Paddle the Grand event aims to raise opposition to quarry proposal

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Published on Friday, 10 August 2012 13:17

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Paddle the Grand organizer Sophia Sanniti (right) is shown on the river last summer with Alison Carlyle (left) and Kaylyn Echlin.

The task force is inviting the public to Paddle the Grand along a four-hour course this weekend. Organizers hope that the more people who experience the river, the more voices they will have to protest a proposal for a 2,300-acre mega-quarry in Melancthon Township near the headwaters of the Grand River.

“Here we are … with this beautiful landscape and we’re ready to dump this giant mine on it and potentially contaminate this water forever,” said Sophia Sanniti who is organizing Sunday’s event.

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Posted in "The Record", Friday August 10, 2012

By Linda Givetash

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