COMMUNITY LOSES FINANCIALLY WITH GRAVEL PITS

Today's Woolwich Observer keeps up the pressure on the proposed new gravel pits in Woolwich Township. Steve Kannon's article is titled "No rest in fight against gravel pits". Essentially three speakers have crashed the numbers and come up with what certainly appears to be solid numbers showing the financial losses to both citizens' homes and hence the tax base which the Township uses to assess property taxes. There is however a sort of a rebuttal which I find very strange. It came from Councillor Ruby Weber and I have to wonder if her comment is taken out of context or otherwise misconstrued. Read for yourselves and see what you think.
At the end of Steve's article we are advised that "Councillors made no reply to the presentations." I suggest that this is in line with my posting on Wed. July 28/10 in which I predict that Woolwich Councillors will move heaven and earth not to commit themselves, one way or the other , in regards to these proposed gravel pits, prior to the October 25/10 municipal elections.


P.S. Today's Observer also has a tiny blurb regarding the two week delay being experienced at the intersection of Church and Snyder Ave. The "construction challenges" referred to, include the contamination problem I mentioned in last Wednesday's (Aug. 4/10) Elmira Advocate.