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Speaking of Belleville, there is a story in the Intelligencer ( the local paper) about the closure of the the store my dad worked at before I was born, and my mom works at now. I worked there for two or three years myself, in high school.
It's kind of sad. I shouldn't say much, since I'm privy to information (and speculation) David Geen evidentally doesn't want to be made public. I can say that the people quoted in the article are just making stuff up, however sensible it might sound. The article fails to mention that Mr Geen (David's father and the store's previous owner), died about a year ago.
This is newsworthy because, like a lot of downtowns in small cities, Belleville's downtown ain't what it used to be. People are proposing lots of crazy schemes to make it work again, and this sort of thing is hardly encouraging.
My dad worked at that store up until they openned the Loyalist market store in the late 80s. He left Geen's a couple years ago to seek a better opportunity elsewhere in the city. My mom started working part-time after I started school, and full-time after my little sister started. My tour of duty as stock person isn't something I like to think about a lot, but I'm still a bit sentimental about the old place.