In an interview earlier this week, Jasmine Flemming responded to a query from The Laker News about the tree cutting that was taking place. Some of the cutting saw large parts of the debris go onto the road and not be cleaned up, thus the motoring public was forced to drive over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other instances debris from the tree cutting flew into neighbouring yards, near homes and vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are working closely with the project\u2019s contractor to rectify the problem,\u201d said Flemming on Jan. 16. \u201cWe apologize to local residents and the traveling public for the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several residents took to local community pages on Facebook to voice their concern over what they termed \u201ca mess\u201d and \u201can accident waiting to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flemming said the work is part of a clearing contract that was tendered by the province this past summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe clearing will improve visibility and sight lines along this section of the roadway,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MLA and Advanced Education Minister Brian Wong saw the issue arose from the posts on social media and took a drive to check it out for himself. He made a post on his Facebook page on the issue, with photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n She explained what might have been the cause for some of the debris landing in neighbouring yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHigh winds over the weekend contributed to a lot of flying debris,\u201d said Flemming. \u201cThe contractor temporarily shut down cutting operations to focus solely on clearing the roadway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flemming said all clearing projects led by the province always require debris to be continuously removed from roadways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic Works will continue monitoring daily activities at this site to make sure the issue doesn\u2019t persist,\u201d said Flemming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”169″] GRAND LAKE\/OAKFIELD: The Department of Public Works said it was aware of the debris that was strewn across part of Hwy 2 in Grand Lake and Oakfield during tree cutting. In an interview earlier this week, Jasmine Flemming responded to a query from The Laker News about the tree cutting that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2803,3069,381,2788,33,4494],"class_list":["post-33727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-advanced-education-minister-brian-wong","tag-department-of-public-works","tag-grand-lake","tag-mla-brian-wong","tag-oakfield","tag-tree-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727","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=33727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/324674575_705304367656692_1473980035425198036_n-e1674090230118-1024x843.jpg\")