The Editorial Board found this absolute trash posted as a freelance article to the Langley Times. The article was written by Anne Patterson. She is the spouse of Township finance committee civilian member Calvin Patterson, a lawyer. You will recall that Patterson is a financial contributor and staunch supporter of Mayor Rick Green during the campaign.
The Pattersons and Mayor Green all live on large rural properties. So what's wrong with this article? Well, he's a few to chew...
"Inspired by a series of cycle races held in the area in the last couple of years, a group of horse-owning, child-oriented neighbours decided to take back their streets from the clutches of the Township planners, many of whom live in Kitsilano, anyway."What? Township staff living in Kits? How many do that? We don't find the attack on ToL staff to be very funny and they certainly deserve more than this. Next we have:
"I guess it was inevitable that the manic two-wheelers from the city would discover our quiet little street, where the horses outnumber the cars.
Man o' man, statements like these really support the notion of a rural Langley Township elite sitting on their large acreage properties in central and south Langley. Denouncing the urban areas, newcomers to the ToL, complaining about the proliferation of high density developments, and all these "threats" to their rural lifestyle.
Does Mayor Rick Green share this same philosophy as his very strong supporters? After all, the good mayor also has acreage, horses, and the related trappings of the rural elite as well. Does he share this anti-urban view of the Township? Shame, shame on Mrs. Patterson and the rural elite for driving yet another wedge between the rural and urban residents of Langley Township.
Sometimes we wonder what's in the water! What could drive people to oppose various Township initiatives and attack our urban Langley residents? Can't we all just get along?
Actually it is all very odd that this author would say...
"It's that we felt our normally hospitable impulses were being abused by urban bullies with no respect for our rural lifestyle."Some time ago some concerned citizens sent us some photographs of a certain person of interest bullying the rural neighbours by filling in some sensitive wetlands adjacent to their property with rocks. This fill would then facilitate crossing this sensitive area with their horses, while at the same time blocking access to other residents. We hear Township staff served a warning here because of a protective covenant on these lands, which would prohibit these types of activities and the resulting impact on the neighbours. Out of respect we did not publish these photographs and the story. Need we say more?
3 comments:
What absolute TRASH! This community has world class cyclists, S. Tuft to name one presently plous many others. We also have world class streets to cycle on. This trash talking is simple minded and lacks a complete focus on 'COMMUNITY'. One or two cycle events a year compared to horses daily shitting on our streets and forcing traffic to slow down and low and behold the driver that would scare a horse as they pass.
This lady is out of touch and a NIMBI who is no more than a horse's aXX.
I guess that other NDP trash blog and Mr. Horny and Mrs. Willy will support this type of article. What nonsense.....tell us more about the blocking access and fine neighbourly relations?
Tricky Ricky obviously hates urban Langley you can tell by how he tried to dump firefighters, bashed the Event's Center and bitches about development. He is also trying to steal me and my neighbor's land value with his idiotic land lift tax.
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