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Town staff is promising to once again put up a sign warning about e. Coli levels in the water after rain at the old Mill Street ‘swimming hole,’ “forthwith.” Grant Machan, the town’s environmental services director, made the promise to “get the sign up right away,” at Perth town council’s committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, June 7. In a presentation to council, Peggy Land, in requesting a warning sign near the green bridge in the middle of Stewart Park, had noted that the old warning sign put up near the old outdoor pool was not re-installed after the Mill Street “re-do” in 2015. See E.COLI page P7
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May they rest in pride. That was the message that Lanark County’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered) community, along with their supporters, shared for the 49 dead and 53 injured from the June 12 shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, as they gathered on Thursday, June 16, for a vigil at the violence against women monument in the Tay Basin area of downtown Perth. The massacre, the worst mass shooting in American history, took place in the wee hours of Sunday morning, just hours after the Perth Pride Parade had taken place on Saturday afternoon, and the last of the revels had ended with a party and performance by Gender Illusions at the Perth Royal Canadian Legion club. That Saturday afternoon, in a parade that went from The Stewart School to the Crystal Palace, the festivities went off “in a positive, peaceful manner,” said Erin Lee, executive director of Lanark County Interval House. “We celebrated pride.” During the afternoon party, Lee met a couple from Kingston, who said that “they had an amazing experience,” seeing a small town parade that “wasn’t full of corporate mayhem…it was full of community,” complete with drivers honking horns in solidarity, and thumbs up from passers-by. By the Sunday morning, the echoes of laughter turned to gasps of anguish and disbelief. “This evening, we gather to honour and remember,” Desmond Devoy/METROLAND said Lee. One of the parade’s co-ordinators, Karen Britton-Reid, Ruby Davidson and Ursual Rice-Leech comfort each other during the candle-lighting portion of the vigil for the victims of the mass shooting spoke for many in the crowd when she said,
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