Gloucester, VA - Free Satirical Poster Number 2 In Our Series. Royalty Free

Gloucester, Virginia - Main Street - Sidewalks by Chuck Thompson of TTC Media is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This is the second satirical poster in our series.  You are free to take this to your local printer and print it out, have it framed and hang it proudly.  You are free to make as many copies as you wish and sell them.  This poster is royalty free so no money will be owed on it.  The license is worldwide.  It's designed to poke fun at issues around the county.

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Gloucester, VA- Free Poster - Royalty Free Commercial Use

Gloucester, Virginia - Main Street - Shop Local by Chuck Thompson of TTC Media is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

We are in the process of designing and giving away free, royalty free, posters that are satirical in nature.  They are designed to poke fun at various issues around the county.  These are all licensed to you.  You can take them to the printer and have them printed, framed and hang them anywhere.  You are also free to make all the copies you want and sell them if you wish.  If you do so, there are no royalties that ever need to be paid.  You keep all the profits.

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Gloucester, VA - What The Main Street Preservation Trust Wants To Waste Your Money On

We just looked over the PDF on the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust site.  You need to see what they want to waste your money on.  It's not all bad, but it's a lot of garbage in many of the suggestions.  We did some brainstorming ourselves to see is we could come up with a plan that makes sense for Gloucester Businesses.  Yes we are aware that our recent posts have not been flattering to the business district.  We are not picking on the businesses though.  We are picking on the areas that are anti business to the local business owners.

 http://mspt.org/documents/courthouse/6-Design%20Recommendations.pdf
This is the link to a slow loading PDF file for recommendations to the Gloucester Main Street Village.  Most of the plans are horrible.

  What do we propose that we think would be better?  Glad you asked.

Get rid of all on street parking along the Gloucester Main Street Business District.  Gloucester County would need to expand and open a viable parking lot along or around the historic circle at about where the county offices are presently located. That would be parking area 2.  Parking area 1 would be at the Gloucester Main Street Center.  Widen the sidewalks along the business district to actual usable walkways.  If the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust and the Gloucester Main Street Association are really serious about promoting business and businesses in the area, let them invest in trolleybuses to move people around the business district at regular intervals free of charge and not at taxpayer expense.

   As long as businesses are open, the trolleybuses are running.  This is a simple plan that would expand business in the area.  Who would not want to shop in an area that is like a vacation destination?  You could actually have businesses lined up waiting to come into the area if you build something along these lines.  It works very well across the river in Yorktown.  But you have to believe that both Gloucester County government along with the Gloucester County Triad have the best interests of businesses in mind or if they are just paying lip service to the idea.

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Gloucester, VA - Local Government Officials Don't Even Follow Their Own Laws?

http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientID=10843  This is a link to Gloucester, VA municode where local ordinances are listed for the entire county.  The specific link above is for required landscaping.  In the above picture, the white building to the left is the Gloucester County garage.  Why have they not followed their own ordinances in landscaping?

  We have county officials who drive county vehicles at taxpayer expense to run personal errands, officials who do not follow their own codes, officials who are involved in what appears to be serious conflicts of interest playing roles on multiple public boards, officials who initiate poor public sidewalk designs that hurt local businesses, officials that violate the Dillon Rule and make up their own ordinances as they go along, and these people want to raise your taxes to give each other raises?  It's not a democratic or republican party thing.  It's just county officials having a party at taxpayer expense.  They want to thank you for paying.

In this photo we have local businesses complying with local ordinances at a fairly hefty expense to the businesses.

In this photo we have PHA or Peninsula Heating and Air that looks like they are in violation of the ordinance.  In fact, the owner has been overheard bragging that he has no intention of ever complying as he thinks the ordinance is stupid.  Why are some businesses and the county allowed to not comply while others have to?

Are you tired of paying for their party yet?

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Gloucester, VA - Cuccinelli Rules Conflict Of Interest. Complaints Of Party Politics Unwarranted - Gloucester Next?

Ken Cuccinelli (R) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you missed the article in the Daily Press on Sunday, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ruled against both the Mayor and the deputy mayor of Hampton on being on dual public boards.  In the state of Virginia, it is forbidden.

  The really nasty part of the article is the complaints coming from Hampton officials charging Cuccinelli of playing party politics. Like it's some sort of democratic vs republican fight.  It's very simple and very clear, it's against the law.  It has nothing to do with party politics.  These officials got off easy.  They should have been investigated for potential criminal activity and charged with any findings.  Being told that they must get off the board without going through any investigation was an easy sentence.

Then the city officials have a meeting to see who's brother or sister they can appoint to the positions on the board of trustees at Fort Monroe right after being told they are out.  What a joke.  It has to make you sick that these corrupt officials are continuing to play the same game anyway.

  We have the same exact issue here in Gloucester.  Louise Theberge is representing two public offices.  She is the chairperson for the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors and on the board of the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust.

http://mspt.org/about.html  Is the link to the above page.  On that page you will see that the trust also manages the Gloucester Main Street shopping center.  The shopping center is a tax paying entity to Gloucester County.  With Louise Theberge on the board of both entities, the issues of conflicts of interest are very real.  In fact let's examine one.

This is a photo of the signboard for the Gloucester Main Street Shopping Center.  Managed by the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust.

This is a very recent photo of Edge Hill Shopping Center.  Edge Hill had to install this island because of new ordinances that require locations with new permits to come into compliance with Gloucester's beautification initiatives.

Exactly where are the islands for the Gloucester Main Street Shopping Center?  They too have had new permits for offices at this location.  Why is it they have not had to install islands here?  Is it because the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust is exempt from the same local ordinances?

If the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust is exempt from the same laws everyone else has to follow, how is that?  With Louise Theberge being on both boards, a serious conflict of interest could very well be at play.

Kudos to Ken Cuccinelli on his recent decision.  Now maybe he can do the same for Gloucester.

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Gloucester, VA - Resident Complaint On Animal Control Officer Using County Vehicle For Personal Use

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Dear Sir:

I write to you today to provide information on a incident I observed this morning in Gloucester County.  I am providing you the information to publish and to forward to a competent law enforcement agency and Gloucester County.  Based on reports you have made in your blog I do not feel safe making a complaint directly to Gloucester County.  Please do not use my name in the story or reporting to Gloucester County.  I have no problem sharing my identity with the State Police outside the county.

“This morning while traveling north bound on Rt.17 south of the Court House I observed, at 0655 15 April 2013, a Gloucester County Animal Control Vehicle at the exit of Chesapeake Bank, branch office on north bound side of Rt. 17 just below the old Wal-Mart Store, the driver was in a short sleeve grey shirt with the Animal Control logo on the sleeve.  It appeared the driver had straight light brown hair.  Because of the cloudy skies and time of the morning it was hard to tell any other facial details of the person.  I turned at the light to the KFC/Hardees and went into the parking lot.  When I parked I noticed this same vehicle go around back of the old Wal-Mart building.  About ten minutes, I did not look at my watch, later I observed this same vehicle  turned into the Hardees parking lot and go to the drive in window; shortly after that the vehicle came around the building and went to the traffic light and turned north on Rt. 17.  I was not where I could get a look at the driver after the initial sighting, but there were no other observations of Gloucester County animal control vehicles in this time frame.   I was not where I could see where the vehicle went and would not attempt to follow  the vehicle.  I did not have a cell phone with a camera to take a picture of this event.  However, I have witnessed a Gloucester County animal control vehicle leaving the same Chesapeake Bank branch on other mornings but do not remember the exact time or dates.”

Questions I have are why is a county vehicle being used for personal business?  It also appears the person may have been on the clock while performing this personal business?  If the county is going to allow personnel to use vehicles and pay them for personal business why should we as tax payers give them a raise?  They should be fired along with county offices that allow this to happen!  I have never seen Gloucester County Deputies using county vehicles to perform personal business and they are allowed to take them home so they can respond to emergencies.  I have no issues with this practice.  Virginia State Police also do this.

Thanks,

A concerned taxpayer

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Gloucester, VA - Free Gloucester Court House Circle Poster Download

We are giving away a copy of a poster we designed a few years back.  The picture is from one of the buildings in the historic courthouse circle.  We took this photo during one of the revolutionary war re enactments held in the area by the 7th Virginia regiment.  They made a perfect background for this picture.

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The above is the link to the full size picture.  Enjoy.

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Gloucester, VA _ Weather Backwards

Weather Backwards seems to be what we have had this past winter.  This spring so far is proving to be nearly as strange.  The picture of the rainbow was shot at Christmas Time.  Warm day when we had a thunderstorm.  After the storm we had this incredible rainbow.  Looked like we were in for another mild winter.

After the rainbow disappeared we had some unusual colors in the sky.  The picture here is what we shot after the rainbow dissipated.

The Sunday just before the following Easter Sunday we had this nice big snowstorm. It was so heavy on a lot of the trees that branches came down in many areas.  Normally you want the snow for Christmas and the rainbow for Easter.  Weather Backwards.

Here is another picture taken on yet another Sunday late afternoon.  This was a bit of an unusual rainbow in the sky that seemed to be created by something to the left of the sun.  Everyone was trying to figure out what the reflection was on the far left in this picture.  The rainbow was only lightly defined.

Strange days and strange skies.  At least they make for interesting pictures.

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