HANLEY—Members of Hanley Senior Citizens club have a simple way to help strangers find their way around town.
When someone stops and asks for directions, they tell the stranger to follow them.
It’s easier to guide them to their destination than try to explain how to find a specific address.
This confusion could soon be cleared up.
The town of Hanley is looking at changing some civic addresses to make it easier for emergency services to find people in town.
Recent updates to the Provincial Civic Address Registry and the SASKPA911, the service that dispatches emergency services to the town, has prompted towns such as Hanley to update their civic addresses. Not all the town’s addresses are registered, so in the case of an emergency, it may be difficult or impossible for personnel unfamiliar with the town to locate people in distress.
Changes the town intends to make include switching some streets to avenues.
“The north-south streets are all correct, but there are a few streets that should be called avenues,” Darice Carlson, Hanley’s administrator, said.
These would be Walter Scott, Canada, Garfield, Lincoln and Grant streets. These streets are already registered with Information Services Corporation as avenues, however, back in 1984 Hanley town council made a bylaw calling them streets causing the confusion.
Another perplexing area in town is Canada and Walter Scott street. Despite the two different names, they are both the same street (that is supposed to be an avenue). At the intersection of 2nd Street, turn one way and you’re on Canada Street, turn the opposite direction, then it becomes Walter Scott Street.
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