Dear editor:

Please, please, please, Garth Turner, give us a break.

Again last week we have read for the umpteenth time your negative and acerbic opinions regarding the construction of the Shaw theatre on Queen Street (“The Turner Report: Getting theatrical over the Shaw,” April 16).

We have heard over and over again your personal opinion of all that is and may go wrong.

Furthermore in response to a counter-opinion, you constructed a response that reeked with innuendo about a possible conflict of interest of the writer of that counter-opinion.

Let me say that I am not connected to Shaw in any way except that I think that without Shaw, Niagara-on-the-Lake would be very, very much the poorer.

Furthermore, I believe Queen Street needs as prominent a place for a Shaw theater as can be found for it. It draws people to it and to the businesses and it a blessed relief from more businesses.

Certainly the short-term inconveniences you keep on and on telling us about are worth getting this valuable theatre for the future.

So “we,” well many of us at least, have had enough of your negative views. If you must, please give us a break, something positive, about something else.

Peter Rand
NOTL