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Cop gun range angers residents
Enjoying the Wallaceburg Holiday Market
By Pam Wright Local Journalism Initiative pamwrightlji@gmail.com
Pam Wright/The Chatham Voice
Hundreds of people poured into the Wallaceburg core Friday to see the sights and do some Christmas shopping at the Wallaceburg Downtown Holiday Market. Here, Emma Goodreau makes a purchase from Krystle Morrell, owner of Dresden-based Sew Canadian Eh? Morrell said the business is a “pandemic baby” and she’s already finding success.
The Gift collects for the people of C-K By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
On a cool, cloudy November day, the people of Chatham-Kent delivered another Gift. On Saturday, thousands of volunteers picked up
donations of food and toys from front porches across the municipality. It left organizers humbled once again. Brent Wilken, one of those lead organizers, is amazed at the community support.
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“Chatham-Kent’s doing it. We’re the come-together capital of Canada,” he said. “We figured out how to find more people (in need).” As for numbers, Wilken said it’s too early to quantify the community sup-
port, other than to say it was “amazing.” He said it was different than last year, as the inaugural Gift was an emergency response. “But this year, it grew in terms of diversity and inclusion,” Wilken said.
Businesses, service groups, performance organizations, even gym members, showed up to help out. The sorting is still underway and will be for some time.
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For the past five weeks, Mari-Lynn Harper says she and her partner Darcy Smith have been living a nightmare. That’s because Chatham-Kent police officers started using their new shooting range, located just three doors down from the pair’s Dillon Road home. Harper said the sound of constant gunfire is the new norm, sometimes occurring for a 12-hour period, starting around 7 a.m. “It’s horrible,” the Tek Savvy employee said. “My dogs won’t go outside. It sounds like the Gaza Strip.” Harper said she had no idea there was a new gun range going in at the site that’s home to a storage building and dog training. However, Harper’s comments don’t gel with the statements offered by police and the municipality. In a back-and-forth chain of e-mails with Chief Gary Conn – also copied to South Kent municipal councillors and administrators – it states that three neighbouring households were canvassed about the gun range in 2018. Continued on page 4
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