Another spring and, like clockwork, Newmarket's municipal water works is advising residents that another round of "swabbing" is needed to make our drinking water safe to drink again. (You can read about it here),
Swabbing is a process by which chemical agents are added into our drinking water to dissolve microorganisms, such as algae, molds, bacteria and other life forms, that accumulate on the pipes. While this process is underway, residents are asked to shut off the main water valve to their home for a period of 10 hours.
If your household needs water during this period, the township recommends filling a bath tub prior to the swabbing process and then using the saved water for washing, cooking, flushing toilets and so on.
Once the swabbing process is complete, the chemical will be flushed out through a neighbourhood fire hydrant to run off into the storm sewers or the local streams and water ways. If the town officials know how many hundreds of thousands of litres of water is being purged this way, they aren't making that number available to the public. Officially, they have told the public that they just don't know how much chemical laced water is being pumped into the environment through the fire hydrant.
Town residents are already familiar with the yellow-ish-brown discoloration in the water after swabbing occurs which the town assures is perfectly safe to drink. However, if you use the washing machine with discolored water, it will stain your clothes a yellowy-brown tinge.
I have found instances of other towns that will swab their drinking water system. I have never found another example of an Ontario town that does it annually like Newmarket does. Such a frequency begs the question if we can trust our Town when they insist our drinking water is as safe as other York Region municipalities?
Sunday 7 May 2017
Saturday 6 May 2017
Is it "Three Strikes You're Out" with the Newmarket-Aurora PCs?
Things at the Newmarket Aurora PC Association just keep going from bad to worse.
Current EDA president Derek Murray, with the blessing of former MPP Frank Klees, is disputing the outcome of last month's candidate nomination vote. (See here for The Auroran article).
While Murray won't say publicly what the irregularities are, it's well known that Charity McGrath, who won the vote, acted improperly to attain victory. Abuses of the local membership lists and brazenly handing out $25 'gift' bags to her PC member sign-ups - who were bused in - are among the allegations I have heard from outraged members.
It's well known that this isn't the first time the Richmond Hill resident has courted controversy. McGrath's failed 2016 nomination in Oshawa, which she lost to now MPP Lorne Coe, included several similar irregularities. In that fiasco, it was rumoured she purchased over 1,000 memberships from people who never signed up. Some PC insiders have openly questioned how she and Mr. Coe could work together in the same caucus if she ever gets elected.
Her husband, Joe Di Paola, was a former Richmond Hill councillor who was booted out in the last election. Readers have to look no further than this story to see how the McGraths/DiPoalas are among one of the most embarrassing couple in Ontario politics.
If you notice in the above article, the McGraths/DiPoalas have a penchant for changing their addresses depending on where they're running. McGrath continues to lie to residents here that she lives in Newmarket - until a journalist exposed her.
Murray's complaint is now the third investigation conducted by the Ontario PC Party into shenanigans in Newmarket-Aurora since January 2017.
The party was well warned about the potential of controversy relating to the Newmarket Aurora nomination several times during 2015 and 2016. For reasons unknown, the Ontario PC's decided to ignore all the sound advice, and instead chose the perilous route which courted disaster.
Local PC supporters are telling me that they are just fed up and won't support either Patrick Brown or whomever ends up being the local Newmarket-Aurora candidate. As with other ridings, many are openly complaining that Patrick Brown is on course to re-elect a Kathleen Wynne government through his own ineptitude.
Current EDA president Derek Murray, with the blessing of former MPP Frank Klees, is disputing the outcome of last month's candidate nomination vote. (See here for The Auroran article).
While Murray won't say publicly what the irregularities are, it's well known that Charity McGrath, who won the vote, acted improperly to attain victory. Abuses of the local membership lists and brazenly handing out $25 'gift' bags to her PC member sign-ups - who were bused in - are among the allegations I have heard from outraged members.
It's well known that this isn't the first time the Richmond Hill resident has courted controversy. McGrath's failed 2016 nomination in Oshawa, which she lost to now MPP Lorne Coe, included several similar irregularities. In that fiasco, it was rumoured she purchased over 1,000 memberships from people who never signed up. Some PC insiders have openly questioned how she and Mr. Coe could work together in the same caucus if she ever gets elected.
Her husband, Joe Di Paola, was a former Richmond Hill councillor who was booted out in the last election. Readers have to look no further than this story to see how the McGraths/DiPoalas are among one of the most embarrassing couple in Ontario politics.
If you notice in the above article, the McGraths/DiPoalas have a penchant for changing their addresses depending on where they're running. McGrath continues to lie to residents here that she lives in Newmarket - until a journalist exposed her.
Murray's complaint is now the third investigation conducted by the Ontario PC Party into shenanigans in Newmarket-Aurora since January 2017.
The party was well warned about the potential of controversy relating to the Newmarket Aurora nomination several times during 2015 and 2016. For reasons unknown, the Ontario PC's decided to ignore all the sound advice, and instead chose the perilous route which courted disaster.
Local PC supporters are telling me that they are just fed up and won't support either Patrick Brown or whomever ends up being the local Newmarket-Aurora candidate. As with other ridings, many are openly complaining that Patrick Brown is on course to re-elect a Kathleen Wynne government through his own ineptitude.
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Newmarket's Town Drunk Named Citizen of the Year
Has it really been 40 years?
A frantic call came into the municipal offices urgently demanding to speak to Mayor Ray Twinney.
The caller had a complaint to make. One of the local town council members showed up at his house and this councillor was completely boozed up. Drunk like a skunk. Three sheets to the wind.
It was demanded that the mayor drive over to pick up this plastered politician and make sure he ended up at his home to sleep it off.
What an embarrassment.
Well yesterday it was announced that the infamous drunkard was named Newmarket's Citizen of the Year.
I wonder if they'll tell this story at his induction ceremony?
A frantic call came into the municipal offices urgently demanding to speak to Mayor Ray Twinney.
The caller had a complaint to make. One of the local town council members showed up at his house and this councillor was completely boozed up. Drunk like a skunk. Three sheets to the wind.
It was demanded that the mayor drive over to pick up this plastered politician and make sure he ended up at his home to sleep it off.
What an embarrassment.
Well yesterday it was announced that the infamous drunkard was named Newmarket's Citizen of the Year.
I wonder if they'll tell this story at his induction ceremony?
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