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Finally!! We’ve been talking about a roundabout at this spot in #portAlberni on #bchwy4 for almost 10 years.

Looks like it is finally happening! My only worry is that without changes to the traffic light setup nearby at Johnston and Victoria Quay, there could be a bottleneck that happens.

We'll see how they engineer it!
albernivalleynews.com/local-ne

Alberni Valley News · Province seeks feedback on new Highway 4 roundaboutBy Alberni Valley News Staff

At the local community watering hole, Char's Landing, listening to the local jazz combo headed by my former high school band teacher (at the piano) Barry Miller.

We have a wonderful tradition of all kinds of music in #portalberni

Jazz, Blues, Rock and Country (most famously, Lauren Spencer-Smith)
#music #jazz #local

I made a short video this morning to mark the anniversary of AW Neill’s first speech in the Parliament of Canada. March 16, 1922. Neill was a white supremacist and especially hated Japanese immigrants. He was a cheerleader not only for exclusion of Asian immigration, but their forced deportation including after internment in WWII.
Sound familiar?

youtube.com/live/8BQhMdYRQUY

This morning I found an exchange between him and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. It was on a trade treaty with Belgium, but Neill turned it into a debate about immigration.
Sound familiar?

I mark this day because we still honour this white supremacist with the name of a street in #PortAlberni

The school board removed his name from a school a few years ago — he was also an Indian Agent in charge of Indian Residential Schools in our area — but multiple city councils have not had the courage to do the same with the street.

Here is his original speech : lipad.ca/full/permalink/620136

And here is his debate with Mackenzie King : lipad.ca/full/1924/07/11/13/

#immigration #whitesupremacy #racism
cc: @dustindame

Removing some parts from the 1976 Fiat Spider before it is sent to the scrapper on Friday.

❤️ this car, wanted to restore it and electrify it, but it is just too far gone and restoration these days is ridiculously expensive. Better for the brain and wallet to buy one of many used versions available around for under $10,000 if I want to do that one day.

But in the meantime this one can be recycled and we can keep some bits to keep the memory of fun times over the past 45 years in our hearts. 💕.

The cargo rack should make a nice towel rack for the bathroom. :)

(Picture of the car in the snow is from a few years ago when we got a big snowfall that destroyed the shelter for the car… truly the end of the end for it. It was either build a small greenhouse/garage for it to restore it, or not.)

#cars#fiat#spider