Crossing guards greet students on first day back to school
By
Bill Kaufmann, Calgary Sun
When Calgarian Jack O’Neill shepherded classmates as one of Alberta’s
first school patrollers, he kept watch for horse-drawn vehicles.
But one of the select pioneering few has now grown to 16,000
province-wide — 7,000 in Calgary — and has kept their crosswalks
fatality-free over 75 years.
“It’s really worked out well — I hope they keep it up,” said O’Neill,
82, who was on hand to greet current patrollers at Cambrian Heights
elementary, 640 Northmount Dr. N.W. on Tuesday as more than 150,000
Calgary students returned to school.
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