Editor:
Many thanks for your editorial column regarding Sea Cavalcade (Coast Reporter, July 12).
There were three choices that the organizing committee had - the third of keeping the fireworks on Saturday night was not financially viable.
So it was having no fireworks at all or else moving them to another night. After much discussion among stakeholders, the "lesser of the evils" was to have the fireworks, but have them as a closing event as is the case with most other events.
I have learned over my many years of attending the university of life that most people, rightly or wrongly, rarely write good thoughts, only when things are bad.
To those with complaints, there is a world of difference between, "I don't like it that way and want it changed to this" and "I don't like it that way and want it changed to this - so how can I help and what do you need to change it to this?"
In reply to the two letter writers last week with family traditions of parties on the Saturday evening, I'm sorry that there will no longer be free entertainment supplied by Sea Cavalcade for your parties. How many of those people who watch the fireworks at their home parties actually help out with time or donations?
I know it is too late for this year, but perhaps they could come to the planning meetings at the start of the next year.
All festivals change at some point, and not always the way we like them to. They must change or they die, as each generation wants something different.
To all the supporters, donators and volunteers, you do a brilliant job and without you there would be no festival. Most of us here on the Coast thank you.
Jon Glencross, Gibsons
