Dee Beattie is running for New Westminster School Board, and she answered my questions! With NWSS finally built and opened, what school do you see the province neglecting to tear down and replace for the next fifty years? There are no more funds to ever replace schools, that ship has long sailed. Council will soon…
I came up with a list of questions to ask New Westminster council and mayoral candidates for the 2022 municipal election, and Danielle Connelly asked: And because this was a school assignment, I pushed it off and pushed it off and now here they are at the last possible minute! With NWSS finally built and…
Patrick Johnstone is running for Mayor of New Westminster, and he answered my questions! He started with this preamble, which was nice to set the context: Dear constituent. Thank you for your thoughtful questions, I have endeavoured to answer them in the spirit with which they were intended. Given the amount of press Vancouver’s Stanley…
Ruby Campbell is running for New West City Council, and she answered my questions! Given the amount of press Vancouver’s Stanley Park received when it had a bunch of coyotes roaming around it, do you support introducing more coyotes into New Westminster’s parks, potentially entering a Tourism / Parks partnership for tourist-coyote meet-and-greet programs? New…
There’s a municipal election coming up in New Westminster, and you know what that means! That’s right, stupid questions! This time around I was having a tough time thinking up good stupid questions, so I did what anybody would do when they’re looking for stupidity: I reached out to Reddit, specifically the /r/NewWest subreddit. And…
I’m doing a little bit of catch-up here, because this actually happened a couple of months ago: I got my first Z scale engine! This is a German Federal Railroad Class 64 steam locomotive made by Marklin, model number 88744. A 2-6-2 passenger train tank engine, its prototype was built in Germany between 1928 and…