Last week's drive to and from Sudbury was spectacular. For several reasons. The sky was azure . The temperature simply divine. The air was balmy. Fall colours were breathtaking.
But that wasn't all. Sudbury exists because of the mining industry. It is literally carved out of rock . Rock of every hue. Houses sit on ledges of rock.Ravines are everywhere.Wet lands abound.
The highway is a joy to behold. Clean and curving ,to be seen for miles,with rock formations on every side and a procession of little anuktuks atop, bidding welcome to all who pass.
Golf courses are being created.
Every modern amenity is available to citizens of Sudbury. Two universities, three community colleges, Science Centre north and a state of the art hospital just completed.
One hundred and fifty seven thousand people lived in Greater Sudbury at the time of the last census. Aurora and Newmarket have a hundred and twenty five thousand people. Driving to Green Party candidate Pat Robertson's, house on Thursday evening it seemed like the entire population and more, were out and about.
After the election returns were in, there was a discussion, of course, about the state of politics. I met a small woman of eighty-nine years. She had canvassed every dayof the campaign.. She asked if I watched Global and what did I think of Anne Mozkowski, anchor woman. We agreed she does an excellent job.
Driving home on Friday, seeing what had been wrought, which had to have been wrought over years by numbers of governments of various stripes, when the mining industry went flat and the Region of Sudbury was created in the early seventies, one is bound to conclude; My God, some things are done spectacularly well in our Province.
And some things are not.
The incumbent Liberal for Sudbury was losing for a bit to the New Democrat. The vote ended with five hundred votes separating the two.Considering Conservatives have been the government probably the longest, what we see in Sudbury is what government has wrought.
Whether in the long run it will prove to have been sound investment, remains to be seen. For now it is certainly impressive.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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NASA trained lunar astronauts in the '60s in Sudbury because it was the closest example on earth as to what it looked like on the moon.
I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Yeah, I'd rather stay in landlocked Aurora than have a nice house on Ramsey Lake, in Sudbury.
You've obviously never been there.
And no, that's not true about NASA. They chose the Sudbury area for its geological features which they anticipated were closer to what astronaut would encounter on the moon, not its looks.
Yeah, I'd rather stay in landlocked Aurora than have a nice house on Ramsey Lake, in Sudbury.
You've obviously never been there.
And no, that's not true about NASA. They chose the Sudbury area for its geological features which they anticipated were closer to what astronaut would encounter on the moon, not its looks.
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