The owners of Academie Extrava Danse Academy announced expansion plans for their Rockland location, which is expected add over 4,000 square feet of new studio space.
The Hélène Tassie School of Dance, which later became Académie Extrava Danse, has been a part of the community of Rockland for over 35 years.
Hélène Tassie serves as owner and director of the dance academy, and her son, Marcel Tassie, is the co-director. They have two locations, one in Rockland and the other is in Hawkesbury.
“Académie Extrava Danse Academy has been a beloved part of our community for over 30 years, and today marks the beginning of a new chapter,” said Clarence-Rockland Mayor Mario Zanth in a post on Facebook on Aug. 8 as expansion plans for the Rockland locations were announed. “We’re thrilled to announce a major expansion project that will add over 4,000 square feet of new studio space for the dance community in Clarence-Rockland! Thank you for your investment in our city and our artistic community.”
Marcel said the academy has been growing steadily since 2018 and has allowed the team to finally put their plans for expansion into fruition.
“We have seen the growth in the community, and there is a demand for dance,” said Marcel, who started dancing when at the age of four-years-old. “We have been talking about expanding all the way back in 2016, and really started picking up in 2018. COVID-19 impacted us a lot, and put those plans on hold. But we have been able to pick things back up with really strong support from our community. And now we can finally get this going and expand and be able to offer more to our community.”
Marcel said not only will the academy be able to expand its studio space to allow more students to join the academy, but the new space can also be used by community organizations for events they want to host.
“I know I can carry and move us forward,” said Marcel of his family’s dance legacy in Clarence-Rockland.
Marcel said work will start this fall, and construction will be ongoing. He hopes to see the expansion plans complete at some point in late spring of 2025.
The academy has bilingual teachers who offer professional and recreational dance and fitness training from pre-school through to adulthood.
Extrava Danse Academy’s professional staff provides instruction in ballet, jazz, tap, hip op, lyrical, contemporary and acro.
Hip hop dancers from Remix Dance, based out of Rockland, have a lot to be proud of after a successful showcase at this year’s Dance World Cup national competition.
The event was held earlier this summer (June 30 to July 5) in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Remix Dance was represented by seven teams and received two first place finishes, four second place selections and one third place finish.
“It’s amazing to see our teams and dancers rock it out and achieve success at these events,” said Bonnie West, the founder, owner and operator of Remix Dance, which specializes in hip hop dance. “Watching these youngsters dive into dance and thrive is just awesome. Their energy, dedication, and talent really shine through, and it’s a blast to see them do so well.”
Clara Plourde, 14, with Remix Dance’s West Crew and Mercy group, started hip hop dance when she was 11. She said while she was nervous being part of the national competition, she was happy to be able to showcase her dance skills and make her dance school proud.
“I tried not to expect too much to avoid being disappointed, but I had hoped to place at least once and ended up placing twice so I was really happy,” she said. “It felt really great to be among the incredible teams and being recognized for our hard work.”
West’s son, Austin, was part of Remix Dance’s Next Generation team that went to Mont Tremblant. He grew up being surrounded by a passion for dance and wanted to give hip hop a try.
“I felt super happy and proud of myself,” he exclaimed. “Winning second place felt really awesome.”
Remix Dance offers classes for all ages, both recreational and competitive with a focus is on providing top-notch hip-hop instruction for everyone, from kids to adults.
“Remix Dance is my creation, and it was inspired by my lifelong love for dance,” said the dance school’s founder. “Ever since I was a child, I’ve been choreographing dances with my friends and putting on shows for my family and community. Dance has always been my true passion, and starting Remix felt like a natural step for me. It’s a way for me to share my love of dance, creativity, and the joy surrounding it all with the community.”
West said that Remix Dance’s results at the Dance World Cup proves that the dancers hard work has paid off.
“This is an outstanding result for our community,” she added. “This community is now recognized on the national stage as a premiere dance locale, thanks to the Remix Dancers. Our teams have worked hard and it is so exciting to see the talent and pride our community can take in our youth. These teams are made up of dynamic young women and men from throughout our local communities. They incorporate a high degree of precision Hip Hop with speed, energy and strength, into a choreographed dance routine that infuses the audience. They are something to see.”
Le député de Glengarry-Prescott Russell, Francis Drouin, a décidé de ne pas se représenter aux prochaines élections fédérales.
Drouin, 40 ans, qui a été élu pour la première fois en tant que représentant fédéral de l’est de l’Ontario en 2015, a rendu sa décision officielle le mois dernier.
Le député, qui a été élu pour trois mandats, a déclaré que sa décision de ne pas briguer un autre mandat était motivée à 95 % par la famille, et qu’il voulait respecter un engagement qu’il avait pris envers sa femme lorsqu’il avait décidé de se lancer en politique.
« J’ai dit à ma femme que si je devais faire cela (entrer en politique), je partirais entre huit et douze ans », a déclaré M. Drouin, qui représente la circonscription sous la bannière libérale depuis 2015. « Si je devais me présenter à nouveau, ce serait plus que cela. Cette vie est difficile pour les familles, je dois être à tellement d’endroits le soir et les week-ends. J’utilise toujours une analogie avec le hockey : il faut savoir quand entrer sur la glace et quand en sortir. Il était temps de quitter la glace.
Drouin, qui a un fils de cinq ans, a déclaré qu’il était sûr à 80 % de ne pas se représenter après les dernières élections fédérales de 2021, et a informé le Premier ministre canadien Justin Trudeau de sa décision de quitter la politique fédérale le 21 mars.
Ce n’est que tout récemment qu’il a pris la décision de ne pas briguer un nouveau mandat sur la Colline du Parlement.
Drouin est né et a grandi à Hawkesbury et, après avoir obtenu un diplôme en administration des affaires à La Cité collégiale, il s’est rendu à l’Université d’Ottawa où il a obtenu un baccalauréat en commerce. Il a travaillé comme assistant spécial du premier ministre de l’Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, pendant quatre ans, puis a rejoint un cabinet de relations gouvernementales en tant que consultant en communication et a continué à travailler en tant que consultant à divers titres par la suite. Il a fait du bénévolat au sein du conseil d’administration de son alma mater, La Cité.
Drouin a adhéré au Parti libéral à l’âge de 17 ans et a été président des Jeunes libéraux de Glengarry-Prescott-Russell pendant deux ans. Il y a dirigé les campagnes libérales lors des élections fédérales de 2011 et provinciales de 2014. M. Drouin a remporté l’investiture libérale fédérale pour les élections fédérales de 2015 en janvier 2015. Il a remporté l’élection en défaisant le député conservateur Pierre Lemieux, qui avait été élu pour trois mandats, par plus de 10 000 voix.
« Ai-je été parfait dans ce que j’ai fait ? Non, mais je vous promets que je me consacre à 100 % à ce travail tous les jours », a déclaré M. Drouin. « J’y ai mis tout mon cœur et toute mon âme (en tant que député). Tout ce que je voulais, c’était aider les gens, et j’espère vraiment avoir réussi à le faire.
Drouin est actuellement secrétaire parlementaire du ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Agroalimentaire, Lawrence MacAulay.
Il ne sait pas encore ce qui l’attend.
« Ma femme et moi nous sommes rencontrés lorsque j’étais en politique, c’est la seule vie que nous connaissons », a déclaré M. Drouin. « Quoi qu’il en soit, je veux m’assurer de passer plus de temps avec ma famille.
Les prochaines élections fédérales devraient avoir lieu à l’automne 2025. Pour la prochaine élection fédérale, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell a été renommée en la nouvelle circonscription de Prescott-Russell-Cumberland.
The OPP East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) along with the Russell County Detachment carried out an investigation in Rockland and arrested three individuals.
On Friday, July 26, the CSCU executed a search warrant in Rockland where they arrested three individuals and seized 17 grams of crack cocaine, a debt list, three functional digital scales, $155 in Canadian currency, packaging material, and a cell phone.
As a result, Mario Dubois, from the City of Clarence-Rockland, was charged with possession of a Schedule 1 substance, possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000, and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
The accused will appear at the L’Orignal Court of Justice on August 21, 2024.
The other two arrested were released unconditionally.
The Ontario Provincial Police in North Bay are requesting the help of the public to find a missing 36-year-old female last spotted in Clarence-Rockland.
Brigitte, a 5′ 4″ woman described as having a thin build, long dark hair and brown eyes, was last seen in Rockland driving a red 2021 Kia Forte with an Ontario license plate CADJ 368 on July 19. She is now believed to be « on foot », according to police.
Anyone with information regarding Brigitte’s whereabouts is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122, and use the reference number E240950572.
L’histoire de St-Pascal-Baylon est représentée dans une toute nouvelle murale qui a été dévoilée à la communauté la semaine dernière.
Le Club Optimiste de St-Pascal-Baylon a dévoilé la murale qui se trouve au Centre communautaire Ronald Lalonde. Elle a été créée par Olga Pimenova, une résidente d’Orléans.
« Il m’a fallu environ deux mois pour réaliser cette murale « , a déclaré Olga Pimenova lors d’une entrevue avec La Vision, peu de temps après que sa création ait été montrée aux membres de la communauté. « Je l’ai peinte planche par planche, et c’est la première fois que je la vois en entier. C’est incroyable et j’ai hâte de montrer aux gens ce que j’ai créé, et chaque fois que je passe en voiture, je vois ma fresque. J’espère avoir capturé l’histoire de cette merveilleuse et magnifique région ».
Alexis Maisonneuve, président du Club Optimiste de St-Pascal-Baylon, estime que la fresque reflète parfaitement la riche histoire du village et remercie l’artiste et les nombreux organismes communautaires qui ont contribué à faire de cette fresque une réalité.
« C’est magnifique, et nous voulions commémorer la communauté d’une façon ou d’une autre et montrer son patrimoine « , a déclaré M. Maisonneuve. « Il s’agit d’un projet de longue haleine, et nous sommes ravis de le partager avec les membres de notre communauté.
La création de Pimenova détaille l’histoire de St-Pascal-Baylon et comprend la peinture d’une vache dans un champ représentant l’agriculture, l’ancien couvent des religieuses, un pêcheur sur le lac Cobb’s Creek en train de pêcher, un rat musqué représentant l’histoire de la trappe du village, l’église et le presbytère ainsi qu’un hommage à une légende locale du hockey.
Jacques Martin, qui a été entraîneur des Sénateurs d’Ottawa pendant des années à temps plein et qui a été engagé plus récemment à titre intérimaire après le licenciement de l’ancien chef de banc D.J. Smith, s’est joint à la célébration de la communauté.
Martin a un curriculum vitae impressionnant au cours de sa carrière dans la LNH et il est originaire du village. Il est représenté sur la fresque, célébrant l’une de ses deux victoires de la Coupe Stanley lorsqu’il était entraîneur adjoint des Penguins de Pittsburgh.
« Tout a commencé ici pour moi », a déclaré M. Martin à The Vision après le dévoilement de la fresque. « Cette communauté a joué un rôle important dans mon éducation. Mes racines sont ici et j’ai été honoré de ramener la Coupe Stanley ici et de partager ce moment avec les gens, et je regarde cette fresque qui raconte l’histoire de ce village. Elle est si vivante et illustre parfaitement cette communauté.
Main Street Pizza, crowned as the city’s best pizza at a Clarence-Rockland Festival competition, is all about one thing: family.
Manon Meloche took over the business five and a half years ago, and now her daughters and even her mom all play a role in keeping the pizza place successful.
“It’s nice, getting see my daughters and spend time with them,” said Meloche, who is originally from l’Orignal and moved to Rockland to be closer to the business she owns. “It’s the best of both worlds. You get to see your family, and for me, I am my own boss, and I wanted to work for myself. This was a great opportunity.”
Meloche’s daughter, Melissa Turcotte, was working for about a year for the previous owner before her mom took over business.
“The community support has been great,” said Turcotte, who makes the pizzas, all from scratch. “We really feel part of the community and having a chance working with my mom is great.”
People across the municipality showcased their support for Main Street Pizza in a big way, voting for the local business as the best pizza in the city.
In partnership with the City of Clarence-Rockland, TVC22, an independent not-for-profit organization founded in 1990 as a community TV station whose main mandate is to produce TV shows, launched a pizza competition, asking residents across the city to vote for their favourite, local pizza place.
On Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29, residents were asked to purchase a pizza from five participating pizza restaurants, between the hours and 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The winner, which ended up being Main Street Pizza, was revealed during the Clarence-Rockland Festival on June 30 at Parc Simon.
Participating restaurants sold a total of $677 pizzas over the course of the two-day voting period (394 on Friday, June 28 and 283 on Saturday, June 29).
In total, the event raised $777, which is equally shared between TVC22 and the Rockland Food Bank. The money raised also included a $100 donation from Rockland Pizza, who was selling food on site during the Clarence-Rockland Festival.
Meloche said Main Street Pizza sold 148 pizzas on Friday, June 28 and 92 pies on Saturday, June 29.
The certificate for the best pizza in town hangs proudly on the wall of Main Street Pizza.
“We saw a lot of new faces those few days, we were really busy,” said Meloche. “We were honoured to be named the best pizza, and we really want to thank for everyone who voted for us.”
Main Street Pizza, located at 1099 Laurier Street in Rockland, is open seven days a week. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays, Main Street Pizza opens from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesdays and Saturdays from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m., 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Thursdays and from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Fridays.
Approximately 24 per cent of buildings across the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) have Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), also known as Siporex, an aging and problematic building material, as part of their structure.
That is 18 out of 78 schools across the board that have RAAC as part of their structure.
The aging aerated concrete material was the centre of the problems plaguing the Ontario Science Centre, forcing it to close last month. The provincial government announced the closure of the Ontario Science Centre on June 21 due to structural issues and concerns over a possible roof collapse.
A report released by the Toronto Star on June 25 showed that Ontario’s Ministry of Education is now monitoring 360 schools across the province for RAAC which was used in structures from the 1950s to 1980s.
“On a monthly basis, UCDSB staff monitors for issues with this material, such as delamination, slab deflection, leaks, and cracks,” said April Scott-Clarke, the manager of communications with the UCDSs. “If localized concerns are found, the UCDSB commissions an external structural engineer to review and provide a report and/or recommendations, which we act on.”
Eight of the 42 schools in the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario (CDSBEO) have RAAC in at least part of their structure. A post on the CDSBEO website details which school are impacted and includes St. Mary-St. Cecilia Catholic School in Morrisburg, St. Mary Catholic School in Chesterville, Holy Cross Catholic School in Kemptville, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Lanark, St. John Paul II Catholic School in Russell, St. Joseph Catholic School in Gananoque, St. Luke Catholic High School in Smiths Falls and St. Mary Catholic School in Carleton Place.
While other boards have provided a list of schools that have RAAC as part of their structure, the UCDSB has not provided schools that have been affected.
“In sites where Siporex is part of the roof structure, staff monitor snow loads during winter months and removes snow if required to reduce the weight load,” said Scott-Clarke in a statement provided to The Vision. “On a 5-year interval, the UCDSB commissions a comprehensive structural engineer review of all sites. These processes have been in place for many years, and provides a safe environment for students, staff, and community.”
Follow up questions with the UCDSB requesting which schools across the board have RAAC as part of their structure went unanswered. No information was provided at the time of publishing.
Little-known haskap berries grow on a globe-shaped deciduous bush that can reach about two metres in height.
The fruit the native bushes produce, a sort of lighter-coloured, elongated or cylindrical blueberry, often ripens before early strawberries, depending on the weather, while offering a slightly tart flavour akin to a raspberry.
Most important to farmer and winemaker Michel Villeneuve, haskap berries, their name derived from a word in the rare Hokkaido Ainu language, also make a very fine fruit wine – a beverage that Villeneuve has been producing since 2017.
The history of his farm, Les Vergers Villeneuve and Blueberry Farm where he makes the wine, has its own rich history.
“This farm is 175 years old and has been in my family for 125 years,” Villeneuve says. “My great-grandfather was a dairy farmer here, but we converted it after the 1998 ice storm. He retired from farming – after ten days without power.”
For the last seven years, Villeneuve’s haskap wine has been part of a robust lineup of 19 fruit wines made on the 16-hectare farm, open to the public, on Rollin Road in the village of Saint-Pascal-Baylon.
“A friend of mine had been making fruit wine for about 40 years and used my blueberries. His kids didn’t want the business, so he asked me if I would take over. After I retired, I had the time and spent a year with him learning,” Villeneuve says.
He then bought all of his friend’s equipment and had it shipped and re-installed, including dismantling, board-by-board, his friend’s barn and rebuilding it.
Villeneuve’s six or seven hectares of planted crops, along with Mother Nature, generously provides the growing conditions for his wine’s raw ingredients: 2,000 blueberry plants, 3,600 raspberry plants, 500 cherry bushes and 50 grape vines along with 450 apple trees (with 25 varieties), 25 pear trees and rhubarb.
When the weather permits, Villeneuve will have hundreds of customers arrive to pick their own seasonal berries over the summer and fall.
As for the process of making fruit wine, it’s basically the same as traditional wine made from grapes as it is done around the world, he says.
The fruit wine portfolio includes apple, peach, cranberry, strawberry, blueberry, chokeberry (not chokecherry), cherry and elderberry; there is also a cooking wine made with garlic scapes.
“For the blueberry wine, we put 140-lbs of blueberries in the barrel, and we add water, yeast and sugar. It takes them about ten days to ferment and then four weeks of processing before bottling,” he says.
The blueberry wine is by far Villeneuve’s most popular: on the scale of dry to sweet wines he produces, blueberries are right in the middle. Blueberry wine and Brie make a good pairing: just recollect the number of times you’ve seen warm, pastry-wrapped Brie served with a blueberry compote at a restaurant to get the idea.
Of course, the ingredients and method of the recipe above brushes over the experience and trial-and-error learning-curve knowledge, gained over many years, that Les Vergers Villeneuve has perfected.
Inside the comfortable temperature-controlled barn and adjoining buildings, a couple of employees are busy bottling wine; there’s the faintest fruity-yeasty aroma wafting through the air.
Several large blue-plastic barrels of fermenting fruit and juice sit adjacent to beautifully shaped and corked narrow-necked glass demijohns filled and ready for bottling.
Les Vergers Villeneuve is a relatively small producer compared to some fruit winemakers across the province and into Quebec: roughly 13,000 bottles each year.
Villeneuve displays his wines from dry to sweet (upper left to lower right). Villeneuve wants to disabuse customers of the notion that all fruit wines are cloyingly sweet but have a range of flavours that can be paired with different foods to enhance their unique attributes.
Where the tastings take place, Villeneuve describes the display shelves of wines as “serpentine,” winding from left to right and from dry (with no or little residual sugar), semi-dry and sweet to dessert, chilled and sparkling. Wines are analyzed by the LCBO Lab.
In the space of the quaint old slit barn, they’ve hosted farmers’ market events, barbecues, birthday parties, corporate events, and even a CD launch party.
“Our most popular event is our wine and cheese pairings,” he says.
At tastings, which might serve 500 to 600 people over the course of a summer, you get a list of the wine and the food pairings to jot down your thoughts and tasting notes.
Villeneuve laughs and describes how couples will each buy their own individual preferred wine in the 375-mL bottles that are also available.
I enjoyed the haskap wine, clocking in at a modest 9.9% alcohol by volume: it had a hint of sweetness and a balancing gentle tartness and longish finish; it was paired with a game salami made by Bearbrook Game Meats, based in Navan.
Take a sip of red currant wine and swirl it over your palate; eat a bit of cured meat or cheese, say Emmental, and then take a second sip of wine: it’s noticeable how different the wine’s flavour is.
A rhubarb wine, still in its production and testing phase, has the faintest notes of this first-of-spring vegetable; it’s quite refreshing, as is the dandelion-flower wine with the suggested pairing of cheese curds from St-Albert.
Villeneuve’s elderberry wine, the driest, has only four grams of residual sugar: that would count as a zero on LCBO shelf.
Quite delicious “Apple Chill” is more than merely chilled: a 19-litre jug of Villeneuve apple wine is set outside on a night when it will be -28C., a sort of magic fruit ice number.
In the frigid cold, the water and alcohol separate; the water freezes around the inside of the jug with liquid alcohol remaining in the centre.
“In the morning before the sun comes up, we bring the jugs in, poke a hole at the opening of the jug and recover the concentrated wine. We now have our apple chill wine (at 16.9% ABV) instead of apple wine,” says Villeneuve.
“Autumn Pleasure” was also a bit of a surprise: it’s a deep, dusky fruit wine and might remind one of Port with its raisin, prune and molasses tasting notes: yet, it’s made with Cortland apples, a cultivar developed in the late 1800s.
That all fruit wines are cloyingly sweet is clearly a notion of which Villeneuve wants to disabuse customers unfamiliar with the beverage.
“That’s the first thing we tell them,” he says. “And paired properly with food, you get all the additional flavours.”
Yet the biggest challenge to the business, he says, is climate change and adapting to unexpected harsh frosts and extremes of rain and drought, scorching heat waves and long cold periods.
“This is why we are introducing more resistant crops for wines, plants such as dandelion for its flowers, rhubarb, garlic scapes and possibly tomatoes.”
So, overall, are fruit and vegetable wines like that little-known haskap somehow a beverage that is idiosyncratic and unique to this part of the province? In part, that may be the case, if you ask Villeneuve who adds a geographic caveat.
“Everywhere there is fruit, fruit wine is popular – here, Niagara and British Columbia,” he says as a farmer who grows his own crops. “But you have to be able to get the fruit at a very good price.”
Food writer Andrew Coppolino lives in Rockland. He is the author of “Farm to Table” and co-author of “Cooking with Shakespeare.” Follow him on Instagram @andrewcoppolino.
Dans le cadre de ses efforts pour maintenir ouvert l’aréna de Rockland qui porte son nom, l’ancien maire et député provincial Jean-Marc Lalonde soumettra au conseil municipal une pétition comportant quelque 3 500 signatures.
Lalonde doit s’adresser au conseil municipal de Clarence-Rockland le mercredi. 10 juillet, où il présentera une pétition comportant des milliers de signatures de résidents qui souhaitent que l’aréna vieille d’un demi-siècle – qui n’a pas accueilli de patinoire depuis plus d’une décennie – soit conservée et utilisée à d’autres fins récréatives.
« À Rockland, cette installation est trop importante pour notre communauté, surtout pour une communauté en pleine croissance, a déclaré M. Lalonde, qui, après avoir été maire de Rockland pendant 15 ans, est devenu député libéral au Parlement provincial de 1995 à 2011, représentant la circonscription de Glengarry-Prescott-Russell. À Rockland, nous n’avons pas de centre communautaire où les groupes peuvent tenir des réunions ou des événements. Si nous n’avons pas ce type d’installations, nous perdrons des groupes cruciaux dans notre communauté. »
Selon M. Lalonde, la pétition à elle seule devrait donner au conseil une idée de ce que veut la communauté en ce qui concerne l’aréna Jean-Marc Lalonde.
« Les gens s’inquiètent de ne pas avoir un endroit où ils peuvent organiser des événements, a-t-il ajouté. Nous devons examiner sérieusement ce que les gens veulent, et ce qu’ils veulent, c’est que cet aréna soit sauvé. »
L’arène, vieille de 51 ans, est dans un état de délabrement avancé depuis un certain temps, les administrations successives ayant choisi de ne pas entreprendre de réparations sérieuses sur le bâtiment, jugées trop coûteuses. Le toit de l’arène doit être remplacé et la structure en acier rouille. L’amiante, la peinture au plomb et la présence de rats sont également des sujets de préoccupation.
Un rapport réalisé par la ville en 2018 indique que les travaux de rénovation du bâtiment s’élèveraient à 4,5 millions de dollars, sans tenir compte de l’augmentation des coûts de construction en 2024.
En outre, en septembre 2021, un examen par un tiers des services essentiels de la ville a révélé que l’arène n’avait été utilisée qu’à 20 % de sa capacité entre 2017 et 2019 et a suggéré sa fermeture définitive. Le rapport indique que d’autres installations, telles que le YMCA, l’aréna de Clarence-Rockland et l’aréna de Clarence-Creek, pourraient plus que répondre aux besoins accrus.
L’aréna est fermé depuis avant la pandémie de COVID-19 et n’a été utilisé que comme centre de vaccination d’urgence depuis cette époque.
Groupe de travail du maire sur le JML
Le maire de Clarence-Rockland, Mario Zanth, a mis sur pied un groupe de travail sur l’avenir de l’aréna Jean-Marc Lalonde, qui fait l’objet d’un débat depuis des années.
Lalonde a déclaré que la Cité de Clarence-Rockland devrait investir dans les réparations et l’entretien nécessaires pour que l’aréna prospère pour les générations futures.
L’objectif du groupe de travail est de fournir aux conseillers de Clarence-Rockland des observations et des recommandations fondées sur des preuves et orientées vers l’action quant aux options les plus viables pour l’avenir de l’aréna Jean-Marc Lalonde.
Il présentera des recommandations au conseil qui décidera de la façon d’aborder l’avenir du bâtiment et s’appuiera sur l’expérience et les connaissances locales obtenues par le biais d’un processus de collaboration à l’échelle de la communauté avec des partenaires clés. Le groupe de travail effectuera également des recherches et établira les besoins des organisations locales, en se basant sur des données validées qui décrivent les besoins en espaces récréatifs et autres.
Le groupe de travail associera ces exigences aux attributs du bâtiment et à ceux des autres infrastructures de la Cité de Clarence-Rockland, tout en examinant tous les rapports publics pertinents relatifs au bâtiment et aux besoins en matière de loisirs, tels que le plan directeur des loisirs et les rapports au conseil. Le groupe de travail envisage également d’appliquer les meilleures pratiques et les principes d’autres villes.
Le groupe de travail veut établir une bonne compréhension des besoins actuels des diverses organisations au sein de Clarence-Rockland. Il veut examiner les obstacles et les défis du statut actuel de l’organisation, se concentrer sur les recommandations qui répondront aux besoins dans toute la municipalité, tout en identifiant et en examinant les subventions potentielles disponibles pour la Cité, et fournir un résumé de la façon dont le projet répond aux intentions du financement.
Note à nos lecteurs :
La version imprimée de cet article indiquait que la réunion du conseil municipal avait lieu le jeudi 11 juillet. Cette information n’est pas exacte. La réunion du conseil a lieu le mercredi 10 juillet et sera diffusée sur la page Facebook de la Cité de Clarence-Rockland à partir de 19 h 15. Nous nous excusons pour toute confusion que cela a pu causer.
