OPINIONS WEEE: Trash to cash gŏđŏŏ
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Time to say, “Adieu”
acceptable level of contamination of the plastic material, which, if the new program is launched, would be delivered to a depot centre that would probably be located at Recycle Action Inc. A new recycling truck has been orde- red at a price of $158,000, plus tax. East Hawkesbury administrator Linda Rozon explained that the original price quote
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I don’t usually get personal in this space, but this time I must write in the first person because this is the final column I am turning out for the Tribune Express. Effective July 4, I will be moving on to a new job at a different newspaper, not far from here. I cannot leave without saying Adieu and thanks to all the people who still make this newspaper reporter assignment the best job in the world. Anyone who has ever worked for a community newspaper knows that no two days are the same and you have to expect the unexpected. You could be meeting a Prime Minis- ter in the morning, chasing a fire truck in the afternoon and photographing a hockey banquet in the evening. Every reporter has “war stories” and in the 38 years I have been covering news in eas- tern Ontario and western Québec, I have accumulated a lot of souvenirs. A few stand out. Such as the time I was sure I was going to be killed by a careening tanker truck, skid- ding out of control, on its side, on Highway 417. It was in February, 2008. On the 417 near St-Isidore, a driver had been killed after his car had rear-ended a tractor trailer. The scene was grim. It was about to get scary. As I was shooting pictures, two eastbound trucks collide. One of them, an empty tanker truck, jack-knifed, flipped onto its side and skid- ded towards me and Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry Ontario Provincial Police Constable Joel Doiron. Everyone scattered, and the truck kept getting closer. Fortunately, it finally came to a stop and nobody was hurt. Doiron and I looked at each other. It was like a scene from an action movie. “I guess the good Lord did not want us today,” said Doiron. Pressure is part of the business, and you deal with it. One of the more stressful experiences I had was when I interviewed Jacques Lor- mand, whose son, Patrick, was killed while serving in Afghanistan in September of 2009. Jacques Lormand had asked to see me after we ran an article in Le Carillon reporting the horrible news. We met in the kitchen of the family home on Concession 2 of East Hawkesbury Township. On the table was a copy of the September 16 edition of Le Caril- lon, with the official full-cover photo of his son, under the headline “Un franco-ontarien mort au combat.” He was accompanied by three members of the military, who were preparing for the funeral of his 21-year-old son, his baby. Was he angry? Did we make some dreadful mistake? He softly said he wanted to thank me for the article. “That picture in the paper is good,”said Mr. Lormand. He did not hear my sigh of relief as he explained why he had summoned me. “This is an exclusive. I am not talking to any other reporters,” he said. He wanted to talk to a local reporter, to express his gratitude to the community for the outpouring of support from people and he wanted to about Patrick’s life, not his death. On the way home, I realized now the pressure was really on. This strong man had just poured his heart out to me. Do not screw this up. I have always done my best to accurately reflect facts and comments. But nobody is perfect. “Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”was the goal when I started writing this column after being hired by La Compagnie d’édition André Paquette in 2007. I have been fortunate to work for people who never tried to influence the opinions I expressed in this space and to work alongside hard-working, skilled, creative and funny people. And, dear readers, I must thank all of you for your tips, criticism and suggestions. Gush alert: You are the reason we do this. Oops! Running out of space, again. One request: Keep an eye on all of those politicians for me, will you? À la prochaine.
HAWKESBURY | WEEE continues to be a hot commodity in the region as more and more community groups realize waste electronic and electrical equipment is a way to convert trash into cash. The volume of WEEE being dropped at the Recycle Action centre in Hawkesbury has been dropping off over the past year, the area recycling committee for Hawkes- bury, Champlain and East Hawkesbury was recently told. From January to February, 2014, the vol- ume of WEEE was 18.759 tonnes, compared to 26.791 tonnes during the same period in 2013. Since this material is valuable, non- profit organizations are creating collection events ofWEEE in order to raise money. This reflects a widespread trend, Mario Parisien, of Recycle Action, informed the committee. Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) has noticed an overall reduction in this material being collected, he related. The decrease is due, in part, to a previous build-up of such material now having been recycled through the WEEE Program. Steady Overall, however, residents in the three municipalities continue to recycle today as much as they did a year ago, according to figures presented by recycling coordinator Robert Lefebvre. In January and February of this year, the volume was 243.97 tonnes, compared to 242.71 tonnes last year, for an increase of 0.52%. Parisien also updated the committee on other waste diversion activities. A ve- hicle equipped with a paper-shredding unit is now in operation. Recycle Action is also talking with a company that may be interested in accepting agricultural bale wrapping. The centre is also discussing an Ten fewer commissioner posts will be up for grabs at the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board when elections are held November 2. The number of elected members is drop- ping from 19 to nine as part of province- wide reductions that are expected to cut commissioners’ salaries by about $2.6 mil- lion annually. In Argenteuil, the measure means some slight changes in boundaries. Currently, Grenville and Grenville-sur-la- Rouge are in ward 3, are now represented by Robert Dixon. Under the new map,
had been $150,000, however, on the date of actual acquisition, the exchange rate between the US and Canadian dollars had changed resulting in an increase in the final price. The new vehicle is expected to arrive in the latter part of July 2014. Garage lease The committee has accepted to lease from East Hawkesbury a heated garage to house two recycling vehicles at a rate of $20,000 per year. The deal will be in effect from Novem- ber of this year to October 31, 2019. It was agreed that this decision would be benefi- cial for the winter operations and would ex- tend the life spans of the trucks. those municipalities become part of ward 1, now represented by William Pollock. With 3,138 electors, the new ward 1 will encompass a vast territory that will also in- clude Arundel, Harrington, Morin Heights and Lac-des- Écorces . Ward 2, which will have 3,365 voters, will include Lachute, Brownsburg-Chatham, Gore, Saint-André- d’Argenteuil andWentworth. Pollock is a long-serving member of the board, having first been elected in 1998. Dixon was elected in 2003 and re-elected in 2007.
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Trois postes de brigadiers éliminés à Hawkesbury
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La Ville de Hawkesbury éliminera trois des six postes de brigadiers scolaires, aux inter- sections où la municipalité a conclu que la présence de brigadiers n’était plus néces- saire. Lorsque la nouvelle année scolaire commencera en septembre, il n’y aura plus de brigadiers aux intersections Thériault-Lansdowne-Hamilton, Hamilton et Régent et William et Régent. Le budget 2014 pour ces postes est de 37 483$ pour six brigadiers en plus des activités auxquelles ils participent comme la fête du Canada et la parade de Noël. L’élimination des trois postes à compter de septembre représente une éco- nomie de 5800$ pour 2014 et d’environ 14 200$ pour 2015. «Nous sommes à l’aise avec l’étude réalisée, nous sommes appuyés de données solides», peut-on lire dans une note de service de l’administration. La décision a été prise à la suite d’une analyse effectuée du 26 mai au 2 juin.
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