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Call SECA Chair Douglas Hardie directly at 754 2773 local 212 (daytime)
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Hi Sharon: we’ll mention in the next newsletter too!
Hello! What an active association! I am a long time Nanaimo resident, and recently purchased an house on Nicol St. I hope to improve that property. I would like to know what sort of development would fit with the associations expectations for that area. I am near retirement and might want to place a quadruplex on the property and live in one of the units. I hope to attend your next meeting in November. Could you please direct me to a statement of expectations, and please place me on your mailing list.
Thanks
Hi
Please keep sending the newsletter.
Thanks
Hi All,
Put a listing on my site to help try and find Flaming Figgy.
Hope he/she is returned asap in pristine condition.
Cheers
Jim
Hello,
My name is Darcie Davidson. I am a Masters Student, and long time Nanaimo resident. In addition to this I was the coordinator for Central Vancover Island Harm Reduction programs, this is the group that runs Harris House Health Clinic.
My masters thesis is a communications topic regarding neighborhood organizing, and social services provision. While working in the field I became aware of a huge communications gap/problem between service providers, and residents around the provision of harm reduction programming in the community. There has been no academic studies in a communications filed on this. In addition to this, most academic literature around harm reductioon fails to consider this communications issue. I would like to address that in my thesis.
My research question is
Why do community members participate in debates around harm reduction service provision, and what are the impacts of this participation?
I an writing this as a community historical discussion of harm reduction in Nanaimo and I am desperately seeking personal perspectives on this issue.
I am looking to interview five Nanaimo community members that have participated in these discussions to assess these issues. It is an opportunity to tell the story from a neighborhood perspective, and academically it will provide the basis for this point of view in Harm Reduction literature.
I am an excellent student, and credible researcher. I will honour your story, and the way you share it with me. I will provide participants an opportunity to read the first draft and comment on my representation of their comments.
If anyone is interested or knows anyone who may be interested in participating in this project I would love to speak with them.
I can be reached at deedee_801@hotmail.com, or 250-585-1901,
Thanks,
Darcie Davidson
Once again, thank you for your ongoing efforts. I appreciate each and every newsletter you produce.
May I make a suggestion? Always date your references to meetings and other happenings.
Typically, I will get to your mailing a little late. Then I wonder: hmmmmm – is that this Wednesday, or last Wednesday or just when?
Often I can work backward from the dateline on a particular piece, but not always. So I think my suggestion is a good one – always include the actual date in the text when your announcing events.
Thank you.
Excellent point, Kim. Will do from here on in.
We can’t make the litter pick-up on saturday. Maybe we should have another one when the weather is better???
Hi, I moved to the south end in August and was hoping to get involved in some type of community litter clean up. Can you let me know when the association is planning on doing something like that I live in the area around Tenth and Douglas and this part of town could definately benifit from a clean up.
Does anyone have the scoop on the clearing happening at the vacant lot at the end of Irwin and Gillespie? One of the workers said he thought it was something to do with a farmer’s market…Should we be getting excited?
HI Amanda: Madilyn and Brent from R-U Computing have purchased that lot! They will know exactly what is happening there. But, yes, a farmer’s market has been bounced around…:)
Just wondered if anyone has any info on whats happening at Farquhar and Nicol. Paul Saroya (sp?) has been taking down houses, 3 of them, and I hear he’s going to put up a 40-45 unit low income housing developmet. Havent seen any mention of it on your blog and you seem to know whats going on. Isnt Paul Saroya one of Nanaimo’s worst slum lords? How will this low income building affect the south end?
I am not sure if you can help me with this or not, or if I need to contact somebody else, but where can I put in a request for a possible upgrade for a small community, children’s park? There is one on NOVA ST. in major need of being redone. We live around the corner with two small girls and there are quite a few other children in our area very close to that park also. It looks like it was built in the 60′s/70′s and is SO OLD! If you can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Caralynn
I spent some of my childhood living across from what is now called Deverill Park. We knew it as Haliburton Park. The kids played there and the dogs
played there. It would be sad to see too many hard and fast rules about the park. Animals and their owners enjoy the park too.
http://www.nanaimoinformation.com/forum/showthread.php?7322-Moving-to-Nanaimo-July-2013
This guy needs to get out more.
I was wondering when the Nanaimo Miners Heritage Picnic will be held this year? I can’t seem to find a date on the site for 2012.
I also tried to view the cool map – downloaded Google Earth [since it wouldn't seem to advance without my doing this - even though I already have it on my computer] – but still no map? Hmm…
joanne
Hi Joanne: I don’t have the date myself! I’ve sent off an e-mail and will get back to you. And thx for the heads up on Google Earth, I am having the same problem, I thought it was just me.
Barbara
Hi there. Great blog, really appreciate someone taking the time to create this for the neighborhood, and thank you. I have to tell you, though, I think you might want to manipulate the name somewhat. I would suggest “What’s up in Southend Nanaimo” or something similar — The current configuration suggests something somewhat uncomfortable and kind of hilarious. To some of the lower brow residents like me, that is . . .
Ha ha Edward, thanks!. When we set the blog up almost 3 years ago (or was it 4…?), this was the name we chose. You might be surprised to know how many people now just google \”what\’s up in the South End?\” to find us.
So while your suggestion is great, it makes search engine sense to stay as we are.
Thanks for writing.
Barbara Densmore
As of November 20th 2012 a new “Colliery Dams Preservation Society” has been formed to explore ways to save the upper and lower dams. Over 400 Harewood residents attended the community meeting last night, and heard from many speakers, including a CEO of a major island construction company who has remediated several BC dams to seismic standards at a cost much less than that stated in the Citys’ recent info brochure. It is possible to save the dams but only with strong community support.
Meeting on the Harbour Devitalization January 7 at the Coast Bastion Inn,
Dear Members of Nanaimo Neighbourhood Associations
Every so often an issue comes up that not only has an impact on our immediate neighbourhood boundaries but is of concern to the entire City. Such an issue is what is happening in the process of redevelopment at the Nanaimo Boat Basin.
This is the last public harbour on the shoreline of Nanaimo.
There is a Charter between the City and the Nanaimo Port Authority that you may know about. It was signed in 2004 and among other things states that public consultation on significant decisions relating to the Port and adjacent lands in the City is required. Significant effort has been made by impacted groups to have their concerns heard and dealt with but a situation still exists where without wording written into the agreement pertaining to public access for our neighbours on Protection Island they are in danger of losing their safest and shortest way home. The impact on their quality of life and on their property values will be huge. The fact that things have gotten this far is an injustice. Residents on Protection are collecting funds to hire a lawyer but until an agreement is actually signed between the Nanaimo Port Authority and the Pacific Northwest Marine Group they cannot take any legal action.
Also most affected are the owners and operators of the working boats in our Harbour. Moorage rates will more than double for fewer services. The loading crane is being removed in the new plan and not replaced in the new proposed, and as yet, unreleased plan for an unloading facility at the Assembly Wharf. Many working boat owners have already made the decision to relocate due to the treatment that they have received in this process where they feel that their presence in the Harbour is being discouraged and their economic contribution to this City is being ignored. Should they not have the right to moor their boats in their home town?
Many Nanaimo residents will not notice the change in the character of our Boat Basin if our working boats are replaced by shiny high end yachts moored there on a permanent basis as a static source of income for a private developer, the City and the NPA. Those of us that do notice will miss the vitality of the presence of the tugs, fishing boats and the public access to all citizens of Nanaimo at this mixed use marina. Dragon boaters, small boat owners, kayakers, and transient working and recreational boats will miss this access to town and there is nothing to say that changes made to the plan over the next thirty years will maintain any public access except possibly a walkway for the public to look at the boats. Most at stake here is public access to moorage. We would hope this will not happen but at present there is no guarantee that it will not because the Memorandum of Understanding between the developer and the NPA is not available for public viewing.
This is a human rights issue. It could put a private company’s authority in between work, school, food and services in town for Protection Island residents.
Our tax dollars have paid entirely for a place which the Nanaimo Port Authority is now preparing to make into a private economic venture rather than to maintain it as a service for the citizens of Nanaimo and its visitors.
This is a time when neighbourhoods need to band together to say that we deserve more than this from our City and Federal representatives.
A public meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 7th, 2013 at the Coast Bastion Inn from 7:00 to 9:00. Representatives from various stakeholders will be speaking in an effort to increase public awareness and participation on this issue.
Your presence at this meeting in support of the Nanaimo citizens most affected would be greatly appreciated.