[All] FW: FW: Why you still can't drink the local water in Elmira | TheRecord.com

[Shannon Pennington]

Couldn’t agree more Bob and Greg re: valuing my subscription to The Record. I too spend the first part of every day reading the paper and find it integral to my work in community-engaged learning and to being an engaged citizen.  I am happy to pay my part to support local journalism.  It is through the Record that I first became aware of the Elmira water crisis and I have appreciated their periodic coverage of it over the years. 

Shannon Pennington

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> On Nov 2, 2020, at 8:51 PM, Bob Burtt <bobburtt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Your comments are music to my ears Greg. It is interesting to note that Leah Gerber is actually being paid by the federal government as part of a program to support local journalism. That concept comes with its own baggage, but I'm glad she's there.
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> I see problems and shortcomings in the Record everyday, but knowing that the newsroom has shrunk by 75 or 80 per cent since I joined the papers in  1984, I'm amazed at the good work that they do. I disagree with many of the opinions expressed, but I'm sure glad that there are people there to express them. I spend the first hour of everyday reading the Record and dread the day that there is no hard copy of the paper. 
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> If Donald Trump has been effective at one thing, it is probably successfully convincing large numbers of people that the main-stream media is peddling false news and that is just sad.
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>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 6:59 PM Greg Michalenko <gcmichalenko at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> An easy way to read the article would be to subscribe, either for the print or digital copy.  The Record is doing a fantastic job of investigative reporting on important issues.  Such reporting is the bedrock of democracy and deserves financial support.  It would be interesting to do a cost-benefit analysis to show how much is saved to our benefit - whether it is health costs, preventing environmental damage, better decision making - compared to the fairly modest costs of supporting a god local newspaper.
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>> - Greg
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>> From: All <all-bounces at gren.ca> on behalf of strothjkl at sympatico.ca <strothjkl at sympatico.ca>
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>> To: John Jackson; GREN; 'Bob Burtt'
>> Subject: [All] FW: FW: Why you still can't drink the local water in Elmira | TheRecord.com
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>> For any of you who don't get The Record or who care about this issue a lot, the cover story on today's Record by Leah Gerber...the lingering saga of contaminated soils after Uniroyal. 
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>> https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2020/11/02/why-you-still-cant
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>> Why you still can’t drink the local water in Elmira | TheRecord.com
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>> Elmira has safe tap water, but it is not taken from the local aquifer. Experts say it will take many more years to rid the local groundwater of toxic ...
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>> Some people couldn’t read the article at on this link-  The Record blocks things til you sign in or something, so…..use attachment above.
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