Strait Area Chamber of Commerce Welcomes New Executive Director, Honours Local Business Leaders

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Strait Area Chamber of Commerce Welcomes New Executive Director, Honours Local Business Leaders

PORT HAWKESBURY - The new executive director for the Strait Area Chamber of Commerce, Tanya Felix, said it was "an honour" to attend her first major public chamber event since assuming the post from Misty MacDonald at the end of March.

Felix presided over the chamber's annual Spring Dinner and Awards Gala, which saw several veteran members of the local business community honoured for their contributions to local economic development and the building of communities across the Strait of Canso region.

Former chamber president Bob MacEachern, who operated the former CIGO AM Radio and later 101.5 The Hawk FM under the MacEachern Broadcasting Limited banner, received the Chamber's President's Award. The Cultural Award of Merit went to Paula Davis, a longtime director of Tourism, Culture, Marketing and Recreation for the Town of Port Hawkesbury. Louisdale-based Geno Polegato, who launched Polegato Trucking with a single vehicle in 1978, received the Jack Hartery Lifetime Achievement Award.

Also on this week's edition of Roundtable:

1:50 - Richmond Warden Amanda Mombourquette speaks to Telile news host/producer Adam Cooke about proposed changes to the Isle Madame Municipal Planning Strategy and Land-Use By-Law that are designed to stimulate recreational-vehicle (RV) use and campsite development in the region but have drawn concerns from local residents speaking at the May 23 regular council meeting.

41:42: Richmond municipal officials hope new correspondence with the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) will trigger new talks on cost-sharing a potential sidewalk extension between Highway 206 in Arichat and the CSAP's main school site for Richmond County, Ecole Beau-Port.

46:37 - District Two councillor Michael Diggdon and District Five councillor Brent Sampson offered their concerns that a recent extension of a public question period did not allow for more than two people to participate, leading Warden Amanda Mombourquette to pledge to follow up on the situation with other members of council and municipal staff.

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