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Letter: Why Rotary cancelled Holiday House Tour

Dear editor: I never thought in a million years that I would ever be writing this letter for the benefit of Niagara-on-the-Lake residents. In the last few weeks the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club has given

Letter: Grab your mail and go, please

Dear editor: Further to Ward Simpson’s letter on the topic of people littering the post office mail box lobby, I suspect these same folks don’t realize how inconsiderate they are being to the people waiting

Letter: Town needs to control spending now

Dear editor: As the COVID-19 curve in Canada begins to flatten, our federal, provincial and municipal leaders should be commended for their efforts to manage the crisis. It has been a very tough

Letter: No evidence pets transmit COVID-19

Dear editor: The following is an open letter to Lord Mayor Betty Disero and Premier Doug Ford. While I understand that, at the local level, our lord mayor is just following orders, I am

Letter: Call out racism when you see it

Dear editor: Yvonne Bredow's story about racism in Niagara is obviously, an accusation to be taken seriously, (“Racist attitudes a common occurrence,” April 16).  I think many of us do not do enough to combat racism. 

Letter: Take your recycling home from post office

Dear editor:  I find it very embarrassing when I walk into our local post office and find the mess of people’s unwanted junk mail, flyers, our local newspapers etc. that has been left on the counters. I don’t

Letter: Thanks to kind neighbour

Dear editor: This is a letter to the very kind gentleman who picked up the contents of my grey and blue boxes that had blown into the ditch on Friday, March 20, and put them

Letter: We all need to work together now

Dear editor: I am a recent traveller and I quarantined for 14 days. Never took a step out of my yard. Friends and family provided food and necessities where possible, thank goodness. It certainly

Letter: Avoid grocery stores, order online

Dear editor: Hospital staff know when they are dealing with sick people and take all the precautions they possibly can.  Grocery store staff are dealing with the (as yet) invisible carriers and they risk

COVID-19: Back from Bali, safe and sound

Gail Kendall Special to The Lake Report Home sweet home: 15,835 kilometres, three flights, not sure how many antibacterial wipes and I have never been so happy to touch down in my own country.  As

Letter: Go home and just stay there

Dear editor: I am writing as a NOTL resident who has been in self-isolation for the last three weeks and has gone out only for groceries. I would like to be able to say I

Letter: Safe at home after 30-hour flight

Dear editor: We have read some wonderful stories of people getting home safely to NOTL as the virus risk intensified around the world. Our daughter had been in Australia since last October and

Letter: Visit website for more on Workers Welcome program

Dear editor: The Workers Welcome website provides information regarding welcome kits and the Bikes for Farmworkers program. Go to https://www.workerswelcomeniagara.com/ for full details. Please use the contact information provided on the website if further

Letter: Snowbirds need to stay home for 14 days

Dear editor: While out at a major Niagara-on-the-Lake retailer, I was dismayed and saddened to see a fellow NOTLer, deeply tanned, hug a woman and then hear him say he just got back from the United States.

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