BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to 'Soccer clubs kick in support for Navy League petition,' published June 17.
A petition has been sent out by the Navy League’s youth cadets, asking the City of Barrie for a multi-use facility to be built on Lakeshore Drive between Military Heritage Park and Minet’s Point Road.
Over the past few days, I have rowed past the shore between Minet’s Point and the Southshore Centre several times. I am having trouble imagining where a new venue for the Sea Cadets and their small dinghies might fit.
East of the Southshore Centre, the path slopes gently upwards. But the Southshore Centre is already at least 10 metres above lake level.
Any venue capable of both accommodating the Sea Cadets' dinghies and launching them from their launch dollies would need to have a reasonably hard ramp and be no more than two to three metres above water level.
Such a space would need to be carved out of a steep hillside and be protected by a very sturdy retaining wall.
I am sure the Barrie Rowing Club would welcome the Sea Cadets as new neighbours. However, I would love to understand how a suitable site might be created.
Peter Bursztyn
Barrie
