Express_2018_01_24

$0--&$5 * 7 * 5 r  $0..6/ * 5:

Nothing rides like an old snowmobile

communautaire community link Le lien The Sortie Casino Le Club Amitié sans frontière de Grenville organise une sortie au casino du Lac Leamy à Hull, le 27 janvier 2018, suivie d’un souper chez Scores. Départ de l’autobus à midi sur la 34 pour le transport. Réservez avecMarie-Claire Champagne au 819-242-2226 avant le 14 janvier. Danse St-Valentin Le club Fadoq Vlà l’bon temps de Grenville organise un souper dansant pour la St- Valentin, le 10 février, 18h, au Centre communautaire de Grenville, au 21, rue Tri-Jean à Grenville. Au menu du poulet. De nombreux prix de présence. Date limite pour réserver le 7 février. Res./ info : Denyse Woodbury 819- 242-4406. Legion Valentine’s Jamboree The Hawkesbury Legion hosts its Valentine’s Day Jamboree and Spaghetti Supper, February 11, 2 to 7 pm. Separate ticket rates depending on participants attending both the supper and dance or just the dance. Tickets on sale at the Legion bar or by phone to Nicole at 613-870-3611. Whist militaire L’Union culturelle des Franco- Ontariennes du Cercle de St-Isidore organise un whist militaire le 11 février, 13h30, au Centre récréatif de de St-Isidore. Pour l’information et aussi pour réservation avant le 1 février: Gisèle Séguin au 613-764-5559 / Monique Lecuyer au 613-524-2651. Soirée d’Artisanat Soirée St. Valentin d’Artisanat de Hawkesbury, le 13 février, 17h, à Dong Kong Café. RSVP : Fleurette Groleau, 613-632-7355. Heart of Country Jamboree The Hawkesbury Legion hosts a Heart of Country Jamboree featuring the Country Express Band, February 16, 6 to 11 pm. Separate ticket rates depending on participants attending both the supper and dance or just the dance. For ticket information phone 613-632-5136. Souper spectacle Le Club Amitié sans frontière organise un spectacle avec Daniel Evans, le 17 février 2018, pour une soirée Saint-Valentin au Centre communautaire de Grenville. Réservez avecMarie-Claire Champagne au 819 242-2622. Club de Bridge Rencontre lemercredi à 18h45 à La Légion canadienne, 152, rue Nelson, Hawkesbury.

GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca

Scott Allen loves his snowmobiles. Even an old snowmobile is a good snowmobile and that’s why he founded the Annual Old Snowmobile Rally as part of Champlain Township’s annual Winter Carnival. “I started it eight years ago,” Allen said, during an interview while he tinkered with the engine of one old snow machine. “I’d bought a few old ones but there’s nowhere really to ride them on the organized trails.” Allen explained that the cost to licence a snowmobile for rides out on public trails, along with the cost for vehicle insurance, a trail pass and any other paperwork neces- sary, adds up to about $400 for onemachine. He has 10 or 11 in his collection of old and antique snowmobiles, plus his more-mo- dern 2006 Grand Tour Bombardier, so it doesn’t make much sense to pay a huge amount for insurance and licensing for all of them every season unless he intends to ride each and every one of them. Other snowmobile enthusiasts who enjoy collecting and keeping older machines have the same problem. They’d all like to ride themnow and then but the cost for just one day’s ride is prohibitive. Which is how the Old Snowmobile Rally began, and has grown in popularity over the past eight years. Allen had 20machines and riders show up for the first rally eight years ago. Last year there were 140, and most of

VICE & HUNTER BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS

LLP AVOCATS

Winter Carnival Champlain Winter Carnival runs from March 31 to February 4 in Vankleek Hill and L’Orignal.The official opening ceremony is February 2, 6 p.m., at Vankleek Hill Collegiate. For event details email inforecreation@champlain.ca. “Some of the guys have shown up, no hood on themachine, or else it has just one ski,” Allen said, “and yet they can still ride it.” Anyone interested in coming out to ride can email elmlanefarm@xplorenet.com or just show up on rally day and pay their registration fee. Scott Allen travaille sur une partie du moteur d’une de sesmotoneiges antiques. C’est peut-être celle-là qu’il choisira pour participer à un rallye de motoneiges anciennes qui se dérouleront lors du carnaval d’hiver de Champlain qui aura lieu du 31 janvier au 4 février. —photo Gregg Chamberlain themwere either regular riders in the event or had heard about it by word of mouth. Old snowmobile fans are everywhere. The riders in the ChamplainWinter Carnival event travel from as far as Val d’Or, Québec or Cornwall, Ontario and as near as Scott’s neighbours down the road in L’Orignal. Come the morning of February 4, eve- ryone will ride out from the Vankleek Hill Fair Grounds, following a marked trail for a 35-kilometre round trip across several snow- covered fields and pastures for which local farmers are allowing access. Some of those farmers will be among the trail riders. At the end of the day there will be prizes for the Oldest Snowmobile, the Best Looking, the Oldest Rider, and even the Toughest Snowmobile on the trail.

Vice & Hunter LLP, a respected Ottawa law firm serving clients across the United Counties of Prescott and Russell for over 40 years, is pleased to announce that Jean-Francois Lalonde has been named partner, effective January 1, 2018. Welcoming JF into the partnership strengthens the firm’s core practice areas of

municipal, civil litigation and employment law, and adds further depth to the firm’s offering. J.F. has been with the firm since 2006 and already has a wealth of experience in his respective areas of expertise.

Vice & Hunter, cabinet d’avocats réputé situé à Ottawa, qui assure ses services aux clients des Comtés-Unis de Prescott et Russel depuis plus de 40 ans, a le plaisir d’annoncer la nomination de Jean-François Lalonde à titre d’associé. Ce nouveau partenariat, ayant pris effet le 1er janvier 2018, ne saura que renforcer les champs de pratique spécialisés du cabinet, soit le droit municipal, le contentieux civil et le droit du travail, et étendre davantage ses services. Depuis son arrivée au cabinet en 2006, Jean-François a acquis une grande expérience dans ses domaines

85 Plymouth Street, Suite 101, Ottawa ON, K1S 3E2 T 613.232.5773 | F 613.232.3509 | www.viceandhunter.ca JEAN-FRANCOIS LALONDE phone: 613.232.5773 | 1.866.252.0670 Email: jflalonde@viceandhunter.ca | info@viceandhunter.ca

Made with FlippingBook Annual report