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GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca Mayor worries about Curran’s 911 about surprise interruptions in their phone service and also problems with cellphone “dead spots”. He said the complaints cover a period for the past three weeks.
or police. He has called Bell Aliant about the situation and been told that the phone company is doing upgrades on service but he has not received any details. The mayor noted that Hydro One issues notices to local media and its customers when it plans temporary service interrup- tions as part of its upgrade and mainte- nance schedules. He wonders why Bell Aliant cannot provide the same courtesy. A Bell Aliant email in response to a call from the Vision stated that the company is aware of the problem with Curran’s phone and Internet service and that technicians are sent out to deal with each report. The company noted that the Curran area has
had several recent severe lightning storms that caused power failures. Bell Aliant has backup battery systems to maintain service during power outages but technicians dis- covered some of the battery backups serv- ing the Curran area were not as strong as they used to be. Those batteries have been replaced.
Some householders find their phones have no dial tone at all while others hear a loud crackling over the line but are still un- able to put a call through or hear anyone who might be calling them. Left alone nor- mal phone service resumes after a period of time but there is no guaranteed time limit to the loss of service. Mayor Lalonde is concerned how the sur- prise loss of service could affect the 300 to 400 households in the village area should residents need to call for fire, ambulance
Curran | Phone service has been uncer- tain for some households in the village of Curran and surrounding area for the past few weeks. It’s prompted Mayor Jean-Yves Lalonde to page Bell Aliant. “I’m worried,” said the mayor for Alfred- Plantagenet Township during a phone in- terview. “If you have any (phone) problems for emergency services, you’re in a bad way.” The mayor has received complaints from some residents in the Curran village area
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Toronto | The provincial government has a new assistance program for municipali- ties needing financial help with some in- frastructure projects. The program also comes with a new mandatory rule for ap- plications. The new Municipal Infrastructure Strat- egy (MIS) demands municipalities that ask for provincial aid with their infrastructure projects to show how these project fit into an overall and comprehensive asset man- agement plan for the community. The aim of these asset management plans is to help municipalities “make the best possible deci- sions about building, operating, maintain- ing, renewing and replacing” infrastructure using long-term planning, according to a government news release. The province will provide more than $60 million over the next three years for the MIS. A maximum of $9 million will go towards helping municipalities prepare their asset management plans. The rest of the money will go towards “critical projects” identified in those plans. The focus of the fund is on small rural and Northern Ontario municipalities with infra- structure and assets serving populations of less than 20,000 for lower-tier and less than 50,000 for upper- and single-tier based on provincial ranking guidelines. Local service boards for water and waste disposal sys- tems are also eligible. Under the MIS guidelines seven munici- palities in the Glengarry-Prescott-Russell riding may be eligible for aid grants. They are: the townships of Alfred-Plantagenet, Russell, East Hawkesbury, and North Glen- garry, Casselman village, The Nation mu- nicipality, and Hawkesbury. Application deadline for eligible communities is Oct. 22. The City of Clarence-Rockland is not on the list because, according to information emailed from the Ministry of Infrastruc- ture, the city has been a past recipient of $8.9 million in capital stimulus funds for the drinking water system expansion proj- ect for outlying rural villages, $750,000 for rehabilitation of Bouvier Road, $6.8 million in recreational infrastructure funding for the new municipal arena, and more than $600,000 for watermain and roadwork up- grades in Bourget. The city has also received during the past decade $1.6 million under the Investing in Ontario Act program, $1.5 in provincial gas tax grants, and more than $1 million in municipal roads and bridge aid funding.
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