Pancake Lane project nixed page 3 No COVID-19 testing in Pelham for now page 9 DeVries keeps growing page 11 Larry “BILKO” Bilkszto
EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
SELL phone: 905-321-2261 www.pineSOLD.com
DEBBIE PINE SALES REPRESENTATIVE 905.892.0222
E S T A B L I S H E D
1 9 9 7
k
RE/MAX® Garden City
Darcy Richardson, CPA, CA | Broker
Realty Inc., Brokerage
Independently Owned & Operated
DARCYRICHARDSON.CA 905.321.6292
www.bilko.ca
NRC Realty, Brokerage
debbiepine@royallepage.ca
k
The Voice
Your Local Sales Representative 905-563-3330 • 905-641-1110
bilko@rgcmail.com
September 30, 2020
Vol.24 No.39
Published every Wednesday
GOURDY and how Autumn arrives in Pelham
Column Six
Open water A soothing routine in stressful times BY SAMUEL PICCOLO
Special to the VOICE
W Gourds of every size and shape are on offer at the recently expanded DeVries Fruit Farm, in Fenwick. Story, p.11.
DAVE BURKET
Big changes coming in waste collection Niagara Region moving to bi-weekly garbage pickup BY BERNIE PUCHALSKI
Special to the VOICE
Starting Oct. 19, there are sweeping changes coming to waste collection practices in Niagara. Recycling and organics will continue to be collected weekly but garbage will be picked up every other week. This is being done to help re-
duce the amount of waste going to landfills, promote waste reduction, reduce indirect costs to taxpayers and decrease the number of disposal trucks on the road. “The real driver, based on audits we have done over a number of years,
is we know that the typical garbage bag in Niagara comprises 50 percent organic material, primarily organic food waste,” said Catherine Habermebl, Regional Niagara’s director of waste management services. “Without changes, we didn't see the diversion dial of diverting 65 percent of all residential garbage from landfill or disposal moving.” Studies have determined that less than 40 percent of households in Niagara are using green bins for organic waste. There was a slight increase in usage in 2011 when the
Region went to a one bag or can a week limit from two but that increase wasn’t sustained even with the one-can limit. “Obviously, the objective is to reduce the amount of waste or valuable resources going into our local landfills,” Habermebl said. People think when food waste goes into landfills that it goes into the ground and decomposes, but that isn't the case. “Landfills don't provide the optiSee WASTE Page 10
EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS NRC REALTY, Brokerage 1815 Merritville, Hwy 1 FONTHILL, ON
www.pineSOLD.com
DEBBIE PINE SALES REPRESENTATIVE 905.892.0222
NIAGARA / FONTHILL, ON
The Local Touch -
We promise to work with you and your family at our home or yours to create a perfect and affordable memorial service. Call today and ask about our “Affordable Care” plans. Tina
debbiepine@royallepage.ca SELL phone: 905-321-2261
henever I am feeling less than carefree, I look for some big body of water in which I can swim. This has happened a lot lately. I think I must have inherited a love for open water from my mother. Some of my earliest memories are of her swimming in an Ontario lake, one of those so tightly spread across the province that it seems as if they were placed there by buckshot fired at close range. In some park or other there was one that she actually swam across, and forever after that I asked her on every trip whether she was going to cross the lake this time or not. She uses only a single stroke: a powerful crawl, her arms arcing long through the air, and, in a habit I have also inherited, turns for breath only on her left. This causes her to drift ever slightly to that side. If she were a jet with a stream behind her, it would be crooked. See COLUMN SIX Page 12