Sunday, March 3, 2024

Blog Watching: Week ending March 3, 2024


The City's progress towards removing unsightly properties continued this week and as our top story of our list of Five notes, the call for remedial action sometimes brings some controversy. 

In this case as the out of town owners of the old Mohawk property on Second West accuse the city of blindsiding them on the issue.

As it was a Council week a number of other items also delivered some strong readership numbers.

Included on the list, some repair work on a streetlight on McBride, along with renovation plans for the Fire hall washrooms.

The District of Port Edward is making a second bid to gan acceptance for their plans for a recreation area just west of the Galloway Rapids Bridge and provincial government bureaucrats were in the spotlight after an unusual request on language gained some national attention.
 
When it came to the most read item of the week, it was the always popular topic of cleaning up unsightly properties in the city that led the way.

Second Avenue Business owners push back on City Demolition plan -- Prince Rupert City Council continued with its push to clean up the downtown core area, moving forward on a remedial action order, though the owners of the Second Ave West property had a number of questions on the process.  (posted February 28, 2024

That article was followed by: 

City to Province, on McBride Street lighting, the bill is in the mail --  After fielding a number of complaints from residents, the City tended to a burned out streetlight on McBride Street and will send the province the bill   (posted February 26 , 2024)

City of Prince Rupert seeks bids on plans for Washroom  renovations at First Avenue West Fire Hall --  The city's aging fire hall is going to get an internal makeover  (posted February 26, 2024

District of Port Edward launches new approach towards waterfront park plans --  The District is back to the Provincial government over plans to develop some Crown Land just off the Galloway Rapids Bridge into a recreation area.    (posted February 29 , 2024

BC's Bureaucrats advise government employees and officials against using the term British Columbians --  The BC Gov't language police have outlined a preference that politicians and civil servants refrains from using the term British Columbians to describe residents of British Columbia.   (posted February 27, 2024

You can find our weekly Blog watching feature posted every Sunday morning by 9AM, making for a handy way to catch up to the week that was, at a leisurely weekend pace. 
 
You can also review the full listings of the week just past, from our Blog Archive index page found on the right hand side of the page. 

For updates on new items posted daily to the blog, we direct you to our CharlesMHays Twitter feed, where we post notification of new stories as we post them. 

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