tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post5793664807126503958..comments2023-07-04T09:54:15.920-05:00Comments on Our Town and Its Business: ACT NOW ......NO TIME TO WAITEvelyn Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03283458715658096750noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-89887584277887930522015-10-18T11:23:27.643-05:002015-10-18T11:23:27.643-05:00"Put the LAV next to the old drill shed or ar..."Put the LAV next to the old drill shed or armoury,..."<br /><br />...or out front of the new QYR home (some of whose members served in Afghanistan), or maybe the Legion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-17468541008903328322015-10-18T08:42:37.042-05:002015-10-18T08:42:37.042-05:00I sent this message to all councillors a few days ...I sent this message to all councillors a few days ago:<br /><br />I'm sorry that I did not notice that the question of placing a Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) in the Peace Park was to come up at your last General Committee meeting, or I would have sent off this message much earlier.<br /><br />The placement of an armoured vehicle in a Peace Park seems ironic, to say the least. When these parks were first designated in 1992 they were to be "Places for Peace" (to read more about them see the Peace Parks across Canada web page at http://www.iipt.org/newsletter/2007/images/PeaceParksProject.pdf ).<br /><br />These vehicles are not just armoured, they are armed. They bear weapons which are there to kill people, even if only in self-defence. Do we want to commemorate the sad fact that such vehicles are needed, that we have not found a way to avoid war?<br /><br />Put the LAV next to the old drill shed or armoury, if need be, although I believe this or a similar proposal was successfully opposed by neighbourhood residents some years ago.<br /><br />Please reconsider placing such a strong symbol of war and of the violence of death in war in the Peace Park, near the cenotaph which is all about remembering with regret all the local lives lost to war.<br /><br />But bring on the tulips!<br /><br /><br />Jacqueline Stuartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-33732549773295165032015-10-17T22:34:04.262-05:002015-10-17T22:34:04.262-05:00Wow. Who thinks of these ideas? And for our counci...Wow. Who thinks of these ideas? And for our council to even give this the time of day at the council table! Sad and disgraceful. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-2259676771681361522015-10-17T16:43:42.737-05:002015-10-17T16:43:42.737-05:00I'm ok with the tulips, not with the sculpture...I'm ok with the tulips, not with the sculpture that results from the welding shop. <br /> But there is time to get it stopped unless the momentum of a self-approving council prove to be too much.<br /> Once something is presented as being a way of " honouring veterans ", it has been decided.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-28902113189608267192015-10-17T13:33:40.806-05:002015-10-17T13:33:40.806-05:00Reference is made in this week's Auroran to &q...<br />Reference is made in this week's Auroran to "ground will be broken on two fronts to transform this place of commemoration and contemplation for generations to come."<br /><br />I think the place should be left in peace. We don't need 700 tulip bulbs when the Dutch royal family has for generations given to Canada 100,000 tulip bulbs annually in perpetual thanks for our country having given sanctuary to the Dutch queen and her family. Go to Ottawa and view this floral thank you.<br /><br />The Department of National Defence has announced that up to 250 decommissioned light armoured vehicles will be made available to Canadian communities for placement in prominent places to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan. T'would be more meaningful if some of the wounded survivors were to receive proper medical care and financial assistance.<br /><br />So Aurora is going to become one of 250 Canadian communities to display a decommissioned LAV. I say a pox on this.<br /><br />Let's leave our "place of commemoration and contemplation" just as it is, and keep the $15,000 in the piggy bank until the next hair-brained scheme comes along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-42417655636352625742015-10-17T12:53:04.631-05:002015-10-17T12:53:04.631-05:00There was a huge fuss because someone, [ it might ...There was a huge fuss because someone, [ it might even have been a person with a military background ] dared to walk<br />his pooch in there. Since then no dogs are allowed - ever. That space is not available for anything but respect. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-61007563005099792182015-10-17T09:48:26.803-05:002015-10-17T09:48:26.803-05:00Good Luck with the Insurance if they stick that th...Good Luck with the Insurance if they stick that thing in there. It won't be just little kids that try to climb allover it & get<br />their cell-phone photos. What a stupid idea ! Right up there with the Heritage Centre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-55176455299850087302015-10-17T09:32:38.291-05:002015-10-17T09:32:38.291-05:00Whatever were they thinking ?
I am seriously c...Whatever were they thinking ?<br /> I am seriously concerned about our Council. Just when you think they are getting their act together, something like this comes along to smack you in the face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506868496663273256.post-62703808901449469112015-10-16T23:02:05.912-05:002015-10-16T23:02:05.912-05:00Memorials
Humans have erected memorials for thous...<br />Memorials<br /><br />Humans have erected memorials for thousands of years. The subjects have been individuals, groups, tens of thousands or even millions who have fought and perished, or who have fought, survived and came through victorious.<br /><br />Penicillin and polio vaccine are the subjects of memorials, technologies, religions and those who practiced these, with varying effects of good and evil. The latter is before us this very day.<br /><br />Great men and women have been memorialized, even dogs and cats. Great battles are the subject of statues, such as the Siege of Stalingrad that saw the invincible German army rendered psychologically vanquished, never to really overcome the defeat it had suffered. Almost two million people were consumed in this massive struggle.<br /><br />For me the memorial that stands out, both for its construction and for the man it honours, is the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Built of Indiana limestone and two types of marble, it is at once large and magnificent while being simple and elegant. Above the figure of Lincoln are inscribed the words: "In this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."<br /><br />What is important is that every memorial, however large or small, be remembered with grace and dignity, so that it shall outshine the small minds that would treat it with disrespect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com