At the just past Council meeting, a report was brought forward by the City planner (Page 70, May 9 Agenda) on the implications and steps forward to change the name of the thoroughfare that stretches from one end of the City to the other from Gertrude St, to Stamp Avenue and 3rd Avenue. AÂ portion …
Continue reading "What’s in a name of a road that binds us."
Initial Post 9AM Friday As I did with the UBCM Conference in the Fall, I am going to be live blogging my experience as much as possible during this weekend's Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities conference being held in Nanaimo. If you're wondering what the AVICC is, it is an organization to which …
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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 …
