Editor: I have just been down memory lane. What memories and what a lane. I’ve been viewing my late husband’s home movies he took on 8mm tape from 1959-2017 and transferred them all to VHS tapes; 38 of them.
My main story is one I viewed taken in 2007. We moved to Chatham from Wallaceburg, so we spent one day walking a lot of Chatham. He taking the movies, and I was really seeing Chatham as it was then.
Sorry to say, we have more garbage now. When school is in, Grand Avenue West from 7-Eleven to the Pines becomes a mess.
But the one thing worse is Tecumseh Park. Those lovely trees and bushes are missing, plus the beautiful flowers and pond.
It makes me think now the city could not find enough people to work even then, to keep it up, looking good. Especially recently when I read our mayor was talking to a businessman who had 40 job vacancies he could not fill. But of course they didn’t print who the business owner was.
Yes, Chatham has definitely gone down since 2007, and right now the roads are in a terrible state. We need a change.
Ruth Draper
Chatham
