, Mexico, is under way, the company said Thursday. The company would not reveal much more, except to say it expects to ramp up production there as the year progresses.
The Monterrey plant is the centerpiece of the manufacturing realignment program Hershey announced in February 2007. Hershey intends to eliminate at least a third of its manufacturing lines in the U.S. and Canada and shift some production to the 200,000-square-foot Monterrey facility.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Exposing Ottawa's underbelly
W-Five had an excellent piece on Ottawa's growing crack and heroin problem and the role of the needle exchange program .... or more accurately give-away, since you can just leave your dirty used one anywhere you please.
The growth of the crack problem, they say, is largely due to a drop of a hit from $10 to $3.
I don't think it's too terribly hard to see why the price dropped. Encourage behavior by supplying paraphernalia and reducing enforcement -- the market is gonna get flooded with supply.
Price drops.
Get tough with dealers, give users the option of treatment (if Dolt hadn't closed Burritts Rapids that might be an option) or time. That restricts supply ... a scarce commodity demands a higher price.
It's simple economics.
Needles have been handed out in Ottawa for 13 years. Isn't it time to call the grand experiment a colossal failure ?
Not according to Dr. Gabor Mata, head of the safe-injection free-for-all in Vancouver ... he thinks we outta just let the junkies and crackheads do as they please .... completely unfettered. In an interview on CFRA on Monday he stated:
"What sense are we making in criminalizing the petty drug addict who sells an ounce of cocaine to support his own habit ?"
One of the crackheads in the W5 story was asked if they hated their life. The answer ?
Of course ... every second of it.
The innocent one ounce pusher is responsible for enabling and prolonging that hell ... just a little longer ... for 56 individuals.
Some city councillors have their heads in the sand
I'm thinkin' that this story was devastating for Ottawa's tourism industry ... what Canadian would want to come and see this crap in the heart of the capital. I woulda thought Ottawa city council would have had an emergency meeting Monday morning to discuss how to mitigate the damage.
It didn't happen. Guess they were too busy writing their odes to the Portrait Gallery.
Not only did it not happen .... On the regular Thursday municipal panel Councillors Alex Cullen and Jacques Legendre admitted they hadn't seen it. Marianne Wilkinson admitted to seeing only the part that featured City police chief Vern White. Cullen and Wilkinson were watching hockey (cuz you know ... that's what's really important). Legendre didn't even know about the program.
Shame on them. Oh, so happy I don't pay taxes in that City.
The growth of the crack problem, they say, is largely due to a drop of a hit from $10 to $3.
I don't think it's too terribly hard to see why the price dropped. Encourage behavior by supplying paraphernalia and reducing enforcement -- the market is gonna get flooded with supply.
Price drops.
Get tough with dealers, give users the option of treatment (if Dolt hadn't closed Burritts Rapids that might be an option) or time. That restricts supply ... a scarce commodity demands a higher price.
It's simple economics.
Needles have been handed out in Ottawa for 13 years. Isn't it time to call the grand experiment a colossal failure ?
Not according to Dr. Gabor Mata, head of the safe-injection free-for-all in Vancouver ... he thinks we outta just let the junkies and crackheads do as they please .... completely unfettered. In an interview on CFRA on Monday he stated:
"What sense are we making in criminalizing the petty drug addict who sells an ounce of cocaine to support his own habit ?"
One of the crackheads in the W5 story was asked if they hated their life. The answer ?
Of course ... every second of it.
The innocent one ounce pusher is responsible for enabling and prolonging that hell ... just a little longer ... for 56 individuals.
Some city councillors have their heads in the sand
I'm thinkin' that this story was devastating for Ottawa's tourism industry ... what Canadian would want to come and see this crap in the heart of the capital. I woulda thought Ottawa city council would have had an emergency meeting Monday morning to discuss how to mitigate the damage.
It didn't happen. Guess they were too busy writing their odes to the Portrait Gallery.
Not only did it not happen .... On the regular Thursday municipal panel Councillors Alex Cullen and Jacques Legendre admitted they hadn't seen it. Marianne Wilkinson admitted to seeing only the part that featured City police chief Vern White. Cullen and Wilkinson were watching hockey (cuz you know ... that's what's really important). Legendre didn't even know about the program.
Shame on them. Oh, so happy I don't pay taxes in that City.
The idea is officially dead
The thought of using Rideau Regional Center as a facility for the aged is .... not gonna happen.
"The place is not vacant yet and it wasn't designed to be a health institution," Georgina Thompson, chairwoman of the board for the South East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).
She cited cost and time as obstacles to using the facility.
"The cost to retrofit [the facility] to bring it up to where it needs to be brought up to would be involved and it would take a long time," she said.
On with the carnage ... I hear there are only 111 souls left out there.
RELATED: Leeds Grenville MPP Bob Runiciman talks about the issue and his efforts to make it happen on CFRA this morning. Evidently Smitherman is to be in the area tomorrow .... Runicman plans on pitching this again.
"The place is not vacant yet and it wasn't designed to be a health institution," Georgina Thompson, chairwoman of the board for the South East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).
She cited cost and time as obstacles to using the facility.
"The cost to retrofit [the facility] to bring it up to where it needs to be brought up to would be involved and it would take a long time," she said.
On with the carnage ... I hear there are only 111 souls left out there.
RELATED: Leeds Grenville MPP Bob Runiciman talks about the issue and his efforts to make it happen on CFRA this morning. Evidently Smitherman is to be in the area tomorrow .... Runicman plans on pitching this again.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
If she were mine
She would be an ex .... right quick.
I know my way around a washing machine and vacuum as well as the next guy or girl. And I do most of the cooking, just cuz I don't mind doing it ... and I'm not bad at it.
But if my wife EVER treated me this way the torrent of profanity would make a seasoned sailor blush.
And if she dared write about it on MSNBC .... well, this would become one of those divorce blogs.
I know my way around a washing machine and vacuum as well as the next guy or girl. And I do most of the cooking, just cuz I don't mind doing it ... and I'm not bad at it.
But if my wife EVER treated me this way the torrent of profanity would make a seasoned sailor blush.
And if she dared write about it on MSNBC .... well, this would become one of those divorce blogs.
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