Editor:
Re: Tourism Surrey to guide White Rock, March 30.
It appears to this taxpayer that White Rock, our preferred piece of paradise, is sadly giving in – and thus being ‘sold out’ – to the pressuring persistence of our massive expansion-driven community to the north, i.e. Surrey.
Why do our civic leaders persist in creating stumbling blocks to challenge innovative and successful endeavors such as the recent “ceasing funding of the (then) existing Tourism White Rock, forcing the organization to close its doors at the end of 2015” (End of the line for Tourism White Rock, Oct. 28)?
Visitors to our smaller city were stranded with no tourism-centre facility for nearly three months as plans were continuing “to manage (the) kiosk, provide expertise…”
How about the education and experience of some 30 volunteers whose collective years of living in White Rock amassed a staggering total far in excess of Surrey’s ‘knowledge’ of our City by the Sea?
Does expertise then qualify only with the probable lure of more $$$$$$ on the horizon?
A sadly disappointed former Tourism White Rock volunteer…
A. Ewart, White Rock