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Les jeunes de Casselman ont maintenant leur local
de conférences », a fait savoir Kim Lee, la coordinatrice du local. Le centre sera géré par un comité d’une quinzaine d’élèves des deux écoles secondaires de Casselman. Le projet CTC, sous l’égide de Valoris pour enfants et adultes de Prescott et Russell, mise sur la mobilisation communautaire. Entre 15 000 $ et 25 000 $ seront alloués annuellement par les bénévoles de CTC. « Une communauté qui se soucie de sa jeunesse est appelée à croître », a rappelé Raymond Lemay, directeur général de Valoris, pendant la traditionnelle cérémonie d’ouverture. Claude Levac de son côté exprimait sa satisfaction : « Les jeunes pourront se rendre tranquillement ici. Il n’y aura pas de parents, de professeurs ou d’employeurs. Aucuns murs. »
S ÉBASTIEN P IERROZ sebastien.pierroz@eap.on.ca
CASSELMAN | Les portes du Centre des loisirs pour les jeunes de 6 e à 9 e années des écoles secondaires de la région sont officiellement ouvertes depuis jeudi de lasemainedernière.Annoncérécemment dans Le Reflet – The News, cette initiative a été mise en œuvre sous l’égide de C’est ta communauté (CTC). Situé au 738, rue Brébeuf à Casselman, le Centre de loisirs sera accessible pour les jeunes tous les mardis et jeudis de 13 h 30 à 19 h 30. D’un aspect récréatif, il bénéficie entre autres de tables de billards et de ping-pong ou encore, de jeux vidéo. Il comprendra également « un volet plus éducatif sous forme
photo Sébastien Pierroz
Lors de la traditionnelle coupure de ruban, on reconnait notamment Raymond Lemay, directeur général de Valoris, Jean Lemay,président du Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ou encore Claude Levac, le maire de Casselman. Environmental Commissioner slams MOE’s landfill and diversion record
Church group pleads for building project exemption
C ANDICE V ETTER candice.vetter@eap.on.ca
Waste Diversion Act fails to make waste reduction and reuse a priority. There is no direct financial incentive for manufacturers to reduce waste created by product packaging or to design products that are easier to recycle.He said several papers and reports identify potential solutions. “The MOE clearly knows what it needs to do… now the government needs to find thepoliticalwill—andcourage—toactually do it.”He states that some programs, including those hazardous, special or electronic waste programs that make stewards responsible for the end-of-life of their products have helped, but not enough.In the report the MOE itself is quoted: “On average, waste disposal in landfills is one-third to one-half the cost of diversion. However, the long-term environmental costs of landfills are seldom considered.”
However, the project, which would include a soccer field, has not received the blessing of everyone. Some citizens have expressed concerns about urban sprawl and the potential loss of prime agricultural property. Although the church could be erected within village limits, the group contends that it cannot afford to acquire another site. The congregation’s position is that “there is simply no land available within the Town of Russell that satisfies its needs in terms of size and price,” Prévost noted. In the long term, such “unplanned developments and the loss of prime agricultural land are costly to the taxpayers,” the planner cautioned. “ This is the reason why strict criteria have been put in place in the Provincial Policy Statement and why the removal of prime agricultural areas is the last resort. The simple fact of finding a piece of property that is less expensive outside the limits of the Town of Russell does not justify the removal of the agricultural designation being proposed.” The congregation has been using the Mother Teresa Catholic School for a worship site under an arrangement with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
R ICHARD M AHONEY richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
TORONTO | In the recently released report of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, CommissionerGordMillersaysprogress on waste diversion has stalled and the government is sitting on solutions which could reduce the more than 9 million tonnes of waste that go to landfills and incinerators annually in this province. “The MOE has identified many problems…and compiled a laundry list of possiblesolutions…butforwhateverreason, the government is failing to act on these progressive solutions,” states the report.The report says the causes of this failure are well known, primary among them the fact that it is cheaper to throw waste in landfill than to recycle it. Another problem is that the Retrouvez Le Reflet- The News sur
RUSSELL | The united counties of Prescott-Russell have rejected a bid by the Russell Reformed Presbyterian Church to build a new place of worship onprimeagriculturallandnearthevillage of Russell. Citing the need to protect good farmland, a required land-use regulation amendment “does not represent good planning,” concluded county planning and forestry department director Louis Prévost, advising council that the congregation’s application is not consistent with provincial and county policies. Under the Provincial Policy Statement, “it needs to be demonstrated that there is simply no land available within the villages before even thinking of locating within an agricultural zone. That type of analysis has not been provided in support of this amendment,” Prévost writes in his report to council. For the past few years, the 160-member congregation has been eyeing a two- hectare piece of farmland on Concession 3 as the future site of its new church.
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