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Up Front Mountainview hosts concert
Mountainview Christian Reformed Church will host an Easter concert Saturday night. Tickets are $15 each or $35/family and available at the Dutch Shop or at the door. Proceeds to McNally Hospice. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
Seniors events planned
Grimsby Seniors Club will host its speaker series presentation next Monday, March 25 at 1:30 at the Livingston Activity Centre. Patient care manager at the LHIN, Tami McCallum, will make a presentation. There is no cost. Later Monday evening, Lincoln’s Seniors Club will host its potluck at the Lincoln Center starting at 5:45 p.m. Visitors can bring one large dish to share along with their own plate, cup and cutlery.
Garden Club meeting Monday
Grimsby Garden Club will host guest speak Victoria Bick at its regular meeting on Monday night, March 25, starting at 7 p.m. Bick will discuss, “A Little Paradise Unto Itself - Dundurn Castle’s Kitchen Garden”. Coffee and treats will also be available.
Next!
Grimsby Peach Kings put away a stubborn Glanbrook Rangers squad on Sunday to move onto the third round of the Jr. C playoffs and a Game 1 vs Wellesley Applejacks at the Peach
King Centre on Wednesday (March 20). Game 2 is also at PKC this Friday- both start at 8 p.m. For full details on the series win and all the next round’s games, please turn to Page 13.
Subpoenas, legal letters, a “bullet” dodged Just another week in the fallout of Grimsby Energy’s biodigester By Mike Williscraft NewsNow As has been the rule rather than the exception, bad news reigned supreme during the latest council update into Grimsby Energy’s failing biodigester project. GE chair Delight Davoli informed council on all aspects of the operation from production to potential sale to significant administrative issues unearthed over weeks and months of research. Two former members of council who also were board members have been served with subpoenas to appear before the La-
bour Board to provide information on administrative matters regarding the operation, Davoli said. The hearing was scheduled for this week in Toronto. As well, Davoli noted that a former member of council, “was encouraging a potential purchaser to break the non-disclosure agreement and tell what was going on” with the process. “A letter will be going out to ask this person to cease and desist,” said Davoli. While there is very little information to go on with the vast majority of meeting min-
utes non-existent at this point, some small pieces in the puzzle of how the project got into its current state have been found. For example, while registered letters have been sent to all board members requesting any past minutes, only three replies have come back stating they had none. Going through the board recording secretary, Davoli and her team were able to get minutes from September and October last year which provided some interesting and troubling information, she noted. “That board knew in September it was in See UPDATE, Page 3