This time, they got it right. Nailed it. Rather than looking outside for a new deputy chief, Cornwall Police Service Board has gone with local content. There was a rumour that the board was looking outside for a new deputy chief. In the end, it was just that – a rumour. Chad Maxwell, a 21-year veteran who became the acting DC last March after former RCMP officer Vince Foy retired, has been given the permanent title. He will be sworn in next month. Good choice. No, make that an excellent choice.
Maxwell knows municipal policing, top to bottom, and he knows the Cornwall Police Service, inside and out … and he knows the city, north sound, east west. The native of Hawkesbury, who is fluently bilingual, came to CPS via the private sector. In his other life, he was a grocery chain department manager. He is a popular choice among the rank and file. Well liked, much respected.
Police boards have, in the past, preached the benefits of succession planning when it comes to moving officers up through the ranks to the two top positions, which the board fills, but it hasn’t always been practised.
Insp. Dave Michaud was overlooked after Deputy Chief Shawna Spowart was promoted to chief after Danny Aikman retired. This time around, Michaud, who is expected to retire next year, did not seek the position. Privately, he was pulling for Maxwell. When Maxwell became a sergeant, one of his supervisors referred to him as a “rising star.” He has lived up to the billing.
BACK IN 1967 – The partly decomposed body of a 32-year-old Montreal nurse who came from China was discovered in an abandoned Laggan cheese factory vat. Police did not suspect foul play…The army cadet program was dropped at three city high schools in the Cornwall Collegiate Institute Board system. The board was told that it was harder to find instructors from the teacher ranks…City police were investigating reports of razor blades being found in apples handed out to trick or treaters…Cornwall General Hospital lifted its restriction on visitors under the age of 14. The new policy allowed visitors of all ages with those under 14 required to be accompanied by an adult…The General and Hotel Dieu continued to allow patients to smoke, but not in bed. The tuck shops continued to sell cigarettes…Cornwallis Hotel filed for bankruptcy protection. Day-to-day operation of the 115-bed hotel was in the hands of a trustee….Fern Guindon was appointed to the provincial cabinet by Premier John Robarts. He also served as the government’s minister of French Canadian affairs…Montreal Canadiens legend Edouard “Newsy” Lalonde, a Cornwall native, was made an honourary citizen of Cornwall… An 18-year-old Cornwall resident was charged with manslaughter and driving while intoxicated by New York State Police after a single vehicle crash on Route 37 killed two and left three others with serious injuries…The Steak Pitt at 245 Pitt St. (former Bell Canada office) opened…Cornwall Royals called up two players – centre Gary Tyrell and forward Serge Trottier – from the City Junior B Hockey League. Jim George, Wayne Horn and Bob Currier staffed the club’s top line…Recreation Director Si Miller recommended the city upgrade ice-making equipment at the Water Street Arena so the rink could have a summer hockey school. He said the revenue would pay for the upgrade…Honours student Elizabeth Stewart was Cornwall Collegiate graduation night valedictorian…A Cornwall man – one of the regular village cranks – claimed, without any proof, that Mayor Nick Kaneb had used his influence to add a resident’s name to the welfare rolls. He also claimed that a welfare office employee – his nephew – had been given time off with pay to help with a Liberal candidate’s election campaign. In another off-the-wall allegation, he charged that Ald. Norm Baril, manager of the Cornwall Royals, was receiving funds from the city because his name was on the Water Street Arena ice-rental contract. Mayor Kaneb told the resident to “put up (name of recipient) or shut up.”
HERE AND THERE Ron Bates, who passed away Oct. 17, was a former Cornwall Royals goaltender (1965-1967) who finished his Central Junior Hockey League career with Brockville Braves. He came through the Cornwall Minor Hockey Association system…Wonder how long a government shutdown (U. S.) would last if the political masters joined the unwashed in not getting paid?…Always good to see former Royals goaltender Jake Lefebvre. A great guy and dependable puck blocker from the Central Junior Hockey League days…Don’t know what this means. (Actually, I do): My wife received 135 birthday wishes on Facebook. A week earlier, I got two birthday wishes (cards) and a phone call. I’m going to start introducing myself as the husband of Julie Lalonde-McIntosh…When I start in ‘The Biz’, one could buy a new car for $2,700 (I had a new Plymouth Fury, nothing down and $89.50 a month over three years), and gas was 35 cents a gallon (about eight cents a litre).
RUMOUR DU JOUR Former Cornwall CAO Mathieu Fleury expected to be a candidate for Ottawa city council in the 2026 municipal elections. He served on the Ottawa council (Rideau-Vanier) for 12 years.
TRIVIA In the 1987 provincial election (new riding of Cornwall-Cornwall Township-Charlottenburgh) Liberal candidate John Cleary defeated this son of a former Ontario cabinet minister.
TRIVIA ANSWER Incumbent George Samis was expected to have an easy ride to another term in the 1977 Cornwall riding provincial election, after knocking off Conservative”heavyweights”in two previous campaigns. But an under-rated Jim Kirkey came close to retiring the New Democratic Party MPP. He turned the election into a nail-biter, losing by just 486 votes. It would have been one of the biggest upsets in local provincial elections. Samis went on to serve two more terms.
QUOTED A fool and his money are soon elected. – Will Rogers
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