Septembre - Echo of Cantley / Écho de Cantley

Municipal AffairsTruck Traffic Survey andConcerns Presented to CouncilPhillipa JuddCouncil meeting July 7th opened with questionsfrom resident Brian Jewitt. According to Mr. Jewitt,over the last ten years since moving to Cantley, he hasendured noise from construction vehicles noise resonatingin around his home. Specifically, increasinglysharp, irritating beeps emanating from backhoes andgraders, starting as early as 5:45 am and ceasing aslate as 8:45 pm, even on Sundays.“There is never a day in the summer that iswithout the incessant and permeating BEEP, BEEP,BEEP” pointed out Jewitt, and questioned if therecould be some kind of code for Sundays. “I feelas if I am being besieged,” he added later whenspeaking with The Echo. Piqued by the situation,and displeased with inaction from the municipality,Jewitt complained to the Ministry of Transport whoinformed him in a letter, that the municipality hasthe power of discretion to offer greater peace for itscitizens on any given day.In response to Mr. Jewitt’s complaints, MayorSteve Harris commented; “We are really reluctantto mess with that (beeping), no one wants to run therisk. We are not aware of any other complaints, ifthere were a petition signed by many other residents,then there would be something to work with”.In other news, an invite for submissions goes outto architects for a contract to prepare a preliminarystudy on the possible addition of municipal buildingsand different infrastructures to town hall.Phantom Village, Cantley’s Halloween highlight,has some major changes in the works this year.Agente immobilière affiliéeREMAX VISION (1990) Inc., Courtier immobilier agréé225 Boul. de la Gappe, Gatineau Qc J8T 7Y3Agente remarquable,résultats remarquables!Outstanding Agent,Outstanding Results!819-775-2007ROSE M. DÉSILETSChez.Rose@videotron.caCouncil approved funding for the event of $8500. Inits 15 th year with regular attendance of 3000 or more,the Rochefort family will be joining forces with theCantley Lions Club, working together to organizethe highly successful event held at Mont CascadesSki Resort. Phantom Village will be extended tobecome a two-day event with collaboration fromthe famous Maison de Hector from Gatineau, whichboasts more than 20,000 visitors on Halloween, inthe past six years.LETTRE OUVERTEBravo pour l’excellent travail des collaborateurs de L’Écho. Lecontenu du journal mensuel est diversifié et contient de très bons pointset des sujets fort intéressants.ErratumDans l’article intitulé « Des artistes tout près de nous », paru dans l’édition dumois d’août, une erreur s’est glissée : deux des photographies des œuvres d’arts deDominique Schoovaerts était mal positionnées (sens inverse).Beau travail.J’étais, avec Steve Harris à l’époque, un membre fondateur deL’Écho, et jamais personne ne nous félicitait ou pire encore, personne nedisait merci. Je me souviens même très bien d’un type francophone, en1989, qui nous avait publiquement et ouvertement critiqués, après avoircompté le nombre d’articles dans chacune des langues.À l’époque, les collaborateurs de L’Écho l’avaient invité à se joindreà notre équipe pour fournir un coup de main à la publication du journalcommunautaire.Bravo encore et un gros merci.OPEN LETTERBravo to the members of the Echo for their excellent work. Thecontent of the monthly paper is diversified and contains some very goodpoints and very interesting subjects. Good job.819I was a founding member of the Echo, along with Steve Harris, andremember that during this period, no one ever congratulated us or evensaid “Thanks”.I remember very well, in 1989, when one of our francophone readerspublicly and openly criticized the paper, after having counted the numberof French articles and the number of English articles.At that time, we invited this person to join the Echo team and giveus a hand with the publication of our community newspaper. Shortlythereafter, the individual moved away from Cantley.I would request that you publish this brief letter in the next edition.Bravo again and a big thank-you.Léo N.J. MaisonneuveSeul pompeur septique établi à CantleyL’ÉCHO de CANTLEY, septembre 2007 3