Editor:<\/p>\n
I’m one of many who are sadly perplexed by both the Telkwa and Smithers main streets renovations.<\/p>\n
Here in Telkwa, what was once an extraordinarily beautiful walkway along the river has now become a bad Fred Flintstone-esque acid flashback.<\/p>\n
A once dazzling nature display of the well-kept grassy meandering old brick path past huge beautiful trees, views of distant Hudson’s Bay Mountain, the southern snow-capped Telkwa mountains, and especially the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers majestic conjunction with its two iconic bridges (once three), now appears to be modelled after a Neil Armstrong photo taken in a far-off place many years ago, minus the Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n
And a walk down Smither’s Main Street now makes what was once a picturesque and inviting street into any one of the many lacklustre hick main streets that lacklustre hick towns specialize in.<\/p>\n
The vibrant colours of the flowering shrubs and sweet shady trees are, which contrasted so pleasingly against the grey of the asphalt, non-descript modern cars, the occasional stench of diesel, and fraying international flags that shabbily adorned the town’s pseudo-Alpine main thoroughfare are gone.<\/p>\n
Since when was the “post-apocalypse look” the latest village and small-town fashion?<\/p>\n
Keith Cummings<\/p>\n
Telkwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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