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I think the press release needs a lot of work. Good press releases are not easy to write. </div>
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I decided to read it as if I didn't know about the issue. It's pretty wayward, begins without specifically summarizing the history of the issue at hand and is rather confusing and becomes rather plodding. It tends to assume that a reader is already familiar
with the issue and events. I think it needs a good editor to turn it into a crisp, interesting, engaging, and readily understandable text. Can you find one? We have enough in our credit union account to pay for the services.</div>
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I'm too tired this evening to write a specific critique. It's been a full day.</div>
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-Greg</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Executive <executive-bounces@gren.ca> on behalf of Kevin Thomason <kevthomason@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> January 12, 2022 7:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Susan Koswan <susankoswan@execulink.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GREN-Exec] MZO Press Release</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Hi Susan,
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<div class="">Good point and I agree with you. Originally, they had drafted the release with all three municipalities listed but I had them change the wording so that it now reads “in both Stratford and Cambridge, the mayor, Councillors and Staff were complicit
in keeping this from the public…” since in Stratford and Cambridge there were numerous in-camera meetings where Council and Staff discussed things without public knowledge.
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<div class="">We aren’t sure in Wilmot how long Staff has known about things but they surely new about it before Christmas Eve. Two Wilmot Councillors have stated they knew nothing about it advance but suspected other Councillors and the Mayor had known about
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<div class="">So hopefully, there is the right balance in this press release - two communities clearly being called out for withholding information from the public and Wilmot guilty of trying to push their MZO through so quickly over the holidays with little
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<div class="">Let me know any questions or if there is something we need to change further.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 12, 2022, at 7:05 PM, Susan Koswan <<a href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com" class="">susankoswan@execulink.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:107%">Is this true, or assumptions about municipal councils and staff being complicit? I did not get the impression from the Wilmot meeting that they knew about this proposal
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:107%">The use of MZOs in the three communities of Stratford, Cambridge, and Wilmot include similar abuses of power by their respective Municipal Councils. In each community
developers worked for months in secret to craft their MZO request and in both Stratford and Cambridge the mayor, Councillors and Staff were complicit in keeping this from the public and catering to the developers profit motive.<span class="" style="">
</span>The fact that Wilmot’s MZO was to be announced and approved so rapidly over the holidays with little public knowledge or information is equally troubling.</span></p>
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<div class="">The Wellington Water Watchers, Blair Engaged, and Concerned citizens of Stratford have reached out to GREN to see how they might be able to help with this Wilmot MZO. The have offered to do a joint press release with all of our organizations
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<div class="">The amazing Mike Balkwill at WWW has taken the lead on things and I have worked with him to draft the following press release below. Please review it and let me know any concerns, otherwise the WWW is going to distribute it tomorrow using their
public relations machine. We already know that CTV is interested in doing a story next week and the other groups have been fantastic in doing what they can to help us with this.</div>
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<div class="">Let me know any questions or ideas.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
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