I've been doing a lot of beating around over the summer, walking, running, driving and the like and I have come across a bunch of things that caught my eye that I think add greatly to the value of the town (Potential), can be improved with minimal effort (Real) and that are downright scary (Life). Here's what I saw:
POTENTIAL
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| Outstanding Community Involvement - The Kraft TSN Celebration Tour. Clarenville won this competition with over 350,000 votes. If ever person that voted, voted an average of 100 times that would mean that 3,500 people and businesses were engaged. In fact Clarenville had the highest vote total in Canada!! Now, if we can get that many engaged for the opportunity to win $25,000 and an hour of national TV coverage, surely we should be able to get as many involved in other critically important town issues - like voting. |
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| Dog poop on the trails is one of the banes of my, and many others, walking existence. I was so glad to see this dispenser installed on the Shoal Harbour Causeway trail. It's a great idea and a good start to solving this problem. |
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| I've been walking up Shoal Harbour drive a few time this summer. I would not advise it because the road is too narrow and the traffic is just too great. BUT, a lot of people do it. It would be easy and relatively inexpensive to create a paved trail up the side of the road for bikers and pedestrians.
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| This is Shoal Harbour Dam Pond on the Bare Mountain Trail and just below the water tower. Most people don't even know it exists but is is one of the prettiest spots in Clarenville. Development is encroaching on it and it should be protected before houses start going up around it, or worse it gets filled in.
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| I'm not at all clear why new business on Shoal Harbour drive are laying sod without the provision for a sidewalk. The highest number of businesses are on this side of the road and there is lots of walking traffic so sidewalks here on this side seem to make the most sense . Why are the developers not required to install sidewalks as is the case in subdivisions? Surely we can be more pedestrian friendly. |
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A big shout out to the Friends of the Shoal Harbour River for keeping this spot next to the Shoal Harbour River looking so great. It shows what could be in many similar spots in Clarenville!
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REAL
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| The Events Centre sign is a great investment in promoting the Centre but the eyesore of the dig-up still exists many months after it was put there and it exists on the Town's busiest street. How much can a few sods cost and how long could it take to lay them? Surely this can be done soon. |
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| The Town invested quite a few dollars to upgrade Shoal Harbour drive a couple of years back. This included the costs of landscaping. Grass is nice but it needs to be maintained. The neglect is now showing. Why do we pay to install grass if we can't seem to make the effort to care for it? |
LIFE
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| Residential and Industrial just do not mix. Surely the large oil companies pride themselves in being social responsibile however it seems as if parking hundreds of litres of flammable liquids next to people's homes and in densely populated single exit subdivisions does not pose a problem for neither them nor the Town. The Town has clear regulations prohibiting this, however it is obvious that enforcement is lacking. In the meantime, lets hope there is never an incident. |
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