"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Friday 3 February 2012

Ce N'est pas moi !!!!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Georgina Way":

Why are you talking about Nigel? Isn't he the one that contacted Mormac to help in their defamation case by supplying some old press release he has 'saved, knowing it would one day be useful'?

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I was not talking about Mr. Kean. One of my readers made the reference

Don't know which defamation is being reference or what assistance he offered or who his friends are.

Mea Culpa....NOT

In this .... I am but the messenger.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now that Georgina is on hold until the 13th, perhaps we could do something useful on the home front. For the next 2 weekends there is a going-out-of-business sale at Aurora Fine Foods. 30% off Everything in the store. Our family has never had an inferior product from that place. If you are interested in a bit of stock-piling to help out, it would probably be appreciated.
That's 2 if you include Canada Law Books. Where is the town plan to save decent businesses?

Anonymous said...

But you heard Councillor Ballard, "The town's economy is not about filling empty store-fronts."
Me. I'd settle for doing just that. Shame to lose Aurora Fine Foods. Their meat pies have rescued many a day when there was not enough time to shop and/or cook.

Where the streets have no business names. said...

The plan started in February 2011.That is when the current mayor said he would begin addressing the downtown core.
Another platform that collapsed without a storm.
Smoke and mirrors and BS to get elected.
Just like Clr.Paul Piri who used a theater in the downtown as a platform to get elected.
We have not hear a word from him about it.

Anonymous said...

Aurora Fine Foods won't need another weekend. There is not too much left. More team effort at work.

Anonymous said...

Yes 11:23 AM, you would think that with the bustling economy, full employment and robust world financial situation that fixing the downtown core would be a piece of cake and take no time at all.

Anonymous said...

Ah, but 3:18 PM, we somehow manage to shovel more money into the Cultural Centre which produces not a penny for the town. Get real! T'is a question of priorities and those of our Council are seriously skewed.

Anonymous said...

To where the streets have no business names.

I still havent found what im looking for - I would still love to have a theatre in the down town core, but from the research I've undertaken it seems as though an indoor theatre in the down town core would not be feasible or realistic. I'd be happy to discuss this matter with you over a coffee. Please feel free to send me an email to arrange something.

Many thanks
Paul Pirri
Ppirri@aurora.ca

Anonymous said...

How does paving the sidewalks on both sides on Industrial help anything ? Half would be better than both but no one walks there except for at the ends. The rest could easily wait and our own staff could do the job. Pissing me off on Sunday.

Anonymous said...

Councilor Pirri, Have you considered the Armoury Land or even the Legion property since Nigel indicated it was
unlikely to survive without new memberships soaring?

Anonymous said...

Good grief, we are getting cantankerous. Let's hope the Mayor exercised his brain as well as his body when he took the week off. Could be helping Georgina put some spine back into Aurora. It was there during the last election.

Anonymous said...

First posted in Temporary Insanity
There once was Councillor called Mac
Who treated each lie as a fact,
Like a trooper she swore, threw Staff out the door.
It's too bad, Mac will never be back.
We will not forget.

Anonymous said...

Careful, Evelyn. Land bombs out there tonight.
S.

Anonymous said...

Pirri and the majority on ocuncil are doing a great job. They are returning some level of civility and logic to council.

Pirri's efforts to restore Yonge are at least as worthy as Ballards ! Let's be reralistic, this is not a one man job no matter how you cut it.

just for a change let's stop pointing fingers and start pulling together.

Anonymous said...

Ballard's plan ? If you are talking about the infamous Promenade Study, it should by now have been used to light fireplaces. Like Ulysses. Many claimed to read and understand it, but few actually finished it.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Maunders' is moving to the Wellington Gallery and only the Bakery is remaining in that other little Mall.

Anonymous said...

To Coucilor Piri
Richmondhill found a way to have a live theatre.Oh,and please do not say there is no parking.

Anonymous said...

To Annymous - Feb 3rd @ 6:29pm....

Regarding Canada Law Books. I would not blame the Town or any councillor on this. The owner of CLB and the other companies run from that location was looking to sell. He found a buyer(s) but none of them were in the Aurora area and we already established companies. In essence the name and the product lines were sold, not the building or staff. There was nothing that the Town could do to prevent this sort of situation.

By the same token, I do not know the circumstances around the Food store. I have never shopped there and a neighbour did have a bad experience with them a number of years ago, but that has never clouded my impression, it was never a store that I was interested in. Havinf said that, why is the store closing? Is it because of Aurora? Should we hold the Town to task to keep a business that does not want to be here - or cannot be here any longer. Sometimes there are circumstances that we are never privvy to and this may be one of them.

I cannot ask a Town council to find jobs for the public or to keep a business in the Town (unless the sole reason to leave is because of Town business - ie. taxes, contracts, etc.). Town government is not in the business to do either.