Kidney Foundation needs volunteers
O.P.P. station options
EveryMarch, The Kidney Foundation of Canada goes door to door, raising funds for
research, education, organ donation awareness and programs to assist those livingwith
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kidney disease.
is the base for the detachment that serves
The foundation is trying to recruit 16,000 volunteer canvassers who will visit
H AWKESBURY
Prescott County. The detachment had been
neighbourhoods across the province to raise awareness about kidney health and organ
based on Highway 34, midway between
donation and collect funds. If left undiagnosed or untreated, kidney disease can have
Hawkesbury and Vankleek Hill, before it
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devastating effects on individuals and their families. It may lead to a lifetime of dialysis
movedtoHawkesbury.Therelocationcame
station has returned to the agenda at
treatments or the agonizing wait for a life-saving transplant. In Ontario right now, nearly
after the O.P.P. absorbed the town’s force in
Hawkesbury town hall.
1,200 people are waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant. More than 10,000 people are
1999. The town and the O.P.P. currently
Discussions to replace the inadequate
undergoing dialysis treatments. You can help, right in your own neighbourhood. Visit
have a lease on the station. Signed in 2009,
facilities on Cartier Boulevard have
www.marchdrive.ca or call 1-800-387-4474, ext. 3667.
the deal is set to expire in five years.
resumedbetweentownofficialsandO.P.P.
senior staff. “All options are on the table,”
saysMayorRenéBerthiaume,whorecently
metO.P.P.representativesfromtheeastern
Ontario headquarters in Smiths Falls.
The options are constructing a new
station, possibly outside Hawkesbury, or
reburbishingtheexistingcrampedquarters.
“We know that the current building is
not as functional as it should be. The space
is very restrained,” observes Berthiaume.
“Moving the station outside of town is
one of the possibilities. There is also a
possibility of a partnership with the other
municipalities,” the mayor adds.
Located in a renovated section of the
former Memorial Centre arena, the station
Tax protests
in Grenville-
sur-la-Rouge
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G RENVILLE
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Taxpayers in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge
are being urged to emulate their
neighboursinBrownsburg-Chathamwho
have been putting in writing their
opposition to rising taxes.
A new citizens group, the “Committed
Citizens of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge/
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Regroupement des citoyens engagés de
GSLR,” has been formed to “mark your
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frustration and opposition toward the 70
percenttaxincreaseinlessthantwoyears.”
Citizens are being asked to write on
their tax payments the words, “ I object. ”
UP TO
According to the group, “ This is highly
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symbolic and has no legal bearing on the
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municipality or on you; it just shows your
dissatisfaction toward the decision of the
council. This mark of discontent is being
used by the Brownsburg/Chatham
residents, which resulted in some serious
thoughtsfromtheircouncil. Thecommittee
intends to send to the Municipal Affairs
and to our government representative a
letter, requesting a government
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investigation in the way the municipality
has been raising our taxes. Have you
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received a salary increase or a pension
increaseforthepasttwoyearsofmorethan
70%? Very doubtful! Citizens this is our
only way to get the Council’s attention.”
A group who had supported former
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mayor and former councillor Michel
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Brosseau who lost to John Saywell in the
recent mayoralty campaign has been
criticizing the council’s decision.
PLUS
“We are not against the council; we are
simplytiredoftheirlackofconcernstoward
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us, the taxpayers,” the statement reads.
This year, although the tax rate in the
municipalityisnotrising,becauseofhigher
property assessment, ratepayers will
actually pay 20 per cent more in taxes in
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2011.
In adopting the municipality’s new
budget, council kept the rate at 85 cents for
$100 of evaluation, however, total tax
revenues are expected to rise from
$3,158,180 to $3,816,382, or 20.8 per cent
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more than in 2010.
In a recent open letter, Robert D’Auzac
had complained, “These increases are
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ridiculous and are becoming pathetic.”
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