Mayoral candidates agree the post office needs to stay downtown
With the voting day coming up fast, an issue that is important to the citizens of Battleford is one that has being sitting desolate for too long, the post office.
A bat infestation in 2015 forced Canada Post out of the building, which the company used since 1911. For almost one year the post office has not settled down in a permanent location.
Both candidates for mayor in the town and current councillors, David George and Ames Leslie, agree that it’s important the post office stay downtown, whether it means staying in the old building or not.
“It is very critical that the post office remain in the downtown core,” Leslie said. “Whether that’s going down the path to determine if Canada Post is viable in the old historic building or if a new structure needs to be built.”