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Dear Editor:
I bought a house in town three years ago and have had a hard time adjusting to the way the Town of Didsbury is run. I can deal with garbage piling up because the town only collects garbage every other week, and I can deal with the fact I've seen more town residents on their quads and bobcats moving snow off our streets then any Town of Didsbury employees. I can even deal with the poor design, construction and constant re-landscaping of the ball diamonds. But the thing that’s pushing me over the edge is a gung-ho bylaw officer going around town chalking people’s tires and telling them their vehicle has to be moved every 72 hours or it will be towed. This guy is just trying to justify a job that can’t be justified in the first place.

And then I read in the paper that the town was thinking about shutting down our pool and busing patrons to Olds to use their pool instead. As a kid in Didsbury I can remember fundraising campaigns and a community coming together to build a new pool for Didsbury. It couldn’t have turned out better and now years later the town considers closing the doors. I've grown up in Didsbury my whole life and as a kid other than the hockey rink and the swimming pool there’s nothing to do in this town. It’s not just the youth that rely on this pool; it’s a facility for kayak lessons, boot camp, acquacize, and other activities for all ages. It also opens the doors for local jobs that train people on how to look out for one another. You shut down our pool, you shut down a part of our community.

I can handle the fact that I’m going to have to start parking my vehicle on my front lawn when I go on a holiday so that the bylaw officer doesn’t tow my truck because it hasn’t moved for 72 hours. But mark my words if you ever shut down our pool, it will be a giant step in the wrong direction for the Town of Didsbury.

Matt Tuggle
Didsbury

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