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For pedestrians:

Janice tries to make our community safer when problems are brought to her attention. She has formally requested crosswalks where pedestrians frequently cross four-lane arterial roads (for example, McLeod Rd. between Pin Oak and Kalar, and Lundy’s Lane in front of Greycliffe Manor).

For our children:

Janice helps residents throughout the city address concerns about traffic speeds in residential neighbourhoods. She has recently taken up the cause of allowing “Children playing, Please drive slowly” signs where parents, individually or jointly, are willing to pay for the cost of purchasing and installing such signs.

Janice says: “I have seen these signs used effectively elsewhere, and am dismayed that children on busy residential streets in some municipalities receive a protective measure the parents of children in our community are not permitted to provide.”

For our youth:

Council supported Janice’s resolution encouraging our local school boards to observe the annual Day of Mourning commemorating workers whose lives have been lost or whom have been injured in the workplace. She believes it important that this day be recognized in our high schools so students beginning their work lives are reminded that they can be injured or killed in the workplace if proper safety procedures are not followed.

Janice comments: “The WSIB claims an average of 36 young Ontario workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job every day. I want to make sure that as few local youth as possible are among them!”

On our streets:

Janice made a motion asking staff to investigate the adoption of a nuisance bylaw like other municipalities’. This resulted in Niagara Falls’ Nuisance Bylaw being adopted in the summer of 2008. It assists the police in their efforts to keep good order in our public places.

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