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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Vol. 7 Edition 47
Trust gives $1M for trees, cover
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Walk to end the violence
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
The Ridge Landfill Community Trust recently pledged $1 million to increase tree cover in Chatham-Kent, specifically in South Kent. The trust will provide the cash, while the municipality and the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority (LTVCA) have partnered to get the job done. The funds are to be used over a 10-year period to create added forest cover, wetlands and grasslands habitat. Randall Van Wagner, manager, conservation lands and services with the LTVCA, said the funds could be utilized to enhance and create buffer strips along municipal drains and create windbreaks. The buffer strips could be grassland habitat rather than trees. “Trees aren’t always the best solution along the edges of municipal drains,” he said. Van Wagner said the funds will be spent exclusively in South Kent.
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Participants at the Zonta Says No To Violence Against Women rally on Nov. 25 were joined this year by OPP and Chatham-Kent police along the Third Street Bridge to help raise awareness about gender-based violence and to help end it. In its seventh year, demonstrators dressed in purple and orange spent a half hour walking along the bridge during the high traffic lunch hour to bring light to the worldwide issue of violence against women.
Nicholls seeks to repeal pit bull ban By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Local MPP Rick Nicholls defended his Private Members Bill to repeal the law that bans pit bulls in Ontario. The bill passed sec-
ond reading Nov. 21 at Queen’s Park. Nicholls said he’s received feedback for and against his bill and he reasserted he’s doing the right thing. Pit bulls were banned in this province in 2005 by
the then Liberal government. It remains the only breed-specific legislation in any province in the country. “Let’s face it, this pit bull ban was put in place because in 2004 a Toronto man was attacked by two
pit bulls,” Nicholls said. “The Attorney General, without any hard evidence, pushed through breed-specific legislation.” He added pit bulls have a bad reputation, and one he said is unjustified.
“We’re going after the wrong end of the leash,” he said. “You have irresponsible owners.” He said the dogs aren’t at fault. “Why are they vicious? Is it in their DNA?”
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