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Up Front Mini-putt sign up today One of the area’s Rites of Spring, the Grimsby Kinsmen Club’s Greater Grimsby Mini-Putt registration opened today (Thurs). The event, to be held Sunday, March 12, at a series of downtown locations, has sold out for many years. Space is limited. Cost is $200 per foursome. All funds raised go to West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation’s Project X-Ray. Forms are available at NewsNow, Teddy’s, Grimsby Legion, Rikochez, Forty Public House, Judge & Jester, Syndicate Restaurant and Different Strokes.
Senator Harder @ Thursday at 10 Senator Peter Harder of Vineland will be the speaker at next week’s (Feb. 23) Thursday at 10 presentation. The venerable speaker series is hosted each Thursday at the Grimsby Activity Centre beginning at... you guessed it...10 a.m. Senator Harder will be outlining current assessments of how the Senate does its work and possible reforms which may be considered. He was named to the Senate in march 2016.
Tip o’ the cap
Liaquat Mian caused quite a stir at Saturday night’s Mayor’s Gala, which was hosted by Rotary at Noon. Mian chose the gala, the proceeds of which were to be directed to Habitat For Humanity Niagara, to announce his donation of a condo
unit in his Waterview Condominiums project. On hand for the occassion (L to R) Mayor Bob Bentley, Liaquat Mian, HHN’s CEO Alastair Davis and HHN’s COO Keith Gowans. For more details, please see Page 2. Photo courtesy Bryan Macaulay
Grimsby man fined $20K for barn collapse A construction project that collapsed due to wind load and a lack of bracing and proper anchoring has led to a $20,000 fine against the man in charge of the project. A storage barn was being built on a residential farm property located at 3357 Reg. Rd. 12, West Lincoln. On Nov. 24, the partiallybuilt, wood-framed storage barn collapsed. The property owner had hired Tom Ivezic of Grimsby to undertake the construction of the storage
barn, which was about 120 feet long and 60 feet wide. At the time of the collapse, the four walls and the roof of the storage barn had been erected on top of the structure’s concrete foundation. However, none of the walls had been braced to prevent their movement or collapse, and the anchor bolts connecting the walls to the foundation had not been secured. The constructor, Ivezic, failed to meet a number of requirements. He failed to
file a Notice of Project relating to the construction of the storage barn, and failed, as a constructor, to give notice in writing to a Ministry of Labour inspector within two days of the structural failure of the storage barn, as required under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Following the collapse of the barn, Ivezic failed to furnish all necessary assistance to facilitate an investigation by a Ministry of Labour inspector; over the course of several months, the Min-
istry of Labour inspector made multiple attempts to contact Ivezic, and left him multiple messages but received no response. The court, with Justice of the Peace Dan La Caprara presiding, fined Ivezic a total of $20,000 in Welland on last Thursday, Feb. 9. The court also imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.