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Lock your cars, says reader
Just a warning… At 2 a.m. on Jan. 22 I awoke and grabbed a biscuit snack. It was snowing heavily. I could see headlights way up Bond Street, from my home on Adelaide Street. They would creep closer and stop, over and over. So I watched. Then I could see a guy dressed all in black walk down Bond Street while his buddy stayed in their small, noisy car. They looked like they were checking for vehicles left unlocked. As the guy got to Adelaide, I was ready to call police. He must have seen me standing in the window because he turned and walked back to the car on Bond and they drove south on Adelaide. By then it was too late to bother the police but I will know the vehicle if I see or hear it again. Be sure all your windows are closed up tight. Be sure your vehicle is locked. Do not leave money or valuables in your vehicle. The creeps are out there! Mary Wootton, Lindsay
Where is the GO bus?
Thank you Kirk Winter (Advocate writer) for your article on amalgamation and Lawrence Barker (letter, Jan. Advocate) for “Why city and not municipality?” About 20 years ago we travelled between Barrie and our cottage in Bancroft. One Monday we discovered a sign in Kinmount: City of Kawartha Lakes. It took us some time before we discovered this city; not even the CAA road map could show us this magic city. Now I have lived in Lindsay — I will not use “city” — for more than 10 years. I love living here! One thing I found out very fast: If you are a senior citizen without a car, you are stuck. No GO bus to Peterborough! I cannot understand. Beaverton, Cannington, Sunderland, Port Perry, all have GO bus connections. Why not Lindsay? A few years ago, I attended two meetings with people from city hall to discuss the GO bus situation. We signed petitions. Nothing positive developed. Two to three years ago I attended a meeting at the Lindsay rec centre which Mayor Andy Letham attended. I asked about the GO bus situation. I had the feeling I touched a sore spot. He told me, “We have plans for the future.”
Are they working on those plans? Could we interest our local MPP and Minister of Infrastructure Laurie Scott in our GO bus connection? Gunter Schubert, Lindsay
Time to move past climate change denials
It has been so satisfying to see the action that the new Biden presidency is bringing to climate change in the U.S. It is a sea change and one can only hope that it will push our federal, provincial and municipal governments to step up. There is so much to be done. But to then open The Lindsay Advocate and see a letter to the editor rolling out the same out climate denial arguments makes one realize that there is still pushback from a certain portion of our population. In this case the letter said that science was ignoring slight changes in the tilt of the earth on its axis or changes in its orbit or changes in volcanic activity etc. and that these natural processes and not man-made greenhouse gases, have been altering earth’s climate for billions of. Yes, these things and many others do affect our climate, but the truth is that all these factors are very closely followed by our climate scientists. Scientists refer to these factors as “climate forcings.” A forcing can be positive or negative; that is, it can tend to warm or cool our climate and can change from year to year. The point is all these things are considered and their amplitudes closely measured. But the forcing that far outweighs all the others and that is now driving climate change is our carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is now higher than it has been at any time in the last three million years. It is time to move past this silly argument. Barry Snider, Lindsay
Former reeve saw amalgamation coming
In the early 1990s I sat on county council as the reeve of the United Townships of Laxton, Digby and Longford. Foreseeing amalgamation, I did a rough draft of a proposal and brought it up at council and suggested that a committee be formed to come up with a proposal. I said if we didn’t do something it would be done for us. Some of the other members were adamant that it wouldn’t happen and we would be wasting our time. The end of the decade saw it imposed on us. Doug Horton, Kawartha Lakes
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