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June 27, 2013 | 48 pages
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Whitewater asked to withdraw support for heritage designation Steve Newman
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CWL members are honoured. See page 20
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Renfrew’s second annual Hog Wild Pork Festival comes to town. See page 36
Donald Broome of Cobden says the number of Renfrew County residents opposing national heritage designation of the Ottawa River is growing. On behalf of the Whitewater Ratepayers Association, Broome addressed Whitewater council June 19 to say why he’s opposed to the national heritage river designation that Renfrew County council has sought since 2008. Whitewater has supported that designation, but Broome wants Whitewater to rescind that decision. Based on council members’ reactions to Broom’s presentation, Whitewater very well may. In a 2,000-word presentation that Broome read to Whitewater council, he said the designation would be administered by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (and not by federal agencies, as originally thought) and create potential havoc for property owners in the Ottawa River watershed. He said he’s most concerned about MNR intervention and restrictions on homeowners within that watershed. “Gentlemen, most of us were born and raised here in
this area. Our roots are here. Our cultural heritage is here. And the future hopes and dreams of our children and their children are here,” said Broome. “But now the world we grew up in is changing at a bewildering rate, and for most of us older folks the changes are becoming increasingly hard to adapt to. “Nevertheless, we still have the ability to say no to the things that people from Toronto are trying to force on us. Therefore, let us resolve to retain our local economy and reject the attempts … to take over … the property we inherited from our beloved ancestors from generation to generation.” In closing, he said that if council does rescind its approval of the Ottawa River designation, it will do so in accordance with the wishes of its friends, neighbours and the local electorate in general. In the same presentation, Broome provided some levity with comments referring to how explorer Samuel de Champlain, who paddled through what became Renfrew County, couldn’t care less about any such designation because he’s been dead for 378 years. See DESIGNATION, page 3
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Celebration at Central Central Public School held its annual fun fair June 20 at the Renfrew school. Curtis Delarge shows the prize he earned at the buried treasure box. This week children across the region leave school for a well-earned summer holiday.
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