Dear Editor,
[RE: Maple Ridge Golf Course future in the rough, The News, May 2]
After reading the ridiculous article in the news Friday, May 2 I thought I would educate city staff about the origins of the Maple Ridge Golf Course. I suggest you give the latest Looking Back column a quick read.
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The mayor is only available for public for photo ops at a party in the park (Our Neck of the Woods), yet when any serious issues are at hand, he is nowhere to be found for the public to engage. Just a published comment in the newspaper. I’ve sent numerous emails to the mayor's office directly and have never received a reply from his staff or himself.
Closed door meetings and said “issued press releases” are no way for the community to get involved before such ridiculous decisions are made.
I suggest you leave the golf course alone stick with the ball fields where they are (also attached is the history of baseball in Hammond specifically-and records of all the money spent on that field in the last 10 years).
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Build your pool on the empty Albion fairgrounds lot.
Then you have the opportunity to run your rapid transit corridor all the way there for the full experience through Maple Ridge (as you pass by the empty boarded up houses between 216 and the Haney Bypass, where you will also have the pleasure of passing by the decrepit mall with the roof that still leaks from the old Zellers days).
Why don’t you fix the rest of the town that needs it and stop wasting our hard earned money on things that can come later with all the new taxpayers that you’re planning on bringing into the community.
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I have also completed the surveys on engage.mapleridge.ca.
Feel free to respond in writing; it would be a first if I did receive a response.
I would even make the time to drive city staff in my own vehicle around town so they can see it from a taxpayers perspective.
Lindsay Robertson, Maple Ridge
