I live in the south end of Simcoe Grey. Long term residents lovingly refer to our village as Dodge. We small urbanites do not have the luxury of postal delivery. Such is life. After almost 30 years of going to the box I no longer complain.
A few months back, a new postmaster arrived and removed the recycling bin. In the past many residents left a small mountain of flyers. They clearly did not want to receive them. It was a simple yet effective way to register your complaint about the amount of junk mail. Many place their postal remittances on the floor where there used to be a blue bin once stood; so much for recycling in the postal service.
Every so often, the bin overflows with flyers from our MP; lovely pronouncements on government policy and the progress of the Harper Crew’s now Honourable Lady in pictures and print. Recently in Tottenham we have seen two similar pieces. Both had Happy Birthday to Tottenham, happy 120th that is. There is only one problem with this junk mail, paid for by the taxpayer, and known as 10 percenters.
It was our 125th anniversary celebration that the Honourable Lady attended at the Tottenham Conservation Area. On a beautiful sunny day in July, she, surrounded by local dignitaries, handed out one of those now infamous oversized cheques. Several months later the facility is still not started, although the other addition, paid out of the property tax, is slated for completion in early February.
For those who missed it, an article in one of the Toronto dailies on Sunday pointed out our Honourable Lady received the silver recently. In what you say, did she win a literary award; is she now a sports star? No, she placed second of all 308 MPs in the amount of taxpayers’ money she spent on informing the populace in ours and others’ ridings, of the record of her and her Conservative cronies. Remember the controversy when she sent one to hubby Rahim Jaffer’s former riding.
I suspect there will be another drop to apologize for this inaccuracy.
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