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Grimsby lays claim to Canada’s pond hockey championship
Take your Valentine to dinner
Enjoy a Valentine’s Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 14 at St. John’s Presbyterian Church. There will be entertainment, a cash wine bar – and “the men are in charge of making the evening special.” Advance tickets only, $20 per person; social at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. Deadline for tickets is Feb. 11. Call the church office at 905-945-5352 or 905-945-5837. The church is located at 10 Mountain St., Grimsby.
The Grimsby Old Stars have earned bragging rights after winning the Canadian Pond Hockey Championship (Senior Masters division aka Grey Beards Division) at Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka last weekend. Standing (L to R) Pete Logan, John Powell, Mark Middleton, Peter Trzecak. Front (L to R) Don Buma, Mark Powell. For story, see Page 3.
Try your hand at trivia Everyone knows some things about something; test your knowledge at Trivia Night at Trinity United Church. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the Saturday, Feb. 21 event which will include snacks and pizza with your ticket price of $15 per person. Wine, beer and softdrinks are available for purchase. Make up a table of eight or join another team looking for players. The church is located at 100 Main St., W. For tickets please call 905-945-2249.
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Condo units proposed for former police station By Katherine Grant NewsNow When Art and Gilda Bijl chose their townhouse on Bartlett Avenue in Grimsby about seven years back, they knew their neighbours were primarily older folks like themselves, retired and ready to enjoy their homes and yards in relative peace. The area is filled with senior living residences, says Gilda.
Then in January they received a notice from the Town that the former police station, directly behind their home, could become a three-storey, 20-unit condominium complex. There will be a meeting at Grimsby Town Hall Tuesday, Feb. 10 to hear an application by a developer to have the lot rezoned from low-density institutional to residential.
“The lot is far too small for that many units. The rest of the area has onestorey homes,” said Gilda. “There will be balconies overlooking our back yard and the report we read even suggests the mature trees on the lot ‘could’ rot so should be taken down.” She and her husband have been busy speaking to neighbours and collecting signatures on a petition she plans to
present to town officials. “We live out on our balcony in the summer, now I am imagining the smell from garbage bins, cars pulling in and out of the parking lot all day and the three-storey building blocking the sun.” She is encouraging those who live in the area to attend the meeting which starts at 7 p.m. “No one we have spoken to is in favour of this.”