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A special “soft opening was hosted at Grimsby Museum Aug. 21 with scores of family and friends of those connected to the Grimsby Homebuilding Cooperative on hand. A special exhibit
saluting the 60-year anniversary of the project opened at the museum that day. Some travelled from across Ontario and from as far as Washington State for the event. See full story Page 8.
By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Lincoln is now connected to the centre of the universe, aka Toronto, thanks to a GO bus link which was offiicially launched Saturday, Sept. 3. “We were an island before,” said Mayor Sandra Easton, when
Route 12 GO bus service, which currently runs between the Burlington GO ‘park and ride’ and the Niagara Falls bus terminal, will now stop at the ‘park and ride’ at Queen Elizabeth Way and Ontario Street in Lincoln. Buses will run seven days a week and will be timed to meet with GO train ser-
Lincoln gets GO-ing describing the municipality’s lack of transportation connection to either the GTA or other Niagara centres. “We knew it was coming, but we didn’t know when. The feedback has been all extremely positive. Word spread like wildfire through the community.”
vice at Burlington GO Station. “This new bus service will help our residents move around the region, including to Brock University and Niagara College, and will also connect us to Hamilton and the Greater Golden Horseshoe,” said Easton. See GO, Page 3
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Coutts to receive Harris Fellowship Barry and Linda Coutts have been named recipients of the Grimsby Rotary Club’s Harris Fellowship Award for 2016. Club president Jim Howden said the Grimsby couple’s efforts in restoring the 220-year-old Nelles Manor over 40-plus years - and turning it over to a Trust for the enjoyment of future generations - exemplifies the Rotary International motto of “Service above Self”. In addition to their work on restoring the
Nelles Manor they have been active and strong supporters of many community organizations including McNally House, the Grimsby Historical Society and the Grimsby Museum since moving to Grimsby over 50 years ago. The award will be presented at a dinner at the Casablanca Winery Inn on Sept. 22 at 6 pm. Reservations are required. For tickets please contact Jim Howden at 905945-7056 .
Barry and Linda Coutts will receive their Harris Fellowship award Sept. 22.
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and to further make the argument of a future train stop in the Beamsville area,” said Coun. Rob Foster. Metrolinx is planning, building and delivering hundreds of projects and services to get more people moving throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and beyond.
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Members of Lincoln Council (L to R) Coun. Rob Foster, Mayor Sandra Easton, Coun. Paul MacPherson, Coun. JD Pachereva and Coun. Tony Brunet greet one of the first GO buses to make a stop in Beamsville.
A Second Mortgage is a loan that you take and secure with your home equity, in addition to your original mortgage, but often arranged with a different mortgage lender. While making payments on your second mortgage, you also continue to make the payments on your original mortgage. A Second Mortgage is meant to be a short-term solution, and the contract term is usually one year, or less. For homeowners who have an excellent credit-repayment history, and more than 20% equity in their home, the most affordable type of second mortgage is a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC). However, if the homeowner has less-than-perfect credit, or inconsistent employment income, a second mortgage through a trust company or private lender would be the solution.
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West Niagara service clubs, organizations and non-profit groups are welcome to submit meeting dates, fundraising information and invitations to the public in News Now’s Around Town feature. This service is provided free of charge and is done on a space availability basis.
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Grimsby library ready for Doors Open As part of Doors Open Grimsby, the Grimsby Public Library is opening its doors on Saturday, Sept. 17. The library will offer two programs in celebration of the 2016 Doors Open theme which focuses on innovation. “Harnessing DNA’s potential: How it can help prevent disease?”, starts at 11 a.m. in the lounge. It is free but please register at the service desk. Lucas Penny will discuss his award-winning research in the
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Sweat equity exemplified By Ray Yurkowski For NewsNow On now, at the Grimsby Museum, is the exhibition “Sweat Equity: Grimsby Co-operative Homebuilders 1953 –1956,” celebrating the 60th anniversary of a unique local housing development. Janet Muise, one of a group affectionately known as the ‘Kids of the Co-op,’ spent almost two years interviewing, gathering and compiling artifacts for the exhibit. “Growing up, we really didn’t know much about it,” she said. “Our parents didn’t really talk about it. We only know the part that we loved our neighbourhood and we had a great place to grow up.” It started in 1953, with an advertisement in a Hamilton newspa-
per that drew interest from the 500 people who attended a meeting at Cathedral High School. An influx of workers in the area combined with the high cost of land caused a critical housing shortage. Many young families were living in two and threeroom apartments and were unable to borrow money to buy or build their own home. A national survey, conducted during the autumn of 1952, re vealed that one million Canadian families wanted to purchase or build new homes in a year when an estimated 75.000 construction starts were recorded. Co-operative building was seen as a way to combat the shortage. Most probably could have afforded
to pay a mortgage,” notes Muise. “What they couldn’t come up with was the down payment. They were desperate.” The model was based on one from Nova Scotia, which saw everyone work together to build 80 homes. New legislation permitted the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to accept manual labour - sweat equity - as a major portion of the required down payment. A thesis written to review the project indicated the average worker laboured 1,470 hours over a fourteenmonth period … some, putting in as many as 2,000 hours. That’s after working a full shift at their regular jobs and doesn’t include the year spent studying and planning before
the development got underway. “It’s really the story of the tenacity to say, ‘Yep, we’re going to do this,” said Muise. “They kept believing in it and saw it through. My dad recalled it as being one
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Region Wind Farm Road Closure Notice Full Closure of Regional Road 20 @ South Grimsby Road 6 September 14th to September 16th from 10am – 2pm
Please be advised that Regional Road 20 will be closed to through-traffic at South Grimsby Road 6 from September 14th to September 16th, 2016 for the construction of the transmission line for the Niagara Region Wind Project. Local access will be available for residents. Please use alternate routes during this phase of construction. The detour for this road closure is: Regional Road 12 (Grimsby Road) – Regional Road 73 (Mud Street) – Regional Road 14 (Thirty Road)
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Dear Editor, I read your article last week and thought I’d reply, add my two cents. I’m not prone to responding to news articles but every now and again one has to make exceptions. I agree with your take on the situation in Beamsville and Grimsby, however, I am not a fan of rerouting traffic onto Victoria Avenue as you suggest. If the move was a temporary fix for a short period of time (year or so) then I’d be okay with it. As you have accurately noted however the duration would greatly exceed anything approaching immediate expediency. Full disclosure, I live in Vineland and back onto King Street near Victoria. Additionally, I am new to the area so I haven’t got deep experience with the area as yet. That said, I am observant and, I’d like to think, a pretty rational guy. Victoria Avenue has a considerable amount of traffic on it already and while it could be argued that more is manageable, however as volume increases the probability of a runaways increases proportionally. I would suggest that Victoria has a much steeper approach to King Street and the intersection is a very busy one. I know that I proceed along King with trepidation when I see a fully loaded dump truck with pup coming down approaching the red light. Victoria is already used to transport wind tower components often requiring police escorts. These trucks frequently “lumber” up the hill going well in excess of the posted 50kph (yes even the ones with police escort). I expect that this
activity is diminishing, however, the biodigester will likely take up the slack with a projected additional 80 trucks per day slated for Victoria. One can not forget either that downhill from the intersection (hill) is a residential area and a school zone. I would suggest there are no quick and easy answers to what I think is a fairly common problem where arterial routes are constructed and municipal planning allows for commercial and residential development to build up along these routes with increasing pressure to reduce speeds and bottleneck traffic flows. That, anyway, is water under the bridge in this instance. The issue of traffic and vehicle type is not limited to the north/south routes. King Street carries a near nonstop line of transports, dump trucks and cement trucks. I have heard from a long-time resident that a good amount of this traffic exists as trucks seek to avoid weigh scales and MTO inspections along the QEW. Interestingly, the town of Lincoln has put out a plan to improve King Street from Kacaba Vineyards through to the other end of town. This will include new paving, designated parking spaces and, presumably, pretty flower pots and a new sign. A noble but pointless effort and expense because you can not create a bucolic and pleasant sidewalk community with the heavy commercial traffic that currently exists. There is a much larger transportation issue in the area and that is not limited to north/ south flows. You mention that there is a study underway to
look at a Bartlett/Park alternative however usual bureaucratic rules apply and hope for a solution is a distant and faint possibility. It is undoubtedly a complex problem however I do know that eventdriven tempests in tea cups that quickly fade will never change things (or, more charitably put, speed them along). We should not be giving our elected officials suggestions on how to opt for easy workarounds that pacify the masses so that they can continue to kick the can down the road for some other council to deal with; presumably after an accident with a large number of fatalities and injuries. All too often we see that politicians save outrage for tragedies; after the fact, of course. Politicians and their bureaucracies are far too comfortable with the rules and processes that they have created where debate is more valued than action. A loud and sustained push for change is required at all levels of government. Attempts at mollification need to be met with an increase in volume not a diminishment. The people who have the power to effect the change must be made to feel uncomfortable with their endless deliberations. All news outlets should have a daily or weekly article highlighting the fact that no progress has been made and that progress is NOT measured by the frequency and volume of debate that governments value so much. As for those people who gathered on the street in umbrage, they need to organize and get political. Scott Robson
News Now • Thursday, September 8, 2016 • Page 11
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Dear Editor, Regarding your editorial in the current Newsnow. I don’t know if you have recently experienced the volume of traffic on Victoria Avenue in Vineland or not, but I suspect that of the three access routes in question this probably carries the heavier traffic volume particularly truck traffic to and from the quarries at Victoria and Mud. It too has it problems and is not devoid of danger spots. The Victoria King intersection has had fatalities. The new Twenty Valley School which now incorporates several closed schools has a high student enrolment with a large number of school buses and parent drop off and pick ups. Heritage Village and Cherry Hill have dense populations
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to suggest that Victoria should accept larger volumes of ever growing traffic for “a decade or so” is unreasonable. Maybe the money spent on the Niagara Region Wind Farms could have been better spent. Sincerely, Graham Sharp
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Mountain access
Quick solution 10 years away: reader Dear Editor, I wonder what the headline has to read before the safety of citizens trumps the rights of trucks in the use of Mountain Street in Grimsby. Why on earth does a fully loaded gravel hauler need to use this access?
The use of heavy trucks on Mountain Street should have been banned years ago. In my view, there is no time to wait for construction of a new access before the road is transferred over to allow for restrictions.
Who’s kidding who? That’s a decade away and probably loss of life will result if we wait that long. The time is now. In addition, let’s get to action and get some weekly joint enforcement
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Lincoln GO’s first step important Can an election be far behind when gifts from the province, more specifically Metrolinx, start to materialize out of the blue? The area will see a byelection soon enough and after getting hammered in a Liberal stronghold last week, no doubt the provincial Liberals will want some warm fuzzy feelings in Niagara West Glanbrook by the time locals hit the polling stations. The Lincoln GO announcement was expected, but not known as to when, so it was great to see it come sooner than later. Congratulations to Lincoln officials for having their homework done on this one. M.W.
Few more truck access tidbits... I really try hard, very hard, never to debate someone when they send in a Letter to the Editor. I have had my say and, agree or disagree, I have always believed it is of paramount importance that I let the opinion of others stand, as is. One point in Alan Wallace’s letter I must note, not disagree with, but note, in that I have said repeatedly in this space (in this newspaper or my previous incarnation) that the Bartlett Road access should have been done, as planned back in the 1970s. Every time the truck access issue popped up, I noted it again and again. As the Town of Grimsby chose to adorn the intersection with more residential, higher density and even pooh-poohing originally zoned uses like a gas station where the LHIN’s office building is now it was also noted that, one day, there would be problems. If nothing else, the fact that access road was stopped in its tracks is testament to the powers who lived on Park Road. Lincoln did the same with all the medians and “traffic calming” measures when those went in. It was like a race at the time to see who could build up around their possible access first so it would be easier to say, “it just isn’t a proper use here, given the road structure we have and the uses we have along the corridor”. But imagine today if that work were done? We would not be sadly
MIKE WILLISCRAFT reminiscing about tragedies. The multi-vehicle crash of Aug. 26 may never have happened. We would not be lamenting a 40-plus-year-old mountain access issue. It did and still makes the most sense to use Bartlett. The Region thinks so, apparently, but again, as many writers noted and tons of people commented, they will believe it when they see it when it comes to a shovel digging into the ground. It was all anyone wanted to talk about this week. So here are a few more ramblings. The mantra “how many more people must die” before anything gets done in a concrete way seems not to garner attention, as letter writers have noted. People have died, sadly, on a semi-regular basis, in multiple towns over a long period of time. Yet, here we are. It really is unfathomable. Especially when one steps back and just thinks for a second cause that is all I can take...don’t know about you - about how bad
things could have been. The Aug. 26 mishap easily could have doubled the fatalities that I know about since arriving here in 1995. It really would not have taken much. That is why people were so irate at the scene. And I don’t want to get hung up on this issue, but our good ol’ biodigester is going to add to this problem if it ever gets going. Yes it is a day late (a year actually) and a dollar short (actually a lot of dollars short) but who knows, it may get done. While no formal transportation study was done (and it should have been) it was estimated from hydro officials’ numbers about 40 trucks per day could be the average, depending on the size of the trucks. Now, they’ll have to go somewhere. But to the matter at hand, there is no immediate, short-term solution. Shifting any truck flow to Victoria is no real solution, really just the best of several evils. Not good, just less evil...and I base that solely on the engineering assessment of the grade there. When one looks at the growth in the area, it is easy to see how different - and set for the future - the West Niagara will be when GO is complete, a north/south access is in place and maybe, on a wish list some place, a Mid-Pen Corridor gets done to take some of the QEW pressure off. Then we won’t have anything to complain about...he said laughingly.
News Now • Thursday, September 8, 2016 • Page 15
Vineland option “offensive”: reader Even deaths not spurred truck access action Dear Editor, Nice to read you don’t bear denizens of Vineland “any ill will” when you suggest we entertain “all” heavy truck traffic on behalf of regional interest. It does sound alarmingly like more people may have to die before the region takes action and, from your risk management point of view, better Vineland than elsewhere. From our point of view, we already endure the bulk of heavy truck traffic screaming up and down Victoria Avenue - corridor of choice for almost every over-sized load
Letter travelling north/south through this area. Hang out at Victoria and King for five minutes and tell me how safe you feel when convoys of doubleloaded Cobras come barreling downhill, frequently running the lights well in excessive of the 50 km speed limit. Ask the parents of the children who attend the public school on Victoria where enormous rigs freight non-stop to and from the QEW. Regretfully, your divisive, “nimby” edito-
rial does not strike me as very constructive. Vineland is part of Lincoln which NewsNow claims to serve. What you suggest for our community is more than mere inconvenience: Heavy commercial traffic is an endemic hazard here, too, and our lives and concerns also matter. Your sly insinuation that further tragedy will be on our conscience if we do not care to assume all of the risk for the next decade or so, instead of just the bulk of it, is facile and offensive. Sincerely, Alan Wallace Vineland
Good Samaritan’s help appreciated Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the gentleman who stopped to help
me on Friday, Aug. 26. My car stopped working on Maple Avenue. He helped me get it started again and was
Dear Editor, Thank you for your excellent editorial in the Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 edition of NewsNow. I must say that someone did die on Mountain Street in Grimsby in the early 1970’s. Her name was Mary Lynn Bujas. She was sitting at her piano in the livingroom, a transport truck travelling north, lost its brakes and
smashed into the house, killing her outright. I’m hopeful that you have access to newspaper coverage that goes back that far and can give you details. My point is that someone did die, and still, 40-plus years later, nothing has been done to redirect these “trains on wheels” through our towns, Beamsville and Grimsby.
What more will it take? Even the death of a child (in Beamsville) did nothing to rectify the situation. Our community, and those who represent us, need to SPEAK UP and advocate for the next victims, or rather, for not having anymore victims. Thanks for your time. Rosemary Addison Vineland
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