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Letter: Compliance 'champions' need to get out of my backyard

Editor: The highlight of my week was reading that COVID-19 compliance efforts are being scaled back and the champion staff that were used and abused daily are now going back to regular duties.
COVID-19 Social distancing champions
Some of the City of New Westminster's new physical distancing champions recently ventured over to Moody Park for a photo opportunity, but they've normally been working in pairs as they model appropriate social distancing - sometimes with the help of hockey sticks and water noodles. The city is transitioning to a "personal responsibility approach" and will gradually be sending employees back to their regular departments.

Editor:

The highlight of my week was reading that COVID-19 compliance efforts are being scaled back and the champion staff that were used and abused daily are now going back to regular duties. 

Pier Park is my backyard and I visit multiple times per day. Was I the only one that was sick and tired of being stopped and told when and how I could enter the park? 

There are hundreds of pathways, sidewalks and staircases that are narrower and busier than the entrances of Pier Park. Thank you to the champions that put up with us for the last few months, but I hope that I never see you at the park again. 

Oh wait, on Friday one of them told me that they are still going to be at Pier Park entrances as a priority area. Please tell me that this is not true? It is time for personal responsibility and for you to get out of my backyard.

Mike Keefer, New Westminster