This is a response to Colin Burkes’ letter against a water park in last week’s edition of The Chief.
He is entitled to his position but the argument he put forward holds no water. As he says, he has been a volunteer in the past to build trails, which he will use – this is not at all equivalent to a water park for children.
To say volunteers do good work is understood. He is making a mistake that I have seen many times – one statement has no relation to the second statement.
Corporate contributions for fun bike trails are OK, but should not be necessary for a kids’ water park.
According to him, I guess we should give a two-year-old a shovel and tell them to get at it. For a council who stresses we are a family community, I have a problem seeing it.
The taxes don’t have to go up, just the priorities have to change – focus on the taxpayers who, after all, are paying and not on special projects that fit our mayor’s agenda. I see we are getting a new sign, taxpayer-funded. Is this necessary?
By the way, telling a young child to play in a river is akin to a parent telling a kid to go play on the freeway.
Parking problems, staff hiring – judge by the results not what is fed to us.
