Dear editor:

I would like to counter Garth Turner’s ever negative reporting, the most recent being his worst possible view of the rebuild of Shaw’s Royal George Theatre.

I see that Niagara-on-the-Lake is extremely fortunate to have the Shaw Festival, and it should be supported as best we can.

I think the George Theatre should be a prominent presence on Queen Street, as is the Courthouse, and that prominence is more important and interesting than ever more retail. The retail will inevitably benefit by the Shaw presence.

During the George’s building we can celebrate and be thankful it is being done. To pass negative judgement of the hoarding around the site, and its design, would seem unnecessary, indeed trival.

To highlight the increased trucking and traffic during construction of the George as a disaster, it can be seen as a small cost for this theatre being rescued in a modern and permanent way. At least that trucking is in a commercial area; and is temporary.

These are just examples of the kind of tenor and largely negative reporting I regret to see week after week. There are positive views-cum-interpretations to be reported.

Peter Rand
NOTL