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Picton Gazette Express Vol. 2 No. 7

Picton Gazette Express Vol. 2 No. 7

February 27, 2025

On the Cover

No Variance Required

A 3D conceptual rendering of the eight grain silos to be built at Picton Terminals. They will be set back into the escarpment, which is not depicted here. While this rendering shows the entire escarpment carved away, the plan calls for setting the silos into the cliffs. They will be recessed into the escarpment at water level and rise about 100 feet above the cliff line.

Parrish & Heimbecker’s eight concrete grain silos, planned for leased land at the Picton Terminals site, were going to be built within Quinte Conservation’s required 30m setback from the waterfront. That requires approval.

But the Committee of Adjustment was instructed by the County’s lawyer, Sarah Viau, Acting Director of Development Services, that there was no variance. It instead voted to approve the expansion of activities at Picton Terminals.

HONOURED

The Picton Gazette is a finalist in four categories — Arts, Environment, Photography, and Online Reporting — in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association’s Better Newspapers Competition for 2024

Two editorials, a feature on CAFF, the County’s new film festival, and photography and spot reporting on a fire on the Adolphus Reach were recognized.

There is always stiff competition at the annual OCNA awards, which cover 48 categories of reporting at weekly newspapers across the province, from news and sports through layout and design.

Double Trouble

The Gazette’s Books on Film at the Regent launches with Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.

There are doubles everywhere in this film: doubled characters, opposites, mirror images, reversals, repetitions. It is a visual puzzle, and once you know what to look for, it’s a lot of fun, like a sinister maze.

Darkness is visible in Hitchcock’s collaboration with Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt.

Editorial: Rock Quarry

How does Picton Terminals' rock quarrying relate to the question of a variance for P & H? Perhaps just in the fact that none of the destruction was allowed to enter the consideration of the question at hand. It was, as they say, the elephant in the room.

Picton Gazette on YouTube

Another video edition. Never dull!

This Weekend’s Open Houses

Lots of open house action this weekend. Plot your route.

The Weekend Ticket

Don’t Forget to Vote! All day today, Thursday 27 February 9am-9pm. Find your voting location. Bring a driver’s license or your voting card. That’s it. That’s all you need.

The Prince Edward Historical Society presents a double feature at Macaulay Church March 1 from 11-3. Sandra Latchford, President of Glenwood Cemetery, talk about new burial and memorializing options available at Glenwood and beyond, and a new program for documenting grave sites.

From 12:30 enjoy a luncheon featuring traditional funerary foods from the 1950's through 1990's.

Then Thom Harrison’s Searching for Richard Nixon: Finding Refuge and Making a Home in Prince Edward County launches March 1 at 1:30 pm.

Stargazing for Beginners. Ramesh Pooran offers a stargazing adventure behind the Ameliasburgh Town Hall (13 Coleman Street) on March 1st at 7 PM.

And remember: there’s always The Regent! Join the free Oscars Watch Party on Sunday night at 7pm. Hitchcock’s thriller Shadow of a Doubt is on the big screen on Monday evening at 7pm.