{"id":12765,"date":"2019-11-05T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2019-11-05T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:30:53","slug":"lions-christmas-express-parade-committee-responds-to-negative-parade-route-change-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"Lions Christmas Express Parade committee responds to negative parade route change reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong>\n The Lions Christmas Express Parade volunteer committee has issued the \nfollowing statement in response to negative comments left regarding the \nchange of the parade route for the Dec. 1 parade in Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement was issued to <em>The Laker <\/em>on\n Nov. 4. The parade is set to run from Lockview High to the Fall River \nSobeys; it has traditionally occurred from the LWF Hall to the Sobeys \nmall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are aware some people in our communities are upset by  the route change,\u201d the statement begins. \u201cFor that, we apologize, yet  please remember our top priority is safety. Please know the decision  wasn\u2019t taken lightly and we acted on what we thought was best for all involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Christmas Parade is now a Parade of Lights which poses new concerns and safety issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the reasons for the change include;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1)\n The parking lot at Lockview High School is large enough for parents to \nsafely park and drop their children off directly near their float, \nrather than walking\/running on main roads to find their designated spot,\n unlike our previous Fall River Village location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) The Fall \nRiver Road is a main thoroughfare, therefore having it blocked off for \nan hour has posed problems with both finding volunteers to block the \neight side streets while the parade is en-route, as well as passengers \nneeding to travel it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency vehicles will now be able to \naccess the majority of the road and the off-streets. In short, years \npast we have blocked traffic out of Tamarac Hills, St. Andrew\u2019s West, St\n Andrew\u2019s Village and Kinloch Subdivision which poses concerns and \nproblems with such a growing population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) The 3.4 km walk from the LWF Community Hall to Sobeys is very long and dark one for many, particularly children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4)  90 per cent of spectators are situated from the Gordon R. Snow Centre  to Sobeys. The change will impact some, but not the majority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor those  it does impact, we sincerely apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) There is ample parking at locations very close to the new parade route as well as the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe  hope these few reasons help explain some of the concerns when  organizing a big, public event that attracts lots of excited  participants and spectators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We truly hope you come out on Dec. 1, to  join in this evening of celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: The Lions Christmas Express Parade volunteer committee has issued the following statement in response to negative comments left regarding the change of the parade route for the Dec. 1 parade in Fall River. The statement was issued to The Laker on Nov. 4. The parade is set to run from Lockview High to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2,856,871],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-lions-christmas-express-parade","tag-route-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}