Archive for July, 2009
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
It shouldn’t come as any surprise, but a swimming hole in Campbellford is still unsafe for taking a dip..
Lion’s Park was declared off limits again by the Health Unit for anyone planning to go swimming because of high levels of e-coli in water samples taken this week.
It has been unavailable for swimming almost every week this summer.
Our newsroom left a message with Trent Hills Mayor Hector MacMillan last week about the cause, a high goose population, and how to reduce their numbers, but he didn’t respond.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Prince Edward County firefighters’ wages will be brought up to provincial standards in a new four-year contract.
County council approved the collective agreement with the professional firefighters association, which represents the five fulltime firefighters based in Picton.
The deal, retroactive to the end of last year, will raise a first class firefighter’s salary from 60,800 dollars in January, 2009 to just over 73-thousand in October 2012. All five firefighters are rated first-class.
The agreement also includes other working condition improvements.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
A Kingston woman has been killed in a head on crash north of Warkworth.
Northumberland O-P-P say the accident happened yesterday afternoon on County Road 25, north of Honey Line.
The driver of one of the cars, 81-year-old Dorthy Cunningham, was airlifted to Kingston General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The other driver, 24-year-old Jennifer Neggers of Trenton, was taken to Campbellford Memorial Hospital, and then airlifted to K-G-H, where she is being treated for non life threatening injuries.
An investigation continues.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
There has been a breakin at a weight loss business on Sidney Street in Belleville.
City Police say someone broke into Herbal Magic overnight, but nothing was stolen..
A lot of products and other materials inside were thrown around.
Police say it was one of four business breakins in Belleville overnight.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Quinte West murder suspect Marcus Wilson is expected back in the city late this afternoon.
O-P-P Sergeant Kristine Rae says the 37-year-old suspect in the first degree murder of 36-year-old James Read at C-F-B Trenton is being returned by several officers from the Quinte West detachment, after being arrested in Nova Scotia on Wednesday.
He will be remanded into custody in Belleville provincial court tomorrow.
A post mortem determined Read died from stab wounds in last Sunday’s incident at a home on Regina Crescent at the base.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
The numbers prove just how un-summerlike it has been in the Quinte area over the past month.
An official at the C-F-B Trenton weather office says the average high at the base in July was 23.8 degrees, 2.4 below normal.
There was 107 millimetres of rain, 46.5 above average.
Environment Canada had predicted warmer weather for August, but now says it will stay cool and wet for the next few weeks.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
A Kingston woman has been killed in a head on crash north of Warkworth.
Northumberland O-P-P say the accident happened yesterday afternoon on County Road 25, north of Honey Line.
The driver of one of the cars, 81-year-old Dorthy Cunningham, was airlifted to Kingston General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The other driver, 24-year-old Jennifer Neggers of Trenton, was taken to Campbellford Memorial Hospital, and then airlifted to K-G-H. where she is being treated for non life threatening injuries.
An investigation continues.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Action in the village of Hastings last night. OPP report a car was driven into the Trent River, after failing to stop at a stop sign on Hope Street, and then driving down a boat ramp.
All 4 of the vehicles occupants swam to safety. 3 people ran away, but the driver stayed with the car.
The Trent Hills Fire Department responded quickly to make sure everyone was safe, and the OPP charged a 24 year old man from Curve Lake with Impaired Driving.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
The public was out in droves for an open house at the Codrington Community Center yesterday. The hall, north of Brighton, was filled with residents worried about a proposed aggregate pit on Ferguson Hill Road.
CBM Aggregates has applied for a rezoning of land to allow a maximum of 750 thousand metric tons of aggregate to be taken out a year.
Residents are concerned about noise, traffic, and dust. Many believe 3 to 4 hundred trucks will be in and out of the site per day.
Company officials say truck traffic will likely be 30 to 40 trucks per day. CBM Aggregates now operates 7 pits in Brighton.
A public meeting on the issue will be held August 10th, at the Brighton Municipal Office.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Prince Edward County firefighters’ wages will be brought up to provincial standards in a new four-year contract.
County council approved the collective agreement with the professional firefighters association, which represents the five fulltime firefighters based in Picton.
The deal, retroactive to the end of last year, will raise a first class firefighter’s salary from 60,800 dollars in January, 2009 to just over 73-thousand in October 2012. All five firefighters are rated first-class.
The agreement also includes other working condition improvements.
Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
What someone will do in Belleville for an icecream bar.
City Police responded yesterday afternoon after getting a report of a robbery at the Mister Convenience store in Bridge Street West.
However, it turned out the robbery, which prompted a police search of nearby streets, was actually the shoplifting of an ice cream treat.
A 19-year-old Madoc man was arrested and charged, and was held for an outstanding warrant for Northumberland O-P-P.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Lockdowns at two prisons in the Quinte Area are expected to continue for a few more days.
Prisoners at Millhaven Institution have been confined to their cells since a staff member found an unidentified weapon in one of the ranges in the assessment unit on Monday.
Assistant Warden Wendy Smith says all visits and regular programs are also suspended through the weekend, while all the cells are checked.
Warkworth Institution Assistant Warden Anne Anderson says the lockdown, in effect since about 200 prisoners protested on July 21st, and one of them died, will also remain in effect until at least early next week.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Hastings County Council has approved two motions, paving the way for improvements to hundreds of housing units, and more affordable housing.
Chief Administrative Officer Jim Pine says councillors voted, during a conference call today, in favour of the capital work plan to send to senior governments.
That will allow the county to use five-million dollars funding from the provincial and federal governments to spruce up housing units owned or managed by Hastings-Quinte Social Services.
Pine says council also approved an application for 20 new affordable units in Belleville and the same number in Trenton.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A small fire behind a Dundas Street east business in Belleville was deliberately set.
Senior Fire Prevention Officer Dave McMullen says there wasn’t much damage from the fire inside a steel building at the rear of Shoppers Drug Mart last evening. However, there is evidence arson is the cause.
McMullen says other fires have been set inside the building, and action may be taken against the owner to make it more secure.
Also, no one was hurt when a small fire broke out in an apartment above the City Hotel on Front Street at 3-20 this morning. The cause is still undetermined.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park, north of Bancroft, will be greeted late tomorrow afternoon by student workers angry with the provincial government.
The young people will stop vehicles at the east and west entrances to the park, informing park users vacation and holiday pay is being denied to 34-hundred high school, college and university students working for the province this summer.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents the workers, says it is an abuse of the government’s own labour laws.
Students received vacation and holiday pay in the past, but the government said this year the Crown is exempt from the vacation and holiday pay provisions of the Employment Standards Act.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
An official with the Ministry of Health has taken aim at how Belleville and Hastings County recruit doctors.
Jeff Goodyear says the city and county get funding from the provincial Underserviced Area Program to attract physicians, even though they have large sums of money to lure medical graduates.
He explained that is part of the reason changes to physician recruitment rules are being considered.
The ministry proposes using a Rurality Index for Ontario scale, under which communities that get a certain score will no longer be eligible for doctor recruitment funding.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Seasonal flu clinics in Northumberland County will begin earlier than usual this year.
The Health Unit’s Medical Officer of Health, Doctor Lynn Noseworthy, says the decision to start in October was made as a result of consultations among 36 of her counterparts and Ontario’s Medical Officer of Health.
Swine flu clinics would be held in late November into December if they are found to be necessary.
Eighteen people in the health unit area, covering Northumberland, Haliburton County, and city of Kawartha Lakes have had H-1-N-1 since it began in April.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A Deseronto man has been sentenced to three years in prison for impaired driving causing death.
Forty-year-old Wayne Wagar pleaded guilty in Belleville criminal court yesterday to impaired, leaving the scene of an accident and driving while suspended.
Sixty-year-old Sylvia Robins of Napanee died from injuries she sustained when her vehicle was hit by Wagar’s truck on Highway 49 at Old Highway two, in Marysville, on February 22nd.
Wagar was also given a ten-year driving ban and was ordered to provide a sample to the national criminal D-N-A databank.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A Tyendinaga Territory construction company has won a 1.3-million-dollar contract for infrastructure work at C-F-B Trenton.
The 8 wing construction engineering officer, Major Phil Baker, says Buildall contractors will resurface two roads on the north side of the runway as part of the contract.
It will also bore under the runway to connect water lines on its north and south sides to provide proper flow rates for fire protection to new buildings to be constructed just north of the runway.
The projects are part of the hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure work being done over several years at C-F-B Trenton.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A man from north of Toronto has been arrested for impaired driving in Brighton.
The O-P-P stopped an eastbound vehicle going 145 kilometres an hour on highway 4-0-1 at County Road 30 at 4-30 this morning, and the officer noticed the driver had been drinking.
A 44-year-old man from Holland Landing was charged with speeding, impaired, and driving with more than the legal amount of alcohol in his blood.
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