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Donny Greidanus, left, looks intently upon his work, while his buddy Michael Benjamins
seems to have other things to keep his eye on. The pair were working on some fun crafts with
the rest of the Kindergarten class wtyle attending last week's Bible School at Blyth Christian
Reformed Church.
Letter to the editor
Local people should get parking
Blyth family learns
from exchange student
THE EDITOR,
I would like everyone to stop and
think about something for just a
moment. Imagine you have been a
resident in a community for many,
many years. You are in your 80's
and you've patronized the local
businesses for years. One day when
you are at a local chiropractor it
starts to rain before you leave.
Another local resident gladly offers
you a ride home. The only thing is
she has to walk two blocks in the
pouring rain to get her car and then
pick you up al the back door of the
chiropractor's office because there
is absolutely no place to part in
front of the building.
But, in this same community if
you are a tourist visiting the Blyth
Festival you gel special treatment.
If you arrive by bus you are
dropped off al the front door of the
Festival building and when the
show is over the bus pulls right up
front to pick you up. If you arrive
by car, you park across from the
theatre and traffic is expected to lit
erally come to a stop while you
walk across the street to the theatre
and again when you return to your
car.
I am thoroughly disgusted the
way the residents of Blyth are
being treated, especially our elderly
residents who have lived in Blyth
most of their lives.
Should we, the taxpayers of
Blyth not be able to drive uptown
and park within a reasonable dis
tance of the businesses they wish to
patronize? Is this request so unrea
sonable? Apparently it must be as
residents of the village of Blyth are
expected to park two and three
blocks away from the businesses
they wish to go to.
We have a very serious problem
with the tourists attending the Blyth
Festival. They park on main street
or use the parking lot across from
the post office, occupying parking
spaces for several hours at a lime. Il
makes it very difficult for the resi
dents of Blyth and surrounding area
to patronize the local businesses. Il
gets very frustrating having to dnve
around the block several times try
ing to find a place to park. Many
residents decide to go to Wingham,
Clinton or Goderich and avoid the
hassle of trying to find a place to
park when the theatre is on.
If the people attending the Blyth
Festival are capable of walking up
two flights of stairs to their seats,
they are certainly capable of walk
ing from a designated parking area
to the theatre.
Other tourist attractions, includ
ing the Stratford Festival provide
designated parking areas for buses
and cars and you park your vehicle
in this area and walk to the
entrances. You do not get dropped
off at the front door.
The Blyth Festival can sec fit to
spend $25,000 to organize-a com
mittee to raise funds for the benefit
of the Festival, and the Village of
Blyth can spend a small fortune on
new Blyth signs, but I wonder if
these funds wouldn’t have been
more wisely spent solving our seri
ous parking problem which has
continued to get worse every sea
son since the Festival opened.
I shudder to think what could
happen when we have three buses
pulled up in front of the Blyth Fes
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tival picking people up, three or
four vehicles lined up north and
south on Hwy. 4 trying to get
through, people from the theatre
crossing the street expecting every
one to wait for them and an ambu
lance, police or fire truck has to get
through. This is not just a side
street that is being blocked, this is a
very busy provincial highway.
Something must be done before we
have a tragic accident in our com
munity.
Who will be responsible then?
The Blyth Festival has added to
our community but if we are going
to let it dominate the whole village
with no respect or regard to the res
idents who live here all year round
we will lose much more than what
we will gain.
Let's keep things in perspective
and our priorities in order so the
residents of Blyth can continue to
be proud of the village they live in.
Brenda J. Burkholder
Blyth.
Continued from page 3
municate with his host family.
During his next week in Canada
at the Charlie Shaw Camp, Sylvain
and the others will be visiting Nia
gara Falls, Wonderland and the CN
Tower. When he returns on July 21,
the Blairs are hoping to be able to
take him to see the local tanneries
and Bruce Nuclear Power Plant.
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Christopher Young graduat
ed on June 7, 1991 from Fan
shawe College where he
received his Certificate as a
Motor Vehicle Mechanic
(truck and coach). Proud of
his determination and
achievement are his wife,
Kathie and In-laws Wayne and
Bonna Rouse. Chris is
presently employed at H. Kerr
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Of course a trip to Skydome will
hopefully be added to the agenda as
well. "They don't play baseball in
France," said Bev. "He has watched
the little guys play here, but it
would be really nice if he could see
the Jays."
For the Blairs, having Sylvain as
a guest has been an enjoyable expe
rience. "It's been great," said Bev.
"I love having him here. This is the
first time we have had an exchange
student stay and I would do it again
in a minute. I only wish I had taken
my holidays so I could spend more
time with him."
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to his family on August 13.
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