Letters

Dear Sir, You often comment on the difficult job of any member of council, but the furor over a recent comment by the mayor taking up most of a combined full page of the paper (letter, 3Rs, Rants, Raves & Rumours, mayor's apology) was a pretty good example of same. As well, possibly, another good demonstration as to why many...

Editor, I am writing this in response to your opinion piece in the most recent Meaford Independent regarding the track property and affordable housing. In your opinion piece you state the following: "With the average resale price of a home in Grey County currently more than $700,000, a household income of more than $200,000 per year is required in order to...

Dear Editor, Please tell people that there are so many real fears out there, that we do not need to create more. Clair Balfour is afraid that the TCE tank will collapse and send water down on the houses. Remember that it is built on the principle of ‘open sluice gate and empty tank’. If there was a breach possibility,...

Editor, I want to extend the apology that I sent to every municipal staff member to all residents of the Municipality of Meaford and thank you for affording me the opportunity to have it published in the same edition in which you call me out for this lapse (3Rs...Rants, Raves & Rumours, September 21, 2023 print paper): I want to...

Dear Editor, On Thursday, September 14, when I first read the social media post regarding the comment by Meaford Mayor Ross Kentner, at a Heritage Advisory Committee Meeting held on September 13, I was immediately shocked and dismayed. Then embarrassment, disbelief and anger took hold. How could a mayor make such a sexist comment, in the workplace, in the 21st...

Editor, Regarding MP Ruff’s letter of August 31, 2023, telling the assailants who murdered the Owen Sound restaurant owner to turn themselves in. Three knuckleheads decided to give a thumbs down! Are these the same three people that committed the crime? Surely nobody can be that stupid to want to live amongst people that would murder. Give your heads a...

Dear Editor, It has been devastating to watch nightly news reports from Libya where a massive rainstorm provoked dam failures releasing about 24 million cubic metres of water that destroyed a quarter of the city of Derna and killed more than 5,000 people. What is it that Meaford’s council, along with provincial officials and the Department of National Defence, don’t understand...

Dear Editor, I have been talking to '20 somethings', and they had never heard the song 'Snowbird'. They have not seen Danny Kaye. It occurs to me that they have never seen the show Prairie Giant, therefore they have no idea what life was like before Tommy Douglas. I tried to show Prairie Giant at the Hall and was not...

Dearest Terry, Since I saw you as I was walking south on Yonge St. in Thornhill, Ontario, in 1980, you touched my heart in a big way. I have done the Run 42 times. I missed the run in 2019 as I sustained a big pain in my left hip and was in pretty rough shape. Sorry. This year will be...

Editor, To those responsible and anyone who knows, The City of Owen Sound along with the family and friends of Sharif Rahman, a beloved community member and owner of The Curry House, have struggled as they mourn Sharif’s senseless passing. The greater community has come together in support of the Rahman family in a tremendous show of solidarity but Canada,...