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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN Santa Claus continues to shine in his favourite month of the year. He’ll be the featured guest at the Renfrew Lions Club Santa Claus Parade that leaves Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School at 1 p.m. Saturday. Santa will also attend Calabogie’s 1 p.m. parade on Sunday.

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DERRY DIES AT AGE 104 Renfrew native Kay Derry died Saturday in Renfrew at the age of 104. The retired school teacher drove a car well into her 90s and was also a volunteer late in life at the Bonnechere Manor. Born May 18, 1906 in Renfrew, the daughter of Allen and Elizabeth Derry was predeceased by sisters Helen McGregor Young, Ethel Stewart and Gertrude Derry, and brothers Bill and George. Kerry who retired from a 41year teaching career in Ottawa in 1972, then moved back to the family home in Renfrew. A service of remembrance for her takes place at the McPhail & Perkins Funeral Home chapel on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 11 a.m.

OVER THE RAINBOW Emily Waterston shone in the role of Dorothy in the Renfrew Collegiate Drama Club production of The Wizard of Oz last week at the high school. For more see page 14. Mercury photo by Lucy Hass

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The future of the Ontario forestry industry may very well depend on what was started during a meeting of minds in Renfrew last week. The provincial government has created a healthy investment environment by approving feed-in tariff (FIT) rates for solar and wind energy projects in 2009. But the same has not happened for FIT rates for biomass projects, and a group called the Ontario Biomass Energy Association wants to change that. Of more than 1,200 projects approved by the Ontario government, more than 1,000 are solar and 54 are wind-generated. Biomass production is practically not on the map, with just three approved projects, largely because the feed-in tariff rates are considered too low to attract investors, says Renfrew County development officer Alastair Baird. The FIT rate refers to the fee received from the Province per kilowatt hour of electrical power placed on the power grid. The current rate for FIT

biomass projects is 13 cents per kilowatt hour, but many members of the forestry industry, which stand to benefit from such projects, says the rate needs to be closer to 20 cents to attract investors. RESIDUALS Forestry industry members say a higher FIT rate in Ontario could very well resurrect the forestry industry, whose sawmill residuals (like sawdust, bark and chips) now have virtually no market, following the closure of pulp mills and medium-density fibreboard plants across Ontario. Local examples of closures are the Smurfit mill in Portage-du-Fort, Que., and the ATC plant near Pembroke. Therefore, 21 forestry and forestry-related personnel, including several from Hearst in northern Ontario, gathered in Renfrew Nov. 23 to determine how they will lobby in the next few months for a higher FIT rate for biomass. Its presentation to the Ontario Power Authority in late winter of 2011 will include a cost analysis of a FIT rate for biomass that supports an increase of the current rate. See FORESTRY, Page 2

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