Each time taxpayers have had to rally to put out that expensive fire
To the Expositor:
In the last 50 years, the tearing down of meeting places of the outlying towns of Big Lake, Sandfield, Spring Bay and Providence Bay and building a multi-million-dollar sports complex in Mindemoya has reared its head at least four times. Every time the taxpayers from the small towns have met at the council chambers to put out that very expensive fire.
These little communities want to keep their little towns as a family. To destroy those little towns destroys the fabric of Manitoulin. By using the excuse of needing showers and ramps to promote the building of a new multi-million-dollar sports complex is totally irrational and extremely expensive for the taxpayers. After the installation of the structural steel in the arenas, they are in very good shape.
When your house gets older, you don’t tear it down and build a new one. You add the needed repairs as you need to do to the arenas.
By the way, the sports complex in Little Current takes over $700,000 each year just to run.
Listen to the taxpayers, they know what’s best, they are the ones that have to foot the bill.
Sincerely,
Lyle Dewar
Providence Bay
