Thank you for supporting LRCA
Editor:
Please allow me through your “letters to the editor” to send a huge thank you to everyone who supported our “Fancy-Plants” plant and bake sale held June 14 at the Ladysmith Resources Centre! It was a great day even though it was overcast in the morning!
Fundraisers such as this mean more than you know to us.
It means we can continue to offer snacks and healthy food choices during our Early Years programs, which the children love; the Dads Group can continue to provide their Saturday morning sausage and pancake breakfasts for the fathers and kids who attend and who enjoy such a wonderful program and camaraderie with other dads; and it means a lot to the staff and volunteers who work in these programs to know they can continue to be offered without additional worry.
When we lose funding we’ve counted on for so long (as we have experienced recently), it’s heartbreaking and it always seems to affect those who can least afford to have it cut. So thank you Ladysmith for supporting us at this fundraiser.
John, Ladysmith’s Save-On-Foods manager, pitched right in, donating cases of bottled water to the event and took on the role of barbecue master, cooking up hot dogs for one and all — thank you John. Special thanks to Bloooms at the 49th, Shar Kare and Country Grocer — your donations were a huge bonus!
And, thank you to all the staff and volunteers who helped with the sale in so many ways and for turning out on the weekend! Bouquets to you all! My sincere apology if I have missed anyone.
Sandy Barton
Volunteer,
Ladysmith Resources Centre Association
Reduced speed limits at Davis Road needed
Editor:
Re: Davis Road crossing
I certainly agree with previous letter writers on this subject. Speeds are excessive, and light controls at that intersection are inadequate. The Highways Department doesn’t seem to realize or care that Ladysmith town actually begins at South Davis Road.
Yet northbound traffic races down the hill past S. Davis Road to the Coronation intersection at speeds between 110 and 130, semis and logging trucks included. If the light is green at Davis Road, traffic just keeps barreling through well above the posted speed limit of 90 until the 70 km/h reduction at Transfer Beach, which, by the way, often doesn’t seem to bother highway travellers who continue to exceed this limit by 20-plus km/h driving through the heart of town.
Trying to make a left turn at S. Davis is often an adventure because visibility of northbound traffic is poor and approach speed difficult to appreciate. Neither is there a merge lane for southbound traffic. The Town requested a light at the S. Davis intersection a few years ago when residential development in the area took off. Highways refused because they didn’t want to impede the flow of traffic on the TCH … really, what a concept! (If that is the case, why are there lights at the Thick/Edgelow and Oyster-Sto-Lo intersections?)
Instead, they suggested closing the S. Davis intersection entirely or closing the left turn option, which of course would only compound the congestion at Coronation Square and that intersection. As it is, that is already happening, as many of my neighbours refuse to use that intersection, preferring to drive the length of Davis Road to reach the highway.
Unfortunately, Highways seems to be reactive rather than proactive, as witnessed by the changes at Fuller Lake and Brenton Page after several fatalities.
Improved safety measures for the Davis Road intersections and reduction and enforcement of speed limits is required now. Perhaps it will once again require a sad event to prompt changes.
Chris Fritsch
Ladysmith
