I think as a city we have to decide if we want a healthy downtown that people want to work in, shop in the stores and go to the restaurants.
At the moment some people are afraid to go downtown. I feel sad for the businesses downtown as it’s getting worse with people camped in the doorways and leaving their garbage all over. Where are all these downtown friends coming from and more arriving everyday? How are they getting here? Why would we want to make a big tent city to bring more problems into our city?
Together we should stand in solidarity to try to save our downtown .
In 2003, Brian Fawcett wrote a book called The Way Things Are in My Hometown. In the book, he wrote that if the Northern Hardware ever goes belly up, downtown Prince George will be ready for bulldozing.
We can’t bring the bulldozers in because we have too many people laying on the sidewalks.
Helen Robertson
Prince George
