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Date Posted: 18:23:53 02/23/08 Sat
Author: stan oliver
Subject: Re: whaletown park again
In reply to: sunflower 's message, "whaletown park again" on 18:32:56 02/22/08 Fri

The WCS should talk to Tzeporah Breman at Forest Ethics and get a BIG FAT donation to purchase the property for all suggested usages. Thats what they do at forest ethics isn't it? If that fails, you could call the David Suzuki Foundation and try him. Seems they both have all the connections needed to pull it off

>It is worth noting that in fact besides the Gorge
>Hall---which is on the road allowance, and
>increasingly surrounded by population, which
>effectively limits its use---whaletown has no public
>lands at all and not even any resting place for
>essential public buildings. The post office and
>library are on private lands and could be given the
>boot anytime; the Old School is leased on a
>short-term-renewable basis to the WCC, and could be
>sold at anytime. (and it is the only playground for
>kids in the community, not to mention the only
>greenspace)
>Lots of North End people never go to the South End,
>there is in fact a real reason to have a park here, or
>what would non-park-wanters suggest we do our
>essential public buildings if they needed a home, and
>should the people from Whaletown have to drive their
>kids all the way to Mansons to play w/ other kids in a
>playground?
>And as for it being a nice walk to Carrington, so we
>don't need a park; yeah its a nice walk now---although
>less so before some of it was logged---most of that
>walk is going to be logged eventually. Get out your
>maps.
>Mansons has two schools with playgrounds, and two
>parks.

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