Page 5 - July 13, 2017

Opinion
Proud of compassion of young Petrolia boy
Ethan Zimmerman
Camlachie man is asking for some light on Hydro One bill
Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Independent Page 5
EDITOR:
I recently attended the Canada Day
little one was comfortable during the celebration. She was provided with a few treasures from them in remembrance of this special day.
Way to go Ethan Zimmerman. Your parents must be so proud of you. Such a kind soul
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Celebrations at Greenwood Park. It was a day forever entrenched in my mind and heart.
It was quite hot outside. A little boy sitting close to me went above all my expectations at the young age of seven years old. He removed his hat from his head and offered it to me to give to the little girl so that the heat didn’t exhaust her any further.
Attending the festivities was a young Petrolia girl who recently underwent a series of chemotherapy treatments. As
I sat there, I could not help but extend my heart and soul to her and her family. Neither could the representatives of
Thank you to the Town of Petrolia and God bless Ethan for his compassion and caring nature
the Town of Petrolia who were running the event. One of the coordinators - Laurissa (Ellsworth) went above and beyond to make sure this precious
This gesture lled my heart with such joy that a tear came to my eye. Such a goodwill gesture. Humanitarian at its nest.
This is one proud Petrolian here!
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billing me $49.42 for delivery? I’m a senior, so a simple explanation please.
The following is a letter recently written to Hydro One:
circular pie chart included with the July bill: “Shedding light on your Hydro One Bill.” It explains that 51.2 cents of every dollar billed goes to generation and 36.4 cents is to delivery cost. Sounds logical that making the electricity costs more than delivering it.
Elio Comello Camlachie ON
Dear Hydro (Kathleen) One,
Thanks so much for the propaganda you regularly include in my mailed statement and the separate mailings telling me how I rank, usage wise, among my neighbours. If I switch to paperless, will I still have to wade through that stuff? Just asking, because I don’t have internet and wireless data
PS: Kathleen, should I be thanking you for the 8 per cent provincial rebate and the Ontario Fair Hydro Plan that claims, on my bill, it saved me $16.01 or just be thankful your new wind turbine projects are on hold and my bill will only increase at the rate of in ation?
4226 Petrolia Line, Petrolia, ON
Sandra Hartman has not seen the stock at the Petrolia Food bank this low in a long time.
easy to forget about the food bank when you go off on vacation.
stocked include kids snacks, rice side dishes and jam. A full list can be found on the Petrolia Food bank’s Facebook page.
Every summer, as people go off on vacation, donations slow, but Hartman says this year is worse than normal.
But she says during the summer the need is still great. Children are home from school or going to day camps and still need snacks. And the every day needs of a household don’t stop in the summer.
Hartman says monetary donations would also be welcomed. “Sometimes money is better because I can just go and get exactly what we need.”
“With summer, school is out and the awareness of the food bank goes down,” she says. Hartman says it is
Hartman says at this point, anything you would buy to run your home is needed. The list of items to be re-
The food bank is open Mondays. Donations can be dropped of through the week at The Independent.
So why is my Hydro One Bill; wherein I used $43.19 of electricity
Stocks very low at Petrolia food bank this summer
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Lambton opts into regional bre optic internet project
The Independent Staff
the plan.
Two years ago, council set aside
ton Broadband. Both the federal and provincial governments have contrib- uted to the massive project aimed at getting high quality internet across the southwest.
Lambton County has nally said yes to SWIFT.
some of the money for the project, should council approve the idea. At July 5th council meeting, the warden and staff were authorized to sign the agreement to get the work started.
Wardens in southern Ontario have been planning the South West Internet Fibre Technology Project for more than ve years now.
It’s expected the high bre network will cost Lambton County taxpayers over $1 million. A staff report says for every dollar invested by the county, at least $14 will be invested in Lamb-
The criticism of the plan is that it doesn’t get bre technology to rural homes, but staff says it has been meet- ing with local providers and are con- dent the SWIFT project will be help speed up that process in the future.
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