Here’s The Scoop…BEST VIEWS IN THE TOWN FOR ALL THE FIREWORKS….ANGLIN’S FISHING PIER…
UPDATE….In Case You Missed It…
Here’s The Scoop…….SURF’S UP!….
Here’s The Scoop…Are You Being “TARGETED”?…..
Here’s The Scoop…On The Radio…UPDATED…
Here’s The Scoop…”She Hung Up The Phone!”…
Here’s The Scoop….WIRED FOR SERVICE….
Here’s The Scoop….LET THE SUIT BEGIN…./BSO Payback….Fallout…On The Radio…
July 3, 2009 by Barbara
LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA…..POMPANO BEACH …FORT LAUDERDALE……
GUARANTEED OOHS & AHHS……
You cannot sit within 280 feet in any direction of the L-B-T-S El Prado Fireworks at 8:30 PM …So come to the Pier…..
It’ will be spectacular…after dinner in town!…
more to come….
by Barbara
DAY 2…On The Radio…
Dear Readers…for those who missed the update in the previous radio post…
UPDATE….A listen live link, the following streaming link – http://www.wwnnradio.com/ …individuals can listen online in case their AM radio does not pick up the station.
Heads-up,… Friday show replays Saturday at 3pm on AM 740 WSBR – http://wsbradio.com/ – and on Sunday at 1pm on AM 1470 WWNN
by Barbara
Do You Kids Have A Permit?….
For 40 years…we never had floods…Thanks Manager Colon!…..
No answer from Town…it’s a holiday……Welcome to the the new Beach Pavillion …Tourists……Thanks Manager Colon!….
by Barbara
WEAR IT LIKE A BADGE OF HONOR!…
Dear Readers….Today……we hear the “usual suspects” are “targeting” those who are taking a stand…whether posting in their chosen Blogs…”Topix/Slapp” …sending out code enforcement …giving warnings and citations…or even calling employers with (it is said) “slanderous” remarks!….
Today…stand tall …stand straight….and wear these “targeted” attacks like a badge of honor!…
Today….it means the Mc-Furth-Colon Gang are desperate…and taking desperate measures ….due to the dwindling support from not only the community but from within their own organization and VFD department members…
Today….we hear they have only collected for the CIC/VFD July 4th 2009 as of June 24th event…Per the Town’s memo… …$5,600.00!…Last year they had $35,000.00…..The volunteers are 99.9% CIC/VFD with CIC volunteer numbers way down and VFD (despite assertions by Chief Perkins) putting in the mandated 4 hour minimum out of fear of being fired!…
Today …..around town we hear the “dismissal” of Chief Gooding is gaining momentum…E-mails and letters have been sent to commissioners….Radio shows are calling for the Manager to be fired…….(prev.post)….Residents with expertise in Law, policy, politics and law enforcement are doing lots of research….
Today ….we hear many will come for the parade…but the rest of what’s scheduled…the afternoon CIC/VFD Beach Blast/Fireworks off the beach…with the handpicked…CIC Citizen of the Year…July 4th Event Coordinators Marc and Crisite Furth…(prev. post…the CIC sent a letter to the members allowing only reg. board members to qualify giving Mrs. Furth special consideration)…and the Vice Mayor’s assertions of “something that will resonate throughout the town”…(perhaps it “resonated” it prematurely with the Manager’s termination of the Chief?)…..Today….the reply is a resounding…”PASS!”….If they stick to their guns…(pun intended) ….This writer will cover it all……….and post….throughout the day…
Today….”WE WON’T FORGET!”…is the word going around town…from the north …the south…the homes…the condos….the businesses…the hotels… the CIC…OG…NG… UOT…..and it will continue tomorrow…and the day after that…and the day after that…until March 2010!……”THEY’RE TOAST”…
Today…this writer says…. if you came to speak…if you wrote your elected officials calling them on their actions…for not doing the will of the people….and have suddenly found yourself a target of the “Gang”……Welcome to the club!…
This “target” has worn that badge of honor for quite some time….and wouldn’t leave home without it!…
Tomorrow…….. is July 4th…Independence Day… no badge could be more American than the one that says you are willing to stand up for what is right!….
more to come….
by Barbara
1470 ON THE AM DIAL…9-10PM TONIGHT…JULY 3,2009….
Dear Readers….Bananas come in bunches…and so does Talk Radio shows on the latest “slip and fall” in LBTS with the “reassignment” of BSO Chief Scott Gooding…
Previously this writer wrote a post about the Bill Lewis “Credit Report” Show on 1470 AM on the air yesterday…(9-10 am/9-10 pm)…I mistakenly wrote Jim and received an e-mail from Mr. Lewis with his correct first name…Bill….and to call if I received the e-mail before 10am…It was around 9:45 when I opened it and responded by e-mail …fixed the post …and called…I did not realize Mr. Lewis was on the air discussing the dismissal and the “Banana Republic” of LBTS for a 2nd day with Lighthouse Point Comm. Chip LaMarca…I declined to speak at first and said thank you…BUT…I realized that is what the Manager did and changed my mind…I called back and spoke for the last few minutes with both gentlemen…
It will replay tonight at 9-10 pm…1470 AM radio…This one is not going away….
UPDATE….A listen live link, the following streaming link – http://www.wwnnradio.com/ …individuals can listen online in case their AM radio does not pick up the station.
Heads-up,… Friday show replays Saturday at 3pm on AM 740 WSBR – http://wsbradio.com/ – and on Sunday at 1pm on AM 1470 WWNN
Thanks to Mr. Lewis for the invite…the 2nd Show and telling it like it is!…
And om a personal note …again, sorry about the mistake on your first name…and thanks for the plug for this site!…
more to come…
July 2, 2009 by Barbara
NO RADIO INTERVIEW…FOR TOWN MANAGER COLON…
Dear Readers, the host of a radio show …Bill Lewis…1470 on the AM dial gave our Town Manager a call and invited her to speak on his show about her decision and action taken to have Chief Scott Gooding transferred out of the Town….Well, according to the radio host… the Manager said she wasn’t going to talk on the radio and hung up the phone!…Maybe it was a banana phone…for the LBTS Banana Republic we now find ourselves living in…
The host of the show reamed the Town Manager and the commissioners that did not join Mayor Minnet and Commissioner Dodd in requesting the Manager to reinstate Chief Gooding and offer him an apology for the her actions on his show today this morning and repeated this evening at 9 pm….
The host began talking about the dismissal of Chief Gooding with Sheriff Al Lamberti…who explained the contract and said the Manager did exercise her right to have him removed…although the Sheriff was surprised and caught off guard since he received no prior notice of any problems with the Chief…At the end of the day the Sheriff said the Town is the client and the client pays the bill……The BSO serves them and will comply with offering the Manager 3 candidates to choose from to replace Chief Gooding…Sheriff Lamberti said Chief Gooding will do fine with the BSO wherever he relocates to…
The host was much more candid and apparently well informed with the goings on in LBTS…speaking of the run down “ROACHes” and vermin motel purchased…(”cleaned up a little now”) , he added ….The makeup of the Commission…The Manager’s contract…with her severance package of one year’s salary if fired…Questioning HER fiscal responsibility to the Town by including it…(prev. post…the TM is on record in April 2007 saying she did her own contract…alone!)…HMMM…The host also questioned her never having a performance review…asking what was up with that!…Mr. Lewis went on to explain the forfeiture funds…and how it is not part of the Town’s budget…so it is fiscally responsible for use in this situation…Mr. Lewis went on about the meeting on the June 30th meeting and the large support for Chief Gooding and the lack of support for Manager Colon…except for the “3 commission members”…..He even spoke with disdain about Ms. Colon’s assertions of HER administration…explaining that “she is an employee of the town”…and “serves at the pleasure of the Commission”….He spoke of her own agenda for “jockeying for our own police department”…”posturing for something better”…
The host introduced Commissioner Chip LaMarca from Lighthouse Point and asked him to weigh in on what took place with the Town Manager and Chief Scott Gooding…and boy did Mr. LaMarca pull out both barrels…He gave high marks for Chief Gooding…knowing the Chief’s outstanding reputation and his excellence in service for the town…He explained the comparisons and the big differences between his town and ours…adding the use of the forfeiture funds for the police offices was a valid use for the monies…Comm. LaMarca said it was “a dereliction of duty to disapprove” this use of the funds…He said the funds came to the town through the BSO …He explained that the commission cannot keep the monies for their own use…it’s not their [commission] money…He said the Mayor [Minnet] has her hands full on the dais…and there is a “power struggle” going on in LBTS…Comm. LaMarca also spoke of the huge costs for reimplementing a town police force…He then spoke of his preference for a fire-rescue service for paramedics over an ambulance service…Mr. LaMarca said we [LBTS] have 2 commissioner that are VFD and he sees that as a huge ethics conflict!….The host asked Chip Lamarca if the voters would forget this in March when we have the municipal election…
Host Bill Lewis, finished up with more scathing remarks for the Town Manager….Again, he said the Town Manager needs to be fired…We need to “kick her ass to the curb”…That at the “end of the day she micro- managed the BSO”…she’s a “micro-manager!”… SO TRUE!….OUCH!…
BC- Looks like the next time Mr Lewis calls Town Manager Esther Colon….she won’t be answering her administrative banana phone!…
Thanks Mr. Lewis…Sheriff Lamberti…Comm. LaMarca…for getting the word out about what’s happening in LBTS!…
more to come…
by Barbara
“FIRST OF ALL NO ARGUMENT ON THE CHIEF’S OFFICE,WERE THERE FOR A FIRE CALL ONE NIGHT. WE WERE HOPING IT WOULD BURN DOWN THEN WE COULD BUILD A NEW ONE, OK BUT IT WAS A SHORT IN THE CIRCUIT AND WE TOOK CARE OF IT RIGHT AWAY.”…Vice Mayor McIntee June 23,2009 Commission Meeting…..
YEP, All taken care of Vice Mayor……….Did you forget to call Code Enforcement …They must be too busy with decibels and outdoor dining?….Hmmmm….. Madam Manager!
more to come….
by Barbara
3 MONTHS AFTER THE INCIDENT….THE LAWSUIT…..
Excerpts….
‘Lawsuit filed in deadly Broward hyperbaric chamber blast
The family of a woman and her grandson killed in an explosion of a hyperbaric chamber they were inside is suing the Lauderdale-by-the-Sea facility where the explosion happened.
The two wrongful death lawsuits were filed Monday against against the Ocean Hyperbaric Oxygen Neurologic Center in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
The boy’s family had traveled from Italy so he could get treatment at the clinic. The lawsuits seek damages of more than $15,000′
Full text link below….
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/breaking-news/story/1124391.html
BC- Thanks to the alert Reader for sending in the news….What would we have done without BSO that day?….Some say the first “salvo” of removing Chief Gooding was PAYBACK…for the BSO not including LBTS-VFD in the Press Releases…OUCH!…
We hear that this morning 1470 AM Radio had a good 45 minutes on the IRRATIONAL…UNILATERAL….IRRESPONSIBLE action taken by Town Manager Colon in besmirching the reputation of Chief Gooding and “DEMANDING” he be transferred…..Should replay we are told tonight ..9-10 pm per a reader’s heads-up…
We hear a steady stream of calls…cards and e-mails are arriving to thank Chief Gooding and show the large support he has in our town….
We hear Commissioner Clottey has been asked by constituents to resign…after she was booed leaving the special meeting on the 30th…This writer went to the podium immediately after her nonsensical written statement and non-action to direct the Manager to reinstate Chief Gooding and told her that I had wasted 2 & 1/2 years of my life on her and that she should consider a 2 year term…asking what happened to her…she was an independent woman….
We hear condos in the north have put McIntee on notice …he is toast if he tries to run again…
We hear that Commissioner Silverstone further maligned the Chief after the meeting by telling some residents they did not know the whole story about Scott Gooding…and that the Manager did not tell it due to a hostile audience…… SHAM-ful..(meant to spell it this way)….
We hear BSO is putting together a list of 3 names to present to the Manager to replace Chief Gooding…
We hear…calendars all over town are counting down the days to the end of the BROOM BOYS reign….and the resignation of Town Manager Colon…Hear there’s a run on laundry markers!…
more to come……..
by Barbara
PAUL NOVAK’S PET PROJECT …AN PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS FOR A1A…MAYBE WE NEED 2!…
JULY 2, 2009….THANKS …..TOWN MANAGER COLON!…..
