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By DESMOND DEVOY desmond.devoy@metroland.com
Th The LLanarkk hhealth l h centre cel-l ebrates 20 years. . — Page P10
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This former Perth McDonald’s manager earns high honours. — Page P19
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ALONG FOR THE RIDE Sports – Colton McCarthy (12) runs the play for a few yards before getting tackled by Reilly DeGray on Oct. 4 as St. John Catholic High School junior Spartans trampled the Smiths Falls District High School RedHawks 34-0. See inside for more. This weekend, the Spartans host Notre Dame Catholic High School in Turkey Bowl action, starting at noon.
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News – Just like drivers looking for a spot near the mall’s front door on Christmas Eve, there could only be one outcome for the several positions being put forward about proposed parking restrictions on Sunset Boulevard at the Oct. 1 committee-of-thewhole meeting. One business owner called for the maintenance of the status quo, another called for a ban on parking on the north side, while a resident delegate called for a complete parking ban. “People have no problem leaving side streets and there are not accidents every day,” said Martin Whyte, owner of Whyte’s Maintenance, on Sunset Boulevard, of Gore Street East, another major town artery. “I don’t see why Sunset Boulevard shouldn’t be treated the same. Yes it (Sunset) is an arterial road. But the speed limit is 50.” Whyte admitted that “parking isn’t a right,” but that there is demand for parking on Sunset. He pointed to Deputy Mayor John Gemmell, who drives a school bus, who has been known to park the vehicle on Sunset. “I don’t see it as a safety issue,” said Whyte. “It is well marked… There is no issue with us (Whyte’s Maintenance vehicles) parking there. I am not sure it is as big an issue as it is being made to be.”
Whyte also asserted that parking restrictions would unfairly impact not only his business, but people who work at the nearby factory as well. “I think we can leave the status quo,” said Whyte. “I think it is working for people,” though he did add that he tries to encourage his staff not to park on the north side of the street. Whyte even commended Mayor John Fenik for reaching out to the business community, to hear their concerns. “It’s only since John took over that the town seems to be more business-friendly,” said Whyte. “You do a lot of good work for the town, and they do a lot of good for you,” said Coun. Jim Graff to Whyte, before suggesting that he could move some of his operations to property he owns on Drummond Street. “Moving me over to Drummond Street only moves the can of worms over,” said Whyte. While Gemmell admitted to parking his bus on Sunset, and that he liked the extra space for his family to visit him, “if you have 15 or 20 vehicles (parked) it makes it harder to see,” Gemmell said. “I think that there is a difference between a vehicle and a bulldozer on a flatbed.” Whyte took exception to this assertion by Gemmell, pointing to Gore Street East, just outside of town hall. See PARKING page P2
Highlands may pay more policing costs under new provincial rules By DESMOND DEVOY desmond.devoy@metroland.com
The Perth Blue Wings tinge their barn in shades of pink for the cancer society. — Page P22
News – Lanark Highlands Township residents could be paying more for policing costs over the coming years. “Will Lanark Highlands get to pay more? I’m not a betting man, but I would say, yes,” said George Braithwaite, the provincial appointee to the Highlands’ police services board, at their meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 1. As the area representative to the Ontario Association of Police Services Boards, he reminded the PSB that the OPP contracts for both the Highlands and Tay Valley Township are up for renewal. Billing consultations have already been carried out around the province, with recommendations already
having been made to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – but “they are not able to divulge” what those recommendations are. “Within the next six weeks we will have an idea of those recommendations are,” said Braithwaite, though he suggested that the scheduled OPP pay hike would likely go ahead on Jan. 1, 2014, though not without some grumbling. “The OPP rise in wages is being resisted in many quarters. This will be damaging to many smaller municipalities. But it is going to happen.” Already, he pointed to a small municipality, in the “hinterlands” which pays $7 per household for policing costs already. “They have no crime,” he said. “It is like the living
definition of Sleepy Hollow.” When the province does make its recommendations on police costing public, Braithwaite said that “my opinion is that it will be based on a flat cost. There will be a new set of winners and losers. I don’t know what they will do with the aberrations,” whose policing needs and realities do not exactly fit the regular mold, places like Kenora, Hawkesbury, and Cobden, “who will pay higher costs, through no fault of their own.” However, Braithwaite hastened to add that while “I hope that the new protocol will be more fair,” some of his assumptions may not come to pass. “It may not happen. We don’t know. There is no point in speculating about this in the newspapers.”
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