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This is Legion Week, and it will be a quiet one at Branch #48. It has been a busy year with the celebration of our 85th anniversary and will continue into November with the honours and awards dinner and Remembrance Day.

The last two weeks have seen bingo players number in the 70s. There is good fun and good prizes.

The meat draw on September 18 was for ground beef and was won by Edith Sypes. It is still barbecue weather.
Monday, September 19, the men’s dart league will begin, and on Tuesday the 20th mixed darts will begin.

Our Ladies Auxiliary will cater the Canadian Club on Wednesday, September 21, as the Club’s fall and winter series begins. They will also cater a country supper for the Playhouse on September 23. They still find time to play euchre. Three teams will play district euchre at Branch #297 in Cornwall in October.

Business from the general meeting on September 14 saw a donation of $1,000 going to the Terry Fox Run and $1,500 going to restoration of the mural of the old train station depicted on the wall of Giant Tiger. This restoration is expected to last for 10 years and will hopefully display the Branch #48 logo. It was reported that four bursary applications have been received to date and are being considered.

Friday, September 30, is steak night, so mark your calendar for another great meal and for good music as Fergus Entertainment will play in the pub.

Senior games in Smith’s Falls in August saw several local names appear including Jim and Judy Scott in darts, Monique Patenaude, Nancy Warner, Elise Muir, Joan Findlay in golf and Dale Swerdfeger in golf. We may be seniors, but many are still active.
Last week, in mentioning September, it is Childhood Cancer Awareness month.

Until one has loved an animal, part of the soul remains unawakened.

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Good numbers turned out at the Lutheran Church hall Monday night for the Williamsburg Girl Guide’s official launch of their Cookie Campaign and an open house. “The girls will be taking their cookies home tonight,” said Sparks leader Melissa Ringler explaining that the combination Cookie Launch/ Open House was an effort for the Guide’s to get more exposure during a current Try Now. Join Later recruitment program. “I have seen four families here who aren’t part of our group, so that is very encouraging,” said Ringler. The Try Now. Join Later campaign encourages girls as young as five (Sparks) to give Guiding a try for the months of April, May and June without paying a membership fee. The Williamsburg groups meet every Monday night at the Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, where they work on crafts, play games and get involved in various activities. “The girls do a lot of their own planning for the things they want to do,” says Ringler. “We are a small group, but we have a great time.” Anyone interested in the Try Now. Join Later Girl Guides recruitment campaign can contact Ringler by e-mail at melissaringler@sympatico.ca. The local Guides groups will be out and about selling their cookies over the next couple of weeks. Pictured above, front l-r, are Brownie Maeryn Gilmour and Guide Hailey Guerin. Back, left is Spark Jesse Vezina, with Pathfinder Sierra Swindells.

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Anyone who owns land in or around a provincially significant wetland will now have a new regulating authority.

South Nation Conservation will take over the duties after their board voted resoundingly in favour of a staff motion, tabled at the January 17 meeting.

South Dundas mayor Steven Byvelds tried, in vain, to gain enough support from his fellow board members to allow local municipalities within the conservation authority, like South Dundas, to maintain some local control over any projects happening in and around these provincially significant wetlands.

South Dundas council supported Byvelds’ efforts to maintain local control, by providing a resolution of support. However, even with that resolution, Byvelds was unable to sway any of the other board members which include representatives from the City of Ottawa, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Prescott-Russell, and Leeds and Grenville.

“I emphasized that our (South Dundas) staff could do the work of looking after wetlands from a local perspective,” said Byvelds.

“It has always worked fine. I don’t understand why they want to change it,” said Donald Lewis, South Dundas manager of planning and enforcement, head of the department which has looked after regulating the wetlands here. 

“I’m a bit concerned,” he said explaining that with a new authority comes a new interpretation of the regulations used to govern the land. With that new interpretation comes the potential to stymie development. South Dundas council shared his concern.

After a long, lively debate, the SNC board decided to support the staff motion to take over regulation of provincially significant wetlands in all of South Nation Conservation’s jurisdictions.

South Dundas will respect the board’s decision. 

“In the end somebody has to regulate PSWs. South Dundas was just looking at a more local way of dealing with local property owners and their plans,” said Byvelds.

Any work in or around a PSW will need permission from SNC which will have permit fees and a set of rules which must be followed.

As of yet, the Morrisburg Industrial land that has the potential to be declared a provincially significant wetland, is still designated as a local wetland, so it is not yet subject to the new regulation changes. 

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