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Community Voice - October 1, 2020 1 Free consultations. No fees until we settle. Disability insurance denials, car crashes, wrongful dismissal, slip and fall accidents and medical malpractice. Call today 613-599-3535 or www.gironeslawyers.com You have nothing to lose and so much to gain. Your STITTSVILLE CommunityVoice & RICHMOND October 1, 2020 [email protected] 613-45-VOICE www.ottawavoice.ca [email protected] Vol. 3 No. 19 High school Ward may opening may change be delayed BY JOHN CURRY BY JOHN CURRY The Stittsville municipal The municipal red tape has ward boundaries may be been cleared to allow the changing – a little bit. new Stittsville High School These changes may arise project to proceed. out of the city-wide ward This red tape involved boundary review now un- approval of a site plan for derway. Three areas of the the new Ottawa Carleton Stittsville ward have been District School Board identified for possible (OCDSB) high school which change. has now happened. This has Most of the optional allowed the school board to Submitted boundary changes recom- call tenders for the construc- This architect’s rendering shows a view of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board’s new Stittsville High School for which mended in the first phase tion of the facility and pro- capital funding was allocated by the province in 2018, with a proposed opening date of September 2022. The new school will of the review see Stittsville’s ceed with its construction. be constructed at the southwest corner of Cope Drive and Robert Grant Avenue in the Fernbank lands. ward boundary extended However the new Stittsville south towards Flewellyn public high school may is the ongoing COVID-19 2022 opening date even be- and other things needed for $37.4 million which was Road. This would include not open in Sept. 2022 as pandemic. fore the pandemic struck. the construction of the new considered inadequate to new development in that planned. She said there is certainly She said that with the onset school. cover the full cost of the con- area which is currently in “It is possible that the a chance that the new high of COVID-19, the project ba- She said the Board should struction of the new school the Rideau-Goulbourn rural completion date will be school’s opening date will sically lost six months of its have a better idea of the when it was announced in ward. delayed,” Ottawa Carleton have to be pushed into 2023. timeline. She said the whole timeline for the new school Jan. 2018. She said that the Some options suggested District School Board area But she added that the Board summer was lost before the once the tendering process actual cost will depend on would extend Stittsville’s trustee and chair Lynn Scott will do everything possible Board was able to go ahead closes and the contract is the results of the tender call eastern boundary south of said after confirming that to keep to the Sept. 2022 for calling tenders for the awarded. but noted that construc- highway 417 from the cur- the tender call for the new opening. project. Scott said the Board has tion costs are up due to the rent boundary at the Carp school closes at the end of Scott explained that the In addition, Scott pointed found other funds to apply COVID-19 pandemic. River to Terry Fox Drive. September. project timeline was al- out the pandemic may affect to the project to boost up the The culprit in the delay ready tight with its Sept. the availability of materials provincial grant funding of PLEASE SEE SCHOOL, PAGE 11 PLEASE SEE WARD, PAGE 11 Your Customized Hearing Care 613-692-7375 5528 Ann St., Manotick Experience Awaits! www.HearingFreedom.com Call now to learn more. 2 October 1, 2020 - Community Voice News $1.5 million to Stittsville winner BY JOHN CURRY It’s called the Instant Super Set For Life lottery and now that’s just what Glen Newberry of Stittsville is – super set for life. Newberry won the top prize of $100,000 a year for 20 years, although he took OLG photo the option of a one-time Glen Newberry of Stittsville points to his Instant Super payment of $1,500,000. Set For Life lottery winnings. He opted to take a one-time Newberry, a 32-year-old payment of $1.5 million. gas station attendant, has always dreamed of being a Instant Super Set For Life he would pay off the dad’s millionaire and in fact fre- lottery tickets. It was the ca- mortgage and also treat quently told people he was shier at the store who picked him to the classic car he has going to be one. Now he is. out and provided him with always wanted. Newberry The winning ticket was what proved to be the grand says taking care of his fam- purchased at Mac’s on prize ticket. ily is important for him, en- Hazeldean Road in Kanata. Indeed, it was not until the suring that the people that Newberry had been out hik- next day when Newberry he loves are looked after. He ing when he stopped at the was at home drinking his is also planning to use some store to pick up some re- morning coffee that he dis- of the money to take a vaca- freshments. He recounted covered his win. For a while, tion with family and friends that as soon as he walked he thought that he must be when the pandemic is over. into the store, his left hand dreaming. But he wasn’t. “This win is a turning point started to itch. He took that The first thing he did in my life,” he says. as a good omen, deciding was call his father and ad- on the spot to buy some vised him to retire, saying [email protected] COVID-19 CARLETON RESOURCE PAGE: NEWS FROM QUEEN’S PARK GOLDIEMPP.CA/COVID-19 ONTARIO INVESTING MORE THAN support public health units in contact follow- collection, with more assessment centres ups through an agreement with the federal Th e health and well-being of the $1 BILLION TO EXPAND COVID-19 off ering this option in the coming weeks. 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