How to get elected in New Westminster in 2014: A Flowchart

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New Westminster Council recently debated an Official Community Plan amendment to allow a six-storey affordable rental building to be built on land that had been designated to only allow townhouses. During the public engagement and feedback period, including the public hearing, people opposed to the project said that it did not respect the OCP, that…

Lorrie Williams is currently a councillor for the City of New Westminster. She is running for re-election in November 2014, and I won’t be voting for her. There’s an intersection in New Westminster that is dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. Since 2011 there have been various attempts to make the intersection more friendly to pedestrians…

I keep mason bees. Today was another nice spring day, and the forecast was for continuing warm temperatures through the week (highs between 15 and 17), so it’s the perfect time to put out mason bee cocoons. The cocoons on the left are from last season. My mason bees laid about a dozen eggs, which…

I got a good day gig. I got a good day gig. Every day when I leave work I come here, or wherever town I might be in, and I join up with the boys. My day gig is, well, it’s pretty gruesome actually. It’s pretty horrible. I’m a frogman. I’m a skin diver. I’m…

Every Monday the Hawaii Tribune-Herald publishes a list of babies that were born in Hawaii County over the previous week. Given that parents these days seem to have some sort of disease that turns the name-choosing part of their brain to mush, the list is usually a source of unintentional entertainment. Yesterday’s paper was no…