Dear Editor
Was it the 1970s or 1980s that Big Oil created a boom in the small city west of me? I’m no longer sure, but what I do remember is the odd and very unpleasant reaction of certain people.
There are likely people around who could, like me, relate stories about the rudeness of clerks in stores and receptionists in offices. The result, for some, was that they drove east to another small city when they needed big items.
Now that small city west of me has allowed a sign on the outskirts, along Highway 16: LIBERALS AND NDP MAKE A U-TURN HERE.
I don’t belong to a political party but I say that sign is put up by immature red-neck troublemakers who are followers of Trump. What next? JEWS AND BLACKS MAKE A U-TURN HERE?
Perhaps North Battleford should put up a sign: YOU ARE WELCOME HERE. VOTE AS YOU WISH.
Well, if that small city to the west doesn’t want that money we to the east will spend when the COVID-19 problem is over, we can spend elsewhere.
To me, that sign is dangerous, not funny, and it shall taint my relationship with that city.
Actually that sign is embarrassing; to think that people in this area can stoop so low. What’s next, burn down a business because the owner votes “the wrong way?”
Christine Pike
Waseca
P.S. And under the present COVID-19 problems, is that sign not just one more stressful stab?
