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Over the last few weeks, The Review has presented installments of artist Richard Stanford's piece, An Improbable Place. The following is the fourth and final part of the series:

On Canada Day 1989, Margaret Hawking returned to her home on Main Street, Glen Sandfield, Ontario. She'd been given a souvenir Canadian flag to wave at the Canada Day celebrations at Dalkeith Centennial Picnic.

Driving through the bumps and ruts in the roads of Argenteuil will go a little smoother this year, following a $2.3-million injection of provincial funding into the rehabilitation of municipal roads throughout the county, with $1.5 million earmarked for Argenteuil.

MNA d'Argenteuil David Whissell announced on August 25 that all nine municipalities within the Argenteuil region will benefit from the aid program, which aims to improve roads.

Families in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil won't have to dig quite so deep in their wallets or travel as far to ensure quality daycare for their children, following the grand opening of the new Centre de la Petite Enfance La Puce a l'Oreille on Monday, August 30.

"What a great achievement for families in the region," said MNA d'Argenteuil David Whissell. "I am pleased to be involved in the culmination of this long-term project that has led to the creation of 11 new jobs in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil."

The Corporation de la bordure riveraine de Hawkesbury (CBRH) is defending itself against claims that it expects taxpayers to pay for $32,000 in engineering fees it claims to have incurred while investigating the possibility of a full decontamination of the CIP lagoon site.

President Pierre-Yves Séguin sent out a press release defending the CBRH's request and stating it is "completely false" to let the citizens of Hawkesbury believe that the CBRH is expecting taxpayers to foot the bill for those costs, which he says amount to only $10,440.

Beau's All-Natural Brewery took home another set of valued awards on Saturday, August 21, as the winners of the 2010 Golden Tap Awards were announced that evening in Toronto.

The Golden Tap Awards represent the best in beer and brewing across the province, and winners are selected by the general beer-drinking public, through online voting.

It appears the town won't be selling the aging Christ-Roi building anytime soon.

The one and only offer the town had on the aging building has fallen through, said CAO Normand Beaulieu.

At a meeting in December, council passed a resolution to put the Christ-Roi building for sale by public call for tenders at the minimum price of $350,000, respecting the July 2009 request for proposal document. The deadline for proposals was 3 p.m. on March 3.

Council members of the Township of North Glengarry approved the awarding of a tender for the replacement of concrete sidewalks, to the tune of $107,600 including taxes, at the regular meeting held Monday, August 9.

The tender was awarded to Canada Concrete and Construction Inc., which was the only concrete company to reply with a bid, out of the four requested.

The sidewalk replacement will take place in Glen Robertson, Dalkeith, Maxville and Alexandria.

In a precedent-setting ruling for municipalities across the country, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled last month that Russell Township has the right to enforce bilingual signs for its businesses.

Superior Court Justice Monique Métivier issued a 32-page ruling on Friday, August 20, saying a 2008 township bylaw requiring commercial signs to be in both French and English does not violate residents' rights to freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A debated motion to pay $64,000 to the North Glengarry Prescott-Russell Transit Board, to cover the regional transportation authority's budget overruns, was passed by a 4-2 vote at the regular council meeting of Monday, August 9.

In debating the motion, council members expressed reservations about the unforeseen payment and Mayor Grant Crack said he would ask the transit board - operating as Transit Eastern Ontario (TEO) - to implement changes in its decision-making process.