Dear Editor
Regarding the letter requesting balanced CUPlex Dekker Centre events coverage (News-Optimist Oct. 31), I recalled the name of the television show, The Facts of Life, upon reading this person's opinion piece.
The CUPlex (all four components) now exists - a 'fact of life.' These facilities represent the best efforts of professionals of all sorts - architects, contractors, administrators. The fact of the presence on the local scene of the CUPlex now requires that we 'get over' the debating points of the last several years. It will be good for development and growth if we do.
We need to hold a ceremony to bury all those "shoulda done" arguments. Repeating "shoulda dones" makes for negative thinking. Positive thinking, acting, talking, asking critical questions in a non-critical tone - those are the qualities we need to see emerge - and that it even becomes contagious to be positive. Other behavioural choices seem unproductive.
I heartily agree with the writer on the subject of the necessity of balanced coverage by media. Staff reporter Alex McPhail's coverage recently where he courageously refers to "jewels" in terms of our CUPlex, was what stimulated the editorial writer, I gather. Yet McPhail deserves much congratulation. His coverage is a tribute to balance in coverage by our local newspaper, whether planned or inadvertent. As an optimist, who hopes for the predominance of all of our better nature, I choose to believe that running McPhail's article was deliberate by our local newspaper moguls.
Again, great job, Alex, and great decision, editor and publisher.
Dave Whitehead
North Battleford
