Dear Editor,
Re: Ray Arnold’s “Protect the Mom and Pop Shops,” Letters, Aug. 14.
Arnold has hit the nail right on its head. This has happened to the Dunbar and W 10th Avenue areas in Vancouver. These streets used to be lined with Mom and Pop shops.
These quaint shops contributed to the charm and character of these streets. Parts of these streets have now transformed into something that Mr. Arnold describes as sterile and generic.
If the west end of Moncton Street and side streets get transformed into what Arnold fears it would be, aside from the museums and the fisherman’s wharf in the village, what else would draw domestic and foreign tourists to the village?
Weeks ago, as my husband and I were walking along Moncton Street, we thought that we should have taken photographs of the village when we first moved here to make an album on our Facebook page titled, The Disappearing Village.
Has anyone been to Edison in Washington State? It is a marvel that the town has retained it’s agricultural small town character and the community is proud of it.
I was not born, nor did I grow up in Steveston, but I do share the sentiments of people like Arnold.
Lilian Tiro
Richmond
