Policing Services are likely to remain the same in Lakefield after Selwyn Township’s Council meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
During the meeting Selwyn’s CAO Janice Lavalley presented a report to council in regards to the future of the policing contract in the Lakefield Ward.
Lavalley stated that Selwyn’s currently five year contract with the policing contract in Lakefield ends on December 31, 2025. This means council would have to make a decision on whether to enter into another contract with their current policing provider which is the City of Peterborough’s Peterborough Community Police Service (PCPS), or find a new provider.
All other Wards in Selwyn are policed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
Lakefield is currently policed by the PCPS which was negotiated through a history with the organization.
Years ago, Lakefield had its very own police service which would eventually amalgamate into the Peterborough-Lakefield Police Service.
In 2014, this service was de-amalgamated and Peterborough Police Service continued policing the area through agreed contracts with the township.
Grade 7 students Brandon and Kurtis from St. Martin Catholic Elementry School in Ennismore show off their History of Ennismore project during a community event last week.
Through the help of a Trent University student, the Ennismore Heritage Trail is on the way to becoming more accessible for those with low vision or blindness and accessibility issues.
Maxim Tandon, a fourth year Trent geography student gave a delegation to council during Tuesday afternoon’s council meeting, providing an update on the Ennismore Heritage Trail Accessibility Improvement project.
Tandon undertook this project through the Trent Community Research Center with Coun. Mary Coulas, who sits on the accessibility committee for the Township, as his supervisor.
He told council, “This project is important to me because I believe everyone should be able to access the outdoors in an accessible way.”
The idea behind this project was to create an interactive mapping system of the Ennismore Heritage Trail and Waterfront Park so people with accessibility issues, such as those who are blind or low vision, may be able to travel the trails in a more accessible way through GPS Mapping.
Through this project, Tandon was able to research the current and planned trail infrastructure in the township as well as trail improvement strategies across Ontario, Canada and the beyond.
Council and staff working at the township of Douro-Dummer have been dealing with constituents that have been occupying a substantial amount of municipal resources. It was due to this concern that a special closed session meeting was held on March 18 prior to the regularly scheduled council meeting.
It was at this time that council and select staff met with solicitor John Mascarin to discuss the legal aspects of the topic. The incamera meeting began at 4:32 p.m and was completed at 5:20 p.m when council rose from the meeting with a public statement.
The public statement was read aloud by councillor at large Tom Watt and went as follows:
Municipalities were created by the Province to be responsible and accountable governments for the core purpose of providing good government on matters within their jurisdiction.
This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are dying, but in Lakefield, Terry McQuitty, the town paper’s publisher, carries on a rich, 150-year-old tradition. Set to the pace of small-town life, Unheralded is a testament to the vital role newspapers can still play, and the close bond between reporter and reader.
