Several Municipality of South Dundas roads are scheduled for facelifts.
Director of public works Chris Bazinet was given the go ahead to hire Duncor Enterprises Inc. to complete surface treatment on the following roads: Irish Headline, Pages Corners, Young, Gary, Cassie, Heritage, and Hanes. Local politicians approved the request during the August 16 council meeting.
The roughly $343,844 price tag falls within the municipality’s 2016 budgeted amount of $596,000, Bazinet said. Duncor Enterprises was one of three companies to tender a bid, submitting the lowest estimate by almost $20,000.
Work was expected to begin August 23.
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Showing kindness with free car wash
Members of Love South Dundas hosted a two-hour free car wash and free barbecue in the parking lot of the Iroquois Fire Hall on June 16th. The group, consisting of volunteers of all ages, was fast and efficient as a succession of cars made their way through the ‘hands-on’ car wash on Saturday morning. Love South Dundas is an annual two-week long event hosted by the churches of South Dundas. Members of the many congregations perform random acts of kindness throughout the event. This year, Love South Dundas kicked off on June 10th. It will end on June 24th with a large (and free) celebration at Earl Baker Park in Morrisburg.

Legion Branch 48 makes a big splash at launch
Forty area school children, gathered Monday to learn about a community splash pad project set for this summer, here in Earl Baker Park.
Having already secured about half of the $200,000 needed to make the splash pad a reality, the community playground committee was surprised with a $10,000 cheque from the local Legion, Branch 48 in Morrisburg at the launch of the fundraising campaign.
“What a great way to start,” said Matt McCooeye, committee spokesperson. “In our last campaign, they were among the first to step up and contribute. We really felt their generosity served as a springboard for all of the great community support we received in our last campaign.”
The community playground group, which was created in 2011, piloted a community driven campaign that recruited over 225 volunteers and raised over $114,00 to build the playground in Earl Baker Park.
The splash pad is phase two of that 2011 project.
Legion president Graham Houze, said they were happy to provide $10,000 to this cause. “It’s a very worthwhile cause for the children and the people of the area, so we thought we would throw our support behind it with this donation.”
“The concept is about the whole community working together to deliver something for the kids,” said McCooeye.
Like the in phase one, the children will have a say in their new splash pad, which the committee intends to have completed by the end of this year.
“It is important for us to engage all people in South Dundas, including the kids,” said McCooeye. “We want to get the kids’ input into what they want included. We can’t wait to hear what they have to say.”
The kids will get their say as part of the ‘Dotmacracy’ when the committee visits area schools in June. Kids will have the opportunity to vote on their favourite features, and that input will be used for the creation of the final design.
Since the project is meant to be a community endeavour, anyone who has an idea to help fund raise for the splash pad is welcome to bring it to the committee.
Already, a local band – One Night Standards, has approached the committee to hold a fund raising dance for the splash pad. Lane Hunter, Oak Hunter, Troy McMillan and Night Hunter will play the Morrisburg Legion, May 17, with all proceeds going to the splash pad.

Paving the path
It looks like people in Iroquois will have the good fortune of walking or biking on a smooth, nicely paved path this spring.
On October 4th, Don Lewis, Manager for Recreation and Facilities, updated South Dundas Council on the state of the Iroquois Walking and Bike Path.
The 2011 budget allotted $20,000 for repairs to the path.
“The repairs consisted of removal of stones which had caused substantial heaving due to freeze/thaw cycles.”
Lewis and his crew completed the repairs “in-house” and according to Lewis, “we only spent $2,500 to $3,600 so we have a good chunk left.”
He requested that council give the go ahead to use the remaining funds to pave the path: “Due to the limited time remaining in the paving season, staff is requesting that Council approve the paving of the walking/bike path as long as the price to complete paving is within the remaining budget allocation.”
Lewis told council that he had “contacted some companies” and “if council wishes, we can go ahead and do the paving job and it will be in budget.”
Councillor Evonne Delegarde inquired as to the amount of path to be paved and, according to Lewis, “all of it” will be done leaving “nothing left to do.”
Council agreed and the Iroquois Walking and Bike Path will be freshly paved by H&B Contracting from Chesterville. Lewis told the Leader that, weather permitting, the company has agreed to be in Iroquois next week.
Councillor Jim Graham applauded Lewis and his staff saying it’s “efforts like that that’s left us with a surplus at the end of the year.”
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