Summaries: Crash test dummies to headline Cornwall ribfest

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A chart-topping Canadian band from the 1990s will headline Saturday’s bill at this year’s Optimist Club of Cornwall Ribfest.

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The annual costuming fest is scheduled in Lamoureux Park from Thursday, July 25 to Sunday, July 28. The club released the entertainment schedule on Tuesday, noting that it had secured Crash Test Dummies as Saturday’s headliner.

Crash Test Dummies found fame in Canada with their first album The Ghosts that Haunt Me in 1991, which featured Superman’s Song. The band’s second album, God Shuffled His Feet, gained them international recognition as its lead single Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm went into heavy rotation and reached No. 4 in the US, No. 2 in the UK and #1 in Australia. . The band’s 1995 cover of The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, featured on the 1995 Dumb and Dumber film soundtrack, was also recorded.

The band went on hiatus around 2006-2017 and have been touring since the summer of 2017.

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Other highlights of the ribfest entertainment lineup include Don’t Stop Believe (Journey tribute band with Roy Nichol) on July 25th, Barstool Prophets on July 26th and County Lads closing out the program on Sunday, July 28th. the full line-up of entertainment and ribfest in general are posted on www.cornwallribfest.com.

Tax Advocacy

AKWESASNE — Akwesasne Mohawk Council Grand Chief Abram Benedict is keeping opposition to the Seaway International Bridge Corp. toll increase alive. of April 1, in a letter written to the director of SIBC this week.

Addressed to Marc Chénier, Benedict’s letter noted that bridge tolls, which are now $4.25 and charged to both Kawehno:ke and Cornwall crossing the North Channel Bridge, are having a negative impact on business of Akwesasne and families. Holders of indigenous status cards are tax-exempt.

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Benedict noted that many businesses in Akwesasne rely heavily on customers from outside Mohawk territory, and the increased tax has become a deterrent to those coming and going from Ontario or visiting Kawehno:ke from upstate New York, where they have to pay the tax because they have to report at the port of entry in Cornwall before going to their destination on the island. Adding $1 to these trips starting April 1 resulted in a decrease in customer visits.

Benedict also noted the financial strain the increased taxes have on families whose members do not all have status cards and not all live in Akwesasne.

He asked Chénier to immediately reduce taxes, implement reduced permits and dialogue with the community. SIBC uses toll revenue to fund the operations and maintenance of its two bridges, which run between Cornwall and Kawehno:ke and Kawehno:ke to the port of entry near Massena.

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New ED

ALEXANDRIA — The Glengarry Memorial Hospital Foundation Fondation de l’Hôpital has a new leader who began his role Monday.

Frédérique Théorêt has stepped into the role of executive director of the foundation, where she will oversee and manage its operations, including strategic planning, fundraising, donor relations and community outreach, and will report to the foundation’s board of directors.

A large project that the foundation is currently raising funds to support is HGMH’s purchase and installation of a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. The hospital received approval from the Ministry of Health last month to purchase and install the medical imaging device — the approval means the province will provide funding to staff and operate the scanner once it has been purchased and installed, but the province is not funding the cost of the purchase. .

The foundation is launching a three-year, $3.1 million campaign to support the purchase.

Théorêt comes to this role having recently served as Executive Director of the Charles-Émile Claude Center in Cornwall, which provides various programs and services to the Francophone community in the city of Cornwall.

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