Dear editor:

There is a lot of support for the generous offer of the Burton Family Foundation. We should accept it, but not at the location of the old hospital.

The centre of town, such as 176 Wellington St. and the area where an old age home used to be (now the property of the Shaw) should be returned to the previous purpose it was originally meant to be: to be an accessible area for long-time taxpayers of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

To once again deprive the longtime taxpayers, mostly elderly by now, of the perfect location for their homes in familiar surroundings, near to their longtime friends and relatives, is morally wrong. On the other hand, it is unthinkable to reject the plans of the Burton Foundation.

Let us hope that the Burton Foundation can be located to an area where their users and tourists can walk, park and get a free bus transport, or bike to the centre of town, our wineries and the other attractions that the town wants to advertise.

As for the school for the little ones, they can remain at 176 Wellington St., next to the home for the aged, and I think it will be a good fit for them to be in the same area.

Cecilia Bennett
NOTL