> Our cops are tops: a salute to Niagara’s law enforcement / Pgs 13-15 > Men’s Club helps Grimsby boy Pg. 2 > Chef Adjey at Poultryfest Pg. 4 > Grimsby rowers win gold, on to Philly Pg. 11 Thursday, May 14, 2015 Vol. 4 Issue 2
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Up Front Multi-use facility project on Tues. PW agenda For the second straight month, West Lincoln’s proposed multi-use facility project will be on the agenda for the township’s Public Works Recreation Services Committee meeting. The matter, which has been highly contentious and drawn packed galleries, will make a return visit as it did not get a seconder at the committee’s April meeting and was deferred back by council. The meeting will be held at the township offices starting at 6:30 p.m.
Cheating means voting change The FORT’s Cutest Dog contest should have wrapped up this week but evidence of wholesale cheating – to sway the vote towards one dog in particular – means all 1,600 votes have to be set aside. “We’re extremely saddened this could happen,” said Beth Shaw, FORT executive director. The voting was done through Facebook and
See VOTE, Page 3
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Escarpment escapade
The Grimsby Fire Department spent much of their Saturday practising high-angle rescues on the banks of the ravine adjacent to the Forty Mile Creek Park. (L to R) Paul Bush, Cam West and Ryan Newton test their lines as they haul a 175-pound “victim” to safety. For story see Page 6. Grant-Photo
Biodigester construction weeks away By Mike Williscraft NewsNow By early June ground will be broken for Grimsby’s new $4 million biodigester plant. The facility, to be built at the former landfill site on Park Road near Sobie Road, does not have any grants in line to finance the project. “The project is definitely proceeding with or without the grant but the grant would be a bonus and really shorten the payback
period,” said Grimsby Mayor Bob Bentley, who also sits as a member of the Grimsby Energy board of directors. “(Our) MP and MPP’s are working on pushing our application to the Small Community’s Fund for Green Energy, too, as Tim Hudak has contacted the Infrastructure Minister Duguid last week. I spoke directly with Jim Bradley last Friday and he is following up at the province
plus I spoke with Dean Allison Thursday and he and his staff are following up at the federal level.(We) should hear something within a week or two.” GE board chairman James Detenbeck said the project has received approval for the construction start. “We have received the first building permit for the construction and will be scheduling a ground breaking for the project as we move for-
ward,” he said, adding a date is likely to be set for late May or first week of June. Regarding possible grants, he added, “As of writing this we are on the list for consideration to be funded through the Infrastructure Ontario program, however, we have neither heard confirmation of getting money or the project being rejected. Bentley noted that tender contracts for items such as input
materials are in the works. “We are looking locally for supply of equipment and goods where possible to make this a Grimsby/ Niagara project and have a few companies lined up already,” said Bentley. Full production is hoped for fall as part of a 20-year FIT (Feed-In Tariff) contract which is projected to generate as much as $25 million over the life of the agreement.