Dear Editor
As the father of an eight-year-old girl and two six-year-old girls in the New Westminster School system, I applaud the city council for taking steps to modernize our important May Day traditions. It’s important that traditions are able to modernize with changing times so that they can remain enduring traditions. Refusing to look at changes to outdated traditions is the real threat to those traditions, because we risk losing the baby with the bath water.
I’m very encouraged by what I’m hearing from representatives of both the Royal Lancers and city council. They are both going to meet to find a way to keep what’s valuable about May Day and the Royal Lancers and dispense what has become outdated, specifically the dance.
I am looking forward to what new roles the Lancers can be assigned coming out of this meeting.
