What wonderful weather we’ve been having. Fall is my favorite time of year and all this sunshine just makes it better.

Have a great weekend folks!

I paid $121.9 for gas yesterday.

I’ve noticed its always sunny and 11 degrees at opinion 250.

I had a “have I been living under a rock?” moment this week.

I’ve been giving the wag of the finger to Mexico with the handling of their raw sewage leak in Tijuana, which has polluted beaches up the coast line to San Diego, and possibly beyond.

Then I find out that our very own provincial capital of Victoria has been dumping untreated raw sewage into the ocean for decades. Not a leak… on purpose. 40 billion litres of it per year.

In July a sewage treatment plant was announced, which is all fine and dandy. I simply don’t understand why it was never in installed in the first place, and why there hasn’t been more media pressure over the years to clean it up.

On a less crappy note, everybody have a great weekend.

I’m going to see an old German heavy metal band tonight (Accept) at the Rickshaw on the downtown east side. Should be interesting to say the least.

you got your balls to the wall man

Just wanted to bring attention to an interesting web site called Tomorrows Gas Prices Today. It is a Canadian site and has just recently added Prince George to the list of gas prices that they watch. http://tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com/

And no, I am not affiliated to the site in any way lol, just found it interesting.

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Rock on!! Hope it’s a great concert!!

are they ever going to finish the Ospika connector?

Heys Mod – fix your temperature readout, willya?

Crashing car helps keep the site free…keep watching maybe one day that SOB will get it or block flash content.

Only buy gas at extra foods and Canadian Tire.

Pylot, there was a referendum in Victoria in the early 90s to build a level 1 treatment plant. The majority of the voters rejected the project, because it was to expensive. Which is ironic because these people were against logging, because it destroys and pollutes the environment.

The temperature lock is an Environment Canada issue they are working it.
Ben Meisner

I love all the newly paved roads, would be even better if the lines where painted as well :)

Random thought for the day…

I was reading about the recent attempted jewelry heist in the mall and got to thinking about how many jewelry stores we have in this town, and even in the mall. It must be a very lucrative business. The markups must be huge.

Whats with all the “tax exempt” properties in the Free Press to the tune of 2.3 million dollars?

I wonder what is going to be the outcome of that person that got shot by the cops going to be? I wonder if this so called independent group is still going to be just another puppet on a string.

Wagons sure seem to have been circled on the shooting of the veteran. He seemed to be safer on a war zone. time will tell I guess.

I was out walking yesterday afternoon in the area where the shooting/manhunt happened and I must say that the robbery at the mall scares me more than a targeted shooting.

Anyone know what’s going on with the old Cadillac Ranch site. There’s been a lot of contractors in there lately.

The Victoria and area sewage has been a problem for years. Its not only Victoria, but all the surrounding communities.

My understanding is that they would all have to be connected to make a sewage treatment plant efficient. Otherwise even with Victoria sewage being treated the other towns and villages would continue to send their sewage into the ocean untreated.

The overall project is estimated to be in the billions, and so they have been stalling for years. Local taxpayers certainly cant afford to do it, so the funding would have to come from other levels of Government.

So until the issue and settled and the problem is solved, Victoria and area will continue to send raw sewage into the ocean.

Down in la la land their poop is already Eco friendly.

In the first week of September I purchased my hunting license and game tag.

End of September received a solicitation to subscribe to BC Outdoors magazine.

As it happens, I believe that coincidences such as this require planning.

I also believed that the government at all levels had a duty to keep my personal information confidential.

The province has just fired several health ministry employees for inappropriate access to information, yet the ministry of environment is selling hunter names and addresses to publications and who know who else.

This should be a grave concern for any one dealing with government.

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“are they ever going to finish the Ospika connector?”

If you have an ATV, it has been finished for some time. :-)

Actually, I am wondering if they are ever going to finish connecting the Foothills to Ferry. Much more important for the routes I drive. It would also providea connection to Massey to allow it to be completed and get ready take that up the hill.

Of course, we will have to find a private developer who can then install electronic monitoring to charge vehicle owners every time they use it. ;-)

Since the Cameron Street Bridge is not part of the provincial highway grid, KPMG and that little Committee working in collusion with them should look at selling that bridge to a private consortium who can then install an electronic toll system. We can be a big city just like Vancouver.

Hey, Palopu, anyone got any traffic counts on that bridge compared to the wooden heritage bridge?

How quickly we forget the things we lobbied for…..

Two years from now, KPMG and the Core Review will only be a forgotten memory when we are all getting ready for the Canada Winter Games. :-)

Lets face it, it is a question of whether they treat their sewage or preserve their heritage buildings to enhance their tourism industry.

The answer is obvious to any heritage buff and businesses that get fed by tourists.

Just want to make a comment on the Edmonton case of baby “M”. The little sweetheart was taken off life support yesterday against her parent’s wishes as they lost that right in court to keep her alive. I found most shocking that each parent was allowed 20 min alone (but guarded)with her to say goodbye. It is because of these demonic monsters that this child is in the state she is, starving and beating her and her twin sister since birth, and then get to say goodbye and beg for forgiveness. The parents should be prosecuted to the highest degree and then put on life support as well. My god where have we come as human beings? Rest in peace baby “M”.

JB, I was thinking along similar lines.

Actually I was considering the number of pawn shops and second hand places we got in town. It, too, must be a very lucrative business. The markups must be huge. ;-)

And then there are all the corner gas stations. We know the markups there are huge, especially the government mark ups.

And the liquor stores …. and their government markups.

Needs versus wants …… no matter, markups are always there. If only we could get rid of markups, everything would be perfect. ;-)

I drove from Washington Sate to PG yesterday and took note of gasonline prices along the way

Ferndale, WA – $1.030 ($3.899/USgal)
Sumas, WA – $1.083 ($4.099/USgal)
Hope – $1.229
Boston Bar – $1.239
Lytton – $1.299
Cache Creek – $1.289
100 Mile House – $1.299
150 Mile House -$1.369
Williams Lake – $1.289
Quesnel – $1.389
Prince George – $1.389

Ferndale has some of the cheapest gas in the State at a large truck stop right off I5. Prices can be as low as $3.899/USgal while on the same day within a 10 mile radius they are as high as $4.399.

Just think, if we paid less for gasoline, more of us would be able to buy jewelry and second hand goods and we would be able to afford a PAC. ;-)

But, instead, we are promoting a pipeline to get access to the real world price of gasolnine instead of the homeland secured price so that we can pay even more than the USA for gasoline.

So, we will see fewer jewelry stores in town then. :-)

The highest price for gasoline in Alberta, according to Gas Buddy, is in ……… drum roll please …… Fort McMurray!!!!!!

$1.289/litres at 8 stations. That is 6 cents higher than the bustling place of Hope.

I see the connection now. We have a refinery and Fort McMurray has refineries.

In order to get low gasoline prices at the pump, we have to get further away from a refinery.

The connection has just become perfectly clear. No one is willing to load up a tanker to just drive it 10 km to a serice station. There is no money in it for the delivery. ;-)

I’d be happy if the City just did it’s d*** job. My husband was out walking the dogs this morning and came across 5 loose dogs and a bunch of 4 wheelers who just about ran him over. Where’s the bylaw officer? Oh yeah, probably lost his job so her highness could have an assistant. So disappointed in this City at the moment. Would the last person leaving the City, please turn the lights out.

Ft McMurray does not have gasoline refineries. They have upgraders which convert bitumen to synthetic oil which resembles sweet conventional oil. They do not produce other products.

In BC there are added taxes that increase the price of our fuel. Ft McMurray pays the “middle of nowhere” tax.

willyj, I too mourn the loss of that little girl and don’t understand why her “parents” were allowed to visit with her. Maybe it could be that they haven’t been convicted yet. They probably didn’t want her off life support so they didn’t have to deal with a murder charge.

All we can hope for now is that the “parents” get a life sentence for what they did to that little girl :(

The only thing I don’t like about all the new pavement is it makes all the older pavement look and feel like crap!

Yeah, 2015 is going to look and feel great, then all we have to do is re-mortgage our homes to pay for it all.

Eh! Gonna be cold winter. White man got big wood piles.
On a happier note got my lino laid down real good, with a lotta help from my brother.
And Lenny Fox has got to be one of the BEST plumbers in the business.
I hate reno’s but Dean’s doing a good job.
We’ve got an aboriginal summer happening, and with the heat we got this summer, gotta feeling it’s gonna be a very cold winter, like it was in the 60’s. Hope everyone stays warm this winter. Haven’t hunted yet, too hot.
Hunters, be sure of your shot, and cut yer tags or you know who’s gonna visit.

Had coffee with a former Victoria municipal politician a couple of weeks ago. The raw sewage treatment issue came up. He surprised me when he said that Race Rocks provides the best natural sewage treatment plant. I’m still skeptical, but that was his claim.

“the best NATURAL sewage treatment PLANT”

Are we interested in the best NATURAL sewage treatment?

Why would anyone call a natural fesature a PLANT?

I think we are interested in comparing the quality of sewage treatment.

So how does this NATURAL area compare to a PLANT with primary treatment, secondary treatment and tertiary treatment (PG’s treatment capacity level)?

Words, words, words …… ;-)

Gus. There was a traffic count done on the New Cameron St bridge last year by a few individuals, on their own dime. This count which was taken between the hours of 6am to 8am, 12noon to 1pm, and 4pm to 6pm, on a Monday, and a Thursday, and extrapolated over a 24 hour period. The result was that there are less than 8000 vehicles using the bridge on a daily basis.

Considering that the City projected 14000 vehicles using the bridge daily by 2014, as part of the justification for building the bridge, I suggest that they are running out of time.

To keep things in perspective, and to ensure that BS does not continue to baffle brains, there will be another Citizens count of this bridge this fall. Again it will be taken at high traffic times, and the busiest days of the week.

On another note. There is good news and bad news. To-day we had some good news. Colin Hansen the shadow of Premier Campbell, and the one more than any other MLA responsible for the HST in BC has announced he will not run in the next election. Thank God and Greyhound he’s gone.

Hansens leaving basically closes the circle, and those most responsible for the HST and the bad Government of the Liberals have now jumped ship.

A few years ago when the Liberals were bringing in the HST **yours truly** wrote them a letter, ie; Campbell, Hansen, Bell, Bond, and advised them that if they persisted with implementing this tax, they would rue the day, and in fact it would cost them the Government.

This letter of course was ignored in its entirety. To bad, so sad.

in driving along Tabor Blvd this week, north past First Avenue, I noticed that many of the sidestreets off of Tabor have been re-paved . I am wondering if our paving budget is so compromised, why are we paving residential side streets that don’t even get bus traffic. I can’t figure out why these roads have been resurfaced

The City is paying to have the former Cadillac Ranch converted to leasable office space.
I think they have a tenant lined up already.
metalman.

Pumping sewage out into the ocean would probably be okay, if it was merely human waste. Unfortunately, it is not just human waste, but loaded with all sorts of things that have no business being flushed into the sanitary sewer. Solvents, paints, prescription drugs, chemicals of all kinds. These will do the real harm to the environment. Human waste probably feeds certain sea life (check your crab meat carefully!) and certainly would merely dissolve and disperse in the currents.
metalman.