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Colleen and James Gallant will be getting their wish — rainbow crosswalks in the Town of Stephenville.

The operators of Killick Café, located at the corner of Main and West Streets, asked the town to consider painting two crosswalks at that location, one spanning across Main Street and the other across West Street in front of Stephenville Primary and Elementary Schools.

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Council passed a motion to have those two crosswalks painted and, in addition, two others painted in the rainbow colours at the intersections of Main Street and Queen Street as part of Pride Week 2018.

Deputy Mayor Susan Fowlow said the Main and Queen Streets area was chosen as the second location because of its central locale in the town.

While they are being done leading up to Pride Week, Mayor Tom Rose said they will be permanent and they will have the standard white stripes on the edging to indicate they are crosswalks.

He feels the town is making a significant statement by putting those four crosswalks in and that it’s an indication of how far we have come as a society when it wasn’t that many years ago that people were being scorned and some even killed because of their same sex preference.

“I really like the rainbow, especially when you think of how kids love colours and having them near schools will reflect the importance of inclusion.”