Letters

Dear Editor and members of Council: I have stayed on the sidelines content to let the experts and would be experts duke it out in the Meaford Independent which is a great way for the issue to be brought forward. I have been confident that the required environmental studies will separate the wheat from the chaff and that a well...

Dear Editor, It is time for a member of the 'Silence of the Lambs' to speak. Like a leper of 2,000 years ago must I carry a bell and shout, “Unclean, unvaccinated”? I was angered when I heard someone say that the unvaccinated spread the virus. COVID-19 can be carried and spread by anyone, vaccinated or non-vaccinated. Anyone can come down...

Editor, I visited Meaford this past weekend for the first time in 30 years. The last time I was there, I lived there for four months, and started my professional career at the then Meaford Express as a reporter/photographer. While I had heard of the Express/Metroland buyout, I was delighted to see The Meaford Independent rise from the Express's ashes in...

Editor, As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, the Beautiful Joe Heritage Society thought that now was an appropriate time to reach out to the community to remind them of one of our special monuments in Beautiful Joe Park at 162 Edwin Street. During our Sunny Sunday Tours of the Park in July and August, we have spoken...

Dear Editor, I need to point out the amazing disrespect the IOC has shown. The participants of the Paralympic movements have overcome so much more than most of us will ever experience, yet these wealthy power-mad controllers would only allow us to see them during the night. We were allowed to see healthy, able-bodied athletes but the ‘differently abled’ ones were...

Editor, People walking along the Meaford harbourside over the Labour Day weekend were greeted by an impressive volume of vehicular noise pollution. The tonal quality of the noise resembles a group of three-year-olds banging on their tin pots. An impromptu survey of the vehicle traffic indicates that the noise is produced by a small percentage (less than 10%) of predominantly low...

Editor, The Meaford Hospital Volunteer Gardeners would like to thank all the happy gardeners who made the plant sale on Saturday a terrific success. Over 500-plus plants were hauled to the Hospital, all repotted from the gardens of the volunteers who have turned Meaford Hospital’s grounds into a healing space. The plant sale pays for it. And a special thank you to...

To the Editor, I was at a local store, while waiting for the person in front of me to pay her bill. I watched how this senior opened her purse and counted the change she needed to pay. She needed 85 cents, she proceeded to count out eight dimes and a nickel. Talking to the cashier, she mentioned that people her...

Editor, My husband and I are a statistic. We left the city for a rural life, and we chose Meaford. Then COVID hit the world, and fear forced us to take a hard look at what matters most. The climate crisis trumps everything. Friends and family come and go. Work paradigms have shifted. We shop differently. Social justice and gender equality...

Editor, I was embarrassed when I took a visiting friend to Boucher Street to see the beautiful heritage homes, one I contemplated purchasing myself. We were greeted with an eyesore of a new back-split building in what is supposed to be a heritage street. What happened to protecting the heritage of our community? After digging a bit I see that in...