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Board rules that concerned residents can seek participant status instead
by Brad Holden
The Duntroon Quarry Consolidated Board hearing reconvened Monday morning after a long summer break, with members of the Clearview Community Coalition, the ratepayers' group that is opposing the application along with the Niagara Escarpment Commission, hoping that the Board's first ruling of this session would be to include a "public night" so that those not involved in the hearing might be able to voice their concerns.
Instead, the Board announced that it was wary of a "free-for-all" meeting, and that in its opinion, the long process that has brought the matter to this point has included many opportunities for members of the public to get involved, whether by filing an appeal and becoming a party to the hearing or by signalling their intention to take participant status, file a witness statement and address the Board in due course.
As a compromise, it was ruled that the deadline for applying for participa....read more
by Brad Holden
When Becky Eveland bought a rundown house on Elizabeth Street three years ago, she'd recently retired and planned to make a pastime of renovating and flipping houses. The only problem was, she quickly fell in love with Creemore, and by the time she'd fixed up the house, she'd decided to stay.
So earlier this year, she and her daughter Jordan Menicucci, who now lives with her in Creemore, began brainstorming what she could do in her newly settled existence. Most times, the discussions were over dinners with an international flavour, a reflection of Eveland's other hobby, sourcing exotic ingredients and sampling different cuisines.
And so arrived the idea for Sola Sun Sea and Earth Co., the store that Eveland recently opened in the former teahouse at the corner of Mill and Francis Streets. Named in honour of Eveland's granddaughter, the name conveniently has two meanings - in Latin, it means "sun," which is of course responsible for much of the great food available there. In Italian, it means "a....read more
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