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Vol. 26, Issue 39, June 16, 2022
Make Chapleau Look Pretty Again
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ast year, the Rotary Club of Chapleau sponsored the Chapleau Beautification contest and it proved to be pretty popular. The names of ten lucky participants were selected in a draw and won $100 gift certificates at local businesses. Because of the positive feedback that we received, the Rotary Club of Chapleau is sponsoring the 2022 Chapleau Beautification contest. There are a few changes to this year's contest. To improve the project this year, we are limiting the contest entries to front yards because if the beautification of Chapleau is the goal, beautification needs to be front facing. We will also ask participants to submit a before and after picture of their beautification project. Please note that regular yard maintenance such as raking a yard or mowing a lawn will not be considered as a beautification project. Think “curb appeal”. Rotarians reserve the right to disqualify entries if
they don't meet criteria. Tuija Berthelot's submission from last year Another important change involves the duration of the contest. The Rotary Club of Chapleau will accept entries until August 31, and then Rotarians will draw ten names from all entries. These ten winners will receive a $100 gift certificate to one of our local businesses. This gives residents of Chapleau the opportunity to plan and undertake work and make their homes and AFTER yards beautiful. Participants may BEFORE submit their before and after storefronts and businesses for pictures on the Chapleau Rotary Canada Day and the 100th anniversary of Facebook page. Chapleau High School. Submit a before and after Lastly, we are encouraging local picture and your business will be recognized with businesses to participate in our Chapleau a certificate from the Rotary Club of Chapleau. Beautification contest and dress up their to attract votes and support for this or that candidate. Nothing wrong with promises as long as they are realistic and kept. On the one hand, this Santa-like period encourages voters to ask questions and dream what could be. On the other hand, the flood of promises should be tempered by a touch of reality. I hope nobody believes in money trees. Every candidate should be interested in good government and, so, should be familiar with how a municipality functions financially and pays it's bills. One of Council's main responsibilities is financial planning and spending which is
Notes From A Mayor – 6 REASONABLE PROMISES AND MEANINGFUL BUDGETS The opinions expressed are those of the Mayor and no other Councillor. Election campaigns – a Long Term time of much talk, signForecast strewn lawns and Thursday numerous promises – High 22 some sensible, some Low 12 practical, some Friday economically foolish High 18 Low 7 and some simply outlandish, all designed Saturday High Low
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finalized through budgets. Candidates should be familiar with the three basic budgets of every municipality. The OPERATING BUDGET deals with expenses similar to a household's; the day to day expenses repeated monthly. Operating budgets are consumed by such regular expenses as salaries, heat, hydro, equipment repair and maintenance, and social services. Annual costs are projected each year by determining annual spending patterns and accounting for yearly inflation rates. Basic provincial grants and property taxes cover these expenses. What about the big ticket items – you know the ones everyone notices as progress, paved road, new buildings, etc? Well, those are Cont’d on P.2
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CHAPLEAU EXPRESS, June 16, 2022- Page 2 paved and others are not. The choices made are based on data and not preference. Once priorities for the year are determined the municipality, through the staff, will apply for government funding which is available through any number of infrastructure grants. A point to remember is the fact that all municipalities have prioritized needs and that over 400 municipalities will apply for any available funds. The last budget any candidate should be aware of is THE RESERVE BUDGET, the monies set aside for expected emergencies. It is our rainy day fund, our assurance that any emergency costs can be covered without indebting the town or ratepayers. This article is only an outline. Future articles will detail each category to give you
Notes From A Mayor – 6 REASONABLE PROMISES AND MEANINGFUL BUDGETS Cont’d from P.1 covered by the CAPITAL BUDGET. Items in the Capital Budget are selected through the municipality's Asset Management Listing. Simply explained Capital items are prioritized according to a standard which takes into account the item's age, usage, durability and other considerations which affect the item's effectiveness and longevity. This criteria explains why some roads, for example, are newly
OBITUARY Lise “Millie” Dionne
AVIS DE DÉCÈS Lise "Millie “Dionne
Peacefully passed away at the Chapleau Health C e n t r e o n Tu e s d a y December 6, 2021 at the age of 88 years. Beloved wife of Sarto Dionne for 62 years. Loving and doting mother of France Dionne (late Gerry Milhomme) and Andre. Cherished daughter of the late Marie-Louise and Napoleon Gosselin. Dear sister of the late Adrienne, late Lucille (late Maurice), late Therese (late Wilfrid), late Émilien, late Marguerite (late Camille), late Madeleine (late Lionel), late JeanRoch (late Corinne), late Bertrand (Gertrude), Marthe (late Raymond), late Guy (late Jeaninne), Monique (late Gaby) and Fernand (Rosa). Millie will be remembered by her many nieces and nephews. Family and friends may visit at Sacred Heart Church on Saturday June 18, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. until time of the Memorial Mass at 11:00 a.m. with Reverend Herve Sauve officiating. Memorial donations made to the Chapleau Health Center Foundation would be greatly appreciated by the family. (Arrangements entrusted to the Kerry Funeral Home, Wawa, 1800-439-4937). www.kerryfuneralhome.ca
Décédée paisiblement au Centre de santé de Chapleau le mardi 6 décembre 2021 à l'âge de 88 ans. Épouse bienaimée de Sarto Dionne pendant 62 ans. Mère aimante et adorée de France Dionne (feu Gerry Milhomme) et André. Prédécédée par ses parents MarieLouise et Napoléon Gosselin ainsi que ses frères et sœurs Adrienne, Lucille (Maurice), Thérèse (Wilfrid), Émilien, Marguerite (Camille), Madeleine (Lionel), Jean-Roch (Corinne), Bertrand (Gertrude), Guy (Jeaninne); elle laisse dans le deuil ses soeurs Marthe (feu Raymond) et Monique (feu Gaby) et ainsi que son frère Fernand (Rosa). Ses nombreux neveux et nièces se souviendront de Millie. Parents et les amis sont invités à venir visiter à l'église SacréCœur dès 10h samedi 18 juin 2022 jusqu'au moment du service à 11h, présidé par l'abbé Hervé Sauvé. Des dons commémoratifs faits à la Fondation du Centre de santé de Chapleau seraient grandement appréciés par la famille. (Les arrangements ont été confiés au Kerry Funeral Home, Wawa, 1-800439-4937). www.kerryfuneralhome.ca
a much clearer picture of these financial concerns.
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Chapleau Moments by
Michael J. Morris George Evans has left the classroom but he will long be remembered for his contribution to Chapleau as a teacher and vice principal at Chapleau High School, and the activities in the wider community to which he devoted himself. As the news spread on March 28, 2012 that George had been killed in a motor vehicle accident on Highway 129, many kind words have been said about him, and rightly so. My first thought was to write about George based on how I came to know him during my years at Chapleau High School and as a member of the township council for four years while I was reeve, and as my friend. The 90th anniversary of CHS was celebrated in 2012. However, I decided to share some of George's own words that he used in an article he wrote entitled "Why Live in Chapleau" and another for the souvenir newspaper marking the 75th anniversary of Chapleau High School, called "Chapleau's high school, 1922-1997". To me, at least, they contain messages for all of us who call Chapleau home whether we still live there or not, George L Evans and his words about the 75th anniversary are as appropriate for the 90th as they were 15 years ago when George returned home for the celebration and for the 100th anniversary this year. Retiring in 1989, George was not a fulltime resident for some years but then returned. To
The old CHS by the river
"When Chapleau's high school celebrates, the whole community celebrates. CHS is where community comes together": George Evans me, they are also appropriate now even though I all over the world... have been gone from Chapleau and its high "There will school since 1989. be much reaching It always has seemed to me that from the out to strangers day he arrived in 1961 to start teaching at the old who were once CHS, home for George was Chapleau. The best friends. Some lies will be told. present CHS opened in 1966. First, here are some excerpts from 'Why Some comfortable truths will emerge. Live in Chapleau'. "On a spring day, there is a view from the Each of us, after overpass that takes the breath away. The eye a l l , a f o r m e r looks eastwards and follows the teenager with Kebsquasheshing River past the town, into the much we would green wilderness of the Canadian Shield. You like to forget and know that the water in this river will flow into m u c h s t i l l t o James Bay. This river was once, in the days of the learn.., George with Michael Cecile "What will at CHS graduation 'gentlemen and traders' of the Hudson's Bay Company, the only way in and out of this place. It d r a w u s t o Chapleau is not a has always been a distant, challenging place... "Over a century ago, the railroad that lies building with classrooms. The great magnet beneath the overpass was built to stitch together pulling us home is the hope of seeing the people sparsely populated pockets of North America that who, at a pivotal time in our lives. made up our had, for one reason or another, escaped the small intense world. In our lucid moments. we “Manifest Destiny” of the ambitious Republic to will be aware that we are paying homage to the the south. At the place where river and railway fate that placed us in Chapleau so that we could intersect, people settled and the place got a name: be part of that world... "When Chapleau's high school celeChapleau... "But, seriously, why live in Chapleau? brates, the whole community celebrates. The Let's return to the view from the overpass. To its high school is the place where the community permanent residents and to visitors, a major comes together. "It is the possession of everyone, regardattraction of Chapleau is its immediate access to the pre-Cambrian wilderness of boulders, lakes, less of mother tongue, religion or ethnic origin. It forests, and a huge Game Reserve. Even in the is, in its best moments, the expression of town the call of the loon is heard and occasionally Chapleau at its best. This is the truth that sets an unwelcome black bear ambles through Chapleau's high school apart from all the others." A memorial service for George was held backyards. Summer smog-alerts are not announced in these parts: the air is always at Trinity United Church, Chapleau, breathable. Even in deepest winter, skis, snowThank you George for being the person shoes, and, most recently, snow-mobiles, make you were, and may you rest in peace, or as you the wilderness a handy playground.... may have said, "Requiescat In Pace". My email is "More than the natural beauty that laps at mikejmorris41@outlook.com its edges, Chapleau's underlying sense of community attracts and holds the affection of its citizens... the town is still a town of very selfreliant people who care about each other... "It is good to live on the solid granite base of the Canadian Shield among the lakes and forests and it is the people of Chapleau who make it so.George wrote in part which also applies to the 100th anniversary too. "Over the years, this unique school has changed its location, its colours and its name. It has been there for generations of students and teachers passing through on their way to destinies George on left as councillor at 75th Chapleau anniversary
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CENTRE CULTUREL LOUIS-HÉMON Pour la première fois à Chapleau un drapeau est hissé pour représenter la fierté. Cette année et pour les années à suivre pour le mois de juin, le Centre culturel Louis-Hémon aura le drapeau de la Franco-Fierté sur son mat au Centre (69 rue Birch). Il est important pour nous de montrer que nous supportons la communauté LGBTQ2S+ dans toute sa diversité, que ce soit un membre de notre communauté, un collègue, un membre de notre famille, un artiste, etc. Sachez que nous sommes fieres et avec vous.
FormationPLUS Les personnes apprenantes de FormationPLUS, ont mis en exposition leurs œuvres d'art au Centre culturel LouisHémon/ FormationPLUS. Ces œuvres ont été faites pendant des cours offerts à FormationPLUS durant l'année. Quoique nous fermons pour
les mois d'été, plusieurs cours seront offerts à l'automne 2022. Rester à l'affût de nos cours offerts sur notre page Facebook au mois de septembre. Pour l'instant, voici quelques photos des chefs-d'œuvre de nos apprenants.
CHAPLEAU EXPRESS, June 16, 2022- Page 5 alors que d'autres sont la réparation et l'entretien de l'équipement, ainsi t o u t s i m p l e m e n t que les services sociaux. Chaque année, on calcule farfelues. Cependant, les coûts annuels en se fondant sur les habitudes de toutes sont faites dans dépenses et en tenant compte du taux d'inflation PROMESSES RAISONNABLES le but d'attirer des votes annuel. Des subventions provinciales de base et les ET BUDGETS SENSÉS et de gagner de l'appui taxes foncières servent à couvrir ces dépenses. pour tel candidat ou Qu'en est-il des dépenses majeures? Vous savez, Les opinions exprimées ici sont celles du maire et celles qu'il est possible de constater et qui sont en aucun cas celles de l'un·e ou l'autre membre du telle candidate. Il n'y a rien de mal à faire des promesses, signes de progrès, comme le pavage des routes, la Conseil. Les campagnes électorales. Voilà une tant et aussi longtemps qu'elles sont réalistes et construction de nouveaux édifices, etc. Eh bien, ces période pendant laquelle on parle beaucoup, on qu'on peut les tenir. D'un côté, en cette période qui dépenses sont absorbées par le BU DGET plante des affiches dans les gazons et l'on fait de rappelle Noël, on encourage l'électorat à se poser D'IMMOBILISATIONS. Les postes du budget nombreuses promesses. Certaines de ces des questions et à rêver à ce que pourrait être la d'immobilisations sont choisis parmi la liste de la promesses certaines sont judicieuses et pratiques, réalité. D'un autre côté, il faudrait modérer ce flot gestion des actifs de la municipalité. Bref, les de promesses par un brin de réalité. dépenses liées aux immobilisations se font en J'espère bien que personne ne croit considérant l'âge, l'utilisation, la durée de vie d'un que l'argent pousse dans les arbres. article et d'autres critères qui ont un effet sur son Chaque personne qui pose sa efficacité et sa longévité. Ceci explique, par candidature doit s'intéresser au exemple, pourquoi certaines routes sont bon gouvernement et, ainsi, se nouvellement asphaltées et d'autres ne le sont pas. f a m i l i a r i s e r a v e c l e Les décisions se prennent en se fondant sur des fonctionnement financier d'une données et non d'après les préférences. Une fois établies les priorités de l'année, la municipalité et avec la façon dont municipalité, grâce à son personnel, présente au celle-ci paie ses factures. Parmi les principales gouvernement des demandes d'aide financière. responsabilités du Conseil se Cette aide est offerte par l'entremise d'un certain trouvent la planification et les nombre de subventions d'infrastructure. Il ne faut dépenses financières, lesquelles pas oublier que toutes les municipalités ont des s'effectuent au moyen des budgets. b e s o i n s p r i o r i t a i r e s e t q u e p l u s d e 4 0 0 L e s p e r s o n n e s c a n d i d a t e s municipalités présenteront des demandes pour les devraient se familiariser avec les fonds disponibles. Le dernier budget que tout candidat doit trois budgets de base de chaque connaître, c'est le BUDGET DE RÉSERVE. Il municipalité. L e B U D G E T D E s'agit des fonds mis de côté pour parer aux FONCTIONNEMENT sert à urgences. C'est un fonds pour les jours difficiles. Il payer les dépenses semblables à fournit l'assurance de pouvoir couvrir les coûts celles d'un ménage, les dépenses d'urgence sans endetter la ville ou les contribuables. Cet article ne donne qu'un aperçu des quotidiennes qui reviennent chaque mois. Le budget de budgets. Dans d'autres articles, je fournirai plus de fonctionnement est consacré à des détails sur chaque catégorie afin de vous donner dépenses courantes, comme les une idée plus précise de ces aspects financiers. salaires, le chauffage, l'électricité,
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Chapleau Residents Charged With Multiple Offences On June 2, 2022 at approximately 7:45 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were notified of vandalism to the Valu-Mart garden centre, located on Beech Street in Chapleau. Investigation revealed that two individuals were responsible for the vandalism. On June 6, 2022, a 17-year-old youth, from Chapleau, was arrested and charged with the following: · Failure to comply with release order, contrary to section 145(5)(a) of the Criminal Code (CC), · Theft Under $5000, contrary to section 334(b) of the CC, · Break , Enter a place - commit indictable offence, contrary to section 348(1)(b) of the CC, · Mischief - renders property dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective, contrary to section 430(1)(b) of the CC, and · Mischief - destroys or damages property, contrary to section 430(1)(a) of the CC. The youth accused was remanded into custody, pending a bail hearing.
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It's Time to Get Real about Canada's Toxic Drug Supply REPORT to the Public Health Agency of based Approach to Substance Use Act. C-216 from OTTAWA Canada'sAccording data, at least 5,368 Canadians died from would have taken a similar approach, but applied "apparent opioid toxicity death”, their term for a the same standard nationally, and did quite a bit Rapport death where opioids played a central role, m o r e . I t w o u l d h a v e a l l o w e d r e c o r d d’Ottawa between January and September 2021, the most expungement for past convictions for possession, by/par
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The opioid crisis is reaching a tipping point in Canada. It's a problem that is ripping through major metropolitan centres and rural towns in equal measure but has unfortunately largely taken a back seat to another dominant health challenge of our time, the Covid-19 pandemic. The legacy of opioids will be more enduring, and the challenges ahead of the crisis have fewer clear answers, but it's a problem that we must tackle head-on. With an increasingly toxic, unregulated supply of street drugs, it has become almost impossible to ascertain the safety of any processed drug in circulation. The pandemic has only amplified those barriers to effective treatment and harm reduction, and physical distancing has exacerbated the problem further with people taking drugs in isolation and dying as a result.
recent data available. Broken down, this is almost 20 opioid-related deaths per day in Canada. In Ontario, the Chief Coroner has indicated that 2,819 people died due to opioids in 2021. Particularly concerning is where these deaths are happening. The six public health units that reported the highest per capita opioid-related deaths were all in Northern Ontario. So, while this is a national emergency, it's hitting northern cities and rural communities particularly hard. At this point, most of us know someone affected, either directly or indirectly, by this crisis. With what we know about the crisis, it's clear that current measures to address addiction, treatment, and the toxicity of the supply have been futile. Criminalizing addicts for minor possession of controlled substances has proven to be an ineffective means to reduce harm and has arguably had the opposite effect by driving users underground. People who use street drugs, whether it's due to dependency or it's their first time, or whatever their reason may be, have no idea what's in the supply they purchase. Dealers are often cutting their supply with fentanyl, carfentanyl, benzodiazepines, and other substances, so people thinking they're buying one drug are getting elements of another far more potent and dangerous drug. What we need to do is stop forcing users underground by criminalizing them, embrace harm reduction, and provide users with counselling and addiction support if they choose. A health-based approach would do far more to reduce overdoses. The government recently made an extraordinary decision, at the request of the BC government and the mayor of Vancouver, to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of opioids, cocaine, MDMA, and methamphetamines, up to 2.5 cumulative grams. Dealers and traffickers will still be subject to criminal law. A similar request was put forward by the mayor of Toronto, but no decision has been made on that case yet. Importantly, the timing of the move came 1 day before a vote on Bill C-216, a Health-
required the Minister of Health to develop a national strategy to address the harm caused by problematic substance use, and provided access to safer supply, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services. The majority of Liberal MPs joined with the Conservatives to vote down this legislation, which makes little sense. Why would an approach to reduce harm in a major city that has been gripped with opioid addiction work there, but not on a national level? It's particularly troubling when people in rural and northern communities need services to reduce instances of tainted drugs, and health services to treat addiction, but can't get access. At this point, these are not radical ideas. These steps were supported by the government's own task force on substance use. It was also supported by a number of law enforcement organizations, including the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CAPC). The CAPC has noted that arresting people for simple possession does not save lives and have recommended taking a health-based approach rather than an enforcement-based approach. This approach is also not a silver bullet. It will not fix the problem overnight. Fentanyl and other powerful yet cheap drugs will remain an issue in the supply, but at least users would feel more comfortable testing for these substances. Supervised sites would allow users to do so safely. And when they are ready, people with dependencies will be able to seek treatment. Continuing the same approach we've been seeing for decades has not resulted in a reduction of overdoses, they have only climbed. It's time we take a different approach.
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