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SOMETHING LARGE, ROUND AND ORANGE THAT’S NOT TRUMP Crystal Coote of Wes Crowe Farms in Ridgeville works on one of her custom-painted pumpkins at the farm’s roadside stand on Canboro Road. For 31 years her family’s farm has been growing and selling locally grown fruit, vegetables, native plants, seasonal decorations and fruit trees. Coote says that the Haunted House area of their Halloween display will be complete and open to the public on September 24. VOICE PHOTO
A century of fellowship Association of Kinsmen and Kinettes turns 100 BY KEVIN TWOMEY
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S MANY READERS know, 50 Pelham residents contributed $1,000 each to start The Voice back in 1997. Last week we held our annual shareholders’ meeting, and I’m pleased to report that the attendees were unanimously supportive of the newspaper’s recent direction. This is an important barometer, as our shareholders are a diverse lot, representing no single faction but rather a cross-section of Pelham. Some changes of late are obvious, such as our return to a traditional nameplate at the top of the front page. Our most prominent realty advertiser, Debbie Pine, now enjoys lead position in the paper’s new real estate section. Also new is “Column Six,” so named for its position in the sixth column on the cover. Column Six is intended to present interesting reading of all types. Have a tale to tell? Send it our way!
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Last Saturday, members of the Niagara Regional Police Service conducted R.I.D.E. checks within the city of St. Catharines in conjunction with the opening weekend of the Annual Wine Festival. Officers stopped some 600 vehicles throughout the night. Of those drivers stopped, 18 were required to provide breath samples for suspected alcohol consumption. This resulted in one driver being arrested for having consumed over the legal limit of alcohol to operate a motor vehicle. Two other drivers were issued 3-day licence suspensions after registering an alert on an approved screening device. In addition to the alcohol-related charges and suspensions, officers issued 10 Provincial Offence Notices to drivers in contravention of the Highway Traffic Act and Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act.
Jim “Not Cassandra” Casson. SUPPLIED PHOTO The Puzzler has also taken a leap in value—it’s now at $240. Get cracking! The biggest change, of course, is the arrival of our new News Editor. Please join me in welcoming Nate Smelle to The Voice. Nate grew up in Niagara, went north to find his fortune, and returns to journalism after a brief period doing other work. He’s a talented writer and photographer, and hit the ground running last week with his coverage See CORNER Page 11
Indecent act at Wainfleet school bus stop
On Thursday September 8, at about 7:00 AM, an unknown male approached a female student awaiting her school bus on Regional Rd 27, in the Township of Wainfleet. The male exposed himself to the student and attempted to engage in a conversation. The suspect is described as a white male, 30-40 years old, heavy build, brown short hair and facial hair. He was wearing a pink or orange collared short sleeved shirt and tan shorts. Police are asking anyone with information to call investigators at 905-688-4111, ext. 3343 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Dog-walkers, beware. Those poop-bag dispensers that you’ve depended on around town are sounding mighty hollow lately. Due to cost concerns, the Town has stopped filling the dispensers for the remainder of 2016. Whether the bags make a comeback in 2017 is an open question. CAO Darren Ottaway says that the bags are a budget-buster. “Our operating budget resources are tightly managed and as a result the $8,000 for bags has been diverted to other needs in our beautification and facilities department.” Ottaway says that in addition to the dollars spent on bag-buying, the distribution costs are nothing to sniff at. “We have been allocating considerable human See POOP Page 5
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Ecotourism and Adventure Tourism Management from Sir Sandford Fleming College. Following a brief stint as a freelance reporter, Smelle took on the full-time role of Editor/Reporter of Bancroft This Week, where he spent the next threeand-a-half years covering the news throughout North Hastings and Haliburton County. Smelle’s work has appeared in the Toronto Sun, Now Magazine and on CBC Radio. During the 2015 federal election he interviewed NDP leader Tom Mulcair, and more recently spoke with Green Party leader Elizabeth May. After returning to Niagara last autumn, Smelle served as the Executive Director of Greening Niagara. Looking forward to covering the beat in and around Pelham, Smelle says he is eager to get started with The Voice. “Working as a journalist has been one of the most enlightening and rewarding experiences I’ve had,” he says. “Getting to know people on a deep level, and learning what they care about most, gives you a special appreciation for a community. It’s an honour to have the opportunity to help tell local stories back on my home turf.”
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It’s back to school at Pelham Library BY KIRK WEAVER
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With the start of a new school year, parents, educators, and students are adjusting to a new routine. For us at the Library it also means a shift into our fall programming for children and teens. Public libraries play an important community role in the education of our young people. Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of libraries in fostering literacy and lifelong learning from a young age. Participating in library programs such as summer reading or story times at a young age can assist in developing literacy skills that prepare preschoolers well for their formal education. Early interaction with other children is also helpful in developing key social skills that will prove useful later in life. Our children’s programmers work hard to develop and deliver a wide variety of programming geared towards preparing the young-
est in our community for the future. We are doing our part to help ensure that our youth are prepared to lead and
Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of libraries in fostering literacy
shape this community in decades to come. This statement is may sound lofty, but nevertheless is something we think about in planning programs. We really do want to be a part, even in some small way, of strengthening this community. Of course we don’t do this alone. We work closely with parents, teachers, and local
schools to align our efforts so that collectively we have a strong influence on the literacy and social development of our youth. Of course, while seeking to contribute to the broader development of the community, we also have a more self-serving objective as well. We hope to create a future group of life long library users. We are starting to see some positive signs that our efforts are working. Our recently established Teen Advisory Council is largely made up of members who were active participants in our children’s programming throughout their childhood. This group has demonstrated strong leadership in developing our previously underserved area of teen programming. If you haven’t experienced the variety of programming offered at the Pelham Public Library we encourage you to check out all that we offer by visiting the Library, talking to one of our Children’s Programmers, or going to our website www. pelhamlibrary.on.ca
The author as wheeled nomad.
It seemed too good to be true and it was. The day after last week’s Voice photo showing the lack of a handrail on the steps between the Fonthill post office and the library, a Town crew was out working like busy
bees on the steps’ wholesale replacement. Not quite the power of the press at work, though. Town spokesperson Ana McKnight reveals that staff identified the need for repair in 2015.
A contractor was secured in July to install new poured concrete stairs, tactile detectable warning surfaces for accessibility purposes, and new railings. The work was to have been finished yesterday.
mouth to filter the air and dirt and smoke from trucks and sandstorms. Your doorag has been soaked from your water bottle (sometimes accidently with energy drink) to keep you cool. Your socks and shoes have stood in numerous odourous organic compounds. Your riding shorts have had chamois cream applied repeatedly during the day. Note: I quit the baby powder I’ve used for years. It started to ball up and then move around in my riding shorts, even at night when I wasn’t in them. Each morning chamois cream was always applied with clean hands to relatively clean shorts. By the end of the day, I seldom took my gloves off to apply it. This is typically the way you arrive at camp, with the following exceptions: beans for three straight nights finally got to you, you had too much coffee in the morning, you have diarrhea (this frequently affects socks and shoes too), or you just don’t care anymore. Baby wipes don’t have a chance in hell of being even remotely effective in these situations. Occasionally I was able to purchase water by the bottle and carry it as treasured contraband, sometimes saving half a litre for cleaning at day’s end. I would first clean the contact points
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years ago Hal embarked for combat duty in France with the 54th Kootenay Battalion. Hal once recounted amusingly, “By hard work, devotion to duty, study, and good behaviour, I attained the rank of full corporal, confirmed.” Hal and the other young Canadians were headed to the trenches where the conditions were described as “wretched beyond description.” The savagery of the fighting exceeded anything known in war. In this war of incredible misery and hardship, one good thing flowered and
flourished: the comradeship of soldiers sharing a common danger. Hal would rely on this camaraderie and a love for his native Canada to survive being gassed at Paschendale and being wounded with shrapnel at Amiens, returning home on August 9, 1918. Hal missed the companionship of the men he served with in France, so he decided to join a club. He approached his father’s club but was told it was not policy to have two members from the same business establishment. So from a simple philosophy
of fellowship and service the first Kinsmen Club was formed in Hamilton on Feb. 20, 1920. Other like-minded young men, Harold Phillips, Link Brace, and Trev Thompson, determined to serve the community that they loved and missed while serving overseas, now found themselves fighting poverty, as well as medical, social, disability and recreational shortfalls. The Kinsmen motto, “Serving the Community’s Greatest Needs” would inspire its members to reach out beyond the boundaries of Hamilton to
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continued from Page 1 terly for what the armies of civilized Europe did at Flanders in the early stages of the war. Like many other young Canadians, a Hamilton, Ontario Plumbing supply salesman enlisted in the Canadian army. It was March 1916, just two months after his 17th birthday when the name Private Hal Rogers was added to the muster roll of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. One hundred
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Desert touring and its unique regimen continued from Page 1
Forms were in place last weekend, ready for the pour.
within my shorts using a small towelette. I then rinse the towel thoroughly with a quarter cup of water, and
I don’t have enough water to wash my hair, so I don’t. I’ve tried brushing it, but the bristles pull out wash my face, neck and ears. You need your priorities right —sparkling facial skin isn’t what you sit on to ride all day. I then quickly re-clean my face, neck and ears with a fresh baby wipe, and apply Gold Bond moisturizer top and bottom in no particular order. Next I use a cup of water and a dab of multipurpose hair shampoo to wash my short’s chamois, rinse them liberally with a couple tablespoons of my bottled water, and hang them on my tent poles to dry. Jersey, socks, and the neck-thing are cleansed only by the ultraviolet rays of the sun as they too hang on the tent. Direct African sunlight kills 17% of germs. I don’t have enough water
touch and benefit the lives of many people. Kin, from its humble beginnings of fellowship and service inspired by the hardships of trench warfare through all the years that have followed, have interpreted Kinsmanship in a shared fellowship and in a dedicated and continuing service to our respective communities and our great country. The challenges that we face today, unique in their own right are no more or less challenging than past generations of Kin have encountered in
to wash my hair, so I don’t. I’ve tried brushing it, but the bristles pull out of the brush, so I just wear my unwashed hat. It sort of becomes a vicious cycle, and much of my clothing will not be returning home with me. My cap generally falls off while I sleep, so I doubt my pillow will see Canada again either. Anxious to get on the bike in the cool of morning, I seldom brushed my teeth after breakfast. I ate a Halls menthol throat lozenge instead. The menthol seems to neutralize tooth decay germs, and also helps fight any other random bacteria that may have entered my respiratory system. Sometimes in the evening I brushed my teeth, but sometimes I just went with the double benefit of having another Halls. During the off-road sections I used a small bit of extra water to clean the enormous collection of dirt and camel/donkey/cow dung off my legs so I could put them in my sleeping bag. Since I didn’t have enough water to clean my ankles or feet, I turn my socks inside out every other night before entering my sleeping bag. On the third night I wash my socks instead of something else to conserve water, and start again. Although many in the group have been sick, I haven’t. The others must not be maintaining such rigorous hygiene standards as myself.
community service. The local Kinsmen and Kinettes strive to this day to fulfill the vision of our founding members. The fundamental principles of Kin have not altered since the founding of our first club 96 years ago. The spirit and the purpose which animated our founding fathers have been faithfully preserved. Our local Kinsmen and Kinettes hold dear the traditions of our past as we approach the future with confidence in, “Serving our Communities Greatest Needs.”
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OPINION 100-year flood hits Council Chambers
COMMENTARY / OP-ED Value of volunteering reaches beyond the expected BY JOHN SWART
VOICE Correspondent
In just a few weeks, on October 26, the Town of Pelham will host its Annual Volunteer and Community Corporate Recognition Ceremony. As its name suggests, this event honours and recognizes many of the enormous number of Pelham residents who give their valuable time to committees, events, sports groups, service clubs, and numerous other organizations in Pelham for the benefit of our town, youth, and neighbours. And for every recognized volunteer, we know that there are scores more who contribute unannounced in a multitude of ways to our community. Many of the best things in and about Pelham are volunteer driven —without them we might be just another bedroom community serving Toronto or Hamilton. None of us is untouched by the benefits of this volunteerism — socially, culturally, economically, health related, sports and activities, charitably — the list is endless; and the names of the groups too many to even try to list.
Still, looking across the meeting table of our festivals, service clubs and
Many of the best things in and about Pelham are volunteer-driven
committees, along the sidelines of the soccer field or benches at the rink, we’re always conscious of where and when new volunteers will join. In 2004, 50% of Ontarians volunteered in some way. By 2013, that had dropped to 44%. The biggest participation drop (almost 10%) occurred in 25-44 year-olds and those 75-plus, while fortunately the volunteer rate for 55-64 year-olds remained stable. The 38% of “young seniors” aged 65-74 (Stats-
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Can has a sense of humour!) who volunteer, contribute a whopping 231 hours each on average, almost 60% more than the average of all ages.* The good news for Pelham is that we are attracting a significant number of frontline Boomers, between 52 and 70 years old in 2016, to our community who are educated and active. How can we encourage these recent migrants, and everyone in Pelham, to become involved? The same StatsCan report confirms that 93% of volunteers said making a contribution to the community was a key motivator. Seventy-eight percent wanted to make good use of their skills and experiences, and more than half had been personally affected by the cause or organization they now represented. Half became volunteers because their friends were involved, they wanted to learn what their strengths were, or they wanted to network or meet new people. Clearly, altruism is the prime motivator. However, See VOLUNTEERS Page 5
Letters Bring back the poop bags, please Pick up your dog poop they said. “Here, we the Town of Pelham will provide bags for that so when you are enjoying your walks you will have no excuse to leave that poop.” For years the dispensers have been filled and there is definitely much better compliance by dog owners. Why mess with something that works? Isn’t the Town already collecting exorbitantly high taxes?
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Those little bags must be breaking the bank. Just be smart: some people will go and purchase poop bags but many will not and the Town will be back to square one. Wasn’t this why Pelham installed the dispensers in the first place? I have two dogs and already buy bags but I have been grateful many a time for those dispensers. Think of the people who rely solely on the Town’s kind contribution. I guess
the dog park will become a real mess too. It’s pathetic, but don’t worry—we will all anticipate our rising taxes as you destroy our ‘small town’ feeling with all the development going on. Do the poop bags make such a difference financially? If so, that is definitely worrisome considering our tiny town has so many employees on the Sunshine List Cheryl Ruzgys Fonthill
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the Delivering Community Power proposal, which calls for postal banking, services for seniors, and coast-tocoast charging stations for electric cars, among other ideas. Contrary to popular See MODERNIZE Page 12
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An empty dispenser at Welland and Haist.
POOP continued from Page 2 resources to filling the bag dispensers,” he says, “to the point of daily monitoring and filling. Staff would fill a dispenser in the morning only to return a few hours later to find it empty, which was diverting us away from completing other essential services and public expectations.” That’s right. Naughty dog walkers have allegedly been poaching poop bags, apparently by the handful. Social media commentary was mixed, with most members of the Centre Street Dog Park’s Facebook group coming down on the side of personal responsibility.
VOLUNTEERS continued from Page 4 a high percentage of volunteers do so because they enjoy personal benefits, learn more about various aspects of their community, meet and form friendships with other volunteers, and enjoy the satisfaction of being involved and vital.
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Said one user, “...it was a treat to have them this long...but having said that, I have [run] out a couple of times and have been saved by them!” Another user wondered whether volunteers could distribute the bags, eliminating the Town’s labor cost. Fonthill’s PetValu supplies bags to Short Hills Provincial park, while the Region is responsible for the bags at the Centre Street Dog Park. There may yet be hope for the freebies. Ottaway says that the program is under review. “Staff will be making a recommendation to Council on the matter as part of the 2017 budget process.”
And this is where we can all help. If you volunteer now, don’t be shy. Share your contributions and enjoyment with friends and acquaintances, and encourage them to participate. If you’re considering volunteering, jump in! Many groups use the quieter winter months to plan and organize for the upcoming
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I so much want to be this guy, and in your heart, lots of you do too. If you’ve been to Merrittville Speedway, or watched some Nascar on TV, you have a vicarious inkling, but only an inkling, of the rush Jim Huppunen is anticipating when he burps his 360 Sprint Car to life each summer Friday on Ohsweken Speedway’s big 3/8-mile
season. The Town’s website, www.pelham.ca, offers volunteer opportunities and an extensive list of clubs, groups, and organizations where you’re sure to find your interests. Maybe just share a coffee, glass of wine or beer with your friends and come up with Pelham’s next greatest idea.
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Members of the Fabulous Fenwick Lions Club gathered in Centennial Park in Fenwick on Saturday, Sept. 10 to host its Wheels and Waves fundraiser. In spite of the poor weather conditions, the community came out in large numbers to show its support and to raise funds and awareness for the Lions Foundation of Canada Guide Dog program. Things kicked-off early with breakfast served at 8:00 AM and a car show beginning at 9:00. The party revved-up at 11:00 when the refreshment area opened to See SOGGY Page 11
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ANNIE continued from Page 1 very rewarding to see the benefits of what we do with our clients and how grateful they are that these services are available for them.” Pelham Cares offers a wide variety of services, including transportation to medical appointments within the Niagara Region and beyond; food bank and emergency food assistance; sponsorship of youth sports, recreation and educational
activities; referrals to other agencies when appropriate; and response to individuals and families in emergency situations. They also collect toys and gifts for children to be given out at Christmas and on birthdays. There is a wide variety of reasons that people access their services says Grande. Sometimes clients might be in between paycheques or have been off sick or injured for a couple of weeks without pay. Whatever the need may be, she says, Pelham
Cares is there for the community. “We may only need to provide them with one emergency food order and then we may never see them again. Then on the other
Page 7 seems to be busy. Alleviating some of the pressure on their supplies this year is the new garden they constructed behind the office with funds from the Royal Bank of Canada Foundation. “This was our first year with the garden and we learned a lot about what grows best here and what will provide the most benefits for our clients. It was a very hot and dry summer but we were able to grow a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. We are looking forward to doing it again next year.” Pelham Cares draws a great deal of its support from local businesses, residents and other community groups. Coming up in the next few weeks there are a few opportunities for the community to show its support. To collect donations for the food bank a troupe comprised of seasonal campers from Bissell’s Hideaway will be giving a performance of the play Annie at the campground on Saturday at 6 PM. The general pub-
side we have families or individuals who need support on a regular basis.” Grande says that the public’s usage of their services fluctuates throughout the year, though autumn always
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“Hard Charger” says it’s instinct continued from Page 5 ways into the first corner of the oval, engine screaming and tires spinning wildly. Another second to allow the car to gain traction, then he’s on the gas, headed to turn three to do it all over again. “It’s better than sex,” Huppunen allows, a bit nervously. “You probably can’t print that,” he says, then reflects for a moment while his partner and the team’s Sponsor & Marketing Manager, Stephanie Hussey, smiles. “And I wouldn’t want anyone to think the other wasn’t ...” adds Huppunen. “It’s like that first huge drop on a rollercoaster, non-stop for 25 laps.” Huppunen, 35, is good at what he does. Raised and learning his racing skills in Fenwick, and living now a stone’s throw from Font-
hill on Welland’s western boundary, Huppunen’s Sprint Car accomplishments are impressive. After racing go karts, and a stint as his older brother Tom’s (The Fenwick Flyer) crew chief, he bought his first 360 Sprint Car in 2008. By 2011 he was Ohsweken’s points champion, repeating again in 2013, and has never finished a season since 2011 lower than sixth place. “I pass a lot of cars,” replies Huppeunen modestly when I ask him about the “Hard Charger” award he’s won four of the last five years. This award is given to the driver that manages to pass the most competitors during the season. When asked how it’s possible to make so many split-second decisions at such high speeds in races with competitors all around, Huppunen says simply,
“You don’t. You react. You don’t think, it’s the racer’s sense. When it’s going really well, time slows down in the car.” He claims he’s still learning; “ You need lots of seat time. The young kids overthink it, they get in trouble.” Huppunen understands the trouble thing. He’s been flipped on his roof three times in his career. When questioned about this, his easy, somewhat sardonic personality quiets a bit, and he says simply, “You brace yourself, try to keep your arms inside the car, and hope it will be over soon.” The adrenalin doesn’t come cheap. It costs around $1,000 a night to go racing (tires, fuel, entry fees, etc.), so a 23-race schedule means an operating budget of about $20,000 a season. Between winnings and assistance
Huppunen hustles. SUPPLIED PHOTO from his many sponsors, they can break even. Huppunen is Manager of Engineering for the City of Port Colborne, and has years of experience with his racing family, so he’s okay with technical things. He and his crew do their own work on the car. Capital costs are around $35,000 on top of this. New
Generation Engines in Fenwick supplies fast and reliable engines, and Huppunen gets a few years out of each rolling chassis. Huppunen and Hussey say they manage, but are always interested in new partnerships and sponsors to complement those who’ve supported them regularly over the years.
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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. Cindy A. UNGER 45, St. Catharines Michael B. RUDYCHUK 37, St. Catharines Robert G. NIVEN 42, St. Catharines Stewart J. HARDCASTLE 42, Dunnville Ashley BOLT 32, Lincoln Sean PRUDENTE 44, Fort Erie Allan W. LABINE 68, Fort Erie Sameer SONI 37, Brampton
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SOGGY continued from Page 6 the public and again at 3:00 as the band Stonewall took the stage. This was the first year for Wheels and Waves, which replaces the Biketoberfest event held for the last 13 years. Just before Wheels and Waves wrapped up at 6:00 the winners of the raffle were announced. Taking home a $500 Gift Certificate
CORNER continued from Page 2 of the Town’s response to Pelham Street merchants’ objections to Summerfest. We also welcome John Swart as a regular correspondent. Many of you will know John from his involvement in the Pelham Art Festival and other volunteers groups, as well as his healthy lifestyle articles in the paper. Last but certainly not least on the change list is the assistance of Tara Druzina Consulting, and Warren Mason Advertising Media, agencies authorized to sell advertising on our behalf. In the redesign chaos last week we managed to let some typos creep in—nothing egregious, thankfully. Something that wasn’t exactly a typo was the misidentification of Fenwick’s Jim Casson as Fenwick’s Jim “Cassandra”—the name supplied to us by Tim Hudak’s press officer. She blames her phone’s auto-correction, and I think many of us have been there. Sorry, Jim! One thing that seems not have changed is Town Hall’s knee-jerk reaction to unflattering news carried in these pages. Various officials, elected and otherwise, would do well to consider dinner theatre careers judg-
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from the Bass Pro Shop was Rick Turenne of Fenwick. The grand prize was a 2016 Tracker® Pro Guide Boat. This year’s lucky winner was Annita Tudor of St. Thomas. When Annita purchased the ticket from her brother-in-law and Fabulous Fenwick Lions Club member Herb Lodde, she said she had a strange feeling she was going to win. Not knowing that the draw took place at the end of
the event, when she didn’t get a call in the afternoon she accepted that her feelings must have been wrong. Then the phone rang. At first she didn’t believe it. “I kept asking them if it was a hoax.” “When I realized we had really won I was overjoyed.” “I could hear her shouting from the other room,” said her husband Dave. Unable to use the boat due to health reasons, the couple was able to sell their prize
ing by their recent histrionic public reaction to The Voice’s publication of merchant objections to Summerfest. Yet less than 48 hours after the most petulant tantrum (wittily portrayed by Madison Geri in this week’s editorial cartoon), the Town hastily appointed an outside facilitator, and less than a week later actually sat down to listen to the merchants’ concerns. Score one for the power of a petition. Was that so hard?
On a related note, The Voice is changing its letters policy. For months now as I’ve met and spoken with residents and particularly business people, I’ve heard a litany of grievances concerning elected officials, Town staff, and Town policy. Well, write a letter to the editor, I say. Oh, we could never do that, comes the response. Why not? Fear of official retaliation.
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weather, club president Jeff Pickup said the event was still a huge success. “We would like thank all the merchants that sponsored our event, the Town of Pelham, Joe Rodrigues Jr. [Tournament Angler] and Bass Pro/Tracker Boats. We also would like to thank all the car owners that participated in our 1st Annual Wheels & Waves Car Show despite the weather.”
Especially for businesses, the prospect of financial loss has a way of keeping tongues tied and lips locked. Accordingly, under certain circumstances, the paper will now withhold the names of letter writers upon request.
The authors of such letters must demonstrate a clear and convincing case for remaining anonymous, and must make this argument in person either with me or with News Editor Nate Smelle. So now we’ll find out
whether various parties have legitimate beefs with the bigwigs, or whether it’s much ado about nothing. Interesting times ahead... or more of the same-old, same-old? Your guess is as good as mine.
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IN THE NEWS continued from Page 2 With the Trudeau government’s election platform having included marijuana legalization, and with that government’s working group currently researching legislation to be introduced next spring, the legalization or decriminalization of recreational marijuana is a foregone conclusion, says the OCC.
The Niagara Chamber hopes that this multi-billion-dollar market will not be closed to entrepreneurs and innovators. The GNCC and the OCC have called for limits to points-of-access, reinvestment in addiction prevention and treatment, and other measures that they say are designed to safeguard the health of buyers. The Chambers also ask that municipal governments be given a voice in licensing, and that the siting of production, distribution or retail facilities for recreational marijuana only be done in municipalities that have consented to it. However, they do not be-
lieve that granting a monopoly on the industry to the LCBO or a similar, government-run organization would be in the best interest of Ontario consumers, the public, or business. According to the Chambers, the LCBO functions as a barrier to entry for entrepreneurs and businesses in the alcoholic beverage industry. This outdated model has “hamstrung” Niagara’s wineries, breweries and distilleries for nearly a century, “slowing job creation and economic growth.” Applying that same model to a brand-new legal industry is poor policy, argues the Ontario Chamber network. The network asserts that
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On Monday, shortly before 4:00 AM, members of the Niagara Regional Police Service responded to an address on Pinecrest Road in Port Colborne. Initial investigation revealed that the premises, a licensed medical marijuana location, had been the site of a robbery. As a result of the good work of the responding officers, K9 and ETU officers along with the assistance from the Ontario Provincial Police and the Erie County Sherriff’s Department helicopter, four suspects were taken into custody. Police believe there may be other suspects still outstanding and are asking anyone in the area of Pinecrest Road to report to police any suspicious persons that they may have seen in or around their properties. Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact the Niagara Regional Police Service at 905-688-4111.