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StewartM
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 02:59 pm |
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| Cracker can you do your computer thing and give Bill a going away party....
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 03:36 pm |
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Absolutely Mike!!! Great Idea!!!
We usually do this over on MAAN, but this time I'll make an exception!
Even though I am not the official party planner, I'll do my best since Kris is not here.....
 Ready?? Got your party hat on???
GOODBYE BILL BRUCE!!!
We appreciate you and all of your hard work!
We are sad to see you go and we'll all miss you!
Sorry you had to put up with all of the rudeness
Thanks for doing a wonderful job for Summerfield!
Maybe your new employers will even provide you a spot to eat lunch!
Good luck on your new job Bill!
Woo Hoo!!
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 03:40 pm |
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I'll even do the after party clean up
since the cleaning crew (also Kris) isn't in....
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StewartM
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 05:41 pm |
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| Well done Cracker...you might take over the offical party duties....sorry Kris
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 06:06 pm |
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We'll miss you, Bill!
You done good, Crackah. Pappy would rather be throwin' that party for somebody else, though.
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StewartM
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 06:44 pm |
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| AMEN PAPPY
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2006 08:30 pm |
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We'll definitely be throwin' a party on that special occasion fellas!
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 01:38 pm |
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I'll also miss Bill. I always found him extremely willing to help educate me on matters of planning and zoning in Summerfield.
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 01:44 pm |
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Do you feel the actions of some in the town are beginning to give Summerfield a "bad reputation"? Although no one can say this is what caused town planner Bill Bruce or some volunteers to leave, I think it's safe to say it definitely played a part in attorney Bill Trevorrow's decision.
Do you think others will consider this type of information before coming to work or volunteering for the town, and what do you think the council should do to combat this?
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 03:36 pm |
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S. Smith wrote: Do you feel the actions of some in the town are beginning to give Summerfield a "bad reputation"? Although no one can say this is what caused town planner Bill Bruce or some volunteers to leave, I think it's safe to say it definitely played a part in attorney Bill Trevorrow's decision.
Do you think others will consider this type of information before coming to work or volunteering for the town, and what do you think the council should do to combat this?
I am quoting this so I can remember the points I want to make. Old age is not all its cracked up to be.....
I don't think there is any questions that the constant harrassment that has gone on for the last two years affected everybody in this town and certainly made others outside the town wonder. We had a dream as a council to make Summerfield pretty, unique, healthy and safe. When Bill Bruce was hired, one of his charges from the Town Council, was to pursue the Town Core and try to make it unique with sidewalks, small shops and keep the look of a small town. The council visited different areas to see what they had done to achieve this. Then along came the concerned citizens and so many of the plans that we were learning about have gone to the wayside as the negative nabobs scream and shout. The problem is that not having a plan will not stop Summerfield from changing it will just mean we have no plan. If you don't believe that think back 10 years ago to what we were.
The fact that Bill Bruce left after only 6 months would certainly indicate that there were issues with his job. He was exactly what we were looking for and I believe the Town needed , young, energetic, enthusiastic, well educated. He along with Michael got our planning department up and going in about 4 months. But the months of constant harrassment and questioning took its toll and now he is at Guilford County.
As to volunteers are we surprised that good people are leaving. We have had our ethics questioned, been accused of being incompetent, on the take, liars. My surprise is that we still have volunteers.
Having said all this I think it is time to stop these tactics and get on with the business of growing this town. Surely to goodness the concerned citizens have copies of every single piece of paper generated in this town over the past 10 years. They to my knowledge have found absolutely no wrong doing so lets give it up and move on to making Summerfield the place that most everybody said they moved to.
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Vicki White-Lawrence
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 03:48 pm |
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| As an outsider looking on, it has been confusing as to how a minority has been able to create such chaos. Do you think people are more willing now to speak up and challenge them? It just seems that they have been afforded too much power... Now that these two have been elected to Council, don't they represent ALL of the town, and not just their faction? In order to speak for or represent the town, don't they have to be given that authority by Council?
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 04:08 pm |
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That's what got me through election week Vicki... Thinking maybe now their hands are "tied" and they won't be able to be as anti-Summerfield since they are supposedly representing all of us. Not to mention that they would be forced to stop talking and listen, perhaps even learn something and see first hand why certain decisions are made.
Guess I'm a dreamer.... The Trevarrow incident proves it.
She was not speaking for the people or for the council.
Oh! I LOVE the avatar Vicki...Haven't noticed it before!
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 04:15 pm |
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Well said, Jane.
This is, unfortunately, one of Pappy's "favorite" topics.
Of course their actions affect everything and everybody, like a miasma of excrement from an open sewer. It makes Pappy's blood boil to think what they've done here. They put their own narrow self interests above the town's and have the absolute unmitigated gall to claim they are the voice of the people and they alone can be trusted, they alone know the answer! NEVER! They don't mind making sacrifices as long as it's somebody else's hard work or reputation they scarifice. Like other vermin, they operate best in darkness, so the more light that's shed on their actions the better. When someone from another town (SMU98) is so disgusted with their actoins that he or she is moved to write against them, that says a lot!
I'll have more to say after I cool off a bit.
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Jan 29th, 2006 04:26 pm |
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| I know Pappy, I read Sandra's posting this morning and thought "oh my and this is Sunday too"! I had to cool off before I posted. Unfortunately they got elected, 8 more people vote for them which gives them a voice and a position for the next 4 years. I guess my goal is to try and see the vision that Summerfield was working on doesn't get lost in the "miasma of excrement". That next year we get forward thinking people on the Town Council who have a vision for Summerfield and that that vision is not to tear down everything that has been accomplished in the past 10 years. that we regain our civility and politeness that has so been lost over the past 2 years.
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Posted: Jan 30th, 2006 12:45 am |
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I noticed in the last NWO that BS added some comments to her original remark regarding her training in Rocky Mount. She referred to her critics on this subject (meaning those who question why Ms. No Spending Unless its on Me- or Ms. NOSUM for short, isn't getting trained here or staying with her family in Rocky Mount) as "naysayers". Interesting that for the past two years she has been nothing but a naysayer herself. Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?
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