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It will cost John Jaques $100,000 to keep temporary foreign workers on his Thamesville-area asparagus farm safe during 2021 growing season. The owner of Sunshine Farms near Thamesville says he’ll be spending the cash to follow provincial and federal COVID-19 rules. And while it is a lot of cash, Jaques says it is necessary. “We want them to be safe,” Jaques says. “If they’re not safe, we’re out of business.” Jaques will employ 30 workers from Mexico, as he usually does, but the details of how they will get here haven’t been finalized. Under the Temporary Foreign Worker program, the federal government arranges flights and the farmer pays. Jaques’ workers are tentatively scheduled to fly in April 16 and 20 and he says that’s just in the nick of time. There are 60 acres of asparagus, among other vegetables, growing at Sunshine Farms, and it’s an early crop. It’s a flashback to 2020, when Jaques was waiting on pins and needles
after the federal government banned all air travel to stop the spread of COVID-19, causing large delays in the arrival of migrant workers as the travel decision had to be reversed for the farming community. Cucumbers are another major crop. The farm produces a wide array of pickles and pickled vegetables on site, which in turn are shipped across Ontario and to Western Canada. When workers arrive in Canada they must have a recent COVID-19 test in their home country, no less than three days prior to arrival. At customs, they are again tested for the virus. A 14-day quarantine period, at the farmer’s expense, then takes place at the farms where they will live and work. Jaques thinks a lot of safety problems could be solved if the workers were vaccinated upon arrival in Canada. “It would make sense,” he adds. “It’s smart and logical.” He says workers didn’t bring COVID-19 to Canada last year, but they became a target after outbreaks of the virus at area greenhouses.
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“I was always an introvert and always feel awkward and have a hard time expressing myself,” said Wallaceburg artist Rebecca Hunter who is slowly making a name and a brand for herself. Having grand mal seizures due to epilepsy, Hunter was forced to spend her adolescent years in the art room of her high school painting and sculpting. That didn’t help her come out of her shell all that much. “I really closed in on myself,” she said. Hunter had always been a right-brained child even when she was a little kid playing with art supplies and making up stories for all the different flowers in her dad’s garden. At 11, she was diagnosed with epilepsy (seizures of the brain) after people mistook her for just being “spacey.” Back in elementary school she would have about 50 petit mal seizures (staring into blank space), lasting about 20 seconds each, per day. She was too young for medicine so her friends had to constantly watch her. Only her best friend and a boy by the name of Nick, who is now her husband, knew of her condition. She hid it from the other kids so they wouldn’t think she was strange. Then the more intense seizures came on. “For me, I take a long time afterward to come back from a seizure – 15 minutes before I wake up. And there’s a period of time when I don’t even know who anyone is and I feel scared. I then have a horrible headache and bite my tongue and that pain can last up to three days,”
Hunter said. Most of Hunter’s seizures are brought on by good stresses and bad stresses. The heightened emotions are what push the brain over the edge. And Hunter had her fair share of stresses. Good ones. She picked up everything as her and her now-husband drove across the country as she wrote poetry. And bad ones, from the brain tumour Nick lived with for years, forcing them to live in isolation to prevent infection to being forced back into isolation less than a year later when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But Hunter is managing it all and is making a homegrown art brand, Little Miss Introvert Expressions, all by herself, with the support of her family. “Art is a way to take what I was dealing with and get it out. And the more I can do that, the less stress builds up on top of me. So it kind of is a way to relax. To take some of the things I don’t know how to say and put them on paper. Some of the emotions I feel I now draw into some of my girls.” Hunter’s studio room, filled with baskets of art and handmade cards, has walls decorated in various watercolour paintings of women in different moods. She also works in sculpture, oils, acrylics, and illustrating children’s books. Her work can now be found at the markets, once COVID-19 lets up, The Lawrence House and Parallel Junction, both in Sarnia. Recently, she completed a pop-up sale at the Art Space, Chatham, and in September the Wallaceburg District and Arts Council named her as the Artist of the Month. Despite the fact that Nick is
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“My blood boils when I hear this,” Jaques says, adding COVID-19 was spread due to the actions of employment contractors and temp agencies. The biggest outbreak in
Chatham-Kent involved 103 migrant works at Greenhill Produce in Kent Bridge and dozens more cases were traced to operations in Leamington and Kingsville. Many could be linked to con-
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tractors who brought in the farm workers, housed them in hotels and contracted their work out to various farms. Chatham-Kent’s medical officer of health believes a contract worker from Essex was the source of the Greenhill Produce outbreak. For the 2021 season, farmers are being instructed to cohort workers and keep them together in “bubbles,” even while transporting them from place to place. Some local farmers have to purchase extra vehicles to accommodate the change. This year, Jaques has additional housing for his workers to provide them the necessary space for physical distancing. He had to purchase a build-
ing and four large trailers for his workers. Jaques will be working closely with CK Public Health and provincial inspectors to meet this year’s safety regulation, saying he is aware of the critical importance of migrant workers to the food chain. Another outbreak, Jaques says, is a recipe for disaster for food producers across the province. There is some financial help available to farmers; the federal government announced additional funding of $1,500 to help offset costs incurred by COVID-19. The province has also promised to send more inspectors into greenhouses to keep the number of COVID-19 outbreaks to a minimum.
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okay to gather in large groups “if they’re also members of the Flat Earth Chatham-Kent officials Society”. He also noted are doing everything they that CK Public Health has can to stop the spread of reached out to the public COVID-19 but residents through conventional mebreaking the rules are dia, social media, and has making it difficult to keep posted “a goldmine of the numbers low, officials information” on its own website, leaving little exsay. On Monday morning, cuse for the public not to CK Public Health re- follow regulations. “But if some people ported 38 new cases of COVID-19 and 25 recov- choose to put their head eries, bringing the active in the sand, then I can’t do total up to 103, promot- anything. People should ing the medical officer of know after a year that inhealth to state that Grey door gatherings are danLockdown Zone is “defi- gerous, not just for you, but for all of your connitely on the table.” The majority of new cas- tacts,” he said. “I don’t es are being traced back to believe that the people large indoor gatherings. who were doing this, did Three of the recent cases not know that they were can be traced to institu- doing something forbidden.” tional outbreaks. A Grey Zone restriction Dr. David Colby, said residents have no excuse will have severe impacts on THE smallMATTRESS community when it comes large OF Introducing... THEtoHEART who pregatherings and would business owners Pocketed Coil® Technology is told The Chatham ask those who thinkAdvanced it is viously By Jenna Cocullo jenna@chathamvoice.com
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The Chatham Voice’s Jenna Cocullo has been nominated for a pair of Ontario Community Newspaper Awards. Cocullo, who joined the paper in March of 2020, is nominated for best news story for a community newspaper with a circulation over 10,000, and best headline writing. The nomination for news story is for her work covering Erie Shore Drive. Cocullo arrived at the paper March 2, 2020 and mere days later was down at the lakeshore, talking to citizens and seeing
firsthand the devastation the high water and heavy waves had been doing to the properties and the dike on which the road is perched. “It was stressful, because I wanted to do a good job and I wanted to do right by the people there,” she said, recalling how people packed up and temporarily abandoned their properties in a matter of days. “I just interviewed as many people as I could to ensure they were all equally represented.”This year marked the first year the newspaper opted to send entries to the OCNA’s annual awards.
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Voice that they may not survive a third lockdown. “We’re in this as a community and when few community members go off and do this, it has repercussions right across the community,” said Mayor Darrin Canniff. “It’s very unfortunate that small business is going to be impacted from decisions people have made to have these parties and spread (COVID) across.”
READ MORE: Any more lockdowns will kill small biz: owners Don Shropshire, Chatham-Kent’s CAO, said residents should think of the people who lost their lives to the pandemic in the past year, and the businesses who have lost their livelihood before they make the decision to gather. “That’s certainly my frustration and the idea
is that people think they can do that without understanding it as a consequence for our entire community. That’s extremely frustrating,” he said. Shropshire said Ontario’s municipalities have been asked by the Solicitor General’s office to double down on its bylaw enforcement but there is simply not enough personnel to patrol the entire
community. “It’s like a dog chasing their tail,” he said. “The biggest single thing we can do is try to get all of our citizens to respect what the guidelines are being requested of them.” To date, Chatham-Kent has vaccinated more than 15,000 residents with their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Colby said that is not yet enough people to reach herd immunity.
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A common enemy It’s been more than a year now. Tempers are frayed, patience is wearing thin, but COVID-19 remains. We all must remember it is the common enemy, not each other. With Chatham-Kent back into a Red Zone in terms of COVID-19 restrictions, we are all admittedly extremely fatigued of this virus, be it in terms of those fearful of it, others who want to ignore it but are unable to do so due to government restrictions and everyone in between. We’ve seemingly had wave after wave of COVID surges, locally, provincially, nationally and globally. As soon as restrictions are relaxed, people seemingly forget the notion of social distancing and regular hand washing, hugging friends, having large gatherings and wondering how COVID counterattacked so quickly. As we said, this is fatiguing on all sides, and it has polarized people. You have the anti-maskers vs. the pro maskers; the anti-vaxxers vs. the pro-vaxxers; the anti-rules folks vs. the pro-government types. Yes, there are many of us in the middle in some of these wars of words, but that is certainly the minority. Half of long-term care personnel declined to get vaccinated. That caused an uproar from folks who are in favour of the vaccine. People had gathered outside their immediate households during the lockdown (Super Bowl parties, for example), and in much larger numbers than allowed once the lockdown ended. Neighbours called the COVID police on one another. Fines were levied. We have people who blame governments as a whole for failing to properly deal with this virus, or for trying to put restrictions on their freedom of movement. Furthermore, we have a plethora of online doctors, with degrees in Facebook medicine, it seems, who claim to know way more about the virus than our own medial officer of health, or those at the provincial or federal levels. More verbal sparring, this time on social media. Most of us have also encountered a person in a store without a mask or someone heading the wrong way down a clearly marked one-way aisle, and had less-than pleasant thoughts against the other. Blame, blame, blame. When the point of anger is only seen under a microscope, people lash out at their nearest targets all too often. Let’s take a collective breath, people, respect one another, and get through this together.
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Keeping up with the Corcorans Last week, it was all about buy local, shop local, something that really should forever remain in the forefront of our minds. But this week’s column is an update on what’s happening, and what isn’t, around the Corcoran home. As of typing this, I have not fired up the Big Green Egg since before Christmas. Call it mental health, or no longer being interested in heading outside in the chill, whatever. This past weekend, I should have fired it up, but there were other events taking place. I do “blame” much of me not barbecuing on my wife, Mary Beth, who has upped her culinary game over the past year. She has always been a great cook, but with an InstaPot on hand, she’s taken things to new heights. There are meals, including pulled pork, which we’d normally handle by smoking in the Egg, that now take place
Bruce Corcoran in the InstaPot, at least until the weather stays a little warmer. But fear not, the Egg will get its usual three-season workout starting in the very near future! With this week’s weather, I may have already barbecued on it by the time you are reading this. In the meantime, I’m thinking we should start sharing some of our (her) recipes with readers. The most recent one was a Mexican pot roast. Beef, in plenty of spices, with rice, and served with sliced jalapenos, chopped cilantro, with salsa and sour cream poured over top. Yeah, it was delicious. From food to feline
news, some readers have inquired about our cat, Finn. The big guy is still his oddball self. We’ve placed a nice circular, upright table near the living room window, with the idea of putting a plant on it. Before we finalized that plan, Finn showed the folly in that notion. He’s taken to making a running jump onto the table when he wants to look outside. A plant would have been scattered with such activity. It’s his table now, and he lounges on it, even though it’s a little too small for his long body. Then again, he’s lounging on everything. Finn has a knack for finding different spots almost daily. He’ll switch from bed to bed, or slip into the basement and sleep in a pile of laundry, on a chair under the bistro table by the bar, in my recliner or office chair. In those latter cases, it is almost as if he knows
where I plan on sitting. That’s also true on the love seat upstairs, where he’ll invariably be ensconced beside my wife when I want to sit there. And Finn will relax every muscle in his body to make it difficult to scoop him up. His happiest time, however, is when you sit outside and he comes with you. He’ll roll around on the patio at your feet, just happy for outdoor company. It’s funny, because at night, he has his share of outdoor company in the form of other cats. On a recent evening (pre-Red Zone), one of our daughter’s friends stopped by. She spotted what she thought was a familiar tabby waiting in the driveway, and she bent down to pet him, but the cat didn’t seem all that happy to see her. And then Finn strolled up beside the other to say hello. He was happy to receive the attention.
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Wheatley’s Julia Reid shows off her winnings from a lucky Plinko lottery ticket.
renovations with plenty left over for a happy retirement,” she said. Reid added she is a regular lottery player. “I usually play any game that the retailer recommends,” she shared. The winning ticket was purchased at Circle K on Seacliff Drive in Leamington.
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A Wheatley woman has 400,000 reasons to smile, after playing Plinko. Julia Reid purchased the ticket in Leamington recently, and wound up heading to Toronto for the second phase of the fun. Reid, a married mother, said she was out getting her hair and nails done after lockdown when she decided to purchase an instant Plinko scratch ticket. “I played my ticket in the car when I realized I won a CHIP prize,” she said in a media release. “I brought it to the store, and that’s when I realized I would be coming to Toronto to play the in-person chip drop.” That drop won her $400,000. The woman said her husband cried tears of joy when she told him about the big win. “I’m thrilled that I won. This allows me to pay my daughter’s student loan and complete some home
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Libraries planting knowledge By Jenna Cocullo jenna@chathamvoice.com
The Chatham-Kent Public Library’s (CKPL) annual seed program is growing as it launched for its fifth straight year this past weekend. “I do encourage, if you want the best selection, to go sooner this year because I do think it will be very popular this year,’ said Cassey Beauvais, manager of CKPL public services. Residents at any of CKPL’s 11 municipal branches can now have curbside pick up five packages of seeds per library card to plant in their home gardens. Options range from carrots, varieties of lettuce and tomatoes, green beans, yellow beans, cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, flowers and fresh herbs. There is also an additional sunflower seed and pumpkin seed that will be given out to residents as part of a friendly “Who has the Greener Thumb?” contest with Windsor-Essex. Beauvais said the program and its success is an example of how libraries are always evolving beyond books to meet other community needs. “There are libraries across North America and even in Europe where you can get bicy-
cles, cake pans, and (neck) ties for an interview. Depending on the needs of the community, the library is there. So one thing we felt that would be popular – and it has really grown to be popular – was a seed library,” she said. During its pilot project, five years ago, the library gave out 400 seeds. This year there are more than 5,000 packets to distribute. “It’s just a good idea to have new things to bring people into the library, and seeds seemed like a solid fit for Chatham-Kent,” Beauvais said. “People in Chatham-Kent have an interest in this because we are a growing community, we are agriculturally based, and as a gardener it’s just a great hobby to have.” In 2019, the seed program saw more than 4,200 packages distributed throughout the municipality. “It’s been great. I hope to do just as well this year,” Beauvais said. Last year the library closed before the seed project could launch due to the COVID-19 lockdown and as a result CKPL donated its inventory to the local food banks. Normally, CKPL relies on do-
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Deb Ready, right, a library assistant dubbed the “seed queen,” is excited to start handing out seeds to the community after personally packaging thousands of them.
nations from the community, but this year they bought the seeds themselves to avoid quarantining items for 72 hours. Gardening books will be on location for loan, CKPL will also be doing advertising on social media sharing resources, and will be filming a “how to start your own seeds at home” program. “We do have some excellent gardeners here in Chatham-Kent get for sure,” Beauvais said.
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UPDATE ON RESCHEDULING COVID-19 2ND DOSE APPOINTMENTS The CK Vaccination Team is reminding people who have 2nd dose appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine scheduled in the coming days that Ontario has extended the time between doses with limited exceptions. If you had a 2nd dose appointment scheduled, your appointment needs to be rescheduled. You do not need to call now. Please call CK Public Health at 519-351-1010 to book your 2nd appointment according to the chart below. Stay informed of all the COVID-19 vaccination updates at:
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Friday, March 26: • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St., Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Supper will be served from 4:00 – 6:00. Tonight’s specials are Liver & Onions or Fish & Chips. Seating is limited to 50, but take out is also available. Everyone Welcome. • Friday night pick up supper at the Chatham Moose Lodge, 850 Richmond St. is a Chicken Parmesan dinner with spaghetti, a Caesar’s salad and a bread roll for $10. Please call daily from 1 to 4 P.M. at 519-3528291 to order. Saturday, March 27: • Saturday March 27, 2021 : The Saturdays at 7 concert at St. Andrew’s United Church, Chatham, featuring the Steel City Rovers from Hamilton is POSTPONED due to current COVID restrictions. For more information please check www. standrewschatham.org or call 519-352-0010. • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St., Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. There will be a meat draw at 3:30, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Come check out our menu. Take out is available. Everyone Welcome. • Grief Group at 2 p.m. in Dresden. Call 519-598-1111 to register for this free group. Share your grief for better emotional health. Wednesday, March 31: • Victoria Avenue United Church FOOD SHOPPING CARD & PANTRY PROGRAM (Please bring photo identification.) (Limited number of cards available.) Held at ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH (Memorial Garden Entrance - Wellington Street) from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. COVID-19 PROVISIONS / CONTACT TRACING IN PLACE. MASKS REQUIRED / HAND SANITIZER PROVIDED.
• Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St., Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30p.m. Seating is limited to 50 people but take out is available. Everyone Welcome. Thursday, April 1: • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St. Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Seating is limited to 50 people but take out is available. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Friday, April 2: • The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St. Chatham will be serving Fish & Chips for $10.00 plus Tax on Good Friday from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. TAKE OUT ONLY. Everyone Welcome. Wednesday, April 3: • Saturday Morning Breakfast Program at First Presbyterian Church (corner of Fifth St. and Wellington). A delicious nutritious breakfast served free of charge from 9:30 – 11 a.m. This will be a TAKE OUT only every other Saturday. • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St. Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. There will be a Meat draw at 3:30, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Come check out our menu. Take out is available. Everyone Welcome. Wednesday, April 7: • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St. Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Seating is limited to 50 people but take out is available. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Thursday, April 8: • Come join us at The Chatham Legion, corner of William & Colbourne St. Chatham from 11:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. The kitchen is open to serve lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Seating is limited to 50 people but take out is available. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Email your events to michelle@chathamvoice.com or bruce@chathamvoice.com
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Apollo celebrates 20 years in C-K added a logistics element as well. Six years later, in 2009, Apollo Property Management was added. The first property the company took over was Franklin Square on Richmond Street in Chatham, McFadden said. Today, the company owns 80 properties, a mix of commercial and residential, and has more than 225 tenants. “It has certainly expanded. Now we have quite a few spread across Chatham-Kent and also a property in London,” McFadden said. “Fred just loves to see how he can develop a building. He loves to go in and purchase an older building, then update the facade and help businesses grow. That’s how he got into it.” But Apollo doesn’t just help its tenants. The company supports numerous local charities, especially the Children’s Treatment
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Two decades ago, it began with three employees and a dream. Today, Blenheim-based Apollo has evolved from focusing on general contracting to adding a millwright division and a property division. Samantha McFadden, marketing director for Apollo, said the company is the brainchild of Fred Naclerio, who was born and raised in Chatham-Kent. The company got its start in a rather niche market. “When Apollo General Contracting got started, it was mainly renovating grocery chain stores,” McFadden said. From there, the company developed and opened a millwright division, making the shelving units for the stores Apollo renovated. That was 2003. At the same time, Apollo
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$2.7 million cost. No construction work has been done on the bridge to date. Meanwhile, Third Street Bridge in Chatham could be approved for $14-million in upgrades with council set to discuss awarding the contract to Toronto Zenith Contracting Limited of Concord, Ont. The bridge was built in 1961 and runs four lanes of vehicular traffic over the Thames River.
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At Monday night’s meeting, councillors were set to discuss the possibility of closing McDougall Line Bridge, East Tilbury. Chatham Coun. Karen Kirkwood-Whyte put forward a motion requesting that the municipality divest the bridge. The bridge has been on the municipality’s divestment list since 2013, until 2019 when council moved to replace the bridge at a
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Wallaceburg Water Treatment Servicing Study Notice of Study Commencement Public Utilities Commission for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent The Public Utilities Commission for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent (CK PUC) is conducting a study Environmental Assessment Study to identify and re-evaluate alternatives for the existing Wallaceburg Water Treatment Plant (WTP) to Wallaceburg Water Treatment Servicing Study meet the current and future needs of the Community of Wallaceburg and neighbouring communities of Study Commencement while also satisfying industrial demands. As a part of this study, aspects of theNotice water supply infrastructure will be evaluated, including the The Public Utilities Commission forfollowing: the Municipality of Chatham-Kent (CK PUC) is conducting a study to identify and re-evaluate the existing Wallaceburg Water Treatment Plant (WTP) to meet the current and future needs A potentialalternatives new Wallaceburgfor WTP of the Community ofraw Wallaceburg and neighbouring while also satisfying industrial demands. As a part of Alternatives for a new water intake and a new low-lift pumping communities station for the Wallaceburg WTP this study, aspects of the water supply infrastructure will be evaluated, including the following: at Chenal Ecarte to meet an increase in the forecast future water demand Water availability • A potential new Wallaceburg WTP Water supply • Alternatives for a new raw water intake and a new low-lift pumping station for the Wallaceburg WTP to the Dresden Water Distribution System (WDS), a potentially new independent pressure zone • Water availability at Chenal Ecarte to meet an increase in the forecast future water demand to support potential greenhouse development in the service area Water supply • Water supply to the Dresden Water Distribution System (WDS), a potentially new independent pressure zone A review • Water supply to support potential greenhouse development in the service area of the interconnection from the Lambton Area Water Supply System to the Wallaceburg WDS • A review of the interconnection from the Lambton Area Water Supply System to the Wallaceburg WDS
The Wallaceburg WTP is a critical component within the Wallaceburg Water Supply System that is reaching the end of its life expectancy and is known to be susceptible to failures requiring frequent repairs and replacement. In addition to the anticipated needs for a resilient water supply, there is also a forecast of increased water demand for industrial growth, expanded service area, and development of greenhouse.
Figure 1. Potential Wallaceburg Water Treatment Plant Study Area
Aerial image ©2020 Google Earth, ©2020 TerraMetrics, Image NOAA. Annotation © 2020 Jacobs.
To identify the preferred solution(s) for water supply to meet future demands, the CK PUC will evaluate and identify potential alternatives for water supply and design preferred long-term solutions to revitalize and renew the Wallaceburg WTP to reliably meet current water quality regulations and system safeguards. The Process The assessment is being carried out in accordance with the planning and design process for “Schedule C” projects under the Environmental Assessment Act as outlined in the Municipal Engineers Association’s Municipal Class Environmental Assessment document (2000, as amended in 2007, 2011, and 2015). Public input and comments are en-
Figure 2. Study Area
couraged throughout the study. The Project Team will consult with the public and review agencies throughout the 1 Class Environmental Assessment study. Public Information Centres (PICs) will be held to provide information on the study progress and to facilitate your input. We will publish invitation notices to the PICs in local newspapers and on the Municipality’s website www.ckpuc.ca and will distribute the notices to those individuals expressing an interest in this project. Because of restrictions under COVID-19, PICs may be held in a virtual format In advance of the scheduled time for the PICs, the required format for the PIC will be assessed, and appropriate information will be provided to the public through the Notice of PIC. Aerial image ©2020 Google Earth, ©2020 TerraMetrics, Image NOAA. Annotation © 2020 Jacobs.
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All personal information included in a submission, such as name, address, telephone number, and property location, is collected, maintained, and disclosed by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks for the purpose of transparency and consultation. The information is collected under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act or is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public as described in Section 37 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Personal information you submit will become part of a public record that is available to the general public unless you request that your personal information remain confidential. For more information, please contact the Project Officer or the Ministry of the Environment’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Coordinator at 416 819 5148. The first Notice of Commencement for this project was issued on August 11, 2020. This second Notice of Commencement issued on March 09, 2021, represents an update to the commencement of the project.
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By Jenna Cocullo jenna@chathamvoice.com
Blue hair for Alzheimer’s care and a scavenger hunt are in the works for this year’s Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraiser in Chatham-Kent. The Alzheimer Society of Chatham-Kent recently held its virtual launch event for the 2021 IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraiser taking place on May 29. “But that’s just the date itself. We are encouraging everyone to take part, and walk their own way all month long,” said Robyn Brady, board member for the Alzheimer Society and
Walk Host. The annual walk calls on participants of all ages and abilities to take action to honour and to help support people living with dementia in Chatham-Kent. “You don’t even have to walk to support the event if you’d really rather not. You can run, you can swim, you can do yoga, you can bike, you can sit on your couch if you’d like. But really the whole idea is to get active, challenge your friends, your family members, your coworkers as you honour and help support people living with dementia in our community,” Brady said.
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Alzheimer Society of Chatham-Kent board member Robyn Brady and fund development co-ordinator Joel Emery are excited to kick off the 2021 IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraiser taking place on May 29.
ily-friendly, scavenger hunt is planned on the day of the walk itself. Participants will be tasked with finding the society’s Forget Me Not flower pinwheels around Chatham, with a prize for the top individual or team.
To keep participants motivated, the Alzheimer Society will host weekly celebrations with prizes. More details will be announced in the coming weeks on their social media accounts. A COVID-safe, fam-
This year’s walk will see the return of the Dawn Butler Memorial Award presented to the top individual and team fundraisers. To meet this year’s goal of $50,000, Mary Ellen Parker, CEO of the Alzheimer Society, and Brady pledge to dye their hair blue if their team, FantASCKtic Crew, Jeaninne Christner 46, Monday, March 15, 2021 raises $15,000. McKinlay Funeral Home Donald MacLellan, general Dianne Samways manager of Cha85, Thursday, March 18, 2021 tham-Kent EMS, McKinlay Funeral Home will serve as this Wendy Martin year’s walk am70, Saturday, March 20, 2021 bassador. McKinlay Funeral Home “Yes, the last Jeanette Benoit year has been 86, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 really challengLife Transitions ing for all of us and the worlds Claude Martin that we live and 61, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Life Transitions work in, and this year will be See full obituaries at no different with www.chathamvoice.com/obituaries having the walk in a virtual format. But I certainly encourage people to get out, enjoy the weather, take part in all the aclifetransitions.ca • 519-351-4444 tivities that are surrounded to this fundraiser,” he said. To register for this year’s walk 459 St.Clair St., Chatham • 519-351-2040 76 Main St. E., Ridgetown • 519-674-3141 and to donate, 141 Park St., Blenheim • 519-676-3451 visit walkforalzwww.mckinlayfuneralhome.com heimers.ca. For more information, conFUNERAL HOME tact Emery at 156 William St., Chatham 519-352-1043 or 519.352.5120 jemery@alzheiwww.peseski.com merchathamkent.ca. A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT CARES
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Classifeds Happy Anniversary
In Memoriam
Happy 50th Anniversary
Wilson George Fletcher
Andrew Smith
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