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A modest tax hike in 2010

08 June 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Admiral Collingwood development, Collingwood life, Collingwood's municipal m...
The good news is that Collingwood residents face only a very modest tax increase in 2010: 0.0030% according to a sheet provided by the treasurer, Monday night. On a house assessed at $200,000 that translates to a $0.08 increase over 2009's taxes. Whew. That's a bullet dodged for most of us.

The bad news is that it's not...

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Tags: Collingwood's Municipal Madness, taxes, budget, spending, assessment 1 Comments


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Grand opening of the Collingwood Public Library

31 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
I attended the grand opening of the Collingwood Public Library, noon, Thursday, May 27, just before I drove t the FCM convention. It was a glorious day, and not merely for the weather, but because it was the culmination of years of effort by library boards, ongoing ever since I was first appointed to the board, back in 1991. All of the years of...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, library, mayor, grand opening, speakers 0 Comments


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Toronto: patios, buskers and an animated downtown

30 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Pointless legislation, Election 2010, downtown-BIA, Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
I just returned from a few days in Toronto, attending the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual convention. Picked up a lot of good ideas (especially around open government and open data) and information, which I'll post at a later point. What I wanted to write about here is how the host city handles its downtown and its patios,...

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Tags: buskers, downtown, patios, Toronto, Collingwood Municipal Madness 0 Comments


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Downtown slowly reopening, farmers' market returns, patio causes headaches

22 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, Collingwood's municipal m..., downtown-BIA, Pointless legislation
Construction proceeds apace downtown. Susan and I walked downtown (with Sophie) early Saturday to see how the newly-re-opened first block looked, do a little local shopping, and to gander at the farmers' market on its first open weekend (and buy a few odds and ends there, and downtown, too).*...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, patios, downtown, council, closed for business 4 Comments


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Civil rights at risk with new bylaw

18 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Pointless legislation, downtown-BIA, Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
[size="2"][size="2"]It's frustrating when we have a public meeting about an important, new bylaw and it's evident from the discussion that no one else at the table actually read the thing. Councillor McNabb had no idea there even was one, and even had to get up in the middle of the meeting to go outside to look for a...

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Tags: responsibility, deputy-mayor, Collingwood Municipal Madness, bylaw, reading 10 Comments


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A new uke and a new site

17 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, Music and ukuleles, technology
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Spent most of last week working on Web sites, mine and a couple of contract jobs for friends. Haven't done a lot of Web-related work the last few years and I was rusty. I was struggling with some of the CSS elements, trying to remember...

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Tags: ukulele, Risa, Web design, Ian Chadwick 0 Comments


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Archiving vintage ukulele music

09 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, Collingwood life, Social values
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In the two decades between the end of World War One and the start of World War Two, the ukulele was arguably the most popular musical instrument in the Western world. It was small, relatively inexpensive, and with only four strings it was relatively easy to...

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Tags: vintage music, song book, archive, song sheet, ukulele, ukelele, music score 1 Comments


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Newspaper story confusing about patio move

06 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Pointless legislation, downtown-BIA, Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
I've been getting some calls about the headline story in today's Collingwood Connection. Seems to some people the opening is murky about who voted for what. Unless you were there, it may not be very clear. The newspaper reported:

[quote]It appears patios in...

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Tags: Collingwood Municipal Madness, mayor, patios, downtown, BIA, newspaper 11 Comments


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Kids' chess club at Collingwood Library

02 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood life
One of the lesser know successes in town is a small but rapidly growing chess club for kids and teens aged 7 to 18. Run by Tim denBok, this group meets every Thursday at the Collingwood Public Library, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. It's no cost to join, but participants have to register (call 444-5516).

Local sports always get a lot of attention and...

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Tags: chess club, kids, library, chess, Collingwood 3 Comments


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Another successful year for Mother (of all yard Sales)

02 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood life
Used to be yard sales and garage sales were attended by people looking to buy something for themselves. Seems nowadays a lot of the people milling about, picking over the tables, are looking for something to sell.

I got that impression from again working this year's Mother of All Yard Sales, the community-wide yard sale run by the...

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Tags: Collingwood, Optimist Club, yard sale, garage sale, Mother of All Yard Sales 1 Comments



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