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Youth Centre looks local for support Stacey Roy
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The Smiths Falls and District Centre for Youth (SFDCY) will be spending the next few weeks creating a new fundraising strategy after their reliable grants were cut this year. Adam Gariepy, SFDCY executive director said a strategic meeting with Lanark County youth centres will be held this week to discuss how they will approach funding applications for the 2016 calendar year. This will be followed by a youth center board meeting next week. “We need to really refocus on where our applications are going to go,” Gariepy said.
In the past, the clubs had relied on funding from their respective municipalities and the United Way of Lanark County, but next year this umbrella organization is moving to a community impact grant system. Kate Hallas, fund development officer for the United Way of Lanark County said the new model aims to encourage organizations to work together to apply for a grant with a specific project in mind. The model is something many United Ways are moving towards in an effort to increase donations by providing greater detail to the donors of the lives they touch. “It really creates some lasting results,” Hallas said. She notes applications will be
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The Smiths Falls and District Centre for Youth thanks Commonwell Insurance Group for its generous $10,000 donation Oct. 5 to the centre. The funds will be used for a variety of needs. Attending the donation this week are (left to right) Jesse Green (youth), Jessica Gillam and Adam Gariepy (staff), Vanessa Swan and Michael-Elizabeth Paczek of Commonwell Insurance Group, Len Bergwerff (SFDCY board member), Kayla Harry of Commonwell, and Devon McEwen (youth). Kneeling is youth Austin Smith.
Council has safety concerns over ambulance bay site Stacey Roy
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Safety was the number one concern discussed at this week’s council session where Smiths Falls formalized its request for a delegation to Lanark County Council over the county’s decision to remove the town as a possible site for the new Smiths Falls ambulance service base. “That would jeopardize the safety of the population at large,”
commented coun. Chris Cummings at last week’s committee of the whole session. Ed McPherson, Chief of the Lanark County Ambulance Service confirmed to the Record News this week that ambulance staff is running statistics now to look at the issue of safety should the new ambulance base be located outside the town limits. “So far, it’s showing that it really won’t have an impact,” McPherson said.
Ambulance service staff said they haven’t been asked to present their report nor were they asked to draft it, but have done so for their internal purposes. On Sept. 23 County Council decided to draft a new Request for Proposals (RFP) that would require the new ambulance base to be within Lanark County, effectively cutting out any possibility it would remain within the town limits. Currently, all ambulance bays are located within population
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