From My Bottom Step

Today’s TREA Delegation

Support request for the 2010 London Bicycle Festival.

Family Fun Festival

Support Childreach by having some fun.

Is City Council Transparency Empty Rhetoric?

Item #5 on Monday’s agenda of the Community and Protective Services Committee is very enlightening, and troubling.

Elaine Gamble (Director of Corporate Communications) reports:
…resources are stretched too thin to adequately maintain and update the Cily’s main website…we can not sustain the current level of demand for our services without additional resources.
Money, mouth.

Kettle, black.

There’s lots more that I could say to City Council, but it shouldn’t be necessary.

Faith

It seems that my niece has entered herself and her daughter into a contest and actually stands a good chance of winning. I’ll let her tell you in her own words:
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Tossed for Wearing Pink

17-year-old Grade 12 student Chandler Wilson was suspended from (Catholic) Ursuline College in Chatham on Friday.
Apparently, the pink shirt that he wore to class in support of a Nova Scotian anti-bullying movement violated the school’s dress code policy. UCC principal Geri Brown is quoted as saying that said she would have allowed Mr. Wilson to wear pink is she had known that he … Continue Reading

Seize the Moment Before it Disappears

Here’s a post that I found at Theater Of Cruelty and admired so much that I just had to ask for permission to repost it here:
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Events – 2007/12/08

Date:2007/12/08 (Saturday) 
When:9:00 am – noon 
Where: London InterCommunity Health Centre 659 Dundas Street 
What: Toy & Food Drive  

To learn more, contact Brenda Craig 519-660-0874 (ext. 228).

Events – 2007/12/03

Date:2007/12/03 (Monday) 
When:9:00 am – 4:00 pm 
Where: London InterCommunity Health Centre 659 Dundas Street 
What: Toy & Food Drive  

To learn more, contact Brenda Craig 519-660-0874 (ext. 228). … Continue Reading