>Big Brothers Big Sisters Curl For Kid’s Sake nets $20,000/ Pg 6 > Grimsby Firefighters honoured Pg. 8 > Smithville Santa parade has new route Pg. 10 > Owners “dogged” by Town Pg. 19 Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 Vol. 4 Issue 23
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More biodigester questions linger answers “waste time”: Detenbeck “...Perhaps we have a different definition of open communication,” Grimsby Finance Committee Chair, Ald. Carolyn Mullins
We remember
1627 Army Cadet Master Corp. Cole Shannon holds his post at the Beamsillve cenotaph during Sunday morning’s Remembrance Day ceremony. For more photos, see Page 11. Williscraft - Photo
PoultryFest finds new home Perhaps the area’s most successful community event, PoultryFest, has found a new home at the West Niagara Agricultural Society’s fairgrounds. “Today we are announcing the unanimous decision by our committee to move
PoultryFest Niagara to the new exhibition facilities built by the West Niagara Agricultural Society at Mud Street and Regional Road 12,” said Jim Koornneef, vice-president of PoultryFest, last Wednesday. “There are many reasons
for this decision and foremost is that we want to take advantage of the great new facility we have in West Lincoln. It will increase our permanent indoor exhibition space by four times and give us unlimited outdoor See EVENT, Page 5
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow An opportunity to clarify many of the ongoing issues and concerns regarding Grimsby Energy’s $4.5 million biodigester project was accepted Friday, then rejected Monday by hydro officials after an apparent board consultation. The biodigester, which will utilize largely agricultural waste to create methane gas to power a hydro generator, is projected to add well over $350,000 in net profit per year over the 20-year span of its FIT contract with the province. Issues regarding financing, site and project management, handling of input materials and,
as of last week’s Mayor’s Breakfast, conflicts of interest, have been ongoing. Throughout, Grimsby Energy president James Detenbeck has maintained their business plan is solid and incorrect or misinformation has confused the public. To set the record straight, NewsNow proposed a comprehensive set of questions covering all issues. Detenbeck agreed Friday to answer the questions knowing his answers would be published – as much as possible in print and the remainder online – verbatim. This would be done to avoid any issue of interpretation, editing or limiting in any fashion. All the questions were discussed in detail See QUESTION, Page 3