This let­ter is to clear up some mis­con­cep­tions voiced by mem­bers of the pub­lic about Cit­i­zens For Con­ser­va­tion's in­volve­ment with Greyfrairs' restora­tion. It has been said by many that we on­ly be­came in­volved when it was too late.

Here are the facts: About four years ago we were ap­proached for help with the restora­tion. We had many on­site meet­ings, both at Greyfri­ars and at the Char­lotte Street Pres­by­ter­ian Church. We dis­cussed many ways of rais­ing the mon­ey and de­cid­ed that we should send a del­e­ga­tion to the ap­pro­pri­ate min­is­ter of gov­ern­ment.

This we did. Two ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of Cit­i­zens For Con­ser­va­tion and the re­stor­er of the church went. It was a most am­i­ca­ble meet­ing and we showed how $2 mil­lion would go a long way to­wards a to­tal restora­tion.We al­so point­ed out to the min­is­ter that oth­er de­nom­i­na­tions, both Chris­t­ian and oth­er­wise, had re­ceived much larg­er sums to­wards the needs of their build­ings.

Af­ter this there was not an­oth­er word from the min­istry, nei­ther to us nor to the re­stor­er.Our in­volve­ment and in­ter­est with the Ban­wari Trace reads much like the above. We are most­ly a lob­by­ing group as we are with­out the re­sources nec­es­sary to put mon­ey where our voic­es are, but we con­tin­ue to try to save our his­toric and her­itage sites.Hope­ful­ly our new Na­tion­al Trust Board with their knowl­edge­able and vi­brant team will help to get things right.

Chris­tine Mil­lar,

Ex­ec­u­tive Mem­ber,

Cit­i­zens For Con­ser­va­tion