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Demolition crews started their task at the corner of Main and Elm streets in Grimsby on Monday morning. Permits were dealt with early last week and the start was delayed slightly. No findings on the cause of the July 6
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fire - which claimed three businesses and an apartment - from the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office have been released to date. Main Street will re-open once the demolition is done. Williscraft - Photo
Council stays on extension fence, waits for EA By Mike Williscraft NewsNow In a 5-4 recorded vote, Grimsby council refused to take a stand on whether or not it supports a Livingston Road extension. After a Public Works Committee meeting last Wednesday, Aug.
16, which had more than 100 packing town hall to standing room only and Monday’s council meeting which had about 80 in attendance, council did not answer Niagara Region’s request for direction on the extension issue.
At Public Works, Region’s director of public works Ron Tripp cofirmed that the request from his colleagues seeking a for or against position was to give guidance on including the estimated $8.1 million project in the Transportation Master
Plan, which is currently in the works. On Monday, council passed a recommendation made by Grimsby director of public works Bob LeRoux which suggested that council “neither supports nor opposes a Livingston Avenue ex-
tension and would prefer to see the results of an Environmental Assessment on this matter prior to considering our position and further that the 2017 Niagara Region Transportation Master Plan reflect this.” Mayor Bob Bentley as
well as aldermen Steve Berry, John Dunstall, Joanne Johnston and Dave Wilson voted in favour of the motion in a recorded vote, while aldermen Michelle Seaborn, Dave Kadwell and Carolyn Mullins voted against it. See EA, Page 3