Dear Megan,
Today turned out to be an exceptionally warm day. A great day for the road grader of The Township of Whitewater Region to remove the ice built up along the edges of Haley Road.
I noticed the grader at work while outside chipping the ice off our walkway.
After lunch Ruby and I decided to go to Renfrew for some shopping and banking. When we got to the end of our lane at Haley Road, we found a huge ridge of the broken ice pushed up all across the mouth of our lane. This was not unexpected. What was unexpected was the condition of the bag of garbage which Ruby had left for pickup on the snowbank at the edge of our lane.
We assume that it had rolled off the bank due to the rapid melting of the snow. What we didn’t appreciate was that the grader had run over the garbage bag, tearing it in several places and strewing the garbage amongst the chunks of broken ice.
What we cannot understand is why the operator of the grader would not have taken a moment to lift the bag back onto the snowbank out of the way of the grader.
Is common courtesy not on the curriculum of grader operators?
Paul and Ruby McLenaghan of Haley Road in Haley Station
