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Exploring D’Arcy McGee’s Perth connection. — Page P1
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EMC News – Long grass, weeds, and piles of brush or garbage aren’t emergency situations, but they can serve as a daily reminder to neighbours that someone isn’t maintaining his property. In approaching Perth town councillors to ask if they would support the drafting of a new bylaw to deal with complaints about yard maintenance, director of protective services Jim Connell said, “We want to make it clear that as a community we expect maintenance, and what level of maintenance we expect.” At a meeting of Committee of the Whole Oct. 4,
councillors voted to approve the drafting of a yard bylaw. “Every time we pass a bylaw we take away someone else’s rights and freedoms,” commented Councillor Jim Boldt, but added that he personally has mowed grass on the municipal road allowance in front of other people’s properties on his street because they refused to do it themselves. In his report to the committee, Connell said “the matter of who is responsible for maintaining the municipal road allowance from the paved portion to the property line has occasionally come to staff’s attention.” Some property owners decided not to maintain property all
the way to the curb or pavement edge, said Connell. Others have planted bushes or shrubs that encroached on sidewalks or cut down visibility along a roadway. “While some cases are resolved at the time, the matter often re-occurs year after year,” reported Connell. Connell suggested that in the case of issues affecting the road allowance adjacent to private property, the owners be given seven to 14 days to comply with town directives. Following council approval this month, town staff will research and draft a yard maintenance bylaw for council’s consideration in early 2012.
Torstar acquires Performance Printing EMC News – On Monday, Oct. 17, Performance Printing Ltd. announced that it has been acquired by Torstar Corporation’s subsidiary Metroland Media Group Ltd. Performance Printing is a commercial printer with operations in Smiths Falls, as well as a newspaper publisher and flyer distributor in several Eastern Ontario communities including Kingston, Belleville, Brockville, Smiths Falls and Ottawa. “The acquisition will al-
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EMC News – As the Perth and District Community Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary, board members can also celebrate a very busy and successful year, now drawing to a close. Thanks to the strong support of donors and community partners, the foundation distributed more than $22,000 in grants and scholarships in 2011. The foundation is now accepting applications for 2012 grants. Applications can be submitted either manually or online, said Foundation coordinator Elaine Turner. Board members and volunteers are now gearing up for the foundation’s second major fundraiser of the year, the Christmas Gala set for Friday, Nov. 25 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Turner noted the gala will be held in a new venue with a new caterer this year. The event will be held in the student common of the new Perth campus of Algonquin College, which can accommodate 250 guests, said Turner, noting that the gala attracted 200 people last year. The gala will be catered by the Stone Cellar. The main sponsors for the event are Allan Chartered Accountants and McIntosh Perry Engineering. Turner noted that Barb McGinnis, the president of the Ottawa Community Foundation, will be attending the
EMC News – A Canadian veteran of the American Civil War who was buried in an unmarked grave for the past 87 years is getting some overdue recognition this week. On Tuesday, a grave marker paid for by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs was installed in the Hopetown Cemetery, near Lanark, at the final resting place of Evander William Francis McRae, who died Nov. 29, 1924. Following an application process initiated about a year ago by great granddaughter Linda Middleton, the grave marker was unveiled Tuesday, Oct. 18. McRae, a native of New Brunswick, enlisted in the Eighth New York Cavalry in 1863, and served until he was honourably discharged at the end of the war in 1865. He lived in the Lanark area for the rest of his life. For the full story, see next week’s EMC.
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