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Handling Specialty’s ship comes in...again By Mike Williscraft NewsNow At a time when any news is good news in today’s business climate, Grimsby Handling Specialty (HS) got some stellar news last week when they closed a $30 million contract with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Handling has worked its way to the top of the entertainment world heap over the last 25-plus years when it comes to creating hydraulic lifts to allow for some amazing special effects.
If you have been to Las Vegas and taken in O by Cirque du Soleil at The Bellagio you will have seen some of the Handling team’s handiwork. The contract with RCC will include: • Seven underwater stage lifts; • Two diving board tilters; • A system hydraulic power unit, and; • All controls for operation and safety, installation, sea trials and hand over. “All of this work will be completed by Handling Specialty pay-rolled staff. As well, local suppliers are
part of our supply chain and are a major contributor to our success, including companies right here in Grimsby,” said Tom Beach, Handling Specialty’s president. Like many of the intricate projects which Handling has undertaken over the years, the announcement of this deal last week was the culmination of years of background work. “This was two-and-a-half years of work from concept to contract signing,” said Beach. “And the truly unique thing is I have never met this client in person.
All drawings, proposals and meetings were completed using digital technology. To this day, we have not met our customer in person.” Handling is currently working through another RCC contract to develop aquatic features. “The Oasis series has been terrific. That particular theatre is at the stern of the vessel with amphitheatre seating, then it reaches up balconies and bars where people can watch the show. Fundamentally, you’re seeing the ‘prop chop’, the See HANDLING, Page 2
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A rendering of the Oasis of the Seas’ amphitheatre at the ship’s stern. is completed in 2026, The new theatres will Handling will have com- be on top of the ships pleted nine aqua the- under glass domes. While Beach recognizatres for RCC. es he gets to make the announcements, it is the team behind him which makes it all happen. “We’ve been fortunate to have hired really terrific people. They are now empowered to run things,” said Beach. “We’re a team. We just get it done.” For more details, check: newsnowniagara.com The shell of Harmony of the Seas’ inner workings for our Handling podcast. mid-construction.
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“It’s amazing that an egg will fly away in 30 days,” said Barbara Fanson, who hosted an event at the Grimsby Public Library (GPL) last week all about the majestic monarch butterfly. Fanson taught parents and kids alike about the 30-day life cycle of monarchs with living examples of eggs, caterpillars, chrysalises and fully grown butterflies. She also tagged the full-grown monarchs before releasing them, for research. Fanson, an author who wrote and illustrated a children’s book titled, Bigger, Bigger Butterfly aimed at teaching younger kids about the species’ life cycle, said that tagging the butterflies as she releases them is an important way to learn more about the species
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Applications been by received byGrimsby the Town of Grimsby for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment for the lands Applications havehave been received the Town of for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment for the lands known as 19 Elm Street and 13 Mountain known as 19 Elm Street and 13 Mountain Street. Street.
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The proposed consists of a 7 storey mixed-use building and adaptively reuses consists of a 7 storeydevelopment mixeduse building and adaptively two key existing historical buildings known as the Woolverton House (13 Mountain Street) and reuses two key existing Woolverton Hall (19asElm Street). The proposal includes a total of 74 residential dwelling units. historical buildings known the Woolverton House The ground floor (13 of Woolverton House will continue to be used for commercial/retail uses and Mountain Street) and the second floor will Woolverton Hall (19 Elm be a residential unit. Woolverton Hall will be maintained as a community hub The proposal includes toStreet). support a range of non-residential and community based programming and activities. A total a total of 74 residential ofdwelling 100 vehicular parking units. The ground floor spaces are proposed within the three levels of underground parking, of Woolverton will spaces for residents, and 26 spaces for non-residents, including residential including 74House parking continue to be used for visitors. Two (2) commercial/retail usessurface and the parking spaces located within the municipal parking lot to the east of of subject lands second floor will be a Key mapKey ofmapthe subject lands the subject site will be available for non-residents accessing the site. In addition, the proposal residential unit. Woolverton Hall will be maintained as a community hub to support a range of non-residential andparking communityspaces. based programming activities. A total of 100proposed for 74 bicycles. The remaining 10 bicycle parking spaces are provides 84 bicycle Bicycle and storage rooms are vehicular parking spaces are proposed within the three levels of underground parking, located outdoors. including 74 parking spaces for residents, and 26 spaces for non-residents, including residential visitors. Two (2) surface parking spaces located within the municipal parking lot to the east of the subject site will be available for non-residents accessing the site. In The purpose andprovides effect84ofbicycle the proposed Planrooms Amendment addition, the proposal parking spaces.Official Bicycle storage are for 74 bicycles. The remainingis 10the bicycle parking spaces are located outdoors. 7proposed storeys whereas 4 storeys maximum.
is to add a site specific policy to permit a maximum building height of
The purpose and effect of the proposed Official Plan Amendment is to add a site specific policy to permit a maximum building height of 7 storeys whereas 4 storeys is the The purpose and effect of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment maximum.
is to permit community hub uses in the current Downtown Intensification Zone and allow dwelling units at or above the first storey. The site specific zoning regulation being requested would define The purpose and effect of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment is to permit Community Hubin Uses as Downtown “a premises or facility providing non-residential and/or community based services activities and services, such community hub uses the current Intensification Zone and allow dwelling unitsarts, at or above the technology first storey. The and site specific zoning regulation as crafts, multi-media, food being and requested beverage, recreational, social, charitable and educational activities.” The application would define Community Hub Uses as “a premises or facility providing non-residential also modifications to several performance standards to permit the proposed development including increasing the maximum and/or requests community based services activities and services, such as arts, crafts, technology and multi-media, food and beverage, recreational, social, charitable and educational height to 26 metres (7 storeys). activities.” The application also requests modifications to several performance standards to permit the proposed development including increasing the maximum height to 26 metres (7 storeys).
The Town of Grimsby will be hosting a Public Open House to explain the proposed development. An open house meeting is typically held shortly after the Town receives a development application, at the beginning of the review process. Town Staff have not reviewed the application yet, and are still awaiting comments and analysis from other departments and agencies, as well as comments from the public. Therefore, there have been no decisions made about the proposed development yet. The purpose of the open house meeting is for Town Staff and the applicant to: inform you about the proposed development; inform you about planning process to follow; answer your questions; and hear your comments.
The open house meeting will be held as follows: Date: September 13, 2021 Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: via Zoom If you wish to appear as a delegation at the meeting, please register with nsimon@grimsby.ca no later than noon on September 10th, 2021. Note only those individuals that register will be given the zoom link. Additional information regarding the applications, including appeal rights, is available on the Town’s website at www.grimsby.ca/ currentplanningapplications, at Town Hall during normal business hours (8:30 to 4:30), or you may contact: Town of Grimsby, Planning Department P.O. Box 159, 160 Livingston Avenue, Grimsby, Ontario L3M 4G3 Telephone: (905) 945-9634, Fax: (905) 945-5010, Email: planning@grimsby.ca
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GBF receives nutritious donation Niagara Nutrition Partners (NNP) donated $20,000 in Food Basics grocery gift cards to the Grimsby Benevolent Fund (GBF) to distribute to families with children registered for the Grimsby organization’s Back-ToSchool Program. NPP program manager, Jess Stephenson presented GBF director of programs, Ashley Marr with the gift cards August 25. Under normal
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Wanted: political teamwork Issues...what are the issues and what are you going to do about them? Those should be the only questions political candidates of all stripes and levels should be worried about. The social media misinformation game is best left to those below the 49th parallel. It is recognized this is not an easy thing to do and, yes, negative campaign ads get more attention but they also create backlash and baggage. What the country needs is a leader to provide an unwavering rudder right now, not a finger pointing, Teflon candidate who cannot admit weakness or error. Again, that is for all federal leaders. None of them have all the answers and no matter how much money they throw at problems those roots issues will not dissolve into a mist. There is heavy lifting which needs to be done. Ideally, political parties would band together to get us through this muck and avoid self-serving interests. That has not happened to date, but it is what the country needs. M.W.
Freedom impaired, stop it, move on Despite it being August and most residents paying attention to other things right now, I was deluged by comments regarding last week’s story regarding Grimsby Council’s decision to maintain limitations on portable lawn signs. As you would know by now, good reader, this all started when some on council got their cookies frosted after a resident called into question his ward representation. Multiple visits from the bylaw department later, the Main Street East resident was told to remove his lawn sign or face penalty. There are so many ins and outs to this ridiculous charade, the purpose of this column will focus on the considered legal opinion of Grimsby legal counsel. At the Aug. 23 Committee of the Whole meeting, John Mascarin provided said opinion, stating as follows (with some minor edits for style and length - but feel free to check the recorded version through grimsby.ca - with some interjected commentary. “We’re not here looking to limit sign expression everywhere in the municipality. We’re basically saying you can’t have portable signs in residential and rural zones.” Ok, so what’s left? That leaves commercial and industrial properties as fair game for portable signs. If that is the case, why did bylaw make an appearance at the rural home of a Main Street retail building owner asking him to remove a sign suggesting action be taken against the Town CAO? That was in a window, not outside at all, and not “in a residential and rural zones”. I guess that was just part of the bylaw officer’s decision-making ability to decide what can and cannot be
MIKE WILLISCRAFT posted around town. Good thing he’s an expert. “No doubt, no doubt whatsoever a limit on the right to freedom of expression. The right to freedom of expression, of course, is not unlimited and there’s Section 1 of the Charter that’s reasonable limit in a free and democratic society. The Oakes test - under which a limit on a Charter right must be “reasonable” and “demonstrably justified.” Generally speaking, most elected officials fight for the rights of their constituents. Those who get elected and seek to limit the rights of voters are few and far between, but Grimsby’s got them, several of them. When an elected official has a lawyer - an expert, right Coun. Vaine - say, “No doubt, no doubt whatsoever a limit on the right to freedom of expression”, it should be game over. Move on. And it needs to be noted, this was not a G5 action. Coun. John Dunstall was absent as was Coun. Reg Freake. The key vote was Coun. Dave Kadwell who voted against the motion to accept the sign bylaw report which recommended the measure be left as altered, meaning no lawn signs without permits or exceptions. Whether Kadwell’s resolve on that issue continues
remains to be seen, but for now, it appears council still has an opportunity to correct itself. The next part was not a complete sentence and he kind of drifted off, but I believe what Mascarin was attempting to say was there was a limitation in one area, but there were other possibilities for residents to express themselves. “The objective of the bylaw and the rational connection between the ability to still have some signage in other venues, other means, other forms of expression. I also think the bylaw passed the minimal impairment test.” So clearly, most properties in any town are residential. How many residents and also own a commercial or industrial property where they could post a sign? What “other means” could a homeowner use to publicly display displeasure with their elected official? Suggestions appreciated. “Mr. Boese has set out well some of the concerns about aesthetics, pollution additional costs with having to pick up discarded signs or signs that are past the time limit and additional enforcement measures.” What a reach! Mascarin has given several “opinions” at Grimsby council but none were as weakly supported as this one. I would bet any financial impact from - let’s call it - sign maintenance by the Town’s bylaw team would be a couple of hundred bucks over the last 10 years, if that. Just a brutal take. So you have Grimsby administration and its counsel looking for ways to limit the basic rights of residents to note that one councillor or another or the Town’s CAO should be turfed. That’s the long and short of it.
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Council accountability needed: writer Dear Editor, I am a new resident of Grimsby now since midMay. I have been reading about the Town Council “Children’s Council” since arriving and, today, I have come to the point where I need to vent. I am appalled by the childish antics of these so called town councillors. Who voted these crack pots in. They may have been effective at
one time but I am sure many have outlived their usefulness and need to be replaced. This set of ladies and gentlemen seem to be focussing their attention on their own private agendas and act worse then most three-year-olds I know. If they don’t want portable signs questioning their acts, maybe we should apply for a license to gather (with
appropriate COVID restrictions) to protest these acts of childish, self-motivated behaviour. I am ashamed and disgusted by what I have read. Every one of them need to be held totally accountable for every action. Clean house and start fresh is what I say with fresh faces who want to improve the wonderful little town. Dee Vollick
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