(A Brief Foreword Note from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper – What can one say. Joe Mellen, a 33-year-old Niagara, Ontario police officer who works to keep our streets safe, dies early this August 8th morning on his way home from a night shift to his family, including his five and seven year old children.
Nagara Regional Police Officer Joe Mellen
It occurred on a section of the Hwy. 406 in the Welland area that is still under construction from the old two to four lanes. This construction area, to no fault of the Rankin Construction contractors that is working to make the four alanes a reality as soon as possible, involves periodic re-routes of chains that has left this reporter avoiding it many times after dark. Let’s hope that this four-laming of the 406 up to Welland’s Main Street is completed as soon as possible, as it might have more than four decades ago had the narrow parochialism of Welland politicians at the time, who never wanted this highway built in the first place because it might cause more Wellanders to shop at plazas in St. Catharines, not stood in the way.)
From the Office of Welland Riding MPP Cindy Forster
Welland, Ontario, August 8th, 2014 – Statement by Welland MPP Cindy Forster on the death of Constable Joe Mellen Jr. of the Niagara Regional Police Service:
“I want to extend my sincerest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Constable Joe Mellen Jr. of the Niagara Regional Police Service who was killed in a motor vehicle collision that left another person in critical condition in the City of Welland.
Joe Mellen Jr. was a resident of Welland and I join with fellow residents and neighbours in mourning the tragic loss of this young officer.”
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