Dear Parksville and Nanoose Bay Residents,
I hope you can all be thankful to all the Martindale residents every time you turn on your tap to do dishes, to do laundry, to water your lawn or your garden, to wash your car etc, etc. As many of you have no idea what the residents have been going through, let me enlighten you.
Since June of this year they (City of Parksville and RDN) have cut down the trees, built a road, re-routed the Englishman River, blasted rock, cleared property, poured concrete, built culverts, trucked out logs, trucked out blasted rock and soil. There has been a continuous line of logging trucks, dump trucks, heavy equipment trucks up and down our road (which is — or once was — a dead end road) for the past five months.
They have started work in the early morning and continued until the evening; they have blasted, chainsawed trees, excavated to no end. They have devalued some residents’ properties, they have taken away our privacy. But most of all, they have ruined the neighbourhood we have all known and loved.
So please, when you turn on your tap to enjoy the great Englishman River water, remember the people who lost so much so you could have so much.
Lynn Laursen
Parksville