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Up Front Fraud seminar next Tuesday
Fraud Awareness for Seniors will be hosted next Tuesday, May 30, at 2 p.m. St.John’s Parish Hall, Jordan. It is a free event with refreshments to follow. Speaker Brock Godfrey, a 20-year volunteer with the Anti-Fraud Centre (formerly Phone Busters) will provide the latest information, The Anti-Fraud Centre is a joint operation of the RCMP, the OPP, and the Competition Bureau of Canada that collects information and criminal intelligence on items such as as mass marketing fraud (i.e.telemarketing), advance fee fraud (West African letters), internet fraud and identification theft complaints.
Oldies rockin’ at Grimsby Srs
Grimsby Seniors Club will host Bobby Allan’s Trubute to The Oldies tomorrow, Friday, night at Livingston Activity Centre at 6 p.m. Tickets are $22pp, $17 for members with dinner catered by Best Little Menu. There will be a cash bar and door prizes. For information, call, 905-309-1940.
Welcome to Nelles Manor Longtime Grimsby residents Ross and Diane Armstrong, who had never been to Nelles Manor, got the grand tour Saturday morning, the kick off to the facility’s 2017 summer season.
Volunteer Heather Nobes explains the “courting candle”. If a beau was liked the candle was longer as when the it burned to the end it was time for the suitor to leave. Williscraft - Photo
Town of Grimsby
Municipal Act contravened, again By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Ombudsman Ontario has found Grimsby council contravened the Municipal Act again. The report was released last week. Two complaints were filed. One was for a meeting Nov. 11, 2016 conducted in council’s “capacity as a shareholder of Niagara Power Inc.”
Council was exonerated on the complaint regarding a Dec. 5, 2016 meeting, which was conducted in council chambers after its regular public meeting had concluded. However, while the Ombudsman determined the Municipal Act was not contravened in that instance, the report did note that guide-
lines under the Business Corporations Act were not followed. “Under the Business Corporations Act, only the directors of a corporation may call a special shareholders’ meeting. They are required to follow certain procedures, including sending notice to all shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting, every
director, and the auditor of the corporation,” states the report. Minutes also must be recorded and kept at the corporation’s offices,” states the report. “The corporation’s directors did not call the meeting on Dec. 5. Notice was not provided to any other parties or shareholders, and minutes were not recorded.
The Dec. 5 meeting did not satisfy the requirements of a shareholders’ meeting of Niagara Power Inc. under the Business Corporations Act.” The meeting Nov. 11, 2016 was the annual general meeting of Niagara Power, held in the boardroom at 231 Roberts Rd. “In its capacity as shareholder, council See MEETING, Page 3