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Vol.22 No.25
Wednesday, June 13 2018
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Oosterhoff easily wins Niagara West Conservative MPP handily fends off challengers
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Column Six
Bookended Maybe the past is a dreamer best left sleeping
BY VOICE STAFF Incumbent Progressive Conservative MPP Sam Oosterhoff handily won reelection last Thursday in Niagara West, winning nearly 53 percent of the vote to return to Queen’s Park, where he will serve in a majority PC government. NDP candidate Curtis Fric finished second with 30 percent, while Liberal nominee Joe Kanee received just under 11 percent of the total 46,194 ballots cast. The Green Party’s Jessica Tillmanns garnered about five-and-a-half percent. Libertarian Stefanos Karatopis received about a single percent of the vote, and Multicultural Party of Ontario nominee around a quarter. Last week’s election had a turnout of 64 percent in Niagara West, somewhat higher than the provincial rate of 58 percent. On Friday morning, the day after the election, Oosterhoff sent a letter to PC leader and incoming Premier Doug Ford, highlighting his priorities for the coming term for Niagara West, which included maintenance of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital and GO Train service.
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BY COLIN BREZICKI
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DeVries Fruit Farm's Denyse Stoop shows off strawberries fresh from the field.
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Eighth annual DeVries Strawberry Social fundraiser DeVries Fruit Farm will hold its eighth annual strawberries and ice cream fundraiser this Saturday, June 16, raising money for Pelham Cares. “We started off donating to Pelham Cares for the first five years of the event,” said Dan DeVries, the second generation of the family to
BY VOICE STAFF operate the farm in Fenwick. “Two years ago we put the money towards the family of Jed Seehagel, who had a lawnmower accident.” Seehagel was just two years old when the accident occurred, and the
strawberry social raised $5000. “Last year, we put the money towards James Eliopolous, a local boy who had Lyme Disease,” said DeVries. “This year, we’re back to Pelham Cares. People from Pelham See DEVRIES Page 3
IME AND MEMORY go in opposite directions, it’s said, and that can make things awkward. With time it’s simple enough. We’re joined at the hip and have no choice but to make the most of our ride. Memory is more complicated—there are certain places we’d rather not revisit. If time tells us where we’re heading, memory tells us where we’ve been. It can also show us who we once were, something we don’t always want to be reminded of. Many years ago, my 11-year-old daughter chose as her class project to interview a celebrated Canadian novelist who was also a close family friend. She had read some of Richard Wright’s books and was understandably nervous about the meeting, so her mother and I assured her that he was a kind man who would quickly put her at ease. In the end she loved doing the interview and was pleased to share the audio See COLUMN SIX back page
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