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Up Front Coldest Night next Saturday
Let the dinner begin
Walkers supporting West Niagara Affordable Housing can sign and get ready for the Coldest Night of the Year Saturday, Feb 24. With registration starting at Grimsby Secondary School at 4 p.m., walkers can start 2-, 5- or 10-km routes starting at 5 p.m. A chili cook-off follows. Call 905-988-3528 for more details.
Chef Brad Rempel plates caesar salad as the West Lincoln Memorial Auxiliary readies for its annual Lasagna dinner last Friday at Mountainview Christian Reformed Church. Auxiliary volunteers (L to R) Diane Park, Agnes Hyma and Barb Wright were ready to serve those on hand. The auditorium was filled despite a rather nasty night weather-wise. Williscraft Photo
Kin Mini-Putt registration open
Starting today, Feb. 15, participants can register for the 2018 Grimsby Kinsmen Mini-Putt. Forms are available at all participating locations, as well as NewsNow. Registration is complete only when the form and payment is received. Call Bruce Bond for info, 905945-3948.
Galleria D’Amore dinner Sunday
Grimsby Public Art Gallery will host its Galleria D’Amore event at Cibo Osteria restaurant this Sunday, Feb. 18. The event will run from 4-7 pm. Cost is $35 per person, which includes salad, pizza, pasta, dessert, coffee/ tea/soft drinks with door prize draws as well. Tickets are available at the GPAG. Call 905-945-3246 or email: gpag@grimsby.ca for info.
Grow op proposal leaves cloud over meeting Few answers, indequate speakers left West Lincoln planning committee with little detail By Mike Williscraft NewsNow A lengthy public meeting regarding a rezoning application for a legal grow operation left West Lincoln’s Planning Committee pretty much where they started before it all took place.
Monday night, presenters for Sheh Jor Gao, asked committee members to consider the rezoning proposal to allow for the construction of 15 greenhouses – to accommodate 96 marijuana plants per greenhouse – on the 20.9 hectare
property at 1374 Port Davidson Road. Whether it was specs for a proposed carbon air filtration system to mitigate odour concerns or questions about yield and expected usage for the four people for whom the facility is to be
built to grow the medical use cannabis, committee members were repeatedly frustrated by a lack of answers. “We had two lawyers – one who also reviews books and the lead whose background is not OMB but criminal law – and an HVAC
technician. We did not have a planner or a grower/agricultural specialist,” said Coun. Joann Chechalk, who chairs the Planning Committee. “The questions we asked that were relative to the planning See GROW, Page 3