To the editor,
Re: Ladysmith marina operator being evicted from harbour, April 19.
The entire Ladysmith Maritime Society is under threat of being evicted from access to the marina complex it has built. We are safe by the way, to this moment, within the harbour.
There has been no misunderstanding on behalf of LMS but rather a gross lack of communication on the part of the Town of Ladysmith and their arrangements with the Stz’uminus First Nation.
Further in your article you quote the CEO of Coast Salish Development Corporation as declaring “We’re going to clean this place up.” What an insult. The LMS marina is the finest public and transient facility north of Seattle as thousands of mariners and nautical publications declare. “Cheap moorage” ignores the state of the facility before LMS members have spent tens of thousands of hours of volunteer labour and love through years of work. Their membership and determination has earned them a reward for their ongoing efforts. Emotions are running high and rising. How can we be asked to simply walk away from this huge communal investment? We are a large part of that which is Ladysmith and a gateway to the community.
LMS is being treated with contempt and ruthless arrogance. We built a facility to share with everyone. That marina facility is an icon of what can be achieved when people stand united and work together. What is happening this year is wrong.
I am a proud member of the Ladysmith Maritime Society.
Fred Bailey, Ladysmith
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