Editor's Note: The following letter refers to a letter that was sent both to a Kamloops newspaper and to the Times. The letter can be read here..
Editor, The Times:
The misinformation in Mary Lou Deugau's letter of June 28, 2013 issue of a Kamloops newspaper serves to illustrate the situation in Avola precisely. Opinion, whisper-down-the-lane and guesses? Or facts, interviews and research?
Go look at the logs. The stroke of the broad axe tells you they are hand-hewn. Ask an experienced resident logger. He will pinch some of the broken-away log and smell it. It is cedar. Ask an 88-year-old who witnessed the construction. He will confirm both facts.
"My plan or left to rot" are not the alternatives being offered by the concerned residents of Avola regarding the preservation of the Avola Log School House. www.historicplaces.ca/en/pages/standards-normes.aspx
If one person or group is attempting to share facts, information and knowledge with another person or group, that is not called "fighting." It is called "education."
Eleanor Deckert,
Avola, BC