The controversial YMCA project, under consideration by Abbotsford City Council for a gift of $17 million, is one single project to be built on the old MSA Hospital grounds. Many…
By Mike Archer. The Abbotsford News appears to have found out about the campaign against the YMCA which Fred Thiessen started two-and-a-half months ago. The headline on Alex Butler’s story…
Last week we published Four Years Of Constructive Criticism Part I in response to a column in the Abbotsford Times by Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Allan Asaph. Prior…
Dear City Council, MLA de Jong, Mr. Butz and Abbotsford residents, Abbotsford taxpayers have recently tried to engage in a decision making process that may eventually lead to the approval…
UPDATED 15/03/13 – After reading a column in The Abbotsford Times by Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Allan Asaph chastising those who take to the internet to criticise their betters,…
As reported here before, the YMCA’s proposal to have the taxpayers of Abbotsford give them $17.5 million in order build a membership-based business in a proposed housing development on the…
Open Letter to Mayor Banman and Council – This exchange between Neufeld and Butz of the YMCA is shameful. It is shameful that Walter Neufeld of Abbotsford, has to have…
After a series of emails between Today Columnist Walter Neufeld, and Stephen Butz, president of the YMCA in Vancouver, further to an in-depth interview with Abbotsford Today, a the debate…
The YMCA’s proposal to have the taxpayers of Abbotsford give them $17.5 million in order build a membership-based business in a proposed housing development on the old MSA hospital grounds…
By Walter Neufeld. As you are aware, the City of Abbotsford is still considering a 17.5 million tax dollar give-away to YMCA. That money is the tip of the YMCA…