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Food Water FirstMPs & TorontoniansTour Proposed Quarry Area
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- Published on Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:22
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On Wednesday July 25th NDACT hosted a bus tour organized by MP Matthew Kellway of the Federal NDP party.
The bus tour:
- started at 11:00 AM from NDACT Chair Carl Cosack's ranch
- had lunch at Provincial Fisheries on River Road
- proceeded to tour the span of the proposal
- then off to Wallington in Hornings Mills
- then to Vander Zagg's, walked over to French's farm
- about 3 p.m. the bus headed back down to the city.
Report of day from Donna T.
We are hot, dusty and tired, but the tour of the proposed mega quarry area by Toronto MPs and city folks was terrific! Our yellow school bus -- decorated with Stop the Mega Quarry signs -- bounced along country roads and made several stops: a spring gushing from a hillside downstream from the proposed mega quarry site, the Pine River, Dave Vander Zaag's potato farm, the French vegetable farm, and a stunning vista of both the proposed site to the West and what seemed like the rest of the world to the East.Visit to Vander Zaag farm
A special thanks to Dave Vander Zaag, the Armstrong and French farming families for welcoming the MPs and city folks. They provided a great tour of the rare prime farmland and its bounty. Huge thanks, as well, to Carl Cosack for being a fantastic tour guide. And, of course, thank you to MP Matthew Kellway for organizing this old-fashioned Field Trip.
Thanks to Donna T. for her submission.