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La FedDev remet des chèques aux municipalités
d’amélioration de l’infrastructure commu- nautaire. Selon le député, cet investissement fédéral permettrait d’améliorer la vie des résidents et les services locaux, mais devrait également appuyer la création d’emplois, la croissance et la prospérité à long terme de chacune des régions choisies. Il s’agit de Russell, Casselman, La Nation, Hawkesbury Est, Clarence-Rockland, Glengarry Nord et Alfred Plantagenet.
ANNIE LAFORTUNE annie.lafortune@eap.on.ca
CASSELMAN | Le député fédéral de Glen- garry-Prescott-Russell, Pierre Lemieux, était de passage à Casselman le vendredi 8 février dernier afin de remettre une par- tie d’un chèque totalisant 475 000 $ à dif- férentes municipalités de l’Est ontarien. Cette distribution d’argent, faite au nom de Gary Goodyear, ministre d’État pour l’Agence fédérale de développement économique pour le sud de l’Ontario, FedDev, a pour but d’améliorer plusieurs installations importantes dans différentes circonscriptions dans le cadre du Fonds
Dans la région, le financement aidera à la remise en état des salles de toilettes accessibles au Centre Urgel Forget à Embrun. Le fonds contribuera aussi aux travaux d’amélioration du Complexe sportif J.R. Brisson grâce à 165 000 $ de fonds fédéraux. » Russell student stable after snowmobile crash
Dans la photo, de gauche à droite, le maire de Clarence-Rockland, Marcel Guibord; le maire adjoint de Glengarry Nord, Jamie McDonald; le maire de Casselman, Claude Levac; le maire de Hawkesbury et préfet des Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell, René Berthiaume; le député de Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Pierre Lemieux; le maire d’Alfred Plantagenet, Jean-Yves Lalonde; le maire de Russell, Jean-Paul St-Pierre; le maire de Hawkesbury Est, Robert Kirby, et le maire de La Nation, François St-Amour.
Jeffrey Casselman, 45, of Winchester, allegedly swerved and hit him, throwing him about 20 metres. Casselman fled the scene, but was arrested a short time later. He
breach of probation and obstructing police. Smith had multiple serious injuries to his head, torso and legs. His mother praised the emergency responders who were there in four minutes. They stabilized him, loaded him into the ambulance and with a police escort to clear Bank Street transported him to CHEO. Smith is recovering and the full long- term extent of his injuries is not known, but he needed three surgeries at the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus to reconstruct his leg, has a small brain bleed which is being monitored, a severe concussion, and back
and neck injuries. His first words on waking up were, “Where’s my cell phone? ” His mother said she understands the accused ditched his car and went to a door asking someone to call a tow truck. “That person phoned the police. I don’t know who he is but I would really like to thank him.” Smith’s father passed away seven years ago in a motor vehicule accident. Investigators are asking any witnesses to contact the Ottawa Police Service Collision Investigation Section at 613-236-1222, ext. 2481 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS) or toll free at 1-800-222-8477.
CANDICE VETTER CANDICE.VETTER@EAP.ON.CA
METCALFE l A 16-year-old Russell High School student, Derek Smith, is recovering and in stable condition at CHEO after he was struck in an alleged hit-and-run in Metcalfe on Saturday, February 9. Smith was snowmobiling along 8th Line Road near Glenwood Drive about 10 p.m. that night. His mother, Terri Smith, reports that he had just gotten off the sled to adjust it to get back on the trail. That is when
Derek Smith
has been charged with impaired driving, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing bodily harm, failure to remain at the scene of an accident,
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