The President and the Board of Govenors of the Lanark Landowners Association are pleased to acknowledge the endorsement of the OLA President, Jack MacLaren, as a member in good standing of the Ontario Landowners Association.

We would like to thank him for his recognition of the valuable contribution the LLA has made and continues to make towards our common goals. We look forward to attending the OLA convention in Shelburne on the 27th October 2007, for a fun day of fellowship and networking.

The Honourable Randy Hillier, MPP
105 Dufferin Street,
Perth, Ontario,
K7H 3C9

Dear Mr. Hillier, 16-October-2007

We would like to congratulate you on your election victory representing the riding of Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington the result of a successful and well run campaign. We at the Lanark Landowners Association (LLA) wish you all the best in your new role in public life. Keep up the good fight!

It is LLA policy to support/endorse candidates for election as we have yours; it is not LLA policy to support/endorse Political Parties. Your election has now aligned you with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario which in our opinion places you in a potential ‘Conflict of Interest’ as a Governor of the LLA. As a result, under the authority of the ‘Special Powers’ clause we hereby revoke your Governorship in the Lanark Landowners Association retroactive to the eleventh of October, 2007 (11-Oct-2007). You may continue to hold a membership in good standing, provided your dues are paid in full, however, you may not hold a voting position within the LLA executive (Director, Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, President etc.) nor may you represent, canvas, or speak publicly on behalf of the Lanark Landowners Association.

History will show your tireless work will not go unnoticed. The LLA will look back at your work as the “man who started it all”. Your commitment and desire are an inspiration to us all and for that we cannot thank-you enough. We only hope to continue the good fight in your footsteps.

Respectfully,
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Bill Duncan, President
Lanark Landowners Association

For the first time in the history of the LLA there will be an Annual General Meeting. This is your opportunity to participate in the democratic system that the LLA so stonachly supports. Democracy is one of the corner stones of this association, don’t deny yourself the “freedom of speech” have your say. The LLA constitution allows for paid up members to run for the positions of director and President on an annual bases.

If you have not already received your information package it should arrive shortly by mail. Please read it carefully and exercise your democratic and constitutional right as an LLA member and vote.
The AGM will take place Saturday December 15, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at the United Church Hall [located on the main street] in Pakenham.

Also all those that have membership books must return them to the treasurer of the LLA by November 25, 2007 so the membership audit can be completed. New membership books will be exchanged for the old ones. As well with your renewed LLA membership you will receive a new, plastic embossed membership card. You must renew your membership to be able to vote at the AGM, if you renew that day you will receive your new membership card at the same time. New technology allows us to look after your membership with more accountability and ensures your privacy as well. We will have lots of copies of the LLA constitution on hand and if there is to be any amendments, the AGM will be the place to do it. Thank-you.

Bill Duncan - President LLA 613-623-6679

Article reprint from the Toronto Star, September 28, 2007

By: Phinjo Gombu, Staff Reporter

The Superior Court has ordered two companies associated with developer Silvio DeGasperis to pay the province $702,000 in legal costs, saying they used the false cloak of environmental concern to try to bully the province into allowing development on their own Greenbelt-designated land.

In a stiff rebuke to what it called “a vexatious and egregious example of abuse of the process,” the court ruled the companies must pay nearly all of the $761,000 the province claimed in costs.

It is possibly the largest such judgment ever awarded to a government in Canada.

“The conduct of the applicants in bringing this lengthy, complex and expensive application before this court as a tactic in the ongoing war (with the province) … falls well within (the meaning of) reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct,” the judges said, repeating observations made at the close of the legal battle in June.

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The Lanark Landowners Association is that association of concern citizens that stand up for each other and their communities. This is your opportunity to participate in the Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Committee. The Lanark Landowners Association has learned that Janet Stavinga has been appointed chair of the Mississippi-Rideau Source Water Protection Committee [SPC]. The Lanark Landowners Association was instrumental in successfully electing Merle Bowes and Terry Hale to the SPC to represent agricultural. It is time to fill the other seats on the local SPC. Applications will be received until October 8th.

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Countries evolve the same as its people, as we grow older our attitude change; we see things from a different perspective. As the first of the baby boomers is set to retire the demographics of this country will change. With this change has come an increasing awareness of two things, the realization of just how fast time passes and one’s health.

More and more people are concerned about their health and what they are eating; people are looking for the foods that are nutritious, flavorful and chemical free. The consumer should be concerned, just recently, ready to serve salad product of, contaminated with e-coli. Las Angeles baby carrots, product of Mexico, contaminated with an unspecified bacterium and remember these are recalls, so someone or hundreds of someone’s have already fallen ill because of these imported food products. In the recent Ottawa citizen article entitled “Canada’s Risky Business”, an estimated 13 million Canadians will suffer from a food borne illness this year, that’s one in 2.5 people, not only costing Canada’s health care system billions, but further aggravating an already stressed health care system.

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The Lanark Landowner’s Association have a new web page! Visit often for up-to-date information on the issues that affect you as a rural landowner.