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Stop the politicing

Editor: As a senior having lived, worked and raised a family in Sechelt, I must say I am appalled at thesmall misinformed group blindly led by an individual who does not reside in or pay taxesto the District of Sechelt.

Editor:

As a senior having lived, worked and raised a family in Sechelt, I must say I am appalled at thesmall misinformed group blindly led by an individual who does not reside in or pay taxesto the District of Sechelt.

Having a proper infrastructure with a population base the size of Sechelt does not raise taxes. It's been an obvious pattern over the years:the lack of attracting acommercial and industrialtax basethat also create jobs within our community meansno newtax money coming in. For yearsithas been known (off-Coast) that Sechelt was notopen forbusiness.

I ask Mr. Keighley and his small group of experts: if a swimming pool in Secheltcost over $8 million to build, anarena in Gibsons $10 millionand a small water treatment plant in Egmont over $4 million, how do you close down, relocate and build an environmentally friendly sewage treatment plant on Lot L for $2 million?

I alsofind it interesting that the "friends" of the Sechelt Sewage Coalition mailing listincludes the ex-mayor and the reporter who wrote the negative propaganda in the Vancouver Sun.If Jeff Keighley (according to his letter in the Sun)had an idea of where Lot L was, he wouldrealize approximately 350 feet away are residential homes anda beautiful campgroundthat isenjoyed by touriststhroughout the summer.

I'm all for being passionate about a cause, but when it becomes a negativeattack on an individual more so than the issue at hand,I do take offence to it.

Tracy Wiesner, Sechelt