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Overcoming the odds, and making music in St. Clements > STORY ON PG. 14
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Do-nothing approach suits Breslau just fine
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reslau residents regularly accuse Woolwich council of inaction. This time around, however, they’re happy for it. The hundred or so who packed a meeting in Elmira Tuesday night left smiling when councillors quashed a report calling for the extension of water and sewer services into the older parts of the village. Outraged by forecasted costs of some $92,000 apiece, homeowners voiced their opinions in no uncertain terms. Tempers flared. Longstanding grievances about Breslau being ignored boiled over. People in the gallery cheered accusatory presentations from neighbours, at times heck-
ling councillors. But all was forgiven when council voted unanimously to do nothing, pledging to put any plans aside unless residents themselves ask for it. The report calling for full municipal services to replace private wells and septic systems flowed from an incident in the fall of 2007, when several shallow wells ran dry. Residents blamed the problem on construction of the new Empire Communities subdivision at the village’s south end, noting some additional grading work at the site solved the problem. The township, however, continues to maintain drought conditions were to blame, noting full services would eliminate a reoccurrence. After the immediate crisis was dealt with, Wool-
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Impassioned pleas from residents prompts Woolwich to scrap expensive servicing plan
MAKING THEIR POINT Mathew Lisk, 8, provides some visual aids for his mother Krista's presentation to Woolwich council Tuesday evening. Like most of their neighbours in Breslau, they came to oppose plans for municipal services.
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