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Sparse crowd at BDSS’s ARC
Jingle Jam packs ’em in
Mountainview Christian Reformed Church hosted two days of Jingle Jam, a family Christmas show full of skits, song and humour. Here, Jen DeJonge, foreground, and Emily Moraal perform one of the many songs in the show. Williscraft - Photo
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Was it a conflict with a Christmas shopping date? Was something good on TV? Has the community simply resigned itself to the fact Beamsville District Secondary School’s fate is sealed after school board staff recommended it be closed and merged into a Niagara West super school? Those were some of the questions the handful of people at last Thursday’s Accomodation Review Committee (ARC) were asking each other after just over 40 people turned out to hear the District School Board of Niagara’s committee review stats and analysis which lead staff to make such a recommendation. It was the second of three such ARC meetings - South Lincoln
hosted its meeting in November and Grimsby Secondary is set to host its meeting Jan. 26. While SLHS had well over 200 in attendance, BDSS had a crowd that filled about 20 per cent of the chairs set out in the auditorium. Just four people put their names down to speak and two of them mainly addressed the heritage of the building asking that the facade be preserved in the result of closure and possible demolition. In terms of information, the details provided were much the same as presented at SLHS. The meeting started at 6 p.m. with a tour for the committee again, followed by committee conversation but it went much longer with public input not getting started until nearly 8:30 p.m. See ARC, Page 3
15 storey condo approved
Council flips planning committee decision By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Grimsby Town Council voted Monday to allow an Official Plan amendment to allow for a 15-storey - six additional storeys - condo
development at 560 North Service Road. The proposal, by LJM Developments, marked the third time the project came back to the Town, gaining approval after Planning Committee rejected the proposal last week.
In question was the redesign on a project which had already been approved for nine storeys. The developer now wanted to add a “missing portion” to the facility, said consultant See CONDO, Page 5