Re: ìDon't blame bridge for your woesî by Perry Miller (Letter to the Editor, Nov. 8).First my deepest sympathy to Mr. Miller for the losses he has had to experience with horses this year. Horses are a dangerous hobby on a farm, as are many other farm-related activities, but dangerous or not the incident had nothing to do with the horse.There are two other ways for the ambulance to get to the spot where Ms. Bouck was located but both take extra time to arrive, which leaves Big Prairie the fastest, most effective way for emergency services to get to surrounding areas in the time frame set by the emergency at hand.She should be thanking her ìlucky starsî that her injury gave her a longer time frame for emergency services to reroute and the fact they did as quickly as possible. Ms. Canaday is sure to be thankful that the word of mouth saved her the backtrack route Ms. Bouck's ambulance had to experience.The point at hand was the absence of the Big Prairie Bridge wasn't just affecting the local farmers from getting their equipment across without taking a major highway, or the fact it puts 50 more kilometres on the vehicles of city commuters in the area, but it also adds time on to emergency services' response, plus kilometres, plus more major highway time on to their route as well.It's not just the local taxpayers wanting their convenient bridge back, it is also a safety issue in our community!As a taxpayer, when other taxpayers want a school crosswalk or emergency route put in, I would put myself in their situation, in any town, before I judge how they want to spend our tax money! For no one truly knows what it's like in another's shoe until they have tried it on.Now that Ms. Bouck and Ms. Canaday have exposed this issue, I as a mother of two young girls on a farm nearby now know what to do if it was them. So I thank both Ms. Bouck and Ms. Canaday for their public awareness of the issue, with my girls' lives! I now know how to direct and add the extra time on to the emergency services response!Thank you, ladies, from the Armstrongs.Angela ArmstrongMountain View County
