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Circus on skates Laughing clowns trailing big bright balloons cavort across the ice at Hull's Place du Portage Friday. They were celebrating the rink's opening. Ouellet blames Quebec for sewer delays Murder attempt charge reduced Metro news Michelle Morissette Journal Reporter Current delays in getting the Outaouais regional sewer treatment plant off the ground are Quebec's fault, not the federal government's, Urban Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet said Friday. But there is no question of the plant being scuttled or even put back under wraps for a five- to 10- year period, he said. "There have been delays on the project this I admit.

But as far as both governments stand, the areas of disagreement no longer exist," Ouellet said in an interview. In Hull to inaugurate a new mini-Rockefefeller skating rink at Place du Portage, Ouellet said that in fact, as far as he was concerned there was no reason for current delays in calling for public tenders on the controver- BROCKVILLE (Special) Kenneth Holben, 30, of Kemptville was jailed for 18 months here Friday afternoon on a charge of assaulting OPP Constable Gabriel Carpentier of Kemptville near Oxford Mills last June. Holben had originally been charged with attempted murder but a jury which heard the case reduced the count to common assault. In sentencing Holben Mr. Justice Peter Cory said the jury had seen fit to reduce the charge but the case was still serious and Holben would have to serve a reformatory term.

Police evidence had indicated Holben had lured the officer to Oxford Mills to investigate a domestic While there Holben drew a knife, threatened the officer and tried to stab him. Carpentier side-stepped the blow and was not injured. However, Holben slashed his own arms before being subdued. A second man appearing before Mr. Justice Cory, Yvon Joseph Lalonde, 36, of Elgin, was sentenced to three months on a charge of.

possessing a dangerous weapon. Lalonde also had been charged with attempted murder but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. The original charge was dropped. Police alleged Lalonde. had fired a .303 rifle at his landlord Morton Hawkins, 72, during a dispute over rent.

Victory only temporary Historic church The Aylmer Heritage Association has won temporarily its battle to save the historic 1825 Methodist Church threatened by a proposed super-highway. The stone building on Aylmer Road will be used as a cultural centre until construction of the Deschenes Highway begins, the Heritage Association has been told by the ministry of cultural affairs. All they will be asked to pay is operating expenses and taxes, said ministry representative Florian Lavoie. The lease is for two years, with options to renew until the highway construction begins, not expected before five years. But Lavoie warns the offer should not be interpreted as permanent.

The ministry of transport has expropriated the building and intends to relocate it. For the Aylmer Heritage Association relocation is the lesser of two evils. "Tearing the building down stone by stone and moving it can be done if there is enough money. But the historic location is just as important in this case," said Heritage spokesman David Taylor. The church was located outside of the heavily populated area when the Methodists were looked upon with suspicion by their French and Irish Roman Catholic neighbors.

It was near the church that Fenians marshalled for their numerous raids. The Heritage Association has lobbied to have five buildings in the area protected under the special status created for historic buildings. They succeeded in having the church and two private homes as heritage homes, which means permission must be obtained to alter or move them. The church was turned into a private home and inhabited until a few months ago. The rooms are not Saturday, January 14, 1978 Ottawa Journal 3 Commission giving up on school buses By Marianne Ackerman Journal Reporter The Outaouais Transit Commission will get out of the school bus business as soon as possible Chairman Pierre Caron vowed Friday.

A strike by 150 bus drivers now in its fourth day is costing the commission money, said the chairman. The school board portion of the CTCRO business is a break even proposition at any rate, he added. Caron said the commission has received verbal assurance from the provincial ministry of transport that the $2-million school bus contract can be dropped and is awaiting further information. Outaouais is -the only transit commission in Quebec which owns and operates buses to serve local school boards. Caron said the 130 buses will be put up for sale in the summer if the commissioners decided to end the contract.

They will meet and discuss the subject Wednesday. At the same time, Caron Pierre Caron said the CTCRO has in- commission getting out sial multi-million dollar plant. Construction of the plant, already several years behind schedule, was set back a further year and a half this past year while the federal and Quebec governments battled over who would be eligible to put in bids for the project. However, while matters seemed to be settled when Quebec Environment Minister Marcel Leger agreed last Nov. to allow firms whose head offices were located within a 20- mile radius of Ottawa to bid on the plant, the project still remains at a standstill.

"I don't know what happened. got sion that the correspondence between and Leger was very positive. I thought that we had both understood each other completely and that publie tenders would now be called for," Ouellette said in an interview. "The only reason I can find to explain the delay is that Quebec was waiting to name a successor for (former Outaouais Regional Community chairman) Jean Marie Seguin." Seguin who was forced to resign last week because of Quebec's "continuing silent treatment toward the region" was held in the dark about the government's plans regarding the chairmanship until last week. Last Tuesday a letter from the minister of municipal affairs, slipped under his door, informed him that his resignation had been accepted.

Barely a day after he uttered his bitter swan song, the government appointed regional urban Woman dies in bed fire A 28-year-old' Hull woman who just returned from visiting family in Haiti died of asphyxiation early today in a 10-minute mattress fire Police say Senetta Maturin Mentor, of 126 Laval died in Sacred Heart Hospital after firemen answered a call about 12:30 a.m. Fire officials said property damage was slight and the fire was out within 10 minutes. Hull police also said they were investigating the possibility of arson in a blaze which razed the Moulin Rouge Restaurant Friday morning. Gatineau fire officials are investigating the cause of a blaze which "considerably damaged" a home on Rue des Erables, off Highway 307, about 2:50 p.m. Friday.

saved by group large enough for a theatre or gathering place for crowds, but the space could be perfect for an arts and crafts shop, rehearsal rooms, and meetings of small CKCU may be victim of savior Carleton University's radio station CKCU-FM was pulled out of a referendum frying pan on its existence Friday, but now it's waiting to see if the school's student council will light a fire. Dan Perley, electoral officer for the Carleton University Student's Association (CUSA), said a petition forwarded last Tuesday by a student to hold a referendum on the funding of the station was invalid. Perley said it was invalid because no student numbers were given and many names were illegible, Perley said. He said 283 confirmed names were needed to force a referendum, but only 256 of the submitted 303 names were validated. The student's referendum question was whether the station should receive more or less money than it does now, or any money at all, from CUSA's coffers.

However, Perley said, when student council heard of the proposed referendum, it decided to hold a referendum of its own on whether the student's association should fund the station at all. Perley said a second vote of confidence at council this coming Tuesday is needed to initiate a referendum Feb. 1. 4 planner Jean Marc Rivest to replace him. But Rivest will not officially take over until Feb.

I when his appointment goes into effect. The Quebec government in its November letter also asked Ouellet to allow the ORC to be the sole manager of the sewer treatment network and to agree to a meeting between the participating governments to negotiate how the project is to be financed after it is built. Ouellet said that has raised no objections to the former suggestion and has asked National Capi- tal Commission chairman Pierre Juneau to represent him at any meetings. So far no meetings have been called. Ouellet who called Seguin a very "devoted" public servant refused to speculate on what Rivest's relationship with the federal government will be.

"I'm not afraid of Rivest. But all I can say at this stage is that I hope he will be governed by the same sentiments as Seguin was," he said. Rivest, a former Parti Quebecois member has said he will not let Quebec lead him by the nose. creased its salary and hours of work offer to the union. The new proposal will be presented to the union Monday in a written statement.

Although the CTCRO has moved ahead on both issues, Caron said he will never agree to 30 hours guaranteed work a week, a demand which would cost the commission $300,000 in unworked man hours between now and 1980. He will ask the drivers' negotiating team, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, to reply in writing to avoid further confusion. "We have never refused to talk with them as they claim," said Caron. "We have not been contacted by the union since talks broke off Union spokesmen were unavailable for comment. The CTCRO rejected the terms of a federal mediator's report released earlier this week, and called on the union to negotiate directly with them.

The bus drivers are asking a basic rate of $7 an. hour and a 30-hour work week for all employees. They now earn an average $4.48 an hour. The latest commission offer was $6.54 an hour by 1979 and a sliding scale of guaranteed work hours. Nearly half of West Quebec's 40,000 elementary and secondary school children have been left to find their own transportation since Wednesday.

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