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Residents in the Manotick area are concerned about an apparent increase in the Fentanyl addiction rates amoung youth in the community. – Page 4
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The Metcalfe Lions have donated $10,000 to the Osgoode Care Centre. The funds are the first step in a fundraising campaign for the centre. – Page 6
NEWS COMMUNITY
The hockey folks in Manotick are making a community effort to do what they can to get ready for the upcoming skating season.
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EMC news - The music is fading at the Osgoode Old Tyme Music and Dancing Club. For 30 years, the country and western dance club has offered musicians and music lovers an evening of footstomping entertainment once a month at the Osgoode Community Centre. But the fun is coming to an end. Declining membership – largely due to the aging population – has cut revenue at a time when rent and insurance are only going up. “We don’t have enough members to keep it going, unfortunately,” said treasurer Barb Brogan. “We don’t want to close it down but we don’t have much choice.” Brogan said the club used to be 200 members strong, but that has declined to only about 65 members. As the older members die or become unable to attend, there are very few younger members signing up to take their place. Brogan said many members are in their 70s and 80s, and a few are in their 90s. Only two or three couples are in their 50s, she said. That kind of membership is unsustainable. “We’ve tried (attracting young people) over the years,” she said. “We’ve tried everything. All of the clubs are finding the same thing as we have.” Seven clubs in the area including North Gower, Greely, Vernon, Barrhaven and Ottawa’s west end have all faced declining memberships, Brogan said. Some have also considered closing their doors. Past-president Eugene Gorgichuck served seven years at the helm, and said it is “heartwrenching” to shut the doors after celebrating the club’s 30th anniversary in October. “It’s definitely a bitter thing
for us,” Gorgichuck said. “The club served as an opportunity for so many seniors to get together and do something other than sit at home and watch TV.” While it’s true that the population of people interested in traditional country music is declining, Gorgichuk said the club had other options to keep going, such as increasing membership fees and trying harder to attract more members. “Not everyone was in agreement that every effort was made to save the club,” he said. Gorgichuk added that the club’s constitution requires all property to be sold for charity when it dissolves. The club’s collection of instruments and other items were indeed sold, but not at the AGM as Gorgichuk said they should have been. “They were already sold for a lump sum of $1,000,” he said, adding that he felt an auction would have raised a larger sum. “An open auction could have earned some charity a lot more money.” It is not yet decided which charity will receive the funds. During Gorgichuk’s time as president between 1993 and 1999, the club had a waiting list of 20 couples. The club began a newsletter full of club events, member news and humour. Gorgichuk began inducting new musicians into the club with a special string tie featuring the club’s fiddle emblem, and the club sponsored the annual (and now defunct) Russell Jamboree. The club even tried to implement a youth hour where young musicians could come and play at the monthly dances, but it was a tough sell. “It’s all older people and I guess the younger people just don’t dig that,” Gorgichuk said. See LOCAL page 2
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Cookie connoisseur Audrey Gagnon, 2, bakes cookies at St. James Anglican Church in Manotick on Friday, Nov. 16. The church’s Faith youth group hosted the Christmas cookie party on the public school PA Day, attracting teens, kids and parents to the kitchen.
OLG refutes mayor’s view of slots revenue agreement Lottery corporation says it wouldn’t renegotiate if casino is built Laura Mueller and Alex Boutilier, Metro News laura.mueller@metroland.com
EMC news - As the mayor and city clerk assured councillors that Ottawa would get a new revenue-sharing agreement if a new casino is built, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation confirmed that wasn’t the case. During a city council meeting on Nov. 14, city clerk and solicitor Rick O’Connor assured city councillors that a new money-distribution agreement for the slots at Rideau Carleton Raceway would not be binding on a new facility, as the OLG looks for a private developer to build a new casino in Ottawa. “We’re going to have a new arrangement and a new agreement if council decides on a new casino,” Mayor Jim Watson said. That under-
standing was based on discussions he has had with the OLG over the past couple of weeks, Watson said. Not so, says OLG spokesman Tony Bitonti. “(The current agreement) will apply to a new casino as well,” Bitonti said. “The new agreement takes effect April 1 (2013), and then if and when a new casino is built, that will be the same funding agreement with the City of Ottawa. “Nothing changes.” O’Connor confirmed there are a couple of outstanding process issues he needs to get answers on. One issue that still needs to be clarified is a provision tying the new agreement to the location of the current slots at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. See SLOTS page 2
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