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SAVE OUR SCHOOLS! SAVE OUR LAKE! SAVE OUR TOWN!

21 Nov 2011 2 Comments

by Administrator in Hold That Thought, Rural Ontario Life, Why Would Anyone Want to Be "A Village Person"? Tags: Grand Erie School Board, PDCS, Rural Ontario; Port Dover; Save Our Schools; Vampires; Zombies

Just what is happening to the towns and villages in rural Ontario? Oh yes, of course!  The provincial vamps, who make  decisions without consultation, now  preside over their covens that are set up to work independently. The big problem

with the regime is the fact that they still have to deal with a generation of regular citizens who have not been brought up in a  system aimed to spit out a  new society of  zombies .

Removing libraries from the schools should have been our first warning. Now they are removing children from the schools and busing them out of their communities to fill up spaces in distant educational factories. As a result,  “good enough” is replacing “excellence”.  I guess this move will cut down costs for police services. If you put the kids together and closer to the drug dealers, it will reduce travel costs for everyone except the students of course.

The designation of “rural” in Ontario communities is only applied if it means spending less cash and providing fewer services. And so, it should come as no surprise that for the purposes of health care and education, our vacation fishing village is not considered rural and is not eligible for any preferential supports that go with being in the country. For the purposes of municipal taxation, we are not considered rural and are now having our properties valued up to parity with our big city neighbours. Those of us who came from the big city suspect that we are viewed as “rubes” who should not protest paying the same dollars as we did in town even though we have no local schools, no local governance, and look to the Lions’ and Kinsmen to provide anything our community feels important to have a local identity.

However, we rubes are considered rural for the purposes of  locating unproven renewal energy trials such as windmills in our open forested and agricultural acreages. I’m sorry! When did it become acceptable to play the ends against the middle like this!

We  have become  the centre of  a new employment initiative for the printing establishment  judging by the proliferation of protest signs and stickers on lawns ,retail stores and cars! We are even seeing the odd T-shirt sporting “Republic of Port Dover” – a lot of us are beginning to think this might be a good idea.

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SAVE OUR LAKE!