Anything Knitted and Crocheted: Off to fight City Hall and I am pissed!

Anything Knitted and Crocheted

Welcome to my blog. I hope to blog about my knitting and crocheting as well as everyday life. The patterns that I post are original and as such there is copyright on them. When they are based on another pattern there is a link to the pattern.

My husband and I adopted a beautiful dog named Leo. He is a dachshund and absolutely adorable! we adopted him on June 23, 2010 and he has become the love of our lives.

I love to share patterns that I find along the way or to talk about some of the neatest designers that are out there today, so I love to post links to the designs or the designers.

So grab a cup a and sit and enjoy the blog.

Cora

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Off to fight City Hall and I am pissed!

Monday night I discovered that a report was going in around liquor store usages, specifically surrounding the 500 M issue. Right now as the bylaw works, liquor store cannot be within 500 m of a school, active park, etc, or even another liquor store. This is great especially in a area that is facing issues such as poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction and other issues.

However after seeing this report, Amendments to the Zoning Bylaw and Business Licence Bylaw and this report, Potential Amendments Affecting Alcohol Sales Uses, I got angry! I am on my way to talk to the Executive Committee about this. I am still spitting nails...here is my response:

June 2nd Rebuttal Letter

I am here to say Yes You Can Fight City Hall! Hear me ROAR!

Cora

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The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge

The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge - A requirement for all Knitting Scouts, the recipient must do his or her bit to present knitting in a positive light, whilst at the same time avoiding all references to “hipness”, grandmothers, and yoga.

I’m always doing my part in this arena whether it’s spoken or written like in this blog. I teach at my local community league, which was a fluke. I am involved in the Alberta Avenue Initiative and was asked to teach both knitting and crochet. I start with dishcloths as it gives the basics.

The “MacGyver” Badge (Level One) - The recipient must demonstrate clever use of a non-knitting tool in a knitting-related scenario. For instance, recipient has used paper clips as stitch markers, or successfully whittled and then utilized bamboo skewers as dpns.

I’ve used all kinds of things as stitch markers when none were available, and have found clever ways of knitting cables without cable needles using skewers.