ROASTS AND TOASTS
TOAST: To Brenda who works in day procedures in the hospital. She made a rather unpleasant procedure much easier with her gentle and relaxed way. She certainly made me more relaxed. She is a gem! ROAST: To the person complaining about water conservation and water wasted on outdoor skating rinks and artificial snow on ski hills. 40,000 homes in Lethbridge use an average of 92 gallons per day - that’s 3.6 million gallons. A large skating rink uses 10,000 gals in two weeks and water in artificial snow becomes natural runoff and is used downstream. TOAST: To Service Canada Lethbridge staff. Went in with Passport renewal forms. Lucked out with only two people ahead of me in line. Waited for about five minutes then was called into one of the cubicles by a staff member. Everyone there was friendly and helpful. Very easy process. Thank you so much!
TOAST: To Mr. Dzuren for his letter on voting as the best way to change govt. It really scares me how this UCP is catering to Trump-style extremists. Inviting one of these wackos, Tucker Carlson, was a huge disaster and a frightening wake up call for all Albertans. ROAST: Did the previous city council do a good job? Answer: ‘No.’ The time came to have an election and we the taxpayer voted for same old, same old and now we blame council and Administration for the rotten job they are doing. Can we afford them? As taxpayers of this city we had better stand up and look in the mirror to find the real culprit in this fiasco. ROAST: We pay taxes for streets and road maintenance, including snow and ice control. Now the City wants to plow the road snow onto my driveway apron. Why would they not follow the plows with a Bobcat to clear the windrow from my driveway?
ROAST: To Big Pharma. The greed just makes me sick. TOAST: To the Edmonton Oilers on your amazing season. What better place to end your historic winning streak than in Las Vegas, the city where dreams go to die. There’s still plenty of hockey left to play and we’ll be cheering you on, all the way. Go Oilers! TOAST: To myself and everyone who is seriously recycling. Our two-person household collects all the garbage plastic and glass and takes it to one of the Lethbridge waste stations. This represents a volume of two garbage containers every six weeks. We recycle three full blue bins every six weeks. We recycle two green compost bins every three weeks and only one black bin with garbage in that timeframe. That means we divert 43 bins per year away from the landfill. For a city like Lethbridge that number could be an equivalent of more than two million garbage bins per year.
ROAST: To Lethbridge Waste Management for not making it public knowledge what is happening to all that garbage plastic.
TOAST: To the Roaster to the City of Lethbridge: “I believe you have budgeted for snow removal, not snow moving.” Nailed it! Well said! ROAST: A woman steals a half a million dollars and she gets a year house arrest. What a slap in the face to the poor who steal to feed their children and go to jail.
ROAST: To the City and the former Exhibition board. Calgary has the BMO Centre, Lethbridge has a fine trade hall with no corporate name and no funds left. Coincidence? TOAST: To Paul Kype, Steve Keenan and the Texas Flood Band. The recent YouTube videos of their live performance in Calgary of rocking blues songs have now totalled an amazing 450,000 hits, with compliments from around the world. ROAST: To Premier Smith. Hosting Tucker Carlson for a media event to please the right wing fringe Take Back Alberta movement and then having dinner with him is an embarrassment for Alberta and Canada.
ROAST: The downtown task force is hearing things they should already know if they had listened to the businesses and the public in general all along. When this city had beat cops on foot patrol 24/7 things were much better. You can’t hear the sounds of night while driving around in a automobile. I know times have changed but crime has only gotten worse. Perhaps it’s time to cut out things like consultants, task forces, surveys etc. and go back to what worked.
TOAST: To Tucker Carlson. Thank you for trying to open the blind eyes of our Canadian people, and for trying to expose the truth. Roast to all who choose to ignore. TOAST: To Timothy Pope’s Letter to the Editor about the truth of electric vehicles! Those of us who own one know the truth; you summed it up perfectly!