Re: CF Council Purchases Schools

Patrick Maloney | Jan 27, 2016

Mr. Daski  expresses the sentiments of many of us who live in the Arden area (Re: CF Council Purchases Schools, Jan 14/16). Ms. Angle (Re: CF Council Purchases Schools, Jan 21/16) clearly has no idea how it feels to see one’s tax dollars spent to the benefit of others year after decade while your “official” representatives, elected and otherwise, are either ignored for the benefit of the so called greater good or merely sit on their hands due to a lack of backbone.

Arden and the Kennebec ward have the same library, the same fire hall and a mostly decrepit main road and sidewalks that we had prior to amalgamation while each of the other wards have had new buildings constructed and many kilometers of roads refurbished from one end to the other. The Arden Rd which Mr. Daski highlights and Arden village has had a few hundred meters rebuilt while the Mountain Grove/Long Lake Rd (Olden ward) and most recently the Wagarville/5th Lake Rd. (Hinchinbrooke ward) have been rebuilt from one end to the other, approximately 16 kilometers for each. Road 509 and Road 38 have been completely re-done in Oso ward.

I would also remind Ms. Angle that whether the buildings in Sharbot Lake were constructed wholly or partly with grant money and regardless of who spends the money, be it the Feds, the Province, the Board of Education or the township, there is only one taxpayer, and it is particularly galling to be constantly told that the cupboard is bare only to discover that $400,000 was found to buy two abandoned school buildings and slate at least one for demolition and the property turned into a parking lot.