Source: Jennifer Quesnel, CBC News, September 18, 2017
Sight lines to nearby playground obscured by tall grasses, cattails
People who’ve lived in Saskatoon’s Dundonald neighbourhood for years said concerns over a pond where a five-year-old boy drowned last week are nothing new.
“We did go fight it initially,” said Cary Tarasoff.
He said he and his neighbours raised objections before 2005, when the City of Saskatoon turned the drainage channel behind the school into a storm drainage pond.
Image courtesy: ‘The issue is the sight lines, the proximity to the school,’ said John Barton, the former principal at Dundonald School. Up until his retirement in 2009, he remembered city crews regularly mowing the edges of the pond. (Albert Couillard/CBC)
