Over the next few weeks a “head hunter” will be casting a wide net across the country (mostly Ontario) for a line-up of candidates to replace Cornwall Police Service (CPS) Chief Shawna Spowart.
The board will interview three or four of the best prospects and make the selection. Council has no role to play.
(One of the dumbest, uniformed suggestions from the public gallery was to let the voters decide in the October election who will be the next chief.)
Spowart – promoted to chief in 2021 – announced that she will retire on Dec. 31. However, there is every indication that she will close out her long career with CPS before that date.
In fact, if the process moves quicker than expected, the police services board could have the next chief selected by summer. Maybe sooner.
Nothing unusual about this.
It is normal (required) for police chiefs to give the group (police board) that employs them a 12-month heads up; in most cases they step down – using vacation time and banked time owing- before the retirement date.
The 12-month notice makes for a smooth, seamless transition.
As the board noted when the chief filed her retirement papers, nobody is chasing her out the door, but the process to hire the force’s 17th chief needs to get under way sooner than later.
One thing that can be taken to the proverbial bank is that the new police chief – he or she – will not come from the ranks of Cornwall Police Service.
That’s off the table.
Chad Maxwell, who moved up to deputy chief two months ago from inspector, will not apply for the job. Insp. Dave Michaud will retire in a few months.
Since Earl Landry retired in 1993, just two of the six chiefs – Danny Aikman and Spowart – have come from the “inside.” The others came from the RCMP, Toronto Police Service, Halton Regional and Peel Regional.
Prior to Claude Shaver, a Cornwall native brought in from the RCMP in 1983 as deputy chief and tagged to replace Earl Landry a year later, every chief since Allan Cameron (1882) was promoted from within the force.
FROM THE 1928 FILES – Fred Lalonde was appointed town blacksmith…The Andrew Jardine Funeral Home, 262 Pitt Street, announced that it had added “one of the best motor hearses in Eastern Ontario” to its operation. The funeral home doubled as a furniture store…Cornwall Township voted to raise the clerk-treasurer’s annual salary to $1,200. The hourly wage for day labourers was increased to 35 cents…Cornwall’s population increased by 814 to 10,339 over the previous 12 months. With suburbs (parts of Cornwall Township serviced with town water and sewers) included, the population was 15,509. Since 1918, the town’s population had increased by 3,470. In the 10-year period the town added a movie theatre, bakery, addition to Hotel Dieu Hospital, convent school, downtown hotel and dairy…E.D. Warner Garage, Second Street West, opened Cornwall’s first car wash…Town council approved the purchase of a paint machine for $37.50, four pairs of boots for the volunteer fire brigade and five caps for the five-man police department…Cornwall Township’s caretaker and wagon driver were sworn in as special constables…A group of Cornwall store owners asked council to do away with licences to sell tobacco products. The owners said the cost of the annual licence hurt their bottom line. However, they found no sympathy around the council table. One councillor said if merchants couldn’t afford the licence, they needed to find a new way of making a living…The 83-room Cornwallis Hotel on Second Street was up and running. It was built at a cost of $260,000. Its dining hall seated 200. The hotel claimed it was “fire proof.” Ironically, the final nail in its coffin was a fire 50 years later…Ludger Gatien opened a restaurant on Edward Street…A band of Gypsies was suspected of kidnapping a three-year-old boy near Iroquois…Dr. A. L. Crewson was Cornwall’s first ear, nose and throat specialist. A. W. Brown, 219 Augustus St., was Cornwall’s first chiropractor…Eastside Dairy said it was decreasing the price of a quart of milk by 10 cents…With his Quebec Beavers short players for a Canadian-American Hockey League game against Philadelphia Arrows in Quebec City, coach Edouard “Newsy” Lalonde came out of retirement for the game. When he skated out, the crowd gave him a standing ovation. The Cornwall native had established himself as one of the best hockey and lacrosse players in North America…W. Bingley and Son expanded its operation at Lock 17 with an addition to its building next to the dry dock. The local company had 42 employees. The company tug S.S. Advance was put up sale…Howard Smith Paper Mill expanded production by 50% with a new paper machine…Future Liberal MP and cabinet minister Lionel Chevrier, a Cornwall native, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School. He set up a practice in Cornwall at 4 Second St. E…The Palace Cafe at 105 Pitt St. was owned by Sam Lee…Larry O’Dair’s orchestra played at Brophy’s Hall in Harrison’s Corners…German author/philosopher William Boelsche was ahead of his time in 1928 when said the earth was getting warmer and mankind could look forward to “paradisiacal (ideal) climate.” He said the planet was on the eve of “great terrestrial convulsions” that would make it a “challenge for mankind to survive.” On the flip side, he concluded that a “new order” would emerge with a period of “immediate and thrilling progress” for the human race.”
TRIVIA The mother of this Russian-born NHL player was a two-time Olympic gold medal winner (1976 and 1980) and his father was a professional soccer player. 1) Eugeni Malkin, 2) Sergei Fedorov, 3) Vladimir Tarasenko, 4) Alex Ovechkin, 5) Nikita Kucherov
TRIVIA ANSWER The Palace Theatre, which closed in 1983, became home to Maximum Fitness.
QUOTED The trouble isn’t that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it. – Legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel
ONE FINAL THINGER US Attorney-General Pam Bondi took Trump butt smooching to a new level when during a House hearing she proclaimed that he was the “greatest president in American history.”
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