The Region of Waterloo could also win the same award for their lack of response to the ongoing decades of gamesmanship up here in Elmira, Ontario. Today's K-W Record advises us about the ongoing efforts at land assembly in Wilmot Township mostly against the wishes of local citizens. Reporter Terry Pender also wrote a separate article that described the "Code of Silence" award mentioned in the title above.
Yes this is the same reporter who wrote the article titled "50 YEARS after the Vietnam War" published on May 1 ,2025. Yes it is the same reporter whom I've launched a complaint against for his failures to follow through with me in regards to a couple of errors in that May 1 article. Now all this being said I am forced to reconsider from Mr. Pender's position. His two articles in today's Record are both excellent and well written. They are on pages A1 and A2 and well worth reading. What I am reconsidering is Mr. Pender's workload which of course normally none of us would do. In this case I can understand that the hot, local topic is the 770 acre Wilmot land assembly not the fifty year old Vietnam War nor the thirty-six year old Elmira Water Crisis.
Is it possible that Mr. Pender's employer and supervisors have him a little overstretched at the moment? Is it possible that our print media who by all accounts are in desperate financial/readership straits are trying to squeeze more and more out of their employees including reporters? Would it be very understandable if they were? While none of this relieves the Record and its' reporters of transparency and accountability nevertheless these factors could explain the delays in their response and correction of the errors in their article.
I am not at this time remotely interested in punitive actions against either the reporter or the Record. I can understand if they are both between a rock and a hard place and it is affecting their response time. That said as I advised Mr. Pender two days ago, I am in my 76th year. Thirty-six of them have been dealing with a bunch of twits/politicians and worse here in Elmira regarding Uniroyal Chemical. I have long ago burned through whatever patience I used to have dealing with those professional deceivers. Maybe a tiny bit more patience from my end combined with at least a promise of a date for both a phone call and a correction in the Record would be very helpful.
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