Marc Deschenes is running for mayor of Rapides des Joachims, where he has lived for the past 15 years. He said that the community’s isolation is the primary challenge to growth on the island, which sits over 100 km northwest of Fort Coulonge and is only accessible from Ontario.
Caleb Nickerson
RAPIDES DES JOACHIMS
Nov. 1, 2017
Newcomer enters race in Rapides:
One resident of the small community of Rapides des Joachims is looking to take the top council seat in the municipality.
Marc Deschenes has lived in the area for almost 15 years and works at Chalk River Laboratories as a project control maintenance planner on the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor.
Though he has never sat on municipal council before, he said he has plenty of ideas about how to improve the lives of his fellow residents.
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