Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Southpoint Sun - 11
ERCA approves draft budget
REGIONAL – The Essex Region ConImproving business processes, updatservation Authority has approved its ing IT infrastructure and information 2021 Draft Budget for circulation to its systems, completing a floodplain priormember municipalities. The budget to- itization study, addressing hazards and tals just over $10 million, and includes a restoration issues related to high lake levy request of $3,454,619. This is equiv- levels, significant rainfall events and clialent to $10.75 per person, an increase of mate change, restoring over 125 acres of 26 cents from 2020. natural habitat, and completing a signifThe budget responds to the changes icant habitat restoration and shoreline to Conservation Authorities Act includ- protection project on Pêche Island, in ed in Bill 229, which have widespread partnership with the City of Windsor, and significant implications for oper- are just some of the top priorities ERCA ations and program delivery with pro- has outlined for 2021. vincially-required identification and Chair Tania Jobin, believes that ERCA bifurcation of services into mandatory is best positioned to deliver regional enand non-mandatory categories. vironmental priorities in a cost effective “The proposed 2021 programs and way. services have been categorized into “The expertise that ERCA provides mandatory and non-mandatory ser- in regard to managing our watersheds, vices, based on the information that is is an effective and efficient way of encurrently available and in the absence suring our sustainably as a region,” she of detailed Regulations, or further guid- says. “For each municipality to individance from the Province,” explains Tim ually employ this type of expertise on its Byrne, CAO. “The mandatory programs own, would be cost prohibitive. What’s identified by the Act are quite limited more, ERCA has a longstanding track and confined to: risks of natural hazards; record of providing a significant return conservation and management of lands; on investment through outside investDrinking Water Source Protection; and ments in our region, in addition to its other duties and responsibilities under important programs and services.” other legislation.” The draft budget includes a reallocation of funding from non-mandatory services, using COVID-19-related service person and staffing reductions as an opportunity to piv- Pre-order before Thursday evening ot and redirect levy from by calling: 519-326-0994 outreach/events/com- Pick up at St. Michael’s Church 29 Elliott Street munications to mandated John Street Entrance to the Banquet Hall functions, primarily in watershed management and corporate services.
IN MEMORIAM In Loving Memory of our Beloved Friend
Lora
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Who left us with broken hearts 3 years ago, February 26th, 2018
Your life was a blessing Your memory a treasure, You are loved beyond words And missed beyond measure. Forever loved by Jen, Emily, Jen, Tina, Marina and Marisa
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In Loving Memory of my beautiful Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba
Sui-En Lin & DE-ning Zhang
February 19, 1936 - June 28, 2020
July 6, 1933 - January 26, 2021
May you rejoice in Heaven!
Happy 60 Wedding Anniversary - February 19, 1961 th
Dear Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba, I never knew I could miss you this much. I never realized that you were the strength of my life until you were gone. I wish I told you how much I loved you and how much you mean to me. I wish I could turn back time, dear Ba-Ba, so I could be there to hold your hand when you took your last breath, I wish I said good-bye! I thought there would be years for Ba-Ba to enjoy some freedom on earth after Ma-Ma passed away on June, 28, 2020, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Little did I know his health was declining quickly. He didn’t want to fight for life anymore. He followed his beloved Sui-En on January 26, 2021, 2 days shy of her seven months passing. De-Ning was born on July 6, 1933 in Nan Jing China. He grew up in the biggest city of China Shanghai. Sui-En was born on February 19, 1936 in a small unknown town of West China - Sui Yuan. She grew up in Zhang Zhou, China. In 1953 Sui-En and De-Ning attended the same Biology class at Shanghai Fudan University. That’s where their 67 years long love story began. During 1957-1979 they worked together as researchers for the Institute of Hydro-biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, WuHan. In 1979 they moved back to Shanghai, worked together as senior engineers for Environmental Protection Research Institute, Shanghai Petrochemical Corporation, China. In June 1994 Ma-Ma came to Canada to help me take care of my triplet daughters. A year later Ba-Ba came too. That was the longest time they had ever been apart.
Through the last 26 years Ba-Ba and Ma-Ma devoted their time and love to their grandchildren. With their selfless help, they all became loving and caring and well-educated people. Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba, I miss you dearly, tears still burst out whenever I think of you, but I know I must be strong, life must go on. Please keep watching over each of us from above, until the day we meet again. Here is a song for you, Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba, The legacy and memory of you will be with me forever. How does a moment last forever? How can a story never die? It is love we must hold onto. Never easy, but we try. Sometimes our happiness is captured. Somehow our time and place stand still. Love lives on inside our hearts, and always will. Minutes turn to hours, days to years, then gone But when all else has been forgotten, still our song lives on. Maybe some moments weren’t so perfect. Maybe some memories not so sweet. But we have to know some bad times or our lives are incomplete. Then when the shadows overtake us, Just when we feel all hope is gone We’ll hear our song and know once more our love lives on. How does a moment last forever? How does our happiness endure? Through the darkness of our troubles Love is beauty. Love is pure. Love pays no mind to desolation. It flows like a river through the soul Protects, persists and perseveres and makes us whole. Minutes turn to hours, days to years, then gone But when all else has been forgotten still our song lives on. That’s how a moment lasts forever when our song lives on. Rest In Heavenly Peace My Dear Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba Love always Mei-Zi (Lin-Mei) February 19, 2021
