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07 | 05 | 2018 VOLUME 23 | ISSUE 26
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MARKET CROSSWALK A BIGGER ORDEAL THAN EXPECTED
Farmers’ market crosswalk gets green light, work expected to be done by next month
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IT’S SUMMER FOR REAL
STEVE KANNON A LONG-AWAITED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market should be in place by next month. After years of talks, Woolwich and the Region of Waterloo are finally on the same page, clearing the way for work to begin. The two are now finalizing a formal agreement. Woolwich has hired an engineering firm to carry out the design of the signalized crossing at Farmers Market and Benjamin roads. The township is responsible for the $110,000 project, and will then pay the region to operate and maintain the crossing. The signals will be pedestrianactivated, but the crossing will be synced to the lights at the Weber Street intersection, functioning in a manner similar to the crosswalk at King and Albert streets in the village of St. Jacobs, explained Randy Miller of the township’s engineering department. Once the design is done, Woolwich will hire a contractor to do the preCROSSWALK | 4
Students streamed out of Elmira’s Riverside Public School after the bell June 28 to kick off the holidays, enjoying the end of classes and shifting into summer mode. The arrival of hot, hazy and humid weather for the Canada Day weekend certainly fit the theme. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER]
This ain’t his first (truck) rodeo, and the results show Wellesley operator Claude Hergott emerges victorious at Waterloo Region Truck Rodeo FAISAL ALI It was a big one. A mean old beast with a lot of kick and a lot of buck. But showing them how it’s done, Wellesley Township equipment operator Claude Hergott tamed the machinery
just fine, winning first place at the Waterloo Region Truck Rodeo. Competing against 26 of his peers from around the region, Hergott manoeuvred his rig, a dump truck fitted with a plow, around the challenge course.
“They have an obstacle course set up and you’re driving a snow plow – a dump truck with a snow plow and a wing,” explained Hergott. The course requires a deft hand as the obstacles are measured precisely to the size of
the trucks, giving the operators bare inches of room to work with. Consider it a bit like the most harrowing plow route on the narrowest roads, in the absolute worst winter and on the side of a mountain. Knock RODEO | 24
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