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Food Water FirstCalzavara celebrates Melancthon win at ‘Taters Not Craters’ dance
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The Orangeville Banner reports on the ‘Taters Not Craters’ dance that took place last week to celebrate the defeat of the Melancthon quarry. Council of Canadians organizer Mark Calzavara spoke at the February 16 event in Honeywood, Ontario.
Performers at the dance included members of Our Lady Peace. According to the news story, drummer Jeremy Taggart grew up in nearby Mansfield and became involved in the fight against the mega-quarry when told about it by a childhood friend. Musician Tom Barlow also performed at the dance with a special song about the community’s fight to save its farmland. Hobo Wally, Danny Beaton, Ed Roman, Grand Canyon, the Hamilton-based alternative country rock band Harlan Pepper, and the square-dance group Heaslip & Band were also there.
The newspaper notes, “The dance celebrates The Highland Companies withdrawal of its application for a licence to mine 2,316 acres of land for limestone in Melancthon, as well as the North Dufferin Agricultural Task Force’s second mission for an overhaul of the provincial Aggregate Resources Act.”
For more on the successful campaign to defeat the Melancthon mega-quarry, please see http://canadians.org/blog/?p=18027.
By Brent Patterson, Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Posted on the "Council of Canadians" website