Oh boy, is this ever a HOT TOPIC! So many Whistlerites are literally fuming about the Maurice Young Millenium Place Society's, (MYMPS), cold-hearted decision to close the Teddy Bear Daycare Centre, forcing many young angels to have to consider moving far away to another facility that is foreign to them and making life for their Moms and Dads very difficult.
As I described in my previous blog about this debacle, the MYMPS defended their draconian decision by saying that Art and Culture needed a place to grow in Whistler.
Right - so toss the kids out with the bathroom water and lets get on with drinking our Chardonnay and talking shit about Salvador Dali's "Meditative Rose", shall we?
Have you ever?
Then my heart just broke when I read Ken Achenbach's beautifully written letter to the Pique this week where he describes his darling daughters' delight in creating sculptures, paintings and drawings, as well as performing through singing and dancing [a cultural form of artistic expression].
Ken, this eloquent Dad, calls it the Teddy Bear Arts and Culture Space! How lovely.
Ken writes:"Don't take away the space where I can create art and at the same time create my vision of the future through art where I can grow up to be anything I want. Maybe even an artist."
Well said, Ken!
I do hope that someone gets through to the collective thick skull of the MY Millenium Place Society so that they realize they are messing with Whistler's greatest assets - its children. Just imagine how boring and bland Whistler will be during the Winter Games in 2010 if all the teeny tots go on strike and stop producing their delightful works of art?
Something to think about...
Image by Olsen "Side by Side"
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