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Year 130, Issue 30
September 1, 2011 | 52 Pages
130th Year, Issue 35
READY TO RESCUE New firefighters were welcomed aboard in a recent ceremony. Meet the men you hope you never need to meet again.
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Kitchen’s closed High school cafeterias won’t open when classes start DEREK DUNN derek.dunn@metroland.com
CAPSIZED BOAT Members of Arnprior’s water rescue unit were busy Sunday morning pulling in an overturned boat and helping police in a high-speed water chase.
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BLAST FROM THE... They were delighted at the annual hospital awards gala to see an old friend return. Do you know this man?
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Two area high schools will be without food and beverage options for at least the first two weeks of September. The Ontario government’s new guidelines are making it difficult for vendors to see a profit, according to Renfrew County District School Board director of education Roger Clarke. The board is in negotiations to secure vendors for Arnprior District High School and Renfrew Collegiate Institute, but doubts cafeterias will be up and running until late September. “There’s not a lot of vendors out there,” Clarke said. “They are grappling with how to make a dollar.” The short timeline is also to blame; the government announced changes in January for this coming school year. The new guidelines mean healthy options in cafeterias and vending machines must replace high-markup items like French fries. To entice potential vendors the board might offer to replace, at its own expenses, deep fryers with Panini presses for example, Clarke explained. But he maintains the idea of healthier options is still a good one for cash-strapped school boards to make. “It’s not inexpensive. We’d need to purchase industrial grade or equivalent equipment,” he said. “It terms of providing healthy, nutritional foods for children – it encourages brain growth – you’d be hard pressed not to say it’s better.”
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It was a golden moment along John Street last Saturday morning when the OPP’s performing motorcyclists entertained the White Pine crowd. The Golden Helmets show was among the most anticipated events of the weekend, which eventually fizzled due to high winds.
Hurricane doesn’t dampen festival spirit SHERRY HAAIMA sherry.haaima@metroland.com
Despite having to wrap things up early on account of Hurricane Irene’s visit on Sunday, organizers of the Arnprior White Pine Festival are thrilled with how the second annual event played out. Mike Marcil, who co-organized the event with the help of Art Smith and Glenn Arthur, explained that Sunday’s cool weather and high winds forced them to close down the event early, before the much-anticipated dragonboat races started a second heat.
(Medals went to all who participated in only preliminary race.) That setback, however, couldn’t spoil the overall success of the event. “It was absolutely fabulous,” said Marcil. He agrees with Smith that likely more than 10,000 people were at the festival over the course of the weekend. “We at least doubled last year’s attendance,” said Marcil. “It was just a fabulous, fabulous turnout.” See ‘WHITE PINE’ page 38
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