Street fest draws senior safety concerns

Bruce Allanson was one of many Lennoxville residents who made the trip to the monthly Borough Council Meeting on Tuesday evening to express their concerns. A resident of the Saint Francis Manor on Queen Street, Allanson shared mixed feelings about the way that the annual street festival was organized this year, particularly with regard to the area around the seniors’ residence. While sharing that he and thousands of others enjoyed the day as a whole, the resident explained that it was a source of great anxiety to himself and others in the residence that the two main entrances to the building were blocked, one by a collection of booths and tables, and the other by an immovable stage. “Who in their right mind would have put people in peril like that?” Allanson asked, adding, “there’s no way, unless they dropped it in by helicopter, that any emergency vehicle could have got into that back yard.” See full story in the Thursday, Aug. 29 of The Record.