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LETTERS: Let's honour Catherine Hennessey and other letters

Let’s honour Catherine Hennessey

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“I think Charlottetown owes a great deal of gratitude to Catherine because she spent most of her life loving heritage and loving the arts community.” This is a quote of Gary MacDougall from a recent article, Charlottetown has lost a great advocate, in the March 6 paper.

Although I haven’t been in the front lines of protesting the city’s and IRAC’s deciding that a 49-unit condo building indeed should be built on the waterfront by the Irish Monument, I have been supportive in encouraging the appeals which now we are told have been rejected.

So, I have a much better idea and I know I am not alone in expressing my hope. Unfortunately, it took Hennessey’s passing to get me to write this letter to the editor. I’m going to quote again from another letter printed on March 5, sent from Douglas Langley.

“Waterfronts are important Canadian historic assets … the city has a duty to protect our most iconic public asset — the waterfront.”

So here is my idea.  Instead of a 49-unit, high-end condo building due to start construction this May, let’s honour Catherine Hennessey’s legacy by creating a heritage walk-through garden on that waterfront property. Many local artistic minds could work........

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