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Paula Gilbert heads to corporate job The Town’s Director of Human Resources, Paula Gilbert, has resigned. Gilbert’s last day of work will be Friday, April 6. Gilbert’s impending departure was rumoured for several days, and confirmed last week by Town Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Marc MacDonald, and Gilbert herself. In a report prepared for the Town Council meeting to have been held yesterday, Tuesday, April 3, Pelham CAO Darren Ottaway noted that Gilbert was moving on to become “Human Resources Director for the Sobeys grocery chain.” “Paula will be overseeing a direct reporting staff of six and eight hundred employees,” writes Ottaway. On the Sunshine List released in late March, Gilbert was the Town’s fourth highest-paid employee, earning a salary in 2017 of $134,675. In 2016, she received a pay raise of 26 percent over the previous year.
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Fonthill teen golfer places 5th at Augusta BY VOICE STAFF Fonthill’s Luke Delgobbo finished fifth on Sunday at the National Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, a remarkable ending for the 15-year-old E.L. Crossley Secondary School student.
Augusta National is the site of this week’s Masters tournament and perhaps the world’s most famous golf course. It is notably exclusive, with membership on an invitation-only basis. Passes for the tournament are coveted like dugout seats at Fenway Park, and even fewer people are allowed inside the ropes.
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F I R S T S AW M O N T Saint-Michel, the famous abbey in coastal France, built on a rocky outpost that becomes an island at high tide, in a film. Two characters speed along the twisting road to it in a convertible, the tide low, the sky grey, the Mont— jagged, medieval—even greyer, the only thing visible on a vast horizon line. The car hurtles toward it, then the shot cuts to them prowling about in the passageways on the island that lead up to the abbey itself. We see stone steps, looming overhangs, and narrow doorways off the clustering of buildings that make up the rest of the commune. The film doesn’t linger there, but Mont Saint-Michel lingers in the film. It is the wonder in it, and it was a wonder to me afterwards. When I was planning to travel in France several years later, I knew I had to go there. The Mont is disputed territory, with the provinces of Brittany and Normandy alternatively claiming ownership, but in any case it is on France’s western coast not far from where the English Channel becomes the Celtic Sea. See COLUMN SIX Page 14
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Work for everyone: Lookout Ridge retirement home, Willowbrook Nurseries, DeKorte’s Landscaping, and Shoppers Drug Mart are all seriously looking to hire serious talent. See their various ads in this week’s issue… Savings not to be sneezed at: If you’re an allergy sufferer, you’re familiar with how expensive a season’s-worth of medication can be. Well, here’s your chance to stock-up early. PharmaChoice, near Food Basics, is running a 50%-off sale for all your mucus-stopping needs. See their message on page 11… Out in five with good behaviour: No, the Pelham Arena is not going to be redeveloped into a minimum-security prison. The most telling aspect of this year’s Voice April Fool’s story is that a number of website visitors actually believed it was possible—which speaks volumes about how we’ve come to expect just about anything from Pelham Town Council. A revenue-generating Pelham prison instead of green space? “Don’t give them ideas,” read one comment...Speaking of them: Who among us is considering a council run? Brian Fader is. Fader is General Manager of the Minor Brothers rural and farm supply store chain. He says he has his eye on Ward 1… Betting on a permanent vacancy: With the departure of the Town’s Human Resources Director, Paula Gilbert, smart money is on the position being eliminated. Gilbert’s Sunshine List salary for overseeing such a small staff was always a puzzlement. She takes her talents now to Sobeys, with a workforce of some 800, according to CAO Darren Ottaway’s report to Council this week...You chewed it over: Two weeks ago we polled you on teeth, specifically NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s promise to fund universal dental care for all Ontarians if elected premier in June. We asked whether Horwath’s pledge would sway your vote. In short, nope. Of 77 votes cast, 39 said they voted PC in the past and they would do so again. Only a combined total of 15 respondents said that they were likely to switch to the NDP this time around. However, when asked whether universal dental care should be provided to all Ontarians, a large majority said yes, 55 to 22… They walk among us: You have to watch these writer-types, always squirreling away tidbits for future use, novelists in particular—our own regular Column Six contributor, Colin Brezecki, for example. I’m halfway through his novel, A Case for Dr. Palindrome. It’s a fine read, a serious novel about love and family—yet there is also a dead body in a chest freezer. No more solo coffees with Colin. He'll be reading from his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake this Saturday, along with writer Sharon Frayne. Details on page 6… Stylish threads: Pelham Library is throwing another of its clothing sales next week, starting Monday, April 9… Spring cleanouts: Finally, pencil-in the Fenwick United Church Flea Market, Saturday April 14. Maybe they’ll take library clothing in trade for some delicious baked goods…
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In late March, representatives from local government, police services and the Niagara Region, got a first-hand experience of the good, the bad and the bumpy roads of Niagara during a 60-minute bus tour that highlighted roads needing improvement and showcasing roads that have been fixed over the last 15 years. “It’s important we take a moment to recognize the success of the campaign, while also bringing awareness to the roads in Niagara that still need attention,” said Peter Van Hezewyk, CAA Niagara’s President and CEO. Last year more than 200 different roads in the Niagara region were nominated by drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, with the majority of voters reporting “potholes and crumbling pavement” as the reason for selecting a road. CAA’s Worst Roads Campaign runs until April 13 and votes can be cast at www. CAAWorstRoads.com/Niagara. Voters will be entered to win a weekly prize of a $100 Kelsey's Gift Card and one person will win $2,500 worth of Petro-Canada gasoline. Reader Carolyn Botari recalls a related award-winning moment for Pelham four years ago this week. “The road collapsed in between the culverts on Chanter Road on April 1, 2014,” Botari says. “It took about three weeks to repair
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Chantler Road canyons, 2014. because the Town had to get custom pipes made, they were too big to be readily available. This was a double culvert. I don't think the cost was more than $40,000. No studies were done, no drilling. I do believe that this hole was named the worst pothole in Canada by SunMedia that spring, though.”
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BALLOONING INTEREST Grade 6 student Jinja Shepherd explains her experiment on static electricity at the Glynn A. Green Public School's annual science fair last Friday. See story, page 3. NATE SMELLE PHOTO
Public meeting tonight on school issues BY VOICE STAFF As questions continue to mount regarding an email that Pelham Mayor Dave Augustyn quietly sent to a District School Board of Niagara trustee last summer, Augustyn has agreed to address the issue at a public meeting scheduled for this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Fenwick. Nancy Beamer, speaking for “Names Matter,” a Pelham citizens group lobbying the DSBN to reverse its decision to rename a local public school, confirms that the meeting will be held at Fire Station #2, known locally as the Fenwick Fire Hall, starting at 7:00 PM. While the Mayor has agreed to ap-
Under pressure, Mayor to address email revelation, other E. W. Farr matters pear, says Beamer, DSBN officials associated with the school-naming process have either declined to attend or have not yet responded to the group’s invitation. DSBN Chair, Dale Robinson, to whom Augustyn’s email was addressed last June, has declined to appear, says Beamer, asserting that she would be
“on holidays.” The Voice was unable to independently confirm Robinsion’s intentions. She did not respond to repeated requests for comment on E.W. Farr-related matters before presstime. Beamer, whose group maintains an email list of some 580 residents, says that all members of the public are invited and encouraged to attend the meeting. “We would especially welcome parents and children who are unhappy with the name change,” she says, referring to the contentious decision by the DSBN to consolidate two Pelham See MEETING back page
HEN I WAS young, my father and I would go for long drives along the rural routes of Pelham. We’d blast George Thurgood and roll down the windows because we loved the smell of the breeze, the sensation of crisp Niagara wind beating our cheeks and tangling our hair against our summer-kissed skin. My father was not a sentimental man. He worked in factories and had a Gordon Lightfoot mustache and never shed tears over injuries. Yet something about the Pelham landscape, the hilly backdrop to his childhood and the childhoods of our ancestors, drew him in. He’d stop by a farm or a gathering of woods and, surrendering his manly veneer, tell me a story about the town. This place is precious. This is the earth that granted us life. Here is the place where we happened upon love or here is a site of devastation. On one particular drive sometime in the late ‘90s we stopped at a tree with a plaque. “This tree looks dead,” I said to my father. “It sure is getting there, Julie.” The Comfort Maple is supposedly Canada’s oldest See COLUMN SIX Page 14
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A construction error was discovered following the opening of a traffic calming chicane on Haist Street north of Hwy 20 last Monday that prevented large vehicles from passing through. One resident living in the neighbourhood said he contacted the Town after seeing a small schoolbus get stuck as it tried to get through the new traffic calming measure. Later that day while driving behind a cement truck, he said that he became concerned for the public’s safety when the truck had to turn around because it couldn’t get through. “If a small school bus and a cement truck can’t make it through what about a fire
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Petition-inspired changes coming to 2017 Summerfest BY NATE SMELLE
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Representatives from the Pelham Summerfest committee Candy Ashbee and Bill Gibson presented council with a final report on the 2016 Summerfest at the Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 21. Prompted by a story in the Voice in August about a merchant petition to move Summerfest from Pelham Street, in September Town staff met with various stakeholders to hear their complaints, promising at the time that changes in the way Summerfest was mounted would be con-
sidered. The main concerns identified during the community engagement process were security, parking, ensuring customer can access all businesses in town, and liability for damages. How to get all Pelham Street businesses to participate and finding ways to make it beneficial for them to set up a booth were also determined to be of high priority for the committee as they plan for next year’s event. Gibson told Council that the committee is addressing these concerns in a variety of ways. To improve parking, they intend to create bet-
ter signage for out-of-town visitors to designated parking areas and shuttle services. To make participation in Summerfest more enticing to local businesses, they plan to implement a tiered-charge for booths. Under the new system, Pelham Street business owners will be charged the least, other local businesses will pay a slightly higher fee, and vendors from outside Pelham will pay the most. In response to more specific issues for individual businesses, they will also slightly alter the footprint of the event and make adjustments to security. Another way the committee plans
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FTER LUNCH ON Saturday, Mum and Dad had my afternoon cut out for me. Mum had more brass than anyone I knew, and it had to be cleaned. In addition there was the set of silver fish-knives and forks which were never used, but which had to be cleaned and put back in their velvetlined box. Next was a walk to the newsagents to pay for the daily delivery of the Daily Mirror. As I said, Dad was a printer, but when he was 37 he had been rejected for a job, as being too old, by the printers of the Beano. For that reason, my favourite comic was not allowed in the house, but while I was paying the papers, the newsagent let me have a 'shoofty' at the Beano. I'd explained my predicament and he understood completely. Sundays were different again. Dad would play golf on summer mornings and billiards in winter. Then he'd stop for a 'refresher' at the local and would pick up the prawns, cockles, winkles or whelks we'd be having for tea later. Meanwhile, Mum was roasting the 'joint' and potatoes. I got to make the Yorkshire pud, and mint
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While shopping in Fonthill between Friday and Sunday, keep an eye out for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in front of local stores with bushels of apples. As part of the annual Apple Day campaign, Scouting youth of all ages will be trading apples for donations. The yearly fundraising drive is an important way for young Scouts to connect with the communities they are serving, says Leah Marie of Scouts Canada. “The Apple Day campaign holds a great tradition of being able to have youth interacting within the communities they live in,” she says. “All of the Apple Day donations stay directly within the group that re-
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ceives them, enabling youth to have experiences that build character, challenge them, and allow them to try new things. The goal is to have these youth develop into confident and wellrounded individuals, better prepared for success. Apple Day helps to achieve that.”
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walk/trail is slated to be built between the south side of the road from Timmsdale Crescent to the high school. Because of the large volume of motor vehicle traffic travelling at high speeds through this area, and because of the necessity for students to tread this path on a daily basis, many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later. After delivering to Council a petition containing
Many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later the names of 450 students calling for a safer walk to school, Simpson handed the
podium over to Loewen and Williams to plead their case. Loewen told Council that because there are a lot of students who have work placements and coop placements during the school year, this is the only route for many of them to travel. As one of the students facing this predicament, Williams said she has had no other option but to walk along the dangerous highway.
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and youth ages 5-25. This year the 3rd Fonthill Group, which includes Beavers to Ventures (youth ages 5- 25) will be hitting the streets to drum-up support. Over the weekend, Scouts will be set up in Fonthill outside Sobeys, Tim Hortons, Target Gas station, Fonthill Shopping Plaza and the Pioneer Gas station at the corner of Hwys 20 and 24.
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Joining their principal, Karen Simpson, at the Sept. 19 Council meeting as part of a delegation from EL Crossley Secondary School, students Abby Loewen and Neenah Williams presented Council with a list of reasons that they should immediately approve the construction of the new sidewalk proposed along Hwy. 20. The asphalt side-
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BY VOICE STAFF The District School Board of Niagara is requesting that the Town of Pelham cede a portion of Cherry Ridge Park for use as a soccer field to serve the students of the new Wellington Heights Public School, formerly the E. W. Farr Memorial Public School, in Fenwick. Currently under renovation and expansion, the new school will combine students and staff from the previous school and Pelham Centre, where classes are being held while construction continues. Two letters, containing virtually identical text but signed by different authorities, were sent last week to nearby residents of the park, as well as to parents of Pelham Centre students. “The DSBN is currently building onto Wellington Heights Public School on Alsop Drive,” states the letter. “The size of the school's addition means the existing small soccer field will be eliminated. The Town and the Board have been discussing the possibility of working together to create a field for both the school and the
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“I start work at 2:30 PM and school lets out at 2:15 PM so I can’t take any other route,” Williams explained. “I have had friends, family, teachers and other community members reach out to me in the past about how this is unsafe and how there should be another alternative for us.” Looking ahead to winter, when she will need to walk this path three or four times See SIDEWALK Page 2
HERE IS NO BETTER time to cycle than Fall. It matters not whether you’re new to the sport, a seasoned recreational cyclist, racer, touring rider or mountain biker; we all have reason to look forward to autumn. Summer’s heat has faded, and the streams of sweat that ran from soggy helmets into our eyes are now just slight perspiration. Fitness is peaking from lots of saddle time, making those tough climbs of Spring a breeze in Autumn. It’s hard to beat the feeling of beginning a crisp, cool Fall ride with a slight shiver, knowing your efforts will soon warm you perfectly. The hues of Autumn are outstanding. A Pelham route as simple as following our southern boundary is one that would make most Toronto cyclists jealous, especially when our forests and fields are ablaze with colour. Begin from Harold Black Park, and zig-zag south along Effingham Rd toward the Welland River. If you’re new to cycling, it’s important to know south is the direction away from any hills. If you avoid the morning and evening weekday rush hours caused by those travelling through Pelham between Wainfleet See AUTUMN Page 3
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IAGARA REGION CHAIR ALAN CASLIN touted the progress of the region over the past council term in his State of the Region address in Niagara Falls last Wednesday, focusing on the economy with the next election barely six months away. Caslin, who has been chair since 2014, said that the council elected that year made a pledge to make changes. “Three years ago Regional Council and I laid out a vision to combat the complacency that had crept into the Niagara Region and had stilted our progress for far too long,” he said in his speech. Caslin pointed to the Region’s “line-by-line
Regional Chair Alan Caslin. SUPPLIED PHOTO review” of its budget as a way to ensure that “each dollar receives the scrutiny it deserves.” Caslin also reminded the audience of 500 or so at the Scotiabank Convention Centre of how bleak things were in Niagara ten years ago, as the 2008 recession began. “If I told you in 2008 that we would have a commitment for daily GO Train service to Niagara Falls, host the 2021 Canada Summer Games, and successfully attract a new large GE manufacturing facility, would you have believed it?” he said. In his speech, Caslin conceded that in the departments of transit and public housing there remains much to do. Caslin also announced the launch of “Shape Niagara,” which he called “the largest strategic consultation effort in Niagara’s history.” Shape Niagara will include five open forums in May and June, and, according to Caslin, form the basis of the Region’s next strategic plan. Last week, the Voice spoke to Caslin about the state of the region. PICCOLO: Thanks for making the time to speak to the lowly Voice of Pelham. CASLIN: Are you “accredited” yet? We’re officially accred-
ited—now you and I are on the phone, so I can’t show you my ID. You’ll just have to take my word for it. I’m much more comfortable now that you’re accredited. At this point, we’re joining every organization. The SPCA, the MLBPA— CAA? Yep. Got that one too. Anything we can get our hands on. My wallet is stuffed. Excellent. Anyhow, the metaphor you used in the speech, “Hands on the Wheel and Eyes on the Road,” is probably an apt one considering your background at GM. Especially with respect to the economic performance that you talked about, I’m wondering if a different transportation metaphor would be more appropriate. I’m thinking of sailing— with a municipality, a lot of the economic momentum comes from above. It’s about getting the sail up in the right direction when those winds come and taking advantage of opportunities. Absolutely. And tacking when you need to. The direction isn’t always head on, sometimes we have to tack back and forth to get where we need to go. As long as we get there—we get those jobs in Niagara, that’s what it’s all about. A good example is the GE facility. We worked with them for months, months to get that landed. It really didn’t matter where in Niagara it landed, as long as it landed here. Was that a case in which the opportunities come up, and they’re nationwide, or province-wide, and Niagara’s trying to find a way to make a case that it’s the best place? It’s no different than when we’re talking to the province. It was just a couple of years ago, maybe a little longer, when [Parliamentary Assistant to the Transportation Minister] MPP Arthur Potts stood up in Niagara-on-the-Lake and said that GO Train to Niagara was just not on the government’s radar. I think those were the exact words he used. Lo and behold, here we are. A couple years later, and we’re expecting GO Train to be in Grimsby by 2021, and 2023 to St. Catharines and the Falls. These things can happen. You brought the audience back to the bleak years of a
decade ago, right after the recession, and you asked them whether these sorts of things—the GE plant, GO Train—would have been believable back then. Your implicit answer was that they weren’t. At the time, I was obviously working at General Motors. I can remember starting to take inventory of the equipment at the factory, in preparation for closing because there was just no light at the end of the tunnel. It was a pretty bleak time in Niagara. Unemployment rates were at double-digits for sure, with no promise for an end. Here we are ten years later in a much different place. Going back to your comment on the GE plant, and it not mattering where in the region that it landed, how much of your role as chair—and Regional Council in general—is about this sort of quarterbacking. I was reading the St. Catharines Standard’s “fact-checking” of your speech, and it made some reference to the 2021 Summer Games, saying that it was supported by the Region but that it was headed up by other individuals. In past conversations with you, you’ve described your job as keeping all the puppies in the box—it seems as though the role of the Region in many cases isn’t to take the lead on everything, but to be a facilitator. If someone has an idea for the Summer Games, the Region can support it. It’s interesting. I don’t need the kudos or attention for anything because it benefits us all. That’s my goal. To illustrate the story on the GE plant—it’s very interesting how it happened. It was on CKTB that we first heard that GE was going to be moving out of Wisconsin and was going to be coming to Canada. I talked to Bob Seguin, our economic development director at the time, and I said, “Bob, why don’t you give GE a call and see if there’s any possibility that we can get on the list.” He said sure. He called first thing in the morning—at ten o’clock I talked to him, and I said: “Well, how did you make out?” He said that by eight o’clock they had already got 140 calls from every corner of Canada. I said, “Oh great. The competition is a lot tougher than what I originally expected.” I asked Bob if he could get me any face time with the
CEO or anybody making the decision. He said that it just so happened that Elise Allen, the CEO and President of GE in Canada is also a friend of his, and that he’d worked with her in the past. He said that he might be able to give her a call. She came down for the Ontario Economic Summit at White Oaks. I said: “Bob: All you’ve got to do is get me give minutes of face time with Elise. I know she’s going to be busy.” There was a reception at Jackson Triggs, and I got a private room. I went in with [Niagara Falls Mayor] Jim Diodati and [St. Catharines Mayor] Walter Sendzik, and she was there with a couple of her staff. She asked me what we wanted to talk about. I said: I want you to bring the GE plant to Niagara. She said, “Oh yeah. You and thousand others. So what?” We went to town on her for about fifteen minutes on how Niagara is steeped in manufacturing history, we have the infrastructure in place, we have two education institutes with labour force ready to work. And she looked at her coworkers and said, “get Niagara on the list.” That’s how it started. That’s the reality of how it started. After that everybody got involved, and it was all hands on deck. But whether it was me starting it, or anybody else starting it, it really doesn’t matter. What matters at the end of the day is that we got it here. The three or four hundred jobs that this is going to represent, $50 million dollars in economic revenue that the Canada Games bring—it doesn’t matter who, it matters that we get it here. I’ll help steer the ship, but I need a lot of people behind me to do the work. And they’re the people who need the credit for the achievement. They’re the ones who actually sweat the details and do the work on the ground to make things happen. I wanted to ask about another line in the speech. I think you were referring to a line-by-line analysis of the budget, and you said that a business case is now required for every new dollar or investment. That seems like a sensible approach when you’re talking about tax incentives, or development charge policy, but other things in the speech—social housing, or the opioid crisis—some people might look at and
say, “Maybe there’s a business case there. If people don’t have a place to live, they can’t work. If they have health issues they won’t be able to work. But a lot of people would say that those things aren’t business issues. We want to be thinking about the social impact of these things first. Quite frankly, the econ-
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omy is the catalyst for results. It’s the journey, not necessarily the destination, but the journey itself that makes the difference. Whether we’re talking about social housing or jobs, they’re all part of the economy. Making sure that we have a strong economy makes sure that we have a comfortable living and a comfortable retirement, but it is a determinant of people’s health. It’s a social determinant of health. It’s certainly no coincidence that a lot of the opioid crisis is occurring in the Rust Belt in the States, and in places hollowed out like Niagara was—and perhaps it’s not as bad in Niagara as other places because we do have that social support. There are limits to our dollars. We don’t want to over-tax people. We’ve got a record of keeping tax increases below 1.57 percent per year, averaged over four years. We’re looking at other ways, what are called alternative service delivery models, which ask, “How can we use those same dollars and stretch them further to get more social housing built, get more people off the OW rolls, how can we make that happen?” We just went through a significant [one of these] that looked at how we can invest and deliver social housing. We partnered with the private sector and we came up with a really good model. It’s with the Pentarra development group and
Bethlehem Housing. We’re essentially three-way partners on getting something built that makes sense for everybody, and it gives us more housing. It’s a lease arrangement for twenty years. Bethlehem will operate it, the Region will fund it. It’s another way to make the dollars go further. You also talked a lot about transit. I got the sense from the speech that the plan on transit is fuzzy at this point, though you did say that there would be costs, and there would be change. Do you have any idea at this point what those costs and changes are going to look like? So we’re really looking at the situation in totality. At the forum at the beginning, I said that our greatest opportunity is going to be the 2041 look of Niagara. I said also that our greatest liability is going to be the 2041 look. We have got to get this right, and make sure that staff does the work to determine where the costs are, and what the consolidation work plan is going to look like. A good example is the GO in Grimsby. We have to make sure that when we built it, we’re building a community hub, not a train station. It has to have with it facilities for buses, parking for cars, bike racks—all those services that people will need when they get to the train station. Perhaps restaurants and other business opportunities that we see in Toronto and other major centres. If we plan for that now before we build the station, get the land ready—if we put together a secondary plan, then we can know what to expect. Transit is obviously one of those things that you have to be looking decades ahead. I think of the Ottawa area, where they decommissioned train tracks in Gatineau, and then a few years later realized that they actually needed them. Or even in Niagara, back in the days when there was a streetcar running from Pelham to Thorold to St. Catharines. In the boom years those were all destroyed. Fifty years later, we’re realizing that this kind of thing would have been good to keep around. Mass transit in concentrated areas is definitely important. In Niagara things are a little different. We have about 450,000 See CASLIN'S Page 10
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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Larry Coté What's wrong, and what's right, with Earthlings?
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T W O U L D B E interesting to know what visitors from other worlds might conclude while observing the workings of the beings who populate this third rock from the sun. The fact is that the most intelligent earthlings can hardly grasp the complexities of this world let alone demonstrate the ability to resolve the issues. There are many entanglements to chose from and even an abbreviated list would exceed the memory of largest data banks. One oxymoron that alien visitors might ponder is a majority of earthlings profess that to love one another is one of their most widely-held and sacrosanct constructs. Yet these observers from an outer orbit would detect that human history is rampant with conflicts where the primary purpose is to kill one another. How to explain that hate trumps love sometimes? Another tenet proclaimed by earthlings is the concept of equality. This construct is written into constitutions and the like in one form or another that ‘All men are created equal.’ Wow! From which of the many examples
might one chose to examine? Slavery? Homophobia? Misogyny? Skin pigment? Wealth distribution? There are abundant examples from societies around the globe where
The fact is that the most intelligent earthlings can hardly grasp the complexities... there are few persons of privilege while the ranks of the under-privileged are plentiful. Notably, some of these inequalities are being addressed. Sexual orientation, skin color and the #MeToo movement are examples where some progress is being made to ameliorate, what might be, among the most egregious societal imbalances. Food and water could be another worldly enigma
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Letters Likes the Fonthill "renaissance" I have been a resident of Pelham for 35 years. I’ve seen many changes to the community over that time as it experienced a path of steady growth. The commercial development along Highway 20 in particular has seen consistent development, particularly over the last 5 to 10 years. The construction of condominiums is about to start on the old Fonthill Lumber Yard site, 500 homes are being built behind the new Fonthill Marketplace Shopping Centre, Wellspring Niagara’s new home is under construction and the crown jewel, the $35 million Meridian Community Centre, is set to open later this year. Fonthill is experiencing an amazing re-
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Use common sense I choose to be grateful for this wonderful community we live in. Grateful for the people who have served us tirelessly. Common sense tells me that our Town finances are just fine. If anything is owed, it will be paid back tenfold from money that comes from the
new houses, etc. Common sense tells me that our council members are not all bad....they do good things too. I do not blindly believe everything I read to be the complete truth. Cheers to freedom of the press and speech. Council should take all this hoopla as
a testament as to how well they were liked in this community. A couple people knew it would take an "elephant" to get you voted out. Pam DeFazio Via Facebook
Don't forget about Council's responsibility Why does the Mayor continue to patronize the people of Pelham, like we are all in a Sesame Street skit, by signing a letter to the editor on such a vital issue as openness and transparency as, “Mayor Dave.” It could just as easily be “Cookie Monster.” Why does a small municipality the size of Pelham require a spin doctor “Public Relations and Marketing Specialist,” whose favourite phrases seem to be, “No comment,” or, “I’ll get back
to you.” He seems to have just stopped spinning altogether. Why do we have a CAO whose base salary is $173,000 p.a. (as per the Sunshine List) which is only $7,000 less than the CAO of St. Catharines (which has many times the population)? And yes, these people are hired and their salaries approved by Town Council. While much of the criticism in the last few years has focused on the May-
or, we must constantly remind ourselves that the members of Council are equally accountable and seem to have suffered from varying degrees of willful blindness. The irritants continue. Many thanks to the staff of the Voice who go above and beyond and continue to inform. Jim Wellington Fonthill
Who is meant to live in wondrous new development? The advertisements on the Realtor. ca website for the recently announced "Fonthill Yards" paint a wondrous picture: "....Niagara's impressive Fonthill Yards settlement. Facing The Wood Lot Park and crystallized by its membership to an architecturally brilliant settlement plan that incorporates the
charming culture and rustic air of Fonthill…" It all sounds so idyllic. But that's not the end of it. Into the bargain, purchasers will be able to enjoy yet another feature of "the settlement": "Year Round Living.”
RENAISSANCE continued from previous page the myriad of accusations about Pelham governance, but I commend Mayor Dave Augustyn and Council for their progressive vision. I’m confident history will serve them well. Rick Woodward Fonthill
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The mind boggles. Maybe this is for the convenience of those who do not migrate south for the winter months? One wonders who will shell-out up to $734,000 to live in "The Yards.” See WONDROUS Page 8
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pressible hopefulness among all peoples of this earth. The visitors from space could not miss the conspicuous progress made by these two-legged creatures who have survived against what sometimes appeared to be insurmountable odds. Humanitarian initiatives, scientific discoveries, medical research, environmental projects, educational advancements and politics are just a few of the spheres that continue to contribute to the betterment of all humankind. To be certain, earthlings have improved, and will continue to improve the life experience of all who share this planet. One by one, the barriers to the commonly held objective of a more perfect world will be met and dismantled. A better world is always in the plans. Make no mistake about that! Larry Coté is a retired professor of business. He holds the Governor General’s Medal for community contributions.
cility and create enrolment levels to support optimal programming. The proposed school would serve some 400 DSBN students. The process will begin with the Accommodation Review Committee’s first meeting on May 10. There will be two public input meetings, which will take place on May 16 and September 20. The Accommodation Review Committee’s role will be to provide feedback on the staff report. The committee may also elect to propose alternate solutions. All feedback will be included in the Final Staff Report, which will be presented to the board in October, where the public will also have the opportunity to present to the board. A final decision is expected at the November board meeting. The DSBN says that it encourages public involvement. All reports, minutes and agendas, as well as meeting dates will be posted to dsbn.org/arc.
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Riding for St. Joe's Mathew Bradbury organizes info meeting on seniors mental health services BY SAMUEL PICCOLO
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the help from St. Joseph’s made a real difference near the end of her life. Now, Bradbury is hoping to raise awareness of and money for the program. “I’ll be doing the Paris-to-Ancaster cyclocross race in April,” he said. “I’m going to try and raise three thousand dollars for St. Joe’s. But I also thought, ‘Why not try and tell the story?’ Bradbury decided to organize an information session about St. Joseph’s seniors mental health service. It will be held at the Niagara Region headquarters near Brock University, on April 12, 5 to 7 PM. “It will be just a meet-and-greet drop-in,” said Bradbury. “I’ll be talking about my mom’s story, and Julia Baxter from St. Joseph’s will be there to talk about their services. I just want people to know about it.” Bradbury will also talk about the Paris-to-Ancaster bike race. Cyclocross races have courses in which which riders must traverse grass, mud, and sand—in addition to roads—and often have steep or impassable sections in which riders carry their bikes. The Paris to Ancaster race is in its 25th year, with the 70-kilometre day modelled after the famous Paris to Roubaix event in France. Cyclocross racing originated in Europe, where it is said that in the early 20th century road racers raced between towns and were permitted to cut across farmers’ fields and climb fences. This was often called ‘steeple-chase,’ since the sole visible mark in the next village was the church. The Paris-to-Ancaster race attracts all sorts of cyclists, from Olympians to weekend riders. “Everyone goes off in waves,” said Bradbury. “The racers go off first and then they’re gone. You don’t see them again. Then there’s the rest of us behind. But it’s great. You race against yourself.” Cycling has long been a passion
Mathew Bradbury takes a break during a cold training ride.
of Bradbury’s. When he was in Grade 9, a knee injury meant that he could no longer participate in gym class. He took up biking instead, and started the first cycling club at his high school in Crystal Beach. He once rode his road bike (with thin tires) through a snowstorm from Kitchener to Guelph just to see his future wife. “I had to knock on my uncle’s door and ask him to drive me home. And then he got a speeding ticket while he did! I’ve never let him forget that.” When Bradbury was living in Nepal with his young family, he had a three-wheel trailer that he would attach to the back of his bike and tow his son to school through Katmandu’s serpentine streets. “The city would be just waking
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up. It was my favourite time of day,” Bradbury said last fall. “The motorcycle traffic wasn't as bad then as it was now, and I would be weaving in and out of the other bikes, with diesel fumes in the air.” Bradbury got around Katmandu mostly by bicycle, carrying water jugs, groceries, and, his favourite, fried samosas. “Locals would even carry around propane tanks [on their bikes]. I never tried that, though.” Even now, Bradbury will often commute by bike from his home in Wellandport to his church opposite Harold Black Park. He has a substantial collection of bikes, and likes to work on them mechanically too. While a knee injury at the beginning of last year stopped him
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Six years ago, Mathew Bradbury’s mother, Beth, was living in a nursing home in Niagara Falls, and struggling with her mental health. “My mom battled with clinical depression for much of her life,” said Bradbury, who is the pastor at Pelham Friends Church in Fonthill. “She was in and out of the hospital. But when she got older, and she had physical pain as well, and was in a wheelchair, things became harder.” Despite the devotion of the employees of the home, Bradbury said that his mother’s interactions with them were difficult and that her quality of life was negatively affected. “There was amazing staff doing their best. Really high-compassion, high-patience people. But they can’t be experts in everything. They said, ‘We love your mom, but we’re having a hard time.’” Then a social worker referred her to St. Joseph’s seniors mental health service. “There’s no wing in a hospital in Niagara for seniors with mental health challenges,” said Bradbury. St. Joseph’s Healthcare is based at the hospital in Hamilton, but the organization also has a satellite office in St. Catharines, from which it provides support to hardto-serve seniors in need. “St. Joe’s came to us,” said Bradbury. “We had a roundtable discussion with all of their experts, and really came up with a specialized plan for my mom. And they found time for a two-week in-patient observation for her, when they brought her to Hamilton and could get to know what she needed. Her quality of life went up. She no longer felt like she was being misunderstood, and like she didn’t have any hope.” Bradbury’s mother has since passed away, though he says that
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2017 Sunshine List released Pelham punches above its weight, with 12 employees making more than $100,000 annually BY VOICE STAFF Ontario’s 2017 Sunshine List, the complete list of all government employees who made $100,000 dollars or more last year, was released in late March. Pelham had 12 employees on the list—up one from last year, with Beautification Manager Kim Holland the newest member at $101,504. CAO Darren Ottaway was by far the Town’s highest-paid employee in 2017, making a salary of $173,795, down a few thousand from 2016 but still some $30,000 dollars more than earned by Fire Chief Bob Lymburner. Ottaway was also among the highest-paid CAOs in Niagara, making about $20,000 more than the CAO of Port Colborne, $40,000 more than the Town Manager of Grimsby, $1500 more than the CAO of Welland, and $14,000 more than the CAO of Fort Erie. Only the CAOs of Lincoln, St. Catharines, and Niagara Falls made more than Ottaway in 2017. After Lymburner, Planning Director Barb Wiens was the third-highest paid Town employee, at $137,256, closely followed by Director of Human Resources Paula Gilbert at $134,675. Gilbert gave her notice of resignation in late March, with her last day at the Town coming this Friday. Pelham is unusual for a town of its size in that it has a designated human resources director making a six-figure salary. Gilbert recommended salary levels for the Town’s senior staff to Council, which had to decide whether to approve her
RESIGNED continued from Page 1 In his report to Council, Ottaway also addressed the February 17 resignation of Martha Toscher, who was formerly his assistant and who took the position of Health and Safety Coordi-
recommendations. According to former Councillor Marvin Junkin, Gilbert’s own salary was recommended to Council by Ottaway. In his report to Council this week, Ottaway writes, “the Senior Management Team will be reviewing the [HR] Director position and making a recommendation to Council regarding its replacement.” Clerk Nancy Bozzato was the Town’s fifth-highest paid employee, at $128,500, up some $11,000 from 2016. Former Treasurer Cari Pupo, who was fired last spring, was still paid $118,723 by the Town last year. This sum is believed to include her salary up until her firing, as well as a portion of her severance. Pupo’s salary in 2016 was $143,970. Current Treasurer Teresa Quinlin began work at the Town midway through the year, and thus does not appear on the list. Chief Building Office and Drainage Superintendent Mike Zimmer, who in 2016 alleged to police that two residents had assaulted him only to recant these allegations the next day, made $113,470 last year. These 12 put the Town well above municipalities of comparable size, especially considering that only one of the dozen is involved in fire services. In many municipalities, a large portion of those on the Sunshine List are firefighters. (Pelham has a volunteer fire department.) Excluding the fire department, Port Colborne—population 18,300—had just four staff on the
nator just prior to her departure. Toscher’s sudden resignation after some five years on the job took colleagues and senior management by surprise. Soon afterward, a memo emailed to Town staff by CAO Ottaway was brought to the Voice’s at-
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Pelham's "Senior Management Team," from left, Bob Lymburner, Barbara Wiens, Andrea Clemencio, Darren Ottaway, Nancy Bozzato, Paula Gilbert, Cari Pupo, Vickie vanRavenswaay. This undated image is the most recent available on the Town's website. Pupo was replaced by Teresa Quinlin in 2017. Gilbert's last day is this Friday. TOWN OF PELHAM PHOTO Sunshine List. Thorold, population 18,800, had only four employees above $100,000, with the fire department excluded. In Welland, half of its 44 list members were firefighters. Aside from Bozzato’s $11,000 dollar raise, Town salaries stayed relatively stable from 2016, a marked difference from previous years in which several employees received substantial increases. From 2014 to 2015, Pupo’s salary went up 24 percent from $118,511 to $146,847. From 2013 to 2016, Ottaway’s pay went up 30 percent, from $135,496 to $176,077, including a $23,000 raise in 2015. In 2016, Paula Gilbert’s salary went up 26 percent. From 2013 to 2016, Lymburner’s pay went from $113,805 to $145,407. The Sunshine List was first released in Ontario in 1996 during Mike Harris’ premiership. The $100,000 dollar number has not changed in the past 22 years,
tention. Sources with direct knowledge of the memo say that Ottaway informed staff of Toscher’s leaving, did not offer an explanation, and gave firm instructions that staff not discuss the issue with anyone. The Voice has not independently verified the memo’s authenticity or precise phrasing. In his report, Ottaway writes, “Regretfully, Ms. Toscher resigned her position unexpectedly, shortly after accepting and starting in her new role as the Health and Safety Coordinator.” He asserts that Toscher was “excited about this new project,” and that her resignation was for “reasons personal” to her.
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When the Voice first reported Toscher’s departure, it cited “an often ‘toxic’ work environment inside Pelham Town Hall, with some staff feeling ‘harassed and bullied,’” according to the perspective of a source intimately familiar with
The first visible minority on the list was ranked 33rd. Just under 30 percent of Ontario’s population is comprised of visible minorities. While Michael Couteau, the Minister for Anti-Racism, said that the government intends to do more to augment diversity on the list, Treasury Board President Eleanor McMahon told the CBC that Queen’s Park power is limited. "The hiring of people from Ontario's public sectors is outside our purview and those are, generally speaking, very technical jobs, of which there is a smaller pool of labour," said McMahon. McMahon said also the low turnover rate in these highly paid positions means that imminent change is unlikely. "It's important to remember again that many of the people that are there now are going to be there for the foreseeable future and we can't do much about those folks that are there.”
Town Hall who did not want to be named. In his report, Ottaway asserts otherwise. “Unfortunately, attempts by a local paper to present her reason for departure as being due to ‘toxic work environment’ continue,” he writes. “However, Council, staff and the public can be assured that this is not the case but rather, Ms. Toscher and her family are wished all the best knowing that she will always be a part of our work family.” The resignations of Toscher and Gilbert are the latest in a series of departures from Town Hall. Others include the firing last
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Small but mighty: Fonthill gymnast makes big progress Will McNevin excels at gymnastics BY BERNIE PUCHALSKI
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Will McNevin is the second-smallest kid in his Grade 6 class at A.K. Wigg in Fonthill, but he’s one of the strongest. His pint-sized but powerful physique landed the soon-to-be 12-year-old in the Gymnastics Energy gym in St. Catharines. “My parents decided to put me into gymnastics because I was strong,” he said. “Then I went to Lightning [gymnastics club in Niagara Falls] and after a bit, since they didn’t have a boys program I found this program.” It wasn’t love at first sight. “It took me a while before I started to like it,” he said. “I thought it was kind of boring and now I think it is fun.” Will has been training in gymnastics for the past six years and has liked the sport more and more each year. “At the start, I didn’t know as much as I know now about it and I didn’t get to do a lot,” he said. “But now I do bigger skills and it is a lot better.” Will trains 16 hours a week, spread over four days during the winter. In the summer, he trains 18 hours a week. “I like hanging out with my friends here,” he said. “I like the gym and the coaches are always nice. And it is really fun to train.” Gymnastics Energy coach Brandes Struger-Kalkman describes Will as a wonderful athlete. “He comes in and he wants to work hard and he just wants to get better,” he said. “Every time he comes in, he is always asking what events we are going to do next or if he can do another.” Will is never fearful of
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trying new things. “He is always trying to push himself and he always wants to better himself,” said Struger-Kalkman, who has coached Will for the past year and a half. “He is a real pleasure to coach.” Will is having an excellent artistic gymnastics competitive season in 2017-18. So far this season competing in the Provincial Level 3 under-13 division, he was: fourth overall and fourth on the rings at the first provincial qualifier; second overall, second on parallel bars, third on vault, third on floor and fourth on high bar in second provincial qualifier;
and, third overall and on the vault, fourth on parallel bars and high bar and fifth on the floor and fifth overall in level and age category at the third qualifier. Also at the third provincial qualifer, Fonthill resident Carter Pfeffer was second on rings, third on floor; fourth overall and ninth overall in level and age category in Level 3, Age 10-12. Men’s artistic gymnastics consists of floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar. Wills feels there are a number of things he needs to work on. “I have to tuck my head in
on everything,” he said. His goals for the sport are more about process than results. “I would like to use the skills that I am learning right now in competition,” he said. “I’m pretty close, I would say.” He has no real long-term goals for the sport. “I would like to get better than I am now,” Will said. In addition to gymnastics, he plays house league baseball in the summer. “The running in gymnastics helps me when I am running the bases,” he said. Struger-Kalkman has seen steady progress in Will.
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“From the day I started with him, he has been pushing himself and trying to improve his gymnastics,” he said. “He has to continue to push himself and the biggest hurdle for most (male) gymnasts is the pommel horse. “In a couple years, he is going to have to deal with the handles and that is a big challenge for everyone, but if he keeps working at it the way he is, it won’t be so difficult.” Right now, Will and his competitors use a pommel horse without handles. It won’t be until 2019 when Will will have to get a handle on handles.
“We are looking to move him up to Provincial Level 4 (this year) and it’s Level 5 when they introduce the handles,” Struger-Kalkman said. On the strength of his results this year, Will and four of his Gymnastics Energy teammates, including Carter Pfeffer, have been selected to compete with Team Ontario at the MAG Tour in Calgary, Alta. He is excited about competing in Calgary. “I’m looking forward to meeting gymnasts from other gyms and being around [Team Ontario]
Town holds Ridgeville watershed meeting Info session provides update; residents eager for action BY VOICE STAFF A public meeting was held in March on a Ridgeville master watershed study, with consultant K. Smart Associates presenting findings from its report, and providing paths to potential solutions for residents frustrated by flooding on their properties. The Ridgeville watershed is
comprised of two main drains— the East Branch and West Branch. The West branch has its headwaters near the corner of Canboro Road and Effingham Street, while fingers of the East Branch start on Pancake Lane between Effingham and Haist. K. Smart’s Neal Morris, an engineer with the firm, addressed the West and East Branches separate-
ly. “The West Branch is a municipal drain,” Morris said, providing a chart with possible courses of action. Morris said that the Town could update the existing drain by replacing culverts along it and by cleaning out the water’s path. The estimated costs of these projects, which would have to be approved by Council, would be $116,400 and $104,000 respectively. Morris said also that the Town’s drainage superintendent—Mike
Zimmer—could carry out a maintenance plan that involved “brushing” every five years and a “clean-out” every ten, and that the goal of the drains is to allow flooding in non-critical areas while protecting critical ones. Morris assured the crowd that landowners would be consulted when these critical and non-critical areas were being identified. “If landowners keep their sections of the drain in good shape, there’s less work to be done on it,” said Morris.
But it was the East Branch, which is not currently a municipal drain, that was the focus of discussion throughout the meeting. Morris offered two options for the East Branch: it could either become a municipal drain, or it could remain privately owned by individual landowners. In order for the Town to incorporate the East Branch, a petition signed by the majority of landowners would have to be submitSee DRAIN Page 13
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Caslin's "State of the Region" focuses on economy, housing, transit continued from Page 3 people, and we’re about 450,000 acres. We’re at one acre per person. We’ve got a vast geography that we need to cover, and transit to cover it would be very expensive. We really need to be careful as to how we plan the routes and maximize the coverage wherever possible. Let’s move on to the last thing that you introduced, Shape Niagara. As I understand it, this will be comprised of five or so open forums, and then direct consultations with industry and insti-
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Oosterhoff announces seniors grants
MPP Sam Oosterhoff is pleased to announce that two organizations in Niagara West-Glanbrook have been awarded with Seniors Community Grants. The recipients are the Grimsby Seniors Club ($3000), and the Township of West Lincoln ($12,000). “Seniors make invalu-
tutions—I assume this means hospitals and schools and so forth. Is that right up to the October election? Is this a way by which people can shape Regional policies in addition to voting for their Regional Councillors and now the Regional Chair? The first thing I’ll say is that it’s a staff initiative to bring the report together that’s going to be the foundation for the next strategic plan. Our job doesn’t start and stop with the term of council. We’re trying to lay the foundation for the next term of council so that a lot of the work has
able contributions to our communities as volunteers, mentors, leaders, caregivers, skilled workers, and above all as essential members of our families,” said Oosterhoff. “I am pleased that the Township of West Lincoln and the Grimsby Seniors Club are investing in programs and facilities for seniors.” Funding is conditional on an organization completing a funding agreement with the Ministry of Seniors Affairs.
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still choosing to text and drive. According to the Regional Niagara Road Safety Committee’s Distracted Driving Audit, which observed more than 3,000 vehicles at various urban and rural areas in Niagara, residents are still guilty of driving distracted. “We’re concerned the message isn’t sinking in,” says CAA Niagara’s President and CEO, Peter Van Hezewyk. “Local statistics show motor vehicle collisions are a leading cause of injury and death among those 15 to 44 years old. Distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable.” The Distracted Driving audit also revealed that Niagara drivers are twice as likely to engage in distracted driving when stopped at a traffic light compared to a stop-sign. What may seem like an innocent act of quickly glancing down at your mobile device is quite dangerous. A study by CAA National shows you are still distracted from driving for up to 27 seconds after using your phone. And it’s not just texting and driving that people
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In news way, way outside Niagara, according to a media release, thousands of Raelians worldwide held Distracted public events last Saturday Niagara drivers to mark what founder and More than 30 per cent of spiritual leader of the RaeNiagara drivers admit to lian Movement, Rael, deusing a mobile device while clared “ET Embassy Day,” driving, despite increased in order to raise awareness penalties for distracted about their major project: driving, a new study shows. the building of an embassy While Ontario is cracking to welcome an extraterresdown on careless and distrial civilization to earth. tracted driving, people are According to Wikipedia, Raëlism (also known as Raëlianism or the Raëlian movement) is a UFO religion founded in 1974 by one Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël. The Raëlian Movement teaches that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of extraterrestrials, which they Office: 905-892-0222 call the Elohim. Cell: 905-651-5143 “This year is very sperbrown@royallepage.ca • www.homesniagara.com cial,” said Raelian Guide 1815 Merrittville Hwy, Unit 1, Fonthill, Ontario Daniel Turcotte, Rael’s as“Selling Throughout Niagara” SALES REPRESENTATIVE sistant for the ET Embassy Project. “Up until now, several countries had shown a genuine interest for this very auspicious project, but this year, for the first time, a country has invited Raelian representatives to discuss this unique and enthusiastic project.” “This week, the host country candidate has been handed an optional protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Rela“Help Bring Our Maple Acre Branch to Life!” tions, provisionally titled the ‘Optional Protocol ConSave some money and the environment while finding that cerning Embassies for Exunique outfit. All styles of clothing for men, women and traterrestrials,’” explained children. Retro, accessories, bedding, curtains and more. Turcotte. “The meeting also addressed the possiSaturday fill a jumbo bag for $5. Gently-worn donations accepted at the Fonthill Branch. bility for this country to hold the first international During Library Hours @ Fonthill Branch During Library Hours @ Fonthill Branch During Library hours at the Fonthill branch conference to discuss this Mon. Oct. 17 - Sat., Oct. 22, 2016 typesof of clothing clothing for allall types of people at greatat great All All types for types of people protocol.” All types of clothing for During Open Hours prices! prices! The Raelian media release Day-Saturday fill at a large bagprices! for $5 ** ** Last all types of people great did not specify which coun** Last Day-Saturday fill a large bag for $5 ** During Library Hours @ Fonthill Branch All proceeds will go to furnishing ourbag new library. Last day —Saturday—fill a large for $5 During Library Hours @ Fonthill Branch try had expressed interest All types of clothing for all types of people at great in hosting the ET EmbasAll types of clothing for all types of people at great sy. Global Affairs Canada’s prices! PELHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY prices! Media Relations Office did ** Last Day-Saturday fill a large bag for $5 ** ** Last Day-Saturday fill a large bag for $5 ** not immediate respond to a request for comment.
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passed by my wife’s table, and I had to give her a peck on the cheek. So I’m not sure it’s that’s campaigning or not… I guess that’s the best answer I’m going to get. Yeah. We’ve got work to do— I’m not trying to be cute. I’m not sure what’s going to happen. Even if I was, nothing can be said until May first anyway. I’m trying to keep my focus on the work before us and trying to get as much work done as we can. Okay. Thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Any time. ◆
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Another one bites the dust
BY VOICE STAFF Fonthill’s oldest standing building was torn down last week. The “Temperance Hotel,” just to the west of the former Keith’s Restaurant, was built in the 1830s and was operated as an inn and a tavern for traffic along Canboro Road. Farmers from as far as Fort Erie and Hamilton would often overnight at the inn while waiting for their grain to be grist at the mills in St. Johns. In 1874, legislation was passed outlawing the sale of liquor, and the hotel closed down until 1885 when it was refitted as a “temperance hotel” with food and lodging but without alcohol. Whether this legislation was always strictly observed is ques-
tionable, and reportedly one proprietor had a cache of booze inside a grand piano. It opened as the “Fonthill Inn” in the 1920s, but closed down a short while later to be rented out as apartments and office space. It was purchased in the 1940s by a family and lived in until 1997. Keith’s founder Keith Crick rented a portion before moving an address to the east. Though the storefronts had been vacant for some time, the apartments in the building were lived in until at least last year. Town Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Marc MacDonald said last week that the Town has not received a site plan application for the location.
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DRAIN continued from Page 9 ted to the Town. Morris explained that this process would involve allowances being made to the Town, since staff would need to be able to access the drain. The cost of work on the drain would then be covered by the Town, and would be billed to all of those whose properties contribute to the drain, not just those who live on the drain itself. If the drain were to be kept in private hands, all landowners could mutually agree to take care of the work required on their own property. One resident asked Morris about the new developments which contribute to the drain, suggesting that a surcharge be placed on the developers to help pay for the drain. “An engineer can’t go back and do that— the developer has already left,” said Morris. “It wasn’t done historically, though it probably should have been done at some point.” Morris said that he did recommend that the Town bill developers for such costs in the future. “Are you solving the problem?” another
resident asked Morris. “Unfortunately, we’re not,” said Morris, explaining that the meeting was not on immediate action but instead to provide an update to residents. Town Director of Planning Barb Wiens told the room that staff would be preparing a report to present to Council, which would include recommendations about the West Branch. “It’s up to us as landowners to get together and decide what we want,” said Tim Nohara, a resident present. “We don’t automatically want the Town coming in and putting in big culverts.” Other landowners present seemed already to know what they wanted—to have the Town incorporate the East Branch of the drain. “What are we waiting for?” asked one man to the group. “Do you have a petition here? Is there a laptop and a printer?”
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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 Even on a trip where the itineraries were mostly improvised, my visit to the Mont was particularly planfree. I began the day in Dieppe, that chalky spot in Upper Normandy where 916 Canadians died on a failed day in 1942, and nearly 2000 more—two of whom were my great-great uncles— were taken prisoner. Very early in the morning I left my lodging to meet a ride-share, which deposited me in the nearest city an hour inland. When the driver let me off, he pointed me towards the bus station, but I was not going to the bus station, I was walking along the river downtown to where I would meet another rideshare. I can recall only one encounter along this muggy waterway, a young man who I thought was asking me about des filles—girls—but was really after des feuilles— rolling papers. I couldn’t have helped him with either. I settled in the city centre. While waiting for a grocery to open I bought a croissant and a baguette from a baker who wasn’t pleased by the 50 euro note I used to pay for them. There is no direct highway that leads to Mont Saint-Michel, so I chose a ride-sharing route that was to pass by the closest artery to it and requested to be let off by the side of the road, 15 kilometres or so from the Mont. This request must have seemed odd even to the carefree sort who provide rideshare services, and when I waved goodbye to these bemused chauffeurs they left me with a half-serious, “bon courage.” They were right. I ought to have felt as though I needed more courage in the middle of nowhere with nowhere to go, though truthfully I have
never felt such euphoria. It was the first time in my life that there was nowhere to be. There was no hotel or inn or AirBnB host expecting my arrival, and this thought was buoyant enough to lift me down the narrow lanes towards the sea. It was not offensively hot that day, though the enormous rucksack on my back and smaller pack on my front were heavy enough that I needed to stop every so often to rest. But even this ballast didn’t weigh down my mood. The road was edged by fields of wheat on both sides. I picked a poppy growing wild there and put it pretentiously in my hat. At times I walked up against the wire fences where the Normandes were grazing. One horned cow (Normande females have them too) shook her head concussively in an effort to disengage the flies hovering around the corners of her eyes, suckling at the crusty discharge at its corners and then flying their way up her snout. The ditches were overgrown with blackberry brambles, and I ate the swollen fruits as quickly as I could pick them. Cars passed by, and though I wasn’t asking for a ride, a woman in a rickety van pulled over and offered one anyhow. Her small children were in the back and her elderly mother in the front, and the mother gamely shifted over on the bench seat so that I could shove myself in. The woman chattered away the whole time I was in there, much too quickly for me to understand, though she did give me vague directions for a place to stay. When we climbed over a hill she pointed through the windshield to the distinctive blip in the distance. “Mont Saint-Michel,” she said. “It’s very pretty.” I didn’t go to the inn she had suggested. Pulled by
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REPAR, Melvin (December 16, 1946 March 27, 2018)
The road to Mont Saint-Michel. wires unseen I walked down to the little collection of hotels and shops congregated where the roadway to the Mont begins. I walked past this, over the bridge of the river’s mouth and down a dirt path closer to the water. I do not know what compelled me to travel there. I had simply seen a green meadow where there seemed to be no one and thought that it would be a good place with a view to lie down and rest for a while. Later, I hid my bags and walked out through the fields of a strange plant I didn’t know. It grew only a foot off the ground, and the first six inches were light and springy while the bottom six crunched firmly. At some point—I don’t remember exactly when—I decided that I would spend the night right there. My mind had been made up about this, and for the rest of the evening I explored the field and its hidden system of intricate tributaries and rivulets that all filled at high tide before beating a fast retreat. I sat at the very edge of the water and read, looking out at the Mont across the mud and the sailboats stranded between us, and watching the water come back in. The tides at Mont Saint-Michel are some of the fastest in the world, and the sand there is infamously quick. I took a few steps out on to it and felt a tremor beneath my feet. The sun set. I returned to
my bed on higher ground and fell asleep almost instantly, my last vision of the Mont through the greenery. Just after midnight I awoke. The Mont was still lit up, glimmering over the darkened field and high water. The day’s heat had left the ground and I was freezing. In Spain and Italy, where it had been upwards of 40 degrees, the decision to not pack pants hadn’t seemed foolish, but it certainly did as I lay shivering on that ground. Eventually the cold was too much and I knew that there was no chance of my sleeping again. I walked back to the cluster of hotels, the light of the moon just enough to keep me from stumbling in the dirt. When my watch beeped to mark one o’clock, the lights on the Mont blinked out. Even then I could still see its craggy outline, black on blacker, and for some odd reason I was reminded of how the Titanic must have appeared against the sky when it flipped vertical and at last its electrical generators gave way. Inside the first hotel door I came to I saw that a grate had been drawn around the reception desk, the lamps behind it switched off. I tried another, but the revolving doors were locked, and you needed a card to swipe in the single door. Down the block I managed to find another entrance, seemingly to a secondary lobby with automatic doors
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that opened as I approached. Inside was one armchair. I sat down, exhausted, only slightly warmer than I had been outside. I fell in and out of sleep for a few hours, shifting as best I could to find a comfortable position. Every time I jolted awake I expected to find a mustached porter hovering above, shooing me back into the night, but the only people I saw were a Japanese family who passed by the doorway, gave me a look, and then continued on as if they had seen many people spending the night in an armchair in an entranceway, trying to keep warm with a ratty towel wrapped around one leg and a periwinkle travel blanket around the other. When at last the dark outside began to fade, I left. Drawn again by invisible strings, I began the walk out to the Mont, my bags in place, my legs still wrapped. It was fully light by the time I’d covered the kilometre or so, passed by joggers and passing camera-carrying tourists. I entered through the gates and climbed up the procession just as had been intended. First, at the bottom outside the walls, the historic houses of fishermen and farmers next, then the shops and stores, then the great halls. At the top is the abbey, the monastery, the steeple, and God. Even at that hour there was a small line of those waiting to get in. Fatigue was accumulating in my limbs and around my ears now that the journey was over. It muffled both my thoughts and the abbey bells chiming the hour above. I looked up at the tower just to confirm where the noise was coming from. In the field across the exposed sand, the imprint left by my short-lived bed would be fading away, the day’s growth beginning, the plants regaining their shape and erasing my presence. Down below, the bridge became clotted with traffic, the shuttle buses ran, more visitors filled the walkway. I had only the energy to rest on a bench carved from rock and peel an orange I had been saving. And I kept sitting there on the warming stone as the dawn became morning and the morning grew long, unable to enter the wondrous place, unable to leave it. ◆
It is with great sadness, yet much relief, that we announce the passing of Melvin “Mel” Repar on the 27th of March 2018 at the age of 71, after an heroic battle with cancer. Loving husband of Sandra Repar (Westbrooke), devoted father to Stephanie (Kelly), Stacey (Shane), and adoring “Grampa Toots” to Molly and Aubrey. Born December 16th, 1946 in St. Catharines Ontario to Rose and Peter Repar (dec..), he is survived by brothers George (Phyllis ) and Victor (Jackie, dec) and sisters, Rosemarie (Doug) and Audrey (Bob, dec). He was a cherished member of a loving extended family which includes: Pat and Moe Westbrooke (dec), Susan (Robert), David (dec), Doug (Kim) and will be remembered fondly by all of his nieces, nephews, cousins and their families. Friends and neighbours will sorely miss the ‘candy-man’, who was the life of every party. We will be forever grateful for the care he received at Innisfree House Hospice in Kitchener Ontario these past few months. As per his wishes, he has been cremated and a Celebration of Life service will be held on Sunday April 15th, at Club Capri, 36 Cleveland Street, Thorold from 1pm to 4pm. In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated to Innisfree House Hospice (519-208-5055).
OBITUARY EPPS, Joan (nee Hatton) With God’s Peace and Grace, Joan entered Heaven, Tuesday March 20, 2018, one month after her 98th Birthday. Mother to Sharon (Epps) Vizbulis and Tim (Stella) Epps. Sister of Doug and Robert (Sharlene) Hatton. Sister-inlaw Helen Barker, Brotherin-law Real Fancher. Predeceased by sisters Janice, Alison, & Sheila and brothers Sonny and Raymond. Grandmother to Tara, Sean, Shannon, Mathew and Jason. Great grandmother to Erik, Bridget, Emma, Madeline, Timothy and Ian. Aunt to many. Emma I., Helen B., & Pastor Matt, thank you over and over. Woodlands, Cedar unit staff and Dr. Ali for T.L.C. Whatever part you played in Joan’s life, THANK YOU. Cremation has taken place. A celebration of Her Life will be held in the summer at her cottage.If desired, donations can be made to CNIB Canada or Pelham Friends Church, Fonthill.
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