TRURO - Thelma Strong has a new "no turning" sign.
And this one will be cemented into the ground to help prevent sticky fingers from carrying it away, as someone did with her previous sign.
"It just goes to show that there are some people in Truro who care about other people," Strong said, as she accepted a new, aluminum sign from Sid Lively, owner of Sid Sells Signs on the Esplanade.
Strong, who lives beside the railroad tracks on Queen Street, has had a long-standing problem with people turning in her driveway while waiting for slow-moving trains to pass through the crossing.
To help ease the problem, her son had a no-turning sign made up, which he gave to her for Mother's Day last year. Several weeks ago, however, the sign was stolen and Strong made an appeal to Truro Daily New readers in an effort to have the sign returned.
When Lively read the story, he decided to make a new sign, valued at about $65, to donate to Strong.
"I think it's fabulous," she said, upon receiving the sign Friday morning. "It's kind of him to do that ... I appreciate it."
For his part, Lively said he simply wanted to help right a wrong after Strong's sign was stolen.
"I just felt we should do something," he said.
Strong would prefer if she didn't require a sign at all, but after 20 years of having people turning in her driveway, sometimes damaging her property in the process, she doesn't know what else to do.
"You shouldn't have to put signs up to tell people to stay off your property," she said. "People should know better."
