Steam Era 2010 This Weekend

For 50 years, the Milton Steam Era has ushered in the end of summer with its annual event.  This weekend is a time to bring out the kids and learn some history about the ways things used to be.
Stephanie Hounsell has a great article in the Champion this week as well.

Going full steam ahead – [...]

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Door Knocking Notes & School Board Trustees

I had a great time knocking on doors last night near 4th Line & Louis St Laurent and meeting up with regular readers of my blog, like Andre (Thanks for reading!)
If you were going through that intersection last night, you know they are doing some repair work finally because going through the stop sign almost [...]

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Not Much Budget Talk

Last nights council meeting had a number of items on the agenda.  In fact some of the people in the gallery were placing bets on when it would end.  I had predicted 11:50PM but I was about 20 minutes off.
One of the highly anticipated items on the agenda was the 2011 Budget Call Report which [...]

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Lawn Signs Will Be Ready Soon

I have been getting a number of emails recently from people who are looking for lawn signs.  As a candidate I find this very encouraging because it means people are engaged and interested in what is going on. 
As I talked about yesterday, town council tonight will be considering a report from staff that recommends a [...]

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Potential 6.91% Increase To Be Discussed Monday

Well it looks like I have some reading to do.
The agenda for this coming Monday’s meeeting was online this past Thursday which includes a number of items that will keep both the councillors and us “shadow cabinet” candidates there for some time.  There is also going to be a couple of public meetings regarding 230 [...]

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