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Second chance given for input on future of health care
Up Front Enjoy a Victorian lunch St. John’s Presbyterian Women invite you to a Victorian luncheon and bake sale, Friday, May 22. First sitting 11:30 a.m., second at 1 p.m. No tickets at the door, $12 per person, please call 905-9458325 or 905-9453689. Located at 10 Mountain St. Grimsby.
Help Lions help others The Lions Foundation of Canada will hold its Purina Walk for Dog Guides in Grimsby Sunday, May 31. The walk leaves from Grimsby Square Plaza with a noon registration and 1 p.m start. Call 905-945-5441 ext. 184 for information.
A Serenade to Spring The Grimsby Seniors Choir presents a Serenade to Spring concert Friday, June 5. The concert, featuring a selection of showtunes and songs saluting our military, will begin at 7 p.m. Goodwill offering at the door. Proceeds to the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Refreshments to follow at the Grimsby Seniors Centre, 18 Livingston Ave.
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Bloomin’ beautiful!
The Lincoln Garden Club held its annual spring plant sale on Saturday and business was brisk. Club members Stuart McPherson and Louise Mary Kuca were among those helping out. Grant-Photo
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow An aggressive one-year timeline for Hamilton Health Sciences’ “Our Healthy Future” program does not mean rushing things. For that reason, HHS officials have planned to host a second community input session next week to extract as much input from West Niagara residents as possible as an overall plan for health care sustainability is developed. “Our health care system is See HEALTH, Page 4
WL community centre
Two steps back to move forward By Mike Williscraft NewsNow It took two-and-ahalf hours of meetings but as the clock clicked by to 9 p.m., Mayor Doug Joyner summed up the highly contentious proposed West Lincoln community centre issue. “Let’s get people involved. Let’s move on,” said Joyner after a lengthy motion to restart the public input session regarding the future direction for a multi-use facility
to replace the fourdecade-old Smithville Arena. The number of residents who addressed West Lincoln’s Public Works/Recreation Services Committee hit double digits. Some drew cheers. Some drew jeers. Cheryl Ganann of the West Lincoln Library Board made it clear her organization wants to be considered if a new project moves forward. “If it is about to hap-
pen, we want to be there,” said Ganann. Residents in support of a rebuild rhymed off countless examples why a renovation is not an option. All agreed status quo is not an option as well. Ongoing issues with melting ice on the rink, tiny and too few change rooms, lack of accessibility for the second floor hall, lack of multiple rooms for varied uses and a host of other issues were brought up.
While mostly amicable, the discussion was contentious. After one speaker, when considerably over the alloted fiveminutes maximum, talked through thumping whacks of PWRS chair Dave Bylsma’s gavel, speaker Shauna Boyle told the committee to have more respect and “don’t be rude”. She went on to say the community centre is the heart of the township and “doc-
tors don’t put Band Aids on hearts.” She also chided committee members who said they didn’t know enough about the topic to speak to it when the issue arose at the April committee meeting. “There was no discussion, no seconder. Why? It was a campaign issue. You should have known all about it. Was it personal against the mayor? That should not be See ARENA, Page 3