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Friday, April 27, 2012
Tea for 60 Anna Hudson, activity and rental coordinator at Shoal Centre, and Mandy Kray of Historical Tours, prepare for the diamond jubilee tea at the Shoal Centre. Read the story on page A10. Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff
SBA yanked from Sidney summer market Christine van Reeuwyk and Erin Cardone News staff
The Town of Sidney is looking for someone else to run the popular Thursday night market. The town announced Wednesday that it immediately terminated its agreement with the Sidney Business Association to operate the annual market that fills Beacon Avenue each summer. “We’re terminating it because we’ve lost confidence that they can deliver a market effectively.
And we have a whole series of reasons why,” said Mayor Larry Cross. “The town is not honouring the contract,” countered SBA president Edward Connor. He said the town must give the SBA six months notice to terminate the licence agreement signed in August. “That’s fine, if they don’t like it give us the notice. If they get away with this, it’s just bizarre.” Earlier this year, the Town of Sidney, approached by a group of downtown merchants, opted to look at the configuration and
“That’s fine, if they don’t like it give us notice. If they get away with this, it’s just bizarre.” – Edward Connor makeup of the annual street market that enters its 13th year this year. The plan was to have stakeholders, the SBA, the town, merchants and vendors come together to discuss any changes that could happen to make the market more attractive and include local businesses. “We’ve been involved in the
mediation process for a while,” Cross said. At a March 23 meeting of the stakeholders involved, a plan was developed, he added. “We left that meeting on the 23rd and assumed we were getting there.” A week later he was disappointed in the process when the SBA presented a resolution to council.
“This resolution came forward to council … saying that they would go along with the agreement as far as reasonably possible.” Cross describes those “reasonably possible” changes as minimal over last year, with only a couple of extra access points. The resolution also included a sentence, later stated to be in error that “they would move the market unless council agreed.” PLEASE SEE: SBA considers moving market, Page A11
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