MONEY APPROVED FOR MCGILL STREET UPGRADE A C T U A L I T É S • N E W S
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with Main Street. The reconstruction would also involve redoing the retaining wall for that
section of the street which follows the shore- line for Hawkesbury Creek. Some sections
of the retaining wall are deteriorating and there is a risk of collapse if those sections
Repair work for the McGill Street retain- ing wall along Hawkesbury Creek can go ahead now with provincial funding aid. The Ministry of Transportation announced May 11 that Hawkesbury is one of 24 com- munities that will receive funding from the Connecting Links program for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Hawkesbury will get $824,400 for its proposed McGill Street reconstruction project. The Connecting Links program assists municipalities with critical infrastructure projects that involve roads or bridges which connect two ends of a provincial highway that passes through a community or connect to a border crossing. This year’s program has $30 million to be shared among 24 municipalities. McGill Street is part of the Highway 34 link connecting both Hawkesbury and Vankleek Hill to the Long Sault Bridge, which spans the Ottawa River and serves as a border crossing point between Ontario and Québec. Last autumn Hawkesbury town council reviewed a recommendation from administra- tion for priority rating to reconstruction of the section of McGill Street near the intersection
Work on rebuilding a section of McGill Street near the Main Street intersection can begin soon. Hawkesbury received approval of provincial funding aid for the project, which will also involve restoration of a section of the retaining wall along the street where it follows along beside Hawkesbury Creek. The retaining is starting to deteriorate and could collapse in future if not rebuilt. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
EASTERN ONTARIO HEALTH UNIT OFFERS COVID-19 TESTING TO PUBLIC
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) has now opened its COVID-19 assessment centres to the general public. Anyone who has one or more symptoms that might be related to COVID-19 can now go to the nearest EOHU assessment centre in their area for testing to confirm whether or not they do have the disease. —stock photo
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staff, emergency responders, and people like cashiers and other frontline workers in grocery stores and other “essential ser- vices” businesses. Now, Dr. Roumeliotis observed, the EOHU has reached the point where it can open up the assessment centres to the general public. The focus at present is on people who do have one or more symptoms that might be the result of COVID-19. “Increased testing will be an important tool as we’re starting to open up activities in the community,” said Dr. Roumeliotis, referring to the launch of Phase One of the provincial economic restart plan. “It’s going to help us determine if there is an increase in COVID-19 cases, or if we’re able to keep the numbers down. This will help inform how we proceed with opening up in the weeks and months ahead.” Dr. Roumeliotis also noted that it is not necessary to get a referral from Telehealth, but residents in the Five Counties region or the City of Cornwall should check with the EOHU about the appointment procedure for their local testing centre.
Now anyone who thinks they may have COVID-19 can go to one of the regional health unit’s assessment centres and find out. “Effective immediately, our testing centres will be open to anyone with symptoms,” said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, chief medical health officer for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU), during his Thursday (May 14) teleconference with regional media. The EOHU has a complete list of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 on its website at www.eohu.ca/coronavirus. Dr. Roumeliotis noted that a person does not have to have all of the symptoms to come in for testing. A person who has just one symptom and wonders if it might be a sign of COVID-19 can go to their local EOHU assessment centre to find out. When the EOHU set up the assessment centres in Hawkesbury, Casselman, Rock- land, Winchester, Cornwall, and Akwesasne, the focus was first on testing “essential service” personnel, including health care
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