 By Staff
TORONTO, ON. June 17, 2013 – Former Toronto Maple Leaf Kyle Morton had two hits, scored two runs and drove in another two as the last place Burlington Bandits snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Leafs Sunday afternoon at Dominico Field at Christie Pits in Intercounty Baseball League play.
Starting pitcher Connor Smith and reliever Alex Gale combined to scatter 10 hits as the Bandits (3-10) rebounded after losing to the Leafs 13-11 in Burlington on Saturday. Toronto (7-10) remains stuck in sixth place after losing two of three games this weekend.
After a sloppily played game on Saturday, the Bandits turned in a solid performance on Sunday, making several defensive gems and making the most of their seven hits. The Leafs on the other hand made a pair of costly errors and failed to get hits at key times.
Burlington took the lead with three runs in the fifth inning and were never headed after that, with Smith and then Gale providing some solid pitching.
Smith got the win going five innings, allowing two runs on five hits with one strikeout and one walk. Gale finished up and earned a save, also allowing two runs on five hits with two strikeouts and one walk.
Ryan Clarke, Peter Bako and Daniel Peake all drove in runs for the Bandits, with shortstop Phil Steer and second baseman Peake both turning in stellar defensive plays all afternoon.
Starter Adam Garner took the loss for the Leafs. He went five innings, allowing four runs – three earned – on four hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Conor Lillis-White allowed two runs on three hits over three innings in his Leaf debut and Drew Taylor pitched a perfect ninth.
Jon Waltenbury drilled a two-run homer and added a sacrifice fly for the Leafs, while Will Richards and Damon Topolie both added two hits for Toronto.
The Burlington Bandits travel to Barrie on Tuesday for a 7:30pm start before returning home on Thursday against the Hamilton Cardinals. Thursday marks Guaranteed Win Night at Nelson Park. If the Bandits happen to lose, all fans in attendance will receive one free general admission ticket for a future game upon exit.
As betting odds go, based on the team’s record – this is almost a sure win for the ball game watchers.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 16, 2013. They used to be located on Locust Street, half a block away from city hall – just a bit further from the Performing Arts Centre. The service they offered was delivered from that location but the overhead was – well too much.
Debra Pickfield called the place THiNKSPOT – a place for groups of people to get away to and think – think differently and work “outside the box”, a phrase that is terribly over used but does describe what gets done at THiNKSPOT.
 THiNKSPOT is a place for people to gather in small groups and large groups to talk. Breaking the boundaries that tend to determine what people can and should do at whatever work they do is not easy. Management tends to want things to run smoothly – no disruption please. Pickfield argues that disruption is exactly what is needed if organizations are going to be moved out of the complacency she feels smothers many operations.
 The feature that makes THiNKSPOT work is the setting and the level of facilitation, Pickfield works as a facilitator and from her perspective, location and setting for meetings is critical. Meeting in a stifling hotel meeting room where the setting isn’t much different from the office is not, according to Pickfield, conducive to bringing about a change in the way people think.
So – off to Lowville she went, where she rented a nice space. The setting is pleasant. The grounds are really nice with a sculpture garden yards away and, if people need to get out for a walk to talk, the paths and streams of Lowville Park is just across the road.
 While the setting is important – people use THiNKSPOT to transfer knowledge and exchange ideas and use the latest in technology to make it happen. One of the draw backs was the amount of meeting room space. Quite a bit but at times not enough for larger groups. What Pickfield didn’t know when she decided to move her operation to Lowville was that there was an old school-house literally on the other side of the road. Once Pickfield saw the space she met with city property types and put together a rental arrangement. She now has a very small meeting space, a larger meeting room and now one of those large school-house rooms as well.
Pickfield explains: “We focus on shifting the way people think and the way they work together. When you connect all the various intricate pieces of the puzzle – the people, the process, and the place – you create a sort of “sweet spot” where we can collaborate and think creatively and find solutions to complex problems.”
So – what do they do up there in Lowville?
Pickfield is holding an event to introduce people to the setting and to give them an example of how it all comes together. She is holding – not sure what to call it – let’s say an “event” which Pickfield describes as a unique way to experience THiNKSPOT and then extends an invitation:
We hope you can join us, and look forward to catching up and seeing everyone on June 20th as we introduce THiNKSPOT 2.0 Take part in a Summer Sockstice in the idyllic world of Lowville for a time of storytelling through Art.
A wonderful selection of artists will share their creativity and encourage you to recognize the creativity that resides in all of us.
Join Walt Rickli, sculptor, Fred Magie, songwriter/musician, Kevin Sutton, spoken word and drummers Tribal Thunder for an evening of creativity through music and stories.
 Admission – a half a dozen or so pairs of socks – there are people out there experiencing homelessness and a pair of socks is a big deal for them. Want in? Click here and reserve a spot.
There is no admission – there is the request that you buy a bundle of socks that will be distributed to people experiencing homelessness. That’s why the event is being called a Summer Sockstice.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 15, 2013. It opened – indeed it did and the event was wonderful to watch, a delight to be part of and a milestone for the city. That milestone has the potential to become an albatross around the neck of this city but today is not the day to quibble.
 weft It is done – it is open and the public seem to love it. There were out in droves on the Saturday when the Burlington Teen Tour Band marched the full length of the pier and returned with the city lag snapping in the breeze.
 These things happen. The city decided their wouldn’t be a “ribbon cutting” but instead there would be a banner made up and stretched across the pier for the Burlington Teen Tour Band to march through making the opening of the pier. The sign was supposed to read Brant Street Pier NOW but the banner was longer than the space and – well the W of now got hidden. Ooops! Not an omen – please. The applause was very real. I’m not sure if those young men and woman in the BTTB were fully aware of what they were participating in –but it was an historic occasion for the city.
 They were sticky, they were gooey, they were soft and moist – one per person with more than a thousand made up to be given away. Did you get one? The city had more than 1000 cupcakes on hand to pass out – they were all used up.
Hard to say how many people actually visited the pier on the Saturday – it will have approached 5,000 by the time the day was over.
Now what?
The pier will find its place. The city will come up with ways to program the location and people will see it as something that makes their city just that much different from any other city in the province.
The birthing pains were excruciating and we know that from this point forward every politician will talk about the event as something historic. Hopefully it will move the politicians off that ‘safest city in the country” line they keep touting.
 A picture that should be etched in the mind of every citizen in the city. Glorious! It is interesting that they speak of the pier as the completion of the city’s waterfront park. The question as to what the Region does with the Beachway Park to the west of Spencer Smith has yet to be determined and for the waterfront to have some harmony the two will have to – and should – complement one another.
All in the future – this weekend the city celebrates and acknowledges that we now have something no one else has –and it is truly wonderful.
Are there flaws, deficiencies and things that need to be fixed quick, quick? You bet there are – but today is not the day to point to hose.
Point instead to that picture of the full Burlington Teen Tour Band marching back towards the city with the flags flying and the full band playing.
 By Staff.
BURLINGTON, ON. June 15, 2013. The four runs the Brantford Red Sox cashed in during the first inning proved all they would need, as they went on to defeat the Burlington Bandits 8-3.
The Red Sox are 9-1 in their last ten games, and improve to 16-3 on the season. Starter Mike Meyers went just four innings, allowing just three hits and one earned run with four walks and seven strikeouts over four innings pitched. He was relieved by Dylan Grosul who pitched five innings, allowing two runs on three hits and one walk with three strikeouts in picking up the win.
 Pitching wasn’t particularly good – the other team hit the ball more often and made it around the bases as well. Of the 14 Brantford hits on the night, more than half were extra base hits. Scott Thorman had two doubles and a single, going 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored while Hyung Cho went 3-for-3 with two doubles, three walks and two runs scored. Josh McCurdy singled and doubled with a run scored, while Todd Betts had a two-run double with a run scored. Lee Delfino also doubled, drove in a run and scored twice, while Terrell Alliman and Jason Gotwalt each had two hits and an RBI. Joe Colameco had a hit and an RBI to cap off the night for the home side.
Burlington starter CJ Machete took the loss, lasting only 1 1/3 innings while giving up six hits and six earned runs with six walks. It was the fourth straight loss for the Bandits, who dropped to 2-9 on the season.
Ryan Clarke had a pair of hits in the loss including a single and an RBI triple with a run scored, while Levi Larmour had a pair of hits and an RBI. Jeff MacLeod doubled, while Sean Malony singled and scored a run. Jamie Lekas added an RBI for the visitors.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 15th, 2013. He is going to do it. City Councillor Jack Dennison has decided he will appeal the decision of the local Committee of Adjustment, which opposed his application to sever a portion of the east side of his property on Lakeshore Road.
The Committee of Adjustment hearing held at city hall May 21st, was one of its longest, adjourning at well after 11 pm. It was also one many felt was an embarrassment to the city and its democratic processes.
 The property on LAkeshore Road that City Councillor Jack Dennison wants to sever – against the wishes of many, if not most of his constituents. The Dennison residence is in that part of the community described as Roseland, a part of the city threatened by developments that some feel is changing the character of the community.
The community is one of two that are being given a “character study” treatment by a group of consultants working for the Planning department who are in the midst of an Official Plan Review, something the city has to do every five years.
Dennison, for reasons of his own, which are more than likely financial, decides he can sever the property he has for a significant financial return.
The application to sever was lost at Committee of Adjustment (CoA) . Everyone has the right to appeal a CoA decision to the Ontario Municipal Board. On the last day open to Dennison to file an appeal to the does so and the CoA Clerk advises the residents who have asked to be kept informed that the application to appeal has been filed.
 Letter advising Councillor Dennison that his Appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board has been received. Now the public waits for the OMB to determine a date for the hearing.
Roseland is one of those communities that decided earlier in the year that they did not want developers changing their community without their input and when the owners of a property on Hart sought a Committee of Adjustment ruling to sever, they too lost at CoA. They too took their case to the OMB – where they also lost.
The Roseland residents formed the Roseland Community Association and brought in the professional talent needed to oppose and won their case at the OMB.
Dennison feels he has a strong case and is preparing to take it to the OMB. In doing so he further alienates himself with a community that was once close to bedrock electoral support for him. That support is now lost to Dennison. Political suicide is not something one sees often in Burlington.
 Burlington’s Committee of Adjustment. All appointed by city council to serve a four-year term. From left to right chair Ramsay, members Bailey, Newbury, Kumar and Sarraf. Peter Thoem, also a member was absent. The Committee of Adjustment decision was clearly split with Chair Malcolm Ramsay, members Grant Newbury and Robert Bailey voting against the application to sever and members Dave Kumar and Sam Sarraf voting for the application. Many had serious concerns over how Kumar and Sarraf conducted themselves.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 14, 2013 For opening number two of the Brant Street Pier the God’s shone upon the city and the sun was out – the breeze from the lake was pleasant and, as has been standard for the pier – the opening was late by about a quarter of an hour.
 A colour party from the Iron Duke Sea Cadet Corps in Burlington. But it was a good occasion. All the movers and shakers and the people who make things happen were out on the site. The speeches were mercilessly short. The guest list was very short as well – some real surprises as to who wasn’t on hand. More on that later.
 Seven hands – seven futures for the city. The focal point was unveiling the plaque with the hand prints of seven young people, one from each council member. The seven were chosen from the more than 440 who sent in an application along with their thoughts on what the pier would mean to them.
Theses seven were recognized when the final beam of the pier was bolted into place and had a section of steel with their names on it. At that time their handprints were taken and later used to make casts from which a mold was made to cast the bronze plaque that was unveiled this afternoon.
That plaque is going to be out there for more than 100 years during which time those seven boys and girls will return again and again with their spouses, the children and their grandchildren. It is a wonderful piece of local history.
What kind of a pier is it going to be? Like a new restaurant, it will take some time to find its market; those people who will be out there day after day. While it is very early one could begin to get a sense of how people are going to relate to the structure.
It will serve the city well. It’s construction was plagued with problems and while those were not the making of the current civic administration is a serious blot on our copy books that is working its way through the legal system That full story has yet to be told. There is a serious bump out there that the city has yet to get over.
How and when people make the pier their own will take a little time. One “pier walker” wondered if someone would hold Tai Chi classes out at the very end of the pier? What a neat idea. Will weddings be performed on the observation deck? Will anyone remember that there was supposed to be a win turbine at the top of the beacon on the observation deck? It was going to provide all the power to keep the lights on.
With the pier officially opened we now head for the “third” opening that will take place on Saturday.
Sometime next week the words Brant Street Pier will get moved from the Project and Initiatives part of the city’s web site.
A traditional bronze plaque was set out on the pier with the names of the current Council members. It may well be the only public mark of the municipal political service some of them have given.
 Henry Schilthuis on the left, along with an aide.  Ward 6 Councillor Blair Lancaster on the right walks with former Ward 6 Councillor Carol D’Amelio. Expect to see these two running against each other in 2014. D’Amelio wants back in.  Note quite the traditional photo op – most of those who took part in the official opening of the pier gathered at the end. For once everything worked.  The ceremonies over the Naval Promenade becomes the fous with the Seniors’ out in force listening to the All MAle Welsh Choir. Strolling along is Craig Stevens, the city’s project manager on the pier project. He direction and oversight kept the project going when it got a little wonky at times – but that’s another story. So who WAS there and who WASN’T there?
Some thought former Mayor Rob MacIsaac would be on hand to say a few words about how this project came about. However, had MacIsaac ben on hand then former Mayor Cam Jackson would have had to be on hand – and that wasn’t going to happen.
Regional chair Gary Carr sent his regrets.
Former city council member Carol D’Amelio was on hand. She and Councillor Blair Lancaster toured the observation deck together. Expect those two to battle it out in Ward six next municipal election. D’Amelio wants back in. She gave up her Council seat in 2010 to run against then Mayor Cam Jackson and while she did better than Jackson the city wanted a new look and chose Rick Goldring.
Councillor Taylor didn’t attend. Councillor Dennison did but he wasn’t talking about his decision to appeal the Committee of Adjustment decision that went against him to the Ontario Municipal Board. The decision to appeal will mark the beginning of the end of his 20 years of political service.
Henry Schilthuis and one of his able assistants made an appearance. Schilthuis was the original contractor on the pier. e walked away from the project when he realized, in his opinion, that it could not be built with the plans he was given.
A court of law will decide if Henry Schilthuis was right.
The pier is now part of the city. Is it what those Council members back in 1999 thought it would be? It will find and make a place for itself. The city can settle into its next biggest problem – the absolutely obscene situation with the Air Park.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 14, 2013. The Saturday is the blowout day for the Sound of Music – the day they pull out all the stops and begin with a parade with every possible group they could find to take part. As events in this city go it at times beats even the Santa Claus parade – except they don’t have the big guy in the red suit.
There is a new parade route this year. It starts at 11:00 am. at Central Park; travels along New Street and James Street to City Hall; then turns south on Brant Street, west on Lakeshore, ending at Maple Ave., featuring as always Burlington’s own Teen Tour Band and Junior Redcoats.
With the parade ending the music begins.
Here is the lineup for the first half of the day.
People will certainly want to get out onto the pier and take in the view.
Then back for the evening schedule.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 14, 2013. The damage to property as a result of the land fill being dumped at the airport in north Burlington is very hard to appreciate if you just drive up and down the roads. There is really nothing to see were you to drive along Bell School Line. What’s the problem here you would ask – must be those pesky rural types who get upset if you cut down as much as a single tree.
The Gazette has reported on the damage done to Barbara Sheldon’s property closely because it is so very evident and the relationship between Sheldon and Vince Rossi is so toxic. These two send each other threatening notices about trespassing on each other’s property.
Not a hint of cooperation from Rossi over the difference he has made to the value the Sheldon property.
 Were fill like this dumped in the backyard of a property south of Dundas in Burlington the by-law enforcement officer would be ordering it be removed – immediately. Burlington Executive Air Park claims they are under federal jurisdiction and do not have to comply with municipal, Region or Conservation Authority regulations. The Cousins, Wendy and Carl are just up the road from Sheldon. Their situation is quite a bit different. Carl Cousins farms the land and takes hay off each year. For the past three years he has not been able to get onto some of the fields – “they are just too wet” he explains.
Wendy was born on the farm which consists of two lots – one 25 acres and the other 5 acres.
 The original culvert installed by the company doing the land fill work for the Air Park. The run off from the landfill was flooding the property next door. That is a lot of landfill to dump – is it needed to improve aeronautical operations at the airport or is it a landfill revenue operation? The ‘mountain’ of earth at the edge of their property is stunning. Imagine anyone south of Dundas seeing a pile of earth similar to that shown in the pictures we have set out below next to their property line.
The city would have by-law enforcement officers in there in a flash and that earth would be gone – real pronto.
 The upgrades to the culvert that handles the runoff from the landfill onto the Cousins property. Anyone of the Regional Councillors with an farming background will tell you this is as useless as those things on bulls.
Shoddy treatment by the air park owners. The Burlington Executive Air Park has taken the position that they are regulated by the federal government and do not have to comply with municipal, Regional or Conservation rules and regulations. Many think this is a total crock and while local government.ck all government moves slowly there is now movement.
Most reasonable people see this as unfair and an abuse of the federal jurisdiction situation. Yes airports have to be regulated by the federal government to ensure that all airports are following the same rules. BUT what Rossi is doing has precious little to do with aeronautics. And where what he is doing has to do with aeronautics e is expected to be civil.
 Flow of run-off water from the landfill in the background is not only rotting the fence posts but flooding the fields on the Cousin’s property making it too we to take off the hay from the family farm. That landfill in the background is there, it is claimed, to improve the aeronautical operations of the Burlington Executive Air Park. It will take time for this to work its way into a court room but some day, at some time there will be a Judge who will opine that Vince Rossi has abused the federal jurisdiction and used it as a skirt to hide behind.
His day will come.
Meanwhile Wendy and Calvin Cousins put up with the damage to their lifestyle and their livelihood.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 14, 2015 As a result of further investigation, Halton Regional Police homicide detectives have determined the murder of Parmanand (Barry) DEBIE was a deliberate, pre-planned act and have accordingly upgraded the charge against Calvin GREEN to first degree murder.
GREEN will attend a bail hearing this morning at 10:00 a.m. at the Milton Provincial Court.
A number of Gazette readers have commented and complained that the police are being unfair with the language they are using and that it is a court of law that makes the decision as to guilt.
The role of the police is to investigate and then lay what they feel are appropriate charges under the Criminal Code Act. A court of lay will then decide if the person is guilty or not guilty.
Those readers have a point.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 14, 2013 Burlington seems to like soft openings.
The city did that with the Performing Arts Centre. They set up a schedule that allowed people to get used to the place by taking part in small events.
There were small events for different groups and public events where people just wandered in and out of the building.
 The first public – they came in dribs and drabs Thursday afternoon. The same approach seems to be the way the pier is going to open.
Thursday afternoon a crowd of a couple of hundred were gathered around the gates waiting to wander out – but those gates weren’t ready to come down. The construction crews were still giving the place the finishing touches it needed.
 CHCH TV reporter arrives a little too early. Pier not quite ready for its opening. A local television station announced the pier was going to open at 3:30pm – they got that wrong. There was still work to be done. The bits of rain that drifted in and out didn’t help.
The contractor would have been just as happy if the public had not been let out onto the pier on Thursday – they still had work to do.
The construction crews would move the gates back further and further to allow people out – but it wasn’t until well past 5:30 pm before people could walk out to the observation deck. And even then they could not go beyond because crews were setting up facilities for a fireworks display.
All a little awkward – but Burlingtonians seemed to go along with the flow.
 The pier has a limit of 2100 people on it at any one time – there were not that many yesterday afternoon and we probably won’t see that big a crowd for some time – bit it will hold that many if they are out there shoulder to shoulder. Is there a Guinness Book of Records opportunity here? By 7:00 pm people were wandering in and looking around. Mayor Goldring took a stroll and several hundred people were out with skate boards and baby carriages as they decided just how they were going to relate to their pier.
On Friday the politicians will hold their event, the Sea Cadets will form some kind of an honour guard which is a nice touch. The politicians are not expected to take all that long to do their thing.
 One of the pluses with the pier was the mini-beach that was formed on the west side. Due to the currents and the flow of water sand gets washed up on the west side. when city engineers saw this formation they decided to put in a walkway leading to the water.
MAny thought there was going to be docks for boats to tie up to – they talked about it and they even costed it out – and then backed away from it given the massive cost over runs.
You can almost bet that at some point there will be talk of baot docks again. Then it’s back in the hands of the public – but they still won’t be able to get out to the very end – the space from the observation deck to the end is being used to set up the fireworks display for Saturday night as part of the Sound of Music Festival.
 They will become collectors items sold on eBay in the future. Did you get one? But folks – for those of you who have been waiting for years for this pier to get given to you – Sunday it will be all yours. It is quite the place to wander around in the early hours of the morning, perhaps with a cup of coffee and a friend.
Perhaps you will be one of those early “pier walkers”.
 By Staff
Taking part in the Sound of Music this year was different. The people were there; the sound was as good as it usually is – but there was something difference. People walked onto the grounds of Spencer Smith Park the way they always have but this time they veered the east just a bit and out onto the expanse of this pier that leads you out into the lake.
Burlington is the only city that has a pier that juts out into the water the way ours does. Some people think there is a reason for this.
For those who wished there was an observation deck that gave people a view they had never had of the city before.
With the “quick tour” of the pier over people then headed west on the Naval promenade and on to enjoying the festival.
The line-up for today is set out below in two parts.
 Events at the pier then take a break while the public officials take the time to formally open the pier. When the festivities are over take the time to wander back and have a look at the plaque that is set up. Nice piece of public art.
 The Sound of Music Festival schedule shows bands playing while the politicians are giving speeches. Given that those politician are the people funding parts of the Sound of Music that didn’t look like a wise move to me..
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 13, 2013. Earlier today homicide detectives arrested the individual responsible in the death of Parmanand (Barry) DEBIE.
Calvin Gordon GREEN, a 19-year-old Toronto resident was arrested in Burlington and is facing a charge of second degree murder.
GREEN is being held in custody pending a bail hearing scheduled for Friday June 14, at 10:00 a.m. in Milton Provincial Court.
The investigation has determined that the victim knew the accused and died as a result of being stabbed.
 By Staff
Burlington, ON June 13, 2013 – The Burlington Bandits, proud members of the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) have advise that today’s game between the Bandits and the visiting Guelph Royals has been postponed due to the closing of Nelson Park due to poor playing conditions.
 Rain day just might give therm the breather they need to get out of the basement. Maybe a walk on the pier to get their wind? This is the third “rain out” date of the 2013 season. The re-scheduled date will be announced as soon as possible.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 13, 2013 Show time. The SOUND begins at 5:30. The schedule for tonight is set out below.
 This year, the Sound of Music may have something significant to compete with. The city is expecting to have all the gating removed from the spanking new Brant Street Pier, which will allow people to walk out onto the pier and take it all in.
 There is a lot to see – print out the map.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 13, 2013 – Wendy Cousins lives on Appleby Line. About 10 yards from the part of North Burlington where the Air Park land fill operation is taking place,
 If you look careful through the dust – you can see the truck in front of the car. The problem for the Appleby Line residents is that this is what it is like much of the time and the air port people advise that they will be at it for a couple of months – intermittently.
The people doing the dumping do not believe they are subject to local rules about landfill rules and the need for permits. Nor do they feel they have any responsibility for the disruption they cause to the lives of the people who live along that road.
Wendy shot the picture below from the front of her car Wednesday afternoon, which was when Regional Council was meeting to discus what they should/could be doing.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 13, 2013. Homicide detectives have made an arrest in the death of Parmanand (Barry) DEBIE.
Details concerning the arrest and name of accused will be released shortly by way of media release.
No additional details are available for release at this time.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 13, 2013 The Regional Police are passing on some sound advice.
Figure out beforehand where you want to meet with all the members of your family in the event that one of them gets lost.
 The Lost and Found Tent is on the Naval promenade just to the west of the entrance to the pier that you can now walk out on. The Halton Regional Police Service want to help the public to prevent unnecessary trauma to family members who become separated while attending this year’s Burlington Sound of Music Festival being held from June 13th until June 16th.
The Service recommends you establish a pre-determined meeting place when arriving at the venue in the event you become separated. Establishing a meeting place with older children and adults and/or advising young children to go to the nearest police officer for help will ensure an immediate and safe reunion.
A ‘Missing Person’ tent has also been established at the festival. Look for the Happy Face 🙂 on the map. The tent is on what is now the Naval promenade just to the west of the entrance to the pier – which you will be able to walk out on this weekend.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 12, 2103. So here’s the picture.
There is a lady who lives on Appleby Line. She has a small piece of property with a century old house and a spring fed pond. She used to be able to sit in her kitchen, look out the window and see as far north as Rattle Snake Point.
She can’t see that part of the country side anymore because of a wall of dirt that is more than 30 feet high and less than 50 yards from her house.
This lady is not happy but she is doing all she can, working within the rules to bring about a change.
Yesterday she happened to be on the very edge of her property where it abuts to the property that is having all the landfill dumped and meets a man she assumes is the site supervisor for the company that is doing the landfill dumping for the property owner.
She engages the man in conversation and learns that he is a contractor who is going to install runway lights at some point. “I truly enjoyed learning about the runway lights” she says.
Shortly after the conversation with the contractor the lady with the house on Appleby Line gets the following email from Vince Rossi, owner of the Burlington Executive Air Park and the man who has been dumping landfill on his close to 200 acre property.
Hi Barbara Re your questioning on the airport staff of today’s date.
Kindly refrain from entering our property as of Today, if You have any questions regarding the airport or any item related there to feel free top contact the Proper person to answer any questions. So this is Your notice not to enter airport property without My authorization, failing which You will be charged with trespassing.
Vince Rossi, Burlington Executive Airport.
The lady with the house on Appleby Line responds:
I am not sure why this conversation offended, but being the good neighbor that I am, I will certainly respect your wishes.
To that point, you, your representatives and your contractors have entered my property without my authorization many times. Now however, I ask for the same respect – and this is your notice. If you, your representatives or contractors set foot on my property without my permission, in advance, You will be charged with trespassing.
To which Mr Rossie responded with:
Let the good lord direct every wish you have in life. Just stay away from ours,and above all stay off of our property. is that clear?
The word “property” is set as a link to a web site that has something to do with travel to Iceland – go figure.
The lady in the house on Appleby Line sleeps a little less soundly at night.
 By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. June 12, 2013. The Burlington Bandits, in partnership with Burlington Vintage Baseball (BVB) will host a “Burlington Vintage Baseball Day” on Thursday, July 4th, 2013.
 All BVB members, there are eight teams in that organization, will receive discounted tickets and each team will be recognized throughout the game. Not a BVB member? No problem! Simply wear your local sports uniform and get an additional $2 off the ticket price.
 That would be in the basement wouldn’t it. Maybe some of the Vintage players could show the Bandits a thing or two. The BRAVES, the BREWERS, the CARDINALS, the CUBS, the GIANTS, the HOBOS, the MUDHENS, the PHILLIES, the PIRATES, the X-MEN and the YANKEES will be recognized during the Bandits game on the 4th of July. They are expected to wear their team jerseys and maybe be asked to a run around the bases.
 By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. June 12, 2013. While the federal government is looking at all your email, phone calls and social media information the Regional government wants you to know that all they are doing is sending you information in the event of a public emergency.
The federal government is apparently not opening your personal mail but that could be because no one uses the postal service anymore.
Regional Council is being asked to consider new service that will enhance the Region’s community emergency telephone notification service utilized to phone and deliver a message to designated households in the Region, in the event of an emergency.
 The Region – a level of government few people understand but one we all pay for; they are considering implementing a Community Emergency Notification Service. If this is approved, the Region will be one of the first Canadian municipalities to have access to Bell’s Reverse 9-1-1 data and the first to use geospatial coordinates (latitude and longitude) for its civic addresses in the 9-1-1 database for the purpose of emergency community notification. The report goes to Regional Council for final approval on June 19th.
Gary Carr, chair of the Regional government said: “Halton Region is committed to ensuring that we are ready to respond to any emergency situation and are able to reach as many people as possible.”
“We continue to improve our Community Emergency Notification Service (CENS) so that Halton Region remains not only the safest region in Canada, but one of the most prepared. This initiative will increase the reach of CENS from 60 per cent of Halton Region residents to more than 95 per cent. This is just one more avenue we are using to ensure that residents are informed.”
Since 2008 Halton Region has used its Community Emergency Notification Service as one of many ways to notify the public about an emergency situation. In order to improve notification capabilities and to accurately reach as many residents as possible, Bell Canada’s Enhanced Notification Service will supply a greater range of telephone numbers and addresses, including unlisted and do not call numbers. The initiative is a joint effort between the Region, Local Municipalities, Bell Canada and Telus Communications Company and will be available in November 2013.
No mention as to how much this is going to cost you.
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