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At MLA 2007, the Trustee of the Year Award was presented to Tom Heyes, Chair of the West Yellowstone Public Library Board of Trustees by Mary Girard and Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger.
The BCGEU was proud to host our second annual MLA Breakfast in Victoria on February 24, 2016. Many great conversations were caught on camera, as MLAs chatted with our Provincial Executive. It was also Pink Shirt Day, part of anti-bullying campaigns across the country.
Even though there is 2 ear pieces in package, they seems to be duplicates. I was able to put on only one ear.
The BCGEU was proud to host our second annual MLA Breakfast in Victoria on February 24, 2016. Many great conversations were caught on camera, as MLAs chatted with our Provincial Executive. It was also Pink Shirt Day, part of anti-bullying campaigns across the country.
Giants Causeway County Antrim Northern Ireland.
The Causeway become widely known as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ from the 1700s when large numbers of visitor’s came to view this amazing array of basalt columns, it is estimated that there are around 40,000 in total. Today’s visitor is free to wander over the stones but it was not always the case. Growing worldwide fame brought increasing numbers of visitors which inspired a syndicate to engage in a profitable charge’s cheme to view the stones at close hand.
For over a century prior to this scheme, There had been disputes of access and ownership, the stones have been fenced off, access denied and several legal challenges made. However, in 1897 one lengthy legal battle between this syndicate and local people who objected took place, the High Court in London recognised that a road to the stones had existed for public access to the foreshore but turned down recognition of access over the stones. The Giants Causeway Company subsequently improved the site, fenced off the stones and levied a charge to view them at close hand.
The Causeway came into public ownership in 1963 when it was bought by the National Trust but it is thanks to a small band of people who stood up for an ancient right of way in the late 1800’s that has led to this free access today. A house once stood at the point where the mini-bus now turns round, a caretaker lived there to monitor the stones and turnstile, through the Giants Gate was a Victorian tea room – both have long since gone.
There is nothing left of a two hundred year old tradition that existed amongst local people, who would set up small stalls along the pathway that leads to the causeway or the guides who would show you round or the boatmen who would row you round to Portcoon Cave or round past the Causeway to view the spectacular Amphitheatre.