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Star article on mega-quarry

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Dec 31st, 2011
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Anatomy of a quarry fight 
By Jayme Poisson Toronto Star December 29 2011
MELANCTHON, ONT. — Here in Melancthon, farmers love the land so much they etch pictures of their homesteads on family gravestones. When they die in this township — an idyllic stretch of rolling farmlands that juts out of Shelburne, just north of Orangeville — they are buried with a handful of the rich soil in their caskets.

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