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More than 3,400 Subscribers Book Your Space Now! www.ovbuslness.com | [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. Laurentian Hills. ment of their own, and maintain said that for them, the status one for their blaming them for the “killer quo own use in their those expenses in a town of235 was not an Doncastcr highway“ reputation.But what if option. own municipality. people. That, said HCM Mayor was noted as saying that “Deep Fire Services that isn’t the whole story? Jim Gibson.was not sustainable. River loses by How We Got Here being ofNRl3RU" The dissolution of the agree- January 15, 2016 Accident and he did not recommend ment HCM Township was part of brought forward another The decision to disband the with - the North Ren?ew Emergency continuing the agreement. issuc ofl'lCM Township would NRERU occurred by September Doncaster’s that Response Unit (NRERU) along reasoning was anyone provide fire services to 1, 2015, but the issue only really any ?re?ghter or piece of equip- them’!Deep River was notably with the Town of Deep River came to light in January of 2016 and the Town of Laurentian ment pulled out of Deep River closer to HCM, but indicated when three Pembrokestudents their Hills. Deep River has a paid ?re puts residents at risk. He they could not support having traveling home from Nipissing department, Laurentian Hills called NRERU “greatly taxing” ?re?ghters away from their mu- University lost control of their and stated that Deep River “did Laurentian has a volunteer ?re department nicipality. Hills had vehicle and went offthc road and HCM Township has no ?re not want to be in this business the same problem plus one other: on that 30 kilometre stretch of anymore." it‘they did HCM department. This tri-party group help Township, Highway 17 in HCM Township. Laurentian Hills Fire would their aid provided auto extrication servic- Chief. mutual agree- The three students were stuck in Kevin Waito, said the agreement ment with Deep River be void‘? es on provincially—ownedroads the vehicle and couldn‘t get out. in each municipality’s jurisdic- was working ?ne for them. Mutual aid is when ?r'e depart- HCM hit with an ments tion. The agreement was entered Township, in neighbouringjurisdic- Continued on Page 3 into more than 20 years ago. unexpected 530,000 invoice tions agree to help each other. for didn’t In 2010, some questions were 2015. seem to have a But, if Laurentian Hills had Joltirstélk LEFESTIVALEDES FESTIVALOF Insurance as Individual {IS V0 |la,tI[l0II'ES- t 0llt(IO0I‘ exterleures February 16, 2016 Ottawa ValleyBusiness Page2 Ottawa Valley February 24, 2016 March 3, 2016 29:11Annual KeinptvilleWinter Selling Food to Ontario Work- BUSINESS Woodlot Conference. Keynote shop. 9:00am-3:30pin. Horton Ottawa Valley Business(OVB) is a twice- speaker is Bruce Di Labio. Community Centre in Renfrew. monthly publication covering business Register by February 19111for To register Visit: www.rccfdc.org news and events throughout Rentrew, ‘ $35 (includes lunch). 8:30am to or call 613-431-3951. Lanark and Pontiac counties and the I 4:30pm. North Grenville Munici- March 3-4, 2016 surrounding areas. 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Through 2012, According to media reports, the individual of?cer‘s discretion on where agreements are in peril, JEPP provided over $170 1nil- ?rst to arrive on scene about 30 how to manage the scene. In this another solution is needed. lion in grants across Canada for minute after the accident was the case, they felt it was better to “It is a general assumption that emergency training, equipment OPT’,followed by two County of wait for a ?re department. wherever you are in Ontario that and planning. The program Renfrew ambulances, “The of?cer has to be coin- the fire departmentwill re- ended in the 2012-13 ?scal In reviewing the situation, the fortable that what he would do spond to emergency‘ calls,” says year.