A field big enough for political games
It seems to have dawned on the Winnipeg School Division that regulation sports would not fit in the triangular lot bound by Portage Ave., Borrowman Pl., and Broadway. As I said before, that doesn't seem to be the point: "they can still have a field, for Pete's sake... We won't use that as a reason to stop the momentum we have," said local activist Nancy Chippendale, who last August dreamed in the pages of the Free Press of G.B.H.S. having a football team again, and maybe even space for her own favorite sport, Ultimate Frisbee.
Some interesting comments on this matter were recently left on a post from October 6, 2008: "This is political staging and Gordon Bell is being used for that purpose. Last spring the school was interested in establishing a butterfly garden at the Sherbrook Street Community Garden which is now owned by the West Broadway Development Corporation. WBDC is a project of Neighbourhoods Alive, which recieves core funding to the tune of almost 1/2 million per year. It serves primarily as a training ground for youngsters who want a career as policy analysts. They are children of old time NDP'ers. And they all hope that they can move into the $85,000 jobs as policy analysts down at the legislature. The Sherbrook Street Community Garden has been at 198 Sherbrook Street for 20 years. A truly community effort. The West Broadway Development Corporation, as owners, would not permit Gordon Bell to establish a butterfly garden on their property. Notice the school was not up in arms against this and is standing by while the property is planned for development? The School did not unilaterally decide to lobby for the Canada Post Site. It was some body else's idea. The School, after checking with their Masters, just probably are going along with it. It smells so badly of NDP politics."
There was no publicity-driven campaign to buy the former Midway Chrysler lot when it was on the market last year. There was also no rallies in support of getting land across Maryland Street from G.B.H.S. when it was changing hands in the earlier years of the decade, when that block (big enough for sports, I'm sure. And was, point of interest, a potential City Hall site in 1959) was developing into that visually abysmal "Little Suburbia" tract--complete with a Tim Horton's and McDonad's Drive-Thrus, Pharma-Save, Palatal Express, et c.
And this at a time when East Wolseley was still something of a slum/Inner City Community, thereby in more of that theoretical "need" for green space. Where was the outcry then?
Some interesting comments on this matter were recently left on a post from October 6, 2008: "This is political staging and Gordon Bell is being used for that purpose. Last spring the school was interested in establishing a butterfly garden at the Sherbrook Street Community Garden which is now owned by the West Broadway Development Corporation. WBDC is a project of Neighbourhoods Alive, which recieves core funding to the tune of almost 1/2 million per year. It serves primarily as a training ground for youngsters who want a career as policy analysts. They are children of old time NDP'ers. And they all hope that they can move into the $85,000 jobs as policy analysts down at the legislature. The Sherbrook Street Community Garden has been at 198 Sherbrook Street for 20 years. A truly community effort. The West Broadway Development Corporation, as owners, would not permit Gordon Bell to establish a butterfly garden on their property. Notice the school was not up in arms against this and is standing by while the property is planned for development? The School did not unilaterally decide to lobby for the Canada Post Site. It was some body else's idea. The School, after checking with their Masters, just probably are going along with it. It smells so badly of NDP politics."
There was no publicity-driven campaign to buy the former Midway Chrysler lot when it was on the market last year. There was also no rallies in support of getting land across Maryland Street from G.B.H.S. when it was changing hands in the earlier years of the decade, when that block (big enough for sports, I'm sure. And was, point of interest, a potential City Hall site in 1959) was developing into that visually abysmal "Little Suburbia" tract--complete with a Tim Horton's and McDonad's Drive-Thrus, Pharma-Save, Palatal Express, et c.
And this at a time when East Wolseley was still something of a slum/Inner City Community, thereby in more of that theoretical "need" for green space. Where was the outcry then?
posted by The Rise and Sprawl at
6:47 AM
5 Comments:
I mentioned it back in January in your blog that I was confused why the amazing opportunity to build an entire football field on the old Carter/Murray lot was overlooked.
The site sat empty for quite some time.
Where was Pat Martin?
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10100067&postID=7287806688179256937&isPopup=true
The WBDC needs to be liquidated.
Being on the cusp of a serious recession is not time to be forcing taxpayers to fund NDP ideologues and nest feathering. Not that this boondoggling should be tolerated in boom times. This is nauseating; they need to be audited, exposed and disbanded. Economic development for party aparatchiks is an obscenity, especially in the face of the very real, very government manufactured poverty in much of West Broadway.
Tax funded propaganda potlucks? Please, no.
@anonymous
re: your comment
All to often 'somedody' writes something that raises serious questions. Too bad my minimum criteria for asking is knowing that same 'somebody' will respond - - as opposed to, say, another faceless 'anon'... too bad really... to bad...
Well, that report from the WSD seems conclusive and convincing. I stand corrected. Looks like we've got a no-go on the field.
I am the faceless anon and I spent a couple of thousand of dollars for a lawyer to protect my reputation when WBDC started sending mass mailings to politicians concerning my credibility and dissing my rep. Shoot, they have an army of bureaucrats and lawyers funded by the province. They have tried to threaten my job. It is easier and cheaper to be anonymous.
You should also know that the leader of the Gordon Bell thing (the alum) works for an organization that is a 'partner' with WBDC. She recommended that the Sherbrook Street Community Garden be used to build a hospice. How green is this person? Shame to use school kids to promote a political agenda. Politics stinks!
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