| YELLOW SIGN FEVER SPREADS TO BRIDGEBURG AREA OF FORT ERIE |
| Yellow sign Fever, which started in Crystal Beach, has spread throughout Fort Erie is causing Molinaro Plan proponents to experience headaches as they drive around town. You could blame it all on Sandy Annunziata. Part of his reasoning for supporting the Molinaro Development Project for the Bay Beach Properties was that he received no indications from his constituents in Ward 1 that they were opposed to the Town of Fort Erie giving prime beach front property to the Burlington-based high rise developer in exchange for a promise to build so-called amenities on an old foundation on the beach. The Molinaro Plan calls for the erection of two twelve story towers on the publicly-owned land that faces Bay Beach. Residents in Crystal Beach have organized opposition to the plan and have appealed to those councillors who voted in support of the plan in the hope that they'll change their minds - and their votes. So when it was announced that Annunziata was to seek the nomination of the Conservative Party to run for Member of Provincial Parliament in 2011, members of the Friends of Crystal Beach decided to pay a visit to Ward 1 and see what the people of the neighbourhood thought of the Molinaro Plan. Armed with fact sheets and signs, groups visited the ward and were thrilled when they found solid support for the effort to keep all the Bay Beach lands public. It has become apparent to many all over Fort Erie that the staff-generated idea to give away the last piece of public beachfront property in Crystal Beach to a high rise developer will eventually affect all other waterfront properties and neighbourhoods in Fort Erie. The Molinaro Plan would be the first step in a march of high rises down the Fort Erie shoreline. Town Planner, Rino Mostacci said as much at public meetings and in the press. So, Sandy Annunziata is now forced to face signs of opposition to the Molinaro Plan, while he ponders what this could mean for him should he secure the nomination to run against Kim Craitor in 2011. Mayor Martin has already had to face the growing opposition to his planner's idea from the public at crowded meetings at town hall; now he faces at least a dozen yellow signs every time he drives down his own street. |
| PICTURES TAKEN ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 ON HIGHLAND, EMERICK, DUFFERIN & JARVIS |