Girl Guide cookies The 17th Cornwall Sparks, Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers will be selling chocolatey mint Girl Guide cook- ies at a number of Cornwall locations this month. The y will be sold Nov. 16 fro m 5 p. m . to 9 p. m . and Nov. 17 fro m 9 a. m . to 4 p. m . at Baxtro m ’s Your Independent Grocer; Nov. 1 8 fro m 9 a. m . to 5 p. m . at Wal m art; Nov. 30 fro m 5 p. m . to 9 p. m . at Food Basics at the Brookdale Centre. Clinique Samedi, le 10 novembre, le Centre de santé communautaire de l’Estrie ouvrira officiellement sa clinique de diabète à Cornwall. Cet événe m ent débutera à 11h00. RCMP open house The anti-smuggling Cornwall Regional Task Force, along with its partners, will hold an open house at the Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police detachment at 501 Tollgate Road East in Cornwall on Thurs- day, Nov. 8 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. . People will be able to tour the facil- it y and m eet m e m bers of the regional task force -- including m e m bers of the Cornwall Co mm unit y Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the RCMP. Short presentations of the each force’s role and involve m ent in the co mm unit y will be given. Demers speaking Former head coach of the Montreal Ca- nadiens and Canadian senator Jacques Demers will be guest speaker at the SDSG Conservative’s annual fall break- fast on Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Agora Centre at 301 McConnell Avenue in Cornwall (formerly the Nativity Hall). Breakfast is served is 8 :30 a. m . and the event will be wrapped up b y 10 a. m . Tick- ets can be purchased b y contacting Jane Cox at (613) 543-3567 or sdsgconserva- tiveassn@g m ail.co m . communautaire Le lien community link The
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Leclerc bids adieu to Cornwall-SDSG To the editor:
My journey here in the community comes to end soon. I plan to leave the public ser- vice. Sa y ing so long is never eas y . I love the co mm unit y . SD&SG has so m uch to offer. The region’s strength is its bilingual and m ulticultural nature. I wish to thank y ou - the NDP local riding association fa m il y , the co-workers at Service Canada call centre, friends and supporters all across the count y for y our support and affection. Ma y 2, 2011 was a m e m orable m o m ent of my life indeed. It has been a great honour to run as New De m ocrat and to have known so m an y re m arkable people in the co mm unit y . Now, who are we as people? Too large of a gap between the rich and the poor, as we have in Canada toda y , actu- all y hurts the overall econo my . We have put too m uch fate in the hands of the free m arket and corporate tax cuts. We could start b y finding wa y s to find work for m ore people. And we need m ore than what each of us can do alone. In fact, we cannot m ake it if we fail to res- Solar power sounds good but so far, is technical and financial folly for Ontario. When the sun sets, solar systems shut down. People though expect all lights and ap- pliances to still function. That power co m es fro m large generators. The proble m is that these generators can- not be shut down in the da y ti m e. The y are not designed to go on and off like switches at ho m e. It takes three da y s to restart the nuclear generators which account for 55 per cent of Ontario power. The solar far m s in operation are alread y creating a power glut in the da y ti m e and there is no feasible technolog y y et to store power. So far, the solution has been h y drau- lic spill and pa y ing other jurisdictions to take the power. This costs Ontario billions of dollars. When all approved solar s y ste m s are on-
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Former New Democratic Party for the local riding, Mario Leclerc, is pictured in this file photo. Leclerc says his journey here is coming to an end soon.
cue those who’ve been left behind. The truth is that our future will not bring us a rising standard of living unless we raise the living standard of all Canadians. Together, we will build the countr y of our
hopes and drea m s.
Mario Leclerc Former NDP candidate- Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry Liberals messing up potential of solar power To the editor:
line over the next three to four y ears, it will cost tax-pa y ers even m ore billions for de- cades. The electric grid is not designed to handle large, rapid increases in inter m ittent gen- eration. McGuint y though, in his political rush to look good in green, gave contracts where all solar power m ust be accepted and at ver y high rates. The solution is to m anage solar as h y drau-
lic, nuclear and other sources are m anaged -- as part of an integrated s y ste m . Right now, investors m ake a lot of m one y , electricit y rates rocket up, the power grid is being pounded and the deficit increases b y billions upon billions . The Liberals took a good concept of alter- native energ y and m essed it up badl y .
Ron Bergeron Cornwall
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The flu vaccines affected b y the suspen- sion, Fluad and Agriflu, are m anufactured b y Novartis. “There is no evidence that there is an y risk associated with these Novartis vaccines,” said Dr. Paul Rou m eliotis, m edi- cal Officer of Health at the EOHU. “The ac- tion taken b y Health Canada to te m poraril y suspend the distribution and use of these vaccines is a precautionar y m easure and is not related to an y health risks having been directl y observed.”
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The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) is reassuring residents that seasonal flu vaccines being administered this season are safe. The temporary suspension of two vaccines by Health Canada is a precau- tionary measure and Ontario’s annual flu immunization campaign continues to pro- tect Ontarians from the flu.
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