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Hangin’ around TAKING THE Jacob Davis, a Grade 7 student from St. Teresa School
in Elmira, scales down a climbing wall at the YMCA camp on Paradise Lake on Wednesday. The students were at the lake for a two-night, three-day leadership camp to improve leadership skills in the classroom and in the community.
Proposed cell tower rankles Bamberg residents
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Concerned citizens cite concerns about health, blight on landscape James Jackson
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group of concerned citizens have requested the help of Wellesley council in fighting a proposed Rogers telecommunications tower near their homes just outside of Bamberg. Meeting at the township council chambers on Oct. 3, the group of about 25 residents – led by Cynthia and Jason Jantzi and Robert Do-
erner – voiced their concerns over the proposed 45-metre tall communications tower slated to be built on a hill near the intersection of Moser-Young and Hessen Strasse. The group brought with them a petition containing 39 signatures of local residents opposed to the tower who live within one kilometre of the site. This is the first time a tower has been opposed in the township. It would be the
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third tower in the area. Among their objections, the group believes that Rogers could merely use another tower that they have already built to fulfill their service requirements, such as the tower on Manser Line about seven kilometres from the proposed site. Second, they question why Rogers chose a site so close to a residential area, and want to know why another less in-
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habited section of Wellesley Township was not chosen instead. Third, they are concerned that the tower will negatively impact their property values as well as the landscape of the cultural trail in Wellesley. Finally, they question why the tower is even required given the fact that the Rogers public coverage map indicates full service in the
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township already and that they receive nearly full coverage on their Rogers cellular devices already. “We do not want a landscape covered in towers that mask our community and our heritage,” Cynthia Jantzi told councillors. She also expressed some concerns over the health impacts of living so close to
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