Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Who Writes This Stuff...

Take a look at this opening statement "High-level discussions over sewage are underway between the City of Charlottetown and the Town of Stratford, on the other side of the Hillsborough River." and just exactly what could the Journalist be thinking when they wrote this statement or was the author just hanging around with Mitch Tweel too long... think about it, what discussions especially “over sewage” would possibly be “high level” involving anyone from the City of Charlottetown or the Town of Charlottetown... maybe it's time for Tweel to hunt down the "Cone of Silence" they used in the "Get Smart" TV series and set it up in City Hall... I can just imagine the two transparent plastic hemispheres being electrically lowered down on top of Clifford and Kevin — and invariably malfunctioning, requiring them to shout loudly enough for Mitch to hear and then run off to the media with another of his famous ideas... the motion he put forward a few years ago to have City Council send a letter to Gary Bettman to stop the NHL strike still ranks up there ahead of this idea... but this quote, "That would help assist them with the development of their waterfront, it would help them environmentally, socially, recreationally," said Tweel."The only thing separating Stratford and Charlottetown is the historic Hillsborough River, so I think there's an opportunity there." has to be one of his best classic quotes....
Stratford sewage could go to Charlottetown

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
CBC News
High-level discussions over sewage are underway between the City of Charlottetown and the Town of Stratford, on the other side of the Hillsborough River.
Sewage lagoons on the Stratford waterfront have been regularly stinking up the area. Moving them is too expensive an option, so the town must either improve them to stop the smell, or find somewhere else to treat its sewage.
That latter option has brought sewage to the top of the agenda at regular regional co-operation meetings between the two municipalities.
"Certainly the Charlottetown option is one that's of significant interest to us," Stratford Mayor Kevin Jenkins told CBC News Tuesday.
"It offers some advantages in terms of totally getting rid of the current facility on our side of the bridge and consolidating that into one facility."
Jenkins said experts are looking at whether the Charlottetown facility can handle all of Stratford's waste on top of its own. Charlottetown Coun. Mitchell Tweel thinks the city's sewage treatment facility is a perfect fit for Stratford's sludge.
"That would help assist them with the development of their waterfront, it would help them environmentally, socially, recreationally," said Tweel.
"The only thing separating Stratford and Charlottetown is the historic Hillsborough River, so I think there's an opportunity there."
Tweel said he wants the water and sewer utility committee members for both communities to meet in the new year. Jenkins said that's a possibility.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mitch is probably thinking to run the sewage line along the old bridge supports. This way he can get his walking trail across the river.

Anonymous said...

Tim, Tweel is the result of the “I have nothing better to do” ideology.

Anonymous said...

Tim,
It is too bad there is not a good political cartoonist around to capture, the word picture you created of Kevin & Clifford under the bubbles, with Mitch running around in the background.

"priceless"

Laughter is truly the best medicine, for the moment.

The thought of a $22 million of new capital expenditures to fix a perceived problem is will surely not be a laughing matter.

Anonymous said...

Here's some entertainment... Clifford Lee, Philip Brown and Mitch Tweel all running for the Charlottetown Mayoralty. Taxpayer's bad luck would be a tie vote and they would alternate the job weekly with each of them getting a new 4x4 in case there was a storm and they couldn't make a Council budget meeting.