Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Letter to the Editor
Writer: greenhouses zoned imroperly Editor’s note: This letter, penned to Leamington’s council members, was also sent to the Southpoint Sun to run as a letter to the editor.
Dear Mayor, Deputy-Mayor, and Counci: You are well aware that many of your residents are concerned at the exponential growth of the greenhouse industry. In a very few years, the Leamington area has put in place the largest concentration of greenhouses on the continent. The concerns are obviously the matters of light and smell pollution. But of more importance is the fact that greenhouses do not require an industrial zoning. These complexes are not the little greenhouses for starting field tomatoes and cabbages for early planting that we used to know. The fact they are not zoned industrial gives them an unfairly low tax rate, and guaranteed access to cheap foreign
workers. We know that the province controls zoning. Leamington council must work with Kingsville, Chatham-Kent, Amherstburg and Lakeshore to demand the province make the change. I write from Wheatley. You know of the disaster that has befallen this community. There is considerable doubt about whether the present town site will ever be returned to its former state. Many are speaking of relocating the town south towards the lake. The land west of County Rd. 1 is part of Leamington. The greenhouse industry is working to take control of all that land. That must be stopped. I encourage all of you to check out two Facebook sites, The Kingsville Greenhouse Oversight Group and Wheatley News and Events, for more comments. Rick Taves Wheatley
Southpoint Sun - 5
Essex County OPP wraps up Festive RIDE campaign ESSEX COUNTY – The Essex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) concluded its annual Festive RIDE campaign on January 2, having charged 17 drivers with impaired driving. Over the 46-day campaign, OPP officers worked 24/7, conducting 74 RIDE events across Essex County. Over and above the charges, officers issued 10 Warn Range suspensions to
drivers whose roadside breath test registered 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. Provincially, the OPP conducted 8,370 RIDE events and charged 655 drivers with impaired driving. Over and above the charges, officers issued 236 Warn Range suspensions to drivers whose roadside breath test registered a Blood Alcohol Concentration of between .05 and .08.
APPLES • PEARS • SWEET POTATOES
Citizens made 3,147 calls to police across the province to report suspected impaired drivers and encouraged to continue reporting suspected impaired drivers to police. Doing so could have saved a life.
The OPP Festive RIDE Campaign ran from November 18, 2021, to January 2, 2022.
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