NewsNow E-Edition December 31 2020

> Kadwell flips, Main East HCD scuttled, consultant to be hired /Pg 3 > Region posts tree P/U dates Pg 4 > NewsNow’s Business Boost revived Pg 7 > Grimsby Fire seeks open air burn input Pg 14 Thursday, December 31, 2020 Vol. 9 Issue 37

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Tender process greenlit, but...

Huge cost overrun hits high school project

By Mike Williscraft NewsNow While the provincial government has given the green light to West Niagara’s new secondary school going out for tender, officials may also be awaiting an explanantion for massive cost overruns on the new facility’s site remediation.

Last Wednesday, Dec. 23, Distriact School Board of Niagara (DSBN)

officials - along with Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff - announced the step in the process for the new school to be located on Hwy. 8, just west of Durham Road, a site which was long-known as a brick yard.

The school, which is to replace Grimsby Secondary, Beamsville District and South LIncoln high schools, has been budgeted for $42.5 million, with an additonal $8.7 million

being provided to DSBN in February 2019 for acquiring and preparing the 20-acre site.

Of that, $5 million was budgeted for soil remediation on the site which had extensive contamination.

NewsNow has learned the cost overrun is about $12 million putting the soil remediation costs now coming in at $17 million.

When asked about this item being

overbudget, Kim Sweeney, DSBN’s chief communications officer, confirmed the cost exceeded its budget but stopped there.

“I can confirm that the cost of the remediation exceeded the original budget. This overage was necessary to ensure a clean site for the build.

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From Page 1 Education until Jan. 15, 2021. I can give you that amount at that time,” said Yielding via email.

“Once we get Ministry approval to share these numbers with you, we can discuss the remediation project. Stay tuned for that.”

However, checking with the Ministry of Education, Oosterhoff confirmed Tuesday the embargo had been lifted and any information on the cost overrun can be made public.

As for the facility itself, the proposed build will include a greenhouse feature, which was one of the items noted during the Accommodation Review Committee process.

Another which was mentioned - a theatre facility- is not currently part of the plan. “(There is) no theatre component at this time.

We have to fundraise first, and then we can seek approval to include it in the project,” said Yielding, explaining the threatre feature is now budgeted for $6.8 million.

“Trustees have approved an allocation of $4.4 million to be attributed to the fundraising efforts for WNSS. These funds came from revenue received outside of the Grants for Student Needs, specifically investment income and International Education.”

That leaves $2.4 million to fundraise for the theatre feature.

“Once we start fundraising, we will be able to apply to the Ministry to add the theatre to this project,” said Yielding.

TENDER Regarding the project going to tender, it will go out in January when staff return to the DSBN office. It will be

awarded with a Spring start for construction, said Stacy Veld, DSBN superintendent of business services, during the press conference announcing the tender would proceed.

“This investment will provide a quality learning environment and new opportunities for the children of the West Niagara community,” said Oosterhoff.

DSBN Chair Sue Barnett said the new facility will not come too soon for west end students.

“These students will soon have a brand new, state-of-the-art facility that is designed to provide them with the best education possible,” said Barnett.

“The bottom line is that this school is so important for the West Niagara community, and the futures of our students will be brighter because of it.”

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Grimsby council approves Plan B for Main Street East

By Mike Williscraft NewsNow After one councillor flipped on his initial vote to support a Heritage Conservation District (HCD) Study for Main Street East which killed the initiative at Grimsby’s council meeting Dec. 21, a watered down report which does not adequately protect the community was unanimously approved, claim study proponents.

An HCD, which was requested by the community for Main Street East for several years, was recommended by the Grimsby Heritage Advisory Committee.

“We’re at a fork in the road.

If this does not go, we open ourselves up in a way that the community does not want.

After the vote tonight, I hope the community will remember this night when they vote in 2022,” said Coun. Lianne Vardy.

An HCD was recommended earlier at a Committee of The Whole meeting, but Coun.

Dave Kadwell flipped on his

initial support.

This led to a 4-4 tie with Councillors Kevin Ritchie, John Dunstall and Randy Vaine also voting against.

Coun. Dave Sharpe declared a conflict of interest and did not vote. Councillors Reg Freake, Vardy and Bothwell voted in support of an HCD as well as Mayor Jeff Jordan.

Kadwell’s manoeuvre prompted a “well done, Kadwell” from Vardy, who followed that with an apology immediately after.

“I apologize to Coun.

Kadwell. I thought my mic was off,” said Vardy.

The debate - as has been the pattern with this council - was often heated and confrontational. Many points of order were shouted out stifling much of the discussion.

The recommendations, proposed amendments, varied components and what was permissable prompted a “now I’m confused” from Kadwell.

Dunstall even brought up the defunct hospital corridor

study set in motion by the previous council, of which he was a part. That study was an election issue in 2018 and killing that study was one of the first items this council did.

Proponents of the HCD said the eastern entranceway to town needs to have every bit of heightened heritage protection, especially in light of a seven-storey condo project already having been submitted to town staff for what was called “the DeVries lands.”

The DeVries lands include what is now Cole’s Florist and Cole’s Christmas Cottage, which was sold this fall.

A non-committal response came from director of planning Antonietta Minichillo when she was asked by councillors if it was true a fivestorey parking garage has also been proposed for Main Street East.

There has been “no discussion that has any status” said Minichillo, adding that any proposal would still have to come to council for approval.

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While council initially tasked staff with a tight frame of reference to provide input on the proposed HCD, what they got was a report which proposed a new plan for the area - one in which an HCD may or may not come to fruition.

“I don’t just want a study that says, the consultant is going to look at it and then come back and say if we’ll even do an HCD,” said Bothwell, who noted after the meeting that was exactly what council ended up approving.

At one point Bothwell noted that if an HCD was being put forth by staff as part of their report, why would the initial HCD not have been supported in the first place?

“Staff’s argument for using ‘multiple tools’ could have been supported with the HCD study as a priority tool, and ‘other tools’ supporting it – not the other way around,” said Bothwell after the meeting.

The HCD reconsideration, which had been approved in

the 2020 budget generated an, “It’s Groundhog Day all over again,” from Bothwell.

With the HCD dying as a result of the tied vote, proponents of the HCD study said they had to support the staff report as it was the only option left.

Council approved, in part: “That should Council wish to proceed with an alternate strategy staff recommend the following: a. That staff be directed to proceed with an RFP for the retention of a consulting firm to prepare a comprehensive strategy for the Main Street East Area generally; b. That Council proceed with a Heritage Conservation District, only if it is paired with a more comprehensive land use planning strategy for the Main Street East area generally, as outlined in this report; c. That staff be directed to return to Council with the options set out by the consultant, including a defensible boundary...”

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2020 Ontario Budget Ontario’s Action Plan: Protect, Support, Recover PROTECTING SENIORS

SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES AND STUDENTS

Ontario is proposing new tax relief to help seniors live safely at home longer through the new Seniors’ Home Safety Tax Credit for the 2021 taxation year, providing a 25 per cent credit on eligible renovations of up to $10,000.

The government is supporting students, parents and learners by once again offering one-time payments to parents. Ontario is also leading the nation in school funding for COVID-19 by making $1.3 billion in resources available to school boards.

Ontario will be increasing the average daily direct care for seniors to four hours a day per resident. This will help ensure resident needs are being met and that residents have a higher quality of life. The government is also investing an additional $761 million to build and renovate 74 long-term care homes across the province, including $38,205,194 across Niagara. In Niagara West, Shalom Manor in Grimsby is receiving an additional investment of $13,046,544, helping them build 128 new spaces.

Eligible parents or guardians will receive a one-time payment of $200 for each child up to age 12 and $250 for each child or youth up to age 21 with special needs. Parents can apply for the Support for Learners program at: https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-support-learners

SUPPORT FOR JOB CREATORS AND BUSINESSES

Recent investments in Niagara West include 587 new elementary student spaces with the construction of a new joint elementary school between the District School Board of Niagara and Niagara Catholic District School in Wainfleet, as well as 276 new elementary student spaces and 49 new child care spaces with the construction of an addition to Smith Public School in Grimsby.

Ontario will address the job-killing high costs of electricity, saving mediumsize and larger industrial and commercial employers about 14 and 16 percent respectively, on average, on their electricity bills.

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Ontario is reducing property taxes on job creators and levelling the playing field by lowering high Business Education Tax (BET) rates for over 200,000 employers, or 94 percent of all business properties in Ontario, to a rate of 0.88 per cent.

The government is also ending a tax on jobs for an additional 30,000 employers by making permanent the Employer Health Tax (EHT) exemption increase from $490,000 to $1 million. With this additional relief about 90 percent of employers would pay no EHT, saving them $360 million in 2021–22 that could be reinvested in jobs and growth.

In an historic agreement, the Government of Ontario, in partnership with the federal government, is providing up to $4 billion in urgently needed onetime pandemic assistance to the province’s municipalities.

Locally, in addition to the $31 million received by the Regional Municipality of Niagara and twelve lower tier municipalities in August, MPP Oosterhoff announced an additional $4 million for social services relief funding and additional $17 million for infrastructure, roads, storm sewers and COVID-19 relief.

RURAL BROADBAND WEST LINCOLN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL REBUILD WORK CONTINUES Architecture firms, B+H Architects and mcCallumSather, have been selected as the planning, design and conformance (PDC) team for the eagerly anticipated redevelopment of West Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Infrastructure Ontario and Hamilton Health Sciences have initiated the process to find a design-build team for the project - shortlisted teams will be invited to respond to a request for proposals, or RFP, which is expected to be released mid-2021.

The Ontario government is investing another $680 million to improve broadband and cellular access across the province, particularly in rural and remote communities, including Niagara West.

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“I hope this helps illustrate the facts about the changes the government is making. As always, you are encouraged to contact my office for any assistance you may require.”

Business Boost revived

In an attempt to help our local merchants and restaurateurs, NewsNow will revive its Business Boost (BB) feature for the Jan. 7 edition.

BB was first launched in April 2019 to allow any Niagara West bricks and mortar retailers or restaurants to get a free listing hitting NewsNow’s 27,000-plus homes.

“We need to do anything we can to help these businesses survive and this is our small part,” said NewsNow publisher Mike Williscraft.

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May your Christmas and the New Year deliver an abundance of health, happiness and good fortune to you and the ones you love.

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By Tristan Marks NewsNow This year’s Toonies for Toys campaign was a great success, despite the cancellation of the Smithville Santa Claus Parade.

Businesses and community organizations raised more than $5,000 from late Nov. to early Dec. It even surpassed last year’s total and this year’s goal of $3,600.

West Lincoln Chamber of Commerce executive director Denise Potter said her organization grateful for the support businesses gave to program.

“On behalf of our West Lincoln Chamber’s Board of Directors and myself, we would like to thank all the businesses and

the community for extending such incredible generosity, especially during these challenging times, towards our campaign to help these families,” said Potter.

“Not only did we receive some wonderful corporate donations but many of our Toonie bottles we had in our local businesses throughout this campaign, were just about filled to the top with coin and pa-

per money from our community and businesses.”

Money raised through the Toonies for Toys Program went to support West Lincoln Community Care and helped to buy toys gifts and food for the food bank’s Christmas program.

Notable contributions included a $1000 donation from the Kiwanis of West Lincoln.

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& A Message of Hope for 2021 On behalf of Town of Lincoln Council, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I’m pleased to share one of the winning pieces of art from the Children’s Christmas Card competition. We received so many lovely entries which we have posted recently on our Town of Lincoln Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Please take a look if you haven’t already done so. Thank you to everyone who participated by sharing your artistic talents and festive cheer.

Heartfelt thanks also to everyone who helped make Lincoln’s 50th anniversary so special despite the challenges we’ve faced. Together, we will overcome the pandemic and look forward to a brighter year ahead.

Lincoln continues to be a leader in Niagara, thanks in part to our robust and growing economy and our high quality of life. As a Council, we have set an intention for 2021 to make Lincoln the best place in Niagara to grow, prosper and belong.

All the very best to each and every one of you for a safe and joyful holiday season.

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Make 2021 a wonderful year Most of us would agree that it will be wonderful to say Goodbye to 2020.

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Here at Maplecrest Retirement Village, we have been looked after very well.

In the interests of all of us here, we have been living under restrictions that cut us off from family and friends. No visitors at this time, and if we go off the property for any purpose other than a medical appointment, we endure 14 days of isolation when we return.

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Thanks for brightening our year with your support and friendship.

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As we all find new ways to celebrate this holiday season, we wish you joy, peace, and hope.

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current open air fire bylaws and it wants to hear from the public.

Starting next week, Grimsby residents will have the opportunity to partake in a survey and send their opinion on the current bylaw and licensing regimen.

The survey will be open online from Jan. 4-Feb. 15. The Fire Department will make the link available once the survey is ready to go.

The survey can also be conducted by callin for those who opt to not complete the online survey.

Fire prevention offi-

cer Jason Mottershead said his department is interested in gauging just how much public support exists for changing the bylaw.

“We’re going to see if people are in favour of changing this,” said Mottershead.

“However, we also want to keep the Town safe.”

As it stands, the Town does not permit any open air burns below the escarpment.

Farmers require a permit, residents above the escarpment or below that meet the requirements of the current

bylaw are permitted to have an open air fire without a permit.

One can apply for such a permit online at Grimsby.ca.

An open air fire refers to any fire that is conducted outside a building or structure, with some exceptions for industrial and manufacturing purposes.

The fire department will take the community feedback gathered through this survey into consideration as they prepare a review on the current bylaw to be submitted to Town Council later in 2021.

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NRP continues holiday RIDE program in Niagara Saturday, Dec. 19, members of the Niagara Regional Police conducted R.I.D.E. spot checks within the Township of West Lincoln.

Throughout the night, officers stopped approximately 500 vehicles and inquired if

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She is survived by her loving mother Muriel June Belanger (Ashton) and the late Joseph Gilbert Belanger. Cherished mother to Dawn (Clayton) and step-mother to William. She will be dearly missed by her sisters Joanne Wicks, Shirley (Dave) Young, Patricia Cyopick and Georgette Belanger (Kevin Russell). Cherished sister in law to Dave (Kim) Thorogood, Nancy (Greg) Korchynski, Donna Thorogood and the late Dan Thorogood.

Loving grandmother to Keirsten, Riley, Devyn and Drayke. She is survived by and will be missed by many nieces and nephews, as well as many close friends. Phyllis will be missed beyond measure by her loving husband of 24 years Darryl. Together they created a lifetime of cherished memories that included fishing, camping and traveling, making each and everyday count. The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the nurses and staff at the Juravinski Hospital, especially Dr. Tozer who was with Phyllis every step of this journey. Your care and compassion has been appreciated and has brought great comfort to Phyllis and her family. As per Phyllis’ wishes there will be no visitation or service and cremation has taken place. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Juravinski Cancer Centre.

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HCD study had next to zero chance For anyone who saw Grimsby’s Committee of The Whole meeting of Oct. 12 - where Coun. Dave Kadwell voted to support the proposed heritage conservation district study for Main Street East - there could be no surprise when he flipped his vote at the Dec. 21 meeting of council.

One could feel the air being sucked out of the proverbial room by fellow Grimsby 5ers - Ritchie, Dunstall and Vaine (Sharpe was on the bench for that one due to a declared conflict of interest) when Kadwell first gave his nod in support. From that time on, his flip was expected and came to fruition last week.

It is all about control, from the five on council who strategize to control key issues to staff who set the ball on the tee so they can swing away.

As of today (Thursday, Dec. 31), we’ll be 662 days away from the next municipal election. Tick, tick, tick. M.W.

High school build problems easily foreseen Before I get into the serious problems with the new Niagara West high school build, I would just like to note Grimsby is 3-4 more ridiculous moves away by the Grimsby 5 from ensuring Main Street East turns in Winston Road East.

A seven-storey condo in the works already, a fivestorey parking building discussed, but apparently nothing formal as yet and now the heritage conservation study gets delayed, if it happens at all. ******* Now, everybody and their brother was aware that the site planned for the new Niagara West high school - on Hwy. 8 just west of Durham Road - was contaminated.

Everybody also knew the District School Board of Niagara had precious few options when it came to sourcing a site for the new facility.

So when it was announced that location had been purchased for the facility which will house more than 1,500 students from Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln after each community’s long-time schools have been closed, all knew a ton of work would be needed.

Clearly that has come to pass with news coming to me last week that the tab for remediation of the soil at the new site has come in far over triple its initial $5 million budget, settling at about $17 million.

This whole thing was on a fast track to nowhere from the get-go, now this budget being so far out of whack only proves what most Niagara West residents knew all along, namely: • DSBN should have properly conducted ongoing renovations to the three local schools instead of letting them deteriorate to the

MIKE WILLISCRAFT point where they needed (according to DSBN figures released during the Accommodation Review Committee process) about $49 million in repairs and renovation to get them up to par; • If programming had not been reconfigured so as to push students away from the three public high schools through class limitations and major declines in the student environments, student populations would have been much more healthy when the ARC process was conducted, and; • Skyrocketing development in Niagara West would make school board student projection at the time (Dec.-Jan 2016/17 was when the ARC process unfolded) obsolete.

All that fell on deaf ears and here we are.

The whole new build was budgeted for $42 million.

Site acquisition and remediation was budgeted for $8.7 million.

So, the combined budgeted cost was $50.5 million.

Now with the remediation overrun, that jumps to $62.5 million with the tender just going out and the shovel months away from going into the ground.

This whole thing was a mistake from the start but systematic of how school boards operate anymore.

Schools, which are absolutely intrinsic to the fabric of communities are sacrificed all the time in the name of what school board officials deem educational improvements.

If all three schools could have been brought right up to speed - after being ignored for years - for $49 million, the DSBN could have used the $13.5 million left from its new build expense to ramp up the old facilities even more.

And I don’t want throw West Lincoln under the bus - but even if South Lincoln was closed and those kids were bussed to Grimsby Secondary or Beamsville District - repairs to that school could have saved another chunk of millions to make preserving the other two institutions at the heart of their respective communities even more financially viable.

But no, water under the bridge all in the name of progress.

Yes, the new school will be shiny and pretty and have some bells and whistles, but not all the bells and whistles waved around like carrots during the ARC process.

Some took the bait on those, forgetting everything still has to be paid for.

At a time when the provincial government is crying for money, they could have had two rebuilt schools in Grimsby and Beamsville, geared up for student growth AND saved $20 million....and counting.

What really stinks is all this could be foreseen right from the start. Many times in this space over the last four years, these points were made, but the machine was too big and too powerful to listen or respect the concerns of those who voiced opposing opinions.

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Ontario Street Beamsville needs council’s attention Dear Editor, Letters were sent to Lincoln’s mayor, council and Reg. Coun. Robert Foster in August regarding our concerns for Ontario St. and printed in NewsNow Sept. 17.

As of this date above no reply has been had except for me calling the Town office to see if letters had been received.

I was told by the mayor’s assistant, yes, but most just were signed no return addresses (mine had both) and that they would be looked at. That was over four months ago.

A motion from 2019 was left under the rug of our door step but that doesn’t cut it.

Do you have any concerns about us residents of Ontario Street at all?

You have allowed another business to come in - and a gas station at that - right beside a bakery and who knows what goes with this.

That sure did not take

long to approve. Another gas station on Ontario and, really, at that location?

We need more policing to stop the speeding and the loud exhaust pipes. We need the dump trucks and transports to be diverted to Bartlett Road which, by the way Mr. Foster, has been nothing but industrial businesses at both ends for a very long time.

Therefore, we see no reason why all trucks cannot be diverted to use Bartlett.

Another beef - it would nice to receive some notice as to construction issues in front of our houses the day before the construction is done. I arrived home Dec. 21 and was not able to get in my driveway. Construction was hooking up the new gas station. Again, that was quick.

It started at 6:30

a.m. and they were still there the next day. It should have been in front of your homes.

Notice was all we would have wanted.

Time for you to step up to the plate Town and Region and listen to us. We pay our taxes and have lived here for a long time. Now show us what we put you in office for.

Residents of Ontario Street, call your councillors daily if you must Dianne Rintjiema, 905-563-2799, ext.

309 or Adam Russell same number but ext.

307.

Also regional Robert Foster 905-563-7219.

The man in charge of safety for our road apparently is Peter Zujick 905-980-6000.

Maybe we could get back to our neighbourhood not racetrack.

Our concerns need to be put on your priority list now. Residents and Businesses are not happy.

Sharon Jones and Clyde Kent

Dear Editor, Looking for a correction in your article (Dec. 17 edition).

What I said on social media was: “Get your Christmas shopping done early, and make sure you have enough toilet paper to last you the holidays, because Niagara could be heading into the Red-Control stage of Ontario’s Frame-

work for reopening.”

The subject was clearly getting your Christmas shopping done early and the toilet paper was secondary and a little bit of light hearted humour.

But your paper states that I’m urging residents to stock up on toilet paper, which is a misrepresentation and you know it.

If people are stock-

ing up on toilet paper, then it’s not caused by a local councillor’s touch of humour on his Facebook post.

It is caused by provincial regulations, lack of, or at least lack of clarity, consistency, etc.

You owe me an apology for that one.

Merry Christmas, Dave Sharpe (Councillor Grimsby, Ward 4)

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