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t a meeting of the Frontenac-Addington Trappers Council (FATC) on February 26 at the hall in Henderson, a young man in camo is handing out raffle tickets at the door for prizes to be drawn at the end of the night. A group, mostly men, stand around chatting about the weather and their jobs with styrofoam cups of hot coffee in their hands. These relaxed meetings of the FATC take place almost monthly and are a chance for local trappers to connect and converse and it gives Wilf Deline, the president of the FATC, an opportunity to update its members on any news in the trapping industry. The meeting is mixed discussion about their Big Gull Lake ice fishing tournament, deer ticks and Lyme disease, GPS training, local bald eagle populations, accidental trappings and more. The Frontenac-Addington Trappers Council is a non-profit organization that was formed in 1981. Their focus isn’t just on trapping wildlife but also on fostering conservation and stewardship throughout the area. These conservation efforts have led to the establishment of winter deer feeders, pickerel spawning beds, a bursary program for local schools, and many other community initiatives. Each year they host an ice fishing tournament on Big Gull Lake, which helps fund their projects throughout the year. This year’s tournament, in February, sold over 400 tickets, and brought out adults and kids for a day of fishing and events on the ice. The FATC works closely with the Ontario Fur Managers Federation (OFMF) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) to help shape regulations around
trapping in Ontario. These local trappers are often called on to help deal with nuisance beavers and problematic animals that can cause road flooding and habitat destruction. The MNRF uses data collected by trappers, in the field, to govern catch limits, monitor species population, and keep a finger on the pulse of what’s happening out in the woods. This information, provided by the trappers, helps supplement the heavy workload the ministry faces in Eastern Ontario, as they monitor this massive, constantly-evolving tract of forest and lakes. Trapping in Frontenac County and the surrounding areas has a rich history. At the Frontenac Heritage Festival in February, the FATC set up a booth at the Arden Community Centre displaying pelts, traps and photos of some of the conservation work they are doing in the area. I was able to chat with Isaac Hale, an Arden resident and active member of the FATC. Hale is a young, friendly guy, well-versed on the rules and regulations of trapping in Ontario, and was keen to answer my questions. He explained that in order to become a trapper in Ontario you must complete the Fur Harvest, Fur Management and Conservation Course. The ministry website explains that the training course, taught by MNR-licensed instructors, is a 40-hour program “emphasizing safety and humane trapping, survival skills, good pelt preparation and sustainable management.” Hale, who has been trapping for less than a year and has a trapline set up just south of Arden, is passionate about stewardship and explained to me how trapping has deepened his emotional connection with his surroundings and magnified his feelings of responsibility for the well-being of
Warning signs for pet owners in the vicinity of traplines and a coyote fur. the land he traps on. He was able to show me some of the legal traps that are currently being used to trap animals in the area, from killing traps like Conibear traps and snares to restraining traps such as leg-holds. He explained that restraining traps must be inspected daily and for Hale this means going out on his snowshoes into the woods to inspect his line and see if anything has been caught. For the most part, fur trapping starts in the fall, with seasons for most species opening in October and going until late-winter or spring. The season can be hard to define
because, although trapping for certain species have strict time periods, some trappers work throughout the year trapping nuisance animals. Fishers and muskrat are popular with local trappers, followed by beaver and coyote. Wilf Deline, the head of the FATC and a fourth generation trapper, asked me to introduce myself, saying “[we] need to know your name to put it on your tombstone.” His comments, although made in humour, point to the difficult relationship an organiza-
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Out with the old; in with the new - Central Frontenac Council - March 24 by Jeff Green athy MacMunn, one of the few original Central Frontenac Township employees still working for the township, was seated next to Mayor Frances Smith at the start of a council meeting on Tuesday afternoon. Although she has been seated next to the mayor on a number of occasions in her role as deputy clerk or interim clerk, it was her first meeting since she was given a promotion to the role of clerk/planning manager. Meanwhile, at the staff table at the back of the hall, the interim Chief Administrative
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Officer (CAO) of the township, Steve Silver, was sitting next to the newest staff member of Central Frontenac Township, CAO/Public Works Manager, Jim Zimmerman. “Steve has been a great help to us. He came here when we had difficulties and smoothed things over very well. But I must also say that I hope we don’t see him working for us again,” said Frances Smith, in ref-
by Jeff Green he idea of sharing services between North and Central Frontenac moved from theory to practice pretty quickly when the two councils met together last week. At a first joint session of the councils in North Frontenac last week, the fact that North Frontenac is without a chief building officer was raised as a potential area of cooperation. George Gorrie, the former chief building officer for North Frontenac, ceased to be a township employee after an in camera session at the February 20 meeting of North Frontenac Council. “I can only say that he is no longer an employee of the township, nothing more,” said Chief Administrative Officer Cheryl Robson when asked whether Gorrie had left voluntarily or been forced out.
As a result of the meeting on March 19, it was decided that the Central Frontenac Chief Building Official (CBO), Jeremy Nevens, would oversee operations in both townships. Instead of hiring a CBO, the two townships are getting together to hire a building inspector to report to Nevens. “Each Council approved an individual resolution, approving in principle a Joint Services Agreement to the building departments of Central and North Frontenac Townships (i.e. one chief building official and one building inspector)” said a joint press release that came out on Monday, March 24. The mayors of the two townships were also quoted in the press release about the potential for co-operation and general feeling of good-will between the two townships. “This meeting is a great opportunity to look
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Trappers stress education over regulation - continued from page 1 tion like this can have with the press, and the publicity around a recent incident in Peterborough has made that relationship more thorny than ever. A dog was accidentally caught, and later died in a Conibear trap near Peterborough in December of 2014. The dog owner, Valerie Strain, has since started an online petition, which has garnered over 45,000 signatures, asking the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) to start a public awareness campaign about the dangers posed to pets by these traps and also requesting that they publish maps online showing registered trap line areas. She is also asking the MNR to set a minimum distance that traps can be set from public trails as well as to introduce new regulations for signage of trap lines. A similarly tragic incident occurred recently much closer to home, when a local couple from McDonalds Corners, who wished to remain anonymous, had their dog killed in a Conibear trap a couple hundred metres from their house in January of this year. Their dog, Toby, a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd cross, was active and playful, and their only pet. The legally-set trap that killed him was baited with a squirrel and placed on private property, several feet off a rural side road that doubles as a snowmobile trail in the winter. Toby wandered off the trail, while off-leash, presumably attracted to the meat on the trap, and was caught in it at the neck. The body-gripping traps that were involved in both of these cases, better known as Conibear traps, are named after Canadian inventor Frank Conibear, who invented the trap in the late 1950s. Considered by trappers to be a great innovation in their industry, the Conibear trap is designed to lure an animal with bait and then clamp shut upon on the animal’s neck, closing the trachea, restricting blood flow to the brain,
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and sometimes even snapping the animal’s spinal cord. The animal loses consciousness after a few minutes and then, ideally, dies quickly afterwards. Unfortunately, in the case of Toby, the owners had to witness the slow death of their dog as the trap wasn’t strong enough to kill him instantly. When I spoke with the couple in McDonalds Corners several weeks later they were still visibly shaken by the event. They both struggled emotionally when explaining how things happened, but they were also hopeful that raising awareness of trapping practices in the community could make a positive difference moving forward. “...at least some awareness would be good so we know where not to go,” one of them said. The fate of the dog from McDonalds Corners was discussed at a meeting of the Frontenac Addington Trapper’s Council (FATC) meeting in Henderson on February 26. BUSINESS CARD SIZE “No trapper ever wants to catch anyone’s pet. We all have pets and we love them and don’t want to see them dead. The pet owners have to take responsibility for their pet like I have to take responsibility for mine, and my children,” said Willis Deline, a FATC member. Jolanta Kowalski, the Senior Media Relations Officer from the MNR, said that the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, Bill Mauro, had requested that MNRF staff “look Features: t 409 titanium enhanced stainless steel into options that might ultimately reduce the chance of a t Rocker grates and ash pan pet being caught in a trap.” She did not know how often t Forced air adjustable blower Financing these incidents happen, saying that the MNR only becomes available. t Limited lifetime warranty aware of them through public complaints and doesn’t keep a record of them. Highway 511 Heating Solutions 14406 Hwy. 7, RR#6, Perth ON K7H 3C8 Kowalski said, “If people are walking their dogs on private Phone: (613) 264-0874 www.heatmasterss.com property we [MNRF] suggest they get permission from the landowner and ask if trapping is occurring on the property and find out from the landowner where traps are set.” She also said, “Always keep your dogs on a leash.” In the case of the incident in McDonalds Corners, the trapper was “properly licensed and had permisInsurance Specialty sion to be on the property. Insurance Matson Insurance The trap was legally set Group s KingstonSpecialty and in season.” Kowalski Group s Kingston Brokers explained. “No charges will O/B Insurance Specialty Group Home • Auto be laid.” The fatal trap in this inciHome • Auto • Farm Farm • Business dent was set by Lanark trapBusiness • Bonds • Boats per Terry Bingley, who also Bonds • Boats happens to be a director for Cottages Cottages the Fur Manager FederaNew Location: 1021B Elizabeth St. tion, and has been trapping since 1970. P.O. Box 41, Sharbot Lake 613 When I spoke to BingInsurance Specialty 613 279-2925 ley in early March he was 844 Gardiners Rd. Matson Insurance Group s Kingston still noticeably upset about Kingston 1-888-340-3541 Brokers the incident. In the 40 plus years he has been trapping Insurance Specialty he told me “that’s the first On your side. Group s Kingston dog I’ve caught...I put 80 Your best insurance is an insurance broker traps out a night from the 1st
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rontenac County Council’s March meeting provided an opportunity for updates on previously approved initiatives as well as appointments to various committees, but did not feature any new initiatives in the lull following the approval of the County budget in March. Mark Segsworth, the Public Works Manager (PWM) for South Frontenac, appeared on behalf of the managers from the other townships to talk about the successful joint tendering they have done for waste management environmental monitoring services in South, Central and North Frontenac. A contract has been approved by all three townships with Cambium Engineering out of Peterborough for a total of $565,828 for three years. The savings are significant over what the townships have been paying for those services. “In South Frontenac’s case we have been paying about $200,000 per year, and we will be paying $75,000 per year, a savings of $125,000,” said Segsworth.
He also reiterated that the collaboration between himself, Jim Phillips from North Frontenac, and former PWM Mike Richardson from Central Frontenac has been more than cordial over the last three years. “We also help the local economy. We meet in a different township each time and have lunch in one of the restaurants,” he said. Warden Dennis Doyle asked Segsworth about recycling rates in all the townships, pointing out that some municipalities in southern Ontario are reporting 80% recycling rates, much higher than the rate in Frontenac County. “If there was a standard way of measuring recycling rates I would comment on that,” Segsworth said. County to spend $27,067 on right of way for K&P Trail A proposal was accepted to offer $15,000 ($9,000 for the purchase and $6,000 for his legal fees) to Bob Leonard of Hartington to purchase the land where the K&P trail passes over his farmland. The county has already
accumulated over $12,000 in legal fees over the matter, bringing the cost to $27,067. The matter has been the subject of an expropriation process. Council approved the offer, which will end the expropriation process if accepted by Mr. Leonard. “How high a cost per acre is this?” one of the council members asked Anne Marie Young, the county staffer responsible for developing the trail. “High” she said.
being considered by the township and county chief administrative officers at one of their meetings this year. “When we hear back from them we will consider that for the 2016 budget year,” said Warden Doyle, “this is for 2015 and has already been budgeted for.” The bylaw was approved without further comment.
Planning fees approved
The April Frontenac County Council/Committee of the Whole meeting will be held in North Frontenac on the 15th of the month. Instead of at 9 a.m., Council will meet at 10 a.m. because of the distance that council members and staff from the south end of the township will need to travel, which is apparently an hour longer than it takes for those from the north to travel to the south. (To be fair for a change, there are ferry rides involved for those travelling from Frontenac Islands)
A bylaw setting out a fee structure for planning services offered to the Frontenac townships was approved. When the structure was introduced earlier as a proposal in a committee meeting, it was opposed by the representatives from South Frontenac, the only township that does not use county planning services. Before the vote, South Frontenac Mayor Ron Vandewal asked whether the bylaw could be deferred, as the matter of fees is
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Letter to the editor Re: Addington Highlands to go slow on wind Re- What is it about wind - March 19 project March 19 hank you for your extensive report and and settlers,
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ddington Highlands council is wise to take a go-slow response in respect to NextEra Energy's effort to gain support for a huge wind power project that will see 100 turbines blotting the local landscape. Those turbines will each need as much as 400 tons of cement to secure them, will tower 400 to 450 feet high and generate intermittent unreliable power which Ontario ratepayers will be forced to subsidize for 20 years. Those turbines will surely kill birds, bats and other animal life. The audible and infrasound noise may also affect a small portion of the local population creating health problems! Property values may be effected. The prospect of a portion of the Floridabased NextEra's revenue going to the township needs to be looked at carefully. The 200 MW capacity of the project will, on average generate power at about 30% of rated capacity and produce about 525,000 megawatt hours that will be fed to the Ontario grid. NextEra will be paid about $60 million for that annual production. A 20 year contract means $1.2 billion for the developer. So what is the township's portion of this? Even though the capital cost of a wind turbine is approximately $1 million per MW, they are assessed at only $40 thousand per MW; this 200-MW proposed project would be assessed at only $4 million, when the actual capital cost is over $400 million. That $4 million assessment means the township will be entitled to only about $70,000 in annual realty taxes based on the current industrial rate. NextEra has also held out the carrot of a $350,000 payment” to the township; David“annual J. Orser thatowner/operator sounds impressive, but in the context
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indmills are beautiful! I object to Councilors Fritsch and Thompson calling windmills "eyesores". I happen to think that they are beautiful and I would gladly look at them every day so I could admire their beauty. Having said that, the municipality will receive compensation, which will benefit the ratepayers through lower taxes and perhaps enhanced community facilities. Also, there are now severe restrictions on where windmills can be located. If we start compensating neighbours who are affected by so-called "eyesores" where will it end? Should I be compensated for having to look at my neighbour's rusting wreck in his front yard? - Wolfe Erlichman
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· The spring session of Fit ’n Fun begins Tuesday April 7, 9 am at the Kennebec Community Centre. The one-hour session is suitable for both men and women, of all ages and abilities. Gloria has asked everyone to wear comfortable clothing and bring a towel, a mat and hand weights, if you have them. For information please call her at 335-2188. · Andrew Douglas has asked me to remind everyone that there will be a fundraising dinner at Circle Square Ranch on April 9. Details will follow next week.
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march 26, 2015 and lived on a sailing ship with his spouse for many years before moving to our area. · Our own Georgina Wathen, former Henderson news correspondent who recently moved to South River, has suffered a broken hip and a heart attack and is in the Huntsville hospital recovering nicely. She asked to be remembered to her area friends whom she dearly misses. However she lives closer to her children and is enjoying a lot of family time and support. Call me if you'd like her phone number and address or if you have any news to share. Thanks, everyone · March break brought the promise of making maple syrup. Our Pine Meadow people will soon be enjoying some at an up-coming group outing to Wheelers Pancake House. As well, some area maple syrup enterprises are offering a Maple Open House on the Easter weekend, which sounds like a fun time - so be sure to watch for that coming up soon [see the ad on page 2].
HARROWSMITH Kim Gow
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· Softball Season is just around the corner. Registration for the Harrowsmith area will take place March 28 from 122:30pm. For more information call Michelle at 613-372-0274 or Laura at 613-888-0077 or email moreyp@kos.net. · Dance to Jeff Codes Band at the Golden Links Hall, March 28 from 8pm-midnight; cost is $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Call Brenda, 613-372-2410, for tickets & information. · The next meeting of the Harrowsmith Women's Institute will be March 31 at St. Paul's United Church beginning at 7pm. All ladies of the community are welcome. · There will be a Turkey Bingo at the Golden Links Hall on March 31. Early Bird 7pm. Books are $7-15. Call Brenda 613-372-2410 for details. · The Harrowsmith Women's Institute is gearing up for a Charity Vintage Fashion Show on April 26 at St. Paul's United Church. Proceeds to go to New Leaf Link www.newleaftlink. ca. Tickets available at Trousdale's General Store, Leonard's Fuels, Nicole's Gifts or call 613-353-6320. · Words to live by: "Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else" - Judy Garland.
DENBIGH Angela Bright
613-333-1901 bright.a@gmail.com · Fluffy pancakes, tasty sausages, and hearty baked beans were on the menu at the pancake breakfast on Saturday at the New Apostolic Church. Thank you to all who had a hand in hosting, preparing, and serving, and to those who attended, bringing pantry items and money to help the food bank. · The Denbigh Griffith Lions are selling chocolate Easter bunnies door to door; they can also be purchased by calling any Lions member if you happen not to be home when they stop by. Bunnies are $4 each. · This Sunday, March 29, the New Apostolic Church will have a Seniors' Program after the service, 12 noon. There will be a potluck dinner (for seniors only), followed by a discussion period and entertainment. Contact Rev. Robert Sprague for
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information: robertjsprague@gmail.com or 613-333-9777. · The Children's Easter Party sponsored by Denbigh Recreation will be held on Saturday, April 4, 11am to 2pm at the Denbigh hall. (Please note that the date given in last week’s column was wrong) There will be games, contests and the big Easter Egg Hunt. Lunch will be provided for all the children. · Music in the Hall will be held on Sunday, April 12, 1pm at the Denbigh Hall. Refreshments will be available. Please contact Mark at 613-333-9462 if you would like to provide entertainment. · Do you purchase your milk in 4-litre bags? If so, please save the outer bag. By cutting these bags into strips, tying them together, and weaving them, they can be made into sleeping mats for use in overseas countries. It takes hundreds of bags to make a single mat, so any bags you collect would be much appreciated. Contact Nancy at 613-3332204 if you have milk bags to give or for more information on the project.
MABERLY-BOLINGBROKE Karen Prytula
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· Everybody Enjoys Breakfast! March 28 at Oso Hall, Sharbot Lake - 8 a.m. to noon, in support of Central Frontenac Swim program. Pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs etc. -$7 for adults. Ages 6 to 12 - $3. Sponsored by Sharbot Lake & District Lions. · The Fall River Restaurant has undergone a full facelift and some major, eco-friendly upgrades have been done over the past few months. A new lunch and pub menu will be available starting Saturday April 4. · The Maberly Agricultural Society was formed in 1882. In 1885 the community of Maberly and area established a fair ground where farmers brought their choice products, like vegetables, chickens and livestock to vie against each other for prizes. The women brought their butter, eggs, quilts and soap and competition was keen. The Maberly Fair is still going strong 133 years later and the Maberly Agricultural Society is hosting a fundraiser on April 18, our annual pancake brunch from 10 am - 1 pm at the Maberly Community Hall. We hope to see everyone there. · Cottage Life – “Reno My Reno” – is creating a television series on cottage renovations gone wrong! They want to hear from you if you attempted a Do It Yourself Project that turned into a disaster. Cottages must be in a 3 hour radius from Ottawa. Please contact them at casting@mountainroad.ca, or visit their website at mountainroadcasting.ca · Are you thinking about starting your own business, or already have one? The Small Business Center in Smiths Falls is offering two free seminars by the Canada Revenue Agency on March 31. First is "GST/HST Basics for Business" - For start-up small business owners from 9:30 - 11:30am. The second is “GST/HST Across Borders” from 1 - 3pm. To register for either, or both seminars, contact Shannon or Cindy at smallbusiness@smallbizcentre.ca; Tel: 613-283-7002 x 109 or 108. www.smallbizcentre.ca · Perth & District Historical Society presents “This Week in History – Limited Passage”. In early 1815, Lord Bathurst, having issued his Edinburgh Proclamation inviting Scottish (and later Irish) emigrants to Canada, becomes concerned that the number will exceed expectations. On March 24, 1815, Lord Bathurst decrees that “the persons to be provided with passages from Scotland for the season are to be limited to 2000, of the age of sixteen and upwards, with a proportion of children”. The departure point was to be a port on the Clyde, in western Scotland, and the departure date to be April 1815. Both the target departure date and the requested transit fee of £16 per adult male (wives would be two guineas) would
eventually prove substantially optimistic – the implications of which will be detailed in the next edition of “This Week in History”. Visit perthhs.org for more history of this area including lots of old pictures.
MISSISSIPPI Pearl Killingbeck 613-278-2127 · Around 100 people attended the St. Patrick’s stew supper at Elphin Presbyterian Church hall on March 17. The hall was nicely decorated for St. Paddy’s Day and a lovely supper of various stews, salad, homemade biscuits, buns & pies was served. · There was a great Diners’ luncheon on March 18. Paul & Aimee Gosse do such a great meal and we got a real treat that day – Danielle Gosse, 5, sang “Let it Go” from the Disney show “Frozen”. She’s a little sweetheart. Ethel Armstrong won the left-right game. The next Diners is April 15. · 145 people came out to the Snow Road breakfast on March 21. The next breakfast is an Alzheimer’s fundraiser on April 4, 8-11am. · Congratulations to Cathy MacMunn, daughter of Olive Allen, on her recent promotion. · Terry Tufts is going to entertain us tonight, Thurs. March 26 at Snow Road Community Centre, 7-9pm. Tickets $10 advance; $12 at door. Dessert, tea & coffee will be available. Everyone welcome, come & join us.
MOUNTAIN GROVE Marilyn Meeks
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· Sympathy to Una Riley on the passing of her husband, Dennis Riley. · Sympathy to Jacquelyn Tarasick (Michael) on the passing of her mother, Joan Goodwin (Barclay). · Thinking of Carol Patterson, Clark Gaylord, Terry Trojek, Glen Fox, Joan Wyatt, Joanne Robertson, Julie Lott, Daisy Haw, Bill Powers, Judy Howe, Glen Thompson, Donny Knight. · Happy Birthday to Gordon Bertrim and Dwayne Matson. · There will be a "Crosswalk" on Good Friday, April 3. People will meet at the Matson’s Farm at 1:30pm in Arden; then at 3pm there will be a service in Arden United Church. In case of rain there will just be a service. · A Sonrise Service will be held at the public beach on the Price Road at 6:30am on Easter Sunday, followed by services at regular times in our three churches. · On March 29 at the Community Church of God in Petworth, there will be music of the Easter season, 2pm, with Pastor Ruth Ann Paul. · On March 22 at the Tamworth Arena the last hockey game for the Frontenac Midget 1 hockey team was played against Amherstview Midget team. Frontenac Midget defeated them 4-2. What exciting games were played this season! Well, hockey games are over for another year and now it will be baseball! · In Atlanta, Georgia, on March 22, our daughter Diana completed a 13.1 mile running marathon in less than 2 hours - in pouring rain! Congratulations! · Sharbot Lake Anglican Church hall was packed with seven tables of euchre players on March 20. For $5 per person, you get a delicious lunch and prizes for winning high, lone hands, and low scores. These games are once a month, Friday at noon. A great, social afternoon. · Parham Happy Travellers met on March 18 at the Free Methodist Church Hall. Seniors enjoyed soups, sandwiches, and desserts. Hostesses were Dorothy Verbeek and Lois
PAGE 5 McFadden. A big welcome was extended to Ken and Ruth Peters who also joined the club. Happy birthday was sung to Charlotte Brown, Ken Peters, Barbara Dawson. Archie Meeks was the auctioneer for selling various items in brown bags that members had brought. They were filled with items that were home-made: cookies, pickles, etc. · We enjoyed the delicious ham and scalloped potatoes supper on March 21 which was sponsored by Parham United Church. The hall was packed with hungry visitors. Thanks to everyone who helped in any way. · We wish all students the best of luck with their recent exams and also to students who are doing placement work as part of their course. · An item from the daily survival kit is bubblegum: to remind us to stick with it and you can accomplish anything. Have a great week!
PARHAM-TICHBORNE Colleen Steele Christine Teal
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· Sincere condolences to the Cumpson family on the loss of their father/grandfather Duane Cumpson. Also thinking of the family of the late Joan Goodwin · Thinking of you to Jimmy Green, Kim Harper and King Stinchcombe. · If you missed Saturday's minor ball registration - there is still a bit of time to get your child registered...send an email to cfminorball@hotmail.com with your child's name and age (as of January 1). Minor ball will be holding a pitching clinic starting mid-April - if your child is interested, please email the above address - we are looking for 12 participants. · Last chance to get your raffle ticket for the awesome prizes donated by W.A.Robinson Asset Management Group. We are lucky to have such great support from our community. Draw will take place on Saturday March 28 - please contact any member of executive or email cfminorball@hotmail.com · Are you starting to do your spring clean up? Remember the annual yard sale is the weekend after the May long weekend at Parham Ball Field. · It has sure been a "strange" start to the Maple Syrup season - hopefully things will improve.Thanks to all who attended the ham supper at the United Church on Saturday. It was nice to have both young and old. It was great our former student minister Sarah Magie was there with her daughter. · Don't forget the Lion's Club Breakfast this Saturday March 28 at Oso Hall, 8-11am. See the ad on page 7. · Have you spotted any robins? · Family gathered at the Pizza Hut to help Katie Teal celebrate her 14th birthday. · Congratulations to all the Frontenac Flyers who finished up their season this past weekend. Some of the games left the spectators on the edge of their seats until the final seconds!!!
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Great job to all and thanks to those who help by coaching, assisting, training, driving, cheering...etc....let's keep our kids active! · Happy Birthday to Candy Thompson, Annette Gray-Jackson, Nicole Pond, Sharon DesRoche, Patsy Lowery, Frances Smith, Bob Brooks, Kayla Harper-Banks, and Donna Fox.
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to the Sponsors and Volunteers of the 2015 Sharbot Lake Snow & Ice Drag Races. This event could not happen without the support of our many volunteers and sponsors.
2015 Door Prize Sponsors Robinson’s Excavating, Scotts Snow Removal, Cox Bus Lines, Ram’s Esso, Sharbot Lake Lawn Service, Sharbot Lake Country Inn, The Maples Restaurant, Gibson’s Garage, L.D. Power Sports, Hartington Farm Equipment, Quinte Truck & Trailer, Bence Motors (Car Quest-Kaladar), Bishop Lake Tent & Trailer Park, Nowell Motors, Tryon Snow & Scrap Metal Removal, Manion Sales & Service, Perth Power Sports & Marine, Double S Sports Marina, Napanee Truck Service, Simmon’s Plumbing, Nellie’s Gas Bar and Sharbot Lake Petro Canada (Bob Basra).
Donation of Service Perth & District Portable Toilet Rentals, Derek Hole DJ Services for use of Sound System, Snow Road Snowmobile Club & Jim England for use of the groomer, Volunteer announcers: Robyn Flaro & helper Mitch Cox.
· Stuff the Cruiser! The OPP will park a cruiser at Reid's Foodland in Verona on Saturday, March 28 from 10 am to 3 pm. Bring your non-perishable food items for the Southern
by Julie Druker nce again local worshipers and music lovers will be treated to a special Good Friday concert where 30 singers from the choirs of the Harrowsmith Verona United Church Pastoral Charge and St. Paul's Anglican church in Sydenham, along with singers from the community will be performing John Staynor's, “The Crucifixion: A Mediation on the Sacred Passion of the Redeemer”. The free concert will be conducted once again by Brad Barbeau, music director at St. Paul's Anglican church in Sydenham and the choir will be accompanied on organ by special musical guest Edward Norman, who has traveled once again from British Brad Barbeau directing the 2014 concert Colombia, in part to play the concert. to have five or six additional singers this year. Twiddy, who Norman, who is a former organist at St. Georges Cathedral will also be singing in this performance, is equally thrilled in Kingston, performed the piece with the choir last year. to announce that the oratorio will be performed again on The one hour piece features a number of solo parts, which Easter Sunday, April 5 at the Bridge Street United Church in this year will include baritone Phillip Rogers and tenor Jared Belleville at 3pm. “We put over 200 man hours of practice Buchmayer. The oratorio also offers up a number of cameo every year into the piece so we are thrilled to be singing it solo parts that will be sung by Ralph McInnes and George twice this year," she said. Turcotte. "The Crucifixion" was performed at St. Paul's in Sydenham The piece tells the story of the Passion, begining at the Gar- in 2012 and again in 2014. For those who have yet to hear den of Gethsemane and ending at the cross when Jesus the piece, it is more than worth the trip to Sydenham. Music “gives up the ghost”. It is a very moving piece and Annabelle is one special way to unite and move people and that should Twiddy, musical director of St. Paul's, Harrowsmith and Trin- definitely be the case at this special event. Guests are inity United, Verona, who has vited to make a donation to Southern Frontenac Community been rehearsing with the Services whose numerous programs support many families choir for weeks, is thrilled and individuals in the local community.
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Frontenac Community Services Food Bank and help stuff the cruiser full. · Batter up! The Frontenac County Minor Softball Association softball registration for the Verona and Hartington areas will take place Verona Lions Center in the Lion's Den on Saturday, March 28 from noon to 2:30 pm. For more information contact: Mary Jo Dowker at 613-374-3275 · Prince Charles Public School Parent Council is selling eight varieties of tree seedlings for $2 a tree. Order through the school at 613-374-2003 or on their website, http:// princecharles.limestone.on.ca by March 31. · First Verona Scouting will be hosting an All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast on Good Friday, April 3, 8 am to 11 am at Trinity United Church Hall. All you can eat pancakes, sausages, juice, and coffee or tea. Adults and youth 12 & over $8; 6 to 12 years old $5, five yrs. & under free; family rate $20. This is a fundraiser for Scouts Canada programs. · Frontenac Farmers Market is back with their Annual Easter Market on Saturday, April 4. All your favourite Market Vendors will be on hand. 9 am to 2 pm. Verona Lions Hall. · Second Annual Frontenac Fury Fun Run will be held Sunday April 26 at the Frontenac Arena , 4299 Arena Boundary Rd. Register online at the Running Room www.events. runnningroom.com. For more information please visit Frontenacfury.ca or Julie Lambert at page3664@gmail.com or Debbie Asselstine at gigglepus3.msn.com. Online registration closes on April 22. All proceeds benefit the Frontenac Fury Girls Hockey Association. Help support girls hockey in our community!
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or the first time ,on April 17, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society will bring all the area cancer fighters and survivors under one roof. Well, one dome actually. The newly completed 1000 Islands Sportsplex (Westbrook Dome) will be the venue for the first ever RELAY REUNION. This event is open to all past, present and future cancer fighters, survivors and volunteers to come together to share our experiences and kick off our unit Relay’s. For more information on this free event or to register to attend, please call 613-384-2361. here will be some great speakers and some fantastic information for all in attendance. If you have not heard about Relay For Life, the Unit office and Committee chairs are in full planning and have covered every kind of Relayer! The events are staggered as follows: • June 6: Kingston Relay for Life being held at the Westbrook Dome from 10 am to 10 pm. • June 13: Napanee Relay For Life being held at Napanee District High School from 7 pm to 7 am
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• June 20: North & Central Frontenac Relay For Life at Parham fairgrounds from noon to midnight Whichever Relay you support, you will be helping fund local programs like the Wheels for Hope program, which provides transportation to and from treatment appointments for survivors and their families; peer support programs that offer telephone support for people living with cancer to speak to someone who has experienced a similar cancer journey; and of course ongoing research projects that are held nationwide as well as some right here in Kingston. We hope to see you at the Relay Reunion where we can kick off our RELAY season. Together, we can make cancer history.
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distribute toilet paper to food banks. Their belief is that this is a necessary commodity and often time overlooked in donations. Please keep this in mind as you are choosing your donations - this weekend -or anytime. I think not being able to access or afford some of the basic necessities may be demoralizing so please don't overlook these items. · Keep in mind the Women's Institute monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday March 31 at St. Paul's United in Harrowsmith at 7pm. There will be much discussion around the Charity Vintage Fashion Show being held later in April. The proceeds from this fashion show will go to New Leaf Link - check out their website at www.newleaflink.ca to see everything this group contributes. · Come out to the Legion this Sunday as Picket Fences plays a variety of country music from today and yesterday. Entry is only $7 for the dance that runs from 1pm-5pm. A light lunch is included. · Don't forget your dog tags - price goes up as of April 1. It's a good way to locate your pet should they get lost - and it's an excellent way to NOT get fined if your pet is discovered by the bylaw officers without a tag!
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Frontenac Farming Life Profile: Take a Fat Chance I
sat down with Josh Suppan and Jen Valberg of Fat Chance Farmstead at their home in Inverary earlier this month. The thaw was just setting in and the sun streamed through the glass doors to the deck, revealing a vast, snow-covered meadow. The view is lovely and the home is cozy. Only, it is a rented house on another farmer's land, and it may be a short stay. The farmstead itself is about a five-minute drive away, on a rented piece of land, part of a larger organic farm. Last year, it was a few miles away from their current plot. Living and farming in rented homes, on rented land, sometimes each in a different location, is not uncommon for farmers, and it is pretty much the norm for those younger and early into their careers. For Suppan and Valberg, it has not stopped them from establishing a farm business, which, now into its third season, is a fixture in the Kingston-area CSA scene. The CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) concept, which began in the US in the 1980s, is a way for farms to market goods by providing a weekly allotment of its product, for which customers pay in advance at the beginning of the season. While it was initially designed so that customers shared in both the benefits and the risks (meaning that they would go without if the harvest was poor), Valberg and Suppan ensure that customers receive their money's worth by planting a broad diversity of produce and developing value-added items. Suppan, who got his first farm job at 13 on a peach and kiwi farm, has pruned, packed and picked in orchards of the Okanagan, and worked vegetable fields on Vancouver Island, where year-round harvests are possible. Aside from being the main driver behind Fat Chance's production, he currently
By Jonathan Davies
Jen Valberg and Josh Suppan works at a couple of local farms, milking cows and working vegetable plots. Valberg, who has a degree in business and several seasons of farm experience, currently works full-time at Queens University but helps out “evenings, weekends, and vacation days.” With their combined knowledge and experience, the challenge isn't so much figuring out how to grow food. Beyond the weekly dose of seasonal produce, the pair provide soft fruit and mushrooms, depending on the season, and rustic bread, as part of a food box program that spans 19 weeks in the summer. So far their harvests have been plentiful.
Furthermore, Valberg's business savvy and aesthetic sense serve them well on the marketing front. She designed their logo and does their promotional materials. For last year's season, they posted weekly professional-grade photos of their offerings on their Facebook page. The biggest hurdle, initially, was around accessing land. In the spring of their first season – 2013 – they had hundreds of dollars of garlic and nowhere to plant it. After a long stretch of knocking on doors and answering ads, they found a place just in time. Now that they have land, the challenge is in working within the vision that the landowner has for it. “We have had good rela-
tionships so far with renting, but lack control over what we can do,” says Valberg. Renting also means learning the lay of the land with each new property, and finicky crops can be hard to grow well when the soil and slope are unfamiliar to the farmer. It is also hard to invest in equipment like tractors without knowing how they will fit in with the operation over the long term. This has prompted the pair to contract their plow work to other farmers, and that means having the work done on someone else's schedule. Where they have an advantage is in their breadth of farming knowledge and interest, which has given them flexibility in their vision for what their farm will be once they have their own property. Says Suppan, “Each time we see a farm, we imagine what our business model will be based on what the land offers.” They take a slow-growth approach, recognizing that with a lack of access to money and debt, their best bet is maintaining a stable income, including that of their off-farm jobs, which will allow them to invest in the business over the long term. As Valberg puts it, “We can't jump in with a 500-member CSA in year one...we can't hire staff and grow as fast as we could if we were on our parents' farm. We have to mobilize the resources that we have.” Jonathan Davies is a farmer himself. He operates a small farm at Harrowsmith with his partner X.B. Shen. Jonathan is contributing a series of articles called Frontenac Farming Life, which profiles the lives of local farmers who are trying to make a living through farming, navigating struggle and hope. If you would like to have your story considered, please contact Jonathan at longroadecofarm@gmail.com.
Frontenac Fury Atom Girls hockey - a multi-generational family affair I by Julie Druker
t is not often that one sees great grandmothers attending hockey games at the Frontenac Community Arena, but great grandmother Barb Stewart of Verona had three very good reasons (and then some) to be there on the afternoon of March 22. Barb, along with a number of other family relations, were sitting rink side to watch Barb's three grand daughters, 10-year-old cousins, Sophie Norman, Jenna Norman and Taylor McParland, showing their skills out on the ice. The girls, who play, respectively, defense, left wing and goalie for the Atom Girls Frontenac Fury team, were facing off in an exhibition game against the Kingston Ice Wolves (blues) and it just so happens that they are not the only three representatives of the Stewart family on the team. The girls are coached by Barb's eldest grandson Jason Norman, father of Sophie and son of Barb's daughter Linda. In all, the game attracted four generations of the Stewart family to the arena, which over the decades has been a family hub for this large, multi-generational hockey-playing family. Hockey indeed runs deep in their blood. Barb in fact is likely one of the only great grandmothers in the area who can boast three great granddaughters on a single team. And it seems no coincidence that the three girls play the exact same positions of their own family hockey mentors. Mallory Garrison, mother of goalie Taylor said the family's love of hockey comes honestly. “Taylor's grandfather Tom played as a goalie in his days on the ice and Taylor, who just started playing this year was asked in her second practice if she wanted to have a try at it. She really has a knack for it, which she likely gets from her Grampy.” Barb told a funny story of how Taylor called her up on the pone after one of her games and said, “I took over Grampy's
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spot.” Grampy, Barb’s son Tom Stewart, played goalie for years at the arena and Barb recalled one season in which he won 17 straight games. Sarah Norman, wife of coach Jason and mother of Sophie, said her daughter has been playing for five years and also comes by her talents honestly since her dad played defense on numerous Frontenac teams since he was seven years old. Jenna, who has been playing for three years, not surprisingly plays left wing, the same position her dad Greg played for years. It is no wonder that the cousins definitely held their own out on the ice. Though the Fury lost the game 1-0, Taylor made impressive saves - too many to count - throughout the game and received multiple high fives from her team mates. Both Jenna and Sophie also played solidly. The girls’ parents and relatives are thrilled to have the cousins playing together regularly at least two or three times a week. Naturally, the games are a great excuse for the whole family to get together on a regular basis. The Fury will play this weekend in a Kanata tournament, which will wrap up their season for the year. The team had eight brand new players and three novice players this year, and had a great regular season. They finished as finalists in their Newmarket tournament, got to the semis in the Ice Wolf Tournament and finished in fourth place in
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Thursday March 26 SHARBOT LAKE - BINGO, Oso Hall, doors open 5:30pm, must be 18 years; sponsored by Northern Frontenac Community Services, 613-279-3151. SHARBOT LAKE - ELDER CARE AND HOUSING public meeting with Andrew Kovacs of Sharbot Lake Retirement and Retreat, 7:30pm at the Fishers’, 1070 Elizabeth St.; Ken 613-279-1902 SNOW ROAD - TERRY TUFTS music night 7-9pm, community centre; $10 advance, $12 at door; desserts, coffee/tea available; info: 613-278-0841.
Friday March 27 NORTHBROOK LEGION EUCHRE TOURNAMENT, 7pm at the Lions Hall. SHARBOT LAKE – DINNER at the Legion. 5:30–7pm, chicken SYDENHAM – DANCE W/ AMBUSH, at Legion, $20pp; doors open 7pm, Ambush 9pm.
Saturday Mar 28 ENTERPRISE - BREAKFAST at Stone Mills Pentecostal Church, $5, 9am, all welcome 613-358-2637 HARLOWE - OPEN MIKE & MUSIC JAM, 2-8pm, community centre, no admission fee, potluck supper, all welcome 613-336-2557 HARROWSMITH SOFTBALL REGISTRATION, Social & Athletic Club, noon-2:30pm; info: Michelle at 372-0274 or Laura at 613-888-0077 moreyp@kos.net HARROWSMITH - DANCE with Jeff Codes band, Golden Links Hall 8pm; $10 advance, $12 at door; tickets Brenda 372-2410 SHARBOT LAKE - LIONS BREAKFAST, Oso Hall, 8am-noon; eggs, sausage, pancakes etc. $7; 6-12yrs $3, in support of Central Frontenac Swim Program STUFF THE CRUISER, Trousdale’s Foodland, Sydenham and Reid’s Foodland, Verona; 10am-3pm. VERONA - FRONTENAC MINOR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION, Lions Center noon-2:30pm; info: ronmaryjo.dowker@gmail.com; 613-3743275 TAMWORTH - CARLOS DEL JUNCO, blues harmonica player, concert at Legion, 8pm; $30; call 613-379-2808.
Sunday March 29 FAMILY SKATE DAY, Land O’ Lakes Curling Club, 301 Joseph St., Tweed; noon - 4pm. FLINTON - COFFEE HOUSE, Open mic @ Through the Roof Ministry Center, 6:30pm, all welcome MARCH FOR MUSIC THERAPY, starts at Crystal Palace at 12:45pm w/ live Jazz band; after party at St. James Anglican Church w/ silent auction; James Keelaghan songwriting
OPP reportS Be wary of “Grandma, it’s me...I need help...please don’t tell anyone” The OPP is reminding citizens that emergency scams target vulnerable persons and seniors by playing upon their emotions and rob them of their money. Each year, emergency scam artists contact thousands of citizens and many people get scammed in their rush to help. Many victims are hesitant to say “No” or to hang up on someone on the phone, which makes them easy targets for criminals to access substantial sums of money. In 2014, five per cent of all complaints received by the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre were victims of the “Emergency Scam” -sometimes referred to as the “Grandparent
workshop 3pm; info: Rebecca Worden 613264-1458; soundunbound@primus.ca MCDONALDS CORNERS - CONCERT w/ Gathering Sparks, MERA Schoolhouse, 2pm, single concert advance ticket $22; 613-4856434 or www.ticketsplease.ca SHARBOT LAKE - FREE MOVIE “Passion of the Christ”, Pentecostal Church, 6:30pm, all welcome SYDENHAM LEGION – DANCE w/ Picket Fences Country Band, 1 to 5pm, spot dance, door prizes & lunch, $7 each.
Monday March 30 SHARBOT LAKE - CPR & FIRST AID INFORMATION SESSION for seniors, Anglican Church Hall, 9:30am-2pm; lunch, snacks; please RSVP to 613-279-3151. Information session only; topics include: defibrillators, procedures to do & not to do regarding CPR & First Aid.
Tuesday March 31 HARROWSMITH - TURKEY BINGO, Golden Links Hall, early bird 7pm; call Brenda 3722410 HARROWSMITH WOMEN’S INSTITUTE monthly meeting at St. Paul’s United Church, 7pm, all women welcome.
Thursday April 2 HARROWSMITH - SEDER SERVICE, St. Paul’s United Church, 6:30pm. for all ages, take part in a reenactment of the Passover Supper; please call ahead - 613-372-2525 or email office@h-vpastoralcharge.org.
Friday April 3 SHARBOT LAKE - GOOD FRIDAY “PASSION WALK” leaving St. Andrews Anglican at 8:30am, all are welcome to participate. SYDENHAM - John Stainer’s oratorio “Crucifixion” performed by a community choir, 3:30pm, St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Donations benefit Southern Frontenac Community Services. VERONA - PANCAKE BREAKFAST, 8-11am, Trinity United Church; $8; 6-12years $5; 5 & under free; family $20; fundraiser by 1st Verona Scouting.
Saturday April 4 ARDEN - CHILDREN’S EASTER PARTY, community hall, 10am-1pm; games, crafts, Easter egg hunt, hot dog lunch for the kids; sponsor: Kennebec Recreation Committee DENBIGH - CHILDREN’S EASTER PARTY 11am-2pm, community hall; games, contests Easter Egg Hunt; free lunch for children. PLEVNA – EASTER EGG HUNT, 10am, ClarMill hall, all children welcome, sponsored by the Clar-Mill Community Volunteers; info: Ed,
479-9909 SNOW ROAD - FUNDRAISER BREAKFAST for Alzheimer’s Snowmobile Club, 8-11AM, 1106 Gemmills Road, all welcome. VERONA - FRONTENAC FARMERS MARKET Easter Market, 9am-2pm; Lions Hall.
Saturday & Sunday April 4 & 5 MAPLE WEEKEND! Maple syrup producers will have open houses w/ demonstrations, tours, pancakes, confections & more. Locations
include: in Sharbot Lake: George & Darlene Conboy, 2559 Bell Line Road; Mel & Joyce Conboy, 2379 Bell Line Rd; in McDonalds Corners, Heritage Maple Products, 623 Dalhousie Concession 9A; Wheelers Pancake House, 1001 Highland Line. For map & list of locations visit mapleweekend.ca
Sunday April 5 BEDFORD OPEN MIC & JAM, 1-5pm, Bedford Hall 1381 Westport Rd, Bluegrass, Country, Gospel & more, $2, 613-374-2614 SHARBOT LAKE - EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE 6:30am behind the Simonett Building, Bring lawn chairs, blankets; rain/ snow location: Pentecostal church
Monday, April 6 PLEVNA - EUCHRE every Monday 7:30pm at Clar-Mill hall, $4 includes lunch; proceeds to Holy Trinity Church
Tuesday April 7 PLEVNA - GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP CLUB, meets at Clar-Mill Hall 1:30pm SHARBOT LAKE 39ers at North Frontenac Telephone office, downstairs, noon potluck followed by meeting, games after; all over 50 years welcome; info Shirley 613-279-2990; djfraser@frontenac.net SHARBOT LAKE - ALZHEIMER SOCIETY SUPPORT GROUP, 1pm-2:30pm, United Church hall, info: 613-544-3078 SNOW ROAD – KEENAGERS, 1-3pm, community centre, music, inspirational message, all are welcome
Wednesday April 8 HARROWSMITH - SOCIAL & ATHLETIC CLUB MEETING, 7pm, for all members & anyone interested in attending, 4041 Colebrooke Rd, Membership - family $20/yr., single $10/yr.; info: Laura 613-888-0077. NORTHBROOK - LIVING WELL WITH CHRONIC DISEASE, free 6-week workshops on achieving best wellness while managing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, stroke, depression & others; please register: Land O’Lakes Community Services, 1:30-4pm, register Pam 613-336-8934 x 229; 1-877-679-6636; p.lemke@lolcs.com. SNOW ROAD – FIDDLERS & FRIENDS country music night & community potluck, 5pm, all welcome.
Thursday April 9 LAND O’ LAKES GARDEN CLUB Pine View Free Methodist Church, Cloyne, 7pm, topic: “Microclimates & pushing boundaries of what we can grow + pruning/topiary” MABERLY - DINNER & EUCHRE, noon at community hall, sponsored by St. Stephen’s Church SHARBOT LAKE - RETIRED TEACHERS & FRIENDS: Luncheon at The Crossing, Country Inn, 11:30am. To attend phone 613540-0844 by Apr. 7 at noon. VERONA DINERS, noon, Lions Hall, for 55+, $11. Reservations required 613-376-6477.
Regular Happenings AA & AL-ANON 41 GROUP - Cloyne Hall. Wednesdays 8 pm. All welcome. AA MEETINGS - SHARBOT LAKE, every Monday, 8:30 pm, United Church C.E. Bldg. AL-ANON: Hope & help for families of alcoholics, 12 weekly meetings in greater Kingston area. Please call 384-2134 for
meeting information. We care. ARDEN - Community hall: LINE DANCING Mondays 9:30-10:30am; FIT & FUN exercise class Tuesdays 9-10am (April-June, SeptDec) EUCHRE Tuesdays 7-10pm; TAI CHI Wednesdays, beginners class 9:15am, advanced 10:15am; WEIGHT LOSS W e d . 4– 6pm Apr-Dec. CHILDREN’S READ/ KIDS KLUB Thursdays 5-7:30pm; sponsor: Kennebec Rec. Committee; info 613-3353186 ARDEN LEGION: Sunday Darts 1pm; Wed & Fri Darts 7pm; Wed Cribbage 2pm; Thurs Euchre 7:30pm. ARDEN SENIORS: meet at community hall 1st Tuesday each month, 11am business meeting then pot luck lunch; info 613-335-3186 BABY TALK DROP-INS, Sharbot Lake, Child Centre, 2nd Wed, 10:30 – 11:30 am. Sydenham, 3rd Thursday, 9 – 11 am. Advice & information on infant & child care. 549-1154, 1-800-267-7875. BINGO ■ Flinton, Mondays, Rec Centre, doors open 6pm ■Kaladar: Community Centre, Tuesdays, 7pm, doors open 6:15 pm ■Northbrook: Thursdays, Lions Club, 7pm, doors open 6 pm, sponsor: Land O’Lakes Lions ■Parham: Fridays, IOOF Hall, earlybird: 6:45 pm, sponsor: Mayflower Lodge. BOLINGBROKE - CPHC EXERCISE CLASSES FOR SENIORS, ABC Hall, Mondays 10–11am. Contact: Donna Mihalicz at donna@mihalicz.com; (613) 273-8672. Breaks for summer BOLINGBROKE - FOREVER FRIENDS EUCHRE, Mondays March 2 – April 27; light noon lunch & euchre. From May 5–Dec 22, every Tuesday 7pm; refreshments avail. after game. CANCER PATIENTS requiring rides to treatments: call 613-384-2361 or 1-866-8770309 CLOTHING /BOUTIQUE – NORTHBROOK, in former United Church next to cemetery. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 10 am-2 pm (varies seasonally) CLOTHING – HARTINGTON, COMMUNITY CARING, Princess Ann Community Centre, Mon 9-12, Tues 9-4, and Fri 9-12 CLOTHING - TREASURE TRUNK, Sharbot Lake, 1171 Cannon Rd. “New & Second Tyme Around Clothing” Donations welcome. 2792113. Closed Easter weekend; April 25 Grand opening of summer stock CLOTHING – VERONA, “Style Revival”, free clothing, Free Methodist Church, Wed & Thurs, 10am-1pm; info Kielo, 613-374-5289 COMMUNITY DROP-IN – Sharbot Lake Every Wednesday, 10am – 2pm, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church. All welcome! 279-3151. DENBIGH CRAFT GROUP meets 2nd & 4th Wed. of month, 1pm, community hall, free, all welcome, info: Pam at LOLCS, 336-8934 ext. 229. GOLDEN SUNSET CLUB meets 1st Monday of month, Northbrook Lions Hall, noon. Info: 336-2570. Join us for potluck HARROWSMITH - TUESDAY LUNCHES, St. Paul’s United Church, 11:30-1pm, $5, soup, sandwich, beverage, dessert. Breaks for summer
Don’t fall victim to “Emergency” scam Scam”. Of those 1,977 complaints, 737 people were identified as victims who reported a total loss of more than $2.4 million. In the typical emergency scam, the victim will receive a frantic phone call from someone claiming to be a grandchild or loved one. The caller will explain that they are involved in some sort of mishap or are having trouble returning from a foreign country and need money right away. Scammers know how to gather your personal information for criminal means. They use phony social media accounts to find real names, real interests, real phone numbers and when you are going to be home or away. They’ll even call in the middle of the night to take advantage of the confusion caused by
awaking suddenly with the expectation it's bad news at that hour. Most of all, they rely upon the victim’s desire to help their loved ones, whatever the cost. Be aware of some warning signs: • Urgency - The scammer always makes the request sound very urgent, which may cause the victim to not verify the story. • Fear - The scammer plays on the victim’s emotions by generating a sense of fear. For instance, they may say, “I am scared and I need help from you.” • Secrecy - The scammer pleads with the victim not to tell anyone about the situation, such as, “Please don’t tell Dad, he would be so mad.” • Request for Money Transfer - Money
is usually requested to be sent by a money transfer company such as Money Gram, Western Union or even through your own bank institution. To avoid becoming a victim, police advise you to first check with another family member or trusted friend to verify the information BEFORE sending money or providing credit card information by phone or e-mail. It is vitally important that the incident be reported every time it occurs, to allow police to investigate and prevent others from becoming victims. If you or someone you know may have been the victim of an “emergency” scam, contact your local police service or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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Alita Battey-Pratt – The story of the village of Latimer and County of 1000 Lakes by Jeff Green
of the area in the mid 19th Century was the development of Perth Road and the bridge over Loughborough Lake, which was necessary in order to bring development to Loughborough and Storrington Townships. Development in the 1830s in the area between Kingston and Loughborough Lake was hampered by a lack of good roads. In fact there are accounts of the requirement that landowners were required to put in a certain amount of time working on public roadways as a form of taxation. “In 1853, every landowner in Storrington whose assessed property was less than £50 had to perform two days labour on the roads, and this increased to 12 days for wealthier landowners,” said Battey-Pratt in her manuscript. When it came time to build the major north-south arterial roads, Perth Road through Inverary and Montreal Road through Battersea, the Province of Upper Canada was not interested in paying the entire cost, so “joint committees were formed from county councilors and citiGrist mill at Washburn on Rideau, Storrington, from County of 1000 Lakes zen shareholders." The Kingston and Storrington and lita Battey-Pratt moved to a historic home on Latimer Road in the 1960s, with her husband, who taught at Kingston Mills Road Company was formed in 1852. In 1854, the first 12 mile stretch of road from Kingston to LoughborQueen's University. They were trying to “get back to the land, to use a phrase ough Lake was paved, and two toll booths were installed, from the 60's, grow our own food and all that,” she recalls. which brought in £200 in revenue the first year. It cost £7,293 After having twin daughters in 1969 and a son several years to build the road, including £615 for the bridge over the north later, Alita still had had enough time to do some writing, and shore of Loughborough Lake. By the winter of 1855, a winter had taken an interest in the history of the area. She began road had been built all the way up to Big Rideau Lake, where writing for the Triangle newspaper, which served Storrington, Perth Road still ends today. The rights to the road were sold in 1860 to “a triumvirate of Loughborough and Portland townships at the time. three men, A.J. Macdonell, Samuel Smith and Sir J. A. MacWhen the project to create the book, County of 1000 Lakes, started up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Alita was ap- Donald” James Campbell built the first subdivision in what would proached by Ethel Beedell, who came from Battersea, and Jenny Cousineau from Sunbury to work on the Storrington become Frontenac County in 1855, subdividing his farm to chapter of the book. Alita also ended up writing the Architec- form 2 acre lots along Perth Road in what was subsequently ture chapter as well. The book is a 550-page people's history renamed Inverary from the original name, which was Storof Frontenac County from 1673 - 1973 and was published rington. The toll on Perth Road remained in place for decades, in 1983, much to the consternation of many people who made use of “I was raising young children and couldn't take a full-time job. It was fun to do and having a group of people who were it on a regular basis. Jabez Stoness, who carried the mail for 35 years over the so committed coming from all over Frontenac County to do it was a great thing. We met probably once a month. Each Perth Road, paid $3,000 in tolls over that time. In one celebrated case, “The wives of men working in the district doing a chapter would send a representative, and we got to know each other pretty well. Of course there was no stone quarry north of Inverary refused to pay the toll because Internet or email, so we communicated by phone and even 'they were just taking lunches to their husbands'. They raced then it was long distance. Unfortunately the manuscripts are through the gate, [tollmaster] Charles Gibson went to get the only on paper; there is no digital version of anything, and bailiff ... and warrants were made out for the women's arrest. only a fraction of what was written ended up in the book,” They were summoned to appear in court, held in Osborne's she said, when interviewed from her immaculately restored tavern, and the court fined them $16.50,” a hefty fine considHeritage Home on Latimer Road on a cold, clear, blustery ering the toll was only 4 cents each way. Even a toll road can deteriorate, however, and in 1890, February morning. All the research for the Storrington chapter gave her an in- Jabez Stoness, no doubt angered by a lifetime of paying sight into the history, not only of the former village of Latimer, fees, refused to pay any further tolls because of the condition of the road. Noting that the county engineer had deemed but also of Battersea, Inverary and Sunbury. One of the many interesting stories of the development the road was “dangerous and impeding Her Majesty's travel”
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But now it is time to wrap things by Jeff Green up and retire, and all this month s she approaches her 70th she's been selling off her stock in birthday, Ann Elvins, who has advance of a final sale on Saturbeen the owner of the Tiffany Gift day, where everything that is left Shop in Harrowsmith for 16 years, will go for 50% off. says “It's time to dance”. “It's bittersweet because the There never has been a problem shop has been a great joy to me, with the store, she said. It has been but some of those one-day buying well supported by the community trips to Toronto and other parts of since she took it over. “I enlarged running an ongoing business are the store quite a bit. It was a two no longer things I want to deal room store when I bought it and I The plant sale for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers with,” she said. added another room and a garage group that Ann Elvins hosted at the shop last year Ann Elvins is not planning to and brought in new products, but it kept the same feel as it had when I bought it, which was what move from her house, which is attached to the store. She will be approaching the township for a permit to convert the I wanted to do,” she said. She has also been able to support a number of charities store into a senior's apartment and will be able to enjoy more with the store, including the African Grandmothers, for whom of the activities in the local community now that she will have she has hosted an annual plant sale on the front lawn; the more free time. “I'm not going anywhere. If you see me on the lawn or in Women for Afghanistan; the Cattail Festival; Harrowsmith the garden, honk and I'll wave,” she said. Public School and others.
Stoness argued that tolls could not be charged until the road was improved and he won the case. In 1907 the county offered R. H. Fair, who had purchased the road in 1899, $3,000 for the road. An arbitration board set the price at $7,000 and in June of 1907 the purchase was completed. The tolls were removed from Perth Road once and for all, and a steel bridge was constructed over Loughborough Lake, putting an end to decades of difficult crossings over rickety bridges (and ferries when the bridges would collapse every 10 years or so) One of Alita's interests during the writing of the book was the history of Latimer and the history of her own property, which was originally granted in 1799. During the research phase for County of 1000 Lakes, a neighbour who was living on the property that at one time had been John Woolf's store, found a sack full of papers which, when inspected, yielded a very clear picture of how the store and the Village of Latimer functioned in the mid 19th Century. At one time Latimer, which was the first settlement north of Kingston in what would become Storrington, had a post office, two cheese factories (including one that was turned into a fire station in the 1970s) a store and other amenities. John Woolf came to Latimer from Thorold in 1820 or '21, settled and opened a black smith shop, which became a trading post. Alita is still excited by what those old documents said about life in Latimer almost 200 years ago. “What I found was that he kept scrupulous records of everybody who came and went from his trading post, because people didn't have cash. If you came in with homespun - the Campbell ladies made a lot of homespun, that has been documented - they would trade that for wheat or flour or scantling [small timbers]. “So you had a document that ran for 50 years, of everything that went on in the community, every family, every trade, recorded in pounds, shilling and pence, until it became dollars and cents after 1850.” The documents also tell when houses were built and who built them “Captain Everett, who was a wealthy man and an owner of the toll road, would buy flooring for a full house in one go, and you would get to know when he took on construction projects. The Ansley family who lived on the farm where Alita lives, were in the lumber business, and most of their trading was done in terms of flooring, scantling and cedar shingles and they would trade for ground flour and ground peas, etc. Her research also revealed details about the history of her own house and the families that owned and operated it and the surrounding 200 acres of farmland. “It was built by Amos Ansley, who was a United Empire Loyalist and a well known master builder. It became interesting to me partly because when my husband and I purchased the house it was in a derelict state and we spent years restoring it so we learned a lot about how it was built in the process. But I also happen to be from a Loyalist family myself, and it occurs to me that a master builder such as Ansley would either have crossed paths with my family or at least they would have known about him.” Amos Ansley Jr. ended up owning a mill in what would eventually become the Village of Battersea. Ansley sold the mill in 1830 to another Loyalist who moved into the area, Henry Vanluven. Vanluven and his sons became an economic force in what became know as Vanluven's Mills until the name was changed to Battersea in 1857. He was also the first reeve of Storrington Township when it was incorporated in 1850. “Battersea had a larger population in 1850 than it does now,” said Alita, “and it had a gristmill [which burned down] a number of sawmills in and around the village and a large tannery. It was a thriving industrial centre in its day.”
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Shirley Peruniak - historian and naturalist by Jeff Green hirley Peruniak was born at Sharbot Lake in 1926, and she can trace her family roots back at least two generations before that, to a grandfather who lived south of the village near the Tryon Road. She attended Sharbot Lake Public School until she reached grade 7. Her father, who worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, was then transferred to Perth to work in the office of CPR Express, a postal mail and parcel service. Although Shirley did not live full time in Sharbot Lake for over 50 years (1935 until 1988), she always came back to visit her grandparents and other relatives for Christmas and summer holidays. They owned a number of cottages on the lake, and rented some out during the summer tourist season. Shirley, whose maiden name was Walroth, has always been a history buff, and attended Queens on a scholarship to study history. She lived with her husband in Kenora for many years where they were teachers, and where she formed an association with Quetico Park in north-western Ontario (near Dryden). In 2010, she was honoured by being named to the Order of Ontario for her work as a historian and naturalist in the park. When she returned to Sharbot Lake in 1988 after her husband had died, she tore down one of the two remaining cottages that she owned and had a small house built on the lake, on Walroth Lane. She quickly established herself as a historian in Sharbot Lake at that time. Working with then librarian Michael Dawber, who later wrote a book about the history of Central Frontenac called "Back of Sunset", she founded the Oso Historical Society. In the early years of the society, descendants of some of the long-standing families in the township spoke at public events that were organized for that purpose, and although much of the energy of those years has slipped away, Shirley has kept an archive of material, with files about each family kept neatly in alphabetic order at her home, and in a series of file cabinets that are housed at the Sharbot Lake Branch
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of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. The archiving work that she took on received a boost in the 1990s, when her friend Dr. Peter Bell, who is himself an enthusiastic collector of memorabilia and photographs of the area, told her that in the cramped and dusty basement of the Oso Hall he had found papers going back to the early 1900's. Shirley worked her way through those papers over a long time and incorporated them into her archives. Another part of her historical work was to root through the countryside to find remnants of buildings that burned down or were abandoned to get a sense of where people lived in the earlier era. That included searching for the original homestead of her own family, which she eventually found. Her own memories of life in Sharbot Lake in the 1920s and 30s are consistent with other accounts, and the material she has gathered about life in the preceding 50 years are consistent with other sources, including the chapter on Oso township in the book "County of 1000 Lakes", which was written by Peggy Cohoe, Evelyn Johnson, and Doris and R.D. Ayers. “I know that farming was particularly difficult all through those years,” she said. Based on census data and accounts of people such as Thomas Gibbs, the surveyor who completed a survey in 1860, County of 1000 Lakes says that the entire population of the township was 138 in 1860, but that number rose steadily over the next 40 years. By 1900, 60% of the land in Oso was listed as agricultural, but even then the life blood of the town was the railway, since the CPR and K&P rail lines crossed at Sharbot Lake. In 1900 there were five lumber mills in the vicinity of the village, employing 150 people, and an apatite mine employed 40 more. Apatite was used in the fertiliser industry. All of this was based on the ability to ship product to markets in all directions. Over the next 20 years most of the mills closed; a discovery of large quantities of apatite in Florida led to the mine being shut down; the population dropped by 25%; and farming became less and less popular.
Gray Merriam - Landscape ecologist U nlike a number of people being profiled for the Frontenac County 50 stories/150 years project, Gray Merriam does not have deep family roots in Frontenac County. He first came to Kennebec Lake, with his wife Aileen, because they were starting to look for a place to move to after Gray had retired from Carleton University, and they happened to be headed to Toronto for a conference. “There was a property on Kennebec Lake, and it was on the way so we stopped in,” he recalls. It was early March and they could not take the road all the way in to the property for fear of not getting back out, so they left their car behind and walked in. “I wanted to live within two canoe lengths of the water, which this property had since the house is right on the Salmon River, where it flows from Kennebec Lake. To tell the truth even before we got to the house I was sold on the property because of the snow fleas that made it look like the snow was moving in waves.” Gray began his academic career as a population ecologist and was one of the people who developed landscape ecology as an academic pursuit. “I began my career as a population ecologist and developed landscape ecology, with others, during my time at Carleton,” he said. Landscape ecology was different at that time because it was based in Europe and was urban-based. It was connected to urban planning. “When we started looking at it here it was more about large mosaics of various habitat types. It was farmland so you had little sugar bushes at the back of the farm, farm fence rows, crop field, hay fields, little creeks with some brush along them, and that entire mosaic was what the organisms were living with so we tried to study that entire mosaic. Previously ecologists tried to narrow things down to one little homogeneous bit, but it was clear to us that everything around it was the driving variable for how it all worked.” This approach was used at first to determine, for example, how populations of bird species could survive in farmlands where there are only small pockets of suitable habitat. “It turned out, that while small populations were vulnerable because they did not always breed, other populations would migrate to the habitat if it was not being used. So this tells you that the fate of a population in a single woodlot goes on and off like a little neon light but the fate of population in the region has a very high level of security. What that led to is a realisation that the organisms located between different patches of habitat are very important for the species to be able to migrate from one patch to another. It's the nature of the movements between patches of habitat that determine the success rate. So we did a lot of work on farm fence rows as a connectivity." This kind of academic pursuit brought Merriam into contact with ecologists and other academics from across North
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America and elsewhere. When he retired he took on the goal of seeing if the principles of landscape ecology could be applied in his new community. “The first thing was to bring the idea of ecological processes in lakes to try to engage the folks on the lakes about water quality sampling, shoreline surveys, and that led eventually to the lake planning that has become popular everywhere. Lake plans are based on the ideas of landscape ecology, especially when they extend to looking at watersheds as a whole,” he said. One thing that Merriam did was to start writing articles for the Frontenac News, and writing books. He also founded the Friends of the Salmon River, and became instrumental in the work of the Frontenac Stewardship Council, which is now the Frontenac Stewardship Foundation. When Frontenac County began to set out an Official Plan, he began pushing
By 1911 there were 160 farms in Oso, and by 1961 there were 31, which is still a lot more than there are today. Shirley Peruniak remembers the railway as central to the town in the 1920s. “The K&P would come in first, and it would wait for the CPR to arrive. People and goods were transferred, and the trains would be on their way,” she recalls. One of Shirley's regrets is that in those years, though she took many trips on the K&P to Kingston, she never took the train north to Snow Road or Flower Station, or to where it ended, at Calabogie. Aside from her work accumulating an archive of material about the former Oso township over the past 27 years, Shirley has rekindled her relationship with Sharbot Lake Public School, which closed last year. When she started at the school it was a one-room school house, but soon after, a new two-room school was built on the same site. That was in 1931. In 1939 electric lights were installed and in 1949 it was expanded to the size it was until it closed last year, and indoor washrooms were installed. “When I came back to Sharbot Lake to retire I still felt connected to the school, and to the children,” she said. So, several times a week for 26 years Shirley headed over to the school to help with the breakfast program. “Then, when the school celebrated its 75th anniversary I was able to provide some of the material for people to look at. I got a good start in that school and I was happy to give back,” she said. In addition to her work as an archivist, both in Quetico and Oso, and her school volunteering, Shirley is also a keen birder and naturalist. She has spent her share of time in the bush looking for birds and nests and helping to put together a picture of the natural history of her two favourite parts of the province, places that she knows better than just about anyone else. for a Stewardship Plan for Frontenac County, a goal that he is still pursuing. “The Friends of the Salmon came about when I met some neighbours downriver and we started talking about the health of the river and how we could monitor it. So I held a meeting at my house and a number of people came and they became the Friends of the Salmon.” He expected he would find hot spots and complaints about the state of the river. “There weren't any, which makes it more difficult to organize people but there you have it.” If there is a single issue that is most important about the future of the lakes along the Salmon River watersheds and all the watersheds in Frontenac County, he says it is phosphorous. Most of the phosphorous affecting lakes here is coming from faulty septic systems. “We understand the role of septics, but the problem is the people, who resist being told what to do, and the potential cost is an issue as well. But by focussing on waterfront properties the people who own them tend to have more money available. The properties on the hillsides don't have the same problem because the runoff from the septics is taken up by vegetation, trees, etc.” he said. On all the groups he has been involved with he sometimes comes into conflict over what he calls his “insistence that projects that get done make ecological sense.” Another thing that he has pushed over the years is the interest of the north end of the county over what he sees as a bias towards the south. “When I first was introduced to the Stewardship Council it was known as the South Frontenac Stewardship Council and it did not consider that it would ever extend north of Highway 7. We had to convince them there was life up here,” he said. One of the things that he has been able to focus people's attention on is the two different geological regions in Frontenac County, the Limestone substrate in the South and the Canadian Shield landscape to the north.
20th year reunion of Frontenac Women’s Chorus T by Barb Rodgers
his year the Frontenac Women's Chorus is celebrating its 20th year. The chorus began in 1995 under the direction of Jennifer Bennett. She directed the chorus until 2001, at which time Betty Wagner assumed the role of director. The chorus is made up of about 25 women who rehearse on Monday evenings at Trinity United Church in Verona and new and former members are always invited to join in the fun. The chorus has performed many concerts featuring a varied repertoire in local communities as well as participated in Kiwanis Music Festivals in Kingston. Former members are invited to celebrate this special occasion with an afternoon get-together and the rehearsing of a familiar piece of music to be sung during the concert
performed by the current chorus on May 31 at the Grace Centre in Sydenham, beginning at 3:30. We are requesting that all former members who wish to be a part of this exciting celebration contact either Kathie Nichols at nichols@persona.ca or Barb Rodgers at barbrodgers@ xplornet.com as soon as possible. Our celebration will also include a farewell to Betty Wagner, who is retiring as director. This concert will be Betty's last time directing this dedicated and friendly group of women. The chorus will be welcoming Patty Smith as its new director in the fall. You will be contacted with further details about the day of the reunion after sending us your contact information. The chorus warmly welcomes former members to come and help us celebrate!
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Mary Howes – Tichborne girl makes a go of it in Parham by Jeff Green
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ong before Mary Howes had established herself as a major force in local and regional organisations, she was a young girl from Tichborne who had been raised in a great aunt and uncle's house, near the rail station. After high school she went to Toronto to work, living at another aunt's house, but she did not like it very much. “I didn't like it because I was a country girl, not a city girl,” she recalls now, from the house in Parham that she has lived in since 1952. She would take the train home every weekend from Toronto, but her days in Toronto ended when one evening at the Parham Fair, she met the man she would end up marrying. “I met Glen for the first time at the dance at the Parham Fair in 1950. We knew of each other of course, but that was our first meeting,” she said. The dances at the fair were held in the Palace, where all the fair entries are set out during the day. She does not recall who the band was led by that night, although she remembers that the band that played at her wedding was led by Bill Hannah. There was one problem in the romance between Glen Howes and Mary Sweetman, however. She was from Tichborne and he was from Parham. Tichborne and Parham were opponents in those days, both in hockey and in baseball, and there was always a question of where Mary's loyalties lay. “Nobody in Parham wanted me to marry Glen; they were rival towns,” she said, although she did add that it was not that intense a rivalry, “Nothing like Romeo and Juliet, but it was something people talked about.” Tichborne was founded in the late 1860s or early 1870s. The K&P rail line came in 1872. It is thought that the name Tichborne was brought by a Mr. Lunscombe, who was an engineer with Canadian Pacific. Later there was a mine in the vicinity, the Eagle Lake Iron Mine, which at one time employed 100 people. The mine closed in 1902. (information courtesy of County of 1000 Lakes) When Mary Howes was growing up in Tichborne in the 1930s, it was very much a railway town, as the K&P rail station, known as Parham Station at one time and later Tichborne Junction, was located there, as well as the “main line” station for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Located on the same piece of land that the CPR still uses just east of Road 38, the CPR had a full station in Tichborne in the 1930s, which handled passenger and freight traffic. Mary remembers that the CPR building was always very well maintained, and “there were flowers planted along the walkways where people came off the train.” Mary was raised within metres of the train tracks, and her family ran the coal loading operation at Tichborne. “The coal was being brought in on coal cars loading into the chutes near the station, and the coal would be dumped into the hoppers of the trains,” she said. As far as Mary knows, the Tichborne station was the only coal loading depot between Toronto and Montreal. “The men would always come home covered in coal dust. It was quite a job for my great aunt to wash the clothes out
each day,” she said. Although she was very young, Mary remembers the people who rode the rails in the 1900s, trying to get to somewhere better than where they came from. “We didn't call them hobos or anything back then; they were just people who were looking for some help, and we always had enough to share with one or two." In the '40s, she remembers handing out apples to the people who were on the trains that were headed towards Fort Henry, filled with immigrants who were being interred because they had the bad fortune to come from one of the countries that was on the other side of the conflict. “We didn't know who they were or where they were going, but they asked for apples and we gave them apples,” she recalls. When she was young, Tichborne boasted three stores, two hotels, a bank, as well as a school, and there were a number of cheese factories in the vicinity. When Mary married Glen Howes in 1952 and moved to Parham, she was moving to a larger town, the agricultural hub of Hinchinbrooke Township. “It had three garages, a blacksmith, hotels, stores, and was a very busy place,” she recalls. Glen worked in one of the garages, Simonett's, which later moved to Sharbot Lake. He and Mary had five children, four boys and a girl, with the youngest two being twin boys. When the children were grown she worked in maintenance for the school board, first in Parham and later on at Sharbot Lake High School, where she worked for 20 years. As well, she became very, very active as a volunteer, where she has made a mark. Not only was she the president of the Women's Institute on several occasions, but also of the United Church Women as well as being involved with the Parham Happy Travelers and the Parham Fair. She is perhaps best known, however, for 20 years of work with the Cancer Society. “The cancer society was very good to me when my brother was dying and I knew I had to volunteer with them” she said. Her first job was as a canvasser during the door-to-door campaign each April. That progressed to being a canvass organiser in the villages around her home. “I used to run 100 canvassers in the region,” she said, “which kept me busy for three months, getting ready in February and March and canvassing month in April.” The trick to keeping canvassers happy was to limit their responsibility to 10 houses or so. “People were happy to do their family and neighbours, I never had a lot of trouble finding canvassers.” Eventually, Mary became involved with the executive of the Cancer Society Regional office based in Kingston, serving in a number of roles, including that of president. The region extends from Trenton to Prescott and includes the rural areas to the north of the 401 throughout that vast territory.
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“I spent a lot of time on the road, to Kingston all the time and further yet quite often,” she said. In recognition of her high standard of volunteer effort, she was one of the first recipients of the Central Frontenac Volunteer of the Year award for Hinchinbrooke District and she also received a Jubilee award a couple of years ago.
Although she says she has turned lazy in her old age, she has been actively involved in the push to turn the former Hinchinbrooke School into a community centre for Central Frontenac. “We do need some place to gather in this part of the township, and the school is sitting there empty,” she said. If she can help bring that about, maybe she will finally be accepted in Parham after living there for 63 years, even if she is a Tichborne girl.
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SOCIAL NOTES OBITUARY
NICHOLSON, Nick April 22, 1930 - March 19, 2015 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our father Nick Nicholson on Thursday, March 19, 2015 in his 85th year. Loving husband of Beverley (nee Sweet). Dear father of Wesley (Alison) Jeandron of Haliburton, Norman (Cora) of Terrace, B.C., Gordon (Loretta) of Manitoba, Kenny (Bonnie) of Bewdley, Brian (Liz) of Peterborough, Adam Nicholson of Oshawa, Sandra Scriven of St. Catherines, Pam Nicholson of Oshawa, Theresa (Darryl) Nicholson of Oshawa, Heide (Gina) Nicholson of Hamilton, Jessie Loyst of Belleville, Jason Loyst of Belleville and Jed (Penny) Lamb of Belleville. Grampa's memories will be cherished forever by his many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Nick will be sadly missed by his sister Margaret Jensen (the late Cecil) of Whitby. Pre-deceased by his brother Everett and his sisters Stella and Keitha Ham. Fondly remembered by his many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Following cremation, the family will receive friends at the Milestone Funeral Center, 11928 Hwy 41 Northbrook, Ont. K0H 2G0 (613-336-6873) on Friday evening from 7-9pm and Saturday from 10-11am. A Celebration of Life Service for Nick will follow in the Chapel on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11:00am. Burial of the urn will take place at the Actinolite Cemetery in the spring. Friends desiring may contribute in his memory to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Online Condolences available to the family at www.milestonefuneralcenter.com
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KURKOWSKI, Bernice (nee Wilson) Peacefully, at the Pine Meadow Nursing Home on Sunday, March 15, 2015. Beloved wife of the late John McKay and Wilfred Kurkowski. She will be sadly missed by her sister Edna Berton and her brother Douglas (Betty) Wilson. Pre-deceased by her sister Mildred Lafromboise. Fondly remembered by her extended family, friends and neighbours on Mazinaw Lake. The family will receive friends at the Milestone Funeral Center, 11928 Hwy 41 Northbrook, Ont. K0H 2G0 (613-336-6873) on Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 1-3pm for a Memorial Reception. Interment of ashes will follow in the spring at the Dempsey Cemetery, Cloyne. Friends desiring may contribute in her memory to the local OSPCA (Humane Society) or the charity of your choice. Online Condolences available to the family at www.milestonefuneralcenter.com
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Thank You ~ Corrigan Bertrim In loving memory of a special brotherin-law & uncle; Lloyd Bertrim, who left us 6 years ago, March 28, 2009. We wish we could climb up to heaven to give you a hug and tell you how much we love you and miss you! You're in our hearts forever & always, xoxoxo Wendy, Sidney, Paige & Mackenzie Drew
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HAWLEY, Doris Ilene (Boomhower) September 19, 1929 - March 20, 2015 Peacefully, with family by her side in Northbrook on Friday, March 20, 2015 in her 86th year. Loving mother of Linda (Marcello) Sigismondo of Northbrook, Sam (Bonnie) Hawley of Northbrook, Dale (Carl) VanNess of Kaladar, Darlene Dacuk of Northbrook, Trevor (Susan) Hawley of Pennsylvania and Stephen (Rae) Hawley of Delaware. She will always be cherished in the hearts of her grandchildren Stephanie (Dale) Marrisett, Andrew (Kendra) Sigismondo, Courtney Dacuk, Benjamin Hawley, Nick Hawley, Joe Hawley and her great-grandchildren Stacey Marrisett and Leslie Marrisett. Doris will be sadly missed by her sisters Kay Knight of Arden and Gladys Clancy (the late Clayton) of Northbrook. Pre-deceased by her brothers Peter, Dorland, Jimmy and her sisters Rita Palmateer and Evelyn Boomhower. Fondly remembered by her nieces, nephews and friends. Following cremation, a cemetery service and burial of the urn will take place in the spring at the Northbrook Cemetery. Friends desiring may contribute in her memory to the Humane Society (Napanee OSPCA). Online Condolences available to the family at www.milestonefuneralcenter.com
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On Wednesday March 11, 2015 at the age of 50, Joe was welcomed into heaven by his parents Joe Sr. & Marg Dupuis. Joey is now a special angel watching over his heartbroken wife Tammy and three young children, Kaden, Kale and Sage. Also mourning from this devastating loss is his Aunt Therese, mother-in-law Charlotte Osborn, father-in-law Bruce Clark, sister-in-law Crystal Ferdinand (Gerry), nieces Dakota, MacKenzie, Grace and nephew Carter. Survived by many aunts, uncles and cousins. There are no words to describe what a tremendous loss this is to his family, friends and community. Joey will always be remembered for all the pranks and jokes he loved to pull. Growing up in the store and eventually running it after his mother passed away, he was a cornerstone to this community. He was proud of living a small town and getting involved to make a difference in the lives of others. His love of baseball is known far and wide. Whether he was playing or coaching he was always involved. He has proudly passed on that love to all 3 of his children. He will still be coaching his kids from the sidelines and from the best seat in the park. I am sure you will hear him cheer on his babies as they follow in his footsteps on the pitching mound. Rested at Goodfellow’s Funeral Home, Parham. Friends were received on Monday March 16, from 2-4 and 7-9 pm. Funeral service was held in the Funeral Home on Tuesday March 17, 2015 at 11 am. Interment St Mary’s Cemetery, Kingston. In lieu of flowers, donations to Central Frontenac Minor Softball Association in Joe's name will be appreciated. Arrangements in care of Goodfellow’s Funeral Home, Parham. On line condolences at goodfellowsfuneralhome.com.
I would like to thank Wayne, Trudy, Dave and Cathy for making my 70th birthday party a successful surprise. I would also like to send a thank you to my friends and relatives that came with food and gifts to make my day even more enjoyable. It was truly a day I will always remember. Thank you all again. Love, Loretta Corrigan.
IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of husband and father Bill O'Connor March 27th , 2014 God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be so he put his arms around you and whispered come to me with tearful eyes we watched you fade away although we loved you dearly, we could not make you stay A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands now rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best forever loved and missed by Betty & family
Sharbot Lake 39'ers W by Dorothy Fraser
e are hoping that spring is here at last. It is time for our Sharbot Lake Seniors meetings to resume on April 7. Come and enjoy a potluck lunch at noon at the North Frontenac Telephone office, downstairs. The meeting will follow with members' wishes for the coming year. Eight of our members enjoyed one trip plus a cruise from Merrickville to Ottawa, also two barbecues in July and August. Memberships are only $7 a year, and that includes membership in the United Senior Citizens of Ontario. They hear, and act, based on what seniors are facing in their daily lives. They do ask for resolutions each year prior to May 31. Sharbot Lake was rewarded last year for submitting two, and I'm hoping that members will look around, and bring any ideas to improve your retirement to our April meeting. The USCO president has already met with the associate Minister of Finance to discuss the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan and include selfemployed seniors. The more members we have, the better our voices. Anyone 50 plus is welcome. Games follow the meeting – the second Tuesday of the month from April to November. Call Shirley Crawford at 613279-2990 for information or email Dorothy: djfraser@frontenac.net.
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HUNTING & FISHING FIREARMS & HUNTER ED COURSES. Tamworth, Firearms course: April 17 & 18; Hunter Ed: April 24 & 25. Wild Turkey license examinations. Call Bill for further details at 613335-2786
MUSIC LESSONS TOM’S MUSIC STUDIO is now accepting students for drums, guitar, bass guitar, piano, beginner banjo and theory; repairs to all stringed instruments. Tom 613-539-4659
ocal rocker and Dylan aficionado Craig Bakay wrapped up the Center Stage Cafe's last guest set of the season. He opened with a mellow acoustic set and played some of Dylan's best known acoustic tunes, then followed it with an electrified and pumped up second set where he was joined by the Feral Five, who seemed just as pleased to play Dylan as their very able guest. Craig peppered
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This column by retired mathematician and seasonal Maberly resident, Edward Barbeau, is for your mathematical amusement. Its author is very happy to correspond with readers about mathematical matters, and hopes that the column will turn out to be a dialogue with readers of the Frontenac News. His email address is barbeau@math. utoronto.ca.
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ot long ago, I was contacted by Robert J. Rothwell, who had invented a numerical mathematics puzzle that he called Dodecabus. You are given a small number of equations that link various unknowns that you have to solve for positive whole numbers between 1 and 12 inclusive. The numbers for the variables do not all have to be different. While this sounds like algebra (and of course the puzzles could be solved algebraically), his puzzles could be unravelled with some simple deduction and inspired trial and error. Here is a set of equations classified as easy: T=3xU+1: U=T-V: V = 6 x U – 7. Since V is positive but cannot be bigger than 12, the only possibilities for U are 2 and 3. If U were 3, then the first and third equations tell us that T would be 10 and V would be 11. But then the second equation
PUBLIC NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of North Frontenac proposes to enact a By-law to stop up, close and sell part of the 66’ shore road allowances as set out and described as follows: ALL THAT PART of the shoreline road allowance around Kashwakamak Lake lying in front of Lot 22, Concession 6, geographic Township of Barrie, Township of North Frontenac, County of Frontenac described as Parts 1 and 2 on Registered Plan 13R-21023 (Muizelaar)
Location: Northbrook and Denbigh
The proposed By-law will come before the said Council for consideration at its regular meeting at the Clar Mill Fire Hall, Upstairs Meeting Room, 6648 Road 506, Plevna, Ontario, on the 7th day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m., and at that time, the Council will hear in person, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected and who applies to be heard.
Position Type: .4 FTE (16 hours)
Dated this 6th day of March, 2015.
Start Date: ASAP
Jenny Duhamel Clerk/Planning Manager Township of North Frontenac 6648 Road 506 Plevna, ON K0H 2M0 Tel: (613) 479-2231 or 1-800-234-3953 Fax: (613) 479-2352 Email: clerkplanning@northfrontenac.ca
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his sets with much entertaining Dylan lore and his own personal recollections of how and when he first became so enthralled and inspired by his music. The Feral Five will return to the Sharbot Lake Legion for their final installment of the season, which they are calling “Just Us” on Thursday, April 23 at 7pm, when they will go it alone. Admission is $5.
Aftermath - DODECABUS
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he ladies are still knitting. We have picked up articles from Yvonne Leblanc and Liz Bruce from Sydenham - teddy bears, Izzy dolls, afghans, mitts, scarves, toques, sweaters, baby set and 26 pair of socks - 58 pieces in all; 125 pairs of socks from Henriette MidHALL RENTAL dleton in Sharbot Lake and 11 sweaters from SOCIAL & ATHLETIC CLUB HALL, Brenda Garrett in Perth. I have divided this Harrowsmith, A/C, kitchen, capacity 90, beautiful knitting between the Perth Salvation Reasonable rates. Info.: 613-372-0917. Army and the Anglican Church Women’s bales VERONA LIONS BANQUET HALL AND for Northern Canada. Also, Frances Young at BOARD MEETING ROOM (Lions’ Den). Petworth is taking her knitting to the Salvation Reasonable rates in a convenient location. Army in Kingston. Just a reminder that shamAir conditioned. Full kitchen and bar facility. poo, lotions, deodorants and feminine hygiene Weddings, anniversaries, parties, conferences. products, etc. are welcome at the Sharbot 613-374-2821 Lake Food Bank. What a joy to be able to contribute to our communities and keep on knitHELP WANTED ting! Peggy Beckett—613-268-2443.
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would not be true. So U can only be 2 and we discover that (T, U, V) = (7, 2, 5). Here is a stiffer one for you to try on your own: T=V-W U=WxW-V V=2xT-U W = T - U: In case you want more of this, he has collected about 150 of sets of two to six equations graded according to difficulty in a book. I gave a copy to my grandson, who immediately became absorbed in working them out. Rothwell’s book is titled: Robert J. Rothwell, Dodecabus: a new type of math puzzle (2014) (v + 81 pages) and is published by Friesen Press in Victoria, BC: www.friesenpress.com/bookstore. Search by author. The e-book cost is $3.99; the paperback edition is $7.99.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY TO FILL A VACANCY
BUILDING INSPECTOR The Township is seeking resumes for a vacant position from a highly motivated, experienced, hands-on person to join our municipal team as the Building Inspector. Reporting directly to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and working under the direction of the Chief Building Official (presently Central Frontenac Township CBO), the incumbent be responsible for performing building and plumbing inspections, plan review, etc. to ensure compliance with the Building Code Act and the Ontario Building Code; while following guidelines established by the policies of Township Council and/or CAO; and in accordance with Legislation. The salary range is $24.31 - $29.16 per hour and the normal work week is 40 hours. Hours will vary; weekend work and overtime will be required to meet the job requirements. A comprehensive benefit package is available. For a copy of the Role Description, please contact the undersigned. We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. The Township of North Frontenac is an equal opportunity employer. We would be pleased to provide accommodations, upon request, throughout the recruitment process to applicants with disabilities to ensure equal participation.
Please apply with a detailed resume by Noon local time on Friday, April 17, 2015 clearly marked “Confidential – Building Inspector” to: Cheryl Robson, AMCT CAO Township of North Frontenac 6648 Road 506, Plevna, ON K0H 2M0 Phone: (613) 479-2231 Ext. 221 Fax: (613) 479-2352 E-mail: cao@northfrontenac.ca
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Student Job Fair links local students to local employers
L-r: Rachel Hosseini, Ryan Wilkes, Donna Longmire, Ashley Barrie and Robin Brownlee
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any area students and graduates looking for summer employment opportunities attended the first ever Student Job Fair at the St. Lawrence College Employment Centre in Sharbot Lake on March 19. Staff at the center, who organized the
event, were well prepared in advance and pointed students in the direction of a number of local opportunities currently available to them. These included positions at a number of local summer camps, private campgrounds, grocery stores, restaurants,
provincial parks as well as a number of maintenance and marketing positions. Two local employers attended the event in person. Donna Longmire of the Township of Central Frontenac was advertising a number of student employment opportunities, which included four public works and three waste management positions. Similarly, Rachel Hosseini, owner and manager of the Subway restaurant in Sharbot Lake was looking to fill seven full and part time positions at the restaurant, which she described as a fast-paced, friendly and professional environment. Ashley Barrie, resource specialist at the employment center, said that summer employment early in a student’s working life is invaluable to them. “Summer employment can not only help students acquire a number of new skills, but also encourages networking for future job opportunities while they learn the various responsibilities that come with paid work.” Barrie stressed how early summer work experiences teaches students the qualities they need to be employable. “Learning how to be reliable, punctual and about customer service is very important. Summer jobs can also help long term by giving students some-
Puppet show magic at Sharbot Lake library A double feature puppet show put on at the Sharbot Lake branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library on March 20 attracted over 40 visitors - youngsters, parents and grandparents. The show, which was in part celebrating World Puppetry Day (March 21) also provided entertainment to youngsters throughout the county at the tail of the March Break. The show was presented by two members of the programming and outreach staff at the KFPL, Brenda MacDonald and Huda Shaltry. They presented two performances, the first titled “The Mightiest”, based on a children’s picture book by Keiko Kaszo and the second, the traditional classic, “The Princess and the Pea” by Hans Christian Andersen. Youngsters gathered around the festive satin-clad puppet theatre, which was set up
in one corner of the library, and enjoyed the unfolding dramas. Many of the more uninhibited children offered up their comments as the plays unfolded. Children love puppet shows and MacDonald said that she loves to see youngsters “light up” when watching the performances. She explained that the shows are another special way to bring literacy to youngsters. “Puppet shows are a special thing that children don't get to see every day and a new way to present a story to them - they offer up a new way for children to interact,” she said when I spoke to her prior to the performances. Shaltry added, “A puppet show provides a new creative outlet for children and is a performance art that children, who may tend to be a bit shy, can still get involved in. It is a
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way that they can also be comfortable performing.” She added that a puppet show is a low cost, highly entertaining production that requires no technology and licensing. “It just requires our hands, our voices, the puppets and our portable theatre.” MacDonald had been touring the show to various branches of the KFPL during the week of the March break to hundreds of youngsters. While the youngsters thoroughly immersed themselves in both performances, I was especially intrigued by the older-style puppets that were used in the second performance, The Princess and The Pea. These colourful, hand-crafted puppets are made of papiermâché and are meticulously painted. They hearken back to puppets and shows that I had a chance to see when I was a child.
South Frontenac Committee of the Whole – March 24 Fire hall discussions Fire Chief Rick Chesebrough asked Council to “clarify their expectations for a master fire plan, before issuing an RFP for the new Perth Road Fire Hall.” He reviewed the 2008 and 2013 fire studies, concluding with a projection of recommended upgrades to the Township Fire Halls. Councillors had questions about the need for double-length drive-through bays, and pointed out that the style of building chosen for Perth Road will set the standard for all future firehall upgrades. Mark Schjerning asked whether an ad hoc sub-committee should be created to make final recommendations on building design. Alan Revill then suggested that members of Council might wish to visit recently constructed firehalls in neighbouring municipalities. There seemed some agreement that it was necessary to move forward as soon as possible. Solar power presentation Representatives from Invenergy Canada presented Council with a brief outline of their interest in developing solar farms in South Frontenac. South Frontenac’s lack of good agricultural land has made it attractive to companies hoping to win pending government support for large (ie, 100 acre) solar projects. All proposals have to be submitted
by the first of September, and two requirements for a successful bid are land with low agricultural potential, and municipal approval. This is the second company in the past month to show interest in this area. Sydenham Water annual report Kevin Riley of Utilities Kingston presented his annual report on the Sydenham Water Plant. He said there had been no irregularities in the functioning of the plant over the past year, and reminded Councillors of their responsibility to become familiar with the plant processes, and remain informed of its operations. South Frontenac Rides “Cycling is the new golf,” said Scott Gordon, an enthusiastic supporter of the newlyformed SF Rides, a group of cyclists who plan to promote cycling in this area as a sport for residents and a tourist attraction. Gordon credits Councillor Sutherland with getting the group started. One of their first projects is to organize a children's bike rodeo in Sydenham on June 7th, the beginning of national Bike week. Public Works reports Mark Segsworth presented a chart with details on all partially maintained Township roads. He said a lot of the difference in present treatment of these roads had developed historically, often with no more than a hand-
shake agreement. He also said that it was no longer the case that a private road could become a Township road merely because the Township had done some repair or maintenance on it: “after 2001, a private road can only be assumed by the Township through a by-law.” Solid waste contract renewals The current waste collection contracts expire at the end of August. Segsworth said that the new weigh scales at the Portland waste site should be running in a couple of months. He recommended extending the current contracts for another year, so the next contracts could be based on actual tonnage of waste, rather than the number of households. “I feel we have been getting excellent service from our current contractors; things have been working well,” said Segsworth. He will bring his recommendations to Council on April 7, along with comments and concerns from the current contractors. CAO Orr said it would be acceptable to renew a contract for one year with a ‘contractor of record’. Road classifications and minimum maintenance standards Segsworth said roads are classified 1 to 6 based on traffic volume and speed limits. South Frontenac has no class one roads , and currently only one class two: Road 38.
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thing concrete on their resumes after having worked for credible employers, which is also something that can set them apart and give them a leg up.” Karen McGregor, coordinator at the center, said that early work opportunities also help students “narrow down their career path” and that a summer job can help them pin point what kind of job or career they are looking for long term. “A summer work experience helps make students more successful at their future job interviews as well as helping them to define their strengths and interests for future employment." McGregor also made mention of a number of the programs available to employers that can help subsidize the pay for student workers. For students and employers who missed the job fair, Ashley Barrie is continuing to take employer/ participant information and registrations at the Sharbot Lake location. Staff’s advice to students is: “Don't wait. Employers are already hiring for summer positions.” There is also a job board up at the centre that is regularly updated. For more information contact Ashley Barrie at 613-545-3949 ext. 1891or visit www.employmentservice. sl.on.ca
For puppet enthusiasts, World Puppetry Day is celebrated every March 21 and according to Wikipedia was begun by Dzhivada Zolfagariho, who in 2000 at the XVIII Congress of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, (UNIMA) in Madgeburg, proposed the idea. Two years later, at a meeting of the International Council of UNIMA in Atlanta, the date of the celebration was decided and the first celebration took place in 2003. Sara Carpenter, head librarian at the Sharbot Lake branch, was thrilled with the turnout for the special march Break event. “It's so great to be able to have had the performance here and we are hoping to have another one here again this summer. We are also hoping that the children who attended the show will be encouraged to come back to the library and enjoy what we have to offer them.” (see photo on page 15)
by Wilma Kenny The majority of Township roads are class 5 or 6. Figures show the Township considerably exceeds the minimum requirements for snow clearance. Further discussion of road classification was postponed as the meeting had already been a long one, and no one seemed inclined to go beyond ten o’clock.
Participate in shoreline naturalization W
atersheds Canada is looking for landowners on Kashwakamak, Cononto, Patterson or Mississippi lakes, but anywhere within the Mississippi watershed is welcome, whether they are on a lake, river or have a creek to take part in their Natural Edge program. The two-year program provides an opportunity for planting native trees, shrubs, groundcovers, wildflowers and grasses along the water’s edge. The program provides a free site visit. Landowners are asked to contribute only 25 % of the total costs for their site. Please contact Courtney Allison, 613-264-1244 or allison@watersheds.ca.
The Frontenac News Garden Edition will be published April 30, 2015.
Full Colour: 1/8 Page - $145, 1/4 Page - $240, 1/2 page $410 To advertise: 613-279-3150; nfnews@frontenac.net. Advertising Deadline: April 24, 2015.
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TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH FRONTENAC INVITATION to TENDER No. PW-2015-05 for ONE (1) 2015 MODEL - HALF TON EXTENDED CAB 4X4 PICK-UP TRUCK Sealed submissions must be received by 1:00 p.m., April 1st, 2015, Attention: Wayne Orr, CAO, 4432 George St, Sydenham, ON, K0H 2T0. Official documents may be downloaded from the BIDDINGO.COM website or picked up: Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 5:00pm, Public Works Department, 2490 Keeley Rd, Sydenham, ON K0H 2T0.
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (RFQ) FOR PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS
Sharbot Lake Puppet Show Extravaganza: youngsters enjoyed a special double feature puppet show at the Sharbot Lake Library on March 20. See the article on page 14
Lakelands
South Frontenac Township is seeking quotations for the provision of equipment and materials. It is anticipated that the equipment and material will be required between April, 2015 and December, 2015. Details can be found on the website under 2015 Tenders. Your response is to be delivered to the following address: South Frontenac Township, 2490 Keeley Rd, Box 100, Sydenham ON, K0H2T0. Attention: Brian Kirk, Area Supervisor. Responses are to be received by 1:00 p.m., April 7, 2015. If you have any inquiries on this matter, please contact: Brian Kirk, CRS-1, Area Supervisor, The Township of South Frontenac, 2490 Keeley Rd, Sydenham ON, Telephone: (613) 376-3900 Ext. 4347. Email: bkirk@southfrontenac.net
Lakelands
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Dr. Matt Dumas will be joining the practice as of April 1, 2015. Dr. Dumas will be accepting new patients at both the Northbrook and Denbigh sites. Please call to make an appointment. Northbrook 613-336-8888 Denbigh 613-333-1333
PERTH ROAD MINOR SOFTBALL REGISTRATION Please see date changes: Tuesday March 24th: 6-8pm and Saturday March 28th: 1012pm. Harris Park Hall, Perth Road Village – Ages range from T-ball to Jr. Men. For more info contact Terra Gower @ perthroadsoftball@gmail.com
SUMMER STUDENT POSITIONS The Township of South Frontenac is accepting applications for numerous summer positions. The DEADLINE for applications is 5:00 pm Friday March 27, 2015. See our website at www.southfrontenac.net/townhall/careers for directions on how to apply.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT NEWS Interim Tax Notices were mailed to all property owners on March 2, 2015. The Interim Tax Due Date is March 31, 2015. The Interim Tax notice amount is based on 35% of the annualized 2014 tax rate and assessment value. The 2015 assessment values will be reflected on the Final Tax Notice issued in June 2015. If you haven’t received your Interim Tax Notice by March 13, 2015 you should contact the Tax Department at 613-3763027 ext. 2200 or email us at taxes@southfrontenac.net. Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) Deadline is approaching - if you feel your assessed value as of the legislated valuation date or property classification is not correct, MPAC will review it free of charge. For the 2015 tax year, your deadline to file a Request for Reconsideration (RfR) with MPAC is March 31, 2015. Visit MPAC’s website for more information at www.mpac.ca or contact MPAC directly at 1-866-296-6722. Local MPAC office is located at 64 Dalton Avenue in Kingston. Ensure you bring all your documentation with you when you visit the MPAC office to facilitate your request.
RECREATION & ACTIVITY GUIDE - Available Now! The guide is available for pick up at the township office (4432 George St. Sydenham) or at the Frontenac Community Arena (4299 Arena Boundary Rd, Godfrey) The Recreation & Activity Guide provides information about many of our local community groups and organizations that offer a variety of programs and services in the Township of South Frontenac.
COMMUNITY PROJECT GRANTS Submissions for the Community Project Grant Program are now being accepted. Not for profit community organizations including charitable organizations and unincorporated groups who meet the project guidelines can apply until March 31st. For more information and to access the related forms, visit our website at: www.southfrontenac.net/ communitygrants
2015 RECYCLE CALENDARS Please retain your current 2014-2015 Recycle calendar for use until the end of August. There will NOT be one in your March tax bill package. As the Township will be entering into contract negotiations this year, we will NOT be issuing a new Recycle calendar until the summer of 2015. Thank you for your continuing commitment to recycling.
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With a well-deserved spring finally upon us, our last winter date for the HHW Depot will be March 26th from 3 – pm. Beginning April 2nd, the Depot will be open every Thursday from 3 – 8 pm So remember us when you start your spring painting and oil changes! See our website under ‘Living Here/Solid Waste/Recycling’ or for more information call 613-376-3900 Ext 4330.
COUNCIL MEETINGS The next Council meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. The next Committee of the Whole meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. 4432 George Street, Box 100, Sydenham ON K0H 2T0 1-800-559-5862
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News briefs from Central Frontenac - March 24 Remuneration report for 2014 As required, the township released a report detailing how much Central Frontenac politicians were paid in 2014. Former Mayor Janet Gutowski received the most money, $11,264 for 11 months as mayor, and Frances Smith received $9292 for 11 months as councilor and one month as mayor. Former deputy mayor, Jeff Matson, received $8,425 for 11 months on the job, while returning council member Tom Dewey received $8398 over 12 months. Outgoing councilors Guntensperger, Millar, Purdon and Fox received $7,885 over 11 months, and Philip Smith, who was appointed to council during the year and was then re-elected, received $5,439. Newly elected councilors Cindy Kelsey, Victor Heese, Jamie Riddell, Bill MacDonald, Sherry Whan, and Brent Cameron all received $483 for the month of December.
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cess, and led to an arrangement regarding the building departments, which may lead to a combining of the two departments if it is a success. North Frontenac will be hiring a building inspector, and the two townships will make joint use of that person in addition to Central Frontenac Chief Building Official Jeremy Neven. “We’ll see how this works for a year, and then decide whether to move further, said outgoing CAO Steve Silver of the arrangement. 60 zone on Road 38: A proposal by Councilor Brent Cameron to slow the maximum speed to 60 km/hr on a stretch of Road 38 that runs from the municipal garage at Godfrey to the junction with White Lake Road because of a sharp bend in the road was referred to staff for comment and will come
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back to Council after that.
No payment for damage caused by culvert A Mr. Hamilton, who lives near Arden, asked the township to reimburse a $500 repair bill for damage done to the bottom of his car when he passed over a culvert that had heaved through the surface on his road. A staff report acknowledged that the road had heaved, and said it is a common issue on that particular road in the spring time. The report recommended not paying the $500 repair because, it said, Mr. Hamilton has lived in that location for 10 years and should know that the road heaves. “I would hate for us to do this,” said Councilor Bill MacDonald. “People would come out of the woodwork looking for money if we did.”
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ways the trapper that looks bad...but we gotta keep educating ... try to dog-proof.” to hopefully reduce accidental trappings. I asked Ministry rep. Kowalski if it’s possible to dog-proof Willis Deline said, “We’re fighting hard...for us to not lose a trap and she said, “Yes, traps can be set off the ground our rights to trap on these trails that we trapped long before out of reach of dogs.” The OFMF code of conduct, as pubthere was a The trail there. The dog was running large. He broke lished on their website, states that, “Traps should never be the law. But she [the pet-owner] never gets charged. It’s al- set where cats and dogs or other unwanted animals may RD. 38, Godfrey, ON K0H 1T0 get caught.” 8109 Hwy 38, Godfrey ON Terry Bingley explained how trappers can dog proof their traps by setting them up off the ground on logs and setting the Dual Fuel traps in boxes where a dog has a harder time getting at it. Models “You’re never going to be able to completely stop it but we Available can certainly avert a lot of it...we do have to convince more trappers to do better sets.” But calls for legislated minimum distances from trails are not reasonable, according to Willis Deline. 613 so you don’t have to be. OR Dual Fuel 613 “How are they going to identify a public trail? Is it going to 374-2566 Models Avalailable be the snowmobile trail you’ve been using on Crown land?” OR 1-888-674-2566 he said, pointing out that the distance from the trail rule Leave the worrying about your income taxes to us: would mean more work for the trappers, having to trudge through knee-deep snow to check their traps as well as limit■ Professional team of tax preparers ing them from certain areas where target species are known ■ Serving the area for over 25 years to travel. Then there is the matter of enforcement if new restric■ Business and rental expert on staff Real Estate Brokerage tions come in. “The MNR does not have the field staff to ■ Pricing from $59.99 deal with all the issues they’ve already got. Increasing the PO Box 285 Sharbot Lake, ON K0H 2P0 613279-2657 legislation and creating more rules and regulations would do nothing without more manpower. Why create laws you can’t enforce?” said Isaac Hale. 1110 Elizabeth Street The FATC composed a letter to Minister Mauro expressSharbot Lake ing their concerns about the current petition that asks for Broker of Record T 613-279-2625 more restrictions to the trapping industry and suggests that “more unnecessary regulations are not the answer. Better Fax - (613) 279-2657 F 613-279-3990 communications between the trapper and the general pubEmail - mimi@antoinerealestate.com www.seedsco.com lic...would be more productive.” www.antoinerealestate.com One of the trappers’ concerns is that it’s easy to buy a trap online and use it without any prior education on how to trap safely and ethically. The group felt that governing the purchase of these traps should be similar to the way guns and ammunition are purchased. They suggested that a buyer should have TM to show a trapper’s license, or something simiProAlliance Realty, Brokerage lar, before being allowed to purchase a trap. Direct Line: 613.336.1737 Wilf Deline summed up the way trappers feel. Email: chriswinney1@aol.com “We get a little frustrated www.landolakesproperty.com ... because we’re the guys 12309 Hwy 41, Chris Winney that work on the pickerel Northbrook, ON K0H 2G0 Broker spawning beds, we’re the Excellent opportunity to guys that feed the deer, we’re the guys that blow have your property listed & featured with the whistle when there’s Lake District Realty for the Spring market. a problem in the bush with BOBS LAKE; Mill Bay - Very nicely disease or anything else finished 2 bedroom cottage with open Experience a NEW approach to Real and we just wanna keep concept interior. The large cedar sunroom Estate. A group of professionals on doing that and we don’t enjoys grand nature views & would also working together to ensure the sale wanna get into this media circus.” He asked, “who make a great space for extra guest of your property. else is out there doing accommodations. Cottage is elevated with what we do?” and a local newer constructed steps to 135’ of shoreline. Waterfront Properties are trapper added, “for free!” Selling NOW! An affordable Bobs Lake opportunity! For more information on the Frontenac-AddL a ke D i s t r i c t R e a l t y . c o m ● I n f o @ L a ke D i s t r i c t R e a l t y . c o m ington Trappers Council 1 4 2 0 2 Ro a d 3 8 , S h a r b o t L a ke ● 6 1 3 - 2 7 9 - 2 1 0 8 ● 1 - 8 6 6 - 2 7 9 - 2 1 0 9 and trapping visit www. trapon.org
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