The Standard. Wednesday. June 28,1995 Page 15


Playing, talking and just being around children highlight of crossing guards' days.

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"Some of the kids I put on the buses before have kids I put on the buses today," she says with a smile.


Gloria Lemay's six years as a guard- the last four at the corner of Ottawa and Washington ended yesterday.


She is moving to the new subdivision and will have to give up her post.


However, she will take with her the memories, especially one in particular.


"Sliding down the hill in the winter." she says, looking at the slight slope near her comer. "I just join right in."


She says she also likes the fact the children confide in her like they would a friend.


Perhaps the quietest corner in the city is at Ottawa and Lisbon. For now that is.


Richard Sanche helps student cross there, many of them going a few metres from him to Lakeside Public School.


He says there isn't much traffic for him to handle. That is until fall, when College Boreal opens its satellite campus.


Sanche says he did the same job in his hometown of Haileybury until he came here three years ago.


He says he decided to pick up a stop sign again because it is " nice to have something to do, a reason to get up in the morning. "


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Tamra Maitland, the crossing guard at the traffic lights at the Causley Street crossing, goes about her daily business of ensure students cross the busy intersection safely. Maitland is a two-year veteran at the busiest crossing location in town. One of her biggest concerns is the speed at which the traffic whizzes through the intersection.