My question to Al Fletcher is: what happens if an "illegal" business has the proper permits and vending license etc. but is not in the proper "zone"?

All of a sudden you guys realize you have rural citizens that you have not been paying any attention to, except when it comes to taxes!

I would be willing to bet that there are hundreds of small, home-based "illegal" businesses along the back streets of Hamilton proper. Take a slow drive and look at the cards in windows - they are not all Neighborhood Watch cards.

Libraries

I say: go on ignoring us, we are quite happy with that. Oh and by the way, stop closing our libraries - your plans for Waterdown and Lynden only make life more difficult for us in and around our small communities, though maybe that is the aim of all this. The combined cost of purchasing expensive land in Waterdown to build from scratch and re-vamping the Lynden library is going to cost the city well over $20 million, instead of the $5 million or $6 million to repair and make wheelchair accessible a few small ones. This does not make any fiscal sense.

When is North Wentworth county going to get some positive attention from the City of Hamilton? Some positive attitudes need to be adopted by urban councillors - and soon - or this "us against them" mindset will be in-grained. That is the view from my country back yard anyway.

Susan Frandsen, Rockton