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Halloween Edition, October 25, 2017
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New stop signs for Hurricane, Memorial
Column Six
Gone fishing
Installation permanent on Memorial, trial on Hurricane
BY SAMUEL PICCOLO
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BY VOICE STAFF Pelham Town Council voted in favour of the installation of two new stop signs at its meeting last Monday night. On Hurricane Road, where residents have been upset for some time by frequent speeding, a temporary allway stop was installed at the intersection with Station Street by the end of last week. Town Director of Public Works Andrea Clemencio had previously said that she did not believe that a stop sign would address the speeding concerns on Hurricane, a sentiment that she repeated when making the recommendation to council. “A stop sign at this location is not warranted,” Clemencio wrote in the report, later saying that, "In accordance with government and industry guidance materials, installation of a stop sign can introduce collision risks and is only effective for speed reduction in the immediate area of the intersection.” Clemencio clarified that she did not anticipate increased collision risks in this particular instance. See STOP SIGNS Page 12
A speeding pickup on Clare Avenue last week. Virtually no one obeys the posted 50 km/h limit.
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Speeding on Clare Avenue called out Local resident frustrated by lack of traffic law enforcement BY VOICE STAFF Though Pelham Town Council moved to address the Hurricane Road speeding problem with stop sign approval at its meeting last week, and installation of the signs shortly afterward, the ongoing efforts of one resident make it likely that other speeding concerns will be on council’s agenda in the near future. Rick Wilsher, who lives on Clare Avenue between Quaker and Woodlawn Roads, says that he has called the Town some 40 times to raise
concerns about speeding on his stretch of Clare. “It’s just unbelievable,” he says. “Every single day, there are literally dozens of cars going over one hundred kilometres an hour. I’ve spent a lot of time around the race track, and I know what speeds are. My eightyear-old son is absolutely terrified of that road, and I am too.” According to Wilsher, there are a significant number of cyclists and pedestrians who travel on the road despite the fact that the Steve Bauer Trail runs
alongside it. He and his wife bought the house from his parents, who he says noticed the same speeding problem for more than a decade. His mother once saw a cyclist struck and thrown into the ditch paralleling the road. Wilsher says that he has repeatedly witnessed cars passing stopped school buses, and has started filming and taking pictures of cars as they speed by. “A lot of them rev their engines even louder, or flip me off,” he says. “I get that all the time.” Indeed, as a Voice photographer stood at
the of Wilsher’s drive taking photos, a few cars actually speeded up, most notably the red pickup shown in the photo above. Wilsher shook his head in disgust. In Wilsher’s calls to the Town’s automated customer service system, he says that he has received calls back from actual employees only a handful of times, with the rest of his messages going unanswered. “I get pretty passionate, and so I might have been a little rude,” he says. “But See CLARE AVE Page 11
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AST WEEKEND I went fishing. The daughter of a family friend asked her parents for a heart-warmingly sweet birthday present, just to go fishing with her little brother, and so my father arranged for his brother-in-law to take us out in his boat, with me being the added adult chosen to tag along and increase our catch limit. My uncle, who is a construction worker, pulled in to pick up the three of us at 6:30 on Saturday morning, his great diesel truck towing the boat behind it. Knowing that it would be dark in the morning, the night before I had retrieved my fishing rod and tackle box from the garage and put them by the front door. Both of these things were gifts from my uncle many years ago, when he and I would go out fishing together, either alone or with a few of his friends. Though he is an accomplished fisherman, and his basement is full of hundreds of rods and his freezer often wellstocked with his own fish, we never seemed to catch anything on those trips, and my memories of them are of mostly idle affairs, drifting in the current while the sun hammered down upon us as nothing bit. One time he and I went See COLUMN SIX back page
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