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Lake Report’s Brittany Carter Lakereport.ca / Niagaranow.com goes for a Jetboat ride Hyper-local news for Niagara-on-the-Lake LakeThe Page 12 Report Vol. 2, Issue 39 Niagara-on-the-Lake’s most respected newspaper October 3, 2019 Celebrating oak trees in Chautauqua Dariya Baiguzhiyeva helped make a forest grow.” The Lake Report Three Chautauqua Oak trees seedlings, which were For Margaret Walker, the grown at the college, were Chautauqua Oaks Project also presented to the Town helps preserve what makes of NOTL. Lord Mayor her neighbourhood unique: Betty Disero was on hand to the trees. accept the gift. “Come a hundred years In recent years, the aging from now, we’ll still have a tree canopy in Chautauqua tree canopy in Chautauqua, has been under a threat of which is what Chautauqua thinning out and disappear- is all about to me,” she said. ing for a variety of reasons, “It’s the trees.” including disease, wind The project, whose goal and construction. is to preserve the heritage Chautauqua residents tree canopy in the area, Leslie Frankish and Holmes continues to thrive thanks to Hooke led the effort, with collaborative efforts among help from other residents, Niagara-on-the-Lake resi- after they became con- dents, the Town of NOTL cerned about the disappear- and Niagara College. ing canopy. They started ad- A special ceremony at vocating for its preservation Ryerson Park on Tues- by creating the Chautauqua day recognized contribu- Oaks Project. tions made by community Since it launched in residents, volunteers and 2016, a team of volunteer town officials, who all were residents completed a tree presented with “Acorn inventory – a 181-page Awards” – an acorn with an Chautauqua resident Robin Patterson shows an acorn and a leaf from a red oak in Chautauqua. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA attached note that read, “I Continued on Page 2 NOTL joins global climate strike Brittany Carter Oak Community School, a better place. What began as an idea for The Lake Report spoke with conviction on Climate strike demon- a solitary demonstration the old courthouse steps: strations were planned quickly grew with com- “Act now so our kids can “You don’t just do the world-wide on Sept. 27, munity support via social grow old,” exclaimed Julia minimum; you go above and neighbouring cities media. Buxton-Cox, as a group and beyond.” such as St. Catharines and Buxton-Cox, admin- of fellow Niagara-on-the- Gazzard said her grand- Niagara Falls saw hun- istrator of NOTL Today Lake residents, and some mother was always a big dreds of environmental Facebook group, shared from Toronto, joined in on a believer in doing what was activists out in force with a post about Rand’s global climate strike Friday. right, not only for oneself signs and a plea for action. plan, and the idea gained The group gathered but for everyone around But local resident momentum overnight. outside the old courthouse you. She said she tries to Cynthia Rand thought it Rand announced her plans in Old Town, joined by apply that philosophy to contradictory to drive to Thursday evening and by local students from Royal everything else she does. another city for a climate Friday morning, more than Oak Community School, This climate strike is one strike, she said. 20 residents and a hand- to make a stand for mother way for her schoolmates Instead, she planned to ful of students from Royal nature. to take a stand and make sit on the steps of the old Oak Community School Maya Gazzard, sole their voices heard with the courthouse in Old Town A group of artists from all over the world planned to strike Grade 8 student of Royal hope of making the world for her own quiet protest. Continued on Page 3 for climate change Friday afternoon. RICHARD HARLEY Page 2 October 3, 2019 NEWS www.simpsonspharmacy.ca Election Profile: Andrea Kaiser Liberal candidate Dariya Baiguzhiyeva The Lake Report Andrea Kaiser, the federal Liberal candidate for Ni- agara Falls riding, says she understands what it’s like to struggle to make ends meet and strive to find a work-life balance. With 30 years of ex- Liberal candidate Andrea Kaiser. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA perience working in the agriculture and tourism in- Although the Niagara doesn’t seem like a lot but it Niagara College students collect acorns from Chautauqua’s oak trees at Ryerson Park. dustry, Kaiser also has been Falls riding, which includes can make a huge difference, DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA a small business owner, NOTL and Fort Erie, has and some of the changes served as a Niagara-on-the- been Conservative for more will lift seniors out of pov- Lake councillor for 11 years than a decade, Kaiser says erty,” she says. and taught wine business in talking to people, she Some of the issues management part-time at finds they are poised for residents across the entire Oak trees celebrated Niagara College while being a change and are excited riding would like to see the single mother of two about the idea of choosing addressed include economic The trees will grow at the munity for years to come,” children. positive politics. development, affordability Continued from Front Page college’s nursery for a few Abraham said. Becoming a politician With her core values and transportation, Kaiser years and once they reach a Area resident Robin Pat- isn’t something she decided always being liberal, Kaiser says. In NOTL, investing spreadsheet listing 1,502 healthy height, they will be terson said college students or planned on doing, says says the idea of being a in infrastructure to allow trees plus each tree’s location replanted in Chautauqua and an instructor came to Kaiser, 49. Rather, “politics compassionate leader tak- better access to get in and and size. They also devel- and throughout NOTL. her house, where she has has found her.” ing care of youth, families out of the town and driv- oped a community tree plan There are currently about about 12 red oaks in her When her two grown chil- and seniors also motivated ing down Niagara Stone and started replanting trees. 150 white oak trees growing yard. She said many trees dren, Ryan and Madison her to return to politics. She Road in peak season is what Out of the planned 400 at the college. This com- have been taken down in the Lepp, were teenagers, also credits her daughter she says she’s heard a lot trees needed for rejuvena- ing year, the college will neighbourhood because of she left politics but decided Madison, who’s an activist during canvassing. tion of the forest, 80 trees be growing red oaks, said new homes being built, so to come back now for sev- and a vegan, for inspiring “From my perspective, have been planted so far. Niagara College horticulture planting trees helps “keep eral reasons. her to be a better person it’s on top of my list as far The project grew bigger in professor Mary Jane Clark. the balance.” For Kaiser, good politics and for looking for ways to as where federal funding or 2018 when Niagara College’s “It’s a good experience for “I’m glad the squirrels is about finding consensus protect the environment. federal investments might School of Environmental them (students),” Clark told get them (acorns) but I’m and building a stronger If re-elected on Oct. 21, help to improve the quality and Horticultural Studies The Lake Report. “It shows even happier more trees are community together, and Kaiser says the federal of life here in Niagara-on- joined in to help restore the them how their skills can be planted,” she said. she says she has a lot of suc- Liberals plan to increase the-Lake.” native oak canopy. College put to use to help the com- Alan Unwin, the college’s cess in bridging gaps and the Canada Child Benefit by Growing up in NOTL, students came out to the munity and they’re really associate dean of School of bringing people together. 15 per cent, make mater- Kaiser says she has a “great neighbourhood to harvest excited about that.” Environmental and Horti- “I was feeling a little bit nity and parental leave understanding” of the com- acorns from Chautauqua’s For Elias Abraham, a stu- cultural Studies, said he was worried about the way poli- tax-free, boost the Canada munity and she wants to oak trees and to grow seed- dent in the college’s green- excited about the project’s tics seems to be progressing Pension Plan survivor’s ensure there is a strong local lings at the school. house technician program, it success so far. toward negative rhetoric. benefit by 25 per cent and to voice at the table in Ottawa. More than a dozen col- was a “great project” and “Really, really excited Really unfortunate that increase Old Age Security “I think I’ve proven with lege students were also on his first time harvesting for the students to be able politicians treat each other by 10 per cent for people my municipal politics that hand Tuesday harvesting acorns. to proactively contribute to with such disrespect and I aged 75 and over. I’m prepared to do the work acorns. All the acorns they “It’s really cool to be a project like this,” Unwin decided if things are going “It’s (Old Age Security) and, in terms of the way I’ve collected will be taken to involved in the community said. “I think it’s going to to change and be different, going to put about $700 in lived my life, I’ve worked the college for propagation and be able to do something be a great legacy for them I might need to be a part of the pockets of seniors over hard and always worked to at the greenhouse.

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