Lord Luv a Duck! I just don't believe it at
all.
I'm writing in response to the recent
letter with the headline "Bureaucrats closing Sudbury for
business," by Lionel Rudd. on March 26 in Northern
Life.
Here I am hollering that there is nothing
being done to promote The City of Greater Sudbury with
commercials on TV, or positive press reports.
So what happened in one week in my town.
Lousy advertising again.
Singer Cheryl Cerri, who was born and raised
in Sudbury, is prepared to do a music video for almost free and
runs against the beaureaucracy of the city. I wonder what she
will tell the folks in Toronto?
Another Sudbury resident returns to her home
town as a doctorof chiropractory and is turfed out of a place
to be sold before she can make arrangements to move.
If one wonders why people really don't care
to stay or let alone move up here the above reasons must surely
help.
We must become user friendly, we should help
people come and set up businesses and employ our youth as well
as contribute to the building of this
great City of Greater Sudbury.
It seems to me that I and my friends and
family must get insurance, and permits to wander about Bell
Park, The Hartman Amphitheatre, Science
North, the Bell Park Walkway, a hockey rink,
on and on. You get the point.
All this to take photos on land I own as a
taxpayer.
Come on people, it was a five-day shoot Cerri
proposed and it would, we would, broadcast the way Greater
Sudbury really is.
Too many people in Southern Ontario still
think we live in a waste land, believe me, I am fed up hearing
the negative, and worse, but then we blow away an opportunity
for literally a free promotion.
Yep, tumbleweed blowing down Elm St. may
happen yet!
In the meantime, this city council struggles
with the convoluted financial reports given them by the staff,
who find it difficult to say "How may I help
you."
Ernie Checkeris
Sudbury