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PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12:1996
CIBC hosts Diversity Week
Bylaw passes
Brussels council passed a bylaw
at its June 3 meeting regulating
what properties must pay sewer
connection fees. The bylaw imple-
ments a policy adopted by council
last fall.
Under the bylaw all property
units (a separately assessed residen-
tial, commercial or business space)
must pay the monthly sewer con-
nection fee of $23.50, whether or
not the unit is occupied. All proper-
ties connected to the sewer system
must also be connected to the
municipal water system.
***
Council turned down a request
from the City of Timmins for finan-
cial support for the flood disaster
fund to aid citizens in that commu-
nity. "The taxpayers of Brussels
shouldn't be paying for money to
go up to Timmins," said Councillor
Greg Wilson. If Brussels had a dis-
aster, he wondered, would Timmins
send support?
Reeve Gordon Workman felt
Brussels should help out in an
emergency. Councillor Ralph Wat-
son suggested citizens could be
made aware of how they could
donate to the Timmins fund if they
NOTICE
Brussels Driver and
Vehicle Licence Office
will be CLOSED from
12 noon Tues., June
18/96 until 9 a.m.
Thurs., June 20/96.
Sorry for any
Inconvenience. For
any further information
call Brussels 887-6377.
wished to on an individual basis.
***
Council supported a resolution
from the City of Thunder Bay
which would ask for an amendment
to the Municipal Act and the Occu-
pier's Liability Act to protect
municipalities from unwarranted
litigation for building inspection,
and damage from things such as
sewer back-ups and road mainte-
nance.
***
Brussels will send a letter to the
Minister of Education supporting
the demand that education funding
be removed from municipal taxes.
***
Council agreed that the public
washrooms in the municipal build-
ing, damaged when the heat went
off over a weekend this winter,
Continued on page 19
By Janice Becker
Just what is diversity?
Stated in its most base form, it
means being different or unalike,
but for the staff at the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce in
Brussels, it means everything from
ancestry to personality.
Now in the fourth year of the
CIBC's public awareness program
to help both bank employees and
the community be aware of diversi-
ty and learn acceptance, the Brus-
sels branch is hosting a diversity
week in conjunction with its third
anniversary at the present location.
Manager Scott MacDonald and
Bonnie Wilson, along with other
staff, who have planned homemade
baking and refreshments for Thurs-
day and Friday invite customers to
visit the bank and place a pin on a
map of the world to show the diver-
sity of ancestry of the Brussels
community.
A board will also be posted,
allowing customers to write a
greeting in their second language.
"The CIBC has been involved in
this program for t. few years," says
Wilson. "We want to be aware of
the diversity of our customers so
we can serve them better.
At present, CIBC branches share
staff who are fluent in a second lan-
guage, creating a more comfortable
situation for all customers.
"Here, at Brussels, we are
wheelchair accessible, it is easier
for customers with walkers and our
sit down service desk makes bank-
ing more comfortable for the elder-
ly or physically challenged," says
Wilson.
"Even the instant teller allows
Under the Brussels news last
week the age given for Raymond
Newns was incorrect. Raymond
celebrated his 85th birthday on
June 7.
We apologize for the error.
Brussels
People
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pearson of
Brussels recently received word
that their granddaughter, Andrea
Procter, daughter of Murray and
Nancy Procter of Rancho Santa
Marguerta California was accepted
into the Orange County High
School of the Performing Arts in
Musical Theatre. Andrea was also
winner of the 1996 Disneyland
Creativity Challenge in drama.
customers to do banking in their
own way at their own time."
Diversity is not just about ances-
try, says Wilson, but the personali-
ties, likes, dislikes and wishes of
the client. The bank must learn to
be able to meet each customer's
requirements.
"We are learning about the differ-
ences and how to respect them,"
she says.
In an effort to become more
aware of the diversity in the com-
munity, the staff of the CIBC also
tries to get involved in community
events.
"We would like to build Diversi-
ty Week into an annual event, get-
ting the school children involved
and thinking about what diversity is
to them," says Wilson. ''It might
include a poster and essay contest
next year."
Understanding diversity is a pro-
cess, says Wilson. "There is no
gain for the bank but an opportuni-
ty to bring awareness to the staff,
the citizens and the community."
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