As of the 27th of Nov 2010 Winnellie Newsagency as a shop in the Winnellie Shopping Center will no longer exist. This can be put down to a few small factors and the obvious giant one, the removal of people out of the base housing.
I am not able to continue on due to and enormous drop in revenue and a continuing increase in rents, these 2 factors are the most crippling and have forced me into the decision, my house or my business, in this climate the house is the obvious choice.
I will continue the delivery run in the short-term as I sort through the complexities of closing down, this will maintain some services at least, in the longterm I may only be the start of the rot for the center, only time will tell.
THE FIGHT CONTINUES
The Save Eaton Campaign is still going to continue and I will still support it, there are some important things that need to change in regards to Defence’s handling of this matter, the saving of the houses is only the beginning, there needs to be a fundamental change in the way Defence makes these decisions so that people like myself have enough notice to make the changes that will ensure survival. We are only the thin edge of the wedge, what about all the people who live around here as well that will lose services because someone didn’t feel that we needed to be informed of the changes, how would the people making these decisions feel if they came to work one day and realised that all their hard work for the last 10 or 20 years was stripped away from them without so much as a heads up ? They could have told us 2 years ago when these decisions were made and we would have had a chance of surviving as a business.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Irony is something I have been dwelling on for some time now, I have been continually coming up with new examples of it, here’s the latest…
Defence puts a great deal of effort avoiding collateral damage in the war zone, they develop new methods, equipment and new weapons to ensure that there is minimal risk to civilians and property, no mean feat really and I think what they do is what we all would expect of them. It’s a shame that in our own country that they have failed miserably in showing the same concern for people when making decisions on the magnitude of removing 395 houses.
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