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Reid Funeral Homes — the Environmental Achievement for 30 years of planting trees in honour of the families they have served, and creating the Fred Cada Memorial Forest, a six-acre restored forest with thousands of native Carolinian trees as a living memorial to those who have passed on.
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The Town of Amherstburg — the Robert Pulleyblank Municipal Environmental Achievement Award for upgrading its wastewater treatment plan, creating a sanitary master plan to guide infrastructure projects, the Map and Grow project in partnership with the University of Windsor, its tree canopy and natural vegetation and protection enhancement policy, the transformation of a former sewage lagoon into a vibrant naturalized area, annual Earth Day Tree plantings and phragmites management.
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County wants to place clinicians in the EMS dispatch centre
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Last week, Essex County Warden Hilda MacDonald described a meeting she and CAO Sandra Zwiers had with Ministry of Transportation officials at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in Toronto to seek $60 million in funds for at $105-million overpass at the intersection of county roads 22 and 19 (Manning Road).
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MacDonald said she, Zwiers and Essex-Windsor EMS Chief Justin Lammers also met with Health Minister Sylvia Jones to advocate the need to optimize the new priority ambulance dispatch system coming to Windsor-Essex. Local MPPs Andrew Dowie, Anthony Leardi and Trevor Jones also attended the meeting.
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“We made a compelling case that embedding clinicians in the dispatch centre would improve triage accuracy, optimize resource deployment amid ever-increasing call volumes, and ensure residents get the right care in the right place at the right time,” said MacDonald.
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Bondy seeks information on green-bin program
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Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy wants more information about the region’s organic waste green-bin program, which started in Windsor and several Essex County municipalities in October.
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Bondy introduced a notice of motion at Essex County Jan. 21.
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She is seeking information on the effectiveness of the program in each municipality, statistics on the effectiveness on the program in urban and rural areas, details of the public education campaign for the program, details of the future planned public education campaigns and information about the cost of the program to each of the seven local municipalities.
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She did not disclose the reason for requesting the information on the program just three months after it launched.
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Essex County has published a list of frequently asked questions and responses that can be found here.
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Low road salt supplies in Lakeshore
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During the weekend snowstorm, the Municipality of Lakeshore said the region experienced low salt supplies. Salt was focused on priority roads and areas prone to ice buildup to conserve supplies.
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Lakeshore said it started the winter with 4,500 tons of salt, which is typically enough for an average season of winter operations, but it is trying to acquire more.
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MPP Jones announces $7.1M for Leamington sewer infrastructure
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Big changes are coming to the Municipality of Leamington’s sewer system.
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On Wednesday, MPP Trevor Jones (PC — Chatham-Kent-Leamington) announced a total of $7,140,411 in provincial funding to help complete the first two phases of the Northwest Quadrant Sewer Separation infrastructure project.