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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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OPSEU calls out NPCA "bullying"
Column Six The First of July
Says systemic problems at Authority need addressing
BY SAMUEL PICCOLO
Special to the VOICE
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BY NATE SMELLE
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A faction of two dozen Ontario Public Service Employees Union protesters gathered outside the Ball’s Falls Centre for Conservation early last Wednesday morning to voice their disappointment and outrage with the actions of the Board of Directors at the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, who were meeting inside. The group gathered more than an hour before the meeting began to make sure each of the Board members had a chance to walk the gauntlet of signs awaiting them. A few of the placards welcoming the Board members read, “NPCA Strategic Plan 2017: 1) Protect Developers 2) Hire more managers”, another declared, “NPCA, Stop Bullying Now”, another, “Poor Workplace Mental Health Affects Families Too!” OPSEU has been picketing the NPCA meetings each month since the start of the year to send a message to its Board of Directors that the community is still paying attention and they are not going away. OPSEU Local 294 President Erin Warman said she was there on behalf of the employees of the See NPCA back page
A questioning demonstrator outside the Balls Falls Centre last week.
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Effingham residents concerned over cell tower proposal BY NATE SMELLE
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The Biglieri Group recently held a meeting in Council Chambers at Pelham Town Hall for residents and landowners in the vicinity of a proposed cell tower slated for construction on the east side of Effingham Street, north of Welland Road. Considering that notification of the meeting was sent out to only six households in the immediate area near where the tower may be located, there were only five individuals in attendance. Ruth and Rob Gabourie — two of the five who showed up to learn more about the proposed tower — left the meeting with an uneasy
Only property owners within 1,200 ft. of site notified of plan feeling about the idea of a tower being built so close to their property. “All they had to do by law was notify people with property within the distance of three times the height of the tower — so within around twelve hundred feet away from the tower,” said Rob. “They only sent out six letters, so I don’t think most people in Pelham
know what is going on.” The proposal by the Biglieri Group Ltd., on behalf of Wind Mobil, would allow for the construction of a 48-metre tall, lattice-style telecommunications tower to be built on the land next door to the Gabouries’ property. Although deemed safe by Health Canada under Safety Code 6, the radio frequency, or RF, emissions radiated by cell towers is listed by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer as Group 2B — possibly carcinogenic. Until further research is done proving the electroSee CELL TOWER Page 7
T’S THE FIRST OF JULY and there is something going on in the streets. There are clumps of people shuffling along the sidewalks all in the same direction, all carrying the same jumble of lawn chair, cooler, and hat. Others have already given up walking and, judging the present spot good enough, splayed their own seat out on its trembling limbs and begun to recline. Perhaps this is not a bad idea, since where the rest are heading the crowd seems to be denser. Following them, there is no loudening din that one encounters at a concert or similarly large spectacle, but there is a buzz of some perceptible sort. There is enough red to outfit a nation of matadors. “You only get three whacks, buddy,” a father says to his son, who is determinedly plonking at a high striker’s pad. “Why don’t you go over and jump around in that castle?” The boy trundles over to where other kids are lining up to climb through the inflated door and bounce about. His father follows him from a few paces back and, seeing that his son is safely––or unsafely––inside, sniffs the air. There are puffs of a fragrant smoke hovering, and he looks to where they are coming from. See COLUMN SIX Page 8
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