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04 | 07 | 2016 VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 13
SIX PLAYERS AGING OFF OF KINGS ROSTER SPORTS PAGE 11
COMMENT PAGE 8
MUNICIPALITIES GET TO LOOK AT RANKED BALLOTS
Snowy weather is no deterrent to festival-goers
Woolwich backs away, but not all the way down, from divisive delegate policy Motion approved this week essentially changes nothing but waves a red flag in front of critics decrying censorship
Elmira welcomed more than 60,000 people out last Saturday for its popular maple syrup festival WHITNEY NEILSON A HEAVY SNOWFALL ON Saturday afternoon didn’t keep the crowds away from the 52nd annual Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. EMSF chair Drew McGovern estimates 60,000 to 62,000 showed up to take in the festivities, slightly down from last year’s 65,000. “Overall we’re happy. We had concerns because of the weather, but I was sitting there yesterday thinking about it and I think we got really lucky. Thursday it was pouring rain the whole day and if we had that rain on Friday or Saturday that would have been horrible for us,” he posited. Friday was decent for setup and in the wee hours of Saturday morning it was snowing, but then it held off until the afternoon.
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Organizers are calling the 52nd annual Elmira Maple Syrup Festival a success. Heavy snow showers on Saturday afternoon didn’t stop Kaeden Cochrane from enjoying one of the famous flapjacks at the pancake tent. [WHITNEY NEILSON & LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
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BACKPEDALLING FROM A CONTROVERSIAL plan to limit citizens’ access and offering up a revised version of recent history, Woolwich council adopted a policy for delegates that it says changes nothing, all the while maintaining it never meant to prevent anyone from speaking. A change to the township’s procedural bylaw approved Tuesday night in a split vote will see staff advise residents wishing to speak on certain topics – say, for instance, environmental contamination in Elmira – that there’s also a committee of council they could address. The alternative brought forward by Coun. Mark Bauman saw councillors move away from a position staked two weeks earlier when they first tried to prevent an Elmira resident, Dan Holt, from speaking about contamination in the Canagagigue Creek, then, after letting him proceed, came up with a hastily worded motion to funnel future requests to subcommittees of council. POLICY | 2
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