Catégorie : Autres – Others

“Lots of water damage inside,” said Vankleek Hill Fire Chief Michel Martin during a Monday phone interview regarding the condition of the house at 81 Bertha Street, at the intersection with Caroline Street, in Vankleek Hill after a fire Saturday evening left a couple in their 50s with no home for the weekend.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) announced April 20 “tentative agreements” with both the Education Ministry and Ontario’s school board associations on new contracts for its members. The OSSTF/FEESO represents teachers and educational workers at high schools in both the English and French public school systems.

L’évènement aura exceptionnellement lieu quatre ans, plutôt que trois, après la 7e édition.

“We are still waiting to see how the curve flattens out,” said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, chief medical health officer for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU), during his regular media teleconference.

L’idée d’une allocation universelle circule depuis des siècles. En 1516, l’Anglais Sir Thomas Moore, philosophe, chanoine, humaniste, théologien et chancelier d’Henri VIII décrivait dans son célèbre ouvrage, L’Utopie, un monde où tous recevraient une subsistance sans avoir à dépendre de son travail. D’autres philosophes et penseurs vont reprendre et défendre ce principe par la suite, notamment le Français Michel Foucault au XXe siècle.

The Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) is fast-tracking plans for a home-learning program for its students. The UCDSB has set up a survey to get information from parents on what kind of Internet access they have that would allow their children to take advantage of online learning.

“As much of this learning is like to involve technology,” stated April Scott-Clarke, UCDSB communications manager, in an email, “we are reaching out to families to determine what their technology needs may be, if any.”

The UCDSB has an online survey for parents with a list of questions to answer to help determine the level of Internet access they have, how many computers or other types of electronic devices are available at home that their children could use for online learning.

Parents who cannot take part in the online survey can phone, toll-free, 1-888-593-5556 and leave a call-back message so UCDSB staff can phone them about their specific online learning needs. Parents who do believe their Internet setup is sufficient to allow their children to take part in online learning courses do not need to fill out the survey but can do so at a later date if their situation changes.

Outre Cédrick Guindon, qui a été repêché en première ronde au dixième choix par l’Attack d’Owen Sound (consultez le journal Vision du 8 avril pour plus de détails), Zakary Lavoie et Jonhatan Melee ont eux aussi été sélectionnés lors de la séance de sélection des joueurs d’âge midget le samedi 4 avril.

“It’s been bugging me for weeks,” Rattelade said, on a blustery afternoon April 17, as she made her way along a drainage ditch alongside County Road 17 between Wendover and Rockland. “It’s all been there since the beginning spring.”

The spring melt this season left behind a collection of miscellaneous trash in the ditch close by to her own home property. Along with the usual paper trash, there is also a collection of used wiring and other small broke bits of electrical fixtures, and some styrofoam.

Rattelade, 65, doesn’t know how long the trash has been there, whether it dropped off, unnoticed, from the back of a passing vehicle sometime during the winter, or whether it was dumped on purpose. All she knows is that it is there, she doesn’t like the sight of it, and, since she is homebound like many others because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she might as well deal with the matter herself as a way to pass the time.

“Just because it bugs me, and it looks horrible, I think,” she said, then smile. “It also gives me an excuse to get outside.”

Rattelade is a retired custodian, who used to work for the Upper Canada District School Board. Most of her work involved cleaning and maintenance duty at Rockland District High School and Rockland Public School. She smiles at the suggestion that she is “still cleaning up” other people’s mess.

“It’s good for the environment,” she said.

People using charity dropoff sites as unofficial dumping grounds for household garbage are a continuing problem for many non-profit groups.

Le mardi  21 avril, vers 16h, les policiers de la Sûreté du Québec (SQ) ont été dépêchés au kilomètre 231 de l’autoroute 50, à Grenville-sur-la-Rouge. La limite de vitesse dans ce tronçon, entre les chemins Scotch et Avoca, est de 100 km/h. On leur a signalé une collision entre un camion poids lourd et une automobile.