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		<title>Garrison Road closed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short section of Garrison Road between Crescent Road and Daytona Drive is closed Monday morning while Enbridge personnel deal with a natural gas leak related to underground construction.]]></description>
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		<title>Town to hike taxes 3.4 per cent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Property taxes in Fort Erie are going up an average of 3.4 per cent in 2012. The Town&#8217;s one-third share of the total tax bill is going up 4.6 per cent, missing council&#8217;s guideline of a 2.9 per cent increase. Councillor&#8217;s refused to commit any money toward the replacement of the Kinsmen Pool which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condo fighter strikes out again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A second attempt to overturn the Ontario Municipal Board approval of the Bay Beach condo project was rejected last week. Board chairman Lynda Tanaka refused Patricia Nowak Murrett’s request to review the OMB decision from last January. She wrote that the request was made well beyond the 30-day limit and rejected Murrett’s claim that she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town seeks conciliator in union talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contract negotiations between the Town of Fort Erie and its unionized employees have broken off. Representatives of management and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local #714 met for two days in December and briefly this morning. The two sides are at odds over contract language covering job postings and layoffs. Wages and benefits were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Springsteen in Buffalo April 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Wrecking Ball Tour will come to First Niagara Center on Friday, April 13 at 7:30pm. Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 28 at 11am. Tickets are $100.50, $70.50 and $38.50 (includes $2.50 facility fee) and will be available at the First Niagara Center Box Office, online at www.tickets.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council unproductive, inefficient: consultant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town operations are “lean and mean,” said the consultant who Fort Erie town council hired last year to root out cost savings and “efficiencies.” David Berger of Western Management Consultants said the Town compares well with similar municipalities and in some cases exceeds benchmarks. The two most important points in his 25 recommendations, as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water and sewer bills increased 4.4 per cent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water bills will go up an average of 4.4 per cent in 2012. With no members of the public present, no TV camera and only one reporter, town councillors had little to say when the water and sewer budget was presented Dec. 7. The increase translates into a $4.17 hike on an average water bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Town fees proposed, others increased</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Town of Fort Erie is not meeting its non-tax revenue targets so a raft of municipal fees are proposed to be hiked and a bunch of new ones implemented. Fee revenue for planning and building services is way under budget, missing the $650,000 target by more than half. Planning director Rick Brady said a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How water rates are set</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Provision of water and disposal of sewage is a collaborative effort of both levels of municipal government. It’s a $16 million business in Fort Erie &#8212; more than $1,500 for every household in town. And it’s forecast to grow to more than $18 million in five years. Financial operation of the water system &#8212; technically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarks baseless, Lubberts apologizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published Dec. 7, 2011 &#8212; Don Lubberts apologized Monday night for suggesting a week earlier that the town’s clerk and solicitor had falsified the Bay Beach zoning bylaw. He told council during his apology speech that he was misinformed by Raymond Borja of the Ontario Municipal Board, leading to his assertion that the bylaw was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOCB helped fund OMB appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/focb-helped-fund-omb-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published Dec. 7, 2011 — When the Friends of Crystal Beach “drew the line” &#8212; as described by its president &#8212; at removing comments about the group’s position on the Bay Beach condominium project, there was no option but to revoke its bingo licence, said the manager of the town’s bingo authority. Community Gaming Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bingo licence too hot to handle</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/bingo-licence-too-hot-to-handle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published Dec. 7, 2011 &#8212; Try as they might, councillors Paul Collard, John Hill and Don Lubberts just could not find a way to save the Friends of Crystal Beach from permanently losing its bingo licence. So they decided to let the province’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission give the bad news. The three councillors &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condo plan gets grudging nod</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subject to the Molinaro Group removing part of a second-story terrace on the west side of the building, Fort Erie town council approved the site plan agreement for the Crystal Beach/Bay Beach condominium project Monday night. Councillor Don Lubberts wants a section of the second floor balcony that acts as a canopy for the south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicentennial bonfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bi-national, bi-community commemoration of the Burning of Black Rock during the War of 1812 will take place at the Jarvis Street Coal Dock starting at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. Bonfires will be lit in Fort Erie and Black Rock with ceremonies presided by dignitaries and other activities. It is presented by the War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders sign another border pact</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/leaders-sign-another-border-pact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper and Barack Obama have agreed to a plan to smooth entry into the United States for Canadian goods and travellers that would see Canada work more hand-in-glove with the massive U.S. security bureaucracy to screen people and cargo for threats. The Globe and Mail]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing like the past to predict the future</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/nothing-like-the-past-to-predict-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Published Oct. 31, 2011) It was a fairly benign affair Fort Erie town councillor John Hill hosted to meet with Ward 4 residents of Ridgeway in his “Town Hall” meeting at the Crystal Ridge Library Oct. 27. About 60 or 70 people were there &#8212; many of whom were seen before at council meetings advocating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In better email boxes everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/in-better-email-boxes-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of The Ridgeway Herald is out on the street and in better email inboxes everywhere. Featured is full details of the Friends of Crystal Beach bingo licence appeal, coverage of the dizzying machinations around the Bay Beach site plan agreement, Part 2 regarding Ann-Marie Noyes&#8217; freedom of information battle with the EDTC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record-breaking festivities in Ridgeway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Duhamel will try to put Ridgeway in the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday. Also known as “Chocolate Charlie”, he will try to make a 240-foot long chocolate bar during Spirit of Christmas festivities. He and his wife Barbara and many volunteers will pour nearly 400 pounds of Mercken’s chocolate into a length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support sought for FESS greenhouse</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/support-sought-for-fess-greenhouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fort Erie Secondary School needs your internet vote to help it raise $125,000 to refurbish a greenhouse and create an energy efficient source of food and education. Project Green Falcon (click the link to vote) is competing against 1,000 other projects across Canada for a share of $1 million from the Aviva insurance company. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House burning on Niagara Boulevard</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/house-fire-on-niagara-boulevard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefighters and other emergency personnel are at the scene of a house fire Saturday evening at 285 Niagara Blvd between Catherine and Gilmore. Niagara Regional Police reported the fire after responding to a burglary alarm shortly before 6 p.m. There is no word whether the 1-1/2 storey home is occupied at the moment. The fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors refuse to rule on bingo appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/councillors-refuse-to-rule-on-bingo-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town council’s bingo appeal committee refused to rule whether the lottery licence of the Friends of Crystal Beach should be reinstated. Instead, the three councillors who comprise the committee decided to refer the matter to the province’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission. Committee members Paul Collard, John Hill and Don Lubberts made the decision Thursday night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public comments on Fowler&#8217;s Toad invited</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/public-comments-on-fowlers-toad-invited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Natural Resources has begun the public consultation phase of the overall benefit program proposed to protect the Fowler’s Toad habitat at Bay Beach. The permit is required before construction can begin on the 12-story condominium project on Town-owned waterfront land. Written submissions must be made directly to the MNR. The Town has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors to hear FOCB bingo appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three town councillors who are facing election compliance audits will decide on Thursday, Nov. 24 whether the Friends of Crystal Beach should have its bingo licence re-instated. Paul Collard, John Hill and Don Lubberts were appointed to the appeal committee after they and Bob Steckley voted Oct. 17 against sending the appeal to the Alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First look at budget shows 9% hike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Oct. 13, 2011) Without lifting a finger, running the town of Fort Erie will cost nearly four percent more in 2012. But councillors did lift their hands in 2011 for new expenditures to hike spending by nine per cent, and there will likely be more. Debate at the Sept. 26 council meeting centred on whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master of irony or bitter hypocrite</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/master-of-irony-or-bitter-hypocrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Oct. 13, 2011) Once you figure out that some people don’t say what they mean, it becomes much easier to follow along with things such as . . . oh, town council meetings, for instance. Take for example Bob Steckley’s remarks when council authorized an $86,500 investigation of the election finances of five other members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election compliance audits under way</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/election-compliance-audits-under-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sept. 25, 2011) Compliance audits of council and mayoral candidates will cost $86,500 and take three months to complete and started in mid-October. The Toronto firm of Froese Forensic Partners was the low bidder and was chosen to audit the election campaign finances of six candidates in the 2010 municipal election. The accountants will examine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driver hit cyclist on purpose, police say</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/driver-hit-cyclist-on-purpose-police-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young male is in custody after a cyclist was intentionally struck by a car on Ridge Road during the high school lunch break Wednesday morning. The approximately 20-year-old male was struck on the main street of downtown Ridgeway in front of the ice cream shop near Dominion Road. The victim was carried on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marissa&#8217;s body recovered</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/marissas-body-recovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police discovered the remains of Marissa Whalen this afternoon on the Six Nations Reserve. The body of the two-year-old girl was found in a wooded area near a trail where investigators had been concentrating their search in Ohsweken near Brantford. A third person, Amanda Dipota, 30, of Niagara Falls has also been charged with accessory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cop cleared in SUV/bike collision</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/cop-cleared-in-suvbike-collision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Niagara Regional Police officer has been cleared of criminal liability in  a collision with a bicycle at the Friendship Trail on Point Abino Road last August. The Ontario Special Investigations Unit said the cyclist likely did not come to a stop and look before crossing the road and was hit by a south-bound police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help sought to find toddler&#8217;s body</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/help-sought-to-find-toddlers-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/help-sought-to-find-toddlers-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Niagara Regional Police are looking for the remains of a two-year-old girl who has been missing since July and have charged her mother and an acquaintance in her suspected death. The acquaintance, Rainbow Hill, 28, of Fort Erie was charged Thursday with second-degree murder. The mother, Roseanne Whalen, was charged yesterday with criminal negligence causing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman charged in toddler&#8217;s homicide</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/woman-charged-in-toddlers-homicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/woman-charged-in-toddlers-homicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 28-year-old Fort Erie woman was charged yesterday with second-degree murder in the death of a two-year-old child whose remains have not yet been located. Rainbow Hill was arrested following the investigation into the disappearance of the child that was kept quiet by police until today. &#8220;At this time the remains of the deceased have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free classifieds, events listings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[List your classified ads and community events at no charge in The Ridgeway Herald. If you have items to sell, items you want to buy, services to offer, apartments to rent, etc. list them for free in The Ridgeway Herald classifieds. Just go to the Contact page and send a message. Please keep your listing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bingo fix is not in &#8212; Lubberts protests</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/the-bingo-fix-is-not-in-lubberts-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town councillors balked at the suggestion that a representative of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission be called in to review the revocation of the Friends of Crystal Beach’s bingo license. Councillor Don Lubberts sought to delay the matter until written confirmation was received from the AGCO. Councillors John Hill, Paul Collard and Bob Steckley voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steckley says election audits &#8220;disgusting&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/steckley-says-election-audits-disgusting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/steckley-says-election-audits-disgusting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Councillor Bob Steckley says the compliance audits being conducted on the election finances of five members of council and a defeated candidate are “appalling” and “disgusting.” “I think they need to take a good look in the mirror” before they “accuse anyone around this council chambers of spending money foolishly when they have just cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second drug robbery suspect arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police have arrested a second suspect in an attempted murder during a drug robbery at a Garrison Road home that was formerly used as a massage parlor. Darren Agard, 30, of Brampton was arrested yesterday in Brampton with the cooperation of the Peel Regional Police. He joins 23-year-old Adam John Thorndyke to face multiple charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge dismisses Bay Beach appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Beach condominium project cleared another legal hurdle when a superior court justice today dismissed the appeal of the Ontario Municipal Board decision. Justice B. Hambly wrote in his decision, “the (OMB) decision raises no issue of law on which the Divisional Court could conceivably find that the board’s decision is unreasonable.” The Fort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat for Amphibianity and other neat things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of The Ridgeway Herald is being delivered to subscribers right now. It will hit the streets tomorrow featuring all the rootin&#8217;, tootin&#8217; exclusive crap you&#8217;ve come to expect. To get your copy via email, click the image of the front page or go to the Contact page and shoot me an email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ombudsman may investigate NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario Ombudsman André Marin claims he now has the jurisdiction to investigate complaints about the Niagara Health System, following the provincial government’s appointment of a supervisor for the institution. While normally there is no jurisdiction over hospitals, that changes when the government takes direct control, since the Ombudsman does have jurisdiction over the Ministry of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking causes Beach apartment fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Niagara Regional Police officer is credited with averting tragedy when he helped a resident flee a burning apartment in Crystal Beach Friday morning. Constable Mike Fletcher spotted smoke on Lake Avenue not far from the Waterfront Park around 7 a.m. He alerted the occupants and entered the converted house to help one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Province to take over NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A provincially-appointed supervisor will take over management of the Niagara Health System. &#8220;I can&#8217;t ignore the fact that a very large segment of the public has lost necessary confidence in this hospital&#8217;s administration,&#8221; said Deb Matthews, minister of health and long-term care. &#8220;To make sure that NHS is on the right track, I think it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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