Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Making
Sense Of An Election.":
"Aurora knows zip about raising
trees".
Surely you will correct this readers ignorance Councilor , Aurora
has one of the best tree planting programs going and has for many years , where
do these folks come up with this stuff
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It's amazing where we hear this stuff repeated.
A couple of weeks ago, during a Public Planning meeting, Council listened for a hour and a half to people rallied by Susan Walmer to persuade us the town knew nothing about tree cover and our responsibilities to protect the environment.
There may even be a couple on Council who feel their knowledge on the subject is superior .
It's not easy to listen when you know how much has been invested over fifty years in doing the best job possible of protecting tree cover and planting trees.
It's actually quite difficult to maintain composure, when they rise one after another and inform Council of their professional expertise and repeat their lines, as if prompted, which of course we know they have, by Susan Walmer,whose political objective, is not about trees.
There they stand, knowing absolutely nothing about the town's
tree program, supremely confident of their superior ability to set the town on the straight.and narrow path.
I will never understand why otherwise intelligent people allow themselves to be used that way.
Globe article by John Lorinc about trees dying on Bloor Street. They were planted in the fall instead of the spring. London Plane trees might not be troubled by the ash-attacking bug, but they have other challenges.
ReplyDeleteLots of expensive advisors and they got it wrong.