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Hat Trick winner
Museum AGM in next week
Phil Lowry is one happy guy after taking NewsNow’s Hat Trick Hockey contest’s Grand Prize last week. Lowry opted to take the $1,500 cash payout over the playoff trip for 2. The prize is sponsored by Grimsby Hyundai. Mario Bruno, left, general manager of Grimsby Hyundai made the presentation at his east Grimsby dealership. For the first time in more than 20 years of Hat Trick, Lowry won wire-to-wire. “Someone usually gets hurt or just doesn’t come through. I kept waiting, but nothing like that happened,” said Lowry. Williscraft - Photo
There has been a great deal going on with Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty in recent years and residents can get a full update April 26. The museum volunteer committee will host its annual general meeting that Thursday at 7 p.m. at the facility’s temporary location, the former library at 4996 Beams St. in Beamsville. Mayor Sandra Easton and Lincoln CAO Mike Kirkopoulos will outline current and future plans. The public is welcome.
Nelles PS 50th Saturday
Nelles Public School will host its 50th year celebrations this Saturday, April 21. From 1-3 p.m. the school will be open to the public with decade rooms, singing in the gym, refreshments and a brief ceremony planned for 1:45 p.m., said principal Laurene Klassen. “There will be a lot going on. We have memorbilia throughout the school combined with art from current students...a lot of memories,” said Klassen.
Grimsby moves to electronic tenders By Mike Williscraft NewsNow April 10 history repeated itself, then it didn’t. The passing of Planning Committee minutes was held up while its chair was absent from the council chambers Monday night after leaving to speak with displeased developers. It’s been a busy week for Grimsby Council. At the centre of this activity is Rosebay Construction’s 20-storey condo project slated for the never-opened
Planet Nite Club land on Windward Drive. Back in January 2017 and again at last Tuesday’s Planning Committee meeting, Rosebay’s principal Silvio Guglietti voiced his frustration with his project’s progress saying he had done everything asked of him by Grimsby planning officials, including pushing his tower higher. After more debate at Planning, Rosebay’s project, which has been in the works since January 2015, was approved
unanimously by the committee. As is typical, the delegation packed up and left the April 10 meeting but were followed out the door immediately by deputy director of planning, Walter Basic, who ushered Guglietti into a sideroom for a discussion. After their discussion, Guglietti re-entered the meeting, proceedings were halted, and Guglietti recanted his earlier comments about staff telling him to go
higher with his design. “I’ve been involved in planning in Grimsby for well over 20 years,” said planning committee laymember John Gillespie after the meeting. “I have never seen anything like that.” Monday’s council meeting was more of the same with the added twist of Rosehaven’s site plan application, which had been unanimously passed at planning, getting voted down in
favour of bringing in a peer review consultant for questioning on the project’s overall layout. As the item was discussed at council the only matter which drew attention were some minor discrepancies in square metres as a new survey of the land had been done, but council did not seem to be aware of that. As discussion was nearing completion on the issue, Ald. Nick See HEIGHT, Page 3