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ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO – THE GLENGARRY NEWS
Repair work at RARE
carries light price tag
Meeting Santa:
In perhaps the most thrilling moment so far in his 4 1/2 years, Braeden Hay of Lochiel
met Santa at the Tree Lighting at Mill Square in Alexandria on Friday evening. Dad
Glen was there for the moment.
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MPP to help soften impact
of loss of OMPF
BY PETE BOCK
News Staff
Local MPP Jean-Marc Lalonde visits North
Glengarry Friday to address council on the status of the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund
(OMPF).
The province’s plan to axe the fund in 2010
concerns regional municipal officials.
The United Counties of SD&G stand to lose
$3.6 million in annual transfer payments, while
its six member municipalities could lose a total
of $471,000.
Although the MPP recognizes SD&G officials
are upset, he said the province made it clear
from the outset that the OMPF was a five-year
program ending in 2010 and that letters were
sent out last fall reminding municipalities that
the fund was coming to an end.
This being said, the MPP recently added that
he would lobby to soften the impact of the loss
of the OMPF.
Under Mr. Lalonde’s plan, the province would
phase out the OMPF over four or five years,
rather than in one fell swoop.
“I understand their position,” the MPP said
last week. “But at the present time, when the
municipalities are calling, I’m telling them it was
one-time funding.
“And they shouldn’t expect having it... if it
comes, good, but at the present time I’m going
by the letter (that provincial officials sent out),
even though I have asked for some changes.”
The MPP will also address council on
Ontario's proposed Harmonized Sales Tax
(HST), and Source Water Protection..
Parking lot development at the Glengarry
Indoor Sports Complex is also on the special
meeting agenda.
The meeting takes place at the Sandfield
Centre in Alexandria on Friday Dec. 4 at 11 a.m..
BY PETE BOCK
News Staff
North Glengarry is going to have plenty of
cash left over from a large class action settlement, as only minor repairs are needed on
R.A.R.E’s concrete foundation.
Public works manager, André Bachand estimated that less than $5,000 worth of work is
required at the local recycling plant when he
shared details from an engineer’s report at a
recent committee meeting.
This sum is just a fraction of the $760,320 the
township received in a class action lawsuit
against the L’Original-area Bertrand and Frères
Construction Company and Lafarge Canada
Inc..
The settlement money arrived this spring, long
after recycling plant manager, René Jeaurond,
got the township involved in the second round
of a class action motion against the two firms,
back in 1999, for supplying poor quality concrete.
R.A.R.E was built in 1986, with Bertrand concrete used for the plant’s footings and foundation walls.
“All the (concrete) edges in the entrances at
R.A.R.E. were falling apart,” Mr. Jeaurond
explained in an October story. “It was kind of
crumbling.”
To deal with the problem, the recycling manager said a crew had to cap foundation walls
that extended above grade close to all of the
plant’s five large entrances.
The engineer report stated work conducted
years ago to fix R.A.R.E’s damaged foundation
has on the whole stood the test of time.
“The repaired areas appear in good condition,” wrote engineer Greg Esdale, of The
Thompson Rosemount Group, in his Oct. 27
report.
“Areas of the original exposed foundation wall
that were not capped exhibit light to severe concrete scaling and spalling.”
He explained scaling is local flaking, or loss of
the surface portion of concrete as a result of
freeze-thaw deterioration or chloride exposure,
while spalling means concrete fragments have
been detached from a larger concrete mass.
Spalling, he said, is generally the result of impact
load or rebar corrosion.
The public works committee made a motion
to have township staff seek quotes from contractors to complete the needed repairs after reviewing the engineer’s report at its Nov. 17 meeting,
.Council passed a resolution at its Nov. 9 meeting to have staff put the $760,320 settlement in
the R.A.R.E. reserves.
This resolution was needed, because township
officials forgot to complete this process when
the municipality received the large settlement
earlier this spring.
Two charged after raid
Two South Glengarry residents face drug-related
charges following a raid conducted by the OPP and the
Cornwall Police Street Crime
Unit at a residence on SDG 34
in that township on Nov. 23.
Raymond Bernard Forget, 34,
and Nicole Merissa Leroux, 30,
were charged with possession
of narcotics and possession of
narcotics for the purpose of
trafficking after police executed a Controlled Drugs and
Substance Act search warrant
and discovered 738 grams of
marijuana, five tablets of oxycontin and eight methamphetamine pills.
The approximate street value
of the seized drugs is $7,500.
The raid was part of the joint
“Project Paradigm” drug
enforcement initiative consisting of members of the Ottawa
unit of the OPP’s drug enforcement section, Eastern Region
OPP detachments (in this case
the SD&G OPP) and the
Cornwall police.
Both suspects are scheduled
to appear in Alexandria court
on Jan. 6.
Correction
In Nov. 25 edition of The
News, it was stated in the story
Interlude House doing its part to
protect women from abuse that the
Maison Interlude House provides shelter facilities at three
locations – Cornwall (Maison
Baldwin House), Hawkesbury
(the Maison Interlude House)
and Winchester (Naomi’s
Family Resource Centre).
In fact, Maison Interlude
House is responsible only for
the shelter in Hawkesbury, and
not for those of the other two
facilities, which manage their
shelters on their own, although
the three centres do have a
working partnership agreement.
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THE GLENGARRY NEWS – ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2, 2009 – PAGE A3
SNOWMOBILING: "But
where's the snow?" joked
riders as they gathered
outside the Sandfield
Centre inspecting an
impressive lineup of sleek
new 2010 snowmobiles at
Sunday's
Glengarry
Snowmobile Club Show.
Fifteen-year-old
Ryan
O'Connor of Bainsville, left,
and Adam Lefebvre, 15, of
Lancaster were there to
take a close look at the latest high horsepower aerodynamic machines. Ryan,
who rides a 1996 Arctic Cat
ZRT 600, straddles the
new Arctic Cat Crossfire 8,
while Adam, whose ride is
a 90s Bombardier Formula
SL 600 looks on.
Cornwall a cheaper option for Max water woes
BY PETE BOCK
News Staff
North Glengarry mayor Grant Crack agrees with a
consultant’s study that says that the Cornwall pipeline
option is much more affordable for Maxville households than a hook up to the St. Isidore pipeline.
Both the mayor and the study pointed out the
Cornwall option offers significant capital and bulk
water cost savings to village residents.
Capital costs for Maxville residents as a whole are
pegged at $5.4 million for the Cornwall option, according to consultant Bill Knight of The Thompson
Rosemount Group, if the township secures two thirds
funding for the proposed regional water project.
This figure was $9 million under the St. Isidore
pipeline funding application last fall, he told council
Nov. 23. The difference translates into roughly a 40
per cent capital cost savings.
The savings are also large regarding the cost of bulk
water, according to Mayor Crack.
The bulk water rate in last year’s proposal was
$0.657 per cubic metre, he stated, where Cornwall
recently offered a $0.385 per cubic metre rate. This
translates into a 41.4 per cent savings.
“Those are certainly numbers we should nail down
(for the upcoming public meeting),” Mayor Crack said.
Both he and Deputy-Mayor Chris McDonell also
asked that Mr. Knight to gather information on potential future costs for the Alexandria treatment plant.
They feel this data is important because it will provide Alexandria residents with comparative figures:
on one hand, costs residents would face if the township proceeds with the regional water system, on the
other, expenses residents would incur if they stick
with the status quo.
The upcoming public meeting on the regional water
project has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 15
at the Glengarry Sports Palace. An open house format
starts at 4 p.m., followed by a formal presentation of
the project at 6:30 p.m..
Councillor Gary Shepherd voted against the Dec. 16
date because it is too close to Christmas. The rest of
council was hesitant to push the meeting date back
into January, fearing it would delay the process for a
month.
Mayor Crack stated if there was a small turnout at
the meeting council could chose to hold an additional
meeting in January.
Councillor Jamie MacDonald questioned when the
environmental assessment report on the Maxville
water study would conclude. Mr. Knight responded
that it should be finished by the end of January.
The consultant stated the township was now in the
position to get cracking on a funding application.
“That (environmental assessment) document does
not necessarily need to be completed,” Mr. Knight
said. “You as a council have sufficient information to
prepare a business case and submit an application.”
The consultant stressed the importance of spending
ample time on the business case, as it is the path to
take to secure enhanced funding from the upper levels of government for the proposal.
He added other municipalities in the region have
used this strategy effectively by including, among
other things, specific assessment and taxation data in
their applications.
Councillor no longer interested in land purchase
BY PETE BOCK
News Staff
A North Glengarry councillor who requested to
buy a small piece of township land, in the end,
opted out of bidding on the property.
Earlier this fall, Kenyon ward representative Jim
Picken made a request to the public works committee to purchase a one-acre piece of land, which
abuts his 115-acre property and Lake Shore Road, to
facilitate a sub-division application he is preparing
for the United Counties of SD&G.
The township announced its intension to make
the surplus land available to the public in an advertisement run for two consecutive weeks starting in
late October.
There was only one bid submitted for the property, North Glengarry clerk administrator, Terry Hart,
stated at the Nov. 23 council meeting. It came from
a Maurice Sauvé and totalled $8,200.
Mr. Hart estimated the property had a value of
$10,000-$12,000, when questioned by Mayor Grant
Crack. Council unanimously accepted the bid.
Coun. Picken left the chambers when the matter
came to the table, as he had declared a conflict of
interest on the issue at the beginning of the meeting.
In a follow-up interview, the councillor stated he
lost interest in buying the property when the subject got blown out of proportion.
“I think that is why conflicts of interest are available for people to declare,” Coun. Picken said. “And
the whole thing looked like I was targeted by the
media to look like someone who was trying to get
something for nothing.
“Whenever I had that all come out, I said, ‘you
know what, this is not that important to me.’”
North Glen mayor says no to bottled water
BY PETE BOCK
News Staff
A water education fact sheet obtained by the North
Glengarry waterworks department already has one
new convert.
Mayor Grant Crack recently asked township officials
to no longer set out bottled water for him at the council table.
“I am going to be asking to have tap water back at
my desk for the simple reason we waste a lot of
money in purchasing water,” Mayor Crack said at the
Nov. 17 public works committee meeting.
“We have good quality water; it might not be the
most favourable tasting to some, but it is safe.”
The mayor congratulated the water- works department for providing quality water to township residents, and added it is better to stop sending so many
bottles to the landfill.
The American Water Works Association mailed the
fact sheet to the township and suggested it could
modify the information to be North Glengarry appropriate and then it could be stuffed into local water
bills.
The sample sheet details where users can access
information about the quality of their local water and
shares quick reminders about the value of water.
“An eight-ounce glass of water can be refilled
approximately 15,000 times for the same price as a sixpack of soda,” is one of the examples on the sheet.
Public works manager, André Bachand, estimated it
would cost $1,000 to supply each of North Glengarry’s
1,400 water users with a copy of the water education
pamphlet.
The public works committee recommended that the
fact sheet be amended and distributed in Alexandria
and Glen Robertson.
There were no water bottles on the council table at
the Nov. 23 meeting.
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Dog fees bring in the money
Dog-related revenues are up over $28,000 in
North Glengarry this year thanks to more help
in the bylaw enforcement department.
“The list of 2009 dog owners is now updated,”
senior bylaw enforcer, Gerry Murphy, told
council at the Nov. 23 meeting, “and will be
maintained yearly so as to properly reflect dog
ownership through North Glengarry.”
The enforcement department collected $33,000
in dog tags and kennel licences in 2009, up from
just $4,800 in 2008.
Mr. Murphy attributed the increase to his
department’s proactive approach. Council hired
Kenyon resident, Guy Vaillancourt, in March to
serve as the township’s assistant bylaw enforcement officer and building inspector.
To continue to streamline the department’s
dog licensing efforts, Mr. Murphy asked council
to advance the licensing renewal date to Jan. 31
from May 1.
He reasoned it would give residents more time
to alert township officials if the numbers of dogs
they own changes.
Dog tags will be forwarded to currently registered dog owners by no later than March 1, 2010.
The $20 per dog fee will appear on residents’
final tax bills.
– Pete Bock
Police car stolen
BY SCOTT CARMICHAEL
News Staff
The SD&G OPP are investigating the theft of
an unmarked patrol vehicle from an officer’s residence in Long Sault sometime Monday night.
According to a press release issued by the
force’s Eastern Region Headquarters in Smiths
Falls, the off-duty officer, who was not named,
parked the vehicle in her driveway early
Monday evening before she and her family
retired for the night.
At approximately 1:30 a.m., the officer awoke to
find that her home had been broken into and the
police vehicle had been stolen from her driveway.
The pilfered police car contained the officer’s
P229R .40-calibre Sig Sauer service firearm,
which was in a secured lock box in its trunk,
along with three magazines of ammunition,
handcuffs, a container of Oleoresin Capsicum
(OC) pepper spray and her OPP winter jacket.
Sgt. Kristine Rae, the OPP Eastern Region
Community Service/Media Relations coordinator, did not return a call from The News seeking
comment on the incident before our deadline.
However, Insp. Dave Springer, SD&G OPP
detachment commander, who contacted The
News at about 12:30 p.m., said that the vehicle
had been recovered shortly after noon On
Tuesday and that further details would be
released later in the day.