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1i esnt nttiientrinETIoT.T Onnaicneâ€"ecny CRAMAHE COUNCIL NEWS WO4r% ymB2RLAUD 7004y <IULy 2q¢//6 BOB OWEN The new bridge will be the same task force led by Mayor Marc â€" In her letter to Cramahe Township FOR NORTHUMBERLAND TODAY width as the current bridge and bear _ Coombs. council, Community Care program highway loads. The committee will consist of Daveâ€" assistant Brenda Chapman stated B E When the design is complete, CN Rutherford, David Smith, Chauncy that a similar toll had been arnes Road bndge will meet with township officials to _ Perry, Eric Lawlor, Cathy Ireland, conducted last year in Hastings with update discuss costs and schedules. Clinton Breau and Daniel Smith. great success. Cramahe will be expected to pay es CN Rail has confirmed by letter that _ 15% of the bridge costs. Toll road It‘s boom time in Cramahe it will replace the Barnes Road It has been closed nearly four years bridge in the east end of Cramahe _ since Labour Day weekend 2012. Cramahe Township will have its first _ The building report submitted to Township. s toll road on Aug. 13. council on July 19 states that The undated letter from CN Mayor s task force For one day only, Community Care _ building is three times what it was a Manager of Public Works Stefan Northumberland has been year ago. Linder estimates the timber bridge _ Cramahe now has a task force to permitted to run the voluntary toll For the six months ending June 30 will cast $800,000 to design and promote economic development on Victoria Square near the buildings valued at $8.4 million were build. The cost does not include and strategic planning. Colborne Hardware store. started this year compared to $2.7 a removal of the existing structure. At a special meeting on June 27, the _ Volunteers from Community Care year ago. The cost was reduced by $1 million _ concept was approved. Less than a _ and the Cramahe Fire Department _ There have been 20 houses started, by changing the design and using month later, seven people have will be collecting from 7:30 a.m. to 3 _ including three in June, compared to the existing road level. applied and been accepted for the p.m. in the fundraiser. nine at for the same period a year ago. ; ‘ 4â€" a__â€"a § C eraes e | ie fra SE3 I , {Mi I | & FE %| §§°. LOCATION, LOCATION, f E LOCATION. | WHERE YOU ADVERTISE MATTERS:! Appeal judge orders new trial on assault â€" > g NoRry uMpERLAPP Jemse _TFYCy zB//é Danie! Grant, 61, also s T insl _A _\ _ the basis of fact, treating the stepfather ; 4 JeA e " ; yR P as if he was an expert witness, and that | CharQEd with attempted, ts ia\ ‘?‘; - {’{g'r no expert witness was called. fiTSt"deg ree murder _ ues E; ASE | _ Mr. Grant, 61, was arrested on April ; _ es _ x "'fi.u;j 14, 2015 and charged with assault with a | Todd McEwen _ t "'.}E"'IJ‘-;S l f J _ weapon after confronting his stepfather : imeewen@northombstiondnews.com m:= 29XA prge=4 with a knife earlier that morning in the : m _ 1e S ol Lo e ie _ |â€" es y eemea SSPEF backyard of their rural home. In court, :; NORTHUMBERLAND â€"â€" A man currentâ€" PE he was found not guilty and released : ly facing a charge of firstâ€"degree murder e A with orders to stay away from his parâ€" | of his mother will get a new trial on a ie |7 ents. 2015 charge of assault on his stepfather. un es o /1 Mr. Grant didn‘t enter a plea, didn‘t have : On Friday, July 22, Justice Stephen Bale e a lawyer and didn‘t testify. : ordered a new trial for Daniel Grant, Skeich by Todd McEwen _ In his ruling, Justice Graydon cited Mr. | 61, of Grafton, after granting an appeal _ NORTHUMBERLAND â€"A judge has Grant‘s troubled history, said he accepted : by the Crown attorney of a 2015 finding _ ordered a new frial on an assault charge _ as fact Mr. Grant had suffered "something | of not guilty of assault with a weapon _ for Daniel Grant, 61, who‘s also accused â€"like" an. epileptic seizure, and appeared to ! against his stepdad. Justice Bale called â€" of firstâ€"degree and affempted murder. _‘ accept Mr. Byers‘s opinion that no assault ; the appeal a "difficult" but "interesting" was intended, according to the transcript. ; case. No new date has been set for the LastSeptember, the Crown had appealed "Ifind as a fact that this is what hapâ€" ; assault trial. Justice Robert Graydon‘s finding of not _ pened," Justice Graydon said on Aug. 21, | But Mr. Grant will return to court Aug. . guilty on the assault charge. Mark Moorâ€" _ 2015. "That on the day in question (April : 3 on charges of attempted murder of his _ croft argued the judge erred when he 14), not taking his medication, Mr. Grant | stepfather and firstâ€"degree murder in his _ mixed the concepts of intent and whethâ€" suffered something like and [sic] epilepâ€" | mother‘s death. On New Year‘s Eve 2015, _ er Mr. Grant had a "mental disorder that _ tic fit; a disturbance of the mind, that | John Byers, 80, and his wife Delores, 82, prevented him from forming the intent," â€" leaves me with a doubt that he had the | were stabbed in their home west of Grafâ€" _ according to the appeal obtained by the general intent to assault Mr. Byers." : ton. She later died in hospital. Mr. Grant _ Northumberland News. Mr. Grant was slapped with a comâ€" ; is currently at Ontario Shores Centre for _ Mr. Moorcroft also argued Justice monâ€"law bond to keep the peace, stay | Mental Health Services in Whitby for an _ Graydon elevated Mr. Byers‘ opinion on _ out of trouble, and stay 500 metres from : assessment. his stepson‘s behaviour that morning to . his stepparents. ; 72 «C3 l