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Stormont Dundas South Glengarry MPP Jim McDonell fired back on Friday against criticism levelled at him in the past week by local officials regarding the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
“The last thing we need to be doing is having neighbouring municipalities competing (for vaccine), arguing who is hardest hit (with cases in a) given week,” McDonell said in a phone interview late Thursday.
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“I don’t want municipalities fighting. . . Dr. Paul (Roumeliotis) is in charge of the five counties, and I think Cornwall has been well-served.”
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SDSG – Municipal fire departments are receiving money from the provincial government to help them through the pandemic.
There is a total of $52,300 going to departments in Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry to help them with fire safety training and inspection programs.
Outside of SDSG, another $62,600 went to fire departments in Eastern Ontario.
Individual amounts were not provided by the local MPP’s office.
Departments were allowed to apply last month for a base $4,500 grant plus additional money that was based on the population served.
There was $5 million available to 441 fire departments across Ontario. There are 32 large municipal services, like Cornwall, with full-time firefighters, another 215 with a mix of full-time and volunteers and 194 small volunteer fire departments like the ones in SD&G.
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The consolidation of Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and St. Lawrence Secondary School is still underway.
The brand-new $39-million facility will include grades seven through 12, but has made little headway since its funding announcement in the spring of 2017 by the Upper Canada District School Board. A letter home to parents this past week assured them the project was still going ahead.
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“Parents need to know that the UCDSB is still committed to a new 7-12 state-of-the-art school to serve our students. In the meantime we will operate both St. Lawrence and CCVS as usual,” said David McDonald, the trustee for the two schools.