Perfect day, if a bit cool. Loads of people. Chance to make photographs.
Great success!
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Sunday at Laurentian Ski Hill
North Bay is blessed with an alpine ski hill situated inside town. The hill has been operating for over 50 years and has provided recreational opportunities for North Bay people, and at least two World Champions have grown up here and learned their craft.
Today was a busy day at the hill.
People having Great Fun on a gorgeous winter day.
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Stairs
The stairs lead to the top of the hill in Las Penas neighbourhood in Guayaquil.
There are 444 steps. Each one is numbered.
We didn’t take the challenge to climb to the summit.
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Old Mountain Town
Books have been published. Articles written. This place is worth the trip.
This photograph has been made a million times by others.
To resist making one for myself was futile!
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Witty Artisans
I spent yesterday at the Witty Artisans Craft Show at The Portage.
I had a great time chatting with old friends and new friends who passed by and looked at my work and the work of others at the show.
For such a gray rainy day, the turnout was phenomenal. Thanks to all who came by.
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Discovery North Bay
The CPR station near the waterfront, long unused, has in recent years been refurbished and is now the home of @Discovery North Bay.
Removal of the rail yards allows one to see the waters of Lake Nipissing from its parking lot – if you stand on tip toe.
It is a lovely classic building. Three cheers for those who worked to save it and make it a living classroom. It is this kind of thing that turns a town into a community.
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Greenspace
These are photos of an open greenspace and ball-park complex in the middle of a residential neighbourhood here in North Bay. They are being traded for a giant sports complex which is being built on the edge of the swampland at the south end of town, some 8 or 9 kilometers away in the middle of nowhere. Originally 22 houses were to be built on the fields but the hew and cry from the people who live next to these spaces and see them as an important part of their environment got Council to “compromise” by reducing the number of houses to 5. As someone commented at a public meeting: “You’ve threatened to break both of my legs and now you’re going to “compromise” and break only one of them!”
The money from the sale of the land will be used to defray the cost of building the sports complex in the middle of nowhere.
Council seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
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Community Centre
On Cedar Heights road are the remnants of a community recreation centre.
Things change. The community has moved on. Only the silent echos of the games remain.
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