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Philly Shuts Down Historic Sites

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lol...making America Great again, I guess.

National Park Service shuts down Philly historic sites, bathrooms amid federal hiring freeze | PennLive.com

Visitors to park will find closed doors at several attractions in the upcoming months. The reason, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, is the National Park Service being "severely understaffed" as a result of President Donald Trump's hiring freeze of federal employees.

The seven buildings affected are Franklin Printing Office, Declaration House, Fragment Museum, New Hall Military Museum, Todd House, Bishop White House and Thaddeus Kosciuszko House.
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calamity said:
lol...making America Great again, I guess.

National Park Service shuts down Philly historic sites, bathrooms amid federal hiring freeze | PennLive.com
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This is too bad. I go to museums a lot and I think they serve many good purposes.

Also, really they can't even keep a bathroom open. smh

Bathrooms at Independence Square have also been closed. Those restrooms will be closed throughout the summer, meaning visitors will have to relieve themselves at the Independence Visitor Center a few blocks away.
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Fearandloathing said:
I didn't know that.

That is very cool.
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Yeah, road trip!
I was wondering if the fed would go around and rebuild all those 50-year-old Centennial Arenas they built across the country in '67.
 
Grand Mal said:
Hey, come to Canada this year. All our National Parks and buildings and whatnot are free- it's our 150th birthday year.
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I do need to make a return visit to Banff. It's been too long.
 
calamity said:
I do need to make a return visit to Banff. It's been too long.
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Good year for it. You'll get a nice bonus on the exchange rate but the price-at-the-pump will eat that up.
 
Grand Mal said:
Good year for it. You'll get a nice bonus on the exchange rate but the price-at-the-pump will eat that up.
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Gas always was high up in the Great White North. So, it's to be expected. Beautiful country though.
 
Grand Mal said:
Yeah, road trip!
I was wondering if the fed would go around and rebuild all those 50-year-old Centennial Arenas they built across the country in '67.
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Hey, those arenas gave us a **** load of hockey players. When I was officiating in Junior in Saskatchewan it seemed every arena we went to was build in '67 or '68 and very cheaply. They were aging and creaky then, and that was over 30 years ago.
 
calamity said:
Gas always was high up in the Great White North. So, it's to be expected. Beautiful country though.
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Yeah, it's a nice drive- a long way from anywhere to anywhere else.
 
calamity said:
I do need to make a return visit to Banff. It's been too long.
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Banff, Jasper and Lake Louise are 3 of my favorite places in the world. We took the kids a few years back, went on a train from Calgary to Vancouver with 5 days stops in each place. Heaven!
 
Grand Mal said:
Yeah, it's a nice drive- a long way from anywhere to anywhere else.
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I love that about Canada. About 20 years ago, wife and I drove from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and then took a ferry back. It was about three weeks of camping, hiking, and basic slumming out of the car. Good times. But, I was only about 30 then. I would not want to o that again. Uh-uh.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Hey, those arenas gave us a **** load of hockey players. When I was officiating in Junior in Saskatchewan it seemed every arena we went to was build in '67 or '68 and very cheaply. They were aging and creaky then, and that was over 30 years ago.
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I grew up in Surrey and the nearest ice surface pre-'67 was Queens Park Arena in New Westminster. Remember Ernie 'Punch' McLean and the New West Bruins? I got taken to a couple of their games but the Centennial Arena came too late in Surrey for my hockey career.
 
calamity said:
I love that about Canada. About 20 years ago, wife and I drove from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and then took a ferry back. It was about three weeks of camping, hiking, and basic slumming out of the car. Good times. But, I was only about 30 then. I would not want to o that again. Uh-uh.
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I've done that trip, with a couple weeks in Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte Islands. That boat trip down the inside passage is a real gem. In one narrow passage my wife was out on the deck watching the island go by and she saw a Kermode bear, one of those white Black Bears. come down out of the bush onto the gravel beach.
 
"The federal hiring freeze went into effect at noon on Jan. 22 and will continue until the Director of the Office of Management and Budget releases a long-term plan to cut the size of the federal government workforce. That plan has to be delivered within 90 days of that Jan. 22 date.

Agencies are able to request exemptions to the freeze during that time. The National Park Service has already done so and been granted the ability to hire seasonal employees, according to Philly.com. But those seasonal employees may not end up in Philadelphia."
 
Grand Mal said:
I've done that trip, with a couple weeks in Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte Islands. That boat trip down the inside passage is a real gem. In one narrow passage my wife was out on the deck watching the island go by and she saw a Kermode bear, one of those white Black Bears. come down out of the bush onto the gravel beach.
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The single most exciting trip I have ever taken was a two week diving cruise leaving port Hardy, crossing Hecate Straight in a storm, and then diving in the waters off Haida Gwaii. I was almost blown away by the village of Haida was very impressive, the architecture and everything from wood. The sea floor of our dives was over grown! We had to abandon one dive because we were over-run by crabs. We each snapped one up with our hands and surfaced for dinner!
What surprised me was how much life there was in Masset as it runs so deep so far. If you go the very end, a long finger of water, you can hike up a hill, we will call it, as it isn't really a mountain, and there you can see the open Pacific.

There are few holidays I've taken where I didn't want to leave. Although I was ready for home crossing Hecate Straight in a storm with swells higher than the bow of the boat. Usually two weeks of camping or boat living [camping on the water] is about all I need and want my bed, my home, my hood.

One of the other was in Desolation Sound. Man is THAT place ever well named.

One of the frustrations about seeing BC, is you need three lifetimes just to get a start.

Oh, and we dived the Cape Scott Islands. Plug that into Google Earth...we were diving off islands that have never seen the foot print of man.
 
sounds political....
 
Philly has a big tourist influx in the summer so park service management needs to be sure and send seasonal help for the summer.
Problem solved.


"Agencies are able to request exemptions to the freeze during that time. The National Park Service has already done so and been granted the ability to hire seasonal employees, according to Philly.com. But those seasonal employees may not end up in Philadelphia."
 
Grand Mal said:
I've done that trip, with a couple weeks in Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte Islands. That boat trip down the inside passage is a real gem. In one narrow passage my wife was out on the deck watching the island go by and she saw a Kermode bear, one of those white Black Bears. come down out of the bush onto the gravel beach.
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It was absolutely beautiful: water like glass, mountainous raw wilderness on both banks, lots of bears and whales. Totally amazing. We were not bored even though it took way over twelve hours.
 
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