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Hatley is a village of 700 people, part of the Memphrémagog Regional
County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec. An
otherwise quiet and tiny agricultural village, one of Hatley’s main claims
to fame is its annual Canada Day Celebration which always takes place on
July 1st. Along with a parade (featuring horses, floats, antique cars,
tractors, children on decorated bikes and any number of other entrants),
the day includes games for children, artisan vendors, a book sale,
community lunch, local performers, and ends off with a fireworks display.
The family of Mr Stanley Whitcomb, including his daughters and his
grandchildren, led the parade for several decades.
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BY SHARON MCCULLY
Compton-Stanstead MP France Bonsant
won’t be riding in the back of a 1970 Mustang convertible in Hatley’s
Canada Day parade, but the Bloc Québécois MP didn’t hesitate to wave the
Canada Day flag in Ottawa on behalf of Hatley organizers when they were
denied federal funding for their 100th Canada Day celebration.
Hatley organizers were asking the Department of Canadian Heritage,
responsible for overseeing the $4.5 million spent on Canada Day
celebrations in Quebec, for $2,000 to help cover the cost of organizing
one of the oldest, and largest per capita Canada Day events in Quebec.
This year the small village will mark its 100th Canada Day
celebration.
Brendon Côté, a second generation Canada Day organizer, submitted
Hatley’s application for funding in February to respect the Feb. 29
deadline before leaving for a PLEASE SEE HATLEY PAGE 4 |
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Bridge work ruptures sewer
BY SHARON MCCULLY
For more than three weeks in June, raw sewage has been spewing from a
ruptured pipe under the Courtemanche bridge over Cherry River (known
locally as Cemetery Hill bridge), into the river below.
The conduit, attached to a beam on the undercarriage of the bridge which
carries sewage from Cherry River residences to the water treatment plant
in Orford Township, was ruptured during reconstruction of the bridge in
May. PLEASE SEE PAGE 4
New English weekly
for Townships
Outlet publisher Sharon McCully has teamed up with Knowlton
businessman Peter White, a veteran of the newspaper business, to produce a
regional weekly newspaper for the English-speaking community of the
Eastern Townships.
The new publication, to be called The Townships Outlet, will capitalize
on the popularity of the Magog-based monthly Outlet, while expanding
coverage to other areas of the Townships.
“This will be a community newspaper in the strictest sense of the word,”
said McCully, a former president of PLEASE SEE PAGE 3 |
