Time Sensitive – Bylaw Changes

By Louise Negrave
Lantzville Urban Agriculture
Apr 26, 2011

Excerpt:

Council has placed themselves and the residents of Lantzville on a very tight timeline to deal with the issue of urban agriculture. Since neither council nor staff have the required expertise in this area, and we want a “made in Lantzville solution”, as council had initially proposed, I recommend we ask council to delay pushing through this bylaw until concerns of all parties can be adequately addressed.

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Famous Catherine Ferguson Academy may be closed – 13 arrested in heroic action

By Diane Bukowski
Apr 19, 2011
Voice of Detroit
(A sad story! Mike)

DETROIT – In an interview with VOD, Ashley Matthews, 17, described the heroic student-led occupation of her school, Catherine Ferguson Academy on April 15. She spoke of the wholehearted support the young mothers received from the community, as well as the vicious physical and verbal brutality police visited on them during their arrests.

She said two toddlers, there with their mothers, watched the events.

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