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Hawkesbury sewage job on time and on budget RICHARD MAHONEY richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
Rural mailboxes damaged Several rural mailboxes in Cham- plain and East Hawkesbury were dam- aged on the night of February 17-18, reports the Hawkesbury Ontario Pro- vincial Police detachment. The vandal- ism occurred on Pattee Road, County Road 12, Pleasant Corners, Greenlane and Stardale Roads. It is believed that most mailboxes were hit with a club or a similar item or burned while the suspects were driving around in a vehicle. Anyone with information about these matters is asked to call Constable Marc-André Des- jardins at 613-632-2729 or 1-888-310- 1122. Drug charges The “Street Crime Team” (SCT) is still working hard to fight crime in the town of Hawkesbury. In the last week, the Street Crime Team continued to make arrests and lay many charges. Most charges laid, as dictated in the SCT’s mandate, were related to thefts, drug ac- tivities and court condition infractions. February 26, officers were doing sur- veillance downtown where they noticed two males acting suspiciously. The two men left the scene walking on Régent Street and were later intercepted. After officers found the men to be in posses- sion of non-prescribed tablets of hy- dromorphone medication, Luc Richer, 57, and Benjamin Grénier, 36, both of Hawkesbury, were charged. On February 28, shortly after 6 p.m., SCT officers intercepted a man and charged Simon Rehel, 23, of Hawkesbury with possession of illicit drugs. The town was fined $12,500 in 2008 when it admitted that the plant had contravened provincial environmental laws. not resolve all of the station’s defects that include inadequate sludge storage and the inability to handle storm water, which results in raw sewage entering the Ottawa River during heavy rains.
HAWKESBURY| A massive overhaul of Hawkesbury’s beleaguered sewage waste treatment plant is on time, and appears it will be completed on budget. “It is looking very good,”said Josh Eamon, an engineer with the Genivar consulting engineering firm, told town council Mon- day. According to the original schedule, the $35 million makeover of the Main Street facility is scheduled to be completed by December of 2013. Asco Construction, the Hawkesbury- based firm that has been awarded the gen- eral contract on the job, says that work is proceeding on schedule and that the De- cember completion target will be met. Now 85 per cent complete, the project will end long-standing sewage treatment troubles in town. Work began in May of 2011 on the improvements to the plant which, among other things, had limited capacity that led to by-passes of raw sewage into the Ot- tawa River. Asco Construction had been awarded a $29,986,700 contract to overhaul the facil- ity. The firm submitted the lowest of nine tenders on the project that was originally estimated to cost $31,699,958. The total project cost is $35,648,965 while the actual construction budget is $31,444,512. To date, $26,437,206 of the construction budget has been spent. Eamon related that as of January 31, of the $500,000 contingency fund that has been created, a sum of $365,000 has not been spent. The federal and provincial governments are each contributing $11,882,988. The town is financing its share by taking $1.6 million from reserves and borrowing $10.5 million. Engineering fees are about $3.7 million. Although a sum of $6.8 million was spent on the plant in 2005, the investment did
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The overhaul is set to be completed by the end of the year.
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newsroom@eap.on.ca ST-ISIDORE | Supply management will be the subject of a discussion the federal Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Liberal Asso- ciation will hold March 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the St-Isidore arena. The future of supply management in ag- riculture is an important issue in rural areas and farming communities, notes the asso- ciation. The meeting will feature Laurent Sou- ligny, former chairman of Egg Farmers of Canada, Ron Versteeg, vice-president, Dairy Farmers of Canada, Peter Clark, an interna- tional trade negotiator and Cathy Jo Noble, a leading public affairs specialist. Introduced in the 1960s, the system of supply management is based on produc- tion quotas, price controls and import controls. These measures are meant to meet the need for a stable and predict- able income for farmers, the need for safe, high-quality, locally produced consumer products and to eliminate the need for government subsidies to those industries
This system, which continues to be sup- ported by all political parties, has served the Canadian public well, sustaining over 300,000 jobs, accruing $12 billion in annual farm-gate revenues while at the same time receiving no government subsidies, says the association. $ /(!/ŏ3%*/ŏ +1* %((+.ŏ,+/0 Mariette Chasles easily won the three-way race for the vacant Harrington Township councillor’s seat Sunday, defeating her closest challenger by about 70 votes. Chasles got 186 votes while William Horrocks received 117 votes and Daniel Gagnon 13. The by-election was held to fill the number 5 councillor post formerly held by the late Randy Watson, who passed away October 29. The new member will serve until November, when municipal elections will be held across Québec.
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