Birthday card’s nice, but IT'S NOT that Betty Demmilt dislikes the birthday cards she and other seniors get each year from the city coun-- cil. clearing driveways is better It’s just that she feels the money could be better spent = on snow plowing - Specifically not having city equip- ment plug up seniors’ driveways while clearing streets. “There's a lot of people not as agile as I am. 1 don’t know how they make out,” said Demmitt last week. , Demmitt, 77, may be agile but removing the snow blocking her driveway Tast week caused her to strain her . right arm. “Tf couldn’ t throw horseshoes anymore, I'd be really put out,” said; Demmitt who takes part in horseshoe, competitions at annual B.C, Seniors Games events. . The worst. snow is the compacted, wet variety be- cause of its weight, she said. After Demmitt strained her arm, a neighbour came over with a snowblower and cleaned out her driveway. “When you're younger, it’ may be OK, but not any- more,” said Demmitt who has lived in Terrace for 47 : years, “not just myself.” Demmitt and her husband, Gail, owned B and G Gro- cery for 28 years. Aside from keeping in shape throwing horseshoes, Demmitt also cycled from the Queen Charlotte Islands to Saskatchewan when she was 65. The city’s snowclearing policy is quite clear, when it comes to plugged driveways. “To ensure timely and cost effective snow plowing on streets, windrows across driveways will not be. removed by city crews,” states a policy adopted in 1996. °°" | “So that’s why I’m doing this. It’s for all the seniors, . SENIOR BETTY DEMMITT keeps in shape by throwing horseshoes but shovelling her driveway af-- ter city crews clear roads is proving too much. 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