Elizabeth Allchin makes a lot of sense as usual in her recent letter (St. Albert Gazette, Your Views, Dec. 22) which urges council to listen and take notice of seniors needs.
During my last term on council, I received some important suggestions as to how our so-called “handi bus” should operate but my suggestions for additional stops such as the General Hospital fell on deaf ears.
I also managed to move the green garbage container collection up to April 1 to deal with the amount of spring cleanup that starts in April but my efforts to have this schedule reduced to a monthly service from Nov. 1 to March 31 were ignored – which, if this had been adopted, would save taxpayers some hard-earned money.
I've checked some crescents in my area of Grandin and find very few green compostable containers out during this period.
Now we have a council going ahead with a library which was turned down and an additional tax via a utility franchise fee that is a tax no matter how they try to dress it up.
Maybe I will celebrate my 90th birthday by running in the next civic election on a pro-seniors platform and ask Liz to stand as well as my running mate.
Bob Russell, St. Albert
