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[email protected] Issue No. I76 Published by:Ottawa ValleyBusiness Group February I6, ZOI6 The Businessof Auto Extrication The “publicinterest” strikes at local pocketbooks By: JenniferLayman ?re?ghters in HCM, that could
[email protected] Deep River loses by being part of NRERU void their mutual aid agreement with Deep River, leaving no one The story of a lack of auto (North Renfrew Emergency Response Unit.) to cover their municipality.So, extrication service on a 30 Laurentian Hills had to decline kilometre stretch of Highway to be on call for - GLENN DONCASTER, REEVEOF DEEPRIVER HCM. 17 in northern Renfrew County HCM reached out to Mattawa, has earned national attention. who already covers a portion of raised about the sustainability position one way or the other, The story has made it to the the municipality, to see ifthey of the agreement and by 2015, according to the notes. the National Post and CBC among In could cover all of it. Due to the the other conglomerates. Most of the agreement was in peril. Ac- end, all three partiesconceded distance, Mattawa declined. cording to notes from various to dissolve the The stories have pointed the ?nger agreement. Now HCM had no access to meetings, Deep River Reeve auto extrication at the Township of Head, Clara equipment was ?re services at all unless they Glenn Doncastcr, who sat on the transferred to Laurentian Hills and Maria (HCM Township) and wanted to start a ?re depart- NRERU Board of Management and Deep River purchased a new their neighbour.