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The downtown Fenwick reconstruction project narrowed the streets in an effort to slow traffic. While it may do that, the fire department prefers lots of room to manoeuvre. Ward 1 Coun.
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The downtown Fenwick reconstruction project narrowed the streets in an effort to slow traffic.
While it may do that, the fire department prefers lots of room to manoeuvre. 
Ward 1 Coun. Richard Rybiak, at Monday’s town council meeting asked if emergency vehicles will have problems.
Fire Chief Robert Lymburner said the firefighters have taken all their equipment to the village to test the streets.
“We brought them all down including the aerial truck,” he said.
“We can navigate all the streets and get through.”
The fire chief said drivers will be instructed on anything to watch out for when they are in downtown Fenwick.
 
The town will buy 1403 Station St. from David and Catherine Kuckyt.
The long-time family home will be torn down to make way for a street that will continue the road from Pelham Town Square into the new East Fonthill development.
The Kuckyt property will be joined to 1401 Station St., which was cleared earlier, to complete the entrance to a new road.
Mayor Dave Augustyn thanked the Kuckyts to agreeing to sell the critical piece of property and avoiding an expropriation process.
The new road, he said, will become the backbone of the development linking it with downtown Fonthill.
 
Pelham will support a resolution from the town of Collingwood opposing Canada Post’s plan to eliminate residential home delivery.
“The lack of home delivery will disadvantage many seniors and people with mobility problems and will be compounded during inclement weather,” said Collingwood in its resolution.
Ward 3 Coun. John Durley said, while most in Pelham receive their mail though a post office box, those who do get home delivery should have it maintained for the reasons outlined in the Collingwood resolution.