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'Good Riddance Day'.
Plainfielders, today is GOOD RIDDANCE Day.
You are invited to post a comment describing something -- community, political or personal -- you will be happy to bid GOOD RIDDANCE to as 2009 comes to a close.
Note the 'distasteful, depressing or downright embarrassing' moments of 2009 to which you wish to say GOOD RIDDANCE.
There will be a $10 gift certificate for Dairy Queen awarded to the most original entry (my pick). You may make your comments anonymous or sign them, but in order to collect the DQ award, you will need to make yourself known to me somehow with a moniker of some kind. I will post the winning items on New Year's Day, after which the winner can contact me by email (I'll put a link up then).
On your mark.....
Go!
NOTE: The Times Square Alliance, which promotes a GOOD RIDDANCE day in New York City, puts up a paper shredder and a dumpster (for larger items, with a sledgehammer for breaking up objects) for folks to purge themselves of bad memories, experiences or relationIships. My thanks to the good folks at TSA, who I hope will take this imitation as the sincerest form of flattery, which it is.
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28 comments:
Dan, don't tell me you're retiring the blog????
I would like to say good riddance to petty politics in Plainfield for 2009, and a cooperative and collaborative government in 2010.
You never know, miracles do happen.
I would like to say good riddance to inept administrations but unfortunately we are stuck with this one until 2014...check back with me on 12/31/13 and perhaps then I'll be more hopeful. It shouldn't have to take a miracle but if that is what we are hoping for, I stand by my post. 2010 will bring more of the same unless of course Christie sends in the auditors! Happy New Year Dan...keep up the great work!
I would like to hope we can get rid of those 'sponsored by Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs' lines on every piece of city literature. Anyone who has ever worked to put an event together knows that 'real' sponsors are people who actually put money into an event and how hard that is to get. What money does the mayor put into anything?
In answer to the question about whose money this mayor/any mayor puts into events, the answer is yours, mine and all the taxpayers'. One of my wishes is that after all that money was spent to restore historic City Hall, the election banner could come down. Surely, we taxpayers will have bought one or more successors in the next four interminable years. Old lady in tennis shoes
How about getting rid of the fat in the school district? Do we really need a District Coordinator for Right-handed Pencil Sharpening and one for Left-handed pencil sharpening? Couldn't they at least be combined?
I would like to say good riddance to the deplorable pot holes and crooked street signs and hope and pray that in 2010 DPW would show greater concern for street maintenance and leaf removal...why do the streets always have to look so neglected. Drive around any other Union County municipality, and you just don't see what we accept as "clean streets" here. We have such beautiful homes so why can't the streets compliment our houses? God knows we pay for these services.
Out with the old, in with the new? Oh well, it sounds nice. :(
Good Riddance to Dottie G's cryptic if not jaw dropping blind support of Mayor Jerry and Assistant Mayor Sharon and proclaiming how much "work" they did to fight the hospital closing as one of the many reasons each deserved to have another shot at leading Plainfield further down the rat hole. Hopefully somewhere in 2010 she will realize what a disservice she did to her cause as well as the people of Plainfield by supporting the "UN"dynamic Duo.
I would like to say good riddance to Sharon's red blazer(s). Much like Times Square I would like to put it in a shredder even if just for the symbolism of it all since we are stuck with her! You know who Dan! Wink wink!
Can we say hooray for Dan keeping a spotlight on the mayor's unnecessary bodyguards until she was shamed into getting rid of them?
Maybe this belongs to tomorrow's topic but I hope we can say good riddance to empty stores downtown. Have you heard that Wenson-Maier might be out with the New Year?
I wish we could say good riddance to hunger and homelessness in Plainfield.
Good Riddance to complains not followed by actions that could help get rid of the very things we complain about!
Maria Pellum
Good riddance to phony politicians who claim to be be solution seekers whilst they are on the take. Ring in 2010 and high hopes that they will be like the 44 of 2009!
Good riddance to flood insurance? We could only hope the politicians will do more than just talk about it.
"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it." Edith Sitwell.....j
I would like to say good riddance to paper jams in the paper shredders.
Dan-
I am lactose intolerant so I can do without Dairy Queen.
Plainfield is CORRUPTION intolerant WE can do without GREEN-ROBINSONBRIGGS!
Begone I say!!! BEGONE!!!
Now that would be a MIRACLE in PLAINFIELD!
Good riddance to the math skills of Ms. Briggs. 300% reduction in murders - Maybe some of the "certificated" cronies at PPS can tutor her in Math.
Get Plainfield out of the social services business. Spin off Dudley House and Bilingual Day Care and Plainfield Action Services. These are good services but the only thing wrong is that the city shouldn't be running them! Let them be run as nonprofits on their own two feet and no taxpayer responsibility.
Good riddance to people who sit on the sidelines and use blogs and gossip to gripe but don't do anything else--there are certainly enough real issues in Plainfield that need solutions, and our community has a lot of people with brains and hearts in the right places. If the whiners would only get off their butts and take some constructive action, our town might actually get better.
I HAVE ANOTHER ONE !!
- Good Riddance to Assistant Mayor Sharon and Mayor Jerry Posting anonymously to the blogs in Plainfield!
Good Riddance to Jerry Green pretending to use his blog as a "forum" for ideas and commentary when he doesn't allow comments other than the occasional " GO JERRY " posts put by one of his trough feeders.
and my final:
Good Riddance to Sharon's " UNDER CONSTRUCTION " website for her reinstatement, I mean her election run this year that was never up and running...much like her administration.
Good Riddance to all of the 11:38PM’s of Plainfield!!! BEGONE I SAY!!! BEGONE!
It is blogs like Dan Damon’s, Plainfield Today; Bernice Paglia’s, Plainfield Plaintalker; Old Doc’s, Doc’s Potpourri; Maria Pellum’s, Maria’s Blog; Councilman Adrian Mapp’s, Mapping It Out; Rashid Burney’s, As I See It; recently –Jim Pivnichny’s, Piv for Plainfield; and a few more; and also –the avid readers and commenters of these blogs like Rob, Rebecca Williams, Active Citizen, and possibly a few more that inform Plainfielders of the many “real issues in Plainfield that need solutions”.
And, since I am a strong supporter and a passionate reader of these blogs – I can pretty much guarantee that the bloggers and commenters I have listed are the people with the brains and hearts in the right places. These are the true activists of Plainfield who have gotten “off their butts” and who have taken “some constructive action” to better Plainfield. In no way would I call them “gossipers and whiners”.
And by the way 11:38PM, I am sure you noticed I did not mention Jerry Green’s, Jerry Green’s Page and rightly so. Have you noticed he never reveals the comments to his blogs? Why? More than likely because too many of them are negative! Why do I say that? Check out Bo Vastine’s blog –Comments to Jerry’s Blog. Need I say anymore?
I say –GOOD RIDDANCE to all of those registered voters during this past Plainfield mayoral election who were disgusted with Sharon Robinson-Briggs as mayor but could not see themselves voting for Jim Pivnichny because they were die-hard Democrats.
Hopefully Dan –this comment fits within the GOOD RIDDANCE rules.
Good Riddance to ALL that is unholy! Nuff Said!!!
Get rid of the Hooray-for-Sharon banner that has marred the appearance of our City Hall for such as long time. The election ended on November 3.
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