Comment 55143

By RenaissanceWatcher (registered) | Posted January 07, 2011 at 19:50:44

What a difference a year makes.

Last year, the Hamilton Spectator published an award winning series titled “Code Red” about the discrepancies in levels of health and life expectancies of lower city Hamiltonians compared with those in the suburbs.

It would make sense to use Hamilton’s west harbour scalable Pan Am soccer stadium and velodrome opportunity as a catalyst toward improving the fitness, health and well-being of all Hamiltonians, particularly young Hamiltonians living in the downtown area, while also cleaning up a 23 acre toxic brownfield in the north end. It is disappointing to see today’s editorial by Howard Elliott on the Hamilton Spectator website summarily dismiss the need for these facilities in the north end of Hamilton and to not mention the interest shown by the Canadian Soccer Association to use the stadium for national youth developmental team training.

One hopes that Hamilton city council demonstrates more vision on January 10th and January 12th than Mr. Elliott has demonstrated in his editorial today and moves to consider submitting the scalable 6,000 seat west harbour Pan Am stadium proposal to Toronto 2015 before February 1st.

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