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Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Parents concerned about student safety
Lynda HM1man-Rapley
Lakeshore Advance
Although the issue of Grand Bend
school busses has come to council
with a permanent solution on the
books, some parents do not think
council and the Board have gone far
enough.
For many years the busses turned
around at the Gill Road medical cen-
tre but that has ceased due to the
property being private.
At the February 22, Council meet-
ing, information on the situation
with the loading/unloading of buses
at the Grand Bend School was
reviewed. After considering the var-
ious options in the report, the
decision was made to maintain the
status quo and continue to use the
bus loading area on 81 Crescent
Street until the roads in the liar-
bourside Village subdivision are
assumed.
1t is that status quo that has some
parents concerned.
Nicole Gunn, mother of a four year
old, asked the mayor and the Lake-
shore Advance to witness the unload-
ing of the students on Thursday
morning. Ward 1 coun. Dave Maguire
was also asked but was not able to
attend at that time. The busses pull
up to the curb at the south-east end
of Crescent Street. A teacher and a TA
came out to supervise at the door of
the bus. The kids get off the bus and
run past the entrance of the munici-
pal parking lot, the entrance to the
Nursery School and into the school.
1f it had not been raining, the stu-
dents would have gone from the bus
-down the Nursery school driveway
to the play area.
Gunn has an issue with the lack of
adult supervision from the bus to the
school. Mayor Bill Weber said signs
will be going up and they are trying
to hire a crossing guard but it is diffi-
cult to hire someone for fifteen min-
utes twice a day.
Since many parents drop their chil-
dren off -there is a small window of
time when there is an influx of traffic
in the morning and afternoon.
The school warns the children
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This photo was taken at the 9 a.m. arrival of the students. The flashing lights
shown here will cease once the signs are erected
against danger and to be careful but
Gunn says even with warnings, you
are dealing with primary students
who may heed these warnings It -they
see a friend across the lane way and
take off running.
Another issue that has reached the
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These agency's of interest get a kick at
the can and look at the problems and
state possible solutions and alternatives,
voicing their opinion with regard to
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Municipal Affairs and Tourism all
recognized the need and supported this
project, explained Butt.
"The mandate of the MOE is to
protect the environment," he said,
projects of this nature are costly, that is
why upper tier governments provide
funding to offset costs.
"This project is important to the MOE
and want to assure that it progresses to its
conclusion. Hutt also stated it is hard to
predict future funding for projects of this
nature. Hutt will be attending the March
lath tri -municipal board meeting with
district manager Mike Parker.
Other funding
In 2008 the project submitted an
application to Federation of Canadian
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ears of council is that the buses stop-
ping on 81 Crescent Street and using
their flashers can cause confusion for
motorists, and it was suggested that
designating the area as a "bus
Municipalities (FCM) for the
Green Municipal Fund
(GMF) program and in Feb-
ruary of 2009 they were
informed their application
was successful. The approval
was given for a $400,000.00
grant and $2,000,000.00 for a
low interest loan. The fund-
ing and financing was con-
tingent upon the green initia-
tives of the project meeting
the environmental benefits
as outlined in the applica-
tion. In late 2010 1:CM
announced that there were
changes to the program and
that there was an opportunity
to increase funding for
certain projects. With the
Grand Bend Area Sewage
Treatment Project commit-
tee's approval they submitted
a new request for funding.
"We have now received
confirmation that our appli-
cation has been approved.
We have been approved for
$1,000,000.00 of grant dollars
and up to $10,000,000.00 of
low interest financing. FCM
is still preparing the agree-
ment templates and once they
are ready they will he pre-
sented for acceptance of the
program, The combination of
the Build Canada Fund grant
and this grant and low inter-
est financing is a positive step
to minimize the overall cost of
this project," explained lannb-
ton Shores treasurer Janet
Ferguson.
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From Waterloo
Les Armstrong, Wilmot's
mayor and a former 16 year
comic. explains their
mechanical sewage treat-
ment facility servicing New
1 lamburg and Baden is about
18 years old. Some of I,annb-
ton Shores and Bluewater
councilors took a tour to this
facility in early March. Arm-
strong said they had lagoons
but for sustainable growth,
they needed to update and
that is why they built the
mechanical system. The
maintenance and operation
is done by the Region of
Waterloo. 'There are 10 other
settlements in Wilmot that
are not permitted to develop
as they are on septics.
Trevor Brown from the
Region of Waterloo says there
are plans in the current
Masterplan to update this
system as it is now too small
for their needs.
Vote
That Council confirms its
support of the construction
of a sewage treatment facil-
ity (STF) in Grand Bend and
to follow the direction of the
STF Joint agreement." Coun-
cilors Illntan, Underwood,
Cook, Russell, Scott, Bones-
teel and Maguire as well as
mayor Weber voted for and
deputy mayor i)avis-1)agg
voted against.
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