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Deep River -Musings

                                                                                                                                                                                        April 24, 2003

Lease for Community Center

 
I am concerned when Deep River Council starts talking about a new Community Center. This seems to me   a red herring to the real issue. There is a petition (signed by some 750 good citizens of Deep River) exhorting the Council to reverse its decision to renew Community Center Building lease only for 2 years at its present address instead of a longer lease so that the Community Center can confidently invest for its long-term activities.
  
Deep River Council talks about Town”™s Official Plan. I would be leery of Town”™s Official Plan if it is similar to plan when they went and bought Keys Center at great cost to the Town.
  
The Council, it seems, is now recommending a ”compromise” to renew the lease on the Community Center for two years and undertaking to “extend lease on a year-to-year basis to 2008 provided that the building remains structurally sound and tenant wishes to continue the current usage of the building”.
  
Let us examine this!
  
Renewal to year 2008 effectively gives lease for 5 years (2008 minus 2003). Council oozes if “tenant wishes to continue”. Well, tenant has already let it be known it wants long lease. Council shows such “hypocrisy of care” that they will not lease building unless it is “structurally sound”. Well, do you think any sound-minded person or organization would for a minute occupy a building, which is not structurally sound.
  
What Council is saying with this so-called ”˜compromise” resolution is that they want the Community people to come every year and beg for renewal; which the Council will not refuge. Yikes!
  
I do wish my honoured friends in the Council would, in their good wisdom, grant the lease for 5 or more years as requested to the Community Group without prolonging this debate.
  
Deep River is fortunate that there are many community minded people in this small community who are devoting their time, effort and money for multiple good causes to enhance citizens lives without any prejudice and favours.

Pravin Shah  

View from the House Window- 1

The first musings sent to friends on September 06, 1996.

Hi!

Every morning, I am quite fortunate to have the day begin by having a view of the rose garden from my kitchen window.   This happens, as immediately

when I wake up prior to doing anything else, I go to the kitchen sink (below the window facing the garden) to get water for making my morning tea. This gives me the direct view of the rose garden.

 

Last week, the   lone yellow rose was proudly showing and strutting its stuff amongst all shades of pink roses. The yellow rose was by itself amongst all other different flowers. This diversity in color made the garden look fabulous.

The nature gives us a lesson in harmony and also a direction and guidance that even if you are   different and by yourself, you can provide valuable positive

contribution to the whole. The other pink flowers were there, subtly,   absorbing the   benefit of the diverse but beautiful yellow flower. The whole orchestra of the

flowers has now gripped the attention of the world thru the human eye ( that is mine). I am glad to share that with you, my friends.

regards,  

Pravin Shah

Note:

This is how one of my friends used it at her Church.

 

See below.   I have to lead the worship at a church committee meeting next week and the more I thought of your message,

the more I felt I could use it in a Christian context.   I hope you don’t take offense.   If you would rather I didn’t use it please

let me know. Take care

 

As I read this note from my friend I was reminded of another rose, the Rose of Sharon – Jesus.

 Jesus was different, just as the yellow rose in my friend’s garden was different, He stood out

among the crowds as He preached and spread the word of God.   You can see Jesus walking

through the countryside and I guess you could say when it came to the Word of God, He did

strut his stuff as the yellow rose did in the garden, but He did it in a way that people absorbed

the benefits of this diverse but beautiful rose.     He could be a vibrant figure at times, with thorns,

as he through the money lenders from the synagogue and at other times a quiet, gentle man

with only love and understanding as he looked on the children.

 

Today, I see Jesus as that yellow rose, in a garden that is our world, full of pink roses ready,

or almost begging to be apart of His garden.