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Kitchener-Conestoga Liberal candidate Leeanna Pendergast was at the West Montrose Kissing Bridge on Tuesday to announce her party’s plan to review the provincial Aggregate Resources Act.
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Farm equipment manufacturer will move to Woolwich site ggs. Lumber. And now balers. A vacant industrial site west of Elmira will have a new use as home to TubeLine Manufacturing. Woolwich council this week cleared the way for the company to move, approving the necessary changes to the township’s zoning bylaw. Currently located near Wallenstein in Wellesley Township, the company has outgrown the space. The new site allows it room to grow. Tube-Line, which makes bale-wrappers and loaders for farm use, will bring some 40 jobs with it. The manufacturing operation is the latest incarnation for the 18-acre site at 6455 Reid Woods Dr. It was previously home to Elmira Wood Products. Prior to that, the site was used for an egggrading operation. Dan Kennaley, Woolwich’s director of engineering and planning, told councillors
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or the second time in three months, Kitchener-Conestoga Liberal incumbent Leeanna Pendergast used the historic West Montrose covered bridge as a backdrop to outline the Liberal party’s plan for gravel pits. On Tuesday, Pendergast confirmed the provincial Liberals’ pledge to review the Aggregate Resources Act, which was welcome news to a community threatened by the possibility of more pits in their backyards. “We know that this
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natural beauty that surrounds us is here not just for us, but for generations to come, and it’s our responsibility to protect our environment,” said Pendergast of the need to balance the needs of the aggregate industry with agricultural and residential concerns. There are currently 86 gravel operations in the region and another eight at various stages of the application process, including one just 180 metres away from the province’s only remaining
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