>Festivities set for downtown Grimsby this Friday evening, Pg 3 > Niagara West rowers bring home Henley gold Pg. 7 > Shop downtown Grimsby Pg. 8-9 > Clear woodlot, build road, says reader Pg. 15 Thursday, August 17, 2017 Vol. 6 Issue 15
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Soap Box racers Cole Fielding, left car, with dad Curtis in behind, and Grier Cooper, with dad Marty on right, get some last minute tips from Soap Box Derby International director Bernie Daynes during Saturday’s
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inaugural Beamsville Lions event staged at Great Lakes Christian High School. Lion Lloyd Clark helped with the start. For more photos and coverage of the event, please turn to Page 11.
Residents’ dumping concerns fall on deaf ears By Mike Williscraft NewsNow While some residents in the area of Kemp and Mountain roads in Grimsby want an immediate halt to the deluge of fill dumping underway, it would seem an intervention is not forthcoming.
Mike Blanchette, who lives at the corner of Mountain and Kemp said he had enough weeks ago. “There have been a ton of issues, aside from the dust and noise. Today (Monday) I have had a Bobcat stuck in the middle of
the road at the end of my laneway. They can’t figure out how to get it going,” said Blanchette. “Saturday morning it took me 20 minutes to get onto Mountain Road because of the line up of dump trucks, so, yes, it has not been good.”
He said he called town hall twice and left voicemails. Neither call was returned. “I can’t see that they would be that busy,” said Blanchette. He said the difference in this occurance and an issue he had recently with the town
regarding a pool in his backyard has been stark. “They hounded me about not having the pool gated. They were all over us. They even had (someone) come and peak over our fence to see if we had water in the pool.
We have never put any water in the pool, but that is beside the point,” said Blanchette. “Right now, they have hundreds and hundreds of dump trucks dumping who knows what in a sensitive environment.” See DUMP, Page 2