Ask anyone what they think the most important job of a City is and they will probably say something that includes the words ‘roads’, ‘bridges’, and ‘sewers’. It is without question that the biggest bill the city faces in terms of tangible, in-your-face, infrastructure is maintaining and replacing those three general things.  So it follows that when the public …
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Logging truck broadside indicates desperate need for Industrial road network
[poll id=”11″] In today’s paper… the story on the logging truck broadsiding a minivan is pretty frustrating and again illustrates the need for a proper industrial route that includes safety measures and traffic calming measures so that truck drivers, car and minivan drivers, pedestrians and all other road users are safe. I brought up this …
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The Mark of a Well Respected Man
This evening (Saturday Jan 30) I had the honour of attending Ken Watson’s celebration of his years of service as City Manager and Engineer for the City of Port Alberni. Even though I grew up in Port Alberni, I am of course a bit of an outsider when it comes to the City workplace having been …