Review-Mirror

Westport Harbour is prepared for the busiest weeks of the year with the traditional influx of visi- tors from Quebec later this month. The number of overnight boaters has been increasing in the last few weeks after a slow start to the season, said Harbour- master Kevin Kardash. Overnight mooring dur- ing May and June was lower than expected after the delay of the opening of the season due to high water. An anticipated boon from the Rideau Canal's season of free lockage has, maybe unexpectedly, come from local traffic who are seeking day dock- ing at the harbour on a visit to the village. Kardash said 80, $20 seasonal daily docking passes had already been sold by mid-July com- pared to the 50 sold all last season last year. A one-day pass is $2. The revenue the har- bour has received from May 20 to July 3 this year in docking fees was $9,341 down 30 per cent from the $13,181 collected last year when the naviga- tion season on the canal opened as planned. The harbour's income for 2017 could also be reduced by a decision to eliminate the half-dozen or fewer seasonal boaters in a measure to allow space for more transients. The sea- sonals paid $70 a foot for the season. Construction value and fees collected in Rideau Lakes Township is half of the totals to the end of June 2016. Last year, there was $11,201,939 in construc- tion value and $199,583 in permit fees, including activity at the Opinicon Resort in Chaffey's Locks where the main lodge underwent considerable reconstruction. While the Opinicon pro- jects accounted for some of the drop in revenue this year, the numbers are still up slightly compared to 2015 but both of those years represent a drop in new homes and cottages over the last 10 years. They issued 16 permits for new homes to the end of last month, compared to 27 last year and 15 to the end of June 2015. The average for 2007- 2014 was 27. The number of permits issued for Athens and Westport totalled 38 to the end of last month, repre- senting $1.9 million in construction, up 3 per cent from 2016. The Review-Mirror July 20, 2017 – 3 Community celebrates new waterfront path The Lyndhurst community came together last Wednesday for a Canada 150 themed annual Ice Cream social and an opening of the new waterfront trail. A & B FORD COLLISION CENTRE Telephone 613-267-5749 Fax: 613-264-1099 collision2@abford.com A&B Ford Sales Ltd. 37 Lanark Rd., Perth Upper Rideau Branch 542 10099 Cty. Rd. 10, Westport 613-273-3615 1952 2017 UPPER RIDEAU #542 Monday We are the Guardians of REMEMBRANCE Follow us on Facebook for the latest on Legion 542 events Summer Excitement!!! Hamburger Fridays, 12-2pm weekly Sausage, Hot Dogs & Fries every week. Take-out available. Call 613-273-3615. 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The listing does not change an owner's right to make changes to a proper- ty but does foster aware- ness for the owner and for the municipality, which uses the information as a planning tool. A list of properties was presented at the July coun- cil meeting, but councilors questioned if residents knew the implications of having their property list- ed on the registry. A municipality's her- itage registry, under provincial regulation must include properties which have been designated, but may also contain proper- ties listed but not designat- ed. The Township of Rideau Lakes has 34 des- ignated properties, which have more stringent pro- tections for changes to aspects of designated her- itage value which could be defined in its designation. The properties from across the township were identified in a 10-year study of properties with heritage interest. Property owners were contacted when the Municipal Her- itage Advisory Committee had public events where they were presented with the research on their prop- erty. Local historian and researcher Neil Patterson researched the rural prop- erties listed, searching land records and other documentation. "I never met a person that I spoke to at those properties who didn't want something from me after- wards. There wasn't one person," said Patterson who was pleased with the gratitude of property own- ers to learn more about their homes. Council has tasked the MHAC with contacting property owners to notify them of the potential list- ing of their property. The Lyndhurst Rejuve- nation Committee (LRC) celebrated the group's lat- est community improve- ment project last Wednes- day with the opening of a new waterfront path. The event was part of what has become a Lynd- hurst tradition, a July ice cream social which had a Canada 150 theme this year. "The purpose of the event is to promote com- munity spirit and celebrate this beautiful place we live - both part of the mission of the LRC," said the group's chair Terri Daw- son. Some rain at the start of the event didn't stop peo- ple from coming out to enjoy some ice cream bars and the chance to get together with neighbors and friends. Some of the communi- ty spirit was pictured in a commemorative photo of the gathering of around 70 people facing the Furnace Falls Park looking down from Lyndhurst's stone bridge. The view from the bridge will be changing in the next few years with improvements to Furnace Falls Park and the new township land diagonally across from the boat launch property. Last winter the town- ship acquired the land across from the bridge where there is access to views of the millpond and the potential for the inter- pretation of the village's early industrial history Work on the new water- front path was completed last fall, joining Furnace Falls Park with the small playground/park at the foot of Jonas Street, the first of the LRC's coopera- tive projects with the township. Funds are dedicated this year to the creation of a plan for the area which will include improvements to existing washrooms at the boat launch area. Dawson sees the new plan as a key for funding partnerships and commu- nity fundraising. "It' will be a vision. When you are looking at the plan you can pick something so it's not ad hoc. We want a vision for the whole area," she said. Westport Harbour revenue down Township delays heritage listings until property owners contacted a second time Township construction values drop by half

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