Rope on a pole on the beach is that what we get for a $25,000 Trillium grant?? They are a long ways from the water and not easy to get off the rack. So here is the scenario. Many drownings have coincided over the years with days when there are huge waves and a mighty undertow. Something attracts the people into the waves. So you lose a swimmer...just gone.

Quick run up the beach and try to get the pole off the post......Now you have the rope on a pole run out into the same crashing waves and flail it around. You have better odds of snaring a Salmon. This is not the community swimming pool.

If a piece of this equipment is missing at the time when (heaven forbid) a wage earner supporting a family drowns the lawyers will have a field day.

After the Trillium money runs out the property owners will be paying for the program. Not parking revenue, it will be net negative.

What purpose does Blue Flag serve?
Why is Blue Flag a can of worms that Mayor Noble may find objectionable?

Noble will be a history footnote in 2006 but we might have to end Blue Flag somehow.

As to the first question when Environmental Defense made it's Blue Flag presentation to Council in 2004 the presenter was escorted by Cliff Billyea. For all I know the Chamber may have paid the travel expenses. So it is just another roundabout way for the Chamber to suck money out of the ratepayers in the hope Blue Flag will line a few main street pockets with tourist dollars. I am sure they don't drive in from Owen Sound because the flag is here it is a desired Chamber advertising hook.