I was an Atomic Robot Jungle Vixen!

We have a municiple election coming up here very shortly in Edmonton, October 18, and it's so well organized that I still have no idea where my polling station is. That's not good, but it doesn't matter too much because I will find out this important information and hopefully others do as well. We need to because the incumbent mayor needs to go.
I never could understand how Bill Smith made it to three terms. A fourth should be out of the question but unbelievably he's pretty muched tied with his closest rival, Robert Noce. Noce needs to win this so very much. We need someone new in the mayor's office so very, very bad. Maybe some changes in the council chambers too.
I'll give you just one example for now. We had a lovely little park downtown called Sir Winston Churchill Square, or just Churchill Square as it is more commonly known. Benches, trees, grass, a statue, it was very nice indeed. At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars (or is it millions of dollars now?) the grass has been replaced with concrete. I'm not sure of the trees, I haven't seen the completed square yet but this was something that virtually nobody in the city wanted their tax dollars wasted on. The park was nice! Most of us liked it just as it was! So why change it? For some sort of permanent legacy?
Yay, concrete instead of grass. Real friggin' improvement there. Maybe I'll go take a look at the finished monstrosity tomorrow for our city's 100th birthday.
Oh yeah. Edmonton turns 100 tomorrow!
It's my one day off though, so I'm torn between celebrating and resting. I could always just do something extra special for the bicentennial...

posted by Tabby at 10/07/2004 05:47:00 p.m.

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