Today's issue of the Woolwich Observer minces no words at all in dealing with this week's Public Meeting on the Victoria Glen Park "disposal" issue. Both one of the main news features (I've just read it online - I don't know yet where in the issue the story is) and a hard-hitting editorial deal strongly and fairly with the public meeting and with the Township's "oh, gee, it was just an oversight that we didn't tell anyone we counted on the money from that woods way back when we commited ourselves to building a new arena and buying and renovating a new town hall..."("That should have been more prominent in the PowerPoint presentation," according to David Brenneman, township CAO -- just like the photographs of the land in question in that PowerPoint shouldn't have been primarily gravel road shots at the east end of the park + one barely-focussed shot of the trail, but clear, green shots of the actual woods they are talking about "disposing" of. Check out the photographs under "links" in the right column for a fairer picture of reality.)
Both the main news article, "Sale of Parkland to fund township building blitz," and the editorial, "Resistance called for when change isn't for the better" (the links to both are in the righthand column on this page) have mechanisms in place for comments at the end -- I would urge all Friends of Victoria Glen Park to keep on commenting!
And thanks, Steve Kannon of the Observer, for listening and reporting accurately! (The photo, above, is of Susan Bryant presenting to Council at the Public Meeting, reprinted from this week's Observer)
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