Relocation of Truro's Access Nova Scotia frustrates mayor

PJ

- October 5, 2012 at 12:40:06

If Mayor Mills thinks the current location is adequate and convenient, he is sadly delusional. It may be convenient to downtown residents but to the majority of people living outside the Truro downtown, road access to that area is horrible. The waiting area of the registry of motor vehicles is totally inadequate even on a slow day. The area by the Big Stop is convenient to most of Colchester County while The Power Center is a bit out of the way.

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lol

- October 5, 2012 at 10:31:04

Wow! The most relevant comment on here so far is from Chief Wiggam. Access NS has nothing to do with the park and the Lord has nothing to do with moving a business to another location.

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Marc Osmond

- October 5, 2012 at 08:22:31

Hello Mr. Mayor; I read the story in the Daily News and heard your interview this morning on Cat Country reference the relocating of the Access Nova Scotia Building and I could not help but see a parallel between this and the Expansion of the Tennis Club onto a part of our beautiful Victoria Park. Thereby destroying a part of this public green space forever. You mentioned you were frustrated because you were not informed, well sir I understand fully how you feel as we to were not informed that you were planning on giving away part of our Victoria Park to a private "members and guests only" club. Mr. Chisholm was quoted in the News as saying the residents were informed but this is just not true and this fact has been confirmed by members of the Town Council going door to door to check. We took a petition to just over 30 homes bordering the existing courts and received 28 signatures against the proposal. Also you mentioned that the issue with the move of Access Nova Scotia is all about access and again I fully understand your frustration because again once you have given the green space away and the club has erected it's chain link fences and paved over the land for the courts and parking it will no longer be for public access. Unlike a building and the services offered inside this process cannot be undone. This government or the next could decide at some point to go back and bring Access Nova Scotia back into the town limits but in the case of the Tennis Club Expansion once the green space is paved and fenced off it will be gone forever to the people of the town. Victoria Park belongs to the people of the town of Truro that was the wishes of the family who willed it to the town. They wanted it preserved and kept for all to use. You and the members of the Town Council and future mayor or future members of the council have an obligation to maintain the park and all of it's green space for this and all future generations. Lastly I will quote you again from the News where they quote you as saying "They need to take a real look at this. A little common sense goes a long way" Wise words indeed Mr. Mayor, ones you and the rest of Town Council should take to heart. Thanks Marc T. Osmond

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chief wiggam

- October 5, 2012 at 07:48:24

i say put it in millbrook's old covergy's building that way they don't set up a bingo and john's hall is safe.

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Jeff Johnston

- October 5, 2012 at 00:06:19

Don't blame them . Truro is not a real town anymore . That ended with the 20 million dollar Downtown Master Plan and the 50 Million Dollar Civic Center . The Marigold center has raised the cost and lowered the quality of local entertainment , we've lost a lot of our legacy businesses due to high taxes , not just on businesses but also on home owners that cuts into their money to spend at local businesses , many who already struggle with mortgages , rising food prices , etc . and now there's talk of taxing millions more to pay for a transit system . For all the tax people pay they get nothing in return . Where's the free access recreation ? It costs so little . Why start a buisness or move here when someone will just tax you to death so they can go on a spending spree and proclaim "My Legacy , My Legacy " . There's a bureaucratic class of people who are living in a dream world , collecting fat checks for fake jobs . They design society for themselves , according to their own distorted vision , while showing no respect for anyone else , or any sense of community . And get the mental health system out of the schools and stop drugging all the kids . Truro should be known as terminal town . It is becoming a high cost residential town and a stopping ground ( Just a Road Stop ) . Access Nova Scotia is well suited out by the Big Stop . Truro is just a restroom stop . It's heartbreaking to see it happen to Truro because Truro always had such great potential and a great geographic location . All these "My Legacy" people . And people in this town that are disobedient to the Lord , Judgement will come on us . The Lord will confuse our politics . We will be in debt to foreign nations and powers and the abundance of the land will not be remembered .

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  RJ

  - October 9, 2012 at 08:53:51

  C'mon Jeff get off your pulpit. There is no need to bring in fairytale and mystical creatures into this. Every comment you make you preach wrath and judgement. Get off it. Religion has less than nothing to do with the DMV! Go sell crazy somewhere else, it would seem Truro is full to the gunnels.