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Real mayor sees R<\/span>eal streets<\/span>
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\n“She really understands this side of building a city. It’s more than increasing the tax base” Said Lloyd Craig, president of Coast Capital Savings, about Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts.
\nthis comment was made with reference to the recent ‘Seeing is Believing” tour that Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (a national non-profit group) set up in Surrey for business leaders. “We saw things that in day-to-day living we tend to avoid because we don’t like mental illness. Here we are in a great country and you see how absoulutely desparate people can get”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps if our Mayor, city council and business leaders were to talk to their Surrey counterparts Abbotsford could move from denial to seeking solutions to the poverty, hunger and homelessness currently (increasing) on the streets of Abbotsford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real mayor sees Real streets “She really understands this side of building a city. It’s more than increasing the tax base” Said Lloyd Craig, president of Coast Capital Savings, about Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts. this comment was made with reference to the recent ‘Seeing is Believing” tour that Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (a national non-profit group) set up in Surrey for business leaders. “We saw things that in day-to-day living we tend to avoid because we don’t like mental illness. Here we are in a great country and you see how absoulutely desparate people can get”. Perhaps if our Mayor, city council and business leaders were to talk to their Surrey counterparts Abbotsford could move from denial to seeking solutions to the poverty, hunger and homelessness currently (increasing) on the streets of Abbotsford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeless","category-municipal"],"yoast_head":"\nLetter to Editor March 5, 2006 - James W. 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