Fort Erie Times, January 29, 2011

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oral contest Friday has put
the town’s 2010 municipal
election to bed once and for
all.
"Relieved," Martin said
moments after being
declared the winner of a
court-ordered recount
Friday. “I’ve been somewhat
reluctant to get too involved
(in town business) because I
didn’t know what the out¬
come was going to be. But
• Local artist now that it’s officially over
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can just get down to work
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2 Fort Erie Times • Saturday, January 29,2011
Noyes disappointed that recount took so long to approve
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went in favour of Noyes, two 4,836 votes to Noyes’ 4,831. all those that supported me. previous council direction came after coun¬ therapist and 13-year vet¬
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declared invalid. filed an application with the ing the lawyer was the recount litigation run at politics. In fact, the
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took place after all parties applied for a court order every effort be made to to make.” a conflict of interest since “I think I’m wired for
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refused was visually have plans to take any fur¬
inspected by the candidates ther legal action.
and their representatives. Neither does Noyes. Library holds 5th annual Literacy Day Spelling Bee
The clerk determined any “As far as I’m concerned
disputed ballots. it’s it for me. I'm satisfied
On election night Oct. 25, with the result,” she said. The 5th annual Family make the evening possible, spellers warmed up the Whidey.
Literacy Day Spelling Bee, and 80 people attended, spellers’ stand, the students Winners in Grades 7-8
co-sponsored by the Fort There were four ’celebrity’ took over. were: 3rd place, Dinushka
Erie Public Library and the spellers: MPP Kim Craitor, Winners in Grades 3-4 Balasingam. 2nd place.
Adult Literacy Council of Tamara Pierce of M&M were: 3rd place, Emma Divita Balasingam. 1st
Greater Fort Erie, was held Meat Shops, and Gord Young. 2nd place, Cody place, Judy Bartlett.
in Wed., Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m Thomson, CEO and Amy Taylor. 1st place, Devon Judges for the evening
at the Centennial Branch of Roebuck, Community Taylor were Library Board mem¬
the Library. Services Coordinator, both Winners i: Grades 5-' bers John Van Oirschot
Twenty-three students in of the Fort Erie Public Hastings. 2nd place, Kalden L(aelasron inag LPiatretrnaecYry) aC<n odu Knceinl
celebrity Anderson. 1st place, Ashlee Burden.
_ Gift bags for all the
spellers were provided with
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Racing will go forward after concerns ironed out
Ray Spiteri Provincial Quarter Horse Gaming, the private compa- town, province and Nordic
QMI Agency program, said Jim Thibert, ny that owns the racetrack Gaming last year to keep the
chief executive officer of the property, Thursday. So far, track from closing, hopes the
The volunteer board that Fort Erie Live Racing the track has paid $100,000 of town and/or province can
the $650,000-a-year lease, come up with a way to
He noted all matters have The not-for-profit consor- indemnify board members in
been addressed to the sat tium was hoping to pay the case the track is forced to
„ „ faction of the board followi remainder by Thursday. wind down operations and
this week, ensuring there will Thursday night’s meeting, However, the board recent- there’s not enough money to
be live racing at Fort Erie “As spring approaches fy received information from cover outstanding liabilities,
Race Track this year. '■-' • their lawyer indicating its On Monday night, town
"They’re going to _ _o_ members, who are volun- council deferred a decision
ward with racing for the year. 0f horsepeople, _ teers, could be held personal- on the board’s request that
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explained. There were a dance at the meeting said "I 2011 and beyond, keeping decided to move forward er season of racing unless asked the town's lawyer to
number of individuals at the was very pleased to see how the jobs associated with the with live racing in 2011. they have some protection. look into the issue and report
table last night,” Fort Erie the (FELRC) board of direc- operation of the Fort Erie The consortium planned Xhe consortium, which back to them with a recom-
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Saturday, January 29,2011 • Fort Erie Times 5
Son looking after mom with Alzheimer’s
Park after a brief stay in a hours a week, he says his "She didn't give up hope ble."
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from bed sores. able at home covered in Petran is also thankful for during this time and be
Even though January is Since taking over, along blankets, watching some of the assistance he gets from thankful his mother isn't
Alzheimer's month, every with the help of nurses 14 her favourite TV programs. the Alzheimer's Society of She didn’t suffering as much as she
day of the year a caring Niagara, as they used to.
son does anything he can supply him with give up hope It's also crucial to be calm
for his mother, who was hygiene products and patient.
diagnosed with the condi- that help his moth¬ and she’s "I wasn't very patient
er live comfortably years ago," he said.
In 2008, Peter Petran and provide him happier now.” "Everybody is human and
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our editorial
Start making deposits
in your food bank
L
ocal food banks saw a huge People in our community are going
increase in demand this past hungry and having electricity turned
year in most areas of Niagara, off.
and the public needs to keep giving. Last week, participants in a food Do You Remember?
Your neighbours are in greater bank challenge were asked to try
need of assistance than ever. eating only non-perishable goods.
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utility bills. who are clients of the food bank, speaking contest winners in 1974. L-R: We have one name on the back of this
The extra demand puts further that is what they have to make do Colin Momingstar, Brenda Bartlett, and a week's photo - "Lorraine Hufnagel". Does
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money and volunteerism. smaller trophy while the larger one stayed time of year. Our e-mail address is muse-
Give whatever you can give. Tom Wilkinson with the school. [email protected].
Niagara resident describes mother’s journey with Alzheimer’s
Looking back on it, the been the fault of the almost 60 years earlier. It for five minutes, she said, next weekend so we
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seemingly meaningless quipped: "Well, send the first indication that couldn't find it. She had she called back to tell me Christmas soon and she
comment. them to my place when something was wrong the superintendent come it had been returned - had no shopping done.
Seven of us were on a they're done." And we all with my mother. into her apartment to placed in her purse. Huh? How could she
Thanksgiving girls' out¬ laughed and nothing I know now that the look for it. She told him A month or so after have forgotten the hours
ing - my mom, my two more was said. mysterious "moving" of she thought someone the first comment, I we spent in a hot and
teenage daughters, a few I know, now, that if we possessions - clothing, had a key and was com¬ drove the two hours to crowded mall a week
cousins and me. We were had asked why she money, books, eyeglass¬ ing into her apartment to Toronto to take my earlier? When it came
riding in a minivan thought this, my mother es, food - is one of the take things. He asked her mother Christmas shop¬ time to wrap the gifts
heading down the 401 would have said it was signs of Alzheimer's. It who else had a key. No ping. We have a large and write out the name
toward Kingston when, because her things had was my mother, of one. I found the tray, family and I knew we'd cards, my mother was
out of nowhere, my been moved and put in course, putting things in months later, hidden have to spread the shop¬ confused. Even with the
mother said: "I think different places - places places she couldn't behind a bookcase in her ping out over a couple of name of the recipient in
someone is coming in that she would have remember but sure that bedroom. Another time weekends. We bought a front of her, she had diffi¬
my apartment when I'm never put them. Or someone else was doing she called me in a panic. lot of presents the first culty printing it on the
not home and cleaning." something might have it. For a short while she She had been counting weekend and my mom gift card. And taping the
We all paused to think been missing for a while became obsessed with a her money and had left it made me promise to card to the gift?
about this, then one of and then suddenly turn metal tray she had been on the dining room table. bring gift wrap and tape
my quick-witted cousins up. And it would have all given as a wedding gift She had only left it there when I came back the See Page 7
Saturday, January 29,2011 • Fort Erie Times 7
opinion page
Conservative leader
protesting hikes
An Ontario PC government cent if your smart metre has
will deliver a long-term, prag¬ been activated.
matic energy plan for Ontario Hudak said that the PCs
that puts consumers first, MPP believe that energy policy
Tim Hudak said recently. should be treated as econom¬
Hudak braved the cold ic policy and not as a social
weather to protest Liberal program.
hydro policies in front of the “When you add in the
Hydro One transformer sta¬ impact of the HST and other
tion on Ontario Street in rate increases, rising hydro
Beamsville, one of a few stops bills are forcing many families
around the region. to make difficult decisions
“In January, usually it’s the such as whether they can
credit card bill families are are afford to keep the kids in
most afraid to open when it minor hockey or figure skat¬
arrives in the mail. This year, ing, or go on family outings
it’s the hydro bill. We must that help to bolster the local
place the consumer’s ability to economy,” said Hudak, the
pay at the forefront of all ener¬ leader of the official opposi¬
gy sector decisions and tion.
respect that they pay the bills,” He said that a typical family
Hudak said in a statement. pays about $120.88 a month.
He said that hydro rates Over the next five years, under
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Trying to prepare for a parent’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis
From Page 6 sat around the table eating going to the supermarket. In ness. How do you tell the letter in front of her and The diagnosis:
birthday cake she scanned our daily telephone conver¬ person who has always been knew my concerns. A refer¬ Alzheimer’s. Late stage one
Sometimes she got it on faces, looking for my oldest sation, she would tell me there to look after you, that ral to a geriatric specialist or early stage two. There are
the gift, but just as often it daughter to tell her some- that she was making a shop¬ you think they may have followed. I went with my only three stages. The doctor
was taped to the tablecloth ping list and would be head¬ Alzehimer's? mother that day too. I warned me that my mother
or an unused piece of gift She didn’t recognize her, ing out soon. Months later, Getting her to a doctor to expected it to be simple would go along as she was
so passed the message on to as my cousins helped me get an assessment was memory tests, but there for a time, but then there
Things began to get more someone else. clean out her apartment, we tricky. Doctor-patient confi¬ were other tests as well. At would be a sudden drop off
concerning. She got lost in a Later, my oldest daughter found dozens and dozens of dentiality means doctors one point, my mother was in abilities. Think of a water¬
neighbourhood she had asked me sadly, “Why didn’t cans of food stored in a clos¬ can’t talk to you about their asked to draw a clock. She fall, she told me. And she
known for decades. grandma recognize me?" et. Some of it was years' old patients - even the mother drew a circle. No numbers, was right. That sudden
Fortunately she was able to My mother began forgetting and well beyond its expiry you suspect has dementia. no hands. She was asked to change in my mother came
realize she needed help and words. There would be paus¬ On the advice of a member indicate a certain time. just two months later and it
went into a nearby school es in her conversation while Much of it was tinned of the local Alzheimer’s Somewhere on the paper was so fast and went so far
and told them she was lost. she tried to think of the word pineapple. My mother hates Society, I wrote the doctor a outside the circle, she drew that it was frightening. But at
At her birthday in January, she wanted. “How do you tinned pineapple. letter. Then I encouraged my least I was now prepared for
she had a scrape on the say ...” became a standard One of the hardest things mother to make an appoint¬ Asked to count back from it. Or as prepared as you can
bridge of her nose that she part of her conversation. I’ve had to do is take action ment and made sure I went 100 by 7s, my mother made ever be for something like
was unable to explain. As we She spent a lot of time on my mother’s forgetful¬ with her. The doctor had the it to 72 and then stopped. that.
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Notice is hereby given, for the term February 1,2011 to January 31,2015, that the undersigned
OPPORTUNITY will receive applications from residents, business owners/operators or taxpayers interested in
serving on the below stated boards and committees of the Town of Fort Erie where appointments
are still required.
For detailed information, there is an Information Sheet for each of the boards and committees and
T(Dhe Corporation Lis OnoOw aKccIeNptiGng aFppOlicRat ioSnsU foMr suMmmEerR st uWdenOt eRmpKloy?m ent opportu¬ r“eCleovmamnti ttebeys-”la. ws available on the Town’s website www.forterie.on.ca under “Town Hall”
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valid, Class G drivers’ license. Committee.
Further details are available at www.town.forterie.ca. Go to “Town Hall”, then click on (1) COMMUNITIES-IN-BLOOM COMMITTEE - Four (4) citizen appointee vacancies.
Employment Opportunities. To implement various programs, initiatives, events, promotional and education activities that
Returning students MUST apply. Application forms are available on-line, at Town Hall, the encourage community participation in the program.
LFReiIsDuAreYpl eMx AanRdC tHhe 2 G5i,b s2o0n1 C1e. ntre. The deadline for receiving applications is 5:00 p.m. vT(2oa )cp arnoFcvOiiedRse.T a dEviRceIE a nCd/EoMr rEeTcoEmRYm enAdDatVioInSsO rReYga rdCinOgM thMeI TopTeErEat io-n , Tcahrree ea nd(3 )c oncittriozle no f tahpep Toionwtene-
owned cemeteries and mausoleum.
PUBLIC NOTICE (3) FORT ERIE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE - One (1) citizen appointee
vacancy.
To advise and assist the Community and Development Services Department and Council with the
management and conservation of the natural environment in Fort Erie.
(D COUNCIL’S 2011-2014 STRATEGIC PLAN (4) MAYOR’S YOUTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE - Four (4) youth vacancies - ages 13-21.
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includes a random sampling of residents from throughout Fort Erie to participate in a (5) MUSEUM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMITTEE - Four (4) citizen appointee
focus group to comment on the draft of Council’s key priorities, goals and initiatives for vacancies.
2011-2014. To promote awareness of Fort Erie’s cultural heritage within and outside the boundaries of the Town I
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chosen to participate. If you are called and if you agree to participate, the Town will follow Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee and Point Abino Lighthouse Advisory
up with a confirmation letter on your attendance with details of the event. Committee recently merged to form this new Committee).
The draft Strategic Plan will also be available to the general public for comment on the (6) SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE - Three (3) community representatives at
TOofwficne’ so wf tehbe- sCitAeO b aetg i9n0n5in-8g7 1M-1ar6c0h0 1e1xtth. .2 2I0f 0y.o u have any questions, please contact the TTlaoor wgeens. t oafb lFisohrt aE rmie etcoh a“nAisssmis tt toh efa Airlgye da”n, dt oe qdueittearbmlyin ed itshtrei bnueteed ffinora nicnicarle aassesdis tsaenncieo rp criotivziedne ds ebrvyi cthees
and to assist in establishing mechanisms to adopt recommendations.
(2) OVERNIGHT WINTER PARKING ON STREETS Applications must be completed on the form available on the Town’s website www.forterie.on.ca
under Public
ATTENTION ALL MOTORISTS: In an effort to keep the streets free of vehicles during Notices - Appointment to Boards and Committees or available in the Clerk's Office. Please state
the winter months for snowplowing and sanding operations, residents are reminded that clearly your name, address, postal code, telephone number, email address, choice of board and
no overnight parking is permitted. cinocmlumdiitntgee efxorp ecroinesnicdee raantido nc oref daepnptoiainlst,m wenitl lt hebree tor eacnedi avneyd o tbhyer trhelee vaunnt dbeacrskiggronuendd iunpfo rtmo ataionnd,
Traffic By-law No. 2000-89, Section 205 provides that “No person shall park a vehicle or including Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
permit a vehicle to remain parked” on any street in Town “between the hours of 2:00 a.m. This information is being collectedpursuant to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection
and 7:00 a.m. between November 1,2010 and March 31,2011. of Privacy Ad and will be used to select persons for appointments to Tbum of Fort Erie boards and
The Town’s By-law Enforcement Officers will be exercising vigilant enforcement of By-law committees.
No. 2000-89. Your vehicle will be issued a parking ticket and could be towed, Carolyn J. Kett, Town Clerk
at your expense, if found in violation of the by-law. 1 MuTnoiwcinp aolf CFoenrtt rEer iDe rive,
Enquiries may be directed to the Town’s By-law Enforcement Officers by calling (905) Fort Erie, Ontario L2A 2S6
871-1600, Extension 2216 (Geoff Stephenson) or Extension 2215 (Jack Cox). Applications can also be Emailed to [email protected].
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