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one job well before moving
on to the next,” said Mayor
MacLean.
The focus of the first
intake of applications
under the Building Canada
Fund “will only be water,
wastewater and solid
waste projects, resource
management, public transit,
energy efficiency and other
projects” that improve our
environment are considered
as (green infrastructure)
for the purpose of the BCF
the Canada-Nova Scotia
Infrastructure letter to
all Mayors and Wardens
outlines. The letter also states
that the (BCF) agreement
currently under negotiation
will continue to promote
“green” infrastructure as
“the first priority for the
program.” The application
proposal requests that the
applicant or municipality
also prioritize projects in
order of importance.
Water quality workshop held at Mabou Fire Hall
16 JANUARY 2008 THE INVERNESS ORAN PAGE 7
PAGE 8 THE INVERNESS ORAN 16 JANUARY 2008
Letters to the Editor
EDITORIAL
Rankin MacDonald
On the roads
When a community loses one young person it is a
tragedy that places a cloud over the people for weeks.
Imagine losing seven young people and a teacher.
The grief the community of Bathurst is experiencing
must be horrendous, and every community in Canada is
grieving along with them.
For parents who have young people on high school or
on other league teams it is certainly something to make
one sit up and take notice.
In Nova Scotia vans that can carry 15 passengers
are no longer used to transport teams. They are topheavy,
too difficult to handle with a full load and have a
tendency to swerve.
It was a number of years ago that the Utilities and
Review Board banned the use of these vehicles for
transporting our young people in Nova Scotia.
For anyone who has ever traveled with sports teams
or driven a vehicle carrying players, what happened in
New Brunswick is frightening.
It’s the nature of our schools and communities. We
have school teams as well as minor programs, and on
any given day there are young people on the roads
traveling long distances to play the game.
When our young people are transported on school
buses we feel confident that well-maintained vehicles
and well-trained and diligent drivers will take our young
people to and from the game in safety.
Transportation should be from school to school or
rink to rink or field to field, and no student should be
dropped off along the highway, even if it is closer to
their home.
School buses are the safest way to transport young
people.
Yes, there are times when vans and cars are used to
get the kids to the game, and we rely on dependable
parents, teachers, coaches or community members to
handle the transportation.
One has to ask, how dependable are these drivers?
It’s an awesome responsibility to transport other
people’s kids, but those who do it take it very seriously.
We have been fortunate in this county. We haven’t
had a serious accident involving teams, so we can
assume that those who transport our kids are taking the
job very seriously.
But that’s no reason to sit back and say it can’t or
won’t happen here.
The key to safety is eternal vigilance.
The van traveling from Moncton to Bathurst ran into
bad weather, and the worst happened.
This is something everyone must watch.
What is the weather forecast when we are planning to
send our kids out on the roads?
Hard decisions must be made, but the decision on
whether or not to drive in bad weather must always err
on the side of caution.
And what is the policy if a storm blows up in winter
and our kids are in a distant community?
If we drive slowly we can make it!
Is this what parents want to hear?
One would think that there should be some kind of
network in place to allow for the kids to stay off the
roads if the weather deteriorates. Getting them home
the next day in daylight would seem a better solution.
What is the condition of the vehicle that is
transporting our kids? Good brakes? Good tires?
Following the tragedy in New Brunswick it is time to
take another look at how we are transporting our kids.
It surely can’t hurt.
Code of ethics and the Strait Regional School Board
Frank
Macdonald's
COMMENT
The Strait Regional School Board has opted to keep its code of ethics
by defeating a motion from North Inverness member Brenda Gillis to
abolish that very code. Gillis’s motion caught the public by surprise, and
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