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Section of Highway 401 to be closed for old bridge removal GREG KIELEC GREG.KIELEC@EAP.ON.CA
RE/MAX CORNWALL REALTY INC. Highway 401 westbound lanes will be closed from County Road 27 at the Sum- merstown exit to Boundary Road and traffic will be detoured along County Road 2, ac- cording to Alchawa. ordinator with Aecon Construction & Mate- rials. Highway 401 eastbound lanes will be closed from McConnell Avenue to Bound- ary Road and traffic will be detoured along Marleau Avenue.
As part of operations to remove the old Boundary Road bridge structure, a full closure of Highway 401 will be required at the east end of Cornwall overnight on April 20. The closure will be in effect from 10 p.m. Saturday, April 20 to 6 a.m. Sunday April 21, according to Houssam Alchawa, project co-
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Zellers outlet closes doors Carol Cannon, a longtime Zellers customer, walks out of the Cornwall store with goods she purchased late Thursday morning. The iconic store was closed for good Thursday afternoon.
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Carol Cannon. “There are so many places in Cornwall that go out of business and it just kind of hits you in the heart because I was a little kid coming to this store.” Cannon said it was a strange feeling shop- ping at the outlet where the retail space had been reduced to a quarter of its original floor space, a basic shell of what it was mere months ago, with what little goods that were left picked over and scattered about. “I didn’t feel like I was in Zellers anymore at all. Everything is almost like a kind of sec- ond-hand store. It’s just sad, really sad.” She also showed empathy for the em- ployees, who despite facing joblessness, went out and bought two cakes out of their social fund money on Thursday to treat the final customers to grace the store’s aisles. “I feel bad for them. There are probably well over 100 people who are going to be without jobs. Plus, you know, there are not too many jobs in Cornwall. I feel for them.” Demers calculated that all the years of management and employee years com- bined tallied up to 755 years of retail experi- ence at the Zellers outlet. He is hoping that wealth of experience will translate into jobs for his former em- ployees at new retail outlets planned for the old Zellers store, including an anticipated grocery store.
GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
A retail outlet, which had been a Cornwall icon for more than 40 years, will be closed for good on Thursday afternoon. “Obviously it will be missed,” said Zellers store manager Al Demers, who finished a 30-year run with the Zellers chain with the Cornwall store’s closure. “There will be a tearful farewell for sure,” he said, when asked how staff was expected to react when the doors finally closed and they faced the reality of leaving the store for the last time. The Eastcourt Mall store had been liqui- dating its merchandise and was slated to close at 9 p.m. on March 14, throwing about 100 employees out of work, but it closed much earlier due to a huge rush of last-min- ute shoppers. The store was slated for closure when Tar- get’s new Canadian operations purchased the Zellers chain from the Hudson Bay Com- pany. While Zellers stores in many markets are or have been converted to Target stores, the Cornwall store was not chosen for such a conversion. “It’s sad,” said longtime Zellers customer
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