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This comment reminds me of a story the late Garfield Wright told .
He was a farmer and Reeve of East Gwillimbury, a rural township immediately north of Newmarket.
He received an irate call from a resident newly removed from the city. The complaint was about loss of water service.
"No water in the taps" What the hell is going on?"
Garfield politely asked him a couple of questions and directed him to a silent black object in a corner of the basement and identified it as the pump ,connected to the well that supplied the house with water. It had blown a fuse.
The city slicker had bought a house in the country without any idea that urban services were unlikely miles into the country on a dirt road.
I heard Garfield tell that story a number of times. It never failed to get a hearty chuckle.
A favourite saying "like my old Dad used to say; if you're so smart ....why ain't you rich? "
Another way of saying it could be ...You're so rich, why aren't you smart ?
Garfield Wright was appointed the first Chairman of York Region by the Province of Ontario.
I think the golf course neighbours are in the same category as the nuts that want to stop the train whistles and horns after they buy a house near the tracks. Or those that buy a house at the end of a runway at an airport.
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ReplyDeleteWhen a developer wanted to build directly behind our rural property in King, we went to the town for help. The developer make adjustments to his plans to include buffering and plantings to help offset the change to our view and landscape. Although it wasn't the best scenario for us,we were satisfied that this was as much that could be done both legally and with goodwill. Sometimes a little goodwill and good sense goes a long way in remedying situations, rather than waving placards and having people take sides. Calling people stupid doesn't help either.
A new home owner in the country had just learned that he had a septic tank which had to be pumped out. He watched fascinated as the guys went to work and then noticed some birth control items were gathering in a floated mess on top of the water.
ReplyDelete" Oh, " he exclaimed. " Those are not from my children. They must come from the people at the top of the hill."
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ReplyDeleteI see nowhere where Councillor Buck has referred to anyone for being stupid in this tree by-law mess. She does seem to be irritated that decisions are once again being forced onto Council. As usual, all these special meetings cost money for Aurora. The good thing from where I sit is that if Ms. Walmer decides to initiate court action to get Aurora to control golf course trees, she and her group will have to pay for it.
We had enough with the former council opposing everything even when it made no physical or fiscal sense to do so. Aurora is not about to get into more lawsuits.