Dear Editor,
The residents of Uptown New Westminster, AKA Walkertown, are, in general, quiet and respectful of each other. Some noises are essential to community well being. However, for the past several months a new group of undesirables has forced themselves on us in a malicious and disturbing way.
This group is attracted to the night club in the 500 block of Seventh Street, which hosts live entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings. For several hours, the booming thump of the music permeates the neighbourhood of elderly residents until the band takes a break. This results in the migration into the streets of groups of smokers defying the smoking by-laws and yelling at each other loudly as they seem to have lost their hearing abilities.
This continues at various levels from about 10 p.m. until 1 a.m., when local residents are finally able to get a short night’s sleep and prepare themselves for a Saturday repeat of thumps, yahoos and screeches.
There is no justification for the night club to be the source of such a disturbance which can hardly be any benefit and properly belongs on Columbia Street. Was the current operator given a special license to inflict this problem on the pre-existing neighbourhood? Are noise bylaws being violated? It would appear they are.
Ed Linstead, New Westminster
