Editor: Fort 91Ô´´ passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 20, after the Township (Well, excuse me — I mean the dictatorship) voted to pass the controversial plan for the to be built.
I say dictatorship, because the council majority has never voted in favour of anybody who protests and only caters to the ones who might move here, or ones who have lived here a few years.
The majority doesn’t care about anyone who has lived in 91Ô´´ for a while. Fort 91Ô´´ went down valiantly, fighting for its life against somebody with a misguided vision. and some members of the BIA who are only interested in wringing out the last buck.
Fort 91Ô´´ gallantly died a respectable death. When the Coulter Berry Building is built to the sidewalk, the quaint village it used to be will become a bunch of plastic-sided buildings with false fronts and one over-stuffed eyesore. It will be boring, with no individuality.
It will be just another town with its character destroyed. When Mayor Jack Froese and his band of cutthroats (minus Councillor David Davis) are finished jamming and cramming, you won’t even know that, what was once so precious to some who cared, was ever there.
John Ritchie,
Fort 91Ô´´