Nice While It Lasted

Our Poo-litzer Prize Winner's retirement is over.

Obviously, and we've known it for a long-time, you just can't trust anything she says. Words simply spew from her poisoned mind to suit every occasion.

Don't bother trying to infuse the Crystal Beach Strand with any thoughtful discussion. Don't bother being deleted or insulted as an asskissing co-conspirator in the Great Cover Up. Just post it here. Save the insults.

Hopefully, we can create a forum for positive debate.

First topic: Bay Beach

Poolitzer Prize winner implodes

It looks as if the UnaBlogger is hanging it up.

http://www.crystalbeachstrand.com/

That troubling piece of news caused me to think about the future of the Strand and frankly, I'm ready to throw the
towel in and walk away from it all. The Thunder Bay/Ridgeway Shores golf club couldn't be saved; the so-called
Rwanda development sits in mute mockery to the people who protested clear-cutting during nesting season; the Bay
Beach Properties will be developed in a so-called "partnership" that the people have had or will have little say in how
it is done; and a marina will cut into a beautiful vista and neighbourhood along the Niagara Parkway and nothing can
be done - or will be done - to stop it.

Meanwhile, the administration of the town of Fort Erie operates on its own closed agenda and nothing or no one is
able to make it accountable. People who know "where the bodies are buried" are afraid to come forward; others
refuse to get involved and others, who go to the authorities or challenge the status quo get called names; get
stonewalled. Council meetings are a travesty of disrespect for certain councillors and certain presenters; the scripted
responses and votes infuriate and sadden people who care about the future of this town, while the local press is
hampered in what it can report because they have advertisers to please. My premature report of the closing of a
local newspaper is only that: premature. Print media is under threat because it is just too expensive to print and
circulate hard copies of the news - especially a weekly newspaper whose news is somewhat obsolete even before it
hits the street. I looked to the Huffington Post as my model for what the Strand could be and I succeeded on a much
smaller scale. Recent financial hits have made me very aware of the amount of unpaid time I spend on this newsblog.
I simply can't afford to continue. I have had to return to work; my fixed income is just not enough to make ends meet
even though I live very frugally and have for years.

It may just be a sabbatical, this walking away. Hopefully, others will continue to beat their heads against the brick
wall. Right now, I've got nothing but a big headache..

Let's all bow our heads for a moment ..... then dance a little jig.

The Little Theatre

A comment was received asking that references to Garrison Little Theatre be retracted. The UnaBlogger wrote a blog item as a story told through emails about her inability to get along with people. None of the information in the post coincides with anything GLT is doing, so the post and comments have been deleted.