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Even brutally cold winds couldn’t stop Mark Grosicki and his dog Romi from playtime Sunday at the dog park in Wallaceburg. The pair had the park to themselves, thanks to the weather.
Tipsters heading online for Crime Stoppers By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
The tips just keep rolling in for Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers, only how they get to the organiza-
tion is changing rapidly. Dave Bakker, outgoing co-ordinator for C-K Crime Stoppers, said the phone isn’t ringing as often these days, because online tips now make up
about 60 per cent of their incoming information drops. “The one trend we’re seeing in the office is that we’re seeing more and more people using the on-
line tip process,” he said. “The number of phone calls is going down. But we still consider the online tips to be good tips just like calling in.” People can use the Crime
Stoppers app to make a tip and possibly earn as much as $2,000, or they can go to the website crime-stoppers.on.ca to click in a tip as well.
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In 2021 more U-Haul trucks headed in to Chatham-Kent rather than out. That’s good news for the municipality. According to customer data analyzed by the moving company giant, last year’s stats ranked Chatham-Kent in 13th place of the highest growth cities across Canada. According to the U-Haul Western Ontario president David Anstett, it’s no secret Chatham-Kent is a great place to live. “It’s a beautiful area with a low cost of living,” Anstett said in a recent interview, adding people enjoy the slower pace, quality of life and the absence of traffic congestion. Anstett said the influx of people into Chatham-Kent began slowly about a decade ago with retirees choosing to relocate here. Now, he said, people with good-paying jobs and families, able to work from home, are moving into the municipality. Anstett said the new residents – primarily from the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton – are a silver lining of COVID-19.
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