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How cooks at community kitchens are rustling up a lot more than meals by Isabel Buckmaster
30 FEEDING THE SOUL
56 A WALK IN THE HILLS
Another lopsided battle looms in Caledon over our voracious demand for aggregates and the rights of local citizens and nature by Nicola Ross
59 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE In a digital age, some local students and their parents are rediscovering the power of outdoor learning by Janice Quirt
71 GETTING IT TOGETHER
The obsession with organizing is growing. What are we looking for under all that mess? by Emily Dickson
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40 COUNTER CULTURE
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A young man’s graphic record of his wanders and wonders by Fisher Monahan
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Communal gardening is helping newcomers rediscover a sense of belonging by Ellie Eberlee
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23 FIELD NOTES
79 A DAY IN THE LIFE
Painter Michael Compeau
Creemore Nature Preserve by Nicola Ross
88 AT HOME IN THE HILLS
Suddenly there came a tapping by Dan Needles
Chess set craftsman Colby Chin by Ellie Eberlee
84 HEADWATERS NEST
Two architects design their own contemporary home in Mulmur by Alison McGill
118 A PUZZLING CONCLUSION by Ken Weber INDEX
Floral art, kitchen picks and metal art by Janice Quirt
77 COUNTRY LIVING 101
A hard pill to swallow by Gail Grant
21 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
106 WHAT’S ON A calendar of autumn happenings
67 MADE IN THE HILLS
Try a new Caribbean restaurant and tour Dufferin farms by Janice Quirt
65 TAKE A HIKE
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What to paint, visit, ponder this autumn by Johanna Bernhardt
69 LOCAL BUYS
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Back in 1996, I didn’t know what a star our still very young magazine had added to its roster. Ken had recently retired from his career as a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study and faculty of education, where he had a special interest in kids with learning disabilities. In the course of his work, he discovered that kids absorbed information better when it was packaged as intriguing puzzles. From that, his Five Minute Mysteries series was born. The books have sold more than five million copies in 22 languages, and for a while they launched Ken on a second career under the aliases of Mystery Man and Professor Trivia on CBC radio and television. Eventually they became the basis for A Puzzling Conclusion, which has appeared on our last page since 2005. (Puzzle addicts, don’t panic, Ken will give you one last fix in our winter issue.)
Thank you, Ken Weber
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Sometimes a small thing happens, and you don’t know it at the time, but something momentous has been set in motion.
Over that quarter-plus century, Historic Hills and Ken’s occa sional feature-length contributions have helped define not only the character of this magazine, but the community as a whole. Filled with wit and insight, his stories have kept alive the fascinating, sometimes bizarre, and always very human stories of those who came here before us. If you are feeling the urge to revisit some of them, Ken published a book that included more than 40 of his columns in 2017. It’s available at the Museum of Dufferin.
For his many contributions to preserving local history in this magazine and elsewhere, Ken is the recipient of an Ontario Heritage Trust Award. And for his exemplary career as an educator and author, as well his contributions to community life, he was inducted into the Caledon Walk of Fame in 2016.
This issue contains Ken’s 103rd Historic Hills column – and his last. After more than 25 years, Ken is capping his pen and heading for a well-deserved retirement.
That’s the way it was in 1996, when I called Ken Weber (or maybe he called me, neither of us can remember) with the sug gestion that he write a piece on the origins of local place names. Within two issues, his seemingly endless supply of stories about our local history had evolved into a regular column.
In advising of his departure, Ken wrote that of his retirement from three rewarding occupations over the years – teaching, speaking and writing – “stepping away from Historic Hills is the toughest. It has been an utterly pleasant trip.”
The feeling is entirely mutual, Ken. Your intelligence and humour will be sorely missed in our pages. In all the time we worked together, you had one writing quirk you couldn’t let go of – an abundance of exclamation points. As editor, I deleted most of them – but I will always deeply appreciate the irrepressible enthusiasm they signified!
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The Creemore native is currently walking to San Francisco from Abbotsford, British Columbia, writing stories and drawing things in his trusty notebook. His previous adventure stories can be found in his Sweetgrass Chronicle series of short books, available on his website, sweetgrasschronicles.com. He publishes them himself, carefully curating each page with his full attention. “But hey, maybe a ‘real’ publisher might want to pick them up someday,” he says. During his first outing for In The Hills, Fisher hiked along the Pine River to contemplate and chronicle the flora and fauna he encountered, as well as a nearby reforestation project. After this, he’ll keep on walking, drawing, writing and searching for simplicity wherever he is.
approach to adventure – not taking anything too seriously, but still looking for vivid experiences wherever he goes.
Elaine is a new Orangeville resident and says she is loving the town’s community vibes, along with its abundant restaurants, and nearby farms and breweries which satisfy her never-ending craving for good eats. When she’s not dining or cooking, Elaine also enjoys snuggling with her dog, “who is also a major foodie!”
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Inspired by nature, Fisher Monahan often finds himself outdoors, pen and paper in hand, drawing whatever happens to be in his way. The 18-year-old’s art reflects this casual
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Indigenous studies at Dalhousie University. She has written for various print and online publications across Canada, including the Winnipeg Free Press and Halifax’s The Coast, along with local newspapers in Orangeville and Dundalk. Isabel is particularly interested in covering the environment and Indigenous affairs, as well as local politics. In addition to freelance writing, she is currently working as a reporter/editor at CityNews Kitchener.
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In her first piece for this magazine, Isabel, who lives in Flesherton with her family, dove into the world of community kitchens in Orangeville and Palgrave – hives of activity, as she described them – to explore how they function and who is rolling up their sleeves to cook in them. When she’s not digging for new stories, she can be found with her cat, dancing to loud music or reading.
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frozen products that help consumers gain confidence in theElainekitchen.discovered her passion for food photography as a way to showcase dishes she created. “Marrying food and photography is the most interesting, yet challenging thing –it involves a lot of problem solving on the fly,” says Elaine, who visited Fiona’s Cuisine in Caledon for this issue. “With a little bit of creativity and an eye to finding the beauty in food, you can always find a way to make it shine and tell its story.”
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It was truly a pleasure to read Anthony’s words. Daryl is very deserving. We go back about 50 years. Daryl is a humble man. You certainly captured his true person. My husband and Daryl competed in Iowa together, both their first times at a world competition.
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It will take a strong leader to drive positive change in our growing community. Jennifer has a deep-rooted understanding of rural and urban community needs; she has the courage, creativity, and plan to make it happen.
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David Courtney, Belwood RockFreakHill out, 1969
Anthony Jenkins for writing such a great article on Daryl Hostrawser [“Plowing His Own Furrow” summer ’22]. It is informative, and so correct in all aspects –most do not achieve that these days when covering the provincial, national or world competitions for plowing. Sadly, it is not as important as it was when formed in 1953. The very first World Ploughing Contest was held in Cobourg, Ontario. A postwar movement to promote peace around the world, and even today the plow remains a symbol of peace. So much history and so many generations of families involved.
Jennifer is a fth-generation resident, with over twenty years of experience (and serving as the Regional Councillor for Wards 3 & 4 since 2014, and Chair of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority since 2019), she has a proven track record of working with multiple teams to achieve success.
Jennifer’s plan draws upon one of Caledon’s largest traditional assets, our agricultural heritage and farming knowledge, to focus on food industries through new employment areas, resulting in food security for Caledon, the Region, and the
Re “The Phenomenon that was Rock Hill Park” [summer ’22 I still have my ticket from a Rock Hill Freak Out – advance ticket number 1495. It says Youth Camp, July 2, 3 and 4. I remember The Guess Who debuting their song, “These Eyes,” I believe. On the back is a psychedelic sticker. I often thought the sticker might have LSD under it. I guess nothing ever surfaced about that sort of possibility?
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A new Region of Peel O cial Plan means that Caledon will see high growth over the next twenty- ve years; nearly tripling our population. Caledon must remain progressive, while keeping our unique and special character.
grows, environmental sustainability will be at the forefront. The plan will include accessible infrastructure to support our growing municipality through roads, rail, trails and community service hubs.
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Now is the time to build a strong employment base so we can work where we live, relieve the tax burden on homeowners and protect the health of our green spaces and neighbourhoods.
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Painter Michael Compeau describes his impressionistic landscapes as “simply an attempt at transferring a sense of awe.” Indeed, whether offering a breathtaking view of a country road or an up-close meditation on how raindrops ripple the surface of a lake, his paintings shimmer with wonderment. Michael says he finds inspiration hiking the Bruce Trail, puttering around in his “little fishing boat,” or visiting his daughter on the East Coast. Working with oil paints, the trained landscape architect and retired high school art teacher has lately been painting on engineered aluminum, the kind used for billboards, as a more permanent medium than canvas. Extra insurance, perhaps, that his fleeting moments of joy last forever. See Michael’s work September 28 to October 30 at Noodle Gallery in the Alton Mill Arts Centre. www.michaelcompeau.blogspot.com
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The latest success of the Downtown Bolton Revitalization Plan is hard to miss. A vibrant new mural by Toronto-based artist Blaze Wiradharma livens up the underpass of the Queen Street North bridge and makes for an artful pitstop along the Humber River Heritage Trail. The town’s idea was to take spaces covered in graffiti and revitalize them with intentional graffiti that reflected the town and surrounding landscape.
This fall comic playwright Norm Foster, whose works include The Melville Boys and On a First Name Basis, returns to Theatre Orangeville with a brand new venture They’re Found in Trees, in which two middle-aged birders expand their birding club and meet up with a recently divorced woman looking to take her mind off her failed marriage. The play runs October 12–30.
At East Garafraxa’s Hereward Farms, writer and clay artist Ann Randeraad stages a solo show, Rise Again, which centres on the healing process after domestic abuse. Ann has created poems, pottery, sculpture and a new book, Rise Again, on the theme. This event is a fundraiser for Orangeville’s Family Transition Place and will be held inside the farm’s barn boutique and lounge November 9 to December 4. The opening reception is November 12 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Created over seven days, Blaze’s work is a colourful tribute to the Humber River and the wildlife that depend on it. The artist, who studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art & Design University, has since completed a beautiful portfolio of murals all over Ontario.
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Taste of Autumn is the Rotary Club of Orangeville Highlands’ largest fund raiser of the year. On October 22, enjoy a menu catered by Caledon-based Gourmandissimo and craft beer tasting by Orangeville’s Taphouse Brewing Co. Top off the night with a silent auction and dancing to pop standards and classics by duo Old School.
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Two pottery shows to mark on your calendar. The first is a posthumous exhibit of a wellknown local potter at Museum of Dufferin. Rosemary Molesworth: From There to Here runs October 1 to January 21, 2023. Rosemary, who died in early 2022, spent more than 40 years experimenting with her art, often adorning her pieces with playful floating figures and creatures such as moose and cats. As Rosemary told the museum staff while working on the exhibit (it was delayed over the pandemic), she hoped visitors would be “intrigued, inspired, amused and educated to some of the possibilities and numerous pitfalls that can occur during the creative process.” The opening reception takes place October 1 from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Pumpkins with a side of family fun
Downey’s Farm Market in Caledon offers hours of kid fun with enormous jumping pillows, an 8-acre corn maze, and puppet shows running to October 31.
Then, on October 15 and 16, the Belfountain Heritage Society offers walkers a way to connect with local history along the West Credit River. Discover landscapes that inspired several members of the Group of Seven, watch fly-fishing demonstrations, and immerse yourself in the history of the area’s earliest inhabitants via a display of Indigenous artifacts. This event is a fundraiser to help with costs of monitoring the river and protecting the native brook trout. The tour is self-led with volunteers stationed at several vignettes along the way. Tickets can be purchased online.
In October, visit the Dixie Orchards pumpkin patch, pick your own hazelnuts and then ride back to the car in a wagon.
There are two special walks this fall to mark on the calendar. On the heels of Orange Shirt Day (September 30), the Dufferin County Cultural Resource Circle, in partnership with the Dufferin County Multicultural Foundation, hosts the Dufferin County Memorial Walk for Residential Schools This orange shirt event on October 1 is from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Expect a smudging ceremony and a quiet walk to honour those recovered and yet to be recovered from unmarked graves at residential school sites across Canada, and to honour recovering survivors of that system.
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The exhibit unpacks biases around head coverings worn by Mennonite and Muslim women in Canada. “Mennonite and Muslim women represent so much diversity and complexity. Their identities are as creative as the clothes they wear,” said Morlock in a statement. “Visitors will challenge themselves to look beyond what they think they know and ask questions like, ‘Why do Muslim head coverings cause such visceral reactions? Do Mennonite bonnets provoke the same response? And when the vast majority of both North American Mennonite and Muslim women don’t veil at all, why do these head coverings receive so much (and such different) public attention?’” The show opens November 1 and runs until May 31.
Another bit of good news for history buffs: Caledon Heritage Foundation has launched a new website. Visit www.caledonheritagefoundation.com to access fascinating photos and current heritage news.
At Sweet Pea’s Farm in Amaranth add a tree slide, a bouncy castle, barnyard basketball and a petting zoo to your pumpkin shopping until October 30.
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Toronto Metropolitan University fashion lecturer Laura Morlock and King’s College London postdoctoral fellow Cristina MorenoAlmeida put their heads together with staff at the Waterloo Region Museum to create an intriguing new fashion-based installation, Un/Coverings: Mennonite & Muslim Women’s Heads and Hearts at Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives.
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While I was doing renovations, which were exten sive, I wrote up Kenny’s ghost story for a laugh in one of my magazines and promptly received an angry letter from a reader, a Dr. Jardine from the other side of the country, who said no member of the Jardine family had ever contracted rabies and some may have fallen off barn roofs, but none had ever jumped out a window to their death. The doctor pointed out that the upstairs window of my little house offered a fall of only 12 feet, which in his experience was seldom fatal.
Author and playwright Dan Needles lives on a small farm in Nottawa. www.danneedles.ca
Then about one o’clock in the morning the wind dropped and the moon came out, throwing shadows across the floor. In the stillness I heard a faint sound from downstairs. Scratching. It sounded very much like fingernails on a windowpane.
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That seemed to lift the curse. Next morning I wrapped some chicken wire around the top of the chimney and repainted the kitchen, and since then I have not had any close encounters of that kind.
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then leapt off the stove and flew straight into the wall, which I had just painted, leaving a black smudge. Then it hit the ceiling and the wall again. Then it flew into the living room and hit a lampshade. It did about four laps of the downstairs, leaving smudges on everything it hit. I waved my arms and told it, “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! ” And it did. It found the doorway and flew out into the night.
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The part of my brain I like the best said, “Don’t go downstairs.”
I went downstairs.
I am not a superstitious person.
There is still a faint smudge from the raven on the wall. I’ve tried painting over it, but the shadow still is sitting, still is sitting, just above my kitchen door. Unless I wallpaper it, I fear that shadow will be lifted
I am not a superstitious person. But the scratching didn’t stop. The part of my brain I like the best said, “Don’t go downstairs.” I went downstairs. I went toward the kitchen door, which had no curtains of any kind at the time, but … the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before
But the scratching didn’t stop.
I opened wide the kitchen door. Darkness there and nothing more. I realized the scratching was coming from behind me, in the corner of the kitchen where the wood stove sat. There was something trapped inside the stovepipe. Pretty tight quarters for a ghost. Probably a bird.
I unscrewed the stovepipe and out hopped a raven. A grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore… Well, it wasn’t big enough to be a raven. But it was very black and covered with soot.
… nevermore!
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On my first night in the house I was alone and the wind was up. With each gust the house would lurch to the east, creak and go “wubba-wubba-wubba.” And then it would lurch back to its resting position. This went on for more than two hours during which I experienced the most severe case of wideawakefulness I think I have ever known.
My wife says there is a presence in the house, but it’s a friendly one. She’s a farm girl and a bit of a Druid, and is always warning me about passing her on the stairs, putting new shoes on the table or plowing down snow – acts that all residents of the old rural community see as omens of violent death. She thinks our house was just lonely with all the comings and goings over the years, and that long stretch of emptiness. But now the place is full of kids and dogs and chaos, and has a pleasant hum, and our ghost isn’t lonely anymore.
live in a haunted house. It’s been haunted for at least a century by all accounts, that is, by the neighbours’ accounts. As a writer I rely heavily on the neighbours for inspiration. They have always been a reliable source of suspect information.
When I bought the place nearly 50 years ago, Kenny Jardine, the old bachelor next door, informed me that one of his relatives had developed rabies, lost her mind and leapt to her death from the upstairs window. The neighbours heard her shrieks and ran to the scene, but by the time they got here, it was too late. People tried to live here after that, but all of them were driven out by the ghost. Kenny told me that each tenant heard a sound like fingernails scratching at the windowpane. They said that was Mad Katherine trying to get back into the house.
suddenly there came a tapping
Okay, it was a starling. It stared at me for a moment,
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top After a summer of growing, the Am Braigh gardeners celebrated with a communal dinner. From left to right: Angham Sulyman, Ruwaida Al Shakush, Mohammed Sulyman and sons Abdulaziz and Saddam, Nancy Ernst Richards, Jamie Richards, Adelle Barr-Klouman, and Ruwaida’s daughters Fatina and Fatema. lower left Audi Geadah Ogley, Ruwaida and Mohammed harvest a crop of greens in July. lower right Mohammed Al Haj Ali weeding his plot.
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“Not the same as ‘radish’?”
Communal gardening helps newcomers nourish the sense of community lost when they were forced to flee their homeland.
Audi could. And she continued to interpret as the group wandered over to the garden, a field of eight- by three-foot plots over which the setting sun, partially obscured by the maples bordering Mono’s Fifth Line, laid down long, honey-coloured panes of evening light. She offered Arabic equivalents for Jamie’s various suggestions and seed propositions: “Anybody need cilantro? We’ve got lots of dill …”
Next to come on board was Marci Lipman, champion of local agricultural initiatives including the Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance, the Dufferin County Farm Tour and the Headwaters Farm Fresh guide. Together, Jamie, Chris and Marci reached out to members of the Headwaters community involved in refugee sponsorship and resettlement. Beginning in late May, the gardening took place at Am Braigh every other Tuesday. It wrapped up with discussions of food preservation and a harvest-inspired communal dinner in late August.Ivisited the group’s fourth session in July. Along with Jamie, the gathering included Mohammed, Ruwaida and six other newcomers, as well as Chris, Marci, Audi and five other enthusiastic volunteers. Before heading out to the garden, the group convened around picnic tables under a tall, wooden gazebo on Am Braigh’s front lawn. They listened as Jamie read the evening’s agenda (weeding, harvesting, replanting, watering) from a large mobile chalkboard. There was a pause when he finished, and Jamie realized he had said a lot at once. Sheepishly, he turned to the compact, animated woman seated next to me, whose silvering ponytail matched the checkmark on her high-top Nikes.
T hough they had not met before this year, both Mohammed and Ruwaida are from Syria. Both also spent nearly a decade in refugee camps in Jordan before sponsorship groups in Headwaters helped them and their respective families settle in the Dufferin area.
on a cool, clear Tuesday evening in early July: Mohammed Sulyman squats beside a garden plot in the middle of a field in Mono. He feels around a dense cluster of leaves and stalks. Then, finding purchase in the dark soil, he tugs sharply upward, spraying his Detroit Red Wings hoodie with flecks of brown as he unearths a small, alabaster-coloured bulb.
Ruwaida looks up from beneath her white-and-periwinkle floral headscarf.
the 1970s. Audi is an Arabic speaker who fled Lebanon’s war zone for Canada 38 years ago. As the program at Am Braigh got underway, Audi’s interpreting abilities proved indispensable.
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“Turnip,” she Mohammeddeclares.frowns.
Ruwaida shakes her head.
On that July evening, Mohammed and Ruwaida were among those who gathered to grow food together at Am Braigh Farm in Mono.“We’re calling the program ‘Trust Your self to Garden’,” said farmer and retired Orangeville District Secondary School teacher Jamie Richards when we spoke over the phone a week earlier. Jamie owns Am Braigh farm, a three-acre property where he operates a market garden dedicated to regenerative agricultural practices. Jamie was also the force behind the gardening group that brought Mohammed, Ruwaida, and others to Am Braigh several times this past spring and summer. The group was created for individuals and families who
had recently resettled in Canada.
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“How do you say?” he asks, holding up the bulb. “Radish?”
“Oh my gosh ,” he sighs, throwing up his hands in mock despair. He winks at Fatina, Ruwaida’s 13-year-old daughter, who giggles from the next plot over.
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In February, Jamie told the congregation of his Orangeville church, St. John’s Anglican, about his plan to put together a food security teaching group for newcomers. Soon afterward, he was approached by fellow church members Chris Cox and Audi Geadah Ogley. Chris, a retired Headwaters nurse who came up with the program’s name, remembers starting her first garden after moving to Canada from England in
Mohammed examines the vegetable’s fleshy underbelly and twining roots before turning to Ruwaida Al Shakush, who kneels atop the fraying landscape fabric stretched on the ground next to him.
From the start, Trust Yourself was premised on the understanding that shaping a new life – carving out a secure, sustainable home somewhere, anywhere –is a long-term project. During lockdowns this past winter, Jamie sought ways to help Headwaters residents in precarious situations, particularly the Syrian and Eritrean newcomers sponsored by various local groups. Increasingly frustrated by the short-term relief offered by donations and food banks, Jamie hoped to provide more lasting support.
“Can you make that into something, Audi?” he asked.
centre The lush garden plots were abuzz with activity in July. At summer’s end, the gardeners cooked an international feast. far right Kudusan Engida and Tesfahiwet reaped an ample harvest.
capsized during their attempted flight across the Mediterranean Sea. At the time, the Canadian government pledged to resettle tens of thousands of Syrians trying to escape the country’s violent civil war.
When I asked whether Marci had taught before, the tanned, wiry agricultural enthusiast snorted. “Teaching?” she asked incredulously.
“Don’t you think it’s great Canada has so much farmable land? ” he burst out during a pause in our conversation.
Mohammed went on to describe the subsequent three months he spent with his family in the Syrian Desert, unsure whether his cousins or friends had survived the bombardment. He also recalled the cramped exhaustion
The volunteers moved plot to plot, offering a smile or soil-streaked hand where needed. Many of the newcomers were familiar with the techniques and plant varieties at hand. Several had gardened in their home countries. Tesfahiwet (who requested his last name not be used) grew up in a rural Eritrean village and worked on a farm during his fouryear displacement in Israel. This was probably why Jamie blushed when, 15 minutes into the session, he called out “Teacher announcement!” With cheerful self-deprecation, he asked everyone to pause for a moment as he demonstrated how to cut romaine without ripping up the roots.
“I’m learning! We’re all learning. We’re learning about these other amazing people who live right here.”
A hub of sponsorship Sponsorship of Syrian refugees in Headwaters began around 2015, when the world was shocked by images of a drowned two-year-old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi. The toddler’s body washed up on a Turkish beach after the crowded dinghy carrying him, his family and other Syrian migrants
of sleeping on the floor for three years in a Jordanian refugee camp, as well as the sheer strangeness of his first night at the Logels’ house in Orangeville. He has grown to love the area and its spacious countryside over the past six years, and began planting his own radishes and green onions in his backyard in the summer of 2021.
Among the first Syrian newcomers to reach Orangeville were Emad and Razan Al Haj Ali and their children Fatema and Mohammed. The family was supported by the Headwaters Refugee Sponsorship Group organized by Westminster United Church and spearheaded by Brian and Philomena Logel. They landed at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in December 2015. Razan gave birth to the family’s young est daughter, Sara, later that winter.
The crisis in Syria appeared to fade from many Canadians’ consciousness following the first flurry of refugee sponsorships. Yet newcomer resettlement and support efforts in Headwaters have quietly, passionately continued. Since the arrival of the Al Haj Ali family, the Headwaters Refugee Sponsorship Group has helped three other families, including young Mohammed’s uncle and aunt, Mohammed and Angham Sulyman, and their children, Saddam and Abdulaziz, who arrived in December 2021.
Similarly, there is a general lack of awareness about the dire conflict and human rights abuses which have brought approximately 26,000 Eritrean newcomers to Canada over the past seven years. Still, a volunteer group formed at Orangeville’s Compass Community Church in 2015 has focused their sponsorship efforts on individuals and families escaping the East African country’s authoritarian state. As of this past summer, the church’s Newcomers Settlement Team had raised funds and welcomed 21 Eritreans to the area. That number includes Trust Yourself gardener Kudusan Engida and her son, Amanuel Tedla. The two fled Eritrea’s capital city, Asmara, in 2009, after Kudusan’s husband, from neighbouring Ethiopia, was accused of spying on behalf of his birth country.
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upper left The Sulyman family.
I was invited to visit Kudusan’s cozy, meticulously kept apartment during a heat wave in July. As we nursed ice-cold bottles of water at her kitchen table, Kudusan described how, before reaching Orangeville in December 2018, she and Amanuel spent nine years in Nairobi, Kenya –an unfathomably challenging period during which Kudusan experienced partial facial paralysis and acute memory loss. Driving a pen into the ringed spine of her ESL textbook, Kudusan explains that she was unable
The family’s oldest son, Mohammed Al Haj Ali, was an eager participant in the gardening group this past summer. When Mohammed arrived in Canada, he did not know how to say “hello” in English. But, sprinkling beet seeds into shallow, palm-sized depressions in the soil at Am Braigh this July, the middle-schooler spoke the language confidently as he remembered catching a last, car-window glimpse of home through smoky explosions.
lower left August brought a good potato crop for Helen Gebremariam and her childen Elanta and Nathan.
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also told me that she has not heard from her husband since he was detained more than a decade ago. She showed me phone pictures of her nephews, who have fled to Ethiopia to avoid being conscripted by the Eritrean government. At Am Braigh on the following Tuesday, Kudusan sent me home with two bags full of green and red head lettuce from her plot.
be hard to come by outside of urban centres like Toronto.
For Jenny, though, the sheer friendliness of a town like Orangeville offsets any inconveniences. While some newcomers eventually move elsewhere as opportunities present themselves, Jenny stressed what a privilege it has been to show recently arrived families around her hometown for even a brief time. “I’ve been here my whole life,” she said. “It’s like an extended family. And I love that that family is changing. We’re growing bigger, richer.”
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Of course, there is immense value in reaping armfuls of fresh herbs and vitamin-rich root vegetables. Envisioning future iterations of the program, Jamie plans to keep the focus on sustainable food skills. Even so, he echoes other volunteers in emphasizing how the value of the gardening group has been as much about finding community in an especially solitary set of circumstances as it has about learning to grow food.
In rural areas like Headwaters, these responsibilities take on additional dimensions. Jenny Miedema, a regular Am Braigh volunteer who has led resettlement efforts at Compass Church, Centre Fellowship Church and Remember Ministries, the nondenominational charity she founded in 2020, has been involved in sponsoring more than 75 newcomers. When we met over Zoom, she explained how ESL resources, affordable housing and readily accessible public transit can
Sowing community
Welcoming newcomers to Orange ville is no simple task. In an interview, Ami Alexander, a volunteer at the core of Compass Church’s efforts, recited a long list of sponsorship responsibilities: fundraising, completing paperwork, securing housing in an accessible location, arranging ESL classes, enrolling kids in school, setting up banking and access to medical care, helping to find jobs, and so on.
Over the past couple of pandemic years, opportunities to forge friend ships have proven rare. This is, in part, why sponsors enthusiastically encouraged newcomers to participate in the Trust Yourself program.
It is this sense of connection to the land that so many of the Am Braigh gardeners lost when they were cleaved from their home countries. Some never wholly felt as though they had it. Helen, who previously lived and worked as a photo and video editor in Asmara,
chance that moved volunteers to pick up newcomers every other Tuesday this past summer and drive out to Am Braigh. What started as a food security teaching group grew into a lively, inclusive community gathering, whose participants all shared an understand ing that the vegetables gleaned from our gardens are not the only things that feed us. Our bodies need other things to be nourished and grow: human company, human kindness.
After all, the pandemic substantially deepened the day-to-day sense of isolation that inevitably attends arriving in a foreign, faraway country.
Adelle Barr-Klouman, who volunteers with First Line for Syria, a Mono sponsorship group partnered with the United Church’s Shelburne Primrose Pastoral Charge, described a socially distanced welcome for Ruwaida, her husband, Ahmad Al Diri, and their six children last October. After eight years in Azraq refugee camp in Jordan – where youngestRuwaida’sdaughter was born – the family arrived in Canada to partial restrictions, including the need to quarantine for two weeks.
“No turnips,” she said decisively. Giggling, she ran off to join the others for cookies, lemonade and conversation.
Mohammed, intent on watering each head of lettuce, each newly covered seed, did not reply. But Fatina, finished now, looked up and cocked her“Greenhead. onion,” she said, after a moment. “And lettuce.”
pockets of invasive purslane. And, gathered in the gazebo, Kudusan, Tesfahiwet and Helen Gebremariam, a more recent newcomer from Eritrea sponsored by Compass Community Church, discussed plans to prepare two traditional Eritrean dishes togeth er for the upcoming group dinner.
The gardening sessions also offered newcomers a chance to connect with the area’s distinct and beautiful countryside. A feeling of rootedness comes from sticking your hands in Mono’s glacier-deposited, loamy soils – from getting to know the particular hardy plants and persistent insects that populate Headwaters.
First Line managed to secure housing early enough that Ruwaida and her family could isolate in their new, fully furnished Alliston home, with a stocked fridge and extra clothes in the closets. Still, arriving amid Covid-19 and just before lockdowns over the winter holiday can only have intensified an already world-rending shift. Both Ruwaida and Ahmad left behind close family at the camp. A pandemic-induced lack of ESL programing has meant the couple is learning to speak English in relative solitude, with tutors who visit their home, rather than as part of a group.
Dinner ends with a feast of halal s’mores around the Am Braigh campfire.
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On the night I met Helen, eightyear-old Elnata and Nathan, who was five at the time, were with her, and we watched as the kids raced around the field in a many-limbed stream of ticklish evening energy. It was hard to picture the two anywhere else, much less trapped indoors in an Ethiopian refugee camp. Elnata and Nathan seemed made to tackle each other into tomato vines, to crab walk across Jamie’s front lawn and topple over, laughing, in the lush midsummer grass. Indeed, if the younger participants in the program were any indication, the human and land connections created on Tuesday nights at Am Braigh will endure. The first evening I visited, young Mohammed and Fatina were the last to leave the garden, dousing their covered seeds in water from green plastic cans after everyone else had retreated to the gazebo for snacks. So focused were they on their tasks that I knew I should leave them be, tending carefully to their plots in the gentle pre-dusk. But I could not help asking: “Will you keep gardens of your own when you grow
During the fifth gardening session in late July, I asked their daughter, Fatina, what it was like to attend classes remotely so soon after she had started at her new school. She shook her head. “Not good.” She paused as she searched for the word she wanted: “Lonely.”
had not gardened before coming to Canada in November 2021. For four years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, the omnipresent threat of kidnapping prevented her children, Elnata and Nathan, from playing outside. Said Helen, “Even I was afraid to go out.”
“No turnips?” I asked.
Referring to the Sulyman family’s first year in the Orangeville area, sponsor Brian Logel said, “Normally, we’d have newcomers over to our house all the time, and we’d go over to theirs. The whole thing would be very hands-on. But these days are tough. We have to be masked, cautious.”
Other newcomers described simi larly solitary situations, as ESL classes, kids’ schools, and church services moved online. As a result, there have been fewer chances to get out into the area and surround themselves with the kinds of people who, over time, could make a place feel like home.
It was the desire to provide one such
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Fortunately, opportunities for social interaction at Am Braigh proved abundant. On the night of the fifth session, Mohammed and Ruwaida conversed in Arabic while cutting Swiss chard from neighbouring plots. Jamie and Audi showed Fatina how to identify thyme by its thin, woody stems and fragrant leaves, while Marci and young Mohammed weeded out
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Ellie Eberlee is a freelance writer who grew up in Caledon and returned home this summer after completing a master’s degree at the University of Oxford in the U.K.
school; Islam and Rasmi learned to drive. In the summer of 2021, the family became Canadian citizens.
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The same food truck is parked out front when I pull up to a tidy Orangeville home on a different summer morning. But the truck and the burgeoning local business it represents are only part of the reason for my visit. I am here to share tea with the Syrian family profiled in this magazine by writer Liz Beatty following their arrival here in June 2016. I want to ask Rasmi Al Hariri and his wife, Islam Salamah, how they are faring six years later and how food has helped them forge a strong link with their new community.
“It is all very busy,” begins Islam, then stops to shush Laith who has reappeared to dem onstrate his marketing skills, belting “Have YOU tried my mom and dad’s cooking?!” before she adds, “And happy. Very busy and very happy.”
how food found the path to a community’s heart
Her husband learned to fry falafel when he was in his twenties. He had twice sourced equipment for a business of his own, in two different Syrian towns, before the war forced the family to move again to safer ground. Rasmi’s ambitions were more definitively deferred when a bomb devastated a family gathering in June 2015. The strike killed the couple’s three-year-old son, Basil, and injured Islam and Mamdouh, who spent seven months in a Jordan hospital before the family began their tenuous journey through multiple UNHCR refugee camps to Orangeville.
The idea to revive Rasmi’s dream in Canada came from Lori Ker, whose New Neighbours group sponsored the family’s resettlement. Lori joins Islam and me for tea and explains that as a thank-you to the Neighbours, the Al Hariris often hosted them for yalanji (stuffed grape leaves), sfeeha (beef pastry) and ful (fava bean soup). Impressed by the freshness Rasmi soaks his own chickpeas to make falafel from scratch and flavour of their cooking, Lori encouraged Islam and Rasmi to open a stall at the Orangeville Winter Farmers’ Market in November 2016.
hall market in both winter and summer.
And then there is Rasmi’s Falafel.
n a Saturday morning at the Orangeville Farmers’ Market, a food truck stands large and white, its side stickered with appetizing images and a circular green logo reading “Rasmi’s Falafel.” A long line extends out from the aluminum service window; regulars wait patiently for their weekly falafel or shawarma wrap while new customers crane to read menu options from a small chalkboard hanging beneath the slogan A Sunny Taste of Syria
At the door, Rasmi and Islam greet me with warm smiles. Since that first article, their son Laith has grown from a rosy-cheeked toddler into a roguish, buoyant second-grader; his long-haired and poised sister Duha will start Grade 10 this fall. Their eldest, Mamdouh, was 11 when the family came to Canada. Now a high school senior contemplating computer science programs at various universities, Mamdouh towers over the rest of the family as he wanders into the living room to say hi.
Of course, the Al Hariri family remain regulars at Orangeville’s farmers’ market. Gone are the days when Islam felt like a stranger in her hijab, and the family’s primary customers were their sponsors or friends.
“No line at Rasmi’s?” says Islam, invoking the voice of one of the other vendors. “Must be a slow day.”
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“Rasmi kept trying to open a restaurant back home,” remembers Islam.
At first, the Neighbours helped with every thing from setting up the stall and handling cash, to translating orders and minding Laith and Duha. Neither Rasmi nor Islam had drivers’ licenses at the time, so the Neighbours shuttled trays of steaming falafel from the family’s first home on Spring Street to the town
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The family has experienced other changes too. Since arriving in Orangeville with no English, the Al Hariris have learned to speak the language with conversational fluency. Mamdouh, Duha and Laith made friends at
These days, the Al Hariris’ operation is largely independent. The family obtained the food truck in 2021 with the help of donations made through GoFundMe. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Islam and Rasmi set up the truck in the Service Ontario lot at 41 Broadway. During the rest of the week they cook and take the truck to other food markets in and around the Headwaters area. They also offer catering for private events and plan to participate in a few of the local fall fairs this autumn.
Instead, the truck has become so popular that people can judge the market’s success by the number of people waiting for falafel.
But slow days are rare. Most Saturdays are hectic, and go like this: Mamdouh works the cash and sells hummus, baba ganoush, sweets and other temptations from a tent. He passes orders along to Islam and Duha, who prepare wraps inside the truck while Rasmi fries falafel and cooks the shawarma meat. Laith plays outside, showing off his monogrammed Rasmi’s Falafel T-shirt and encouraging passers-by to have a taste.
Caledon, meet the Caribbean. Food lover Fiona Riley had long taken on catering gigs in her free time while working in the banking industry. So much so that her eldest son, Raymond, often encouraged her to open her own restaurant. However, the journey to opening Fiona’s Cuisine — a lively hub featuring West Indian and Canadian dishes — took a few detours.
“Cooking for me is like therapy; when the clients eat and they are fulfilled, I am fulfilled as well,” says Fiona, who lives in Brampton. “I love to see the smiles on their faces when they try something new and it is to their liking.”
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The menu at Fiona’s Cuisine features a variety of jerk dishes, Caribbean stews and a tropicsinspired pineapple, lobster and shrimp dish — served to impress on a half pineapple, fronds and all. Fiona says her brown stew fish — in which fish (such as snapper) and sauce ingredients are pan fried and then simmered down in a rich, savoury sauce — is tied for top seller with jerk chicken pasta. “Out-of-thisworld” chicken wings round out the offerings.
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Crispy fried crab, shrimp and lobster served in a pineapple half at Fiona’s Cuisine in Caledon.
“I kept putting it off, but during Covid, that vision came to fruition,” says Fiona, who had been eyeing Shelburne, but landed on the former Flapjacks’ location south of Caledon Village.
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Dufferin’s favourite family event is back in person! The Dufferin Farm Tour runs Saturday, October 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. This self-guided tour takes you to some of Dufferin’s best local farms, including cash crops, dairy, beef cattle, goat and poultry, most of them never otherwise open to the public. Register to receive an event passport and the finalized farm list.
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One of their go-to recipes is Moroccan veggie stew. Tessa and Laurie rave it is the perfect fall recipe vegetarian and easy to prepare. They love making it in their enamelled cast-iron Dutch oven (its forest green is a wonderful autumn hue). It works well paired with naan bread nestled in their linen breadbasket. Check out the full recipe online at www.inthehills.ca
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There’s cooking and creativity aplenty in the Creemore hills. Motherdaughter duo Laurie and Tessa Foote are the energetic entrepreneurs behind the 2 Dirty Aprons recipe blog and pop-up shop 2DA Market A couple of years ago, they started producing cooking videos, not as professional chefs but because they enjoyed spending time together in the kitchen.
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A blueberry pie is already in the large industrial oven, filling the air with a hint of what’s to come, and a large pot of blueberries burbles on a stovetop. When everyone has arrived, there are eight of us, led by Margo Tasker, who is running this workshop for the Saving Thyme with Margo YouTube series she produces for the Orangeville church. In addition to sampling the blueberry pie, each participant will also make a strawberry-rhubarb version to take home.
leader Margo Tasker (left) and attendee Franziska Sechin. Pie makers Heather (left) and Taia Savazzi, with Julie Munshaw. Eggs prepped and ready. Orangeville Food Bank chef Mark Comendador.
Saving Thyme started in February 2021 after the pandemic nixed group activities in the church’s newly renovated commercial kitchen. But adapting and overcoming life’s obstacles is built into the DNA of community kitchens. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, here and elsewhere across Headwaters, these spaces are filling up again.
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Friendly and focused, Tasker moves about the room, attending to questions as the women roll out dough, place it in pie tins and pile in sugared fruit and cubes of butter. When one woman needs an extra hand laying in her crust, Tasker pinches an example into place. When another woman asks how she could adapt the recipe for her motorhome’s kitchen, Tasker discusses heat settings. Starting to feel at home, others are quick to lean in and offer solutions, even if they’re just for how to battle the cling film.
On a Friday evening in July, the sign overlooks a tidy scene ready for a pie-making workshop. A line of pristine silver mixing bowls, each with recipe cards nestled inside, rests on damp tea towels that will keep the bowls from skidding when whisking begins. But the calm and cleanliness will be short lived as the room, which sits a floor below the nave and next to a dining hall, fills and the lively group turns to baking.
Her flour-dusted hands hovering in anticipation, 13-year-old Taia Savazzi dances about, then unfurls her top crust over the filling before Tasker utters her instructions. Taia’s brow never unfurrows, and she eventually peels back the crust to accept Tasker’s
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advice – and proffered cubes of more butter – before crimping everything back in place.
sign reading “God may bless this kitchen, but He doesn’t clean it” hangs in a window of the stainlesssteel-filled kitchen at Westminster United Church.
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Taia is on hand to boost her pie-making bona fides with an eye to expanding Mulberry Girls, the home-based jam and jelly business she operates with the help of her younger sister, Eden. Others attend because they’re fans of the YouTube channel or they heard about the program while attending a church event. And Tasker, who has overseen the kitchen as the facility and program manager since January 2021, is the kind of charismatic community leader who excels at both delivering a good time and building on the promise of this kind of kitchen operation. For her, it’s all about sustainability and cooking on a budget with in-season produce – with personal connection an important side dish. “I really feel like these workshops are a boost to a feeling of belonging in the community,” she says.
How cooks at community kitchens are rustling up a lot more than meals on their countertops.
clockwise from top left Juice entrepreneur Nikki Holness prepares her ingredients at the community kitchen at Westminster United Church. Brenda Scott rolls dough at a pie-baking workshop at Westminster. Bowls and rolling pins at the ready for creating pies. A strawberry rhubarb pie in the works. Workshop
Usually found in churches such as Westminster, as well as at food banks and other social service nonprofits, community kitchens offer programs as diverse as the groups that run them. These kitchens may enable staff to transform shopping deals and fresh-food donations into take-home dishes for those in need – and the dishes are sometimes made by the agencies’ clients themselves. Or the kitchens may welcome people hoping to learn about home-style, budget-friendly cooking in a social setting. Some organizations rent the spaces for as little as $20 an counterculture
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Some of those dishes may be built on produce many people don’t cook for themselves, even if it is cost effective.
from left to right In the Orangeville Food Bank kitchen are a mix of volunteers and staff: Pam and Chris Russell, Lori Robertshaw, Jaxon Wakeford, Olivia Rowan, Savanaha O’Reilly, executive director Heather Hayes, Jennifer Sinclair, Richard Landridge, Deb Lomas, Andrea Thomas, Cathy Wilson, Helen Choat and chef Mark Comendador.
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Hayes tries to make the food bank and its kitchen feel like home, but understands that, depending on
When the Covid lockdowns were put in place, says Imrie, every one of the kitchen’s programs – from the hot lunch program to another called Soup’s On – was cancelled or moved outside. Even the garden was affected, though the change probably delighted butterflies. Plants chosen to attract the pollinators replaced some of the herbs and vegetables usually grown there.
Anywhere they exist, community kitchens are a hive of activity, adorned with beloved cooking utensils and professional-level equipment, and buzzing with mission-driven chefs.
members, including local seniors and church staff. The kids created their own menu, whipping up quiche, salad and strawberry shortcake, with a side of iced tea spiced with fresh lemon balm from the garden.
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Though pandemic restrictions halt ed public programs for some time, the kitchen is at the heart of the operation. It’s where fresh produce, fruit and meat is made into prepared dishes to complement with a personal touch the boxed and canned goods on offer. “If somebody shares their food with you, they’re sharing their hearts and I think that certainly speaks to me personally here at the food bank,” says Hayes.
Singles, families new to cooking and seniors, for example, may hesitate to reach for produce such as giant summer zucchini. “With a zucchini, you can slice it down, freeze it, make zucchini bread out of it,” says Hayes. “But if you don’t have a freezer, you don’t have a grater and using an oven is not an option, then what do you do with a 10-pound zucchini?”
Many donations come via grocery stores, with a clock ticking on ripeness, so in-house chef Mark Comendador works fast to use it all up. “We can turn things into a sauce, we can turn it into a soup, we can use it as a basis for a meal and then give to clients,” says Hayes. “There are lots of opportunities for us to take that excess and make use of it.”
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For Imrie, who has worked at the kitchen since it opened, the hubbub that once again filled the space marked a welcome return to normalcy. Over the past two years, when they couldn’t set foot in the kitchen, the Dirt 2 Delicious campers visited local farms to learn about food origins and followed recipes at home. But, says Imrie, “Virtual cooking doesn’t work well. We missed the connections. We missed the hands-on. We missed the eating together.”
Hayes recalls entering the kitchen to find the counters covered in malanga, the result of a donation of the Caribbean root vegetable. The kitchen staff were stumped by what to do with the textured vegetable, commonly used in South America and Africa, and easily confused with taro root. Then Barb White, a food bank volunteer who also runs the in-house café at Centre Fellowship Church, came to the rescue, making a “beautiful” soup, which Hayes recalls had a nutty, earthy taste.
a client’s background, visiting the community space can feel anything but. “I had somebody confide in me that they never thought they’d have to use or eat food from a food bank again,” says Hayes. “Yeah, there are some memories that are stirred up, but it reminds us that food banks are not the solution to food insecurity.”
At the Orangeville Food Bank, where feeding people is job number 1, their kitchen has doubled in size to meet the increased use. A “last resort” for going on 30 years, this food bank has seen a 210 per cent increase in the number of employed people and a more than tenfold increase in the number of seniors coming through its doors over the past five years, says Heather Hayes, the executive director. A typical month for the bank means seeing nearly 700 people, more than two-thirds of them children.
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On a day this past July, kids from Dirt 2 Delicious, the kitchen’s annual summer daycamp program, were bustling around the well-equipped kitchen, where campers were learning how to eat and cook sustainably. As the finale of the summer program, the group prepared a lunch for community
In the meantime, Hayes and others are working to replace those memories with both food and warm ties to the community. At the community kitchen in Palgrave United Church – founded in 2009, making it one of the first in the area – the herb and vegetable garden on the grounds plays an important role. “I have been in the church and looked out the window, and seen someone stop, come over, help themselves to some of the herbs and leave. I don’t consider that stealing,” says kitchen co-ordinator Barb Imrie, who encour ages people to help themselves. “So we don’t have a little pantry as much as we have a little garden.”
hour to local food entrepreneurs looking for a public-health-certified workspace on a shoestring.
In addition to camps and other community programs, Imrie is proud of the role the kitchen has played as a small business incubator. Keri Parfitt, who runs the well-known Orangeville-
More options are now about to be realized, the result of a donation that funded a dehydrator, enabling Comendador to dehydrate and freeze produce such as fresh kale.
Fostering a sense of community
Although Holness owns a juicer – her cold-press juicing relies on a hydraulic press to squeeze juice out of fruit and vegetables ranging from mangos to beets – she and Sterling lacked the physical space needed to produce juices commercially. So Holness connected with Tasker to rent Westminster’s space weekly. And last May she and Sterling debuted their online store, Renewed Vitality Juice Co., the first of its kind in Shelburne.
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At Westminster, Tasker reports an uptick in new entrepreneurs looking for a certified commercial space. One of them is Shelburne-based, coldpressed juice maker Nikki Holness. During the pandemic, both she and her husband, Tyrone, were working fulltime until Holness took maternity leave from her banking job. The two rarely found a moment alone while caring for their five children, a number that now includes the new baby. One day Tyrone, who works in transportation logistics, asked, “If you could be doing anything other than working at the bank, what would it be?” And Holness told him she really wanted to open the juice bar she had always talked about.
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“I don’t know if I could have done it without Palgrave,” says Parfitt, who says it took a while to get used to the kitchen’s ovens. “We used it a lot as we began before we had the store, had our own kitchens.” She spent about a year there, baking and packaging her melt-in-the-mouth Scottish shortbread cookies to sell at farmers’ markets and wholesale before opening her own bakery in 2012. Ten years later, Wicked Shortbread maintains two storefronts in downtown Orangeville, having opened the second location in November 2021.
Tyrone’s question started Holness thinking, and she approached her sister-in-law, Kemesha Sterling, with the idea. Sterling was enthusiastic, but the two decided that rushing to open a storefront would be too expensive and risky. So after taking some online training specific to the juice business, they took the first steps.
based Wicked Shortbread, always recommends the Palgrave kitchen to anyone hoping to rent affordable time in a certified commercial kitchen with flexible hours. More than a decade ago, Parfitt was one of the first local entrepreneurs to use that kitchen.
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they’ve learned those skills in a safe space,” says Van Ryn.
Nikki Holness (right) and her sisterin-law, Kemesha Sterling, are the Shelburne-based partners in Renewed Vitality Juice Co. They rent the Westminster United Church kitchen to make their fresh, cold-pressed juices.
At Westminster, the busy young mom doesn’t have to worry about distractions even if she’s in the kitchen for 10 hours straight. “With all my produce, I need a large kitchen space that is sanitized and separate from the heavy flow of traffic of my kids and husband,” she says. “The commercial kitchen space has flow, it has proper sanitizing solutions, and it has a separate sink specifically for washing your hands, which is very important when producing anything that’s consumed by the public.”
They accept orders online and deliver to Shelburne, Dundalk, Orangeville and Alliston – and hope to open a storefront in 2023.
The kitchen should be certified and up and running – and available for rent – by mid-September. “It’s really important for people to know that when they rent with us, when they buy products from us, they’re actually really contributing to a much larger cause,” she says.
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Back at Westminster’s pie-making workshop – only the second held in-person this year – Tasker and videographer Shannon Dobson are documenting the fun for the YouTube series. (The two met during the pan demic when Tasker was babysitting a friend’s children and Dobson arrived to walk the friend’s dog.)
Social enterprise too Other organizations, such as Orange ville’s Branching Out Support Services (BOSS), which provides day programs and other services to people with neuro diversities, such as autism and Down Syndrome, are taking their first steps down the community kitchen path.
Amid all the fun and flour dust, Tasker aims to show that everyone can cook affordably and sustainably at home. Preparing food on a budget, during a set time, and in a reasonable way are various aspects of food liter acy emphasized during Saving Thyme with Margo. “I always say, ‘These are the sales. Grab it now,’ and ‘Put it away and hold on to it.’ I’m a wastenot, want-not kind of cook,” she says.
BOSS founder Kimberly Van Ryn says the group’s new social-enterprisefocused Commonfare Kitchen builds on their mandate to offer meaningful programming for their clients and their families. “I love seeing neurodiverse people, who have maybe not had as many opportunities as neurotypical people, be able to find a purpose, learn skills and move out and about in their community with confidence because
As group members work on their pies, talk turns to the name of Taia Savazzi’s business venture and what, exactly, a mulberry tastes like. “A bit tart, kinda like a blackberry,” Taia’s mother, Heather, tells Julie Munshaw, another attendee. “I feel like they taste like a mix between a blackberry and a raspberry,” Heather adds.
As the group jockeys for a closer look, deep purple juices bubble up the side of the pie, its crust crown perfectly golden and glistening. Serving a slice to each member of the workshop, Tasker takes a seat at the head of the table. The room quiets as this group of neighbours, some of whom have never met before and may never come together again in this way, dig in. For this kitchen and Tasker, its tireless cheerleader, it’s mission accomplished.
Isabel Buckmaster is a writer and photographer living in Flesherton.
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An advocate of backyard gardening, Tasker encourages viewers to make use of anything they have at home by freezing and preserving. (This also applies to everyone who uses the Westminster space. Leftovers in the fridge can range from rose water to kangaroo jerky.)
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Among other fruit, the Savazzis are now cultivating an orchard of seven mulberry trees, some grown from cuttings taken from a tree at the family’s previous home in Toronto. Explaining how the bountiful harvest from that tree inspired Mulberry Girls, Taia says, “We couldn’t eat all of the berries and they were just going into our freezer, so we started making jam.”
Tasker checks in again with the group, hovering to lob a compliment when the excited chatter melts into doubt. Every so often, she steps back to take in the whole picture, grinning ear to ear as the women work, standing shoulder to shoulder. A steady beeping causes Tasker to stop midtask, tea towels seeming to levitate into her hands, as she turns toward the oven to inspect the first results. “Oh, Shannon you’re going to want to see this,” she says, as the rich blueberry scent fills the room.
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As another in Caledon’s long history of lopsided battles over aggregate mining gears up in Cataract, the question that underlies all those conflicts remains: How do we balance our voracious demand for aggregates with the rights of local citizens and nature?
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Next to Caledon Village, contiguous pits, many of them brimming with aqua-blue water, stretch to the horizon on land that once supported hardwood forests and creeks, century brick houses, bank barns, livestock, and the families who lived there and cared for their land and their neighbours.
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Those pits regularly place Caledon among Ontario’s top aggregate producers. To date, sand and gravel make up most of what is mined locally. But lying untouched, tantalizing those who know the business, is another more valuable and more sought-after prize: stone. And not just any stone, but dolostone from the Amabel Formation, the stone that caps much of the Niagara Escarpment. Stone that is the foundation upon which much of Caledon rests. Stone so tough it’s harder than marble. So tough that millions of years of ravaging geological forces haven’t destroyed it, as the cliffs above the Forks of the Credit prove. Stone that is perfect for making the concrete used to construct tall buildings, buildings like the CN Tower, ones that scrape the sky, and for highways, such as the proposed Highway 413, which will cut across the south end of Caledon. Stone that can’t be excavated – it must be blasted out.
Access to Caledon’s “grey gold” isn’t unfettered, however. Although the province has mapped 15,000 acres of high priority aggregate resource areas in Caledon, much of it lies within the boundaries of three conservation plans: the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan and the Greenbelt Plan. Even so, Caledon’s ability to balance the demand for aggregates with the needs of nature and local communities has always required tough political resolve and a keenly engaged citizenry.
The James Dick quarry southeast of Caledon Village. One of the quarry lakes has become a training centre for competitive swimmers. Company vice president Greg Sweetnam says, “I think our pits are the jewel in the crown of Caledon.”
Beneath Caledon’s rolling hills, verdant forests, fertile farmland and many of its rural villages lie vast stores of aggregates, a volume of sand, gravel and stone so huge and so valuable it’s difficult to fathom.
Attracted to Caledon’s natural-resource bonanza are miners who are already licensed to dig up aggregate from nearly 3,900 acres where enormous excavators work in openpit mines with permits to scrape out more than 10 million tonnes of sand and gravel annually – though some sites are permitted “unlimited” volumes.
hen you hear the term “mining town,” Caledon doesn’t come to mind. But it should.
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And that is exactly what Votorantim Cimentos, a Brazilian conglomerate, plans to do. With 2021 net revenues of $22.3 billion (USD) and more than 34,000 employees worldwide, the company intends to apply for a quarry licence next to the hamlet of Cataract. There, Votorantim will riddle the land with holes packed with explosives to blast an 80-foot-deep chasm, well below the water table, blowing up that solid stone into millions of tonnes of crushed rock.
Often dismissed as NIMBYs, a handful of local citizens are frequently the last line of defence against the combined forces of governments bent on growth, an industry with a skilfully honed message about insatiable need and limited supply, and
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But Votorantim’s plans for a blast ing operation, the first of its kind in Caledon, has introduced a new concern to the mix, something called “flyrock.” Despite the best efforts of explosive experts, faults in rock sometimes cause “flying” fragments of various sizes to shoot through the air. There are
After water, the world’s largest demand is not for oil and gas, it’s for concrete. As the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association points out, “Aggregate is quite literally the foundation of our economy and society.”
Heading the charge for the citizens’ group is David Sylvester. Trim, slim, grey-haired and thoughtful, Sylvester says the group has already spent hun dreds of volunteer hours and raised thousands of dollars in preparation for what’s expected to be a long, lopsided conflict. Like so many citizen orga nizations that have gone before, this nascent group is getting up to speed on laws and policies, and amassing data on the usual concerns: noise, dust, truck traffic, and impacts on water and wildlife, as well as on property values.
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Helping prepare the Cataract group to do battle is Ian Sinclair, one of Caledon’s most seasoned and outspoken councillors. With a graduate degree in environmental planning and a no-bullshit attitude, Sinclair tends to hold forth in wonkish detail about the pressures on Caledon’s countryside. But this veteran of many a political dogfight is armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of provincial and municipal policy, and it’s worth paying attention to him, especially when it comes to aggregates.
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Concern about flyrock resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that it qualifies as a “contaminant” under Canada’s Environmental Protection Act. In response, Ontario updated its Aggregate Resources Act in 2022 and now requires “reasonable measures” be taken to prevent flyrock from leaving a pit when a “sensitive receptor,” such as a house or school, is within 500 metres,
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Although Cataract sits within the boundaries of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, which labels it a “minor urban centre,” the land immediately to the north and west lies outside NEC protection. And this is where Votorantim has amassed some 700 acres of land with the sought-after geological gift of a thin
layer of “overburden” atop a treasure: dolostone from the Amabel Formation, grey gold of the highest order.
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distant multinational corporations intent on gaining access to rich quantities of a natural resource. Amid these forces, the latest aggregate battle brewing in Cataract will test Caledon’s image of itself with unprecedented intensity.
Add to this the urgent need to repair aging infrastructure, such as Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, and there is no denying the hard reality that we are utterly dependent on this natural resource. In fact, it is widely reported that after water, the world’s largest demand is not for oil and gas, it’s for concrete, a mixture of cement and aggregate. As the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association points out, “Aggregate is quite literally the found ation of our economy and society.”
In Cataract, the looming clash pits a Goliath, Brazil’s Votorantim, against a David, the Forks of the Credit Preservation Group. The historic hamlet is home to the original Canada Dry well and a gracious Victorian red-brick inn. Perched above the Credit River as it courses its way over a magnificent waterfall in Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, Cataract offers its residents few municipal services. Those who live there have private wells and septic systems, they get their mail from old-style mailboxes, and there isn’t much traffic on its trio of streets.
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a distance more than twice the 200 metres proposed by Votorantim.
Dreading the behemoth bearing down on his community, Sylvester says, “When there is a hard application with all the devastating details before us, it will feel like a tsunami, especially for those who weren’t prepared for the gravity and immensity of this project.”
recorded cases of flyrock travelling up to 1,000 feet, resulting in damage to property and, tragically, injury and even death for people in its path.
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Partially in response to Canada’s declining birth rate and tight employ ment market, the federal government has set targets ranging upward to about 450,000 new immigrants every year. A disproportionate number of them will settle in the Greater Toronto Area, which is expected to see a 41.3 per cent increase in population over the next 25 years. By 2051, Caledon is mandated to triple its population to 300,000. Accommodating these new comers will require housing, roads and bridges, office buildings and factories, hospitals and schools. All of which require aggregates. The proposed Highway 413 alone will gobble up some 2.4 million tonnes of the stuff.
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“That is confirmed,” Sinclair writes, “from the cumulative effects of unlimited number of strip mines, unlimited life of strip mines, unfet tered mining operations emitting noise, dust, a broad range of adverse effects, minimum tax assessment, no compensation to nearby landowners for their loss of the use and enjoyment of their lands.”
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And Sinclair doesn’t think much of the Town of Caledon’s approach either. Citing three recent pit applications, he says the Town’s failed to consider land use compatibility and social impacts, giving the impression that Caledon is “captured by aggregate interests.”
Sinclair and the citizens of Cataract
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to Aggregate Strip Mining,” Sinclair, who is not running for re-election, pulls no punches. He asserts that current provincial policies mean the rights awarded to aggregate producers completely cancel out the rights of everyone and everything else.
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are far from the only ones apprehen sive about the environmental and societal woes associated with aggregate extraction in Ontario. There have been numerous failed attempts to make the industry greener and to level the playing field between those applying for licences and those who oppose them. Most recently, in 2021, the newly established Reform Gravel Mining Coalition launched a petition asking the Ontario government for a moratorium on applications for new or expanding aggregate licences. The coalition’s campaign director, Mike Balkwill, says, “It’s time to hit the pause button, take stock of the full scale of the destructive impacts of this industry and chart a new path forward in our climate-challenged world.”
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way for companies such as Votorantim to apply for a licence to extract aggre gate that may already be available from an existing pit or quarry, leaving Cataract and area residents to cope with the consequences of another gapingWhat’shole.more, the exemption is not reciprocal. As the Reform Coalition points out, community groups are burdened with having to advocate – effectively prove need – for nature and their communities on a pit-bypit basis. In response to these efforts, Sweetnam falls back on the standard industry line, writing, “We just have to be mature about the land-use decisions we make today. NIMBYs are everywhere.”Theresultis the kind of drawnout and expensive confrontations illustrated in Caledon by the 14-year-
A 2022 report by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and commis sioned by the OSSGA, titled “The Long Haul: Examining the Implications of Far-From-Market Aggregates,” justified this close-to-market require ment. Taking things to an extreme, the study’s authors calculated that if 100 per cent of the 25 million tonnes of aggregate used annually in the GTHA came from, on average, 75 kilometres farther away, it would cause greenhouse-gas emissions to rise by 89,000 tonnes and increase the cost of aggregates by $169 million a year.
These sound like big numbers, but they represent only about 2 per cent of what the provincial government is expected to spend on Highway 413 and a minuscule amount of GHGs compared to those associated with yet another freeway.
His company’s ability to take such a long-term approach is facilitated by provincial policies that the Reform Coalition and its members argue are the nub of the conflicts over aggregate mining that plague the province. Part of Ontario’s Planning Act, the Provincial Policy Statement
long clash between the Coalition of Concerned Citizens and James Dick Construction. The citizens’ group opposed James Dick’s bid to quarry Amabel dolostone from Rockfort Farm north of Terra Cotta. In doing so, it spent 350,000 volunteer hours and $1.8 million before the application was finally denied in 2010. Yet, despite all that time and money, all those dedicated citizens likely won no more than a reprieve. Says Sweetnam, “We fully believe we’ll take that rock out of the ground someday.”
The son-in-law of the company’s founder, Sweetnam is charismatic, genuine and convincing. He believes the root of the problem is that municipal governments don’t look far enough into the future. “Even the longest official plans (the documents that guide municipal planning) are only for 25 years,” he says. Yet the roads and buildings constructed using aggregates are – and should be – designed to last as long as several human lifetimes, even centuries. Which is why, Sweetnam says, James Dick sets its corporate sights on 300 years of aggregate supply. He says that when he tells people this, they “look at us like we are crazy.”
Much of Sweetnam’s confidence about future mining opportunities is grounded in another clause in the Provincial Policy Statement. It says, “As much of the mineral aggregate resources as is realistically possible shall be made available as close to
And when it comes to the GTA, it doesn’t get any closer than Caledon. Sweetnam refers to the town as “ground zero,” because, he says, it has the only readily minable deposits of the coveted dolostone south of Collingwood that are not protected by the Niagara Escarpment Plan.
Study author Ester Gerassime acknowledged the report quantified only “the environmental implications directly associated with far-frommarket aggregate production.” It didn’t consider the other side of the balance sheet, the one that measures the environmental and societal costs and losses resulting from locating so many pits and quarries in the GTA. Nor did it ask the questions on the minds of the DAMN signatories: How much of those losses and costs should their
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Construction, one of Caledon’s larger aggregate operators, says moratoriums, which have been tried before and failed, are not the answer.
than it uses in a given year, a fact supported by the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, though it suggests the number is closer to 10 times. What amounts to an oversupply suggests this is a good time to take a breather. Nineteen municipalities,
The Forks of the Credit Preservation Group has suggested another move that could help reduce the conflict between aggregate operations and their neighbours: increase the “mini mum separation distances” that legislate how far pits and quarries must be from people and sensitive land uses such as residences, hospitals, schools and wetlands. Currently, aggregate companies can apply to blast out a metres-deep quarry within 100 feet of a residence, less than the distance between home plate and second base in a major league ballpark.
Whereas locally owned James Dick Construction was behind the Rockfort quarry application, Cataract’s forthcoming battle is against a foreign multinational corporation. Even Sweetnam expresses concern about these global players muscling into the Ontario market – and sending their profits offshore. He notes, “Concentration of the best quality stone in the hands of a few vertically integrated multinationals has affected the ability of independent Canadian concrete producers to effectively compete in the concrete sector.”
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In Votorantim’s case, the company recently announced it had voluntarily excluded “the southernmost 88 acres of land from any future licence applica tions.” This means that rather than be ing within a baseball toss of Cataract’s streets, the quarry would be separated by about 650 feet, a distance Usain Bolt could run in less than 20 seconds.
One hard cost arises from the fact that nearly all aggregates are trans ported by truck. The damage heavy vehicles cause to local roads is paid for by municipalities. To offset these expenses, OSSGA spokesperson Sharon Armstrong explained in an interview that for every tonne of aggregate sold in the province, aggregate companies charge their customers (among whom the provincial government is one of the largest) an “aggregate levy.” Municipalities have long complained that their portion of this fee doesn’t cover the cost of infrastructure repairs, which means that local taxpayers indirectly subsidize what are often multinational corporations such as Votorantim and Holcim, which owns Lafarge, a major pit operator in AsCaledon.aresult, in 2017, an organization representing Ontario’s top aggregateproducing municipalities, including Caledon, came to an agreement with OSSGA to raise the toll to 52.6 cents a tonne from just over 11 cents. Together, according to Armstrong, they took their proposal to Queen’s Park only to have the Liberal govern ment of the day turn it down. Instead, the fee went up by a mere nine cents and future increases were capped to match the Consumer Price Index.
Today, the levy is 20.8 cents. In Britain, by comparison, it’s about $1.50. Adding to that taxpayer subsidy, and likely contributing to the decision by municipalities to sign onto the DAMN campaign, is the result of a 2017 formula change by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. The change shifted the property-tax assessment of the active portion of gravel pits to farmland from industrial, a move that ignores the value of the aggregate. Though this “farmland” is then taxed at the industrial rate, the assessed value of the pit area is much reduced, handing producers a substantial tax break.
As a result of the MPAC decision, which was retroactive to 2009, muni cipalities lost millions in tax revenues. Claiming that the agricultural assess ment is too low, frustrated aggregateproducing municipalities approached the provincial government this past summer with proposals to mitigate
In 2021, Joan Kuyek, author of Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, investigated the players in Ontario’s aggregate industry. In a report titled “Who Benefits from Aggregate Extraction in Ontario?” she documented disturbing findings about Holcim, which had revenues of about $30 billion in 2019 and some
municipalities be expected to bear? At what point will they be deemed to have done their fair share of supplying this resource? When do community and environmental damages outweigh close-to-market benefits?
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the effects of the decision on their tax revenues. So far, the province has not responded.
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Sweetnam says that James Dick uses minimum separation distances of “at least 500 feet for blasting quarries,” but he otherwise dismisses concerns about the use of explosives. Given our dependence on aggregates, he says, this use is a small price for a few people to pay. And he notes that at his company’s quarry in Guelph, they blast only 22 times a year and the explosion lasts for only seconds.
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Sweetnam reckons that rather than running out of even the most soughtafter bedrock, there’s enough of this natural resource in Caledon “to supply the entire GTA for thousands of years.”
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“There are going to be pits in Caledon forever” Sweetnam says. And although he is far too polished to give in to frustration, it feels as though he wants to add, “So get used to it” or “When is this going to sink in?”
As for Votorantim, Kuyek reported the family-run conglomerate head quartered in São Paulo, Brazil, has interests in energy, ironworks, steel, finance, pulp and paper, cement, agribusiness, aluminum, cellulose and waste management. In 2011, Reuters revealed that Votorantim was one of six companies, including Holcim, that “colluded to fix prices, hampering competition…” In 2014, the BNamericas news service reported that the company had “racked up some 2,000 violations for overweight trucks in the past two Furthermore,years.”in2011, Votorantim sued the Canadian government for $275 million (USD) under the North American Free Trade Agreement, though it later withdrew its claim because it “lacked and had always lacked standing to bring a claim under NAFTA.” According to the federal government’s website, “The claimant alleged that SMC’s (Votorantim’s) attempt to obtain a quarry operation licence for lands it owns near Hamilton, Ontario, was frustrated by improper political interference…” That “interference” was the result of efforts by a “local citizens’ group with close ties to the governing provincial party, aided by local politicians.”
Worryingly, it turns out Brazil is a particularly shady player. In 2019, The Guardian newspaper published a provocative article titled “Concrete: The Most Destructive Material on Earth.” Author Jonathan Watts wrote: “According to the watchdog group Transparency International, construction is the world’s dirtiest business, far more prone to graft than mining, real estate, energy or the arms market. No country is immune, but in recent years, Brazil has revealed most clearly the jaw-dropping scale of bribery in the industry.”
In 2021, Canada produced an almost unimaginable 193.5 million tonnes of aggregate, with nearly half of it coming from Ontario. The OSSGA estimates that over the next two decades, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area alone will consume 1.5 billion tonnes of this Closermaterial.tohome, if the current volume of aggregate extracted annually in Caledon were all gravel, it would coat the entire community of Bolton in about four inches of grey gold – year upon year upon year. By the time Caledon’s population hits 300,000, Bolton would be buried under 10 feet of it.
Watts continued, “Limestone quar
Although Sweetnam is unfaltering in his belief that a ready supply of aggre gates must continue to be available to meet the growing demand, he contra dicts his industry’s repeated claims that Ontario is short of aggregates. He reckons that rather than running out of even the most sought-after bedrock, there’s enough of this natural resource in Caledon “to supply the entire GTA for thousands of years.”
Despite the acrimonious battle over the Rockfort quarry application, it at least involved a locally owned company. The James Dick family’s deep generational roots in Caledon mean that neighbourliness still plays a role in the company’s business strategy. The company can’t afford to violate the rules, pay its fines, then cut and run. Among its considerable efforts to be a good corporate citizen, it sponsors many community events, plans to convert to an electric fleet as soon as the trucks roll off the Tesla production line, and uses a progressive technique to eliminate the need to discharge groundwater from belowwater-tableSweetnamquarries.isespecially proud of the company’s partnership with the Canadian Cross Training Club. This local athletic organization has been holding swimming events in one of James Dick’s quarry ponds just south of Caledon Village for more than a decade. Over the years, the site has developed into a major training centre, where members can participate in a variety of disciplines including swim
As they brace to protect another 700 acres of Caledon countryside in a battle with Votorantim, the Forks of the Credit Preservation Group sees it differently. In a draft report, the group writes, “The Forks of the Credit is the natural backyard for the more than 100,000 people who visit here every year… For some people it is simply a day in the country. For newcomers to Canada, it is often their first view of what Canada is supposed to look like. For families who return to visit over many generations, it is a place that keeps memories alive.”
ming and paddle boarding. The alli ance may result in Caledon’s becoming a world-class training destination.
In Canada, Votorantim owns 40 ready-mix concrete and aggregate sites, including 17 Ontario pits and quarries operated by subsidiary Canada Building Materials. Though Votorantim, through CBM, extracts aggregate from pits in neighbouring Erin, Mono and Halton Hills, the Cataract quarry would be the company’s first foray into Caledon.
Sweetnam describes his company’s partnership with the Caledon Cross Training Club as “a model of how sites can be used by the public at the same time as mining is going on in another part of the site.” An unapologetic champion of his industry, he takes it a step farther, “I think our pits are the jewel in the crown of Caledon.”
70,000 employees in 70 countries. Through subsidiaries Lafarge and Warren Paving, which hold more than 2,000 acres in Caledon, the publicly traded Swiss company is the town’s largest operator, licensed to remove 2.2 million tonnes of aggregate a year from three of its eight Caledon pits. This tonnage doesn’t take into account the conglomerate’s five other Caledon pits, on which there is no annual extraction limit. Kuyek writes that in the U.S., Holcim has been fined more than $279 million (USD) since 2008 for 638 infractions. The company paid $850,000 (USD) for polluting New York’s Hudson River.
Nicola Ross is a freelance writer who lives in Alton.
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Even before the pandemic, parents and caregivers were facing a confluence of cultural developments – kids are spending less time in nature than previous generations, as noted among others by psychology researcher Peter Gray in his TEDx Talk titled The Decline of Play. Kids also spend less time on recess and
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clockwise from above Leila creates her own play structure in the trees. Xavier (top) and Logan peek out from their “pirate ship,” and Audrey (left) and Amaya explore leaf shapes – all at Headwater Hills Montessori School.
What the leaders, students and parents of local outdoor school programs want us to know about the power of outdoor learning.
enning a script under the shade of a tree. Foraging for mushrooms and studying animal tracks. Painting the scenic vistas of the country side. Staging a play in the great outdoors or learning to cook over a campfire. These sound like curated experiences from a bespoke travel company. But they’re activities commonplace to outdoor-focused schools in our area – and, advocates hope, the way of the future.
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In 2014 the largest U.S. private nonprofit conservation advocacy group, the National Wildlife Federation, painted a disturbing picture: “Our kids are out of shape, tuned out and stressed out, because they’re missing something essential to their health and development: connection to the natural world.” Research indicates that viewing, interacting with, and living in natural environments can reduce stress and increase patience, self-discipline, capacity for attention, and recovery from mental fatigue, crisis and psychophysiological imbalance.
At Headwater Hills Montessori School, which sits on a six-acre property just south of Orangeville, the youngest kids
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physical education, and more time on the miniature screens designed to captureWhenthem.Iwas growing up in the ’70s and ’80s there were always mud pies, a game of hide-and-seek or capture-theflag among the trees, or any number of other casual outdoor activities to join. It’s a world away from what I see in both my neighbourhood and in the kids in my life. At the same time, there has been an increase in childhood obesity rates and diagnoses of childhood disorders and mental health problems.
And in Headwaters there is plenty of opportunity on that front. First, we have hiking trails, provincial parks and conservation areas on our doorstep, unlike so many of our urban neighbours. This summer kids across Headwaters had the most “normal” season in recent memory, returning to outdoor camps where they ran through the trees and got their hands dirty. And as the school year gets underway, many advocates suggest holding on to the weekend-hike, summercamp mentality year-round. So, is it time we tried more experimental outdoor classrooms and move modern childhood in a different direction?
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clockwise from top Children gather in a circle at the Headwater Hills meeting spot to learn, sing and share. Headwater Hills students make the trek to “the pit” for a snack around a campfire. Toddlers (aka Acorns) work together to move a giant log at At Last Forest School. Headwater Hills student Morgan bounces on a tree branch. And Elyn and Reed Huws-Oussoren head outside at The Raise-An-Artist Project.
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Caledon resident Jen Snelgrove is the mother of a five-year-old Casa student and says the program helps alleviate some of her major parenting concerns.
Ottawa-area advocacy group Child & Nature Alliance of Canada, and it now oversees a program called Forest and Nature School (FNS), offering practitioner training, a certification course Ross completed in 2017.
“I worry about the state of the world today and think, ‘How do I teach my kids to handle the problems they will be faced with in the future?’” she says.
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When Headwater Hills first opened in 2010, a grassy fenced play yard functioned in a traditional way for recess and games – and kids only occa sionally ventured into the forest on the property. That changed nine years ago when the children themselves requested to have a recess in the forest. The immediate effects were astonish ing, says school principal Nancy Ernst Richards. “The children’s play expe rience was much more creative and imaginative, as well as more collabora tive, when they were out in the forest,” she says. “So, we decided to make the forest, and eventually the marsh and sandpit beyond, a regular part of our daily and year-round experience.”
Ross’s group follows the principles of the international educational movement known as Forest School.
“A primary tenet is that classes are child led. If there is a problem or issue, the children are empowered to work out the solutions,” Ernst Richards says. “We are there as guides and a resource, but the students take a large part in the responsibility – they become invested in the whole process. Everything is a learning experience.” Other Montessori schools often ask for tours as interest in starting similar programs grows.
Teacher Regan Ross, who leads the youngest in what’s called the Casa program, recounts a particularly memorable day that illustrates the school’s promise. “The students started to build a ‘chocolate factory’ using fallen branches, logs and other found items in the forest. They had it all worked out – manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, delivery, even waste disposal,” Ross says. “Then, when they wanted to take a break, they asked me to keep it running so that they didn’t get behind on orders.” If you’re keeping track, that’s imagination, planning, collaboration, problem solving, co-operation and accountability all in one.
Over time, she says, they began to see not only that the outdoor play was much richer, but in-class learning was enhanced too. Children had better focus, stronger empathy and interpersonal skills, and “brought a deeper contextual understanding to their learning, embedded in real-world discovery.”That,and an appreciation for nature that future climate change fighters are going to need. “One recess, a few middle school boys noticed an insect infestation on the trees, and quickly organized a group to tackle the problem with loppers. From protecting habitat to putting on plays on the outdoor stage, day-to-day interactions within nature are student-initiated and reap a world of benefits,” Ernst Richards says.
“This program helps teach them how to handle challenges, problem solve and think critically, as well as have a great appreciation and respect for their peaceful surroundings. They are honing the skill of confident living in their natural environment.”
– ages three to six – spend two hours outside daily, and four hours during school-wide Forest Fridays. Howling like coyotes is common practice.
As Ross’s work with the smaller kids took off, the school became more serious about developing outdoor learning programs for the whole student body, now about 45 children. By the time students are in Grades 6 to 8, much of the outdoor program involves off-campus fun. For example, students grow food at Mono’s Am Braigh Farm under the mentorship of organic farmer Jamie Richards (who is also Ernst Richards’ husband).
The Forest School philosophy and pedagogy has been around since the late 1950s, starting in Denmark and Sweden, and then moving through Scandinavia, Europe, China, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada – with thousands of programs nowSomeworldwide.outdoor education advocates may not follow the Forest School Canada methodology in a formal way,
Ross notes the physical benefits of staying outside so much, showing me the steep sides of “the pit” where campfires take place – as does sledding in the winter. “At the start of term, the new students can barely make it to the top, using their hands to assist. By the end of the year, they play tag on that hill like little mountain goats!”
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At Orangeville’s At Last Forest School, all that forest bathing comes with a good dose of science, reading and mathematics on its Island Lake Conservation Area campus. After opening in Owen Sound in 2016, the FNS-accredited At Last has now expanded to 12 stand-alone schools across Ontario. The Orangeville location hosts about 14 students a day, in full- and half-day programs, four days a week. The school’s retrofitted trailer is its only indoor space, used in inclement weather.
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“Jenny is always there for you if you need her. I love working one on one with her and she helps me reach my goals,” says Sophia, a Grade 7 Georgetown-based student at the school. “Everyone is so accepting of each other. I love getting dirty and no one will Orangevillecare!”parent and In The Hills contributor Johanna Bernhardt says her son, who is in Grade 6, is thriving in Lorito’s program. “Being connected to nature helps him sharpen his senses, develop body awareness, while also tuning in to the natural rhythms of the earth. You can cope with life’s chal lenges a lot better when you recognize that there is a season for everything.”
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One day you might see a giant loom supported by trees, constructed to enable a collaborative weaving piece. Instructors read aloud to children gazing at the clouds. Students write poetry in the forest, perform theatre on the lawn, or set up for painting
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Lorito’s art-based programs have incorporated the great outdoors since she began in 2006. Students and campers spend a great deal of time hiking the Bruce Trail, but they also find ways to take everything outside.
“When we are outdoors and part of a community where we feel we can be ourselves and are supported, learning comes much easier,” says Lorito, echoing her colleagues at other schools. “We are all about guiding individuals to make their own choices, to help them learn how they learn so that they can set goals and achieve them. Frustration often comes from imposed expectations. Here we foster internal motivation.”
en plein air. Oh, and foraging and cooking if that’s where a student’s passion takes her.
2000s, Green was a teacher at Brisbane Public School in Erin (where he had also gone to school), and noticed more and more cases of ADD and ADHD in his students. Around the same time, he encountered a growing body of research that linked the rise in those and other learning challenges to the marked decrease in outdoor play. His reading on the subject included the landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv. In 2012, Green started the GOS with a vision of combating what Louv had coined “nature deficit disorder.”
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but they’re still all in. In this region one of the original outdoor schools is the Guelph Outdoor School, whose founder, Chris Green, grew up in Hillsburgh.Intheearly
model and outdoor schools in general – when my 12-year-old daughter and I visit Jenny Lorito, the director and lead instructor at The Raise-An-Artist Project at the school’s rural property near Erin. Lorito asks my daughter what she loves, what’s she’s into, what she would like to try, do or create –anything at all. Her answers range from drawing wildflowers to making jewelry, and it’s all fair game here, where most of the learning happens under the clear blue sky. Most of Lorito’s students – she’s had up to 30 at a time – attend the program one day a week, with a daily cap at six students.
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While learning how to identify trees and running through a forest have many intellectual and physical benefits, Green says the mental health benefits are equally important. “By building nature connection into a child’s week, we are making sure their needs are being met on an ongoing basis, instead of addressing mental health problems as they show up and after the fact.”
Today GOS is a nonprofit that runs programs six days a week during the school year, most of them on its 13-acre property nestled in a cedar grove on the banks of the Eramosa River. The school serves more than 300 children from across Wellington, Caledon and Dufferin. Most families opt to attend one day a week as a complement to regular classroom learning.
“We’ve doubled – almost tripled –our programs and staffing inside the last two and a half years. The value of weekly outdoor experiences in a pandemic cannot be overstated,” Green says.
A flexible model I feel the potential of these benefits –especially the power of tapping into kids’ internal motivations, which is a key principle of the Forest School
Not surprisingly, GOS programs took off during the pandemic, when kids’ mental well-being was particularly stressed by fear and uncertainty about Covid, disrupted routines and social isolation – and when we were all reminded that gathering outside is immeasurably safer than in confined spaces.
These kind of lightbulb moments should dispel any worries about the impact of a day away from the traditional classroom. In fact, the more I learn, the more I’m loath to even use the phrase “missing a day” – there is no missing out here. Indeed, teachers and traditional schools have even reached out to At Last for professional development. Inquiry-based learning, after all, is a significant component of the Ontario curriculum.
What’s more, a take-charge ingen uity often emerges. Ernst Richards recalls her elementary students’ beloved fort became inaccessible after spring flooding last year. Not to be deterred, the students stacked foam toboggans, then stood on them and
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“We’ve provided workshops and webinars on incorporating the out doors into everyday curriculum at a traditional school without them having to replan everything,” says Brown. “We have also conducted field trips; school board teachers have mentioned these are great ways for
from left At Last Forest School students head out for a rocky hike. London (in front) and Vienna in “sitting spots” where they quietly observe nature at Headwater Hills. Elyn Huws-Oussoren in action at The Raise-An-Artist Project.
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“It’s very neat, as a teacher, to watch students use intellectual skills they’ve learned and observe the moment of ‘Wow, I didn’t realize that is how it actually works,’” says operations manager and teacher Christine Brown. One memorable example for her was watching a student analyze sap on a tree and noting it wasn’t there the week before. “After asking what had changed, they realized the temperature had warmed up. They had learned about maple syrup in school, but didn’t think that was actually what happened to the trees! Their bright smile following the connection was amazing.”
them to see how outdoor learning works with a Forest School teacher leading.”Inaddition to the tenets of Forest School I’ve encountered thus far, Brown introduces me to the “art of questioning,” a teaching technique that nudges kids to answer their own questions. “Say, for example, a student found some tracks in the mud and wanted to know the animal that made them. Instead of just saying, ‘Oh, it’s a deer,’ and walking away, we ask them, ‘What do you think it is?’” explains Brown. “Then we analyze together, asking, ‘Does it look big or small? Where do you think it was going? Do you think it was running or walking? Does it have a large gait or space between footprints – do you think it has long legs?’ and so on. They learn so much and work on problem-solving skills, plus are typically pretty proud of themselves if they figure it out.”
Year-round fun Sunny Septembers are one thing, but I do wonder about shipping kids outside when the thermometer plunges or the rains of spring strike. As usual, I’m thinking like an adult, not seeing the world of possibility. The educators I spoke to shrugged it off. At Raise-AnArtist, snow is the perfect medium for sculpture. At Headwater Hills, “The snow and colder weather make for endless opportunities including animal tracking, using tools to lop branches and saw wood for building a campfire, cooking bannock over the fire, creating ice and snow art, making bird feeders, bird watching, winter camouflage, hibernation games and much more,” says Ross. “Every year around this time I start to get excited and think, I can’t wait for winter at school.”
The school also leans into providing tools for “risky play,” meaning play by which students can take safe risks, another core Forest School concept. “Things like hammers and nails, handsaws, two-person saws, whittling knives, and flint and steel are a few favourites. Many students have the goal to start a fire with the flint and steel.”
But there’s some good news about my efforts to instill in them a love of hiking my favourite local spots, like the Bruce Trail’s Split Rock Narrows and Island Lake Conservation Area. FNS principles recommend visiting the same spots many different times to appreciate changes over time. Says Ernst Richards, “We get caught up in thinking that we need to expose children to variety, whereas there is a deeper connection to be found in returning to the same place, noticing and getting to know it through the
Preparing for the new normal So, will we be seeing more outdoor education opportunities popping up in Headwaters? There’s no doubt it’s on the minds of local innovators. “As we watch global trends in the economy, technology, society and climate, many of us are getting the sense that the classroom no longer prepares children for the near future,” says Guelph Outdoor School’s Chris Green. What he’s seeing are parents and children craving community, co-operation, justice, connection, healing and selfexpression through engaging with the outdoors.Localpublic school boards are also tapping into facilities at provincial parks and conservation areas, includ ing Mono Cliffs Outdoor Education Centre and Terra Cotta Conservation Area, for field trips and professional development for educators – all linked back to students’ current curriculum. And postpandemic, some schools, such as Caledon’s Belfountain Public School and others, have deepened their out door education commitments, hold ing more classes outdoors than ever.
Recreating the FNS experience at home
While we wait to see if outdoor school ing goes mainstream, Headwater Hills’ Ernst Richards and Ross are quick to stress that families can create this type of experience on their own. This is music to my ears as I’ve been feeling regret about all the years of missed opportunities in outdoor education for me and my kids.
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propelled themselves, gondola-style, across the Internationally,moat. Forest School pupils spend 80 to 90 per cent of the school day outdoors. In Germany, many of the more than 700 forest kindergartens even forego heated indoor facilities entirely; instead, incorporating tool sheds, tents, outdoor toilets, yurts and open shelters with firepits. I imagine they’re not obsessively checking for WiFi there; their connection is all natural.
Janice Quirt is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.
Ahhh. I’m starting to realize outdoor education is as much about unlearning that strict, goal-achievement mindset as it is about connecting with nature. At the same time, there is something of a sleight of hand inherent in all this free-flowing, child-led inquiry. Students are, in fact, achieving the kinds of goals we hope for.
Ernst Richards tells me her middle school students chose their own field trip and planned it from start to finish last year. They voted for an overnight camping trip to Albion Hills Conser vation Park, called to make the camp site reservation, applied for the permits and did all the meal planning and cooking. Now, that’s another thing I’d like to try at home.
seasons and falling in love with it.” She suggests visiting any patch of wild and letting your child lead. You don’t need to prepare a lesson – the lessons reveal themselves, she says, urging parents to be “joyful codiscoverers” rather than leaders. Turn over a log and see what’s beneath or take the time to really look at a leaf. Sit quietly in one spot for five minutes and sense nature around you. “Allow wonder and awe to touch you. Let go of your goals, let go of thinking there always needs to be a trail completed or something tangible achieved.”
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Still, Green says he’s hoping for more. “We can appreciate the work of dedicated educators in the classroom and hold in the other hand the truth that something needs to change. It may be that we do not yet know what education will look like in 20 years, or 50, but people seem ready to start asking questions and trying things on.”
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Belfountain principal Heather Little says the school’s location helps. “Our staff take full advantage of our spectacular school grounds and the surrounding conservation lands to plan outdoor learning experiences that bring the curriculum to life for our students,” she says. “From learning about the plant and animal species that inhabit the stream and forest areas, and how to continue to make them grow and thrive, to learning about which plants the Indigenous People before us on this land used to make medicine as part of the health curriculum, we incorporate as many outdoor experiences into students’ daily tasks as possible.” Belfountain continues to be a pilot school for national charity Learning for a
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A relative of the similarly-sized robin, wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) have a beautiful flute-like, spiralling song. Large freckles decorate the white bellies of these forestloving
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Today – loath to watch beautiful material go to waste – Colby carves white pieces from limestone scraps produced by his company, Fieldstone Landscaping. The granite for black pieces comes fromThoughMidhurst.hehad often toyed with piece shapes and stone, it was not until the spring of 2021 that Colby created his first complete set, including a 32-inch square board. That set, whose pieces range from about five to nine inches tall, was carved in a tent
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ll chess players are artists,” declared Marcel Duchamp, the French painter, sculptor and chess aficionado. This connection between player and creator certainly holds for Colby Chin. The lifelong lover of the game has recently branched out from his landscaping business to create exquisite outdoor chess sets using Ontario granite and limestone.
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Colby, who lives near Creemore with his wife, Ashleigh, and two daughters, five-year-old Emma and two-year-old Sophie, learned to play chess in Grade 7 through a club at his Grand Valley elementary school. Rather than enter ranked tournaments, Colby organized informal competitions with friends, often playing outside on a deck or in a backyard. He did the same while studying landscape design at Niagara College. A self-described slower, defensive player, Colby continues to challenge friends to casual games, and has even started teaching Emma the names and moves of individual pieces.
Colby’s desire to hand carve his own stone chess sets arose during his first landscaping job after college. “Doing patios or walls, there are these smaller pieces – offcuts – that get tossed,” the artist explains. “That’s how I came to it, years ago. I started seeing pawns and rooks in those.”
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pitched on his lawn. He has since built a workshop in his backyard especially for the purpose.
Finally, the sets are clear-coated with a water-based sealer. This not only enhances the natural colour of the limestone and granite by drawing out each stone’s grain, but also provides protection against the weather. For Colby, durability is crucial. His sets are intended to be left outdoors and played on year-round. The artist himself has played on one in the winter, sitting bundled up beside a fire. “The pieces weather a bit, but the weathering adds character,” heColbynotes.speaks
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Colby launched his website, chessmason.com, last winter. To date, he has made three complete sets and is at work on a fourth. He is also experimenting with designs for smaller, 18-inch square boards, but he is not yet sure what the future holds. Still, just as when he plays chess, he is content to work slowly, thoughtfully.
Colby uses tools including a diamond blade and a grinder to craft individual chess pieces.
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“As long as I’m sending out pieces that I’m happy with, I’m happy,” he says.
It’s a vision others appreciate, too. In the fall of 2021, he showed his prototype to a neighbour and landscaping client, acclaimed furniture designer Klaus Nienkämper. He bought the set on the spot and has since helped showcase the artist’s work, encouraging Colby to stay true to the elegant, timeless designs that flourish in his imagination, to nurture the love of material and form that initially inspired the project.
There, wearing goggles, a double-filter mask and teal coveralls, Colby squares the bases of the oblong, often irregular pieces of stone with a diamond blade and cuts the design for a given piece with a grinder. Once he has achieved the rough shape, Colby smooths the stone with the polishing pads on his drill. The diamond bits on the artist’s Dremel tool enable him to work into the material’s crevices, to achieve smaller, fussier details like the crown of a queen or the cross atop a king. To make the board, Colby adheres squares of limestone and granite to a quarter-inch thick metal plate.
passionately about creating works which will last. His chess sets offer a kind of enduring retreat, a reason to pause while walking outside, to take up the pieces and enjoy a quiet –almost timeless – moment. Envisioning a set’s final home as he works, the artist imagines it next to water and in gardens. He pictures forests in which “two people dust off the leaves to sit down on logs and play.”
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When she’s not using her artistic eye in her advertising day job, Orangeville’s Jillian Clarke is either snowboarding or painting. Her floral sketches are particularly striking when the canvas is a piece of wood, varnished after the final paint stroke. The colours of a vibrant sunflower complement golden leaves of fall, while pink peony petals hint at spring to come. “Although I don’t exclusively paint gardens, I always find my way back to flowers. Growing up, my family had these beautiful gardens around our home, so I find almost a sense of calm within the process, a moment of nostalgia when it comes to certain flowers,” says Jillian. (Paintings, $250 to $550 depending on size, Jillian Clarke Art)
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Why the obsession with organizing is growing and what we’re looking for under all that mess
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Professional organizing is a growing industry in Canada, so much so that there is now a national association, Professional Organizers in Canada, which provides training and certification – and boasts more than 600 members across the country.
In Headwaters, organizers typically start with a consultation, either over the phone or in-home, to assess a client’s situation, and charge fees
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that usually range upward from $50 an hour. And whether the job is something small like clearing out a garage or a major task like selling off an entire estate, these professionals have the resources, tools and knowledge to make it happen.
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When Judith and her husband decided to sell the Mono home where they had lived for 29 years and move up north, they looked around at a lifetime of
“People are starting to focus more on experiences rather than things,” says Tetlock. “You’ll hear more and more people talking about doing a closet purge or a clearout. There’s a minimalist culture out there that says people can benefit from having fewer material things in their lives.”
Yet no matter how many experts we follow, for many of us, gazing in horror at a dreaded room full of boxes touches off our fight-or-flight mechanism. We simply turn away, close the door and leave it for that magical time called “later.” But those who have had enough or who don’t have the luxury of “later” are increasingly calling in local professionals to lighten the load.
And what a lot of stuff it is! We live in an era of fast fashion, bulk and big-box buying, online shopping, and a never-ending supply of cheap goods that make it easy to buy more and more – to pile on top of family items we’ve inherited. We have garages packed to the rafters, with no space to park a car. Basements double as junk rooms, and kids’ rooms overflow with toys. We have so many possessions that we end up paying to store them and renting garbage bins to dump them in. Many of us would admit we simply have too much stuff – and not enough time to deal with it.
While the Big Ds – divorce, death, dislocation and downsizing – are often the major life events that lead someone to hire an organizer, local professionals such as Ida Tetlock of Orangevillebased SMART Organizing, suggest many clients are trying to get ahead of the curve to spare themselves or their loved ones the work – or to lead a more minimalist life.
room overflowing with boxes and junk, and you suddenly feel, well, paralyzed You know you must do something about it – sell it, give it away, make it miraculously disappear somehow. But how? And who has the time and energy to organize All That Stuff?
In this era of accumulation, there has been a concurrent rise in the number of decluttering gurus, including authors and TV stars such as Japan’s Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up), with her doesit-spark-joy approach, and American stars Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin (The Home Edit), known for filing pantry and closet items by colour, in rainbow succession, in clear plastic bins and lazy Susans (for sale at bigbox stores … but I digress).
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To help clients come to those decisions, says Woodworth, she asks questions about an item. Though her specific questions depend on the item and the client, they may include: What is this item’s history? What does it mean to you? Do you like it? Would you use it? Do you have space for it? Can it be displayed? Does another family member want it?
“I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a professional organizer,” says Judith. “And it was difficult at first, the idea of a stranger coming into your home and going through all your stuff. But Diane has the right personality to do this kind of work. She knew when to give you time to think about it and when to push you to part with something. We couldn’t have done it withoutWoodworthher.” knows just how hard it is to be in this situation. As an
Assuring them that wasn’t possi ble, the couple’s real estate agent referred them to Diane Woodworth of Worth Organizing, based in Erin. Woodworth went through the house with Judith, and helped her get rid of everything that needed to go, whether it was through donating it to charity, sending it for recycling or selling it to an antique dealer.
only child, she dealt by herself with the deaths of her own parents and the inheritance of their possessions. Having walked in clients’ shoes, she approaches every situation with empathy.“Ifeelprivileged when I work in a client’s home,” she explains. “They don’t know me, and they open their door to let me in. I’m touching their belongings. I’m hearing their stories. And they make the decisions.”
Other people’s stuff
“Who am I to say, ‘You should get rid of your mother’s dishes’?” Woodworth asks. “Instead, we talk about it and find out which ones are the most difficult to deal with. And we figure it out.”
“My generation – people who are around 50 – are all facing the same issues, and they’re compounding every day,” says Lisa Jackson, owner of Downsizing Diva Dufferin-Caledon. “The previous generations collected, bought and saved. Nothing was thrown away in case it could be used one day. Some of them lived through wars and depressions, so they held on to their possessions.
possessions and were so overwhelmed, they didn’t know where to start.
Demographics are adding to the bulge of belongings on the move. Many families are dealing with the death of elderly “greatest generation” matriarchs and patriarchs, known for hanging on to heirlooms and treasured mementoes. And baby boomers are a generation whose unprecedented prosperity and buying power has resulted in homes full of furniture and belongings, as well as items inherited from the greatest generation.
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They also owned tons of seasonal decor, especially for Christmas, and she had no idea what to do with it. “The thought of dealing with it all by ourselves was completely overwhelming,” admits Judith, who preferred to use only her first name. “I was honestly ready to drop the price of the house if the buyer was willing to keep all of our stuff!”
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“People are starting to focus more on experiences rather than things … There’s a minimalist culture out there that says people can benefit from having fewer material things in their lives.”
As boomers start to downsize, they’re unleashing what some observers have called “the great junk transfer.” And when Gen Xers, millennials and Gen Zers stare down what’s coming to them, many are resisting inheriting home goods and furniture they don’t need or have space for.
“We had all the normal things that you have to get rid of – furniture, old clothes, books, the usual stuff. But I also had a lot of art. And my husband is a collector,” Judith chuckles as she shares her story. Her husband’s den was a treasure trove of family heirlooms that dated back more than a hundred years, historical items, photo albums and scrapbooks.
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Hansen, who regularly helps Weatherall keep clutter to a minimum, sprang into action when her client needed to clear out some items to accommodate the home office required to run her virtual assistant business. Hansen identified places in
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When Jackson and her team start working with a client, they understand that nobody wants to see their parents’ prized possessions simply thrown away or end up in landfill. One particularly challenging job in Hockley valley involved helping a client prepare his mother’s house for sale after she died.
In a process that took three full weeks, Jackson and her team went to work with Paul. They organized it all into groups for sale or auction. Unique items such as a pinball machine, an early 20th-century pump organ, and an antique wartime radio and record player were listed online on Kijiji. Whatever didn’t sell was then auctioned off. And bit by bit, as if by magic, all the items began to disappear, and Paul was able to list the
At the same time, others are realizing that they need help not only to bust clutter, but also to prevent the chaos from taking over in the first place. Tish Hansen of The Concierge, based in Caledon, helps busy professionals keep their homes – and minds – clear by, in addition to decluttering, tackling everything from arranging a handyman to organizing a pantry or tidying a home office.
Covid lockdowns, when everyone was home, people relied more heavily on family members for support,” says Tetlock, adding that some decluttering is about consid eration for living in shared spaces.
That client was Paul, who asked to be identified only by his first name. “My mom was a longtime widow and had lived in the same home since 1964. Mom had managed to fill, and I mean fill , the house with ‘memories,’” he says. “She kept all the Franklin Mint collectible items Dad purchased for her every month when he was alive, candy dishes, teapots and teacups from garage sales, religious articles … If there was space in the home, Mom somehow found a way to fill it!”
In addition to downsizing and dealing with a previous generation’s belongings, some decluttering hopefuls are simply trying to manage in the here and now. As more and more homes are made of blended families, possessions pile up. And as real estate has become more expensive, empty nests are being nested in again as adult children move back home and bring all their
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As Sera Weatherall, one of Hansen’s longtime clients, puts it, “If the choice is to work and earn money or spend all my time cleaning up … well, the business is going to take priority.”
“Essentially the house was emptied for free,” Paul says, because the money he earned from the auctions paid for Downsizing Diva’s services. “I felt very comfortable letting Lisa manage the entire situation. She is put into very difficult and emotional situations, because for most people, including me, there is a big difference between a house and a home. This was not a house full of chattels; it was a home
impression they push clients to get rid of every last treasure, Woodworth says she and her colleagues in the profession can also help clients zero in on the special items they do, indeed, want to Whenkeep.herown mother passed away, Woodworth decided to keep her mom’s set of china. She uses the dishes daily, even though they are antiques. “If a dish breaks, I know it’s okay,” Woodworth says. “I’m no longer the designated ‘keeper of the items.’ I know my kids won’t want them, so I’ll use them. I’m happy to use them.” And in this way, a little piece of her mom is always with her.
“When the time comes to inherit these items, it can be overwhelming. They don’t fit into today’s décor. Styles and tastes change. We have modern, open-concept houses where you see long islands to dine at, not dining room suites. Today’s furniture is modern and sleek, not big and bulky. Our homes and lifestyles are very different from those of our parents.”
When it comes to letting go, people feel better knowing their possessions are not ending up as landfill. They want to know their things are going to a new home, where someone else can use and enjoy them. Regardless of what kind of items you need to get rid of, local experts know exactly where to take it.
Tetlock even started her own Give & Take group on Facebook, saying the rise of interest in decluttering coincides with an increase in the number of people who want to buy eco-friendly, affordable secondhand
“When I did have trouble letting go, Tish told me someone else is going to use this,” said Weatherall. “And she’s right. There’s no point in having 10 frying pans! I’ll never use them. If someone else can use it, I’m happy to part with Similarly,it.”Kelly Kamstra-Lloyd, who runs Mono-based Purging Spaces & Co., says that she has several clients who have needed help to repurpose a room or clear out old boxes from a basement. “If the space you have becomes too stressful to be in or to work in, people get to a point where they aren’t productive anymore,” Kamstra-Lloyd says. “But once you get it all cleared out and reorganized, you can be productive again.”
One of Kamstra-Lloyd’s clients had collected more than 200 pairs of shoes over the decades and couldn’t handle whittling them down by categorydealinghappyKamstra-Lloydherself.wastohelp,andsayswithasinglelikethiscanbe a rewarding starting place for clients who think a job is too big.
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But where does it all go? The process of actually letting go –or successfully completing the “last mile,” to use supply-chain jargon – is no doubt one of the biggest hurdles. How many of us leave boxes by the door or garbage bags full of clothes in the trunk of our car, waiting for a free moment to finish the task? This syndrome was exacerbated during the pandemic when many donation centres and thrift shops were closed.
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the local community that would take her donations, and Weatherall found it a lot easier to let things go when she knew they were going to a new home.
are at ease using auction sites such as MaxSold and eBay. Even retailers like IKEA and H+M are creating programs and divisions for resale.
This aspect is key, no matter how large or small the donation or garbage bags are. Decluttering is not simply about removing stuff, says KamstraLloyd, adding she aims to set up systems for clients.
“You don’t have to do everything at one time,” she says. “You can pick one area to tackle. Then you can take stock of what you want to keep and reorganize it.”
“You have to really understand how the client is going to use that space. And what’s good for me isn’t good for someone else. It has to be sustainable
“There’s a place for everything if you know where to look,” says Tetlock.
for your client or else it will just go back to how it used to be.”
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Getting your first delivery ordered early in the season gives you ample time to organize your woodpile. Meeser stresses wood must be kept in a cool, dry place because exposure to sun, wind and rain will cause it to deteriorate. Ideally wood needs to be covered with a tarp or roof. A woodshed set apart from your home is best if you have one, as stacking wood against your house may encourage pests and rodents to set up housekeeping.
The measurement unit for firewood is a cord, which is 128 cubic feet of cut and split firewood. “If piled in one spot, your stack should measure 4 feet high, by 4 feet wide, by 8 feet long,” Meeser says. “If the wood is cut and split 12 inches long, four rows of wood comprise a cord. If it’s split 16 inches long, then three rows of wood make a cord. We sell what is commonly known as a face cord, which is 42 cubic feet and piled in one 4-foot by 8-foot row.” The current price of a face cord is about $160.
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Everything you need to know about what type of wood to burn, and how to source, store and stack it all.
If the wood is not well dried, it will be difficult to light and won’t burn efficiently. The excess moisture can also create more smoke and release compounds which lead to creosote buildup on chimney walls. That can cut off airflow, preventing the smoke from ascending the chimney and making it linger in the air you’re breathing. A buildup can also lead to chimney fires. (Be sure to call a chimney sweep for recommen dations on how to best maintain your chimney.)
When it comes to stacking, firewood enthusiasts will tell you there’s an art to creating the perfect pile that not only looks good, but keeps moisture levels in check. If storing outside, make sure you elevate your stack at least six inches off the ground to prevent any water rot on the bottom rows of wood. Stack in rows, bark side up, using a crosshatch pattern – two pieces one way topped with two pieces perpendicular to the first pair. Another method which has gained popularity in Canada is a Scandinavian woodstacking method in which wood is piled in a circular configuration. Additional wood layers are stacked around the perimeter with any odd-sized or small pieces thrown in the middle.
So how do you determine how much wood you need? That’s largely dependent on the efficiency of your fireplace and how you use it – is it a heat source or more recreational? Meeser says precision comes with experience. “Seasoned burners who rely on wood to heat their home can burn up to six cords of wood a winter, depending on the size of the house, type of stove and severity of the season. If you are new to the burn game, I recommend starting the season with one cord to see how that goes. Firewood is available all season and you can always replenish your supply.”
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Kim McKenzie, one of the owners of Caledon Fireplace notes the wood you burn can have an impact on the operation and maintenance of a woodburning stove or fireplace insert. For best results, she urges customers to burn only well-seasoned – i.e., split and air-dried – wood. Meeser says ideally wood you buy will have been cut, split and seasoned for at least six to eight months.
The best wood to burn Maple, beech, ash and oak are the most plentiful species of hardwood in the Headwaters area, says Rolf Meeser, the owner of Creemore-based J&R Firewood. All these varieties are very dense and produce longlasting coals, though he recommends ash as one of the best overall choices. “It has an easy-to-split grain, low smoke levels and a long-lasting burn rate.” And, sadly, with the devastation wrought by the emerald ash borer, there’s plenty of it available these days.
t may look like fall out there, but winter is coming. If you enjoy curling up in front of a fire, it’s time to get prepped for fireplace season by replenishing your wood stores. Whether you’re a newcomer to wood-burning fireplaces and stoves, or just need a reminder to get on top of it, here are some key essentials to ensure a warm winter.
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“Properly seasoned wood is darker, weighs less and sounds hollow when hit against another piece of wood,” McKenzie says. “To ensure the best and most efficient burn, your firewood should have a moisture level between 15 and 20 per cent. You may want to invest in a moisture meter to test your wood before burning.”
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The Georgetown native and Orange ville resident studied theatre production
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Dressed in steel-toed boots, protective glasses and a tool belt, and lightly dusted with sawdust and flecks of paint, Lisa gives me a tour, joking, “This is where nice clothes go to die.”
Theatre Orangeville’s technical director, Lisa Lahue, gets her hands dirty as she helps create the imagined worlds that enchant theatregoers.
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other tools. For Lisa, this shop is both workspace and playground.
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ehind the doors at Theatre Orangeville’s nondescript production shop in East Garafraxa, Lisa Lahue is building castles, touching up the paint on a towering set of trees, and readying massive barn beams, all for forthcoming productions. A huge dragon arm covered in scales, a relic of an earlier project, sits abandoned between racks of props. The floors are sprinkled with sawdust, and the walls are lined with racks of lumber, hammers, drills and
Lisa and her team are busy working on three sets for this season’s productions. They build anywhere from 12 to 20 sets a year, and long before opening night happens for one, they’re already well into building the sets for the next.
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shifted a lot to supporting the admin side, because we weren’t producing shows as we traditionally would,” she says. “As we get back into a more prepandemic routine, the juggle between the two will take time to figure out.”
12:30 p.m. It’s almost always a working lunch, says Lisa. She dusts herself off and heads back to her desk. “Over the last few years my job has
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11 a.m. Lisa attends an in-person production meeting. This is when the artistic, creative and production teams come together to discuss schedules and technical aspects of the show, and co-ordinate the various departments as they move into rehearsals.
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With a never-ending rotation of sets throughout the year and many other pursuits, Lisa’s work never really stops, so she likes to start her day bright and early. “Every day is different, and most days don’t go as planned. There is always something coming up, orders to place, phone calls and emails that need immediate attention. Meetings. Errands. It never stops! But it’s active, it’s thriving and it’s always interesting.”
6:30 a.m. After arriving at her office, Lisa waters her plants and check emails before preparing for that day’s build. The barnlike set for Dan Needles’ The Last Christmas Turkey, opening in November, is filled with unique angles and curves, so there’s lots of drafting and prep to do before the physical work begins. This is her favourite time; when the shop and office are quiet, she can focus on the details.
1:45 p.m. It’s back to building the beams for The Last Christmas Turkey The lumber cut that morning was for the straight and angled beams, so she is now working on the curved beams. “There are three in total that will be built from six pieces, but they all need to be identical to look like a real barn beam,” she says. “I will jigsaw one and finish its shaping, and use a router to make identical copies to the one I’ve created.”
Lisa laughs when I ask her if she ever feels a bit like the Wizard of Oz. “Absolutely,” she says. “Most people in the theatre wouldn’t know who I am. I can be sitting in the audience watching, and no one would ever know that I built that set. I don’t need to be on the stage, I don’t need the spotlight. I like being behind the scenes. And I love listening to people experience the show, knowing I was part of that.”
Here’s what a recent day looked like.
She grabs some glue- or paint-stained clothes from the closet, makes tea and heads out the door.
Lisa joined Theatre Orangeville fulltime in 2016, and more than a hundred sets later, she still feels that passion and excitement about bringing a set design to life. “The magic of theatre production is we tell a story within one location. You’re always looking at the same stage, but the story can take us anywhere. You can be inside an attic, in a snowy field, in a barn, inside a living room. But it’s all just one stage.”
But at the end of the day, Lisa’s favourite thing to do is go home to her brothers, with whom she has lived for the last five years, and spend time with her family. “My nephews are my world and there is nothing better than going home to them.”
9 a.m. By now, the rest of the crew has come in, so she checks in with the builders and painters to ensure they have what they need for the day. During the summer, the company hires additional builders, usually an apprentice and a more seasoned carpenter-painter, but most of the time Lisa flies solo.
4–5 p.m. “I make one last stop at the desk to see what’s come up, check in with the team, free my feet from the confines of my steel toes and eventually head home – though often that isn’t where the work stops,” she laughs.
1:15 p.m. She heads back to the shop floor and checks in with the theatre’s apprentice technical director on some of the aspects of their build for the theatre’s Young Company show, which was staged at the end of August.
at York University, but never actually built a set until she moved east to join Theatre Newfoundland Labrador. There, she spent eight years working with the Gros Morne Theatre Festival, and it was during this time her fond ness for the hands-on work of theatre production became a full-fledged passion.“Ididn’t know I was capable of doing what I am doing,” she says. “I started as a production assistant, which is an entry-level position in the industry. I went out there to be a second hand to the head carpenter. I didn’t even know I had the handy skills to do what I do, or the math skills. But I tried, and I learned, and I absolutely loved it!”
3:30 p.m. Lisa does a quick fit-up of what she has cut so far to ensure all the pieces fit together. (And they do!)
5:30 a.m. Lisa usually wakes up with the sun and enjoys some quiet moments in the morning as they are likely her last idle minutes of the day.
8 a.m. It’s time to head to the shop floor. Lisa puts on some music and starts measuring and cutting lumber. She prepares each part of the project she’s working on before starting assembly, so for days, the set may look like nothing but piles of wood. But once she’s ready to put it all together, things happen quickly. Those are the fun days, she says, when a set starts to look like the drawings.
10 a.m. Working through one of the set pieces raises questions about how the designer wants to manipulate one of the beams, so they walk through where they are in the build so far. Lisa makes a quick adjustment and is back at it.
After dinner, Lisa’s evenings are usually filled with other work. She does lesson planning for the courses she teaches at York University and the Etobicoke School of the Arts. “I’m often drafting or project planning for side builds and projects, like elaborate children’s photo shoots, baby showers, weddings or whatever other life events my inner circle has coming up. My mind is rarely idle.”
Here a post office, there a post office …
Lost in the mail?
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Although the “office” was little more than a shelf at the Whittington House, an inn on the stage route to Shelburne, the Orangeville Sun called the new facility an “inestimable blessing” for people near the 2nd Line and 15 Sideroad. Such lofty prose suggested Whittington had been singled out for a privilege that was one of a kind. It was indeed a privilege, but hardly unique.
The Rise and Fall of the Rural Post Office
small but would be important enough one day to become a distribution hub for rural routes. That day was 70 years in the future though. In 1851, they were just the beginning of a wave.
What had been a complicated and fiercely expensive operation used only grudgingly by ordinary citizens, became a simplified, inexpensive and widely appreciated mail system. And one that grew. Prior to 1851, these hills had few post offices: Bolton opened in 1832, and Erin, Caledon (Village) and Mono Mills in 1839. Sandhill and Mulmur Station were added in 1841.
Why so many?
Before rural mail delivery was established in the early 1900s, nearly every village and hamlet in these hills had a post office.
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near Palgrave in Albion Township, scored an office in 1863 and held on to it for 13 years despite a near absence of use by patrons. At Black’s Corners in Amaranth, an office was opened in 1877 (Samuel Black, postmaster), even though it was a quick buggy ride from Crombie where an office had opened a few years earlier on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce rail line.
By the 1870s, on the wagon trail that would one day become Airport Road, there were five post offices in the 17 kilometres from Mono Mills to Sandhill. Along the Mono-Adjala Townline there were three – Sheldon, Lorraine and Hockley – almost within shouting distance of one another. Even a crossroads boasting little more than a tavern or a store could be a winner. Hunsdon, for example,
Every rail line in these hills had mail cars, and while a train was moving, clerks in these cars sorted and bundled mail destined for individual post offices. It worked especially well except when it didn’t. On October 4, 1888, the Shelburne Economist told subscribers their paper had gone astray the previous week because of a particular mail car clerk who, the paper alleged, “is addicted to making mistakes.”
In 1886, the government paid $22,000 to construct this imposing building to house Orangeville’s busy post office. It had advanced water and heating systems, and even an apartment for the caretaker. The building was demolished in 1963 in favour of a much humbler structure.
Farther south in Peel, hamlets like Macville, Coventry and Lockton had already been “blessed” for several years. Along with many other communities, they were beneficiaries of a surge in rural post office openings that began in 1851, the year the British government handed over control of the postal system to the Province of Canada, and everything about the service changed.
In the latter half of the 19th century, the Post Office Department (Royal Mail Canada) touched the lives of rural voters more visibly than any federal government ministry, so for politicians, arranging a local post office paid gratifying dividends. To get one could take little more than a pitch like this by Reeve James Donaldson of Garafraxa Township: “A post office is much in wanting here,” he wrote simply in 1851. Within months an office opened in Reading: James Donaldson, postmaster.
n October 1, 1861, a new post office opened in the hamlet of Whittington in Amaranth Township.
Around the same time, the villages of Camilla and Laurel got post offices, too; so did Grand Valley and Rosemont.
Immediately following the new regime, in 1851, offices opened in Orangeville, Creemore, Caledon East, Horning’s Mills and Mono Centre. Each was
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Symbolism could be even more important. Once a community scored a post office it had “arrived.” It was linked to the outside world, an eleva tion that immediately appeared in real estate ads, where invariably “post office nearby” was cited as a crucial amenity. Not that the system was perfect. Many rural offices received mail only once or twice a week. There was no such thing as guaranteed open hours, and if an office didn’t produce revenue, it was closed. Lisgar in Toronto Township opened in 1871, sold $11 worth of stamps over two years, and closed in 1873. These mild downsides, however, disappeared along with the offices themselves when rural mail delivery began.
For the government, this largesse was irresistible, for everything about it was low budget, especially the rural post offices themselves, which required next to zero capital investment. They operated out of privately owned buildings with rent and salaries recovered in revenue that, with rare exceptions, increased with the presence of a local facility. The only delicate decisions were locating them and appointing postmasters (and gradually over time, postmistresses).
Indeed, the value of an office is apparent in that several communi ties gave up established names at the request of the Post Office Department. Among well-known examples in the hills are Paisley, which became Caledon East, and Charleston, which became Caledon (then in 1975, Caledon Village). Sometimes commu nities themselves asked for a change. The office in Mount Hurst (Albion Township, north of Bolton) opened in 1861 and for nearly a decade most of its mail went to Mount Forest until the department agreed with the post master to name the hamlet Castlederg.
a piece of mail could expose business dealings or an affair of the heart. But the absence of comment about privacy in the local press suggests this downside was far outweighed by the benefit of local convenience.
an 18-kilometre round trip to Orangeville. And service was more than letters and parcels. For many rural residents with limited access to banks, and often wary of them to begin with, completing long distance cash transactions via money orders and postal notes was a major advantage.
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In addition to postmasterships, a post office could mean government contracts. When Monticello in Luther Township got a post office in 1878, a local citizen was contracted to bring its mail from Grand Valley twice a week. Similarly, mail distributed out of Kilgorie’s new post office (1881) had to get there from Shelburne.
Caledon writer Ken Weber is author of the internationally best-selling Five-Minute Mysteries series. This marks his 103rd and last “Historic Hills” column. We wish him a healthy and relaxed retirement!
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Rural delivery takes over Officially, rural route delivery began in 1908, but a few years passed before all the needed routes were organized to run out of larger communities, after which most rural offices closed. Necessarily addresses changed. Once again, Whittington was served out of Orangeville – on one of its six rural routes – and Coventry, for example, became RR1, Bolton. But there were few complaints. Service improved, parcel post was enhanced, C.O.D. was added in 1923, and mail now arrived every day. It was a truly sophisticated mail system with a high level of service. No one could have felt the difference more than postmaster Courtney Conn in Elder (Mono Township). An office was opened in his home in 1854. His salary that year was 10 cents. Sixty years later Courtney, still the post master, stood by as the office was closed. It simply wasn’t needed. His annual salary had grown – to $42.50 –but no one knew better than he that the day of the rural post office was over.
Everything local and familiar General stores such as the one in Waldemar were preferred sites. Tav erns were not unusual. A blacksmith shop did the job in Britannia (near Brampton). A very common site was a postmaster’s own home, which meant the location could easily change. In Amaranth Station, for instance, when John Lacon yielded the postmastership to Gus Groskurth in 1910 and then got it back three years later, local residents had to adjust each time. Not that it really mattered – the two homes were pretty much side by side.
In 1851, the first Horning’s Mills post office opened in the log home of James McGhee. Upon his death in 1860, the post office moved to the home of the next postmaster. Over its lifetime (1851-1983), it operated from seven different locations.
The benefits of a “blessing”
In 1918 (year of the first airmail delivery in Canada) the number of post offices operating in these hills was only slightly larger than it was in the mid-1850s. The Postal Office Department became Canada Post in 1981 and began closing smaller offices (over 1,700 Canada-wide in the 1980s) while adding retail outlets in towns and cities. Interestingly, the office-to-population service ratio today (about one for 6,000 people) is not dramatically different from the ratio in 1900 (about one for 5,000) when the nation was far less mobile.
The convenience of postal service close to home is obvious. Whittington’s office, for example, saved locals
A potentially ticklish issue for rural communities where everyone knew everybody was the issue of privacy, for
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Not so. While highly articulate and analytical, Adrian generally likes to work with his hands and learn through doing. Shop classes at Orangeville District Secondary School were his favourite, and little projects one by one would come home for us to admire. He kept up his writing, history and other academic skills just fine – but it was auto mechanics that started to stick.
But what do we wish for those who don’t see their stars aligning along a clear path, as clear as the night sky on these chilly nights? What if digging in the dirt doesn’t lead our children to become ecologists or soil scientists? What if abstract drawings are just distracted doodles and nothing more – no artist or genius “outlier” escaping onto paper.
Very few people I know really did have their passion and lifework locked in at an early age. They either knew and grew their strength because it was so obvious to them, or because their parental figures pushed them: “Continue your studies, child, and you will someday be a doctor, just as we planned for you.” Ah, the classic nature versus nurture
How will our kids a lign their stars?
W hat do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s such a familiar question. We throw it out to the littlest of our littles, as early as age three or four, once their interests start to sparkle.
A nurse, a firefighter, an astronaut, a superhero ... The familiar professions (definitely including superheroes) are the usual suspects. As Hallowe’en approaches each year, many youngsters dress up in costumes that reflect their aspirations, trying out different identities – as their chosen paths fork again and again.
Gladwell here, but given time, effort and some talent, you have a good shot at elite performance and mastery.
Whereteeter-totter!youland is sometimes clear from a young age. Kids doing what they were truly built to do, their tiny DNA strands vibrating with energy when they are engaged, excited – digging in the dirt or with paint on their hands, or studying the stars. For some, what Momma or Papa drilled into them became the path chosen, underwritten by the 10,000-hours hypothesis that Malcolm Gladwell described in his book Outliers: The Story of Success. Just 10,000 hours of practice and you can become good at anything – well, I’m paraphrasing
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We rush to find answers: “Aha! They’re naturally gifted! This is it – a master already!” It’s easy to fall into the trap of parenting to a result and missing the journey along the way. My son Adrian, who graduated from high school this year, had an early aptitude for language – great vocabulary, excellent debating skills and logic as straight as Sagittarius’s arrow. Optimism and our need to “aim higher” made us think maybe he would be a lawyer? A writer? A politician?
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Who doesn’t love a good movie with friends? But what about a good movie with a babe-in-arms or youngsters that get squirmy when the lights go down, or comment out loud on the action on screen? The Star and Strollers program through Cineplex could be just for you. It takes place at 1 p.m. on Thursdays in Orangeville, offering the latest flicks in a child-friendly environment – lowered volumes, dimmed lighting, change tables, bottle warmers. Great for chilly cineplex.com/theatres/starsandstrollersafternoons.
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“See where this goes,” I said to Adrian the other day, “because there are always choices.” I love that we don’t have to feel locked in for life, that there are so many options. I’m so happy to see so many weird, cool, smart kids doing so many weird, cool, smart things here in the hills.
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While other kids were signing up for university this year, we were quietly helping Adrian find his path in the world of auto. The challenges involved in auto mechanics are really interesting, and over dinner we talk about car problems and how to solve them. I’ve heard snide remarks about the “going-nowhere” kids in tech –and it hurts me to my core. Not only are such comments elitist – postsecondary education is not accessi ble for many – but it is also just not the choice or passion for others.
Earlier this year, the Canadian government launched a campaign called First Choice, to attract skilled tradespeople to high-demand, well-paying jobs as a career. The government reported that about 700,000 skilled trades workers have either retired or are expected to by 2028, creating an ever-growing need to recruit and train thousands more. This labour shortage is creating a crisis that will impact each and every one of us in our everyday lives.
Of the many, many people who toil and design their own lives here in the hills, how open we seem to some career paths as “good” ones –but how closed we can be to others.
What makes us value one job more highly than another? Our inner biases bear examining. Some of those biases have been broken down during the pandemic when front line and essential workers nailed their service day in and day out, alongside PhDs, keeping us safe, fed, protected. Truck drivers, support workers, cleaning staff and doctors, legal professionals and policy wonks came together to keep us safe.
I reminded Adrian of my dad’s journey. When he was Adrian’s age, he also started his career as an auto mechanic. Soon, he was working for the Ministry of Transportation and working his way up in the policy ranks with a focus on road safety and regulations. Then he became an entrepreneur. Then a real estate agent. Then a paralegal. “See,” I said to Adrian, “you just never know how your stars will align.”
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Longtime Mulmur residents, Cheryl and her husband, Hugh, had raised their two children in the township’s scenic hills. Retired from nursing and then COMMUNITY
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When was the last time you tried to open an item packaged in fused cardboard and plastic? Did you clear the room with language far beyond “fuddle duddle”? Venting like that is totally justifiable, in my opinion.
At 74, Cheryl is just now hitting her stride. She is the recently appointed chair of the local police service board, vice-chair of its roads safety committee and, for the past five years, a board member of MC2, the Mono Mulmur Citizens’ Coalition, formed to represent the interests of the citizens of the Town of Mono and Mulmur Township.
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This single pill comes in a box larger than my hand. In the box is a sheet of paper that, when unfolded, more than covers this magazine.
Focused primarily on land use and the wise manage ment of taxpayer dollars, Cheryl views her role in monitoring council as a way of keeping the community informed about the work of elected officials.
And then there’s the issue of getting my hands on the three medications I take regularly.
If there were a Guinness Book of Records for local municipal engagement, Cheryl Russel would have a star entry. Cheryl estimates she has attended 90 per cent of Mulmur council meetings over the past 11 years, often as the only private citizen in the chambers.
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I even bought a specific tool designed to make attacking today’s packaging easy for everyone. Ha! I won’t tell you how long it
“My father inspired my interest in local politics. He believed that the local level was the most important, and made it clear that he expected me to pay attention,” she says.
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ackaging. The word comes out as a snarl, and I feel my anger uncoiling. Yes, there are far more worrisome things in the world, but product packaging is a problem, and for me, it’s one that becomes more annoying as the years go by. Partly because I’ve become shorter on patience, but also because, with age (and a touch of arthritis), my strength and dexterity have diminished. A perfect storm when faced with an industry that seems determined to keep customers at arm’s length from products.
Writer Gail Grant estimates that over a year the packaging for the tiny monthly pill she takes would fill a wheelbarrow.
took me to wrestle that gismo out of its own packaging – or how loud the process was.
It tells me I should take the pill on the same day every month, what’s in it (ingredients impossible to pronounce), and what might happen to me when I take it. In both official languages, of course.
Also in the box is a heavy foil rectangle, about two inches by three inches, encased in clear plastic. Within this rectangle sits the pill.
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I estimate that in the course of a year, this pill produces enough garbage and recyclable waste to fill a wheelbarrow. Over the nearly 20 years I’ve been taking it, the mound would likely fill the cargo bed of a Ford F150.
“This gives me enough history to follow patterns and be up to speed on whatever issues are being discussed,” she says.
Getting the pill out of the package is just the first irritation with prescription meds.
Thinking about this garbage mound in global terms is mind-numbing.
She serves as editor of MC2’s bimonthly bulletins, which keep residents informed on what’s happening locally, plus produces The Look Out, the organization’s semi-annual newsletter which provides a more detailed analysis of local issues.
Once a month I take a pill that’s supposed to keep my bones strong. It’s a tiny pill, about half the size of the nail of my baby finger.
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And thanks for letting me vent. It’s allowed my anger to drop from a rol ling boil to a sort of simmer, and that’s good for my high blood pressure.
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How many of these little bottles are in your cupboard? And your neigh bours’ cupboards? What does that waste add up to provincially? Globally?
Myra Hird, a professor at the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, told CBC that, in Canada, less than 10 per cent of plastics are re cycled. The federal government fingers single-use products and packaging as the worst offenders in creating plastic waste, estimating they make up nearly half the 3 million tonnes of plastic waste produced annually in Canada. Now that’s downright depressing.
I don’t have answers to any of this, except perhaps to suggest that the packaging industry direct some of its resources toward reducing its contri butions to our landfills.
And isn’t it about time we did away with the toothpaste tube? It has been around since 1892 and requires its own box, solely for in-store display purposes. I’ve always thought tooth paste tubes are ugly, and for this reason alone, I’m loyal to upright, flip-top dispensers. I’m considering taking the next step and using only baking soda.
And let’s talk about those little hardplastic pill bottles. I have three on the go at all times. Though Dufferin County accepts nearly all prescription pill bottles and their caps for recycling, the situation is a little different in Caledon, where prescription containers smaller than 50 ml go directly to garbage, as do all caps. Those larger than 50 ml go to recycling, where they have a chance at a second life. Some pharmacies will take them back, but as I understand it, the containers simply join the general recycling from the pharmacy. No sterilization and reuse, FYI.
“People can make a difference. You just have involved,” she says.
Ontario’s drug benefit plan for seniors allows pharmacies to dispense only a 100-day supply of each medication. As hard as I try to synchronize my prescription renewals, the pickup schedule never quite works out. So I make prescription runs to Orangeville about every six weeks, spewing toxins along the way.
Among the current issues she’s tracking: a concern and the proper mix of industrial/commercial/ residential is crucial. We want to do it right communities.” Cheryl notes that in response housing shortage, Mulmur sanctioned second developed properties five years ago, a move government is just now undertaking.
But when it comes to packaging, pharmaceuticals aren’t my only bugbear. Opening the hard-to-grasp twist-top of the non-dairy coffee creamer I use is another frustration. Whenever it’s time to unseal a new container, I find myself heading to the toolbox for a pair of pliers.
Then, a few years ago, Mulmur had a major speeding and noise. Cheryl was instrumental community safety areas and reducing speed
Cheryl Russel says her father inspired her interest in local politics and “made it clear that he expected me to pay attention.”
supply teaching, and keen to give back to her Cheryl first started attending council meetings when she joined the fight against an application pit on busy Airport Road.
That said, I have no intention of switching to boxed wine, and I’m grateful to have found both reds and whites in screw-top bottles I can open with the help of nutcrackers, a deep breath and a good grip. And I’m happy to report I mastered the art of popping bubbly corks many years ago.
Gail Grant is a happily retired senior who lives in Palgrave.
Born in the Czech Republic when that country was still part of Czecho slovakia, Jan and Ivana met as archi tecture students in Prague. They began their careers in commercial and residential building design, married and had two sons. The family left their homeland in 1987, immigrating to Toronto to start life anew. “We had to learn English, learn about Canada and learn about business in this country,”
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says Jan during a recent visit. “We brought very little with us from home, which meant we didn’t have a portfolio of any of our architecture work, so we had to basically start our careers again.”
They joined Toronto architectural firm Crang & Boake, later moving on to work with Bregman and Hamann Architects. That firm had begun working on projects in China, and Ivana started travelling to Shanghai
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Architects Jan and Ivana Benda’s Mulmur home, Bluepine, sits on a slope against a forested backdrop.
regularly for work. Jan soon joined her in the long career commute, and the couple eventually moved to live full-time in the bustling, fast-growing city. Then, in 2003, they partnered with three other architects to cofound their own company, Allied Architects International. During their time in China, they helmed more than 450 projects, from sleek and stylish Shanghai hotels to office buildings,
In 2015 Jan and Ivana shifted gears again, leaving Shanghai and moving back to Toronto, though they continue to do occasional consulting work. They had a home in the city’s Beaches neighbourhood, but decided to downsize to a condo. After selling their house, they had some extra
top left Thanks to its enormous windows, the home’s living space gives the impression of being in the treetops.
this type of lifestyle before. We didn’t want a big piece of land, but when we saw it, it suddenly made sense for us. It had features we love, like a mature forest and incredible views. The rustic environment was not totally foreign to us. It was very similar to what we both grew up with at home in Czechoslovakia.”Theyboughtthe land in late 2016, then took the next several years to design the house, organize permit approvals and build. In February 2020 the couple moved in, just as Covid was starting to take hold. They had moved in to what they thought would be their weekend retreat – but they never left. “Once we began living here, we were
“Our city neighbour used to have a cottage in the Mulmur area and invited us to visit,” she says. “We thought this was a lovely area and would be the perfect place to create and design a special place for us, which we had never done before.”
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far right In the kitchen, sleek stainless steel and dark tones reign.
money to invest and considered buying a rental property. But the more they investigated that prospect, Ivana says, their thought process evolved and turned toward looking for a piece of land – and for the first time, building something for themselves.
Ivana found their 15-acre property online and says she and Jan were sold at first sight. “We had never considered
top right Throughout the quiet house, touches such as this mobile add a subtle dose of interest.
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near right The openconcept main floor includes a minimalist dining area with hints of midcentury modern style.
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So how do two accomplished architects begin to draft their dream home? Though they agreed on many things, Jan and Ivana – like all creative minds – had their own thoughts on the esthetic particulars of their home.
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For the Bendas, a long list of techni cal and environmental specifications was the starting point. The house had to have an air-tight building envelope with better-than-code wall insulation, superior-quality doubleglazed windows, good-quality doors, a geothermal heating and cooling system, a wood-burning stove and fireplace, a green roof, an onsite water well, solar panels on the roof, a Tesla Powerwall for storing the energy, an electric-car charging connection and many other features to keep the home running smoothly.
The two saw eye to eye on where to locate the house, but sorting out some of the details – the look of the facade, how space would be allocated within, and so on – involved much discussion and compromise. “Designing the house was a painful process,” says Jan with a chuckle. “We have skyscrapers and exceptionally large projects in our
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to the mainfloor entrance, which is on the second level. The vibe inside is simple and serene. The walls are all white, the furnishings minimalist and mostly neutral-toned. The first thing that strikes a visitor is not what’s inside the house, but rather what’s outside. “For me, it was all about framing the panoramic views we have, being able to see everything surrounding us and feel the harmony we have with nature,” says Jan. “We wanted to bring the magnificent Pine River valley right inside the house.”
far right An outdoor seating area offers a rare hit of bright colour in the Bendas’ calm, neutral palette.
A staircase located on the side of the 3,000-square-foot home takes visitors
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With little dividing them, the kitchen, dining room and living room maximize space and light. “One of the guiding principles in designing our
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near right One of the labyrinths Jan and Ivana designed on the property is set among pebbles and lit. Another is mown into a nearby meadow.
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The pair settled on an open-concept, two-level home with expansive windows and a third-level roof deck. Situated on a west-facing slope more than 500 feet from the road, the home features light and dark wood siding that emphasizes its clean, minimalist lines. “We wanted our house to blend with nature and the traditional local materials,” says Ivana. “Our contractor, GP Carpentry in Mulmur, recommended a specific prefinished wood siding, which is a renewable resource that we hope will last for many years.”
top Echoing the house design, this modular, manicured garden sits outside the couple’s bedroom.
for us. We wanted to have more com mon living space on this floor, as that is where we spend most of our time.”
home was that it had to be multilayered and multifunctional,” Ivana explains. “Our kitchen is large and welcoming, and totally open to the adjacent dining area so you can cook, entertain and talk to people easily.” Located at the front of the house, the living room has glass doors that open onto the front deck and create an extension of the lounging area. It feels like a calm, quiet inner sanctum.
The home’s lower level includes two guest bedrooms, a full bathroom and a large storage area, where the geothermal system is located. The Bendas run their home on electric power and are in the midst of instal ling solar panels on the rooftop as a source of electricity – and a source to rely on during power outages.
Looking after their expansive acreage is an all-season labour of love. Jan and Ivana have kept formal gardens to a minimum, as the prop erty’s natural soil is mostly sand. In
At the rear of the second floor is a principal bedroom and a bathroom that both look out onto a compact, manicured garden. Jan explains why this bedroom was kept on the smaller side. “You are there at night and sleep ing. It is not the most important room
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The Bendas have also created spaces for labyrinth walking, an ancient prac tice that encourages active meditation as the walker follows a narrow winding path, usually circular, to the centre of the labyrinth and back again. They created a labyrinth of stones and pebbles on the south side of the house, and this past summer Jan made a larger one in the meadow at the front of the property. Last winter he made them in the snow. “We created them for meditative practice and helping us to create a sense of calm,” says Ivana.
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addition to the compact garden at the back of their home, they planted 2,800 native trees four years ago to bolster their green space.
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Jan and Ivana call their homestead Bluepine, a name that pays homage to the soaring skies and wide-open spaces that grace their property. “The colour blue expresses freedom, imagination, inspiration and sensitivity,” says Jan. “It’s also associated with wisdom and intelligence. When you build a house in the city, almost anything goes. But in the countryside, you should be careful not to disturb the equilibrium of the laws of nature and the flow and life energy.”
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Jan and Ivana will be giving a talk, Improving Lives with Architecture, on October 30 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Windrush Estate Winery in the Hockley valley.
IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 95 U N I Q U E O P P O R T U N I T Y S O U T H M O N O Ver y pretty and private 1 acre lot with excellent oppor tunity to fully renovate or build new Custom designed home built in 1969 has experienced some deterioration over time and is in need of TLC Proper ty is not within the development control area of NEC, proper ty is under jurisdiction of TRCA but not within regulated area, proper ty is located within Greenbelt “protected countr yside” and zoned rural Being sold “as is” primarily land value $899,000 Irwin Bennett fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:31 PM Page 1 1 0 0 a c r e e q u e s t r i a n e s tat e Showcase fall22_Layout 1 22-08-30 2:26 PM Page 1 RCR Realty, IndependentlyBrokerage.Owned&Operated. OFFICE 705.466.2115 TOLL FREE info@suzannelawrence.caONLINE1.800.360.5821suzannelawrence.caVISITUS154BMillStreet,Creemore,ONL0M1G0 6 2 7 1 6 2 1 5 S I D E R O A D , M U L M U R 65 acres of rolling hills with lovely views Private cor ner lot with trails, pond, bar n, paddocks, riding ring 7 bedrooms $3,500,000 8 3 7 5 6 8 4 T H L I N E E , M U L M U R 27 acres located at the top of a hill Incredible views from the breathtaking look out deck Trails Heated 3 car grg 5 bdr ms with sep apt and entrance $2,650,000 6 0 7 0 8 5 R I V E R R D , M U L M U R 18 acres Beautiful trails with streams and views Evergreen forest out front with hardwood forest out back Newly renovated $1,999,900 5 8 8 3 0 0 C O U N T Y R D 1 7 , M U L M U R Double wide lot Completely upgraded New stainless steel appliances Conveniently located 3 bedrooms $899,000 1 0 3 8 0 4 S O U T H G AT E R D 1 0 9 99 acres Large restored bank bar n Drive shed Gardens trails and views 4 bedrooms Character and char m throughout $899,000 W I L D R O S E FA R M R E N TA L Quiet private location Lovely wrap around porch overlooking pond and bar n 5 minutes to Mansfield Ski Club 5 bedrooms Available Nov to Dec $5500/month inclusive E X E C U T I V E FA R M R E N TA L 40 acres Pond, beautiful trails, hardwood forest, open spaces 90 mins to Toronto, 40 mins to Guelph, 5 mins to town 6 bdr ms Available from Oct 1 $4250+hydro/month T H E C O O P R E N TA L 7 acres Open spaces with lots of privacy Fur nished Includes snow plowing, TV and inter net Available Dec 1 to Mar 31st $2500+hydro/month Suzanne Lawrence fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:58 PM Page 1
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IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 97 Dale Poremba, Sales Representat Cve hris P Richie, Broker 9 0 5 - 5 8 4 - 0 2 3 4 5 1 9 - 9 4 2 - 0 2 3 4 1 - 8 8 8 - 6 67 - 8 2 9 9 w w w. r e m a x i n t h e h i l l s . c o m I t ’ s t h e M A R K E T I N G , t h e E X P O S U R E , t h e R E S U L T S ! Sean Anderson, Broker of Record Jennifer Unger, Sales Representat ve David Waters, Sales Representative Carmela Gagliese Scoles, Sales Representative 4 8 7 3 9 4 3 0 T H S I D E R O A D Ranch bungalow with walkout basement and 3+1 bedrooms 3 bathrooms have been remodelled large eat in kitchen 4 88 acres per fect for a hobby far m with outbuildings Oversized 2 car garage, 4 paddocks, 16x32 drive shed 45x60 ft bar n with 4 stalls, hay storage, tack area and workshop Gated separate drive entr y, 72x136 ft sand ring, glorious views Mono $1,599,000 1 4 7 2 6 C A L E D O N K I N G T O W N L I N E 3 level sidesplit with walkout finished basement and 3 bedrooms 1 38 acre private countr y lot but only minutes to Bolton amenities Spacious eat in kitchen and dining/living combination Meticulously maintained proper ty with many upgrades Fur nace 2015, sump pump 2017, water softener 2013 Reverse osmosis 2013, roof 2014, well pump 2017 Caledon $1,399,000 1 4 7 6 C O N C E S S I O N R O A D 3 Raised bungalow with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms 13 acre hobby far m just nor th of Hwy 9, 3 car garage Dine in kitchen that opens to family room with cathedral ceiling Separate side entr y to the finished basement, per fect for multi living 3 paddocks with run ins, Quonset hut, tool shed and gazebo Back por tion of proper ty is fully fenced field with small forest Adjala $1,999,000 1 7 4 E L I Z A B E T H S T R E E T S O U T H 3 level sidesplit with 3 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms Fully finished & updated from top to bottom, 2 gas fireplaces All bedrooms feature updated ensuite baths, upper level laundr y 1 5 car garage plus bonus carpor t with plug in for electric car Open concept kitchen/dining/living area with hardwood floors Walkout to multi level deck with covered area & private ravine views Brampton $1,599,000 9 3 2 F O R K S O F T H E C R E D I T R O A D Bungalow with 3 bdr ms, 2 baths, main flr laundr y No cookie cutter: archways, cathedral ceiling, skylight, privacy Unique windows, modified kit w/ lots of counter space Upgraded baths, combo living/dining area w/ w/o to cour tyard 3 acre hideaway just a shor t walk to skiing, hiking & hamlet of Belfountain Greenhouse, pump house, insulated 3 car grg w/ full 2nd floor Caledon $1,699,000 1 5 G I L E S R O A D 2 storey home with 4+1 bdr ms and 3 baths 9 ft main floor ceilings, hardwood floors, large eat in kitchen Living room with multi sided fp, family room with French doors Finished walkout basement with rec room, bedroom and office 3 car garage, 138x245 ft lot, quiet cul de sac, extensive deck Park is just across the street, natural gas, cable, high speed inter net Caledon Village $1,999,000 1 6 4 7 7 W I N S T O N C H U R C H I L L B O U L E VA R D Log post & beam bungalow w/ 3+1 bdr ms & 3 baths Meticulously modified & upgraded w/ fully fin bsmt Eat in kit w/ Viking gas stove granite tops & custom cabinetr y Great room features beamed cathedral ceiling wood inser t fp 6 6 ac lot trails pond surrounded by 96 ac forested conservation Fully screened deck w/ gazebo & sauna generator 2 5 car garage 3 sheds Caledon $2,499,000 3 2 9 E L D E R B E R R Y S T R E E T 2 storey w/ 3 bdr ms & 4 baths Updated detached home in Montgomery Village O/c flr plan w/ custom kit & breakfast bar Lrg primar y bdr m w/ sitting area & ens Fin bsmt has 2 r ms that could be bdr ms Fenced yard, 2 car det grg Orangeville $995,000 6 C H U R C H S T R E E T 2 storey Centur y home w/ 4 bdr ms & 2 baths Moder n updates & long list of per mitted uses Updated baths, main flr laundr y, carpor t Kit w/ granite tops, breakfast bar 9 9 5’ ceilings main flr, wide plank pine floors Mins to Main St Schomberg $939,000 8 F E A D S T R E E T # 4 0 5 End unit 2 bdr ms, 1 bath, 4th flr condo Lrg balcony 1 undergr nd parking & storage locker Building amenities: lounge, par ty r m, gym, games r m Bicycle storage, onsite laundr y, fob entr y Central air, onsite mgmt, natural gas heat Orangeville $533,000 2 4 7 4 9 6 5 S I D E R O A D Stone bungalow w/ 3+2 bdr ms, 4 baths Liv room has 15 ceiling & fp, bright sunr m overlooking yard Eat in kitchen w/ traver tine flrs gas stove granite top island Hrdwd flrs crown moulding 10 ceilings Fin lwr level w/ walk up rec r m bath 2 bdr ms office/gym 10 acs natural gas 3 car grg gazebo trails 2 decks shed generator Great commuting location just nor th of Hwy 9 Mono $3,499,000 Our Award Winning agents have over 50 years of combined experience at your service! Caledon, Mono Adjala and surrounding areas. Karen Caulfield Sales Representative Chris Richie fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:03 AM Page 1
floors, solid wood built in bookcases, antique mantel fireplace & beamed ceilings Per fect place for a glass of wine in the winter or dinner
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98 IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 E N C H A N T I N G 5 9 8 A C R E S 3 bdr m home set back off the road Enjoy coffee on the deck w/ a view of pond or under gazebo on the dock Mix of open lawn, forest w/ trails Stream w/ willows & bridge 2 car det garage/shop, hobby bar n & shed $2,099,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 E Q U E S T R I A N D R E A M 5 0 A C R E S Barn with 32+ stalls, shaving & hay storage rm, tack rms, blanket rm, 3 pc bath, laundry & att 2 stall rehab barn Indoor arena, viewing lounge & kitchen Outdoor arena, round pen, 20 paddocks Approx 30 acres workable $4,999,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 B A C K S O N T O I S L A N D L A K E . . . family park & trails Immaculate tur n key 3+2 bdr m bungaloft with full fin w/o bsmt w/ spacious 2 bdr m guest suite Covered front and back porches to watch the sun rise and set Mature, landscaped premium lot $2,399,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 C O U N T R Y L I V I N G D E L I G H T 4500+ sq ft 5 bdr ms 5 bathr ms spacious kit/din great r m bsmt workshop indoor pool 3 car grg, 45 acs w/ 5 km trails, borders the Grand River/Lake Belwood, rolling hills, pond, shed (30'x50') w/ insulated shop, greenhouse $3,475,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 N E W LY C U S T O M B U I LT 2500 sq ft 3 bdr m bungaloft perched on a hill w/ 360° views overlooking rolling hills 32 acs (approx 8 5 workable) Enjoy sunsets from the octagonal r m on upper lvl Hiking/riding trails through forest Unspoiled w/o lower level $2,799,999 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 H I D D E N T R E A S U R E O N 3 4 A C R E S 5 bdr m gem nestled on a cliff overlooks the rolling hills of Hockley & blends into nature Sunr m pool hot tub & koi ponds w/ water falls Open land trees trails & views for miles 3 car grg w/ 2nd level studio Dead end road $3,299,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 E N J O Y K AYA K I N G & F I S H I N G Immaculate o/c family home on 2 17 acs w/ Butler Creek running through the proper ty Lots of windows & views in ever y direction Liv r m addition in 2020 w/ w/o to deck 2+2 bdr ms + main level 1 bdr m in law suite $1,799,000 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 G R A N D R I V E R R U N S T H R O U G H Gorgeous 5+1 bdrm bungalow lower lvl w/o to landscaped yard pool cabana outdoor liv rm & 2 pc bath Bsmt w/ rec rm, theatre rm & gym Heated 3 bay workshop 29 acs, forest, trails, river, Boyne Creek to stone bridge $2,999,999 Wayne Baguley 519 941 5151 Wayne Baguley fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:42 AM Page 1 R I C H A R D S O N T O W N A N D C O U N T R Y C A 8 6 6 8 6 5 8 2 6 2 paul@richardsontownandcountry ca Paul Richardson S A L E S R E P R E S E N TAT I V E Royal LePage Meadowtowne 17228 Mississauga Rd, Caledon C A L E D O N M O U N TA I N C O N T E M P O R A R Y Renovated from top to bottom & tucked away on 3 private acres in one of Caledon's most prestigious locations This 5 bedroom/5 bathroom offers a huge kitchen, dining & living room and separate main floor family room Lower level has a recreation room, games room, gym & sauna Outside you ll enjoy the pool, hot tub & outdoor dining area Steps away to hiking, golf, skiing, cycling, fishing, or whatever your outdoor passion Updated worr y free mechanics 1 0 0 A C R E H A LT O N H I L L S FA R M Over 100 acres of beautiful land is the setting for this magnificent 7 bedroom/6 bathroom Georgian style home and 40 stall Halton Hills equestrian estate This proper ty includes indoor arena, workshop, 3 separate apar tments and frontages on 2 roads A beautiful place to live, a great income generator, and a wise long ter m in investment There have been no severances taken Convenient to the city in a quiet countr y location G L E N W I L L I A M S B E A U T Y Convenient yet privately located family home on 10 acres near Glen Williams and Terra Cotta Renovated open concept kitchen/family room with walkout to deck and main floor office/bedroom Self contained lower level in law suite with separate entrance offers privacy and income Large shop to store your toys, pond, and plenty of space for a garden or hiking It's rare to find this much land at an affordable price close to the city Don't miss out
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IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 99 M O F FAT D U N L A P R E A L E S TAT E L I M I T E D , BROKERAGE 905-841-7430 moffatdunlap.com Moffat Dunlap*, John Dunlap**, Murray Snider, Nik Bonellos, Elizabeth Campbell, Courtney Murgatroyd, Sean Wynn, Mark Campbell***, David Warren**** *Chair man, **Broker of Record, ***Sales Representative,****Broker T O P C A L I B R E H O R S E FA R M , N E A R N E W M A R K E T 50 acre estate with 4 bedroom renovated main house which overlooks the pool and cabana Award winning 14 stall barn by Dutch Masters with indoor arena and 2 bedroom staff apartment Lovely setting with a 1 bedroom coach house too! Miles of hacking and peaceful views $6,499,000 6 8 7 A C R E L A N D I N V E S T M E N T A strategic land investment Six neighbouring far ms assembled over the last 70 years Multiple houses and bar ns A prime location next to an urban boundar y Listed and sold by Moffat Dunlap Real Estate Overlooking Kettleby. 7000+ sq ft. 1 5 acres Loft apartment 3 car garage $3,995,000 TA M A R A C K R I D G E FA R M , H O C K L E Y VA L L E Y 100 acre equestrian estate with fully restored luxury 4 bdrm stone residence with 2 storey great room, deluxe kitchen & superb master suite Highest quality equestrian facility of 23,000 sq ft with 12 stalls, insulated 80x200 ft indoor arena, 17 immaculate paddocks, 2 outdoor riding rings with great footing Restored century barn too! Permission for 2nd house Magical views of Mono Cliffs! $7,995,000 L I M E H O U S E FA R M Meticulously maintained large 4 bedroom, 4 bath home Beautiful outdoor enter taining areas surrounded by paddocks Bank bar n, indoor arena Asking $3,399,000 I N G L E W O O D V I L L A G E Almost one half acre lot in Inglewood Charming home plus detached coach house Walk to park, coffee shop and enjoy village life in Inglewood $1,299,000 S O L D T H E Y E L L O W FA R M H O U S E , A D J A L A Char ming board and batten far mhouse set on 18 85 rolling acres with incredible views overlooking the countr yside and a stream Paddocks 6 stalls heated workshop $1,998,000 T H E G R A N G E S I D E R O A D , C A L E D O N Prime cor ner 8 acre proper ty 4+2 bedroom home Potential for separate suite in lower level with its own entrance Pool Ver y private setting Great commuter location $2,499,000 R I V E R V I E W, 1 4 A C R E S , H O C K L E Y VA L L E Y Charming 5 bedroom main house and 2 bedroom coach house overlooking the Nottawasaga River A truly peaceful retreat Mix of open meadows and majestic woodlands $2,999,000 S O L D B O LT O N D E V E L O P M E N T L A N D 142 acres with a por tion designated as urban Invest in Bolton's growth! 2 useful houses plus a workshop and bar n Level land designated for housing development A rare find Multiple offers received S O L D 5 0 A C R E L O T, N O B L E T O N 50 acre building lot, distant views Paved road with many of King’s most notable estates $2,499,000 T H E G R A N G E S I D E R O A D , C A L E D O N Premier location in the Grange Equestrian Neighbourhood 4+2 bdr m home w/ 8 acres for privacy, 3 car grg, sauna, pool, 5 fp’s Great loca tion w/ hiking trails Make an offer! $2,499,000 Moffat Dunlap fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:21 AM Page 1
This bathroom bungalow
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offers a relaxing cottage or per manent retreat overlooking Roman Lake surround by wildlife less than 45 minutes from the city This beautiful proper ty provides an updated kitchen, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, built in bar and stunning views, a separate cabin for work and play and outdoor living space with private decks and patios, ideal for enter taining family and friends Exclusive $899,000 Dedicated to Ser v ing Tow n & Countr y Proper ties Your REALTOR® for Life link2realestate.ca 416.919.9802 direct denise@link2realestate.ca Meadowtowne Realty, Brokerage Independently Owned & Operated ®Trademark owned or contro led by The Canadian Real Estate Assoc ation Used under l cense H I L L S B U R G H M I X E D U S E I N C O M E I N V E S T M E N T This C1 zoned proper ty is ideal for an ar tist studio, beauty spa, day nurser y, business office, liquor store, clinic, religious institution, chef and anyone wanting a work from home proper ty with lots of space for parking This mixed use commercial proper ty and restaurant, plus 5000+ sq ft of detached buildings on an almost one acre lot Two hydro and natural gas meters Lots of truck, car, and RV parking MLS $1,699,000 B U I LT T O I M P R E S S Few proper ties equal the attention to detail in this incredible custom built residence with 7 bedrooms 6 bathrooms 2 laundr y rooms 3 kitchens and an in law suite on 1 7+ acres This private oasis is designed for all occasions from enter taining to hosting family with relaxing patios sunset views and enjoying tranquil grounds There’s no shor tage of space with a loft walkout basement equipped for an in law/tween suite and a 3 car garage MLS $3,000,000 C O U N T R Y C H A R M O N 9 5 A C R E S This magnificent 4 bedroom 2 bathroom centur y home has been upgraded to provide you with an oasis surrounded by 95 acres of far mland Distinctive moder n styles are accented by original wood trim and flooring There is plenty of room inside and out to live play and work This once in a lifetime proper ty with a 3 car garage drive shed and bar ns Geother mal HVAC and far m tax credits to lower your operating costs MLS $2,995,000 Denise Dilbey fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:06 AM Page 1
100 IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 5 3 L E A N N E L A N E , S H E L B U R N E New construction Assignment sale Luxurious 6 bedroom ravine lot with walkout basement Additional full guest suite on main floor with 3 piece ensuite Spacious 3280 sq ft home $1,749,000 11 0 B L A C K C H E R R Y C R E S , S H E L B U R N E New construction Assignment sale Detached 4 bdr m w/ double car garage Second floor laundr y Double door entrance 9' ceiling on the main Sep family r m with fp $1,399,000 3 7 3 11 5 6 t h L I N E , A M A R A N T H Meadowland 9 hole golf club on 60 acs in this fast growing community Oppor tunities to add more $$$; weddings, resor t/spa w/ cabanas, spiritual centre, club house, RV parking & more! An hour from Toronto! $6,900,000 8 F E A D S T # 1 0 2 , O R A N G E V I L L E 1 bedroom apar tment in a well maintained condominium located in downtown Orangeville Situated on the main level, terrace with a beautiful view of the garden Affordable living with ver y low maintenance $415,000 Kelly Silveira fall22_layout 22-08-30 5:59 PM Page 1 M i c h e l e S k a w s k i Sales Representative O f f i c e 519 940 2100 D i r e c t 647 290 7653 Michele Skawski@Century21 ca www MicheleSkawski com L I V E L A R G E I N C A L E D O N S E M I Attention to detail is obvious in this 3 bdr m, 2 5 bath home w/ nearly 3000 sq ft of liv space The double door entr y creates a statement, as does the sweeping hrdwd staircase that separates the o/c kit & liv r m from the for mal dining area Stone fp feature wall, quar tz counters, butler’s pantr y & pot filler faucet over the gas range make life more enjoyable while the 2nd flr laundr y & computer loft are just plain smar t! Fin bsmt, inside garage entr y, fenced yard $1,149,900 I N G L E W O O D S H O W S T O P P E R Grand Centur y home accentuated by spectacular gardens, trees and stonework that create a ver y private backyard oasis with pool, hot tub and multiple sitting areas Truly a family home gorgeous eat in kitchen with Wolf stove and Sub Zero fridge, centre island and nearby computer station for homework and family room for kids to play, spacious living room, elegant dining room, six bedrooms; 2nd floor laundr y and librar y nook $2,199,000 Michele Skawski fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:37 PM Page 1 4 S E A S O N H I D D E N O A S I S
IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 101 T R A N Q U I L I T Y AWA I T S Y O U O N T H I S 2 5 A C R E P R O P E R T Y I N E R I N Tudor style home with elegant stone work offers 3043 sq ft on main and 2nd levels with 5+1 bdr ms Recently renovated main kit in 2019 with granite counters and black s/s appliances 1443 sq ft fully finished w/o bsmt with 2nd kit, sep entrance and parking area Upgrades: shingles '18, fur nace & CAC '13, septic system '20, Generac generator '14, front door '20, garage floor '21 Proper ty is regulated by CVC Enjoy trails for walking, hiking and horseback riding Estate proper ty located close to the Erin/Caledon border 25 mins to Orangeville 25 mins to Brampton 20 mins to Georgetown $2,650,000 2 5 A C R E S W I T H H O U S E / B A R N / O U T B U I L D I N G S / C E L L T O W E R I N C A L E D O N Approximately 10 acres currently being far med Premium cor ner location at the N/W cor ner of McLaughlin Rd/Old School Rd Only 5 minutes to Highway 410/Brampton Currently in the Greenbelt Proposed GTA west corridor/413 is planned to cross the cor ner of this proper ty Excellent future potential and investment oppor tunity with development in close proximity to this proper ty! 2 road frontages $7,600,000 S E R E N I T Y AWA I T S Y O U ! Make this newly constructed 4 bdr m/3 bath home your peaceful oasis in desirable Alton Village Open concept designed with comfor t, practicality & style 4029 sq ft living space All the benefits of moder n construction while maintaining historical char m High quality finishes with Acacia wood floors, gour met kitchen, walkout to sundeck overlooking Shaw’s Creek In floor heating, forced air HVAC system, and gas fireplace, you won’t find another home like this! Only steps to the ar t galler y, restaurant, school, librar y, park and hiking trails 4 golf courses within 5 minutes $1,699,000 O N E O F A K I N D 4 B E D R O O M / 4 B AT H H O M E ! Historic char m with the benefits of moder n construction! Enjoy therapeutic serenity of fresh flowing water from back deck overlooking Creek 3019 sq ft of living space Featuring reclaimed wood from the original building used to accent the interior, and original foundation stones used in fireplace! Relax on the covered porch or hot tub Enter tainers’ kitchen with breakfast bar, quar tz counters and open concept floor plan Main floor bedroom with 3 piece ensuite Steps to ar t galler y, restaurant, school, librar y, park, hiking trails 4 golf courses within 5 minutes $1,499,000 1 0 A C R E S A B U T T I N G E S TAT E L O T D E V E L O P M E N T Just nor th of Hwy 109 Renovate or build your dream home! 2 bdr m/1 bath house and workshop Proper ty frontage: 280 ft Zoning A1/OS2 Being sold “as is” “where is” Abutting a new estate lot development in Waldemar, Amaranth 10 mins to Orangeville & 5 mins to Grand Valley $1,550,000 E X C L U S I V E P R O P E R T I E S A L S O AVA I L A B L E 100 acres in Caledon not in the Greenbelt Buy and hold for future development 200 acres in East Garafraxa with house, outbuildings with income 197 acres in Caledon Great oppor tunity for long ter m investment Approx 120 acres far med 2 road frontages STEPHEN DIGNUM B R O K E R Residential • Commercial • Rural Text: exitwithsteve to 85377 Direct: 416 559 2995 exitwithsuccess@gmail com EUGENE DIGNUM S A L E S R E P R E S E N T A T I V E Residential • Commercial • Rural Office: 905 451 2390 Direct: 416 418 6658 eugenedignum@hotmail com EXIT Realty Hare (Peel) Independently Owned and Operated Brokerage exitwithsuccess.ca 1 0 A C R E S I N C A L E D O N 3800+ sq ft house w/ 3 car grg Own an estate proper ty & an agricultural business in Caledon’s ‘Whitebelt’ & future employment lands $13,000,000 E X C L U S I V E Stephen Dignum fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:54 AM Page 1
This private oasis is surrounded by the most enchanting forest The house has three floors of space, an updated kitchen and a complete bsmt apar tment with a walk up Enjoy four sea sons of beauty on these magnificent two acres
Nestled amongst the soaring pines in this executive subdivision sits this lovely sprawling bungalow with over 6000 sq ft of living space!
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Perched atop one of the most spectacular lots in Hillsburgh sits this gorgeous fully finished home with a spectacular view of the 1 acre lot Open concept, main floor primar y room and laundr y, plus a bright walkout bsmt with wet bar
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Two beautiful acres with a tributar y of the Credit River meandering through the back tree lined border This fabulous renovated 3 bdr m, 2 bathroom bungalow has a new kitchen, new hardwood & a show stopping new bathroom
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Ideal location at the town’s centre Don’t miss this two stor y condo penthouse in the hear t of downtown Orangeville where you can walk to shops, restaurants & parks Features include an oak staircase, 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, ensuite laundr y & open balcony with BBQ Custom cabinetr y in the kitchen with pass through to dining room & view to nor th Approx 1500 square feet of living space, plus two underground parking spots and storage locker Don t delay, today $749,900
Enjoy your mor ning coffee watching the sunrise on your covered porch, or play in the backyard until the sun sets Enjoy peaceful rural living at this 1 4 acre proper ty Renovated throughout including great countr y kitchen with quar tz counters and tile backsplash Beautiful engineered hardwood floors throughout main level Featuring 3 bedrooms, 2 newly renovated bathrooms and main floor laundr y with access to attached double garage $1,049,900
R E Easily access this proper ty via paved road and experience all it has to offer If you are looking for a view, look no fur ther this 12 8 acre proper ty has great vantage points of spectacular views all around Mixed forest throughout with rolling typography and the Boyne River flowing through the south end of the proper ty Conveniently located near Mansfield with easy access to Airpor t Road for skiing and mountain biking $1,199,900
U R B A S I C B U N G A L O W Active living private rec centre with loads of amenities and walking distance to tennis cour ts, Nordic ski trails and hiking Spacious foyer, vaulted ceilings, open concept living dining kitchen with walkout to private, vine covered terrace The primar y bedroom features 5 piece ensuite, walk in bath, double sinks, large walk in closet The finished basement provides a surplus of living space, with 2 additional bedrooms/office, kitchenette and 3 piece bathroom Come see for yourself Y O U ’ L L L O V E T H E V E R Y N AT U R E O F I T Want room to roam without all the grass to cut? Downsizing? This bungalow in the exclusive Water mark community has your name on it Close to hiking trails forests lawn bowling and tennis cour ts plus your own private rec centre An ideal location for active adult living This 2 bedroom 3 bathroom bungalow features a spacious foyer and open concept main floor with walkout to south facing deck Call today for your private tour R O O M T O G R O W Lots of family space in this beautiful “Salem” model This home offers 4+1 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms Lovely open concept home with defined living spaces Kitchen with custom cabinetr y, huge centre island, gas range, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances Finished basement has recreation room, exercise room and storage options Great location close to conservation walking trails and downtown Orangeville $1,099,900 P L E N
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amongst mature forest and far mland sits this spacious 4 level side split home Featuring multiple walkouts, loads of natural light, engineered wood floors throughout, 2+1 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms Dining room walks out to large elevated deck overlooking private pool and fire pit areas Fantastic lower level studio/den room has 2 walkouts to yard, a beautiful spa like bathroom with indoor sauna The list goes on $1,999,999 C O U N T R Y G O L D A mixture of ever ything countr y This 83 acre parcel of land offers 48 acres of workable far mland mixed bush, and 2 branches of Butler Creek flowing through it Plan your dream far m and enjoy great long views to the west, or plant something and watch it grow This land has lots to offer, call today to find out more $2,700,000 P R I V A T E R E C C E N T R E I NL A W S U I T E Schild Schild fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:49 AM Page 1
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104 IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 1 8 1 5 9 M O U N TA I N V I E W R D , C A L E D O N Unique far m proper ty 2 houses, 2 pole bar ns, 2 storey bank bar n, heated shop & office Main house w/ many renos in past 15 yrs $4,249,000 2 0 1 9 9 P O R T E R F I E L D R O A D , C A L E D O N S O L D 1 7 2 7 7 O L D M A I N S T, B E L F O U N TA I N Retail space available High traffic area Open concept and beautifully updated space $2,392/month F O R L E A S E M I N E T T, M U S K O K A Contact Rebecca Wallace C O M I N G S O O N 1 7 2 7 7 O L D M A I N S T, B E L F O U N TA I N O/c upstairs 2 bdr m apt Laundr y, private deck Close to shops, schools, trails, Caledon Ski Club $2,000/month Contact Rebecca Wallace 2 5 7 K I N G S T S , N E W T E C U M S E T H Site plan approved for gas station w/ drive thru Building size is 2346 sq ft, available now High growth area nr major shopping cntrs $2,999,000 L A K E H U R O N B E A U T Y 3 bedroom lakefront cottage located between Kincardine and Goderich Easy access to lake on a sandy beach $988,000 1 7 5 C R E S T H AV E N , B R A M P T O N 3 +1 bdr m, 2 car garage, well maintained landscaping and backyard Beautiful décor and finished basement $1,249,000 Jim Wallace fall22_layout 22-08-30 5:57 PM Page 1 S A R A H A S TO N Sales Representative S U T T O N H E A D WAT E R S R E A LT Y I N C Town and Country Properties sarahaston.ca 519 217 4884 S O U T H R I D G E T R A I L , C A L E D O N Sitting high with spectacular views on 9 83 acres Rare oppor tunity to own in one of the most desirable areas in Caledon Updated bungalow w/ par tial w/o, potential in law suite New Cameo kit w/ granite counters & honed marble, renovated baths, sparkling hrdwd throughout main, new inground pool w/ recent extensive landscaping Recently reno’d massive screened in Muskoka room Hiking trails, fine dining, skiing & golf 35 mins to Pearson $3,189,000 2 5 T H S I D E R O A D , A D J A L A T O S O R O N T I O Unparalleled views!! A tranquil, private, paradise Beautiful moder n far mhouse on 54+ acres Rolling hills gives new meaning to luxur y countr y lifestyle! 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, chef's kitchen, floor to ceiling stone fireplace, walkout finished lower level, guest suite, inground pool, + detached 3 car garage Open fields, forests and trails Minutes to markets, wineries, fine dining, shopping, skiing, golf, horse riding Only 60km to Pearson $3,397,000
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Aston fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:52 PM Page 1 Sue Collis Sa es Represen a ive Caledon, Erin, Mono & Surrounding Areas www.chestnutparkcountry.com Country Office: 519 833 0888 Sue Direct: 519 837 7764 Sarah Direct: 905 872 5829 sue@chestnutpark com sarahmac ean@chestnutpark com Sarah MacLean Sa es Rep esen at ve N E W E X C L U S I V E G R A N G E N E I G H B O U R H O O D Unique oppor tunity to live in the exclusive Grange neighbourhood in Caledon 12+ private rolling acres Stylish updated classic countr y home with 4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms Stunning spring fed swimming pond, perennial gardens, gorgeous stone walls Plenty of room for the family from sunroom to terrace to fireside relaxation Apar tment over the garage Spotless bar n/paddocks or studio/workshop Groomed trails around the proper ty and Bruce Trail access nearby $3,750,000 Sue Collis fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:54 PM Page 1
IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 105 H O C K L E Y VA L L E Y C O U N T R Y L I V I N G Exceptional 13 70 acre proper ty! Sought after location, next door to the Hockley Valley Nature Reserve Incredible peaceful location! Well built home offers over 5500 sq ft of living space with an amazing 850 sq ft inlaw suite Bright kitchen, quar tz counter tops, breakfast and dining area with large windows overlooking yard 4 large bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, finished lower level, sunroom, games area, office, family room, stone fireplace, walkouts to patio and yard! Plus attached 739 sq ft 3 car garage Groomed hiking trails on proper ty! Scenic Bruce Trail at your doorstep Mono Centre is a hop skip offering fine dining/great pub and access to Mono Cliffs Provincial Park Must see! $1,999,900 C U S T O M B U N G A L O W A N D W O R K S H O P Exceptional well maintained custom built bungalow on 4 acres This home offers cathedral ceilings, floor to ceiling stone fireplace with hardwood flooring, walkouts to deck, kitchen with granite counters and stainless steel appliances Primar y bedroom with 3 piece ensuite and walkout to deck and hot tub Finished lower level with vinyl flooring throughout, 2 piece bathroom and storage room Large attached garage with 10 ft wide doors, epoxy floors Plus! Incredible 34’ x 65’ 2210 sq ft all brick heated building, ideal for business with lots of office space with oversize 10'w x 9’h doors and epoxy floors, bar and pool table, built in 2002 On a paved road from Highway 10 Only 3 minutes to Shelbur ne Must see! $1,999,000 Matt Lindsay fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:35 PM Page 1 RCR Realty, Brokerage Independent y Owned & Opera ed Welcome to Headwaters Country HeadwatersCountry com info@headwaterscountry com 519 941 5151 Victoria Phillips and Janna Imrie Sales Representatives D I A M O N D R I D G E S TA B L E S 90 ac Dutch Masters built facility w/ 16 stalls, wash stall, grooming stalls, heated tack room, office, viewing room, large indoor arena, outdoor sand ring 4 bdr m house, bank bar n, paddocks, 30 ac hayfield & more $4,250,000 G R E AT I N V E S T M E N T O P P O R T U N I T Y Close to Alliston, this 76 ac proper ty offers a lrg Victorian house w/ main level in law suite for extra income or extended family Sep driveway leads to 44 usable acres Workshop w/ drilled well Tons of possibilities! $1,795,000 M U L M U R B E A U T Y On 5 private acs, this Victorian reproduction offers glorious views from ever y window Beautifully maintained & updated including fin’d w/o basement with second kit, bath & bdr m A ver y special proper ty! $1,495,000 S T U N N I N G H I L L S B U R G H This brick bungalow on a paved road on over 5 acres is fabulous Stunning backyard w/ beautiful views of the countr yside & an i/g pool Fin’d w/o bsmt, tons of upgrades, dbl att’d grg Great location Don't miss this one! S O L D Phillips Imrie fall22_layout 22-08-31 7:28 AM Page 1 jacquelineguagliardi.com 519 833 0569 • 800 268 2455 BROKER RCR Realty Broke age I d p d y O d & Op d P R I S T I N E 9 6 A C R E FA R M I N E R I N Stor ybook setting, stone home with high baseboards, original pine floors on 2nd level, stone accent walls and deep windowsills Most of the land is arable with 60 acres in crop, 15 in hay and 6 acres of paddocks Outbuildings include a solid bank bar n with 7 stalls and 1 5 car garage/workshop, a drive shed and a 70’x128’ indoor arena There’s also a sand ring, a newer hot tub, above ground pool and hard wired generator $4,250,000 T H O R A H I S L A N D , L A K E S I M C O E Totally renovated, nicely fur nished, 4 bdr m, 1 5 bath 3 5 season cottage with weed free, river rock shore, 10 mins by boat from Beaver ton Yacht Club High speed inter net Fully equipped; boat included! $550,000 M O V E I N R E A D Y Recently renovated top to bottom 3 bdr m, 2 bath open concept bungalow Beautiful new kitchen & baths, wide plank vinyl click flooring & new pellet stove 2 car garage, newly paved drive + 18’x24’ hobby bar n $860,000 Jacqueline Guagliardi fall22_layout 22-08-30 2:33 PM Page 1
OCT 22, NOV 19 : ARTISAN CRAFT HANDMADE MARKET Beautiful items lovingly made. 10am. 1137 Boston Mills Rd, Caledon. 905838-2520; spirittreecider.com
What’s on in the Hills CALENDAR OF AUTUMN HAPPENINGS
SBEC Orangeville & District Small Business Enterprise Centre
GEORGE Learn how to photograph wildlife near and far. 2-3:30pm. Free. Shelburne Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca
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OCT 13 & 18 : CRICUT 101: FALL WELCOME SIGN No experience necessary. All supplies provided. Download and install Cricut Design Space beforehand or use our devices. Oct 1: Registration opens 10am. 6:30pm. Free. Oct 13: 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. Oct 18: 15825 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. Caledon Library, 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
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OCT 20 : POP CULTURE THROUGH THE AGES AT PAMA Explore television, film, music, etc from 1930-1980 in PAMA’s
OAS Orangeville Agricultural Society Event Centre
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OCT 5 – NOV 6 : INSIDE THE HIVE Karen Brown and Kim Kool showcase art created with beeswax. Oct 8: reception 1-5pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen St, Alton. thehiveencausticstudio.com
MOLESWORTH: FROM THERE TO HERE A posthumous, educational overview of Rosemary’s journey with clay over 40 years. Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Oct 1: reception 10am-4pm. Museum of Dufferin, Airport Rd & Hwy 89. 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com
NOV 9 – JAN 8 : ARTFUL GIVING
NOV 4 & 5 : SEASONAL WRAPSODY
Local artists and businesses offer answers for your gift list. 519-941-3599;Monora4pm.forrecreationstaff@townofmono.comContactinfoortobookyourtable.10am-Free.MonoraParkPavilion,500ParkDr,Mono.TownofMono,townofmono.com
CPCC Parent-ChildCaledonCentre
Show and sale of handcrafted local items in various media. Fri 4-8pm. Sat 10am4pm. $2. Gibson Centre, 63 Tupper St W, Alliston. Nottawasaga Handweavers and Spinners Guild, 705-435-6991.
OCT 1 & 2 : OAG FALL ART SHOW & SALE – AUTUMN ARTISTRY Local artists’ artwork on display in Orangeville Town Hall. 10am-6pm. Free. 87 Broadway, Orangeville. orangevilleartgroup.com
DPSN Dufferin Parent Support Network
Use the library’s 3D software and printer to make a planter. Oct 1: Registration opens 10am. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen Street S, Bolton. caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 9 – DEC 4 : RISE AGAIN – ANN
NOV 12 : 3RS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
NOW – OCT 2 : HEADWATERS ARTS
FALL FESTIVAL 2022 Open juried art show and sale of works by 40+ Ontario artists. Sep 30: Campfire Poets (ticketed). Oct 2: A Bookish Afternoon presented by BookLore and Headwaters Arts (ticketed). 10am-5pm. Free. Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.org
SEP 30 – OCT 2 : AUTUMN LEAVES
OF THE ARTS A celebration featuring 40+ artists on location, kids’ activities, Indigenous hoop dance, Bruce Trail stories, drag queens and interactive performances by Choir! Choir! Choir! Various locations in Creemore. See website for event times and locations. Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society, 705-466-9906; phahs.ca
OCT 25 : 3D PRINTED MINI PLANTERS
OCT 21 & 22 : CREATE A REMEMBRANCE BUTTERFLY WITH BETHELL HOSPICE To be included in a special installation. Children with an adult. Oct 21: 1-4pm. 150 Queen St S, Bolton. Oct 22: 10am-1pm. 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. Caledon Library, 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
collection. 6:30pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
Foreboding of Petrels). Moderated by Bernadette Hardaker. 2-5pm. $35. Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen St, Alton. BookLore, 519-942-3830; booklore.ca
OCT 1 : FLOWER CITY SLAM Poetry competition with Ontario’s first poet laureate Randell Adjei. Free, register at bit.ly/3R5kghK. 8pm. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
OCT 2 : A BOOKISH AFTERNOON Bianca Marais (The Witches of Moonshine Manor), Eva Stachniak (The School of Mirrors), Steve Burrows (A
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STUDIO TOUR Showcasing local art in various media. Demos at some locations. Map on website. 10am5pm. Free. 519-846-8292; alst.ca
CCS CommunityCaledonServices
DCAFS Dufferin Child and Family Services
EWCS East CommunityWellingtonServices
SEP 25 : INTRODUCTION TO WILDLIFE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JASON
RANDERAAD Ann’s latest solo show at the Lavender Lounge & Boutique. Proceeds to Family Transition Place. Nov 12: reception, 11am-3pm. WedSun 10am-4pm. Hereward Farms, 141051 15 Sdrd, East Garafraxa. 519-938-2092; annranderaad.com
MOD Museum of Dufferin – Regular admission: $5; seniors $4; children 5-14 $2; under 5 free; family $12
PAMA Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives – Regular admission: $5; students, seniors $4; family (2 adults & 5 children) $12
NVCA Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority
SEP 30 – OCT 2 : CREEMORE FESTIVAL
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2022 Savour 50+ wines, craft beer, cider and food while enjoying live music. All proceeds to Rotary Club of Palgrave projects. $75 or 10 for $650. 6-9pm. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Caledon. Rotary Club of Palgrave, rotarywow.com
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NOW – DEC 31 : DUFFERIN TOURISM
NOV 16, 24 & 29 : CRICUT 101: HOLIDAY
SEP 24 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED RUMMAGE SALE Clean, gently used clothing and household linens, very
SHELBURNE Thursdays, 2-7pm, to Oct 6. First Ave & Owen Sound Sts. shelburnefarmersmarket.ca
CALEDON VILLAGE Fridays, 3-7pm, to Oct 7. Caledon Village Fairgrounds, 18297 Hurontario St. caledonfair.ca
SEP 23 : WINES OF THE WORLD
ALLISTON Saturdays, 8am-2pm, to Oct 30. Centre St & Victoria St. rurban.ca
CARDS No experience necessary. All supplies provided. Download and install Cricut Design Space beforehand or use our devices. Nov 1: Registration opens 10am. 6:30pm. Free. Nov 16: 6500 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. Nov 24: 18313 Hurontario St, Caledon. Nov 29: 35 Station St, Alton. Caledon Library, 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOW – MAY 15 : EXPLORERS’S BIBLE STUDY In-depth Bible study of I & II Timothy and Titus. Online discussion groups available for adults of all ages. $60. churchcenter.comebsbramptonontpm2034.
NOW – OCT 19 (WEDNESDAYS) :
BETHELL HOSPICE: FAMILY & FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP This program is delivered virtually for adults caring for a loved one living with a life-limiting illness. Free, register with Carlie at cfink@ bethellhospice.org or call 905-8723357. 1-2pm. Free. bethellhospice.org
FARMERS’ MARKETS
BETHELL HOSPICE: ADULT BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Open to adults experiencing the death of a family member or friend. Free, ages 19+, register at sjanzen@bethellhospice. org or 905-866-2015. 6-7:30pm. Sorrento Retirement Residence, 10 Station Rd, Bolton. bethellhospice.org
ORNAMENTS Use the library’s 3D software and printer to make ornaments. Nov 1: Registration opens 10am. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
ERIN Thursdays, 3-6:30pm, to Sep 29. Erin Fairgrounds, 184 Main St. erinfarmersmarket.ca ORANGEVILLE Saturdays, 8am-1pm, to Oct 22. Second St & orangevillefarmersmarket.caBroadway.
NOV 17 : WREATH & WINE WORKSHOP Create an evergreen wreath with Twine and Tendril. $80; includes supplies and wine; register at 519-941-3599;Pavilion,com,recreationstaff@townofmono.ages19+.7-9pm.MonoraPark500MonoraParkDr,Mono.townofmono.com
NOW – NOV 5 : SMALL HALLS FESTIVAL
CREEMORE Saturdays, 8:30am12:30pm, to Oct 29. Station on the Green, 10 Caroline creemorefarmersmarket.caSt.
NOV 22 : 3D PRINTED SNOWFLAKE
Contemporary artists respond to the ground-breaking photos of these Surrealist artists. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
NOV 30 – DEC 11 : HOLIDAY
CAHUN & MARCEL MOORE
NOW – OCT 12 (WEDNESDAYS) :
TREASURES Annual juried sale featuring 60 artists and craftspeople in various media. Tue-Sat 11am-4pm. Airport Rd & Hwy 89, 1-877-941-7787; In The Hills, dufferinmuseum.com
NOV 19 – APR 9 : FACING CLAUDE
TRAILS Nine specific categories online of Dufferin businesses for locals and visitors to explore and enjoy. 519-941-0490; dufferinbot.ca
2022 From concerts with food pairings and barbeques, to a murder mystery dinner, live theatre, back roads rally and Dan Needles with his True Confessions, there is something for everyone. See website for full program dates and times. Clearview Township Small Halls Festival, 705-428-6230 x262; smallhallsfestival.ca
NOW – OCT 30 : SWEET PEA’S PUMPKINFEST Long Jumping Pumpkin Pillow, wagon rides, corn maze and more. Monster truck rides (weekends only, additional fee). $10; under 2 free. Weekends: tickets online only. Wed-Fri: gate only (cash or etransfer). 9:30am5pm. 333329 7th Line Amaranth. 519-938-7098; sweetpeasfarm.ca
OCT 1 – APR 30 : WE ARE HOCKEY
OCT 11 : HOW TO GROW A BRICK AND MORTAR STORE ON SOCIAL MEDIA Eight strategies that work. Free, register. 2-3:30pm. Digital Main Street, Orangeville & Area SBEC, 519941-0440; orangevillebusiness.ca
Exhibit examines persistent racial inequalities in how the game has been presented, and features unsung heroes. 10am-5pm. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
MATÉ Authors on Stage: Conversation with renowned authority on stress, trauma and mental well-being. Proceeds to Theatre Orangeville’s New Play Development and the Young Peoples’ programs. 7-9:30pm. $35. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. BookLore, 519-942-3830; booklore.ca
READ & LISTEN WITH LIBBY Tour the Libby app, a library in your pocket. Inperson. 1:30pm. Free. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
SEP 24 : CALEDON VILLAGE BICEN
New and used horse equipment for sale at Caledon Village Place and the Agricultural Hall on Caledon Fairgrounds. Email horsetackswap@
50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA Cocktail hour, dinner provided by Lavender Blue, silent auction, games, dancing and music with the Campfire Poets. 6-11:30pm. Museum of Dufferin, Airport Rd & Hwy 89. 519941-6431; bigbrothersbigsisters.ca
reasonable prices. 9am-noon. High Country United Church, 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. highcountryunited.weebly.com
OCT 8 : DECORATED PUMPKIN
TENNIAL CELEBRATION History, entertainment, games, food and desserts. Free. 9:30am-5pm. Caledon Fairgrounds, 18297 Hurontario St. Caledon Village Association, 519927-3557; caledonvillage.org
OCT 10 & NOV 14 : EXCEL @ WORK (VIRTUAL) Practical skills for using MS Excel. 3-5pm. Free, register. Jobs Caledon, 18 King St E, Bolton. CCS, 905-584-2300 x200; ccs4u.org
OCT 8 : CREEMORE MARKET APPLE PIE CONTEST Bring your pie to the Creemore Farmers’ Market by noon for judging. Prize for under 13 as well. Pie served after judging. 10am-1pm. Creemore Farmers’ Market, 10 Caroline St W. 416-407-5132; facebook.com
OCT 1 : CALEDON HORSE TACK SWAP
SEP 25 : ORANGEVILLE & AREA AUTISM SPEAKS CANADA WALK Walk 1-3 km on the Alder Trails; demos, EMS vehicle tours, prizes, music, free snacks, lunch and water, goodie bags and more! 10am12:30pm. Fendley Park, Orangeville. Autism Speaks Committee, 1-888362-6227 x206; autismspeakscan.ca
OCT 1 : DUFFERIN COUNTY MEMORIAL WALK FOR RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS Meet at Alder Street Recreation Centre. Send prayers and love. Smudging ceremony. 1-3pm. Dufferin County Mul ticultural Foundation, Dufferin County Cultural Resource Circle, dccrc.ca
HISTORICAL SOCIETY AGM & PRESENTATION Pipe Major Dave Borrett speaks on Caledon’s own Sandhill Pipes and Drums. All welcome – tartans optional! $5; students and members free. 7:30-8:30pm. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-0352; cedhs.ca
gmail.com for info. 10am-3pm. Caledon Village. 519-925-3461; caledonfair.ca
OCT 1 & NOV 5 : POP UP DONATION
OCT 3 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBRARY:
SALE Purchase carved pumpkins decorated with seasonal flowers and greenery. 8:30-11:30am. Creemore Village Green. Creemore Horticultural Society, gardenontario.org
SEP 28 : CALEDON EAST & DISTRICT
SEP 24 : BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
OCT 9; NOV 12; DEC 11 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIENTATION Tour the farm and eco-residence. 1-4:30pm. $10. 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. 519-941-1099; wholevillage.org
OCT 11; NOV 8 : BETTER JOBS ONTARIO (FORMERLY SECOND CAREER) MEETING Laid off and interested in training for a new career? Contact jobs@ccs4u.org or join the interactive web meeting. Free, register. 10am-noon. 18 King St E, Bolton. 905-584-2300 x200; ccs4u.org
SEP 26 : ORANGEVILLE BLOOD DONOR CLINIC Book an appointment and make a life-giving donation. 2-7pm. Free. Orangeville Best Western, 7 Buena Vista Dr. Canadian Blood Services, 1-888-236-6283; blood.ca
SEP 27 : AN EVENING WITH DR. GABOR
IN THE HILLS AUTUMN 2022 109 A Bookish After noon Presented by BookLore Sunday, October 2, 2pm Alton Mill Arts Centr e B I A N C A M A R A I S The Witches of Moonshyne Manor A magical madcap romp with feisty octogenarians Tickets available at BookLore or www headwatersarts org 519-942-3830 booklore@bellnet.ca P R O U D T O S U P P O R T T H E H E A D WAT E R S A R T S F E S T I VA L Hilarity; Foul Play; Palace Intrigue E VA S TA C H N I A K The School of Mirrors Two generations of courtesans experience life at the Palace of Versailles S T E V E B U R R O W S A Foreboding of Petrels DCI Jejeune returns to battle Antarctic researchers & billionaire philanthropists Booklore half fall22 2_layout 22-08-30 8:26 PM Page 1 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE www.headwaterarts.org
STATION Bring items in good shape and have them transported for you. Supporting Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington. 11am-3pm. Headwaters Home Improvement Centre, 4 Shamrock Rd, Erin. 519-767-9752; habitatgw.ca
Specialty local soup served in a handmade bowl you choose, keep the bowl. Proceeds to local food programs. Eat-in or carry-out. 11:30am-4pm. $50, from Ann 519938-2092 or Bridget 416-505-1867. Alton Legion, 1267 Queen St, Alton. 519-938-2092; annranderaad.com
DEC 2 & 3 : CALEDON COMMUNITY SERVICES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS GALA Live and silent auctions, music and more. 6pm-1am. $175. The Royal Ambassador Event Centre, 15430 Innis Lake Rd, Caledon East. CCS, 905-5842300 x230; ccshome4theholidays.com
SEP 23 – 25 : BOLTON FALL FAIR Albion & Bolton Fairgrounds, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-880-0369; boltonfair.ca
biases and stereotypes around religious head coverings. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Gift boxes, samples, raffles and more. 10am4pm. Donations to local foodbank. 322345 Conc 6-7, Grand Valley, 519-938-6163; landmangardens.ca
WEBINAR Sharmila Khare, CRA and Bruce MacDonald, president/ CEO of Imagine Canada. 9am1pm. $25, register. Carters Law Firm, 519-942-0001; carters.ca
NOV 16 : CREEMORE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – MAKE & TAKE NIGHT Guided holiday craft evening. $20$30; register at creemorehort@ gmail.com. 7:30-9pm. St. Luke’s Anglican Church Hall, 22 Caroline St W, Creemore. gardenontario.org HAPPENINGS
OCT 26 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBRARY: GOOGLE TIPS & TRICKS Strategies to make your searches more effective. In-person. 6:30pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
SEP 23 – 25 : GRAND VALLEY FALL FAIR Grand Valley Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, 60 Main St N, Grand Valley. 226-9793724; grandvalleyfallfair.ca
NOV 21 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBRARY: SOCIAL MEDIA SAVVY Avoid hazards and ensure your time spent is fun and fulfilling. In-person. 1:30pm. Free. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
OCT 6 – 10 : ERIN FALL FAIR Erin Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, 190 Main St, Erin. erinfair.com
NOV 23 : PALLIATIVE CARE MYTH BUSTING Palliative care supports available in our community. In-person or on Zoom. 7pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
Melissa J. Ellis helps trace your family’s roots using online resources. 6:30pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
OCT 19 : YOU’RE NOT WRONG TO FEEL THAT WAY: NORMALIZING THE GRIEF JOURNEY Engage with grief pain to move toward healing. 7-9pm. Free, register online or at 905-8571400. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. bethellhospice.org
SEP 23 – 25 : GREAT NORTHERN EXHIBITION GNE Fairgrounds, 2220 Fairgrounds Rd N, Stayner. greatnorthernex.com
OCT 13; NOV 10 : PROBUS CLUB OF ORANGEVILLE MONTHLY MEETINGS
NOV 17 : TRIVIA NIGHT! (VIRTUAL) Fast-paced pop-culture trivia using kahoot. A cellphone or tablet is needed to participate. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 905-857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
OCT 16 : EMPTY BOWLS HEADWATERS
OCT 22 : TASTE OF AUTUMN Premium gala dinner and fundraiser for Alzheimer Society Dufferin, Rotary Orangeville Highlands projects and Disaster Response Ukraine. $225. 6-11:30pm. Orangeville Best Western. 519-942-1827; tasteofautumn.ca
OCT 27 : UNTOLD STORIES (AGES 17+) Spooky stories about the jail, courthouse, curious collections at PAMA. 8pm. Free, register. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
NOV 19 : CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN BAZAAR & BAKE SALE Online ordering, in-person sales. Baked goods, artisan tables and much more! 10am-1pm. 22 Nancy St, Bolton. 905857-0433; christchurchbolton.ca
NOV 19 : SAY “CHEESE”: HOLIDAY PHOTOS @ THE LIBRARY Five-minute time slots include up to two poses. Free, registration opens Nov 1 10am. 11am-1pm. Free. Caledon Library, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 9 – DEC 7 (WEDNESDAYS)
DEC 2 & 3 : LANDMAN GARDENS
SEP 2 – 4 : ORANGEVILLE FALL FAIR Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Sdrd, Mono. Orangeville Agricultural Society, 519-9429597; oaseventcentre.ca
SEP 16 & 17 : SHELBURNE FALL FAIR Shelburne & District Fairgrounds, 200 Fiddlepark Ln, shelburnefair.weebly.comShelburne.
BETHELL HOSPICE: ADULT GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP On Zoom with Louise Sallese and Aldona Morrison. 7-8:30pm. Free, register at 905965-2534. bethellhospice.org
Foundation. 9am-3pm. Inglewood Community Centre. foundation.bethellhospice.org905-838-3534;
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NOV 9 : THE COST OF ILLNESS Supports to help ease the financial burden. Inperson or on Zoom. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
fall fairs
Speakers: Oct 13: Colin McNair – Reimagined Nursey Rhymes. Nov 10: TBA. 10am-noon. New Hope Community Church, 690 Riddell Rd, Orangeville. 519317-2887; probusorangeville.club
A CALENDAR OF AUTUMN
NOV 15 & 17 : GET ON BOARD Roles and responsibilities of the library board, Q&A. Nov 15: 150 Queen St S, Bolton. Nov 17: 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 3 : GENEALOGY WORKSHOP
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NOV 17 – 19 : OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD Pack a shoebox with quality toys, school supplies and personal care items to be sent around the world. Nov 17: 5:30-8:30pm. Nov 18: noon4pm. Nov 19: 9am-1pm. Broadway Pentecostal Church, 556 Broadway, Orangeville. samaritanspurse.ca
OCT 25 : ECOMMERCE MARKETING Best practices for success with Andrew Patricio. 2-3pm. Virtual. Free, register. Orangeville & Area SBEC, 519-9410440; orangevillebusiness.ca
NOV 10 : 2022 CARTERS FALL CHARITY & NOT FOR PROFIT LAW™
NOV 25 & 26 : BETHELL HOSPICE CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Unique and handmade gifts for everyone on your list. Proceeds to Bethell Hospice
Please see websites for program details.
NOV 13 : DIAMOND IN THE HILLS FASHION SHOW Luncheon with wine, door prizes and auctions. Proceeds to Bethell Hospice Foundation. 11:30am4:30pm. $150, at diamondinthehills. ca. The Arlington Estate, 8934 Huntington Rd, Vaughan. 905-8383534; foundation.bethellhospice.org
OCT 30 : A SPECIAL SUNDAY AT THE CHATEAU Ivana and Jan Benda: Improving Lives with Architecture. Proceeds to empower kids through art. 4-6pm. $60, includes bottle of wine; reserve online or at 905729-0011. 3100 Con Rd 3 windrushestatewinery.comAdjala,
SEP 15 – 17 : BRAMPTON FALL FAIR Brampton Fairgrounds, 12942 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 905843-0210; bramptonfair.com
NOV 18, DEC 2 & 16 : ERIN WINTER FEST Stroll and savour enchanting festivities under twinkling lights. Nov 18: Fest starts. Dec 2: Kids’ Day. Dec 16: Apres Village. Downtown Erin. 519-855-4407; erin.ca
NOV 1 – MAY 31 : UN/COVERINGS: MENNONITE & MUSLIM WOMEN’S HEADS & HEARTS Challenge your
Sun Oct 2 Bookish After noon Bar/Refreshments Campfire Poets 6 to Nov 7 9 to Jan 8 Giving
HERITAGE WALK Stroll the river’s edge to discover vignettes of local history, murder, Group of Seven landscapes. Learn about trout and fly fishing. Proceeds to protecting the river. $20; children 12 & under free with an adult; book a time slot online. 10am-5pm. 702 River Rd, Belfountain. heritagewalkingtour.rsvpify.com519-316-0060;
SOCIETY – VISITORS’ NIGHT David Hawke, naturalist, on wildflowers of Simcoe County. 7:30-9pm. St. Luke’s Anglican Church Hall, 22 Caroline St W, Creemore. gardenontario.org
OCT 2 : BRUCE TRAIL DAY – DUFFERIN
SEP 23 & 24 : PEDALING FOR PARKINSON’S GTA RIDE Fun, challenging routes: 40 km up to 97 km. Register online. 7am-3pm. Tony Rose Sports Centre, Orangeville. Parkinson Canada, 1-800-5653000; pedalingforparkinsons.ca
For tic k et s a n d detailed sc h edule: hea d watersarts o rg Events take place at the Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen Street W, Alton SEPTEMBER 14 TO OCTOBER 2, 2022 Headwaters A rts p r esent s 2 6th Annual Jur i e d Fa ll Fest i va l A rt Sh o w & Sal e Sep
Inside the Hive Fine Art in Beeswax Brilliant works by The Hive Encaustic Alton Mill Studio and Headwaters Arts artists Karen Brown and Kim Kool. Nov
248305 5 Sdrd, Mono. Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club, caledonbrucetrail.org
OCT 2 : BRUCE TRAIL DAY – CALEDON
If you are looking for local, handmade, beautifully crafted and thoughtfully created gifts to give to that special someone this holiday season, this is your place to come and shop! Tickets: $35 including HST Available at BookLore: Headwatersbooklore@bellnet.caArts:headwatersarts.orgCelebratingFallandalltheArts!Headwaters Arts proudly presents the following events under the beautiful, tented roof over the Annex at the Alton Mill Arts Centre. www.headwaterarts.org
DUFFERIN DIRT RUNNERS Meet at a different spot near Orangeville for a 5 km to 8 km run followed by social time. 6pm. facebook.com
SEP 27 : CANADIAN TRIVIA NIGHT (FROM EH TO ZED) We use Kahoot, so please have two devices (one for ques tions on Zoom, one for submitting an swers). Info via confirmation email. 7pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
26th Annual Fall Festival Art Show & Sale Headwaters Arts Gallery, Alton Mill Arts Centre, Alton
SEP 24; OCT 2, 22, 29 & 30; NOV 5 & 6 : EVERDALE COMMUNITY HARVEST DAYS All ages and abilities. Bring weather-appropriate clothing and water bottle. Gloves, hot drinks and light snacks provided. 1-5pm. Free. Bela Farm, 5750 Sixth Line, Hillsburgh. 519-855-4859; everdale.org
7:30pm to 10:00pm Live in Concert! The entire 5-piece band takes the stage and promises to get you up and dancin’. Refreshments/Bar Tickets: $30 including HST Available at Headwaters headwatersarts.oArts:rg Fri Sep 30 C O M I NG THI S FA L L to th e H EAD W ATER S A R T S G A LLE R Y Oct
Guided hikes, children’s treasure hike, snacks and more. Free. Splitrock Narrows Reserve, 755437 2nd Ln EHS, Mono. dufferinbrucetrailclub.org
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OCT 24 : BEST PRACTICES FOR WOODLANDS: SUSTAINABLE TRAILS FOR YOUR PROPERTY For rural landowners in the Credit River Watershed. Bill Goulding webinar on designing a natural trail system to monitor forest health. 6:30-8pm. Free. CVC, 1-800-668-5557; cvc.ca
OCT 18: BEST PRACTICES FOR WOODLANDS: TELLTALE SIGNS YOUR WOODLAND NEEDS HELP Signs and solutions webinar for landowners in the Credit River Watershed. 7-8pm. Free. CVC, 1-800-668-5557; cvc.ca
2pm Three engaging authors, Bianca Marais, The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Steve Burrows, A Foreboding of Petrels and Eva Stachniak, The School of Mirrors, grace the stage under the tented roof for readings and insights about their published works. Proudly presented by BookLore, in partnership with Headwaters Arts. Wine
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SEP 24 : BELFOUNTAIN SALAMANDER
HILLS Guided hikes, family activities and BBQ. 9:30am-2:30pm. Free. Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi International Centre, 14 to Oct 2
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OCT 2 : BACK ROADS RALLY Explore Clearview by motorcycle, car or ATV. See website for trail details and to register. $30, includes BBQ lunch. Stayner Community Centre. Clearview Township Small Halls Festival, 705428-6230 x262; smallhallsfestival.ca
NOW – OCT 31 : DOWNEY’S PUMPKINFEST Wagon rides, corn maze and fall farm fun. 9:30am-5pm. Downey’s Farm Market, 13682 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 905-838-2990; downeysfarm.com
SEP 24 : CALEDON HILLS BRUCE
FESTIVAL Music, activities, vendors, local food. 11am-3pm. Free. Belfountain Village Church, 17258 Old Main St and CVC Park. Belfountain Community Orga nization, 519-927-3204; belfountain.ca
outdoor+sport
OCT 19 : CREEMORE HORTICULTURAL
Artful
SEP 24 : FAMILY FUN ACTIVITY –AGES 4 TO 12 Drop in to create artwork inspired by Russna Kaur. Adult accompaniment. Free, donations welcome. 1-4:30pm. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
OCT 1 : HONEY GARLIC FESTIVAL Come to the farm to enjoy vendors, food, entertainment, learn about garlic and bees. Donation of canned goods or cash for The Exchange. 11am-4pm. 16555 Humber Station Rd, albionhillscommunityfarm.orgCaledon.
OCT 15 & 16 : WEST CREDIT RIVER
NOW – OCT 27 (THURSDAYS) :
kids
TRAIL CLUB PREDICTION HIKE Predict your time to complete a 7 km or 20 km hike. All welcome. Proceeds to trail maintenance and development. 8:30am-2:30pm. $26, register. Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve, Bruce Trail Parking Lot, Hockley Road, Mono. caledonbrucetrail.org
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OCT 1 : DUFFERIN FARM TOUR Selfguided tour of local farms, activities, produce to purchase. Donation to local food banks, register. 9am4pm. dufferinfarmtour.com
Alliance Farm to School Program 45 Hills of Headwaters Collaborative 34
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fencing McGuire Fence 61
BookLore 109
Biegel’s Stone Oven Pizza 37 Creemore Coffee 37 Forage 37
fireplace sales + service Caledon Fireplace 70
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Bryan’s Fuel 51 Furnace & AC Experts 15
All-Mont Garage Doors 74
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F-Stop Photo & Framing 9 Hollowhills Portrait Photography 46
Karry Home Solutions 8
Post Farm Structures 76
Hereward Farms 11 Riverdale Fitness Mill 58 Skin Appeal 29 Skin ’n Tonic 28
Son of a Chef Bakery 28 Sonnen Hill Brewing 63 Spirit Tree Estate Cidery 43 The Chocolate Shop 28 Wicked Shortbread 29
generators Tanco Group 70 golf Hockley Valley Resort 78
pest control
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Mono Cliffs Inn 39
farm + feed supplies Budson’s Farm & Feed Company 47 Peel Hardware & Supply 53
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BMO Nesbitt Burns Wealth Management, N. Meek 14 RBC Dominion Securities, S. Roud 26
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Seconds Count Hospital Thrift Store 28 Sweet B Studio 47
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Albion Hills Community Farm 43 Calehill Farms 45 Davis Family Farm 45 Dufferin County Meats 43 Heatherlea Butcher Shoppe 45 Holtom’s Bakery 47 Landman Gardens & Bakery 45 Le Finis 29 37
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OCT 25 : GALAXY TOTE BAGS Learn interesting facts about space, then create a bag. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 225 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
OCT 11 : POKEMON GLASS ART Create art using glass and paint. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 35 Station St, Alton. 905-857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
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NOV 30 – DEC 23 : THE LAST CHRISTMAS TURKEY Two kids take in an abandoned turkey supposed to be a church dinner. Based on Dan Needles’ book. Thu Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Sun Wed 2pm. Dec 22-23 7pm. Dec 14 and 21: relaxed performance 7pm. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-9423423; theatreorangeville.ca
Tap into a booming food scene with our coverage of specialty grocery stores, new dining spots and perennial community favourites. FUN
SEP – DEC : LIVE MUSIC AT ROSE THEATRE All performances at 8pm unless noted. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
SEP 23: THIS IS BRAMPTON: OFF THE RECORD THE PLAYBACK featuring Malaika Khadijaa, Sheldon Sabastian and Adria Kain.
As the weather gets crisp, give in to that nesting instinct with a peek at some of Headwaters’ most intriguing homes – from a modern hillside retreat to a rustic family farmhouse.
OCT 30 : TOWN OF MONO CHILDREN’S HALLOWEEN PARTY Entertainment, crafts, games, prizes,
NOV 8 : FAMILY FUN TRIVIA & BOARD GAMES Pop-culture trivia and prizes. Bring a cellphone or tablet to participate. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 15825 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
music
NOV 25 – DEC 22 (FRIDAYS TO SUNDAYS) : DOWNEY’S CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM Visit Santa and the farm animals, enjoy a wagon ride. 9am-5pm. Downey’s Farm Market, 13682 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 905-838-2990; downeysfarm.com
snacks and a haunted house. Wear your costume. 3-5pm. Free, donation to the food bank requested; register at 519-941-3599;Monorecreationstaff@townofmono.com.CommunityCentre,Mono.townofmono.com
OCT 26 : HALLOWEEN BINGO
HALLOWEEN AT THE BOO SEUM (AGES 4 TO 12) Drop in to create a spooky craft. Wear your costume. All children with an adult. 10am4:30pm. Free with admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
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HOME BASE
Come autumn, nature provides an artful backdrop for active pursuits including hiking, yoga and even watersports such as kayaking. Get out there and enjoy the view!
SEP 28, OCT 5 & OCT 12 : BETHELL HOSPICE: CHILDREN’S ART THERAPY GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Activities and discussions for healing. Ages 6 to 12, concurrent with the Adult Bereavement Support Group. Free, register. 6-7:30pm. Sorrento Retirement Residence, 10 Station Rd, Bolton. bethellhospice.org
Fun and prizes on Zoom. Link via confirmation email. 7pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 22 : CLAY DRAGON EYE SCULPTURE Create your very own 3D sculpture using air dry clay. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen Street S, Bolton. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 23 : BINGO FOR KIDS Fun and prizes on Zoom. Link via confirmation email. 7pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
HUNT Discover businesses and homes throughout Dufferin County to win prizes. Proceeds to Hospice Dufferin. $30, includes 1 passport, 1 treat bag, 1 mini putt coupon. $10, additional bags and coupons. 10am-2pm. 30 Centre St, Orangeville. hospicedufferin.com
OCT 22 : HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER
HUNT FOR TEENS After hours in the library. Snacks, giveaways and prizes. Wear your Halloween costume. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8571400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
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OCT 17 & NOV 21 : SEA TO SEA TO SEA: TWEEN BOOK CLUB Discuss books by Indigenous authors. Oct 17: Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac. Nov 21: Coyote Tales by Thomas King. 4:30-5:15pm. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905857-1400 x228; caledon.library.on.ca
NOV 25 & 26 : FAMILY FUN ACTIVITY: WE ARE HOCKEY – AGES 4 TO 12 Drop in anytime to create artwork inspired by We Are Hockey exhibit. All children with an adult. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
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OCT 21 : HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER
FOODIE
Town of Caledon 22
OCT 2 & 16, NOV 13 : SUMMER SUNDAYS AT THE CHATEAU Wine and charcuteries with a private concert. Oct 2: Romulo Delgado and Sara Papini. Oct 16: Marc Devigne. Nov 13: Andrew Marzotto and Laura Anglade. 4-6:30pm. $90. Proceeds to help empower underserved kids. Windrush Estate Winery, 3100 Con Rd 3 Adjala. 905729-0011; windrushestatewinery.com
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OCT 29 : AN AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES WITH ORANGEVILLE SHOW
OCT 22: ROSE ORCHESTRA –A NEW ENERGY An evening of invigorating music. 7:30pm.
Wayne Baguley
B – MUSIC FOR SECRET AGENTS Unique takes on theme songs from decades of James Bond. Lester B. Pearson Theatre, 150 Central Park Dr, Brampton.
OCT 27: CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE –ARETHA FRANKLIN, GOLD Exactly as you remember it, note for note, cut for cut.
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OCT 15: VANESSA WILLIAMS One of the most respected and multifaceted performers in the industry today.
OCT 29: NORTHERN HAPPINESS The Pursuit of Happiness and The Northern Pikes take the stage.
SEP 25 : COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERT The Missing Link Band with Gord McDonald, Brian Woods, Ollie Strong,
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Free live music by Tony Rosa and the Trio Kings. Refreshments available. 8pm. Free, donations appreciated. Bolton United Church, 8 Nancy St, Bolton. Cross Currents, 647-280-5638; Facebook.com
Lorraine Mondello, Terry McCue, Nicolas Currie
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OCT 1 : CROWN LANDS National Day for Truth and Reconciliation special concert. 7pm. Rose Theatre.
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SEP 30 : HEADWATERS ARTS FALL FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE CAMPFIRE POETS Delivering five decades of classics from several genres. 7:30-10pm. $30. Alton Mill Arts Centre, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com
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Chris Richie, Karen Caulfield, Carmela Gagliese-Scoles, Sean Anderson, Dale Poremba, Jennifer Unger
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OCT 6, NOV 17 : MUSIC NIGHT FEA
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Enjoy the musical talents of local artists. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca
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OCT 21 : CROSS CURRENTS MUSIC CAFE – TONY ROSA & THE TRIO KINGS
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CHORUS Celebrating songs from the movies. 1 and 4pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. Sweet Adelines, osc.choirgenius.com
ENSEMBLE Vocal ensemble with piano accompaniment. 7:30-9:30pm. $40; children 16 & under free. St. James Anglican Church Caledon East, 6025 Old Church Rd. caledonchamberconcerts.com905-838-0888;
OCT 7: AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH JOHNNY REID Lyrical honesty and incredible musical ability.
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Ross Beattie, Paul Holmes and Greg Holmes. 2-4pm. $20. Grace Tipling Hall, 203 Main St E, Shelburne.
OCT 25: JAZZ @ LBP HOSTED BY JAYMZ
NOV 24: SERENA RYDER Raw and earnest songwriting with electric live performances.
SEP 11 : OUTDOOR MUSIC CONCERT –CLARINET Petra Stump and Heinz-Peter Linshalm clarinet duo from Vienna. Rain or shine. 2-3:30pm. $25; children free, at musicinmulmur.eventbrite. com or Booklore. Proceeds to Dufferin Community Foundation. Dufferin Dance Network. 836406 4th Line E, Mulmur.
NOW – JUN 26 (MONDAYS) : FREE SANDHILL PIPES & DRUMS LESSONS For beginners or those who want to play again. 6-7pm. Sandhill Pipes and Drums Practice Hall, 13899 Airport Rd, Caledon. sandhillpipesanddrums.com519-215-8569;
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Ailsa Craig at the Village of Arbour Trails 58 Avalon Retirement Lodge 17 Headwaters Home Care 72 Lord Dufferin Centre 87 skiing Hockley Valley Resort 75
Roger Irwin, Dawn Bennett
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OCT 29 : CALEDON CHAMBER
SEP 24: A TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME Brampton Concert Band performs with the Jazz Mechanics and Micah Barnes.
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OCT 8: TERRELL EDWARDS – UNFOR GETTABLE TOUR One of the greatest Black jazz and soul singers of all time.
CONCERTS : TRIO DOMIKA Elizabeth Dolan, cello; Meagan Milatz, piano; Laurence Kayaleh, violin. 7:30-9:30pm. $40; children 16 & under free. St. James Anglican Church Caledon East, 6025 Old Church Rd. caledonchamberconcerts.com905-838-0888;
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OCT 1 : CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! The audience is the choir. 1 and 7:30pm. $45. St John’s United Church, 192 Mill St, Creemore. Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society, 705-466-9906; phahs.ca
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SEP 29: THE TENORS: NOW AND FOREVER Thrilling audiences around the world with their powerful songs, outstanding harmonies and undeniable charm.
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NOV 12 : CALEDON CHAMBER
NOV 17: THE ROBERT CRAY BAND American roots, blues, soul and R&B.
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OCT 22 : VIP EXPERIENCE: THE PIGEON KING DINNER & SHOW – AGES 19+ Scheming con man? Or hapless victim of his own preposterous dream? Farm-totable dinner with drinks. Cash bar. No ATM. 5pm. $130. Dunedin Village Hall, 8994 County Rd 9, Dunedin. Clearview Township Small Halls Festival, 705428-6230 x262; smallhallsfestival.ca
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FILM PREMIERE The ambitious goals realized by Lorna Bethell, Elizabeth Birnie, and the community to bring residential hospice care to Caledon. Cocktail hour and Q&A. Proceeds to Bethell Hospice. 6-9pm. $40. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. bethellhospicefilm.com
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NOV 3 – 13 : BRAMPTON MUSIC
NOV 5 : DAN NEEDLES: TRUE CONFESSIONS FROM THE NINTH CONCESSION – AGES 19+ An evening of laughter and storytelling from local author Dan Needles with Ian Bell. Cash bar. No ATM. $45, cash only. 6-10pm. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. Clearview Township Small Halls Festival, 705428-6230 x262; smallhallsfestival.ca
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Memory Paintings, Folk Art Paintings, Old Montreal Series. Open most weekend afternoons and by appointment. welcome. the
OCT 21 : ANIMAL: CIRQUE ALFONSE Surreal farm fables served with irreverence, impressive virtuosity and comedy. 8pm. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
20451 Porterfield Road, Caledon For a sense of
SEP 27 : THE BETHELL HOSPICE STORY
SEP 24 : THIS IS BRAMPTON:
QUEERIAHCITY Local 2SLGBTQ+ artists Robyn Kaur Sidhu (she/he/they), Ajhani Azure (he/him) and Gayram Masala (they/them). 8pm. $10. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
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PREMIERE Hilarious story of three birdwatchers. Thu Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Sun Wed 2pm. Oct 12 & 13: 8pm preview. Oct 26: 7pm relaxed performance. Orangeville Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. 519942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca
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THEATRE – CINDERELLA Contemporary take on the classic tale. 7:30pm. The Rose Brampton, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
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OCT 22 : MURDER MYSTERY DINNER –AGES 19+ Three-course dinner served with laughter and great intrigue. $100; tables of 6 $600. Cash bar. No ATM. All proceeds to upgrading the community hall. Creemore Springs Brewery, Tim Hortons, Nottawasaga Station (sponsors). 6-11pm. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. Clearview Township Small Halls Festival, 705-428-6230 x262; smallhallsfestival.ca
NOV 30 : SHAUN MAJUMDER –LOVE TOUR This comedy star flips the narrative. 8pm. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
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NOV 11 & 12 : JAKE’S GIFT A Canadian WW2 veteran’s reluctant return to Normandy, France, for the 60th anniversary of D-Day. 8pm. The Rose Brampton, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
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NOV 21 & 22 : HOW TO FAIL AS A POPSTAR Vivek Shraya’s journey to “not quite” pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. 8pm. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
OCT 19 : ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: THE BALLET
told through a full symphonic ballet score. 8pm. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca
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SOLUTIONS FROM PAGE 118
B) 1 appears most frequently, 301 times; 2 to 9 appear 300 times each.
C) Even. All even numbers can be divided by 2 and will produce a whole number. 0 divided by 2 is 0.
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PUZZLING
Left to right: 3 of diamonds, 6 of spades, 4 of hearts, 5 of clubs.
Leaving Caledon East Sandhill. The door must be on the other side, so this being Canada, the moving bus is on the far (right) side of the road.
A) 11 = 1, the answer is provided in the question.
At the euchre party
Everyday numbers
Mr Robertson’s choice
Leigh and Rusty’s triplets Ronald, Roland and Arnold.
A dozen animals ram, ant, cat, ape, ewe, ox, kid, ass, man, hen, cow, doe (also ‘nag’ which is slang, ‘tick,’ an arachnid, and ‘lice,’ insects)
All four suits are included in the playing cards above. Use these clues to identify each card’s position and value.
Sixteen matches are needed to make this pattern of five equal squares. Can you change the pattern to four squares of the same size by moving only three matches?
A club is to the right of a three but adjacent.not
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a Puzzling Conclusion
Leigh and Rusty name their triplets
B
If all the numbers from 1 to 1000 are written out in sequence, which digit of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 will appear most frequently?
C
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If 1 = 11, 2 = 22, 3 = 33, 4 = 44, 5 = 55 and 6 = 66, what does 11 equal?
Leaving Caledon East
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After a difficult September, Mr Robertson checked how much money was left in the supplies budget at Finnerty School (S.S.#12, Albion), and found just enough to buy either a supply of wooden matches to keep a fire going in the woodstove or — this gave him pause — a birch cane, the official punishment stick in the school supply catalogue. His humane decision to go for the matches was also a wise one, for he was able to use them to offer his students entertaining puzzles like this one.
A dozen animals
“Scram! You can’t catch me!” yelled the thief. While he was running to escape, his shirt was skewered by a nail sticking out of a box. He ripped free, but skidded to a stop as he passed a policeman. He tried to run again, then cowered in fright as he was arrested. Crime doesn’t pay.
When the members of L.O.L. 909 in Melancthon held a euchre party in their hall (built 1894), they discovered a few people had come without knowing how to play either standard euchre or bid euchre. Rather than teach the games on the spot, members used playing cards not needed for either type of euchre (the 2s to 8s inclusive) to offer these guests puzzles like this one.
The school bus is moving. Chuck is driving. From where you are standing on Airport Road, the image below is what you see. It’s a cold day and the bus windows are covered with condensation, so you can’t see Chuck or any students. Is the bus heading south to Sandhill or north to Mono Mills?
sandhill
Mr Robertson’s choice
Is zero [ 0 ] an odd or even number? Or neither?
Leigh and Rusty’s extended family, not to mention all their neighbours in Hockley, were surprised and delighted to learn that Leigh had given birth to three baby boys. Naturally, everyone wanted to know what the three were named but were rather perplexed when all they were told was that the three babies’ names were anagrams of one another, and that the first letter and only the first letter of both parents’ names was part of each anagram. What are the names?
The cards on either side of a four are black suits.
Can you find 12 animal names hidden in this narrative?
The numbers on the middle two cards add up to an even number and neither one is a club.
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