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05 | 05 | 2012 VOLUME 17 | ISSUE 21
NO CHANCE TO SAVE KATIMAVIK FROM CUTS NEWS PAGE 9
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The EDSS girls’ rugby team didn’t extend an overly warm welcome Monday to the visiting Sir John A Macdonald Highlanders, defeating them 5-0. EDSS player Emily Tabone tries to avoid a tackle by a Highlander. Leah Shuh (left) battles Nancy Xu during a throw in. Julia Frey (right) battles her way through the Highlander defence. [colin dewar / the observer]
Woolwich plans “no stopping” zone
But mayor sees issue as John Mahood school's problem, calling for the board to come up with a long-term solution STEVE KANNON Cars will no longer be allowed to stop on a portion of Snyder Avenue in Elmira, Woolwich’s latest manoeuvre in the ongoing traffic woes around John Mahood Public School. The township has been trying to discourage traffic congestion caused as parents drop off
their kids each morning. Parking prohibitions, stepped up bylaw enforcement and even greater police presence have failed to eradicate the problem. With the addition of “no stopping” signs along the west side of Snyder Avenue, from First Street to Second Street, the goal is to eliminate unsafe conditions near the intersection of Snyder and
First, township clerk Christine Broughton told councillors meeting May 1. Stopped cars that force other drivers to swerve around them while kids are getting in and out of vehicles make for unsafe conditions, she explained. While sympathetic with the goal, Mayor Todd Cowan argued the problem belongs to the school
and the Waterloo Region District School Board, not the township. With each new measure, Woolwich is essentially letting the board off the hook, he said. “This is really not our issue,” said Cowan, noting he and Ward 1 councillors Julie-Anne Herteis and Allan Poffenroth would be hearing from parents unhappy with the new restrictions.
“Parents, they will be ticked. We’re going to get the fury and the wrath.” But Coun. Mark Bauman, agreeing the problem lies with the board, said the township has to put the children’s safety ahead of any other consideration. “That safety concern trumps traffic | 4
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