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Community - The Backside Girls from the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital aim their hospital bed straight at the crowd during one of the bed races down Gore Street on Aug. 24. For more photos of the fundraiser for the hospital and Perth Museum, please see pages P4 and P5.
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News – OPP are on the hunt for the driver of a vehicle who hit a 25-year-old male just before 3 a.m. this past Saturday. The stretch of Gore Street West between D’Arcy and North Streets was closed off from early that morning until after 7 p.m. as police conducted their investigation. The investigation, according to eye witnesses, appeared to centre around 19 Gore St. W., with the sidewalk on that side of the street being cordoned off for many hours, and even the back staircase to the upstairs apartments covered in police tape. As of Monday morning, Aug. 25, a spot of blood was still
visible between a driveway and a parking meter on the road where police centred their investigation. The Lanark County OPP responded to a call of a pedestrian having been struck by a vehicle at 2:50 a.m. on Aug. 23. The victim was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is ongoing, under the direction of the OPP’s Acting Det. Insp. Dave Robinson, of the criminal investigation branch. Anyone with information is asked to contact Lanark County OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.
News – Should it come as any surprise that a town that boasts five independent book stores should be home to a disproportionate number of writers? Not really, and that reality was very much in evidence at the inaugural Pertharea writing contest awards, held at the Crystal Palace on Friday, Aug. 22. This was the very first event of the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival – Perth Chapter. For the past several years, the festival’s organizers had been “talking about getting out of the city and doing some rural outreach,” explained board member Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith in welcoming the award winners to the event. But the question then became where in eastern Ontario could such a spin-off event be successfully held? “Let’s do Perth first,” was the unanimous reply from the board. “Yeah, we can do it,” she said. “There is great writing going on here.” Everything just seemed to fit – including having local authors sell their wares at the Perth Farmers’ Market the next morning. “I love the idea of getting locallygrown produce and locally grown writing,” joked Smith. As for the awards themselves, “this is one of the first things
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