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		<title>Garrison Road to lose water service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water service along Garrison Road between Spears Road and Pettit will be shut down for four hours starting at 1 p.m. Friday. A leak was found in the regional trunk water main last night and repairs will be made this afternoon, said Fort Erie&#8217;s water services manager Grant Boutin. Once service is restored, customers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cover Me Canada&#8217; winners rock out Ridgeway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toronto rock band Whosarmy &#8212; winner of CBC&#8217;s &#8220;Cover Me Canada&#8221; contest &#8211;will take the stage in Ridgeway Saturday, May 26. The Sanctuary Centre for the Arts will be the venue for the group as they perform the tunes &#8212; along with a repertoire of original songs &#8212; that rocketed them to Canadian fame on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip, flop, litigate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with the prospect of another Ontario Municipal Board hearing, town council rescinded a March 5 decision to deny construction of a semi-detached house in Crystal Beach. The original denial was against staff recommendations, and after a closed session Monday night, council changed its mind. The property is located on Glendale Avenue, west of Helen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridgeway farmers&#8217; market opens Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular and lively farmers’ market returns to Ridgeway on Saturday and will run every Saturday morning until Oct. 13. Most of the vendors from last year are returning to offer fresh local produce, baked goods, crafts, music and activities for children on the Friendship Trail in downtown Ridgeway. The market will also be featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town wages frozen for two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three meetings with a provincial conciliator, the Town and its union reached an agreement for a wage freeze for the next two years. The 80 full-time and casual employees will instead receive a lump sum $500 payment this year and $750 next year and some undisclosed improvements in medical benefits. According to the Town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman and horse killed in collision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young woman and the horse she was riding were killed in a collision with a pickup truck on a rural road near Grimsby Sunday afternoon. Niagara Regional Police said the horse was struck as it entered the roadway from the driveway of the woman&#8217;s family farm in West Lincoln at approximately 4:30 p.m. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best manure around, next to McGuinty&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 22:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<title>Council to meet with lawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town council will meet in a closed session Monday to discuss the dismissal of Heather Salter, the director of legal and legislative services and Town solicitor. They will meet with Leanne Standryk of the St. Catharines firm of Lancaster, Brooks and Welch.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m not on leave,&#8221; says Town lawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town solicitor Heather Salter is gardening at home and volunteering with the United Way at the expense of Fort Erie taxpayers. “There was an in-camera meeting. There was a vote taken. Subsequent to that, I’m no longer at work,” Salter told The Ridgeway Herald. “I’m not on leave.” Reprinted from the April 30, 2012 edition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niagara hospital closures recommended</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Memorial Hospital will be closed in seven years if the Ontario Ministry of Health accepts the recommendations of Dr. Kevin Smith, the government appointed supervisor of the Niagara Health System. A source in the advisory circle of the NHS said that Niagara-on-the-Lake and Port Colborne will also lose their hospitals and Greater Niagara General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rejects all claims against condo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey rejected every argument brought to him against the Bay Beach condominium development agreement. In his 12-page decision handed down Wednesday afternoon, Hainey also ordered the six plaintiffs to pay $135,000 in costs to the Town of Fort Erie and the Molinaro Group. He did not rule on the defendants’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condo plan legal, court rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Beach condominum agreement is legal, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled today. Details are sketchy, but Mayor Doug Martin confirmed the court had sided with the Town and Molinaro Group and awarded $110,000 in costs to be paid by the litigants. Seven ratepayers represented by Buffalo lawyer John James Keenan last April sued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two killed in crash into river</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATED] Two Fort Erie men were killed in a car crash into the Niagara River near Netherby Road sometime before 7:30 a.m. Saturday, April 28. Carlos Mejia, 30, and Joseph Holika, 39, were the only occupants of a passenger vehicle that failed to stop at the intersection with the Niagara Boulevard and plunged into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man critically injured in ATV accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 48-year-old man is clinging to life at Hamilton General Hospital when the ATV he was riding flipped and rolled over him on Grandview Road in Fort Erie late Saturday afternoon. He was airlifted to Hamilton General Hospital with life-threatening injuries and is in critical condition. Police say he was not wearing a helmet. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local cop busted with $500K in drugs in U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Niagara Regional Police constable was arrested in Buffalo with a veritable pharmacy of illegal drugs worth more than $500,000, including steroids, growth hormone, tranquilizers and the main ingredient of a date rape drug. Geoffrey Purdie, a 13-year veteran of the NRP, was suspended from duty with pay on April 5 as a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas leak closes Garrison Road &#8212; again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garrison Road is closed near the intersection of Buffalo Road for a natural gas leak late Wednesday afternoon. Roadblocks are set up at Ferndale Avenue and Green Acres Drive. Canadian Niagara Power is assessing whether to shut the power. It is the second time in less than two months that a contractor has ruptured the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates forgiven: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 municipal election in Fort Erie is now over. The Niagara compliance audit committee cleared all six candidates of deliberate wrong-doing in the second round of hearings into their election finances. Infractions by councillor Stephen Passero, Mayor Doug Martin and former councillor Ann-Marie Noyes are not serious enough to merit prosecution in court, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors forgiven for election violations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election finance violations by three Fort Erie town councillors are not serious enough to merit court action, ruled the Niagara compliance audit committee Tuesday night. John Hill, Don Lubberts and Paul Collard were forgiven their transgressions during the 2010 municipal elections last October when they accepted donations from ineligible contributors and committed other infractions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election audits skewer candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one escaped unscathed from compliance audits of 2010 municipal election campaign finances in the Town of Fort Erie. Five members of council plus an unelected candidate were found to have contravened a handful of regulations in the Municipal Elections Act. They are illustrative of carelessness, sloppiness, confusion and ignorance. However, the auditor also noted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report targets council to improve efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town councillors need look no further than themselves to find the best way to improve municipal operations. “Better governance,” said the consultant hired to conduct an operational review, “appears to hold the greatest opportunity for improvement.” David Berger of Western Management Consultants said it was the “number one issue” when he summarized the review to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operations review reveals no surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cloutier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Cloutier The money spent on the operations review by David Berger and Liuba Mamonova of Western Management Consultants was worth every cent, if only it turns the noise level down. An extra bonus would be if it helps to ratchet up the intelligence quotient “around this horseshoe” — what councillors have been calling [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/town-seeks-conciliator-in-union-talks/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/springsteen-in-buffalo-april-13/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/water-and-sewer-bills-increased-4-4-per-cent/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/new-town-fees-proposed-others-increased/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/remarks-baseless-lubberts-apologizes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ridgewayherald.com/remarks-baseless-lubberts-apologizes/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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>
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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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