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Why not webcast meetings and allow a few days for feedback? , It is a shame the mayoral debated“ not explore truths of needs Rather than money on signs. and gimmicks. why not have a I do not agteq with many things that have taken ptaoc but lamanoboderanformayor in 2010 to educate. communiâ€" cate and listen to the voice of reason. Thank you Councillor Rob Hargmve for being the man 1 you are. Maybe you should nm for mayo: ~ CHRISTINE VLACHOS . Mt'sm MA..\"'§ LAKE Indoor pools are great for lessons and other classes but for summer fun. keep us outâ€" side, please" My right sock is wet as I write this. the victim of a blanket of snow that would have looked dynamite, two days before Christmas but on March 23. not so much. I once simply loved snow -â€"- them mmodmwmdtodescribenJ wanted to walk to school with snow andmowher myhockeycaxdcol- Iecfion and build Sum/men with her and ride on'tbc bus to high school wiih her and introduce snow to my parents and marry snmv and have chan with snow and gum old with snow Hargrave for mayor? Better yet. snow'in the first week of spring Lots of snow. coming in thwugh a bulb I've recently discov- etui in my during my daring mid-afiemonn “flee run. ~ We'd tall our knds Slush. Slow and (Crystal and have a dog named Hurry. a Berna“! who could saw us if we ever gm trapped in the snow. Although as I said. then was a time when I mmkin't mind that one bit and could play In the snow in my smmuit (what a mat type ofsuit w much he! - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [eve for elections seems to melt with time hem. at? a lot of things I don't love as much as I used In. like for instance as I look out the office window right It is a shame aficrxafl thew years'meteiseven talkofloos- People are freaking out about the Pickering Ajlpon. which has been in the works for 30 years. ya say mums 8.9 this town beconaés a concrete city. Cnuncil allowed fampland to be eaten up by the build~ ers. New slogan Stoufi‘vine the fund for all-candidate debates? Why is it that only after elecâ€" tion day the topics seem to be revealed? Existing council members knew. ingomslogan.(‘nuntrydose lodmeCitySKoufivifle'hadthe bestofbomwoddsâ€"byc-byc 0r there was tax time (tax time? is this guy nuts?) because there was a day thnlmiedtngclamfund evena big mfund so I just liked to sit dovm and fill the thing out by hand â€"â€" I could just feel the money rising off the pages like two warm anus teaching up to :9: than a business Suit) all day. Now I unch why peoplch to Honda. evm those of limited means whd live in atmfler for six months until the snow melts back home. For after a while. the love for mow gmws cold. Now I just get upset by how much I pay and how all these mauled inccnfi IN \ \mMfi-Fiwm Bernie O'Neill lives add up to sweet nothing â€"‘of am. this (hes nut become dear until I've spent hours vainly making the cal- culations. Sometimeslwouldmllupmefl General Iong form. spot that first fly of spring bumng the kitchen Win- dow like he was some government spy andswathhngoodandhardmncche landed and did that funny rubbing thing like he was dc-ic'mg his wings. the poor fly (who was no doubi thinking. 'Hey. l'm a house fly? A hmnse is my natural habititatY). But this week them‘s too much snow and it's too cold for the flies to come out. Lucky them. Besides. sometimes that black speck on the wail wasn't a fly at all. it was just a speck near the fly. which I sometimes felt better about in the end -â€" the flywas gum and I wouldn'trhase him (let fly- gones be flyogones). ~- which believe it or not I Once enjoyed observing and voting in back in a pm- viuus life. when government seemed sumchow difiemm. What has changed. I'm not malty Slutlagnewflh tlmwlmsaythewis abil ofachu’hmndefidt when it comes to Stephen Harper. Michael lmficfl or And then. of course. there are elec- tions m specifically federal elections PUBLISHER Ian Proudfoot â€"‘of lack Llytnn ~â€" it's been the case for quitenwhile now~butldon1mat ly have mythhg against these three leaders Another part of me alsu thinks that. with all the troubles in all the othvr pans of the world, perhaps we feel liko mhaveitpmwgmfimunada. and don‘t worry too much about the gm- emmem we have or don‘t have laboagrecwiththoscwho saythm governments of all stripes are often so (at in debt and have W on the go as it is that must be funded. then? is very‘litflc mom to manoeuvm for whichever party is elected. A link cut hem. a little addition then;- -â€" not much changes. “hem er the party colours are blue. red or Many people swnwd m fu-l quilv comfonable with a minorin gowm- men! these past many years in thal we had a govcmmem. but it didn‘t have the power m.do anything (or radical. Stu“ W W CTN“! rs a ma: mum-mean» One wundvts if Ihlh spring this. minority situation will. like all thi~ snomfinallyconw to an end, Robert lawrto nth: Smart ADV-(name. WON Nicol: Fletcher