tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post3498236706846651582..comments2023-07-04T09:54:15.920-05:00Comments on Our Town and Its Business: I trust everyone until they give me reason not toEvelyn Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03283458715658096750noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-29592172017834829122014-12-31T17:15:08.206-05:002014-12-31T17:15:08.206-05:0011:13
I think we credit them with too many smar...11:13<br /> I think we credit them with too many smarts when they were mostly going by instinct looking for the weak spots they could use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-18656247302706810362014-12-31T11:13:27.930-05:002014-12-31T11:13:27.930-05:00Not the jazz folks who shafted the Farmers Market ...Not the jazz folks who shafted the Farmers Market for funding to start up.Oh, with help of the former and an ex Clr.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-51254121207207883592014-12-31T10:12:19.305-05:002014-12-31T10:12:19.305-05:00A lovely bright sunny day to help wind up the year...A lovely bright sunny day to help wind up the year.<br /> May we have a new one without cloudy meetings and blown promises of transparency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-23449719685299431012014-12-30T21:39:14.793-05:002014-12-30T21:39:14.793-05:00Is anyone out there really interested in this path...<br />Is anyone out there really interested in this pathetic tale?<br /><br />Why don't we start off the new year with a happy story or a funny one?<br /><br />Let's park the politicians and politics in the barn, where they can ripen to their hearts' content.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-80391112350346279722014-12-30T21:16:03.062-05:002014-12-30T21:16:03.062-05:00
I sometimes wonder about that man who wrote a let...<br />I sometimes wonder about that man who wrote a letter to the Auroran linking his votes to the return of the Jazz folks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-59764383119611520812014-12-30T19:50:16.871-05:002014-12-30T19:50:16.871-05:00The agendas for the new term are going to be packe...The agendas for the new term are going to be packed with special interest groups. I am hoping that we will see some spine from the Council. Certainly all the candidates heard about concerns about how town money was being spent. No one was elected to send artists to Paris or build a hotel in the middle to town. So I still have some small expectation that expenses will be reined in.<br /> Colour me Dumb because I felt the same way after the last election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-73925614131509124432014-12-30T19:33:55.613-05:002014-12-30T19:33:55.613-05:0019:13- Ahhh...you're going to have to be a lit...19:13- Ahhh...you're going to have to be a little more specific with the ex.... we've kinda had a few over the history of Aurora.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-91201604267057271922014-12-30T19:13:12.021-05:002014-12-30T19:13:12.021-05:00"And yet we have endowed it with all sorts of..."And yet we have endowed it with all sorts of magical powers, none of which it has."<br /><br />Hmmm, sounds like a certain ex-councillor, doesn't it?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-11371240794763285142014-12-30T17:40:04.452-05:002014-12-30T17:40:04.452-05:00Here are a couple of definitions of the word "...<br />Here are a couple of definitions of the word "culture" -<br /><br />1. The integrated pattern of human behaviour that includes thought, speech, action, and artefacts and depends upon the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.<br /><br />2. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.<br /><br />From my standpoint, assuming the above are reasonable and accurate, the ACC is nothing more significant than a mouse attacking an elephant.<br /><br />And yet we have endowed it with all sorts of magical powers, none of which it has.<br /><br />Aurora and its fifty five thousand residents comprise the culture of our town, be it cuisine, language, sport, residence, automobile, manner of dress, you name it and it's all part of our identity.<br /><br />I'm getting sick and tired hearing about our culture as if it existed only in a single refurbished building and sustained by taxpayers' money.<br /><br />Let's try and make the ACC more inclusive of all, and not a little kiddies' club where a secret password has to be uttered in order to enter into a secret chamber for a secret meeting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-82010611509842532862014-12-30T17:14:02.224-05:002014-12-30T17:14:02.224-05:00The Board may receive no salaries although they ca...The Board may receive no salaries although they can probably expense certain items. Staff has to include legal, accounting, secretarial at a minimum. The last Trillium grant was linked directly to the hiring of one individual.<br /> I do find it interesting that they continue to require the town money be increased while sitting on a comfortable contingency fund which could likely be accessed during a bleak period. Sort of like the hydro funds where at least residents can hassle councillors if the do something stupid.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com