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Athletes leaving for Harvard, Columbia, other schools

Considering what could have been

BY VOICE STAFF Eight graduating students from E.L. Crossley Secondary School will be heading south of the border on athletic scholarships this fall, the latest crop from a school with an impressive record of placing student-athletes.

Seven of the students, Fraser Darling, Alex Jastremski, Neil Kennedy, Kennedy Keith, Lauren Bench, Amber Drysdale, and Brooke Kew, will be joining the rowing teams of their prospective schools, with James Ross, a lacrosse player, the only non-rower.

Darling will be attending Harvard University, just outside of Boston, while Jastremski will be studying nearby at Boston University.

Darling, who turned down an offer from Princeton, has yet to declare his major.

Jastremski will be studying human physiology.

Ross will be going to play lacrosse and study teaching and history at Dominican College, which is just north of New York City. Kennedy will row for Columbia University, located on the upper west side of Manhattan.

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I WHO WILL IT BE In 24 hours, one of these candidates will either be elected, or re-elected, as Niagara West's MPP. Find their closing arguments starting on page 3. From left, Curtis Fric, NDP; Jessica Tillmanns, Greens; Sam Oosterhoff, PC.

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Meridian's $1 million is $40,000, 25 times Payment schedule lasts until 2043, community centre name purchase is in perpetuity

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Some two months after a Freedom of Information request for the document was first made by the Voice, last week the Town of Pelham

provided its community centre naming rights agreement with Meridian Credit Union to the newspaper.

The document reveals that Meridian’s $1 million dollar contribution to the community centre will be

paid over 25 years.

This time frame was not disclosed by the Town, despite it being common practice to publicize such donation schedules.

Meridian is obligated to pay installments of $40,000

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IN THE NEWS

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

by Dave Burket

Just 24 hours to go: By Thursday night it will all be over but the weeping. While the official provincial campaign has run only a few weeks, the unofficial campaigning seems to have gone on forever, given a jolt by Patrick Brown’s shock departure in late February. Despite the polls saying that the race was the PCs' to lose, they may yet manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Whichever way the provincial wind blows, it’s hard to imagine Niagara West waking up on Friday to anything but blue skies, but who knows what could happen in this wacky year. If you remain undecided, we present our riding’s candidates making their own cases on page 3. That photo on the front page, by the way, came from Sam Oosterhoff’s office. It’s sobering to consider that in 1995, none of those in the shot had yet been born… A little olive oil and garlic will do nicely: With his usual trenchant style, Nick Saltarelli appraises the electoral choices on offer tomorrow and finds them wanting. As he leaps into the fire for self-barbecue, will he head for the orange or the red embers?… Sibling rivalry, one ward removed: The start of a dynasty? Councillor Richard Rybiak’s sister, Barbara, is out collecting signatures for a possible run of her own at council. They wouldn’t face each other, though, as Richard lives (and presumably will run for re-election) in Ward 1, while Barbara lives in Ward 2. With the provincial election wrapping up, look for a flurry of municipal filings coming soon, perhaps a Durley sibling, or an Accursi cousin once removed to liven things up… News we enjoyed: Belated thank-yous to Andrew Ralston and Jim Wellington for bringing in interesting newspapers for our review and appreciation. Jim brought in some inspiring papers from elsewhere, while Andrew loaned us a 1978 Herald election results edition—“Bergenstein Wins Mayoralty Race”…

Working harder than ever: Two of Niagara’s best known sports reporters have gone in together on a new gig. Bernie Puchalski and Bill Potrecz talk about it with our man Sam, page 8… Speaking of siblings: Is the entire family made up of overachievers? Our Mr. Piccolo’s sister, Tessa, received an award last week from Niagara Nutrition Partners for her school breakfast efforts. Enjoy the tasty tale, page 13…

Wigg out: This Saturday join Lewis Family Chiropractic for a fun-run fundraiser for A.K. Wigg—details on page 18.

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“Aging in place” coming to Pelham

A multi-phase project consisting of seniors’ apartments, a retirement residence, and a long-term care facility is coming to Pelham, according to a Town of Pelham public relations statement.

Led by Samer El-Fashny, owner and operator of various retirement and long-term care facilities in Ontario, the project’s first phase — seniors’ apartments and retirement residence — “will be completed by 2019.”

The seniors’ apartments will be three-to-four stories, according to the statement, “fully equipped with kitchens, an emergency response call system, and housekeeping.”

The 140-suite retirement residence will be four-tofive stories and include independent, assisted, and memory care living units.

“Twenty-four hour nursing, personal support worker services, and a variety of building amenities such as private dining rooms and a chapel, for example, will also be available.”

Port Colborne: Fire Chief of the Year

Port Colborne Fire and Emergency Services Chief Thomas B. Cartwright is the recipient of the Ontario Municipal Fire Prevention Officers Association (OMFPOA) Fire Chief of the Year Award.

This award recognizes the significant contributions made by a Fire Chief to the

ara Principal’s Scholarship program has awarded some $575,000 to 231 students across the region.

“This award is one example of Brock’s commitment to the future of our region,” said Beth Natale, Director, Recruitment and Retention.

“It is critical that we invest in Niagara’s future leaders, and what better way to put this idea into practice than to collaborate with the schools in our region to recognize the significant talent that is right here at home?”

Brock says that the recipients for the scholarships are selected by the principal from each school based on a combination of academic achievements and the students’ involvement in school and in the community.

Chief Thomas Cartwright.

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prevention of fire and public education in the community.

“Chief Cartwright has a distinguished career in the fire service, but most recently, after the fatal fire in December 2016, he has led incredible work on fire prevention in the city to ensure our residents are safe,” said Scott Luey, Chief Administrative Officer.

Cartwright will accept the award at the OMFPOA Chapter 8 62nd Annual Training and Educational Symposium on Wednesday, June 13, at Caesars Windsor.

On Sunday May 20, the Niagara Regional Police Service received information that a male was hunting in a field in the area of Forks Road and Gents Road in Wainfleet when a firearm is alleged to have been discharged in his direction.

There were no injuries to the complainant.

Investigators assigned to the 3 District Detective Branch entered into an investigation and as a result of the information gathered, a search warrant was obtained for a residence located on Gents Road. Due to the situation involving a firearm, the assistance of the Emergency Task Unit was requested. On May 22, police executed a search warrant at the Gents Road address. Upon entry to the residence Ivan Vrbicek, 73, was arrested for the alleged offence of Careless Use of a Firearm. During the search of the residence, police say that additional items were found to prompt the further charges of Careless Storage of a Firearm and Careless Storage of Ammunition. Vrbicek was released on an Officer in Charge Promise to Appear with an assigned court date.

High school students receive Brock scholarships

Dozens of students from high schools across Niagara have been given a financial boost as they prepare to begin their post-secondary education, according to a Brock press release.

For the fourth year in a row, Brock University has awarded the Niagara Principal’s Scholarships to two students from nearly every public, Catholic and private secondary school in the region.

Each of the 62 students was awarded $2,500 toward the cost of his or her first-year tuition at Brock, for a total of $155,000. To date, says Brock, the Niag-

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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

Part 2 of 2: Coronation to embarkation

BY VOICE STAFF

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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Repair measures underway last week to correct a construction error in the chicane. truck or an ambulance?” he said.

While waiting for the contractor to return to fix

the mistake, the Town has taken measures to temporarily allow passage for vehicles through the neigh-

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bourhood in the short-term.

Manager of Public Works Ryan Cook said that after discovering the issue with

the chicane the morning it first opened, the Town See CHICANE Page 5

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.

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to improve the 2017 Summerfest is by sponsoring and working with the organizers of the Thursday Night Bandshell Concert series to select the artist performing on the first night of Summefest. They also intend to make more use of the smartphone app they launched in 2016.

"We are really going to push it this year," Ashbee said.

“It really helps to get people to see what events there are so they can plan out where they are going.

We will be able to actually help the merchants and local businesses adSee CHANGES Page 5

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-

The goal is to have these youth develop into confident and well-rounded individuals

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.”

“Any money raised during Apple Day goes towards improving the Scouting program by providing more outdoor adventures for youth, camping equipment, canoes and paddles, training and many other endeavours that the youth want to experience,” says Marie.

Scouts Canada has some 100,000 members across Canada, and carries out programs for boys, girls

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.

Town Council approves sidewalk to serve E. L. Crossley

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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.

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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

NRPS impaired driving charges In an effort to bring further attention and deterrence to driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs, the Niagara Regional Police Service reports the names of those people who are charged with an alleged criminal impaired driving offence in the Region.

None of the following charges have been proved in court.

In addition to being charged, these individuals are also bound by a Ministry of Transportation 90-Day Administrative Driver’s License Suspension and are prohibited from operating a motor vehicle on a roadway. The public is encouraged to contact the Niagara Regional Police Service Traffic Safety Hotline or Crime Stoppers to report those who are driving in contravention of the suspension.

The following individuals have been charged criminally with impaired driving by alcohol or drugs, driving with a blood alcohol concentration above 80 mgs of alcohol in 100 ml of blood, or refusing to provide a breath / blood sample.

Richard J. VANDERGULIK, 44, Welland William J. HUNTER, 28, Thorold Simbarashe A. MUWORI, 26, Niagara Falls Tyler D. STILLWELL, 20, Dunnville David DOMINGUEZ CANO, 34, St. Catharines Luke D. O. BUTT, 25, Brampton Malcolm E. SMITH, 21, Lincoln Sean A. SPENCLEY, 45, Welland The Niagara Regional Police Service is committed to reducing impaired driving offences through education and the apprehension of offenders through enforcement programs like RIDE. Impaired driving is still the leading cause of criminal deaths in Canada and destroys thousands of lives every year.

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PROVINCIAL ELECTION 2018—The closing arguments The Voice reached out to the three major party candidates, and the Green candidate, in Niagara West, offering them up an opportunity to tell the voters in their own words why they and their party were the best choice to form the next Ontario government. The PCs' Sam Oosterhoff, the NDP's Curtis Fric, and the Green's Jessica Tillmanns responded. The Liberal's Joe Kanee did not.

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T IS A PRIVILEGE TO speak to Niagara’s citizens again before the June 7 election. I would like to acknowledge the loyal support of Niagara West Greens — who for years before me, have worked to get us (me) here today! Also, to all the young people that I have talked to and met — YOU can and will make a difference in the Niagara West election in ways one we cannot yet imagine. You will tell Ontario that #YoungPeopleShowUp! It is very exciting to see the number of new voters in Niagara West and I hope you will prove me right by voting for the party that deserves the most consideration.

Eleven reasons I will vote Green: 1. I am a post-secondary student. Greens will work to ensure that tuition rates be reduced to the national average and more support for low-income students will be available.

2. If I were a recent graduate or new to the job market. Greens will embrace the clean economy and redirect the money in existing programs in the right direction. We will target cleantech innovation, advanced manufacturing and bio-product development.

We will provide incentive to work towards clean, low carbon products and services.

3. I am concerned about how to afford the day to day cost of living. Greens will provide all Ontarians with a Basic Income Guarantee. This is important as a bridge when trying to make ends meet and waiting for wages to begin. Whether working in the service industry or as a new entrepreneur, a guaranteed income will make getting started and maintaining my job or retraining easier.

This will cut red tape in a variety of areas and actually reduce government costs in administration.

4. If I were looking for a place to live. Greens have creative ways to unlock new housing options. We will require new developments to have a minimum

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system and spend more of our healthcare dollars on prevention. We will work to help people stay out of hospitals and long care homes longer by providing additional health care money in these areas.

6. If I were waiting for services to treat mental health issues. Greens will invest in primary care, community health care and home care to ensure those, such as children, do not have to wait 18 months or more for help.

7. If I were a lifelong farmer or a new farmer. We are losing farmland at an alarming rate, the equivalent of 365 acres per day! Greens will introduce legislation to permanently protect Ontario’s prime farmland and source water regions. We will invest over $200 million over four years to protect water and store carbon. We will help farmers transition to organic markets.

8. If I were a small business owner. Small businesses employ over 3 million people and need help to be profitable. Greens will

L E C T ION DAY IS FA ST A PPROAC HI NG and the choice that Ontarians will make at the ballot box will be one that sets the course for our province for the next few years.

My name is Curtis Fric, and I am one of the multiple young people seeking to represent the people of Niagara West at Queen’s Park. I have lived all of my life right here in Niagara. I went to elementary school in Jordan, then high school in St. Catharines. Presently, I’ve just finished the second year of my four-year undergraduate degree at Brock University.

I work in a long-term care home as a dietary aide, and I understand the state of care going on in our retirement homes. When the NDP says that they will bring in 15,000 new long-term beds, legislate a minimum standard of care of four hours a day per resident, and launch a public inquiry into how we can improve the care in our homes, I understand why.

I can tell you, from first hand experience, the NDP has a solid plan when it comes to tackling the problems in long term care.

When I hear from close friends that they can’t continue to run their stables because they are being charged $2500 a month for hydro, with $600 being the delivery charge alone, it kills me to know that this is an entirely preventable situation.

I know that we can make life much more affordable for our small businesses in Ontario. Andrea Horwath has a plan that will make life so much better for all Ontarians.

Then there’s the father of two I met in Smithville that had to quit his job as a truck driver because gas prices became all too expensive. He has had to pick up work at four different jobs to make ends meet and give his family the comfortable life they deserve. I know that we can do so much better for the people of Niagara West. The New Democratic Party of Ontario knows how we can do better.

I am proud to help champion the platform that Andrea Horwath and the NDP released more than a month ago.

Our platform is one that addresses the level of care problems that I see firsthand in our retirement homes. Our platform is a platform that will tackle sky-high hydro rates by addressing the core problem of privatization and bringing hydro rates down by 30%. And our platform is a platform that will help that father of two be able to give his children a good life by making it much more affordable through new programs such as childcare, dentalcare and pharmacare.

When it comes to our fiscal plans, the NDP will run the lowest projected deficits of the three major parties.

We need a government in power that will tell the people what we want to do and how we will pay for our commitments, unlike the Progressive Conservatives.

We need a government in power that will be open and honest with our finances, unlike the Liberals, who repeatedly ignore the auditor general’s reports.

The Ontario NDP is the only fiscally responsible party, the only socially responsible party, and the only party that puts the focus on you, the people!

While Kathleen Wynne and Doug Ford continue to throw mud at Andrea Horwath and the NDP, Andrea continues to keep her eyes focused on the people of Ontario. We know that the cynicism in politics has turned many people away

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20% affordable homes and will push for innovative answers like “tiny homes,” laneway housing, co-housing opportunities and secondary suites. We all deserve an affordable roof over our heads and these policies will make it easier for that to happen.

5. I am concerned about keeping healthy long into my lifetime. Greens will transform our health care

It is very exciting to see the number of new voters in Niagara West

I know that we can make life much more affordable for our small businesses

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HE ONTARIO PCS will make life more affordable for the people of Niagara

West As the MPP for Niagara West – Glanbrook, families, job creators, seniors, and students came to me every day to tell me about their growing struggles to make ends meet.

From skyrocketing hydro rates, to healthcare cuts, to increased taxes and red tape, life has become harder after 15 long years of Liberal government.

While Premier Wynne’s insider friends get fat government contracts, and her Hydro One CEO makes $6 million dollars, seniors worry about being cut off from hydro, and young families are discouraged because they cannot afford to buy their first home.

I hear the pain in the voices of students, families, and job creators alike that have been ignored by a Liberal government more concerned with looking after their own interests than caring for the needs of Ontarians.

Although they talk about change, we need to remember that the NDP have voted for practically every one of the Kathleen Wynne Liberal policies.

The NDP even supported the Liberal Green Energy Act —the cause of our outrageous hydro rates.

The NDP voted for the Liberal legislation that killed our West Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

While the Liberals have made it increasingly difficult to make ends meet, the Ontario PCs will put money back into your pocket.

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party understands that it is harder to get ahead in Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario. Meanwhile, the NDP and Andrea Horwath make unrealistic promises financed by six more years of deficits and higher taxes.

They do this as our provincial debt inches closer to $400 billion dollars— the largest subnational debt in North America!

Only the Ontario PC government is promising

change that works for the people of Ontario.

An Ontario PC government will fight for the taxpayers of Niagara West, and all the people of our province.

We will: • Clean up the hydro mess and cut hydro rates by 12% by rebating Hydro One dividends back to ratepayers; • Put money back in your pocket by removing all in-

An Ontario PC government will fight for the taxpayers of Niagara West

come tax on minimum wage earners, and cutting income taxes by 20% on the middle class; • Make life more affordable by scrapping the carbon tax and a portion of the gas tax, saving you 10 cents per litre of gas; • Invest $3.8 billion dollars into much needed mental health services, easing up our emergency room wait times; • Help families by refunding 75% of childcare expenses; • Restore accountability in government by stopping partisan government advertising, and restoring the Auditor General’s powers; • Improve education by getting back to the basics, and by listening to parents and front-line teachers; • Bring well-paying jobs back to Ontario by tackling industrial hydro rates and cutting red-tape to encourage job creators to set up shop; and • End hallway medicine and cut wait-times by building 30,000 Long Term Care beds.

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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Nick Saltarelli From frying pan to the fire

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T H A S BEEN SA ID that those who opt not to exercise their responsibility to vote have abrogated the right to criticize their duly elected government. If so then it might follow that those whose votes have elevated the incompetent and the corrupt to positions of political power have only themselves to blame.

Which brings me to the choices laid before Niagara West voters next week, none of them especially attractive.

We have the PC incumbent, a vote for whom is a vote for a brutish party leader with singularly unimpressive personal and political records, who has a reputation of bigotry and of unaddressed, alleged past dealings in illegal street drugs.

This man, who may very well become our new premier, has refrained from tabling and costing even the most rudimentary of platforms. This appears cynically strategic, as any plan released at the eleventh hour will defy analysis until well after the dust has settled. We cannot be certain what we are being

asked to vote for, except perhaps being able to buy a bottle of beer at the corner Avondale for a dollar.

We cannot be certain what we are being asked to vote for

The best offering of our own riding’s PC candidate, having now warmed his Queen’s Park back bench for several months, is that he is now less damp behind the ears and less unqualified to do the job. And, unlike his leader actively fending off accusations of nomination improprieties, the shadows cast by his own nomination manoeuvres have faded into memory. He does, however, represent the socially conservative amongst us quite well.

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Then there is the Green candidate for whom the election is a job application, though her resumé is so thin and lacking in substance as to be practically transparent. She lacks not for hubris, though. For what other job can a woefully unqualified teenager fresh out of high school seriously compete that pays a six figure, executive level salary plus benefits?

Well, she might say in her defence, it worked for the incumbent.

On the plus side we can be assured she can’t be so naive to think she might actually prevail, though she can hold out hope she’ll garner sufficient votes to get her deposit back. On the other hand, from her public comments it appears she looks upon this campaign primarily as a learning experience, which may indicate a degree of practical clarity, future planning and realism wanting in the other candidates.

The failure of the NDP to nominate a dark horse candidate with the maturity and savvy suited for the job at hand, particularly at See OP-ED next page

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OP-ED continued from previous page a time when its potential to form government is greater than it has been in a generation, is an indication that the New Democrats, like the other parties, do not take Niagara West seriously. They have at least put forward a costed platform, though a $1.4 billion dollar blunder in such a basic document does not bode well for expectations of wise fiscal management of Canada’s largest economy, nor does the party’s apparent bench strength.

Needless to say, Niagara West should not expect to be represented by a cabinet minister any time soon, or anyone else with real political power for that matter.

Bringing up the rear is the most mature, experienced and qualified candidate in the race, who realistically has an excellent chance of coming in third. The odds are stacked against him just by his running in a dyed-inthe-wool blue riding, but more so by the record of his Liberal party, which over the past decade of almost uninterrupted economic growth has managed to double Ontario’s sub-sovereign debt to the largest in the world, at the same time bringing voters the highest domestic electricity rates in North America.

He is, to put it succinctly, dead in the water.

My political crystal ball is obscured with clouds but I dimly perceive one of two provincial outcomes: a PC majority government under the chaotic leadership of Doug Ford, or an NDP-Liberal coalition under Andrea Horwath.

Frying pan to the fire.

It’s all so discouraging. Still, I acknowledge and accept my civic responsibility to cast a vote on June 7, resigned as I am to the necessity of holding my nose in the process.

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Councillor Durley, I completely agree with you—any form of harassment is totally unacceptable.

The dictionary defines harassment as a noun, the act of systematic and/ or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands.

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CONFUSED continued from previous page change order was a housekeeping task for the bookkeeping department. Has this been addressed and if not - why not? If it has been remedied, please send confirmation documentation.

2. Reserves—-Please describe the Town’s policy for the removal of money from the reserve funds. Was the proper procedure followed

The Voice of Pelham, June 6 2018 to remove the money? Was the whole council fully aware of the reserve fund depletion? Time frame for replacement?

3. Mamas L and—According to the KPMG report, Council had flexibility to negotiate the acquisition price of the Excess Dedicated Parkland. Why did this not happen?

4. Fenwick/Ridgeville—What was the total cost of the Fenwick and Ridgeville renovation? A debenture of

$5.75 million was taken out for this project. Was all the money allotted to this expense?

5. Meeting—- Mayor Augustyn, why did you cancel the promised meeting before some of the councillors had a chance to review the KPMG report and before the citizens had been given a chance to review it?

When I received no answers, I politely inquired again on January 30. And again on February 14, and,

being the persistent person that I am, I inquired two more times.

To date, I have still received no answers.

Look back at those five questions, do they come across as “bullying” or are they logical? Do they accuse anyone of wrongdoing? Or do they just ask for explanations?

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www.thevoiceofpelham.ca the Voice should be readily available at the touch of a button—- so why the delay?

Delaying tactics only compound the problem and make people suspicious and once again they ask— if there is nothing to hide, why are the answers not forthcoming?

Good people fought wars so that we could grow up and live in a free and democratic society. In a democracy people have rights.

I have the right to question what I do not understand.

I have the right to question authority and search for the truth.

I have a civic duty to vote.

I have the right to expect that the people I helped elect to represent me in government would answer questions in a timely and truthful manner.

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Veteran sports reporters create own website Bernie Puchalski and Bill Potrecz leave the Standard for greener digital pastures

BY VOICE STAFF On a recent Monday morning, Bernie Puchalski and Bill Potrecz, the founders, editors, and reporters of BPSN, a new online Niagara sports news network, arrived at the Niagara Olympic Club. (BPSN is so named for the initials of its founders.) The club, which is adjacent to to the shuttered West Park Secondary School, was hosting the region’s Zone Three high school track and field championship.

Starting pistols popped and runners in singlets made rings around the ochre track, while others warmed up in unused lanes.

Results and event reminders were being blared over loudspeakers.

There was an order of chaos in the air. Puchalski and Potrecz looked at home.

The two men, who are both in their mid-50s but could pass for a decade younger, spent a combined 55 years covering Niagara sports for the St. Catharines Standard before taking buy-outs in early 2017.

“It was a downward spiral, and we saw it all coming. When I started there in 1984 covering sports part-time, we had six-anda-half people covering sports—I was the half,” said Potrecz. “Now, the paper has six people in its entire newsroom.”

Puchalski began his career covering Regional politics in 1989, before switching to sports in 1996.

The move was welcome to him.

“I covered Regional Council, all the committees, the police services board, the health board. All of the parochialism drove me crazy,” he said.

Potrecz’s career at the Standard began when the Burgoyne family—the paper’s founders—still had ownership. During his 30year tenure, the paper moved from chain to chain, from SunMedia, to Osprey, to Quebecor, to PostMedia.

“It was like being on a treadmill with the speed turned up each year,” said Potrecz. “You don’t realize the stress that you’re under until you leave.”

“People come up and tell me that I’m a completely different person now,” said Puchalski.

Prior to taking their buyouts, Puchalski and Potrecz had discussed the possibility of creating their own independent outlet to cover Niagara sports.

“We knew that we had to give it a shot. If we can’t do it, then it can’t be done,” said Potrecz.

After some six months of small business classes, and web and logo design, the two launched BPSN

Bill Potrecz interviews Notre Dame’s Sarah Saldutto at the zone three high school track and field championship at the Niagara Olympic Club. VOICE PHOTO

last September.

“Aside from my family, there’s no one I trust more than Bill,” said Puchalski. “We trust each other to do the tough parts. Last week we spent hours just entering track and field results into the computer. Your eyes glaze over as you’re doing it. But I’m not afraid to do that, and neither is Bill.”

Since September, the two said, they have had some 310,000 page views by 85,000 different users.

Their best week saw 13,500 hits.

All told, they’ve written some 720 stories at a rate of about 20 per week.

“We have new local sports daily—from Fort Erie to Grimsby,” said Potrecz, explaining that the site has found its sweet spot in

covering high school sports.

“We thought that the Icedogs and River Lions would do well,” said Puchalski. “With five thousand people at the game, maybe two thousand would want to read and in-depth story about it afterwards.”

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I said that if you love it, it's a successful career

BPSN’s Bernie Puchalski takes photos at the zone three high school track and field championship at the Niagara Olympic Club.

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BSPN continued from previous page of these games garnered far fewer hits than young athletes. A story about the championship football game between A.N Myer and Notre Dame racked up 7000 views.

“It’s kids sharing it on

social media,” said Puchalski. “My youngest daughter, Tess, already takes photos for us sometimes and we’re getting her to be our social media operator too.”

“I started on the high school sports beat at the Standard, back when there were beats,” said Potrecz.

“All of that has been pushed

to the back-burner, so it’s really gratifying to get back to it.”

Despite the attention that their high school coverage has received, Puchalski said that BPSN has to refrain from becoming “a slave to hits.”

“We know there are some stories that aren’t going to

attract a lot of readers—like the one on Wayne Parrish being named the CEO of the Canada Summer Games. But we have to cover those sorts of stories for credibility,” he said.

Puchalski and Potrecz say that their site is now entering a “crunch period,” during which they are try-

ing to monetize their work.

Since its launch, BPSN has been self-financed.

“We have sold some ads, but we’re also looking for voluntary help,” said Puchalski. “We don’t want people to just think of us as an ad platform—we want them to see us as a community service.”

Niagara Olympic Club president Sharon Stewart said her organization’s sponsorship of BPSN is based on a belief that the coverage provided is important.

“It’s great for the kids to see stories on themselves and others,” said Stewart, as she walked around the grounds of the event last week. “[BPSN] isn’t restricted by anything—the stories are as long as they want them to be.”

Puchalski and Potrecz said that they find working for themselves liberating.

“We’ve always been like that, doing our own thing—Bill would be at the Standard’s basketball tournament and say, ‘You’re starting early. It’s our tournament, and I have to go cover something else after.’

Now he’s even worse,” joked Puchalski.

The two said that their ability to be efficient has been critical to keeping the stories coming.

“We can do a seven hundred word story in forty-five minutes,” said Potrecz.

“Pull into a Tim Horton’s and make use of the WiFi. Or the library at the Seaway Mall. That’s our second home.”

Several of BPSN’s stories have appeared in the Voice, which has exclusive print rights in Pelham.

Most importantly, the two said, they’re doing what they love.

“My daughter had to do a story on careers, and she said that she had to interview me,” said Puchalski.

“The first question was, ‘What is a successful career?’

And I said that if you love it, it’s a successful career.”

Splitting up from each other at the track meet, Puchalski squatted down near the starting line with his camera, wile Potrecz ambled off towards the long-jump pit to interview a girl wearing a University of Toronto sweater. By that afternoon, BPSN’s homepage was already full of stories from the day. Find it at http://www. bpsportsniagara.ca

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James Ross, Fraser Darling, Alex Jastremski, Neil Kennedy, Kennedy Keith, Lauren Bench, Amber Drysdale, and Brooke Kew will all be heading to universities in the United States on athletic scholarships in the fall.

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CROSSLEY continued from Page 1 Three of the four females will be moving to Florida.

Lauren Bench and Kennedy Keith are both going to the University of Central Florida, near Orlando, where they will be studying sports and exercise science and medical sciences respectively. Brooke Kew, a coxswain, will be at Jacksonville University, studying biology.

Amber Drysdale will be attending Jacksonville Uni-

versity, where she intends to study animal science.

All of the rowers first began the sport either at the end of Grade 8 or in Grade 9.

“I used to play as many sports as I could,” said Drysdale. “But after I started rowing it was the sport for me.”

Though balancing university studies with their athletic obligations will likely be a challenge, the rowers said that didn’t expect the time required for training to be much greater.

John Ruscitti, a teacher at the school and its long-time

rowing coach, has a reputation for pushing his athletes to their limits.

“I was going to quit in Grade 9,” said Bench. “But my dad made me keep going. I didn’t really start to like it until the end of Grade 10.”

“I like rowing when I’m not at it,” joked Kew, describing the years of predawn alarms.

Crossley’s rowing team has a long history of sending team members to scholarships at schools in the US, from Princeton to Syracuse, Tennessee, Michigan State, UCLA, and Tulsa.

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On Sunday June 17, Fonthill United Church will be hosting a concert for the benefit of a Syrian family of six, that resettled in Welland in September of 2017 and a newly arrived Syrian family of four that came to Fonthill on May 28, a few days ago. The sponsoring organization, The Pelham Syrian Refugee Constituent Group (PSRCG), consists of representatives of Bethany Christian Reformed, Fonthill United, Fenwick United, Pelham Community Churches and the Pelham community at large.

The Group is excited about the generosity of A Cappella Niagara and Fonthill United Church choir in offering a joint concert in support of the families. The concert is free but donations are encouraged, for which envelopes will be provided so you can receive an income tax receipt. The need is to raise $10,000 over and above the $65,000 already raised.

A five-passenger car was donated to the PSRCG almost two years ago and it will be available to the newly arrived family of four as soon as they feel able to assume the responsibility and cost of maintenance. It became evident to the sponsoring group that each family had similar needs for basic transportation. The sponsorship group offered to supply a vehicle when the family of

six felt that they were ready to assume the responsibility. That time has come so a 2007 Montana van was found and purchased.

The additional $10,000 fundraising target is to cover the cost of the Montana and allow for contingencies that may arise. We may also need to help the first family repay the government travel loan which is significant.

Initially the sponsoring group expected the federal government to provide monthly financial support for both families, however, it turned out only one family was a Blended Visa Office Referral (BVOR). As sponsors we had to assume 100% of the costs for the second family.

In addition, costs, particularly housing, have increased significantly over the past two and a half years.

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The second family that just arrived in Fonthill is quickly acclimatizing. The children joined a local soccer team this past weekend and will begin school on Monday.

We thank the communities of Welland and Fonthill for your support and welcome of our families. Each family has commented on the friendly, helpful reaction they have experienced from all the people they have met.

We are proud to be a part of these communities.

The concert will feature the 18-member A Cappella Niagara barber-shoppers, who have thrilled local audiences since 1998 with their full group harmonies and traditional quartets within the membership. The Fonthill United Church Choir is led by Bill Outred, the highly regarded choir leader/ organist and their program will feature favourites including “Old time religion medley” and others.

A reception follows the concert in the lower hall with light refreshments and finger tidbits.

For those who can’t attend the concert and wish to donate you could send to or drop off your donation at Fonthill United Church, 42 Church Hill, Fonthill ON L0S 1E0. Cheques are to be made payable to Fonthill United Church and on the memo line print Pelham Syrian Refugee Constituent Group or PSRCG. All donations over $10 are eligible for income tax receipts. For more information phone 905-8926433.

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YOUTH VOTE FOR YOUTH Grades 4-8 students at St. Ann Catholic School, Fenwick, had the opportunity to participate in Student Vote last Friday. Students engaged in the electoral process by setting up a polling station in the school library, and having students come in to vote for the local provincial candidate of their choice—three of whom are within a decade of their own ages. The program is run by CIVIX, a non-partisan, national organization dedicated to building the skills and habits of active, and engaged citizenship among young Canadians. School results will be announced on the CIVIX website on election night.

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THANKS FOR THE MUD! Sponsors of this years Mudfest Challenge, held May 5 at Bissell’s Hideaway, joined Paul Snack, President of the Fonthill Rotary Club, to present a cheque for $8000 to Barb Van Der Hayden, Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Niagara, an important child mentoring organization in the region. Front row from left: Susan, Julia and Stephanie Burr, Isabelle Miclavcic, Ken Janzen, Mel Groom. Back row from left: Brianna Willard and Ryan Huckla; Paul Snack, President of Fonthill Rotary; Barb Van Der Hayden, Kyle Boggio, Ed Miclavcic, Clint Bowman, Paul Allen, Frank Adamson, and Kirk Zavitz. SUPPLIED PHOTO

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Rungeling Airport set for runway rehab

A whole bunch of things are dovetailing together all at once, which will all save a lot of money

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO

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Branch 149 of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) held a meeting recently at the Dorothy Rungeling Niagara Central Airport. For a group of people accustomed to spending time in the air, the trouble that arose during the evening was as mundane as could be: grass cutting.

“This is our one unknown,” said branch “Captain” Adrian Verburg. “We have enough riding mowers around to be all right for this year, but we need a long-term solution.”

“We made a commitment to the commission to cut the grass— and around this time of year that might need to be once a week,” he continued.

Verburg told the group that there were several options, the most attractive of which involved a riding mower with a tow-behind mower pulled along adjacent to it.

“With this, we can get the width to about eight feet at a time,” said Verburg, soliciting input from the group.

“Rob doesn’t use his Porsches much after the summer,” offered up Peter Van Caulart, a COPA member and Verburg’s hangar partner. “They’re fast, and light, and won’t do damage to the runway.”

Rob just shook his head and smiled.

Van Caulart, more seriously, suggested that COPA appeal to the public for a donation of a ma-

chine, and offer up a tax receipt in return.

“We could do that,” said Verburg.

“Our goal was to raise $6000 dollars for this project, and we’re already at $8000,” said Verburg.

“So we have a little bit of money to use on equipment if we want to. I just need direction from you—I’ve been looking for used machines, but I just missed one.”

Verburg was referring to the mowing of new grass that is to be planted on top of the cracked asphalt of a long-abandoned third runway at the airport, which jointly owned by Pelham, Welland, Wainfleet, and Port Colborne, and is located south of Webber Road near the Welland River.

“This airport was built in the forties—there was World War Two pilot training—with three runways in a triangle,” said Verburg.

“They all were built like that. But the third one has been out of use for over thirty years.”

Verburg attributed this primarily to the high cost of repaving the strip with asphalt. At 60 feet wide and 2500 feet long, resurfacing is prohibitively expensive.

Instead, COPA and the airport’s governing commission decided to create a grass runway over top of the existing asphalt.

“A whole bunch of things are dovetailing together all at once, which will all save a lot of money,” said Verburg. “The commission was already going to build a

In this pilot's chart of the airport, known by its official designation, "CNQ3," the runway to be turfed is highlighted in green.

VOICE ILLUSTRATION new road access into the airport.

So we’re going to take all of that dirt and bring it straight to the runway.”

If not for the runway, all the dirt would have to be hauled away in trucks, another cost that the airport will now save.

“We’re going to do a lot of the work ourselves. We’ll spread the dirt all around the runway—about eight inches deep in the centre, tapering off by the sides—and grade and roll it ourselves.”

Verburg showed the assembled group pictures of two enormous rollers that he had picked up the week before in Peterborough.

“These didn’t cost us anything,” he said. “It was four hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 401 on the way there, but once we had them we took the 407 back.”

Verburg explained that the rollers had been donated to the airport by a member of the Ontario Flying Farmers association.

“When you’re a part of all these organizations you make contacts,” he said.

A solution for the markers on the sides of the runway also came quite easily. Quality Building in Welland donated some 500 feet of old rubber formerly used as a conveyor belt.

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E. L. Crossley student honoured with award

BY VOICE STAFF

Niagara Nutrition Partners (NNP) held its eighth breakfast gala last Thursday morning at Amici’s Banquet and Conference Centre, raising $32,000 in a fundraiser for the organization on a day that doubled as a competition for high-school chefs. Some half-dozen Niagara high schools sent teams of student chefs with their breakfast creations.

NNP—which marks its 20th anniversary this year— is a regional organization that runs breakfast programs in some 2000 schools, feeding upwards of 17,000 kids daily. The breakfast gala is the main fundraiser operated by NNP, though the annual Sobeys golf tournament spearheaded by Fonthill Sobeys owner Ron Kore also raises a substantial amount.

“We are only fifteen percent funded by the province,” said NNC’s Jessica Stevenson.

“That’s why this, our signature event, is so important.”

Stevenson said that the event is sold out every year, with some 240 attendees present last week.

She emphasized the importance of encouraging students to think about healthy

food and where that food is coming from, something that NNP tries to do by partnering with local growers.

“In urban areas, like Toronto, they will have rooftop gardens and other things like that to have fresh produce close by. But in Niagara we have so many farms around,” she said.

The gala’s host, chef Anna Olson—who hosts Baking with Anna Olson on the Food Network—similarly spoke of building relationships with food.

“In France, they treat cafeteria lunches as if they’re another class,” she said, before moving on to describe the difference between knowledge of food and wisdom.

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit,” said Olson, before waiting a beat.

“But wisdom is knowing that you don’t put tomato in a fruit salad.”

She turned toward some of the schools’ tables, where they were preparing to serve their breakfasts.

“Unless one of the teams brought fruit salad with tomato in it,” she said hurriedly as the room laughed.

Niagara resident and celebrity chef Anna Olson hosts NNP’s breakfast gala at Amici’s last Thursday morning.

VOICE PHOTO NNP’s Jessica Stevenson announced an award for E.L. Crossley Secondary School Grade 11 student and Pelham resident Tessa Piccolo, who started the breakfast program at her school when she was in Grade 10.

“During the summer after her Grade 9 year, she did the research and contacted the school’s principal,” said Stevenson. “She had to overcome difficulties too— Miss Keller, the teacher at the school who helped Tessa start the program, really believed in her, just like she believed in sustainable living, and healthy eating. She knew that students could use the breakfast program when they had an early bus, or because they liked the

healthy options. Or because of need, because Miss Keller knew that poverty doesn’t have a neighbourhood. Miss Keller passed away unexpectedly last fall, but Tessa has continued on the good work she has done.”

Stevenson listed all of Piccolo’s extra-curricular involvements, including Interact, eco-club, VegFest, and student council.

“If you don’t already have a LinkedIn account, you should make one,” said Stevenson as Piccolo accepted her award. “You’d have a lot of job offers by the time you leave this room.”

“I realized that we were one of the only schools without a program,” Piccolo told the Voice, explaining

what galvanized her to start the program.

“Just because Pelham is known as a wealthier area doesn’t meant that there aren’t people who struggle to eat every morning. I also wanted it to be for athletes, or people who are on the bus for a long time before they get to school.”

Piccolo said that during the summer when she came up with the idea she read an article about the effect that eating breakfast has upon the rest of the day.

“I don’t think that anyone should be put at a disadvantage in school just because they didn’t have a healthy breakfast in the morning,” she said.

After the presentation to

Piccolo, servers began delivering dishes from each school to the judges. The offerings ranged from a twist on Eggs Florentine, to plantain waffles, and bread pudding with maple ice cream.

All the judges worked through each dish as it was brought in front of them.

Their decision, announced

by Olson, awarded the crew from St. Catharines Collegiate Secondary School first place for their spinach strata with gruyere. Collegiate also won the people’s choice award, as voted on by attendees at each table.

Attendees lined up around the room to take their selection. Seated at Piccolo’s table were a handful of teachers from E.L. Crossley. Technology teacher Dave Csikos said that the plantain waffle was his favourite, while co-op teacher Andrew Petryschuk confessed to being too provincial to properly enjoy the gourmet fare.

“It’s all a little exotic for me,” said Petryschuk, pining for diner grub. “My palate isn’t used to that. I’m more of a bacon and eggs guy.”

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An event designed to launch community-based fundraising for Pelham’s new community centre was held at Peter Piper’s Pubhouse in Fonthill last Tuesday morning.

Interkom Smart Marketing, the firm hired by the Town to execute the overall fundraising effort, announced that donations from $2500 dollars would be accepted. Previously, larger donation amounts were solicited.

At least three Niagara media outlets—Niagara This Week, the St. Catharines Standard, and YourTV— were invited to the event and were in attendance. The Voice was neither notified of the event nor invited to attend.

Town Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Marc MacDonald said that Tuesday’s gathering was “a private event.”

“The Town was not responsible for organizing the guest list. I

NDP continued from Page 3 from the political process, but this is why we are running on the platform that we are.

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was only made aware of the event less than 24 hours prior to it taking place,” said MacDonald, responding by email to Voice queries. According to MacDonald, the Town did not "guide" Interkom on whom to invite.

To date, the Town has paid some $240,000 dollars to Interkom for its services, with a remaining $60,000 yet to come.

The firm’s Martin Van Zon did not respond to repeated requests for an explanation as to why an invitation was not extended to the only Pelham-based news outlet.

For several weeks last winter, the Town cut off contact with the Voice after 21 years of communication, refusing to respond to or acknowledge receipt of email or telephone messages. The media table was removed from Council chambers, with conflicting explanations for its absence given to residents.

Voice newspapers dropped at Town Hall were apparently deliberately trashed soon after their delivery.

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I was only made aware of the event less than 24 hours prior to it taking place that it was refusing to speak to the Voice because the paper was not a member of the National NewsMedia Council. The Voice had long been a member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and News Media Canada, both of which are established and recognized media organizations, and its staff writers

members of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

In comments at the time to other news outlets, Augustyn misrepresented the Voice’s journalistic guidelines, and falsely asserted that the newspaper’s ownership had changed.

Ownership of the Voice has not changed since its founding in 1997, when 50 community members chipped-in $1000 each to bring it to life.

In conversation with a Voice reporter, weeks previous to his assertion, the Mayor acknowledged that the paper was owned by community members, and said that he had recently spoken to one of its shareholders.

Voice publisher Dave Burket said that the paper’s exclusion from last week’s press event is inexplicable.

“If we’d just been invited along with the rest of the media, then the story would have been about the reason for the event,” said Burket.

“That’s basic public relations.”

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“We are going to have to cut them up into ten-footlong pieces, then paint them with white paint that has glass beads in it,” he said.

The ten-foot pieces will be spread on either side of the runway, 200 feet apart.

The glass in the paint will ensure that the rubber is reflective and visible to approaching pilots.

“How are we going to cut it up?” asked one woman.

“We’re going to put the rolls on my tractor and then unspool them like toilet paper,” said Verburg. “The rubber is only a half inch thick—I’m told that a sharp blade will cut it.”

Just before the halfway point in the meeting, Van Caulart held up his phone.

“I found a tractor for you, Adrian. $1000 dollars,” he said.

Verburg said that Young Sod will be seeding the runway by this fall with a special blend of grass designed for runways, and that it will be operational by next year— when the airport is to host the Air Race Classic, a competition for female pilots.

Verburg said that COPA’s mission is simply to promote airplanes and flight.

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The original $37 million dollar financing plan for the community centre called for $12 million dollars to be repaid by future development (new construction) charges, $9 million in taxes, $12 million in the sale of “excess” East Fonthill real estate, and $3 million dollars in donations.

In order to begin con-

struction, the Town took out loans based on the assumptions above.

Some $21 million dollars in debt was acquired from Infrastructure Ontario between 2016 and 2017, while the Town has obtained “bridge financing” to pay for the rest.

This additional financing must be repaid within 120 days of substantial completion of the community centre, which is expected to occur in June. This means that

the bridge loan will have to be repaid by October.

While the Town has announced preliminary deals to sell some eight acres of East Fonthill land, the sales prices have not been disclosed, nor have these deals closed.

And while the Town asserts that it has gathered nearly $3 million dollars in pledges, many of these donations are spread over a number of years.

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borrow until all that land is sold and they have $3 million in donations [in cash],” said an accountancy expert consulted by the Voice.

“Whether it’s short-term or long-term, it’s still borrowed money that taxpayers will have to pay interest and principal payments on.”

The Town has previously said that its debt for the community centre has a 30-year term. The annual payments on $1 million dollars at three percent interest would total $50,592, substantially more than Meridian’s annual payment for naming rights.

“The Meridian payment doesn’t cover [the interest],” said the expert. “That means that taxpayers will pay the difference.”

The agreement gives Meridian naming rights to the community centre in perpetuity if the entire $1 million is paid over 25 years.

“Termination rights are in the contract,” said the financial expert. “If Meridian decides not to pay anymore, the Town can take the sign down and resell the rights.

It is what it is, and will service most of a $1 million loan which should show up as long-term debt on the balance sheet.”

The agreement also provides Meridian with a host of other perks, from having four to eight reserved seats for Junior B hockey games and other events, to use of an arena surface once a year at no rental cost for a Meridian community skate.

Meridian also has an option for free use of the small community room twice a year, as well as the large room twice a year.

The contract obligates the Town to rename Shaw Street, the road to the north of the centre, to Meridian Way. This decision was formalized by council in March.

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On April 25, using the entire 30 days allowed under FOI legislation, Town Clerk Nancy Bozzato responded by saying that the Town was exercising a clause to extend the time period to 90 days.

“The reason for the time extension is due to the volume of requests and the time span over which records relate,” asserted Bozzato. Bozzato had previously fulfilled parts of FOI requests while taking longer to respond to others.

In response, five days later the Voice filed an FOI solely for the Meridian agreement. Bozzato again used the entire 30 days permitted before providing the document last Wednesday.

The Town charged the Voice $48 for a copy of the agreement, asserting that the 14-page document took 1.5 hours to locate and prepare.

One of the sections in the agreement, entitled “Non-Confidentiality,” provides that the Town may disclose the contents of the contract, including under FOI request.

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Meridian’s $1 million dollar purchase of the naming rights was announced in March at a press event held at the community centre construction site. The Voice was neither informed of the announcement nor invited to it.

Shortly thereafter the newspaper requested general comment on the naming arrangement from Meridian. Toronto-based vice president of corporate communications, Scott Windsor, replied, saying that the bank’s comment was included in the Town’s press release.

“Meridian will not be disclosing the terms and conditions of our contractual agreement with the Town of Pelham,” concluded Windsor, an addition that piqued Burket’s curiosity.

“It was an odd thing to add. We never asked about the terms and conditions of the agreement,” said Burket. “Had word come down to keep the terms secret for some reason? It seems silly, but here we are.”

The credit union had not shown such reticence in the past. When the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines was announced, it was made public that the $5.2 million there would be paid over twenty-five years. In Barrie, where Meridian donated $100,000 to a health centre, it was disclosed that the money would be paid over four years.

In contrast to the perpetual rights it secured in Pelham, Meridian’s agreement with the City of St. Catharines is limited to the duration of the 25-year contract, according to St. Catharines Acting Manager of Corporate Communications, Maggie Riopelle.

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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 facets of schooling, and the challenges of working with teenagers. Over the years, I taught them, coached them, counselled them, and recruited them. I expelled a few, and graduated a lot more.

But back to my gist. The other day I read a story about a Louisiana-based televangelist named Jesse Duplantis who is fleecing his flock to pay for a $54-million executive jet— his fourth such aircraft —so that he can spread the gospel near and far. Especially far, I’d assume.

His “shillin’ for the Lord” TV program apparent-

ly reaches 106 million U.S. households…not sure how many wallets and purses that includes. Duplantis’ personal wealth is estimated at $50 million. Not bad for a good ol’ boy who performed in the 1970s under the stage name Jerry Jaxon, with a pop group called Summer Wine.

Duplantis asserted that if Jesus were on earth today, he wouldn’t be riding a donkey to reach the masses. He’d be flying in a jet. And don’t think for a moment that Jesus would fly commercial.

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Copeland has a southern drawl and a bunch of jets, like Duplantis. He hails from the Lone Star State, and preaches a “prosperity gospel.” Essentially, he espouses that God blesses the faithful with earthly treasures. And if you give this Texan lots of dough to do God’s work, well…that’s sure faithful.

Funny, I remember reading something in the Bible about Jesus telling his followers to sell all their worldly possessions and follow him…presumably in a life of poverty. Weird. I’m sure Duplantis and Copeland can explain the confusion.

Don’t forget that, like all religious organizations, these ministries pay no tax.

And then it hit me—all these years, I was in the wrong business.

Why was I a salaryman working with students, when I could have been reaping manna from heaven saving souls?

Mom always said I loved the sound of my own voice. I was big into public speaking and musical drama performances in high school. And I could sell. I got my first job at age 15, flogging shoes at the Pen Centre, and a year later was dealing automotive products and services at a department store auto centre.

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Grams and Gramps both preceded Billy to the great hereafter. They would have been shocked to learn that Reverend Graham was worth $25 million when he passed away at age 99.

Billy was a charismatic man and a powerful public speaker, as I witnessed during his televised crusades. His son Franklin, a few years old than I, joined his dad in the family business, and also hooked up with Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief organization that reported gross receipts in 2010 of $414 million.

Reverend Franklin currently pays himself well over $600,000 from his duties with Samaritan’s Purse.

His net worth is reportedly a somewhat modest $3 million. He is a piker compared to the big-time televangelists like Joel Osteen (net worth approx. $60 million) and Copeland ($760 million) who live in lavish mansions and enjoy a Trump-size lifestyle.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with being wealthy.

But with great wealth comes great responsibility. A parable comes to mind, along the lines of, "You cannot serve both God and money.” (Luke 16 of the Good Book, I believe.)

Life is full of hypocrisy.

There will always be those who project a false face of virtue and sincerity, in an effort to fool the naïve and desperate.

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It’s hard to put a price on sleeping with a clear conscience.

I’m a lapsed churchgoer these days, an agnostic, a Christian through culture only, who believes firmly in rational humanism.

I look to the innate goodness in mankind and the power of science to move all 7.6 billion of us earthlings forward. I prefer the insight and philosophy of Sam Harris and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan.

Still, I can’t help but muse that if whatever gods may be had anointed me years ago in a parallel universe, I’d have my own ministry, with millions of devoted donors.

I can picture myself with a pilot’s license, winging it in some glitzy Learjet to proselytize to wretched souls hither and yon.

If I had only knocked on Ernest Angley’s door, and offered to be his acolyte. I’d even have promised not to laugh at his polyester leisure suits and goofy toupee. ◆

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religion, too. My family had been mainstays at the local United Church for three generations. I had converted to Anglicanism during my middle years, for reasons which currently escape me.

So where had I missed the boat?

Maybe I didn’t have the right mentoring. The ministers I encountered during my upbringing in the church were decent sorts, humble and unpretentious, with few trappings of wealth.

They were true “men of the cloth,” and that cloth wasn’t tailored into Gucci suits.

Now if I had clung to the coattails of one of the early TV evangelists — maybe Jimmy Swaggart or Oral Roberts — things could have turned out differently.

Speaking of oral, remember Swaggart? He was found with a hooker in a hotel room a few years back.

Whatever. He squirted a few tears, pleaded for forgiveness on national television, and gullible people kept sending him money. The Lord truly works in mysterious ways.

I remember how my grandparents, retired farm folk from Bruce County with little disposable income, used to write an annual cheque to Billy Graham. I asked them why they, as United Church members, were sending money to a Southern Baptist, and they muttered something about how they related to a man born in a farmhouse in

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