As we wade through a lot of the gobbledegook at the council meeting of May 11, 2026, especially at 24 minutes into the meeting regarding the fire hall, we hear that the hall was budgeted with $11.8 million with no overruns. A debt will be issued for $11.4 million with OILC in the form of a debenture. A debenture of $11.4 million is a long-term (30-year) IOU where the borrower (Town of Amherstburg) promises to pay regular (yearly) interest payments over the term of the contrac

The delegation police strikes again in Amherstburg. We had another deputation request denied as it didn’t exactly match the criteria of our Procedural By-Law. Two deputations were denied for the April 27 council meeting. Starting to think I have lost my touch as my first deputation to a council was in 1971 involving an environment impact of a local creamery. Quite a shock having back-to-back delegations rejected. Ours was on-street parking for streets adjacent to future hig

My great grandfather, John G Mullen and family, owned Belle Vue from 1925 to 1946. My mother, Harriet Gilman Quinn celebrated her wedding in 1940 in what was at the time, a family home. My older brother remembers riding his tricyclic in the hallway. These and many other reminiscences are fondly resurrected at family gatherings of the scattered descendants of John G. Even with this personal attachment to Belle Vue, I think I speak for all those descendants that it is tim