Waiting for CAO
Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed…Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come – Samuel Beckett Even a slug exhibits motion on occasion. While it chugs forward at a pace that exposes it to […]
Good water
Wellington has exceptional water. Literally. The intake pipe extends about a kilometre into Lake Ontario. The source is clean and the supply is bounded only by the capacity of the great lake. Our water requires little treatment compared with other sources, and our system can deliver vastly more volumes of fresh, clean water than our […]
Focus
The province moved to spur the pace of residential development in Ontario a couple of months ago. For the sake of getting directly to the meat (lightly seasoned) in this column, I will assume that most readers understand that new homebuilding is not only desirable in our community, but rather a necessity if we hope […]
First step
Bold is good. Bold disrupts. Stirs urgency. Bold ideas are welcome, and likely necessary, to rouse a stodgy, risk-focused bureaucracy in which inertia has become a defining characteristic. And this was a bold move. Last week, Andreas Bolik, the first-term councillor from Ameliasburgh, sought and won support to direct management to find 10 per cent […]
Two paths
There was a time not so long ago, that the County built homes at roughly the same pace as Quinte West. Those days are gone. For the past decade, new home building in our communities has been going in different directions. In the first half of this year, Quinte West issued building permits for 200 […]
Stewards all
Most of us recognize that farmers are the best stewards of the land,” argued Janice Maynard. It was a rather sweeping statement, meant to discourage her fellow council members from even considering the benign protections offered by a proposal to protect treelines and fencebottoms before them last week. The proposed Official Plan wording presented to […]
Bridges
Last Monday, seven children (aged six to 16) were injured, one seriously, from an explosion in a playground in Pashena Balka, a village in the centre-east part of Ukraine. It is unclear whether the blast came from a misguided missile or if the kids were playing with an unexploded ordnance they had found. This tragic […]
Caring signal
This is big. A much larger, modern and all-new HJ McFarland long-term care home has been approved by Queen’s Park. To be built and move-in ready within three years. It is tangible evidence that the desperate needs of rural Ontario are once again registering at Queen’s Park. The winds have changed. MPP Todd Smith was […]
Invest
The symptoms are troubling. Eight years have come and gone since Shire Hall discovered it had to take action with the convenience store, and the creek that runs underneath it, on the main corner in Wellington. It has been nine years since the Dukedome went dark. Yet it sits there abandoned, with no clear plan […]
Getting around
Most of us who commuted, attended appointments or ran errands today in Prince Edward County (91 per cent) travelled in our personal vehicle. To do so, we needed a valid driver’s licence, insurance, a working car, and the resources to maintain it. Those are substantial hurdles—to employment, to community participation and, ultimately to good health. […]