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Writer-Citizen DSBN Trustee Candidate Jonathan Fast
Yes, this is a writer blog but I am a citizen with children in the District School Board of Niagara public school system. There has been a woeful lack of coverage of the school board election, so I am using my role as a general busybody and citizen to interview the 9 candidates competing for the 4 seats representing St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Jonathan Fast has chosen not to respond to my questions. I encourage voters in St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake to attend the "meet the candidates" event on Friday (complete details follow the content of this blog post) to ask Jonathan Fast questions themselves.
Had Mr. Fast chosen to respond, his responses would have been presented in the same form as all of the other candidates with two additional questions related to his public performance over the past year. However, it would be dishonest of me to pretend that I am completely neutral about Mr. Fast's performance as a public school board trustee. A year ago, I asked for Mr. Fast's resignation and as a result of this newspaper article:
http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/2013/10/...
And again a few months later as a result of this article:
http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/2014/02/...
My belief is that school boards can only function when their trustees follow established processes.
This post reflects whom I've decided to endorse and this summary post explains why. As usual, here is a list of all the candidate information posts I wrote to cover the race:
Jonathan Fast has chosen not to respond to my questions. I encourage voters in St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake to attend the "meet the candidates" event on Friday (complete details follow the content of this blog post) to ask Jonathan Fast questions themselves.
Had Mr. Fast chosen to respond, his responses would have been presented in the same form as all of the other candidates with two additional questions related to his public performance over the past year. However, it would be dishonest of me to pretend that I am completely neutral about Mr. Fast's performance as a public school board trustee. A year ago, I asked for Mr. Fast's resignation and as a result of this newspaper article:
http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/2013/10/...
And again a few months later as a result of this article:
http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/2014/02/...
My belief is that school boards can only function when their trustees follow established processes.
This post reflects whom I've decided to endorse and this summary post explains why. As usual, here is a list of all the candidate information posts I wrote to cover the race:
Cornfields of the Sea
When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be part of a writing workshop with author Barbara Greenwood. Every member of the workshop was to write a short story for a group anthology. I thought w
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