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Musical Ride coming In celebration of their 75th Anniversary, the Rotary Club of Chesterville, the RCMP Musical Ride will be touring through the township of North Dundas in late May. The RCMP Musical Ride will take place at the Chesterville Fairgrounds at 153 Queen Street on Sunday, May 26. Tickets are available at the following locations: Township of North Dundas Of- fice (Winchester), Chesterville Pharmcy, TD Canada Trust (Chesterville Branch), and communautaire Le lien community link The MacEwen’s Gas Bar in Chesterville. Greening Cornwall The Incredible Edible Plant Festival - Right in Our Own Front Yard will take place on Saturday, May 25, 1-3 p.m., rain or shine at 240 Pitt St., in front of city hall Transition Cornwall + in partnership with the City of Cornwall, the Cornwall Horticul- tural Society, Seaway Valley Community Health Centre and the Social Development Council of Cornwall will be giving away young tomato, pepper and bean plants plants to encourage new or non-gardeners of all ages to grow their own food. Community Yard Sale The first annual Williamstown Commu- nity Yard Sale will be held from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on May 11. The event is at 19590 Glen Road inWilliamstown. People are en- couraged to bring their own goods and a table to sell unwanted items. There will be a complementary barbecue lunch with donations going to the Children’s Aid So- St. Lawrence Secondary School presents Boombastic – A Fashion Show onWednes- day, May 15 at 7 p.m. at Saint Lawrence Secondary School at 1450 Second Street East to raise money for the Children’s Treatment Centre. For more informa- tion email Megan Deruchia at megande- Chartwell Retirement Residences is ex- cited to announce that local auditions will be held in May (an earlier press release contained the wrong date) for Senior Star, Canada’s largest talent competition dedi- cated to seniors. Now in its 7th year, this singing and musical instrument compe- tition is open to anyone who is 65 years and over and a Canadian resident. Regis- tration forms can be obtained at Chateau Cornwall Retirement Residence, Hartford Retirement Centre and McConnell Manor Retirement Residence. Contestants do not have to be living in a Chartwell residence. Email your coming events to lyse.emond@ eap.on.ca. // Envoyez vos événements à lyse. emond@eap.on.ca. ciety Kids Camp Fund. Boombastic ruchia@hotmail.com. Senior Stars

Consolidated Bottle cheques ‘not a windfall’, police warn

Tariff will cost families $380 million

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ers too—despite Conservative pledges to never introduce an “iPod tax.” Other tax hikes in the federal budget—on everything fromhospital parking to life insurance—will cost Canadians hundreds of millions more. Incredibly, the Conservatives deny up and down that they are raising taxes—as if your wallet somehow just gets lighter all on its own. Their dishonesty is disproven by all the rev- enue booked in their own budget numbers. Canadians understand that governing sometimes requires difficult choices. But Mr. Harper might find that when Canadians can’t count on their own Prime Minister to give them the straight goods on taxes, they start looking for someone who can. liamentary mailing and printing privileges to put their ugly message in taxpayer-fund- ed pamphlets to be distributed across the country. This is a gross misuse of tax dollars that should be going toward constructive public discussion of public issues, not par- tisan character assassination. At least 19 Conservative backbenchers have had the courage to reject this wasteful and dishonest abuse. They say it’s beneath their standards. But what about your MP? Mr. Lauzon has a choice—he can choose to say no to Stephen Harper and refuse to clutter your mailbox with this abusivemate- rial, or knuckle under. Which will it be? Wayne Easter,MP Liberal Party of Canada

Canadians should get ready to pay more for everyday goods. Prime Minister Harp- er and the Conservative government is imposing a tax grab on families by hiking tariffs on everything from coffee makers to bicycles. A tariff is a tax, andmany of the goods sold in Canadian stores come from countries that will soon get caught up in higher tariffs when they are brought into Canada, raising prices. Costs for baby cribs, vacuum cleaners, bar- becues and more will go up by an average of 3%. All in all, it amounts to a $330 million a-year tax grab from families struggling to make ends meet. It will drain our businesses and drive consumers across the border. The measures also hit digital music play- Word is out that Conservatives plan to use your tax dollars to mail their juvenile pro- paganda against Justin Trudeau to your home. Will MP Guy Lauzon sink to that level? The answer is in the mail. By now you’ve probably seen the TV com- mercials. In them, the Conservatives use out-of-context fabrications and falsehoods to try to smear the new Liberal leader. Lib- erals instead are responding with a positive campaign that introduces Canadians to the real Justin Trudeau, focused on his plans to fight for middle-class families and for all those who are working so hard to join the middle-class. But Conservatives plan to use their Par- To the editor:

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Cornwall police are warning residents to be on the lookout for fraudulent cheques under the name of Consolidated Bottle Corporation. Cornwall police issued a media release about the scam last week and Police Chief Dan Parkinson took to Twitter to warn that “fraudulent cheques (are) being received in Cornwall.” Parkinson added that “this is not a wind- fall —it is a fraud.” Consolidated Bottle, which operates a head office at 77 Union Street in Toronto, has also posted an alert on its website warn- ing of the scam. “ I nd i v i dua l s have received cheques and “The Con- solidated Bottle Corporation has not initiated any request or activ-

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instructions in the mail claim- ing we are seek- ing their help in market research or other types of survey work,” the company wrote. “The Con- solidated Bottle Corporation has not initiated any request or activ- ity of this kind.

ity of this kind. These cheques are fraudulent and no attempt must be made to cash them.”

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23 000 copies

These cheques are fraudulent and no at- tempt must be made to cash them,” the company stresses in its alert. The 103-year-old company has a long his- tory of providing full service packaging so- lutions to an array of customers worldwide, according to a description of the company on its website. Any recipients of the cheques are urged to contact the Cornwall Community Police Service or call to the Consolidated Bottle Corporation at 416-656-7777.

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