January 10, 2019 Volume 33, No. 17
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2018 was a year of change and new faces By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star If 2018 could be summed up in one word it would be “change”. In the year that was, we saw the Progressive Conservatives come to power under their newly elected leader Doug Ford after spending the last 13 years in opposition. The Liberals, meanwhile, were reduced to third party status. Locally, Orléans MPP Marie France Lalonde was one of only six Liberal members who managed to hold to their seats, while fellow National Capital MPPs Bob Chiarelli and Yasir Naqvi were unable to hold onto theirs and the formerly Liberal held seat in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell was won by PC candidate Amanda Simard. Change was also the order of the day during the municipal election in October as seven rookies were elected to Ottawa city council, including Laura Dudas, who replaced Jody Mitic in Innes Ward, and Matt
A man walks across a large puddle in the parking lot of the Home Depot store on Innes Road. The temperature rose to 4°C on Sunday causing minor melting across the region. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
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Luloff who took over from outgoing city council veteran Bob Monette. The local business community also went through monumental change, or at least those which were members of the Orléans Chamber of Commerce did. Worried about being isolated by efforts to merge the West Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, Orléans Chamber members voted to join forces with the other two organizations in August. The year got off to a relatively uneventful start, but it didn’t take long for tragedy to strike when the news was released that former Ottawa-Orléans MPP Royal Galipeau had died after a lengthy battle with myeloma. He was 71. Five months later, one of Galipeau’s predecessors, Eugène Bellemare, passed away on July 6 at the age of 86. The Liberal MP served in the House of Commons from 1988 to 2014. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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