BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to 'Orillia will consider renaming Centennial Dr. to honour Lightfoot,' published Aug. 17.
Gordon Lightfoot has been and remains one of our favourite artists. That he is a hometown boy is icing on the cake.
That said, I don’t think streets should be named after people as we all have clay feet.
Lightfoot had actions in his past that he regretted, as have we all. Please, pick generic names for streets and we will not have controversy such as is happening in Toronto with Danforth Avenue. Not even John A. Macdonald has avoided this conflict.
If councils want to rename streets, pick those that already have been named after people and make them less controversial.
Glen Morehouse
Washago
