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COUNCILThis evening Windsor City Council will receive a report recommending that they approve a local food security initiative in the form of a community garden expansion strategy. Council will be asked to approve $100,000 in one-time funding that will be drawn from the Provincial Unconditional Grant. Community gardens are aimed at providing fresh food to...

COUNCILWindsor’s oldest neighborhood will be getting some tender-loving-care this Spring. In a report that goes before City Council next Monday, approval is being sought for the expense of $70,000 to freshen up many elements that have been in place since the late 1980′s in Olde Sandwich Towne. Gateway markers at each end of Sandwich Street...

COUNCILThe City of Windsor will begin using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr as “an additional way to collaborate with the public” if a Social Media Policy is approved by the City Council next week. The City surveyed 21 other municipalities in Canada last year and found that 19 of them were...

COUNCILThe owners of a house at 1155 McDougall have applied to the City of Windsor to have their abandoned and boarded up house demolished.  The house sits in  the Howard-Erie Neighborhood Improvement Area, which prevents demolition of houses and buildings unless council gives an exemption. A demolition request first came before council on September 28th,...

COUNCILThere may be a solution to the long-term-care bed crisis in Windsor on the way. The former City of Windsor Social Services building located at 755 Louis Avenue which has been vacant for many years, sitting boarded up is being look at for a revamp to a long term care facility. The buyer of the...

COUNCILThe Mayors Youth Advisory Committee (MYAC) has been out of the spotlight for a few years now, and have spent very little of their city budget. In their Business Plan and Financial Request for the 2012 budget deliberations, they outline where the committee has been, why they have not spent much city money and where...

COUNCILWindsor City Council continues its series of ward meetings this week with Ward 4 on Wednesday. Councillor Alan Halberstadt will be on hand to foster discussion and listen to the topics and issues that are important to residents who reside in Ward 4. The meeting will be held at the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St....

COUNCIL  Residents of Ward 7 are invited to join Councillor Percy Hatfield Thursday evening to talk about issues of concern in Ward 7.  This Ward Meeting is part of a series of meetings that are taking place in all of Windsor’s electoral wards. Thursday’s meeting will be held at the Riverside Sportsmen Club’s Banquet Room,...