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Don't let free spirit of Vanmore fade

Editor: With interest and dismay did I read about the recently disturbing difficulties the free- spirited temporary residents of “Vanmore” experience. My heart goes out to them because I have been there, done that.

Editor: With interest and dismay did I read about the recently disturbing difficulties the free- spirited temporary residents of “Vanmore” experience.

My heart goes out to them because I have been there, done that.

I am now in my nineties and right now am getting my Honda Element ready for snoozing in during my next trip.

However, several times through my senior years I was woken by a constable while taking a nap during daytime at a rest stop beside a highway signed ‘NO OVERNIGHT CAMPING’.

I miss the free roadside camps of my younger years along ALL highways and byways in Canada.

I will never forget the delightful experiences my late husband and I had seeing most parts of Canada and the USA – even after we had children– staying overnights in our van on small, always free roadside campsites put in at strategic points by compassionate governments of the time.

How lucky we were! What we would have missed if those free roadside camps wouldn’t have been available!

I have retired to Canmore because I liked it since I competed skiing here in the eighties and nineties.

Canmore is much more expensive now, but young people still have no money, yet should be able to experience travel and widen their minds without money barriers thrown up against them.

I live here because I like the spirit of Canmore.

Please don’t let that spirit fade away in quest of money! The world is in a bad enough mess – please leave this peaceful mountain town as it is and let those young adventurers camp for free – or at a nominal fee if absolutely need be – to cover emptying and cleaning of the porta potty etc. and you young folks don’t advertise Vanmore all over, for your own sake.

Margrit de Graff,

Canmore

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