Open hearts
Milford always offers a warm and gracious greeting whatever the season or event. On Saturday afternoon, under blue skies and caressed by a warm May breeze, Milford was the ideal host once again—this time to celebrate the County’s remaining glorious days free from industrial wind factories. It was an event billed as a community rally […]
Speak now…
This is it. This is likely the last best opportunity for this community to voice its opinion about wind energy before massive steel, fibreglass and concrete structures begin rising in our midst. This Saturday, the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy (CCSAGE) is holding one last rally in Milford. If ever there was […]
A couple of points
Among the myriad economic perversions created by Ontario’s Green Energy Act one of the more intriguing, and possibly treacherous, is the creation of a financial marketplace for municipal favours. The McGuinty government was noisily criticized when it laid low government regulations and environmental protections that enable intermittent electricity generators to move their wind and solar […]
A diversion
The Gold of Troy” is a collection of artifacts excavated from a site in Turkey thought to be the ancient city of Troy. In the latter half of the 19th century a German, Hienrich Schliemann, became gripped by Homer’s description of the city, believing he was reading a historical account rather than fiction. Using crude […]
Now what?
County property owners are being asked to come up with $26,398,270 this year. That’s 7.7 per cent more to be paid in property taxes this year compared with last year. User fees on everything from water to garbage are also up sharply again this year—expected to carve more than $11 million from residents’ wallets this […]
Global adjustment
Electricity rates are going up in May—between five and eight per cent depending on usage. Small potatoes really. Rates for electricity have been rising sharply since Dalton McGuinty came to office. Most household hydro bills are more than double those of 2002. There is no letup in sight—a couple of years ago McGuinty predicted electricity […]
Mixed signals
It was mostly thumbs up, as a committee of council reacted to a new economic development proposal unveiled last week. Broadened to embrace environmental and social nurturing alongside the County economy, the proposed new approach is being rechristened as Community Development. Both CAO Merlin Dewing and his appointed steward of the file, Deb Williams, stressed […]
If it works, break it
For more than a decade Prince Edward County was, and largely continues to be, a model for spurring and nurturing a rural economy. Certainly the County began with some key advantages: stunning natural beauty; surrounded by water both rugged and inviting; a rich storied tradition and history; as well as proximity to about 12 million […]
Pig in a poke
Jamie Forrester is becoming impatient waiting for massive wind turbines to begin sprouting on County horizons, powering his toaster and humming in the breeze. The councillor from Athol insists those who object to the transformation of this community, environment and economy must get out of the way. For Forrester and others, the industrialization of the […]
Overkill
A Wellington resident slipped and fell stepping out of her garage on Saturday afternoon— managing to knock herself unconscious. Her husband called 9-1-1. Within minutes members of the Wellington detachment of the Prince Edward Fire Department were on the scene to assist the resident and prepare her to be transported to the hospital by ambulance. […]