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LETTER: Public needs a say in farmers’ market move

Dear Editor: If the West Vancouver council votes to follow a staff recommendation next Monday, Feb. 6, they will force the Ambleside Farmers’ Market to move locations before public engagement and outreach.
Ambleside

Dear Editor:

If the West Vancouver council votes to follow a staff recommendation next Monday, Feb. 6, they will force the Ambleside Farmers’ Market to move locations before public engagement and outreach. The public engagement and outreach is only scheduled after the move.

The market has been held in Ambleside Village since 2005. During a recent survey on a rainy Sunday last October, an estimated 1,074 people entered the market at the 1500-block of Bellevue Avenue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The move would place the market behind the West Vancouver Aquatic and Community Centre.

I am encouraging members of the public to write to mayorandcouncil@westvancouver.ca to request that time is given for community feedback and outreach to be done and presented before a vote is taken on moving a long standing tradition of Ambleside Village.

Tara Immell
General manager
Artisan Farmers’ Market Non-Profit Society

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