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WHAT’S A SWEET VIEW LIKE YOU
DOING IN A DUMP LIKE THIS?
BY I. SOAR
I NEARLY SWITCHED OFF MY RADIO IN
DISGUST, WHEN I HEARD AFRICVILLE HEAD
HONCHO IRVINE CARVERY ON THE APRIL 7TH
INFORMATION BORING COMPLAIN ABOUT THE
MINEFIELD OF DOG CRAP IN SEAVIEW PARK.
(For you ignoramuses out there, Seaview
is the off-leash dog park under MacKay
Bridge, the former Africville site slated to be
transformed into Africville Reborn, after a
recent circa $5 million settlement.)
While I can sympathize with Irvine for valiantly
taking his people’s “pick up yer dog
poop” crusade public — after all, is there a
bigger injustice than stepping in a steaming
pile of Fido’s fragrant feces, short of, you
know, having your home razed and relocated?
— I can’t help but think that Irvine should be
devoting some of his considerable PR skills
to publicizing a much larger clean-up job.
Some Halifax rezzies are grumbling that the
beautification of the paradisiacal though pooinfested
Seaview Park is being marred by the
city’s constant dumping off Bayne Street.
“A bloody eyesore,” one aesthetically-sensitive
source calls it. “A giant dumping ground”
overlooking the otherwise scenic Bedford Basin.
“The piles are so high, they’re extending the
piles eastward, over towards where Carvery
has his protest caravan,” reports one rezzie.
Hopefully, said camper will stay out of harm’s
way from the encroaching landslide, er, landfill.
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According to HRM spokesthingy Shaune
MacKinlay, this eyesore is where the city
dumps its used construction material. Our big
heap of rubble borders Halifax Port Authority-owned
property, but lies on HRM-owned
land, between the park and the Ceres container
terminal.
The talented and fragrant Shauna even has
bureaucratic-sounding lingo for all this trash.
“Inert fill,” she calls it, describing the mound
of crap as old chunks of asphalt, granite, brick,
and cement.
While one might think the city is stockpiling
this debris to camouflage a secret subterra-
The new Seaview dump.
GOTHAM
CITY
nean fallout shelter for Mayor Peter Kelly and
mayoral speechwriter Peter Duffy to wait out
the coming Apocalypse (no phantom rapist will
ever penetrate them there), I understand the
mounds are formed to contribute to the betterment
of Halifax’s roadways. Awww, isn’t that
special?
Shaune tells me the city re-uses a lot of the
discarded material for re-filling potholes and
that sort of thing. Heck, maybe they will even
use some of it on the soon-to-be-constructed
Africville church.
Does Frank Know?
atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca
STOP THE #@%^*& PRESSES! BRIDGEWATER BULLETIN
PUBLISHER LYNN HENNIGAR IS SELLING HER LIGHTHOUSE
PUBLISHING SATELLITE OFFICE IN LUNENBURG FOR A COOL
$450,000.
While the 30-year-old building is tiny as a mousehole (I’m told only a
couple of Lynn’s footsoldiers work from there), the property includes a
large lot overlooking scenic Lunenburg Harbour.
Tradewinds agent John Powers suggests the building could easily
accommodate a loft apartment, but I’m sure others are more attracted
The Tiny Perfect Progress Entreprise office.
by the prospect of owing 80 feet of unused Montague Street frontage, with Tradewinds offering 36 separate listings in the historic town proper,
an absolute rarity in the UNESCO World Heritage site.
worth over $10 million in total; and Claussen Walters is listing 12
I guess the big question is, will Lynn offer potential buyers M&M Meat properties, totalling nearly $3 million.
coupons, like in the latest Bridgewater Bulletin/Progress Entreprise In fact, in my Easter weekend visit to Lunenburg, I saw more for sale
subscription campaign?
signs than residents.
For sale signs are a dime a dozen in lovely Lunenburg these days,
Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca
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