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Chelmsford-based Belanger Construction Inc. was awarded a pair of contracts during Tuesday’s city council meeting.
The first, in the amount of $3,895,342.50, plus HST, is for the extension of St. Jean Avenue, from McBride Street 400 metres west toward Government Road.
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“This street extension will allow for the development of 11 industrial lots that will be sold for future development,” said Patrick Seguin, the City of Timmins’ director of Public Works and Engineering.
“I believe three are already sold and we have started some of the industrial lots off of McBride Street. That’s underway already.
Timmins history: East End flooding SHARE ON:
We continue wading through floods of the past this week, as we look back on Timmins history.
Museum director-curator Karen Bachmann says beginning in 1913, Porcupine Lake and Porcupine River would flood every spring.
“And when I say flood, I mean flood the entire community of South Porcupine,” she expands. “So there are wonderful photographs of people in barges and canoes and what not, floating down Golden Ave. But it got very serious, and it was always something that everybody worried about.”
“Schumacher was good for floods as well. Pearl Lake of all things, can you imagine? And flooding into the centre part of the community. Father Costello Dr., which was First Ave. then, would be flooded every year.”
Clean-up set for trails that are used more than ever during the pandemic SHARE ON: (pixabay.com)
Wintergreen Fund for Conservation chairman Mark Joron says people-counters on some Timmins nature trails prove that usage is way up.
“The number of people on the trails has increased since the COVID thing has happened,” he informs My Timmins Now Dot Com.
Especially busy is the Hersey Lake trail.
It’s operated by Wintergreen along with the Mattagami Region Conservation Authority. They also run the trails at Gillies Lake, Porcupine Lake and along the Mattagami River.
This Saturday, you’re encouraged to go for a walk with your family and bring a bag so you can pick up garbage that other people have left behind.