Quickies: Dog park, rumors, a correction and the SURVEY

*GrandForksGuy is getting pro-active. He's crunching some numbers and says the city ought to build a new dog park and pay for it with either a) dog license fees (which he says aren't well enforced now) or b) a fee for using the park itself.

I can't figure out a direct link to his posting so just go to the main blog page to see it. Notice how he stayed up until 3 a.m. working on this. There's some serious passion at work here.

Update 9 p.m., 6/4/06: Here's a direct link to GrandForksGuy's posting. Thanks for the tip, man. This will save a lot of time.

*Dakota's got rumors about City Council candidates.

All I know is Ward 2 candidate Cameron Stewart wouldn't have been napping if there was a little more excitement on the council. Like say a Tom Kenville v. Doug Christensen celebrity death match.

I sometimes wondered if there wouldn't be a death match between Doug and Curt Kreun or Hal Gershman after Doug's interrupted them one too many times.

* Speaking of Kenville, the survey (which remains open) says he's still ahead in Ward 2.

Here's the breakdown:

Ward 2
Tom Kenville - 10 votes
Mike McNamara - 6 votes
Peder Rice - 4 votes
Jon Dorner - 2 votes

Ward 6
Art Bakken - 15 votes
Tom Potter - 6 votes
(1 person skipped this question)

* JGS has a new poll asking people if they think Grand Forks will reach Mayor Mike Brown's goal of 60,000 residents by 2010.

* Dakota also has a correction for me, by way of park commissioner Greg LaDoucer. Greg says that proposed dog park at the corner of 24th Avenue South and South 34th Street is on unnamed park land. The map in the phone book messed me up. It shows the real Lions Park connected to the unnamed park by way of the English Coulee bike trail.

The park people are probably getting phone calls from people on 17th Avenue South about Lions Park not realizing the dog park site is a couple of blocks south.