Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Winding down in the city.

Fran’s smoking sanctuary across the road in the court yard of the delta. Nice peaceful spot, especially at night with the fountain and mural lit up. While we have a smoking room Fran prefers to go outside for her smokes, I think that is very considerate of her, but I did point out the opportunity of blowing the smoke out the window.










Also today we have some modes of transportation here, not shown are skate boarders. Peddle power is really big, bikes/bikers of all sizes and shapes; some take there lives with disdain it seems to me. One lady was in peak traffic on a bike, one hand on the left handle bar and the right hand dialing a cell phone and not looking where she was going, crazy stuff. Sort of like horizontal ice wall climbing.

Lots of people of all ages use back packs here. Hello back in the land of “in touch with the environment”. Plastic bags are still used in stores, but back packs are a small step towards sanity. Then I guess there are longer walks from store/office to home, still no excuses when it comes to protecting the environment.

Last day here, of to the Island portion again early tomorrow.














I see our outgoing MHA has been charged. Shame, but it does go some way towards finality for Wally, but more importantly IMO for the citizens.
Still some way to go though before citizens can feel some comfort and trust in the way members and the system work for them.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So will Wally be asked to give up his Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal if he gets convicted? He should be seeing as how it was for "significant contributions to Canada (?), to his community or to his fellow canadians". If convicted that would soil the medal for all the others who recieved it.