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Up Front We’re getting old Editor’s Note: Last week in this space it was noted we are moving next door, essentially, to 1 Mountain St. in Grimsby. This week, it should be noted, we are turning six years old. To celebrate our anniversary, we are very excited to keep doing what we do – in this case, introducing a new, family fun event we hope will continue with the same sucess as its predecessor. The Grimsby Kinsmen and NewsNow will present the inaugural Family Mini-Putt to be held on the Saturday of Father’s Day weekend, June 16. For full details, please turn to Page 10.
Mom contest deadline May 6
Get your entries in for NewsNow’s My Mom’s The Best contest by this Sunday, May 6 at noon. In 250 words or less, tell us why your mom is #1. The contest is open to all ages, consideration will be given for age. See the ad on Page 13 for full details. Email submissions to mike@wn3.ca or drop in at our office at 1 Mountain St., Grimsby.
Royally good time!
Royal protocol calls for hats for all formal occasions and members of the Albright Gardens Friendship Centre in Beamsville were dressed in high style for a ‘royal’ baby shower held April 19 in anticipation of the soon-to-arrive royal baby, Prince Louis, and third child of Prince William and Kate, the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Louis arrived April 23. The baby gifts and a financial donation from the group will go to the Niagara Life Centre in St. Catharines. From left are: Carol Cummings, Clare Minarcik, Dyane Matthews, Brenda Otawa, Cheryl Cranley and Doreen Stokes. McDonald - Photo
Grimsby sinkhole causes traffic issues By Mike Williscraft NewsNow It wasn’t internet worthy, but Grimsby had its version of a sinkhole last week on Elm Street near the bridge at the Forty Mile Creek. “This is not a sink hole in the terms
we see from the US where there are holes in the underlying bed rock which open up and swallow a house,” said Bob LeRoux, Grimsby’s director of public works. About 11 a.m. last Thursday, Town staff noticed a small hole
in the asphalt and looking inside saw a large cavern under the entire width of the pavement along the outside of the bridge, said LeRoux. “We filled the cavern with low strength concrete which will give us time to bring
in a consultant to engineer a permanent solution,” added LeRoux. Once found, one lane was closed immediately and the road was fully closed once the extent of the hold was determined. It was not reopened
until Saturday at 9:30 a.m. “Over the last 30 years I have seen a few minor sink holes in Grimsby roads but they all have been created by a hole in a pipe below,” noted LeRoux. See HOLE, Page 3