Connie Tabbert
Editor
COBDEN — Whitewater Region Township has received its fair share of money from the County of Renfrew.
During yesterday’s council meeting, Reeve Don Rathwell reviewed his monthly report, which he noted will be his final report.
There were 150 severance applications between January and September this year, compared to 128 for the same time period last year, he said.
“We conitnue to have a lot of applications and development,” he said.
In the last five years, all the County roads within Whitewater have been re-done, he said.
“We started in sections, and that’s how we got it done,” Reeve Rathwell said.
He noted Hwy. 60 to Haley’s was completed in three sections and then from Beachburg to LaPasse was completed.
Lookout Road was done twice and Beachburg Road to Greenwood Road was completed in three sections.
“If you look at the roads, in Renfrew County, and the money Renfrew County spent, we got a lot more than our fair share, and twice I co-chaired the roads committee,” he said.
“We have done well in that area,” Reeve Rathwell added.
He also worked on getting a paramedic building in Cobden or Beachburg, but wasn’t successful.
He was successful in getting a couple more paramedic trucks and a room in the township hall was fixed up as an office for the paramedics to work in.
“Now we have 12 hours of service here in the day that we didn’t have before,” he said. “I’m getting good comments about that.
“These are some of the things that Renfrew County has contributed well into the Whitewater Region, Reeve Rathwell said. “I will not sit back and let anyone say that we have not got our fair share in the last five years.”
