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It is with sadness that we inform our readers that Fred Kirby passed away November 17, 2009.

Biography

Frederick William Kirby  passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
 at Kincardine Hospital in his 82nd year.
Beloved husband and best friend of Sylvia Heimbecker-Kirby. He is fondly remembered by his sister, Florence Gale, his niece Karen Finnigan and nephew Bob Gale. Frederick was an educator, retiring from George Brown College where he held the position of Associate Registrar. He was an avid member of the Bruce Amateur Radio Club, the Kincardine Flying Club and Men of the Trees. He was a concerned humanitarian and supporter of Amnesty International, Canadian Friends of Burma and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

 “If democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism,
If government is to function, it must have dissent.”
 - Henry Steele Commager

Municipal Musings is a website primarily dedicated to municipal affairs:

the good, the bad, and the ugly. The principal subject is the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario, located on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron, 310 Km from Detroit and 225 Km west of Toronto at the intersection of Highway 21 and 9.

The heading ‘Kincardine’ gives you articles and comments on Kincardine. ‘Elsewhere’ takes you to issues in other municipalities as well as broader political subjects.

Feedback via the ‘contact’ button is welcome; your issues are my issues when they include transparency, fairness, and justice.

The column, Municipal Musings, appears weekly in the Kincardine Independent, a small town newspaper that dares to be good and is read far and wide. The column seeks fair practices and transparency in municipal council’s activities and accountability by councillors and managers. Citizens deserve nothing less.

Fred Kirby

“Local government operates on a gentleman’s agreement that the officials won’t tell how incompetent the Councillors are as long as the Councillors don’t tell how idle the officials are.”                                                                           - Yes, Prime Minister

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

(Robert Maynard Hutchins)