Letters

Letter to the Editor Mr. Editor, This headline should come with a caveat: ‘creative math’ required. The OPP billing statement for 2015 is $1,797,913. That is $44,184 lower than OSPS Option 1 (with a civilian school officer) and $131,859 less than OSPS Option 2 (with a uniformed school officer). The community has shown a strong desire to ensure a uniformed presence...

Letter to the Editor Editor, The current policing debate for the Municipality of Meaford is a tough decision for the future council following the upcoming municipal elections with much debate taking place over the situation. This article has not been written to extend the virtues of one policing option, the Owen Sound Police Service (OSPS) proposal, over another, the Ontario Provincial...

Letter Editor, On the first day  of voting my husband and I tried to go on line to vote. What a waste of time. We could not access the voter site using no less than three browsers/servers. We tried many variations of the http entry. We even tried to call the municipality for help. You can just imagine the futility of that effort. We...

Letter to the Editor Editor, There's always a reason why elected officials raise our taxes. There's a pending crisis; there's a special need; there's looming disaster. Raising taxes on taxpayers is the easiest, quickest and least contested way to add spendable dollars.  This departing Council decreed property tax increases to the tune of 60% in the last four years.  This last...

Letter to the Editor Editor, I am writing in response to Doug Miller’s letter (Voting “Rural”) of October 9 th . While Doug is a personal friend and someone for whom I have the greatest respect, as a resident of Sydenham for 24 years I heartily disagree with his premise that the way to get things done in rural Meaford is...

Letter to the Editor Editor, The article below was taken from http://www.starhawksblog.org/ . It has been modified only slightly to speak to our local community. The American references were removed. My goal is to share the wisdom of this blogged piece not to plagiarize it.  “We’re getting close to our October elections.  Why vote?  It is vitally important that you do, and...

Letter to the Editor Editor, Some candidates in the current municipal election are acknowledging the dissatisfaction in rural areas of the Municipality of Meaford, especially in Sydenham, and are calling for improved communications. To me, that’s like calling our winters a cold spell and offering to talk about it in the spring. Far more than communication will be needed to heal...

Letter to the Editor Editor, We just drove through your lovely village on a road trip, and wanted to congratulate your village on a job well done. The decorations for Thanksgiving and Halloween were beautiful and certainly demonstrated the vitality and spirit of your residents. We have much to be thankful for. Yeah for small towns Ontario! David and Norma Wills Bridgenorth,...

Letter to the Editor Editor, We hear a lot about the “Victory Nickel”, but the Victory Torch engraved on the nickel was designed partly by Frederick S. Haines, of Meaford. The mint replicated this torch on the Victory Nickel. “... Fred Haines collaborated in the design of a Victory Torch with Ted Watson. The torch was flown by Canadian bomber to England...

Letter to the Editor Editor, I have spent some time going over the “Municipality of Meaford - State of the Infrastructure – Roads” report. Roads are the single most important service which a municipality provides directly. The report is approximately 175 pages long and presents far too much detail for me to comment upon except in broad terms. For those of you who...