"How about we put our money where our mouth is?"
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change? Insteadofworryingabout bringing
changed, they understand that they need
because it does not distinguish between fixed
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newbusinesses toHawkesbury, how about
todomoreforbusinesses.”Well,howabout
and variable costs, he argued. The fixed cost
we protect the ones that are already here,
we put our money where our mouth is?”
of the water treatment plant will not change
paying big taxes for years into the city’s
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regardless of the volume used. “The way the
While Hawkesbury is always looking
coffers. Remember, business is not the
Thecommercial sector isas important in
billing is set up right now is that commercial
fornewinvestors, existingbusinessesneed
enemy,” he said.
economic terms as a single large industry,
businesses basically pay the same residential
tangible help from the town, restaurant
He recalled that he graduated from high
observed Tsourounakis.
rate that a homeowner pays, multiplied by
owner Tony Tsourounakis said during a
school in 1987. “Of my graduating class of
“Businesses are not the enemy. On the
the amount of water that he uses. There is no
recent address to municipal council.
97 people, eight are still in the Hawkesbury
contrary, businesses are the lifeblood of
special “business rate.” However, a business
Protesting new commercial water rates
area. Why? Because there are very few jobs
any community,” he said.
using a large quantity of water should only
that were imposed in January,
in the area, soour best andbrightest packup
Five major restaurants in town employ
pay for the cost of thewater theyareusing, not
Tsourounakis contends that businessesare
and leave, they go to Rockland, or Ottawa,
225 people, he related, adding that there
also pay a disproportionate share of the fixed
being asked to shoulder an unfair share of
Vaudreuil, Montréal or even Toronto. Now
are about 50 other restaurants of various
costs as well.”
water treatment and distribution costs.
for 20 years I have been hearing that “We
sizes in Hawkesbury. An average waitress
“Our money is
“All we hear, year after year, is
need to attract more businesses to
earns in excess of $25 an hour, he said.
“Hawkesbury needs to attract more
Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury is perfectly
Those earnings are in turn spent locally;
paying for
industry, more jobs to the area. We need to
located between Montréal and Ottawa, in a
restaurants purchase their supplies in this
be more business friendly.” Well, how
other people’s water."
fewyearsitwillstarttoboom,thewaterfront,
district, said Tsourounakis.
about we practise what we preach for a
Highway 50 will save us. Council has
The newwater billingmethod is flawed
His Déjà Vu restaurant, which uses 20,000
cubic feet of water a year, pays $20,000
annually, or the equivalent of 111 homes.
“However, onlyoneconnectioncomes toDéjà
Vu. The real cost to service Déjà Vu alone
versus 111 homes is not comparable at all,”
said Tsourounakis.
“You are charging me a percentage of the
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entire city of Hawkesbury water capacity bill
based on the amount of water that flows to
me. In effect, Déjà Vu and every other high-
volume business are subsidizing the cost of
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town,” he stated.
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Paramedic students at La Cité
collégiale’s new 911 Institute in Ottawa
have received an early Christmas present
from the United Counties of Prescott-
Russell.
For the second time, the counties have
donated a used ambulance to the college.
Michel Chrétien, Director of Emergency
Services, announced the transfer of the 2005
Ford vehicle during a recent presentation at
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improving the quality of this program’s
equipment. Incidentally, many of our
ambulance attendants are graduates of La
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A few years ago, the UCPR donated a
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the fact itdidnotmeet theprogram’s current
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