Wawa Mayor Attends ROMA Conference, Meets With Health Minister & Others

The Municipality of Wawa's touting meetings attended by the mayor at a recent conference.

Mayor Melanie Pilon - and CAO/Clerk Maury O'Neill - attended the recent Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) conference in Toronto, and a municipal release notes Pilon - supported by other members of the Superior East Mayor's Group - presented a briefing to Health Minister and Deputy Premier Sylvia Jones on the need for local physician support and additional funding for locums, and Pilon also joined Dubreuilville Mayor Beverly Nantel and White River Councillor Dwijen Bharad in a dicussion with the Associate Minister of Housing about possible solutions to the regional housing shortage.

It also quotes Mayor Pilon as "looking forward" to attending the upcoming Ontario Good Roads Conference, with plans to advocate for a full-time Drive Test Centre in the region, along with increased infrastructure funding.