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Downtown Grimsby was abuzz with action throughout the day last Friday with a production team shooting a Hallmark movie, “Christmas In Montana”. Throughout the day and evening there were intermittent traffic stoppages and pedestrians were stopped for brief periods during shoots but all were in a festive mood, eager to see how things run behind the scenes. In addition to downtown, the crew also used a Main Street West home as a fictitious bed & breakfast. The movie is scheduled to be aired on the Hallmark channel on Thursday, Dec. 12.
Federal candidates have their say By Tristan Marks NewsNow Niagara West residents gathered at the West Niagara Agricultural Centre in Grassie on Wednesday night, Oct. 2, to hear what federal election candidates have to say. The all-candidates meeting hosted
jointly by Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln chambers of commerce- was moderated by David Siegal, professor emeritus of political science at Brock University and drew a crowd of about 180. The six Niagara West candidates included:
Dean Allison, Conservative Party incumbent; Ian Bingham, a Grimsby resident and defense lawyer, Liberal Party; Harold Jonker, West Lincoln’s councillor, Christian Heritage Party; Miles Morton, a life-long member of Grimsby’s community, People’s Party of Can-
ada; Nameer Rahman, former vice-chair of the Grimsby Economic Development Advisory Committee, New Democratic Party, and; Terry Teather, former supervisor of social services for the City of Niagara Falls, Green Party. See VOTE, Page 5
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow The provincial government announced another $2 million of support for West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Tuesday. The funds are to cover costs Hamilton Health Sciences officials say are needed to restore the nowclosed second operating room. That second room, in the short term, is to be used for the storage of sterile equipment and allows for one operating room to continually be used. The move comes 12 days after HHS informed staff at WLMH that obstetrics services would be lost to the facility for about one year. This move was necessitated in the name of patient safety, they claim. Initially, a 1A model had been proposed when one OR was closed for what was supposed to be a sixweek stint but that soon expanded to eight weeks and the day before all was to reopen the long-term closure was rolled out. Tuesday, Robin Mar-
“A year ago, WLMH’s obstetrical program enjoyed an award-winning reputation. Last October, Hamilton Health Sciences, which operates WLMH, declared the facility posed a danger to patient safety and required improvement. After a year of their best efforts, HHS has succeeded to the point that the OB program has left Grimsby in pieces. The question becomes – how much more of HHS’s improvements can WLMH survive?”
Dr. Tom Estall Action Committee Member & former director of emergency medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital tin, parliamentary assistant to Minister of Health Christine Elliott, said the funds are to help get services back up and running at WLMH as quickly as possible. The investment is in addition to the $8.4 See WLMH, Page 3