The Town of The Pas has been seeing road work this week creating issues for motorists, and school opening means children will be out in abundance.

 

Mayor Andre Murphy stopped by the CJAR offices ahead of the council returning to a two-month schedule starting next week.

 

During the summer there were some major changes to town employees with Bola Adedoyin taking over as CAO, and Jonathan Lalonde taking over as EDO.

 

Murphy talks about Lalonde and economic development.

 

"One of the exciting things we also have happening is we have a new starting economic development officer starting on Monday.  Jonathan Lalande, who's come out of Sault Ste. Marie. 

 

One of the big focus for him will be to continue to push that, but really to put together a package to sell our community and our area as a prime gateway to partnering with Arctic Gateway Group and getting that shipping port to the north moving.

 

We've got there's a lot of like I said, there's a lot of opportunities with what's happening in the world today.  We need to make sure that we're positioned properly to be able to capture those."

 

Find minutes for monthly council meetings at townofthepas.ca.