Re: cancelled

["Don McGorman" <mcgormd@hotmail.com>]

I notice that messages are still being left on the CN voice mail regarding 
the when/where of BOYD.  Perhaps the outging message on the CN voice mail 
could be updated?

Should CN take any responsibility for 'drop offs' on Saturday?  The two 
locations that come to mind are the bingo hall and the CN office.


> From: "Peter McLarty" <petmcla@soonet.ca>
> To: "Don McGorman" <mcgormd@hotmail.com>, <kathie@cleannorth.org>,        
> <officers@lists.cleannorth.org>, <wildgardener@shaw.ca>
> CC: <odin@cleannorth.org>
> Subject: Re: cancelled
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:51:26 -0400
>
> I agree totally with Don
>
> I see in Saturday's paper that the Separate Bd has a "parking lot sale"
> scheduled for this Thursday. They are selling CPU's (486 to Pentium 200) 
> for
> $25-$50. I guess they are planning to bring all of the leftovers (junk) to
> us to haul away for them ....for free. This kind of undermines our efforts
> to raise a little $$$ to put "free" systems back into the com munity...and
> to recover our expenses for our operations.
>
> If we still wanted to have an "diversion" event just to collect and ship 
> out
> "garbage" for recycling, we could do this in a central parking lot. With a
> dozen "packers" we could simply load a bunch of skids right in the truck. 
> To
> avoid the packing of the skids, would the receiver consider loose items???
>
> Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don McGorman" <mcgormd@hotmail.com>
> To: <kathie@cleannorth.org>; <officers@lists.cleannorth.org>;
> <petmcla@soonet.ca>; <wildgardener@shaw.ca>
> Cc: <odin@cleannorth.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: cancelled
>
>
> > I'm not criticizing the decision to cancel BOYD 4.0 but potentially 
> Clean
> > North will lose significant credibility over this.
> >
> > It might help if we identified an alternative.  Is anybody working on
> this?
> > Perhaps the city would provide something as it's their landfill that 
> will
> be
> > impacted?
> >
> > There is a new message on the CN voice mail left Thursday from Randy Roy
> at
> > the city asking for someone to call him.  Perhaps it's about BOYD?
> >
> > I'm afraid that unless there is an alternative, most of the tons of
> > equipment that we have been asking people to hang on to will end up in 
> the
> > landfill.  For example, at Roberta Bondar Place the OMNR has been
> > stockpiling equipment in a computer room, the space in which they will
> soon
> > need for a major IT rollout.  I cant see them storing it somewhere else 
> so
> > it will likely be disposed of in the only available manner.
> >
> > Individuals and organizations that feel let down this time may not want 
> to
> > participate next time.  There may be a few volunteers who give up on us
> too.
> >
> > Before I changed it a few moments ago, The outgoing message on the CN
> voice
> > mail still referred to BOYD as the next CN event; I changed the setup to 
> a
> > standard greeting stating that no one is available to take the call.  
> Once
> > someone comes up with a current personal greeting it could be recorded 
> and
> > activated.
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> > >From: Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>
> > >To: officers@lists.cleannorth.org
> > >Subject: cancelled
> > >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:42:19 -0400
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> > >Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:46 AM -0400
> > >From: Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>
> > >To: boyd-planning@lists.cleannorth.org
> > >Subject: cancelled
> > >
> > >Sad to report, we've encountered a deal-breaker.  We cannot park the
> truck
> > >in the parking lot behind the Bingo Hall, nor can we park it on the
> street
> > >(not that that would have been practical anyway).
> > >
> > >Without a location at this late date, we are sunk.  Let's plan a fall
> > >event, eh, and start looking around for a location for late September.
> > >
> > >
> > >thanks for all your patience and offers of help.
> > >Kathie
> > >
> > >
> > >---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
> > >
> > >
> >
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