Friday - June 25, 2010 main Vol. 2 No. 8 street week The Laurentians’ English-language weekly online magazine www.mainstreetweeknews.com Happy Canada Day We’ll see you at Ski Morin Heights on July 1 Looking for English-language resources and information? Visit: www.laurentianlife.com main street week Word from the editor... Susan MacDonald Available on-line the 1st - 3rd & 4th Friday of every month at Waist or wasted? www.mainstreetweeknews.com One of the funniest Les Éditions Main Street Inc. bloopers ever printed P.O. Box 874, Lachute QC J8H 4G5 in Main Street was the • headline “Pedestrian Tel.: 819-242-2232 Crossings – a Waist • of Paint.” Though the Toll Free: 1.866.660.6246 grammatical error was • humorous, the message Fax: 819-242-2022 it carried certainly was • not and I am astounded
[email protected] at the lack of courtesy • motorists still show toward pedestrians today. © 2010 Les Éditions Main Street Inc. On my trips throughout the Susan MacDonald - editor-in-chief Laurentians, I can’t help but
[email protected] count the cars that ignore pedestrians standing at the bright yellow crosswalks waiting to cross the street. I watched, one Jack Burger - co-editor & layout day, as an elderly couple, the gentleman gently holding his wife’s arm, stood patiently on the
[email protected] sidewalk waiting to cross Main Street in Lachute (near the Bank of Montreal) and I counted 12 Advertising & Marketing cars drive by without stopping before I parked myself in the middle of the street and dared the
[email protected] next vehicle not to stop.