The headbutting between city council and the Kamloops Heritage Society over who should run St Andrews on the Square continues with one well known Kamloopsian making no bones about how she feels.

Former chair of the society and former city councillor, Shirley Culver put it simply, “The time has come when the city needs to take it over and just run it and look after it.”

On NL’s Newsday, she reiterated the historic church needs to be run like a business. “If you’re worrying every day if the lights are on or whether you’ve got the next event, it becomes really hard on volunteers.”

She thinks the iconic church needs to be run the way the city handles other facilities. “It was a lot of work for relatively small dollars and you know the city subsidizes a great many of the facilities in Kamloops.”

“They do, through tax payers dollars and that’s the beauty of having all those facilities and many people paying for it and St Andy’s is just one.”

Culver thinks one problem is the historic church just hasn’t been competitive. “One of the good things about the facility or what they sold it on was it was always affordable but at the same time it was in competition with the Heritage House who was even less costly so people would say we can rent Heritage House for less than St Andrews on the Square.”

The two sides are set to meet this afternoon as the society makes one last ditch attempt to keep control of the facility.