Former NOTL club champ makes a career of golf page 14 The trusted voice of our community. notllocal.com AUGUST 6, 2020 Volume 2 • Issue 32 Liz and John Hawley loved time together at their cottage in Ridgeway, getting away from their hectic lives to recharge, and to spend time with their kids and grandchildren. Liz, who loved being a nana, cuddles with Merritt, one of her six grandkids, on the cottage porch overlooking Lake Erie. (Photos supplied) Hawley family loses beautiful wife, mother and nana The community is mourning the loss be sure they were resolved. “She that Liz chose as a getaway for was there beside him, working was an amazing peace-maker, her and John, for the kids, and with him. It was her idea to and a peace-seeker.” for the grandkids when they have the Wednesday Supper of Liz Hawley, ‘a generous spirit’ The day after Liz died, he came along. They looked at Market. When she suggested and the boys had a conversa- photos, and shared stories and it, John says he asked her why tion about how they would go memories of Liz. people would want to come out Penny Coles Stone Road last Wednesday, hit Even people who met her once on, says John. “Is this painful? It’s brutally to a bunch of food trucks. “And The Local head-on by a young man who were impacted. People weren’t “I had Liz with me for 38 painful,” says John. look at it. It was a great event. was, at press time, in critical sure what to do with her — she years, the best years of my life. But he is determined to focus People loved it.” Liz Hawley, wife to John, condition. was so strong and loving.” The boys had the best mom on all the good they have shared. Although as the developer mother to three adult sons and To all who knew her, she She was the matriarch of they could have had. This was Their glass wasn’t just half full, it of The Village subdivision, he their wives, and nana to six was a loving, generous spirit, the family, says John, “and she a tragic situation. But there will was overflowing, he says. was the face of so much that adored little ones between the motivated by faith in all she did. encouraged all of us to be close be no blame. We can’t let that “I ask myself why she chose happened there, “she was part ages of nine months and three It was because of her faith, to the Lord.” be her legacy. We will focus me, why she put up with me. I of everything I did. She was be- years, was entering what could her love of God, that she was Liz died suddenly, but she on what we had, not what we have no idea why. I lucked out, I side me every stop of the way,” have been the best stage of her life. able to have such love for oth- left without one unresolved is- might have had.” guess. I’m blessed. I have to focus he says. Instead, at the age of 60, she ers, says John. sue with anybody, John says. If He and the family have on that. It’s the right thing to do.” For a time, she poured her was taken tragically in an au- “She genuinely cared about there were ever any issues, with spent the last few days in Ridge- Whatever John did or ac- tomobile accident on Niagara people. She loved everybody. the family or anyone else, she’d way, in the cottage on Lake Erie complished in business, she Continued on page 5 2 August 6, 2020 THE NOTL LOCAL notllocal.com NOTL man arrested for alleged assault of protester Penny Coles protesters against horse- During the initial in- tinue to do their duty as tion of comments on social issue, he says. The Local drawn carriages. vestigation uniform offi- it relates to all parties in- media, Gavin says. “That “There are potential The man who has been cers were able to recover volved in the ongoing dis- escalation is not what we solutions out there.” After three years of pro- charged is not believed the property of the pro- pute over animal rights want.” On July 29, Mark tests against horse-drawn to be associated with the tester, the cell phone and and the carriage businesses Protesters and count- Giordani of Niagara-on- carriages in Niagara-on- Locals for Carriages, the the sign. in NOTL,” says McCaffery er-protesters often video the-Lake turned himself the-Lake, police have made group supporting local Last week, a day before in the July 24 public plea. activity between the two in and was arrested and their first arrest involving a carriage companies, says the incident in the Old “We will maintain our groups at the intersection, charged with the alleged member of the public and Const. Phil Gavin of the Town, Niagara Falls In- neutrality and continue one of the busiest in town criminal offences of assault an animal rights activist. NRP. spector James McCaffery to manage the situation during the tourist season, and theft. The NRP had The Niagara Region- Family members of the took the unusual step of using discretion, educa- and those videos are often reached out to him to ex- al Police have charged a accused man had been issuing a public statement tion, and where required, included on social media. plain his arrest was immi- 37-year-old Niagara-on- for a carriage ride that asking all those involved enforcement. We will con- For three years, the po- nent, Gavin says. the-Lake man with as- afternoon, and were ap- in the ongoing protests, in- tinue to avail ourselves to lice goal has been to pre- Giordani was released sault and theft, follow- proached by a protester cluding Locals for Carriag- both sides for discussion, serve peace for all involved, with a promise to appear at ing an altercation with a expressing his concern es counter-protesters, to as the maintaining of the including members of the a future court date. protester that occurred about horse-drawn car- participate in “meaningful public peace and safety for community and visitors The investigation re- Saturday, July 25, around riages. About 45 minutes discussions and negotia- all those involved, and the to the community, Gavin mains ongoing. Anyone 1 p.m., at the corner of later, a sign was taken from tions that speak to the core community remains para- says, but the core issues who may have witnessed King and Picton Streets the protester and bent in issues of the dispute, and mount to our officers.” have not being resolved. the incident is asked to in NOTL, an area of the half, and a cell phone was find some resolution.” Police are also con- “NOTL is not the first contact detectives at 905- Old Town frequented by also taken, says Gavin. “Our officers will con- cerned about the escala- to be challenged” with this 688-4111, extension 2200. Flashing green lights help volunteer firefighters teers any special privileg- area or the big cities. know people would want Drivers can help firefighters save es — they can’t speed or It can be frustrating for to help if they understood travel through red lights the firefighters, Plato says, what the lights mean.” precious seconds on way to emergency or stop signs, as their full- although the lack of un- Last week the Region time paid counterparts in derstanding has been an delivered about 20 new Penny Coles er drivers on the road that which could be a fire, a other municipalities do. issue for so long they’ve signs to NOTL, with re- The Local they are on their way to an traffic collision or a med- Although volunteer learned to accept it. minders about flashing emergency. ical emergency. departments have spent This issue is not about green lights. Some have In the province of It’s meant as a request It’s a courtesy request decades reminding driv- the community not doing already been installed on Ontario, volunteer fire- to drivers that they should reserved for volunteer fire ers of the meaning of the its part, he says. “The com- regional roads in town, fighters are permitted to pull over or let the vehicle departments, not man- flashing green lights, there munity as a whole embrac- and there will be a few equip their personal ve- pass, to allow the volun- datory legislation, says are always drivers who es it and accepts it. This more new ones on munic- hicles with flashing green teers to save potentially NOTL deputy fire chief don’t recognize the reason is about education and ipal roads, says Plato. Oth- lights, which are intended life-saving seconds arriv- Jay Plato. for them, says Plato. promotion, so more driv- er signs are being moved to send a message to oth- ing at their destination, It doesn’t give volun- Some may be new res- ers are aware of the lights to more visible locations, idents, who have moved and what they represent. in an attempt to educate to Niagara-on-the-Lake This is a tourism commu- drivers about the meaning from large urban areas nity, and people coming of flashing green lights, with paid full-time fire- to town from large cities which were legislated in fighters, and others are don’t understand volun- Ontario for use by volun- visitors from the Toronto teer fire departments.