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Year 140, Issue 9

Thursday, August 12, 2010 • 48 pages

Liberal Express hits Renfrew County

For the 30th year of the Renfrew Terry Fox Run, organizers are striving for 30 teams.

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MAN DIES OF INJURIES Jerry Azevedo of London will appear in Pembroke provincial court Aug. 18 following the death of a Toronto man at Wilderness Tours, Beachburg, on the Ottawa River. At the request of the family, the name of the deceased hasn’t been released by the OPP. The Toronto man sustained serious head injuries Aug. 1. He died Aug. 6. Azevedo, who remains in custody, had been charged with aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm. But those charges will be updated Aug. 18. The investigation continues under Det.-Inspector Chris Nicholas of the OPP’s criminal investigation branch.

SULLIVAN AND TOWN SETTLE A lengthy impasse between the Town of Renfrew and business man Murray Sullivan is over. Renfrew council’s seven members unanimously supported a motion Monday that effectively ended the town’s case before the Ontario Court of Appeal involving costs associated with property Sullivan sought to buy in 2003.

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The local stop on the Liberal Express summer tour was certainly one to remember, says federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. “There are moments in a politician’s life that are just a blur because you do six meetings a day. You shake a lot of hands you can’t remember,” said Ignatieff. “And then there are evenings that you remember all your life.” Local Liberal candidate Christine Tabbert hosted Ignatieff and the tour at a corn roast at her family’s Mercury photo by Sherry Haaima Laurentian Valley Sunny Hillcrest Farm Aug. 9. Federal Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff and the local Liberal canadidate, Christine Hundreds of people gathered for the event at the Tabbert, greet Tabbert’s grandmother, Dorothy Francis, at Sunny Hillcrest Farm, just out- picturesque property. Volunteers barbecued and side Pembroke. Monday’s corn roast was part of the ongoing Liberal Express summer tour roasted corn and visitors enjoyed entertainment as cows grazed in the background. that has travelled across the country. See LIBERAL, Page 3

Veteran police officer back in his own backyard STEVE NEWMAN steve.newman@metrolandlcom

After 26 years as a police officer in Renfrew, Colin Slight left to become the staff-sergeant with the Killaloe detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police in July 2008.

But two years later, he has returned to his own backyard as the newest staff-sergeant of the Renfrew OPP detachment. “It’s been enjoyable, it’s been a good experience,” says Slight, 48, of his police career. “And I look forward to continuing on the path I’m on.”

A resident of nearby Horton Township, Slight says he’s enjoyed his time in the Killaloe detachment of 32 officers, but says it’s a bonus now having a fiveminute, no longer a 55-minute, commute to work. “I enjoy being back here for the sake of seeing familiar faces,

and I still live in Horton Township,” says Slight, whose departure leaves Bruce Sawbridge as acting staff-sergeant of the Killaloe detachment. Sawbridge is also the husband of Janice Sawbridge, community affairs officer of the Renfrew OPP. See SLIGHT, Page 21

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