Dear Editor,
I feel obligated to write to rebuttal another reader鈥檚 feelings on the new high school parking lot.
I believe with great anticipation that this beautiful new structure holds infinite possibilities in the future. It will be the place that tens of thousands of people鈥攚ho bring revenue to the park and local businesses鈥攚ill park their family vehicles while coming from all over the province for decades of our youth sporting events, creating a lifetime of memories.
It will be the loading bay for equipment of all sorts coming to be used in the new auditorium and gymnasium鈥攊ncluding community and high school theatre and band.
It will be the place of many first kisses, first loves, and first broken hearts. Many young teens learning how to parallel park for the first time (an essential skill in life when they move off to the big city for post secondary education and year-round employment). It will be an invaluable hub of our community for many years to come.
It鈥檚 not about teaching our children to drive to school. It鈥檚 about the fact that an integral part of our community needs a place to park vehicles. Perhaps in an unknown number of years it will be a parking lot full of energy efficient and ecological vehicles. Until then however, if they neglect to put in bike racks, then you have a reason to complain. But really, why harp on one of the few things that the youth in this town actually have going for them?
John Strugnell
Jasper, Alta.
