Why bother bloging

Because of the popularity of social networking bloging has become another way to get the message out there or another avenue of communicating and recieving peoples opinions. You could say the state of the municipality of the crowsnest pass triggered this site. I have always been fairly vocal about the councils and issues that the citizens should be concerned about. Previously i did not spend much time on the computer but that changed last may of 2010 while i was in Ottawa . During my stay there i would  review our local papers online, keep in touch through facebook more often and then that led to reviewing blogs written by citizens of the CrowsnestPass. Some of those blogs were nothing more than political posturing while others were from people with a genuine concern about the state of municipal affairs and the future of the Crowsnest Pass. There was a lot of political unrest in our community and with the upcoming elections it was only going to get worse. This got me thinking. While touring Ottawa  i realized just how much they have done to preserve history as we all know from the Parliament Buildings. But more than that the neighborhoods still have the small corner stores much like we had here when we were growing up, it sure adds character to the city.  A lot of this was not set out to be preserved under direction of the city ,but vauled enough by each neighborhood that they continued to support these small busineses. If you had lived here in the CNP when each community had life to it and businesses were thriving you know exactly what i am saying. As a community i feel we are missing some of that, we cant turn back the clock but at the same time we should be conscious of where we came from. Growing up here most kids were the same they come from large families for the most part,had very little, but made the most of it. In the future i will be writing about growing up here and the people that had influence in my life and am looking forward to your contributions