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Ken Mercer confirms “Town Hall”
On Roundabout/Street LID, with Mayor Dean Bunkers and Public Works Director Ken Lanfear: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m., Convention Center.
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Gee, I liked Finnegan’s expression of thought. Can’t say I understood all of it, but it was different.
And as I understand it, the meeting is open to all, not just chamber members. Perhaps more businesses should join the Chamber.
Curb your dog Finnegan. It is leaving a mess in the street. Someone may step in it and then spread it across someone else’s property. That would be an adverse effect. Free speech allows you too to “voraciously spread vicious innuendo and falsehood”. If you have an issue with someone else’s facts, state them. Otherwise, you are barking at the clouds.
Casey was a feisty dog that protected his driveway at a busy intersection with a vengeance. Every vehicle that passed was chased and barked at startling many an unsuspecting driver. Very few were a real threat to Casey, but he always overreacted in a less than appropriate way. Sound familiar?
Most of us have known a few such dogs. Some chase cars. Others bark ferociously from inside their homes at anyone walking by. A few delight at hiding in the shadows or bushes within a fenced yard. Then, when an innocent person approaches, they charge the fence with all the frenzy of some rabid creature from a Stephen King novel.
All of these dogs seem to not only overreact, but to be unwilling to accept the reality of the world around them. No one is making direct eye contact with them in any challenging way; and deliberately avoiding eye contact seems to make no difference. Attempts to talk to the dog in a soothing, non-threatening way are pointless. The animal refuses to listen. Ignoring the dog altogether does not seem to keep it from going ballistic. The dog has made up its mind that it is being threatened, and reacts out of fear in inappropriate ways.
Maybe it’s this same kind of inexplicable fear that causes some humans to feel threatened enough to voraciously spread vicious innuendo and falsehood in the name of free speech. Unfortunately more people are adversely influenced by provocative pontification than bothersome, barking dogs.
Finnegan
Is this really a town hall meeting? It doesn’t appear on the city’s web site. Is it a public meeting or another members only meeting of the Chamber? I know some of the construction data was supposedly transmitted from Rachel in Public
Works to Leslie at the Chamber, but surely our city realizes that this private organization does not represent the majority of licensed businesses in Ocean Shores.
We skip a council meeting where people schedule to be there to do this another day. Sounds like the normal last minute end run. Should this not have happened in July or August, before we started the project? How about in September, when people realized that this was going to be such a mess? Oh, now in October we will do it. I hope it does not rain a great deal between now and December or we will need boardwalks to get to the downtown merchants. Maybe a Western Theme Town event would be something ACT can whip up. We already have the Blazing Saddles Firehouse on the south end of town. The Sheriff can use a razor clam as a badge. The gunfighters can have clam guns.
It’s just the usual from our “new form” of government. They can now say that had a meeting to listen to the views of the community, but since few will be able to go on such a short notice they won’t have to actually answer all of the questions that the citizens really have. It’s just another part of the game that they are playing these days, I never thought that I would ever say that I miss the old form of government. This one leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, which seems to be a common theme these days…
How come such short notice?