Why was 'Richard' shown below able to skip his newly conceived and costly to the public Quarry Park project in town ahead of an over decade old request by the group of youth [postering above] who presented in the Town Hall 14 years ago politely asking for a new skatepark venue project and also why did he get to jump ahead of the much-needed elevator project at the ice rink - - an essential much needed asset? Long before the arrival of well paid but out-of-touch Matt Pryde Parks & Rec. town hall employee for over a decade the youth here were encouraged to "organize" and present before the Town Councillors and Mayor about their skatepark project... so they did [about a dozen of them]. I'm concerned that some people here are actually far too "entitled" and far too "demanding" and in fact they are unreasonably and unfairly prioritized here in Sackville over the reasonable requests of the not-so-entitled working class taxpayers here ... and that these "entitled" people in many cases are fanatic climate change hysterics/environmentalists and they don't actually care about youth or people and feel that they don't need to wait their turn in the line-up of requests. Its not as though there is a shortage of parks and trails in this town and region already Richard .. is it.. so what's the deal here.. you're back in the Town Hall asking for more now?
Est. 2016 by "low class unimportant troublemaker" #GenX #UNexit #endracebasedlaw #GlobalBEM #BuildBackBeauty #Disclosure
Sep 23, 2026
Old, Entitled, Bossy, Environmentalist, White Guys in Sackville New Brunswick... Are They An Expensive Problem?
Jul 29, 2024
Liberty Freedom Consortium: Jasper Alberta's Skatepark Nearing Completion ....
Feb 9, 2024
Great Railway Escapes Start at Via Rail Train Station in Sackville New Brunswick

The Town of Sackville was reportedly looking for interest in refurbishing/renovating/re-purposing the Via Rail train building which sits unused and unoccupied at this time. The building was mentioned in a recent town hall meeting by Councillor Estabrooks as a location he would like to see recycled into a useful venue.
Some of us had the idea to have this location become a new youth centre with concrete skatepark for Tantramar Skate Park Project that had been requested in 2012 and also promoted on Facebook since 2015... [but that account was suspended]... there is a blog at http://tantramarskateparkproject.blogspot.ca ...
I do wonder how the rest of the campus folks that weren't 'surveyed' feel about this very expensive level of campus disruption/ messy destruction/chaos being brought about because of Rachel Rubin's ideas? Jeff's parting gift to the campus - another well trained change agent:
Jun 13, 2023
Hey Folks! What Excites Andrew Black? Grant Money for Mount Allison University Grifters
I've fixed their Town of Tantramar meme for them...
you're welcome Andrew Black... one phone call to Sandra Snow in Kentville to find out how a Mayor gets a new great skatepark built is all it takes.. but for now... Black continues to play to his "Envirocrat" voter base.
Years ago before Black even considered entering politics he told me the Town don't care about the young people and their request for a skatepark because they don't vote here. Ha! What a goof.
Andrew Black is examined at this blog link [ if I was on Facebook I would have let him know online.. Indie Media Eastcoast had well over 500 followers when killed by the 'community' mob here years ago - Andrew thinks the censorship of me is amusing]:
Tantramar Skate Park Project : Follow Andrew Black on Facebook To Find Out What Excites Him
I see you TantramarNB Twitter fascists, as always.
Any guesses who runs their Twitter account?
Ron Kelly Spurles, the Town's Tourism manager is married to a local university professor... they're a dramatic and coddled entitled duo...
and they are featured in the local 'News' here:
Apr 10, 2023
John Murchie For Mayor - Why I Voted for Him...
John Murchie for Mayor (facebook.com)
I did vote for John and here's why...
Skate Park Advocates Like Me Are As Rare As Rocking Horse Shit in This Town...
Feb 11, 2023
Ponds Projects Trump Skate Park Concrete Project since 2013.... Regime Change Needed at Town Hall
Sackville flood project more than $500K over budget unless changes are made | (warktimes.com)
When you consider that you could build a great concrete skatepark for a one-time expense of half a million bucks its just so tragic to see the money continue to flow into more pointless ponds.... it is as though there is a collective madness controlling the minions at the Palace... who benefits?
Percy Best's commentary here:
Jon, the only one that seems to indicate that retention ponds are the way to go would be the ones that profit from the project itself. One does not need retention ponds of any size when there is only a five hour time slot, twice a day, while gates of a proper sized aboiteau are actually closed because of the salt water tide cycle. A generous ditch system itself would almost be enough to handle any five hour backup, and a proper sized aboiteau, as recommended in the very thorough HILCON report, would then open to allow full drainage over the next approximately seven hours. This would happen twice a day of course.
HILCON did not recommend any retention ponds. The NB Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, that now maintain all the dyking system for NB did not recommend any retention ponds. For some ‘strange reason’ it seems that Crandall Engineering (Englobe) said that the town needs enough water retention for a full 24 hours, and not just for the 5 hours twice a day that an aboiteau gate is closed. It is interesting that the bottom of the newly proposed retention pond behind the Community Garden is going to be FOUR METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL. That should tell you something.
The little tiny aboiteau (AB-01) in behind Russell Metals, that the town storm water is headed towards,is an very old wooden one that is only 18″ square, and that is not much bigger than a standard driveway culvert. There is no commitment from DTI to replace this abouteau with a larger one. I would imagine that they are now awaiting confirmation that the Chignecto Isthmus Project will indeed go ahead and that will make all aboiteau completely redundant. It would cost somewhere in the vicinity of half a million dollars to replace aboiteau AB-01 with a new larger one.
There will be NO water retained in town once the Chignecto Isthmus Project is completed as the drainage pipes leading to the Tantramar river will be open 24/7 with no restriction whatsoever. A new triple gate system at the mouth of the Tantramar River (Wood Report) will effectively make the Tantramar River a bit of a freshwater lake, similar to what the river is inland from the current double gate beside the TCH at Exit 506. If one looks at the water level that is under the Wheaton Covered Bridge, on the High Marsh Road, then one will basically see what our Tantramar River will be all the way out to the new gate system."
"According to figures supplied to Warktimes by Acting Treasurer Michael Beal, the project could come in $566,905 over budget unless modifications are made to the final contract."
Old town hall photography by Indie Media Eastcoast..
Its a corrupt and lawless bunch who runs things around here... they waste a lot of money... this was the previous town hall and it was fine for a small town when I arrived here in 2010... but they spent over $14million on their new government Town Hall Palace without any regard for other priorities ... this "Agenda" is all about optics and appearing 'green' and not much else. Pathetic.
Does anything change with a new mayor? Not really.. I don't even know if Andrew Black has any idea what to do for the people here.. he's too busy promoting the 'Agenda' of the United Nations for the mafia he works for ...
Sep 18, 2022
Sackville's Endless Drive to Build More Monuments [ Wasting Even More Money ]
At this link from CHMA website:
Never let it be said that the 'community organizers' of Sackville have a problem wasting other peoples' money on stuff that clutters the landscape.
Just don't ask them to get excited about building an Energy East Pipeline or Skatepark Project... God forbid their efforts should be for something beneficial and useful for the people alive today.
Book Launch - Foundries of Sackville, NB - Tantramar Heritage Trust
Why do they hide their monument to the founder of the local University behind a wall of shrubs and trees? Just asking for a friend.
Amherst Nova Scotia's awesome concrete skatepark venue - photography by Indie Media Eastcoast.
Just to put things into perspective around here and for the record:
One old woman stands before council and mayor this year and says she wants to see money given for a monument to be built and everyone says 'hey great idea!'... but in 2013 over a dozen young people stood before council asking for a new venue they could enjoy endless hours of play and good clean fun at with their many friends and other skateboard enthusiasts from across the Maritimes and the mayor and council ignore them completely.
This is in a nutshell what is wrong with this town:
the management sucks; the politicians suck.
The 'community' would do well to grasp the term ROI - return on investment .. as explained to Michael Beal, treasurer/bean-counter at the Town Hall this week... Michael's wondering if he still has a job when the entity "Town of Tantramar" takes over here.. I guess only time will tell Michael.
Should I really need to keep reminding people that investing in a new concrete youth skatepark makes good sense and is the right project to build here now... in fact it was the right project 10 years ago but the well-paid minions in Town Hall wasted money on decorations and nonsense instead [$10,000 flower pots, still shaking my head...]
Moncton's skatepark by the riverwalk...May 14, 2022
Advocating actively since 2013 for a great new concrete skatepark project
The lazy and uninspired 'boomers' appear to have a problem getting this project done.... why?
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