Line Spike

Ian Kilborn | Jul 17, 2025

Thank you for covering the alcohol permit issue for the Line Spike Music Festival in your July 3 issue.  I attended the Line Spike music festival on both days and found it to be a well organized happy place.  I saw no evidence of any distress, trouble or over drinking.  Private security and plenty of volunteers were on the site.  I noticed an OPP cruiser on the highway as everyone was driving out in an orderly way on the last night.

It angers me that the township put such costly requirements on the organizers to hire Fire, Ambulance, and OPP to stand by.  This type of thinking crushes new things before they can get going.  Township should respond to a problem for future years if it happens, rather than making it so costly the festival may never come back.  And what happened when the permit to sell beer was lost? Everyone got to legally bring their own and drink as much as they wanted -- how would that make an event safer?  Councillors - you didn't think this one though very well.