The Voice, March 4 2020

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Alan Crescent development turned down page 7 Pelham charts its future page 11 100+ Women Who Care page 13 EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

Larry “BILKO” Bilkszto

SELL phone: 905-321-2261 www.pineSOLD.com

DEBBIE PINE SALES REPRESENTATIVE 905.892.0222 debbiepine@royallepage.ca

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Darcy Richardson, CPA, CA | Broker

RE/MAX® Garden City

DARCYRICHARDSON.CA darcy@revelrealty.ca 905.321.6292

Realty Inc., Brokerage

www.bilko.ca

NRC Realty, Brokerage

Independently Owned & Operated

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Your Local Sales Representative 905-563-3330 • 905-641-1110

bilko@rgcmail.com

Vol.24 No.9

March 4, 2020

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Column Six Who let the reaper in? In Portugal, Death tempts with embrace BY COLIN BREZICKI

Special to the VOICE

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f I should ever die— God forbid—I’d rather not know about it. Death and public speaking, both very scary. I don’t remember where I was or how old or what I was doing when I realized that one day I would die. Nor do I remember how I reacted. I doubt if I ran screaming out of the room, though that would be a reasonable thing to have done. Good health is the slowest rate at which you can die, said someone, somewhere. Five years ago I was in very good health, for a near septuagenarian. I’d been training all spring for a five-day group bike ride in Portugal. In April I’d taken my bike with me when I drove to Martha’s Vineyard for a writers’ retreat, and during that fortnight I cycled to the island’s hilly west coast several times. It was likely during a walk in the woods with friends that I was bitten. One morning, after returning home to Niagara,

LET'S GET PLANNING The Town of Pelham's new Policy Planner, Tara Lynn O'Toole, on the job. Story, page 3

BRIAN GREEN

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS NRC REALTY, Brokerage 1815 Merritville, Hwy 1 FONTHILL, ON

www.pineSOLD.com

DEBBIE PINE SALES REPRESENTATIVE 905.892.0222

NIAGARA / FONTHILL, ON

Save your family the burden.

Plan your own funeral so they won’t have to. Call today and ask how we can help. Tina

debbiepine@royallepage.ca SELL phone: 905-321-2261

See COLUMN SIX back page


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