Pelham News, January 7, 2011

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7,2011
■ INSIDE ■ INFRASTRUCTURE: Playgrounds, roads, fire station
CLEOAMDMEUR NDIITEYS A ND BUSINESS A year of major projects in Pelham
Gordon Klager, founder of the oldest
continually operating business in Fonthill
and the last charter member of the Fonthill
Lions Club, dead at 95. WAYNE CAMPBELL
See story on Page 7 PelhamNEWS Staff
For the town, 2010 was the
year of infrastructure. And
the work will continue into
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infrastructure grants filled
news releases and made the
headlines. The town will have
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nine parks had new and safer
equipment.
Downtown Fonthill began
a long sought after revitaliza¬
tion with the reconstruction
of Pelham St.
Brandsavers tion of Haist St. was squeezed
down to just over a year.
SmartSource at tTowwince h aa lrli.b Ibt owna ws faosr c aunt tawddici¬e
tion, which included a new
council chambers, committee
population of more than 70%
of the workforce benefited
from infrastructure road
improvements in neighbour¬
ing communities.
Niagara Region four-
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Work is progressing on a new $2.9-million Fenwick firehall on Welland Rd. backing onto Centennial Park. The Highway 406 in Thorold.
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2 ■ PELHAM NEWS ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011
upfront
■ PUBLIC WORKS: Downtown Fonthill, Fenwick fire station, Regional Rd. 20
Pelham seeing long awaited work underway
WAYNE CAMPBELL town beautification commit¬ power lines, street lights, side¬ remodelled their stores inside
PelhamNEWS Staff tee, it submitted a successful walks and curb. and out to create a village
applicafion. It will involve a narrowing atmosphere popular with
It’s not quite the movie The town ended up with of Pelham St., a pedestrian both local and out-of-town
Field of Dreams but down¬ $2.5 million from the federal signal crosswalk and exten¬ shoppers.
town Fonthill has chased a and provincial governments. It sive landscaping to encour¬ The idea was to duplicate
had to add its one-third share age walking and cycling into the process on a larger scale
than two decades. as well as $1 million to share the downtown. in Fonthill and Fenwick.
Study after study urged the costs with local hydro compa¬ It will maintain and With Pelham St. work
town to upgrade Pelham St. nies to bury power lines. strengthen what Mayor Dave underway and a recently
to attract both local residents Hydro poles with strings of Augustyn calls the “small
to business, to encourage power and other utility lines town feel” Pelham residents Improvement Plan of incen-
property owners to upgrade have been considered as love about their town.
and impress possible future long-standing eyesores. In its original application, owners to improve facades
The work extends from the town asked for funding and other exterior features,
date village atmosphere. College St., in the south, for a revitalization project downtown Fonthill is gradu¬
During 2010, as federal to Broad St., north of the ally transforming.
and provincial governments Regional Rd. 20 intersection. both Fonthill and Fenwick. Town council and its
It began in the fall and will The goal was to use staff are looking for funding
landscape to stir up a falter¬ continue into the spring. Ridgeville as a model. opportunities to do the same
ing economy, Pelham was Work on the northern section A few years ago, the town in downtown Fenwick.
in a position to cash in on its from Regional Rd. 20 to Broad upgraded Canboro Rd. at Meanwhile, Fenwick is
St. will begin in January. Effingham St. with sidewalks, benefitting other forms of
Thanks to a ongoing study The reconstruction includes decorative lighting, new infrastructure funding,
ssturpeepto dretesidg nbeyrs caonnds au ldtaonwtns-, rseepwlearc leimneesn, tt eolefp whoanteer lliinneess,, roadway and parking spaces. see INFRASTRUCTURE page 3
■ INFRASTRUCTURE
Provincial, federal dollars spur Pelham construction boom in 2010
FROM PAGE 1 Way. ready” projects. The effort ation with MP Dean Allison Haist Street reconstruction
paid off bringing Pelham a and MPP Tim Hudak and $5.7 million, replacement of through its annual town capi¬
It rebuilt O'Reilly’s influx of money intended healthy share of the stimula¬ various government officials Fire Station No. 2 $2.9 mil¬ tal budget.
Bridge linking Pelham and to stimulate the economy tion money from Toronto and for part of the success. lion; playground equipment It is now looking down
Wainfleet. proved timely for Pelham. Ottawa. When you add in the replacements $1.1 million
It improved Woodlawn and Mayor Dave Augustyn said town’s share of the three-way and the town hall expansion through with the building
Thorold roads in Welland. planned projects close Pelham, with $8.4 million, funding, the 2010 infrastruc¬ boost it received in the past
Meanwhile, the province enough to the starting line. received the second high¬ ture projects totalled $12.6
Its staff scrambled against est amount per capita in the
expansions to Highway 406 tight deadlines to get applica¬ Niagara Region. They included Pelham St. upgrades to roads and side¬ wcampbell@
and the Queen Elizabeth tions in for so-called “shovel He credited close co-oper¬ reconstruction at $2.5 million, walks as well as a major water wellandtribune-ca
Irvine Muir Terry Mikolasek
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011 ■ PELHAM NEWS
■ ALLISON ■ REAL ESTATE
Working Expect greater market
to create stability in 2011
more jobs
FROM PAGE 4 greater stability to characterize
FROM PAGE 4 In Pelham our 12 month thhoeu msinargk seatlse isn t o20 m11ir, rCora n20a1d0ia lne vels
average price was $324,584 - with average prices escalating 3%
Canadians are proud of 5.8% higher than the figure of by year-end 2011.
our long standing tradition of $306,854 recorded in December Let's hope they're right
helping those who genuinely 2009.
need refuge. But we will not Ihe Niagara average currently Cathy Berkhout-Bosse, H.B.A. is a
tolerate abuse from criminal stands at $225,234 up 4.5% horn real estate broker and writer living
human smuggling networks. last year’s level. in Pelham.
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■ OBITUARY: Fonthill Lions Club charter member dies at 95
Gordon Klager founder of Klager’s Food Market
Supplied photo
Gordon Klager, a charter
member of the Fonthill Lions
Club, founder of Klager's
Food Market and a longtime
volunteer, died Dec. 29.
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PELHAM NEWS ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011
■ WRCC: Latest project expected to be completed in spring
Pelham firms work on Welland Recreational Canal Terrace
It’s something the public will be able to
interact and engage with. We’re very excited
waWs EinL LWAeNllDa n—d Ta ofdewd Bwaerebkesr about that. We do a lot of private residences, but
ago as the frame of the when it comes to this, we’re going to have all walks
Icnravneert, epdr-ercoaorfi oduasnlgyl aebdo fvroem th ea of life enjoying it.”
sctoruulcdt usoreo nh eb edceosmigen aendo tthheart Todd Barber, Forestgreen Creations Inc.
landmark for the city.
vision begin to take shape
along the canal bank on King
St., between the Main and
Division Sts. bridges.
The founder of Fonthill-
based Forestgreen Creations
Inc. has seen it many times
monitor and drawn on
paper, “but it’s not the same
as appreciating the scale up
He stopped by the con¬
struction site the night
before as well — just after
the first letters of “Canal
Terrace” were added to the
structure. The lights strung
from the trees in the centre
median on King St. reflected
in the finish on those letters.
“The letters glistened a
Barber has waited quite a
while to see his design begin
to take shape.
When Barber and Welland
Recreational Canal Corp.
executive director Stephen
plan to city council in March
2010, Fischer told politicians
the $350,000 project would
In late summer, the WRCC
hoped it would be nearing
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■ NEW YEAR’S LEVEE: Traditional ceremony welcomes in new year for Lincoln and Welland Regiment
Regiment toasts new year at new armoury
CHRISTOPHER FORTIER toasts portion of the levee. our municipalities and sentative in the forenoon or
For PelhamNEWS Taking place at the regi¬ the cities of Welland and early afternoon.
ment’s new location at 459 St. Catharines, everyone In Canada, the levee has
WELLAND — The Lincoln Prince Charles Dr., the levee around the Niagara region, been associated with New
and Welland Regiment cel¬ featured toasts from a few of our associations are our Year’s Day, originating with
ebrated its annual New Year’s the officers on hand for the foundation.” fur traders paying their
Day levee in grand fashion annual ceremony. You do not know how valu¬ respects to the "Master of the
Saturday at the Welland “Thank you to Welland for able that is,” he said of the Fort," essentially, their gov¬
Armoury. supporting the regiment as support the regiment receives ernment representative.
“The New Year’s levee is a they do. It’s very important to from the community. Continuing to the present
wonderful tradition and I am us, we are very grateful for that day, the levee has become an
happy to be here today and support,” Lt.-Col. Ted Opitz, from the French term levee du almost Canadian-exclusive
CHRISTOPHER FORTIER PelhamNEWS Photo play a small part in the 2011 the regiment's commanding soleil (rising of the sun) origi¬ observance. The ceremonies
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