This is an open letter to Penticton city council:
Penticton has the No. 1 junior hockey team in the nation. Penticton enjoys the greatest junior hockey facility in the country. Penticton benefits from having the world’s best junior hockey training academy here in our backyard.
It makes perfect sense, then, to build (literally and figuratively) on that tradition and strengthen Penticton’s competitive advantage in the hotly contested arena of sports-related tourism and economic development by supporting the building of a world-class hockey-related dormitory and retail complex on Eckhardt Avenue.
Mayor and council, don’t pay any attention to the boo birds and the village idiots spewing their invective. You are in the right race. Although your first horse died going around the far turn, just go find another mount. And keep investing in Penticton’s greatest competitive advantage.
Mark T. Ziebarth
Summerland