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Parks
board declines Lily Point role
The Point Roberts Taxpayers Association is going to have to look elsewhere for
a lead agency to pursue the purchase of Lily Point as a park after the local
parks board turned them down flat.
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in!
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Famous
and loving it!
Point Roberts has experienced another 15 minutes of fame.
A
big Ha-Ha
It was “Standing Room Only” at the eighth International Joke Telling
Contest.
This
story is a real dog
“We wanted a way for people to get better behaved dogs and the right relationship
with their dogs while having fun,” said Michelle Edmondson, co-owner of
the new Canine Agility Facility at the corner of Mill Road and Tyee Drive.
Board
OKs new ambulance
It looks like there will be a shiny new ambulance in the New Year for the Point
Roberts fire department. Board members David Gellatly and Bill Meursing gave
the go-ahead to fire chief Bill Skinner at the commission’s regular meeting
August 9.
Take
a hike, taxpayers say
About 60 supporters and advocates for the preservation of Lily Point – the
still forested and undeveloped southern tip of Point Roberts – participated
in a public awareness walk on Saturday, August 12.
Off
to Cape Town, South Africa
Kitty Doyle, known for her watercolors of great blue herons and other depictions
of Point Roberts, will soon have larger animals to portray. Animals such as
lions, elephants, giraffes and more. That’s if she has any free time,
that is.
Voters
group ready to ramp it up
A re-invigorated Point Roberts Registered Voters Association board is ready
to go with a number of projects designed to increase the group’s utility
and visibility to voters on the Point. First up? A candidates night for the
upcoming election.
Health
Matters
I have decided to write on an issue that I feel I face almost every day. In
short, it is the topic of elevation of one or more of the lipid profile (total
cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoproteins, low density lipoproteins
and very low density lipoproteins).
In
the Garden
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