A volunteer team from the East Coast is out West.
24 Red
Cross volunteers are in flood-ravaged Alberta, helping with the flood
relief effort on the ground. The 22 disaster volunteers and two staff
who have traveled to the province will help run emergency shelters in
the Calgary area and other evacuated areas.
Meanwhile,
a much larger group continues to help flood victims from offices
located in Darmouth and Sydney, Nova Scotia, St. John's, Newfoundland
and Labrador, and here in Saint John. The support will continue through
the Canada Day long weekend and likely all of the following week.
The
volunteers from New Brunswick now in Alberta are: Catherine Vautour from
Bronson Settlement, Gail Brownlee from Moncton, Glen Martin from Lower
Kingsclear, Jeanette Miller from Oromocto, Julie Basterache from
Jardineville, Lindsay Mitton from Moncton, and Renée Cormier from
Shediac.
Saint John police are looking for a suspect who fled the scene of a fiery car crash on the causeway which sent a woman to hospital.
At 5pm
yesterday, a car speeding on the eastern part of the causeway veered out
into oncoming traffic, then swerved back, hitting another car. Both
vehicles were pushed into the guardrail and the suspect's car burst into
flames.
Police say the suspect then fled the scene on foot, and the woman in the other vehicle was brought to hospital with injuries.
Long
weekends are made for kicking back and relaxing, except when you hit the
roadway. The RCMP say on holiday weekends, there's a lot of traffic on
the roadways, so they're reminding drivers to obey the rules of the
road.
The
minimum you'll have to shell out for a violation under the provincial
Motor Vehicle Act is $172.50, and you can lose demerit points. Constable
Derek Black of the Oromocto RCMP says depending on the type of
infraction, fines can increase. Fines for speeding can go up to nearly
$292.50 when a car is going more than 25 kilometres an hour above the
speed limit, and fines double when speeding in a construction zone.
Here's a list of the most common infractions seen by the Oromocto RCMP:
-Failing to have a front license plate displayed on a vehicle
-Not being able to produce upon request from a police officer an insurance card, drivers license, vehicle registration
-Having a vehicle with tinted windows that prevent more than 30% of light to enter the vehicle
-Passing on a solid line
-Failing
to wear a seatbelt, both the driver and any passenger over the age of
16 can receive a ticket. It’s also the responsibility of drivers' to
ensure that children are buckled up.
