Get a Room, Council!
ByJohn and Yoko did not share affection as enthusiastically in public.
The July DuPont City Clowncil meeting, sans Mayor Jenkins and Councilmember Grayum, featured a homage to our obsequious benefactor: CalPortland (formerly Glacier Northwest). Over the past three years, CalPortland has been the city’s go to guy for all matters trivial and mundane. Need some pamphlets? Call Cal. How about a sponsor for our lame local events? Call Cal. Do you need fourteen yards of aggregate or concrete? Boy, oh boy, call Cal!
Who can blame them? CalPortland is just carrying on in the tradition of offering up shiny objects to entice the natives. Watch as CalPortland grind the organ as our ignoble savages do a jaunty dance called the Mine Expansion Two Step. Goodbye two hundred acres of wooded land atop an aquifer; Hello trail markers!
OK. Exhale. This is a tad of an exaggeration, but it still looks bad. But if you look at the accomplishments of this council for the past few years, and there are not many, the credit can be linked to CalPortland and their tireless patronage.
You have to tip your cap to CalPortland; they pay attention to the dysfunction of our council and act accordingly. They spend generously because a dotted “i” here and a crossed “t” there and they stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars in DuPont. What is a couple of grand between friends?
“Each man has his price, Bob, and yours was pretty low”
Roger Waters
From Too Much Rope
Looks like DuPont is still a company town. Maybe we should change our name to CalPortland or Glacier Northwest?
CalPortland wants the creek group to increase flows to help augment water loss in Edmonds Marsh. Then they wouldn’t have to fight the code and try to mitigate it. Oh wait, you can’t midigate water loss in a class 1 wetland. Someone remind the City that also please.
“Clowncil” LOL
The mucky-mucks at CalPortland have GOT to be laughing their heads off. Such a deal they get! A few pittance of coinage & trinkets artfully dropped off here and there, with large amounts of their own fanfare (add Mike Davis waving pompoms) and Voilà! City Hall et al drinks their special brand of CalPortland CoolAid and they get everything they want. Bottom line is, that when Weyerhaueser sold the section now known as the Mineral Resource Overlay to Northwest Resource Partners, they sold us down the creek into the Puget Sound. Weyerhaueser didn’t get their spiffy deep water port, so they got the next thing. Out of town. CalPortland wants to give back to the Citizens of DuPont? How about building us a first class community center with an indoor swimming pool & recreation facility, an outdoor skate park that outdoes University Place, and be sure to include lots of parking. Considering they will make profits in the BILLIONS from the 710 acres they are lusting to mine, they can well afford it. Now that’s a payback, folks!
CalPortland CoolAid your not to far off. Please check out this link.
http://www.levistrauss.com/blogs/braddock-pa-15104
“The Levi’s® brand is committed to funding the refurbishment of Braddock’s community center, a focal point of the town and their youth-based programming.” This is going on in many cities and town across the USA. These cities and towns have Mayors, City Council Members and City Administrators that work for the Citizens of their cities and towns first. They are not out chasing their personal wants and wishes as here in DuPont. There have been many stories about Braddock, PA. The mayor was just on the Colbert Report.
FYI,
http://www.levistrauss.com/news/press-releases/levis-proclaims-we-are-all-workers-launch-latest-go-forth-marketing-campaign
I think what is of greater concern than how Glacier bestows gifts to the city is how unimaginative the city is. Our price is pretty low, indeed.
Maybe CalPortland can turn the mine into a golf course after they are done with their expansion. Purposed name: Pebble Breach.
They already did that. It’s called Chambers Bay.
And I thought this town kissed the military’s ass! We need Operation We Love Our Aggregate.
Psst! skate park, get them to build us a skate park. And tennis courts. And replace our sidewalks. And pave the rest of the creek trail. I never did really like all that grass in the creek anyway.
And a pool.