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Living Locally Fair another success
over Eastern Ontario andWest Quebec. The event is an opportunity for local community organizations to promote their clubs, showcase upcoming events and sell tickets. Local producers like it because it comes at a time of year when farmers’ mar- kets are closed so there are few sales venues. Shoppers like it for the same reason. Each year there are several special dem- onstrations. An entertaining addition this year was the Capital City Garrison 501st Legion, which charged for photos with Star Wars characters on behalf of the Children’s Fantasy Reading Garden. The event is a partnership between the horticultural society and the school and is held the third Saturday of January. chairman of the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC), which co-sponsors the EORN project. The EOWC and its senior government and private sector partners, has been working on the EORN project for several years now. The goal is to provide high-speed Internet service throughout all of Eastern Ontario, including those rural areas located in “in- formation highway cracks” where dial-up service is all that is available because of the expense to provide either satellite or direct- line high-speed connections.
CANDICE VETTER candice.vetter@eap.on.ca
RUSSELL l The fourth annual Living Locally Fair put on by the Russell Horticultural So- ciety on Saturday, January 18, was a huge success, attracting about 130 vendors and well over 1000 visitors. The event has become a must-attend, with plenty of local producers, local goods, local food, local businesses and local non- profit organizations on hand. The atrium, gymnasium and several classrooms of the school were packed with shoppers. Many were from nearby, but others came from all
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VARS | High-speed cyber service is coming to the Vars Industrial Park. The Eastern Ontario Regional Network project (EORN) enters what should be the final year of development and the budget for the regional broadband improvement project includes $650,000 to provide a high-speed Internet link to the Vars Indus- trial Park site. “We all know businesses need high-speed Internet service,” said Jean-Paul St-Pierre,
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Pegi Holtz, the bee, past-president of the Russell Horticultural Society, is shown with local cook Christina Stapper who performed cooking demonstrations at the Living Locally Fair held Saturday, January 18 at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Russell.
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La nouvelle Banque Scotia de Casselman, sise au 29 Cercle Richer, a accueilli ses premiers clients cette semaine. Une quinzaine d’employés travaillent dans cette nouvelle succursale, d’une superficie de 465mètres carrés, qui remplace la succursale de St-Isidore. (AL)
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