See no evil
The facts, at least those that have surfaced, are deeply unsettling. Last fall, foster parents Joe and Janet Holm were convicted of sex crimes related to children in their care. Last week, an unnamed 71-year-old man was convicted of sexually assaulting children entrusted to his care. Later this month another man will stand before a […]
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. […]
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 […]
Looping road
Should Union Road be closed to through traffic? The fate of a half-kilometre connecting road between County Road 2 and Highway 62 is once again contorting council into illogical knots. The issues are, however, pretty straightforward. The road is crumbling. It doesn’t come close to meeting current safety standards and will cost a small fortune […]