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Going into Wednesday night’s Game 4 in Wellesley up 2-1 in the series, the Grimsby Peach Kings will return home for Game 5 Friday night at 8 p.m. Parking and a shuttle from Blessed Trinity’s parking lot have been planned for what is sure to be a packed house.

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The Jeff McKillop Memorial Fund, in connection with Niagara United, will bring MAPS (Mental Health Awareness Peer Support) meetings to West Niagara starting next Thursday, April 4. Meetings will be held at the Grimsby Pumphouse from 7-9 p.m. “The meetings will be a safe, supportive and non-judgmental place to gather and work on us,” said organizer Jenn McKillop.

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Jordan Lions Club hosts its annual wild game dinner Friday, April 5 at 6 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church in Jordan. Bison ribs, wild boar stew, cultured duck breast and venison are all on the menu. Tickets are $50pp. Call Ray, 289-237-0593, for tickets. It will sell out!

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5.63% tax hike a “great” budget, says Mayor Bylsma By Mike Williscraft NewsNow West Lincoln Twp. council approved a 5.63 per cent tax increase to ratepayers Monday night. The impact is $67 for each home with an average assessed value of $364,000. The move, according to Mayor Dave Bylsma took care of some long overdue infrastructure issues as well as some unexpected expenses, while looking ahead. Rural road and bridge repair has been a longstanding sore point for many. Four bridges are slated for updating this year, two of those were supposed to be done in 2018, but were bumped. Other new costs include IT/maintenance, a customer service/

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tax increase. The increase on the Town portion of the tax bill will translate into $74.44 on an average assessed home of $380,000. Among the key expenditures: • $1 million will be directed

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From Page 1 new technology upgrades and outdated IT systems and software, and; • $912,000 approved for additional upgrades and repairs to fire department buildings and equipment. “This budget was very difficult to produce but it is fiscally responsible. I promise that this council will incorporate progressive changes and best practices in The

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From Page 1 In terms of any other unexpected suprises, Bylsma said the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund contribution came in at $915,000, from $954,000, “so some downloading happened there,” he added. On the upside, Bylsma said a strategic plan is in the works to review how best to use provincial and

federal windfall monies, $725,000 and $400,000 respectively. “I’m pleased with the work that staff put into this document. It reflects balance and responsibility to meet current and future needs of WL,” said Bylsma, noting the township would have been in a surplus budget if not for the additional five per cent obligation of the WLCC.

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With lots of love from your family! Joanne, Doug & Suzanne, Kelly; grandchildren Jessica & Jordan, Mitchell & Leona, Jeffrey & Jenn, Alex & Allyssa, Joel & Ashley; great-grandchildren Jacob, Mason and Everett… with many more on the way!

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ALL CLAIMS against the Estate of PHYLLIS DIANE BREWSTER, late of Grimsby, Ontario, who died on November 7, 2018, must be filed with the undersigned by June 30, 2019. Thereafter the assets of the Estate will be distributed having regard only to those claims then filed. Dated March 8, 2019

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The Butcher & Banker Pub owner Sharon Meikle and her team ran a draw for a trip to The Masters in support of Community Care of West Niagara this month. The winner, not a huge golf fan, opted to take a cash payout of $2,500. On hand for the presentation of $6,625 in funds raised to CCWN were : (L to R) Lynda O’Donnell and Carole Fuhrer of CCWN, prize winner Rob Zwierschke and Sharon Meikle.

Casablanca EA review a good idea So the Grimsby GO station has been in a holding pattern for months now while a private/public partnership is developed for the site’s construction. Time for Metrolinx to get moving there. Meanwhile, the Casablanca EA has come out. It was a good idea to request a presentation to Grimsby council to work through the detail of that document as it is pivotal to longterm “success” of that project. Sure, GO in town would be a nice perk, but it is important to keep an eye to not sacrificing safety - pedestrian, vehicular and cyclist - to stuff that facility in there. On that line, the good old Livingston extension, the option nobody in town wanted save for maybe three families. It’s in the EA and, as Planning Committee chair, Coun. Dorothy Bothwell noted, “may be premature”, particularly since the GO layout will have to be redone from initial plans. M.W.

Budget pain, and REAL pain There are a lot of things I know, but far more I do not. Among the things I count as filed away in my noggin – and it not something I would wish on my worst enemy - is a firm understanding of pain related to ulnar nerve trauma. As I say listening to Sydney Gill rattle through the condition she has (see facing page) and the procedures attempted to alleviate her pain, it was easy to see the effect it has had on her. I’ve known this girl since she was a tot attending Trail Ridge Montessori with my son – a happy, bubbly and opinionated young lady. I do hope the happy and bubbly will resurface once this is malady is dealt with. Through our conversation, she touched on the ulnar nerve as one of her issues. You do not want to be touching on the ulnar nerve, I can tell you. As she spoke the words, I could feel sympathetic pain in my elbow with an echo down my right leg. For those of you out in newspaper reader land, you may recall story of getting run over by a cab in Ottawa what feels like forever ago. Aside from a second concussion, my right elbow was trashed with an exposed ulnar nerve as part of the fallout. This got pinched several times before I even realized what was going on and sought medical attention. It took visits to four specialists who could not figure it out until one doc at McMaster just happened by with students in tow. Thirty seconds of rotating my hand, palm down, on a table with ultra sound analyzing and he spotted the exposure point. Complete fluke. While Sydney was describing fruitless analyses and surgeries which did

MIKE WILLISCRAFT nothing, I could relate to that as well. While not getting a proper diagnosis or treatment is a bother, the pain of pinched or crushed nerves is unbearable. As I say, I have know the Sydney and the family for years, but I was not aware of her condition until Bryan Macaulay at Village Studio let me know and Simon Duong, one of the Grimsby Peach Kings owners ran a 50/50 on her behalf last week. I told her dad, David, if anything is on the go to help out let me know and I will be glad to help. Same for the general public...if anyone is going to attempt to help out, let me know, I will do what I can. Sydney will head off to Boston for her surgery in May and every bit of luck is wished for her. ••••••• Budget time...always a favourite of taxpayers. The first go round for three new councils in Niagara West and two were left to deal with fallout from decisions and landmines left by their predecessors. West Lincoln finally got some attention paid to its rural areas which had been largely shuffled to the back of the funding bus in recent years.

Mayor Dave Bylsma and his team managed to get several major rural projects in the works for 2019, plan for future programming, add additional staff and keep things to a 5.63 per cent tax increase - with five per cent of that being MURS (now WLCC, West Lincoln Community Centre) funding. I didn’t think there was any way Grimsby would be able to keep their increase below 10 per cent, but they managed it. Coming in at a projected 8.97 per cent - it will be formally passed next Monday at council - Grimsby has several major financial problems of which they need to get in front. The two big ones, which will remain hanging around for some time, are the fallout from the biodigester and the Town’s commitment to the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital rebuild. A previous council committed over $2 million in support for a new WLMH but nothing was done to set up a reserve to accumulate the money, so whatever council is in power when the shovel hits the ground gets hit with that. I would have added 2.5 per cent to start with $250,000 in reserves... It is going to come, so the impact would be softened a little. I am quite sure council was staring at that 10 per cent and wanting to keep it under that barrier. Having read all the reports, knowing where they started and going through a five-hour committee-of-thewhole meeting last week Grimsby sure turned over every stone to keep the pencil as sharp as possible. This council really needed this exercise to create a firm grasp of all aspects needed to make the town hum.

Third times a charm - hopefully - for Sydney By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Sydney Gill is just like other 19-year-olds – she has goals, ambitions and drive. The key difference is Sydney has a condition which keeps her in a constant state of major pain, rendering even the most simple tasks impossible at times. The pain actually started to flare up when she was nine years old, but was magnified after a fall when riding a pony through jumping exercises. When the pain on her right side vastly outdistanced the break in her collar bone on her left side, doctors knew something serious was amiss. What it proved to be was Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome – a disease whereby the nerves in the upper brachial plexus (neck) are compressed, resulting in nerve pain. Since this diagnosis, Sydney has endured three surgeries, none remotely successful. Now, her sole option is a surgery with an 85

Sydney Gill of Grimsby and her faithful companion dog, Trooper. Village Studio - Photo per cent success rate. Great, a viable option? Not so fast, notes Sydney’s father, David. The affliction is so rare, Canada has no specialists to deal with procedure which needs to be done. However, the Gills have found Dr. Dean Donahue at Massachusetts General in Boston who conducts the surgery. The cost? Prohibitive: • Surgery and stay $215,000

• Out of country expenses - $15,000 • Ongoing care and procedures at Mass General - $70,000. “We were denied any coverage of costs. The letter said the surgery would not present death or permanent tissue damage,” noted David. “That is highly contestable. Sydney is in constant pain, and doctors do not know what the extent of

damage will be.” For Syndey – who does not go anywhere without her companion dog, Trooper, who carries everything from her meds to pencil case – her goals are modest. “I would like to be able to have kids some day. I would like to graduate high school and make something of myself. I want to be a pharmaceutical technician,” she said. Sydney has had to suspend her studies at Grimsby Secondary School due to excessive pain. To help the Gills cover the huge operation expense, a gofundme page has been set up, Hope For Sydney. https://www.gofundme.com/f/hope-forsydney The surgery is set for May 22.

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