Business View Magazine | November 2019

252 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 has already announced that it’s in their plans, and what we need from the province is the actual start date to get shovels in the ground. That will kick-start funding for this direly needed project.” Jordan adds that the hospital expansion will also strengthen the current partnership between it and the McMaster Teaching Hospital for Rural Medicine. “That hospital has a number of student doctors studying rural medicine. Some of them stay in our community and others go back to their rural communities. Our OBS department is very robust. There were almost a thousand births in 2018. That’s a very significant number for a small community hospital.” “Another project is the Grimsby Pier,” says Jordan. “It’s in disrepair and I would like to see it get back to its glory days.” Grimsby Pier, at Grimsby Beach on Lake Ontario, was a docking station where ferries from Hamilton and Toronto used to provide daily service for the town during the first half of the 20th century. Grimsby Park, itself, first opened in 1846. In 1910, Harry Wylie purchased the park Mayor, Jeff Jordan