No, I won't be quiet! :)

It has taken me a few days to get to the point of being able to write this blog mostly because I normally type my thoughts out in blogs about a hard topic on my myspace page.....police brutality (in memory of my exboyfriend who was killed by an officer in Vanderhoof 2004). We had a daughter together which makes it even harder for me to find the right mood to want to attempt finding the buried emotions needed to blog.

This blog is not about police brutality.....thankfully. It is on another subject close to my heart. Raising awareness to the recent flood from an ice jam formed on the Nechako River. Homes (app. 60), businesses and Cottonwood Island Park were badly flooded and damaged. Businesses were shut down forcing their employees to not collect on their paychecks for close to two months. Families were forced out of their homes because of high flood waters taking over their properties/houses. Cottonwood Island Park loved by most people in Prince George (one local artist carved faces in some of the trees a few years ago) is still covered in mud, ice, broken down trees, broken lumber from washed out bridges, and a riverbed surrounding the park full of broken lumber, tires, uprooted trees, large branches all caught up on the mounds of sandy gravel bars.
To most the obvious answer is to clean up this riverbed, dredge it perhaps to prevent this from reoccuring this coming December. The city wants to hire experts to do a 14 month costly study on river ice jams before making any permanent changes, they raised the road (River Road) which these businesses were built along to an inconvenient dangerous level and called it a berm. Large transport trucks are sliding off the side of this berm once it became soft in the warmer weather when trying to turn off this single laned berm road into the businesses properties.
I started a facebook group....sort of like a call for action.
Please if you feel you'd like to support this group then please join Restore River Road and Cottonwood Island Park.

"We're northerners," Prince George mayor Colin Kinsley said. "We're a tough breed, so we're not worrying about this too much."

PPPppppfffffttttt! Easy for him to say right?


Thanks,
Heidi
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11644128963&ref=share