Editor:
It is heartwarming to see people who take pride in their work.
Let me start with the volunteers and organizers of the Ladner Village Market – this is the best street-market around.
Top billing also goes to the Delta employees who tend the flower beds and hanging baskets around Ladner, Tsawwassen, and North Delta. These are a joy to admire as we go through the changing seasons.
And we must mention the health workers and volunteers at Delta Hospital and all the Delta care homes. These folks go to work with professionalism and pride that is unequalled, as I discovered recently during an episode of chest pains – my care at the hospital was instant, thorough, and gracious.
But I wonder what happened to the workers who spread the blacktop on our roads.
Is it such a difficult task to make the manhole covers and access covers the same level as the road? These objects very quickly turn into potholes that jar the car. I see drivers swerving in their lanes to avoid them, which presents all kinds of danger. And any blacktop patching jobs are a joke.
Perhaps it’s time for our lovely Delta workers to wrest control of the paving away from the private contractors – we know they would take pride in their work.
Curt Jantzen
