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Dear Editor:

T am writing this the day after a young boy crossing Mountain Highway was hit by a car.

Luckily for the child, he will be fine and luckily for the driver he was obcying the speed limit and the cross-walk signs,

However, as a parent of two children in Lynn Valley

school, I decided’ 1 would, along with others, stand at the crosswalk and hopefiully "make some people take notice and wonder why we werz standing there.

- Unfortunately, even with the presence of police, cars

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still speed. How pathetic is that?

This afternoon between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. when I left, counted 178 cars thar came down the street and passed our crosswalk — 36 of those cars did not slow down to the posted speed limit.

Out of those 36 speeding cars, 16 did not stop for pedestrians at the crosswalk at

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all, although there were chil- dren waiting to cross, the principal, an officer and par- ents standing on both sides of the crosswalk to protect our kids. What gall some people have. There is even more pathetic news to this story, At Monday oo night’s council mecting it was decided that our Grade 7 students would be allowed to become cross-

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ing guards to protect our children. CHILDREN GUARDING CHILDREN. If speeders are not going to stop or slow down for police at a crosswalk, what the heck makes council think that drivers will stop for chil- dren?” Mcchele Russell-Wilson bmwdevelopments@bc.sym patico.ca

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