A reader suggests two additions to the RTH first principles.
By Letter to the Editor
Apr. 10, 2007
Dear Editor,
Suggested additions to the RTH First Principles:
19. Keep it clean and green – no matter how humble the area, nothing keeps the spirit going as much as a clean sidewalk, a flower pot or a tree for shade and shelter. Everyone is responsible for this. Stash your own trash. Pick up some litter. Fight entropy.
20. Care about your environment and make it better. Put a bit of effort (not necessarily a lot of cash) into making your corner of the world just a bit nicer. That gives others a lift and they will do the same. While you are at it, care about your neighbours. Give them a smile, a welcome, a hand if they need it. It is really people that make a community, and that’s what it takes to raise the hammer!
Sincerely, John Alley
I just want to register my distaste at this process, that we fight it out in a very difficult way amongst ourselves, all kinds of stress coming up, because how the heck are we going to find the kind of cuts to get down to three percent, and then this money shows up out of the blue." -- Brian McHattie, Ward 1 Councillor, on the sudden discovery of $5.2 million in city budget savings after the budget presentation
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