It was only last year when I found out that the two cinemas (movie houses) in my town, rather city had been closed or shut down. OMG! Why? The city's population when we had those two cinemas was only 30,000 and now that the population had risen to more than 45,000 that's the time they closed down those two cinemas? Galaxy & Caprice's no longer here in the city where I live. People in my city owned TeleVisions. Everyone here owned big screen TVs wherein you can rent the latest movies at the convenience of their homes. Maybe that's the reason. If you have subscription from Prime Video, Netflix, Crave and other source of movies would you still watch movies at the cinema?
A friend of mine advised me to get out more often to find out what had just closed down in the city or what's new. lol. I laughed at what she said.
Truth is you can find out what's new in your area by Google MAP. You can view all the streets in your area or other locations around the world. For local inquiries you can read the local newspapers.
Living in this city for more than 25 years, 32 years in Canada and not knowing what's new and what's happening in our city is a matter of "you think I'm not well informed of the happenings in my own place."
Well, of course not wanting to know all the gossips and rumors. Who are the new people in certain demographic area. Who are the new immigrants and who move in and moved out. Well, we once managed townhouses and apartments we knew who move in and move out. Managers keep track of those tenants and what those good records and bad records on accepting tenants. Who are bad tenants and good tenants. Once there was another apartment manager ( she was an angry blonde, blue eyes, tanned skin almost brown so its not white skinned woman) who asked me if we have vacancy in the townhouse. I told her we don't have any vacancy for months and months now (this incident was after year 2000). Then she asked me, "do you like having too many people in this city?" Because she doesn't like many people in "this city" because the standard of living will goes up, there will be traffic congestion, and there will be a time that nobody can afford housing and there will be too many homeless people because there is not much employment. True! Why would a small city gets populated when there is limited of employment. No pulp mill, no sawmill, fishing industry is down, tourism doesn't catch up to a standard that is for "tourism" except that natural resources of the forest, seaviews, few beaches with cold cold water not good for swimming for boating yes. I can feel her sentiments. Why allow too many people here when there is no source of employment. Ghee, was she right? All of a sudden there are homeless people now in this city. What happened? They are not originally residents in this city. They were from other cities of Canada. We don't have homeless people in the 90's in this city. I don't even feel comfortable of naming the city where I live because they might blame me why this city is becoming over populated. Hey, not my fault! For God sake!!
What's been newly built, or the rise and fall in one city after another, there are newly built condomsiniums with gorgeous view of the seas and the Quadra island. They are pricey condos probably would want people from mainland Vancouver seniors to move in here. I think that's the target of those developers... seniors!! News channels wont be covering your own town or city unless there is a wildfire or any disaster or calamity.
For once, I knew almost what's happening within the downtown area because our family once owned a cafeteria in the mall where hundreds of people shop within that shopping mall. However after the pulp mill closed down and our cafe shutdown together with other food shops in that mall had shutdown too when K-Mart finally shutdown its service. The mall had been sold to a new owner and was replaced with a new name. Too many shops had been in and out of that covered mall such as Sears, Ricky's Bootlegger, Northern Reflection, Hallmark's, restaurants, fabric store, etc. etc. Now it seems that Thrifty's supermarket and Dollarama are staying permanently in that covered shopping mall for good.
Truth is I am not alone of not knowing whatever is happening in this town, rather city. I called it a town because of its small population. I was from the Philippines, wherein a city usually comprises of a population in millions that's why. Canada's population is smaller than of a state of California. California should be a country not a state!
Anyway, not really into gossiping. Canada been victims of too much wildfires already. What else you want?
Oh, I want cooler weather temperature. I love cooler breeze actually and temperature between 15 Celsius to 20 Celsius is favorable. I noticed that most Canadians don't sleep good when the weather temp. is over 25 Celsius. Last night's temperature was 32 degrees Celsius that was TOO HOT! Well you can always take cold showers though.
First time that my plant had flowers on a another branch. That's wonderful!
Wonder why the color not that dark pink or fuschia anymore.
UPDATE: The old cinema had re-opened last 27th of June 2025. SUPERMAN the movie of David Corenswet is being viewed today and maybe for the next 7-14 days?
The new SUPERMAN movie made at least $217 MILLION DOLLARS in its first opening.worldwide.
No comments:
Post a Comment