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Brooke-Alvinston council vows to fight to save bank to close in May
November 17, 2018
Frank Nemcek wants Brooke-Alvinston to “put up a fight” to save its lone bank.
Customers of the Bank of Montreal in Alvinston received a form letter in the mail last week saying by May 17, 2019, the Alvinston branch “will be moving” to Watford.
Nemcek, a Brooke-Alvinston councillor, had heard rumblings of the possible closure, but received the notice in the mail like everyone else.
Mayor Don McGugan was invited to the bank – next to the municipal office – two weeks before the public announcement and was told about the coming closure.
Residents in the community heard of it with a form letter.
“This makes me sad and angry,” said Michelle Koolen on a Facebook post about the closure. “Alvinston is finally starting to grow and blossom and then (they)take away the bank.”
The Bank of Montreal is holding a public meeting on the closure Dec. 3 at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Centre and Nemcek is hopeful people will pack the building to put up a fight to save the bank.
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