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1 week ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
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2 weeks ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
The news was once again on the quiet side 20 years ago this week in the Voice of Pelham. But before we proceed, how about we take a look at two photos of the same home, taken 20 years apart. The context will become clear in a moment. First the photos. Which of these two images was taken this week, and which was taken 20 years ago? And:There are, I would argue, two obvious clues.
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2 weeks ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
There is a philosophical, moral and biological debate that occasionally surfaces in my field of work as a tour guide and outdoor educator. To pick up the frog, or not? To get hands-on with one of our local snake species, or simply let it be? More than a few times, I have been approached with this concern from professionals and nature hobbyists.
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3 weeks ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
It’s hard to believe there was a time that it took this long, but it wasn’t until early June that Pelham Town Council finally approved the Town’s budgets—capital and operating. We’re speaking, of course, of 20 years ago this week in the Voice of Pelham, in which the front page story was the long-awaited passing of those 2005 budgets.
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4 weeks ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
The lead story 20 years ago this week (give or take a day), was Pelham’s own version of The Amazing Race, which turned out not to be a television program but rather a municipal fitness initiative suggested by the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council. In rather an understatement, the story reveals, “Pelham’s Amazing Race is based on the popular television show on CBS, only on a significantly smaller scale.
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1 month ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
NEWS RELEASENIAGARA REGIONAL POLICE SERVICE*************************As part of Police Week 2025 – "Protecting Ontario", the Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) is proud to announce the launch of its 5th Annual Spring Forward Food Drive.
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1 month ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
It wasn’t the best news to get 20 years ago this week, when Pelham was shut out from the first round of provincial infrastructure grants. Mayor Ron Leavens told the Voice that based on what other Niagara municipalities received, the grants apparently were aimed solely at bridges—not roads, and definitely not the rebuilding of Rice Road, which formed the basis of Pelham’s grant request.
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1 month ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
The first week of May 2005 brought news that the Pelham Art Festival was imminent, and little has changed in the intervening two decades. The Festival is back next week on Mother’s Day weekend, though in its new home of some years the MCC, rather than the old barn on Haist Street. The Girl Guides were recruiting, and hoping to form Pelham’s first-ever Rangers group, for girls 13-15.
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2 months ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
It's once again time to leaf through the pages of the Voice of Pelham, 20 years ago this week. The big front page story was that Town Council and Mayor Ron Leavens hired a new CAO, Ann Louise Heron, coming in from a municipal executive position in Hamilton, to replace Gord Cherney. Her tenure did not survive to the end of the following council and mayor's first term, however, with Heron departing in 2008 to become Lincoln’s CAO the same year.
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2 months ago | 
pelhamtoday.ca | Dave Burket
Advanced Voting Days started Friday and will continue through the weekend as well as Monday, April 21. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. Find out where you can cast your early vote in Niagara West by looking at the voter card mailed to you, or though this Elections Canada link. According to reporting by the CBC, early turnout was high across the country on Friday. Delays were seen in Pelham, where significant turnout was seen at Old Pelham Town Hall and the Royal Canadian Legion.
