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Truck fire, QEW closure clog Grimsby roads all Friday By Mike Williscraft NewsNow If anyone tried to get across Grimsby or even downtown for lunch or shopping last Friday, chances are it would have taken at the better part of an hour. The whole event, which spanned 10 hours for Grimsby Fire Department’s crew, led to a closure of the QEW Niagara bound with many motorists attempting to get to the Canada-USA outdoor hockey game which was part of the 2-18 World Junior Hockey Championship in Buffalo. “Because of the traffic clog, we had a crew located at the station. Getting to the station to get out on a call usually takes about five minutes, so we do that when traffic is backed up to cut down on any possible response times,”
said Deputy Chief Bill Thomson. As well, with manpower fully obligated both on the call and at the station, Grimsby enlisted Lincoln Fire Department as well to help with an additional pumper and they located a crew at Bartlett and Main to help cut any response times if a call in the east end came in. As fate would have it, there were three additional traffic accidents - one at Bartlett and Main, one at Ridge and Mountain Street and at the South Service Road. None involved serious injury, but all fuelled the traffic snarl. “The accident at Main and Bartlett, the Lincoln crew was right there, so there response was immediate. The one at Ontario Street, the guys in the station heard it See TRAFFIC, Page 2
New Year arrival
Valencia Irene Oxner made her grand entrance into the world as the New Years Baby at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital on Jan. 1 at 2:55 a.m. Proud first-time parents are Dave and Tracy Oxner of St. Catharines. “Dave named her 10 years ago when we were in Valencia (Italy). He said one day we would have a baby named Valencia,” said Tracy. The baby’s middle name comes from Dave’s late aunt, whose quilt (in background) kept mom and little one warm their first night. The family was presented with a gift pack by Barb Jackson of West Lincoln Memorial Auxiliary comprised of a birth certificate holder and a pink bear. Williscraft - photo See CAUSE, Page 2