Celebrating 20 Years
The comité culturel recently celebrated their 20th Anniversary of Snow Sculptures by creating a “cold” piece of artwork in front of their building on Centrale Ave. They served snacks and wine to those who showed up for this historic moment for both their committee and the community at large on January 24.
Candidates for Dawson Trail Constituency in Place With a Provincial Election upon us in a couple of months, all three major parties have their candidates out hitting the streets and setting up their volunteer committees. Until April 19, residents should see a flurry of information coming from NDP Ron Lemieux, PC Bob Lagasse and Liberal Terry Hayward. Terry Hayward was the most recent to be nominated, moving from the Federal domain to Provincial politics.
Hayward is hopeful that he can transfer support gained while campaigning previously federally into a provincial win after being named the party’s official candidate. “Locally we did not win, but during the federal election, I had a lot of support from the provincial party so it makes sense to be running for them now,” Hayward explained. Hayward has been door knocking for years, and it has paid off in the polls. While he did not win a seat in Ottawa, he did manage to capture 34% of the votes, the ma-
Ste. Anne Recreation Gets Funding Commitment The Town of Ste. Anne will be receiving more funding towards the reconstruction of their heritage pedestrian bridge and to build a new splash pad and skateboard park according to MLA Ron Lemieux. “A few years ago we made a commitment to provide $500,000 to a recreation park. Ste. Anne received $300,000 previously going towards that contribution. So, today I gave them an investment and a letter confirming that we would be putting in $200,000 to make up that commitment,” explained Lemieux. “It’s going to a splash pad and skateboard park.” Lemieux also made the announcement that the province is committing $26,000 towards a pedestrian bridge. “It’s an older pedestrian bridge that goes across the river, that they’re going to fix up, and we are contributing $26,000 towards this particular pedestrian bridge,” says Lemieux. According to Mayor Richard Pelletier the total cost of the bridge repair is estimated at $52,000, so the announcement made by Lemieux will cover half of the cost. Pelletier says as far as the location of the splash pad and skateboard park there is still some debate. “A decision on that needs to be made in the next couple of months, so some more work needs to be done to see where the people really want it. I think the park is the best place for it, but there is still some opposition.”
jority being from the vicinity of Dawson Trail. “People don’t really care about what level of government you are in; they expect services and they expect things to be done,” Hayward continued. “I am prepared to be Dawson Trail’s advocate either in government or in opposition.” While campaigning federally, Hayward made connections on a federal level what could benefit locally. Hayward said it is the time for Dawson Trail voters to think Liberal now that the spark has been
lit. “With a federal Liberal government, we are in a good position to elect a Liberal government locally,” he added. “We need a government to work in cooperation with Ottawa and not fight every step of the way.” Hayward said that while speaking to residents, the concerns are the same provincially as federally. Residents want government support in healthcare, early childhood learning, daycare, homecare, infrastructure and education. “More importantly though, residents recognize that there needs to be a change, and there is a desire to make that change,” Hayward concluded.