Salmon Arm Observer, June 22, 2012

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A Chase mother is taking a stand for the safety of her children after witnessing too many close calls on a local school road. Sick of worrying, Dalana Williams recently organized a petition to get the crosswalks in a local school zone painted – a request, she hopes, will be considered by village council. While Williams doesn’t consider herself to be much of a complainer, she recently decided something had to be done about the hazardous road that has not one, but two local schools located on it. Williams didn’t want to make a big fuss, but says she couldn’t sit

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back anymore. “I didn’t want to be one of those people who just sit back silently and gets nothing done. I do not normally do things like this, and I have never made a petition, but this is important to me. I have four kids that go to, or will be going to, the school.� Cottonwood Street is approximately one kilometre long with one side almost completely taken up by Haldane Elementary and Chase Secondary schools. The road is narrow and has no sidewalks. The road itself doesn’t even have a centre line. The elementary school lacks sufficient parent parking, so parents are forced to park their vehicles along the side of the road when picking up or dropping off, leaving little room

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Regush visited Cottonwood Street on June 20 with Joni Heinrich, village administrator, to examine the site. Neither Regush nor Heinrich think making a centre line down the road will make a difference to how people drive. In a letter to Williams, Heinrich explained that they witnessed vehicles doing U-turns along the road. However, they do not believe lines painted on the road will deter people from these types of actions. Regush also pointed out that white lines are painted on the sides of the road to give children a place to walk safely. These spots, however, are taken up by parents’ vehicles. This area, according to the letter, is not

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for children to walk. The parked cars also block the children from being seen by oncoming traffic, forcing them to peer out and walk out onto the road in order to be noticed. There are two faded and barely visible crosswalks located at either end of the road. One is located directly on a corner, which is frequently busy during school hours. Children must cross Cedar Avenue to get to the crosswalk to cross Cottonwood. According to Patrick Regush, the village’s public works supervisor, the old crosswalks have not been repainted in years because they have been deemed unsafe. No word was given on why new crosswalks were not created upon deciding the old ones were hazardous.

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