How far will council go to foist the name Clearview?

Editor:
Regarding your article on the attempt by Doug Measures to hijack the name and identity of the GNE:
Someone needs to tell Doug Measures and this council that spending our tax dollars to change history is wrong and an abuse of their role and mandate in this community!
The recent announcement ahead of any agreement from the Great Northern Exhibition board for Doug Measures to hijack the historical name of the 160-plus year old GNE and associate this broadly supported historic location as an entity of the Corporation of the Township of Clearview shows just how far this council will go to force the name Clearview onto the face of Ontario.
Canada has a rich history of exhibitions (CNE, PNE, GNE, etc.) serving not just the location in which they are situated but the wider interests of the broader adjacent communities and that is what brings people together not the ‘hijacking” of a well respected and well understood identity and renaming it to be the same as the “new kid on the block”.
What’s next? Renaming:
• This newspaper to the Clearview Echo?
• Creemore to South Clearview?
• Stayner to Clearview Centre?
• The Creemore Springs Brewery to Clearview Springs Brewery?
• The Collingwood airport to the Clearview International Airport?
• The Creemore Farmers’ Market to Clearview’s first Farmers’ Market?
• Airport Road to Clearview Road?
If there is so much money left in the Clearview budget that it can be used for the purchase of naming rights, how about spending it on sidewalks and road improvements for those that live here and let visitors take second place to those of us forced to pay to keep this township running?
I urge the committee for the GNE to stand their ground and not be taken over by the Township of Clearview. If they want to rename anything, offer them naming rights for the annual Demolition Derby for that is more suited to the intent of this council than any changes in the historic name of the Great Northern Exhibition!
Peter Lomath,
Creemore.