If summer days are supposed to be lazy and quiet, the Alberta government has yet to get the memo when it comes to the Athabasca/Boyle area.
If summer days are supposed to be lazy and quiet, the Alberta government has yet to get the memo when it comes to the Athabasca/Boyle area.
On the same day she opened the expanded integrated traffic unit in Boyle, Premier Redford announced the government will pour millions into expanding a Boyle seniors lodge.
This follows the heady news that the Athabasca/Boyle region is eligible for one, if not two, new family care centres.
Growth, at least where government-funded service centres are concerned, seems ramped up.
But even as Redford promises bigger and better buildings, many worry about the seemingly stymied growth of private business in the region. The mayor of Athabasca recently tried to allay concerns that the town is not welcoming enough to business, pointing out that 18 new businesses have launched in Athabasca since January 2013.
Why the ìClosing out sale! î signs on Main Street, then? Many of the new businesses don ít have storefronts.
Though new Main Street business in a must, we must accept that greater square footage and shiny faÁades are not the only metrics for growth. New technology has fostered new kinds of business, and we should celebrate that development as much as the brick-and-mortar kind.
