Golden City Days Re-locationI was surprised and dismayed to find that All of the Golden City Days celebrations had been re located away from the downtown core. Was not one of the reasons for widening our downtown sidewalks & enlarging the town square to be able to better accommodate our festivals & celebrations? With the exception of the one,lone, break away fire truck , which made it to downtown with siren blaring ( thanks, we needed that!!!!) the downtown merchants would never even have known anything was even going on this weekend! We, at Legacy Gift Room & Brew Shop, were terribly disappointed at the turn of events. Who has a parade and purposely avoids Main Street? As a shop owner in Rossland over the past 22 years, we have spent much money, time & energy supporting the causes, festivals, charities, fundraiser s etc. in our community. It would have been nice to experience inclusion rather than exclusion during one of our major community celebrations. We doubt that we are alone in feeling this way. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this matter, Roseanne & Richard Chobanuk |