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Fitness can be free at the park

Benefits of using city parks to stay fit hampered by White Rock bylaw officers issuing parking tickets.

Editor:

On Saturday, Feb. 11, as I was walking around the track at Centennial Park in White Rock, I observed a bylaw officer putting parking tickets on two cars as a soccer game ended.

Parents have their children in soccer because of the many benefits, such as exercise, while learning skills, sportsmanship and camaraderie.

The parking meters are not expensive but the tickets are, so I would like to inform parents and others who do not have a White Rock parking decal that they can park on 146 Street just off 16 Avenue in Surrey and walk a block or two to the soccer field.

For those who like to walk, the track has been refinished, so it is easier on the feet and joints. We all need at least one half hour of exercise several times a week.

Please print this letter to save others from getting parking tickets.

Joanne Hart, Surrey