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A Town Hall-style meeting on regional governance held last Saturday at the community centre got off to a rocky start, with many of those turning up saying they’d had difficulty finding the meeting room, owing to a lack of directional signage. Mayor Marvin Junkin was among them, having sat waiting for the doors to be opened at one room, not knowing that the meeting was in another. In all, a mere 20 people found their way to the gathering, with a few stragglers shuffling in partway through.

The meeting revolved around Premier Doug Ford’s proposed review of regional municipalities, with which the Ontario government has said it hopes to reexamine “the governance, decision-making, and service delivery functions of eight regional municipalities and Simcoe County.”

This review of regional governance includes the Region of Niagara, which is currently divided into 12 municipalities, each with their own local councils.

These councils are composed of councillors elected

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from various wards, and a mayor. Every mayor, and a select number councillors (determined by the population of the municipality) from each municipality also sit on Regional Council to govern on matters that affect all of Niagara. Pelham has two representatives on Regional Council—Mayor Junkin and Regional Councillor Diana Huson.

In order to review the current system, the provincial government has put together an advisory body

of two, Ken Seiling and Michael Fenn, who are tasked with looking into the current functionality of regional municipalities. Included in their mandate is the requirement to question whether the two-tier structure is working for communities, if the number of councillors properly reflects the population, and if decisions are made efficiently, among other inquiries.

Their examination into service delivery in municipalities includes determining

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if the current system hinders effective infrastructure decisions, and questioning whether there are opportunities to save on costs.

The buzzword that is being heard in relation to the potential outcome of these reviews is “amalgamation,” specifically the amalgamation of Niagara’s municipalities into a single-tier structure of government. A regional government would make decisions for all of Niagara, rather than having every local town council de-

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cide matters for itself.

The idea is that under one tier of government, decision- making and services delivery would run more efficiently as only one body would be debating it. Services such as hydro, roadwork, snow plowing, and some others would be run solely at a regional level in this scenario, rather than at both the local and regional levels as is now often the case.

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’M PUTTING A LOT OF faith into this pill. It’s a lot of pressure resting on something smaller than a mini chocolate chip.

I stare at it, contemplating its size. How can something almost small enough to be lost in the palm of my hand have such a potentially life-altering effect on my being? I roll it around between my fingers like I’m toying with the wheel that has fallen off my son’s old Hot Wheels car.

My first sleeping pill.

After I picked up its release papers from my doctor, I drove straight to the pharmacy and waited, like I imagine an addict waits, looking for a fix. What was going on at the drugstore on a Monday afternoon that would necessitate a 97-minute wait? Was this when our entire town came out to renew their prescriptions?

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IN THE NEWS

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

by Dave Burket

Drivers, start your engines: This week, Larry Coté imagines the unofficial speedway on Highway 20, between Haist and Lookout, turned into a revenue-generator for the Town (page 4). Lest anyone think he is serious (and in these often humorless times, who knows), Larry thought it prudent that we assure readers he’s having a bit of a lark, i.e., joking...If only we had Wainfleet’s problems: If my math is right, Wainfleet has about $390,000 in debt that its council is working on paying down. That’s right, a mere $390,000—less than a single year’s utilities bill for Pelham’s new community centre. Yes, everything’s relative, but still...Accepted with pleasure: Forget the provincial newspaper association awards we learned about last week—the only reward that counts is cookies, specifically the small mountain of homemade gingersnaps dropped at our office by the Pelham Historical Society’s Carolyn Botari. With great restraint, we have managed to save two for after the paper is put to bed. And, as a bonus, over the weekend Carolyn emailed a suggestion that became this week’s editorial cartoon, by way of the capable Patrick LaMontagne, an Alberta-based illustrator, who managed to improve an already clever idea. I do prefer it when all I need to do is sit back and let the talented to their thing...Welcome the legal beagle: Lost in the new advertiser shuffle over the last couple of week was the solicitor Michael DelGobbo (page 5). Happy to have you on board, sir...Another new column: As promised, this week we launch “A Little Book About Us,” excerpts from a collection of first-person recollections about childhood, compiled by former Keith’s Restaurant owner Vilma Moretti (page 10). This first entry is longer than the rest will be, as three generations of the same family tell their stories, which will not end as you expect. Many thanks to Lori Crysler for permission to print...Speaking of youth: I walked into a store in Fonthill last week to find a 14-year-old immersed in the Voice, which was both delightful and surprising. “She reads it all time,” said Dad, who works in the joint.

I realized later that part of the shock was what I didn’t see in the young lady’s hands: a smartphone. Now that’s some good parenting…Selection time: Last Friday was the application deadline for those looking to become Pelham’s new Chief Administrative Officer. Town Clerk Nancy Bozzato tells us that no fewer than 47 applications came in—double what I would have guessed. Let the winnowing begin...Confidential to MM: How’s that colour repro looking on page 9? We’re available at reasonable rates!...Don’t be late: The Town’s annual Easter Egg Hunt starts at 11 AM sharp this Saturday, at its new location in Centennial Park, Fenwick. There are three hunt areas for kids aged 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12. No ringers!...Get your folding chairs set up now: With snow flurries swirling as we go to press, it’s hard to believe that the Summer Bandshell series will start again before we know it (page 6)—just over eight weeks from now, in fact. Can't wait.

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“Our road network and buildings have needed attention for many years, and in some cases, decades,” said Operations Manager Richard Nan. “Our focus on infrastructure has progressed from basic maintenance into issues of public safety.”

Tax levy increases, made in this budget year and in succeeding years, will be needed to invest in aging infrastructure, support the Township’s volunteer Fire Department and maintain the levels of service that residents expect.

“Since the 1990s, many municipal councils have been responsive to public pressure to keep taxes low,” said Wainfleet Treasurer Adam Cross. “The unfortunate result is that often taxes were kept artificially low, even below the level of inflation. This was often accomplished by deferring infrastructure costs and using reserves to offset those costs.”

More recently, many local councils began to compensate by posting increased tax levies. In fact, asserted the Township’s statement, for the years 2015 through 2018, the average annual tax levy increase for municipalities in Niagara was 5.1%. During that same period, Wainfleet had the lowest average tax levy increase in Niagara at 3.4%.

“Adopting this 2019 budget demonstrates Council’s strategic, long-term vision for a sustainable community and a commitment towards planning for Wainfleet’s future,” said Chief Ad-

The Maple Street Culvert repair project received $172,249 from the federal Gas Tax Fund in 2017, according to a statement released by the Town of Pelham.

The project, spanning from planning and design to construction and completion, was finished in late 2018.

An additional $195,446 was applied to the completed work, resulting in the project being 100 percent funded by the federal Gas Tax Fund.

The federal Gas Tax Fund is a predictable source of funding for municipal infrastructure. In 2019, the federal government announced a one-time transfer of an additional $2.2 billion to be delivered to municipal governments through the Gas Tax Fund. With this additional funding, the Town says, it is set to receive more than $1 million from the Fund in 2019.

Wainfleet budget approved

For every $100,000 of property assessment, Wainfleet residents will be paying about $65 more in taxes this year for Township purposes, according to a Township news release.

Faced with $281,220 of debt from previous capital expenditures and an additional $106,594 contribution towards the Township’s aging capital infrastructure, Wainfleet’s new council took what is expected to be the first of several steps to shore-up the Township’s finances in the years to come by approving a total budget levy increase of $599,872 to the local portion of the

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continued from Page 12 “Emterra agreed to extend the contract with an aging fleet and some other significant challenges,” Muter said, according to

the Standard. “I joined the company seven months ago, but I have been in the industry for 40 years, and I can comfortably tell you I would have probably suggested a one-year extension—I would not have

ministrative Officer William Kolasa.

The final approved 2019 budget results in an estimated overall tax bill increase for the average Wainfleet residential taxpayer of about 6% —a blended rate which includes Niagara Region and School Board tax levies.

Pelham pitching in to clean

The Town of Pelham is again issuing the challenge to students, businesses, and the broader community to participate in this year’s Pitch In Week.

A nationally recognized event, Pitch In Week runs from April 22-29, encouraging residents to participate in a variety of ways, helping to keep their communities and common spaces green and clean.

“An event like this really highlights the community spirit that exists in Pelham,” said Jodi Hendriks, Culture and Community Enhancement Programmer, via a Town news release.

“We’ve had great success in the past with our community clean up days. It’s an event that allows all ages to make a positive impact in their community for today and well into the future.”

On Saturday, April 27, the Town will organize a Community Pitch In Day, gathering at Centennial Park in Fenwick at 9 AM. The Fenwick Lions are providing a complimentary barbecue for all volunteers, and Tim Hortons is providing coffee and Timbits for all to kick-start the morning.

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Pelham’s Regional Councilor Diana Huson, like other area representatives, has received a consistent deluge of complaints from residents.

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Door shut on disabled senior Pelham man unhappy at bank's decision to close side entrance

BY JOHN CHICK

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The robbery of a Fonthill bank last year appears to have ultimately cost a Pelham senior some freedom of mobility. Frank Piper says the TD Canada Trust branch on Pelham Street has decided to permanently close its back entrance, as a security measure, in the wake of the March 8, 2018 heist, in which two reportedly armed men held up bank staff for cash.

“They’re going to make it an exit only, and that’s all there is to it,” Piper, 79, told the Voice last week.

Piper says that’s a problem because his disability makes the door along Pelham Town Square—where the arches formerly stood and closer to the back parking lot— easier to use.

“I’m about as handicapped as it can get. I use either canes or a walker,” said Piper, who has had

two back operations and requires a knee replacement.

“Trying to get my walker all the way up to the front door … there’s never parking on [Pelham Street].”

The side door is up four steps from the parking lot. Still, Piper says using those stairs is more accessible for him than the slope of Pelham Town Square.

“When I complained, they said, ‘Well, it’s hard for you to get up the stairs.’ Well it’s a lot harder to walk all the way up the grade. I mean, for somebody that’s able, it’s not much of a grade, but you try pushing a walker from the parking lot to the front door.”

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“They’re supposed to be making it easier for seniors to get around, but unless I do all my banking at Meridian, I’m s—t out of luck.”

Council poised to shoot down staff recommendation

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Late last week, sources familiar with council’s inclination on the matter told the Voice that a Town staff recommendation to grant cannabis producer Leviathan an exemption to Pelham's

Leviathan's requested bylaw exemption likely headed for defeat interim control bylaw (ICB) was headed for near-certain defeat at council’s April 15 meeting.

Council was set to vote on the issue Monday night after

the Voice went to press. Ward 2’s Ron Kore was the only councilor to reply to a request for comment, but Kore said he hadn’t read the Town report yet.

The report, compiled since Leviathan applied for the exemption for its Fenwick site late last year, after Pelham instituted the bylaw, said “planning staff recommends

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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Larry Coté Deficit solved: The Pelham Races on 20

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N MANY PLACES AROUND the globe people pay good money to watch cars speeding down a track at breakneck speeds.

There seems to be a fairly wide demand for this spectator sport. Perhaps Pelham Town Council should capitalize on this craze for watching speeding vehicles hurtling through the stratosphere. The revenues generated could help rebuild depleted reserves and defray operating deficits at the community centre.

To do this, the Town could put up spectator stands along Highway 20, between Lookout Street to the west and Haist Street to the east.

Eastbound vehicles already enter this speed zone at much faster speeds than the race cars at nearby Merrittville Speedway.

On alternate race nights, this same stretch of roadway could host drag racing.

The traffic lights are already there to serve as the starting grid for these speed demons.

Most drivers already know from experience you can speed down this stretch any day or night with impunity.

Likely there hasn’t been a speeding ticket issued on this stretch of asphalt since it was a rutted dirt road

jammed bumper-to-bumper with Model Ts. This straightaway is a natural for such an entertainment venue. A good part of the infrastructure is already there. Pizza, beer, coffee and doughnuts, gasoline, fire and ambulance stations, medical offices, oil change outlets, track lighting and plenty of room for food and beverage trucks. Residents at Lookout Ridge and Lookout Village could rent out chairs and picnic tables and enjoy a tidy side-income from these auto racing events.

Also, the nominee for the placement of ugliest water tower in North America would be an excellent platform for television cameras.

These race car competitions could be aired around the globe and bring prominence to Pelham for something other than being a pot-growing mecca.

So as anyone can see, nearly all the amenities associated with the famous Indy 500 spectacular are already in place. If you think the crowds that gather in Peace Park for summer music nights are impressive, then just imagine the number of auto racing buffs that would come out for a night of racing at the Pelham Pits on 20.

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Now, what could dash this potential revenue generating plan would be the unmitigated nerve of the Regional Police to set up a radar unit on this stretch of roadway. This would then cause users of the speedway to slow down and obey the legislated speed limit. Not likely, but it could happen.

All satire aside, Al Unser’s and Mario Andretti’s Auto Racing Stables won’t be moving to Pelham any time soon. Also, the conversion of Highway 20 to a legitimate dragstrip is merely this writer’s humble parody. However, the collective fingers of Pelham’s residents remain crossed, hoping that the Town’s hierarchy will come up with inventive ways, inside and outside-the-box, to generate revenues beyond raising taxes by an immoderate amount. Here’s hoping! ♦

Letters Appreciates diligence in reporting I’d like to extend my heartiest congratulations to the Voice for the awards you received from the Ontario Community Newspaper Association.

I know how very much I appreciate our local paper and all the hard work that goes into publishing it every week. It’s a given that what is published is accurate, honest and professionally written with integrity.

This week I especially enjoyed the follow-up commentary, Justice, the public good and journalism’s limits, so thoughtfully written by one of the awardees, Samuel Piccolo. Congratulations, Sam, for winning the award for Best Investigative News Story. You so richly deserve this award for your outstanding dedication to ethical reporting. You

sought ought and printed the unbiased truth.

Thank you so much for being sincerely concerned about the facts we presented to you regarding life in our apartment building. Thank you for exposing the disgraceful and shameful tactics by management and the board of directors at 45 Pelham Town Square, which were forced on one of the most vulnerable sectors of society.

The Voice has my utmost respect for your commitment to honesty and integrity in reporting. Thank you for recognizing the problems that exist at the seniors building, even though it was out of your hands to solve them.

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OPINION Keep us updated on detained travellers Regarding your article about travellers alleging mistreatment at Pearson airport [Hellish homecoming from tropical paradise, March 27, p. 9], there has been a bit of a push lately for independent oversight of the Canada Border Services Agency. The subjects of your article, Daniella Nettos and Samantha Taylor, will likely find out that their complaint about the CBSA will be investigated by the CBSA itself. If it's anything like my experience (minor compared to their story) the behaviour of the CBSA agents will be found to be sup-

ported, and those involved cleared of wrongdoing.

I support the call for independent oversight of the CBSA, as it's the only major federal law enforcement agency without external oversight of employee conduct.

Not only does the process have to be fair, it must appear fair, and that falls short when an agency investigates itself. I hope that the Voice follows the subjects as they try and navigate the complaint process and its outcome.

Dave Couture Port Colborne

Kudos for awards Congratulations to the Voice on receiving awards for your work. The recognition for a small community newspaper is pretty impressive and vitally important to the Town. You have presented the news in a fair and equitable way, representing all points of view. You have kept the town abreast of those debates and discussions that every member of Pelham should be aware of. Thank you for all you do to keep us informed.

Sharon Cook Fonthill

Please don't leave needles behind A note to needle-using addicts: Your actions of disposing of your dirty needles in Welland's public places is appalling.

It shows a complete disregard for children, pets, wildlife and others. It is very selfish.

There are services available to help you out of playing Russian Roulette with your one and only life.

Imagine how, in generations past, the young soldiers lived who unselfishly fought for Canada in the worst of worst conditions.

Imagine parents having daily to watch their children suffering through cancers. The medical treatments they have to endure, and you daily choose to plunge a needle in your arm.

Imagine you living anywhere else besides North America and just how understanding would those countries be?

Imagine people with legitimate diseases like diabetes being given free needles.

In this politically correct world we are not to speak up and offer criticisms toward drug addicts, so how is that working out for you and those who choose to face the world sober?

Be a part of the solution and go and seek help.

Faye Suthons Wainfleet

REFLECTIONS ON EASTER Commentary by Paul Bryant Markers in life remind us of the turning world

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S PROOF THAT TIME FLIES, it's already April, and Easter is almost upon us! The date of Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after March 21. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ's death and resurrection occurred around the time of the Jewish Passover, which was celebrated on the first full moon following the vernal equinox. Not all Christian churches observe Easter according to the Gregorian calendar. Some churches still observe Easter under the Julian calendar. You may be planning on celebrating Easter as a religious holiday or in a secular manner. For Christians, Easter celebrates the rising of Christ from the grave three days after his crucifixion.

Even if you don't subscribe to this belief, there is an overbearing sense of renewal interwoven with the secular holiday of Easter as well, and that's something that we can all use come the end of winter and beginning of spring.

In early April, birds are chirping, flowers are starting to pop up from the ground and trees are seeing emerging buds. Green thumbs are planning their gardens and lawns and watching for the first signs of the bulbs they planted last autumn. The world, in short, is coming alive again after a long and cold winter.

As the weather begins to change, why not let ourselves change as well?

Easter is symbolic of rebirth and all that it entails—even if you're spending your Easter Sunday eating too many treats or hiding Easter eggs for all the little ones in your life.

Eggs have long been seen as an important fertility symbol, associated with new life. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and his resurrection. The precise reason for decorating eggs is not known, but one theory is that eating eggs is not permitted during Lent. Because of this, people would decorate them to eat at Easter as a celebration. The first chocolate eggs began to appear in the early 1800s. Now, over 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made each year.

Many cultural historians find a convergence of the three traditions in the

celebration of Easter— Pagan, Hebrew and Christian. Whether we are religious or not, we need markers in life.

And the major holidays, such as Easter, serve to remind us of the turning world. For those who observe its religious context, Easter is too grand an occasion to be experienced adequately in a single day. Our ancestors in the faith realized this and over a period of time developed a season of preparation. We call that season Lent.

For well over 1500 years, Christians have used this period of roughly seven weeks to prepare their souls for Easter Day. Easter is the holiday that celebrates and commemorates the central event of the Christian faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death. Jesus is the Son of God and heroically gave His life to die for our sins.

On the third day after He died, the day we now celebrate as Easter Sunday, His friends went to His burial cave, and found that the large stone used to block the entrance had rolled away. They saw an angel who told them, "Don't be afraid! I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here!

He has been raised from the dead, just as He said it would happen.”

According to the historical record, after Jesus’ death on the cross and his subsequent burial in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea, he appeared alive to more than 500 people, on 12 separate occasions. All but one of the appearances occurred within the first 40-day period following Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Jesus also appeared to at least two skeptics. On all 12 occasions Jesus was seen and he was probably heard. Jesus offered for his body to be touched at least three times, and he was definitely touched twice.

Jesus showed witnesses the scars from his crucifixion on two occasions and ate food with his disciples three or four times. In four instances, witnesses responded to their encounter with Jesus by worshiping him. Bunnies and chickens are cute and all, and chocolate eggs are oh-so-yummy, but celebrating Easter without believing Jesus Christ physically rose from the dead is emptier than a hollow chocolate egg!

Easter is the oldest Christian holi-

day and the most important day of the church year. All the Christian movable feasts and the entire liturgical year of worship are arranged around Easter. The Jewish Passover under Moses commemorates Israel's deliverance from about 300 years of bondage in Egypt.

But some close readings of the Bible show that the Passover was actually established by Moses before that deliverance—the exodus—even happens.

“It is as though the miracle happens primarily so that it can be remembered,” writes one scholar, and you can’t help but think that he’s right. We have a need to remember, and in Easter we satisfy that need.

It was during Passover in 30 AD that Christ was crucified under the order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, with the Jewish high priests accusing Jesus of “blasphemy.”

It’s traditional to eat hot cross buns on Good Friday. The pastry cross on top of the buns symbolizes the cross on which Jesus was killed.

Whatever you may be facing this week—and whatever you believe—remember that in three short days, the disciples and family of Christ went from hopelessness to hopeful; from devastation to celebration; from defeat to victory. Because of the cross and the tomb, we have a hope in Christ. May you, in this way or another, have a hope of your own. ♦

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Doesn't believe that CO2 is harmful It is sadly amusing to see our federal government impose another tax based upon poor, non-existent, or poorly researched information about any negative effects of CO2. On the contrary, we are carbon-based lifeforms totally dependent upon enough CO2 in our atmosphere to provide all green plants with this essential nutrient to produce the food we all depend on.

Surely most Canadians realize that CO2 makes up only about 0.04 % of our atmosphere.

We eat plants and/or consume the animals that eat plants, like cattle. Even though some profess the vegan lifestyle and depend on plants for their very life, the rest of us also consume products from plant-eating animals. So we all need our share of the precious-little

Gypsy moth spray bears no comparison to poisons cited

0.04% of CO2 found in our air!

And yet our federal government has been led to believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant! Or is it because they want to have another excuse to spend another portion of our earnings that they believe that they can spend better than we can. Another governmental mass delusion?

Who are they listening to?

Who are the people that that they are trusting?

Name withheld Fonthill Editor’s note: Presumably the federal government is listening to and trusting climatologists and other scientists who, after decades of research, have concluded that human-caused pollution is the greatest threat to the planet, and to our species’ survival. The oversimpli-

fied myth that “CO2 is plant food, therefore more is better” is particularly dangerous, having been widely propagandized by far-right, oil industry-friendly climate change deniers. Here are the facts: Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon comprise 99% of earth’s atmosphere. None of these gasses absorbs light or heat. Carbon dioxide—CO2— does. That’s why it’s called a Greenhouse Gas. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the warmer the earth becomes. Global warming has brought heatwaves, floods, monster storms, droughts, ocean acidification and sea-level rise, and threatens widespread species extinction. Whether or not a carbon tax is a particularly efficient way to reduce carbon output is open to debate. However, the harmful consequences of CO2 emissions are inarguably established. We pretend otherwise at our grandchildren’s peril.

The library is worth funding Library access is essential. Libraries provide a communal space.

Libraries create a sense of belonging to the community. Libraries level the playing field for every age group, ethnicity, income group and physical ability. Libraries provide a safe and supportive environment. Libraries provide an opportunity to network and socialize. Libraries offer technology info and digital materials to support literacy. Our libraries offer important pathways to social service resources and community events. Libraries preserve the facts, history and the truth.

Pelham Library offers many programs, including bridge, book clubs, technology, art classes and displays, as well as various print newspapers and magazines. Authors are invited to discuss their books. Book sales take place to share the love of the printed word.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

"Live somewhere else...and leave nature to those of us who are not afraid of it."

This appears to be the premise of David Love's message [“Keep the spray away,” Letters, April 10, p. 5] regarding the decimation of our trees in this town due to the severe infestation of the "gypsy moth/tent caterpillars," but tent caterpillars are not part of this equation.

Lets separate fact from fantasy.

I have lived in this town for more than 40 years and the Town of Pelham has never asked its residents to vote to ban “cosmetic sprays,” whatever “cosmetic sprays” means. If this is an attempt to coin a new phrase, expect pushback from the billion-dollar cosmetic industry.

It is interesting how the writer has attempted to place Foray 48B in the same category as RoundUp, Cygon, and DDT. Foray 48B is not toxic and is not a pesticide. It is a biological insecticide and is it not harmful to people, dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles, or insects such as honeybees, beetles, or spiders, and has been reg-

istered for use in Canada for about 40 years, according to Health Canada, and it is now the most widely used pest control product in the world.

The writer asks, “Is the potential harm justified?” Thousands of hectares just in the Niagara Peninsula have been decimated due to the severe infestation of the gypsy moth.

We want to enjoy our town, our trees, their beauty, their shade, their canopy and their environmental benefits.

When was the last time you have seen a live elm tree, if ever? Dutch elm disease killed them all.

“The concern is esthetic and the methods heavy handed.” Really! Have you not heard of the cleansing effect trees have on the environment? You must be whiffing the odour coming from the grow-ops here in Pelham.

As gypsy moth infestation and defoliation becomes SEVERE, I’ll rely on the experts and the 40 years of safe, effective methods to control them.

Don't tell us to, “Live somewhere else and leave nature to those of us who are not afraid of it.”

Frank Feeley Fonthill

Moth damage not merely "cosmetic" The work of the many library volunteers is appreciated, however neither they nor all the library fundraising will fill the gaping monetary hole.

Without funding our libraries may have to reduce available hours, staff and current material.

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Or, as Walter Cronkite stated, "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap."

Before we moved here I made a list of requirements. The library was second on the list. People who move here predicate their decisions on resources including libraries for the above-mentioned reasons.

Louise Morgan Fonthill

In response to the letter "Keep the spray away" from the April 10 Voice, I must call this an overreaction. To describe gypsy moth damage as a cosmetic problem is laughable and frankly insulting to what we have experienced over the last few years. These insects are not native to our ecosystem, and left unchecked will kill a 60' oak tree in as little as two to three years if defoliation of said tree is really high year after year.

Try paying for the removal of one of these trees on your property. Not to men-

tion it's a sad thing to watch when a tree that previously had lots of life left needs to come down because of disease. I met people who have done this because of this infestation. I must ask if you went to the open house to get information before just assuming this is a cosmetic issue and people are just whining. I guess you didn't so I'll fill you in a bit.

The product proposed is not considered an insecticide but a naturally occurring bacteria targeting foliage-eating caterpillars.

Once this is ingested by

the gypsy moth caterpillar during feeding, they simply stop eating and eventually starve. The product does not instantly kill on contact like traditional pesticides/ insecticides.

You may still have your suspicions that this is a derivative of Agent Orange or something like that, but there have been many new environmentally friendlier and creative developments with pest control. Mentioning RoundUp, Cygon, and DDT as comparisons... reSee SPRAY Page 14

Bandshell Summer Concert series announced

BY VOICE STAFF After wading through hundreds of possibilities, the Fonthill Bandshell Summer Concert Series selection committee has come up with its program of musical entertainment for its 14th season.

The 2019 lineup features 12 performances between June 20 and September 5, from Juno-award-winning entertainers and musicians hailing from Niagara, nearby Hamilton, the GTA, and as far away as Ottawa.

The series opens June 20 with Surfin Safari, a tribute to the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, Jan & Dean, Frankie Avalon, and the Ventures. Juno award-winners Monkeyjunk bring their blues to the bandshell June 27, and the series continues each Thursday night with tribute acts for a variety of genres and eras of music. Along the way audiences will hear Motown, disco, soul, country, and swing, as well as old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll, including tributes to Paul McCartney and Journey.

Sponsorships help make the series possible, helping offset the cost of a professional sound system and musician fees. Other costs are covered by a one-time annual donation option, as well as collections made each week during the concerts.

Each Thursday evening concert begins at 7 PM. Free parking is available in various locations, and once again the evenings will include a Supper Market, which is adjacent to the Pelham Farmers Market. For detailed program information, visit: www.fonthillbandshell.com.

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Bandshell Committee members review this season's program.

June 20: Surfin Safari, sponsored by Lookout Ridge Retirement Community June 27: Monkeyjunk (blues), sponsored by Professional Referral Group July 4: Disco Fever,

sponsored by Peter Pipers Pubhouse July 11: Matchedash Parish (New Orleans style), sponsored by Flett Beccario July 18: Motown Gold, sponsored by Sobeys Fonthill

July 25: Hey Stella (country), sponsored by Pedlar Funeral Home Aug. 1: Soular (funk, soul), sponsored by JSJ Insurance Aug. 8: Freedom Train (classic rock), sponsored by Rotary Club of

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Aug. 29: Eclectic Vinyl Orchestra (swing, jazz, dance), sponsored by Holy Trinity Anglican Church Sept. 7: Epic Journey (Journey tribute), sponsored by Meridian Credit Union

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More cannabis production coming

ANOTHER ROUND

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Above all, remember: It's precision, not power

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HAD TWO DEBATES about the philosophy of golf last week. At the end of a very cold and dark Monday night one of my group challenged me about my assertion that the golf swing is simple.

"How can you say this is simple?"

This is my reply.

In order to play golf you have to do essentially two things.

Generate some power, and deliver that power to where the ball is.

There are all kinds of ways of achieving this, but in order to be consistent enough not to be driven nuts you generally want to keep it simple. If you watch professional golf on telly at all, pay attention to these two things.

Number one: When they generate power (their back swing) notice how centered they stay. They take the club back many different ways, some more inside and flat, others more outside and upright, but they all stay very quiet at their core. They rotate around their spine. You don't see their hips doing a whole lotta Elvis stuff. Their heads, for the most part, stay very level, though they do tend to slide backwards a little as they turn their shoulders.

Why is this so important?

Well if you keep your power generation simple it makes it much easier to get back to the ball. One of the biggest errors made by analysts on television and in golf maga-

As your doctor says, it's good to be regular

zines is that when they talk about turning your shoulders to generate maximum power they fail to realize how this will be received by the viewer/reader. If players are told that they need to turn their shoulders 90 degrees from the set up position, they will attempt to do this whether they are built like Tiger Woods or Jabba the Hut. Tiger can rotate his shoulders that much without very much effort, whereas Jabba (a big hitter Jabba, but really wild) requires a fair bit more maneuvering, and a few key

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parts don't always end up where they should. Elbows bending, hips gyrating, wrists flopping.

If your size or flexibility don't allow you to achieve what you are told you should, as far as a back swing is concerned you often compensate by tilting, bending, sliding, or lurching. By trying to generate this extra power you generally just make it extremely difficult to return to your starting point with any regularity. As your doctor says, it is very good to be regular So my advice to this student, who happened to have great restrictions placed upon him by a bad back, was turn your shoulders— but only to the point you feel you can no longer do it simply.

When it feels like if you go any further it will take a great deal of effort, this is not a move likely to be easily repeated. Golf, remember, is not a game of power but a game of precision. If you have both, good for you. But if you have to choose between the two, ease off on the power until you can count on the precision.

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Health Canada last week gave the green light for CannTrust to increase cannabis production at its Fenwick grow operation. The move was essentially a regulatory formality after the Town of Pelham granted the company the necessary permits for

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continued from Page 3 cannabis production facility is consistent with accepted practices for these facilities, is consistent with provincial plans and policies, conforms to the Town’s Official Plan and that compatibility concerns expressed by residents can be addressed satisfactorily through a Site Plan Agreement,” the report read.

“The staff recommendation is a result of the comprehensive analysis of information and correspondence received during the file’s review,” Town of Pelham Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Marc MacDonald said in a statement to the Voice. “The report outlines the rationale for this recommendation.”

The ICB was put in place for one year and mandates a moratorium on cannabis expansion in Pelham. Leviathan’s competitor CannTrust was able to circumvent it last year because its application to expand its facility was

a 36,000-sq. m. expansion in January.

“With this approval, CannTrust is set to meet its plan to reach 50,000 kg of annualized capacity at the perpetual harvest greenhouse and continue providing award-winning products in a cost-effective manner,” the company’s CEO, Peter Aceto, said in a statement obtained

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Updates to CannTrust’s original greenhouse are believed to be complete. The new greenhouse is expected to be finished next year.

The company’s purchase of land southwest of its existing facility for the expansion angered a handful of nearby

submitted before the bylaw’s passing. The ICB expires on October 15.

Leviathan challenged the rule because it wants to get its operation up and running as soon as possible.

“This [interim control bylaw] is perverse in a sense,” Leviathan CEO Martin Doane told a packed, skeptical public meeting on the issue in February, saying his company is losing millions of dollars a week without shovels in the ground in Fenwick.

“The hundreds of people here tonight have legitimate complaints about what’s going on [with local cannabis producers], but your complaint isn’t with us. From day one, we’ve intended, and will execute, in delivering a fundamentally different solution.”

Among other promises, Doane said that Leviathan’s indoor cannabis grow-op will be near-airtight because it will be a sealed building with a skylight, as opposed to a more porous greenhouse.

Assuming council rejects the staff recommendation, the decision would be seen as a small victory for local residents opposed to rapid expansion of cannabis production. The Town’s previous council was caught off guard by an explosion in the industry ahead of the federal government legalizing cannabis. The Niagara Region is provides a prime, proven growing climate and strategic access to the Golden Horseshoe’s 10 million potential customers.

Pelham’s current mayor and council say they are working on new bylaws for cannabis producers that will be ready when the current ICB expires. On April 1, they approved plans for a “Cannabis Control Committee,” made up mostly of Pelham residents.

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The overarching question: rebuild?

Summerfest Committee and Rotary say yes; Town Council will decide

BY KATHRYN HRYCUSKO

Special to the VOICE

Few were surprised when a portion of the arches gracing the entrance to Pelham Town Square collapsed during a windstorm this past February. The arches, which had become a symbol of the town in the time that they stood, had already exceeded their life expectancy by several years.

Initially built for Summerfest 2012, the arches were designed to stand for the duration of the festival and be disassembled afterwards to be moved to another location, such as a park, for a few months longer.

Todd Barber, the arches’ designer, recalled how the feature was brought to life.

“We brainstormed on what would be something that could be built by volunteers, cost the least amount of money, and be erected and in one day and then disassembled the next day,” he said in an interview with the Voice last week.

From the start, public opinion anecdotally indicated that residents were inter-

ested in keeping the arches in place for a longer period of time.

“They were such a big hit,” said local business owner Frank Adamson, a Rotarian and Summerfest Committee member. Adamson is leading an effort to get the arches rebuilt.

The town council of the time also voiced its admiration for the arches, recalled Barber, most notably when he presented councillors with a scale model before their construction.

“They got so excited that the member of council there went back, grabbed the rest of council and everybody in power at the Town and said, ‘How do we keep these?’” he said.

Barber said he told council that given they were made only of plywood, the arches would perhaps last five years at most, before an alternative would need to be thought of.

In the end, they were left in place and remained standing for nearly six and a half years.

The arches in their former summer glory.

During this time the Town monitored their condition, repainting them a couple of times. Last June, it became clear that plans for reconstruction or refinishing needed to be made as the structure had begun to deteriorate and grow fungus in some parts.

Aware of this need, the Summerfest Committee met last year to discuss possible solutions to extend their longevity, chief among them the idea of enclosing the

plywood.

“We were going to recover them with some marine grade plywood and have the plywood electrically painted. We thought it'd give it another ten years,” said Bill Gibson, Chair of the Summerfest Committee.

This idea was critiqued by Mark Shoalts, an engineer who had been directly involved with the arches’ construction, in a letter he wrote to the Voice last October.

“I have serious concerns

that the proponents of this [preservation plan] do not understand the difficulties in accomplishing this and the inherent danger it poses,” Shoalts wrote, calling the plan to permanently waterproof the structure “an impossible task.”

This particular debate however, became immaterial in February when the winds of change blew in.

“Mother Nature had another thing in store for us,” Gibson said.

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Frank Adamson said that the Rotary Club is keen to see them go back up.

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A Little Book About Us

O

UR CHILDHOOD DEFINES OUR PERSONA LIT Y. It shapes who we become. When Vilma Moretti had grandchildren, she realized that her childhood and theirs were worlds apart. They had absolutely no idea what life was like for Vilma when she was their age. Theirs was a world of computers, iPods, cellphones, texting, Instagram, and YouTube. Vilma thought that when they were grown they might be interested to know what it was like for other generations to grow up. She started collecting recollections—her own, and those of some of the many people she met every day while running Keith’s Restaurant, her family’s business at the intersection of Pelham Street and Highway 20, in Fonthill. The result was, “A Little Book About Us,” published in 2009, from which this series is excerpted. Keith’s is gone, but the stories remain.

For our inaugural entry this week, we present three generations from the same family: Mother, daughter, and granddaughter, and an epilogue.

Mary Louise Grant, born 1930, Thorold

My school is a big square brick building. There are two floors and a basement. It has a very big playground. The boys have to go in one door and the girls in the door at the other side of the school. The boys and girls do not play together.

Everyone gathers in the centre of the school. Some students are on the second floor in the balconies. We sing God Save the King, a hymn and recite the Lord’s Prayer.

Announcements are made and we quietly file off to our classrooms.

One announcement repeated often is “Please do not walk on Mrs. McManamy’s rail fence.” We have eight rooms and only single ladies can teach us and the principal has to teach Grade 8.

We play allies at recess and many

other games such as “Red Rover come over,” and in the autumn we make leaf houses. We have many horse chestnut trees and elm trees.

We make rooms with couches and chairs and sweep our floors with a broom (which is really a plant). Every once in awhile the boys come after school and break them up.

Cold and rainy days we stay in the basement and play games. We learn by rote and discipline. You have no noise in our school and no running in the halls.

In 1939 the Second World War broke out. We are making an afghan for our war effort and collect tinfoil and roll it into big balls. We buy War Stamps at 25 cents apiece. We have to have coupons for our sugar, meat and tea.

We have a radio for entertainment. We never heard of TV or com-

puters. There are very few cars in Thorold and airplanes are a novelty. We would look to the sky if we heard a small plane go over and say, “Look, look, a plane!” We have a show in town. For 10 cents we can go Saturday afternoon and see two movies, news, a cartoon and a serial.

Our town is very small—about 4000 people. We do not lock our doors. All children can walk anywhere and be safe. We have a milkman that goes door-to-door. He has a horse and the horse knows just which house to stop at. We have a junk man with a horse-drawn wagon. We sell him old papers that we collected from friends so we can buy War Stamps at school. This way we do not get a black mark on our report card for not saving money.

We have to be in our house by nine o’clock because there is a curfew and the police enforce it.

We have no fridge and all we have is an icebox. It looks like a fridge, but you have to open the top and put in a big block of ice (25 cents) and a pipe goes down the back, and when the ice melts the water goes into a pan and we have to empty it.

We have the library and I love it. We have to be very quiet—no talking—and do not destroy the books or else!

Everyone does not have a farm to go to, but I do. Five blocks up Sullivan Avenue is the end of Thorold Town and my grandparents have little farm. They have chickens, cows, horses and pigs. They also have fruit. I pick raspberries in the summer and get paid the going

rate—1 ½ cents per quart box.

I watch my grandfather milk the few cows he has. Then my grandmother puts the milk in the separator and bottles it up and sells it. She churns the cream into butter and makes cottage cheese from the buttermilk and they drink some of the buttermilk.

Chickens—they are so interesting. My grandfather has an incubator in the basement and my grandmother raised chickens for a few years. She had to take the trays, full of eggs, out of the incubator and turn them every day. One day, I was there and she told me to go down to the cellar and look in the window of the incubator. Sure enough—there were cracks in the eggs and soon out emerged little chicks. So cute!

Then they had to be transferred to a huge box on the front porch with a big light in it for warmth. I like to watch the chicks running around and peeping and eating. But alas, they soon grew too big for the box and had to go to the chicken coop.

I am allowed to go up in the silo with my grandfather and shovel down the silage for the pigs. As the silage supply decreased over the winter we got near to the ground and didn’t have to climb up the ladder.

In the summer, I ride on the hay wagon and on the manure spreader when Grandpa goes to the field to spread this good fertilizer on the ground. When I do this, my mother says to me, “MaryLou, leave your shoes on the porch. You have been in the barn again.” I have only one pair of shoes, you know.

Those pigs—the sow had so many piglets one time she couldn’t feed them all so, of course, Gramma got two and she put them in a box and fed them with a baby bottle until they got big enough to go back to the barn. (I have a beautiful picture of her feeding one piglet while the other sat at her feet waiting for his supper.)

My grandparents went to oneroom schools. Grampa did a fouryear education and my Gramma, nine years. Grampa went to school only when he had nothing else to do, so he said. My grandmother got an extra year because the teacher was working his way through for a Minister and he had to earn money, so he taught Gramma Grade 9.

This was rare in rural areas. Most children went to Grade 8 and then to work.

Lori Crysler, born 1962, Fonthill

My parents were Orlin and Mary Louise Crysler. I was the youngest of six children, and we were all really close in age. I was raised in Fonthill, and attended Fonthill Public School. I am going to tell you some of the ways things were for a ten-year-old in the early 1970s.

I don't remember any buses going to my public school. They were for the older grades. I lived a mile and a half away from school, and I sometimes got rides but I mainly walked or rode my bike.

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continued from previous page one did. You didn't have to.

I didn't carry a backpack— no one did. I either carried my books or put them in the really big basket in the front of my bike. I didn't lock my bike when I got to school— no one did. I just parked it in the bike rack and walked into school. The school supplied all of your school supplies, and the class sizes were around 30 kids or more—yet there was order.

We played tag at recess. We also played on teeter-totters and swings with the big wooden seats on them.

We tobogganed a lot in the snow. I remember leaving my toboggan at the school for the winter.

Grade 4 was the first year I took French in school. It had become compulsory recently. We had spelling bees and math challenges every Friday. Most kids went home for lunch, but I stayed.

I carried a brown lunch bag to school every day. There were no calculators or computers. I had to go to the library and take out books to find out information because there was no internet.

Stedman’s was my favourite store to shop in. I often went skating at the outdoor rink in the winter, and swimming at the park pool in the summer. I could go by myself; there was always someone I knew there to play with.

I remember my brothers offering me 25 cents to bike uptown (1-1/2 miles) and I would do it often. I could ride my bike uptown or down the road all by myself.

I could go to a friend's house after school if I wanted to, as long as I was home for supper. Everyone in Fonthill pretty much knew who everyone was then. You definitely could not get away with doing anything wrong. I knew where everyone in my class lived, and visited many of their homes.

In my home we never said

The Voice of Pelham, April 17 2019 “I'm bored,”or you would be given some work to do. If I wasn't working around the house or around the farm, I was playing. I usually played outside. We played a lot and there were six of us, so team games were easy.

We also loved board games and cards if it was raining.

I remember at ten I was a little young to go out to work in the fields, so I worked in the barn, mostly making boxes.

My most favourite thing from my childhood was that most mornings my dad would go up town to Keith's Restaurant for his morning coffee. He would get almost to his truck to get in and then he’d whistle at me to come with him. I would run as fast as I could and get in the truck. I loved going to Keith's with my dad.

In 1972, there were no Tim Hortons in Fonthill. Keith's Restaurant was packed at 10:00 in the morning with the people of Fonthill, and I was there in the midst of them. I would hop up to the counter and sit on the orange stool and spin. I would always order a chocolate milk (white milk with syrup stirred in) and a Long John donut (when they still put whipped cream inside), and listen to all the people talk.

I was so happy to sit beside my dad and listen to all their conversations. Quite often they would swear and almost everyone seemed to be smoking. I loved it when Vilma would wave at me from the little window to the kitchen.

I really liked when Mike the milkman came down our road too. We could charge chocolate milk to our parents' account. He delivered milk right to our house every week. We sometimes ordered groceries from Klager’s Food Market, which was across from Keith’s. They would deliver them right to our house and we could charge them to our account. I really enjoyed being a ten year old in Fonthill.

Fonthill was a great place to live and still is.

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Hannah Terpstra, born 2002, Fonthill

(Written at age 6, in 2008, while living in Leamington, ON.) I have my birthday and Christmas close together, so I just had lots of fun. I have a brother Nick (24), a sister Stephanie (21), a brother Jeremy (16), a mom (45), a dad (46), and a brand new puppy named Maxine who isn’t even one yet. I love her and want you to know she has blue eyes.

My mommy asked me what it is like for me, at six in 2008, at home and at school. This is what I told her. I go to school at Margaret D. Bennie School in Leamington. I go every Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Friday. I go all day.

Some days I go to school, and some days I stay home with my mom. I love every day.

School days are great because I get to ride the bus. I love the bus. It picks me right up in front of my house and takes me to school. There is a monitor named Margaret, she is in Grade 8, who makes sure I get to my class okay. I am in senior kindergarten. Next year I go all day every day because I am in Grade 1. In school I get to play with my friends. I am in a class with 13 other children and I like them all. We do all kinds of activities. We have gym class, and computer class. I like computer class the best because we have one computer in our classroom that we share, but in computer class I get one all by myself. We have really fun activities to do on the computer. I stay for lunch. We eat together in our classroom. I really like my teacher, Mrs McKeller. She is very nice to me. I have fun all day long and then I get to ride the bus home. My mom is waiting for me on the street to see me into the house. Some days my brother Jeremy is waiting for me. Someone has to, or they won't let me off the bus.

Safety first!!!

I also really like the days I stay at home too. I do all kinds of fun things at home.

I am my mom's little helper. I help her do all kinds of

Centre, mom Mary Lou; left, daughter Lori; right, granddaughter Hannah, at her Grade 8 graduation, 2016.

TERPSTRA FAMILY PHOTO things. We bake together. I even invented my own cookie recipe. We put all kinds of goodies in them. My mom let me name them too. I called them Hannah's MishMash Goodie Cookies. Everyone loves them. Mom says they should because they are basically candy. I also am getting really good at mashing potatoes. I love to learn to do the things that Mom does, and my mom loves to bake and

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More pickup delays Latest trash collection woes blamed on staffing issues

BY JOHN CHICK

Special to the VOICE

The Niagara Region’s latest problem with garbage collection contractor Emterra was blamed on staffing issues last week. That differed somewhat from previous collection delays, most of which have been blamed on broken-down garbage trucks.

“They had a number of people on Monday that called in [sick],” said Catherine Habermebl, the Region’s Acting Commissioner of Public Works, on Friday. “They also have a number of people are off on long-term right now.

They only had 58 trucks out on Monday, and they probably need around 68.”

In south Fonthill, Monday’s collection of brown-bagged yard waste didn’t happen until mid-

PRECISION

continued from Page 8 swing assessment. He felt, however, the down swing with the weight shift, and the pulling with the left, and the pushing with the right, and the un-cocking of the wrists, and all that jazz, was the hardest part to remember.

At this point I asked if he had played baseball in his

day Tuesday. From those delays on Monday, the problem created a domino effect through the week.

On Thursday, the trash wasn’t picked up on its scheduled day in parts of Fonthill.

By then, the Niagara Region website was advising residents that all collection was delayed by at least a day.

On Friday, Habermebl said that Emterra was able to get relief thanks to bringing in eight trucks from Peel Region.

North Pelham resident John Newlove normally has his garbage collected on Tuesdays.

When it hadn’t been picked up by Wednesday night, he contacted both the Region and the Voice.

“Imagine going to Tim Horton’s

glory days. Yes, in fact, he had, at quite a high level it turned out.

"So when you grew up playing baseball, how many times did you think about how you were swinging the bat?"

A moment of pondering.

"None", came the reply.

"How many times did a coach ever tell you to shift your weight or un-cock your wrists?"

Delayed pickup last week on Strathcona Drive, Fonthill. and them telling you, ‘We can’t give you coffee, our coffee maker is broken. Come back later,’” Newlove wrote in an email.

He was happy to discover, however, that the next day a Region employee came by his house to take his complaint—then removed Newlove’s trash and that

"Never."

"Is it harder to hit a moving baseball with a round club or a stationary golf ball with a flat club?"

"Baseball.”

So let this be the second thing you notice when watching professional golf: Get the hell out of your way and let yourself swing the damned golf club.

The vast majority of golfers make great practice

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“He’s a great guy. I really appreciated that,” Newlove said, noting he was going away for a week and didn’t want to leave the rotting garbage out. “But the system’s a mess.”

Not as fortunate were most

swings which proves they already know how to accomplish the task physically.

They need someone to help them understand this and help them to allow the ball to get in the way of their abilities.

I have absolutely no problem getting students to grasp and understand the physics of the golf swing.

Getting them to undergo the lobotomy so as to stop clogging up the brainwaves sometimes takes a little

longer. (Now that the feds have legalized the marijuana plant my job should be a lot easier. The Mary Jane is for the students, not me, by the way.)

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believe it or not, is more realistic and careful about which ones he tries. I've blathered on long enough about this topic that I can save the other debate for another week, though here’s the gist.

The other debate was with an older gentleman who came in looking for a particular training aid. He had decided he was going to start teaching golf and stated emphatically you could not teach the game without the use of this aid.

This was news to me since I've taught thousands upon thousands of lessons over the last 20 years and used this said aid for about six of them before I tossed it, because as many students found it as confusing as helpful. If there was one way to play golf and one teaching aid which would allow everyone to achieve this "way,” the sport would have died out before it left the Scottish fields being played with sticks and sheep dung.

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“What the **** is going on?

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Strathcona Drive resident Adam Metz asked Friday morning, a few hours before his garbage was finally picked up, a day late.

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continued from Page 1 David Siegel, a professor of political science at Brock University, recently published a policy brief, “Under the Knife and Under the Gun: An Overview of Regional Government in Niagara,” devoted to laying out the facts regarding what the reviews entailed.

“The purpose of this policy brief is to present factual information about Niagara’s current system of local government along with some analysis that can be used in the discussions that will be taking place over the next months,” writes Siegel.

The article also includes a section on amalgamation, presenting both positive and negative points. Referencing the municipal amalgamations that occurred in 1998-2002 (in Haldimand, Norfolk, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Greater Sudbury), Siegel writes, “It might be possible that some amalgamation will result in cost savings. However, there seems no evidence that this has yet occurred. The proponents of amalgamations as a cost-saving mechanism should bear a significant burden of proof.”

However, Siegel also says that amalgamation could have positive changes including allowing Niagara to speak with one voice and benefiting the delivery of certain services.

“Amalgamation would eliminate the competition between area municipalities to enhance their tax base and would allow for the creation of one economic development agency representing the entire region.”

The potential for the amalgamation of Niagara’s municipalities featured as a prominent topic during Saturday’s Town Hall meeting. Attendees were invited

The Voice of Pelham, April 17 2019 to voice their opinions and speak with Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff.

“The goal of this review is to help ensure that regional governments are working harder, smarter, and more efficiently,” said Oosterhoff, reminding attendees that, “The outcomes of the review are not predetermined. No, decisions have been made.”

“This is your turn to speak up.

I'm your representative,” said Mayor Junkin. “You tell me what you want to see down the road.

I will convey that to the Region and the provincial government.”

Several individuals accepted Oosterhoff and Junkin’s invitations, taking to the podium to convey their thoughts, many of them focusing on amalgamation, in particular its possible effects on services and allocation of tax money. Many agreed that change needed to be seen on some level in order to better organize and deliver services that are currently provided by both regional and municipal governments.

“What I see happening in the Niagara Region is redundancies when we look at things like municipal works, water services, development fees, things that affect us as the public,” said Fort Erie business owner Bill Marr.

“I think that if we streamline those programs we could definitely utilize those ones better. Do we need a whole bunch of separate municipal works to take care of the city and then the take care of the Region, or could we amalgamate those services into one headquarters and divert funds equally for those areas?”

Marr used snow plows as an example, pointing out that at times a Regional plow will drive down a snow-covered road to get to another but will not plow it

because it is a municipal road.

“It's about tremendous opportunity to make something better here in Niagara,” said resident Stephen Kaiser. “We are heavily regionalized already and I think it's a tremendous opportunity for us to bring economic development together.”

Regional Councillor Diana Huson said in a later interview that amalgamation could be beneficial in some ways, though she did not see it as a fix-all solution.

“I do believe that there's room for improvement and how governance in Niagara occurs,” said Huson. “In terms of amalgamation, I think that there are some definite benefits in clarifying the roles of some of the responsibilities between and municipalities in the Region.”

Others, though in agreement that change needed to be made, were unwilling to jump on the idea of amalgamation and regional governance as a solution.

“If we're going to pay 45% to the local municipality,” said Grimsby Councillor Dave Sharpe, “50% of the Regional municipality, I'd rather see 75% stay in local municipalities and have the people who were elected in that area make the decision on how to spend that money. If we're going to amalgamate services, I'd like to see them amalgamated locally.”

Others were worried that Regional governance might result in negative changes to the communities of Niagara.

Resident Nick Lancione expressed concern that jobs would be affected by amalgamation.

“My concern here is that the government is actually cutting jobs,” he said. “We're talking about amalgamating, about bringing a bunch of staff together for one Region and losing a whole

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Another prominent concern, voiced in particular by attendees from rural areas, was that Regional governance would result in an uneven distribution of resources and services relative to the amount of taxes paid. Theoretically, under Regional governance, taxes would be equivalent across the Region, meaning that a rural town such as Wainfleet would pay the same as St. Catharines for services but possibly have less access to them.

“Whether one Niagara is a solution or not I don't know,” said Diana Huson, “because the problem with a one Niagara solution is that all of the taxation would level out across Niagara.

The problem with that is our rural communities would be paying for services that realistically they don't have access to. Also the municipalities that have debt issues would also be shared among communities that currently don't have that issue. So there are a number of issues in terms of the shared responsibilities.”

This worry of uneven distribution also extends to the matter of fair representation under Regional governance.

“If we were to change the size of councils strictly based on population,” said Huson, “rural communities specifically would lose positions at council. Wainfleet only has one representative. If we looked at it based on population, they wouldn't be there at all. They would be the only municipality without a member. West Lincoln, Lincoln, Pelham—all smaller communities that have a significant rural population or rural base would lose out.”

A solution for such an issue

might be weighted voting, where instead of there being a number of Regional council members relative to the population of a municipality, each would have one council member, but the votes of councillors of larger municipalities would carry more weight.

These changes are far from decided however, and much debate and research must still take place before a final decision can be made.

“I'm not exactly a big proponent of just quickly giving power to the Region,” said Steven Soos, who lost a bid to last October to become mayor of Welland. “Unfortunately over the past few years, the Region has had issues with managing labor, managing bids and tenders. They have a lot of problems with a spending billions of dollars on botched projects. We have to get that house in order before we start bringing other departments. So it has to be done very carefully if it's going to be implemented.”

The overwhelming message from those in attendance was that, regardless of their current position, they wished to be included in any further debate that takes place on the issue. The Saturday session was an opportunity for residents to express their views—many hoped that in the future another meeting would present information and studies the government had done on the topic.

“The only thing I'm asking is, that I'd like to see, once we do have your party’s stats, is how much it's going to cost to make this amalgamation,” said Nick Lancione.

“That we can meet again and actually see that, and see what the budgets are, the figures are, so that we can make a better and more informed decision.”

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Erica Commons, a candidate who was vying for the Niagara West Liberal nomination in this year’s federal election, has dropped out of the race.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce I will no longer be seeking the Federal Liberal nomination for the riding of Niagara West,” Commons said in a statement. “A major reason why I wanted to seek the nomination was that I saw a lack of female representation in federal politics from all four federal ridings in Niagara. This still needs to change, and I hope that I have motivated other individuals to raise their hands to run in the future.”

Niagara hasn’t elected a female federal member to parliament in over 25 years.

It’s not known if the SNC-Lavalin scandal swirling around the governing Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau played a part in Commons’ decision. The St. Catharines native did not respond to a request for further comment.

Commons’ departure leaves Grimsby lawyer Ian Bingham as the only known Liberal candidate vying for the Niagara West nomination.

With or without the current scandal in Ottawa, the Liberals face long odds in trying to unseat five-term incumbent Conservative MP Dean Allison. A Liberal hasn’t represented Pelham federally since after the 1993 election, when the town was part of the since-abolished Erie riding.

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Can't really entertain your friends or family with a summer BBQ with this going on. We just shut summer down at our place. I had to power wash for three weekends straight to clean this mess up because this stuff stained everything. I'm not sure if I speak for everyone experiencing this but I know many of my neighbors are dealing with the same issues I have. This is a real problem just like the emerald ash borer killing all the ash trees across Canada.

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People just don't see it. You should take a look around after the trees leaf out this spring. There are dead ash trees everywhere now. I've read that almost 40% of our trees in North America will be gone from this other invasive insect when it runs its course.

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continued from page 11 house right behind our home. I can visit him whenever I want to. When he comes home from work we eat supper, and then most of the time he plays with me. I love when he plays snakes and ladders with me because I can beat him at that game. My dad is also a fireman for Leamington. He has taken me in the fire truck. He is very busy, but he always makes time for me. We go shopping together too. Every night at the end of my day, both my mom and my dad tuck me in. They both sing to me and pray with me. I like that. I have a pretty great life.

I have two grandmas, there is the one who knits a lot, and the one who gives us a home sometimes. My mom’s mom is the one who gives us a home sometimes.

I love to make cards for the people in Niagara and send them in our mailbox and I also send emails to them. I love our trips home to Niagara. We travel to our home-aw ay-from-home, Fonthill. I stay at my Grandma Crysler's house, where I have my own room and bed there. My best friend Sarah Stewart also lives in Niagara. Sarah’s mom and my mom were best friends when they were growing up and still are. One of my favourite places to visit while in Fonthill is Keith's Restaurant. I love their kiddie pancakes.

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The Voice of Pelham, April 17 2019

Epilogue

By Lori Crysler I have lived or worked in the Fonthill area most of my 57 years, except 2004 to 2010, when I lived in Leamington. I returned to Niagara in 2010, when my marriage ended in divorce.

My children and I moved in with my mother, Mary Lou Crysler, on Hollow Road. My mom had lived there for over 50 years. I started again to work at Keith's Restaurant as a waitress, and worked there until it closed in May 2017. I started to work at Sobeys, a job I love, since just as at Keith's both the customers and staff are like family to me.

In July 2010, my family moved in with my mom for three years. We enjoyed many things together—outings to St. John's Conservation Area, shopping, eating at Keith's, playing card games.

In 2013, I moved out of my mother’s home into our own home in North Welland. I love doing things with my family and friends in this community.

My mom moved out of her longtime country home in 2014. She has enjoyed living in the Fonthill area for over 60 years. She turns 89 this August, and now lives in a lovely apartment in Fonthill.

My mom loves playing cards, and spending time with her family, taking them out for dinner, especially at Keith's, which she still misses. My mom still drives and definitely doesn't look or act her age. Mom is all about family, and she takes excellent care of her ever-growing one.

My daughter, Hannah Terpstra, loved living in Leamington, but also loved living in the Fonthill area at her grandmother’s house.

Hannah started school at Glynn A. Green, and took both piano and swimming lessons in Fonthill. Hannah's favorite hangout was Keith’s. She worked there two days—once on Take Your Kid to Work Day, and on the day before it closed its doors. Hannah also loved St. John's Conservation Area, and it was one of her favorite places to take pictures.

Photography was one of her passions as were all the arts.

When we moved into our own home in 2013, Hannah started at Gordon School, and then onto Centennial High School. In 2017, she started working her first job, which she loved, at Beamsville Fish & Chips. She also loved Centennial, because it was a school that loved the arts. Hannah, like her grandmother and mother before her, was all about family.

Even at 16, she would choose to hang out with her family.

This past January 11, on her 17th birthday, Hannah’s health took a sudden, unexpected turn, and we lost her.

It was a great shock and a great loss to many of us.

I write here about three generations of women that loved family and this community. It was family and his community that are bringing us through this.

We will continue to keep the faith, love, and smile, as does Hannah from her beautiful home above. Thanks again to each and every one of you. ♦

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FORM 6 SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC TENDER Municipal Act, 2001 Ontario Regulation 181/03, Municipal Tax Sale Rules

SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC TENDER THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PELHAM Take Notice that tenders are invited for the purchase of the lands described below and will be received until 3:00 p.m. local time on May 15, 2019, at the Pelham Municipal Building, 20 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill, Ontario.

The tenders will then be opened in public on the same day as soon as possible after 3:00 p.m. at the Pelham Municipal Building, 20 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill.

Description of lands: Roll No. 27 32 010 016 12505; Foss Rd. NS; PIN 64029-0275(LT); Lot 21 N/S Ontario St Plan 703 Pelham except RO107119 & Part 1 59R8830; File No. 17-01 According to the last returned assessment roll, the assessed value of the land is $130,000 Minimum tender amount: $20,905.63 Roll No. 27 32 010 016 12510; PIN 64029-0272(LT); Part Lot 20 N/S Ontario St. Plan 703 Pelham as in RO112837 except RO107119 & Part 1 59R8830; File No. 17-02 According to the last returned assessment roll, the assessed value of the land is $109,000 Minimum tender amount: $23,356.29 Roll No. 27 32 030 017 14000; PIN 64400-0143(LT); Part Lot 4 Concession 14, Pelham as in RO523233; File No. 17-06 According to the last returned assessment roll, the assessed value of the land is $97,000 Minimum tender amount: $18,109.70 Tenders must be submitted in the prescribed form and must be accompanied by a deposit of at least 20 per cent of the tender amount, which deposit shall be made by way of a certified cheque/bank draft/ money order payable to the municipality.

The municipality makes no representation regarding the title to, crown interests or any other matters, relating to the land to be sold.

Responsibility for ascertaining these matters rests with the potential purchasers.

This sale is governed by the Municipal Act, 2001 and the Municipal Tax Sales Rules made under that Act. The successful purchaser will be required to pay the amount tendered plus accumulated taxes and any taxes that may be applicable, such as a land transfer tax and HST. The municipality has no obligation to provide vacant possession to the successful purchaser.

A copy of the prescribed form of tender is available on the website of the Government of Ontario Central Forms Repository under the listing for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.

For further information regarding this sale visit: www.OntarioTaxSales.ca or if no internet access available, contact: Victoria Bagshaw | Taxation Clerk The Corporation of the Town of Pelham 20 Pelham Town Square P.O. Box 400 Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0 905-892-2607 x338 vbagshaw@pelham.ca | www.pelham.ca

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The Voice of Pelham, April 17 2019

ARCHES

continued from Page 9 He also spoke to their utility. “For Summerfest, the service clubs, the Kinsmen, the Lions, and my club, Rotary, have always served beer and wine at those events. We know we appreciate them, the shade is there in the heat of the day when you're serving beer.”

Part of the original idea for the arches was that they would serve such a purpose—a location where people could meet during Summerfest, recalled Todd Barber.

“It was the idea of a place to gather and have a beer without being in the beer tent—a central focal point for why you're closing the streets. It needed to have some physicality, some scale and be central. The needs come up. We need shade, we need signage, and we needed to be able to furnish it and set it up.”

The arches provided all of these for the duration of Summerfest, and continued to do so in subsequent festivals such as Christmas Under the Arches.

Bill Gibson also mentioned the importance of the arches in establishing a public gathering space.

“The arches were put up as a temporary measure and they've seem to have created a public space in the town.”

Gibson thinks that this creation of a space where people can assemble and relax during the day, or before going out for dinner, will become even more important considering the increase in development in Pelham. With more people moving to live around the town centre, it is likely that they will use a public space. Gibson, like Adamson, is eager to see the arches return.

Beyond utility, the arches have become, for many, a landmark and

symbol specific to Pelham. Their image features on many websites about Pelham, brochures about events, and on the front of the Pelham Community Newsletter.

“They did become part of a place in that you knew you were going into town center when you saw the arches,” said Barber.

“They're kind of iconic to me,” said Adamson, “[They’re] reflective of Fonthill in particular now that they've been there for this amount of time.”

However, in March, an opinion poll run by the Voice suggested that not all Pelham residents share this enthusiasm to see the arches rebuilt. A small majority of 55% said they would like to see the arches return, with 64% of respondents saying that they were unwilling to donate even a single dollar to the project.

Despite only a small majority expressing interest in their resurrection, Adamson is confident that if another poll were to be conducted after a Summerfest without the arches, it would show different results.

“I think if you did a poll in the midst of Summerfest this year with them not there, the vast majority of people there are going to say, ‘Where are the arches?’” said Adamson.

He and Gibson are also optimistic that the arches can be rebuilt on private funding alone. Both the Rotary Club and Summerfest Committee are aware that the Town is unlikely to be forthcoming with any money, and that the majority of Pelham citizens are unlikely to wish to see their tax money go toward the cause.

The contingency fund that Summerfest had originally dedicated to the preservation of the arches will instead be put toward new ones. The Rotary Club also intends to donate a substantial amount of

money toward the reconstruction project. Adamson and Gibson both also said that Rotary, in conjunction with the Summerfest Committee, plans to hold events to raise the rest of the money.

“There are lots of companies that are doing very well in this community,” said Adamson. “I put my initial feelers out to people that can actually afford to do something significant and it is very positive.”

The plan to use the same design as the original arches would also be a cost-saving factor.

“The lighting is already there and that can go back up and the design is already done. So you're not paying someone to design something new. That helps to keep the costs down,” said Adamson. “The cement pillars that they rest on are still there, they're salvaged and they can be used. So that just helps to keep the costs down to save money.”

The current proposal being put forth is that although the same design and bases would be used, the arches would be made out of glulam—timber that has been glued and laminated to form a durable and thick beam, capable of stand-

ing for a long period of time.

“Glulam is used often for outdoor structures and has a long history,” said Barber, “It has been in use for outdoor structures since the ‘50s.”

Barber estimates that if made with glulam, the arches could last close to 20 years with only an occasional refinishing.

Although the main design and footprint of the arches is proposed to be kept, there are some changes that have been suggested.

“We're going to incorporate wiring in the arches so that we can have lighting— so we won't have pipes and stuff on the outside of the arches,” said Gibson.

He also said that there was some thought to raise the height of the arches in order to allow more traffic to pass under them, specifically trucks that exceeded the previous height restrictions of the old design.

Barber however was unsure of the practicality of the change to the height of the structure.

“If you make it taller it's a bigger lever. You’re going to need different foundations,” said Barber. “So yeah, they could build it taller, but that would also involve a redesign

and reengineering.”

As of yet, no specific design is finalized, and Gibson said that proponents of the rebuild hope to receive input from the community in the coming months.

“We also want to make sure that everybody sees it before we build it, and we'll offer people an opportunity to comment on this as well.”

Pelham residents will have an opportunity to do so, as a scale model is planned and will be displayed in a window front near the location of the past arches, with a donation bucket and comment bucket next to it.

While plans are being brainstormed for design and funding, whether or not the plan to rebuild the arches come to fruition remains to be seen. The project hinges on Town Council’s approval. The arches would stand on Town property, and would have to be covered

by Town insurance policies.

Adamson and Gibson were to meet with council on Monday, after the Voice went to press, to present their case for the rebuilding. Both men expressed an assumption that council would decide immediatelt whether the project could move forward.

Councillor John Wink, who is also a member of the Summerfest Committee, said otherwise.

“I don’t believe council has any position on the arches at this point in time,” said Wink. “There’s some additional work that has to be done with respect to their proposal, so I’m not sure council’s going to be ready [to make a decision].”

One thing is certain. Regardless of how early council makes a decision, there will be no arches for this year’s Summerfest. The earliest they might be up, following a decision by council, fundraising, and construction, is January or February of next year, at least in time for Summerfest 2020.

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Animal rights protesters again target NOTL carriages

BY PENNY COLES

Niagara Independent News Association With the start of tourism season and a busy Queen Street in Niagara-on-the-Lake Saturday came protesters, with a new twist to their efforts to stop the use of horse-drawn carriages in town.

Also on the street to defend a popular, community-minded business were members of Locals for Carriages, offering support to the family who has been providing horse and carriage rides through the Old Town for the last 30 years.

It was business as usual, said Laura Sentineal, as their carriages lined up along King Street outside the Prince of Wales Hotel.

Sentineal Carriages had weddings booked, reservations for tours, and carriages waiting for tourists who decided on a spur-ofthe-moment tour on a warm, sunny day in NOTL. This time last year, in response to the protests, on the advice of police and hoping for a safe day for all, Sentineal decided to keep her horses off the street, “Not this year,” she said. “That was just one day, and it will never happen again.”

Her husband Fred, dressed in an elegant black suit and preparing for work, chatted for a few minutes before climbing into a carriage and taking off on a tour.

The fact that it was such a busy day, and carriages weren’t sitting idle, she said, “reminds me of why we’re doing this.”

But without the pre-bookings, she added, “It’s hard to say” what impact the protesters would have had on business.

While supporters set up early at the corner of Queen and King Streets, the protesters tried a different tactic from last year, spreading out along Queen Street.

There were eight of them stationed at each intersection along the main street, avoiding direct contact with members of the support group, and talking to passers-by about their cause. They are members of AWFAN (At War for

IN THE NEWS

continued from Page 2 Prior to April 27, the Town asks residents to do the following: • Select your favourite park, roadway, trail, ravine or any other public space that needs a cleanup.

• Ask your friends, family, and neighbours to join your cleanup team.

• Plan your cleanup by determining the start time, day, supplies that will be needed, and if waste disposal is required.

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Animals Niagara), and call themselves anti-speciesists—they oppose the use of animals for human purposes.

Adam Stirr, the leader of the group, had 40 protesters spread out, to put some space between them, the local supporters, and the horses. It worked out well, he said.

He was acting on an agreement reached with the Niagara Regional Police Service, he said.

“We’ve agreed we’re not going to have gratuitous swearing and we’re not going to make a lot of noise. We’re not there to cause a ruckus and we don’t want to get in the way of what’s happening,” he said. “We don’t talk to people in carriages and we don’t stand in the way of people going on a carriage ride. We just want to tell people what we believe.”

In addition to staking out street corners, “making themselves extraordinarily conspicuous,” said Laura, protesters were following the horse-drawn carriages as they made their way through Old Town streets.

She also saw police walking along Queen Street looking out for disturbances and helping to keep the peace, and, although there was no yelling at carriage drivers and those enjoying a tour through town, as happened last year, the protesters were “putting on a show, trying to scare people away.”

There were also well-marked vehicles “following and circling the carriages,” she said. She has asked the police to stop that practise for safety reasons, but to no avail.

“It’s frightening, manipulative, and very unnerving for drivers.

I’m not comfortable with that.

I think having vehicles following carriages is crossing the line.

We do everything we can to keep things safe for our horses, drivers, and passengers. And we have amazing horses and drivers. I

Hospitality Committee needs members

The Town of Pelham is still seeking members to join the Meridian Community Centre Hospitality Advisory Committee. The committee is asked to look at how the Town might: • Understand the hospitality opportunities that have been created as a result of the opening of the Meridian Community Centre.

• Inventory and recommend activities and policies that will govern the sale and handling of alcohol in the building.

• Inventory opportunities and recommend activities and policies that will enhance and strengthen hospitality activities throughout the centre utilizing internal and/or external resources.

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Members of AWFAM (At War for Animals Niagara) took up their places along Queen Street to talk to passers-by about their cause, which is to stop speciesism, the use of animals by humans.

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don’t feel anyone is in danger, but there could be a potentially unsafe situation. We want to ensure safety in every situation.”

Stirr said he had seven vehicles out Saturday, using them as “mobile signs.” He intends to do more of that this summer — he is referring to the activities he has planned as “rolling thunder.”

It’s a way of making the most of the space he has available to him, he said, adding he has no desire to spook the horses or cause an unsafe situation. His drivers have been told if they find themselves behind a carriage, they should stay back and turn off when they can.

Although there may have been “isolated times” when drivers were following or circling Saturday, his drivers have been told not to do that, he said.

Stirr plans to continue the protests at least part of every weekend throughout the summer, not with

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If you are a community expert in the area of hospitality services (i.e. professional chef, event planner, food and beverage industry including restaurateurs, wine industry, micro-breweries, etc.) the Town invites you to consider submitting an application.

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as many people out as Saturday.

Laura says although it is her business singled out by AFWAN in NOTL, there are other areas where farms are being targeted by protesters, and it’s just a matter of time before restaurants and other business are hit in Niagara.

“Dairy, pork, beef — they want to put a stop to it all.”

She hopes her situation could be the “lightning rod” for protecting those businesses, she said.

She continues to be overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community.

With fundraising efforts underway to help pay for legal actions that might be undertaken against AFWAN — the activists respond that they aren’t breaking any laws — Laura said people were dropping off donations at the office Saturday.

Any time she has a difficult or stressful day, invariably someone

will offer support — through donations, a thumbs-up or even just to stop by and say hello.

“There may be 25 people in town who don’t like us — everyone else is behind us and very supportive,” she said.

“Horse-and-carriages don’t necessarily align with everybody’s ideals, and that’s fine, but don’t try to destroy our business. We can have differences of opinions, and we can all make our own decision.”

Tickets for a trivia night fundraiser organized by Locals for Carriages were quickly sold out — another welcome reminder of support in the community, said Laura. But for a small donation at the door following the dinner and trivia event, people are welcome to drop by for snacks and entertainment at 9 PM, May 11, at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall on King Street.

BARN RAISING The “Barn Boys,” with assistance from the Senior Youth Group of Pelham Community Church, served their annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on March 5. Proceeds of $1,000 were shared between Pelham Cares and Open Arms Mission. From left, Harry Alexander, Barn Boys; Colleen McCarthy accepting cheque for Pelham Cares; Marguerite Tufts accepting cheque for Open Arms Mission; and Hugh John Cook, Barn Boys Pancake Supper convener.

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COLUMN SIX

continued from Page 1 my anxieties but eventually observing that my leg had developed a nervous twitch and that my hands were becoming raw from rubbing them together.

What if the store had run out? What if everyone whose name was called before mine was picking up sleeping pills, too? What if I finally got them and lost them in the abyss of my purse, like so many other things that have disappeared in there, sucked away like socks in the dryer?

Worst of all, what if I took them to bed with me, and they couldn’t perform?

It’s been almost eight

months since I remember feeling well rested. I’ve lost the ability to sleep, which is tragic considering sleeping was one of the few things I was really good at. My husband used to say I could sleep for the Canadian Olympic team if such an event existed. And now, I lay awake each night for hours and hours and hours.

Thinking. Watching movies in my mind that play in fast-forward. I make lists.

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There’s my ongoing, nightly struggle to remember who won Survivor last season. I wonder who will win the French Open this year.

There’s my phone— did I plug it in before I went to bed? There’s my age—what are those strange and mysterious things that happen to women of my vintage?

All of these urgent inquiries run through my head each night until it’s almost time to get up in the morning.

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I’ve exercised a lot, drank in excess, not drank at all, eaten early, eaten late.

Sometimes I lie on the cool bathroom floor for a change of scenery. If soft and cozy won’t do, perhaps cool and uncomfortable will. I’ll try anything at 3 AM. I have an app on my phone which is supposed to help me calm down and lull me to sleep. It accidentally cost me $80 and gathers internet dust because it didn’t work, and I forgot to cancel it before the 30-day free trial was up. Instead of wafting off to that place of harmony and tranquility, I stayed awake, pondering how the narrator, who was reciting a gentle bedtime story, could walk the fine line of making it interesting enough to keep my attention, yet dull enough to make me nod off.

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Aceto told the Voice in

Our new facility is going to be higher-end, with more automation January that he was receptive to neighbours’ concerns about odour and light emissions. “Our new facility is going to be higher-end, with more automation,” he said.

“There’s no doubt there are things we can do to be a better member of [the Pelham] community, and be more involved in the community, and we certainly have plans to do so.”

The facility at Balfour Street and Highway 20 employs some 285 people.

CannTrust posted a quarterly loss of $25.5 million in March. Its stock price closed last Friday’s TSX session at $9.92 a share, with a market cap just over $1 billion. Aceto also told the Voice in February that he was unconcerned about trends that show cannabis market growth in Canada stalling.

While CannTrust does produce recreational cannabis, its main focus remains medical. The Vaughan-based company announced three new medicinal products last week, and said it plans to begin growing soon at its recently-acquired 32-hectare outdoor operation in British Columbia.

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