Moose FM CKJN 92.9 - Caledonia

It is a bitter reminder of the damage to the local industrial sector. Locked-out and laid-off steelworkers from Haldimand and Norfolk gathered at Lake Erie work yesterday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of massive lay-offs at U-S Steel. Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett says well over a thousand people have lost work due to the Nanticoke lay-offs, but there is no help in sight. Barrett says the recent throne speech holds no mention of a strategy for the steel industry. He says the government is out of touch with what matters to the people.

The Grand River Conservation Authority is issuing a flood warning advisory for Caledonia, York, Cayuga and Dunnville. With the warmer temperatures and the rainfall mixed with melting snow, the Grand River in Haldimand County is expected to reach peak levels today. The GRCA is expecting flooding in the floodplain flats, but not in the communities themselves. The river peaked through Cambridge and Brantford yesterday before continuing south.