Re-entry

Let me tell you, if you haven't taken a proper summer vacation in a few years, you owe it to yourself to dig-in your heels and make it happen. I, personally, have been neglecting myself in this regard over the last few years.

I won't bore you with a travelogue (and frankly, if you want to see the highlights, you can witness my lameness on twitter) but suffice it to say that it was just the right mix of family and "not" family. We kept things relatively local, basically sticking to the Georgian Bay circle route.

It was epic - I got way too much sun and couldn't be happier!

So, again on twitter, I made a coffee date with my new rival Toby Yull, who, as it happens, had the same basic idea as I did and decided to enter this municipal election almost immediately after Russ Powers decided to retire.

We met a Café Domestique yesterday, just minutes after I unpacked the car. I treated us both to Americanos and we set about having a repartee.

Toby is a lovely woman and if I weren't voting for myself, she would be my first choice.

We don't see eye-to-eye on everything but we are lock-step in our belief that Dundas is in need of renewal.

Don't get me wrong, things are darn near perfect in Dundas but, as with most things, there is room for improvement.

What Dundas needs more than anything right now if we want to remain at the forefront of civic life in Hamilton is FAMILIES.

While it may not be obvious, Dundas is dangerously close to pricing itself right out of the family market. I know plenty of people who would love to move here and raise a family but just can't stomach the real estate prices.

Cliché as it may sound, kids are the future of this town. If we want to keep our "new" high school open and keep our children from being bussed to Ancaster once the the next ARC review decides Dundas is no longer "economical", we have to act now.

Stay tuned for more. I'm just getting started.

Buidling the future.