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Vol. 27, No. 39
17 octobre / October 17
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Le disque du Requiem pour Mathieu, c’est prêt !
La maison Mathieu-Froment-Savoie offre à la population le disque du Requiem pour Mathieu, l’une des pièces musicales les plus importantes écrites par une compositrice de la région Pierrette Froment-Savoie.
Enregistré en février dernier lors de la cinquième édition du concert bénéfice “ Parlez-moi d’amour pour la Maison Mathieu Froment-Savoie, le Requiem pour Mathieu met en vedette l’orchestre formé des meilleurs musiciens de la région avec Paule Préfontaine comme violon solo et la compositrice Pierrette Froment-Savoie au piano.
Le disque est disponible à La maison Mathieu-Froment-Savoie, 55 rue du Couvent à Aylmer. Tous les profits iront à La maison Mathieu-Froment-Savoie, la seule maison de soins palliatifs sans but lucratif de l’Outaouais.
Pour informations : 819.682.3900
Photo: Arther Silverstone.
Programmation de deux feux de circulation - finalement!
La Ville de Gatineau avise la population que la programmation des feux de circulation sera modifiée sur le chemin d’Aylmer aux intersections des chemins Rivermead, Vanier et Fraser, ainsi que sur la rue Principale, à l’intersection de la rue du Bordeaux.
Ainsi, à compter du mercredi 10 octobre 2007, le virage à gauche sera protégé grâce au clignotement du feu vert à ces intersections, et ce, entre 6 h et 22 h.
Renseignements : 3-1-1. (FR)
Aylmer’s pool: closed more often than not
Julie Murray
One year after its opening, Aylmer’s $5.9 million pool is closed more often than not due to a lack of lifeguards. While there are still early morning swims on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, there are no longer midday swims on weekdays. The number of hours the pool is open to the public for combined, recreational, adult, or lap swims ranges from two and a half hours on Tuesdays to seven and a half hours on Fridays. There are no family swims (adults accompanying children aged thirteen or less) or parent/baby swims (adults with children aged seven or less).
Councillor Jocelyne Houle reports a similar problem in the Buckingham pool, which opened a few months before Aylmer’s. “Our situation is not as bad as in Aylmer,” she says. “In Buckingham, it’s just two blocks of time during the week, at lunchtime, when the pool is closed,” as the Tuesday and Thursday noontime recreational swim was cancelled.
Low pay, school demands
Councillor Alain Pilon, chair of council’s Sports and Recreation Committee, notes that lifeguard jobs are often filled by young people who have quit to return to school. “Other pools in Gatineau are facing the same situation. Recruiting lifeguards is very difficult” because of the low salary. Lifeguards make $9.74 per hour while assistant lifeguards make $8.71 per hour; the minimum salary in Quebec is $8 per hour. Notes Mr. Pilon, “there are better-paying jobs available to the youth.”
The low pay is accompanied by the high cost of training. To become qualified to be a Gatineau lifeguard, a person must spend nearly $500 and many hours of training. Ms Houle suggests forming partnerships to lessen the financial burden of lifeguard training.
Mr Pilon thinks the city should study increasing lifeguard salaries, and be more flexible with work schedules. “It’s not the employer who sets a work schedule for young people, it’s the other way around,” he says, adding that “lifeguarding could be a job for a recently-retired person. It could be very rewarding to watch over a beautiful pool like Aylmer’s.”
Less than 100 in water: two guards only
The city has re-opened the popular morning swim, from 6 – 8 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The time periods could be opened because of the rules regarding the ratio of lifeguards to swimmers; when there are 100 swimmers or fewer, only two lifeguards, not three, are required.
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