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communautaire community link Le lien The Organisé par l’Association des Nor- mand d’Amérique la fin de semaine du 22 septembre prochain à Casselman, soit à la Ferme Drouin et au Club de golf Casselview, ainsi qu’à Ottawa et Gatineau. RSVP : Suzanne Normand, 613-764-5493. Souper fèves au lard et macaroni Organisé par les Chevaliers de Co- lomb d’Embrun, le vendredi 12 mai à 17h. Repas servi par Traiteur Viau. Spé- cial pour les enfants de 10 ans et moins accompagnés d’un adulte. Information : Donald Benoît au 613-443-6301. Organisé par le Club de Danse de Casselman, le 13 mai à 18h, suivi de la danse à 19h, au Centre J.R. Brisson à Casselman. Thème de l’évènement : Voyages - Vacances. Musique avec Gisèle et Dave. RSVP : Gisèle au 613- 764-5559 ou Guylaine au 613-764-5218. Casselman, Embrun, Russell Les Services communautaires de Prescott et Russell sont à la recherche de bénévoles pour faire du transport et la livraison de popote roulante pour les gens de 55 ans et plus. Information : Gisèle Séguin au 613-764-5559. History of horticulture presentation Organized by the Russell & District Horticultural Society onMonday, May 15, 2017, at 7pm, upstairs at the Rus- sell Legion. RichardHinchcliff from the Friends of the Farm will be presenting the history of horticulture at the Ottawa Central Experimental Farm Club Joie de Vivre 50+ d’Embrun Invite les membres à sa soirée d’élec- tion et à son souper mensuel, le 17mai à 17h30, à la salle des Chevaliers de Colomb à Embrun, afin de souligner la fête des Mères et des Pères, en plus d’élire le conseil d’administration 2017- 2018. RSVP avant le 14 mai : Danielle Servais au 613-443-2867 ou Huguette Blanchard au 613-443-2862. Annual Plant Sale Organized by the Russell & District Horticultural Society on Saturday, May 20, 2017, in McDougall Park, Russell, from8am to noon - or sooner- until ve- getable, flower plants as well as bushes and trees are gone. Bingo des Amies pour la Vie Collecte de fonds organisée pour le cancer du sein, le 20 juin à 19h, au Centre récréatif d’Embrun. Information ou billets : Nicole Gosselin-Séguin au 613-443-0020 ou Diane Bourdeau au 613-443-2991. Souper danse de la fête des Mères et des Pères Rassemblement des familles Normand/Norman
Clearing ambulance bill is just a start says counties
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
If the City of Ottawa would hurry up and pay up on its overdue share of the am- bulance service bill between it and the United Counties, that would be nice as far as themayors of the region are concerned. But it would just be the start of fixing the situation. “Whether or not we get financial com- pensation, that does not fix the problem,” said Stéphane Parisien, chief administrator for the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR), during the council’s April 26 ses- sion. Parisien’s comment was part of his re- sponse to a question from Mayor Robert Kirby of East Hawkesbury Township, about whether the provincial government has re- sponded to the UCPR’s demand for help getting the City of Ottawa to pay up its over- due debt for the use of Prescott-Russell am- bulance units and paramedics, to deal with Ottawa emergency calls. Kirby’s question followed a review of a letter the counties council received from theMinistry of Health and Long-TermCare concerning its investigation of a situation, August 6 of last year, when all of Prescott- Russell’s ambulance crews were dealing with Ottawa calls, resulting in very long days for residents in the two counties who needed ambulance service. The provincial investigation found that part of the problem was a result of the City of Ottawa’s own policies for its own ambu- lance crews dealing with shift changes, and also the turnaround time between bringing a patient by ambulance to a hospital, clean-
Les Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell reconnaissent que le problème du partage d’ambulances avec la Ville d’Ottawa ne n’est pas uniquement attribuable au fait qu’Ottawa ne paie pas sa part de la facture. Une révision complète du système est nécessaire pour empêcher une répétition de la situation de « zéro unité » plus tôt cette année, alors que toutes les ambulances et les ambulanciers de Prescott-Russell étaient à Ottawa, pour répondre à des appels d’urgence.
ing and restocking the unit, and then telling dispatch that the unit was available again for calls. Ottawa has been told tomake changes to its shift policy to help deal with the situa- tion and the ministry has now declared the investigation closed. Meanwhile theministry is also “conduct- ing an analysis,” according to Parisien, on a detailed financial brief the UCPR sent con- cerning Ottawa’s delinquent ambulance service debt. The UCPR council has since approved a six-point protocol from admin- istration for lobbying both the province and Ottawa to discharge the debt, including filing formal complaints to both the Ontario Om-
Toxic cargo safety The United Counties of Prescott-Russell sup- ported a resolution from Kingston city council, calling on the provincial government to put into effect new safety measures dealing with trans- port of hazardous materials on public roads.The resolution, which is going out to all municipalities in Ontario for additional support, recommends that the province forbid transportation of hazard- ous materials during periods of severe weather. The Kingston resolution resulted from a recent incident, east of that city, when a March blizzard was credited as the cause for a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 401, which also involved a tanker truck with a cargo of fluorsilicic acid, which spilled out. The highway was closed for the day and a Code Orange situation declared at Kingston General Hospital, as staff there dealt with accident victims affected by the toxic spill. – Gregg Chamberlain Michel Chrétien, UCPR emergency ser- vices director, also noted that when the prov- ince made the changes to the ambulance service policy, the City of Ottawa manage- ment had the foresight to take advantage of the new “seamlessness” definition. It started concentrating its existing staff on the call volume for the city’s core area and left the outlying rural and small urban areas for the neighbouring ambulance services in UCPR, Lanark and other counties to handle through shared dispatch. budsman and the auditor-general if nothing succeeds in getting satisfaction. But Parisien noted that even if the debt gets paid some day, the problem between the City of Ottawa and all of its county neigh- bours, including the UCPR, will continue because of the changes that Queen’s Park made several years ago to the provincial am- bulance policy regulations, without consult- ing themunicipal and regional governments. “We’re handlingmore (ambulance) calls than we ever did before,” Parisien said, add- ing that the big problem is the province’s definition of “seamlessness” for dispatch services deciding how to assign calls, be- cause it makes the chances equal of either an Ottawa unit or a UCPR unit getting an Ottawa call.
No unwanted windmills The United Counties of Prescott-Russell support alternative energy projects but does not agree with having any forced on communities that do not want them. Counties council gave its support, during the April 26 session, to a resolution from the Municipality of Dutton Dunwich, which is lobbying in favour of a Private Member’s Bill from MPP Sam Oosterhoff, of Niagara-West Glanbrook. The MPP’s proposed bill, if it were passed in the provincial legislature, would have the provincial government put a stop to approvals for any wind farm proposals in municipalities which do not want them. – Gregg Chamberlain
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