Been ignoring you . . . sorry

Well not really sorry but I have been ignoring my blogly duties as of late, but I've been busy doing actual stuff, which is a bit of a change.

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Anyway I thought I'd get back at with some hometown updates, seems that my lovely little town has managed to make national news again, this time for the local police tasing a 14 year old girl they had in custody, for allegedly picking the paint off a cell wall. The girl's family is now suing the OPP for $500, 000.00 for this, you can read more about it here if you're so inclined.

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Now I don't know what really happened there, but I'm positive it's somewhere between what each party is saying, that's just human nature, but I'm thinking to get tased in the first place you've got to be doing something a little more than picking at paint, but that's just me . . . and maybe I'm a more reasonable sort than most . . . but I doubt it.

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And just in case I would like to offer a special deal to law enforcement agencies out there, I will give a super special rate, 6 seconds of tasing for only $400, 000.00. What a steal . . . if I get an advance on the payment I'll even travel to you on my own dime. Think about it.

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In other local news you may remember a post from about a year ago about a year and a half ago Mr. Charles Hattie, who's name still to this day gets me traffic on this blog, being charged with sexual assault and attempted murder was found guilty of sexual assault but not attempted murder a couple weeks ago in a Kenora court. The Kenora paper's article on this conviction can be found here.

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Here's to hoping he gets a taste of his own medicine while incarcerated.

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In other local news, the local enhancement committee (who don't seem to have a website, or at least not one that Google can find for me) is pushing a new logo for the town. Personally I don't think that this is time for changing the logo, given the economic times we're in and spending money, even if it is from an enhancement grant that the Municipality received, on something like this looks bad.

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I think the costs of this change are much further reaching than what is expected as well, as this will mean scrapping every piece of currently branded municipal gear and changing every sign (including the lovely new street signs in the downtown that look just the lovely new street signs in Dryden's downtown purchased with the enhancement grant money), piece of letter head, business card . . . oh hell you see where this is going.

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Granted the current logo looks like it was done by a kid, and maybe it was, but I think if you want to do something get someone who knows what they're doing to rework and clean that up and make it look like something churned out professionally. Love it or hate the current logo shows what you see when you look west from the town beach and shows what built this town. To show the native history of the area you can take out the guy the Lund and put the native guy in the canoe back in . . . just try to make him look less like an Eskimo this time, please.

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The town has the response to the new logo on their website here - seems that from quickly skimming this that most of the people who responded in time were in favour of the new logo. Once again I think that I am learning about this stuff too late in the game to make a difference . . . and after all the town does what the town wants anyway. In case you think it's not too late to make your voice heard, you can find Council's email addresses here.

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The new logo is being presented to the Economic Development Commission at 4:45 this afternoon at the Community Development Office if you're interested in checking that out. I should really get more involved with stuff, but getting involved is work . . .

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Ah well that's her for now.

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PS - don't tase me bro!