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The operating budget summary included a potential impact of $204 annually for the average resident, making for a 14.4 per cent tax levy increase.

Though the NOTL Short Mat Club isn’t part of the national association, Ian MacPherson hopes the championships will show the town’s potential to contribute to the national scene.

Perhaps hoping to stay off the naughty list, striking Canada Post workers in NOTL have committed to making sure Santa Claus gets his mail this Christmas season.

Postal workers on strike in Niagara-on-the-Lake say they want wages that keep up with inflation, a secure pension that provides defined benefits and the big demand: Protection from precarious working conditions.

"Yes, we are lucky to live in Canada’s prettiest town, but let them know they are lucky to call their hometown home, too," writes Ross Robinson. "You will have made a random person feel better. You will have been kind, which is a very good thing."

The fourth installment of the Christmas Tractor Parade will take place Thursday, Dec. 12. Harvesters, tractors, wheel loaders, backhoes, transport trucks, farm trucks and even vintage tractors will all be dressed in their festive best for the tour around the community.

"Growing an amaryllis requires no special skills. In fact, once a bulb is ready to bloom, it will flower with or without you," writes Joanne Young.

"Today, Canadians spend the Christmas season elaborately decorating their homes to the delight of many of us. However, historically decorations have not been as grand as they are today."

"Council should appreciate that the official plan, land-use zoning and bylaws were developed by experts and are not an arbitrary set of rules that they can change on a whim," writes Wayne Murray.

When the litter of eight puppies were found, they were extremely thin and malnutritioned. They are currently under veterinary care.

"As a fourth-generation resident of this town, I find it disturbing to see all the changes that are happening," writes Hope Bradley.

"The corral has been breached, guardrails ignored, and the rustlers are making off with prize stock. And no amount of sunny press releases negate that evidence," writes Terry Mactaggart.

"I ask the Niagara Region why it feels spending $4 to $10 million on a roundabout in St. Davids is more important ... than using that money to repair its water infrastructure," writes Bob Wheatley.

After reading Kevin MacLean's article on his experience in the emergency room at the St. Catharines hospital, Wendy Cheropita shares the trials of her own "waiting game": "What I didn’t know was what lay ahead of me. This was my first visit in 10 years."