>Tons of fun at Twenty Valley PS’s Good Citizenship Day, Pg 2 > GMHA wraps season with photo album Pgs. 9-16 > How does Vik’s celebrate 40 years? A BBQ, of course Pg 7 > Get your Best forms in Pg 23 Thursday, June 15, 2017 Vol. 6 Issue 6
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Do you LOVE Canada? Tell us why? Send NewsNow your submissions about what you love about Canada and/or being Canadian!! Submissions can be up to 250 words. Create a poem – or send a photo and details of a Canadian travel – by Friday, June 23 at 5 p.m. deadline Email all to: canada@wn3.ca A selection of offerings from our readers will be included in our July/August edition of ClubWest Magazine, which will hit the streets July 6. All submissions will be entered into free a draw for some great prizes, so show some love to Canada, and maybe win a dinner out to celebrate!!
Rotary yard sale Saturday
Grimsby Rotary Club will host its annual yard sale at Mountainview Christian Reformed Church on Saturday, June 17, from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Individual and community group tables will be set up with everything from plants to household items and collectibles Find a bargain and support the community.
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Evan’s Ride rolls to record
A record number of participants helped boost Evan’s Ride for Autism with Saturday’s ride, BBQs at Foodland and Turkstra Lumber and a West Lincoln Firefighter boot drive. Among the participants were in the 11 km bike rider were (L to R) Japeth, Ezekiel and Raquel Itiarte of Smithville. For more photos and information, please turn to Page 6.Williscraft - Photo
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Town of Grimsby’s attempt to support heritage is a rewriting of history, says former Heritage Advisory Committee member Catherine Gonnsen. At Tuesday’s Planning Committee meeting, a proposal to approve a staff report calling for GHAC to be renamed Heritage Grimsby. This is a move town officials have said was coming since last fall when GHAC was dissolved after ongoing disputes on several heritage-related topics including planning matters and affixing a heritage plaque to a home named in honour of someone who never lived in the home. The report, titled “Heritage Conservation Policy and Administration in the Town of Grimsby”, authored by director of planning Michael Seaman notes several reasons for overhauling the objectives and duties of GHAC. The obsolete nature of the Terms of Reference was one of the factors which led to some confusion among committee members about their role, with some seeing the committee taking on the role of ‘opposition’
or ‘watchdog’ as opposed to being in place to”advise and assist” the Council” as the Act intends. This inevitably led to some undesirable committee dysfunction and a compromised workplace environment,” wrote Seaman. Gonnsen clearly agrees dysfunction was rampant, but could not disagree more with the source. “I am deeply concerned and troubled with this misrepresentation of the full, complete, and true facts surrounding what happened,” wrote Gonnsen in a letter to planning chair, Ald. Nick DiFlavio. “It was the Planning Department that was so dysfunctional, and so in need of controlling a committee they should only have been providing resource(s) to in the first place, they were not allowing the HAC to assist Council as they should under the Act.” As an example of a major issue, Gonnsen noted the differing opinions on a “monster home” at 155 Main St. W. where variances were approved by the planning department but opposed by GHAC. “This report is a whitewash of the true facts of SEE GHAC, Page 3