Harry Burton

Fellow Salt Springers. Wake up and SMELL THE COFFEE. If you are not spending HALF your Good and Services money, here on Salt Spring, YOU ARE DAMAGING OUR COMMUNITY. We have just lost STITCHES, that great little “Mom and Pop” sewing and quilting shop, BECAUSE IT DID NOT GET ENOUGH LOCAL BUSINESS. STITCHES did not get fed enough. Locals voted it OFF THE ISLAND, by voting with their money for Sprawl Mart and Lostco. It is your choice to vote for the future you wish to create. I find it hard to understand, how people can knowingly harm our community, if they understand the value of locally recycling money, so I felt obliged to point out these facts. If you call the Big Box stores with a sewing problem, are they going to be as helpful as Stiches was. Not likely. The small picture, is that BC Ferries purchased our last ferries in Poland, because they were cheaper. Yes they were cheaper, if you only look at that page 1. If you look at the bigger picture, we did not get any of t…