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The Town of Amherst’s Active Transportation Plan is meeting its goal of getting more folks out walking and cycling.
“When council approved the plan in 2018, we wanted to promote cycling and walking by providing an efficient and effective network of interconnected and continuous cycling and pedestrian routes that linked neighbourhoods and major destinations,” Mayor David Kogon said. “We’ve done that and from my own personal observations, I see way more folks using these routes than I did four years ago.”
Fort Garry Fire Trucks will supply the Town of Amherst with a new aerial fire truck.
The Amherst town council approved the purchase of the $1.9-million vehicle from the Manitoba company during a special council session held on Monday, July 4, 2022. It will replace a 27-year-old unit that has reached the end of its useful life.
A donation request by the Dr. & Mrs. H.E. Christie Foundation that will help this community’s youth and a local museum was approved by the Amherst town council when it met on Monday, June 27, 2022.
The foundation asked the town to receive a $13,120 donation from it with the proviso that a corresponding $8,000 grant be given to Amherst Little League Baseball and a $5,120 grant be given to the Cumberland County Military Museum.
What to do with about 50 unclaimed bikes?
That was the question facing the Amherst Police Department after exhaustive searches failed to find the owners of the bikes, some of which came into their possession as far back as 2013.