celery pond

Another quote passed on by an artist friend has inspired today’s post. It reads:

“Sometimes the first duty

of intelligent men is

the restatement of the obvious.”

George Orwell

Tonight we will have another Celery Pond Advocates Meeting at the Public Library at 6pm. We hope you can come to hear the restatement of the obvious. Two Community Walks with a total of 100 people attending, with many others interested, means that people are really coming foward to say once again to the City’s elected officials: “We want to keep the public lands in public hands.”

To do this means to slow down the plans for extensive private development and it could offer space for an alternative park plan to be worked on. A Park design in the Black River properties would benefit the whole community.

The economy seems to be working for us as it is slowing down. One bank advisor in town said that the real estate market from the $200-$400K range is not moving. Forget about tax capture with this statistic, ie don’t go out taking on huge bids to do ambitious projects. This is a restatement of the obvious.

I emailed a local journalist, Andrew Lersten of the South Haven Tribune and The Herald Palladium to read the blog from the past 2 days, hoping that the news of the Community Walk would interest him, as much as the news of the revised marina/channel cut blueprint plan that is in the MDEQ file. (Last Friday in inquiring on a FOIA request, I discovered it had been received on August 28, 2006.) This has led Andrew to write a story that will run in today’s Palladium, so look for it.

While the revised blueprint holds the name of all three developers on it, (J&B Landing, First Choice Marina and the City of South Haven), the City Manager said that the Council has not taken any action on the resubmission of permit application. We will wait to see what transpires.

And to give confidence to all preserving spirits, another quote given by another artist friend:

“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you,

that conditions are not as they should be, stop you.

Go on anyway.

Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”

Robert Henri