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Year 140, Issue 46

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LOVEABLE ANNIES

Emily Helferty of Douglas and Vanessa Farmer of Braeside will share the role of Annie in the Two Rivers Musical Productions’ presentation of Annie.

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SPRING CONCERT

Chris Rigby performs at the annual spring concert hosted by the Renfrew Collegiate music department last Sunday.

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POWERING THE SHOT PUT Kaitlyn Kargus of St. Joseph’s Catholic HIgh School packs some power behind this shot put. She placed fifth, in 7.98 metres, in the junior girls’ event at the Renfrew County high school track and field championships in Arnprior last week. For the story on several qualifiers for the EOSSAA championships, see Page 20.

History now adorns both back walls of the Renfrew council chambers. Monday night, past mayor Sandi Heins became the 39th head of council to have her photograph hang on the back wall. Minutes later, Mayor Bill Ringrose emceed a ceremony to unveil a montage of all council members since Renfrew’s incorporation in 1858. The list of 125 councils is also accompanied by photos of each council since 1982, plus the photo of Renfrew’s first-ever council − Reeve John Smith and councillors R.C. Mills, Sampson Coumbs and William Dickson. Missing from the photo was the other councillor of the day, John Churchill. A group of nearly 40 people gathered for Monday night’s ceremony, including family members of past council members and previous councillors themselves. Among them were past councillor Marlene Thompson, whose father (Lloyd) was a former mayor of Renfrew. “He couldn’t believe I was doing it,” she says of her dad’s reaction to her decision to join the political landscape. But she sat on four councils, from 1976 to 1985. That time had its challenges, she admits, since women still hadn’t gained the credibility they now have in political circles and because council took heat from taxpayers for deciding to build the new town hall, and leave its old premises. See ‘Council history’, Page inside

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