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Vaccine plan should Native centre hosts vaccine clinic easily cover Executive director views priority vaccines as act of goodwill to Indigenous community 80-plus population: Disero

Richard Harley The Lake Report

NOTL’s three planned COVID-19 vaccine clinics should ensure that everyone in town over 80 who wants a shot gets one, Lord Mayor Betty Disero says. There are about 1,300 residents over 80 in town and the clinics at the community centre are expected to handle 400 people daily, meaning all those wanting the vaccine should get it. Niagara-on-the-Lake’s first COVID-19 vaccine clinic for people 80 and up will be March 31, about two weeks after the region’s first clinic in Niagara Falls and one week after the first in Welland. The public health clinic will be held inside the NOTL Community Cen- Niagara Regional Native Centre executive director Karl Dockstader is one of the last to get his dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at the tre auditorium and public centre’s Niagara-on-the-Lake facility. The clinic was put on by Niagara Region public health, which prioritized Indigenous communities. RICHARD HARLEY health officials say more than 400 people are expected to be vaccinated between Richard Harley region’s aim to make Indigenous “We’ve only been planning for Dockstader said the “priority” 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Lake Report people a priority for vaccinations. about three weeks and we’ve only was people 55 and older, but that all Two more NOTL clinics Karl Dockstader, executive direc- been collecting names really for Indigenous adults are eligible under will take place April 1 and A steady stream of people re- tor of the native centre, said about the past week, and this is so far the province’s rollout plan. 9. However, residents who ceived their COVID-19 vaccinations 500 people received vaccines dur- from what we do. So this has come “We organized it, and that was want the vaccine sooner can on Monday in Niagara-on-the-Lake ing the clinic. together really quick for us,” he said messy. Did we strictly get every in- book their shots at any during a clinic at the Niagara Re- It was a bit of a whirlwind putting in an interview during the clinic. digenous person that’s 55-plus only clinic in the region – or the gional Native Centre. it all together, with the centre doing Unlike the province’s vaccine on our list? We tried, we really province. The clinic was a partnership be- its own bookings and having to rollout for non-Indigenous people, tried.” tween Niagara Region public health change gears to essentially be a call the clinic saw people of various age Continued on Page 12 and the native centre, as part of the centre for a week, he said. groups receiving their shots. Continued on Page 8 Barbara Ahluwalia: Committed to our past and our future

Tim Taylor Kingdom. the small commemorative what it is.” The Lake Report Name a local community monument on the grounds It turns out the small organization and she has of the former Parliament monument is a kind of Even at almost 88 years probably dedicated many Oak School on King Street leftover from a summer of age, Barbara Ahluwalia years to its success — nurs- in Old Town. project in the late 1980s at has not lost a step in her ery school, Newark Neigh- “I used to walk a lot,” Artpark, the cultural centre commitment to the town she bours, library board, golf she remembers. “So, I’m in Lewiston, N.Y. It is one first saw 54 years ago this club board, the Pumphouse, walking by Parliament Oak of a number that were com- coming November, when and the list goes on. school and there is this little missioned that year to com- she and her young family But her eyes light up when monument. I have to go and emigrated from the United the conversation turns to poke my nose in and see Continued on Page 10 Barbara Ahluwalia, with her husband Ranjit. FILE PHOTO Page 2 March 18, 2021 Pharmacy: 905.468.2121 | Apothecary: 905.468.8400 *Regular-priced merchandise only. Excludes prescriptions, Philips Sonicare & Muse products, special orders, lottery, NEWS transit passes and codeine products. IN-STORE and ONLINE at simpsonspharmacy.ca Queen Street hoarding raises ire of NOTL councillors

Evan Saunders But that was quite some The Lake Report time ago. “Back in 2015, or something like that,” Lord Long-term construction Mayor Betty Disero told hoarding along two proper- council and the artwork has ties on Queen Street has be- faded with time. come an ongoing source of The town may once consternation for Niagara- again take it upon itself to on-the-Lake councillors, decorate the hoardings in a with the town looking at similar manner to lessen the creating a bylaw to limit impact of the properties as a how long hoarding can be visual eyesore on the com- used. munity, and give residents Hoarding fences and signs and visitors “something are put up around ongoing to look forward to,” Coun. construction projects to Wendy Cheropita said. obscure public view and The idea of redecorating prevent unwarranted entry the hoardings to make them onto dangerous properties. more visually appealing was And, after roughly Hoarding on Queen Street by Solmar Development Corp. RICHARD HARLEY favoured by councillors, but six years of hoarding on two Burroughs didn’t want the Queen Street properties, St., managed by Solmar He said he will be pursu- Burroughs is concerned completed,” Burroughs told town to misdirect its efforts. councillors are looking for Development Corp., and ing the creation of a bylaw with the impact that the The Lake Report. “I don’t want to lose ways to hurry the projects 65 Queen St., managed by to limit hoarding. two unfinished construction “The two properties on sight of the issue. This is along and maybe make the Niacon Ltd. Construction During the meeting, di- sites have on neighbouring each side are definitely fine about decorating the hoarding more visually ap- Company. rector of operations Sheldon buildings and residents. affected by it and it doesn’t hoardings, (but) my initial pealing while it is up. Neither Solmar nor Nia- Randall told councillors the “The smaller property seem fair to me.” problem is the hoardings. At a committee of the con responded to requests town had previously been has a lot of water in the As spring draws near the Somehow, we have to put whole meeting March 4, for comment before press in touch with both owners hole that they dug, and town is beginning to invest time (limits) on these,” Bur- Coun. Gary Burroughs time. of the properties and that, it can’t be healthy for time in cleaning up the roughs told councillors. raised the concern to In an interview on Tues- due to challenges related to the neighbours or any- various public amenities He also stressed that this senior staff in hopes that day, Burroughs said the lack engineering and COVID, body else,” Burroughs that visitors will be using in is not supposed to be an they could find a legal of response and action from the “circumstances are out told council. NOTL. The businesses on antagonistic issue between mechanism to limit the the companies is an issue of of our control.” Standing pools of water Queen Street, near where the town and developers, but length of time that hoard- goodwill with the town and Burroughs decried using can be nesting sites for the hoardings are located, rather an attempt for both ing can be up. its residents. COVID as an excuse. various pests and bacteria, are one of the main draws to co-operate in order to see It “can’t just be allowed to “I understand that some- “I can’t believe Solmar is notably for mosquitoes, for visitors to the town. these buildings finished. go on forever,” Burroughs times there’s legal things using COVID as an issue according to ontariotrails. In the past the Communi- “It’s not for the benefit of said. that have to be wrapped for not building. There’s on.ca. ties in Bloom committee only one side. It’s saying, Although the town is up. But the problem is the about 25 buildings going “And not only that, it was tasked with decorating ‘We want you to be success- looking to address the issue neighbours have put up with on in downtown, including becomes a structural issue the hoardings with im- ful, get on with it, and let’s of hoardings in general, the all this development for a residential and commercial for the buildings next door. ages of what the proper- make the town and Queen conversation was spurred long time and these compa- sites. They’re all over the Because they’ve dug down ties will look like when Street look more beautiful by projects at 165 Queen nies should get it done.” place.” quite a ways and then not completed. than it does now.’” Marotta drops heritage designation lawsuit for Rand Estate

Richard Harley party status in the hearing. regarding the town’s notices The Lake Report According to an email of intent to designate the sent to SORE’s support- other two properties of the Developer Benny Marotta ers Wednesday, Marotta’s Rand Estate, 200 John St. has dropped his controver- companies paid the town E. and 588 Charlotte St. sial lawsuit challenging the and SORE a combined under the Heritage Act. town’s historic designation $170,000 in costs in order The challenge is sched- of two properties that make to walk away from the uled to be heard in early up the Rand Estate. appeal. July. Niagara-on-the-Lake Marotta did not respond Marotta had originally council designated the to a request for comment planned to build a seven- properties, 177 and 244 before press time. storey hotel and conference John St. E., during its “In SORE’s view, the centre on the 177 and 244 final meeting of 2020 on Marotta court challenge John St. E. properties, but Dec. 21. was always spurious and abandoned those plans last Marotta filed his initial a thinly veiled attempt to October when he listed the lawsuit to challenge the bully the town and its resi- properties for sale for $19 town’s intention to desig- dents,” the group said. million. nate the properties in 2018. “SORE is grateful for the Marotta has said he still The Ontario Superior able support of the town in intends to follow through Court rejected Marotta’s pushing back against these with a subdivision on the challenge and awarded bully tactics.” remaining two proper- costs to the town and resi- Marotta is maintaining ties. He bought the four dent group Save Our Rand his challenge before the properties in February 2017 Developer Benny Marotta has abandoned his plans for a hotel on the Rand Estate. Estate, which was granted Conservation Review Board for $7.25 million. SUPPLIED Page 3 Proud to support our local news! March 18, 2021

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Evan Saunders facilities be closed, followed Special to The Lake Report by restaurants and businesses closing their doors and As spring’s warm weather bathrooms for customers. and sunshine invariably And then winter set in, clos- draw nearer, Niagara-on- ing down all of the remain- the-Lake councillors are ing public washrooms but preparing for an influx of one near the Court House. visitors by looking at ways “That created a public to ensure public amenities health issue of a different are ready and programs kind,” Disero told The Lake are under way to promote Report. public safety and COVID Visitors are already starting to return to NOTL. FILE As a result, the town got precautions. permission to reopen its It is no secret that NOTL ily closing parks, “for a She saw the ambassadors public washrooms. But with is a beloved community for month or so,” according to as a valued addition to the the cold weather, only a provincial and international Burroughs. This would be town during the pandemic. single washroom is avail- tourists. Visitors come to done to give town staff the They alleviate the burden able. enjoy its natural beauty, opportunity to clean up the placed on bylaw officers “And that’s always world-class vineyards, and parks and perform repairs by enabling them to “cover been enough. But what to peruse its businesses and before a large influx of more ground” and they we learned last year was, heritage sites. people start regularly visit- serve as “goodwill ambas- because of COVID, more “As soon as the sun comes ing the town. sadors to people that are people came wanting to do out in Niagara-on-the-Lake, “I don’t believe we are coming into town, just to things outdoors,” Disero the streets and the parks going to do that,” Disero ensure that everybody’s act- said. become very full,” Coun. said. “The parks will re- ing safe,” Disero said. She said staff are con- Gary Burroughs said at a main open as staff cut the Chief administrator Mar- sidering winterizing more committee of the whole grass, clean up, put things nie Cluckie told council- washrooms to accommodate meeting on March 8. in order. Now that’s just me, lors at a committee of the the influx of early visitors. And while the town reaps there are nine members on whole meeting on March 15 Earlier this week the On- economic benefits when vis- council.” that “it would be great if tario Hospital Association itors come, officials are “Our staff will work as they could help out again.” announced that Ontario was concerned rising COVID diligently as they do every Disero expects to know by entering into a third wave cases mean this is a time for year to bring the parks up to the end of the month on of the pandemic, caused increased, not decreased, standard.” whether the Shaw Guild by increasing cases of new co-operation with COV- The town has also been will restart the program. COVID variants combined ID-19 safety measures. actively discussing re- Councillors are also con- with the original coronavi- “We are always discussing introducing the popular cerned by the limited num- rus strain. how we can help busi- NOTL ambassadors pro- ber of public washrooms “As always, keep your nesses and how we can help grams active last year. that are open this early in distance, wear a mask, and residents. First and foremost There are two ambassador the year, when cold snaps wash your hands,” Disero is the safety of the citizens programs. One for parks are still possible and prevent advised. of Niagara-on-the-Lake, run by the town and a vol- unwinterized washrooms “I’m hopeful that if we all and everything follows from unteer program overseen by from opening. stay vigilant then we will there,” Lord Mayor Betty the Shaw Guild to engage And COVID has created a not be so severely impacted Disero said in an interview visitors in Old Town and perfect storm of washroom by the third wave as we Tuesday. ensure they are following difficulties for the town. were with the second. The Councillors are discussing COVID protocols, Disero The province originally light at the end of the tunnel the possibility of temporar- said. mandated that all public is the vaccines.” New bylaw will ban drinking, BBQs in parks

Richard Harley a few pops in the park,” adding that if there was The Lake Report Wiens said. “And here we trouble, it’s likely police have a bylaw that now says would be called. Niagara-on-the-Lake is (it isn’t allowed),” Wiens Wiens took issue with the getting a parks bylaw. warned councillors. ban on barbecues. The draft bylaw, presented Coun. Allan Bisback “The last thing is just on a to the committee of the raised concerns about personal note. I’ve never felt whole on Monday, is based NOTL’s ongoing problem that having a hibachi, or a on bylaws used by many with enforcement and ques- small barbecue in a park is other municipalities across tioned how these new laws a bad thing,” he said. the province, said direc- SOURCED IMAGE would be enforced, espe- He added he’s talked to tor of operations Sheldon cially on busy weekends. fire chief Nick Ruller about Randall. ing in the park by increas- Randall said last sum- it and there have been no New rules include most ing the $75 fine. mer barbecuing in parks fire incidents related to parks closing by 10 p.m., no Coun. Erwin Wiens point- prompted a lot of most com- barbecues. Did you know? drinking in parks and no ed out Premier Doug Ford plaints, but without a bylaw, Aside from that, he sup- The Lake Report’s printer sources 100 per fires of any kind, including said there’s no problem with the town couldn’t enforce ported the bylaw. cent of its paper fibre from industry-leading cooking fires. drinking in parks. anything. “It’s a very well written paper mills, which use quick-growth, sustainable, renewable plots of land, rather Coun. Clare Cameron also “I personally witnessed “Now our park staff, with bylaw and it does give a than clear-cutting forests. asked if the bylaw could be our premier last summer, so this new bylaw will be able lot of teeth for our bylaw The ink is also vegetable-based. more strict on metal detect- what’s wrong with having to enforce that,” he said, officers.” Editorial: The ‘stay home’ stretch

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The Lake Report OPINION Editorial Good news for NOTLers 80+ who want the vaccine

Richard Harley part of the plan right. It would have been help- hope the region is much Editor-In-Chief: Richard Harley Editor-In-Chief So, kudos to public ful for NOTL residents clearer and more informa- Managing Editor: Kevin MacLean health. The only amend- over 80 to have the infor- tive about how it all is Publisher: Niagara Now If you’re like us, the first ment we’d offer is, why not mation last week, or even supposed to work. Design & Layout: Richard Harley reaction to Niagara Re- do those clinics on three earlier, when worries were It’s commendable that Advertising: Rob Lamond, Lisa Jeffrey gion’s plan for COVID-19 consecutive days and be swirling about how this public health decided to Contributors: Brittany Carter, Jessica Maxwell, vaccine clinics for those done? rollout was going to work. open clinics across the Jill Troyer, Tim Taylor, Denise Ascenzo, over age 80 in Niagara- On the other hand, the This was an oversight region so seniors wouldn’t Linda Fritz, Dr. William Brown, Brian Marshall, on-the-Lake, might have region needs to improve that may have caused have to travel far. A win. NOTL Museum, Susan Des Islets, Gail Kendall, been: what the heck ... the way it shares informa- unnecessary angst It looks as if NOTL is on Norm Arsenault, Patty Garriock, Three clinics over a 10- tion and communicates. among residents who track to have all of its 80- Steve Hardaker, Ross Robinson, Tim Carroll, day span and only 400 or Lord Mayor Betty Disero noticed NOTL’s vaccine plus population vaccinated NOTL Writers’ Circle, Lisa Tache, so people per day getting thinks public health offi- clinics don’t start until two before mid-April. Another Megan Vanderlee, and many more members vaccinated seemed like cials could have done a lot weeks after they began in win. of the NOTL community under-achieving. better job of letting people Niagara Falls. And public health is say- But looking more know how the vaccine NOTL, of course, duti- ing that soon, pharmacies closely, we now understand clinics will work. And we fully pays more than its and family doctors will be that with 1,300 folks in agree. fair share of taxes to the able to vaccinate patients. NOTL over age 80, those Despite the clinics being region, so it is understand- Yet another win (once it 1,200 vaccinations basi- open to anyone from any able of residents to ask, happens). COVID cally mean everyone who municipality, the region “Well, what about us?” Positive steps, finally. wants the shot should be didn’t really make it clear With many retirees, this Meantime, we urge every- able to get one. Many over- to people until this week community has a large one to trust the science and Tracker 80s have already got their that you don’t have to stay number of older folks, so get your shot at the earliest jabs in St. Catharines, so it in your hometown to get when those under 80 are opportunity.. seems the region got that the jab. eligible for vaccines we [email protected] NOTL active cases: 8 Region active cases: 305 Region deaths: 373 Region total cases: 9,052 Region resolved cases: 8,374 Region variant cases: 119 *Mar. 17 data per Niagara Region Public Health Science should dictate vaccine decisions

Dear editor: cet in the United Kingdom in Ontario the most effec- more people more quickly. I am writing in response showed that the AstraZen- tive public health goal is to When recently asked to Tom Thornton’s letter, eca vaccine had a real world vaccinate as many people which vaccine he would “Why opt for vaccine only effectiveness of 82 per as quickly as possible to not accept if it were offered to 62% effective,” (March 11) cent after two doses. This only prevent the original him, Dr. Anthony Fauci re- regarding the AstraZeneca led the Canadian National virus from spreading but the sponded: “I would take the Contributed by Patty Garriock vaccine. Advisory Committee on new variant as well. one that’s offered to me.” “A full life is not determined by how long Sometimes a selective Immunization (NACI) on If, for any reason, any Given that the AstraZen- presentation of data can be March 16 to recommend of the 40 million doses of eca vaccine showed it was you live, but by how well you live.” misleading. the AstraZeneca vaccine Moderna vaccine ordered able to prevent hospital- The efficacy rate of a vac- for persons over 65 as being by the Canadian govern- ization in 100 per cent of cine in a clinical trial does effective. ment were to be delayed in cases of people who are not actually predict its ef- Furthermore, this vac- their delivery to Canada, vaccinated, does it not HOW TO GET IN TOUCH fectiveness in the population cine is effective against this would slow down our make sense to use it if it is that is being immunized in the B.1.1.7 variant, which national vaccination rate. If, available? Email: the real world. The reason is becoming the predomi- however, an Astra Zeneca By presenting all the facts Letters: [email protected] for this is quite simple: in nant variant in the U.S. It vaccine is available, would in a clear and concise man- Story Ideas: [email protected] the clinical trial there are is predicted that, unless it not make sense from a ner perhaps we can avoid Advertising: [email protected] very strict criteria for enrol- immunizations accelerate, public health standpoint to maligning the politicians Phone ment, whereas in the general this variant will become vaccinate as many people as who are trying their best to Newsroom: 905-359-2270 population these criteria do the more dominant version quickly as possible? follow the science. Should Advertising Department: 905-246-4671 not necessarily apply. and it could lead to a 64 per If our rule is to achieve the science not dictate their Office Address A recently published cent increase in deaths. herd immunity as quickly decisions? 496 Mississagua St., NOTL, Ontario, Canada. study in the prestigious As we enter our third as possible then we need to Robin Jinchereau Mailing Address scientific journal The Lan- wave of the pandemic do a better job vaccinating Virgil PO Box 724, Niagara-on-the-Lake, L0S1J0 Have a lead on a story? The Lake Report welcomes your letters to the editor. Please, write early and often. Letters ideally should be under 400 words long. Occasionally, longer letters may be published. All letters may be Call 905.359.2270 or send an email We welcome edited for conciseness, accuracy, libel and defamation. Please include your full name, street address to [email protected] and a daytime telephone number so that authorship can be authenticated. Only names and general to [email protected] your letters addresses (eg. Virgil, St. Davids, NOTL) will be published. Send your letters to [email protected] or drop them by our office at 496 Mississagua St., NOTL. INDOOR DINING 7 DAYS A WEEK . 12-8PM WOODFIRED PIZZA . PASTA . WINE . BEER . GROCERY DINE-IN . TAKEOUT . DELIVERY . 289-819-0179 Page 5 March 18, 2021 OPINION Conservatives secure support for tourism

Tony Baldinelli those workers in the hardest important jobs. We know portions, Canadians deserve Special to The Lake Report hit sectors who have been that these jobs matter and far better from their federal heavily impacted by the they are vital to our national government. Tourism is a major driver COVID-19 pandemic. economic future. As your MP, I was pleased of the economy of Niagara- These Canadians depend Disappointingly, the to second this motion on-the-Lake. on industries like hospi- Trudeau government voted because I knew it was sup- Tourists are attracted here tality, tourism, charities, against this motion. Despite porting the best interests for our scenic wine tours, airlines, and small- and the Liberals’ resistance, I of our riding. I understand our rich history, our exqui- medium-sized businesses am thankful my colleagues how important tourism is site culinary and shopping to provide for their families in the NDP and Bloc for our local community, experiences, our beautifully – and they need our support Quebecois understand its especially having worked in manicured gardens and pic- now. The simple fact is that importance, and frankly, this sector with the Niagara turesque scenery. Before the these jobs must be saved. this motion should have Parks Commission for 18 onset of COVID-19, people For over a year, Canada’s been accepted unanimously years before I was elected in came from around the world Conservatives have been by all parties. October 2019. to enjoy all that Niagara-on- calling upon the government Throughout this pan- With your continued the-Lake has to offer. to present a sector-specific demic, Canadians have been support, I will continue to Last week when I was tourism recovery plan. let down by this govern- proudly represent you and in Ottawa, my Conserva- Our goal in doing so, is to ment. Whether it was their raise the issues of impor- tive colleagues and other secure jobs, pensions, and to failure to get Canadians tance to the residents of opposition parties, secured quicken Canada’s economic their vaccines in a timely Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ni- the support of the House recovery by helping these manner, their overt scan- agara Falls and Fort Erie. of Commons for a motion heavily impacted sectors dalous behaviour, or their Tony Baldinelli is the that calls on the federal and their workers. We can- brazen move to prorogue Conservative member of government to respond to not allow the pandemic to Parliament in the middle of Parliament for Niagara the needs and concerns of permanently erase these a pandemic of historic pro- Falls riding. Seniors conflicted on AstraZeneca vaccine

Dear editor: In a similar manner they than AstraZeneca? Europe about blood clots Thousands of Cana- professed to the provinces There appears to be and deaths. We need a dian seniors over the age extending the medical pro- an inordinate amount of world spokesperson who of 65, typically the more fessionals’ recommended political influence on these will speak with one au- cautious sector of the popu- time between the first and conflicting guidelines, both thoritative voice on these lation, are conflicted over the second shot, from from the scientific and matters. the use of the COVID-19 two to three weeks out to pharmaceutical manufactur- Not Prime Minister Jus- vaccine from AstraZeneca. three months and now four ing world. Perhaps it is a tin Trudeau, Premier Doug As close to 20 countries months. It seems to be a real self-preservation reaction as Ford or Ret. Gen. Rick worldwide pause its use, shotgun reaction to lack both are highly dependent Hillier, who all have a Canada in recent days of supply and the rush to on billions of dollars in vested interest in creating has been swift to do a extend vaccines to as many research grants from their a diversion away from their U-turn and approve it for se- residents as possible. respective governments. collective vaccine rollout niors over 65. Was this, they Question: Will Dr. Musta- As a consequence of fiasco. Left to them, they ask, a political rather than a fa Hirji and his team mem- these conflicting signals, will next be recommend- pure scientific decision and bers, and Sean Simpson, for seniors in large numbers ing we get a flu shot every influenced in large part by example, representing the will refuse the AstraZeneca two years. the lack of vaccine deliver- pharmacy section, strongly vaccine. They are scared Samuel Young ies here in Canada? advocate for vaccines, other with all the reports out of NOTL

American in NOTL left behind with vaccine rollout The Niagara-on-the-lake Chamber of Commerce presents Dear editor: because I am American. where we live part-time. So, where is the recipro- My wife is 81. She is I am here because she is Meanwhile, my friends in cation? I cannot go over the The 2021 State of the Town Canadian and just made an being treated for cancer. I Florida have indicated that border since it is closed for appointment for the vaccine. will remain until the treat- Canadians have travelled automobile travel. with Lord Mayor Betty Disero She also tried to make the ments are complete. to Florida to receive their Ralph Dangelmaier Moderated by Chamber President Eduardo R. Lafforgue same for me, age 83, but failed We are not in Florida, vaccination. NOTL Wednesday March 24th 2021 at 7:00 pm To register for the event or to submit a question for the Lord Mayor please email [email protected] Dog owners leaving poop bags all over golf course or call 905-468-1950 Kindly Sponsored by: Dear editor: I mentioned this last year over our new fence at the not acceptable to just throw The Niagara-on-the-Lake and, to be honest, it’s way shop and their bags end up your dog bags anywhere Golf Course has come worse this year. on cart roofs. out there. through the winter in perfect People are picking up People have to remember It’s a pretty nice place condition. We now have staff there dog poop but leav- that this is not a dog park to walk and let your dogs in and have begun to get ing the little bags all over – it’s a golf course. If this play. Please pick up after your things ready for opening day. the golf course. Many bags keeps up we will seriously pet and properly dispose of it. Advertising inquiries? However, something we have just been left behind think about not allowing Mike Magwood Email [email protected] have been seeing out on the and, in some cases, people dogs any more. Superintendent or call Rob at 905.246.4671 course this year is not good. have been throwing them I hate saying that but it’s NOTL Golf Club

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Brittney Cutler end of this year, if not this and take time to enjoy what and tourism. Special to The Lake Report summer, we’ll be able to they’ve got, but we are for- As mayor during this move around more freely. tunate and had no hardships unprecedented year, she It’s now been a year Another mother, Amy staying home.” says she faced a lot of since the coronavirus hit Post, says her family After a year of living with hard decisions and that has and changed life as we all has been very lucky, but the pandemic, the big- been tough on her person- knew it. it hasn’t been without its gest surprise was that she ally. For many in Niagara-on- hiccups. “wasn’t going back to my “The stress of how to the-Lake, the COVID-19 “I used to work for NOTL hotel work. I loved my team make the town a safer place pandemic has meant tough for Vintage Hotels, as a con- and I miss our adventures,” for all our citizens has been times as they coped with tract worker, doing the floral says Post. something with me for a lost business, repeated and decor work around A year ago if anyone year now,” she says. lockdowns and #stayhome town. It was announced (last had suggested this pan- She focused on commu- orders. Amy Post, Isaac Post, Robin Post and Colin Post prioritize year) on March 17 that we demic year was coming, “I nication and trying to “give Kathryn Hoshkiw feels family time during COVID. SUPPLIED no longer were needed as wouldn’t have believed it.” people information that will lucky. The mother of two the hotels would be closing Lord Mayor Betty Disero help them make decisions has weathered the pandemic tant and researcher. “We have been staying at for a while,” Post says. says NOTL residents have during this COVID-19 well and is happy that her “The only way it (the home. My oldest daughter Her husband, Colin, a tech been very supportive of all period and trying to ensure kids are excelling with their pandemic) affected me was has done her second year teacher, has been stressed the measures taken by the that the information that online studies. income slightly because I of university at home, my from changing from in-class town over the past year. goes out to the public is ac- “They can easily access gave up consulting at some other daughter has been to online classes. As well, “The citizens of Niagara- curate,” says Disero. their professors, the live northern farms last year, in and out of Grade 12, he has dealt with a chron- on-the-Lake have been ex- “Although the complete classes are at great hours, so I would not have to stay and our youngest has been ic, non-COVID cough since emplary. Their diligence to reopening will be differ- they’ve taken the time to join with my mother when in online for Grade 4,” Miele August. stay safe and to keep people ent than what it was before, clubs, groups and participate that area,” she says. says. “My wife has been Post says that for the time around them safe, they have we may have to continue virtually,” Hoshkiw says. “I didn’t want to risk her running our household and being at home, her two kids done everything they can wearing masks for a longer She thinks her children health on the off-chance I has been the glue for our have been doing house work including helping the town,” period of time,” she says. “I will feel more prepared became infected unknow- family.” to keep busy and helped says Disero. believe our economy will once they get back on cam- ingly,” Hoshkiw says. “And He looks forward to a her husband renovate their “There has been an come back. It will be slow, pus because they took this research opportunities were return to normalcy. basement, which flooded overwhelming amount of but it will come back.” year to work out a routine down considerably, which is “Honestly, within the next in January. But taking time support for each other and, HOW ARE YOU COP- for when and how to get the bulk of my income, but couple of months, once the for family is also really in that regard, it has brought ING?: Let us know how work done without being we managed.” vaccines have rolled out to important. the community a little you are adapting to life after stressed and still have time Former town council- the residents and to the rest “We take more time now closer together.” 12 months of COVID-19. for leisure at home. lor Paolo Miele, a father of of Canada, we are going to to spend time with each Disero says the pandemic What are you doing differ- As for Hoshkiw’s occupa- three, says the pandemic slowly get back to normal,” other, keeping life simpler,” has had a devastating effect ently? How has it affected tion, she works from home hasn’t been easy for his says Miele. says Post. “I hope people on the local economy par- your life? Email editor@ all winter as a farm consul- family. He anticipates that by the are able to slow down a bit ticularly the wine industry niagaranow.com

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Museum lecture looks at Queenston Quarry

Barbara Worthy Special to The Lake Report

The NOTL Museum’s virtual lecture series continues March 24 with Frank Racioppo’s presentation, “The Queenston Quarry.” His lecture promises to unlock the secrets of this magnificent site overlooking the Niagara Peninsula, where ancient geological forces and retreating gla- ciers gave rise to the extraordinary biosphere of the Niagara Escarpment. The Queenston Quarry The Queenston Quarry cement works. SUPPLIED/NOTL MUSEUM is home to natural, geological and cultural resources River for military use. Queenston stone has been are creating a sense of place that provide a rich histori- But an influx of Loyalists prized by masons, builders that is a totally unique cal significance to the land. gradually saw the growth and architects for some of residential and recreational Racioppo will present an in- of early settlements and, Canada’s most important experience. And will always depth look at this diversity eventually, an agricultural and monumental buildings. honour its history and its and productivity, as well as plan was established, which Racioppo will highlight beauty.” its Indigenous and settler included the quarry site. the journey of this historic So join the NOTL history. From the day in 1837 limestone. Museum on Wednesday, The rehabilitation of the when stonecutter John Racioppo is a real estate March 24 at 11 a.m. and dis- quarry provides a unique Brown removed the first lawyer, founder and co- cover more about the bold parallel into the history and large cut stones from the owner of the Queenston and beautiful Queenston evolution of Upper Canada. quarry, and railroads criss- Quarry Reclamation project. Quarry. The lands fell under the crossed the Escarpment, “The quarry’s next era Registration is required: auspices of the 1764 Treaty this site has symbolized is designed to capture and www.nhsm.ca/events. For of Niagara, which reserved growth, productivity and embrace its natural and cul- more info email: aklassen@ land along the Niagara industrial development. tural richness,” he says. “We nhsm.ca. Lots going on as RiverBrink gears for spring

Colin Brezicki and future exhibitions, Special to The Lake Report including “Centre and Periphery: Group of Seven, Spring is upon us and Canadian Impressionism” RiverBrink Art Museum in and “Botanicals” can also Queenston has much going be found on the website. on for art lovers and those The site also provides de- who would like to expand tails of “RiverBrink Reads,” their knowledge and explore virtual discussions of art- their own creativity. related books, and “Film As a volunteer I miss Screenings,” a four-week spending time in Samuel RiverBrink Art Museum. FILE PHOTO series celebrating Canadian Weir’s former residence, women who made a differ- with its extensive collection In the meantime, pro- Another online event is ence in the arts, politics and of paintings, books and arte- gramming continues via “Coffee with the Curator,” medicine. facts generously bequeathed Zoom. Art historian Penny- held on the second Friday And hopefully before to the community on his Lynn Cookson’s lecture of each month. In this long de Lazzer will be death in 1981. series, “Art and Revolu- month’s session, director/ conducting her yoga classes Did you know? I look forward to when I tion – From Cave Art to curator Debra Antoncic in the beautiful gardens Niagara Now’s printer sources 100 per cent of can return in person. Direc- the Future,” follows the guided Zoom guests on a overlooking the river. its paper fibre from industry-leading paper mills, tor/curator Debra Antoncic evolutionary path of artistic tour of the current ex- There’s lots going on at which use quick-growth, sustainable, renewable and programming and creativity from hunter/gath- hibition “Oh, the places RiverBrink during CO- plots of land, rather than clear-cutting forests. curatorial assistant Sonya erers to the rise and fall of you’ll go,” featuring water VID and much more will The ink is also vegetable-based. de Lazzer are also looking empires to the robots of the colours of an array of happen when restrictions forward to welcoming visi- future. destinations from Geor- are eased. Stay tuned for tors to the gallery. Having attended her gian Bay to Jamaica to the further announcements Advertising inquiries? A date and details for the fascinating presentations on port cities of Liverpool and visit www.riverbrink. Email us at spring opening reception Caravaggio and Leonardo and Marseilles. Previous org for information about [email protected] will be announced soon. in the past I can personally sessions of “Coffee with membership and details of or call Rob at 905-246-4671 They are excited to host attest to her knowledge, the Curator” are available our events. the exhibition “Power,” a clarity and compelling on YouTube. Just follow Colin Brezicki is a video and audio installation visuals. The series runs the link on the River- member and volunteer at by artist Elizabeth Chitty, on Thursdays from now Brink website. RiverBrink Art Museum in opening April 22. through April 29. Information about past Queenston. Page 8 March 18, 2021 NEWS

Left: Keanan Heil, 21, from Beamsville, receives his Pfizer vaccine on Monday at the Niagara Regional Native Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Top right: Traditional Indigenous medicines used for smudging were available. Middle right: People wait distanced after getting their vaccines. Bottom Right: Mary English gets her vaccine. RICHARD HARLEY PHOTOS Indigenous community receives vaccinations

Continued from Front Page equipped to do,” he says, including Hamilton and “Sometimes Indigenous Dockstader said. do for a long time, and but “we did it.” Beamsville, though Dock- people have been skeptical That grew out of the I hope this is the first of Fort Erie’s native centre stader said most people because of the history of “historical mistrust, but many partnerships we have had already had two clinics came from Niagara Falls health care providers and I actually think that this with them.” and Monday’s in Niagara- The idea that and St. Catharines, “but Indigenous people, whether is an act of goodwill,” Dockstader, who is under on-the-Lake was the third we can have a we have a few people it’s nutrition experiments he said, adding there are 55, was on a backup list for for the Indigenous commu- “ from Niagara-on-the-Lake or the forced sterilization medical reasons to address vaccines, and was able to nity in the region. clinic like this is here.” of our women, or whether Indigenous people first. get his Monday as well. He Organizing something on exactly the type Dockstader said he’s it’s the stereotyping that “Unfortunately Indige- waited until the end of the such a massive scale is not of action that it appreciative of the region’s sometimes happens with nous people are over-repre- day to make sure everyone something the native cen- takes to build the decision to prioritize vac- medical professionals,” he sented in diabetes and high else got theirs. tres are used to or prepared trust that needs to cines for the Indigenous said. blood pressure and general “I am the leader here, for, Dockstader said. community. “So the idea that we can comorbidities. But I also and my teaching is that “The Fort Erie Friend- happen.” “Niagara Region public have a clinic like this is ex- think it’s the most fair and leaders go last. So we ship Centre shut off their KARL DOCKSTADER health has been amaz- actly the type of action that equitable thing to do.” make sure everyone’s phones on Monday, and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ing to work with. They’re it takes to build the trust “There was no script for taken care of and then from Monday until Friday NIAGARA REGIONAL NATIVE CENTRE consummate professionals. that needs to happen.” this, for us or for public after, if there’s enough and night last week, our phones Where we’ve had ques- Some members of the health. But the Friendship if public health deems it were rendered useless. tions, they’ve been very Indigenous community Centre has been working appropriate, then I’ll get People could barely get The clinic attracted In- quick with answers and I’m have been skeptical about in community for over 40 vaccinated today,” he said through to get service.” digenous vaccine-seekers really happy about that,” why they are at the front of years, and public health before he knew if he’d be “It’s just not what we’re from various regions, he said. the line for vaccinations, has been doing what they getting his shot.

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Richard Harley The Lake Report

Former Canadian Olym- pic swimmer Elaine Tanner is happy to have somewhere to go get some exercise again. The Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre opened its doors again Monday, with a maximum of 10 people at once allowed to use its track and fitness facilities, by appointment only. Tanner was one of the only people in the building Tuesday afternoon, working out on the elliptical machine. She said it’s a big positive for the community, not just Elaine Tanner uses the elliptical at the community centre on Tuesday. RICHARD HARLEY for physical health, but also for mental health. and won three swimming just thankful that we were with orange rope and chairs. “I’ve missed it so much,” medals at the 1968 Olym- open,” he said. Turcotte said about 50 Court House she said. “It’s such a great pics in Mexico City. With the new rules chang- people used the facilities on emotional outlet for peo- She said it “feels like a erooms, showers and lock- the first day of reopening. ple. And with COVID you decade” since the centre ers are closed, he said. Just “With the weather turn- want to keep healthy and closed and she was unable bathrooms remain open. ing a little bit nicer, people floor replaced keep your weight down to visit the gym. People also have to enter are looking to kind of because people will sit Monday’s opening went and exit in separate areas get ready to be able to go around in the house and well, said NOTL’s man- and staff is sanitizing equip- walking outside or some Niagara-on-the-Lake resident Chris Allen sent in these eat. And you don’t want to ager of parks and recreation ment regularly. Equipment people are just used to us- photos of construction work at the Court House’s Market do that.” Kevin Turcotte. is also spaced three metres ing this facility,” he said. Room on Queen Street. Tanner, 70, was nick- “Everybody kind of was apart. “It’s part of their daily The floor is being replaced as part of the 2020 capital named “Mighty Mouse” learning about the new The track has been moved routine and when it comes budget, with cement poured on Wednesday, said Kevin for her exploits in the pool process and everybody was to the auditorium, marked available, that’s great.” Turcotte, the town’s manager of parks and recreation. Flooring should be done a couple of weeks after the concrete cures. $1M grant will help Shaw stage summer shows

Gail Kendall and boosting the region’s Special to The Lake Report economy. Jennings noted that with The nearly $1-million the impact of COVID on grant the Shaw Festival is people’s mental health, the receiving from the pro- importance of the arts “on vincial government will the health and well-being be used to help staff and of the community has never performers prepare for been made clearer. The arts the 2021 season – though is a reflection of society exactly what this year’s around us.” shows will look like is un- In announcing the contri- known at the moment. bution, tourism and culture Executive director Tim minister Lisa MacLeod ac- Jennings says the Shaw is knowledged, “Arts organi- Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane with Andrew Broderick. grateful for the $999,593 it PETER ANDREW LUSZTYK zations make an important is receiving as part of $25 contribution to our prov- million in COVID-related If indoor shows are able from 2020 will be returning, ince, providing thousands of funding the government is to resume, theatre capacity but last year’s lost season jobs for musicians, writers, giving to arts organizations is expected to be substan- and ongoing COVID con- painters, actors, dancers, across the province. tially reduced. Meanwhile, cerns have prompted some stagehands and the many The Shaw, which has al- Jennings said the com- people to change direction others working behind the ready been forced to cancel pany is preparing to hold and find work elsewhere, scenes.” “Gypsy,” a major production more outdoor shows this and others are expanding “Providing the help that was held over from last year in various venues and their families, he said. they need is a critical part year’s cancelled season, will work with the exist- Both Jennings and Lord of our plan to support hopes the money will keep ing relationships built with Mayor Betty Disero said individuals, families and artists and behind-the- some wineries when the the provincial grant rec- job creators impacted by scenes staff working on Shaw staged its concert ognizes the role the Shaw the virus, while laying the outdoor and other produc- series last year. and Niagara-on-the-Lake foundation for a strong tions this season. Many of the performers play in attracting visitors economic recovery.” Page 10 March 18, 2021 NEWS

Left: The inscription on the Parliament Oak monument quotes famous American abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, who helped rescue hundreds of enslaved people, using the Underground Railroad. Tubman lived for a short period on North Street in St. Catharines. Right: Barbara Ahluwalia is an avid golfer and got in some early practice last week at NOTL Golf Club. JANICE WHITE PHOTO Committed to the past and future of NOTL

Continued from Front Page centre of the northwest England cot- ton milling industry, to start a nursing memorate the spirit of the families career. who helped secure the safety of slaves Her father had served in the First escaping from the Deep South on the World War. “When he came out, he Underground Railroad. got a job on the railway,” Ahluwalia When the summer installation remembers. “He played golf until he ended, Parliament Oak school was got married and had four kids. My chosen as the site for the permanent parents went through two wars and a presentation of one of the monu- Depression. We always said — and ments. The remainder are along the still do — ‘don’t waste.’” banks of Niagara River in western “My mother was very handy. She New York. could do anything. I learned to knit at Parliament Oak was considered the a very early age. You never had empty prefect spot for the little monument, hands in our house.” having been the historic site of the She describes her youth as happy signing of the Emancipation Compro- and carefree. “We were as free as mise of 1783, an act to severely limit birds in those days.” slavery in Upper Canada. “I can’t say I was a brilliant student. “Very few people in town seem to A friend of mine down the road was know it’s there,” she says. going to go for an interview at a Ahluwalia is worried the new hospital in Manchester, so a couple developer might not understand the of us went along. ‘Elsie’s going, why value of the monument to the commu- don’t we go with her?’ So, the three of nity. She wants it moved to Voices of us all tooted off on the bus to Man- Freedom Park, which opened in 2018 chester.” at Regent and Johnson streets. By 1954, Ahluwalia received her “I’ve spoken to quite a few people nursing accreditation and by the about having it moved,” she says. “I late 1950s she had done the medical just don’t want to lose it with the rede- rounds in middle England and was velopment of the school property.” looking for more. Once again, her Find it a new home at Voices of wanderlust took hold. FreedomPark “would be absolutely “I had a nursing friend in Nairobi. Barbara Ahluwalia shows off her latest community project. The small monument in front of Parliament Oak perfect.” ‘Oh well,’ I said, ‘I’ll just go out to school commemorates the families who helped runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. She wants to Ahluwalia was 16 when she left her Africa.’ So, I did.” make sure the monument is saved when the school property is redeveloped. TIM TAYLOR PHOTOS family home in Lancashire, once the It was at the Aga Khan Hospital in Page 11 March 18, 2021 NEWS

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Last issue: I occur once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years. What am I? Answer: A cloud Left: The inscription on the Parliament Oak monument quotes famous American abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, who helped rescue hundreds of enslaved people, using the Underground Railroad. Answered first by: Sheelah Young Tubman lived for a short period on North Street in St. Catharines. Right: Barbara Ahluwalia is an avid golfer and got in some early practice last week at NOTL Golf Club. JANICE WHITE PHOTO Also answered correctly (in order) by: Susan Hamilton, Bill Hamilton, Howard Jones, Chris Yakymishen, Sylvia Wiens, Terrie Courtlander, Kevin Etherington, Committed to the past and future of NOTL Susan Jackson, Dorothy Booth, Josh Langendoen, Nettie Herbst, Gary Davis, Mary Drost, Elaine Landray, Kim McQuhae, centre of the northwest England cot- Nairobi that Ahluwalia met her soon- Hall, a makeshift community centre in 1990. Robert Wilms, Annette Malinowski, ton milling industry, to start a nursing to-be husband, Ranjit Ahluwalia, a in a Quonset hut in Chautauqua. “I think our first goal was $80,000. Elsie Klassen, Marion Webb, Frank Bucci, career. new doctor in the same hospital. By the mid-’70s she was regularly We raised a hundred,” she recalls. Sheila Meloche, Margie Enns, Maria Janeiro, Her father had served in the First They married in 1961, heading off winning tennis events at the fledgling “In those days I knew a lot of peo- Katie Reimer, Maple Brown, World War. “When he came out, he to Edinburgh so Ranjit could certify Niagara-on-the-Lake Tennis Club. In ple. The Virgil Businessmen helped Email answers, with your name, to editor@ got a job on the railway,” Ahluwalia in tropical medicine. But when they 1974, when Ahluwalia and Sue Fast a lot. A lot of it was small donations niagaranow.com for a chance to win a prize. remembers. “He played golf until he were ready to return to Kenya, the won the women’s doubles, the annual from people in town.” (Subject line: Riddle me this) got married and had four kids. My country was politically unstable in dues for the club were $8. And to further demonstrate she was parents went through two wars and a the aftermath of winning its indepen- “We weren’t very well organized. a busy person, she also served seven Depression. We always said — and dence. It was a bit loosey goosey. Like a lot years on the library board and 16 still do — ‘don’t waste.’” “With three small children, we de- of things in Niagara-on-the-Lake in years with Newark Neighbours. “My mother was very handy. She cided to go elsewhere. And ended up those days.” She seems to bristle a bit when could do anything. I learned to knit at here in NOTL in November 1967. Ahluwalia hasn’t played tennis for asked how she thinks the town is far- a very early age. You never had empty “We didn’t choose Niagara, it chose almost 40 years. Rheumatoid arthritis ing now. hands in our house.” us. Ranjit was offered a position at forced her off the courts. “We’re certainly losing the small- She describes her youth as happy the local medical centre, on Niagara And on to the golf course. town feel,” she says almost wistfully. and carefree. “We were as free as Stone Road. We hadn’t a clue where “Ranjit played golf. We both took In the early ‘70s, Ahluwalia at- birds in those days.” we were going. And here we are.” lessons.” And although she is not tended a community meeting about an “I can’t say I was a brilliant student. Two of the couple’s five children playing as much these days, she still important local issue. The group was A friend of mine down the road was were born in Niagara. All five have relishes the time with her Tuesday told the town must not kill the goose going to go for an interview at a long since spread their wings, landing 18-hole ladies’ group. Not content that lays the golden egg. The topic hospital in Manchester, so a couple in Spain, England, Ohio, Wiscon- with playing the game, she became a was parking. of us went along. ‘Elsie’s going, why sin and California. Three have fol- member of the club’s board of direc- “Fifty years ago! And it is still not don’t we go with her?’ So, the three of lowed their parents’ career paths into tors and the chair. solved. We’ve reached a saturation us all tooted off on the bus to Man- the medical field. By the late 1980s, Ahluwalia was point. The goose is dying and the chester.” Like many families, they Zoom helping out and displaying dried flow- egg is badly cracked. The tourists are By 1954, Ahluwalia received her from around the world, every Sunday ers at what is now the Niagara Pump- controlling us.” nursing accreditation and by the afternoon. house Arts Centre, along the banks of Back to her most recent community late 1950s she had done the medical Barbara Ahluwalia is a living testi- the Niagara River, just upstream from passion. rounds in middle England and was mony to Benjamin Franklin’s state- the sailing club. Ahluwalia has contacted all the looking for more. Once again, her ment: “If you want to get something She joined the movement to trans- right people, looking for support to wanderlust took hold. done, ask a busy person.” form the circa-1891 heritage indus- have the Parliament Oak monument “I had a nursing friend in Nairobi. In the early 1970s, she was the first trial building into an art gallery and saved and moved – so far without ‘Oh well,’ I said, ‘I’ll just go out to president of the new Niagara nurs- studio, served on the board of direc- success. Africa.’ So, I did.” ery school, “but only until my kids tors and became the Pumphouse’s first “We have to save it.” Part promise It was at the Aga Khan Hospital in left.” The school was in Harmony fundraising chair. It officially opened and part plea.

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Continued from Front Page rience,” he said, adding the plan is to learn the same The schedule and number over multiple days at each of clinics matches the of the locations. vaccine supply the re- “We’ll be able to opti- gion is receiving, Niagara mize these clinics for those medical officer of health Dr. later days and make sure Mustafa Hirji told a media we’re running at full steam conference Monday. whenever we get around to Meanwhile, as of Tues- the next rotation through day, COVID-19 cases in all of these locations,” Hirji Niagara-on-the-Lake had said. fallen to six from nine Hirji is recommend- patients a week ago. The ing everyone eligible who region had 305 people with would like a vaccine to COVID and had identified a register as soon as possible. total of 119 variant cases. “As well, I remind ev- Niagara Region public eryone, vaccinated or not, health spokesperson Court- that we need to keep up ney Westerhof said Ni- our other efforts because agara’s clinic schedule was COVID-19 is unfortunately “based on a number of fac- on the rise once again. For tors, including availability just a couple more months, of locations, space sizes, the let’s stay home as much as finalization of contracts and possible, keep our distance staffing.” when we do go out, and “Not every municipality continue wearing our face can be first and so we tried coverings and washing our to rotate through different hands.” parts of Niagara with our IMPORTANT schedule,” she said, adding Lord Mayor Betty Disero is confident NOTL’s 80-plus population that wants a vaccine will receive one.RICHARD HARLEY INFORMATION: that the region is working A green photo “as quickly as possible to ally is proportionally much because we know it may said, and that probably in St. Catharines. health card will be required get the vaccines we receive more than some of those be difficult for some of would include one large “Everybody wanted to to make an appointment. into as many people’s arms other communities would our elderly to travel across clinic and then maybe a be first and I wish that we Both numbers on the as possible.” have.” Niagara, and so we wanted couple of smaller clinics in had started sooner. How- front and back of the card “We appreciate the eager- Hirji said based on to make sure that there was other locations. ever, what they did do for are required. Expired ness so many people have census data from 2019, at least one local option for In April, he hopes phar- us in Niagara-on-the-Lake green health cards will be to get the vaccine. Residents there are about 28,000 everybody, wherever they macies and primary care was the doctors last week accepted. Anyone who still are welcome to book an people over the age of 80 might live, so they have physicians will also be able started calling people over has a red and white health appointment at a clinic any- in Niagara, about 20,000 of an opportunity to get to a to give vaccines. from their patient rosters.” card, or who requires where in Niagara, not just whom are not in long-term clinic without too much Disero said she under- She said she saw several assistance with booking, those in their municipality.” care homes and will be new difficulty,” Hirji said. stands the region’s goal of NOTLers getting vaccines can call the vaccine People looking to book a to receiving the vaccine. “The schedule we have making sure there’s a clinic when she took her mother information line. vaccine can do so anywhere The region’s first clinic here when combined with in all municipalities, but to get hers. Public health is advising in the province and are not in Niagara Falls was fully the work that Niagara thinks public health could “It was like Niagara- wait times are likely, both limited to their own munici- booked by noon Monday, Health is going to be doing have done a better job let- on-the-Lake had invaded online and by phone. pality, or even region, Hirji Hirji said, and a total at their clinic will really ting people know they don’t Seymour-Hannah,” she Those receiving vaccines said. of 3,600 people had already use up all the vaccine we have to go to the clinics in said. “So we’ve had quite a can bring one essential While Niagara-on-the- signed up. receive during this period.” their own municipality, she few people over 80 getting caregiver with them to their Lake has a high proportion Through Niagara Health, Hirji said it won’t get to a told The Lake Report. their vaccine.” appointment. of seniors, its actual 80-plus which has been booking point where the clinics are “I mean we’ve been Her hopes are also high Once an appointment is population is much less than people into clinics and operating daily. trying to supplement it that pharmacies will soon booked, on the day of their St. Catharines, Welland or administering vaccines “Unfortunately given as much as we can with have a vaccine supply. appointment residents will Niagara Falls, he said. to hospital patients who the just sheer number of videos and media releases “It’s all about supply,” need the booking con- The number of NOTL are well enough to receive clinics, we’re not able to do and stuff like that, but I she said. “I truly believe firmation number or QR clinics is “based on how one, another 4,000 people that. I look at a place like really think there could in my heart of hearts that code from the provincial large the 80-plus popula- in the 80-plus age bracket Toronto, which is plan- have been, or there could Niagara Region’s ready. If booking portal, their health tion is in absolute numbers were scheduled to get their ning to actually only have be, more communication,” we can get the supply, we card, a mask and to wear a in Niagara-on-the-Lake, vaccines, meaning about at most nine clinics total, she said. can get it out quickly.” loose fitting top or T-shirt. and three clinics was the 58 per cent of NOTL’s and they’re only launching However, she said she has The region held vaccine Those with appointments appropriate number to hold senior population had either three clinics at the end of high hopes the three days clinics at the Fort Erie should arrive at least five there,” Hirji said. received a vaccine or been this month because that’s will be enough to vaccinate Friendship Centre last week minutes early. If residents The other detail, he said, is booked for one as of Mon- all their capacity is able to everyone over 80 in NOTL as part of its effort to pri- arrive earlier, public health different clinics’ sites have day afternoon. manage,” Hirji said. who wants a shot. oritize Indigenous commu- asks that they wait in their different capacities. In all, there are 11 sites “We’re maybe eight or She noted vaccines have nity members. car until five minutes prior “A larger space allows for vaccine clinics in Ni- nine times smaller than already been given out During those first clinics to their appointment time. us to vaccinate more agara, which Hirji said was Toronto in terms of our to many NOTL residents in Fort Erie, the region ran Niagara Region transit, people and so somewhere done to make sure elderly capacity, so we’re not going over 80 who are patients of into “many small hiccups,” including NRT OnDemand like Niagara-on-the-Lake people could access the to be able to sustain 11 full the Niagara North Fam- Hirji said. in NOTL, is also offering actually has a larger space vaccine without having to clinics,” he said. ily Health. The vaccines “And then the second free rides to and from CO- than Lincoln does, or travel across the region. However, it’s likely there were given at a clinic at day we were able to iron VID-19 vaccinations, for than Wainfleet does. So “It’s really important that will end up being two or Seymour-Hannah Sports that out and actually had a both clinic and pharmacy three clinics there actu- we rotate it to all 11 sites three running per day, he and Entertainment Centre much smoother clinic expe- vaccinations.

local account Page 13 March 18, 2021 NEWS Artist drops painting for Art and Found Day

Jessalyn Duguay stories to share for years to Special to The Lake Report come. “One artist left an art If you were out and about package outside a hospi- last weekend and happened tal and the couple who to stumble upon a wrapped- found it had just had a up package, with a note baby,” she said in an inter- asking for you to take it view. home with you, then you “When they got home, witnessed a global move- they opened the package ment at work. A package sits on bench outside Brims and Things on and were so happy. It was a On Friday, March 12, Queen Street. JESSALYN DUGUAY picture of a crab and their more than 400 artists across baby’s room was decorated 32 countries participated in Niagara-on-the-Lake right years ago and has used her in an ocean theme. It was We will win against Art and Found Day, execut- across the street from each extra time to really throw kismet.” ing a worldwide plan to take other – one outside Brims herself into her love of Senior started the move- COVID – keep wearing their original art, wrap it & Things and the other on creating art. She has been ment six years ago in your mask and checking up and leave it somewhere a bench outside Cows ice doing her own art-drops on Toronto, when she decided public. cream shop. a near-monthly basis for the to give her art away before in on loved ones The reason? To promote Inside one package was past almost two years, so she began selling. local artists’ work, to help a small, colourful abstract the decision to participate “I wanted to get my work get original art into more painting done in ink on in Art and Found just made out there but was intimi- Wayne Gates homes – and also to just yupo paper and a handmade sense to her, she said. dated. So, I decided one day, MPP Niagara Falls riding spread joy. card from the artist with “If you can give back I’ll just put it on the street representing Niagara-on-the-Lake Fort Erie artist Elaine an explanation of why the to the community that and hopefully someone Bryck left some of her package was left. supports you and just finds it and likes it,” Senior 905-357-0681 work on a bench on Queen “I hope you enjoy it and make someone’s day, why said. Street in Niagara-on-the- I hope it makes you smile. wouldn’t you?” Bryck said. A list of artists around the www.WayneGates.com Lake. Have a great day and stay Art and Found founder globe who participated can Photo courtesy of Richard Harley Bryck dropped three safe!” the letter says. Courtney Senior says the be found at courtseniorcre- packages on Friday, two in Bryck retired almost 13 concept can give people ative.com/artandfoundday. Ross’ Ravings: Let’s take the NO out of NOTL Ross Robinson with NOTL Sports Wall of Special to The Lake Report Famer Jack Lowrey’s other course in St. Davids. Per- Yes and No. haps they could soften up These two simple words the sign by the path to the are ubiquitous in our lives. Pro Shop, which reads, They can be a subtle way “Leave Promptly After Your of changing the mood, the Round.” attitude and the tone of a Yes, yer humble scrib- conversation or interaction. bler understands the need Public Health But here in NOTL, let’s to remind people to obey think about exchanging the the COVID-19 protocols. word No with Yes, or at But let’s be creative and keeps you least Please. We could be so find ways to be welcoming much more welcoming and and warm. Our locals and warm on Queen Street, to visitors will pick up on the informed. passersby on our sidewalks. vibe and feel better about Our universal fight to life in general. For COVID-19 vaccine stop the spread of CO- Now, I have been working VID-19 during the global “No” signs around town. SUPPLIED on a way to finish this “Less information visit pandemic, is far from over. NO in NOTL” story with a Most of us are doing our World near Orlando, we tive tone. memorable ending. I can’t niagararegion.ca/covid19 best to observe the proto- arrived at an attraction and Taped to shop doors and quite get it, but want to try. cols, to stay healthy and were confronted by a restaurant windows, signs How about adding a “C” af- protect others. If we care- similar sign, but it read: read: No Smoking. No Vap- ter the TL in NOTL?” That fully and wisely craft our “We Are Working Hard ing, No Public Washrooms. would give us TLC. Tender messaging, so much can be To Make Your Next Visit No Mask – No Entry. Loving Care. accomplished. At no extra Even More Magical. Have a (How about, Please wear a A bit awkward, but I was cost and to great advantage. Happy Day and Come Back mask.) No more than 6 al- determined to squeeze it Back in 2002, we were Soon.” lowed in store. (How about, into this fun little story for Content provided by: enjoying a family vacation So much can be done with “Maximum 6 allowed in The Lake Report. in Florida. Remember vaca- the right words and attitude. store. Thank You.) Do You Let’s stay the course as we tions? At Busch Gardens Now, back to NOTL. Have Any of the Following fight COVID-19. Niagara- in Tampa, we arrived at Last Saturday evening, as Symptoms? Crimestoppers. on-the-Lake is warming up, one attraction and were three bubble friends and I Face Covering Required. the days are longer, and the confronted by a sign, “No enjoyed our regular masked, Closed. birds are chirpilly singing Admittance, Construction. physically distanced and The Queenston Golf that spring is coming. Advertising inquiries? 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Pumphouse welcomes people back

Aimee Medina Special to The Lake Report

The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre has reopened to the public and everyone is welcome to visit the art exhibitions on display. The Joyner Gallery features the artworks of the arts centre’s talented instructors. Adorning the walls of the Walker Room Gallery are stunning pieces made by its talented members. The Instructors’ Exhibition and Members’ Show are available for view- ing through a virtual tour by visiting the Pumphouse The Niagara Pumphouse is welcoming visitors back in a website. limited capacity. FILE PHOTO/JESSICA MAXWELL Although its doors are now open, virtual pro- also been converted into a streamed any time, art- gramming continues. virtual format as well. Ac- making kits required for the Online classes, lectures cording to the arts centre’s projects are supplied and and workshops for students director, Rima Boles, “We delivered curb-side for the of all ages and skill levels, believe the arts are essential residents of Upper Canada and of various mediums to human development and Lodge in Niagara-on-the- are being offered. Thanks the well-being of society. Lake. to a Resilient Communities Now more than ever pro- The capacity in the gal- Fund grant from the Ontario gramming like (the Found- lery is limited and face Trillium Foundation, some ers’ program) is important, masks are mandatory for all Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day of the online courses are which was recognized and guests. The centre’s hours free to the public. made possible through the are Wednesdays, Saturdays Top: Shauna Dickson, Jenna Gatsby and Ricky Watson celebrate St. Paddy’s Day with The Founders’ Continu- generosity and support of and Sundays from 11 a.m. ing Arts Program, aimed Niagara Recycling.” to 4 p.m. Visit niagara- some food and beers at The Irish Harp Pub. Left: Nicole and Mike DiCienzo dressed in T:10.4" their greens, enjoying the patio. Right: Tonde Wirth and Matt Hurlburt in their St. Paddy’s at enriching the lives of Along with an easy-to- pumphouse.ca to plan your hats. RICHARD HARLEY PHOTOS our elderly community, has follow video that can be visit. A harmless coffee break can do more harm than you think. T:7.5"

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None 2 The Lake Report wants to help recognize NOTL’s Pandemic Heroes — people who have made a difference, big or small, in a positive way. You can help us recognize someone in the community by sending a bit about the person and why they’re a Pandemic Hero. Please send your nominations early to [email protected]. A special thanks to Ravine Vineyard Estate Winery for providing a bottle of sparkling wine to each of our pandemic heroes. That’s the spirit! Sheldon Randall

The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s director of operations, Sheldon Randall, who was recently honoured for 25 years of service to the town, is one of NOTL’s pandemic heroes. Randall, who started at the town in 1996 and worked his way up to operations manager, has stepped in on multiple occasions to lead the town administration when needed. Most recently in 2020, as interim chief administrator, Randall helped lead the town through the first nine months of the global pandemic, working virtually around the clock and adapting to a rapidly changing situation. He and the lord mayor were given emergency powers by council to make decisions in the best interests of the town and Randall used his experience to help ensure NOTL responded wisely to the pandemic. During a Feb. 22 meeting of council, Lord Mayor Betty Disero praised Randall’s role in guiding the town’s pandemic response. “For the first nine months of this COVID-19 pandemic, he tirelessly guided the emergency control group, working hard and pretty well all day, every day to steer our ship through these fairly rocky waters,” she said. “The town staff have watched Sheldon expertly balance work and family life, becoming a role model of a father to Eric and Eva. He is fortunate to have Sandy, his lovely wife, at his side to put up with his shenani- gans.” She also gave a shout out to his family dog Banks, the “ultimate heart softener.” “Sheldon is truly a family man, a well-rounded and versatile employee who is always willing to step in where needed. (He is) an intelligent, kind and compassionate member of our senior management team, which Sheldon Randall worked “tirelessly” during the height of the pandemic, the mayor says. RICHARD HARLEY is evident in the way our staff adore him,” Disero said.

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family group sitting by the occurred in the 20th century. shore. It is a self-portrait Much has been made of the of Friedrich. His business- symbolic meaning regarding attired nephew and godson, life and death in his paint- Johann, gestures “Come join ings. Certainly, the affection The stages of life us” with his right hand while for family, the meaning and pointing with his left to the transience of life, the search Penny-Lynn Cookson 1774, in a Baltic Sea town, Friedrich children. for spirituality and belief in Special to The Lake Report Greifswald, then Swedish The small boy excitedly the immortality of the soul Pomerania, later part of waves a Swedish flag as his are present. A week ago, there was a Germany. He studied at the sister tries to grab the flag Friedrich, being a fatalist, spectacular sunset viewed Copenhagen Academy and while the older sister at- left it to posterity to decide: from Ryerson Park. Jets settled for good in Dresden. tempts to calm the two. We “I am not so weak as to descending into and rising He was a melancholy man Caspar David Friedrich, Stages of Life, 1835 Oil on canvas, see five figures and five submit to the demands of the above Pearson airport were whose mother and two sisters Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig. SUPPLIED ships of varying sizes. The age when they go against my making thin white streaks died of illnesses when he was two small fishing vessels in convictions. I spin a cocoon across a wide band of pink young and then his beloved before him but what he per- ages that would encourage the front allude to the two around myself; let others do and lilac clouds resting on brother drowned before his ceived within himself. contemplation and alter the children. The two ghostly the same. I shall leave it to the horizon line of the grey eyes when he went through He would stare at the blank viewer’s mood so that the ships in the distance might time to show what will come still lake. the ice on which they were canvas in his studio until the true meaning of the paint- represent the young adults of it: a brilliant butterfly or a The golden rays of the set- skating. He did find family image “stood life-like” in his ing would be the emotion it with many unknown jour- maggot.” ting sun which lay behind the tranquillity later in life with mind’s eye. Only then would evoked. neys ahead of them. In the 21st century, Fried- clouds, cast a reflective light a solid marriage, three chil- he sketch it and paint it. In “The Stages of Only Friedrich looks on a rich’s work is acknowledged on the shore where isolated dren, a cherished godson and Composition first took Life,” five boats with sails diagonal to the horizon and as “butterfly” and is even figures were taking photos recognition as an acclaimed place in his imagination. In billowing and furling are to the central ship coming more resonant as we long for or sat motionless quietly artist. his landscape paintings, coming into port against a into harbour before darkness spring and being once again observing this fleeting mo- Although there was a taste space is always ambiguous, big twilight sky of pink, lilac, falls, suggesting a premoni- with family and friends shar- ment of pure beauty. Such a for melancholy and mysti- enigmatic, heightened by orange and yellow. In the tion of his own impending ing and in awe of a beautiful contemplative scene brought cism in German art at the illumination. He preferred foreground, an elderly man death. He suffered two sunset.. to mind a 19th-century paint- time, Friedrich adhered more mists and twilight when the dressed for protection against debilitating strokes in the Penny-Lynn Cookson is an ing, “The Stages of Life,” by to a philosophy that brought changing light and reflection a cool breeze, wears a long year of this painting, done art historian who taught at Germany’s most revered the unconscious life in nature enhanced colour and made coat with a fur collar, and a from memory, and was dead the University of Toronto for Romantic landscape artist, to a conscious expression. He the commonplace seem new fur hat. in five years. By then he was 10 years. She also was head Caspar David Friedrich. believed the artist should and transcendent. He slowly but firmly makes nearly a forgotten figure. of extension services at the Friedrich was born in paint not only what was He aimed to create im- his way on his cane toward a A reappraisal of his work Art Gallery of Ontario. Dr. Brown: The brain’s motor system and how we move

Dr. William Brown is a poorly understood as yet. trol eye movements through trainable – the force generated connections exist for the professor of neurology at But whatever our limits, to those neurons at the lower by individual motor units and facial muscles hasn’t been McMaster University and deep brain stimulation (DBS) end of the spinal cord which muscles and their fatigue re- explored but given the large co-founder of the Infohealth has proven to be an effective innervate the pelvic floor sistance can easily be changed representation of the face in series at the Niagara-on- way to stop drug-induced muscles. MUs differ widely in by training in experimental the motor cortex, I wouldn’t the-Lake Public Library. or resistant movement and their properties. animals and humans. be surprised that similar postures in Parkinson’s dis- Those recruited with UMNs are located in the direct connections exist for Dr. William Brown changes in the brain as nerve ease and the sometimes very minimal effort (think here of primary motor cortex (area 4) the oral-facial and tongue Special to The Lake Report cells specialize, multiply, disabling tremor in selected a leisurely walk) are the most but the areas of the neocortex muscles given their key roles migrate and make near and cases of benign essential common, relatively small associated with different re- in speech. Toward the end of his distant connections. And tremor. (fewest number of muscle gions of the body vary widely Finally, just as exercise and BBC series “The Ascent along the way to maturity the What I intend to con- fibres per motor neuron), gen- in size from one region of the training alter the physiologi- of Man,” Jacob Bronowski planning, imagining, creative, centrate on in the NOTL erate the smallest forces and body to another. For ex- cal properties of muscles and turned his attention to the moral, language-speaking, Library’s brain series is much resist fatigue. Mid-range MUs ample, the areas of the motor MUs, so do they alter the brain as the biological engine story-telling and mystical simpler – the upper mo- are less common, harder to cortex and thus the number motor cortex. that made possible all of parts of the nervous sys- tor neurons (UMNs) in the recruit, innervate more muscle of UMNs, are much larger For example, training humanity’s achievements in tem begin to take hold and primary motor cortex (area fibres per motor neuron, gen- for the face, tongue, mouth, reshapes the contours and the arts and sciences. shape what we attend to then 4) and the closely related erate larger forces and like the forearm and hand muscles thickness of the neocortex in In one segment he uses and for the rest of our lives. lower motor neurons (LMNs), lowest threshold MUs, resist compared to areas represent- the thumb and finger areas of the early development of the The forebrain plays a large which innervate their target fatigue (think here of a brisk ing the proximal arm, trunk piano players. And if we can motor system in infancy to part in the skill with which muscle fibres and muscles walk or climbing a hill). and leg. modify the motor areas of the illustrate the unfolding march we move. Without it, no to make happen what was The largest, least com- This observation and the brain with exercise training, from birth (a few brainstem dancing, no playing musical intended by the forebrain and mon MUs supply the largest finding that the hand and fore- no doubt it’s possible to alter and spinal reflexes and total instruments, no writing or other regions of the brain. number of muscle fibres per arm areas of the primary mo- other regions of the brain dependence on others for even something as simple Let’s begin with the LMNs. motor neuron, have the high- tor cortex contain large nerve through conditioning – which nourishment, warmth and as tapping the desk in front LMNs, together with the est thresholds for recruitment, cells that are directly con- might explain some of the protection), to later holding the of me with my finger, are muscle fibres they innervate, generate the largest forces but nected to the related motor impact of mindfulness and head up, rolling over, crawling, possible. constitute the basic unit of fatigue readily because unlike neurons in the cervical spinal mediation on the brain. sitting up, using a nearby prop All depend on closely the motor system – the motor lower threshold units, they cord suggests that the primary Long-term changes in the to shakily stand, soon make related regions of the brain unit (MU), a term coined by are much more dependent motor cortex exercises a high brain in response to train- the first wobbly steps and, working together, including the father of modern neuro- on glycogen for their energy degree of direct control over ing, almost certainly involve after months of babbling, the the forebrain, primary and physiology, Sir Charles Sher- (think here of sprinting). the forearm and hand muscles strengthening connections first words emerge. secondary associative cortex rington. The neurons of which This overly simplistic pic- and might explain the skill between related nerve cells The biological choreogra- in the frontal and parietal are found in the brain stem ture none-the-less, illustrates with which we use our hands. by thickening some connec- phy underpinning of such a lobes, the basal ganglia and and spinal cord and supply that even at the simplest level, Chimpanzees possess few tions and growing others. All developmental sequence is cerebellum, whose relation- all the somatic muscles of the the motor system offers a such direct connections, of which leads to next week exquisite and accompanied by ships with one another are body beginning at the rostral wide range of forces and while other primates have when we examine the sensory enormous unseen, unfolding extraordinarily complex and end with the neurons that con- endurance. MUs are also very none. Whether such direct side of the nervous system. Page 18 March 18, 2021 FEATURED

Obituary Anne Marie Regehr

Gordon Walker Here is Gordon Walker, playing with his bow and arrow on Platoff Street in the Heritage District, circa 1950. The garage to the left can still be seen today. The barn on the right is where the Prince of Wales Royal Cambridge hall and parking lot are now located. This barn is the former Campbell stables but was also the former home of the Union Jack Canning Company and Campbell’s Canning Company. These canning operations were two of several located in Niagara-on-the-Lake. No surprise there as we have some of the best fruit around! The barn was torn down May the road rise up to meet you. in the 1970s and the current building was built as a community centre. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, a hierarchy that states the may God hold you in the palm of His hand. primacy of the main floor while enhancing the front ANNE MARIE (BRENNAN) REGEHR door feature. Born April 23, 1937 in the old Cottage Hospital, NOTL, Importantly, while the and raised in St. Davids, Anne Marie left our world March A simply upper windows are shorter 8, 2021 peacefully with grace and surrounded by family. elegant design than the lower windows (as Survived by her childhood sweetheart and loving befits their secondary status husband of 63 years Daniel Regehr; children Heather in the hierarchy), each indi- (Mark Williams), Diane Haliski (Mark Holmes) and Teresa Brian Marshall vidual pane of glass in all Regehr; grandchildren Cody, Bailey (Aaron), Devin, Noel Columnist the windows are of identical and Cassidy, great-grandchildren Lana, Eamonn & Aine; size, producing design unity and siblings Kathleen Sharpe and Terry Brennan. As many regular readers across the facade. Predeceased by her son Desmond, parents Nixon and are aware, for the past few And this only begins to Elsie Brennan (Dawson), and brothers Michael, Harry and months I’ve been consult- Modernist Design in 1823. SUPPLIED describe the precise use and Dennis (Brennan). ing on the restoration of flawlessly executed design Anne Marie took great pleasure in being a member of a house built for John execution of the Regency quires extraordinary talent disciplines that were incor- St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and musical director at Breakenridge in 1823 at the architectural style. and skill. porated to produce elegance St. David’s Presbyterian Church, and active member of the corner of Mississagua and To the uninitiated, the Consider, for example, and grandeur without frip- Niagara Old Tyme Fiddlers Association for years. Centre streets in NOTL. 1823 Breakenridge House, a few details on the 1823 pery. She loved to play her Irish piano, fiddle and harp and have This grand old home was with its clean, uncompli- Breakenridge House facade. But, of course, every fun with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. boarded up in 1966 and left cated lines unbroken by If you were to vertically grand lady aspires to a few Anne Marie remained healthy and active with a lively to deteriorate, reaching the decorative elements, might divide this facade into four accessories to subtly ac- spirit, playing music and Scrabble right up to the end, when point of being only months appear to be an elementary equal parts, you would centuate her innate beauty a stroke took her suddenly. away from catastrophic design. Nothing, however, discover that the lines and early Regency archi- A special thanks to Stefanie, Danielle and Wendy at failure when our work could be further from the of division run precisely tects used the dreamy light GNGH for their compassionate care. began. truth. through the centre of each refracting qualities of the God Bless Her. She will be missed! As what is likely the old- In reality, to achieve ar- of the three bays, creating mouth-blown wavy glass est surviving unaltered two- chitecture that has presence harmonious balance. window panes bracketed by To place an obituary in The Lake Report, please call storey cubic form Regency without being overbear- While both lower and up- complementary shutters to residence in the country, the ing – is visually pleasing, per windows have identical add this touch of elegance. Rob at 905.246-4671 or send him an email loss of this building would integrates with its context widths, the height of the If you’re passing by our at [email protected]. have been a tragedy. and intuitively “feels right” lower windows combined project, I am happy to When deciding where to publish your cherished Over and above rarity, while employing only with the location of the chat or you can follow the memories, keep in mind that a whopping 81% of NOTL age and historical asso- straight lines without the brick belt course (which is progress at: www.heirloom- news readers prefer The Lake Report over any other ciation with the town, the use of decorative elements, set higher than the second- homeguide.ca/rare-unique- newspaper serving our town. house is also an exemplary distractions or artifice – re- storey floor level) establish storied. FRESH. L CAL.

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