FEBRUARY 05 Page 01.qxp_Layout 2 2020-02-04 12:18 PM Page 1 Let Us Bring SPECtacular Tings Back Selection & Service Into Focus Tel: 613.443.3335 613-448-1116 DR. BRIGITTE M. FILION 1-866-575-2728 685 Notre-Dame Ave., Suite 2 OPTOMETRIST t)VHF4FMFDUJPOPG&ZFHMBTT'SBNFT 66 Main Street South Embrun, ON K0A 1W0 Chesterville, ON K0C 1H0 685 NOTRE-DAME ST., SUITE #2, EMBRUN (NEXT TO EMBRUN EYEWEAR) t"MM5ZQFTPG-FOTFT By Sussex Re琀 rement Living www.lelunettier.ca t(SFBU4UZMFTGPS,JET"EVMUT www.gardenvilla.ca Managed by Connec琀 ng Care 613-443-1113 t$POUBDU-FOTFT ADVERTISING DEADLINES CLASSIFIED ADS FRIDAY @ 4 P.M. DISPLAY ADS (BOX) THURSDAY @ 4 P.M. E-mail: therecordclassifi [email protected] T e Ph.: 613-448-2321 Fax: 613-448-3260 Villager NEWS INSIDE PM40050631R8905 Volume 127, Number 30 Chesterville, Ontario Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Single Copy $1.00 (HST included) Carnival’s here CHESTERVILLE – It’s carnival weekend in Chesterville. Get out your dancing shoes and hockey gear. Friday night kicks off with the spaghetti supper and fireworks. Saturday is the Firemens’ Breakfast, three-on-three hockey, a fishing derby and a euchre tournament. For the young ones on Sat., Feb. 8, the kids dance also features face painting and a candy bar. Saturday night don’t miss a performance by an AC/DC cover band. Matilda Carnival DIXONS CORNERS – Comedy, chili, pancakes and a snowmobile rally are the highlights of the Matilda Winter Carnival in Dixons Corners. It all Classic carnival activites and family fun in Inkerman begins with the rally at 10 Families came out to enjoy a fine winter day on Feb. 2 at the Inkerman Winter Classic. Skating, races and games took place inside the a.m. on Feb. 8. Chili, rink, while sleigh rides were the big attraction off the ice. The rides were provided by Bri-McFarms. Organizer Darby Ace said the car- music and a comedy act nival had something for all ages, and has received great support from local businesses. follow. The pancake Morin photo breakfast and children’s activities are slated for Inkerman Carnival keeps Feb. 9. Scotiabank decision angers Empty bowls up a tradition WILLIAMSBURG – Joseph Morin Fill some cupboards by Record Staff South Mountain residents participating in the Empty INKERMAN – The small village of Inkerman held its Joseph Morin The letter stated, “After careful Bowls’ fundraiser for soon-to-be-a-tradition Inkerman Winter Classic on Sun., Record Staff consideration of the market, we have Community Food Share. Feb. 2. SOUTH MOUNTAIN – A crowd of 100 decided to relocate our services at 106619 Drop by the Williamsburg The weather was perfect and the mood was even better or more disappointed and frustrated South Main Street, South Mountain, to our branch Christian Reformed Mountain and area residents left the at 300 Colonnade Drive, Kemptville. We’ll Church for some delicious as families from all over came by to enjoy the winter Mountain Township Agricultural Hall on be much better equipped to provide the one- soup on Feb. 8, from noon carnival’s afternoon games and dinner at the Inkerman to 2 p.m., and take home a United Church. Wed., Jan. 29; they had been at a on-one services you have come to expect handcrafted bowl. All the action took place down by the outdoor rink. community meeting hosted by Scotiabank from Scotiabank.” Inside the skate changing shack there was free hot to discuss the fate of their local South The Financial Consumer Agency of chocolate and popcorn; with people coming and going–to Mountain Branch. Canada has rules about bank closures called warm up and refuel. There was also a silent auction going In Nov. 2019, the Bank of Nova Scotia “Notice of Branch Closure Regulations.” on inside the warm skate shack. sent a letter to branch clients in South Any complaint or serious questions from Outside there were sleigh rides courtesy of Bri- Mountain stating they were planning to residents in a community about a bank McFarms. There was even a spare horse by the name of close the branch in June 2020. closure triggers a town-hall type of meeting Jake waiting his turn to get harnessed up. Scotiabank has had a bank in the village to allow a bank and its customers to have a Continued on page 5 since 1917. 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Box 153, Winchester, ON K0C 2K0 THE SNOWMOBILE – A Canadian Invention Snowmobiling has been both a “way of life” and a By 1935, J.-Armand Bombardier had designed and built winter sport for many Canadians since Joseph-Armand a rubber-cushioned, sprocket wheel-track system that Bombardier invented the fi rst “snow machine”. In made possible full-scale production of multi-passenger 1922, when he was only 15, his father gave him an old snow vehicles. By 1937, he had introduced his principle Model “T” Ford. Bombardier removed the motor and of steering by skis in front of a tracked drive. On June attached it to the framework of a typical four-passenger 29, 1937, he was granted his fi rst patent. He quickly put sleigh — the usual mode of transportation for French- up a sign on his garage —“L’Auto-Neige Bombardier” Canadian families during Quebec’s severe winters. He — and went into business. Success was inevitable and installed a huge wooden aeroplane propeller on the immediate. 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