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The Prince and the Prior

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Museum with Folks in period dress
Arnprior & District Museum with people in 1860's dress.

Friday, 02 July, 2010.

The photo is from last week and has a man and a woman in period dress standing in front of the Museum.

‘Animators’, people in period dress, have been going out into the area towns to publicize the big event which will begin with people milling about from about 9:30 am.

The ‘Prince’ should arrive at Robert Simpson Park’s Beach between 10 and 10:30 am. (Do not try to get to the beach in a motor vehicle.)

There will be a reception near the beach in which re-enactors will re-enact greeting the Prince of Wales with flowers and singing, and proclamations.

There will be a dinner at what was the McLaughlin estate, which is now the Gallilee Centre.

People in period dress will be milling about the town until approximately 4 pm.

—————Jim

Gas Prices rise with HST

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1 July, 2010.

Most gas stations in Arnprior are selling their lowest grade at 101.9¢ per liter today after being stable at 94.7¢ per liter for several weeks.

Mr Gas is now an ESSO station. Its convenience store is still an “OOPS” store.

MacEwen Full Service (with Ethanol) is also at 101.9¢ per liter. I’ll have to check out the other Full Service Station.

—————Jim

Photos About Town

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The Weir.

The Weir on a Grey Morning in Arnprior

A ‘weir’ is a curved dam. This weir is on the Madawaska River in Arnprior. The island is where the fire department volunteers set off the fireworks on Canada Day (July First). -Love the dramatic curves. You can just about make out the Museum’s Tower just left of center in the background.

Church and Construction Northwest across the Madawaska

Weir and Island to the left, Church and Construction across the river.

Looking just a bit west of Due North across the mighty Madawaska (The Weir is just out of sight to the left). The Church is Saint John Chyrstostom’s. (sp? It’s spelled differently every time I see it listed anywhere.) and the Construction at the river’s edge is a waste water treatment plant expanding. Local Members of Parliament got in big trouble by ceremoniously presenting cheques that tried to advertise the Conservative Party and prominently displayed their own names, as if the largess was all theirs and the funds hadn’t come from everybody’s tax money and had to be approved by Members of Parliament from all kinds of political striping. (How’s that from bad grammar?)

Toward the Mouth of the Madawaska

The Madawaska flows into the Ottawa River at Chats Lake beyond the trees.

Looking slightly East of North (I think). Construction to the left across the water, beyond the trees on that side there is a park and a beach on Chats Lake. Jutting out into the river on this side is a boat club, another park, and a rocky point. Chats Lake is a pretty darn wide section of the Ottawa River. I’m thinking it’s at least a mile wide here. Quebec on the other side.

—————Jim

Town Council to Consider Using By Law Enforcement Officers Door to Door to Count Pets

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-Arnprior, Ontario, Canada. Monday, 07 June, 2010.

The Arnprior Town Council Committee of the Whole okayed a feasibility study to look into the costs and benefits of sending By-Law Enforcement Officers door to door to count dogs and cats and enforce the law requiring pets to be licensed. Of the estimated “over a thousand” dogs in town, less than three hundred are currently licensed. The town also has a By-Law limiting the number of dogs and cats to two dogs and two cats per household. The issue was strangely contentious, taking almost half an hour to pass at Monday’s meeting. Among other questions the feasibility study should look into are “How long will it take for By Law Enforcement Officers to visit each home and count all the pets?” and, “How much will it cost us to pay temporary officers to do this?” and, “How much do we stand to gain by forcing compliance with our current by-laws?” Other issues included, “Should we have one price if citizens pay for their licenses before March and another price for those who pay after March?”

—————Jim

Prices Actually Went Down, before a weekend.

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I thought ‘they’ would be trying to capitalize, big time, on the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

But gas prices actually went down as the weekend approaches.

Most stations in town are at 94.7¢ per litre.

Even the MacEwen Full Service Station on Madawaska Blvd that has the Ethanol was at 94.7¢ per litre.

Petro Canada at the Mac’s all night convenience store is at 94.9¢ per litre.

(Maybe I better pinch myself. But I did get some gas before they changed their mind.)

—————Jim

Prince Of Wales 1860 Visit Re-Enactment

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This is a press release:

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Prince of Wales Costume Workshop
Saturday Morning, May 29 @ 9:30
Kenwood Building, Edward Street

Come and discover how to create a period costume and accessories the easy way. This is open and free to all animators and those just attending the Re-Enactment of the Prince of Wales’ visit to Arnprior on July 3rd. If possible bring what you think would be a good costume for 1860 and we can make it more authentic. If you can, please bring a glue gun, artificial flowers, sewing kit and material if you have any, We will meet you at the front double doors off Edward Street.

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(There is a wheel chair ramp up to the double doors.)

—thanks,

—–Jim

Gasoline Prices Update

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As of 5 am on May 21st:

Most gas stations sell their lowest grade at 96.3¢ per liter.

Petro Canada Near the hwy 417 construction is at 96.5¢ per liter.

MacEwen (+ethanol) full service on Madawaska Blvd is at 96.7¢ per liter.

And the last time I drove by the car wash (Stinson Gas) near PJ’s on Madawaska Blvd (Yesterday) their gas was at 97.5¢ per liter.

***Remember, there is mounting proof that ‘peak oil’ is a lie. The Earth keeps replentishing our supplies of crude oil and the big oil companies are perpetrading fraud on the rest of us in order to rake in huge profits.There is no shortage. There never was a shortage, There never will be a shortage. Their supply hugely outweighs our demand.***

—————Jim

Gas Prices Update

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To quote top Exxon officials: “There is no gas shortage, There never was a gas shortage, and from what we know now, there never will be a gas shortage!”

This planet and many others manufacture oil by some process we don’t yet understand. There are more oil reserves now than ever before and consumption has more than doubled since 1973.

And in 1973 many many huge tankers full of crude oil stayed off shore of New England until they were declared “New Oil” and could be sold for $30 a barrel instead of $3 a barrel. Oil company officials were running all around the state of Connecticut, looking for closed gas stations, any place they could find to hide as much gasoline as possible so they could free up their tankers to go get more. Gasoline trucks were meeting drivers in New York State (the Ithaca area) in the middle of the night to fill their gas tanks so they could deliver whatever they were delivering. The above two examples are just what I am personally aware of.

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Gas prices in Arnprior:

As of Thursday Morning, 29 April, 2010, 7 am:

After at least two stations (Ultramar and Mr Gas) tried to raise their price to over 98 ¢ per litre, prices have rolled back to 96.3¢ at most stations with MacEwen (+ethanol) at 97.5¢ and Petro Canada at 96.5¢ per litre.

I haven’t driven the extra half a kilometer to check out the Stinson station with the car wash (which is usually the most expensive in town) or the extra 6 kilometers ((3 each way)) to the other side of the highway to see how the Stinson station there and the Ultramar at the truck stop are doing.)

—————Jim