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  petroleum vehicles are not vegan and animals don't pollute animals are part of the natural environment there are 1 billion cars and 1 billion 'cattle' you can put a hundred cows in a barn and their body heat will keep them comfortably warm but if you put 100 cars in a barn with them and with the engines running all the cows will die in 8 hrs and the barn will catch fire (the temperature of car exhaust gas leaving the tail pipe is 300 to 500 degrees farenheit) stop being mean and start using your heads to discern the truth #aburtonfansdenialresistantclimatesummit https://tinyurl.com/y5rj8b6w  - post link oh, it was a fire fighter fighting the forest fire in my hometown and i didn't know !   https://www.facebook.com/243343022772/posts/10158582419607773/ https://tinyurl.com/4mchnbbx - popular mechanics : tailpipe exhaust temp https://tinyurl.com/bvcnkdat - bbc  : 3 billion animals killed or harmed by australian wildfires https://tinyurl.com/err8894w - nat

  the van buren, maine town council regretfully accepted town assessor tony martin's resignation tuesday evening in a move that came as a surprise to many in attendance, but apparently was considered about by tony and his future plans were related to the town for some time now https://tinyurl.com/rfmyx7aj video 1 tony records himself on community access tv resigning: video 2 ambulance: van buren only has one shift for the ambulance which means the ambulance department has to pay overtime for the emts to do multiple shifts: video 3 community development grant discussed at video 3 minute 16.12 for demolishing the two hardware stores and house on the corner of bridge street and main street video 3 minute 19.12 americorps grant for van buren childhood trauma resiliency project ran out of money for funding but might be refunded later video 3 at minute 26.14 the town solar project is discussed video 3 at minute 27 the return to regular town office hours are discussed oh, tony's fb

  post link https://tinyurl.com/hpcc94zt left to right: town manager nancy troeger, maurice corbin, peter madore, joey ouellette and on joey's left will be paul nadeau with john beaulieu on paul's left and deputy town manager luke dyer sitting in the front gold chair, with tony martin to the photo view's left operating the local van buren tv station camera that kept cutting out like ours did the week before so we had to record video with 3 cell phones that would only load about 35 minutes of video at a time - van buren town officials anne says the state legislature bill ld 328 was close to being passed on tuesday when this budget meeting took place making revenue sharing from the state to maine municipalities 5% (video 2 minute 25:33) https://tinyurl.com/hpcc94zt https://www.billtrack50.com/BillDetail/1302269 ~ video 1 video 2 video 3 video 4 video 5

  https://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/08/opinion/maine-lawmakers-should-restore-municipal-revenue-sharing/

  post link https://tinyurl.com/2ctj46pe the new england town meeting is a form of direct democracy some things the council members considered at the tuesday, may 4th council meeting - held at the van buren fire station -  were: - fire department budget (c i p means capital improvement plan ) at minute 2:30 in video 1 - a new snow plow truck (video 1 at minute 18:10, vote at minute 2:25 video 2) for the highway department that would cost $188,938 (with an 8% price increase if the order is not confirmed in june) - recreation department (video 2 minute 5:30) resurfacing the tennis courts at the community center and fixing the basketball backboards there - designating funds (up to $50,000) for a community van to shuttle people who don't have transportation to town events and shopping (video 3 at minute 11:30) - whether to designate funds to recreate the economic development director position (minute 27:19 on video 3)  which would allow nancy to free up time by the hiring a full time