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Description : We'd like to begin by praising the achievements of the Downtown Revitalization Committee. With a modest amount of money and a lot of determination and elbow grease, they have in a few scant years transformed what was frankly one of the ugliest downtown areas in all of Ontario into a streetscape with character and charm. The hanging baskets, heritage lights, parkettes, murals and banners have all added to the humanization of the townscape; fundraising events like the Dance Into Spring. Open Air Market and Super Saturday have added to our social landscape. That said, it would be a mistake for members of the Downtown Revitalization Committee to take honest opposition to the Millennium Clock Tower as a personal attack. Judging by the Letters to the Editor and in-the-street comments, residents simply feel the money could be better spent. We are, however, adamantly opposed to ripping up the existing Court House parkette and its maple tree, to put in the clock tower. We would suggest that that is the feeling of the great majority of residents - to whom the Town Council, and ultimately the Downtown Revitalization Committee, are accountable.

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Description : In the last meeting of Council, a motion was passed instructing the Downtown Revitalization Committee to raise $40,000 toward the Millennium Clock Tower project by June 29th, before ordering the clockworks. Since the information was published in The Bradford West Gwillimbury Times last weekend, the response has been overwhelming, Chair of the committee Mikki Nanowski told Council. More than seventy-eight of the 200 spaces on the black granite obelisk that will sit inside the clock tower have been snapped up by residents and businesses, eager to spend $250 to have their names inscribed on the Town's Millennium project. In addition to the pledges and post-dated cheques, the Committee received a $5000 donation from Vins Plastics, and $1000 from Dorothy Ross, from the Gary Ross Memorial Fund. When added to the $10,000 donation from Ventra Group, the donation from Holy Trinity High School and the $12,000 promised by the Town, the committee has already raised over $50,000 of the $87,000 total cost. Council members amended their original motion, to require the Committee to raise $40,000, in cash or in "pledges."

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Description : The H.E.A.R.T. Committee was in Council on Tuesday night, to present an update on its Millennium Clock Tower Project. The Committee showed Council a revised budget which indicated that, even without an $11,000 provincial Millennium Grant, fundraising had exceeded expectations - but that upgrades the project, including an improved carillon system and a larger granite obelisk, had increased the expected expenditures. Fundraising now stands at $98,975 including $33,725 in cash collected for names to be engraved on the obelisk, another $9,250 pledged for the same purpose, $9,0000 from the Mayor's Golf Tournament, an $11,000 federal Millennium grant, and $12,000 in "seed money" from the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury. Expenses grew from the initial $82,000 to $96,932, which include $19,750 for structural steel, $19,504 for the granite obelisk, and $46,478.96 for the clockworks. The clock itself had originally been budgeted at $25,000. With the upgraded sound system, and with the U.S. exchange factored in, H.E.A.R.T. Chair Jamie Vins admitted that the earlier figure had been underestimated. Vins noted that while the federal grant has yet to be approved, the Committee has not wholly given up on the provincial funding. The project was deemed ineligible because it will be completed in 1999 rather than the year 2000; in fact, parts of the project, including landscaping, won't be completed until the spring. With more corporate sponsors still to be approached, and more donations of materials and labor possible, for the excavation and foundation work, the final costs may be lower than the figures presented. Councillor Marty Toombs congratulated the committee on its efforts, but suggested that, in the case, H.E.A.R.T. should return the Town's seed money. "I'm personally in favor of the project," Toombs said, "however, given the circumstances today, I'm wondering if it isn't in the best interests of the H.E.A.R.T. Committee...to turn that $12,000 back to the Town." Mikki Nanowski, chair of the Downtown Revitalization Committee, a sub-committee of H.E.A.R.T., suggested that the Town's contribution would pay for engraving the Town crest, a history of the municipality, and the names of the Councillors onto the obelisk, "so Council will go down in history."

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Description : Open Letter To The Mayor,
A student in our class has brought to our attention the shocking mistreatment and lack of respect toward the Asa Stewart Cemetery on the outskirts of Bradford (10th Line and 10 Sideroad). It seems the Town has allowed the cemetery to fall into great disrepair. We feel this shows a lack of respect for our ancestors. To make matters worse, a farmer frequently drives his heavy machinery over the graves of the pioneers. Character Education is extremely important at our school, and we feel that this is a very poor example of respect, responsibility, integrity and compassion for others. We request that you take immediate action to rectify this situation. We are willing to come and assist in the clean-up of this historical site.

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Description : There is another component to the proposed work on the Holland Marsh and that is the life-safety aspect. This is to address the deaths and near-fatal accidents that have occurred on the winding, narrow and dangerous Canal Road. Right now there is a preferred $11.935 million option to the other $17.8 million option. This option would relocate most of the canal, dredge the remainder, and install two guide rails in two areas. This option also won't widen the roadway but will create a 10' wide shoulder to provide a comfort level between farm vehicles and commuters. Once the issues of approvals and funding are cleared up construction can begin and will take an estimated 7years to complete.

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Description : At age 15 Gord began working at the experimental farm in the Holland Marsh. Gord's job was to spray various substances on the carrot crop in the spring, then harvesting samples of the sprayed carrots in the fall. It was a great job. All he had to do was measure out chemicals from drums, stirring them with a stick, and then spray them on designated areas from his backpack container. Gord today recognizes some of the names on the containers as dangerous chemicals that were banned in the late '50s and early '60s. At the time, the attitude was more casual. When a grasshopper landed on his lunch one day, he squirted it with some leftover spray. "It began to shake, then fell off. We laughed, but we knew wee were dealing with deadly stuff," Gord recalled. Another day, when he found the strawberry plot infested with leaf hoppers, he sprayed them with a toxic insecticide called parathion. After lunch, he was surprised to see his supervisor arrive in her car in a cloud of dust. Had he put anything on the strawberries, she asked. Yes, he said. A worker names Matt had eaten a bowl of the strawberries with cream for lunch. He was in hospital. Matt, once doctors knew the poison involved, recovered. About 10 years ago, Gord began feeling tired and was putting on more weight than he should. Each time he went to see the doctor, he was told his heart and lungs and cholesterol level were fine, and that he should just lose a few pounds. Instead of losing weight when he went on a diet, he gained. Last New Year's he ended up in hospital in Newmarket with a bleeding ulcer. It was only then that a doctor noticed symptoms of cirrhosis of the liver. How much did he drink, Gord was asked. He didn't drink or smoke, he insisted. When did he stop drinking? He had never taken more than a glass of wine, he said again and again. Specialists in Toronto found it hard to believe. Cirrhosis is almost always triggered by heavy drinking or by hepatitis. One day in hospital, he noticed the name Philman on a volunteer's badge. She asked if he was the Gord Compton she used to know years ago in Bradford? When he explained why he was in hospital, she said, "I think you and I better talk. I'm Connie's widow." Connie, who had worked on the farm with Gord, had died of cancer at 47, she said. Connie knew the three Guelph students who had worked on the project. All three, she said, died of cancer in their late 30s. When he got out of hospital, Gord wrote to the women who had been his supervisor so long ago. She wrote back in an unsteady hand to tell him she had liver disease. Gord, once a guy who was full of energy, moves slowly now. His liver is almost totally out of commission. He exists on a precarious balance of drugs, susceptible all the time to infection. He has been told he could live for 2.5 years. "I don't want to start any campaign," Gord told me. "I haven't got the fight left in me. The people who were involved are mostly dead. You can't prove anything and you can't get mad at anyone."
"It was a good time to grow up," he said, reflecting. "But it was a time when some of those chemical companies could get away with murder."

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Description : Article announces the opening of new vegetable dehydration plant in old factory in Bradford.

Contains news clippings and articles on Bradford

Contains news clippings and articles on Holland Marsh

Stamp seal of the Village of Bradford, worn with use so much so the stamped letters are nearly invisible.