What happens when Thunder in the Valley was cancelled

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

Parking permit issued to residences. Anyone without a parking pass was not to be allowed into the town.  Of course that was all changed when they realized there was no one here after they cancelled Thunder in the Valley fire works.

 Seppuku (切腹^?, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.

While taking some of these pictures a councilman (Brian Gallant) suggested and quite rudely I might add that, if I felt that strongly about this, why had I not volunteered to make Rum Runners Days a better event.  I replied that I did not see him or anyone else there help me fight the clear cutting that Spray Lake Sawmills have done along the Allison Creek road.  You know that road?  That leads to the trail of what mountain?.........Yes, the Crowsnest Mountain.  Also the trail head to Window Mountain lake. That also forced my mother and father who had operated a trail riding business in the area "Western Adventures" to close.....but I digress.

 self-flag·el·la·tion (slfflj-lshn)

n.

1. The act of severely criticizing oneself.

2. The act of punishing oneself.

Some might argue that I am doing the same thing.  I am not.  I am simply pointing out the dismal failure of the Crowsnest Council to understand what an event like this means to the community.  It is not only a failure, but complete ineptitude on the part of council members.

I plan to get into more detail about my 25 min conversation with the councilman Brian Gallant later, but in short, what I gleaned from the whole conversation was that since no accommodation could be reached with the fire fighters (who started this event 18 years ago) the council would *show them* by shutting this event down. And that is just what they did, citing liability and security issues.

"Cutting off the nose to spite the face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.