A Retrospective

Every time I drive  on Yonge and pass the vacant site of  United Church I feel good about the town we share. The old Church is gone but something beautiful remains.

A Banner  reads....Thank You Aurora For All Your Love.

Yes we do have unhappy people in the community. Life is tough and some make it harder for themselves. But  far more feel good about themselves and have much to give.

I need to re-read the report  about the Joint Operating  Centre and tell you why I think the cost is horrendous and does not serve our best interest.

The decision has been made and  The Auroran Poll says 75% support the decision?

I am not persuaded.

I didn't vote in the poll. I didn't call and ask people to vote against it. Both had potential to influence the result.

If my blog numbers are an indication, people are drifting home from summer expeditions.  The poll  numbers could have ben as few as twenty or as many as a hundred. Either would have been insignificant in the grand scheme of things. As noted. My blog gets more than 200 comments in a week.

The deed is done. . I  won't pose for a picture with the winners. It doesn't feel like a win to me.

I don't have to pretend to like it.

I didn't get to pose for a picture with the sign for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Park . Though my motion proposed  the tribute.

Did I tell you about the award handed  to me  by the Mayor from the Province of Ontario for twenty-five years of public service. Twenty- five years were actually completed in 2011.

At the end of  2014 I will have completed twenty-eight years  service on  Council. I will have been
elected ten times  by the people of Aurora. Appointed  for nine years by the Province to the Social Assistance Review Board and three on York Region Police  Services Board.

Aside from  recognized achievement ,which it wasn't, I think experience and knowledge might be considered an asset, which it isn't.

Probably because  self-promotion is a  skill I lack and it's too late now.

I received a comment from anonymous that he "would sooner. be pushing thirty than eight

Councillor Pirri  recently challenged my argument salt and snow do not co-exist with an e-mailed excerpt from Wikipedia that they do if the temperature is low enough. In debate he accused  me of providing "false" information.

In Southern Ontario winter temperature is not low enough .

I received a comment  " I would rather be pushing thirty than eight

Someone else offered the argument education is more  important than age. Can't say I 've  heard the equation  offered as a definition of judgement or wisdom or even plain old  common sense.

And having been thirty and eighty, I would note the option does not presents itself.

Another comment was accidentally deleted....that I "just like putting a burr (pun intended)  under someone's saddle "

I was sorry to lose that one. I am prepared to admit to the element of truth. I do find it difficult to resist seizing with great appetite ,an unintelligent comment made by a politician at whatever level.

I think it is the essence of democracy and freedom.

I admit, I crave the  opportunity far more than a framed certificate presented three years overdue.

As if they really didn't want me to have it or let anyone know they gave it or  have any respect the people who kept choosing me to represent them.