In the rush to find secure tenants, landlords and property owners are destroying Beacon Avenue as the retail hub of our small town.

That strategy B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址渁nybody will do if they can pay the rentB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址� in the same way as Amazon and Costco are doing their best to wipe out small retail, will within a few years see the disappearance of the Sidney we now enjoy. Perhaps that does not matter to recent arrivals to our town. If so, they should rethink what attracted them to move here.

Unlike European countries B次元官网网址� Germany, Holland, etc. B次元官网网址� municipal authorities in B.C. and in fact Canada, have little control over who its shopkeepers are and what they sell. And, in my opinion, thatB次元官网网址檚 the way it should be.

However, that places a serious responsibility on property owners, retailers and organizations supporting them to be very vocal, enhancing the importance of local retailers. All I hear now is a deafening silence. Sidney retailers, Wake up, speak up B次元官网网址� Beacon retail has a very insecure future.

My wife and I have enjoyed being book retailers in Sidney for almost 40 years, but IB次元官网网址檓 glad weB次元官网网址檙e at the end of our careers, rather than the beginning.

Clive Tanner

Sidney