The "DDO&P Conflict", 2007-09-10 to 2018-06-09

Clockwise from lower right: (1) the homebrew Yagi antenna which I am to be donating to YLab at DDO, for possible use in meteor radio observations (a tape measure, extended to a length of one metre, runs parallel to the boom, and a metre stick is partially visible to the right, running perpendicular to the boom); (2) the front panel of the Westinghouse 7-valve receiver which I am to be donating to YLab, along with a detail from its back panel; (3) the DDO 1.88-metre telescope, as I photographed it on 2018-06-09 (with the 1930s Grubb-and-Parsons fabricator plaque partly visible at the bottom edge of the photo, on the south side of the south pier); (4) the 1.88-metre telescope control room, as a reminder of departed glories, from my visit of 2018-06-09  (although the joystick, for guiding starlight down the spectrograph slit, can be seen to the left of the obsolete monitor, the spectrograph controller electronics have now been dismounted from the telescope). May we hope some day, perhaps through an infusion of something like National Research Council funds, for a revival of DDO spectroscopy? - As is usual in blogspot publishing, the image can be enlarged with a left mouse-click.

Quality assessment:

On the 5-point scale current in Estonia, and surely in nearby nations, and familiar to observers of the academic arrangements of the late, unlamented, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (applying the easy and lax standards Kmo deploys in his grubby imaginary "Aleksandr Stepanovitsh Popovi nimeline sangarliku raadio instituut" (the "Alexandr Stepanovitch Popov Institute of Heroic Radio") and his  grubby imaginary "Nikolai Ivanovitsh Lobatshevski nimeline sotsalitsliku matemaatika instituut" (the "Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Institute of Socialist Mathematics") - where, on the lax and easy grading philosophy of the twin Institutes, 1/5 is "epic fail", 2/5 is "failure not so disastrous as to be epic", 3/5 is "mediocre pass", 4/5 is "good", and 5/5 is "excellent"): 4/5. Justification: Kmo found the time to develop the essential points to reasonable length.

 
Revision history:
 
All times in these blog "revision histories" are stated in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time/ Temps Universel Coordoné,  a precisification of the old GMT, or "Greenwich Mean Time"), in the ISO-prescribed YYYYMMDDThhmmZ timestamping format. UTC currently leads Toronto civil time by 4 hours (with Toronto now on summer time) and currently lags Tallinn civil time by 2 hours (with Tallinn currently still on winter time). 

• 20180611T2142Z/version 2.2.0: Kmo added a potentially significant point, that RASC has in the past formed a contractual relationship with DDO developer Corsica. (It is this, and not the mere silence of RASC as a corporate entity, at the CRB and OMB hearings, that justifies Kmo in representing RASC as tacitly dissenting from his own conservationist position.) - Kmo reserved the right to make further tiny, nonsubstantive, purely cosmetic, tweaks over the coming 48 hours, as here-undocumented versions 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, ... .
• 20180611T2136Z/version 2.1.0: Kmo made a correction in his criticism of RASC (fortunately managing to get this in before anyone contacted him): although RASC has not to his knowledge taken an official conservationist position, for instance by becoming a "Party" at the 2009 Conservation Review Board hearing or the 2012 and 2014 Ontario Municipal Board hearings, nevertheless individual RASC members have communicated conservationist positions to authorities, acting in their private capacity. - Kmo reserved  the right to make further tiny, nonsubstantive, purely cosmetic, tweaks over the coming 48 hours, as here-undocumented versions 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, ... .
• 20180611T1430Z/version 2.0.0: Kmo finished converting his point-form outline into full-sentences  prose, and also added a graphic. He reserved the right to make further tiny, nonsubstantive, purely cosmetic, tweaks over the coming 48 hours, as here-undocumented versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, ... .
• 20180611T0222Z/version 1.0.0: Kmo uploaded a reasonably polished point-form outline. He hoped to finish converting this into full-sentences prose at some point in the coming 14 hours.

  

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The Saturday which was 2018-06-09 proved notable for Canadian astronomy.

On Canadian soil sit three rather hefty ships in what I like to call "God's Navy" - the Mont Mégantic observatory in Québec, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory on Vancouver Island, and the (beleaguered) David Dunlap Observatory in Ontario. By a coincidence, two of these three had historic celebrations on the day - DAO, as part of its centenary observances (in a proceeding advertised at https://thecentreoftheuniverse.net/a-centennial-celebration); and DDO, to mark the formal start of municipally directed public outreach, after the 1935-2008 tenure of the University of Toronto and the temporary 2009-through-2016-or-2017 arrangement between the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC; https://www.rasc.ca/) and a temporary DDO owner, subdivision developer Corsica.

I do continue to censure the federal, provincial, and municipal authorities for allowing 32 hectares out of our 77-hectare legacy to be sacrificed to Corsica. The happy Saturday was, however, less a day for bemoaning what had been lost than for celebrating progress on fully four DDO fronts - as regards (A) the municipality (https://www.richmondhill.ca/en/david-dunlap-observatory.aspx), (B) the "YLab" (http://www.ylab.ca) citizen-engineering makerspace, (C) RASC (for citizen science), and (D) the David Dunlap Observatory Defenders (DDOD, again for citizen science; http://www.ddod.ca/).

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(A) It was constructive of Mayor David Barrow to begin his remarks by citing the aboriginal First Nations, as the ancient tenants of the DDO terrain.

It was additionally constructive of Mayor Barrow to have used - as perhaps the first significant municipal officer, for perhaps the first time in my hearing, from any municipal microphone - the fully correct legal terminology for the terrain, as laid out in Jessie Donalda Dunlap's 1930s Deed of Indenture: what we are herewith conserving (now, all will admit, with a mix of success and failure) is in the prescriptive language of Mrs Dunlap's Deed the "David Dunlap Observatory and Park".

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(B) YLab opened their DDO Adminstration-Building rooms to the public, demonstrating how solid a base they have already established for "citizen-engineering" outreach. Presently at their disposal are at least two of the four big legacy DDO workshops. (In the decades leading up to the unhappy 2008 change in DDO ownership, the basement housed optics, metalworking, and woodworking. On the Administration Building upper level was a big electronics room, with a slate-topped table that eventually got removed, I presume during the University of Toronto's 2008 sale.)

YLab have already made a beginning in fabrication, deploying not only three 3-D printers, but also a laser cutter similar to the big laser cutter which I have myself viewed in Toronto's HackLab (https://hacklab.to/). Further, YLab have  made a beginning in amateur radio, notably by already, in so short a time, helping eight or so school pupils qualify with Industry Canada for their amateur-radio operating licences.

On the equipment side, I saw a couple of transceivers for HF (with appropriate power supplies), as well as a VHF-or-UHF handheld.

It was a "Eureka" moment to see YLab deploying a UHF Yagi antenna whose boom-mounted elements were judiciously cut from that most convenient of metals, a tape measure!

Also noteworthy in my visit to the DDO YLab rooms was an imposing AF signal generator, capable of high peak-to-peak voltage swings (if I recall accurately, on the order of tens of kilovolts). This hefty box had been donated from the surplus stocks of the University of Toronto Department of Physics.

Mindful of YLab's demonstrated technological solidity, I immediately entered into an agreement to donate to them two minor items from my own surplus stocks:

• I am to be giving to YLab a Yagi antenna, with wooden boom, and with metal wiring on wooden crosspieces as its active element, its reflector, and its (sole) director. The antenna feeds into twin-lead. Its elements are cut for the FM-broadcast frequency of 90.7 MHz. A Toronto radio restorator, "XYZ", and I had a few years ago put this bulky thing together for investigating ionization trails of meteors, with a particular view to such showers as the Perseids. (Our method was simple: you feed the Yagi into your ordinary humble consumer-electronics FM rig, and then you try to establish that you are hearing - for just a few seconds in each fleeting instance - stations too far from Toronto to be plausibly received except through bounces off meteor ionization trails. XYZ and I did catch a few distant (USA) FM broadcasters at a time presumed specially rich in meteors. However, we did not embark on a properly systematic mluti-day, multi-week radio observing campaign, such as would now seem appropriate at DDO.)
• I am to be giving YLab a Westinghouse 7-valve (7-"tube") AM-FM monaural 1950s or 1960s tabletop radio, with model specification H86nN7, for some value of n in the set {0, 1, 2, 3}. This set is in wooden cabinetry - with the exact, but to me unknown, value of n corresponding to what the old Westinghouse marketers were pleased to call, respectively, "traditional mahogany", "colonial maple", "contemporary walnut", "provincial fruitwood". I guess what I have to offer YLab is not "colonial maple", and so does not correspond to n = 1. But given some degree of imagination, and some accompanying mental vagueness regarding fine cabinetry, my set could conceivably be held to correspond to any one of n = 0, 2, 3. - The design is of a quality arguably occupying the boundary between an upmarket postwar kitchen radio and a downmarket postwar hi-fi radio. The dial does now need restringing, I suppose with something like fishing line now going into its interior pulley. Further, noise which has developed in the last few years suggests that at least one electrolytic capacitor is now failing. (I have had the set since rescuing it from York University garbage in 1989 or 1990 or 1991. It sounded fine until just two or three or so years ago.) - Once restored, this set might perhaps be a suitable companion for the just-mentioned Yagi, in the just-mentioned investigation of meteors. - Readers should note that YLab are interested in receiving still more valve receivers from the general public, as their team works to hone its skills in radio restoration. 

I may be making other minor donations also (I have yet to discuss this with YLab). I also may soon be proposing the loan of various bits of radio gear, notably including an RF signal generator and an antenna analyzer. There will, however, have to be a caveat: I would be obliged to make my loans for a short term only. In September, or thereabouts, it will on present plans be time for me to finish packing all my Canadian chattels for sea transport to Estonia.

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(C) I engaged in fully happy diplomacy with RASC on 2018-06-09, with a correctly friendly level of understanding replacing previous tensions. I think it would now be fair to say that both sides in the dialogue tacitly agree to disagree on the destroyed 32 DDO&P hectares, in other words on the 14-new-street Corsica subdivision - with RASC, through their entering into a contractual relationship with property developer Corsica, and through various past silences (notably in the media, and at the 2009 Conservation Review Board, and at the 2012-through-2015 Ontario Municipal Board and Divisional Court), implicitly dissenting from my own conservationist position. - I do have to add here (a point which I partially neglected in my various versions of my essay until "version 2.1.0", at UTC=20180611T2136Z) that individual members of RASC, as opposed to RASC itself as a "legal person" speaking in its corporate name, have been explicitly supportive of conservation. I return to this point briefly below, first in connection with RASC's Dr Ralph Chou, and then in connection with RASC's Mr Eric Briggs. 

I was privileged to chat on the day with the national RASC President, Mr Colin Haig (he was visiting DDO from Hamilton, Ontario), and to learn of his own interest in amateur radio, particularly in UHF fabrication.

I was happy also to chat with Dr Ralph Chou of the RASC Toronto Centre, and to express to him my gratitude for his warm private thanks to me this past week, in respect both of my annual RASC Observer's Handbook work (cf my blogspot posting of 2018-01-01, under the heading "The Visually Brightest Stars (Fresh RASC Publishing Initiatives)") and of my DDO conservationist advocacy.

Further, I was happy to chat with Mr Eric Briggs, likewise prominent in the RASC Toronto Centre, after hearing his DDO podium remarks on the role RASC has played in the educational formation of Canadian astrophysicists. From those podium remarks, I picked up much that was new to me - for instance, that my sometime University of Toronto classmate Sara Seager (now with MIT, as an exoplanets authority; https://www.saraseager.com/) has RASC ties, and that such ties  have existed in the remote past also - as with, e.g., the still-remembered DDO meteorite specialist Dr Peter Millman (1906-1990; he left DDO in 1940, began war service in 1941, and later served with the Dominion Observatory and the National Research Council).

It was additionally instructive to learn from these podium remarks that DDO's second Director, Prof. Reynold Young (1886-1977), had promoted Canada's war effort through RASC, trying to recruit optics engineers from the nationwide RASC rank-and-file (which back in those days must have been replete with mirror-grinders).

And I think I did not know until hearing Mr Briggs that astronomy enthusiast David Dunlap himself (1863-1924) may have first come to know of RASC in a community-service context. Mr Briggs noted that both Mr Dunlap and RASC's own Allan Miller were members of the Board at the Toronto General Hospital, around 1918.

Further, it is from Mr Briggs's podium remarks that I gather, or at any rate am reminded after years of amnesia, how strong was the support of individual RASC members for the conservationist position at the 2009 Conservation Review Board. Mr Briggs stated that over half of the conservation-supporting letters received at the Board came from RASC individuals.

Mindful of the fresh diplomatic détente with RASC, I would now respectfully offer the following points, or queries:

• There is a conceivable RASC synergy with the YLab team, who are emerging as a centre of radio expertise. Could not YLab help RASC continue an activity started at DDO by RASC a few years ago, namely the monitoring of radio flux from the Sun? 
• As I put my perhaps three or four shelf-metres of DDO advocacy paperwork into archive order, for conveying this autumn to some such public authority as the Richmond Hill Public Library or the Archives of Ontario, might RASC be interested in offering some for-them-painless logistic help? I am willing to sort that mountain of paper in the tight confines of my upcoming final Canadian place of residence, and would be happy also to sort it within the pleasantly quiet (again somewhat tight) walls of the Local History Room at the Richmond Hill Public Library. But might it be possible to do the sorting within the wider walls of DDO, perhaps during business hours, under arrangement with the Town and in my capacity as a RASC member? I could if necessary supply my own computer equipment, chair, and (folding) table. In general, for archive work the more space one has to spread things out, in some deserted room with a generous vacant floor, the better. 
• Should some effort now be made to produce a multi-author history of DDO, with part coming from me, and other parts from established historians within the ranks of RASC? RASC has established its historiographic credentials through Mr Peter Broughton's Looking Up: A History of the Royal Society of Canada (Toronto and Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1994; now available digitally at https://www.rasc.ca/sites/default/files/LookingUp-300-text.pdf), and in recent months through this same authority's Northern Star (University of Toronto Press, 2018; this new book is a biography of Canadian astrophysicist John Stanley Plakett (1865-1941)). I would be happy to write on the post-2007 conservation effort, drawing on my archive, and could also offer some modest degree of supporting insight for the writer or writers tackling two more remote key periods - on the one hand the years immediately preceding the formal DDO opening of 1935-05-31, and on the other hand the 1960s-1970s upswing in DDO research, led by a bevy of then-young workers, including my own cherished mentor, the late Prof. Robert F. Garrison (1936-2017). 
• Should efforts not now be made, in proper concert with the Town, to establish a formal Mondays-through-Fridays daytime office-and-library presence, by the RASC national administration, at DDO? If such a move from the present RASC headquarters were to be carried out with boldness and vision (I write here as an outsider, unbriefed on the logistics), then the national profile of RASC would be enhanced, and the Town itself would be making a contribution to the cultural life of the nation.

I might add in an informal way that any visitors from RASC would be welcome to stay a few nights in my upcoming new accommodations at dark-sky Tõravere - provided, that is, they do not mind being a full 20 minutes away from Tartu by rail (and from the railway platform to the Tõravere national-observatory hamlet is an additional, pleasant, rural walk of 2 kilometres), and provided they do not mind sleeping on such things as memory-foam slabs, either in my austere private sleeping cell or in my equally austere private workroom. (In either case, these rather formidable accommodations would be on the ground floor of the Brezhnev-era horror which is Tõravere's "Observatooriumi  tänav 5/ Number 5 Observatooriumi Street". An advantage of living in your hamlet's sole "Brezhnevka" is that as you look out the windows, you do not see any Brezhnevkas.)

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(D) I likewise engaged in fully happy diplomacy with DDOD on 2018-06-09, with a correctly friendly level of understanding achieved, or more accurately reiterated. I think it is fair to say that DDOD and I agree on the need to keep in view some possible DDO-Tõravere collaboration, in some such field as Johnson-Cousins UBV stellar photometry. I would privately hope either (a) for the DDOD's Dr Ian Shelton coming on board as the Principal Investigator in some joint observational project or (b) for some Tõravere scientist to become Principal Investigator, taking Dr Shelton as second-in-command. In either of these two scenarios, I would envisage myself coming up the gangplank in a rather junior Tõravere capacity, with lots of night work - in naval terms, becoming one of those reticent chappie-wappies who get to wear just a single gold band on the jacket sleeve.

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In view of the favourable diplomacy, it is appropriate to take 2018-06-09 as the formal end of the "DDO&P Conflict" which formally began on 2007-09-10, with the University of Toronto announcing its unwise decision to sell.

It would be easy, in this time of peace, reconciliation, and reconstruction, to offer some of the strong music of Estonia. But I did enough along those particular musical lines in my blogspot posting of 2018-05-22, headed "Operatsiooni 'Kodune Koli' Manööver 'Luureretk' Edukas/ Success in Operation 'Domestic Clobber', 'Preliminary Recce Manoeuvre'", by mentioning YouTube user AndrusEST's 2009-08-01 upload of "Eesti Lipp". I prefer now to turn instead to our northern brothers-in-arms.

I suppose one would profitably consider that salute to the Winter War veterans which has the YouTube heading "Veteraanin Iltahuuto" (upload of YouTube user Mika Tanninen, to a duration of 0:04:27; in my present particular corner of the Internet, in Canada, the material is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKxCiTZoyQ).

However, I instead choose to put the focus onto a very familiar thing indeed, the usual bit of Sibelius. For this I would specifically recommend the YouTube upload headed "Jean Sibelius - Finlandia" (with a viewcount, as at UTC=20180611T1607Z, of 5,337,303, from YouTube user Tarja M, to a duration of 0:09:36). In my present particular corner of the Internet, that musical material is available at https://www.youtube.c5,337,303 om/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c.

The woodland depicted in my chosen "Finlandia" vid resonates, I admit, with three or four orders of magnitude more spiritual power than anything we are used to in the modest (and beleaguered) woods surrounding DDO. Conceding the spiritual mismatch, I ask my readers to think less of the modest physical realities of DDO&P than of national cultural and environmental heritage in general, and of the need to defend such heritage with the valour of those Winter War Finns.

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PUBLIC-SERVICE POSTING: Facebook operations of Town Councillor Karen Cilevitz

Revision history:

• 20180610T1428Z/version 1.1.0: Kmo added better particulars on YouTube coverage of the Karen Cilevitz case.
• 20180605Z/version 1.0.0: Kmo uploaded base version. 

The purpose of this posting is to document Town of Richmond Hill Ward Five Councillor Karen Cilevitz's suppression of free public debate on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/karencilevitz/, in the wake of the controversy surrounding her legal attack on a civilian (as documented by the CBC in English at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/councillor-ward-five-1.4685963 under the headline "Richmond Hill councillor leaves threatening voicemail over name of open mic night" and in French at http://www.sympatico.ca/actualites/nouvelles/politique/des-residents-se-sentent-harceles-par-leur-conseillere-municipale-1.3856746 under the headline "Des résidents se sentent harcelés par leur conseillère municipale", and by the local broadcaster "640am", and by "Rebel Media".

The "640am" material was uploaded 2018-05-31 to YouTube by YouTube user Matt Groopie under the heading "Richmond Hill Ward 5 Councillor Karen Cilevitz threatens and berates stage 4 Cancer Patient", to a length of 0:04:44, with subsequent (surely uncensored?) commentary from various people (including me). In my present corner of the Internet, in Canada, the YouTube upload, including comments, may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMK7xMv4OIU). As at UTC=20180610T1426, this upload had a viewcount ot 1,207.

The "Rebel Media" material was uploaded 2018-06-xx to YouTube by YouTube user Rebel Media under the heading "Ward 5 Councillor’s 'threats' to shut down musical acts baffles residents", to a length of 0:11:08, with subsequent (surely uncensored?) commentary from various people, including me. In my present corner of the Internet, in Canada, the YouTube upload, including comments, may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzt5jfE3zY. As at UTC=20180610T1424Z, this upload had a viewcount of 9,177.

I provide this documentation on the one hand to facilitate public debate, and on the other hand to support the Town of Richmond Hill Integrity Commissioner in any conceivable ongoing Commissioner investigation. 

The documentation forms part of my ongoing effort to illuminate the municipal, provincial, and federal Canadian heritage-conservation failure surrounding Richmond Hill's David Dunlap Observatory and Park (DDO&P). The legacy DDO&P, as created in 1935 and enlarged in the 1950s, comprised 77 hectares. A partial failure in conservation has led to the conversion of a 45-hectare DDO&P rump into a new municipal park, styled the "David Dunlap Observatory Park", with the research-and-public-outreach astrophysical role of DDO presently reduced to a mere public-outreach role. The remaining 32 hectares has become a housing development, promoted at   http://myobservatoryhill.ca/. Councillor Cilevitz has been a proponent of this unsatisfactory outcome. 

My previous involvements with Councillor Cilevitz are documented in this present blog (it is helpful to Google under such strings as Karmo blogspot DDO), and also in my two Web sites http://www.karen-vs-toomas-blog.ca/ and http://www.karen-vs-toomas-legaldocs.ca/. 

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The controversy documented in the above-cited CBC and "640am" broadcast materials started around 2018-05-30 or 2018-05-31. On monitoring https://www.facebook.com/karencilevitz/ rather unsystematically from 2018-05-31 or so onward, I noticed a thing I have also noticed one, two, or three or so times in the past three or four years - namely, the disappearance from https://www.facebook.com/karencilevitz/ of reader comment criticizing Councillor Cilevitz, shortly after her critic does an upload. I was a little slow in documenting what I was noticing. By 2016-06-01, however, I had  embarked on a systematic process of monitoring, through the taking of screenshots on my Debian GNU/Linux workstation. I display the most pertinent of my various screenshots here.

In all cases the screenshot filename incorporates date and local civil time, in the style "YYYY-MM-DD" and "hh-mm-ss". The screenshots show not only my browser (Firefox), but additionally a clock, displaying local civil time to a precision of better than plus-minus 50 milliseconds. As is usual in blogspot publishing, each browser-view screenshot image can, if desired, be enlarged with a left mouse-click.

(A) When I began my formal monitoring, with a screenshot whose filename incorporated the chronological reference 2018-06-01 12-36-17, Facebook user Ray Litvak had uploaded a sleepyhead image, and Facebook user Donn Dixon had uploaded the communication I honestly can't believe that you are harassing people about a name that you do not own....disgusting !!!.

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A screenshot whose filename incorporates the chronological reference 2018-06-01 13-48-54 shows the Facebook user Ray Litvak image retained, but the Facebook user  Donn Dixon communication deleted:

(B) On my next day of monitoring, 2018-06-02, I found the Facebook user Ray Litvak image retained, and from Facebook user Dave Clews the communication Sorry, but what a ridiculous waste of time. Hopefully no taxpayer funds were wasted on this., and from Facebook user Ray Litvak the communication Shame, and from Facebook user Dan Page the communication That was a lot of wind expelled in one sitting., and from Facebook user Gerry Hall the communication What you're not admitting is that as a city councillor, you either had no idea how the law works, or you made a threat to take legal action you knew couldn't happen. So what is it - did you REALLY think that legally only city councillors could use the term ward'? Or did you know that was crap, but were hoping they'd give in because you threatened legal action? Either way, you look incredibly petty in this matter.  You were obsessed with stopping someone calling an event the Ward 5 Jam'?! - I can't believe you didn't have better ways to spend your time.:

Later that same day, I found the Facebook user Ray Litvak image deleted, and the Facebook user Dave Clews communication retained, and the Facebook user Ray Litvak communication deleted, and from Facebook user Lori Lewis the communication No situation could ever justify the kind of message that was left. It is shameful:

Still later that same day, I found that all material critical of Councillor Cilevitz within this Facebook discussion thread had been deleted:

(C) On my next fruitful day of monitoring (the last day documented here at blogspot), 2018-06-04, at 09:07 local time, I found from Facebook user Jon Brooks the communication Whatever get over it and let people use words as they wish., and from Facebook user Buck Dallas the communication I also want to start a Ward 5 jam, who is the  contact in the original Ward 5 Jam so that I may ask permission? Please leave a message for me if you have any concerns., and from Facebook user Ryan McGarry-McNab the communication The easiest thing for people to do is to listen to the voicemail left by  the councillor and decide for themselves: http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/a-city-councillor-is-pissed-over-an-open-mic-night-for-a-very-silly-reason/, and from Facebook user Howard Bayne the communication This is a very well-worded statement. To learn more about her TRUE character listen to the voicemail and hear for yourself.:

Later that same day, I found that within this Facebook discussion thread, all material critical of Councillor Cilevitz had been deleted. Since the deletion was performed on a business day (a Monday) at some time between 09:07 and 09:58 (in other words, in business hours), there is some (less-than-conclusive) presumption that if the deletion was indeed performed by Councillor Cilevitz, then it was performed in her office, during her office hours, with a Town computer rather than with her own personal home computer:  

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