Progress

The Community Events sign was, last week, surrounded by scaffolding, suggesting that the roof is finally on its way.  It will be good to see the whole thing finished, although its progress has certainly been something less than a straight line.  The now-defunct Community Association took on the task of revivifying the former Community Events sign almost two years ago.  It wasn’t what anybody much thought the Community Association would be doing, but it seemed like a reasonably small task that somewhat needed doing and that could be done fairly quickly and inexpensively because fairly easy.  In addition, it seemed like an opportunity for the members of the Community Association to get to know one another better through the process and to develop some habits of working together.

None of those goals worked out, of course.  It turned out not to be neither a small, quick, or inexpensive task (perhaps there are no such things in Point Roberts), and by the time it was partly erected, most of the hopeful Community Association members, myself included, had moved on to learn something else with someone else, I guess.

Nevertheless, the people who were doing the hands-on building have admirably stayed with it, though its costs keep going up.  There is talk of copper gutters round the sign’s roof, although when I look around my street, I notice that the rest of us are doing okay with aluminum gutters. 

And the sign itself, as can be seen in the two photos seems now to be conceptually metamorphosing.  First, the posts have sprouted a second sign space which seems to be a permanent sign for a new organization.  One wishes it well, but it seems a little premature, given the history of Point Roberts’ community organizations, to begin with a permanent sign.  Or, self-defeating, since a sign that is always there quickly becomes a sign that no one sees.  And, second, the idea of community seems to have broadened substantially since the main sign space is largely occupied by an event that is taking place in Bellingham.

Ah, well. . . as it says in the very small print at the bottom of the sign on the left-hand lower corner, ‘some rules may apply.’ And, presumably, some may not.