Accountant honoured for free tax work

Edgar Leger has helped low-income people fill out their tax forms for free for 46 years…thousands of them…but last year he put his pen and computer aside and retired as a volunteer with the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program.

Yesterday, the Times and Transcript reports he was honoured at a tax clinic at UdeM by Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue. He was presented with a certificate recognizing his volunteer work and calling him a model citizen.

ATV fatality

A 22 year old man was killed in a collision between a side-by-side ATV and a pickup near Bathurst.

RCMP got the call to Sormany Rod Saturday night after an ATV collided with the on-coming truck. A passenger on the ATV was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The pickup driver wasn’t hurt. RCMP continue to investigate.