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BY VOICE STAFF Niagara Regional Police say that they received a report of a cougar sighting in North Pelham last Tuesday.

On November 1, a teenage female was running on a trail in North Pelham Park when she encountered the cat. She reported that a large cougar jumped onto the trail in front of her at around 6:30 PM. The jogger turned immediately and ran back toward Cream Street. She says that the animal did not follow her, and that she did not see it again.

While the young woman did not wish to be identified, she asserts to Niagara Police that she has spoken “many other people” who have also seen the animal.

According to Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources, the cougar is Canada's largest and most powerful wildcat.

Males can reach up to two metres in length and weigh over 60 kilograms.

Recent attempts to count the population in eastern Canada have come up with scant data, with potential sightings such as this one providing the most information.

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Puma concolor couguar, the Eastern Cougar. Ranging over New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario, the Eastern Cougar was declared endangered in Canada in 1978. It is extinct in the U.S. SUPPLIED STOCK PHOTO

Pelham Cares gears up for annual food drive

BY NATE SMELLE

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Lori Grande and the team at Pelham Cares have been busy preparing for the big annual food drive on Saturday, Dec. 3.

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Over the last couple of months, staff and volunteers from Pelham Cares have been working hard to get ready for the 26th annual Pelham Community Food Drive. To be held this year on Saturday, Dec. 3, Pelham residents are asked to place non-perishable food items on their porch before 9 AM to be picked-up by volunteers.

“It is always a fun day and I think people really enjoy it,” said Pelham Cares coordinator of client services, Lori Grande.

“We work for a few hours, we have some pizza and some coffee...and socialize a bit. Everyone goes away feeling happy from doing a good deed and having given some time to help the community.”

This year Pelham Cares will be overseeing the entire initiative now that longtime organizer Gerry Berkhout has retired. Working together with the Fonthill

and District Kinsmen and the Lions Clubs in Fenwick and Fonthill, Grande says they will be coordinating 150 volunteers for the door-to-

This is our one big annual food drive that keeps us running

door food collection on Dec. 3 and another 80 or so for the sorting and boxing at a local greenhouse. Volunteers are also needed to help transport the food from Rice Road to the Pelham Cares office at 191 Hwy 20 East.

“This is our one big annual food drive that keeps us running,” she said.

“Throughout the year

some of the churches and schools collect for us and there are other food drives but this is the big one. At this time of year everyone starts thinking about Christmas and giving so it's a great time for people to help their community.”

This year Grande said that there is a need for canned fruits and vegetables, cereal, canned meats and snacks for kids to bring to school.

People living outside the urban areas where the doorto-door food collection will take place can drop off donations on Dec. 3 at Century 21 Today Realty at the corner of Pelham Street and Quaker Road, Clare’s Cycle and Sports, Meridian Credit Union, North Pelham Avondale, Star Tile Centre, the Pelham Cares office and the Lions Club halls in Fenwick and Fonthill.

Grande said that monetary donations are also greatly appreciated. Those wishing to make a contribution by a cash or cheque are See FOOD DRIVE Page 2

E WAS A GOLFER. I saw him in the clubhouse, talking to other members, while I was working in the snack bar.

He stood out with brown and grey plaid pants. He wore a golf vest over his shirt. All I could say to myself was, What a hunk!

Red hair and red mustache—a handlebar, yet.

Long red sideburns. I was head-over-heels in love!

That’s how it started.

He came and introduced himself as Brian and ordered french fries. We hit it off right away. I didn’t have any problem making conversation. It was the summer of 1972 (which explains the handlebar mustache). I would have jumped at the chance of a date but he was seeing someone else, so I lost hope of ever becoming more than friends.

A year later I was out with a girlfriend and saw him again, this time in a restaurant. He saw me. He was alone and asked if he could join us. He had stopped by the place for an after-wrok drink. We had a great conversation, mostly talking about nothing and laughing together. He bought me a Singapore Sling and asked to see me again.

We dated again and again. I had to pick up my mother from a wedding shower and Brian followed behind me. She was taking a while and he got out of the car. I rolled down the window and he touched my face and caressed my cheek. He lifted my head and reached down and kissed me. I was hooked.

We took long drives in the countryside and went for pizza and hamburgers.

We did nothing important See COLUMN SIX Page 14

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NRP impaired driving charges

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

by Dave Burket

Here, kitty-kitty-kitty...

Let's get right to the elephant in the room—I mean the cougar in the bush—no, that's not a photo of the actual North Pelham cougar.

It's a stock photo. We do not encourage our readers to take selfies with Canada's most fearsome wildcat.

I don't know about you, but the better half and I will be avoiding trails in North Pelham for awhile. Whatever cynical old meat there may be on my bones, I'd like to keep it to myself, please.

Resist temptation...When you give political candidates free rein to answer questions, usually they don't disappoint. (Though just as usually, there's always the one candidate with sparse, almost haiku-like answers.)

So it's no surprise that the candidates running to replace Tim Hudak in Queen's Park went to town for the

most part in answering a set of questions that the Voice put to them last week. You'll be tempted to skip their answers. Try to resist. An informed electorate makes better choices, and this is a decision worth taking seriously. Also not surprisingly, given his campaign's reluctance to speak with the news media, the P.C.'s Sam Oosterhoff was the only candidate who did not respond to our offer, nor did the campaign tell us why.

Hidden depths...

Who knew that our John Swart, fitness guru and bicycling expert, also harbours a comedian's sensibility. His satirical Odd Couple, page 8, will stay with you for awhile.

Turbines, so many turbines.

Playing through... Finally, who doesn't love a love story? Cozy up with Column Six to see whether true love prevails or fate intervenes.

BOO! SCARING HUNGER On Friday October 28, Grades 5-to-8 at St. Ann Catholic School walked through neighbourhoods in Fenwick to participate in We Scare Hunger. The students handed out donated bags from local stores earlier in the week and returned to collect the many bags filled with non-perishables, which were picked up by Pelham Cares last week. St. Ann Catholic is also recycling used batteries and reusing outside milk bags for mats for third world countries.

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Painting for pups: Fundraiser to help prevent dogs from being put down

BY NATE SMELLE

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It doesn’t take long searching the internet to come across stories of animal abuse. After coming across a seemingly never-ending stream of such heartbreaking accounts of animal cruelty and neglect, Ashley Soper decided she wanted to take action by signing up as a volunteer with Niagara Dog Rescue (NDR).

“When I found NDR on

Facebook and realized it was local, I signed up immediately, after making a donation,” she said.

“We rely on donations from our generous supporters to help keep us in the game.”

NDR is a volunteer-run not-for-profit that rescues dogs at immediate risk of being euthanized at highkill shelters in Canada and the United States. Without an actual facility to provide shelter for the dogs they take

in, Soper said they are a foster-based rescue.

“We bring so many adorable pups into our program, you can't help but fall in love, so there's no surprise when we hear about our volunteers who have been added to our “foster fail” hall of fame.”

Foster fails, she said, are people who foster a dog and then fall in love with the animal and become its adoptive parent.

Operating a rescue with-

on vacation!

out a facility is an expensive undertaking, Soper said. For instance, paying to release a dog from a shelter where it is destined to be euthanized costs money, as does transporting, boarding, spaying/ neutering, medicating, and feeding the animal.

“This is why we have adoption fees of $400 per dog,” Soper said. “Some dogs need more care than others, but in the end this number helps to balance things out.”

Soper said that the top three ways people can support NDR are by adopting, fostering, and donating.

“Adoption is our favourite way that people can help us out,” she said.

“Next in line is fostering.

We are desperate for foster homes as we do not have a facility. The more foster homes we have, the more dogs we can save. Next is donating, as we cannot do

what we do without the support of our donors.”

Raising awareness for the organization and educating people about the many dogs in need of a home is another important way, she said, for people to get involved.

Browsing fundraising initiatives on social media, Soper came up with another way for people to help NDR — hosting a painting party.

On Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 7 PM to 9 PM, NDR will host its first Painting Party fundraiser at Mossimo’s in Fonthill. During the event, artist Wendy Malowany will guide the group of animal-friendly artists through a step-by-step painting demonstration.

The event is almost completely sold out, however a few more spaces have been made available.

For more details on Niagara Dog Rescue visit their Facebook page.

FOOD DRIVE

a sealed envelope. Cheques are to be made payable to Pelham Cares. Anyone interested in volunteering the 26th annual Pelham Community Food Drive by helping to sort, package and/

or transport food donations are asked to contact Pelham cares at 905-892-5300 or by email at info@pelhamcares.org.

of any terrestrial mammal in the western hemisphere, a range that is almost the same as that of the whitetailed deer, the cougar’s main prey.

According to a Nature Canada overview, when hunting, cougars typically kill their prey by suffocating them with a prolonged bite across the throat that even-

tually collapses the victim’s windpipe. This is usually the case with large prey like moose calves and elk. Small prey, such as mule deer fawns, are more likely to die from a broken neck caused by a single bite. In order to hide its kill from scavengers, a cougar will cover its victim with debris between feedings.

continued from Page 1 asked to drop off their donation at the Pelham Cares office or give it to one of the volunteers on Dec. 3 in

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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.

Jonah A. MILLER, 25, Welland Jesse A. WOSLEY, 24, St. Catharines Amanda M. CHODUR, 27, Toronto Wei Z. HUANG, 41, Niagara Falls Taunya DUHON, 46, Cheektowaga, NY Paolo FRANCESCANGELI, 53, Port Colborne Kristie M. MACK, 25, Buffalo, NY Lynn MCDOWELL, 59, St. Catharines Clifton E. PATTON, 66, St. Catharines Kelly A. CASSELMAN, 40, Toronto Curtis B. MILLER, 50, Niagara Falls April M. WASS, 45, St. Catharines Terry S. VENUS, 51, St. Catharines Justin R. GOUGH, 24, Lincoln Luther G. SAUNDERS, 67, Buffalo, NY William N. RECOLLET, 30, Hamilton Marc E. HLIBICZUK, 26, Hamburg, NY Bradley J. SWALM, 38, Niagara Falls Satvir S. BRAR, 19, Caledon Nicholas A. STENTO, 23, Binghamton, NY Terence J. SMITH, 61, St. Catharines Rodney D. MUNRO, 48, St. Catharines David FOURNIER, 31, Welland

While there are no official estimates of remaining cougars in eastern Canada, according to Nature Canada, the oldest national nature conservation organization in Canada, the species as a whole is thought to have the most extensive range

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.

THE FACTS Male cougars reach two metres in length and weigh over 100kg. Females are slightly smaller.

Females have two-four kittens every two-three years, in late winter or mid-summer. Cubs stay with their mothers for up to two years, learning the complicated hunting techniques of cougars. Except for mothers and cubs, cougars are usually shy and solitary.

Kittens are spotted until they are six months old, when they grow the adult coat of plain short hair, dark to reddish or grayish drown with a white chest and belly, a long tail with a black tip, and black markings in the backs of the ears and around the muzzle.

Masters of camouflage, cougars usually hunt at night and rarely chase their prey. A cougar will locate its prey by scent of sound, slink forward slowly and silently, then pounce when the prey is within reach.

Cougars are excellent swimmers and climbers and can jump more than six metres.

Cougars’ favourite food is deer, but they also eat beavers, porcupines and other small mammals.

Cougars travel long distances for food, often using the same routes and marking their territories with scratched scent posts.

Source: naturecanada.ca

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NOV 17 BY-ELECTION / The Candidates Respond

Candidates respond to Voice questions on goals, policy Last week, the Voice emailed the same set of questions to nominees running to fill Tim Hudak's vacant provincial parliament seat.

Green, Liberal, and NDP candidates answered.

The P.C. candidate did not.

The Questions NDP / Mike Thomas

1) What is your specific strategy to make hydro more affordable for residents in this riding?

1) What is your specific strategy to make hydro more affordable for residents in this riding?

2) How, specifically, would you improve the local health care system?

I will push the government to stop the sell-off of hydro one and to permanently remove the provincial portion of hst from our hydro bills as a first step in tackling the exorbitant hydro rates in this province.

2) How, specifically, would you improve the local health care system?

I would fight for new infrastructure for the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

A hospital the conservatives tried to close and the liberals had promised to rebuild but then backed out of that promise.

3) What is your Party's plan to mitigate the effects of climate change and what action will you take to protect the environment in Niagara West-Glanbrook?

I think renewable energy is important but the way the liberal government imple-

3) What is your Party's plan to mitigate the effects of climate change and what action will you take to protect the environment in Niagara West-Glanbrook?

Mike Thomas.

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mented the green energy act was flawed, to say the least.

An important aspect of securing ontario's energy future is to stop the sell off of hydro one.

4) Should sexual education be included in Ontario's health and physical education curriculum? Why or why not?

The curriculum needed to be updated but the way Kathleen Wynne went about announcing it left parents out of the loop, which I See NDP Page 15

4) Should sexual education be included in Ontario's health and physical education curriculum? Why or why not?

5) As MPP what would you do to represent the Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgender (LGBT) community in Niagara West-Glanbrook?

6) What is your position on a woman's right to choose (i.e., the right to obtain an abortion)?

7) Specifically, what measures would you take to help bring jobs to our community?

8) If elected what would be your first order of business as MPP?

LIBERALS / Vicky Ringuette 1) What is your specific strategy to make hydro more affordable for residents in this riding?

As one of the candidate's that pays a hydro bill, I'm mindful of concerns with increases to our energy bills.

It’s important to know a few things about our hydro system. We inherited an electricity system that had been badly neglected under the previous conservative government. As families and businesses across Ontario remember, brown outs, black outs and smog days put our economy and our people at risk.

Ontario Liberals took that dirty, unreliable electricity system and we made it clean – and a hydro system all of us can count on. We eliminated coal – the source of those smog days – saving us over $4 billion in health care expenses and even saving lives.

I also want to clear the air and let you know that it is completely untrue when people say we have the most expensive hydro rates in North America. The prov-

Vicky Ringuette.

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ince's independent budget watchdog has confirmed that Ontario rates are middle of the pack in Canada and lower than many American cities.

Despite our province's consistent economic growth since the global recession, many families are not feeling the impact of the recovery in their everyday lives.

As a result, Ontario LiberSee LIBERALS Page 14

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OPINION As We See It In this election gamble, no one wins but the house

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FF THE TOP, realize that this by-election will make no difference whatsoever to floor votes in the Ontario Legislature for the remaining 20 months of the Wynne Liberal government.

Of 107 legislative seats, the Ontario Liberal Party controls 57, the Progressive Conservatives of Ontario 28, the New Democratic Party of Ontario 20, the Green Party and Libertarian Party zero. The two currently vacant seats are to be filled during next week's provincial by-election.

No matter who wins, the voting balance at Queen’s Park won’t change.

The Liberal majority is so large that none of the opposition parties alone can defeat it, and in the highly unlikely case that the NDP and PC parties work together, the two additional by-election seats will still leave the combined opposition seven seats short of a majority.

So this becomes the by-election of sending a message to Queen's Park— voting for a candidate or party to "Let them know

what you, the Ontario voter, think." Good luck with that.

Parents who love their kids unconditionally still have to discipline them.

With the Wynne government's approval ratings abysmally low, even the staunchest Liberal has to realize that it's time to tell the Premier enough is enough.

If Liberal candidate Vicki Ringuette is victorious here in Niagara, Wynne's public relations machine will spin the result as a resounding vote for the status quo.

Sure, a Liberal in Niagara might get us "at the table," as Ringuette claims, but the slight prospect of a financial plum isn’t worth the baggage attached. Billions of additional debt, exorbitant hydro costs, gross mismanagement of Ontario's green policies, hydro privatization, close advisors facing election fraud charges, and more. This is a status quo deserving endorsement?

So where does a Progressive Conservative vote get us. It might send a message of disapproval to the Liberal government, but at what

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cost? A win by Sam Oosterhoff will be touted by Patrick Brown and the PC party as a massive condemnation of Wynne, and a sure sign that the Conservatives are on the comeback trail.

But a vote for Oosterhoff is a vote for an intolerant ideology that flies in the face of progress to advance women's rights to self-determination, sex education as it relates to the health and well-being of youth, and equal status and rights for Ontarians of all sexual orientations, to name a few.

What message will a Progressive Conservative vote really send when it can be interpreted so many ways, and subverted to indicate support platforms and values actually opposed by a majority of Ontarians.

New Democrat candidate Mike Thomas follows the NDP party line—reduce hydro costs and fight for better health care, both laudable goals. As a protest vote, Thomas might make sense, but there are no guarantees. He's new to the arena, and the NDP is still limited to third place in the legislature.

Of course, this may not matter, as party leader Andrea Horwath has a history See GAMBLE Page 5

Letters Dean Allison: Party united behind Sam Many people have written articles in the last week saying how surprised they are by the victory of Sam Oosterhoff in our recent Niagara West – Glanbrook PC nomination. The recurring question is, how could such a young man win against much older candidates?

It is certainly fair to ask and explore this question.

However, it is disappointing that people seem to be jumping to ideological or even conspiratorial conclusions.

Had someone older won the nomination, these stories would not have been

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS Member of Federal Parliament

Members of Pelham Town Council

Dean Allison, MP 4994 King Street Beamsville, ON L0R 1B0 Dean.Allison@parl.gc.ca 877-563-7900

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...the person with the most votes wins.

That's the beauty of our democracy...

written.

I have had experience with nominations over the years and the reality is that the candidate who wins is the candidate who sells the most memberships and then is able to get them out to vote, and by extension means they will also work very hard.

If a candidate gets out there, meets with constituents at the doors or in local coffee shops, and if that

Councillor Marvin Junkin mjunkin@pelham.ca 905-684-4870 Ward 2 Councillor Catherine King cking@pelham.ca 905-658-8599 Councillor Gary Accursi gaccursi@pelham.ca 905-892-5528

candidate motivates them to come out and vote, then the person with the most votes wins. That’s the beauty of our democracy and why we cherish it so much.

I’ve seen Sam in action on Parliament Hill, and I was impressed.

His work-ethic is exceptional, his thoughtfulness and judgement are outstanding, and his dedication to the constituents of this great riding is genuine and admirable.

These qualities enabled Sam to sign up so many people. I’m proud of the fact that this nomination process allowed for anyone to run, anyone to win through hard work, and that’s exactly what Sam did.

Our riding has a history of choosing young candidates – Tim Hudak was elected at 27. Tim certainly served this area with great distinction.

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PCs must start living up to name

Doubts about amount of small business "red tape"

There doesn’t appear to be much that’s “progressive” about our Progressive Conservative candidate in the upcoming by election, and it begs the question whether this choice was Conservatism, or a coup?

While there were many “progressive” candidates during the party nomination, they managed to split the fiscally conservative votes amongst themselves, while the social conservatives unified around one candidate.

No one broke any rules, and there’s no question that Mr. Oosterhoff worked hard, but it’s difficult to believe that the majority of Conservative voters in the riding would prefer to talk about Christian Values instead of economic policy.

And so now, in what should have been a slam-dunk riding, the PC party is once again doing its best to snatch defeat from the jaws

The Voice of Pelham’s introduction [Conservatives: Sam Oosterhoff says cut red tape, regulations, Nov. 2] of Sam Oosterhoff as the PC candidate in the upcoming by-election in Niagara West-Glanbrook, includes the quote, “I heard the other day that the average small business owner right now spends 15 to 20 hours a week on red tape.”

ALLISON continued from Page 4 There is no doubt that he grew in the role, but he hit the ground running, became an important leader and provided great service to our area.

Some people have sug-

GAMBLE continued from Page 4 of redesigning NDP positions as opportunity knocks, bespoke tailoring-on-thefly as she senses political convenience when dealing with Wynne.

Millennials have no opportunity to indicate decisive preferences in this by-election.

Sounding a clear voice is impossible.

Ontario badly needs this generation's involvement in politics. They are smart, understand our new world of technology and the environment, and value transparency and integrity.

A millennial's Liberal vote

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of victory by putting forth a candidate that many will have a hard time supporting.

While the Liberal mismanagement of our tax dollars is unforgivable, it’s hard to get excited about a PC candidate who is more focused on government-enforced morality rather than fixing this province’s many fiscal woes. I don’t need my government imposing its moral values on me, especially if the face of that government is three decades my junior!

What I DO need, and what we ALL need, is a government that will trim the fat within the public sector, rein in this reckless spending, and put an end to the blatant cronyism of our current leadership.

I struggle to believe that a homeschooled See LIVE UP Page 9

Strategic plan is a strategic failure The 2017 Strategic Plan for the Town of Pelham is listed on their website. Within this plan, it states that the vision for Pelham is to be the most “innovative” community in Niagara. As well, a main objective is to “support smart growth rather than urban

gested that this nomination was principally about the provincial government’s new sex-education curriculum. Those making these suggestions, however, seem to have forgotten the actual timeline involved.

Most of the memberships for this nomination were sold well before this issue

was back in the news.

Obviously the sex-education issue inspires strong views from both sides.

However, it’s important to note, and to do so very clearly, that the numbers I have seen show that Sam Oosterhoff didn't win because of the sex-ed curriculum, but won because of good

old-fashioned elbow grease.

I’m pleased to see how, in the wake of a competitive and passionate nomination, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party remains strongly united.

All candidates who ran for this nomination are now supporting Sam. Their combined experience and net-

might indicate support for McGuinty and Wynne's environmental aspirations, but this vote would also sanction the large provincial debt they'll inherit, and the continuous obfuscation of the truth by Liberals on so many occasions.

For his part, Oosterhoof has not been transparent during his campaign, seldom answering questions on his more controversial beliefs, and he is the only candidate not to respond to this newspaper’s offer of space to state his case. We have no idea how

he will balance his acknowledged socially conservative values with the PC's more centrist platform. This is a deliberate tactic, one that allows voters on both sides to project their hopes onto the candidate— either that he’s less retrograde than he appears, or that he’s even more so . Oosterhoff is a roll of the dice at best, hardly the choice millennials were hoping for in a young candidate.

In fact, the gambling metaphor works for all these candidates. No matter

who wins, we’re still stuck at the same depressing roulette table, stuck with the same Queen’s Park croupier. No matter what number comes up—black, red, odd, even—we’ll never get out of the hole we’re in until there’s a major change in casino management.

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I don’t believe this.

What you “heard the other day” does not constitute fact, Mr. Oosterhoff. We need evidence.

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The Town has done a wonderful job cre-

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I have been very impressed

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This fight far from over The NAME OUR SCHOOL committee would like to extend a gracious thank you for the quick response the community showed when called upon for monetary support to continue our ongoing struggle with the District School Board of Niagara re: the unwarranted name change of our local school — E.W.Farr Memorial.

The commiittee would like everyone to know that the issue is NOT DEAD! Things are moving through the proper channels and progress is being made.

We are working diligently to further our mission to find out why the Board ignored the wishes of a large segment of our community.

The Village of Fenwick is expanding rapidly and everyone accepts change but does that mean we cannot preserve our history?

The name E.W.Farr has historical ties to our area.

Many of our grandparents and great grandparents had the opportunity to further their education at the Continuation School(highschool) because of his efforts in establishing this school in Fenwick.

Mr. Farr was a founding member of the Maple Acres Library, a church elder, and he was involved with local sports, teacher groups and politics from 1904-1938.

Over his career, he had an impact on the impressionable minds and hearts of a long procession of boys and girls' in our community.

The Board has replaced the name E.W.Farr Memorial with Wellington Heights—a name that honours the Duke of Wellington—a man who never set foot in Canada and who

Still waiting on Mayor's answers according to documented research was know as a philander/womanizer, was anti Semitic and anti Catholic and was part of the British government that did not keep promises made to the First Nations people for their help in the War of 1812.

Was this information made available to the students before they were asked to vote on a name?

The Board claims that the name will inspire our children.

Of the two men, who would you rather have inspiring your child?.

Secondary to the name issue, isn't it ironic that according to the dictionary the word "fen" means a low, marshy area.

How then can we be a "heights"?

Nancy Beamer Ridgeville

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ating a plan that sounds desirable and attractive for the residents of Pelham.

I am sure they worked quite diligently on it.

Unfortunately, as many residents can attest, these carefully chosen words and slogans of the strategic plan, in reality, mean ab-

SAM OOSTERHOFF AND THE ONTARIO PCs WILL STOP THE KATHLEEN WYNNE HYDRO RATE HIKES.

Dear Mr. Mayor, Thank you for the answers to some of the questions I posed in the October 19, 2016 Voice of Pelham.

I’m glad to hear that 2.2 million dollars of development fees have been collected, but are those fees are from the east Fonthill development or from the whole Town of Pelham.

It’s good to know that there will be a monthly update to the Council of the fees collected.

You still have not answered the questions of how many acres in east Fonthill have been sold to date, or the selling price per acre.

You have indicated what the medical centre will include, but not how many doctors have currently been recruited. Is there an active recruiting program in effect?

A 130 unit seniors complex is a great thing, but

solutely nothing.

No further proof is needed other than the new major development of east Fonthill on Hwy. 20.

The Town wants to be “innovative”?

This type of big box-store development can be seen across countless communities in Ontario.

The plaza design is of the cookie-cutter variety. It is hard to tell one of these locations from the next.

Even the storefronts are being completed in the most unimaginative and common of ways.

Brown brick with a touch of faux-stone?

It’s hard to find a new development without it. I weep for “innovation.”

The Town has set an objective of “smart growth rather than urban sprawl”?

What happens if those grants do not materialize?

what company will be owning/operating the facility?

You’ve said that grants have been applied for to finance the piazza, water feature and outdoor theatre at the community centre.

What happens if those grants do not materialize?

By way of a link you’ve sent me a copy of the spreadsheet detailing the operating projections for the community centre, but that does not answer the ques-

The new development in east Fonthill is the very definition of urban sprawl I’m afraid this particular claim is beyond any reasonable defence.

The new development in east Fonthill is the very definition of urban sprawl.

For the 2018 Strategic Plan, could Mayor Dave Augustyn at least avoid the blatant lies?

tion of the price that we will have to pay to: —Rent a gymnasium —Rent ice time —Rent space for a social event —Use the walking track I understand that prices vary throughout the day, so, on average between the hours of 7 am to 10 pm.

I’m still curious as to why the skatepark is lit when it is for daylight use only.

Either the reporter from the Tribune, or I, misheard you at your Chamber of Commerce State of the Town address, we’ll go with what he heard, that the Maple Acre Library would be ready in late December.

Does that mean that the Library will no longer be an “early Christmas present”?

I look forward to the rest of the answers.

Marianne Stewart Fenwick

They are hard to miss when we drive past them every day, not to mention, rather insulting.

Lastly, Pelham wants to “feel like a small town”?

Well, their approach to such is also very confounding.

A second major grocery store, new gas stations (as if we don’t already have enough), acres of new parking lots and all of this outside of the existing downtown.

Either our poor Town has such lowly definitions of these aforementioned terms that they actually believe they are achieving them, or they are perfectly content with lying to the residents.

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Odd Couple:

The Sam & Patrick Story By-election inspires Pelham theatrical production (as imagined by John Swart)

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F YOU’VE PICKED UP this paper on Tuesday evening, you're biting your nails watching CNN while you half-read these words. Don't fret. They'll declare Hillary the winner four minutes after the polls close in California.

The drama is on Fox News.

Watch a conflicted Megyn Kelley implode trying to balance the network's Republican bias against her contempt for Trump. (CBC and Peter Mansbridge will be there for the two remaining viewers who want balanced, factual, boring coverage.)

If it's Wednesday, and Trump won, you're advertising in the Buffalo News that your basement suite is available to Americans. If CNN got it right, go ahead and book your Florida va-

cation, the border will be still be open after January 20.

Either way, just when you thought you could relax, along comes 19-yearold Sam Oosterhoff, winner of the Progressive Conservative nomination for the Niagara West-Glanbrook by-election.

A firestorm of political drama is about to be unleashed in Pelham, presenting a wonderful opportunity for the Fonthill and Fenwick Festival Players Improv Theatre Group, known better as FFFPITG. FFFPITG have just previewed their reworking of the classic Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple: The Sam and Patrick Story. It's a farce, in the time-honoured theatrical sense, with a made-in-Niagara twist.

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Unfortunately, Greens nominee Donna Cridland signed on after all the speaking parts were assigned, and will play the Comfort Maple

minute (and by necessity) to portray Patrick.

Newcomer Sam Oosterhoff, in his debut role, plays the challenging part of Sam. Oosterhoff is expected to draw inspiration for his characteer from the best performances by Stephen Harper, Ted Cruz and the Teletubbies.

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challenge of playing both sides of the coin as the Pigeon twins, neighbours of Sam and Patrick.

NDP nominee Mike Thomas will play the role of Murray, the affable street cop, a supporting character that has some undeniably clever lines, but who seems unfortunately cursed with perpetual third-billing status.

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nominee Donna Cridland signed on after all the speaking parts were assigned, and will play the Comfort Maple.

FFFPITG aren’t afraid to mix metaphors or genres (or borrow the best of other productions) so word is that we’ll be treated to a cameo appearance by Kathleen Wynne, playing the Wicked Witch of the West. But Wynne will dress in white so that the 14% of theatregoers who still approve of her can pretend she's the Fairy Godmother.

The play is directed by absolutely no one.

The show is produced and directed by a local church group, with all proceeds going to support something to be disclosed later, if they accept the results, maybe.

In the best tradition of improv theatre, where everything is ad-libbed, the actors haven't the slightest grasp of what's about to occur.

The curtain rises with beaten P.C. candidates Tony Quirk and Rick Dykstra playing themselves, stand-

ing forelornly while handfuls of sand slip through their fingers, tearful faces shining in the moonlight, asking how it could have happened, how, how.

"I feel like I’m John Wayne, but I just got gunned down on Main Street by Justin Bieber," moans Quirk.

“And before he got tattoos,” adds Dykstra.

Enter P.C. leader Patrick Brown, wiping something off of his shoes, looking skyward to the ghosts of Bill Davis and Mike Harris and pleading, "Why couldn't it have been something easy, like funding Catholic High Schools or giving away the 407 ETR?" As the Pigeon sisters, Vicky Ringuette is looking on, faces upturned to the stage lights, marvelling at how she could be so blessed to face Harper, Cruz, and the Teletubbies rolled into one.

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NOV 17 BY-ELECTION / The Candidates Respond GREENS / Donna Cridland 1) What is your specific strategy to make hydro more affordable for residents in this riding?

Rising electricity prices are putting pressure on our residents, businesses and farms. We need real solutions that provide long-term protection from further price increases.

This starts with stopping all mega projects that waste money on more generation that we don't need. Why spend billions to rebuild outdated nuclear plants when we already produce more electricity than we use? No nuclear project in Ontario's history has delivered on time

ODD COUPLE continued from Page 8 the stage, triumphant at the end of Act III—a crack of lightning pierces the sky. A wind turbine crashes onto the set, shattering a myriad of solar panels, and releasing thousands of Hydro bills that flutter down onto the audience.

It turns out that there’s audience-participation!

How the play ends is actually in their hands!

A confused Oosterhoff runs to the extreme right on stage, avoiding anoth-

LIVE UP continued from Page 5 teenager with no real-world experience will be able to accomplish that, regardless of the brave face officially put on by the Party, extolling their candidate’s work ethic.

From what experience will young Mr. Oosterhoff draw to make decisions when voting on legislation?

Consider what you knew about life at 19?

How can he possibly hope to adequately represent homeowners, business owners, and private sector workers when he knows nothing about the issues they face?

Mr. Oosterhoff’s main experience seems to be with the church, and while a clear moral stance can certainly help to round out a candi-

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Second, we need to stop the fire sale of Hydro One. Numerous experts, including Ontario's Financial Accountability Officer, have shown that selling Hydro One is a long-term money loser for Ontario.

Third, we can help people save money by saving electricity. Canceling the rebuilding of nuclear plants would save billions that the government could invest in making our homes or businesses more efficient.

Finally, we should look at a long-term energy deal to import low-cost water power from Quebec. Quebec

er collapsing wind turbine before a radiantly smiling party leader Brown can quickly yank him back to centre right.

"Don't worry kid," promises Brown.

"Hard work and knocking on doors and saying nothing will get us through this."

Vicky Ringuette is terrified.

As Hydro bills continue to accumulate, their weight collapses the stage where she stands.

Fearing the worst, she calls Grimsby Hospital, where an answering machine puts her on hold.

Panicking, she tries Port Colborne, then Fort Erie— no answer at either.

"If only this had happened next month, I could have fixed it all," she cries.

The NDP’s Mike Thomas instictively fights to restore order to the scene, then realizes that he’s no longer a Hamilton cop. He dons a perky blonde wig and starts criticizing Oosterhoff and Ringuette for the catastrophe, but the audience is unmoved.

Halogen lights, makeup cases, and all four party teleprompters fly around the stage. Pandemonium

date, it can’t be their only area of expertise.

Small government parties should be for small government in all facets of life, including their imposition of moral values onto citizens.

This will require that the party put the “progressive” back into “Progressive Conservatives” and stop trying to pander to the moralists who care more about what people

do in the bedroom than the impending economic collapse of the province. Until then, the average conservative will continue to have to choose between personal liberties and financial ruin, and instead of running away with elections as they should be, the PCs will continue to falter when it counts.

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2) How, specifically, would you improve the local health care system?

There are major gaps in our local health care.

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A confused Oosterhoff then runs to the extreme

We need to look at solutions that provide everyone access to good quality care close to home.

This starts with funding for upgrades at our local hospital. Grimsby hospital just has not been able to keep up with growth in the area, and urgently needs funding to maintain strong service.

We also need to look at funding for a continuum of health services outside of the hospital environment. This includes health promotion, clinics, home care services, paramedics, among others.

We must ensure health care practitioners are function-

ing to the full scope of their practice.

These solutions will ensure that our healthcare dollars are spent efficiently and improve the quality and delivery of care. All residents deserve the best quality care, when and where they need it.

left, his voice pulsating, and begins reading from the wrong teleprompter.

"Niagara West-Glanbrook needs more jobs! Let them scrap NAFTA. Who needs it when we legalize marijuana?

We'll get back the 1,200,000 jobs and more!"

He glances at a stunned leader Brown, and continues.

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Critics attended previews and their response to the play has been mixed.

"OMG, 4 stars," raves online Millennial_Hashtag. ca "Srsly."

"WTF," says Gen-X blogger and tattoo-artist Milton. "Missed it. I'll catch it on Netflix."

The boomer magazine, If There’s a Senior Discount, Then I’m Over 60, gives it both thumbs up. "It was so cool the way Sam came around in the end."

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GREENS continued from Page 9 the most pressing issues of our time.

I’m glad to see the province adopt carbon pricing, but the incoming cap-andtrade system is complicated

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"With Envi offering such a unique variety of popular brands, people will now

tax reductions. Carbon fee and dividend is more simple, transparent, and returns money to people so we can make choices that will help our pocketbooks and reduce our carbon footprint.

We also need stronger protections for our environment. Our forests, wetlands and waterways play a critical role in filtering our air and cleaning our water.

I believe we need to protect prime farmland in Ontario from development.

Farmers play an incredibly important role in environmental stewardship, and we need to recognize and support this. I understand the economic challenges of farming today, and support ways to compensate farmers for their services in protecting our land as well as producing food.

We also must fix the way we manage our water protection in this province.

Currently corporations - including water bottlers - pay only $3.71 per million litres

have an enhanced shopping experience at the mall,” he said.

“They are going to be selling high-end items that will only be found here and nowhere else in the Niagara region. It’s a different type of store than any of the others in this mall and it’s very exciting to have them onboard.”

Belcastro said that while many shopping centres are seeing a decrease in tenants, the Seaway Mall has already welcomed a few new businesses into the fold this

year, including the Modern Vision Gym, Alia n' Tanjay, and Hart.

“We have been on a roll here lately,” he said.

“A lot of malls in the Niagara region are losing stores and we are adding them.”

Located near the main entrance of the mall Envi is one of the first stores people see. Having advertised their grand opening, Envi sales associate Juliette Rahmoun said that they were still surprised to see the massive line-up waiting for them.

of water they take. We need to fix the rules to prioritize local uses for water and ensure corporations pay their fair share.

And last, the province needs to stop undermining what environmental legislation it already has in place.

Gutting the Endangered Species Act, exemptions to the Places to Grow Act for mega developments and building gas plants inside the Greenbelt have all happened in the last decade.

A healthy environment is essential to a strong economy.

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We support a woman’s right to choose.

7) Specifically, what measures would you take to help bring jobs to our community?

I think when we look at bringing jobs to the community, we want to ensure there is a range of jobs so that people who grow up here and love this area can make a living without commuting an hour and a half each way to Toronto.

I would focus on three areas to grow jobs: 1. Support for farmers by providing compensation for their stewardship of land, and support for succession

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plans to assist a new generation of farmers.

2. Invest in local food production with a dedicated fund to support homegrown entrepreneurs to start and expand local food processing businesses.

3. Lower payroll taxes for small businesses by doubling the exemption level for the Employer Health Tax. 8) If elected what would be your first order of business as MPP? As a Green MPP, I would be in the unique position of providing a strong and unwavering voice to local issues. I will be a voice for Niagara West Glanbrook at Queen's Park. I commit to pushing all the other parties at Queen’s Park to make better policy decisions that work for now and for the future.

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Every year in the months leading up to Remembrance Day, millions of Canadians wear a Poppy as a symbol of national pride and respect, and a visual pledge to never forget. During the campaign, thousands of Legion members across Canada volunteer their time to distribute poppies, raising millions of dollars to aid veterans and their families in times of need.

Long-time member Bernie Law has been working with the Legion helping to organize Remembrance Day events and activities for 30 years. As the past chair of the Poppy Day campaign, he says it is important for people to take time to remember those who have served their country. Law says that support for the annual initiative grows each year and that the Legion is appreciative of the community’s generosity.

“We are very grateful to the people of Pelham for all of the donations we receive for the poppies and the wreaths,” he said.

“It takes a lot of work to put this together year after year and we have a great team working on the campaign again this year. It’s the volunteers who do the work and we all have to pick up the torch and carry it forward so Remembrance Day is never, ever forgotten.”

Thanks in part to the poem In Flanders Fields, written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, in the last century the poppy became known as a symbol of respect honouring the ultimate sacrifice made by so many fallen soldiers.

Written in May, 1915 on the day following the death of a fellow soldier, McRae’s poem inspired American teacher, Moina Michael, in 1918, to make a pledge to always wear a poppy as a sign of Remembrance. In 1920, a French woman named Madame Guerin learned of the

Bernie Law speaks during the Remembrance Day ceremony at Peace Park in Fonthill on Sunday, Nov. 6. NATE SMELLE PHOTO custom and decided to sell handmade poppies to raise money for the children in war-torn areas of the country. A year later the Great War Veteran’s Association in Canada — now the Legion — followed her example when they officially adopted the poppy as their Flower of Remembrance.

Law said the poppy is a symbol which people should be proud to wear whenever they choose.

“We encourage all Canadians to wear a poppy,” says Law. “Most people wear a poppy for a month or so before Remembrance Day but there is never a wrong time to wear a poppy.”

With a long list of relatives in his family who fought in either World War I or World War II, Law says he first became inspired to get involved with the Legion when he was a child.

Cajoling his grandfather Sgt. Robert Law to share his stories from the battlefield in World War I, Law said he learned how horrific war is.

Two years after immigrating to Canada from Ireland, Law’s grandfather joined the CAF when he was 21 and spent the next five years serving in France and Belgium.

For the first two years, Sgt. Law employed his skills

as a blacksmith, working with the horses and repairing armaments for those fighting on the front lines.

Spending the next two years on the front lines himself, he fought in the Battle for Vimy Ridge, the Battle of Ypres in France, and also the Battle of Mons in Belgium.

After the war ended, Law’s grandfather continued to serve in Belgium working as a police officer to help keep the peace as the country recovered from the devastation.

“Belgium was bombed off the face of the earth and it was just a crime,” Law said.

“They needed people to restore law and order so they didn’t have people stealing from one another. Because he could handle the horses he was asked to take a horse out to the forest and euthanize it because it was injured by shrapnel and was going to die. He was in charge of euthanizing a lot of horses.

He would take the horse out, shoot it and then take three or four families out to the forest to butcher the horse.

Nothing went to waste, everything was eaten.”

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Ringuette says Oosterhoff "sanitizing" Liberal campaign blasts PCs for deleting Tweets

BY VOICE STAFF Liberal party nominee Vicky Ringuette, running in next week’s by-election to fill Tim Hudak’s vacated Niagara West-Glanbrook seat, asserts that PC nominee Sam Oosterhoff’s brother Aaron is “sanitizing his Twitter account in an attempt to delete posts about his social conservative views and the sex-ed curriculum.”

Ringuette’s office identifies Aaron Oosterhoff as the PC candidate’s campaign manager, an assertion that Oosterhoff spokesman Alan Sakach says is inaccurate.

Aaron Oosterhoff has “no official title or role,” says Sakach, “but he pitches in on everything from putting up signs, canvassing, etc.”

The Ringuette campaign says that they are not alone in accusing Patrick Brown, PC leader, of “muzzling” Oosterhoff in the lead-up

to next week’s vote, citing recent commentary in the Toronto Star.

Ringuette says that Aaron Oosterhoff has deleted posts about his association with ARPA Canada (the Association for Reformed Political Action) despite, “being a board member with that organization.”

According to a statement on its website, ARPA‘s mission is to “encourage Reformed Christians to political action and to bring a Biblical perspective to our civil authorities.”

The Ringuette campaign asserts that ARPA Niagara is currently running negative radio ads in the Niagara Region against Bill 28, the “All Families Are Equal Act,” a bill that defines lesbian and gay parents’ legal rights.

With so little time remaining before election day, Ringuette calls on Oosterhoff to be more forthcoming.

“The Conservative candidate, his campaign and Patrick Brown need to be clear with their positions on the updated sex-ed curriculum. A curriculum that is teaching our students about important topics, such as online safety, healthy relationships and consent," says Ringuette.

The Liberal nominee says that the Oosterhoff campaign must “come clean” on any explicit promises or commitments made to social conservative groups to garner their support for his nomination.

Oosterhoff spokesman Alan Sakach would not respond directly to the allegation that Twitter posts were deleted, saying instead, “This is typical of Liberals trying to distract from issues that matter such as skyrocketing hydro rates, broken promises, inadequate transportation, infrastructure etc. Sam has always been clear where he stands on any issue, so this is just a red herring by a desperate Liberal campaign.”

Monica Pastore.

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Take Our Kids to Work Day at Crossley

BY KAYE CHANG

E.L. Crossley Correspondent On Wednesday, November 2, E.L Crossley’s Grade 9 students participated in “Take Our Kids to Work Day.” Take Our Kids to Work day is a signature program that enables parents, volunteers, relatives, and friends to take young people out to their place of employment for an out-of-classroom experience.

This event occurs all across Canada; more than 250,000 students have been participating annually for some 20 years. The initiative started in the GTA but spread across all of the other provinces in later years.

Brandon Quiquero, a Grade 9 student at Crossley, recently participated in

the program at his father’s place of employment, Bosch Rexroth Canada in Welland.

Quiquero learned about how to be a director of industrial applications by observing the components of the job. He claimed that “there were a lot of meetings with customers concerning specific needs for products as well as budgets.” Quiquero said that he liked meeting with people and doing hands-on work, which he described as “exciting, interesting, and fun.”

Monica Pastore went to observe her mother’s place of work at the Welland Hospital. There was a tour of the facilities that included seeing the x-ray, which Monica found interesting.

Monica said that she “saw some of what went on in the

hospital but was curious to see more.” Other than that, the Crossley student claimed that her overall experience was “Organized, set up well, and the people were nice.”

She learned a lot about the commitment that was expected from the job, as far as showing up early and staying late went, but also discovered the daily balance of juggling family and patients.

Take Our Kids to Work Day is a program that provides a better understanding of the obstacles and, expectations that come with any given job.

Brandon and Monica’s experiences are among those that inspire students that have uncertain futures, while also preparing students that have goals.

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LIBERALS continued from Page 3 als are taking action to help cut the cost of hydro rates for families and businesses by rebating the provincial portion of the HST to reduce our bills by 8 per cent, cutting delivery charges for the most rural customers by 20 per cent and enabling industrial businesses to reduce bills by up to one-third through the Industrial Conservation Initiative.

Our hydro bills will begin seeing these new cost saving measures on January 1, 2017.

2) How, specifically, would you improve the local health care system?

One of the main reasons my name is on the ballot in this byelection, is to improve health care services for all Niagara West--Glanbrook seniors and families.

I've been going doorto-door and I've heard about the need to upgrade our community hospital in

The Voice of Pelham, November 9, 2016 Grimsby. The Liberal government delivered nearly $5 million in 2014 for upgrades to the fire alarm, nurse call systems and other repairs.

But more improvements are needed.

I believe our community has been without an effective voice at Queen's Park for a long time. There is a majority government and we need a Liberal champion to start getting results for our community, including increased investments for our community hospital.

And I’m the person to get the job done. If elected as your MPP on November 17, I will be a champion for seniors, patients and all families in Niagara West-Glanbrook -- ensuring our community has a voice at Queen's Park that gets results.

A positive voice that will fight for the heath care our community deserves.

3) What is your Party's plan to mitigate the effects of climate change and what action will you take to protect

the environment in Niagara West-Glanbrook?

Responding to climate change is a colossal challenge, maybe the greatest Planet Earth has ever known. But the Ontario Liberal government doesn't shy away from a challenge and neither do I. We're confronting climate change head-on by building an innovative, low-carbon economy that is protecting our environment and creating jobs.

Progress has been made by eliminating dirty coal power, building an innovative cleantech sector and making significant investments in transit. One of these investments in public transit includes an extension of weekday GO train commuter service to Grimsby. Once extended, the new commuter train service into Niagara West--Glanbrook will green our environment, reduce gridlock and get people home to their loved ones faster. The Ontario Liberal government also

created the greenbelt that protects nearly two million acres of productive farmlands and environmentally sensitive areas, including the Niagara Escarpment .

We are pushing forward.

And I know that some of the other candidates will continue to say anything to distract you, because they have no plan to fight climate change. So we will continue to rise to this challenge and continue to take concrete steps to protect our environment and build a more prosperous, low-carbon Ontario.

4) Should sexual education be included in Ontario's health and physical education curriculum? Why or why not?

Yes. Full stop.

The curriculum was updated to keep our kids safe and to get them ready for this rapidly changing world -- with subjects that are age appropriate.

I value the full range of diversity among our students.

And we should aim to create safe, inclusive and accepting school environments for all kids in our publicly funded schools.

The last curriculum was dangerously out-of-date. It hadn't been updated in 15 years. Ontario was behind provinces, such as Alberta and British Columbia in teaching about topics like online safety, healthy relationships and consent.

The updated curriculum was the most consulted-on in the province's history.

About 4,000 parents provided their input on the health and sex-ed survey. And more than 70 health-related organizations submitted reports, including Brock University, Healthy Living Niagara, Hamilton and

www.thevoiceofpelham.ca the Niagara Region Public Health Departments, and the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Ontario Liberals listened to parents, students, experts and the extensive consultations that were held played a critical role in the development of the new curriculum.

Health and physical education is only part of what children will learn during the school year, but it has lasting effects to ensure our kids make healthy, well-informed decisions about their safety.

5) As MPP what would you do to represent the Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgender (LGBT) community in Niagara West-Glanbrook?

On every doorstep I visit, I assure residents that I'll be a positive and inclusive voice for all people living in Niagara West-Glanbrook. People in our community value diversity and equality.

I was very pleased to see the Ontario Liberal government change the way it displays sex and gender information on health cards and driver's licences. Sex designation is no longer displayed on the Ontario health card.

Upon their next renewal, Ontarians will receive a card that does not indicate sex. And early next year, all those that have been issued an Ontario driver's licence will be given the option to display an 'X' on their card as their gender identifier if they do not exclusively identify as male or female.

I'm proud to say that the Ontario Liberal government is also updating legislation that is almost four decades old that defines "who is a parent" in provincial law.

Right now, that definition is too narrow and excludes

some parents of modern families. They are updating Ontario’s parentage laws, so that parents who have a baby using third party reproductive technology can be recognized as the child's parents as it was intended.

Under previous legislation, some parents with no biological ties to the child due to the use of third party reproductive technology have had to adopt their own child while the other spouse who had a biological connection to the child was recognized at birth as a parent on the child's birth registration. It will help make sure our courts are focused on more complex family law matters. At the end of the day, this is about ensuring that all parents are treated equally by recognizing their legal status and intent regardless of how they chose to conceive.

6) What is your position on a woman's right to choose (i.e., the right to obtain an abortion)?

As a lawyer, as a progressive woman, I am firmly committed to protecting the civil rights of people across Niagara West--Glanbrook and the entire province. From coast to coast to coast, women have fought and won the right to choose.

What is important here is to recognize that this is a deeply personal choice that a woman makes after seeking out information from a variety of sources such as her health care practitioner and in some cases her faith.

I am committed to women’s rights starting with reproductive rights and respecting a woman's right to make this deeply personal choice.

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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 yet everything we did was important. I knew I loved him when I saw him the first time, and I loved him more the second. It didn’t take long until we were inseparable.

We spent a lot of time on the golf course. I watched as he played. He was good— very good. We both had jobs outside of golfing. I was a nurse and he was an insurance agent. Our lives became work and golf and each other.

We had an invitation to go to the Ottawa Hunt club to meet a retired university coach. Some of Brian’s friends knew how well he played and set up the threeday match.

My red-headed hunk played the game of his life— but not without some trouble. He was behind a row of Poplar trees with a sawedoff trunk behind his ball, as well as being in the rough.

There was a broken Poplar with an opening in the tree.

He made the shot through it and landed three feet from the pin. The retired coach was impressed. “The Mayor should give you the keys to the city for that shot,” he said.

I never knew, until 25 years later, that Brian was asked to move to Ottawa and work with the coach.

The coach said that he could have Brian on the pro tour

Brian and Jane, newlyweds.

within three months. But that would have been three months without Jane, he said.

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Instead he asked me to marry him.

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A time to remember

Town Councillors Peter Papp and John Durley lay a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in Fonthill’s Peace Park at the Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday.

BY NATE SMELLE

Members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 613 along with 150 community members gathered at the cenotaph in Fenwick’s Centennial Park at 9 AM on Sunday, Nov. 6, to honour the women and men who lost their lives while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. The gathering in Fenwick was the first of four Remembrance Day services.

Ceremonies were also held

at the Old Pelham Town Hall cenotaph on Canboro Road followed by a Remembrance service at the Fonthill Baptist Church and at Peace Park cenotaph in Fonthill.

Following the speeches, local and regional dignitaries laid wreaths at the foot of the Cenotaph in Peace Park.

Lining the path leading up to the Cenotaph were members of Branch 613 of the Royal Canadian Legion, the Ladies Auxiliary and Army Cadets. Joining them were members from Pelham’s

service clubs, Town Council, the Niagara Regional Police Service and the Pelham Fire Service. Afterwards everyone was then invited back to the Fonthill Legion for a light lunch provided by the Branch 613 Ladies Auxiliary.

This coming Friday, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 613 will host a Remembrance Day ceremony at 11 AM at Veteran's Park, located in front of Legion Hall at 141 Hwy 20 East in Fonthill.

prosthetic limbs, hearing aids or for financial assistance, Law said that all of the funds raised through the campaign go towards pro-

viding much-needed support for local veterans.

Volunteers with the Legion will be continuing their poppy campaign at busi-

nesses throughout Pelham until Remembrance Day on Nov. 11.

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POPPIES continued from Page 11 powerful experience for him.

“Every person should go to Europe and see where the boys were slaughtered on the beaches,” said Law.

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7) Specifically, what measures would you take to help bring jobs to our community?

In my first 60 days as MPP, I will sit down with municipal leaders, staff of economic development departments across Niagara West--Glanbrook, and MPs Allison and Sweet to discuss how we can bring more jobs to our communities and keep the jobs that are already here.

Ontario’s economy is growing and it is expected to remain one of the fastest-growing in Canada over the next two years. I will provide a strong and experienced voice for our community's businesses and I will champion their issues at Queen's Park, so they can take advantage of our province's strong economic growth and business supports.

I would work with local small and large business owners to see how they could utilize job creation programs offered by the Ontario government. One example of these programs is the Jobs and Prosperity Fund that recently helped secure a new GE Canada "Brilliant Factory" in Welland, which

“It was brutal and it was horrible — war is terrible.

I lost my uncle, who was only 23-years-old. He was a tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber and on his fifth bombing mission coming back from Germany his

plane went down in the English Channel, five miles off the coast of England.”

As a reminder of the high costs of war, the Legion begins every meeting with the words, “Lest we forget.”

Whether used to purchase

will bring 220 jobs for the area. Another program is the Southwestern Ontario Economic Development Fund.

Over the last four years,100 million has been delivered, leveraging private-sector investments of more than $1.2 billion. These investments have helped to create and retain approximately 25,500 jobs in southwestern Ontario.

I would also be a champion for our region's worldclass grape growers and wine producers as they continue to innovate and expand the sector. If elected as your MPP, I will continue working with this sector to create jobs and promote further growth in the agrifood industry.

for a long time. There is a majority government and we need a Liberal champion to start getting results for our community – increased investments for our community hospital, schools and transit. The West Lincoln Memorial Hospital requires my immediate attention and my first order of business will include reaching out to hospital administrators and staff in order to move forward on the much needed improvements to this vital local institution. I also want to build up from what we have already started in this community by connecting our rural communities to future infrastructure projects such as the extension of weekday GO train commuter service to Grimsby. This will require a lot of work with my colleagues at the local municipal level but I believe it must begin immediately after election day.

Being your representative and voice at Queen's Park is not an entry-level position.

I have experience that can help make a difference and get positive results for all families in Niagara West-Glanbrook.

8) If elected what would be your first order of business as MPP? With only 19 months left until a provincial general election, I am going to hit the ground running. I have been a lawyer for the last 11 years helping families and children resolve complex problems. This is what I do best and it energizes me.

I want to make a positive difference in more people’s lives in my neighbourhood and in my community.

I believe our community has been without an effective voice at Queen's Park

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The Ontario NDP is the only caucus to ever have a critic for LGBT issues. I would work with Cheri Dinovo to make sure that the interests of the LGBT community in Niagara West-Glanbrook are well represented in the Ontario Legislature.

6) What is your position on a woman's right to choose (i.e., the right to obtain an abortion)?

I think that a woman's

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