Dear Editor:
RE: Puslinch man not giving up, despite two independent decision exonerating the municipality, mayor, April 3.
Bruce Taylor seems like a kind and caring individual who will do his best to try and change something that he thinks is wrong. To plan and build a children’s playground (Boreham Park in Arkell) in an area where there is a ditch that is ten feet across; with eight feet of water in it that is without a high fence; is unconscionable. Children can and will get into anything and everything if they are given the opportunity. And this playground is the perfect chance for them do so.
The other day I was walking by the playground across from Centre Wellington District High School just behind the fence when I saw two women with eight young children. Then I noticed two others that were about 3 or 4 years old standing right on the edge of a two or three foot deep ditch full of water. Both women were deep in conversation with their backs turned to the children when both toddlers suddenly slipped and fell into the cold water up to their chests. I was on the other side of the fence so I yelled “Ladies!” One of them turned slowly around and looked at me. I frantically told her that the two kids had fallen in the freezing water and needed tending to. The women looked toward them and said, “Oh, they’ll be okay.”
Do what is right, fill the culvert. And a cease-and-desist letter for $1,700 – really? Stop wasting money.
And, stop telling the townspeople to shut their mouths. We have every right to speak up when we feel it is necessary. That is what democracy is. That is what Canada is. Way to go, Bruce Taylor.
Christy Doraty,
Fergus