Petition

Hi Josh,

Thank you for your comment and not calling me a Psycho until proven in court. Look at this one. You trust our judge, our court system, our Democracy, that's all I ask for. Follow the rules, the By-Laws, be transparent for the public to understand what is going on and what you are doing with our money.
Now, we have to ask the court to tell them they have to respond and answer our questions.
"Something you can help me with"
I really appreciate the fact that you are determined to be informed. I have a job for you. If you want to make copies of this petition and get some locals that are curious to find the truth and who the real psychos are, to sign this and help us convince the court that there is something wrong here and it should be fixed. We don't have much money, we are on a very limited budget, all of what we do is volunteer. But we would give you a loonie for every name of the local voters with a signature that you can collect and you will have participated in doing a good deed for the community you love. This is a good start for a young man with courage and determination and does not sound like a shyster. If you feel you can be involved we can meet over dinner at a restaurant of your choice. You, my daughter and I. So we can discuss the situation of which way you would like to be involved.
Thank you for your time.

You Be The Judge

Hi Josh,
Here is another one for you to understand why I am so down on the Community Futures Organization like you said. The programs are very, very good. It's just the Board of Directors and the Managers that are no good. They make mistakes on purpose to fool the public like you and your family and everyone else as far as that goes. If you read this letter and pay attention to what you read, you will understand. I hope you won't be calling Mr Landry a psycho because he is asking those parasites questions. He read from their By-Laws #1 (aka the Charter of Incorporation) that states what they must be doing to get Incorporated. They are too smart for that, they don't follow the rules. He also looked at the lies of their website "The Board of Directors is nominated and elected" By who? where? and when? You will soon understand who the real psychos are.

 

Psychotic Family

Here Josh, for your family and friends that call me "Psycho"
This should please them.

Dear Mr. Fred:
My name is Josh. I go to North Island Secondary School here. I am 16 years old. I want to know, why are you so down on the Community Futures organization? It has promised us many great things! You are regarded by many locals as the town psycho and crackpot and I was told by my parents to stay away from you but I want to hear from you personally. I am interested in this community and want to make it a better place. Please don't rip my head off as I just want to get a better understanding of your line of thinking.
Yours truly
Josh

Which Authority?

"They accomplish amazing things."
In 2009, Mr Rushton is correct in saying that. They eliminated 3 categories of members where the public could participate in the Community Economic Development (CED).
Look at this letter below, this is what they told Incorporations Canada that it was sanctioned by the members. OOOPS! Where are the members?!?! We can't find any! That is called "Being very careless with the truth, or abuse of authority." By the way, What authority? How did Mr Rushton get in that seat of power, being the Chair of the Community Futures Development Corporation of Mount Waddington???
Doesn't the public have the right to know? They are the ones paying the bills.
Thank you.

Councillor To The Editor

Dear Editor:

You were absolutely correct in saying that Mayors were re-elected with a mandate.  Mayor Bev Parnham's community's decision to have her as their mayor speaks of vision and a forward movement to the future.  They are actively reaching out to industry to promote economic development and are focused on transforming their community.


Port McNeill also re-elected with a mandate.  Stay with the status quo.  While it is true that our mayor was elected with a 59% majority vote, there are still the 41% whose interests need to be considered.  I disagree with our mayors statement the there was no explanation of change.  They were, just to name just a few: Community infrastructure improvements, economic diversification,  empowering the voices of our community (especially listening to young families and seniors) and an open & transparent government.


I have heard it said that the town should be run like a household.  A little more coming in than going out.  Even someone who runs a household needs to have some money in the bank when that day comes and the roof needs replacing.  Drive around this little community and have a good look at the sidewalks, roads and major town assets.  I dare say a "few roofs are leaking".


Sincerely,


Gaby Wickstrom

This letter was sent to the Editor by one of our local Councillors who realised how our local Government works with the Senior Politicians manipulating the situation for the new comers who are probably scared to ask questions in fear of being ridiculed in front of others. Gaby decided that enough was enough. She put her foot down and put it on record. I was trying to recommend to our Community that they should support her actions and inform the public at large that our local Community Newspaper is not interested in doing. The perspective of our local paper is "Keep quiet, don't rock the boat, and hide everything."
"When you know everything, secrecy becomes a lie to everyone."
The following is a letter we sent to the Editor that was not published.
We await your comments.

A first in the history of the Regional District of Mount Waddington that an elected Councillor,
a person is power in our region had the guts to stand up and be counted for what she believed
and what she campaigned for. The Community Economic Development and Democracy.
The "Status Quo is not good enough" is 100% correct and I agree with that. If anyone wants
to know more, just let me know, I have the proof. Good for you Gaby Wickstrom! Tired of
being used and abused. Now the cat is out of the bag. You don't like what is going on and I don't
blame you. You cannot use your power properly if most of the work is done behind your back
and you aren't informed of what is going on. Another Councillor on you team was quote as saying
"The Council doesn't have to tell the public how they spend the money." Is this true? Or do you
not know about this? Open and transparent. Where? When? and How?

Election Time

Watch who will be on the Board of Directors of the most useless Government as possible called Regional District, appointed there through the local Municipality or area Director.
If you want to start something fresh you have to throw out the trash.
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision making from the elected politicians to some local society with a phony "Board of Directors" where local politicians sit on those Boards as volunteers which are not accountable to the public according to the manager of the Regional District. The public is expected to accept that without asking any questions. You're a politician or you're a volunteer, you can't be both in the same mandate.
Read those Mayors comments from 10 years ago.

The Regional District is designed to make the local Municipality's problems disappear without addressing the real issue.

1) They work well together.
2) They don't work well together.
3) Bringing communities together.
4) Lots of conflicts.
5) There is some conflicts.

They don't even understand each other and they are well informed. What about the public that are misinformed by some of our local politicians. Like the example above which one should you believe?

Democratic Society???

The media are chickens, cowards, the fear reeks among them to remain silent. Man, in a supposed free country also called a Democratic society, I never saw such a sad, pitiful, disgraceful, disgusting behavior by media reporters that are too damn scared of their shadow to print the truth and inform the public of what is going on. Like this reporter, Jay Latkoczky that lost his job because he had the courage and the conscience to come to my house and look at both sides of the story and said, "This is too big for us" It ended up either too big or too small. To what ever excuse you want to use
For:
1) North Island Gazette
2) Go public
3) 5th Estate
4) The Province
5) The Vancouver Sun
6) CBC Radio
and all the other ones that I forgot becuase it's been so long.
Our local newspaper should be made out of really smooth paper so that it can be used in public washrooms to save money because that's all it's good for.
When Mr Shank, the guy who started that paper, died this paper's credibilty was burried with him.
What a sad end for such a good start.

Andrea Lavgine was invited to a function in Port Mc Neill, after checking all the dates the function ended up to be in the Community Futures office, read for yourself.