Express_2011_12_09

"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

UP TO

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.

“We are not opposed to paying for what

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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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the county headquarters in L’Orignal.

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LiseBourgeois.“Wearepleasedtocontribute

to the training of future paramedics by

improving the quality of this program’s

equipment. Incidentally, many of our

ambulance attendants are graduates of La

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Lalonde, outgoing warden of the counties.

A few years ago, the UCPR donated a

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used by the paramedics program despite

the fact itdidnotmeet theprogram’s current

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difficult to maintain.

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