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October 3, 2013 | 40 pages
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All about safety and expansion MTO staff bring good tidings well before Christmas Steve Newman steve.newman@metroland.com
Storyland’s rabbit finds new home. See pags 5
SPORTS
Senior Raiders clipped in Arnprior. See page 15
News - There’s less than three months until winter officially arrives, but the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) officials may have already delivered at least one Christmas-like gift. For the second straight year, MTO staff from the regional headquarters in Kingston travelled to address Renfrew County council and senior staff about past and future activities within the provincial highway network. Unlike a year ago, county councillors left this year’s presentation a lot happier. A year ago, Highway 417 expansion past Arnprior wasn’t on the five-year plan. Now it is, with construction scheduled to happen next spring. And a year ago, there was talk about improved winter maintenance on the accident-riddled Highway 17, but there’s evidence that it will happen. Evidence included a special tow plow that was driven to county council for county officials to view during the Sept. 15 meeting. This $80,000 addition to a normal plow unit will allow a highway maintenance driver to clean two lanes simultaneously. For Tammy Stewart, the reeve of Head, Clara and Maria at the county’s north end, this is good news, since it means sections of the highway where there are passing lanes will be cleaned faster. See MTO DELEGATION, page 3
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Young Mr. Moose This bull calf was all the talk around Douglas late last week, as he hung out in the Rice Line area. Several passersby took to feeding the moose, while separated by wire fencing. A healthy moose would be unlikely to display such behaviour, but Ministry of Natural Resources staff say the visitor was, as suspected, ill. The bull calf was “dispatched” on Saturday, the first time the Pembroke District of MNR has had put down an elk or moose in a few years. For more coverage, see page 8.
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