Lakereport.ca / Niagaranow.com LakeThe ReportHyper-local news for Niagara-on-the-Lake VOL. 2, ISSUE 36 NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE’S MOST RESPECTED NEWSPAPER SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 Soaring with Snowbirds The Snowbirds perform over the Niagara District Airport on Wednesday afternoon. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA Brittany Carter Local schools were Snowbirds technician Tris- overwhelming responses and by the Niagara Historical ing,” she said. The Lake Report welcomed to the Niagara ton “Pope” Popescu was more excited students. Society and Museum and By 5 p.m., Morris said District Airport for an swarmed by eager students More than 70 volunteers serves as the organization’s she didn’t have an accurate The Canadian Forces exclusive meetup before the while answering questions and a host of community largest fundraiser. tally of the amount raised for Snowbirds invited excited fundraising event later that and explaining the ins and sponsors helped make this Cheryl Morris, marketing the organization, but it was kids and inquisitive chaper- evening. outs of handling the fleet. year’s Canadian Forces lead of the NOTL Snowbirds likely around $30,000 before ones to learn more about the Ruby Brunton, along with After teaching about the Snowbirds show a success on committee, said a lot was expenses, she said. planes, what it takes to be many of her classmates from technical side of handling Wednesday, with a sold-out learned from the event held Morris did say she was a pilot, and everything else Crossroads Public School, the aircraft, Popescu asked VIP area and almost 1,000 two years ago. “very happy” with the turn- involved in flying a Canadair were encouraged to look into questions and handed stick- people in the general admis- “We have a lot more vol- out, though, and deemed the CT-114 Tutor aircraft on the cockpit of the Canadair ers out to the first students sion space by 4 p.m. unteers this year, and have a Wednesday morning. CT-114 Tutor. to answer; he was met with The event was presented better handle on the park- Continued on Page 2 Canopy Growth challenges town cannabis bylaw Dariya Baiguzhiyeva day from Canopy Growth, million-square-foot facility opy Growth, confirmed The Lake Report one of the country’s largest grows medical marijuana. the company has some cannabis producers, Lord The company also pur- concerns with an interim Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Mayor Betty Disero told chased Coyote’s Run win- control bylaw passed in cannabis bylaw is be- council’s committee of the ery for $10 million in May. June, but wouldn’t dis- ing challenged by Canopy whole meeting Monday. In an email response to close any more details. Growth Corp. Canopy Growth owns The Lake Report, Jordan “We enjoy a positive The town received a Tweed Farms on Conces- Sinclair, vice-president of A Canopy Growth employee bags trimmed cannabis leaves notice of appeal last Fri- sion 5 Road where its one- communications for Can- Continued on Page 13 at Tweed Farms in Niagara-on-the-Lake. RICHARD HARLEY Cutline. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA Page 2 Can’t give it away? BBQ and Electronics drop-off in support September 12, 2019 Recycle your Electronics Saturday, September 21 | 11 - 3 pm of Red Roof Retreat A local charity providing That’s what makes our Community Pharmacy different. 1882 Niagara Stone Rd, Virgil programs for children and Accepted Materials: TVs, Computers & Monitors, young adults with www.simpsonspharmacy.ca Audio & Video Players, Copiers & Fax Machines, special needs. NEWS Cell Phones, Answering Machines & More! Top, and middle: Kids enjoy the morning learning about the Snowbirds and checking out their planes. Left: Snowbirds in flight. Right: Snowbirds prepare to take flight for an aerobatics display. Bottom: A parachute team jumps from the sky during the show. PHOTOS BY BRITTANY CARTER AND DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA Spending the day with the Snowbirds Continued from Page 5 the-Lake, Allied Aviation, certainly weren’t all of them. area for Wednesday’s show the Niagara District Airport, The event brought the to celebrate their 25th wed- event a success. Engel and Volkers, Ravine community together to ding anniversary. It couldn’t have been done Vineyard, the Exchange watch the expert flying of They said they wanted to without all of the community Brewery, Konzelmann Estate Canadian Forces pilots. support the Niagara Histori- sponsors and volunteers, she Winery and PigOut Catering Niagara locals, Teresa cal Society and Museum and added. were some of the sponsors to and Lyndon Palmer, bought wanted to do something The Town of Nagara-on- note, she said, though they themselves tickets to the VIP local. Terry Fox Run this weekend The annual Terry Fox Run takes place this Saturday. The “That was Terry’s vision, wasn’t it? Just one dollar from run takes participants through a five-kilometre stretch start- each person in Canada. Terry only wanted one dollar, we ing at Simcoe Park, travelling up King Street to John Street, have a population of about 15,000 and I think we got to then following Ricardo Street to King, and back to Sim- $10,000 (in 2007). Now we’re at $113,000,” she said. coe Park. A video outlining the route can be found on the Registration is at 9 a.m., and the run kicks off at 10 a.m., town’s website at notl.org. with a barbecue to follow. Participants can walk, run, bike or rollerblade, and are asked Last year, King said $113,538.43 was raised through Terry Fox, in a portrait by photographer John O’Callaghan, to donate whatever they can. Donations of $20 or more will be the community run with 250 participants, and another when the Marathon of Hope passed through the Toronto issued a tax-receipt. King said all she asks for is $1 a person. $3,865.05 was raised through school events. area. JOHN O’CALLAGHAN PHOTO Page 3 September 12, 2019 NEWS Protesters target Legion pork roast, blast air horn in older man’s ears Dariya Baiguzhiyeva Effortless and The Lake Report delicious dining The annual pig roast at Join us for authentic Sichuan & Dim Sum the Royal Canadian Legion with new menu items arriving daily. Branch 124 didn’t go ex- actly as planned Sunday. About 15 members of the At War for Animals Niagara $ Dim Sum animal rights group showed 1 All day, every day! up at the NOTL legion. They stood on King $ Brunch Street, waving flags and 20.99 Sunday holding signs. One of the $ Dinner Special protesters occasionally 18.99 Sunday–Thursday turned on a megaphone with a siren, disrupting music at DJ Mike Moose tells protesters he’s had enough of an air horn being blown mere feet $ Lunch Express Special the event. away from him, as he tried to perform. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA 15.99 Monday–Thursday Protester Adam Stirr said Takeout and Delivery Available the demonstration was a “furthering of our beliefs” and a “way to get attention”. CHILIJIAO.COM • 905.468.6114 For months, his group has 271 MARY ST, NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON been protesting Sentineal Carriages’ use of horses to pull carriages around Old Town. “It’s not just about the horse carriages. It’s about any use of animals, including raising them, killing them and eating them,” he said. Three Niagara Regional Police cars, parked along King Street, were on scene to maintain peace. Police officers only inter- Andrew Ball gives the thumbs up as members of the legion carve up the freshly roasted vened when the pig’s head pig. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA was placed on a stick in front of the protesters. suggested legion members The protesters started remove the pig’s head as it their usual protest in Old might “incite” the protesters. Town. Lord Mayor Betty Disero Jade McLauchlan, a Sen- was at the event, too. tineal Carriages driver, “What is confounding said the activists started to me is that a group of their protests Sunday at the 15 people would protest a corner of King and Queen barbecue of 60 people,” she streets but then filled the told The Lake Report. sidewalk near the Prince of “You would think they Wales Hotel, where people would go to bigger venues get on and off the carriages. Dan Reid stands in front of a pig roast in an anti-vegan in larger cities. So much She said they also followed T-shirt. DARIYA BAIGUZHIYEVA energy and time wasted. the carriage drivers around, And why the police would blocked one of the horses McLauchlan said she Stirr, who said he is veg- not move a protester along, with a car plastered with didn’t charge her customers an, said people are welcome when a rider tells him she signs. One of the protesters for the ride because they to protest any of his group’s feels threatened and afraid held a sign in front of the didn’t get an “enjoyable gatherings because that’s is also a concern to me.” horse, which made the horse experience” with protesters the “beauty of democracy.” The town and the police, uncomfortable. following them around. One police officer told as well as the activists “They were on and off “We shouldn’t have to The Lake Report he sug- and Locals for Carriages the sidewalks, on the roads work in an environment like gested protesters turn their members, a support group, with their signs. They were that. They (protesters) keep megaphone off because met on Monday morning hollering at our customers on saying they have rights there could be veterans to discuss a revised proto- today,” McLauchlan told and freedom to protest.