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PoultryFest finds new home Perhaps the area’s most successful community event, PoultryFest, has found a new home at the West Niagara Agricultural Society’s fairgrounds. “Today we are announcing the unanimous decision by our committee to move

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By Mike Williscraft NewsNow An opportunity to clarify many of the ongoing issues and concerns regarding Grimsby Energy’s $4.5 million biodigester project was accepted Friday, then rejected Monday by hydro officials after an apparent board consultation. The biodigester, which will utilize largely agricultural waste to create methane gas to power a hydro generator, is projected to add well over $350,000 in net profit per year over the 20-year span of its FIT contract with the province. Issues regarding financing, site and project management, handling of input materials and,

as of last week’s Mayor’s Breakfast, conflicts of interest, have been ongoing. Throughout, Grimsby Energy president James Detenbeck has maintained their business plan is solid and incorrect or misinformation has confused the public. To set the record straight, NewsNow proposed a comprehensive set of questions covering all issues. Detenbeck agreed Friday to answer the questions knowing his answers would be published – as much as possible in print and the remainder online – verbatim. This would be done to avoid any issue of interpretation, editing or limiting in any fashion. All the questions were discussed in detail See QUESTION, Page 3

Page 2 • News Now • Thursday, November 12, 2015 (Editor’s Note:) On this page is the list of questions Grimsby Energy president James Detenbeck agreed to answer, then, after apparently canvassing the board of directors, deemed it would “waste time” to answer them. These questions are exactly as initially typed, unedited. Each question was discussed in an interview Friday, Nov 6. Some question received partial answers, some were skipped. Check newsnowniagara.ca to see answers that were forthcoming from Friday. Grimsby Energy Biodigester - Q&A James Detenbeck – Nov. 6/15 James, thanks very much to for taking time out of your day to speak with me. I would like to address some of the concerns brought up to me over many months and since Wednesday’s Mayor’s Breakfast by Mr. Hattin, residents and large and members of Grimsby Town Council. FYI, I plan to publish as much as possible in a Q&A format so as to limit editing and any possibility of picking and choosing what gets published. In my opinion, the more raw the better, so readers can digest (pun intended) this material and draw their own conclusions. Fair? I have attempted to categorize much of this, but at the end you will have an opportunity to address any or all aspects of what we cover, as well as to add anything you think needs to be addressed. Sound good?...off we go... Consultation After Wednesday’s breakfast more questions materialized than were answered. When you addressed consultation you listed contractors, businesses GE had purchased from right down to NRB and their used trailer being installed for an office. These are not consultants. Why was an independent, third-party construction and/or engineering consultant not hired for this large project? It is clear you stressed at the breakfast that you HAVE declared your conflict of interest as being president of GE but you are also now serving as a“project manager – if you could clarify your title and role as it pertains to the biodigester – but do you think that would pass anyone’s smell test. Should the president of any company turn around and hire themselves as an additionally paid contractor on that company’s own project?

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Why do you believe it is better or smarter to hire you and Joe as opposed to experienced professionals? Loan Payment Where did funds come from to be able to order the unit from Germany in the first place as it arrived very shortly after Town Council agreed to co-sign financing in May and the unit arrived very shortly after? There was some confusion on Mr. Hattin’s part at the breakfast regarding the loan payment structure on the project. He used an eight-year term, which you had initially used, and you adjusted yours to 20 years. A concern there is the the unit purchased from Germany has shown a life-expectancy of 12-15 years, so should a loan not be paid back within that span? Why 20 years? General Administration Who much has been spent to date? I believe you said $2.1 million at the breakfast, but could you confirm that? What is the projected date the unit will go online and generate revenue generating power? Joe told me Tuesday a one-month reprieve was extended by the Province to avoid penalty fees for not be up and producing power as stiplulated in the FIT agreement. The fines I have been told are $19,000 per week. Is that correct and, how would they impact your budget and how will they be accounted for? Virtually everyone I have spoken to about this project, including members of council, believe the significant amount of time the project will be overdue is directly a result of not having an experienced consultant overseeing the project. What are your thoughts on that? Communication Why has GE opted to keep such secrecy on the project while other utilities such as Horizon to the west and NOTL to the east have very open policies?

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QUESTION From Page 1 during a lengthy interview Friday afternoon (the questions published on the facing page). Answers given Friday, if there was an answer, have been published on: newsnowniagara.com Detenbeck offered to take the questions, working on answers over the weekend. That stance changed. “Thanks for the opportunity to address these questions but after consulting with the board, I have been instructed to focus on the project and not waste time trying to satisfy Mr Hattin’s concerns. I look forward to seeing you at the ribbon cutting,” wrote Detenbeck in an email. Detenbeck referred to former Grimsby Energy Chair Rob Hattin, who has claimed throughout the process hydro officials’ financials for the project are off base. Detenbeck was in-

formed questions generated have been percolating for nearly a year; that they came from council members and citizens at large with only a few coming from concerns raised by Hattin. “Sorry. It boils down to their (the board’s) call. Again (I’m) one vote in many,” noted Detenbeck in a text, later suggesting GE chair Joe Panetta be asked about the situation. An email and a text to Panetta went unanswered, as did emails to members of town council not on hydro’s board regarding communications. Last week at the Mayor’s Breakfast, Detenbeck told the crowd hydro was an open book on the project, welcoming all questions. When told Friday members of town council – the shareholders of Grimsby Energy and all related companies – had serious issues with a lack of information, he denied there was a problem go-

ing so far as to say all members of council had been invited to sit in on any hydro meeting. Ald. Dave Kadwell said the caveat was two weeks notice had to be given, though. Grimsby Finance Chair Carolyn Mullins disagreed with Detenbeck’s view entirely saying, “obtaining information from hydro has been difficult,” and, “Perhaps we have a different definition of open communication.” Meanwhile, reports popped up over the weekend that grape pomace – which the MOE ordered removed immediately – was partially distributed for a second time on the Sobie Road site and another property. These locations already had already taken the maximum allowable by MOE standards. “This is just part of the problem of not having experienced project managers,” said Hattin.

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Page 4 • News Now • Thursday, November 12, 2015 UPCOMING EVENTS Craft Show & Tea Room Friday, Nov. 13, 12 to 6 pm. & Saturday, Nov. 14, 9 am to 5 pm. Smithville Train Station All hand-made crafts. Knitted, crocheted, sewn and wooden creations. Jewelry & Chocolates Baked goods and Preserves. Free Admission Grimsby Peach Kings Junior Hockey Club is hosting a Christmas Bazaar at the Grimsby Senior’s Centre Sat. Nov. 14th, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., tea room open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 30 vendors of quality handmade items. Christmas Craft Show at the Lincoln Senior’s Sat. Nov. 14th 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., tea room open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kinette Club of Grimsby, 5th Annual Trivia Night, Sat., Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. St. Alban’s Anglican Parish 4341 Ontario St. $15 Contact: Barb Gresko 905-9451206 or thekinetteclubofgrimsby@ gmail.com Please join us at Centennial Park Baptist Church as we celebrate 139 years in Grimsby with a Southern Gospel concert featuring The Chapelaires Quartet on Sunday Nov. 15th at 10:30 am . The concert will be held at Centennial Park Baptist Church, 11 Kennedy Road , Grimsby. (Admission free) Nursery provided. Cherry Hill Adult Community Club House 3946 Durban Lane, Vineland, Ontario.Annual Craft Sale Sat. Nov. 14th, 10a.m. – 3 p.m. Contact: Wendy Griffin 289-567-0296 Winterfest at John Clavin School (320 Station St, Smithville). Nov.14th from 7:30 a.m. to 7pm. Kids activities, petting zoo, live auction, farmers market and lots of shopping. Tatz 4-Paw Event Nov 14th, 2015, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donations start at $30 for a selective 2” Paw Tattoo. Proceeds go to Beamsville 4Paw Rescue Hellbender Ink Vintage Tattoo 171 Griffin Street, Smithville Thursday at Ten Bazaar, 18 Livingston (Livingston Activity Centre) Nov 19th, 10 am to 1:30 pm. Crafted gifts, bake table, etc… Meet your friends, shop & stop for a great lunch for $5. Rose Cottage Visiting Volunteer in partnership with the Alzheimer society presents The brain Wave Café, a day program that will take place at the Mountainview Christian Reformed Church (290 Main Street East) Rose Cottage will offer session every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 1:30 pm. to 3:30 pm. Next session is on Nov. 19th

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Pot Luck Dinner at the Lincoln Senior’s Nov. 23rd 6 pm. Entertainment by Lincoln Senior’s Choir. Bring your favorite dish! The retired Women Teachers of Ontario Lincoln West branch (Serving Grimsby, Beamsville, Vineland, Jordan & Smithville) are holding their next meeting (Christmas Luncheon) Nov. 24th at 10:45 a.m. All retired woman are welcome. Please join us. Contact Sharon 905-945-1631 The Grimsby Wellwood Support Group At Trinity United Church, 100 Main St., W. Support group from 7-9 pm. for people with any type of cancer, their family members & caregivers. Meetings every second & fourth Tues. of the month. Contact Lisa: lstoehr@hotmail.com Or Maureen at moczero@gmail.com next meeting is Tues. Nov. 24th. Poinsettia Bazaar & luncheon St. Johns Presbyterian Church in Grimsby 11:30 am. to 1:30 pm. Sat. Nov. 28th $10 for luncheon, Free admission to the Bazaar. Large bake table, come and stock up for Christmas. Holiday Bazaar! At Winona Elementary School, 301 Lewis Road, in Winona, Thurs.,Dec. 3rd 11 am. to 7 pm. Vendors, raffles & bake sale. Support our school in its fundraising efforts. Stonehouse-Whitcomb Funeral Home, Rose Cottage Visiting Volunteers, McNally House & Local Area Churches Invite you to a Community Event. A special Holiday Memorial Service for those who have experienced a recent loss at Trinity United Church (100 Main Street West, Grimsby) Sun. Dec. 6th at 3 p.m. RSVP by Nov. 27th to register 905-945-2755. Everyone Welcome. Smithville Legion Branch 393 is having a Turkey Draw Nov. 27th at 6:30. Smithville Legion Branch 393 will offer Chili at the branch after the Santa Claus Parade Nov. 27th. . St Helen Church Christmas Bazaar at St. Mark School gym in Beamsville, Sat., Nov. 28th from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Great Christmas gift ideas, bake sale, refreshments and penny raffle. The Grimsby Senior Choir presents our 21st Annual Christmas Concert. The ABC’s of Christmas. Sun. Nov. 29th 2015 at 2 p.m. (18 Livingston activity Center)

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News Now • Thursday, November 12, 2015 • Page 5 allow us to look at new events to include and put a fresh new face on the festival.” He added that a free, all-day shuttle will be provided from Smithville to the fairgrounds. When asked about the move, PoultryFest’s founding chairman, Steve Ecker said, “I thought I would be the last person to ever

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Representing Silver Cross Mothers, Betty Meikle lays a wreath in remembrance, while Flight Sgt. Liam Norris holds his post.

Cadets from 62 Phantom Squadron parade the colours down Main Street West to kick off Grimsby’s Remembrance Day ceremony. (Below) Students from Trail Ridge Montessori were part of the large crowd on the cenotaph grounds at Grimsby Museum yesterday.

Danny Moore officiated the ceremony.

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(Above) Long-time attendees noted the crowd at Beamsville’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday was one of the largest ever.

Photos By Mike Williscraft (Above) Dave Fleming performs The Last Post at Sunday’s event, while piper Mitchell McDowell salutes. (Right) Malcolm Fife “read” (he didn’t need to check the notes once) In Flanders Fields providing attendees with stirring images from John McCrae’s poem. (Above Right) Poppy Chairman Phillip Barry explains to J.D. Pachereva, who attended representing MP Dean Allison, and Lincoln Mayor Sandra Easton how the proceedings will work. (Right) 1627 Army Cadets Sgt. Dryden Vandenbroeck and Lance Corp. Josiah Cutruzzola leave their post while Sgt. Nicholas Mercer and Master Corp. Cole Shannon change the guard. (Left) Paul Armchuk (back), Jack Thomas and Ed Haines on tuba, part of Lincoln Concert Band played throughout the ceremony

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Ground water, soil and air quality, possible contamination, and truck traffic were just a few of the topics discussed at the first meeting of Sludge Warriors Tuesday night at Conversations Cafe in Beamsville. The group opposes an OMB appeal by Shire Corp. to develop a sludge treatment facility on Frost Road in Lincoln. Shire plans to run about 80 trucks per day along Victoria Avenue as a access route to and from the QEW. Feb. 1, 2016 is set for the start of the OMB hearing at Lincoln Town Hall. More than 50 attended.

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This is what we have to promote? Under the head scratcher department, there was audible laughter on Main Street Grimsby this week when town workers unveiled a banner on the new $60,000 town sign that spans the street The banner, in case you missed it, reminds all to boogy down to town hall to get your dog license...in case you forgot. NewsNow received this letter from Ann Diggins: I just had to comment about the new sign about dog licenses are due hanging under the new $60,000 Town of Grimsby sign in our downtown. Next thing we know, they will be letting us know when our taxes are due. As well, two more people stopped in Wednesday to say, “there’s a story right outside your front door”, pointing to the sign, laughing almost uncontrollably. Seriously, could the Town not go with a “Shop Locally” with Black Friday looming, or something to support the downtown. It just looked tragically out of place. M.W.

Door of communication just closed I suck at drawing. And it’s too bad. If there are any aspiring editorial cartoonists out there, call me...seriously. So picture this: a black and white cartoon parked where the smiling Leafs tickets winner is. Picture the Whack-A-Mole game you’ve seen at midway arcades. Popping their respective noggins out of each hole on the board is a caricature of board members of Niagara Power, Grimsby Power, Grimsby Energy...pick one. Each has a nice little construction hat perched atop their heads, with “Biodigester” written across the front. Swinging the mallet with a Cheshire grim that only Boris Badenov could be proud of is one Robert Hattin, former chair of Grimsby Energy. When hydro needs something – like a co-signer – or there is something positive to trumpet, they are communicative. When tough questions come or, as aldermen tell me, pointed questions come, they duck back inside not daring to poke their collective heads out for fear of being whacked. We’ve been chewing on this biodigester project for a long time, but the events of this week conjured this Whack-A-Mole image in my head as I thought about GE president James Detenbeck’s proclamation that answering a comprehensive series of questions – some issues he says have been clouded due to misinformation – would “waste time”. This revelation came about after agreeing in the middle of last week to go over on the questions on Friday af-

MIKE WILLISCRAFT ternoon. Friday we met and had a lengthy chat, mutually agreeing he would take the questions home and email back the answers over the weekend. And that, good readers, is where the biodigester trolley left the track. Emails Sunday and Monday went unanswered, so a text to Detenbeck generated a polite, if not ridiculous, reply. To be complete, it read: Mike Thanks for the opportunity to address these questions but after consulting with the board, I have been instructed to focus on the project and not waste time trying to satisfy Mr Hattin’s concerns. I look forward to seeing you at the ribbon cutting. Despite explanations, which had also been outlined in detail on Friday that the questions came as a result of dozens of conversations with taxpayers who took time to come into my office to specifically thank me for having the only paper to critically review some of the ongoing issues in the towns we cover, and to ask for more answers. Some things I know, some things I don’t. If I don’t

know, I say I don’t know and I try to find out accurate information for them. I really don’t care if I am on the Christmas list of local municipalities or not. NewsNow is here to be a voice for the people who live in our coverage area. Period. As well, Detenbeck was told members of Grimsby own town council had passed along questions they wanted answers to because information was not forthcoming from hydro officials. To deal with Hattin for a second: granted, there is personality conflicts left and right there, but that does not mean his concerns are not valid. Do I agree with the manner in which he asks some of this questions? Not always. Is there some errors in his calculations? Yes, as we heard at the Mayor’s Breakfast, but why not outline what those errors are instead of just saying his information is all wrong, because it is not ALL wrong. And don’t get me started on this pomace fiasco. This is like some weird chess game inside another chess game. I do apologize, good readers as I am only one man and I cannot get to everything, but I will get to the bottom of it. Let’s just say - the information coming to me up to 2 a.m. Wednesday about pomace from the Sobie Road site getting dumped where it should not have been dumped - the pomace pickle will come to light. As for the Q&A, I have pencilled in the answers online which Detenbeck gave Friday as we had already worked through all, not in the detail needed, though. Check newsnowniagara.ca

Reader has bone to pick Dear Editor, Once again the dark clouds of contempt are hovering over our beloved Dog Park on Lake Street in Grimsby. After two years of it providing hours of enjoyment for dozens, if not hundreds of dogs and their dog parents, the town received complaints by “one or two” individuals from the neighbouring homes. Of course, the town being duly diligent, investigated the complaints thoroughly and……. Oh oh, no they didn’t! What a surprise. As of Oct. 29, a sign went up in total Eastern Bloc style, and notified the users that the park would be locked a half-hour before dusk as of Nov. 2. But, the town had the park locked before 5 pm on Oct. 29. Ooops. Is that a faux pas? After a few calls from we dog park users, the sign was changed to 9:30 p.m. by the following Wednesday. Unfortunately, it only read 9:30 as the park was being locked well before that. Does anyone working for the town know how to read a calendar or tell time? One night, a worker came by at 8:50 p.m. to lock up. I was lucky to be standing by the fence. Had I not been, it would have been “nobody gets in….. nobody

Letter gets out”. Hmmm, 911 please. I also circulated a petition that collected 35 names in a half hour hour, wanting the park left as is. The idea that the town would make unreasonable changes without notice due to the rantings of the neighbourhood bullies is beyond me. However, I do give kudos to the town for seeing the error of its ways by acting swiftly to address the concerns of the dog park users, but a brick still goes out to the locking of a public park. Can I say Eastern Bloc again? Town of Grimsby – for shame. You succumbed to the whims of a couple individuals who seem to think they are the only ones paying property taxes in Grimsby. To those of you who complained – you know who you are (and so do we), get a grip, get a life and move on. Majority rules and the dog park is here to stay. “The good of the many outweighs the good of the few”. I think I heard that somewhere before. Ruth Prosser (again)

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Get Involved in Niagara’s Future:Attend a Public Information Centre In the next 25 years, Niagara is expected to grow, bringing a possible 168,000 new residents and 80,000 new jobs to the region. Niagara Region is making sure we’re prepared for this growth through three projects that will help us plan where and how that growth will occur, and how it will be accommodated. HOW WE GROW: The Municipal Comprehensive Review will look at the land we have available across Niagara, and will ensure we have enough to sustain our expected growth to the year 2041. It will also examine how that land is distributed throughout Niagara. HOW WE FLOW: The Water and Wastewater Master Servicing Plan will ensure Niagara has the infrastructure to provide critical water and wastewater services to our growing region in a sustainable and financially responsible way. HOW WE GO: The Transportation Master Plan will look at how we currently travel in and around Niagara and how we can improve our transportation systems, including options for walking, cycling and public transit, to better serve Niagara’s future needs. GET INVOLVED: Residents are invited to attend a Public Information Centre to learn how each of these projects contribute to Niagara’s overall growth plan for the next 25 years, and how you can have your voice heard. Nov. 17, 2015 Town of Grimsby Council Chambers 160 Livingston Ave. 4 – 8 p.m.

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