The Business Improvement Association Board (BIA) of Carleton Place will have its annual General meeting this Thursday, January 28, 2010. Every business owner and estate owner in town is encouraged to join the activity. The meeting will be held at the Carleton Heritage Inn situated at Bridge Street. Registration will start at 6 pm.

After the dinner, which will start at 6:30 pm and will cost $10 for each BIA member, the association’s proposed budget for the year 2010 shall be presented to its members for their approval.

The Business Improvement Association stresses that those who are planning to attend the meeting should make their reservations for the dinner and pay for the fees in advanced. Guests were encouraged to RSVP before last Friday, January 21.

Guests who paid for the dinner can come and win two sets of tickets for Ottawa Senators Hockey games. These tickets are sponsored by The Record News EMC and Tomahawk Technologies.

For those non-members who want to attend the meeting, the dinner will cost $25.

The Business Improvement Association of Carleton Place started in 1979. Carelton Place’s business community appealed that the downtown area be made an improvement area by the use of provincial legislations and municipal bylaws. Thus, the BIA was organized.

The Carleton Place Jr. A Canadians hockey team lost to the Ottawa Jr. Senators last Wednesday night, December 16, 2009. Carleton Place lost their lead early in the game and had to struggle to recover in the third. However, their efforts were futile as the Ottawa Jr. Senators grabbed the 6-4 victory.

Tyler Kotlarz, benefiting from the assists of Richard Stethem and Brock Plouffe, put Carleton Place first on the board as the game started.

A few minutes later, Carleton Place scored another goal when Martin and Rodier fed Samuel Coyne for the score. This put Carleton Place up 2-0.

Before the period was up, Ottawa’s Pierre-Michel Legare gave his team their first score of the night when he was able to get an unassisted goal.

From then on, the Jr. Senator’s gained their momentum when they were able to score two more additional goals to seize the lead in the second period.

In the third period, Ottawa’s Nicolas Belleville scored a goal increasing the Jr. Senator’s lead.

Carleton Place tried to come back as Coyne made his second goal of the game courtesy of the assists from Rodier and Hannah. But the Senators refused to yield as they scored another goal four minutes later.

In the last two minutes, Plouffe scored for the Canadians reducing the Jr. Senator’s lead to one. But the Jr. Senator’s Matt White sealed the Canadian’s fate by scoring the game’s coup de grace with only 2 ticks left on the game time.