Fi t- i i 2 \ i } i fl AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 14, 2005 A bold future for Thornhill means joining with Terrace — Dear Sir: ig After reading all the many | “articles. and letters. written about the ‘multiplex in the - past few months/weeks, | feel like Will Farrel! in Zool- ander, when he said, “I feel like a crazy person here; . doesn’t everybody see ...” _.. As the question comes to the regional district this month regarding incorpora-' tion or amalgamation, there - seems to me to be a very ob- vious solution to the second sheet of ice ‘dilemma; build it in Thornhill. oy - - Now I realize that the City of Terrace isn’t going to build in Thornhill unless we _ . amalgamate; but I have to ' ask, is this such a bad thing? Let’s review our current _ situation. We have no health services, let alone. a drug store. Terrace. has, what is it, three within a six block radius. We have 1 no government _.: "We will stay a ‘community, but a community of the City of Terrace.” agent. We have no insur- ance agent office; no grocery _ store, no recreational facili- ties for our children. Oh, let’s not forget the’ important things;: a video store (also three within walk- _ ing distance of one another), or a Tim Hortons. I am tired of being treated like the poor relation that has come to visit and has taken up residence in. Terrace’s back yard. We have the. space for any: or all of these facilities, we '- have the population and the possibility of growth expan-: sion. We have two access " roads on either side of the highway for business devel- . opment, — What is the regional district doing to Promote ‘Thornhill? I doubt very much; they don’t have the budget or the personnel in . place for economic develop- eee CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD ~The second sheet of ice. I totally agree that it is needed. No one should have to get up at 4 or 5in the morning just to get ice time or. stay up un-. til midnight so they.can get some free time on the ice. Do we need a multi-plex? ‘Don’t we need a second sheet of ice? How did this morph from the original need? _1 have heard so many people question why they are "building onto the proposed site. This winter, when there © were junior hockey games being played there, there was absolutely no parking. So where is everyone going to _ park when there are two fa- cilities open or a large event. So let’s all: consider the question, amalgamate or i=“! -o¢arding. vandalism that occurred on « | approximately 2005-08- 29 at Kiti K’shan. : -Primary School located at: 4730 Graham _ Avenue in Terrace. Unknown. persons | corporate. I agree we need to do something. If we incorporate we get ‘- gur own city council, we hire someone to market Thornhill to . prospective business and new residents. A good thing. _ But we also start compet- ing for business with Ter- - race; and while I do believe competition is healthy, we have a long way to go as we are starting from square one. ’ If we amalgamate, we get . ‘the benefit of experienced people who are already°do-' ing a really good job in mar- keting Terrace to the world in business and tourism. If this’ goes to a refer- ~-endum, I think we say ‘yes; but we want a public/health services building, we want a: recreational facility, we want a government agent of- fice; we want.a public sewer system (I don’t know about you, but I’m not loving sep- tic systems); we want to tie into.a public water system if we choose. These are not unreason- able demands, I think we Mail Bag © of becoming the hub for the northwest, infusing money and jobs into the system. 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