TISDALE — There will soon be a sign warning motorist to watch for pedestrians on 103rd Avenue near the Tisdale Dance Centre.
In a letter to council, Dana Mutimer with the centre asked council if a sign would be possible. Council voted in favour of one at its Aug. 27 meeting.
“I don’t think it would hurt to put up a sign to slow down,” Coun. Carson Penner told the rest of council. “I’d feel terrible if we said, ‘ah, you know what? Forget it,’ and somebody gets run over.”
Dutch elm disease
The town’s effort against Dutch elm disease is having an effect.
In 2016, when the provincial environmental ministry highlighted how much of a problem the town had with the disease, around 50 trees were removed. That increased to around 60 in 2017 and is expected to be 22 this year.
Thibault said an effort to boost public awareness on the disease, which is cause by a fungus after a beetle bores into the tree, is helping, as the community is on the lookout for infected trees. She added that some of the high numbers in previous years is connected to the removal of elm clusters at the edge of town.
“I think that if we’re gaining some control, I think we’ll see the numbers drop a little bit.”
The tree will be replaced with an species of elm that more resistant to the disease. Focus has been on Main Street but council would like to see more of the trees planted on other boulevards.
In-town highways
A meeting will give the town the chance to lobby for itself for a program designed to maintain the highways that run through it.
The Urban Highway Connector Program, developed in 2008, would see the province fix up the highways running through town. After that was done, the towns would be responsible for maintaining the roads.
Yet at the current rate of funding, it will take 20 years for the province to pave all of the highways it has committed to.
Tisdale hasn’t seen Highway #3, Highway #35 or any of the service roads paved yet. In nearby Melfort, some service roads have been paved this year.
“We’d like to get our service roads get paved,” said Brad Hvidston, the town’s administrator
