A sign warns visitors to the former army camp at the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation of unexploded ordnance in parts of the 2,400 acre site in Ipperwash. (Free Press file photo)

The outcome of Friday’s vote regarding the federal government’s offer of a $95-million settlement to the Chippewas of Kettle & Stony Point won’t be immediately known, possibly for as long as 10 days.

Phrag fighters. From left to right: Dr. Janice Gilbert, Nature Conservancy Canada and Ontario Phragmites Working Group; Kate Monk, Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority; Al Williamson, Williamson Farms; Don McCabe, President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture; Ken Vegh, Municipal Drainage & Inspection Supervisor, Town of Kingsville; Mayor Bill Weber, Lambton Shores; Nette Pachlarz, Director, Lambton Shores Phragmites Community Group; Nancy Vidler, Chair, LSPCG. One stem of Phragmites can grow to more than three metres in height and send out several new runners from its stem. (photo – Bill MacDonald)

Controlling Phragmites in drains and roadside ditches The Lambton Shores Phragmites Community Group (LSPCG) has spent the past several years controlling the invasive grass Phragmites australis in the coastal wetlands and is now taking the fight upstream from Port Franks …

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