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paul wiley (port dalhousie,ontario), 1 day ago

thank you old puck
i was going to ask that after i sent my original inquiry... but didn't
i too am a portboy
perhaps you remember my dad don wiley... he ran erskine's pharmacy until its closing in the 70's
thank you to the standard for your reply
ciao

Old Puck (Wesley Chapel,Florida), 2 days ago

Just an observation from an Old Port Boy (Very Old). Why are the obituary notices duplicated as many three and four times, some times one right after the other? It seems as though whomever places the notices really doesn't care about the feelings of the Families, let alone doing an extremely poor job of editing. .... Let's start the New Year off on a positive note and get some one who cares.

Newspaper Reply It is not a case of not caring. In fact, as special team is dedicated to handling death notices. Rather, unfortunately, the duplication that occurs from time to time is a result of technical problems. The notices are automatically filed to the website by a computer program and sometimes glitches occur.

paul wiley (st caths,on), 5 days ago

why is your online obituaries 4 days behind??<....4 days behind....... a funeral can come and go in that space......

Newspaper Reply Thank you for alerting us to this problem which is being corrected. You may want to consider the E-edition of the newspaper, which is a digital version of The Standard available online. And of course, death notices are always available in the printed newspaper.

withheld (st. catharines,ontario), 10 days ago

With regards to the article about Niagara's Occasional Teachers, I'd like to know why a Toronto Firefighter is the head of a teachers union? How could a firefighter possibly know or understand what it's like to walk in an occ. teachers shoes. That union needs a teacher as a president-then maybe the situation will improve.

Withheld (St. Catharines,Ontario), 13 days ago

Praise God and thank you to all of those who donated to local food banks this season. It feels good to help people. This is our first year making an effort to do more than toss a couple of cans of food into a Community Care bin, and it sounds like we're not alone. I am so proud of our community. I hope that this is a glimpse of things to come, regardless of how poorly or well the economy is doing.

(I've withheld my name because I want to remain anonymous about giving)

Graham Muirhead (St. Catharines,,ON), 13 days ago

James:
"There are certain people or groups" with whom other "people or groups" disagree. So what's the problem. If one is to go public with an opinion, they must be prepared to be disagreed with. There's no "people or groups of people who one cannot criticize" involved.

I am free to disagree with you, as you are with me. Please don't pull the "We are being picked on" card. it doesn't fly.

And your friend OS has continued to spout the same stuff over and over again. Even when he misses a point, he's free to tell others that they missed the point. That's democracy.

We may wish that some people would keep their opinions to themselves, but there is no attempt to shut them up.

James (St. Catharines,Ontario), 15 days ago

Thanks OS2 for trying to explain what I meant. But from what I have read at times on this Feedback,there are certain people or groups of people who one cannot criticize - or in my case, simply make a statement about. The payment is lame attempts at sarcasm. Merry Christmas to everyone!

OS2 (St. Catharines,Ontario), 16 days ago

I think Graham Muirhead has missed the point? The fact stated by James is that anyone who attended the 5 days of public meetings on the tower would conclude the public was evenly split in crowd numbers and speakers, more or less, for the pro- and anti- sides. The fact is also that the council vote taken shortly after these meetings reflected fairly closely that split with the majority supporting the development. That was "democracy" in action in its purest, most transparent and "public" form. Unfortunately, it wasn't Graham Muirhead's preferred "democracy in action". That's the way it goes in democracies. One side of the vote, the minority, loses.

As far as the next round of elected councilors reflecting more closely the supposed community opposition to the tower, this is questionable also.
Consider die hard anti-tower councilor Williamson did not even support council's motion opposing the tower. And consider the motion took place "without" the benefit of council including any public input. And if council was truly serious about opposing the tower, why didn't it just rescind the by-law? Even the OMB hearing agreed the action taken was a much weaker mandate.
Instead, council instructed its lawyer to represent the city with its "I don't like the tower" position and rely on, among other things, the testimony of heritage members from a committee that was stacked with individuals represented in the majority by a neighbourhood group which had already anteed up their own money to fight the project. Slight conflict of interest, wouldn't you say?
Hopefully all is well in Whoville though and Mr. Murihead will be true to his word and support the democratic process going forward. One must assume he will support the OMB decision either way considering this tribunal was created some time ago by a democratically arm of government called the Provincial Legislature? This would be the democratic thing to do, wouldn't it?

James (St. Catharines,Ontario), 17 days ago

Mr. Bedwell, you make good sense. I have always lived by the simple bottom line: If I want a big screen TV and can't afford it, I don't buy it. Espcially, if my furnace needs replacing. Doesn't mean I have to forget about the TV, just have to think smart on how go get both.

Hector (St. Catharines,Ontario), 18 days ago

I’m curious what constitutes a heritage title in Port Dalhousie? Age? All I see are a few 100 year old dilapidated buildings that are well past their expiry date. Four months of the year Port becomes a nightly spring break destination for two thousand drunken kids who destroy everything as they exit the seasonal watering holes. This pattern has been the norm for the past fifteen years and has been ongoing long before the developer purchased these properties. The rest of the year you can fire a cannon down Lock Street. What a great way to preserve heritage!

If the majority is against this proposal then why didn’t their chairman, Carlos Garcia get elected to regional council? I notice they conveniently omit this fact in their numerous publications, website and letters to the Standard.