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Town to put nearly 20 East Fonthill acres up for sale

An ounce of respect

Hoping to raise $12 million dollars, Council seeks realty help

Weighing-up attitudes toward those of a certain age

BY SARAH WHITAKER

Special to the VOICE

At a special meeting of Council held behind closed doors on Monday, August 28, councillors discussed the process to hire a real estate firm that will help the Town sell almost 20 acres of land in the East Fonthill development.

Mayor Augustyn explained that the sale of excess lands in the development area was always part of the plan to finance construction of a new community centre, and now that roads and other services, and the Centre, are being constructed it is the right time to sell.

During Monday's meeting Council was looking at results of a Request For Proposals (RFP) for a real estate firm to assist with the sale of the land "in whole or in part,” said Augustyn, noting the Town is still in the procurement process and no decision was made at the meeting.

"We want to make sure we get the best development for the Town and the highest return," said the mayor, explaining that's why the Town has decided to hire professionals to help sell the land.

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BEAUTY BETWEEN SHOWERS As this damp summer winds down, a country rainbow appears.

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Closed almost 18 months: Sulphur Springs Staff to make second request of Council to fund necessary engineering study

BY SARAH WHITAKER

Special to the VOICE

While Council has given the nod to additional engineering work, and additional budget expense, to get the culverts under Poth Street fixed sooner rather than later, Sulphur Springs Drive remains closed nearly 18 months after it failed.

The meandering country road that crosses Twelve Mile Creek failed in March 2016, and last summer $35,000

was requested in the 2017 budget to hire a consultant to explore all viable options for the road, including permanent closure, slope stability, and road realignment, the Town's Public Relations and Marketing Specialist, Marc MacDonald, told the Voice.

That request was not approved

by Council, though MacDonald says there will be another request for the 2018 budget.

Due to excessive snow melt and rain in spring 2016, a significant portion of

the slope below Sulphur Springs Drive failed and public works staff were instructed to close the affected section of the road to all traffic around March 24.

In an information report to Council in June 2016, public works staff explained that Golder Associates Ltd. was hired to conduct an emergency geotechnical investigation to help determine the cause for the failure and

ONCE POPULAR comedian, Rodney Dangerfield, made famous a comedic routine known as, “I don’t get no respect.” In recalling his skits I got to thinking that this sentiment could readily be applied to my life in so many instances.

According to the Wisdom Commons website, respect is merited particularly by those who are our elders, because knowledge, insight and wisdom are often hard-won through a lifetime of discipline and learning.

I am an elder, have many years of learning, gained a few insights through a lifetime of experience, and from that aggregation humbly presume to have a modicum of wisdom. So, how is it that I get no respect?

For example, let’s start with my marriage. In our early years together I would make a suggestion and my lovely bride would respond with a, “Yes, dear.” That response was given by her and taken by me as genuine compliance

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by Gilda Radner? Miss Emily Litella would confuse simple words (“deaf” rather than “death” penalty) and present sternly worded op-ed commentary during Weekend Update, all the while perpetuating the error.

Well, it turns out a misplaced comma may have generated a Litella-like storm of apprehension recently in Wainfleet. While the conclusion isn’t, “Never mind”—there are legitimate concerns in Wainfleet, too, about the rate of growth seemingly forced down residents’ throats—the coming apocalypse was evidently exaggerated, page 3… Out for a Pitt stop: Our regular Follow the Money man, Jim Pitt, is on a well-deserved break, something he threatened all season, saying he hadn’t worked a summer since 1980. Have a couple on us, Jim… Back in Town: Fonthill Fitness wit Strange DeGym is back from the cottage and steamed about a new cable news coinage, namely, “Citizen Samaritans,” related to last week’s flood devastation in Texas. “What’s wrong with ‘Good Samaritan’ suddenly? Haven’t they always been ‘citizens’? Sorry, no joke here. It’s really genuinely annoying.” No argument from me... The final countdown: This Saturday at 3PM some lucky winner will hear his or her name called in Fenwick’s Centennial Park, and a little while later drive off in a fully restored 1970 Chevelle Malibu SS. It happens at the Fenwick Lions’ Classic Car Show and Raffle, starting at 8AM. Breakfast, fish-fry, BBQ, and music. Free admission and parking. Tickets for your chance at the Chevy are still available—just $10 and for a great cause. In the interest of marital harmony, I decline to disclose how many I’ve purchased since they went on sale this spring…

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Demolished but not forgotten: Our story last week on the historic Timmsdale House being razed garnered quite a reaction on social media. By press time on Facebook the article reached some 7,300 users, received 51 comments and 82 reactions. A source with knowledge of the saga leading up to the tear-down decision tells us that considerable time was spent trying to demonstrate the potential for saving the home, “but it’s hard to teach the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Everyone seems to regard $2.5 million for restoring and updating an 11,000 sq.ft. house an exorbitant amount, but no one is building anything like it for that same $225/ sq.ft. Considering it’s on a great piece of property with a beautiful stone wall, it's far less than plenty of people are paying for vastly inferior products. Frankly, it was unlikely that anyone would live in it again, but it could have been used for an entrance, reception, and meeting rooms for a seniors’ complex, or a condo, or a medical facility.

One could have elevated one's project well beyond the competitors at a fraction of the cost of building the cookie-cutter dross that’s standard now.” A selection of Facebook comments appears on the Opinion pages… Council explains? Town Council seemed set to respond last night to allegations of mismanagement brought forward by an East Fonthill developer. The Voice went to press before the meeting, but, judging by talking points contained in the agenda released last Friday, the Town’s justification for paying a different developer $928,000 per acre for East Fonthill land remains unclear. We’ll have the story next week… The Two Sams Summit: Our man Sam Piccolo interviewed MPP Sam Oosterhoff last week, the first extended interview the young politician has given any media outlet, as far as we could determine. The socially conservative Oosterhoff has taken criticism from some quarters for being outof-step with modernity, particularly relating to the LGBT community. His responses on these and other issues start on page 10…

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from $150 to $500. Drivers may also face three demerit points. Fines are doubled in Community Safety Zones.

Overnight August 23-24, police say that a break-in occurred at a business in the new Fonthill Marketplace strip mall on Highway 20 near Rice Road. A quantity of items were taken. The matter is still under investigation.

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official plan policies and zone standards for Council consideration later this fall.”

The Planning Partnership team will present their “emerging preferred concept” for the Pelham Arena Lands, followed by table group discussions to gather input on the concept. All are welcome to attend either the afternoon session beginning at 4PM or the evening session beginning at 6:30 PM.

Another Pelham Arena workshop

The Town of Pelham invites residents to the second workshop on the Pelham Arena Lands Planning Study. The workshop will begin with a presentation summarizing the results of the evaluation of the five concepts generated, which include input from the June co-design workshop. Residents had an opportunity to review the five concepts through an online survey, and rate the various options.

A section for additional comments was also included.

“We received valuable input from the community during the co-design workshops held in June and on the five concepts,” said Barbara Wiens, Director of Community Planning and Development. “It is important for the community to be involved in the process and to understand how the concepts were developed from the input received and the evolution to the preferred concept. The outcome of the second workshop, will help determine the preferred concept. Once the preferred concept is established the consultants will prepare design guidelines along with

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The Municipal School Crossing Programs Committee of Niagara has launched a Bill 31 Awareness Campaign, with the goal to remind all motorists and cyclists of the new Highway Traffic (HTA) laws that went into effect in January of 2016 pertaining to all school crossing locations when a guard is on duty.

Since January 2016, motorists may no longer turn left, right or proceed through a crosswalk on the clear half of the roadway. You now must wait until the entire crosswalk is empty of both pedestrians and School Crossing Guards.

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BALLOONING INTEREST Grade 6 student Jinja Shepherd explains her experiment on static electricity at the Glynn A. Green Public School's annual science fair last Friday. See story, page 3.

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Public meeting tonight on school issues

BY VOICE STAFF As questions continue to mount regarding an email that Pelham Mayor Dave Augustyn quietly sent to a District School Board of Niagara trustee last summer, Augustyn has agreed to address the issue at a public meeting scheduled for this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Fenwick.

Nancy Beamer, speaking for “Names Matter,” a Pelham citizens group lobbying the DSBN to reverse its decision to rename a local public school, confirms that the meeting will be held at Fire Station #2, known locally as the Fenwick Fire Hall, starting at 7:00 PM. While the Mayor has agreed to ap-

Under pressure, Mayor to address email revelation, other E. W. Farr matters pear, says Beamer, DSBN officials associated with the school-naming process have either declined to attend or have not yet responded to the group’s invitation.

DSBN Chair, Dale Robinson, to whom Augustyn’s email was addressed last June, has declined to appear, says Beamer, asserting that she would be

“on holidays.” The Voice was unable to independently confirm Robinsion’s intentions. She did not respond to repeated requests for comment on E.W. Farr-related matters before presstime.

Beamer, whose group maintains an email list of some 580 residents, says that all members of the public are invited and encouraged to attend the meeting.

“We would especially welcome parents and children who are unhappy with the name change,” she says, referring to the contentious decision by the DSBN to consolidate two Pelham See MEETING back page

HEN I WAS young, my father and I would go for long drives along the rural routes of Pelham. We’d blast George Thurgood and roll down the windows because we loved the smell of the breeze, the sensation of crisp Niagara wind beating our cheeks and tangling our hair against our summer-kissed skin.

My father was not a sentimental man. He worked in factories and had a Gordon Lightfoot mustache and never shed tears over injuries.

Yet something about the Pelham landscape, the hilly backdrop to his childhood and the childhoods of our ancestors, drew him in. He’d stop by a farm or a gathering of woods and, surrendering his manly veneer, tell me a story about the town.

This place is precious. This is the earth that granted us life. Here is the place where we happened upon love or here is a site of devastation.

On one particular drive sometime in the late ‘90s we stopped at a tree with a plaque.

“This tree looks dead,” I said to my father.

“It sure is getting there, Julie.”

The Comfort Maple is supposedly Canada’s oldest See COLUMN SIX Page 14

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A construction error was discovered following the opening of a traffic calming chicane on Haist Street north of Hwy 20 last Monday that prevented large vehicles from passing through.

One resident living in the neighbourhood said he contacted the Town after seeing a small schoolbus get stuck as it tried to get through the new traffic calming measure. Later that day while driving behind a cement truck, he said that he became concerned for the public’s safety when the truck had to turn around because it couldn’t get through.

“If a small school bus and a cement truck can’t make it through what about a fire

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

While waiting for the contractor to return to fix

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

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

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Petition-inspired changes coming to 2017 Summerfest

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Representatives from the Pelham Summerfest committee Candy Ashbee and Bill Gibson presented council with a final report on the 2016 Summerfest at the Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 21.

Prompted by a story in the Voice in August about a merchant petition to move Summerfest from Pelham Street, in September Town staff met with various stakeholders to hear their complaints, promising at the time that changes in the way Summerfest was mounted would be con-

sidered.

The main concerns identified during the community engagement process were security, parking, ensuring customer can access all businesses in town, and liability for damages. How to get all Pelham Street businesses to participate and finding ways to make it beneficial for them to set up a booth were also determined to be of high priority for the committee as they plan for next year’s event.

Gibson told Council that the committee is addressing these concerns in a variety of ways. To improve parking, they intend to create bet-

ter signage for out-of-town visitors to designated parking areas and shuttle services. To make participation in Summerfest more enticing to local businesses, they plan to implement a tiered-charge for booths. Under the new system, Pelham Street business owners will be charged the least, other local businesses will pay a slightly higher fee, and vendors from outside Pelham will pay the most. In response to more specific issues for individual businesses, they will also slightly alter the footprint of the event and make adjustments to security.

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

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

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

FTER LUNCH ON Saturday, Mum and Dad had my afternoon cut out for me. Mum had more brass than anyone I knew, and it had to be cleaned. In addition there was the set of silver fish-knives and forks which were never used, but which had to be cleaned and put back in their velvetlined box.

Next was a walk to the newsagents to pay for the daily delivery of the Daily Mirror. As I said, Dad was a printer, but when he was 37 he had been rejected for a job, as being too old, by the printers of the Beano.

For that reason, my favourite comic was not allowed in the house, but while I was paying the papers, the newsagent let me have a 'shoofty' at the Beano. I'd explained my predicament and he understood completely.

Sundays were different again. Dad would play golf on summer mornings and billiards in winter. Then he'd stop for a 'refresher' at the local and would pick up the prawns, cockles, winkles or whelks we'd be having for tea later. Meanwhile, Mum was roasting the 'joint' and potatoes. I got to make the Yorkshire pud, and mint

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While shopping in Fonthill between Friday and Sunday, keep an eye out for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in front of local stores with bushels of apples.

As part of the annual Apple Day campaign, Scouting youth of all ages will be trading apples for donations.

The yearly fundraising drive is an important way for young Scouts to connect with the communities they are serving, says Leah Marie of Scouts Canada.

“The Apple Day campaign holds a great tradition of being able to have youth interacting within the communities they live in,” she says. “All of the Apple Day donations stay directly within the group that re-

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

ceives them, enabling youth to have experiences that build character, challenge them, and allow them to try new things. The goal is to have these youth develop into confident and wellrounded individuals, better prepared for success. Apple Day helps to achieve that.”

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

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

Joining their principal, Karen Simpson, at the Sept.

19 Council meeting as part of a delegation from EL Crossley Secondary School, students Abby Loewen and Neenah Williams presented Council with a list of reasons that they should immediately approve the construction of the new sidewalk proposed along Hwy. 20. The asphalt side-

walk/trail is slated to be built between the south side of the road from Timmsdale Crescent to the high school.

Because of the large volume of motor vehicle traffic travelling at high speeds through this area, and because of the necessity for students to tread this path on a daily basis, many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later.

After delivering to Council a petition containing

Many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later the names of 450 students calling for a safer walk to school, Simpson handed the

podium over to Loewen and Williams to plead their case.

Loewen told Council that because there are a lot of students who have work placements and coop placements during the school year, this is the only route for many of them to travel.

As one of the students facing this predicament, Williams said she has had no other option but to walk along the dangerous highway.

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and youth ages 5-25. This year the 3rd Fonthill Group, which includes Beavers to Ventures (youth ages 5- 25) will be hitting the streets to drum-up support.

Over the weekend, Scouts will be set up in Fonthill outside Sobeys, Tim Hortons, Target Gas station, Fonthill Shopping Plaza and the Pioneer Gas station at the corner of Hwys 20 and 24.

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A longtime Canadian tradition, Apple Day began in 1932 in Saint John, New Brunswick, when Scouts handed out 21,000 apples as a way to say thank you to the community. In return for their generosity, many people offered them donations. From then on Scouts have reached out through Apple Day to raise funds for their programs.

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BY VOICE STAFF The District School Board of Niagara is requesting that the Town of Pelham cede a portion of Cherry Ridge Park for use as a soccer field to serve the students of the new Wellington Heights Public School, formerly the E. W. Farr Memorial Public School, in Fenwick.

Currently under renovation and expansion, the new school will combine students and staff from the previous school and Pelham Centre, where classes are being held while construction continues.

Two letters, containing virtually identical text but signed by different authorities, were sent last week to nearby residents of the park, as well as to parents of Pelham Centre students.

“The DSBN is currently building onto Wellington Heights Public School on Alsop Drive,” states the letter. “The size of the school's addition means the existing small soccer field will be eliminated.

The Town and the Board have been discussing the possibility of working together to create a field for both the school and the

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In August, members of The Internet Child Exploitation (I.C.E) Unit, began an investigation involving the creation and distribution of digital files of child pornography from within the Niagara Region. As a result of that investigation, last Saturday police say that 53-year-old St. Catharines resident, Allan "Jay" Fiocca was arrested and is facing the alleged charges of making, possessing and distributing child pornography contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada.

Mr. Fiocca was held in custody pending a bail hearing.

Police say that further information will not be released to “ensure the integrity of the investigation.”

Members of the public can report suspicious internet activities relating to child exploitation to the Niagara Regional Police Service, or online at www.cybertip.ca.

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“I start work at 2:30 PM and school lets out at 2:15 PM so I can’t take any other route,” Williams explained.

“I have had friends, family, teachers and other community members reach out to me in the past about how this is unsafe and how there should be another alternative for us.”

Looking ahead to winter, when she will need to walk this path three or four times See SIDEWALK Page 2

HERE IS NO BETTER time to cycle than Fall. It matters not whether you’re new to the sport, a seasoned recreational cyclist, racer, touring rider or mountain biker; we all have reason to look forward to autumn.

Summer’s heat has faded, and the streams of sweat that ran from soggy helmets into our eyes are now just slight perspiration. Fitness is peaking from lots of saddle time, making those tough climbs of Spring a breeze in Autumn.

It’s hard to beat the feeling of beginning a crisp, cool Fall ride with a slight shiver, knowing your efforts will soon warm you perfectly.

The hues of Autumn are outstanding.

A Pelham route as simple as following our southern boundary is one that would make most Toronto cyclists jealous, especially when our forests and fields are ablaze with colour.

Begin from Harold Black Park, and zig-zag south along Effingham Rd toward the Welland River.

If you’re new to cycling, it’s important to know south is the direction away from any hills.

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Big turnout for protest rally in Wainfleet Yet simple typo means fears over population growth are likely unfounded; still no love for "Mr. GTA," though

BY VOICE STAFF On Tuesday evening last week, several hundred Wainfleet residents descended upon Brethren in Christ Church on Highway 3 for a, “Save Wainfleet—Fight the Urbanization of our Town” event—this in response to Wainfleet Town Council approving plans for a development called “Lakewood,” which would see 41 townhouse-style homes built on a stretch of beachfront property.

The gathering was at times raucous, poignant, and often confounding.

Andrew Watts, an opponent of development in Wainfleet and co-organizer of the event, began with a map of the township projected on a screen. On it were a number of dots that Watts identified as land owned by developers, and speculated that development projects would occur. “These aren’t fact,” he conceded, adding: “I’m open to being sued by anyone who wants to.”

Watts argued that there was a plan afoot to develop much of Wainfleet. Last November, after questioning Lakewood’s planning consultant firm T. Johns, he received a letter from the firm that

stated that the Niagara Region had projected a population of 29,800 in Wainfleet by 2031—up from just 7,000 now.

Watts provided this 29,800 figure to the columnist and writer William Thomas, who subsequently wrote a widely-circulated column in Niagara This Week decrying such a plan. It turned out, however, that the number was never correct.

Rino Mostacci, Niagara’s Commissioner of Planning and Development Services, responded that the Region was only projecting a population 7,900 in Wainfleet by 2031.

The confusion was all down to a misplaced comma, and mistaking “households” for “population.”

According to Cheryl Selig, the senior planner at T. Johns who wrote the letter to Watts, she had intended to say that the Region was projecting 2,980 total households in Wainfleet by 2031, but accidentally added an extra zero to this figure. Then she mistakenly described this as a population projection.

In fact, 2,980 homes in Wainfleet by 2031 would mean an increase of 400 homes above the present 2,580—a projected growth

Don Stewart, aka “Mr. GTA,” said he was there to listen and to be convinced. The crowd was not best pleased.

VOICE PHOTO relatively similar to what the township has experienced over the last decade.

Had this correction been made clearer at last Tuesday’s meeting (Watts acknowledged the Region’s response, but was deeply skeptical) it’s possible that the night’s tone may have been different. But Watts—and most of the crowd— had other concerns, too.

One of Watts’ co-organizers, Lee Bott, has lived near the planned development for 35 years and has been fighting the plans for 11 years. She spoke passionately about the wildlife in the area, saying that the endangered Fowler’s

Toad would have parts of its habitat destroyed, and that the felling of trees on the land has already driven out owls, and a nest of bald eagles.

Bott said that the loss of trees had already led to 15 feet of shoreline erosion, and predicted that this lack of protection could be dangerous if the lake experienced high winds blowing the water towards the new homes. She also was troubled by what she perceives to be violations of building rules, saying that “[the town and developers] are bypassing the bylaws by calling it a condo project.”

She referenced, specifically,

a bylaw that prevents communal septic systems from being approved, and one that requires minimum lot sizes for homes be 2.5 acres. At Lakewood, the plan provides less than one acre per home.

“This is not about [Not In My Back Yard],” Bott said. “But I’m happy to be called a NIMBY.” This was a common conviction among the gathered. The event’s subtitle, after all, was “Stop the Urbanization of Our Town,” and the biggest cheers were elicited whenever someone offered a variSee PROTEST Page 12

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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Larry Coté Get Niagara on the right track

H

AVE YOU DRIVEN the QEW between Niagara and the GTA recently? If so, then you likely required a neurologist to repair your neural synapses as a result of this nervewracking drive from Hades.

Those who must use the QEW ought to form a protest group called Drivers Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Anymore.

“DMAHANGTTIA” is much too long as a bumper sticker so the group will need a shorter, wittier acronym.

Oh, and don’t get this exhaust-fumigated group going on the topic of the 407 ETR user fees charged by the foreign-owned monopoly. If you mention the 407 highway robbery to these transponder-less protesters then be prepared for the ensuing conniption.

Some automobile addicts suggest adding more lanes to the parking lot known as the QEW. The idea of having even more lanes of parked vehicles belching carcinogens across the landscape is simply blowing smoke up you-know-where.

Paving more of Niagara’s precious landscape is simply an inane idea and should be rejected for bushels of reasons.

Do the people of Niagara

not deserve more consideration? Doesn’t this intolerable and unattended situation warrant more consideration from your elected leadership? Have the wrong people been elected to represent

Paving more of Niagara's precious landscape is simply an inane idea

Niagara’s needs? For many reasons, a far superior solution to adding more pavement is to provide publicly owned and operated mass transit.

Astoundingly, this Niagara notion has been around for 20 years or more. You read that right. Two decades! The most recent overture pleading Niagara’s case to the head honchos of Metrolinx (an agency of the Ontario Government) was two years ago. Infrastructure projects such as this

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take many years to become a reality. Extending the GO Train to Niagara is an idea that is way past its prime.

Such a link makes so much sense that to delay it further is inexcusable and inexplicable.

Why is there such a delay and reluctance to knock down the barriers and get this project on the rails?

This undeniable need is more than about being prepared to host the 2021 Canada Summer Games! It’s about the here and now!

Metrolinx has extended GO service to a number of regions outside the GTA. No doubt the residents of those communities needed that service. Why are the needs of 450,000 Niagara residents any less deserving?

The evidence is prima facie. Just look at the traffic-cam videos along the QEW between Niagara and the GTA. These recalcitrant decision makers should be required to drive between Niagara and their parking space at Queen’s Park on a daily basis for a month or two. That might get their attention and motivate them to revisit their mass transit planning priorities.

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Letters Pelham Syrian refugees update Currently two Syrian Refugee families are expected to be settled by the Pelham Syrian Refugee Constituent Group (PSRCG) comprised of members from 4 local churches ( Bethany Christian Reformed, Fenwick United, Fonthill United, and Pelham Community United) and the community at large.

The first to arrive will be a family of six.

Arrival is September 25.

The second family of four is still undergoing security and eligibility investigations however we understand they are now in the queue for their final interview, and we are hopeful they will arrive by this year’s end.

Co-chairs Lyn Taylor and Rhonda Baker report that the 20-member Group is making final preparations for the first fami-

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FOLLOW THE MONEY By Tom Purcell

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Reaction to Timmsdale House tear-down A selection of Facebook user reactions to our story last week on the demolition of the Timmsdale House, in Fonthill: Why do we continue to allow our heritage to be destroyed? I wanted to live there when I was young.

Kim Leney When I was a little girl, I always thought of it as a castle. So sad that it couldn't be maintained and saved as a heritage home.

Joanne Macleod This breaks my heart. I spent so much time here in my high school days. I saw this house restored from deserted office building to loved family home. A few weeks ago I got a peek inside this house again, gutted and preparing to be destroyed. I don't know what

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it was like after my friends left, after the property was sold off and the subdivision built, but it was beautiful when my friends were there. I will miss that house every time I drive by.

Lisa Gayle The charm of our town is slowly being demolished.

This is what turns a quaint village into urban appeal.

So sad!

Brenda Neilson This has been a Fonthill landmark all my life. I am sorry it wasn't made an historical or heritage building years ago. Another old building bites the dust.

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RIGHT TRACK continued from previous page the QEW is not the ideal solution to resolve Niagara’s mass transit needs than you should speak up. If you believe extending GO Train service to be a better solution, then contact your elected officials (see page 4) with the subject line, “Get Niagara On The Right Track!” Repeat this activity until you see Metrolinx and the Region actually working to connect Niagara with a convenient, safe, economically sound and environmentally friendly public transit system.

Prior to the next election demand that every door-knocking, robo- calling candidate, who will inevitably be interrupting your supper hour, commit in writing to advance the solution to Niagara’s mass transit needs, so help his or her government stipend.

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ONEY DOES MAKE us happy, so long as we spend it

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According to the U.K. newspaper The Independent, “New research from the University of British Columbia has found that spending money to buy free time, such as paying others to cook or clean for you, does improve happiness, leave you feeling less stressed and generally more satisfied with life.”

Beyond that, however, money does NOT necessarily make us happier.

According to Time magazine, Dan Gilbert, a Harvard University psychology professor and the author of “Stumbling on Happiness,” says that money has its limitations.

“Once you get basic human needs met, a lot more money doesn't make a lot more happiness,” says Gilbert.

Research shows, reports Time, that “going from earning less than $20,000 a year to making more than $50,000 makes you twice as likely to be happy, yet the payoff for then surpassing $90,000 is slight.”

In other words, once you have enough money to pay your bills and enjoy going out to dinner now and then, additional increases in wealth do not necessarily correspond with greater happiness.

Where happiness is concerned, North Americans are conflicted people. On one hand, we want wealth and fame. We want people to bow down to us when we walk into a public place. We want adulation and expensive cars and big houses staffed by a dozen servants. We believe in our bones that more money will make us happy and we work like crazy to acquire it.

But on the other hand, we know wealth and fame are bogus. You never know who your friends really are.

You're surrounded by people looking for a handout. And if you ever do anything stupid, the newspapers will find out about it and your stupidity will be broadcast around the world.

Where happiness is concerned, I defer to the great singer-philosopher Kenny Rogers. A few years ago, he tweeted: “You need three

things in your life to be happy: someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to.”

We all know this. But we keep forgetting it.

We know that the happiest moments in our own lives involve friends and family. These are the people who affect the deeper part of our nature, our spirits and souls, where true happiness resides. These are the people who can make us laugh so hard our guts hurt or help us when we're down or engage us in deeply satisfying conversations.

There's a story about a fisherman sitting on the beach with his wife one afternoon and enjoying the surf. The fisherman had enjoyed a big catch that morning, so he came in for the day. A rich businessman approached him.

“Why didn't you keep fishing and bring in twice as many fish?” said the businessman.

“Why?” said the fisherman.

“Because then you could have bigger profits. Then you could buy another boat and

hire employees.”

“Why?” said the fisherman.

“Then you could keep growing and have more profit. You could buy more boats and hire more employees.”

“Why?” said the fisherman.

“Because then you could work long and hard for many years and grow rich.”

“Why?” said the fisherman.

“Because then you and your wife could retire and relax on the beach,” said the businessman.

“But that's what I'm doing now.”

We know the fisherman is right.

Why, then, do we spend most of our waking hours not nurturing our friends and families but chasing success and money and bigger houses, while we let the happiness that is right under our noses elude us?

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We know that there is great controversy over the land transactions the Town has been involved in. The facts suggest when the Town is buying land they will do two very unusual things: They pay more than recent comparable land sales in the area.

The Town gets the seller to arrange for, pay for and provide the professional land appraisal and the Town then buys the land based on the seller’s appraisal. In the case of the East Fonthill lands, the developer called on a Toronto appraiser to value land in Fonthill.

Seemingly contrary to the Town procedural bylaw they do not publicly tender the appraisal services.

Now the Mayor and Council want to know what the residents want to do with the Haist Street arena and lands. Kudos for them to ask for our direction, however: It is important to note that if you can log onto the Town Placespeak site that the actual site is named “Pelham Arena Lands Design” and not “What do we want for the future of the Pelham Arena and lands.”

The Town believes the residents rely on the internet to communicate with the Town and perhaps they believe this is the best open, transparent, and scientific way to make big decisions.

The Town opened a poll online, a poll which was severely flawed. The link to the poll for most of its life did not work. Residents could not log on and the Town’s public relations and marketing guy did confirm,

days before the poll was to conclude, that the poll had technical difficulties.

This poll was hardly reliable, completely non-scientific and definitely not engaging or transparent to the community. And yikes, what has this so-called planning exercise just cost us, which in the end would benefit the Mayor’s developer and real estate friends? The Town has set the precedent for real estate values, so the Haist Street property if sold should fetch $928,000 per acre, or a grand total of $8 million dollars.

Now let’s ask ourselves how many residents did not have an opportunity to vote their wishes.

I can only assume that the poll result shown on the page is the total number of residents who participated.

100 people would hardly be a participant number to be proud of.

The poll, if you could access it was very leading and limited in the options the Town offered you. They gave you a choice of detached homes, townhomes, apartments, and more homes.

Nowhere in the poll did they give you an option of NO HOMES or KEEP for public enjoyment.

The matter of the Pelham Arena on Haist Street has never really been discussed until now. Considering the growing number of residents who are saying they do not trust the Mayor and Council and the recent very serious allegations and suspicions that have surfaced over the Town’s business practices and land dealings, it is very reasonable to say

that we do not want this Council to make any further decisions or take any actions in connection with any major business activity or land development.

Therefore any further discussion... needs to be deferred until after the 2018 election

Since the Haist Street property has never been properly vetted and it certainly was not an issue for discussion during the last election cycle, we the people consider this Mayor and Council to be in a lame duck status. Therefore any further discussions on the future of the Haist Street Arena and property need to be deferred until after the 2018 election, and the opportunity for residents to speak out at their doors with campaigners.

Curt Harley Pelham

Editor's Note: As mentioned on page 2, the Town is again requesting community input on the Haist Street site. Two sessions are to be held next Wednesday, September 13, at Fire Station #1.

Thanks to quartet of kind souls Take heart, citizens—Good Samaritans are alive and well in Pelham!

I am referring to a group of wonderful people who stopped to assist me. I had fallen off of my three-wheeled trike on South Pelham Street on August 28th. Regretfully I did not obtain all the names. There were four—three ladies and a gentleman.

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Pelham's own TARDIS Replica attracts "Dr. Who" fans from far and wide

BY VOICE STAFF If a centuries-old alien— better known as a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, even better known as “the Doctor,” and best known to non-viewers as, “Doctor Who”—is found stumbling around Fonthill, he will have come from the front lawn of Ron Lynch and Susan Buckingham.

Behind their vegetable patch at their Welland Road home, there appears to be a blue police box, the sort found throughout Britain for much of the 20th century. But those familiar with Doctor Who, the long-running BBC science-fiction television show, will know that it is actually the TARDIS. The TARDIS, or “Time And Relative Dimension In Space,” is the Doctor’s means of transportation, and has, since 1963, been whisking him from planet to planet and backwards and forwards in time.

Lynch and Buckingham have been fans of the show for 30-plus years. Lynch, now in his 50s, was planning to build a toolshed three years ago when Buckingham suggested that he make the exterior look like the Doctor’s TARDIS. In Cottage Life, she saw that someone had built one, though she wasn’t “particularly impressed” by their

effort, and thought that Lynch could do a better job.

The two found plans online of the actual prop used in the show, and Lynch set to work, buying and preparing all the materials. In total, he spent 50 hours on the project, including several spent making his own stencils for the signs.

To their surprise, passers-by immediately took notice, honking from cars, or stopping and pulling out their phones. Most people don’t knock and ask permission before taking photos, which is the way Lynch and Buckingham now prefer it.

“Pretty much every day there’s someone looking to take a picture, hundreds and hundreds of people [so far].

It’s actually easier on us if everybody doesn’t knock on the door,” Buckingham said.

Earlier this year, the two found a letter in their mailbox from a young couple looking to have their engagement photos taken in front of the TARDIS. Buckingham and Lynch ended up being away on vacation when the shoot took place, but they were happy to assent and offer suggestions on how the shed could best be used.

Buckingham has even started an Instagram feed for their TARDIS, @tardis.

Susan Buckingham and Ron Lynch return to their front yard after a jaunt to the 1980s.

VOICE PHOTO pelham, hoping that those who stop to take pictures can have them collected in one spot.

One woman, who wanted a TARDIS beside her pool, asked if she could place an order with Lynch. He isn’t doing professional work just yet, but plans to retire within two years, and suspects he will then begin independent contracting. He once spent 300 hours building a tandem kayak, much of the time spent splitting cedar planks into thin strips that he then affixed together.

The couple’s backyard could easily be in an advertisement for Lynch’s pro-

spective business. He built a beautiful rustic gazebo, a stone patio with a fish pond, and, for Buckingham’s 60th birthday, a wooden swing with a sloped, Chinese-style roof.

The garage was a DIY project, too, and its exterior paint turned out to be useful later on. Once the TARDIS was finished, the two were looking around for the right shade of blue, when they realized that the garage was already coated in something close to the perfect hue. In any case, with each new actor who depicts the Doctor comes a slight variation to the TARDIS, and Bucking-

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Doctor Who was in the news earlier this summer when it was announced that actress Jodie Whittaker would be the 13th Doctor, the first woman to assume the role. While some fans were upset with the change, one of the Doctor’s alien abilities is to shift shape—a narrative element that has explained how 13 different people have played the same character, and one that Whittaker has said is sufficient to justify the change in gender.

As with most science fiction, Doctor Who can be incredibly intricate, and even Lynch and Buckingham’s extensive knowledge has been paled by some of the fanatics who have stopped by to take pictures. Above all, the two credit the show’s writers for maintaining such quality in the series, and have been pleased that the public display of their interest has allowed them to meet so many interesting people.

Two different Fonthill residents have stopped by, while walking, to say that they had close family members who worked on Doctor Who sets in the past.

“We’ve had all ages come and see it,” Buckingham said. “We’ve had grandparents take pictures to send off to their grandkids. I’ve seen people come up and kiss in front of it.” She has a suitably simple explanation for the series’ enduring popularity, and for the breadth of its fan base,

saying that, “it’s a fun and quirky show—and it tells us to be playful no matter what age we are.”

On the show, the TARDIS’ innards are vast, and it is a running joke that “it’s bigger on the inside,” while Lynch and Buckingham’s is precisely the same size on the inside as it is on the out. Smaller, even, when you peer in to see that it is full of hedge shears and trowels and rakes and all other sorts of tools for which a “Time Lord” would have little use but which come in quite handy in a vegetable garden a few feet away.

One small boy, a Who fan who came to see the box, was disappointed when he saw that the inside was small and housed only tools.

Buckingham isn’t so sure that this is bad thing, and doesn’t even think that she’d use a real TARDIS if she had one. As the couple posed inside for a photo, with their heads peeking out as if they’d just landed, she thought about where she would take the TARDIS if she could and came up empty. “[Going back in time…] is so complicated. You could mix up everything!”

Lynch wasn't sure what he’d go back to experience, either. “I know there’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t want to see,” he said.

After some cajoling, the two eventually settled on another shared love of theirs: ‘80s music. “We could go to see [Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark] from the ‘80s…when they were young. We love OMD.”

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The Conversation

Sam Oosterhoff speaks In first extended interview since his election last November, Ontario's youngest MPP sits down to discuss range of issues

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO

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N E DAY DU R ING THE SU M M ER OF 2016— neither of us is sure precisely when—I took Sam Oosterhoff on an elevator ride. I was then a tour guide on Parliament Hill, and one of our tasks was to operate the Peace Tower’s elevator, ferrying small groups up and down, explaining the bell system as we went. Oosterhoff was a legislative assistant for an MP, a role whose primary summer task was (I am only partially joking) taking constituents on tours of Centre Block.

Last week I met now-MPP Sam Oosterhoff at Conversations Cafe, appropriately enough, a spacious and austerely modern coffee shop in Beamsville. He had just gotten a haircut, but apart from that he looked pretty much the same. But of course very little is the same about Sam Oosterhoff compared to a year ago. After shocking Progressive Conservative party president Rick Dykstra to take the Niagara West - Glanbrook nomination opened by Tim Hudak’s resignation, last November Oosterhoff became the youngest MPP in Ontario’s history. (No longer a teenager, Oosterhoff entered his second decade two weeks ago.)

Nearly ten months into the job, he has given no lengthy interviews that the Voice could find.

When the paper approached his staff about doing an installment in our Conversation series, Oosterhoff said that he was open to the idea, as long as it wasn’t intended to be a “gotcha” effort. At a barbecue he and MP Dean Allison jointly held recently, I assured Oosterhoff that we had no interest in trying to make anyone look bad—only to give him an opportunity to reach readers in his own words.

Oosterhoff was certainly thinking for himself as we spoke. Not until the end did he lapse into party talking points. In a profile earlier this year, Maclean’s magazine suggested that Oosterhoff “harbours a hint of cockiness,” and surely there must be comments to the media that he’d like to have back. “That’s for me to know, and you to find out,” he once responded when asked for specifics about scholarships he received at Brock University.

But even if Oosterhoff still has the faint aura of a kid who, looking around, is surprised to find himself eating off the fine china at the adult table, he seems more interested in proving that he belongs at that table than in smirking at those gawping at his ascendance to it.

He’s a natural when it comes to so-called retail politics. As we stood to leave, Oosterhoff was hailed by an elderly woman nearby who announced herself to be a supporter. He spent a few minutes speaking with her, pointing out shared connections as they came up, and so enraptured the lady that, as he finally said goodbye, had she offered him a bite of her cake no one would have been surprised.

Oosterhoff was in good spirits during our talk. He spoke thoughtfully on the state of decorum in politics, and displayed a particular

passion about environmental issues. Unsurprisingly, his expression visibly hardened when we moved on to the topic of homosexuality. Though he resisted the label of social conservative, instead describing himself as a “comprehensive conservative,” it does not take a seer to divine Oosterhoff’s positions on many social issues.

And anyway, “comprehensive” conservatism logically implies a social conservatism within it.

To those party members who put emphasis on the “progressive” part of the PC name, Oosterhoff’s positions are a liability.

Even he, perhaps, is aware of this.

His vagueness on these issues is not accidental.

But above all, Oosterhoff is a politician, not an activist. He was keen to return repeatedly to the PC’s present attacks: debt, taxes, schools, hydro, hospitals. He stipulated that many of these social issues are federal matters, and I was left with the distinct impression that despite any deeply-held convictions he may have, he is more concerned with contributing to Patrick Brown’s attempts to build a PC party that can win.

He—and the rest of us—will soon find out how successful these efforts may be.

The following has been edited for clarity and brevity, with some answers condensed or merged.

PICCOLO: You’ve been MPP for about nine months now—and I know when we spoke at the barbecue a few weeks ago you made a joke about it being an “entry-level job.” But of course, it's not. For many people, this sort of position is the pinnacle of their career.

Considering that, if you work at it and want to keep running, this could conceivably be a job for the next 20 years. How does it feel to have already achieved something that some people take decades to reach?

OOSTERHOFF: I was actually talking with [former MPP] Tim Hudak about this, just a few weeks ago. I talked to Tim about how it felt when he was first elected. He was just 27, which is pretty young by a lot of standards. And when Tim was elected, he said the he felt the same way that I did. You’re overwhelmed for a bit, just by the fact that you’ve been given that responsibility—you’re representing your family, your friends, your neighbours, your constituents, and not just those who voted for you, but also those who may have voted for other parties, and you have to be that unifying fac-

MPP Sam Oosterhoff meets constituents last week in his Beamsville office.

tor in the riding. We were talking about how a year had changed me and changed things in general—I mean, we have Trump as President in the US. I started campaigning on the twenty-second of August last year, so it’s almost exactly a year ago that I started my nomination campaign. And that led to Niagara West-Glanbrook residents placing their trust in me, and this is not something that I take for granted. It was a huge honour, and I am working very hard every day to continue to earn that trust going forward. Tim said that the years go so fast, and that it’s incredible to have served the region in many different ways, and incredible to see how much the region has changed, how much it has evolved, how it’s really grown into itself and become a destination for people. I’m looking forward to seeing how it will change.

I’ve already had a good relationship with [MPPs] Wayne Gates, Jim Bradley, and Cindy Forster.

They may be from different parties, but we’re all here to promote Niagara, and to see what we can do to improve the lives of families, seniors, students, and everyone in between. So I don’t have a definite idea that I want to be here for 20 or 30 years. I want to improve the lives of people in my community, and to see what we can do together to make that idea a reality.

I’m glad you mentioned the other MPPs from Niagara, because that’s another thing that I noted when we spoke at the barbecue. You said there that you’d been impressed by how you’d been able to work together with those other members behind

closed doors. But you are in partisan politics, and you participate in press conferences and question period. Do you ever feel that this part—question period and the partisanship—is a big performance? That maybe if politicians, including yourself and the other three MPPs from Niagara, spoke to each other in public as they do in private that politics would be better off, and perhaps society would be less divided?

I think there’s definitely a need for improved decorum within the parliamentary setting, both at a federal and provincial level. There should always be a respect for the constituents that placed a member in the house, a respect for the office and for its duties and responsibilities. I think there is a level of theatrics within question period or the press conferences that might be a little exaggerated or overdone. But at the same time, there is a need to emphasize and accentuate the reality of certain differences that we might have, or the variances in perspective that otherwise you wouldn’t be able to get across in a meaningful way.

We live in an era of seven-second clips, of a hundred-and-forty-character tweets. We don’t live in an era of narratives or Shakespearean dialogues, and it would be false if we pretended that we did. So I think there’s a need to call people’s attention from the millions of distractions, and be able to say, “This is something that’s important, something that matters to your constituency, something that matters to your life. Pay attention.”

So you’d like to see improved

decorum— Improved decorum, but I think there’s also a place for strong, passionate dialogue.

Pithiness?

Pithy, yes. But the art of rhetoric has, unfortunately, been kind of lost, which I regret.

You’re going to bring that back?

I’m going to do my best.

Obviously you’re a conservative. You’re a member of the Conservative party— Progressive Conservative.

Progressive Conservative party, yes—and in the word itself— there’s the idea that something is being conserved. Conserve, conservative. But the meaning of conservative has become more complicated. I’m thinking specifically of the corporate —or explicitly capitalistic—conservatism. I could, for instance, put on my Milton Friedman voice and say, “Greed is good. Greed runs the world.” Or even someone like Kevin O’Leary might be a better example, who isn’t interested in anything socially. It’s more “Economics 101. Money, money, money.” What does conservatism mean to you?

To me, conservatism means that we’re looking forward to the future without fear, but we’re also retaining the best of the past. And that means not being afraid of cherishing our traditions and values while keeping our eyes wide open to the future. Being a conservative means embracing personal responsibility, but also promoting personal freedom, liberty, and human dignity for everyone.

And those are values that I think all conservatives do share. There’s

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an unfortunate perception of conservatism as being corporate. I think we need to change that perception, because I firmly believe that we’re the party that takes our direction from the soccer moms, from the hockey dads, and from the coffee shops and the Legions.

We’re not the party that’s having $1500 cash-for-access dinners.

That’s not the conservative way.

We’re the ones who are interacting with people and hearing their dayto-day concerns. So to me a conservative is someone who respects the institutions and traditions of our nation, and also promotes free trade and free markets, and has a real desire to see individuals thrive. It’s more about the individual than the collective.

But, at least to my perception, you’re someone who cares about community. And not in some clichéd way. Your church community is a big reason why you were elected. Not the only reason, you knocked on a lot of doors— Over ten thousand doors, just during my nomination.

Right, there were other reasons, but your church community was a big reason, especially in the initial stage. So how, in your party, can those two elements be reconciled? What case will you make to corporate conservatives that they need to be more conscious of fostering community, and not just providing circumstances for this pursuit of individual gain?

I think that you go back to the basic governmental unit, the family. That’s the first government that we’re born into. So you have the authority figures, your parents, and you have to learn how

to interact with them when you’re growing up. It would be disingenuous if we acted as if utilitarianism is all that drives us. And if it is all that drives us, then that speaks very poorly of us as a nation, and speaks very sadly for our future. Within the party and the conservative movement there’s a broad range of beliefs. You have your fiscal conservatives—maybe you want to term them corporate conservatives. I don’t know if I like that phrase. Anyway, you have your social conservatives, you have your democratic conservatives, a wide variety of people. We need to unify around these central ideas of opportunity, responsibility, and freedom. At the same time we have to recognize that we need to be putting forward a compassionate conservatism, and that means caring for the most vulnerable in our communities. It means respecting and protecting human rights both at home and abroad, and realizing the need to give a hand up to those who need it. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t pay at least lip- service to that, but I think that perhaps as a movement we need to do more to engender a tenacious reaching out to those [vulnerable] people. We haven’t always done a good job at that. People sometimes question conservatives’ intentions. And we need to go back to intentions, because the reality is that I’m not a conservative because I think that big corporations should make lots of money. I’m a conservative because I believe that the values of opportunity and responsibility are the ones that will allow freedom to flourish, allow people to flourish,

and allow the economy to prosper.

The writer Matthew Crawford said that what conservatives have to remember is that you want free people, not free markets.

Exactly.

And sometimes you need free markets to have free people, but sometimes you don’t. Especially in an environmental sense. I meant to mention that earlier, because with conservatism you’d think, “Conserve…the environment.”

Absolutely, we should be.

But there’s also a general perception where conservatives are known to put the environment at the expense of business.

I agree. I think that’s highly unfortunate. That’s something we need to be working very hard on, because conserving the environment is a very conservative thing. Our rural communities— and in Ontario you can almost see the rural-urban divide just by seat colour—are often conservative, where they understand the importance of family farms, of small businesses, of being able to go out for a hike on the Bruce Trail. When we are talking about conservation, talking about protecting the environment, we need to be thinking not simply of broad corporate responsibility, but also about a very personal thing. Each and every one of us has to be making those choices, too. I think this is something that conservatism promotes just by promoting personal responsibility, while liberalism seems so obsessed by the collective, with the idea that the government will take of this, the government will take of that—

it will figure out all the world’s problems. You might try that, but the government isn’t omnipotent, it’s not omnipresent, and people are going to have to make their own decisions. Now, let’s inform them about those decisions. But let’s not be a nanny-state. Let’s not force people, as perhaps some on the left would want to do into this sort of collective straitjacket.

One of the beautiful things about the “Big-C” conservative movement is the ability to have these discussions, to debate about how we are going balance these things.

I don’t want to be too partisan, but often it seems that on the liberal side of things there is the monolithic “You will do this, and if you don’t, we will demonize you.” I think that’s unproductive. You might be able to force someone to do something, but if you’re forcing them all the time, then behind your back they’re going and dumping all their shingles in the Back Forty, then is that really productive? Having the discussion leads to a greater understanding and a greater tolerance and broad-mindedness.

Even while you have this job, you’re still studying at Brock.

What sort of emphasis do you have on continuing to learn? You talked about having those conversations—what sort of personal ethic do you have for always thinking about your positions and why you have them, and for listening to other people?

Like I said during my campaign, I always try to surround myself with good people from a wide variety of areas with a lot of different perspectives, from every aspect of the riding, every aspect of the party, every aspect of the province. And they may completely differ from me on a lot of issues, but hearing their voices and having those discussions is necessary, it’s something you have to be doing. That governs my approach towards knowledge, that I will never know enough, and therefore I might as well learn from as many people as possible.

During one of your first big press scrums, a number of reporters tried to get you comment on the matter of homosexuality.

One reporter brought up Facebook posts that you had allegedly made linking to articles that may have asserted that homosexuality is a sin. Now I appreciate that those reporters were clearly trying to get a juicy headline by picking on the new kid—half the PC caucus skipped, or shall we say strategically missed, that vote [involving same-sex parenting]. They didn’t have a big press conference with [social conservative MPP] Monte McNaughton. At the same time, you repeatedly took their questions on your own tack. Consider this an opportunity to go on the

record with a candid answer. Because at the time, all you did say, I think, was, “I believe that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.”

I believe absolutely that everyone is equally worthy of dignity and respect, and should be equally valued in all aspects of society.

That includes, obviously, members of the LGBT community. I have done my best, and will continue to do my best to treat everyone with dignity and respect.

Respect is an interesting idea, though since it’s almost a negotiation. To some extent, it seems to be respect when both sides agree that it’s respect. Now there are some exceptions to that. Some people may make ridiculous claims as to what respect is—if I were to say respecting me is giving me $10,000, that’s not respect. That’s a ridiculous request.

But what does respect and dignity mean to you? Considering that many in the [LGBT] community don’t consider your response to be respectful.

I think that’s unfortunate. I think I’ve been clear that I’m working with the PC party to improve the lives of every Ontarian, and I would never exclude any group or self-identifying community from that work.

So for you, respect and dignity is included in the idea that you’re working to improve the lives of everyone.

You know what, high hydro bills impact everyone, including members of the LGBT community.

We’ve been talking a lot about the big tent of the conservative movement, though it’s clear that the secularization of the public sphere has affected conservative parties. I mean that with respect to that bill [on same-sex parents], where it would appear that social conservative members of the PC caucus strategically missed the vote, so that their opposition wouldn’t be evidenced in public.

Patrick Brown marched in the Pride parade. It’s clear that as far as the public debate goes, on social matters, be that matters of abortion, be that matters of homosexuality, the secular position has largely become the public position, and there isn’t much debate on it. For many years, Stephen Harper did not allow those social issues to come to the fore in Ottawa, and it seems as though Patrick Brown is taking a similar approach in Ontario. So as a social conservative, how do you reconcile that social conservatism with where the public conversation is?

I’ve been pretty clear that I identify as a comprehensive conservative. I wouldn’t put myself into one certain category. I think that it can be dangerous to categoSee SPEAKS Page 14

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PROTEST continued from Page 3 ation of, “It’s about time Wainfleet starts taking back our township.”

It was clear that those in attendance took great pride in their township—in their backyard. And the feeling vibrating just below the surface of most if not all the opposition to Lakewood is one of having been disrespected.

Watts said repeatedly that, “Planning is about community,” and argued that the community had not really been consulted.

Someone else mentioned that the developer had made no efforts to ingratiate itself with the community to build widespread support.

In short: residents felt disrespected by the developers, and they felt disrespected by their representatives who had approved the plan proposed by those developers.

Added to the mix, those at the event were also not enthused by the people mov-

ing in, widely presumed to be former residents of the GTA. Local farmers had been outraged by flyers that were recently posted, complaining of the smell in Wainfleet and encouraging others to contact the Ministry of Environment.

“This is what Wainfleet smells like,” several said, arguing that only “cidiots” would be offended by such a thing.

Another farmer, Gerry Prentice, said that the presence of the posters “indicates that we already have one too many houses.”

He spoke poignantly about Wainfleet’s broader place in the province. “Farming used to mean something,” Prentice said. In the past few decades, he hasn't felt that the people in power really care about making farmers, like those in Wainfleet, feel important.

The evening’s most uncomfortable moment occurred when new resident Don Stewart came to the microphone. He confessed to being a recent arriv-

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al from the GTA, eliciting groans, and said that he was there to listen—that he wanted to be convinced.

He said that when he looked at the map of Wainfleet, and saw those little dots where Watts had speculated development would occur, to him, “It looks pretty good. It’s a big piece of property, Wainfleet, and those seem to be fairly spread out.”

Stewart wondered whether, considering tens of thousands of people are expected to move to Niagara in the next 15 years, might not it be inevitable that Wainfleet has to accept some of them.

The room began to mutter more loudly.

Stewart kept going. “I want to be convinced. So, Andrew, can you communicate to me, what is the negative impact of 41 high-end places on the lake—” This did it for the crowd.

“Go back to the city,” someone shouted.

A man jumped up to the microphone. “Here, I’ll explain why,” he started be-

fore Watts pointed out that he’d cut in front of another woman. He apologized and ceded to her, but as soon as she had finished he jumped right back up again. And then another man took the microphone.

“Sorry Mr. GTA, I’ve got a little more for you. Binbrook is a disaster, and the only people that like it are the people from the GTA…the way it needs to be [in Wainfleet] is the way it is now, it needs to be agricultural, and it needs to stay that way forever.”

When Stewart sat down, a reporter from another newspaper, having not caught his name when Stewart first spoke, approached him to ask for it.

Stewart grimaced, shook his head, and waved the reporter away. He left the hall quickly at the end, without speaking to anyone.

Andrew Watts submitted an application to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) in early August, and hopes have the council vote overturned. He appealed to

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But the matter becomes murkier when considering what exactly can be done. The Lakewood site was already the subject of an OMB hearing in 2009, at which the Board declined to overturn the original approval of the project from 2007. Watts’ current filing addresses the specific site plan. This means that even if Watts, Bott, and other opponents of the development are successful, it’s only the

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of the slope and road failure.

While the Golder report offers an explanation for the failure, further engineering reports are required to determine the best course of action.

A second portion of Sulphur Springs Drive failed this summer and a portion of Orchard Hill Road also failed this summer and is now closed.

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barricades on both roads says MacDonald, noting engineering and planning for the future of the roads cannot begin until the budgetary requirements are approved by Council.

A public works report on Sulphur Springs was included in the agenda for the Sept. 5 meeting of Council and MacDonald says staff

will make another request for the necessary funds for the 2018 budget.

When asked why Sulphur Springs Drive remains closed after almost 18 months, Mayor Augustyn said he thought the engineering study was proceeding, explaining that he wasn't at the July 24 meeting when the budget

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It seems as though a lot of the focus is going to be on hydro rates, on those economic issues that everyone can relate to.

Patrick is very focused on what unites us. And [hydro, manufacturing, debt] are issues that we can unite around we can celebrate and move Ontario forward for everyone.

You think that there’s a way to focus on those issues that unite while still having meaningful debate on the matters of conscience?

Everyone has a conscience, in how we address matters that just arise in our day-today life, in how we interact with people. If they do come up—and many of them are federal, most of these are not provincial issues—there obviously needs to be a place for people of faith, for people of conscience to be able to speak and to bring forward their concerns.

Behind closed doors, even though you may differ from Jim Bradley, Wayne Gates, and Cindy Forster on those issues, it doesn’t stop you from having meaningful debate [on other matters].

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I think that we need to be willing to hear each other out without immediately resorting to name-calling and polarization. There is a danger that the public sphere has become monolithic with how it responds to voices that differ from the ordinary.

I’m not referring to extreme examples—we should condemn extremism, and rightfully so—but the need to protect freedom of expression and freedom of speech is something that we need to be always conscious of. The majority tends to not like to hear things that might make them uncomfortable. We need to be working to make sure that as a community and as a province, not just as a conservative movement, that we have the wherewithal to hear the other side of the story, even if we disagree with it, and to speak about it calmly without attacking the individual. We have to be willing to actually debate the idea. Let’s have a discussion about these ideas, see where we differ, and maintain respect for each other and maintain a willingness to disagree without condemning the other.

When do you think that a position—and I mean this more in the general than in the particular—moves from being something that should be included in the conversation to something extreme. To give a particular example: in the United States, sixty years ago, the segregationists had to be given a seat at the table.

The position wasn’t all that extreme. It might have been fairly common, say, in Alabama at the time. But now that’s no longer necessary.

That segregationist position has become extreme over time.

Of course, we have to condemn racism whole-heartedly.

Yes, of course. But some people would say that certain positions that are more controversial now than they once were—positions on gay marriage, positions on

abortion—are extreme and shouldn't be included in the conversation. Obviously you disagree with that. When does a position that was once part of the conversation become extreme?

I think we need to be willing to hear each other out without immediately resorting to name-calling I would have to say that it’s a hypothetical question that I can’t answer. It would have to depend. It’s a really big question. I would have to see as instances came up.

Okay, fair enough. This is a complicated matter in the abstract. People write books on it. We’re running up on time. Is there anything you’d like to add?

Well, you haven’t really asked me what I’ve been doing. I’m actually working on a private member’s bill on palliative care. This is the type of issue where we can get a wide variety of people—NDP, Liberals, social conservatives to social progressives and everyone in between knows that this is about allowing choice in end-of-life care. This is about creating a comforting environment for those at the end of life, to be surrounded by family and friends and loved ones, and not have to be concerned about pain and the reality of dying to the same extent. So I'm putting forth a bill in the upcoming session to create a provincial strategy to deal with palliative care. Those are the types of issues that we should be working towards unity on.

Those are the issues that we can all get behind and speak about from a human dignity and human worth perspective.

Is that something that constituents have come forward on?

Yes, it’s definitely something that people have come forward on and said that they want to ensure that we have proper access to home care and to home palliative care.

It is especially a concern in this area, with the number of senior citizens. We have, I believe, next to Victoria BC, the second-highest percentage of seniors in Canada.

Beyond the palliative issue, are there any other issues on your horizon?

I’m always pushing for investment in infrastructure in the Niagara region. That includes health care infrastructure in the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, fighting to keep open the Welland Hospital, making sure we have the GO Train on time.

The Niagara region is exploding like none other, and one of priorities has been to push for continued investments. One of my personal passions is fighting to value those who are impacted

by Down syndrome. There's not a lot of understanding of those who are impacted by it. They’re wonderful contributors, not just to society, but to the workforce, to education and they deserve to be celebrated. They’re beautiful human beings, and they’re created in the image of God. I know you said that you preferred the constituency to Toronto, but you must be excited to get back in the action. It’s a big year ahead.

Yeah. It’s going to be incredibly tense. There’s already this tension between the government and the opposition that just fermenting under the surface, and I think that as we get closer to the election tempers are going to rise.

Even in the party, too.

There are high expectations—many in the PC party thought that 2014 was a wasted opportunity. I think that early polls showed a comfortable lead— Resounding lead. Everyone’s excited to get rid of fifteen years of Liberal mismanagement, and actually start improving Ontario and turn it back into an economic powerhouse like it once was.

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Libraries have responded by offering programs and community space that provide According to multiple surresidents with helpful inforveys, most adults view limation and advice. The Pelbraries as welcoming and ham Public Library is no diffriendly places. Often the ferent in facing these issues. library has a long history in For our staff, this has the community and is seem meant dealing with issues as a comfortable space for and questions far beyond the gathering. scope of their formal traineds Ads One of theOCNA reasonsNetwork the li- Classifi ing. Our staff are excellent (AD as CENTRAL) braries are seen such an at their work and are always important pillar in the comup for a new challenge. At improve access to the social munity is that, over Week of time, the same time, it is import- services people may need. they have taken on functions ant that we equip them with September 4 Beginning in September, well beyond the traditional the resources they need to staff from the John Howlending of materials. Librarrespond to these changing ard Society of Niagara will Posted seen by conditions. ies are increasingly be present in the Library 30 care other sectorsAugust like health As part of a partnership for a few hours each week. and social services as an imwith the Welland Public LiShe will be available to any portant link Central to the commubrary and The John Howard person who wishes to speak nities they serve. Visitors to Society of Niagara, has seRegion Ads included with someone. The staff libraries are seeking help to cured a grant with the Nimember will either be able to navigate the complexities of agara Prosperity Initiative to offer support This adsystems. is to be printed by all participating Ontario papersto those in need community support

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Local girl starts paper Alexx Hill, 11, has published five editions of “Pelham Corners”

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO

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Pelham readers are lucky to have an independent newspaper in town—and became all the more fortunate this summer when 11-year-old Alexx Hill added her own paper into the mix.

Five issues of “Pelham Corners” have been printed so far, all of which were written, published, and delivered by Hill herself.

Hill, who lives with her family on Effingham Street near Webber Road, was first struck by the idea at the end of school in June. In her fifth grade class at St. Alexander Elementary, she learned about others who had started their own local newspapers, and she quickly knew that she wanted to do the same.

“A few years ago, when I was thinking about what I wanted to do when I grow up, it just popped in to my head that I wanted to be an

author—so I thought that writing a paper would be a great thing to do,” she said.

Hill told her parents what she was going to do (there was no asking involved, she clarified), and then conferred with a neighbour, Teresa, who suggested hosting a contest to name the paper, and chipped in a Tim Horton’s gift card as a prize.

Hill received a number of submissions, but soon settled on “Pelham Corners.”

And from there, all she had to do was solicit news from her neighbours to fill the page.

“I went out and asked some families I know, and they brought me all sorts of news,” she said. New pets featured heavily in Hill’s early issues, but she has since eagerly included upcoming birthdays and a weather report.

Hill wrote out the first two issues in longhand, though she has now graduated to a computer and la-

The editor in her newsroom. ser printer, which, she said, makes things go faster. “It’s a great excuse to practice typing.”

The issues are still kept to only one page, though going digital means that Hill now has the potential to put out longer papers. If there’s the news for it, that is.

Her sister Kate, who is nine, has even helped out a little and arranged for a local survey, the results of

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which were printed in Pelham Corners.

“I asked people their favourite foods, and whether they preferred camping in a tent or in a camper,” Kate said. The camper won out, and Kate speculated that people liked to be safely dry and free from bugs.

The girls’ mother, Jen, was understandably proud of how her daughters have been spending their sum-

Page 17 mer. Jen and her husband, Ian, started reading to Alexx when she was “probably about a week old,” something that they still do, though Alexx is now pleased to be able to read Harry Potter by herself and go at her own pace.

Jenn also said that she and Ian “always made sure our kids know how important neighbours are.

So they’ve always known them, but Alexx is now helping us know what’s happening around here even better.”

Both Alexx and Jen have been pleased with how supportive the neighbours have been. Pelham Corners is delivered to about ten homes, and Alexx asks that recipients leave 25¢ in her mailbox, money she is collecting to donate to Pelham Cares.

Along with funds from the paper, she sells homemade bracelets for 50¢ and puts that money in Pelham Cares’ pot, too, and has collected $46.50 so far.

“Minus six dollars,” Kate said to her. “You lost six dollars.”

“Shhh,” Alexx replied.

“You’re not supposed to say that! And I found it anyway.”

Whether the actual amount is $46.50 or $40.50,

I might have to do one issue every three weeks

Alexx is looking forward to dropping the funds off at Pelham Cares. For as long as she can remember, the birthday parties she’s had with her friends have been donation ones, and so she is a veteran philanthropist in addition to being a fledgling journalist.

While the first day of school was quickly approaching, Alexx hoped to publish one more edition of Pelham Corners before returning to St. Alexander.

Once back to school, combined with figure skating, piano, and guitar lessons, she concedes that it may be tough to churn out those stories, but is confident that she can keep the presses running.

“I might have to do one issue every three weeks,” she said. “But I’ll still keep doing it.”

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continued from previous page man Chase Munn not only laid the expert tags from the catcher's pick-off throws, but also caught a screaming line drive and made several unassisted outs. Although everyone contributed to the offense, key hits were made by Max Veld, who smoked one to deep outfield, Chase Munn's RBI triple and Julian Rubino's bases clearing double.

In the tenth inning, Maverick Halstead tied up the game with his walk and trip around the bases. With two outs and Ty Pelletier on third, Andy Nawrocki hit a single to score the winning run in walk-off frenzied fashion. All of the boys agreed that this was the best game of the entire season, saving the best for last.

The Pelham Medical Associates Rep team made it to the final four teams in the Waterdown OBAs, facing off against Listowel in the semi-finals on Sunday morning. To advance that far, the Panthers won their first three games of the tournament. Ethan Wells pitched the first game of the tournament holding the offense to just two runs over six innings and hitting a game tying double. Tied in extra innings, Jake Passmore got on base and stole his way to third for Jake Laewetz to hit him home and take game one. Game two against rival Wyoming saw Ryan Culig take the mound. Keeping the game close, reliever Nate Girling threw out a runner on first and second baseman Cole Townson fielded a great bunt to get the out. Left fielder Owen Nicholls caught a long fly ball to get out of the inning. In the top of the seventh, down by two with bases loaded and two outs, Andrew Behring hit a bases clearing double to take the lead and the eventual win. Tillsonburg was the next opponent to knock down and relievers Will Baltrusiunas and Wyatt Gibson pitched well to save the game for the third straight win. In game four against Belle River Lucas Grant hit a single and played a solid second base. Tyler Hunter hit an infield single, using speed to outrun the strong throw. Right fielder Jake Kalailieff made a strong throw to hold the runner from advancing to extra bases. Pelham was defeated in the semi-final match

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As the 2017 baseball season concludes, Pelham Minor Baseball would like to heartily thank all of the coaches and parents for your support this season.

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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 with my position. Now, after more than 50 years together a “Yes, dear” from her is often a dismissive “Whatever” and my words are basically ignored and do not register. I know this to be true because when repeated later she declares that to be the first time I’ve said that.

Our children are another example of where my once- respected stature has declined somewhat over the years. This declination begins just before the teen years when it then blossoms into near-rebellion levels on the scale of respect. During those years of discontent, my words followed the least course of resistance by going in one ear and out the other without so much as disturbing a single neural cell.

As these offspring entered adulthood they occasionally and gratuitously sought my opinion on some relatively mundane matters and subsequently followed their own inclinations. My daughterin-law recently gifted me with an inscribed plaque illustrative of a level of respect that reads. “If I agreed with you, then we’d both be wrong.” I respect that she is sometimes right and always agreeable.

Whoever coined that descriptor was both colour blind and totally illiterate in metallurgy

I get no respect when I visit the grocery store to pick up a few items. I dutifully obey the sign at the checkout that is clearly labelled “1 to 8 items” and I naively respect that rule.

However, all four of the shoppers in the queue in front of me invariably have a dozen or more items in their shopping cart. This rude sense of entitlement clearly translates to “the hell with you,” and declares, “I’m more important than you and do not choose to respect you and such inane rules do not apply to me.”

Somewhere in the literature of life someone invented a euphemism for the senior years as the “Golden Years.” Whoever coined that descriptor was both colour blind and totally illiterate in metallurgy. As a senior, I have yet to be respected as a valued metal, and more often treated as a rusted

out weather vane that has lost its direction. The term is a disrespecting fabrication designed to mislead seniors into being compliant, less of a bother and does not beget an iota of respect.

Well, it is my good fortune to have wonderful grandchildren who have been taught to “respect their elders.” I am elated to report they have learned that lesson well.

I recently received a welcomed email from one of them that said, “Grandpa, you always know a little bit about a lot of things.”

And so, on balance, their respect compensates for many of my perceived losses elsewhere.

May you always give and receive respect in equal measures. 4 Larry Coté is a retired professor of business. He was awarded a Governor General’s Medal for his community development activities.

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20 ACRES continued from Page 1 real estate professional, referring to the Town's performance in past land deals in East Fonthill.

Any firm that takes on the sale should also have a more global set of skills and experience to get the best deal, including a proper appraisal of the property, said the realtor.

The Mayor couldn't say if an appraisal was part of the RFP or not, but did confirm a valuation of the land would be done before it is sold.

The Town has often asserted that the land is worth between $600,000 and $800,000 an acre. Augustyn said the Town is currently

using the low-end of that range, meaning the eight hectares (19.75 acres) would be worth just under $12 million.

Calling the $800,000 per acre value a "ridiculous figure,” a local realtor says there are still several vacancies within the new Fonthill Marketplace plaza and it remains to be seen if the community needs that much commercial property. With the amount of commercial space already available it is hard to believe the land has a true value in the $800,000 an acre range, the realtor explained.

The eight hectares for sale are zoned for a mix of uses including retail, commercial or medical centre.

The Town is hoping to have a "top firm" chosen by the end of September, said Augustyn.