Expecting a legal battle

Dear Editor: Well, my fellow Pentictonites there, are some serious shenanigans taking place in the hills around our little city and I think I better explain what is going on with an analogy that should make it clear.

Imagine you purchase a home on either one of our beautiful lakes for you, friends and family to enjoy. You build a nice dock. Purchase a couple of jet skis for the kids and a nice little trim runabout for you and the Mrs. to putt around the lake. You know, a nice idyllic setup. Then bam, one day out of the blue some bureaucrat proceeds to tell you that you are not allowed to use your boats on the lake and next year you will not be allowed to sit on the sand ever again.You received zero notification and or no invitation to partake in some sort of democratic process. Nothing. Zilch. Zippo. Nice, eh? Well that is exactly what is transpiring in the hills around Penticton. Well done, Penticton and Area Cycling Association, you have managed to bend someone’s ear so bad that the democratic rights of others are being trampled.

No problem, there are some viable solutions to this gong show as I see it.

Rescind the closure order and get back to the table and start the democratic process (or least try and make it look like one) to formulate a workable solution for everyone.

PACA purchases their own parcel of land and they have their way with it, or (and this is directed to the PACA board) take some of that taxpayer money that Dan Albas threw at you and start topping up your war chest. Use it to either start purchasing properties around Campbell Mountain and the Three Blind Mice (who came up with this stupid name anyway?) or another not so pleasant option.

I asked Carnac the Magnificent as to what he see’s in the near future.

“A court ordered injunction followed by a protracted legal battle of three to five years.”

Buckle up kids, we are going for a ride.

Daniel Pontes Penticton