It’s that time of year again when the Canada geese are building their nests in the sloughs that lie between the Word of Life Church and the Sears-Winners-Best Buy buildings.
There is nothing worse or more hazardous when traveling northbound on Hwy 2, then to be going under the on-ramp overpass and around the corner and to be attacked by an enraged Canada goose.
Year after year, these poor geese try to protect their young from our roaring vehicles, often causing many to swerve madly but more often they end up lying in a heap on the side of the road.
How much would it cost to put up a snow fence along this section of the highway during this time of the year to protect not only the geese but the drivers?
Is this a request that is going to be bantered between city and county and province — everyone turning pockets out saying they don’t have enough money or manpower to unravel a few feet of snowfence now that they have put them all away as, let’s face it, it’s spring?
Will what’s left of the young geese and their valiant defenders have grown enough to fly have done so by the time a decision is made?
Or will someone just go out and put up some fencing so we don’t have to watch as bird after bird ends up massacred by the huge trucks that dare not and cannot swerve on that deadly curve for some defending parent.
Even if it is just a bird.
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