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munity uses the former school building as a combined recreation centre, art exhibition and workshop area, etc. In Ashcroft, we have the empty building downtown that once housed Williams General Store. That building could be made into the kind of facility that would serve multi purposes, like Spences Bridge’s. Just a thought, but maybe, it is time for interested people to get together and brainstorm about ways and means. A multi use building seems to be the way to go. What do you say, people?

satellites that are proliferating to a hazardous degree in space around our tiny planet. The Swiss announced recently that they are launching a janitor satellite designed to get rid of space junk. Apparently, the junk is proving very costly to functioning satellites “and even manned space ships�. Well, I have no intention to join the Branson lunacy to get into a space ship and see the world from a different perspective. Especially for a few billion quid. But janitor satellite expungers? Gee. Maybe we can get the same kind of sci-

in the area who winter in Mexico every year and never experience anything but the warmth and good nature of Mexicans. They are fortunate. Fortunate indeed.

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One last item that may give you some action in the gulping mechanism of credibility..the salary raises that the TNRD have given themselves. Last year, it was a whopping 40 per cent increase. This year, a bare, but I suppose, terribly, terribly necessary 1.-something per cent. As one critic noted, “for a few hours each week� - for rural directors. Are these, perhaps the 1 per cent-ers that the Occupiers are referring to? Surely not. For so small an amount? Still, its all relative, isn’t it?

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