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Belleville city council’s newest member Tyler Allsopp was sworn in Monday in a ceremony closed to the public due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Coun. Allsopp enthused he was ready to take on the empty seat on council left vacant by the passing of the late Pat Culhane late last year.
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With his appointment, he becomes the ninth member of city council for the remainder of this term.
Allsopp was named to the seat by council according to longstanding tradition by past councils that the elected candidate who fell just short of earning enough votes to earn a seat on council be chosen to fill an empty seat on council.
Arctic charity resilient in challenging times Juno Award winner Susan Aglukark, left, founder of the Arctic Rose Foundation, at a workshop in Ariat, Nunavut, that trains two Indigenous youth to serve as Community Artist Liason and Mentor (CALM) workers. Photo courtesy Arctic Rose Foundation
Arctic charity resilient in challenging times By
Bernadette Timson, Youth Speak Newa December 22, 2020
Like most charities across Canada, the Arctic Rose Foundation finds itself operating in a landscape that is, and will remain, uncertain for some time.
Founded by three-time Juno-winning Canadian-Inuk singer/songwriter Susan Aglukark, Arctic Rose strives to support Indigenous communities particularly children and youth in northern Canada, especially its most remote and isolated regions. In this challenging time of COVID-19, which hasn’t spared any corner of this vast land, executing the foundation’s annual Christmas Food Program is a chief priority. So far, food stock is soli