Neighbours and Friends,
Our neighbourhood, which I call Wellington Heights, is home to a very large number of people, young and old. But it has not received the attention and support from the Town that it needs to be a great place to live for so many people. For example, our streets and parking areas, our sidewalks and crosswalks are not good enough to ensure the health and safety of all of us who live here.
Dorset Street West, on the other side of the river, is home to 70-some odd residents. A recent story in the Northumberland News told about the discussions that the Town had with the residents when revamping that street. The Town consulted with them during both the planning and the reconstruction of their street.
A few years ago, some maintenance was done to the south end of Wellington Street. This past spring, the STOP at Rosevear was removed and replaced by a COURTESY X-WALK. The Town had no discussions with any of the many hundreds of us who live here before doing any of this work. We need to be involved in all such changes.
It seems to me that we need to say two things to the Town:
1. Ask us what we think of changes you want to make
2. Listen to what changes we think you ought to make
The previous post in this blog (Message to candidates for Mayor and Council) is a message I am sending to all candidates for Mayor or Council of Port Hope. In my message, I ask candidates running in the election to do for us what they did for the people living on Dorset Street West: talk with us about changes to our neighbourhood that affect our health and safety. This seems reasonable to me. If you agree, please send your own message to the people running in the election. Names and email addresses for candidates are shown below.
Regards,
Bill Hayes
Mayor Linda Thompson mayor@porthope.ca
Candidate John Floyd johnfloyd@sympatico.ca
Candidate Bob Chatten
Candidate William Spotton wspotton@eagle.ca
Candidate Davidson Tate davidsont@sympatico.ca
Deputy Mayor Jeff Lees jefflees@sympatico.ca
Councillor Cal Morgan cmorgan@porthope.ca
Councillor Karen O’Hara kohara@porthope.ca
Councillor David Turck dturck@porthope.ca
Councillor Ted Watts twatts@porthope.ca
Candidate Rick Austin
