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Vol. 10 No. 36 THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014
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Local leaders seek project grant money DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard
The Lloydstown Guard perform a military re-enactment circa 1847 for the crowd at the 43rd annual Heritage Days celebration, held on Saturday, Aug. 23 and Sunday, Aug. 24 at the Uxbridge Historical Centre. DARRYL KNIGHT The Standard
Weekend crash claims two lives on Hwy. 12 SCUGOG: A police investigation is ongoing after a head-on collision on Sunday afternoon claimed the lives of two women just north of Greenbank. According to the OPP, at about 4:35 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24, a southbound Chevrolet Malibu on Hwy. 7/12 veered into the northbound lane for unknown reasons, eventually crashing a Honda Civic travelling north-
bound just south of Scugog Line 12. Police added that Whitby resident Betty Maxwell, the 84-year-old driver of the Malibu, was declared dead at the scene, while the 71-year-old driver of the Civic, Gail Greenwood, of Kitchener, was declared dead after being transported to hospital. There were no passengers in either vehicle involved in the collision.
NORTH DURHAM: Local municipal leaders are optimistic that recent funding announcements from the federal and provincial governments will enable long-awaited infrastructure projects to move forward. Last month, Durham MP Erin O’Toole and Peter Braid, the MP for Kitchener—Waterloo and Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Communities held a roundtable in Scugog where they invited municipal leaders from Brock, Clarington, Scugog and Uxbridge Townships to discuss infrastructure funding being made available by the federal government. “I wanted to bring one of our lead people to talk about infrastructure and explain how local communities can put forth their projects. We need to make sure that there’s something in place for our smaller communities,” MP O’Toole told The Standard. “This gave everyone a chance to talk about local priorities and how to best advance them.” According to Mr. O’Toole, there are a pair of funds which may be able to assist local projects, the Small Communities Fund, which will provide an eventual $50 billion funding envelope over the next decadeplus and the New Building Canada Plan, which will provide $1 billion to smaller communities. In addition to money being made available for infrastructure at the federal level, last week Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the province will be boosting funding for projects in small, rural and northern municipalities by $100 million a year through the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund. Over the course of the day of the roundtable, some of the discussion centred around Uxbridge’s multi-million dollar downtown flood alleviation project, which involves plans to upgrade the culvert that carries the Uxbridge Brook under Brock St., flowing north to the water treatment plant on Main St. North. T U R N TO PAG E 7
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