Vox Populi

Editor: Housing seasonal workers in dormitory-style housing with up to four people sharing a room is not a healthy living environment physically, psychologically or socially.

Editor: The Canadian Arctic can be a cold and unforgiving place. There is no growing season; there are no vegetables and, with the exception of a brief two-week period in late summer when the blueberries and cloud berries emerge, there is no fruit.

Editor: This is in response to the article of the parkway restriction and closure, which I feel compelled to respond to as there are many misleading and incorrect statements.

Editor: At the Monday, Feb. 24 Banff council meeting Mr. Chad Townsend made a presentation that explained why the planning department felt that Policy 122 should be passed.

Editor: With regards to the proposed dormitory staff accommodation recently proposed to be built on Beaver Street, we are writing to express our grave concerns with this project.

Editor: A few months ago, while I was enjoying a stroll near Quarry Lake, photographing the spectacular landscape, an off-leash dog came up behind me, barking ferociously, and grabbed the back of my thigh. I did not see it coming.

Editor: I write to reply to the recent article surrounding a “boarding house” on Beaver Street. Banff’s workers face a terrible housing situation.

Editor: Earlier this winter found me stopped in my tracks staring at a polar bear hide draped in the window of a local clothing store on Main Street in Canmore. A man sitting on a nearby bench stared at me as I stood in disbelief.

Editor: There is nothing more that we would like to have then young workers in our neighbourhood being part of the community, even joining our block party we have on our quaint part of Beaver Street. Unfortunately this is not what is going to happen.

Editor: My name is Joyce Peart and I have been the chair of the Relay For Life for the last three years. I stepped down at the end of last year’s relay.