Dear Editor:
Who'd of thunk it?
It's mid-June and the City of North Vancouver hasn't mowed the grass on our street once yet this season. So I finally decided to complain.
I called the parks department and was told I had the wrong department: I needed to talk to the streets department. "Here we go; 'not my department'," I thought. I was given Al Hudson's name and number and gave him a call.
He explained what an awful season it has been with all the rain and then the warm spell in early May and now more rain . . . and his department is understaffed and overworked.
"Yada, yada, yada," I thought. Two guys for the whole city. "Two guys. Really?! Well, thanks for nothing, Al," I thought again.
Well, my thoughts were wrong; and all my cynicism and skepticism of government was completely unfounded. Within two hours, Al had his crew of two weed-whacking their hearts out on my street.
It's amazing how jaded we've become about government. Maybe - just maybe - we need to allow it to work, and sometimes just nudge it along.
Thanks, Mr. Hudson, for getting the grass mowed on my street, and for restoring my faith in the possibility of responsive government! Somebody get this guy a couple of more workers for the season.
Keith MacKechnie North Vancouver
