The DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University is offering a $100 discount to members of the Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) for students Grades 5 to 12 who enrol in its unique, on-campus, 2-week, hands-on Synergy Program. Synergy teaches students the value of entrepreneurship, sustainability and innovation. During their two weeks at the DeGroote…

Ward 14 Councillor Robert Pasuta is a man of a few words. He hardly ever speaks at meetings of Hamilton Council and its many committees. But when this Mountsberg farmer does speak, his colleagues sit up and listen. And they surely listened to him last Friday when he addressed the Samsung solar farm proposal at…

Also on the agenda for Friday’s Council meeting was final consideration of the proposed Rural Zoning Bylaw. The proposed by-law would outlaw almost all of the landscaping enterprises located in the rural areas of the ‘new’ Hamilton (primarily Flamborough, Ancaster and Glanbrook). It would also arbitrarily ‘downzone’ (or eliminate) some of the current uses on…

In the most widely consulted report in the organization’s history, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) has called on the Government of Ontario to take immediate action and address the business community’s rising electricity costs. The report, Empowering Ontario: Constraining Costs and Staying Competitive in the Electricity Market, makes five recommendations that government and energy…

 Representatives from several members (including Millgrove Garden Supplies and Gelderman Landscaping) as well as Executive Director Tony DiGiovanni of Landscape Ontario and Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) Executive Director Arend Kersten spent more than six hours at yesterday’s meeting (July 7) of the Planning and Development Committee where a verdict on the proposed Rural Zoning…

Also on the agenda of yesterday’s Planning and Development Committee meeting was a request from Samsung that it support its proposal to build a 180-200 acre ‘solar farm’ on the southwest quadrant of Centre Road and Mountsberg Road. Samsung had also asked the FCC for its support. After a number of discussions, the FCC Board…

Even though the formal agenda for the meeting has not yet been posted, the Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) wants to alert its members that the Planning Committee of the City of Hamilton is scheduled to consider the proposed Rural Zoning By-law at its meeting of Tuesday, July 7. The meeting will start at 9:30 a.m.…

Reflecting its growing influence, Hamilton Council has invited the Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) – as ‘The Voice of Business in Flamborough – to appoint representatives to both its Government Relations Committee and the Open For Business Committee. The FCC particularly thanks Ward 15 (East Flamborough) Councillor Just Partridge for her role in helping make…

FCC Executive Director Arend Kersten was a guest at the recent annual COGECO gala celebrating the finest in community television programming throughout all of Ontario. Arend had earlier been a judge in several of the categories. At the gala – held at the Holiday Inn in Oakville – Ben Lyman of TVCogeco in Burlington was…