Pelham News, January 15, 2015

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To pay or not to pay?
Private companies looking after parking lots at hospitals, commercial properties and apartment buildings have different rules that govern what happens when someone fails to pay these
tickets. Some residents have found they can get away without paying the tickets because it’s too costly to take them to small claims court. See story on page 2.
2 ■ PELHAM NEWS ■ THURSDAY, JANUARY 15,2015
UPFRONT
□ COLUMN: Tony’s Desk
Parking tickets from a
private company are different
D are slightly dif- your judge, your jury and their witnesses ready to
on't take any legal lr executioner? testify, including the per-
advice from me, >r challenging Vhat happened to our son who actually wrote that
but if you happen to get iic democratic right of ticket,
a parking ticket at one of ng innocent until proven I was almost tempted to
the local hospitals or at an lty? get a parking ticket at the
apartment complex in your L parking ticket is nothing hospital and rip it up just to
city, don’t be in such a rush re than an allegation that prove that nothing happens
to pay it until you know all nade by one side, against once you get one of these.
money. private tickets in court, it ally upset, but they end up While a private company
I had no idea about this turns out they don’t take paying it because it’s usu- is not likely to take some-
issue until Loretta Morris- people to court. ally not very much and it one to court because of the
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LOCAL
■ HEALTH CARE: Committee wants to send strong message to Queen’s Park
Petition launched to save Welland hospital
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LOCALNEWS
■ POLICE: ‘Put the handheld devices down'
Distracted drivers targeted in Welland, Pelham
MARYANNE FIRTH Though enforcement is weeks, there’s no better time to “We just want to remind people of the first issue to tackle, he said, because it was
QMJ Agency Niagara in effect all year round, Nia¬ say “put the handheld devices legislation and remind them that tech¬ deemed prevalent by those out on patrol.
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TOTAL OFFENCES IN 2014 ISSUED BY NIAGARA
REGIONAL POLICE FOR DRIVING WITH A
HAND-HELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE
Pelham: 14 issued for drivers watching TV, using a
GPS, tablet or other devices, which result
Those numbers do not include tickets in a different charge.
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LOCALNEWS
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Tremblay says. ees field calls then relay them
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us this information can never, through the police budget.
ever be called to testify,” he
says of a statute handed down
by the Supreme Court of Can¬ But Crime Stoppers, says money payments and Crime amount of the
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informants to police, who the police at all — we’re com¬ investigators will report back after six mon
could be subpoenaed by the pletely detached,” he says.
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■ MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS
BEST SELECTION INTEREST FREE Gale says councillors ‘prostitutes for money’
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regional politicians "prostitutes for the committee meeting of the new council.
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mittee endorsed a plan last Wednesday that Mayor Dave Augustyn in a 15-6 vote. St.
would see the regional government enter Catharines Coun. Andy Petrowski was
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A staff report says the region can expect its Coun. Selina Volpatti asking that the
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the 20-year agreements with a nine-year pay¬ regional council, will become co-chair.
back period.” The chairs of standing committees
While the anticipated profit was acknowl¬ receive an annual stipend of $2,000.
edged as a solid investment for Niagara, many
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SAVE $1000’s! '£SSSSS^ZZ& pockets. This way, something does come back
on one-of-a-kind handmade tugs! electricity is used as bait to lure industry Wainfleet Mayor April Jeffs said, “I’m strug¬
|( rithiis I—liflgssii gling with this one, because I do see the finan¬
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