How you can help us!
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 2:12PM Thank you to everyone for their well wishes and compassion through our store closing ordeal.
Many of you have been asking how you can help, if there was anything that you could do. Here is how you can help and it would mean so much to us.
Write a letter to the Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman and to our Ward Counsellor Jennifer Robinson to let them know how this major construction project has impacted you as well as how you know it has impacted us.
It is amazing to us that we could start a business that grew exponentially despite the prolonged recession only to be brought to our knees by this road work. We knew when we moved here from the mall that we would have several slow months until everyone found us again and, find us you did in June, July and August. We were just starting to roll along again and then they tore up the roads. We just can’t afford to stay here for a year, which is how long this project is expected to last and we can’t afford to move again.
Let the Mayor know that you don’t find it fair that small business be cut off by Barrie’s road construction. Let the Mayor know that these projects need to be completed in a manner that allows small business to still operate effectively. Let the Mayor know he needs to have input from the residents and business owners in an area before he allows the workers to tear it up for over a year.
Here are the email addresses for Mayor Lehman and Counsellor Robinson and please cc us in the process. Your compassion and support for our ordeal means a lot.
Allan & Laurie
Reader Comments (3)
You got it Laurie and Allan - I think that it is horribly unfair to small businesses to put such huge obstacles in the way of doing business for such an extended period of time - I will gladly add my voice. I am really sorry to see you go!
I totally agree with you Cathy and I have let the mayor and counsellor know how I feel also.
Small businesses must not be treated that way. If the authorities will just place a lot of hindrances on the run, the loss of those businesses will truly affect the place and its people.