Having just read a number of letters in regards to Dr. Jon Cooper and the RCMP, most people feel that common sense should have come into play in this situation and overlooked the city bylaw of using ATVs to plow snow within the city.
Then I read where the bylaw officers were out giving warnings to other people using ATVs with plows, helping out in their neighbourhoods to move snow.
Now I remember seeing on the front page of a St. Albert newspaper about two or three weeks ago a picture of some promo curling event that had the mayor and people from city hall out on the Sturgeon River. I think it was behind city hall on the river. They were curling and having fun. Now in the background of that picture was someone’s yellow ATV (with no plow) on the river.
I have to ask, where were the bylaw officers that day? The bylaw is clear — zero use of ATVs in the city. Now did someone from city hall exercise some common sense because they had a special event going on, probably had a bunch of equipment to move down to the river and thought, an ATV would make it real easy to move it all in the snow? Makes sense to me.
So maybe the bylaw needs to be changed to allow for special circumstances as I find it hard to believe that only city hall can use common sense on when not to follow its own bylaws and the rest of the people of St. Albert cannot.
S. Hagglund, St. Albert
