It’s a disappointment but no more than officials with Royal Canadian Legion Branch 109 in Goderich had expected.
The stretch of Highway 21 between Goderich and Kincardine will not be designated as the Bluewater Veterans’ Memorial Highway in time for Remembrance Day next Tuesday.
Branch President June Pyette says she’s encouraged of a positive outcome now that personnel changes at the Ministry of Transportation are complete.
Pyette says her new MTO contact believes the highway designation drive fell off the radar but that he would ensure it got back on again.
Pyette says the MTO official told her that a rush would be put on the designation.
Pyette says even with that, there’s little hope that the designation could come through before Tuesday.
She says that is a disappointment especially with Branch 109 having worked for more than a year to secure the Bluewater Veterans’ Memorial Highway designation.
Pyette says Branch 109 will now shoot for the designation to come through in time for another observance in the spring.
Pyette says commemoration of the Battle of the Atlantic in early May would also be a fitting time by which to have the designation in hand.
Pyette says having the designation in place by Remembrance Day would have been special because it’s the 90th Anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Branch 109 also has the backing of its Legion comrades in Kincardine as it tries to get Highway 21 dedicated.
