Good news would be funding announcement for the Boundary Road project, not tearing down the historic Heritage Plaza that was built, by people that knew the veterans, to honor the dead in a respectful way that they understood.

We people seem to forget, which is the key to the whole message, that the dead don't change, and what they liked doesn't change. Making some new tacky post-modern deco crap doesn't respect the dead, it makes them irrelevant.

Oh well, at least the flag hasn't be tossed in the garbage for a better rag. OOPs!

In times like these when unemployment is high and more and more people are loosing their jobs and security,is this all we can come up with. The infracture is falling apart around our ears. The roads are the worst that I have seen in 40 years. We need positive developement projects (like Boundary Road Ext.). Instead all we get are feel good fuzzy feeling projects that keep digging into the pockets of the taxpayer and offer no positive stimulus to the city. If this is the best the city admin has to offer,we are in real trouble. Come on council,show some leadership. We cannot afford any more MINORITY GROUP projects.

What a joke...taxes go up another 3.5% and we get another useless taxpayer-funded statue and fountain, no civic layoffs and continued neglect of practical requirements like proper roads, sidewalks, streetlights and crosswalks.

And another liquor store for the Hart...because the other three dozen places to get booze in a 10-mile radius just aren't convenient enough.

If this Rogers-led council doesn't improve its act soon...perhaps there will be a need for a liquor store on every corner.

Do we really need another liquor outlet?
No I have no problem with people drinking responsibly.
It seems that almost every major corner has a liquor outlet.
I see signs of the old city council...

Danno was shown on PR detail the other day, playing dodgeball with the AIMHI crowd. I'm guessing he was picked off a lot owing to his inability to decide whether to move right or left. Still, very impressive to be able to play the game at all without a spine!

Come on council,show some leadership. We cannot afford any more MINORITY GROUP projects.

This MINORIY GROUP put their life on the line for a creep that would make such a disparging remark.

The veterans are happy with what they have. Its just that the manderins in City hall need a project to look at to feed their ego.

cheers

Actually folks, the local legion attended the Capital spending plan meeting and requested that this item continue.

The current cenotaph is in disrepair and there are some inaccuracies of names. The Legion requested that City Hall do all it can to find the $150 thousand needed to do the job.

This item is a hold over from the previous Council, and the City was committed to one half of the cost of the upgrade, the balance to be paid by the Province, BUT, the project has to be completed by this fall or the Provincial funding would be lost.

By the way, the Veterans who attended that session also indicated they support the design as they were involved in the design process.

If the Vets want a repaired and updated cenotaph, is that too much for them to ask???

Elaine Macdonald

The answer is say no to the heritage bldg for hotels in Prince George. This will only deter the metamorphisis process that needs to happen in downtown Prince George.

I guess I can say I'm happy with with what is there now. I'm also a veteran and glitz is no longer important to me. I'm happy with a some respect for those who died servinhg their country.

Our City is in hawk over their ears. Fourteen million a year is paid out to service the debt that my Grand kids will have to pay off. It is far more important to me to be remember as a caring Grandpa rather as an uncaring oaf that has left them nothing but debt.

Cheers

Madam Editor;

I think it would be more appropriate for you to screen some of the disparaging comments that are made on 250 rather then to tell us what the wants of the Royal Canadian Legion . The Legion no longer expresses the views of our veterans for your information. The Legion today is run by Associate and Club members that tell us they are a service club. The Legion at one time had over 2000 members in Prince George. At General meetings there would often be less then 30 people in attendance. And last year on November 11 there were less then 50 vetrans in the parade.

November 11 is more about show and shine then remembering our fallen comrades. And why do we even have a cenothaph. The main event takes place in the community Center.

In the past 250 has lost a number of good contributors to the site. Unless you start to clean up some of the posts your website will go the way of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Chees

People keep talking about the Boundry Road connection. Can anyone tell me exactly what this is supposed to be.

As near as I can tell if you want to access Highway 97 South or North or 16 West you can do this now by making a left off of 16 onto the Old Cariboo Hiway and access 97 at the old Art Knapps intersection. One would think that if this was such a great need they would upgrade this part of the Highway and that would be the end of that.

We can assume that the Boundry Road Connection has nothing to do with accessing Highway 97 because there is no plan to go any further. Some say that eventually the road will go to Boundry and then across the Fraser on a new bridge and West on Highway 16,however that will take about 50 years at the present rate.

The connection seems to be more to provide access from a new industrial park that will be built West of the Airport, to 97 South and 16 East, and 16 West from the New Simon Fraser Bridge. If this is so then the only benefit will be to the people who are proposing to build the new Industrial Park at the Airport.

This has nothing to do with the Airpoprt expansion, or cargo planes and you will not see anything happen in that area for the next 25 years if ever.

This is simply a project to service an Industrial park, that will probably have a huge truck stop, restaurant, Hotel, Motel, and some specific industries like Fed Ex, DHL, etc; Some business now located in the BC Rail Industrial Park, will relocate to this park and???? BOBS YOUR UNCLE.

Palopu's comment on Boundary Road has some truth to it. Some.

The Old Caribou Road should have some four way stop signs (at Cummins) and the egress to, and exit from 97 South, needs to be eliminated and brought up to standards. The Old Caribou road is rural residential now. The speed limit is down to 30kph on some parts.

Taxpayer build roads to encourage growth and investment, we stop and they stop.

So what if it takes 50 years to fill in a circle road on the southside of PG, I don't have a problem with that. PG is still a young city and will change over time. I remember running across the Simon Fraser bridge before it was open to vehicle traffic and thinking what a waste, no one will want to build so far from the city. Today the twin bridge is almost complete. It is going to take some exercise for me to run across the new bridge this time.

I'm inclined to think we should invest in the future. Or we could stop and do nothing, and just watch, or shrivel up and blow away by trying nothing.

Boundary road is the next best bet and cheapest option for the new economy in PG. The new economy will pass us by if we don't at least try to be part of it.

YDPC just came out of his shell. Nice post!!!!

I wonder what Palopu would have said some 100 years ago when someone decided to get a Boston planning firm to lay out the plan for Prince George and drop it down onto a big empty field with few buildings and fewer trees.