DOWN TO MY FINAL MONTH OF WORK
As I'm into my final month of work here at the AV Times (last day = Aug 15), and final month and a half before school begins, I can't help but feel like I've missed out a bit, only because of some of the major holidays some people are on, and some will be on, this summer. My sister, for one, is in Europe for another month yet having a great time and exploring France right now, and has been around England, Scotland and Italy also since she first got there in early June. My friend Kendall, a CH News broadcast journalist working at the Port Alberni bureau is in Spain running with the bulls right now, which certainly sounds really exciting to me. I just hope he makes it out of the hurd okay. And then there's Nick, who will be going to Merritt to spend 6 days straight getting plastered, staring at gorgeous chicks, camping, and listening to country music under what I'm sure will be sunny skies during the Merritt Mountain Music Festival.
However, although I'll admit I haven't went on any trip overseas, and I'm not going to a five-day music festival and camping with my friends, I have gotten to experience some cool things on the island, and have met cool people doing so.
Today, I went to the McLean Mill Historic Site, a tourism site in which an old sawmill is located, a steam train which comes from the downtown Train station, and some log houses with some interesting historical displays, and old forestry tools. All in all, it's a really cool site, and I really appreciate preserving our history in such a way this historical site has. After all, history is what made Canada what it is today, and it's important we understand history.
At the site this weekend was Forest Fest, an annual event in which there's various entertainment, exhibits, sawmill demonstrations, music and food out at the mill. It's a day to celebrate the history of forestry in PA, and the history of that mill. It was pretty cool, with close to 1000 visitors over the weekend.
Port Alberni Mayor Ken McRae: Let's go find you a girlfriend.
Me: It's okay Ken. I think I can find one myself.
The mayor of this town is so friendly and laid back. He seems so calm over everything that occurs even with the loss of jobs, and economic downturn that has occured in PA, and across BC. I appreciate that though, because if he starts panicing, so do the citizens of this town, so he's looking after them too, which of course is his job.
As far as the girlfriend comment, he said that this weekend while I was at the mill site. As a mayor, it's expected he attends these major events to show the city's support, so therefore, he was there all weekend. Anyhow, the comment was good for a laugh. Somehow I don't think the help of a mayor who's about 70 will help me find a girlfriend, however most people do know him, and I'm sure would talk to him and pay their respects to the mayor. But I just don't see it happening. I think I'll survive, although if the mayor does find me a hottie, I can't say I'd turn her down.
As I'm into my final month of work here at the AV Times (last day = Aug 15), and final month and a half before school begins, I can't help but feel like I've missed out a bit, only because of some of the major holidays some people are on, and some will be on, this summer. My sister, for one, is in Europe for another month yet having a great time and exploring France right now, and has been around England, Scotland and Italy also since she first got there in early June. My friend Kendall, a CH News broadcast journalist working at the Port Alberni bureau is in Spain running with the bulls right now, which certainly sounds really exciting to me. I just hope he makes it out of the hurd okay. And then there's Nick, who will be going to Merritt to spend 6 days straight getting plastered, staring at gorgeous chicks, camping, and listening to country music under what I'm sure will be sunny skies during the Merritt Mountain Music Festival.
However, although I'll admit I haven't went on any trip overseas, and I'm not going to a five-day music festival and camping with my friends, I have gotten to experience some cool things on the island, and have met cool people doing so.
Today, I went to the McLean Mill Historic Site, a tourism site in which an old sawmill is located, a steam train which comes from the downtown Train station, and some log houses with some interesting historical displays, and old forestry tools. All in all, it's a really cool site, and I really appreciate preserving our history in such a way this historical site has. After all, history is what made Canada what it is today, and it's important we understand history.
At the site this weekend was Forest Fest, an annual event in which there's various entertainment, exhibits, sawmill demonstrations, music and food out at the mill. It's a day to celebrate the history of forestry in PA, and the history of that mill. It was pretty cool, with close to 1000 visitors over the weekend.
Port Alberni Mayor Ken McRae: Let's go find you a girlfriend.
Me: It's okay Ken. I think I can find one myself.
The mayor of this town is so friendly and laid back. He seems so calm over everything that occurs even with the loss of jobs, and economic downturn that has occured in PA, and across BC. I appreciate that though, because if he starts panicing, so do the citizens of this town, so he's looking after them too, which of course is his job.
As far as the girlfriend comment, he said that this weekend while I was at the mill site. As a mayor, it's expected he attends these major events to show the city's support, so therefore, he was there all weekend. Anyhow, the comment was good for a laugh. Somehow I don't think the help of a mayor who's about 70 will help me find a girlfriend, however most people do know him, and I'm sure would talk to him and pay their respects to the mayor. But I just don't see it happening. I think I'll survive, although if the mayor does find me a hottie, I can't say I'd turn her down.
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