May 19th, 2007 posted by WeekendWarrior
If the site of piled high garbage on trash day has your ire, then the city’s direction for trash reduction may be up your alley. Come 2009, Calgary residents are going to have to think twice about their garbage. The city is discussing the idea of limiting the amount of trash and charging residents for their refuse.
“It will enable people who are good recyclers to get a reduction off the amount they pay for garbage,” said Ald. Madeleine King.
She’s in favor of placing a limit on the amount of trash.
Ald. Druh Farrell concurred with the idea of making it “more difficult to discard copious amounts of waste.”
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May 18th, 2007 posted by Canpride
The newest in Not-In-My-Back-Yard trends is low income housing. Who wants to live next to the stereo-typed poor families, theft ridden, noise radiating, dirty eye-sore? The stereotype itself brings up images of mud-smeared toddlers running around in diapers and bare feet. Of porches falling apart in decay. Of litter blowing around the front stoop and spilling onto the neighbor’s porches.
The residents in Eau Claire are faced with these mental images the words “low income housing” provide. But not so says James Robertson, a city employee.
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May 15th, 2007 posted by BMXer
Got Gold Fever yet?
The 2008 Olympics – the first for BMX – is getting closer. It’s so close now that they’ve released the track layout.
The actual track construction was scheduled to begin this month - May 2007 - with UCI track builder, Tom Ritzenthaler (USA) leading the construction. Some of you may recall last year’s World Cup Track, which I believe was another Ritzenthaler creation.
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