Editor:
I want to express an apology to Corrie DiManno if I came across as attacking her in my address to council.
In no way, shape or form would I ever intentionally want you to feel that was my agenda. I have known your family all my life. Your father and I worked together 30 years ago for John Pearson in “the bone yard.”
I was honestly hoping to ignite the passion in you that got you to quit the Crag and throw your hat into the political ring. You ran on the platform that we all liked.
I voted for you, as did countless others, and I know for certain from talking with you about turning the Beaver Street into a parking lot issue, the garbage and human feces by Karen’s precious bridge, that you have that same passion and compassion inside you that burns in me.
I was really just trying to get that Corrie back because that’s the Corrie we need right now. We need some councillors to start getting passionate and getting on the side of its citizens and supporting the ones who voted you in.
So if, in an adrenalin surging public speaking forum I came across as angry, I assure you that I was not angry. I was, and still am, however, deeply upset and saddened at the travesty that took place of the expense of the Jacksons, Geiers, Beatson, Peters and countless others who have spent years building up their home and their community, to have a 150 person staff house erected in it.
It’s a virtual death blow to a long-standing B&B and all the surrounding property values.
We sadly are lacking the thing we need most right now … a leader. We don’t have a leader, our leader has divided our community, our leader belittles her constituents, our leader conveniently forgets key components of her conversation with the Treutlers on paid parking.
Any true leader would have made Councillor Karlos apologize to herself and her council and her townspeople after his infamous F-bomb instead of sitting back and cheering him on. I think our town council should do the right thing and kill this paid parking fiasco.
They need to start somewhere as the council needs to earn back the respect of the town.
All of you council need to ignite that passion in you and think of your town and community needs and respect the wishes of the people who voted you in.
Greg Christou,
Banff
