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Up to 100 representatives, dignitaries, and guest speakers are expected to descend on Fort Frances for a few days next month as the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce holds its annual general fall meeting here.
At its regular meeting tonight, town council will receive a financial request from the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce to sponsor the event, which will take Sept. 24-26 at La Place Rendez-Vous.
“NOACC represents a membership of 11 regional Chambers of Commerce throughout Northwestern Ontario,” the Chamber wrote in a letter to council.
“Their non-partisan stance and strong grassroots support from over 2,000 Northwestern Ontario businesses makes NOACC ‘The Voice of Business in Northwestern Ontario.’
“We sincerely hope that you will consider lending your support to the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce and NOACC during our centennial year and major convention weekend so that we can make this a comfortable and memorable time for our out-of-town guests,” the letter added.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 7:15 p.m. at the Civic Centre.
The committee of the whole will meet first at 5:30 p.m., but is scheduled to be in-camera until 6:20.
Other business on the agenda for tonight’s meeting includes:
•verbal updates on local projects from Community Services manager George Bell and Transportation Superintendent Milt Strachan;
•a verbal report on the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference which local delegates attended Aug. 17-19 in Ottawa;
•the 2010 budget timetable;
•a RFP for radio frequency identification equipment;
•a report on an Official Plan update;
•a request for reconsideration of minutes of settlement;
•a financial request from Northwest Ontario’s Sunset Country Travel Association re: annual per capita marketing contribution;
•a financial request from the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association’s sales barn party committee re: 50th anniversary of the Stratton sales barn celebration on Sept. 19;
•a request from Patti-Jo LeDrew for waiver of rental fees for the Townshend Theatre for use during the Fort Frances Chronic Pain Management and Addiction Prevention Symposium slated for Sept. 18-19;
•an advertising request from the Fort Frances Times re: NW Ontario Vacation Guide;
•a bylaw to approve an agreement with the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board for child care services;
•a bylaw to assume above ground and below ground municipal services relative to Stage II of subdivision 48M-347, and to assume certain lands and establish highways; and
•an advertising request from the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame re: the Dave Allison induction, as well as an invitation to the 28th-annual induction dinner/ceremony Sept. 26 in Thunder Bay.
