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Snow day means 2nd cup of coffee day. We stated the day at 7:00am at hockey practice. Needed the 4x4 to get there this morning. We got home and decided everyone should bunker down for the morning. I worked at my home office for the morning keeping my eye on the weather. I tried to time it from snow to rain. I was able to get my driveway done and loaded the snowblower in the truck to look after Mom and Dads drive.
My 3 leg squirl was busy at the bird feeder today. Susan thought he lost weight. I was wondering did he go from 50 pounds to 45 pounds the robust rodent?
Today is Susan and I 15 year anniversary. Every year I go to McKnights to buy roses for her. This year was no different. I have a good streak going here!
They have the nicest roses.
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After picking up the roses I stopped by 1411 McAuliffe Lane to flip signs. My favourate part of the job. SOLD!
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Over the weekend I was able to get my hands on the emails
that Hespeler Minor Hockey sent to the parents of the suspended 6 and 7 year
olds. You can find these letters below.
Here is a few
points I want to make. These letters should be professional and they were anything but professional. The letters started
nicely, “Hi Chris!” The letter then quickly went bad from there.
Keep in mind these are extremely heavy suspensions laid on these kids. You could spit in someone’s face, line
brawl, head check and never be suspended for a full year, but this was the
punishment laid upon 6 and 7 year olds for their actions. Their actions of
playing hockey
It was not so much what was in the letter that had me
bothered but what was not. Hespeler Minor Hockey who sent this email to
the suspended kids parents never quoted what rule was broken, where to find
that rule or what section or subsection, what the rights of the kids are, who made this decision, what proof
of the crime other then someone "seen" the child playing and how the punishment
was rendered
There is so many wrong things happening here in this story. It
all starts off from the Executive at Hespeler Minor Hockey Association, to OMHA
to OHF then to Hockey Canada. These organizations better look into this
situation now and explain to their membership, which I am part of, what the
heck is going on.
Here is the fails in mission statements in the hockey organizations:
Remember Hockey Canada your mandate:In a positive hockey experience for all participants, in a safe, sportsmanlike environment. In the development of life skills which will benefit participants throughout their lives. In the values of fair play and sportsmanship, including the development of respect for all people by all participants.
Remember Ontario Minor Hockey Accociation: Leaders om Community Sport-Creating better people and stronger communities
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On Friday after work Susan and I decided to go to the cottage for the weekend even though we would not be there much! We arrived and got the heat on which was not a bad thing since the temps were falling quickly this weekend. We settled in for the night and had a few drinks watching the hockey game. This was good and relaxing. Kids even played quietly. I would need it as Saturday I knew was going to be nuts.
Saturday we were up and gone early in the morning. My son had one game in Ennismore and my oldest daughter had a game at Northcrest and a practice in Lakefield. I was also able to squeeze showings in the blanks between ice times. it made for a full day that is for sure.
One of my stops on Saturday morning was at Tim Hortons in Bridgenorth. I could not believe that the parking lot and drive through was practically empty. That said 25 cars pulled in behind me so it did not last long.
After a long day of running all over the place we stopped at the house to check on things before we went to the cottage. We did see some birds around the feeder and a little Dove pressed against the window looking for some warmth.
On Sunday we were back up early in the morning as my daughter had a hockey game back in Ennismore. It snowed over night and I took this shot of Eels Creek before we left Apsley. After the hockey game in Ennismore I ran back to Norwood area for a showing. No shortage of miles!
During Sunday afternoon I worked on two offers on 2 listings that I had in Peterborough. It was nice to have both listings conditionally sold. Congratulations to my sellers!
I went home to referee 3 kids who decided to fight all afternoon. Once I got all that sorted out we had dinner and I watched a terrible Leaf game. Go Leafs Go!
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This morning was a pop out of bed at 6am and wake up my kids as they had hockey practice at 7am. My son wakes up without any issues, my oldest daughter fights me every step of the way. I was finally able to get her butt out of bed at 6:35am. A bucket of cold water was coming.
After hockey I finished my morning routine with a walk. I bundled up so the walk was warm enough, but if I had not it would have been quick. I was able to post my Walk and Talk. Subject was Northcrest and the City giving out parking tickets. I seen today as well the Peterborough Examiner picked up on my initial reaction I had on Twitter when I found out Ptbo's parking enforcement was ticketing cars of the participants of this past weekends Atom Tournament.
Off to the office to work on marketing, social media content and studying. Not all that exciting stuff but at least I can keep my eye on what is going on outside.
I took Susan out for lunch at Jim's Pizza and Pasta. As always we had a beautiful lunch. This restaurant has one of the best pizza's in Peterborough. It is nice to have a date lunch with Susan as it is almost impossible to do it in the night with so much kids activities going on.
I did complete my Royal Chat speaking to what I was looking for, what I had to offer. Check out this video.
After lunch I went back to the office and Susan ran to the kids school to help with reading. Then she gathers up all 3 kids and runs to the Y for swimming. After staring at the computer for hours I like to go for a walk to clear the mind and take some pictures. This is what I captured.
After work we all met for dinner then I took My youngest daughter to Sparks. This kid loves Girl Guilds. It sucked I will be honest to leave the warm house to drop and pick her up!
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It was kickstart morning for Royal Lepage Frank in Peterborough. Breakfast started at 8:15am. Meeting was at 9:00am with three speakers. I decided that I would still get up at my regular time of 6am but I would bounce out of bed at that time not lay there in denial for 20 mins like I usually do. Susan got out of bed at 6:45am and woke me up. I did not set the fricken alarm right the night before. Shit. I started my day late.
I did get my daily Walk and Talk out for the morning. Here is the chat!
I have my set of rituals I do every single morning. I rushed my tasks and was in the shower by 7:45am. I asked the kids to get their butts in gear as Susan wanted to come to the meeting as well. That was a mistake. Immediately my oldest went into slow motion mode. I left the house at 8:15am and arrived at Peterborough Golf and Country Club about 20 mins later. Susan, after dealing with the kids did not arrive until shortly after 9am. Keith had us all beat and was at the meeting upon my arrival.
Our Kickstart meeting had three speakers and the one I wanted to hear the most from is a Lawyer named Mark Weisleder. Mark was presenting for an hour about the Cannabis ACT how it affects sales and leases. We also heard from TD’s Albert Breckenridge on market conditions. I find that topic dry but it is useful information. Our last speaker was Phil Hollander from Morris Real Estate Marketing. He spoke about, you guessed it, Real Estate Marketing.
From this meeting I went to the Northcrest to tape tomorrows Walk and Talk. It will be a hot topic that is for sure. I took a look at the outside of the arena. I know what it looks like in the inside but I never paid much attention to the outside. It just looks neglected right from the sign on.
Take a look at this crack on the side of the building. They tried to patch it but the whole wall is pulling apart.
Late the prior night we worked on putting together a deal on my lot that I had listed on Surgarbush Cres. We where able to satisfy both the buyer and seller. I drove out to Lakehurst and flipped my first signs to SOLD for 2019. Nice to get that done.
After our kick start meeting Susan went back to the office for some more training offered by the Brokerage and to button up paperwork. I came home to work at the home office and wait to get the kids off the bus. I know why I love my office in Peterborough so much, it is hard to get on a roll of anything as the kids ask hundreds of questions every few minutes.
I then made dinner. lol Susan picked up the dinner and we quickly ate. We needed to be out of the house by 5:30pm to do a pickup and play a hockey game.
I got a few shirts made with the Royal Lepage logo. I purchased this in Lindsay at Kawartha Custom Vinyl. I had a RLP pin that I really liked but I lost the darn thing in the washing machine. My hope is to identify my profession when I am out and about.
My daughter played in the Ops arena in City of Kawartha Lakes for a night game. It is an old barn and the ice is awful. The puck literally does not slide on the ice. It sticks like carpet. The Ennismore Eagles and the Lindsay Linx played through the difficulty of the ice to have a wonderful game. Ennismore came out on top 3-2.
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Who gets a 79%
raise in pay? The only people in this world that would get a 79% pay raise is
someone who would give themselves that raise. Is this not just wrong?
Peterborough County Council has decided they are worthy of much much more pay.
Were these councilors not ok with the current pay when they ran for office?
Peterborough County Council has decided we need to pay them more. Not one
councilor said hey, this is wrong or maybe we should discuss this. Their raise
was given without discussion. What would have happen if a 79% raise for County
staff came to vote. Would they vote yes on this motion? Of course not. Does
Council value their services more then the hard working staff at the county.
Looks like it. This raise is said it is about attraction and retention. Really?
I had no idea Peterborough Counties Mayors and Deputy Mayors are hard to
retain.
I read a letter to the
Peterborough Examiner’s Editor last night by Ron Black. His letter brought even
a few more points what made the 79% raise in pay for Peterborough County
Council so wrong. Before I get to Ron’s points I want to make one thing clear
that seems to be a little misunderstood. The position of Peterborough County
Councillor is a part time position working for the County. Two meetings per month
and preparation time. This has nothing to do with their pay as Mayors or Deputy
Mayors in their own individual townships. One of Ron’s points are these
Councillors all ran for their positions for Mayor and Deputy Mayor knowing they
will automatically be on Peterborough County Council and the pay for the
position. Can anyone remember them running a platform to raise their pay for
Ptbo county council? Of coarse not, but this has been one of the very first
things they did. Another point that made their rational flawed was they used
other municipalities for comparables. None of these municipalities had a
deputy mayor but council decided to keep theirs. There was no comparable so
they throw him a 37% raise. It was also discussed the Warden was pay was higher
then most but since their was a loss in tax relief they were not going to
adjust that pay down. So in other words they cherry picked the data and
rational of the findings in the research of pay scale.
After writing this show
I asked myself, What do I want from this situation? What I want is someone from
the council to just speak to us about this situation open and
honestly. If they would just communicate with us, maybe this
situation could be healed quickly.
Comments to the reaction I received from the original video
That is all I have for you today.
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Hey everybody , Brad Sinclair here, your local Realtor,
Looking to earn your real estate business since 2007 and Welcome to today’s
walk and talk.
Selwyn Council and staff has put together a strategic
plan and goals document for their current 4 year term.I reviewed the 7 page document (click here to see document) of the 4 year
targets and I am a little disappointed of the lack of vision council has for
Selwyn. Most of the targets in this document can be accomplished within one or
two years very easily. Quite frankly, some goals should not even be in this
document. For example, one of the 4 year goals is to expand the leaf and yard
waste pick up in Ennismore and through out the Township. Why is a County of
Peterborough program on Selwyn strategic plan? Another silly goal is having
name tags for staff and on hold music for the township. Is that really the
priority of council in a four year term?
That said there is some excellent
goals in this document as well. Council is looking to hold Town Hall meetings
for each ward once a year. They are also considering blogging key community
decisions. Over the next four years counsel will also review severance
policy’s, update and review the official plan and work on natural gas and
broadband expansion.
The questions that jump out at me is: What is councils
vision on parks, township properties, roads and fire department over the next
four years? What type of financial reserves will we have? What is staffing
levels going to look like? What is their vision on major projects and
infrastructure will we see in all wards of Ennismore, Smith and Lakefield?
I
challenge council to push themselves and have a vision that truly excites the
community for the next four years.
That is all I have for you today.
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Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007
