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Year 130, Issue 30
August 4, 2011 | 40 Pages
131st Year, Issue 31
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Railway tracks to be pulled up this month STEVE NEWMAN
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FACELIFT The Burnstown Beach has whole new look, complete with a new play structure and canteen. Officials gathered recently to celebrate the improvements. 7
DANCING QUEENS Members of the Arnprior School of Dance had a tremendous showing at their first-ever Shine National Championships at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville. ASD took home 27 awards from the competition. 5
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It’s the end of an era. Railway travel has been part of Arnprior and surrounding communities since 1872, but that chapter ends this year. Ed Greenberg, a Calgary-based spokesman with Canadian Pacific Rail, says the process to salvage its railway ties, rails and related equipment will start this month, perhaps as early as this week. He wouldn’t disclose the name of the companies that are responsible for overseeing the salvage process, but workers accompanying salvage rail cars through Arnprior and Renfrew Tuesday indicated the salvage company is from Kansas. When resident Wayne Nute heard the train whistle about 3 p.m. Tuesday, he dashed out of his house and drove down the road to see the rail cars. Nute’s grandfather (Robert Burton) was a railway worker out of Sand Point, probably back in the 1880s, and later a station agent in Renfrew. Seeing the salvage cars, Nute calls the demise of the line the “end of an era. No doubt, the railway (locally) is essentially done.” He calls the death of the local railway sad. Greenberg said Canadian Pacific will pull up about 25 miles of track, between Renfrew and Pembroke, starting this month and finishing later this year. “That’s all that’s planned for 2011,” he said. The remaining 160 of the 185 miles of CP track between Smiths Falls and Mattawa will be salvaged in subsequent years, he added. See ‘CP RAIL’ Page 31
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FORECAST: FAIR ALL WEEKEND LONG Madison Toner patiently waits and watches as crews work to set up the midway for the 157th Arnprior Fair, which opens today, Thursday, Aug. 4 at 4 p.m. The midway is bigger and better than ever this year, say organizers, with 15 rides on offer for fair-goers. Friday is Family day, when admission is just a toonie from noon to 2 p.m. World’s Finest Shows has confirmed they will do a toonie special from 1 to 2:30 p.m., with all rides costing just $2. For the full fair schedule, see the centrespread on pages 20-21.
Make sure highway land prices fair: Mayor The province should realize farm property values have increased significantly in the area targeted for expropriation for the next stretch of four-laning of Highway 417, says McNab-Braeside Mayor Mary Campbell. Notices expressing the province’s intention to expropriate several parcels of land in the township have been published with the deadline for affected resi-
dents to ask for an inquiry being about Aug. 19. Campbell said the township hasn’t an official role in the expropriation process, but has an interest in ensuring its residents are being treated fairly. If they are to receive a fair price for their land, the government needs to realize that land values have increased recently, she said.
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