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Petersen Pontiac trying to cut the mustard
 Posted 8/26/2010 6:20:00 PM
There are trying to cut the mustard at Petersen Pontiac.
Or maybe a better way to put it would be that they are trying to deflate it.
Strathcona County bylaw officials have ticketed the business and given it a list of potential fines due to the fact that they have a giant inflatable mustard bottle on top of their dealership, part of their rather bizarre mustard-themed attempts to get you to but a vehicle.
Never quite understood how those go together.
It is all a part of recent sign bylaws enacted in this ban-happy burg, attempting to cut down on sign clutter in general and limiting the amount of time that inflatables can be used for promotion.
I’m sure it was someone else affected by this that took umbrage to the fact that they couldn’t and here was this giant yellow mustard bottle that has been on top of Petersen’s ...
Back to school again
Posted 8/20/2010 5:19:00 PM
It’s almost time for kids to go back to school again.
Couldn’t come soon enough.
Sherwood Park has seen such a rash of home and vehicle break-ins this summer that we are thinking of canceling the season altogether.
We’ve suffered enough.
I can’t believe I was actually against the curfew that doesn’t seem to be enforced in this town anyways. Yes, I know that 90 per cent of kids are good and don’t deserve to be tagged with the same paint can as the 10 per cent or lower of losers doing the swathe of damage in town at the moment.
I just don’t care right now.
It finally hit home for me on Thursday.
Directly in front of my home, actually.
I woke up to find the driver’s side rear window smashed in. A window that doesn’t give access into my van or even a way to unlock the ...
It was time to catch up with Uppal
Posted 8/15/2010 11:05:00 AM
On Saturday at Centennial Park, Edmonton-Sherwood Park Member of Parliament Tim Uppal held a barbecue, giving local residents the somewhat rare chance to meet him in person.
Heck, we didn’t even know what he looked like when he was elected.
Many people in the Park have been somewhat wary of our MP as it was felt like he had hijacked the nomination process with a last-minute flood of newly-minted party memberships and seemingly went out of his way not to provide the local paper with a picture of himself until the last minute possible so that people wouldn’t be swayed by the fact that he wears a turban.
There’s also the problem with the electoral boundaries, allowing the Edmonton portion of his riding to heavily influence the results in the Park, an area which was used to being the deciding factor in elections before they redrew the lines.
That’s why ...
Baby blog ideas
Posted 8/8/2010 3:00:00 AM
Some items that never grew up to be blogs.
• I know they aren’t that big on signs here in Sherwood Park but I firmly believe that if you are building a new business in this burg that you should have to have a sign on it saying what is coming in. If only to keep my mom from asking me what it will be every single time we drive by one. And also to prevent me from being disappointed when it isn’t the Harveys or Arbys I have so desperately been craving and campaigning for.
• There was another pair of dog killings in rural Strathcona County this past week.
iReport: More tragedy for the Thompsons
A Basset Hound and a German Shepherd Cross, both family pets, were found dead on railway tracks on Range Road 204 near Township Road 515, not far from the owner’s residence.
The same ...
EPCOR/AltaLink just don't get it
Posted 7/31/2010 5:14:00 PM
They just don’t seem to get it over at Epcor and AltaLink.
They certainly don’t seem to give a fig what we think here in Sherwood Park, anyways.
We didn’t want the huge 500kV power line from Wabamun to the Industrial Heartland in Strathcona County and Fort Saskatchewan to come through town.
They made us the preferred route, which will run the massive, potentially health-threatening towers very close to major sub-divisions in town and would even cut the Strathcona Druids rugby fields in half.
So everyone here, including RETA (Responsible Electricity Transmission for Albertans), the group spearheading the fight against the lines, implored the energy companies to at least run that section of the line underground to protect the citizenry of the Park and its property values.
Their comeback?
How about if we make the towers taller?
Are you fricking kidding me?
Yes, apparently the power line powers that be ...
Place 'yer bets in the Ghoul Pool
Posted 7/25/2010 4:20:00 AM
Dead, dead, dead.
Sherwood Park is its usual summer ghost town at the moment.
Sure some kids that were breaking into cars have been caught and there has been some council decisions of very little note, but nothing I really feel like writing about or you likely to read about.
At this time of year everybody is out camping or at the lake or at Klondike Days (Capital Ex my butt) so the Park is dead.
So with that in mind excuse me for getting a tad morbid to spice things up around here.
I have started a Ghoul Pool.
Basically it works like this.
I got 25 of my friends to give me 20 (we’ll call them cookies) each.
I then prepared a list of 25 celebrities that really shouldn’t die this year, but most of them live high-risk lifestyles. I also threw in a few I simply don’t ...
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