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Karin Marks'S Disdainfulness
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» m4xom4x replied on Mon Dec 11, 2006 @ 11:15am |
 Coolness: 45010 | Westmount's felled trees trigger anger
ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Monday, December 11, 2006 The trees are gone, but environmentalists continue to bark. Westmount's decision to clear cut more than 120 trees and bushes in Sunnyside Park is expected to be questioned by representatives of Save The Park! Sauvons le parc! and other concerned citizens at tonight's city council meeting. Trees that brushed seven to 18 metres high against the lookout in the park below Summit Circle were felled by the public works department about two weeks ago. One of the trees was at least 100 years old. "We respect trees, but a park is a park, not a forest," Westmount Mayor Karin Marks said last week. "Sunnyside Park was designed in 1931 as a park with trees, benches, walkways and with 20 markers pointing out scenic vistas. Over the years the trees have self-seeded. They grew very tall, very skinny and blocked the views. The larger trees had serious rot and any tree that is dangerous comes down immediately,'' Marks said. "We do not want the park to become an urban forest like Summit Park is. We're investing money to redo the site as a park," she added. That doesn't satisfy environmentalists like Gabrielle Korn, a spokesperson for Les amis de la montagne, an organization that works to conserve and enhance Mount Royal's green spaces. "It's a shame there had not been an ongoing maintenance in the park and the situation was allowed to deteriorate," Korn said. "It was a mix. Some trees were healthy, some were dead, and because we can't go back in time, clear cutting is a very dramatic, very drastic move. If pruning had been done on a three-to-five-year basis, the sight lines would have remained open and the integrity of the park maintained, Korn added. ''Under the circumstances, it was the only measure that could be taken," Korn said. Patrick Barnard, a member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, another conservation group, opposes the clear cutting and plans to raise questions at tonight's meeting. "This was vintage green space that was neglected by the city of Westmount and by the city of Montreal," Barnard said. "The major issue that cannot be brushed away is that if you see trees as a liability, you get rid of them. Trees are not a liability. Only two of those trees were dead. "Those woods survived the ice storm. They were not lousy trees. After they were cut down, between 30 to 50 cords of wood were taken away. The wood was good. You cannot sell rotten cords of wood," Barnard said. Others in the exclusive neighbourhood have complained that the park had become dangerous at night, attracting undesirable elements. To protect their security, the trees had to be cleared, area residents said. "It is one of those projects that looks rough now, but wait until the tree-planting is finished. It will look amazing," said Bruce St. Louis, Westmount's general manager. In the spring, we will be replanting trees that won't grow as high, but will attract birds, he said. "Many of the larger trees were not healthy and could not be pruned. They were in rough shape and had to come down. ''The final landscaping plan will allow us to preserve the wooded area below the belvedere as a park, keep the mature, healthy trees, and open up the views," St. Louis said. Source: The Montreal Gazette |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Tue Dec 12, 2006 @ 7:33am |
 Coolness: 56915 | well, hopefully that will be a lesson learned and applied to other developing areas. People need to enlargen their scope of thinking, broaden it to not only consider themselves or themselves and their neighborhood but to think of life as a whole. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Tue Dec 12, 2006 @ 9:41am |
 Coolness: 51685 | enlargen eh? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Tue Dec 12, 2006 @ 6:38pm |
| Coolness: 56915 | yes, enlargen. wanna have sex...
looks like we are doomed..lol. do you find the word enlargen does not seem to fit semantically? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Tue Dec 12, 2006 @ 7:59pm |
| Coolness: 51685 | well considering it's a made-up word.......... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 7:14am |
| Coolness: 56915 | look it up into the dictionary, I did, after you made your comment to refresh my memory on it meaning.. to check. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 10:44am |
| Coolness: 51685 | merriam-webster: enlargen: The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary.
------ google: Web No definitions were found for enlargen. -------- [ dictionary.reference.com ] : No results found for enlargen. ----------- [ thefreedictionary.com ] enlargen Word not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia. ----------- [ www.onelook.com ] Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word enlargen. ----------- [ wordreference.com ] enlargen: We found no entry in the English Dictionary. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 11:11am |
 Coolness: 92980 | The correct word is 'enlarge'. Enlarge is already the verb for large but instead you treated it as a noun that needed a verb form.
Ex: Incorrect: Click here to enlargen the image. Correct: Click here to enlarge the image. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mike_Stinger replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 1:07pm |
 Coolness: 51955 | she meant "embiggen" |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 2:59pm |
| Coolness: 51685 | ahahahahhaa i was just thinking:
"a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." jebediah springfield |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 6:41pm |
| Coolness: 56915 | yeah, you are both correct. I thought I saw enlargen in the dict. but it really was enlarge. I appreciate the corrections: the help. |
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