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“That could be difficult because there are just so many car shows now being held throughout the summer across the region.”

“I know from the phone calls I’ve had there’s going to be a lot of cars.”

He added there will be 11 paid vendors on one street during the car show. He added the Ag. Society would be hold- ing a flea market at the Agricultural Grounds on June 4.

Gray said everything is ready to go.

In addition to the show itself, there will be a pancake breakfast from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. hosted by the Chipman Golden Seniors, a concession from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. hosted by the Friends of Lamont Firefighters Society in front of the Chipman Firehall; and a Perogy dinner from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the National Hall.

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BY JANA SEMENIUK

The Village of Andrew council members passed a motion at their May 24 council meeting to adjust the utility rates for both residential and commercial users.

While most rates increased for users, some decreased.

Chief Administrative Officer Tim Melnyk explained that the rates have not been changed since at least 2019, despite increased costs, which have inadvertently been covered by the Village.

“(For example), GFL does our recycling and we were charging a little over four dollars for recycling, but the cost (to us) was over $7,” he said. “Nobody changed anything, and (we wondered) why we're losing money each and every month.”

Melnyk said a flat rate is a minimum charge incurred whether you use the service or not, such as in the case of electricity and gas, but he said flat rates have not been consistently charged or collected in the community.

“You're supposed to be charged a flat rate, whether you're down in Florida or wherever it is, (you’re) supposed to be charged a flat rate, no matter what,” he said.

“I know of many buildings that are not paying a flat rate at all, they're not paying anything. They're not paying a sewer flat rate and they're not paying a flat rate for the water to be to the property line.”

Melnyk also said some businesses were being charged inconsistent rates varying from $8 to $32 for the sewer reserve charge, in addition to a range of $13 to $49 for a sewer flat rate.

“(For garbage collection) we found one commercial user that was being charged $88 when the rate was $45.79,” he said, adding he could find no reason why the user’s rates should be so different. “All of the commercial (users) that are paying commercial garbage, every one of those rates were different. It ranged from $88 all the way down to (just over) $45.”

The steepest increase came to those using county resident garbage pick up which went from $19 to $50 which Melnyk attributes to county residents being charged a residential rate for garbage collection instead of the commercial rate.

“It says in the papers that they signed when they came in, that their cost would be the same as a commercial rate,” he said.

In terms of water charges, Melnyk said the rate should have gone up months ago.

“As of January of 2023, our water costs went up $2.40 a cube to $6.40. We're already just about (in) June. Figure out 100 cubes a day, times this many days and how much that money is that the (village) has paid for everybody to have water at a rate of $4 where it should have been $6.40?” he said.

Melnyk said the village still has approximately $15,000 in uncollected past water bills.