Spring In The Hills 2015

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Gardening with purpose

Yin and yang

Deciphering alternative therapies

Bobolinks and meadowlarks Showtime for students Sant Greenhouses – a son’s memoir

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22 A Purposeful Garden

14 Letters

Misha Dubbeld’s Mono garden

by Tralee Pearce 33 Sowing the Seeds of Family Life

A son’s memoir

by Tralee Pearce and Mark Sant 46 Bobolinks and Meadowlarks 22

In search of some breeding space

by Don Scallen 56 the yin and yang of well-being

Deciphering alternative therapies

by Nicola Ross 66 the art and therapy of storytelling

17 Artist in Residence

Gary Wright

Tennis

by Nicola Ross 90 Headwaters Nest

18 Must Do

Our favourite picks for spring

The birds and the bees

by Bethany Lee 92 Historic Hills

21 Fence Posts

A blast from the past

by Dan Needles 43 Made In The Hills

Spring is in the air

by Tralee Pearce 85 Cooking Class

Pia Wiesen’s fish soup

by Cecily Ross

Students and artists promote mental health

by Laura LaRocca 46

88 Good Sport

Our readers write

Seneca Ketchum: Life lived large

by Ken Weber 94 over the (next) hill

Time to downsize?

by Gail Grant 96 At Home in the Hills

An unexpected country life

by Pam Purves 112 What’s On in the Hills

A calendar of spring happenings

70 showtime!

Centre stage at EDHS

by Liz Beatty

126 A Puzzling Conclusion

by Ken Weber

77 bill’s glorious comeback

An interview with novelist/ playwright Trevor Cole

by Jeff Rollings

I N D E X 120 Find an Advertiser

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Saving elephants – Caledon style

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volume 22 number 1 2015 publisher and editor Signe Ball design and art direction Kim van Oosterom Wallflower Design editorial Liz Beatty Gail Grant Laura LaRocca Bethany Lee Dan Needles Tralee Pearce Pam Purves Jeff Rollings Cecily Ross Nicola Ross Mark Sant Don Scallen Ken Weber photography Greg Gubitz Jason Hall Rosemary Hasner Robert McCaw Heidi Newton Pete Paterson food s t yling Jane Fellowes illus tr ation Shelagh Armstrong Jim Stewart

a s so ciate editors Tralee Pearce Dyanne Rivers oper ations manager Kirsten Ball advertising sales Roberta Fracassi Erin Woodley advertising production Marion Hodgson Type & Images events and copy editor Janet Dimond web manager www.inthehills.ca Valerie Jones Echohill Web Sites adminis tr ation Cindy Caines — on our cover George Sant & Sons Greenhouses

by Rosemary Hasner

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Norman Bray In The Performance Of His Life

A World Premiere Drama of Absurd Proportions

Based on the acclaimed Governor General Award nominated novel, this is truly a world premiere drama of absurd proportions! If Don Quixote were an actor, he'd be Norman Bray. Aging and too fond of brandy, but still handsome, still convinced of his talent, Norman dreams of a world that knows the artist’s true worth. If only his agent would return his calls, if only his daughter would stop asking questions, if only the world could finally see… he’s Norman Bray!

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Baco Noir

A World Premiere "Full-Bodied” Poignant Comedy

Bruce Berne has a dream of growing grapes and making wine the natural way on the south slope in Persephone Township. But Persephone is not smiling on his venture.

The climate is awful, the wine from his first vintage tastes like it was made from horseradish, and the bank is calling about his line of credit. But Bruce’s next-door neighbor, Oscar, has an intriguing theory about why the wine tastes so bad - and it has more to do with the supernatural, than the natural!

Our wine-tasting notes say that this robust full-bodied world premiere play is best served with laughter!

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Change and Renewal In his interview with Jeff Rollings, Trevor Cole says, “If I feel like I’m mastering something, then it means it’s time to challenge myself again and do something new.” And so the novelist became a playwright with the adaptation for stage of his own novel, Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, which opens at Theatre Orangeville in April.

The theme of change and renewal exemplified by Trevor Cole runs throughout this issue – not only in the re-greening of our gardens and landscapes, but in other spheres of our lives as well.

Because it’s spring, we start outdoors. Tralee Pearce takes us to a particularly splendid garden in Mono that has been a two-decade passion for Misha Dubbeld. She is now broadening her concept to create nothing less than a new kind of garden vernacular for southern Ontario. Then we go on to visit Sant greenhouses, a verdant and expansive universe unto itself that evolved with a classic family story of struggle and triumph.

In the broader landscape, Don Scallen reviews exciting initia­ tives to restore populations of bobolinks and meadowlarks that have declined sharply with the loss of grasslands. And on a wider canvas still, Gail Grant interviews Caledon resident Greg Gubitz who heads a Canadian foundation that is taking tough practical measures to save African elephants from poachers.

The theme of renewal becomes a personal journey for Nicola Ross as she investigates the yin and yang of conventional and naturopathic healthcare to discover a balance in the array of options that makes sense to her overall well-being. And Laura LaRocca talks to two young women at Shed The Light for whom renewal has been an intensely intimate experience. Nevertheless, they and other members of their group have found the courage and confidence to share the stories of their personal struggles with mental health in order to foster understanding and reassure other sufferers they are not alone on their road to recovery.

For other high school students, the annual spring production provides the happier challenges that open the way to personal transformation. Liz Beatty visits them backstage to discuss the life lessons they’re learning behind the footlights.

And finally, in her new column, “Over The (Next) Hill,” Gail Grant offers some practical advice for seniors contemplating one of life’s biggest changes – selling the family home and downsiz­ ing. She discovers that even in our later years such change can be a source of positive renewal.

With winter’s dark days behind us, we hope you’ll find much in these pages to inspire you to fresh new beginnings.

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Neigh-bourhood watch

Just want to say your magazine is a gem. I was driving along a country road in the Headwaters region yesterday and came across this wonderful scene. I couldn’t resist pulling over, taking a photo – and capturing a “Country Neighbourhood Watch.”

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Thanks so very much for the most f lattering piece you saw fit to put forth in the latest issue [“Local Heroes,” winter ’14].

It would cause those who know me to question who you were writing about, I am sure! You were most kind with your comments.

I appreciate regularly looking at In The Hills and always gain knowledge of people and activities in the area. We really are fortunate to live in this part of the world with the many attributes it holds. Thanks for pointing so many of them out.

Bob Burnside, Hockley This story and video [at inthehills.ca] highlights once again Ted Forrest’s outstanding charity, dedication and support for others and for his community. Heroes are folks who do things for others that make a difference. Ted has made such a differ­ ence for the residents at Wellington Terrace through our Biking Buddy volunteer program, and now for indivi­duals at ARC Industries Erin. He is truly a hero in both of these communities.

Colleen Cudney, Life Enrichment Manager Wellington Terrace, Fergus From the bottom of my heart, thank you for giving me an opportunity to be a part of the Human Library – a great time and great memories.

Brandy, Wanda, Ingrid, Darla and Pete (the best photographer ever), you went above and beyond, and I am touched and very grateful to all of you. You are all forever in our hearts. And owner and team at In The Hills, you all know how to make life brighter for everyone in the community – including helping us last year for Super Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines) fundraising.

Gerelyn Tabsing, Orangeville

On behalf of the entire Alton Millpond Hockey Classic organizing committee, we are very pleased and honoured to have been given such a high profile article [“Millpond Hockey,” winter ’14]. We’ve also had quite a few people ask how they can get teams entered in the event as a direct result of the article.

Jeremy Grant, Co-chair Alton Millpond Hockey Classic

Tribute to Ken Weber I enjoy reading your wonderful magazine each time I visit our daughter in Grand Valley. I especially enjoy the columns and puzzles by Ken Weber. I was a student of Ken’s at the Faculty of Education in Toronto in 1973-74 and his love of teaching, especially of students who presented a challenge, was an inspiration that remained with me throughout my teach­ ing career. My copies of his Five-Minute Mysteries were tattered and well used by the time I passed them on to my daughter to use in her classroom!

Laura Saunders, by email

Soul and Spirit Thank you to Monica Duncan for her beau­ tifully written article about my School of Miracles [“Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit,” winter ’14]. This is our 11th anniversary of our daugh­ ter’s passing and I feel it is divinely timed. It has been such an amazing journey thus far.

I am excited about 2015 and look forward to the future!

Heather Scavetta, Caledon

fat bikes My boyfriend rides sometimes with Team Van Go [“Good Sport,” winter ’14] and he became convinced that a fat bike would make me more confident on the trail, plus he wants to ride in winter, so he bought a Surly that I can also ride with minimal adjustment. We went for a test ride in Dufferin a few weeks ago and I totally agree with writer Nicola Ross – the roots and logs are less intimidating and the hills are a lot easier with the extra traction from the fat tires. I’m now convinced that fat bikes will be revolutionary for those of us with a fear of the consequences of crashing our mountain bikes.

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A highly selective guide to the picks of the season.

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The focus will be on photography on Saturday evening, May 9, when the 18 photographers of Click Connect exhibit their latest works in a show titled Auto Exposed: A Snap from the Past to a Shot of the Future. But photos aren’t the only attraction – live entertainment, refreshments and a surprise or two are also planned.

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Members of Click Connect practise their craft.

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If the antics of Persephone Township’s Walt Wingfield leave you in stitches, you’ll want to catch the latest creation of playwright and award-winning humorist Dan Needles. Baco Noir is the rollicking tale of what happens

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Also in the lead-up to the Games, Caledon Public Library has planned a number of events, including a short story writing contest for local writers of all ages. The contest closes April 30, so get your fingers tapping that keyboard. And Discover Pan Am, a workshop for kids aged six to 12, takes place at the Margaret Dunn Valleywood Branch on May 11. For more on these and other library events, call 905-857-1400 or go to www.caledon.library.on.ca.

Fittingly, Auto Exposed takes place in the show­ room of MacMaster Buick GMC on Highway 9, east of Orangeville. A project of Community Living Dufferin, Click Connect creates opportunities for photographers with developmental disabilities.

Tickets are $10, and proceeds go to support the photographers. For information, see www.communitylivingdufferin.ca/events

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Join the buzz as Headwaters commun­ ities welcome the Pan Am torchbearers in mid-June. The 41-day Pan Am Torch Relay, which starts with the lighting of the torch in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, launches in Toronto on May 30 and culminates with the lighting of the cauldron on July 10 at the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Pan American Games. The relay is a foretaste of the excitement that will grip Headwaters when the equestrian events take place at Will O’Wind Farm in Mono and at the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park in Palgrave.

On Friday, June 12, torchbearers will carry the flame through Shelburne and on to stops in Mono and Orangeville.

And on Saturday, June 13, the torch will stop in Palgrave, Bolton, Inglewood, Belfountain, Alton and Caledon East, in conjunction with Caledon Day festivities.

Routes and times are approximate for now, so watch the Pan Am website for updates at www.toronto2015.org/torchrelay, or check your municipal website.

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when Bruce Berne decides to pursue his dream of growing grapes and making wine the natural way. Needless to say, things don’t go quite as planned for the hapless oenologist.

Bruce’s hilarious misadventures in wine making are based on Needles’ own experiences, which he wrote about in the summer 2013 issue

“I’m Your Fan” by Allan Boers

of In The Hills. (Read it again at www.inthehills.ca.)

The world premiere of Baco Noir takes place at Theatre Orangeville on Friday, May 8.

The production continues that weekend and every Wednesday through Sunday until May 24.

For tickets, call Theatre Orangeville’s box office at 519-942-3423, or online at www.theatreorangeville.ca.

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ITU Grand Final in Auckland, New Zealand, October 2012

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Caledon East triathlete Andrew Yorke is determined to compete for Canada at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and he has a good shot at realizing this dream – with a little help from his friends. A group of Caledon residents has mobilized to support Andrew’s Olympic journey and organized a fundraising dinner on Friday, May 1 at Glen Eagle Golf Club, north of Bolton.

Andrew has already made his mark on the international triathlon world. He was a Team Canada alternate at the 2012 London Olympics, and last year he finished fourth at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. This summer, hometown crowds will have a chance to cheer him on when he competes in the Toronto Pan Am Games.

Dinner tickets are $90.

Order at 416-791-9308 or www.friendsofandrewyorke.com.

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Join Dufferin’s bibliophiles in reading this year’s One Book One County selection, The Massey Murder.

Award-winning author Charlotte Gray’s account of the scandalous shooting and trial that shook staid Toronto a hundred years ago is part social history, part true crime – and totally gripping.

Gray will be on hand to read from her book when the grand finale of One Book One County takes place at Shelburne’s Grace Tipling Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $10, available at BookLore on First Street, Orangeville, or at the libraries in Orangeville, Grand Valley and Shelburne.

Nancy Frater of BookLore helped select The Massey Murder, and from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, she will be at The Farmhouse Pottery on Hockley Road in Mono to reminisce about her 25-year journey with the independent bookstore that has become an Orangeville institution. Tickets are $15 and include refreshments.

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If three or more Italians got together, they instantly became a political party, in France they would start a union, and the British would form a queue. Here in Canada we would organize a panel discussion.

I have served on enough committees to know that we do have a habit of jawing a thing to death before we pick up a shovel, but our history tells us we also respect a firm voice and a clear call to action.

For example, there was an old fieldstone church that once stood on the Little farm on the 7th Line of Mulmur Township, just north of Highway 89. The cemetery attached to Old St. Luke’s is still main­ tained today, although the church itself has been gone for nearly 90 years. The cluster of gravestones in the shade of ancient maple trees carries the names of Littles, McNabbs, Gallaughers and many other families from the first days of the township.

I gave a little talk to a neighborhood audience a few years ago and mentioned how as a boy, I often rode horseback past the remains of the old church, which had burned to the ground in 1926. During the reception afterwards, Lucille Burley, an elderly woman who had been born on the Little farm, came over to correct me. This often happens when I make any observation about the past in Rosemont.

“Did I get the date wrong about the fire?” I asked.

“The date was probably right. But it didn’t burn down.”

“What happened to it then?”

“They blew it up.”

“Really?” I said. “Nobody ever told me anything about blowing it up.”

“I don’t think many people know what really happened. I only know from a few things my father told me. But it’s so long ago, it’s probably safe to tell the story now.”

The old church stood on a lot the family had donated in 1860, but by the 1920s it had fallen into

“I don’t think many people know … but it’s been so long, it’s probably safe to tell the story now.” disrepair and the elders were reluctant to pour more money into it. The congregation wrangled over the problem for ten years while the roof leaked and wind whistled through the cracks in the stone walls.

Eventually a portion of the congregation broke away and began construction of a new brick church a mile away in the village of Rosemont, proposing to christen it St. Luke’s as well.

Faced with the prospect of a permanent rift in the church family, one of the parishioners went over to the old church in broad daylight and placed a charge of dynamite in the basement. The explosion levelled the building and left the Anglicans with no

choice but to gather in New St. Luke’s. This is the same church my wife and I were married in.

“Do they have any idea who the guy was that placed the dynamite?” I asked.

“Oh, yes,” she said. “It was John McNabb.”

“But one of the stained glass windows above the altar is dedicated to a John McNabb. Would that be the same man?”

She nodded. “People were ever so grateful to John. Without him, the split in the church might have lasted for decades. It was a very painful subject for a lot of people for many years and families were careful not to speak about it. My father certainly never got over it. But it’s all forgotten now.”

The three stained glass windows show a scene of Jesus with a flock of sheep. The inscription below reads, “Feed My Sheep.” As a shepherd myself, I know that sheep are not easily led anywhere and they have a genius for self-destruction. This helps to explain why they turn up so often in Scripture.

They are also a completely man-made animal, the work in progress of a committee that has been meeting steadily for about six thousand years now.

Canadians are certainly not sheep. We are talkers because we prefer to move forward as a group.

But we are also a fractious and disputatious tribe who sometimes need a rugged individualist to bring closure to a discussion and cast a “weighted” vote. In the end, we understand the group is more important than any building. And, to draw from another corner of the barnyard, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. ≈

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Misha Dubbeld’s gracious Mono garden is a testament to 20 years of love and labour. With all that she’s learned, her latest project is conceived on a grand scale.

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hen Misha Dubbeld first visited the Mono farm she would go on to purchase in 1995, she spent about two minutes in the red brick farmhouse and headed back out to walk the property. It was the open spaces that were the main allure to the budding gardener back then – and have kept her enthralled ever since.

“I’m so tied to this particular piece of land,” she says.

From spring to early fall, Misha spends a good chunk of her waking hours outdoors, up to her elbows in dirt, the bushes she’s pruning and, yes, the compost she’s spreading.

For someone who hated gardening for her mother as a child, Misha has embraced it as her life’s passion.

If, as American gardener and author Sydney Eddison is credited with writing, gardens are a form of autobiography, Misha, now 60, has been laying down a fascinating personal record of the last 20 years. As she embarks on a radically different garden design in an empty field north of the house, Misha is busily adding new chapters every season.

Her first incarnation, however, was as an overwhelmed neophyte, an apprentice of the garden itself. Unlike her Toronto garden which was always in shade, this one was dominated by swaths of full sunshine.

The place began as a weekend property for her, her hus­ band and their 12-year-old daughter, so it was a busy time. (“I heard somewhere that if you didn’t introduce a kid to the country before 13, they would never like the country. I think it worked, but not for the first few years!” she says.)

There was a fairly new perennial garden there already, one which she watched bloom that first summer. And there were a number of grace notes already well established,

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including an espaliered pear tree, which hosted a robin’s nest when it was photographed for this story last spring.

“It took me a few years to learn the garden,” she says.

One element that was well established was a collection of massive outdoor sculptures, which came with the farm and which she incorporated into her designs, moving them when necessary.

Such whimsical, yet sturdy sculptures as those by New York artist Ilan Averbuch added design heft from the beginning. Three of his enormous iron, wood and lead pomegranates, for instance, punctuate a meadow north of the driveway to the west of the farmhouse.

While Misha reveres them as art and age-old symbols of fertility, she also loves telling the story of a local strawberry farmer who mistook them for berries and offered a few hundred dollars for them, “so he could put them up at the gate to his ‘you pick’ operation.”

It wasn’t until five or six years after she bought the farm that she found herself really ready to make some “major moves,” as she calls them.

“I was maintaining and adding, and, yes, I was keen,” she says. “Then the problem is things start to get overgrown and you divide them. And you think, Where can I put this?

Where can I put that?”

Misha had reached the limits of the existing gardens just as she was gaining a head of steam. This is a turning point many gardeners may recognize – a form of manifest destiny sets in. What to take over next?

“Things start to look too repetitive, too much the same, and a mumble-jumble. And you think, Oh, I’d better make continued on next page a plan,” she says.

Art moves Three massive pomegranate sculptures (facing page) made of iron, wood and lead, by New York artist Ilan Averbuch, punctuate a meadow of wild dame’s rocket to the west of the house.

The bold colours of poppies, irises and daylilies frame the farmhouse in June.

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The “Orchard” The first row of crabapples Misha planted, north of the driveway, is underplanted with hardy Geranium macrorrhizum. inset left : Common phlox mingles with Japanese anemone, sedum and hosta to provide a burst of late summer glory east of the house. inset right : A deep pink peony, blue geraniums, yellow yarrow and white Gillenia make a lively parade of colour along a stone wall next to the driveway.

adding structure Misha eyed her lawns and gardens, revisiting what she’d learned studying landscape design in her 30s: Start with trees, shrubs, hedges and other archi­ tectural plantings.

“You have to address the bones first. You can’t just say this is a pretty plant and plump it here. You need to think about the structure first,” she says.

She installed a formal row of crabapple trees parallel to her laneway on its north side, with a long, uninterrupted carpet of pale pink geraniums tucked around their trunks.

The move so pleased her, Misha decided to repeat it three years later with two more rows on another patch of lawn on the south side of the driveway, east of the house. “A very unimaginative person I am – but the first row was so successful.”

What’s more, these rows of crabapples fit her

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fondness for the idea of a farm – the three rows of crabapples are her orchard.

At the same time, Misha transplanted rafts of white and pink peonies from her Toronto garden – which “contrary to most people’s thoughts, are very easy to transplant.”

She planted them in waves or “rivers,” as some gardeners call them. Misha also likes to think of them as a sentence. “Usually there’s a period at the end of the sentence and the sentence is made up of one other thing. Or a few different things saying something similar. Maybe a purple flower repeated five times and another shade repeated five times.”

Echinacea, hardy geraniums, daylilies, irises, obe­ dient plants, Centaurea, delphiniums and poppies have all been planted en masse here over the years.

“That’s a strategy for a big garden. It’s also a

personal strategy. I don’t like seeing one of this and one of that. It looks dinky.”

Likewise, Misha created a north-south hedge of cotoneaster to the west of the house for balance.

Like the peonies, the plant material was largely what she already had on hand.

In a garden this size, it helps the budget to grow your own, she says. “Most of my hedges are hedge cotoneaster [Cotoneaster lucidus] because they’re easy to propagate,” she says.

Thankfully, Misha says she enjoys the physical work needed to maintain and expand these gardens.

And she has the patience to puzzle out how to layer for texture, colour and blooming season.

“Ultimately, it doesn’t have very much to do with the end product. For me, it’s the making of the gardens that is the great joy.”

Once a mostly weekend warrior, Misha now spends four to five hours a day in the garden, weeding, pruning, planting and plotting new ideas, seven days a week from late May through September. She tackles heavy work, like moving rocks and trees, on her tractor. (She also has the help of a gardener friend four hours a week and a farm helper for fencing, trail mowing and the like. “I couldn’t do it without them,” she acknowledges.)

Despite the hours she puts in, Misha says she’s not a fusser. She won’t coddle a plant that clearly isn’t thriving. And she’s quick to point out that the gera­ niums under all those crabapples are like “living mulch,” covering up fallen and rotting apples, and keeping the roots of the trees cozy.

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Light and contrast Stone steps leading to the new garden are framed by Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ and a short- stemmed variety of allium on one side, and spirea, globe cedar and Chamaecyparis filifera on the other. insets : By late summer, the garden at the front of the house has become a bouquet of pinks, including Echinacea (common and Sombrero series), bee balm and obedient plant, punctuated with a few late daylilies. Sweet woodruff, ferns, Aruncus and other groundcovers surround a small, serene pond. A bronze swan rests by the birdbath in an airy cloud of potentilla.

the “moments ” After the broad strokes come what Misha calls “the moments,” the eye-catching pairings visitors will notice in her garden, like pale alliums poking through purple smoke bush [Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’] – an idea she is quick to credit to a friend. At their best, these successful combinations and layers can seem like a garden’s way of thanking their creator.

“There’s that moment at the end of the day when you’ve worked really hard and the light is slanting down across everything in a way it doesn’t always do, and you go, ‘Oh, my God.’ You’ve got this glass of wine in your hand and you say, ‘That was a great day’s work. And it looks great.’”

Serendipity does not lurk around every corner, though, as Misha fully admits. There are misfires.

Case in point: She had wanted to enclose a goddess sculpture with more hedge, “because I didn’t love her so much.” But as the spruce growing around her got too tall for the job, Misha says, “I thought it would be cute to have a little garden there. It turned out to be too cute. It was a little self-conscious and twee. As I’ve gotten older I want bigger moves. I don’t want little detail anymore.”

That’s certainly one way of describing Misha’s lat­ est project – carving an expansive new garden into the open field north of the house.

One major structural move, a set of stone steps leading to the field, predated the new garden, but seems to a visitor like a premonition.

Misha is a collector of stone and rock, the kind of woman who will ask her husband for a stone wall

as a major birthday gift instead of jewels or other treasures.

She’s been hauling the rocks deposited on the sides of her fields by farmers who cleared the land more than a century ago. “They’re laughing in their graves: Who is this stupid woman?”

Misha had a stonemason lay down some of the rocks as steps on a pathway up a slope in the north field. Over the years the field had been home to a riding ring, but not much else.

The steps looked great, but she was left with two mounds of dirt flanking them. She hastily plunked down some containers of gold juniper, spirea, cotinus and allium. “I turned around and thought, That looks pretty good.”

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The next adventure A new stone wall forms the backbone of Misha’s latest project. Her goal is to deploy a new landscape language, one uncommon to Southern Ontario. Hardy grasses, cedar and native sumac are among the plantings.

looking ahead Now, the steps lead to a burgeoning garden she’s been working on since 2011.

It is anchored by a curving, multilevel stone wall designed to mimic the shape of a plant and its branches if seen from the sky. Although it’s unlikely ever to be viewed from that vantage point, the big concept unifies the free-form design. Out from the wall are early plantings of ornamental grasses, Korean firs, white firs, limber pine, Serbian spruce, sumac, and other hardy picks Misha hopes will endure in this windswept, open space. She’s working with “mostly sand, lousy soil.”

“All gardening is optimism,” she notes. “But this is optimism on a large scale.”

As she throws herself into the task, Misha is trying out the style of one of the landscape designers she admires most: Dutchman Piet Oudolf, known

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recently for his fluid plantings of grasses and scrubs that usher visitors along the length of the narrow former rail track known as the High Line in New York City.

“It’s like a French cook learning Japanese cooking.

It’s a whole new vocabulary of ingredients and techniques,” she says, admitting that once this more experimental garden is finished, it will be hard not to loop back and alter her original work.

Inside the house during a visit this past fall, Misha is invigorated as she shows me pages and pages of Oudolf’s calming and natural, yet grand designs. She also opens up a portfolio of ethereal cross-section sketches she’s made of the varieties of grasses and perennials she is planting. This is her way of study­ ing their heights, root systems and profiles alongside one another. A plant police lineup, if you will.

The big idea: Creating nothing less than a new kind of garden for this climate zone.

Misha figures she has ten good years left as a gardener, and she’s chosen plantings that both grow fast and can thrive without inputs such as compost.

She says she will even let this garden go at some point. “Let it naturalize. I’ll work on it as long as I can and then I’ll say, ‘Okay nature, have a good time.’”

She’s installing trees that are three to four feet high right now, hoping that by the time she actually wants to put down her trowel (as impossible as that is to imagine), some will be 20 to 30 feet tall.

“Watching these mature will, I hope, be one of the joys of my old age.” ≈

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Three generations of greenhouse growers: Dan, Mark, Audrey and George Sant.

the seeds of family life by t r a lee pe a r c e

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isiting George Sant & Sons Greenhouses on a chilly February day is like discovering the place where spring hides out during the dark months of winter.

The air is warm and moist inside the bright, inter­ onnected greenhouses. Carpets of bright green baby plants stretch out in every direction, destined for nurseries and retailers across North America, either as seedlings or in colourful hanging baskets.

This quietly bustling nursery operation sits on a 100-acre property at the edge of Bolton. Family homes mingle with greenhouses, ship­ ping docks and even an independent seed wholesaler (As Sants has become one of its top Canadian suppliers, a U.S. seed wholesaler has set up an office on site.)

Behind it all is an epic family history that the current generation can trace back to 19th-century Malta – and over years of toil and hardship.

Theirs is a classic Canadian immigration story of starting small and building a life and a family out of hard work and dedication.

Mark Sant is a proud great-grandson of Angelo and Mary Sant, who started it all by leaving Malta in 1917 with a dream of farming in Canada.

Angelo and Mary may not have envisioned just how far their original

farming venture would take future generations of their family – but no doubt they’d be pleased.

Mark has written a memoir about the tall tales, laughs and tender moments – and, of course, the all-important first tractor – the Sant family has experienced over the past century.

At 24, Mark is currently manager of the seeding department. With a staff of local and foreign workers, he oversees the very exacting work of starting begonia, dahlia, coneflower and other flower seeds in trays of soil, checking via a new X-ray-style machine to be sure each tiny tray compartment indeed holds a seed, and finally shuttling the trays to one of three sauna-like mist chambers, where the seeds will germinate over a period of a few days.

The week I visit, this soft-spoken Sant is presiding over 5,000 trays of sprouted flowers, each holding 300 to 500 plants. Mark tells me he’s especially fond of the notoriously finicky dahlias precisely because they are not easy to grow.

While he has fancy technology at his fingertips to ensure efficiency and productivity, his love of the difficult may be his most valuable inheritance from his great-grandparents. It’s with them his family continued on next page story begins.

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he roots of my family were dug into Maltese limestone in 1895. Angelo was my great-grandfather and, in fact, he was born in a cave.

As an iconic image of humanity’s humble beginnings at the dawn of time, it seems appropriate that our family destiny started this way. It’s not as if it was unusual for poor families to make their homes in the rock cliffs of Malta at the turn of the century – Angelo’s mother and father were far from the only ones. The limestone chipped easily enough and rooms could be made to dwell in, making caves the ideal real estate for penniless Maltese families who had suffered through yoyo-ing recessions for a few hundred years.

Angelo was the second eldest of eight children and he never met his youngest siblings before leaving Malta forever.

The merchant navy – referred to as the “fourth service” – enlisted my great-grandfather when he was 12 years old – an age when I was still wearing pyjamas with cartoon characters on them.

He worked as a navy seaman for ten years and then something turned him off the job, namely the First World War. In 1917 he jumped ship in Halifax to make a new life in Canada. He met a Maltese immigrant named Mary Sammut and worked any job he came by, eventually finding prospects just outside Toronto – in an area now paved over by Mississauga. He was 22.

the early years I’m told those days were hard. The coldest ones seem to stand out most in their memories, as if they’ve still not shaken the freeze. My grandfather George, the third-born whom Mary gave birth to in 1927, recalls being so destitute his mother would send him and his brothers hiking down the snowy railroad in search of coal on the off chance it might have fallen from a train.

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Angelo rented farmland and grew vegetables, but the winters were with­ out much income and there wasn’t enough money to keep the woodstove burning all night. My grandfather – or nannu in Maltese – recalls waking up on winter mornings to find frost in the house and a layer of ice over pails of water used because indoor plumbing was still just a pipe dream.

It was just one of a thousand little hardships endured every day.

They say Mary was the driving force.

It was she who instilled in her sons and daughter the work ethic that has carried this family for generations.

She was the one booting the kids out the door at six in the morning to help Angelo with the crops before school.

When they got home from school, they had a half hour of rest before they returned to duty in the fields.

I never knew Angelo, but I was fortu­ nate to know my great-grandmother – my nunna – who was blessed to live to 99. I only know her as the sweet,

aged, lovely woman who baked Mal­ tese doughnuts, pastizzis (a Maltese ricotta pastry) and macaroni, and who always had cookies at the ready for her 33 great-grandchildren.

I know it was her love and devotion to work and family and unity that has lasted so definitively through my family’s bloodline. Her inherited rec­ ipes are still revered like the solemn rituals of some religion.

Mary gave birth to eight children.

Nannu describes himself and his sib­

top : A spring carpet in one of the Sants’ five greenhouses, 2015 far left : Albert, Jean and George Sant, 1950 centre left : Angelo, Dan and George Sant, 1958 left : Mary Sant, 1989

lings as committed go-getters who wanted to help in the fields more than horse around, go to parties or attend too much school. They grew up know­ ing that when it’s time to work, you work, which was often on the farm.

When the work was done for the day, my nannu would play guitar with his brother Albert on accordion at every hall, centre and party all over Caledon and Vaughan – people were always dancing to their music. When they weren’t biking towns away or camping in the bush or building their own clubhouses and playthings, they always had the simple pleasures I fear my generation can’t ever know.

I’m fourth generation, so I’ve only known us as we are now, a homespun clan that came from nothing and ended up so pleasantly surprised. The values of a simple family are not only still pulsing in our veins, it’s those values that made us a force to be reck­ oned with in the first place. Love.

Solidarity. Hard work. And a knack for multiplying like rabbits.

Angelo, who began and cultivated

the seeds of this story, died of emphy­ sema in June of 1964. He never got to see the next chapter. He left behind eight children who had grown up and found their own lives.

At the time of his death, it was George and his brother Frank who remained working on the farm, with Mary still watching them carry on their father’s legacy.

Success came only in fits and starts.

Before that it was growing to get by.

There was no such thing as a savings account – there was only a jar on the counter labelled “tractor.”

Until 1946 horses did all the work in the field, but then Ford came out with a new tractor. George brought it home with $100 down. Working on his own field and for $1.75 an hour on neighbouring farms, he paid off that tractor in under a year. He continued working as hard as he knew how. He even started using the tractor to dig cellars for people’s homes in the Peel area – a few of which are still there to this day. continued on next page

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a move to the hills, a new crop George moved from the farm on Richview Sideroad (now Eglinton Avenue) in 1947 and purchased his first plot of land in the hills. It’s the farm on the outskirts of Bolton that continues to run and grow to this day.

Back then, George would wake some mornings just after midnight and drive the Ford pickup down to the stockyard to load manure, working by the light of the moon. Tomatoes, beans, peas, potatoes, eggplant, cab­ bage – he’d try to produce anything.

And once harvested, he’d truck them to the farmers’ market in Toronto at 5 o’clock every morning.

That was where he discovered the demand but lack of supply for bedding flowers.

An unimagined fate was sparked on a whim when he purchased some of the only seeds available in our area at the time – pansies. If he could grow vegetables, he thought, then he could grow flowers. He built wooden hot­ beds outside the farmhouse and planted the seeds in the autumn. He 36

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was planting pansies in 1955 when his mother came running out of the farm­ house to tell him his wife Audrey had just delivered their first baby boy.

My nannu speaks little of his child­ hood and maturing years. His mem­ ories seem to take on colour only when his children came into his life.

It seems the fond focus of an older world – pure unbridled dedication to the children and the family. Nothing else mattered. Of his five sons, my dad, Dan, was the eldest. Then came my uncles Rick, Doug, Jim and Ron. The boys grew up as only a fledging farmer could raise them. Their pro­ perty neighboured George’s brother Frank, who, with his own three child­ ren, cultivated a farm of his own.

Angelo’s other children, my greataunt Jean and great-uncles Joe, John, Albert, Charlie and Ed, bought homes in the same area, so all the cousins grew up together. My father and his siblings know that kind of family proximity is a rare gift that shapes a person’s entire life.

They were sometimes rambunc­ tious. My dad would blow out the old man’s transmission and try to get the

far left : Dan and Rick Sant, 1960; centre : Doug, Ron, Rick, George, Dan and Jim Sant, 1972; Ron, George and Rick, 1988

car fixed before he got home from the cottage in Muskoka.

Teenage hooligan Jim rode his motorcycle down the train tracks to escape a police car chasing him for speeding. One time Rick’s girlfriend Wendy (now his wife) specifically told 10-year-old Ron not to get on her horse, but the minute her back was turned, he was clinging for dear life atop Pokey, galloping full speed down the laneway with Rick and Wendy chasing behind on their bikes.

They haggled for the busted box off a cube van that they thought would make a good ice-fishing hut. They threw themselves into cutting down a tree only to knock out the power lines on the entire street for almost a full cold autumn day. They’d never back down from a race or a brawl.

When my uncles tell these stories, they always have the biggest grins on their faces, but then they often have those grins. We’re a family abounding with young-at-heart fun lovers, raised

by George’s eternal creed, “When it’s time to work, you work. When it’s time to play, you play.”

And indeed, whenever there was

work to do on the farm, they were all front and centre, tending to the crops and f lowers. And every Sunday, all Mary’s children and all her grand­ children met at the farmhouse for dinner as a family.

my dad I’m told my dad was my nannu’s shadow. Just as George as a boy had followed his father, Angelo, Dan followed his old man around like an apprentice.

When it became clear there was a better living to be had in flowers than vegetables, a glass greenhouse was built. It was the first of many, along with smaller, cheaper hoop houses made of plastic sheeting on curved supports.

The harder they worked and the more flowers they sold, the more fun there was to be had in the downtime.

Achieving modest success by the mid ’60s, George and Audrey had bought that cottage up in Muskoka. It is their weekend haunt to this day. Up there continued on next page

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the kids learned to fish and boat and water ski.

My dad and his brothers and an endless pack of cousins took Klein­ burg and Caledon by storm. You either went to school with a Sant or you were friends with one or you dated one or you married one or you saw them burning out the wheels of some hotrod. There was a point in the local hockey league during the 1980s when any given game was essentially Sants vs. Sants.

My father wanted nothing more than to keep on the agrarian tradition.

He wanted to grow flowers with his dad the way George had done with Angelo. When I ask him why, he says it was in his blood. It was his dream – he envisioned what could be and what has now come to pass, thanks to him and his brothers.

I see the same commitment and drive in my dad as I see in my nannu.

Their children are sacred to both of them. If my dad was too busy working until eight at night and once literally stole a roast pig from a neighbour to feed his hungry children, he did it without shame. (It helped that the neighbour was a forgiving friend.)

The cousins found their respective callings and they somehow covered off every necessary trade – including some in related plant businesses. When a cousin, sibling or parent needed work done, favours were traded. A deck built by the carpenter had his car fixed by the autobody mechanic. The electrician helped his cousin in the flooring business and got his kitchen tiles installed at cost.

George’s and Frank’s sons had your gardens covered, while landscaping cousins, Charlie’s children, planted trees and tended the yard.

Go to a restaurant and someone’s wife or daughter would be your wait­ ress and get you a discount on dinner.

The more they networked in the area they gained connections to anything

missing. They had their plumber friend and Bob the tire guy for the best deals. When a house or cottage had to be built, it was suddenly a reunion party, and they’d build it downing beers and listening to rock and roll. A horde of family was even­ tually an army of friends and com­ rades with nothing ever out of reach when they worked together.

Of my nannu’s siblings, the eldest Joe and the youngest Ed are already gone. Frank at the farm next door died recently of the same disease that took their father. Time marching on is what most prompted me to recount the family story.

the next chapter It’s now a new chapter, and the busi­ ness is a sprawling five-greenhouse operation that helps beautify not just southern Ontario but all corners of North America.

I love being part of this. I love the school of history and horticulture that I attend and learn in every day. I love seeing newer and more sophisti­ cated and dazzling technologies in­ troduced, and I love seeing my nannu continue to come and dabble in the business he adores.

It is a time when I can follow in family traditions and work with my father as many of my cousins have gone to work with theirs, a time when I can be having a barbeque with a cousin on my deck and see my grand­ ma pass by on a golf cart, and then hear another cousin cruising around the property on his dirt bike.

I’ll look out across the pond and field and see my father on a tractor playing in the dirt – working late into the evening simply because he loves it. It is a time I can have lunch with nannu and grandma once a week.

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tweet chic Bring a dose of spring inside with these cheerful, Scandinavianlooking “house birds” by wood artists Patrick Lajoie and Mara Minuzzo. They handcraft these, along with other art and furniture, in their Caledon headquarters, Studio Liscious.

The birds stand 4 inches tall and come in a variety of made-to-order shades. (About $34 each, Studio Liscious)

The only downside to this exquisitely crafted cedar bird feeder is that your neighbourhood fine-feathered friends may expect a miniature butler to emerge with a tray of drinks. Be sure to ask about the right mix of custom-blended birdseed here, though. That you can offer. ($200, Caledon Mountain Wildlife Supplies)

a mini mansion a redbud burst Eastern redbud welcomes spring dressed in a riot of pink. You can source this showy early-blooming tree [Cercis canadensis] from Not So Hollow Farm in Mulmur. Ian Payne and Viki Reynolds specialize in growing native trees, shrubs and plants. And mark your calendar: On June 20, Not So Hollow Farm hosts an event, Bees to Butterflies … and Beyond, as part of Pollinator Partnership’s Pollinator Week June 15–21 (pollinator.org). Check Not So Hollow’s website for more details soon.

The farm opens May 1 or by appointment. ($14–$40 per redbud plant)

at home with the birds The wrens, swifts and bluebirds are coming! For a rustic vibe, welcome them with a selection of barnboard birdhouses, which look great in a cluster. Caledon Mountain Wildlife Supplies owners Linda and Tony Kairys carry a wide range of feeders and houses made by local craftspeople. (Nesting box $63. Suet cake feeder $15) more on page 45 I N T H E H I L L S S p r in g 2 0 1 5

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stylish suds Scrub away all that gardening grime with these crafty felted soaps by Inglewood resident Nell Crathern. She wraps her natural, handmade bars in felt for a naturally abrasive effect. ($10 each, Lucille Weber Gallery)

kidding around Mansfield potter Mary Lazier of Little Red Hen’s Kitchen Garden has captured all the impish charm of a baby goat with this three-legged, unglazed stoneware planter. She suggested primula would look springlike nestled in this cheeky planter for our photo – and she was right! (Planter $125. Primula, $4 each, Orangeville Flowers)

have a seat Need a perch from which to sit back and enjoy all your freshly planted flowerbeds? Caledon artist Ian Sinclair uses the natural shapes of found wood to craft quirky benches and stools that make a stylish statement – and a sturdy spot to rest. ($1,600, Lucille Weber Gallery)

budding bouquets At the size of a side plate, these whimsical spring florals by Inglewood painter Lucille Weber are among the smallest in her gallery, but they’ll add a major dose of spring colour to any room. ($85 each, Lucille Weber Gallery)

salad days sources Am Braigh Farm, 873393 5th Line Mono. 519-941-9089. www.ambraighfarm.com Caledon Mountain Wildlife Supplies, 18371 Hurontario St, Caledon Village.

519-927-3212. www.caledonmountainwildlifesupplies.ca Little Red Hen’s Kitchen Garden, 796343 Third Line Mulmur. 519-925-2304. www.redhen.ca Lucille Weber Gallery, 15612 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. 647-400-7591. www.lucilleweber.com Not So Hollow Farm, 838369 4th Line East Mulmur. 705-466-6290. www.notsohollowfarm.ca Orangeville Flowers, 78 John St, Orangeville. 519-941-2592. www.orangevilleflowers.ca Studio Liscious, Caledon. www.liscious.com

Your own vegetable garden may be but a figment of your imagination right now. But you can take inspiration from Mono’s Am Braigh Farm, where James Richards already offers crisp, juicy microgreens, including baby red Russian kale, mizuna, purple kohlrabi, red cabbage (pictured here) and red frills mizuna. ($4.75 a bag)

Tralee Pearce is an associate editor of In The Hills. Want to suggest a locally made item she should check out? Contact her at tralee @ inthehills.ca.

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Bobolinks and M in search of some breeding space

BY D ON SCA L L EN — PHOTOGRAPH Y BY ROBER T Mc CAW

Long a familiar sight in southern Ontario farm fields, these grassland birds are disappearing.

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he voices of bobolinks and meadowlarks were once part of the soundscape of the tallgrass seas of mid-North America. Prairies were alive with the buzzing of rattlesnakes, the clucking of prairie chickens, the hoofbeats of antelope and the barking of prairie dogs. And of course, the thunder of millions of bison. The grasses of that soundscape, in full flourish, were tall enough to caress the withers of horses ridden by the Dakota, the Siksika and other Aboriginal peoples. Bobolinks and meadowlarks thrived among these grasses and undoubtedly found their way into First Nations’ lore, for these birds of song and colour are impossible to ignore.

Bobolinks and meadowlarks were probably also familiar to the Petun, Neutral and Wendat of Ontario.

Though natural prairie in this prov­ ince was scarce, these groups burned and cut woodland to create sunlit openings for farming and hunting, providing habitat not only for deer, but also for grassland birds.

Here in the Headwaters region, though, grassland birds were likely few and far between. As documented

by John Riley in The Once and Future Great Lakes Country, the “Ontario Island,” which includes Dufferin County, was “thick old-growth for­

est” before the arrival of Europeans, though beaver meadows probably offered bobolinks and meadowlarks some limited habitat.

With European settlement, ever­ ything changed. The great forests of the Headwaters region and much of eastern North America fell to the saw.

Agriculture became dominant. Far­ ther west, the tallgrass prairie was churned under by the plough, and its magnificent abundance of growing, flying and running things was largely destroyed and replaced with mono­ cultures of corn and wheat. Bobolinks and meadowlarks clung to forgotten parcels of the original prairie but, like refugees from a war zone, sought salvation elsewhere. The newly clear­ ed hayfields and pastures of eastern North America beckoned.

For much of the 20th century, these birds thrived in Ontario and else­ where in eastern North America. But now, once again, they are challenged by sweeping landscape changes. The habitat we inadvertently provided is shrinking in response to powerful international market forces. As com­ modity prices rise, pastures and hayfields are losing ground to corn, soybeans and winter wheat. Marginal farmland is being abandoned. Sub­ urban sprawl gnaws at the farmland surrounding towns and cities. In

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some areas land prices are spiking, driving ownership out of the reach of farmers. This time the bobolinks and meadowlarks have nowhere else to go.

In 2010, the bobolink was listed as a threatened species in Ontario and Canada, and the meadowlark in 2011, because of the steadily declining trend in their population over the previous four decades. To be clear, there are still lots of bobolinks and meadowlarks around, but their cur­ rent downward trajectory is ominous and shows no signs of changing. In the first decade of the 21st century, an estimated one-third of bobolinks and a quarter of meadowlarks were lost.

Do we have a responsibility to stop the decline? Jon McCracken thinks so.

A biologist with Bird Studies Canada and co-chair of the Bobolink Round Table, a group charged with exploring solutions to the decline of these birds, McCracken notes, “Ontario alone has 13 per cent of the world’s population of bobolinks, and Ontario meadow­ larks represent 70 per cent of Canada’s population. Hence we have high jur­ isdictional responsibility in Ontario to conserve these species.

“We share this conservation respon­ sibility with many other jurisdic­ tions” he adds, “so it’s definitely not just up to Ontario. Still, if we don’t pull our weight, and others don’t

either, then what?”

The shared responsibility “with many other jurisdictions” is problem­ atic, especially for bobolink conser­ vation. It is easier to contemplate cross-jurisdictional protection of meadowlarks. The comings and go­ ings of meadowlarks take most of them no farther than the southern United States and back.

But bobolink migration is a Homeric odyssey. Birds that nest in Caledon or Mono or Melancthon might fly more than 10,000 kilometres to spend our winter with the rheas, armadillos and anteaters of the Argentinian pampas.

In the many countries they traverse, they are obviously acutely vulnerable to all manner of assaults, including habitat loss, pesticide use and direct persecution.

Still, as McCracken says, we need to pull our weight – and the first steps have been taken. Listing bobolinks and meadowlarks as “threatened” under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act required the development of a recovery strategy, and this was accomplished in 2013. In addition, species designated as threatened are immediately sheltered by a legislative umbrella that protects both the species and its habitat. Usually.

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land birds and their habitat presents difficult challenges. It can be hard enough to protect species that inhabit natural areas such as woodlands and wetlands, even when the land is publicly owned. But bobolinks and meadowlarks, unlike most species at risk, are creatures of active working landscapes. Their crucial habitat ex­ tends over thousands of hectares of private farmland – farms buffeted by the shifting demands of the market, farms intent on generating income, farms intent on survival.

Hayfields on those farms are inte­ gral to the survival of grassland birds, but they need hayfields that aren’t harvested until mid-July, after bobo­ link and meadowlark young have left their nests. Earlier harvests either kill the young outright or expose them to the eyes of hungry predators such as crows and ravens.

How do you tell farmers, the very people most responsible for the sur­ vival of bobolinks and meadowlarks in the first place, how to manage their land? How do you tell them not to cut their hay until the young birds have left their nests? The answer is you can’t.

Cutting hay before bobolinks and meadowlarks have completed breed­ ing in late May or June allows a second harvest later in the summer and an increase in overall hay production.

The early cut of hay also contains more

protein than hay left standing into July and August. Dairy cattle in particular must be fed this high-protein hay.

Still, most farmers, and just about everyone else, want to save bobolinks and meadowlarks. And the Endan­ gered Species Act demands action toward this end. Enter the Bobolink Round Table, a group that includes representation from agriculture, en­ vironmental organizations, develop­ ers and First Nations – groups that often have wildly divergent view­ points on environmental issues.

Despite this, in 2011, the difficulty of accommodating the needs of both agriculture and grassland birds led to a consensus among the roundtable stakeholders to call for a three-year exemption for agriculture from the protective provisions of the ESA. The exemption was recently extended to December this year, and a further extension is expected.

The exemption, which allows far­ mers to conduct business as usual without fear of being prosecuted under the act, provides more time to explore solutions that roundtable members hope will inf luence farm management through incentives, not punitive measures. McCracken says the exemption “recognizes the critical role of farmers who provide most of the grassland habitat needed by grass­ land species these days. Without hab­ itat, the birds are gone.”

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In the face of the daunting chal­ lenges of keeping the grassland birds down on the farm, Credit Valley Conservation has developed a twopronged approach. One is an exciting grassland restoration project under­ way at Upper Credit Conservation Area just outside Alton (see page 54).

Another is the Bird-Friendly Cert­ ified Hay Program, which was intro­ duced last year. To qualify for this program, farmers and landowners must agree not to cut their hay until July 15. Once CVC staff has checked to ensure that bobolinks and mea­ dowlarks have finished f ledging before July 15, staff will notify all hay growers and permit early cutting. In a year with a warm spring, this may occur as early as July 1, as it did last year, or it may be delayed until July 15 or even a few days beyond that.

Mark Eastman, CVC’s agricultural extension program co-ordinator, sees bird-friendly hay as an opportunity to use a market-based approach to help bobolinks and meadowlarks. “We’ve created a website as an online tool to connect three groups: the hay grower, the hay purchaser and the rural land­ owner who might rent his land to a grower.”

Hayfields with an area of five hec­ tares (about 12 acres) or more – large enough for bobolinks and meadow­ larks to breed in – are eligible, but Eastman acknowledges he wouldn’t

turn down farmers with smaller fields that have verified nestings.

This innovative program is de­ signed to work within the realities of agriculture in the Credit Valley watershed, where proximity to the GTA means farmland is expensive, driven up in price by the appetite of city dwellers for rural properties.

Eastman sees landowners who may have little or no experience with farming as one group who could benefit from the bird-friendly hay program. As an example, he considers a hypothetical 100-acre farm pur­ chased by a non-farmer with a strong environmental ethic. “We might sug­ gest to such a landowner that instead of retiring the full 100 acres from agricultural production, it would make sense to devote some of it to hay – hay that will provide habitat to grassland birds.”

An approach like this has obvious environmental appeal and also offers an attractive economic incentive.

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Giving non-farm landowners op­ tions for using their land also appeals to farmer Jake Grift of Erin. “I think where bird-friendly hay really makes

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sense is for landowners who really don’t know what to do with that land.

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What’s in it for Grift? To be honest, one incentive is cheap hay for his horses. Grift farms bird-friendly hay for a landowner on Shaws Creek Road. He produces the hay, leaves 200 small bales for the landowner as rent, and takes the rest for his horses.

Grift notes that the diminished protein content of hay cut after July 15 is fine for most horses. Not for race­ horses, he emphasizes, but for horses that are harnessed for a gentle saunter once or twice a week. “In the winter horses stand around the hay bale all day feeding,” he says. “High-protein hay would kill them, because they don’t stop eating. Lesser quality hay for that purpose is great. It gives them something to do other than chew my fences. So the hay fits their needs and our needs.”

Lest Grift be accused of acting out of motives that are purely mercenary, consider that he sees his involvement with the hay program as taking some of the heat off other farmers, such as dairy farmers, who must cut their hay early.

Eastman would agree with Grift on

this. He too understands the need to “take the pressure off farmers [for grassland bird protection] where it really isn’t an option.” He believes there is a “need to get away from managing endangered species at an individual farm level and instead manage such species at a landscape level.” This means looking broadly at agriculture and finding gains for bobolinks and meadowlarks within those farming operations that are best-suited economically to support their survival.

Beef cattle operations are an exam­ ple. Like pleasure-riding horses, beef cattle rely less on a steady diet of high-protein hay. Hay cut after July 15 is fine for them. Certified birdfriendly hay is part of the feed mix for the beef cattle at Paradise Farms of Caledon. It’s a great fit with the “natural farming” strategy of owner Shane Baghai. In a recent news release from Credit Valley Conservation, Baghai says, “When I buy birdfriendly certified hay, it’s my way of contributing to bird sanctuaries and it’s good for my business. It adds to my farm’s credibility and my cattle enjoy the hay.”

Paradise Farms can now promote its beef as “bird-friendly,” which precisely satisfies one of the goals of the hay program: to create a brand

In the absence of wild meadowlands, bobolinks and meadowlarks nest in farm fields where the young fall prey to the combine.

that will appeal to environmentally conscious consumers.

According to CVC surveys, eight farmers signed on to the program in its first year. They grew 143 acres of bird-friendly hay that provided habitat for at least 78 bobolinks and meadowlarks. Eastman hopes the program will expand this year.

McCracken calls CVC’s program “a very laudable initiative that could and should be emulated elsewhere.”

But he also cautions, “It’s probably best to wait to see what lessons are learned by Credit Valley Conservation before rolling out something larger.”

A larger three-year initiative, which wrapped up in March 2015, was pilot­ ed by the Ontario Soil and Crop Im­ provement Association. This organ­ ization’s Grassland Habitat Farm Incentive Program, which was fund­ ed jointly by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and Environment Canada, reached out to farmers across the province, offering funds to help improve their operations while supporting grassland birds.

A variety of management practices were eligible for the program. These included removing invading shrubs and trees from pastures, bringing abandoned parcels of property back into grazing, establishing fencing to allow rotational grazing and retiring

marginal farmland into grassland habitat. OSCIA recognized that far­ mers who grazed livestock and grew hay would be the main recipients of the money.

Interested farmers submitted appli­ cations to a competitive bid process that scored proposals according to an environmental benefit index develop­ ed by OSCIA. This allowed, according to the program website, “meaningful comparison with other submissions.”

Christine Schmalz, OSCIA’s environ­ mental programs manager, explains: “With the GHFIP, we focused our scoring system on high-quality hab­ itat for grassland birds.”

Schmalz notes that 62 applications from across Ontario were approved.

“Interest in participating in the pro­ gram outstripped the available bud­ get,” she added. “There were several strong projects that we were not able to fit within the pilot program.”

Though funding for the program has ended, Schmalz said the concept remains very much alive. “We would love to explore the idea of extending or enhancing the program.”

For her, the program’s popularity demonstrated “a strong willingness from the agricultural community to support grassland birds.” It also told her there are “costs associated with continued on next page

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his spring, a grassland for the birds will begin to grow at Upper Credit Conservation Area near the village of Alton. Credit Valley Conservation will seed seven hectares (about 17 acres) of abandoned farmland at the conservation area with a mixture of native grasses and wildflowers, including asters, goldenrod and milkweed. The grasses sown will be those of the much diminished tallgrass prairies – grasses such as big bluestem, switchgrass, wild rye and Indian grass.

The seeding will mark the third year of this grassland restoration project. In 2013, CVC used herbicide to eliminate the largely non-native vegetation from the site. Then last year soybeans were grown to enrich the soil with nitrogen. And now the fun begins. For native plant devotees like me, watching the plants grow will offer serious excitement.

The big question is, If you plant it, will they come? “They” being bobolinks and meadowlarks. Mark Eastman, CVC’s agricultural extension program co-ordinator, certainly hopes so. Eastman views the restoration as a test to find out more about the added value of native plantings. “We know that old fields with a large component of non-native plants support birds,” he says, “but we need to ask, Could it be better?”

We know that native trees make it better for birds than non-native trees.

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these stewardship practices and that compensation for a portion of these costs through incentives is key to achieving success.”

It is that elusive success that the Bobolink Round Table will continue to seek in the years to come, as its members look for solutions that benefit both birds and farmers. The success of the GHFIP suggests that a healthy infusion of taxpayer dollars may need to be part of the solution.

That agriculture will need to play the leading role in the salvation of grassland birds is a given. But if we ask the farming community to be part of the solution, we should ask others to help as well. Farmer Jake Grift suggests governments should consider managing some of their property for grassland habitat.

In the Headwaters region, Forks of the Credit Provincial Park includes several hundred hectares of abandon­ ed farmland that currently supports bobolinks and meadowlarks, as well as imperilled monarch butterf lies.

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But shrubs and trees are slowly reclaiming the landscape. Ontario Parks could explore the possibility of dedicating some of this open space to grassland birds and actively manag­ ing it for this purpose. With the Endangered Species Act mandating protection of such habitat, perhaps this is now a given.

The Ontario Federation of Agri­ culture proposes that urban open spaces could also be made more bobolink- and meadowlark-friendly.

Surely city planners and politicians need to consider this idea.

And why not extend our thinking even further? What of the expansive lawns fronting estates throughout the Headwaters region and the rural hinterlands of cities? Why shouldn’t private landowners share responsi­ bility for the survival of grassland birds?

Though the size of most of these yards is probably too small to support nesting meadowlarks and bobolinks, growing a meadow instead of a lawn could provide food and shelter for

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Testing the Ground for Grassland Restoration

Native trees such as red oak and sugar maple support far more insect life, and hence bird life, than do such non-natives as Norway maples and little-leaf lindens that line the streets of our towns and cities. But will the native advantage hold true for wildflowers and grasses? The hope is it will.

Before embarking on the project, Credit Valley Conservation counted the arthropods – insects and other little invertebrate beasties – in the area. As the project unfolds, staff will continue to count the bugs and the birds, to determine whether the number increases in a native grassland habitat.

The verdict won’t be in for several years. During this time CVC will actively manage the area to suppress non-native plants through cutting and spot spraying, and perhaps eventually with fire, the way Aboriginal people managed grasslands.

If the project is deemed a success – if the restored native grassland does in fact attract more insects and birds – CVC may see fit, in Eastman’s words, to “devote money and resources to similar projects in the coming years.” And maybe other agencies intent on helping grassland birds will come here to learn.

When bobolinks do eventually sing atop the tall grasses at Upper Credit Conservation Area, it will be a good day.

these birds on either side of the nest­ ing season. This would be a win for homeowners as well, for they could trade time spent on a mower for butterfly and birdwatching.

Birdwatching, after all, can’t help but nurture appreciation. For Mark Eastman, appreciation and education work hand in hand to enhance stew­ ardship. As an example, he relates the story of a landowner, someone probably unable to tell a bobolink from a bobblehead, who signed on to the bird-friendly hay program for purely business reasons – and got hooked. One day Eastman received a call from the man, who said excitedly, “Mark, I think those birds are here.

Can you come out and have a look!?”

— In this season of pungent mud, fresh breezes, melting snow and blossoming coltsfoot, meadowlarks are returning to these hills. Look for them atop fence posts, sporting black chevron necklaces and yellow breasts as bril­ liant as the warming sun. Bobolinks

will soon follow.

The Headwaters region will again be g raced by t heir voices. Jon McCracken says, “I hate to sound too over the top on this, but I really think it’s true that the fields ‘are alive with the sound of music.’”

Henry David Thoreau, the famed 19th-century American naturalist, described the bobolink’s song thus: “It is as if he touched his harp within a vase of liquid melody, and when he lifted it out, the notes fell like bubbles from the trembling strings.”

Though the languid song of the meadowlark isn’t as flamboyant, it is, nonetheless, achingly beautiful, a classic standard of our rural land­ scape. Keeping the music alive in our hayfields and meadows is our shared responsibility. Let us have the wisdom to do it. ≈ Don Scallen is a naturalist and retired elementary school science teacher. His observations on the local natural world can be found in his regular blog “Notes from the Wild” at www.inthehills.ca.

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As alternative therapies move into the mainstream and options expand, it’s harder than ever to know what choices make sense for your health.

Nicola Ross went on a personal journey to find out.

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efore attending A Weekend in the Woods in Hockley Valley last August, I scanned the program for the “outdoor wellness event” and realized that, in addition to familiar offerings such as yoga, massage and reiki, the lineup included workshops whose descriptions, for me, may as well have been written in Swahili. So I asked organizer Deborah Kolody to suggest some sessions.

Her response? “I recommend looking at the event sche­ dule and asking for guidance from your higher self. Then choose the ones you are drawn to without engaging your mind.”

Silencing your mind so you can listen to your heart is a recurring theme among those who seek out complement­ ary and alternative therapies. Complementary therapies are used alongside conventional treatments, whereas al­ ternative therapies replace conventional ones. Similarly, balancing your energy is central to many treatments recommended by naturopathic doctors and may include acupuncture, aromatherapy, reflexology, clinical nutrition and colonic irrigation.

These practices or “modalities,” as they are known, are founded on the principle that true health requires the body, mind and spirit to be whole – or balanced – and that wellness comes from within. Naturopathic medicine focuses on overall or “holistic” wellness by finding and dealing with the underlying cause(s) of an ailment or ill­ ness rather than simply treating the symptoms.

This view of medicine can be alien, if not anathema, to mainstream Western culture with its focus on physical

health, so my Western-influenced higher self opted to avoid workshops titled “Biophoton Light Therapy” and “Neuro Linguistic Programming.” Instead, I signed up for “Are You Ready to Let Go and Be the Real You?” Titles can be deceiving.

The workshop introduced the audience to quantum sound therapy. For $2,000, you can buy an IQube that creates a set of personalized audible tones “that open your heart to love.” IQubes “synergistically combine Scalar Vortex Miracoils, zero point generators, sound healing frequencies, inert noble gases, 24 karat gold, pure silver, [and] flower essences to create zero point energy in your home or workplace.”

For me, listening to the monotonous drone created by and for our small group for 30 uninterrupted minutes was akin to being forced to sit in a classroom while the teacher clawed the blackboard. But others have clearly found the therapy transformational. A woman who suffered from Lyme disease gushed about how she was symptom-free for the duration of the treatment. More to the point, her husband, who I had assumed was there to humour his distressed wife, also raved about the effects.

Don’t get me wrong. Though I’m more apt to visit a doctor who practises allopathic – conventional or main­ stream – medicine than a naturopath, and though I have yet to experience the “energy” practitioners involved in A Weekend in the Woods go on about, I practise yoga regularly, occasionally do a cleanse and often use probi­ otics, digestive enzymes and supplements. I’ve witnessed the painless insertion of inch-long acupuncture needles continued on next page

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into my arm to treat tennis elbow, and I’ve been amazed by what an iridologist found lurking in the nooks and crannies of my irises. I also took seriously what Kathy Shackleton, a registered holistic nutritionist with a prac­tice called Wellness In Balance, discovered by examining my finger­ nails. Heck, I even eat more grapefruit because a psychic told me to.

And it turns out that I’m not alone.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, more than 70 per cent of Canadians regularly use some kind of complementary and alternative medi­ cine. The agency notes that there are hundreds of these therapies, includ­ ing vitamins and minerals, Aborigin­ al healing, chiropractic, naturopathy, reiki, acupuncture, massage, reflexo­ logy and yoga.

Spending is also on the rise. Accord­ ing to a 2006 Fraser Institute report, Canadians dished out an estimated $7.84 billion on complementary and alternative therapies in the previous 12 months, up from a total of about $5.37 billion in 1997. About 68 per cent of the $7.84 billion was spent on practitioners and 32 per cent paid for products including herbs, vitamins, books and classes.

This trend is reflected here in Head­ waters. Among the long-established dental and optometry offices along First Street in Orangeville, for exam­ ple, there are now three naturopaths, a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and several other providers of alter­ native therapies and supplements.

In Ontario, legislation is finally catching up with the market reality.

Though naturopaths in the province have been regulated under the Drug­ less Practitioners Act since 1925, the 2007 Naturopathy Act is slated to become law this year. When it does, the College of Naturopaths of Ontario will be a professional self-regulating body that will manage accreditation, complaints and disciplinary proce­ dures.

The legislation, similar to that al­ ready in force in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, will place naturopathic doctors who have grad­ uated from a recognized program,

which takes a minimum of seven years, alongside other health professionals under Ontario’s 1991 Regulated Health Professions Act. Naturopathic doctors – NDs – will be able to take blood samples, give injections and provide naturopathic diagnoses.

The move seems to make the Can­ adian medical establishment nervous, and opponents within the main­ stream medical community have been vocal. In the National Post, columnist Jonathan Kay provocatively echoed their concerns. Referring to naturo­ pathy as “pseudoscience,” Kay wrote that naturopathic treatments “gener­ ally share the common characteristic of being either well-intentioned plac­ ebos involving minerals, vitamins and ‘botanicals,’ or full-blown fauxmedical scams that are actually quite dangerous.”

With critiques like that in mind, I called Orangeville family practi­ tioner Peter Cole. The former medical officer of health for Peel Region had been recommended to me as a doctor who offered a considered blend of allopathic, alternative and comple­ mentary treatments.

“I don’t call it complementary or alternative therapy. I call it holistic – natural healing – as opposed to allo­ pathic medicine, which is what we learn at medical school,” Cole told me.

He said he wasn’t alone in his approach, but he acknowledged that few of his medical colleagues shared his view.

Cole said his “aha” moment came when he witnessed how glucosamine relieved his dog’s arthritis. “Since there is no placebo effect in animals, I figured it was having an effect.” So he decided to see if glucosamine would relieve the pain in his own arthritic knees, but after treating himself for six weeks he nearly gave up. “Then one morning,” he said, “I realized

When the Naturopathy Act becomes law this year, the College of Naturopaths of Ontario will be a professional self-regulating body managing accreditation and disciplinary proce­dures.

it was working.” Some studies have dismissed glucosamine because it doesn’t “cure” arthritis, he noted, “but who takes a pharmaceutical and is cured of arthritis?”

Outspoken in his belief that med­ ical professionals need to use all available treatments, Cole was critical of conventional doctors who are un­ willing – or too lazy – to offer patients a broader spectrum of services.

That idea was reflected in my own experience.

One morning last spring, I woke up with some unfamiliar and uncom­ fortable symptoms, so I went to see my doctor. A test confirmed I had a urinary tract infection. Literally five minutes later, as I clutched a pre­ scription for antibiotics, my doctor ushered me to the door, advising me to be sure to take the pills because a UTI can travel to the kidneys and become nasty. I went home, took the antibiotics, and before the day was out my symptoms had eased.

A month later, I was back in the same examination room with the same problem. The doctor prescribed a different antibiotic and was halfway out the door when I suggested she do a physical examination to see if some­ thing else was causing my sudden affliction. Hurriedly, she complied.

“No, nothing’s wrong,” she declared before sending me packing.

Two months later, the symptoms returned for a third time. “Is there some sort of preventive treatment?

Can we use anything other than anti­ biotics?” I asked as she wrote another prescription.

“Not really,” she said. “But there is a single-dose antibiotic you can take if you feel it coming on.”

“Nothing other than antibiotics?” I persisted.

“Some people claim cranberry juice works, but there’s no proof,” she of­ fered.

“I read that a little tea tree oil ap­ plied topically could help.”

“Hmmm,” she replied, handing me my prescription.

Four days later, I described my challenge to Wendy Davis, a naturo­ pathic doctor with Harmony Health Clinic in Orangeville. “Can I prevent this?” I asked.

“Tell me about your symptoms,” she said. Davis explained that, when ingested, a natural powder called Dmannose coats mucous membranes so that the E. coli bacteria responsible for my infections could not adhere to my urinary tract. The type she “prescribed” contains cranberry, a compound that also makes the uri­ nary tract hostile to E. coli. In addi­ tion, she suggested I take a probiotic and eat raw, unpasteurized sauer­ kraut, both of which contain an abundance of “good” bacteria, some­ thing the antibiotics I had taken had probably wiped out along with the E. coli, exposing me to repeated infec­ tions. I left her office 30 minutes later after an in-depth discussion of the underlying causes and with a list of natural remedies.

Though I was pleased to feel I was getting at the root of my problem, the appointment cost $75 and was not covered by OHIP. Moreover, the Dmannose set me back more than $30, a reminder that the cost of naturo­ pathic treatments is a barrier for people with limited budgets. Though many corporate health plans cover some alternative therapies, people with no supplementary health insurance must pay their own bills, though they can later claim the costs as income tax deductions.

A 2012 article in the Canadian Med­ ical Association Journal suggested that because our universal health care system provides no financial incentive for medical doctors to offer comple­ mentary and alternative therapies, this may account for their slow up­ take by the conventional medical profession. The article noted that in the United States, where health care is more market driven, a growing number of hospitals offer these treat­ ments. In 2010, some 42 per cent of the 714 U.S. hospitals surveyed pro­ vided some complementary and al­ ternative practices. continued on next page I N T H E H I L L S S p r in g 2 0 1 5

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complementary medicine Treatments used in combination with conventional or mainstream medicine.

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qigong (chi kung) A system of traditional Chinese medicine, qigong (pronounced “cheegung”) combines movement – or stillness – with controlled breathing and focus to promote health by improving the flow of qi, or vital energy.

digestive enzymes

The use of flower oils and essences for their therapeutic properties.

Depending on the type, oils and essences can be inhaled, ingested or used externally on the skin.

Naturally occurring or taken as supplements, these molecules work to help us digest the food we eat.

A therapeutic practice designed to relieve tension, improve circulation and promote the natural function­ing of the body by applying pressure to various points on the feet, hands and ears.

homeopathy

reiki

A practice that often involves taking minuscule doses of substances that in larger amounts would cause illness. The goal is to encourage the body to heal itself.

A form of energy medicine that originated in Japan. Practitioners place their hands on or near the patient with the goal of spiritual healing.

iridology A practice that involves examining the patterns, colours and other charac­ teristics of the iris to gain information about someone’s systemic health.

A Chinese martial art used as mindbody therapy. Sometimes referred to as “moving medita­tion,” tai chi involves slow, gentle movements and deep breathing.

massage

yin and yang

Using pressure and movement to manipulate muscles and other soft tissues, thereby allowing more blood and oxygen to reach affected areas and decrease pain.

Terms from Taoist philosophy, which explains change as the interaction between two forces, yin and yang, that make up the whole individual or object.

Often used to describe any pair of related opposites, such as hot and cold or hard and soft, yin and yang are neutral terms. Vital energy (qi), is thought to be generated through the interaction of yin and yang.

ayurveda An ancient Indian healing system that uses diet, herbs, massage, meditation and yoga to maintain physical, emotional and spiritual health.

chiropractic A form of manual therapy that involves the connection between structure and function – specifically focusing on the spine. Chiropractors perform manipulations of the musculoskeletal system to alleviate pain and encourage the body to heal itself.

The study of the relationship between food and a healthy body. More specifically, it is the science of nutrients and how the body digests, absorbs, transports, metabolizes, stores and eliminates them.

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Sometimes taken to counter the effects of antibiotics, which can destroy probiotic bacteria and allow harmful bacteria to thrive.

The use of various forms of colour and light to promote physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

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through the use of diet, herbs, massage, joint manipulation and lifestyle changes.

A diet designed to rid the body of environmental and dietary toxins. It often involves going through a period of fasting, then eating only raw vegetables, fruit, fruit juices and water.

Taking herbs and other supplements may also be recommended.

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into the water may be enzymes, herbs, coffee or probiotics. This therapy is similar to an enema, but it treats the whole colon, not just the lower bowel.

meditation Considered mind-body medicine, meditation is a conscious mental process used to release physical ten­sion, relax the body and ease the mind.

naturopathy A holistic medical system that focuses on supporting health rather than treating illness. Naturopathy encourages the body to heal itself

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Closer to home, the Brampton Nat­ uropathic Teaching Clinic recently opened in the Brampton Civic Hos­ pital, becoming the first facility of its kind to be established inside a Canadian hospital. This means that more medical doctors will receive training in naturopathic treatments and may add them to their toolkit.

Meanwhile, I was still searching for a better understanding of the help I could receive outside conventional medicine.

The day after seeing Davis, I inter­ viewed Andrea Basedow at her House of Healing near Palgrave. Basedow is not a licensed naturopathic doctor, but she is trained in an astounding array of practices. Her home-based business focuses on self-healing, and the walls of her clinic are lined with certificates for ref lexology, colour therapy, acupuncture, clinical nutri­ tion, colonic irrigation and more. She also has shelves of crystals which, when placed strategically on the body, are believed to allow good energy to flow in and bad energy to flow out.

As we sat down for an interview, Basedow placed a heating pad at the back of my chair and put a tall glass of water filled with lemon and cucumber slices at my side. The room overflowed with green plants, and I felt miles away from the sterile treatment room where I had been handed the prescriptions for antibiotics.

After Basedow told me about grow­ ing up in Germany, her six children and her extensive training in places such as Sri Lanka, I asked her what she would do about my UTI if I were her patient. “I help people get in touch, to silence the mind a bit and go into the heart,” she explained before announcing, “I don’t diagnose or prescribe treatments.”

After letting that sink in, she said, “Tell me about what’s happening.”

She listened intently, then said, “You know what is causing it.”

What do you mean? I wanted to say.

But before I had a chance to voice my protest, she added, “Your urinary tract infection is there for a reason” – and she didn’t mean because of E. coli.

“Should I take the treatments my naturopath prescribed?” I asked.

“Oh yes, yes, yes,” she said. “But the body won’t absorb them if you only use your mind.”

That’s when I had my “aha” mom­ ent – about the way crystals and reiki and balanced energy align with sauerkraut and probiotics, and even chemotherapy. Many complementary and alternative therapies, I realized, are intended to harmonize the mind and body and heart – to remove blockages to the energy that flows through the body – to help people get into the right “space” so that other treatments, naturopathic or allo­ pathic, can do their job.

In my interview with Cole, he echoed the concept that “patients have an infinite ability to heal themselves.”

The physician’s role is “to give them some tools,” he said. And to listen.

“Some doctors limit the number of patient complaints to one per visit.

They put up a sign that says, ‘One major complaint per visit.’ But people often come to see a doctor with a list of problems, and buried in the middle somewhere is the real one. You have to create an environment in your office that is supportive.”

The tools patients need are often right in front of – or below – our noses. Though the growing preoccu­ pation with food and food allergies can be challenging if you’re hosting a dinner party, Helena Ovens, a natur­ opathic doctor with more than 20 years’ experience, has had her greatest success with clinical nutrition. Des­ cribed in complementary and alter­ native therapies as the relationship between nutrition and wellness, I think of clinical nutrition in terms of “you are what you eat.”

“I put all my patients on a detox,” Ovens explained. After they spend time on a restricted diet, she instructs them to reintroduce foods, and in this way she is often able to clear up their problem without needing to

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take any remedies. Shackleton, who had diagnosed my zinc deficiency at the Weekend in the Woods by analy­ zing my fingernails, believes many people can improve their uptake of nutrients by taking a digestive enzyme.

In addition to detox, glucosamine, D-mannose and sauerkraut, the nat­ uropathic toolkit is full of “proven” treatments, assuming you believe anecdotal evidence. And this is an­ other cause of friction between main­ stream and naturopathic medicine.

Whereas many medical doctors re­ quire “evidence-based proof” that a treatment works, naturopathic doc­ tors may suggest remedies even if the evidence of their success is anecdotal, though they do so with the caveat that a specific therapy may not work for everyone. Cole said he also trusted intuition, believing a person is more than a physical body – that mind and spirit are also integral to human health.

Thinking back on my UTI, I probed more deeply into my doctor’s unwil­ lingness to suggest I take cranberry juice despite what a naturopathic practitioner might view as overwhel­ ming “evidence” that it helps treat and prevent this ailment.

In an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Matthew Stanbrook, MD, addressed the topic by referring to a clinical trial involv­ ing postal workers with an elevated risk of developing cardiovascular dis­ ease. The study’s authors concluded that the workers’ risk may have been reduced when their conventional medical care was supplemented with naturopathic care that included health counselling, nutritional medicine or adding nutritional supplements to their diet.

Stanbrook took exception to this finding. “Some might be tempted to use this trial to justify a conclusion that the nutritional supplements that formed part of naturopaths’ recom­ mendations have now been validated as effective for reducing cardiovascu­ lar risk,” he wrote. Pointing out that the study was not designed to single out the effect of nutritional supple­ ments, he added that it also failed to provide information about both the

nature of participants’ conventional medical care and whether they changed their behaviour in ways that might also have contributed to their cardiovascular health.

As I understand Stanbrook’s argu­ ment, he would say my taking Dmannose may or may not be the rea­ son I have been infection-free since starting this treatment. Though I doubt my lack of symptoms is the result of the 30 unbearable minutes I spent listening to that IQube, I ac­ knowledge my improved health may result from other factors, including eating unpasteurized sauerkraut and drinking unsweetened cranberry juice.

Or perhaps it’s a combination of all three. Or maybe it’s because I took Basedow’s advice to heart and dealt with the underlying cause. In other words, there is no “scientific proof” that D-mannose was the solution.

Though I get this, Stanbrook’s argu­ ment seems a bit lame when countless people have responded similarly to this supplement.

Nonetheless, he concluded that if allopaths and naturopaths are to be­ come partners, “naturopathy will have to submit its practices to the same standard of scientific validation as other health disciplines.”

I do, of course, recognize the won­ ders of conventional medicine, as do many of the practitioners of comple­ mentary and alternative therapies with whom I spoke. Cole, for example, eventually had his arthritic knee re­ placed, and many Canadians were saddened by the recent death of a young Aboriginal girl whose parents chose to treat her leukemia with al­ ternative therapies despite her high chance of surviving if she had received chemotherapy.

The underlying message of naturo­pathic medicine is that we need to take a more active role in safeguarding our own health ... requiring active participation on our part.

“If I have a patient with high chol­ esterol and a family history of heart disease, I’ll do whatever I can do to get their cholesterol down,” Cole said.

“I may start with natural treatments, but they don’t really work for very high cholesterol.” Cole noted that five of his patients had elected to treat their cancer naturally. “All have since died – prematurely, in my opinion.”

High standards have resulted in artificial hips and knees, laser surgery to strip cataracts and zap kidney stones, and heart transplants and other treatments that save or improve the quality of our lives. But one won­ ders if “prescribing antibiotics as if they were M&Ms,” as Basedow sug­ gests, provides the most effective care when D-mannose and cranberry and glucosamine are known to work.

And, as is becoming frighteningly clear, when the antibiotic free-for-all is having a serious impact on the on­ going effectiveness of those import­ ant drugs.

In addition, there is no question that despite scientific research, West­ ern medicine has chalked up its share of big misses. The controversy over the effectiveness of annual f lu vac­ cinations is just one current example.

Every fall, health professionals roll out public awareness campaigns urg­ ing people to get that season’s flu shot.

Yet they also acknowledge that de­ ciding which flu strains to include in each season’s vaccine is a bit of a guessing game, even if their guesses are educated. More disturbing, how­ ever, is emerging research that indi­ cates getting a flu shot year after year may actually reduce people’s immu­ nity to some pandemic strains.

The underlying message of naturo­ pathic medicine is that we need to take a more active role in safeguarding our own health. This requires active participation on our part, such as improving our diet as well as our physical and mental fitness.

Back at A Weekend in the Woods, I ran into Julie Baumlisberger, whom I knew because I had once written about her mushroom business. She had given up mushroom farming to focus on producing GMO- and soy­ bean-free animal feed, radiated good

health and was practising reiki, so I signed up for a 30-minute session. I lay down fully clothed on a massage table, and she covered me with a cozy blanket, as the day’s grey skies had given way to a bone-chilling drizzle.

Baumlisberger, who has since be­ come a certified reiki master, prac­ titioner and teacher, explained the therapy helps balance a person’s en­ ergy. As a practitioner, her job is to channel energy to relieve stress and promote relaxation, which triggers the body’s own natural healing abilities.

I closed my eyes, and for the next half hour, Baumlisberger performed what I would call a “laying on of hands.” Starting at my head, she moved down my body. She spent a lot of time with her hands cupped around my ears and then stalled at my knees. She told me some patients feel a tingling as a result of her treat­ ment, though I didn’t feel anything – except the blanket’s warmth.

When she finished, I asked what she had found. Explaining that the practitioner should be neutral, she said, “I’m really only the conduit for the energy.” Then she told me there was something going on around my ears, which I found interesting be­ cause I had recently recovered from a nasty viral infection in one ear.

Once past my ears, she found every­ thing was “flowing well.” My energy level was good. Then she came to my knees. “Below your knees was leaden,” she said. “Everything just stopped.”

She worked there for a bit and said she had managed to get everything mov­ ing to her satisfaction. I was good to go. “Drink lots of water,” she advised.

Water helps flush toxins released from the system by the treatment.

Though the treatment had warmed me up and people rave about Baumlis­ berger, I walked away feeling some­ how inadequate because I didn’t feel anything as a result of my 30-minute

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session. Hoping to better understand what I was or was not supposed to experience, I spoke to Abby Campbell, a Belfountain resident who is a mas­ sage therapist, reiki practitioner and certified acupuncture practitioner.

When I told her I had felt nothing during my session, she assuaged my concerns. “Any energy work is subtle.

It took me about ten years to realize how subtle it is.” She added, “I thought I was missing it too.”

“So why do it?” I asked.

Campbell, who practises in George­ town, explained that reiki can be difficult to understand because we are so used to the big stuff: the cure, the easing of my UTI symptoms within hours of taking a single dose of antibiotics. These are the miracles we expect. They may fail to get at the root cause of an ailment, but they make the symptoms disappear with the pop of a pill. Leading me back to the idea of the importance of balanc­ ing energy, she said, “If your emotions are balanced, it has a positive effect on your physical being.”

Basedow’s assertion that she was trained in so many modalities because all people are different was making more sense. Maybe reiki just wasn’t my thing or maybe I just hadn’t given it a chance. Moreover, the concept that health is not just a physical mani­ festation was starting to sink in.

These ideas, however, conflict with our search for the quick fix. The treatments my naturopathic doctor prescribed to combat my weakness for UTIs might take time to kick in.

My healthy flora wouldn’t repopulate overnight, and Cole almost gave up on glucosamine before he felt its effects. The label on my D-mannose bottle warns, “Use for a minimum of 4 weeks to see beneficial results.” But months later, what Jonathan Kay would no doubt define as a “well-intentioned placebo,” in combination with some conscious thought, appears to be getting at the underlying cause.

When I asked Cole about my medi­ cal doctor’s hesitation to suggest nat­ uropathic treatments, he explained she was doing exactly what she and her medical colleagues are trained to

do. But he was optimistic that change was under way.

Lloyd Oppel, a Vancouver doctor who monitors alternative medicine for Doctors of BC, seemed to support that view when he told the Canadian Medical Association Journal, “Go with the things that are shown to work and discard the ones that don’t. Anything that is proven to work isn’t alternative medicine.” This seems like sound advice for all doctors, allopaths and naturopaths alike.

It was a message I wanted my doctor to hear.

Antibiotics alone were not likely to rid me of my UTIs for good. If naturopathic practitioners are right, treating the symp­toms only gets you partway there. Consider stress. Many scien­tific studies now show that stress makes us more prone to the flu, cold sores, stomach upsets, head­aches and other repetitive ailments. A growing body of evidence indicates it may also contribute to the onset of more ser­ ious illnesses including shin­g les and even cancer. So why wouldn’t a men­ tal blockage be behind my re­curring UTIs? “Self-awareness,” said Campbell, “is the first step to health.”

To me, the Brampton Naturopathic Teaching Clinic is on the right track.

It is a satellite of the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic, named after the trailblazing founder of Bolton-based Husky Injection Molding Systems, and is part of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. The Schad clinic’s website sums up its philosophy: “Promoting wellness and prevention, naturopathic medicine harnesses science to unleash nature’s healing power.”

The new clinic’s location in a hos­ pital brings much needed credibility to naturopathic treatments and, importantly, makes them accessible to mainstream doctors. By doing so, it is moving closer to the holistic model advocated by Cole.

Silencing my mind and listening to my heart won’t happen overnight, but Kolody was right – my higher self selected an array of sessions that took me on a fascinating journey. Though I can’t help feeling that selling $2,000 IQubes preys on desperate people, I realize that for some, such as the woman with Lyme disease, this ther­ apy could bolster their yin and yang so other treatments can be more effective. “Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect” isn’t a time-honoured cliché for nothing.

I’ve taken to heart Basedow’s asser­ tion that I know what is causing my UTIs. I may not have entirely rid myself of whatever is blocking my energy f low, but I’m working on it and will likely give reiki another shot.

But I’ve long known that nothing makes me feel better than a simple walk in the forest. Perhaps it’s in the woods that I’ll find the peace I need for inner health – but I will visit my doctors too. ≈ Thanks to Lisa Watson, an advocate of complementary and alternative medicine. Her encouragement and research were key to the writing of this article.

Nicola Ross is a freelance writer who lives in Belfountain.

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ust as every person has a story to tell, so does every piece of wood, says Jim Lorriman, a wood turner whose gift is bringing those stories to life. Using found wood – flooring, window frames, dock planks and the like, much of it of sentimental value – his goal is to both preserve history and reinterpret it as art. And he’ll often write a brief history of the wood’s provenance on the underside of the piece. It’s the stories that make each piece unique, he says.

Robin Blakely (left) and Hailey Harrigan show off the plates made by wood turner Jim Lorriman and inscribed with their stories. As members of Shed the Light, the young women tell their personal stories at local schools to reassure other young people who struggle with mental health that they are not alone.

Jim Lorriman’s plates, Kathryn Thomson’s glass sculpture (facing page) and a turned bowl by Taylor Ledden will be auctioned at Wellies to Wishes on April 18.

So when the Mulmur artist was approached to contribute a piece of his work to Wellies to Wishes, the annual fundraising auction for Dufferin Child and Family Services, he agreed – with a proviso.

Like many artists, Jim is frequently asked to con­ tribute work to local charities. He frequently does, but feels that artists’ efforts are often undervalued.

So this time he said he wanted to create something that was meaningful to the cause. That connection is important to his inspiration as an artist, he says.

Moreover, its relevance to the charity means it will likely fetch a higher price at auction.

He first asked to be supplied with wood that had a story, but DCAFS staff expanded on the idea – to also tell the story of the people they help. After all, helping people is the purpose of both the organization and the event. Money raised at Wellies to Wishes goes toward additional support for the families DCAFS serves. Such support may include funding toward post-secondary education or other skills training, sponsoring recreational or creative activities, pur­

chasing medical supplies, and providing respite for families who need a break from caregiving.

A couple from Port Elgin, Anne Judd and Doug Hamm, heard about the fundraiser and donated two pieces of wood – one light ash and one dark walnut – for Jim to create two large plates. The wood originated on land they had cleared for their home in 1994 using sustainable harvesting and work horses – no machinery was allowed in their forest.

Hailey Harrigan and Robin Blakely, two members of Shed the Light, shared their stories for the plates.

Shed the Light is a youth-led group at DCAFS focused on reducing the stigma surrounding mental health through education. Hailey, Robin and other members of the group tell their personal stories to young people at local elementary and high schools, colleges and community events, making 30 or more presentations a year. In that way they hope to spread the word to other youth with mental health issues that they are not alone in their suffering.

The group began in 2009 through the efforts of a high school student who wanted to bring mental health into the light of day. With the help of a grant, she pulled together a group of students who were willing to talk to others about their personal strug­ gles. Together they designed a logo, website and T-shirts.

The group has grown to eight kids – the largest yet – including two boys. It’s a socially diverse group, so every kid in the audience can probably relate to one or more of the members.

Hailey has been with the group since its inception.

As a child, she remembers feeling different, alone and “weird.” When she was ten, she was diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd).

The label explained her impulsiveness and difficul­ ty with concentration, but didn’t help with her selfimage or anxiety.

She joined Shed the Light for the same reasons others do – to gain an understanding of who she is

and where she is at. “Some of them may not be in a good place when they start,” she says. Speaking to others about her challenges felt empowering and developed her self-confidence. It helped her get over her fears and believe in herself.

Inspired by Hailey’s story, Jim Lorriman’s ash platter is titled “Comes the Day, Showing the Way.” It’s symbolic of the way Shed the Light showed her the way to accept the differences that make her unique, and how she now shows the way to others.

The platter includes some visible wormholes. Jim explains he could have hidden them, but they are like the pitfalls in our paths – we need to see them to avoid them. Like Hailey’s healed scars, they are also part of the platter’s beauty.

On the reverse of the platter, Jim has transcribed Hailey’s story. It reads in part, “I am 20 years old. A student, daughter and sister diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. These titles do not define who I am. I’m a million deep complex titles that are more than just words and descriptions.”

Robin was one of the teens who wasn’t in a good place when she joined Shed the Light. She had battled anxiety her whole life, but nobody realized what it was. “They just thought I was a neurotic kid,” she says. She was bullied at school and her home life was difficult. She suffered severe panic attacks and acted out in fear. As a result, she was suspended from school several times before the problem was diagnosed – nearly too late.

The day before her 16th birthday, she found out a friend had died. She blacked out and woke up in hospital. That night, she tried to end her own life.

Kathryn Thomson’s blown-glass sculpture is inscribed with a poem she wrote: Take Flight Plant my feet like seeds in the ground.

Seeds take root; then skyward I am bound.

Hand over hand, heart to heart, seeds of hope will set me apart – to stand on my own, until I have grown.

Let me climb to new heights.

Set me free to take flight.

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Fortunately, she didn’t succeed.

During her month-long stay in the hospital, she began to receive the help she needed, learning coping strategies and gaining an understanding of her mental health.

Robin’s story is now one of recovery.

She says that after treatment she start­ ed seeing the world in a completely new light. She could see beauty she had never noticed before because she had been so focused on the negative.

“I never thought I’d get to this point,” she says. “I found hope in the stories I heard from the Shed the Light kids, and hope in the stories of the youth who approached us [at the presenta­ tions].” She says that by sharing her story to help others, she has also helped herself.

“All these terrible things brought us [the Shed the Light kids] together,” Robin says. “But we’re there for each other, and that’s a beautiful thing.”

The walnut platter that tells her story is aptly titled “Comes the Night, Stars Shining Bright.” Jim wanted to cap­ ture the beauty of the night shining through – not the dark and scary parts that Robin has come through, but the beauty – the stars and the light – she has found in it.

On the reverse of the plate, Robin’s story concludes, “Now, I strive for my courage to triumph over fear and I love and care for as many people as my heart will let me. I know I will be okay.”

“It’s been an incredible journey see­ ing them grow through their passion for helping,” says Tina Pryce, Shed the Light’s adult ally and co-ordinator, referring not only to Hailey and Robin, but all the teens in the group.

With the idea of spotlighting the artists’ special contribution to Wellies to Wishes, organizers invited only two other artists to contribute to the auction. (The name originated with

the first fundraiser, which featured the sale of artfully painted Wellington boots, and many attendees still sport wellies with their eveningwear.)

Kathryn Thomson, a seasoned glass blower from Amaranth, symbolically captures the journey to health with a vase that features figures climbing a tree, then reaching to the sky and freedom. The design of the sculptural piece, titled “Take Flight,” incorporates sandblasting and patinaed copper. It is inscribed with a poem Kathryn wrote to capture the theme.

The third piece of art has been don­ ated by another wood turner, Taylor Ledden, who lives in Tiny Township.

Still in progress, he is creating a bowl made from an attractive yellow cedar burl and embellished with bronze and woolly mammoth ivory. The ivory, which is between 10,000 and 50,000 years old, comes from Dawson City, Yukon, here miners found it while working underground. Taylor says he inserts such distinctive fea­ tures in his work to emphasize their unique quality.

All the artwork will be promoted on the DCAFS website as well as on the Wellies to Wishes Facebook page.

Jim Lorriman has also created a web­ site to showcase Robin and Hailey’s journey to recovery and his own jour­ ney in understanding their stories and creating the plates. (thejourney. jimlorrimanwoodturner.com) ≈ Laura LaRocca is a freelance writer and mother of five who lives in Laurel.

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nly stage lights are up at the Centre 2000 theatre, home base for Erin District High School’s drama program. Drama teacher Stephen Sherry sits behind a small desk, downstage centre.

It’s lunchtime. Behind the black backdrop, outside the double stage doors, a steady and eclectic stream of hopefuls gathers in the hallway, practising audition pieces for EDHS’s next production, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Among them is Isha Khaira. The 14-year-old Grade 9er has never tried out for a school play, but the lore of Sherry and his productions has been more than enough to help muster her courage.

Ahead of her, drama veterans stride onto the empty stage, chin up. They know the drill. Others shuffle in with a grin, as if following through on a dare. Some frosh, like Isha, glance shyly left and right in search of reassurance as they enter.

Everything is new – the school, the teachers, and for Isha, even the idea of performing. Standard introductions ensue, and then that painful, slow-motion “how-do-I-begin” pause.

After four decades of performing in, writing for, and directing young people’s theatre and high school drama productions, Sherry might interject with any manner of directorial prompts. Instead, he smiles casually and says just this: “Do whatever you feel like doing.” And Isha does exactly that.

What follows is her portrayal of Gollum from Lord of the Rings, then an a cappella number from Les Misérables that leaves Sherry and the smattering of senior students in the darkened auditorium impressed. For her efforts, she will land the role of the White Witch’s Dwarf.

More important, however, is that Isha’s choices for her audition are her own. Like everyone in this cast and crew, she must take ownership of her own journey. This concept is a pillar of Sherry’s leadership style, which places personal growth before polish and infuses every EDHS production with lasting life lessons. In this age of reality talent shows that obsess about “the total package,” Sherry and teachers like him are the anti-Idol, the every Voice, revealing year after year how just participating in the arts can be trans­ forming for anyone.

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r. Sherry is the definition of a true teacher,” says Grade 10 student Taylor Swindlehurst, who is cast as Lucy. “He wants you to succeed not only on the stage, but as an individual in life.”

“You give him respect. He gives you respect,” says senior student Emily Graetz, who plays Susan. “It’s the best kind of relationship you can have with a teacher.”

As for Sherry, he says his role as director simply enables him to interact with students in a more accessible way than in a formal classroom. Still, he says to achieve the trust and

comfort engendered by a positive creative environment requires setting the tone up front. “There’s playing a bit of bad cop to start – setting clear boundaries and expectations is important if you want to help kids be healthy in them­ selves, responsible and good citizens,” he adds. “Once they get that, we’re all on the same cart and we roll together. No one is left behind.”

Indeed, everyone who tries out for an EDHS production gets a part. This year, that means a double cast of 52, along with about 20 behind-the-scenes crew. And rookies soon learn that this is no casual commitment. “Some are surprised – we are such a strong community. We are all here by choice to achieve something. We are here to evolve and become something more than we were,” says Grade 12 student and drama veteran Jessica Bertrand, who won the role of Lucy. Fellow senior Tori Bennett, who plays the White Witch, adds, “Our drama program is de­ manding, but it’s not just for artsy types. I’m an arts student, but I love how anyone can have the benefit of being involved.”

EDHS productions attract kids from across the student body of about 600. Some years nearly one in six students has joined in the play. This year’s stage manager Tori Ridley is a competitive dancer and athlete who first signed up to choreograph a production after being sidelined from sports by an injury. Kyle Junghans had long related to the character of Peter, in his younger years even adopting the catch phrase “For Narnia!” Elsa Cicchini, a former dancer and now one of Sherry’s assistant stage managers, first joined drama to build her self-confidence. Duncan Alderdice was drawn to the idea of working with new people.

Despite students’ wide-ranging ages, backgrounds and plans for the future, Sherry says bonding among the group begins quite naturally. “Kids start to take ownership of their roles. If they see someone lagging behind, they offer to help practise singing or work lines over lunch. They start to see the experience as bigger than themselves.”

Ask the students, however, and they’ll insist this deep sense of ownership doesn’t just emerge. Sherry instils a sense of personal responsibility at every turn.

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t’s early January and a group of students are spending another lunch period in a windowless auditorium. Cast members playing Peter, Lucy, Susan, Edmund, Beaver and Mrs. Beaver gather onstage for a characterization workshop, a chance to try on their new roles for size, to find inspiration.

“Double casts are tricky,” says Sherry. “They need to be managed so they don’t become competitive. You want them to learn and borrow from each other, but ultimately think of creating the end result together.”

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Students at Erin District High School practise battle choreography for this spring’s production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe under the guidance of drama teacher Stephen Sherry. “The arts are underestimated in what they do for students,” he says.

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“Good,” Sherry interjects. “Now, think of something a bit bigger, more comedic. Think of your own take on, say, Mrs. Doubtfire. See what comes to mind.” Fuller tries again, broad­er and funnier in her delivery. And so it goes, with Dexter Adkin playing Edmund, Brett English as Peter, and the rest.

Their director sums up the session with one key note, “Your process of working on your role should be pretty organic. Constant change and devel­ opment are integral to your finding the character.”

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hat you’ll never see is Sherry imposing on actors what he would do with a character.

“Life is all about choices,” he reflects.

“Some choices we make aren’t the best, and some are. It’s going through that journey together and giving students a safe opportunity to try that on.”

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cleanest, but they will be very, very good because when kids are really trying hard and gelling as a team, performances and creativity come out that you’d never expect.”

A few examples. The EDHS postapocalyptic reimagination of Macbeth won a Classical Theatre Project award for costuming and sets. Their Fiddler on the Roof featured a performance of Tevye that some say best­ed the Mirvish production starring Harvey Fierstein, which was playing at about the same time. (I saw both; it did.)

Their staging of village life in prerevolutionary czarist Russia was also strikingly close to the professional production.

Critical to students’ owning the whole process, however, is also own­ ing the mistakes. “Mr. Sherry is the first one to accept an apology, help you understand what went wrong and how to move on,” says Swindlehurst.

In a past production of James and the Giant Peach, for example, the actor playing James mixed up a line, catapulting the dialogue forward 20

pages, which amounted to half the script. Horrified glances filled a preg­ nant pause as the onstage cast silently determined their course of action.

Their decision? Keep moving for­ ward. Off-stage, sharks and cloud people scrambled out of one set of costumes into another. Only one of five seagulls, and that one missing a wing, made it on cue, and in no time the audience was filing out of the theatre, puzzled by how short the production was.

“I did suggest afterward that if it happened again, they might go back and keep things on track,” Sherry smiles. “But every show has one of those tense, fist-clenching moments, big or small. You just sit back and pray they’ll get themselves out of it. And they always do. In this case, oddly, the story still worked. They made it work.”

Behind all the successes and occa­ sional near misses, Sherry emphasizes there’s an equally important produc­ tion team developing sets, working sound and lights, and doing whatever it takes to create the world onstage.

In the world of Narnia across top : Students Jessica Bertrand, Alex Stellings, Cailey Stuckless, Isha Khaira and Shanyn Junghans assist each other with makeup practice. centre: Emily Graetz, who plays Susan, rehearses with Kyle Junghans, who plays Peter. bottom : Students perfect fight choreography. Jessica Bertrand, who plays Lucy, listens intently to advice from Mr. Sherry.

Here, too, veteran students jump in to mentor newcomers, passing on the technical ins and outs of their profes­ sional-quality theatre facility. Sherry confesses to having a soft spot for his behind-the-scenes crews, knowing how hard their job is and how un­ recognized the work often goes.

“My relationship with my produc­ tion team is always something spec­ ial,” he says. “More than with actors and their hectic rehearsal schedules, we’re often able to sit down one on one to plan and create. Today I met with Jessica Bertrand, who’s passion­ ate about set design. I’ve had a strong vision for this production since last year, but I had to put that on the back burner and keep an open mind. After

hearing her ideas today, neat things that I had not thought of, we’re chang­ ing the direction of the production. It was a cool process.”

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t’s another drama lunch devoid of natural light. Tori Bennett, Isha Khaira, Jessica Bertrand and Taylor Swindlehurst sit cross-legged in a circle, stage left. They’ve been to share student perspectives on their drama program for this article. From the very first question, it’s clear that they feel immense, self-imposed res­ ponsibility to convey the bigger truth of their experience. With eloquence, sincerity and little prompting, they wax philosophical.

Jessica expounds on drama as selfexploration and her journey from being the “shy girl at the back of the room” to leading lady. She explains how Sherry responds to each student as an individual and adapts to his or her needs. Isha shares her thoughts on the power of “opening up” crea­ tively, finding your own voice and encouraging others to do the same.

Taylor explores the “common under­ standing” among their diverse drama community and how “that spirit reaches throughout the whole school.”

And Tori describes the joy of working alongside students she never thought she’d see in a production, then mar­ velling at their talent. Only the bell signalling the end of lunch curtails the conversation. This group is in­ spired and inspiring.

In the parting moments, Taylor sums things up. “There’s always one teacher in your life who you’re going to remember because of something that they did for you. That’s Mr. Sherry.” Others nod in agreement.

“Far beyond a drama teacher, he’s a role model. You want to be like him.”

Sherry says he had teachers who did the same for him. They led by exam­ ple, letting him make mistakes and learn from them. He says his mother also instilled a deep sense of service and giving back. It seems likely that his students will also pay it forward in some way.

The vast majority, however, will leave drama behind after graduation.

They won’t have more chances to build sets, make costumes, work lights, run lines, sing centre stage or workshop characters for productions like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Macbeth, Footloose, Dracula, Tommy, Nine to Five and others. What they take away, however, might be just as rich.

“The arts in general are underesti­ mated in what they do for students,” says Sherry. “No matter why they first sign up, I’ve seen drama empower students in so many ways: confidence, teamwork, lateral thinking, resilience,

persistence – qualities that businesses in the real world look for. Speaking for all drama teachers, we don’t really think about it because it’s so intrinsic to how we work. We’re not good at blowing our own horn – I guess because in the end it’s not about us.”

After months of gradually pulling back, Sherry takes the final step before opening night. He calls this “releasing the show.” From this mom­ ent on, the show belongs to the stage manager, the crew and the actors. It’s all about them. It’s their responsibility to look at where they’re at, and come together as a team to make things work. Sherry smiles, “This is always one of my favourite moments.”

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n May 9 this year, closing night will likely go as it often has at EDHS. A stealth blackclad production crew will work their magic with sound and light. Actors, savouring each last moment onstage, will bare their souls in full-throttle performances. When they take their final bows, parents, friends, neigh­ bours, siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents will stand applauding, each connecting to 72 different stories onstage and off – maybe a junior who overcame shyness to take on her first speaking role, a loner who finally found a nurturing community, a tough kid who backed into drama only to unearth striking talent, the peren­ nial star who discovered even deeper satisfaction as a mentor – and many more.

Their stories will swirl around the theatre in this heady culminating mom­e nt, the climax of months of collaboration, creativity and commit­ ment. Finally, students will beg Mr. Sherry to take the stage for a bow.

Instead, he will likely wave brief ly from the shadows. After all, this will be their moment. He wouldn’t have it any other way. ≈ Erin District High School’s production of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe runs May 6–9 at 7 p.m. at Centre 2000 in Erin. A Saturday matinée takes place May 9 at 2 p.m.

Adults, $10. Students and seniors, $8.

Tickets are available at the door, in the school library (both cash only) or at Brighten Up, 67 Main Street, Erin (debit and credit card payments accepted for a small fee).

Liz Beatty is a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveler and a contributing author to Journeys Home, a recent National Geographic book of essays and tips about family roots travel. She lives in Brimstone. continued on next page

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n the next couple of months, high school drama departments across the Headwaters region will stage their spring productions. These wonderfully diverse programs are shaping young lives in many im­ portant and different ways. We can support the transforming creative journeys of these dedicated teachers and their talented students while enjoying a great night out at any of these productions. Here is just a taste.

The key word for Michelle Grierson, head of fine arts at Orangeville District Secondary School, is inclusivity. With a background in dance, drama and expressive arts for people with special needs, Grierson often fashions productions that integrate both mainstream drama and dance students with the school’s significant population of students with special needs. These include high-functioning students, as well as some non-verbal students who use wheelchairs.

In her 22nd year at ODSS, Grierson launched this year’s theme, which explores dreams and reality, by reading to students the opening of the novel The Night Circus. She’s bringing in professional circus performers to train students according to their abilities. Some dancers will actually perform aerial acts. The show runs June 3 to 5 at the ODSS cafeteria.

Tickets are available at the door: $6 for students, $8 for adults.

At Mayfield Secondary School, teacher Joanne Bethune heads the drama section of the school’s acclaimed regional arts program.

And what a busy program it is. Early March brought several one-act plays for the Sears Ontario Drama Festival.

April 1 is Senior Drama Night, when Grade 12 regional arts classes perform two shows they have collectively written and produced.

Performances start at 7 p.m.

Tickets by donation at the door.

From April 23 to 25, Mayfield’s spring play features Blankets & Bayonets, written by grad Kelly Anderson. The first production by one of Mayfield’s alumni, the play is an original musical drama about war, survival and love.

The time is World War I and the story follows the experiences of two families. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets ($15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors) may be purchased at the door or from students at lunchtime during the preceding week.

Finally, Junior Drama Night takes place on May 28, when students in grades 9 and 10 regional arts classes present four shows they have colla­ boratively written and produced.

Performances begin at 7 p.m.

Tickets by donation at the door.

Tanja Oomen, drama teacher and head of fine arts at Centre Dufferin District High School in Shelburne, leads a strong student-driven program. Under her creative guidance, students this year are writing a script about mental illness.

In an anthology format, the production will feature original

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Though this year’s show is a stark contrast to last year’s grand musical production of Jekyll and Hyde, Oomen and the students hope it not only captivates audiences, but also raises awareness about important mental health issues. Dates and ticket information are to be determined.

Jennifer Hutchinson leads another strong student-driven drama program at Westside Secondary School in Orangeville with a production this spring of Thumbelina, adapted by Wade Bradford. The play was chosen

by Grade 12 students, and at the helm are two student directors, Alannah Taylor and Kodi Hopkins, along with student stage manager Katrina Grist and student production manager Kaitlin Maggs. All four seniors are pursuing post-secondary education in technical production design.

Thumbelina runs from April 29 to May 1. Tickets are $7 at the door.

Finally, Rob Ciccotelli, head of the celebrated drama program at Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School, reports that he and his students were thrilled to perform Peter Shaffer’s hilarious farce Black Comedy in Los Angeles, California, during this year’s March Break. Co-directed by teacher Frank Adriano, the production took place March 17 at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Hall Drama is an internationally recognized dramatic arts department that has performed all over North

Students of Robert F Hall Catholic Secondary School travelled to California during March Break to perform Peter Shaffer’s comic farce at the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. “We’ve performed in a lot of very special places over the years,” says drama teacher Rob Ciccotelli, “but this honour is beyond our wildest imagination.”

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America and Europe, garnering many awards and national media coverage.

Hall productions have been performed in London, England, in Macerata, Italy, off-Broadway in New York City and at Stratford Festival.

Covered by national media, their original musical, In the Pink, explored breast cancer amongst teenage girls and was performed at the New World Stages in New York City.

Ciccotelli says the school’s productions have sold out venues as large as 2,300 seats and performed in some of the most prestigious professional theatres in Ontario, including Winter Garden Theatre and Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Rose Theatre in Brampton, the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga and Orangeville Opera House. George Stroumboulopoulos is among Ciccotelli’s alumni.

Unfortunately, Hall Drama’s performances of Black Comedy for this year’s Sears Ontario Drama Festival took place in early March.

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With Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, Trevor Cole brings his first novel to the stage, and brings his father Bill Cole back to Headwaters.

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here is nothing so humiliating as to be accosted by the fetid flesh of one’s undead past.”

That lament, spoken by a tele­ vision actor embarrassed by his early film work, appears in the novel Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life. While many writers may likewise have reason to fret about their undead past, Trevor Cole, the man who wrote the line, does not.

An accomplished journalist who has been nominated for 24 National Maga­ zine Awards and won nine, Cole made the leap to fiction in the early 2000s.

Norman Bray was his first effort. When it was published in 2004, it received wide­ spread acclaim, including nominations for a Governor General’s Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It has been optioned for television, optioned twice for film, and was made into a CBC radio adaptation and audio book.

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“If I feel like I’m mastering something, then it means it’s time to challenge myself again and do something new,” says novelistturned-playwright Trevor Cole.

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Cole’s second novel, The Fearsome Particles, was also nominated for a Governor General’s Award and long listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His third offering, Practical Jean, brought what must have been a career highlight when among other recognition it received the prestigious Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 2011.

Now the author is taking another leap, with his adaptation of Norman Bray for the stage. The play will make its world debut April 10 at Theatre Orangeville, running until April 26.

It will be directed by the theatre’s artistic director David Nairn and star Stephen Sparks as Norman, Heidi Lynch and Jesse Griffiths.

It’s fitting that the play should open here. Cole spent the years 1966 through 1972, from age six to 12, living near Grand Valley. His father was noted Canadian actor Bill Cole. Though Bill Cole appeared in the first televised ver­sion of Anne of Green Gables on CBC TV in 1951, he was better known as a stage actor, appearing in productions across the country including Toronto, the Charlottetown Festival and Strat­ ford, with such contemporaries as Don Harron and William Needles (father of playwright and columnist for this magazine Dan Needles).

Bill, who died in 2005, also taught briefly in the drama department at Orangeville District Secondary School in the late 1960s. For some years after his time there, bus trips were organ­ ized so ODSS students could see their former teacher appear on stage in Toronto.

Though Trevor’s book and play are works of fiction, it is his father Bill who served as the model for the char­ acter of Norman Bray.

Norman is an aging actor who is by turns obstinate, infuriating and obli­ vious. His artificially inflated selfregard has brought him to the brink of ruin financially, in both his career and closest relationships. This is a darkly funny, yet ultimately endear­ ing glimpse into what happens when unstoppable narcissism crashes headon into immovable reality.

Trevor Cole has written and spoken publicly about his personal experience growing up with a man who sucked all the oxygen from the room. I sat down with him to talk about the challenges of staging his first play, empathy, fear, and how to cope with a bathrobe-clad narcissist in the living room.

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Jeff Rollings There are those who claim the book is always better than the film. I wonder, are you worried something like that could happen with your play?

Trevor Cole Well, I don’t think I can say which is better. I think each is its own thing. Certainly the book is longer and is a more complex story, but some would argue that the play is the natural medium for this story, and that it lives best on the stage.

We’ll have to see. A lot of the people who know Norman Bray know him from the 15-part CBC Radio adapta­ tion, which was then turned into an audiobook. A lot of people who know and love the book know and love it through that radio adaptation, which only captured maybe 40 per cent of the book. It didn’t capture a lot of the comic set pieces I treasure about the book, because they didn’t push the plot forward. For those people who only know the radio adaptation, and love the book because of it, I can’t say that is a bad version, because it obviously worked for them.

I didn’t write an unlikable character. I wrote a character that I quite love.

He was my dad, or based on my dad. So when I was writing Norman, I had love in my heart, and nothing else.

I was showing him warts and all, but I loved him.

The challenge for me with the radio adaptation, and now with this stage adaptation, is realizing that Norman is my father. So whenever I see Norman, whenever I wrote Norman’s words, whenever I think about Nor­ man, I see my father. And nobody can be my father onstage. It’s about al­ lowing the actor to do his own thing with the role. Once I feel I’m com­ fortable with that, then I’ll feel I’ve actually become a playwright, or adapted myself to the stage.

JR I’ve heard you talk about how your dad was always performing, whether he was on stage or not. So how is it for you to see some actor performing your father performing?

A screenshot from a 1971 CKCO TV interview with Bill Cole. The television and stage actor taught high school drama in Orangeville in the late 1960s.

TC It brings back a lot of memories, and a lot of images come back. When I see a scene being done, I will some­ times think about how Dad would do it, because it’s just natural. Nobody is quite the narcissist my father was, and that’s a good thing. I really love what Stephen Sparks, the actor who’s playing Norman – I’ve seen him just in readings so far – is doing and I’m excited by what he’s going to do. He’s going to make it his, and that’s when it will live. Nobody can perform the vision of my father I have in my head.

JR I saw a video clip of your father before reading the book, so of course I had him in my head too.

TC Dad had a very powerful presence all the time. Even watching television, Dad was a presence in the room. He never faded away. He was always vivid. That’s what I tried to capture in the essence of Norman.

JR Is it difficult to bring – this guy can be so utterly unlikable – to bring that to the stage and still ensure that people enjoy the play?

TC Here’s the big thing about Norman. I didn’t write an unlikable character. I wrote a character that I quite love. He was my dad, or based on my dad. So when I was writing Norman, I had love in my heart, and nothing else. I was showing him warts and all, but I loved him. Readers can be frustrated by him – usually it’s men more than women who dislike Norman. Women find a soft spot for him. A lot of women readers want to take Norman under their wing and show him the way forward. There’s a lot of affection for him. Men tend to see elements of themselves that they reject in him. And so Norman angers

them because it cuts too close to the bone or something.

JR I imagine everyone who reads that book is constantly measuring them­ selves against Norman’s narcissism.

TC Absolutely. Or it starts to ring bells about people they grew up with, or that they knew, so they’re working with that balance as well. But the thing is, in the book, Norman does outrageous things. He acts selfishly and is oblivious to the needs of others, but the saving grace is that you know what’s going through his head. You’re not on the outside of Norman, as the rest of the people in the book are.

You’re on the inside. So you can see how he goes from A to B, or from A to Z, in his mind. You can see how he works through an issue or a situation.

And even though you might not take the same path Norman takes, you see how he got there. That builds in a certain amount of empathy for him because you can relate to him. The challenge of mounting Norman on the stage is generating that same em­ pathy, even though you can’t be on the inside of him in the same way, be­ cause you are watching, you’re not participating inside his mind. So that’s an acting challenge as much as it is a writing challenge. The goal is for Norman to be likeable enough that you care about what happens to him.

JR While many narcissists are sweet and lovable to the outside world, they can also be nasty and cruel to family members and those closest to them.

Yet Norman is never nasty or cruel.

TC I would argue that narcissists, when they are nasty or cruel, aren’t doing it deliberately. You have to think of a narcissist as a child in an

adult’s body. So when a child has a tantrum, they may say bad things and act in a nasty way, but they are ex­ pressing an inner hurt. Narcissists are the same way. It’s just that they have more power behind the words because they’re adults. When a narcissist is mean and cruel, he’s lashing out. It’s an expression of insecurity and selfpreservation and hurt. A narcissist is never cruel to be cruel, or rarely.

When you’re cruel to be cruel, then you’re getting into a whole other layer down the spectrum of personality disorder. You’re getting closer to psychopath. Dad could be cruel, but I grew to understand that it was coming from not a mean place, but a damaged place or hurt place.

The challenge of mounting Norman on the stage is generating that same empathy, even though you can’t be on the inside of him the same way, because you are watching, you’re not participating inside his mind.

In the case of Norman, I didn’t need to express that part of the nar­ cissistic personality. Even though it’s a story about a narcissist, it’s not a book about narcissism; it’s a book about a character. So Norman is not a cruel man, he’s a selfish, oblivious man, but he’s not cruel. I had no in­ terest in writing about a cruel person.

I didn’t need to mine that part of my experience.

JR How does it feel as opening night draws closer?

TC The thing about being a novelist is it’s all in your head. You make it live on the page, but it’s very intangible in a way. It’s also very singular. It’s a very lonely process creating a world in your head and then putting it on the page. What’s exciting for me about this process is that it’s very different.

You’re collaborating, you’re working with other people. And the words you create have an immediate effect on someone else and they have to work with those words. Then I have to take their needs as actors into considera­ tion in a way that I never had to in the novel. There are theatrical needs,

there are things that you have to keep in mind when you’re writing lines and you’re doing a scene. It’s a whole other process and it’s thrilling be­ cause it’s not lonely work at all. You feel like you’re working with people, and that’s kind of cool.

JR I see your jumps from journalism to fiction to stage writing as being very courageous and I wonder about the motivation. To begin with, is it terrifying? Beyond that, what compels you to do that?

TC The very first professional writing I did was writing 30-second radio commercials. I went from that into writing magazine stories, and then into novels. Each jump is a stretch, and that’s deliberate. I get bored with myself easily. If I feel like I’m mas­ tering something, then it means it’s time to challenge myself again and do something new that I haven’t done before. I’m much more interested in life when I’m a little bit scared of what I’m doing. If it feels like, Yeah, I’ve done this before, I’ve got this, then I start to lose interest. That’s why I quit the magazine in order to write novels.

I wanted to write bigger. I wanted the challenge of a big canvas. I felt it was in me and I wanted to pursue it. And now, with doing this adaptation, it’s a new form, and it’s a new way to frighten myself and see if I can rise to the challenge.

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JR What’s next for Trevor Cole?

TC I have a nonfiction thing that I’m writing now, which is challenging.

That’s the project on my plate at the moment, and it scares the daylights out of me. I don’t know if I can do it.

People tell me I can do it. I don’t know.

It keeps me up at night, and I worry about it.

JR When will we see another novel?

TC I have a novel coming out this fall, which I wrote last year. It’s called Hope Makes Love. It’s about two char­ acters, Hope and Zep. It’s about love, and it’s about fear. ≈

This interview has been condensed and edited for publication.

Jeff Rollings is a freelance writer who also grew up near Grand Valley and now lives in Orangeville.

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BY G A IL GR A N T

Over the past two years countries around the world have been waking up to the fact that the slaughter of elephants for their ivory tusks is rapidly threatening to drive the world’s largest land mammals to extinction. As a result, the U.S., France, Hong Kong, the Philippines and other countries have crushed tons of illegal ivory so that it cannot be sold on the black market.

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hat is sweet news to Caledon couple Greg Gubitz and Elise Solway. Greg is chairman of Big Life Foundation Canada and Elise an active volunteer, which puts them on the front lines of the struggle to stop the slaughter at its source.

Working on the ground in Kenya and Tanzania, the nonprofit organization collaborates closely with people in local communities, other NGOs, national parks and government agencies to protect and sustain wildlands and wildlife, including one of the largest populations of elephants remaining in East Africa. Trade in ivory was banned internationally in 1989. However, the worldwide supply of tusks stock­ piled before the ban was acquired by the Chinese and Japanese governments and, particularly in

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China with its rapidly burgeoning middle class, the demand for ivory took off.

Although China has also crushed illegal ivory, Greg and others worry the move is more show than commitment. The government-owned factories control the supply, while the volume of ivory products available on the international market far exceeds that which the original stockpiles of socalled “legal” ivory could support.

With the increase in demand, so came an increase in prices, which soared from $170 a pound in 2004 to more than $2,000 a pound today.

Considering a pair of large tusks can fetch as much as $500,000 on the street in China, it’s no wonder the black market for ivory is booming and

organized crime syndicates have muscled in on the action. As well, elephants are increasingly targeted by rebel militia organizations which use the pillaged ivory to fund their wars.

In 2012, an estimated 35,000 elephants were il­ legally killed (about 10 per cent of the entire African elephant population), largely by poachers cashing in on the ivory market. At that decimation rate, experts predict elephants will be extinct in Africa in as little as 12 to 15 years.

To make matters worse, local African wildlife pro­tection groups are chronically underfunded and poorly equipped for the battle. And it’s not just elephants at risk. As the demand for animal parts continues to grow, primarily from the Far East,

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left : Greg Gubitz and Elise Solway in Caledon. The elephant in the Big Life logo photo by Nick Brandt is Igor, age 49, killed by poachers in 2009. above : Greg with some of the Big Life rangers and community members who are working together to eliminate elephant poaching.

lions, rhinos and cheetahs are also threatened with extinction.

Greg’s Caledon office is warm and charming, a reflection of the man who sits behind the desk talk­ ing about his passion. A former lawyer, businessman and venture capitalist, Greg now volunteers a sig­ nificant part of his workweek to Big Life Canada, creating awareness and raising funds to save the dangerously dwindling wildlife populations in Kenya and Tanzania. And he says he has never done any­ thing quite so rewarding in his entire business career.

Big Life Foundation USA was founded in Septem­ ber 2010 by internationally acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt and renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Bonham. Its sister charity, Big Life Founda­ tion Canada, came into being in April 2012.

The two organizations work together in a highly co-ordinated fashion toward the common goal of protecting wildlife in the sensitive Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem.

It’s a daunting task. The area under protection covers over two million acres.

Nevertheless, in its few short years, Big Life has established itself as an important anti-poaching leader in East Africa. It has in its employ 315 rangers across the two countries of Kenya and Tanzania, making it the largest employer in the core region of its operations.

It has set up 31 ranger outposts, and bought and

equipped 15 anti-poaching vehicles. It uses aerial support for monitoring in both countries, nightvision equipment to search for cooking fires, GPS devices, video cameras with motion sensors, and regularly plugs into its large network of informers and connections. Four trained tracking dogs are invaluable assets.

Since its inception, Big Life has made more than 1,600 poaching-related arrests and seized more than 3,000 poaching weapons.

observation point on the Tanzania border, heard late one Sunday afternoon. Three shots in quick succession.

“The radio network burst into life as the rangers called for support from Kenya Wildlife Service and other Big Life teams in the area. In less than 90 minutes, teams were scouring the area, but soon ran out of daylight.

“The search renewed at sunrise. After an hour and a half of fruitless searching, the trackers received

At the current decimation rate, experts predict elephants will be extinct in Africa in as little as 12 to 15 years. And it’s not just elephants at risk... lions, rhinos and cheetahs are also threatened with extinction.

Two things have led to these results: the skill of the Big Life teams on the ground and the co-operation of local communities incensed by the poaching taking place in their area.

Greg reads a report from the field written by Richard Bonham: “The crack of a heavy rifle, designed specifically to kill elephants, is unmistakable. It’s a little like a sonic boom, a crash followed by a roll of sound not unlike thunder.

“This is what the Big Life rangers, manning an

news that a fresh tusk, still covered in blood, had been found on the poachers’ tracks. The follow-up team split up, some continuing with the poachers’ tracks, others backtracking to find the carcasses.

“At midday the gut-wrenching news arrived.

Three dead elephants had been found, their faces hacked away, their ivory gone.”

“Murder for profit,” mutters Greg, as he resumes our conversation in his Caledon office.

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killed 22 lions just 18 months prior to the introduction of the project is now routinely protecting them. In the last quarter of 2014, he says, no lions were killed in the region of the project, and the Amboseli lion population, which numbered a mere handful a few years ago, has grown to about 200.

The Maasai Olympics, a sports com­ petition based on traditional warrior skills, is another Big Life initiative.

First held in 2012 it is hoped that through sport, a shift in the Maasai attitude can be engineered to promote a broader commitment to wildlife and habitat conservation as a prefer­ red way of life in the 21st century.

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ivory, primarily from the emerging middle class in China and other Asian countries. Carved ivory has become a status symbol, and there are assembly line factories in China carving tusks into all manner of trinkets and orna­ ments.”

He then adds grimly, “People don’t seem to equate these objects with the life of a magnificent animal. Ivory is not a status symbol. In reality, it is a symbol of shame and ignorance.”

Rangers employed by Big Life are recruited from local communities, instilling a sense of pride, commit­ ment and devotion to the protection of local wildlife that extends not only to the rangers themselves, but also to their mothers and fathers, wives, children and extended families. Often it’s these connections who supply val­ uable information as to the identities of suspected poachers or suspicious activities in an area.

And some of the men who now wear the Big Life ranger uniform with pride are former poachers themselves. They have been caught, served their time and decided that the promise of a reg­ ular paycheque is a better way to live than the dangerous, uncertain and socially unacceptable life of a poacher.

Big Life Foundation also supports programs designed to encourage conservation and education in local communities. In a culture where it is not unheard of for families to sell their last cow in order to finance an education for their child, the Big Life Education and Wildlife Scholarship Program has been well received by local communities, sponsoring over 200 students’ primary, secondary and tertiary education. These students

“Elephants are highly developed and live in family units.

They have feelings. They take care of each other. They know suffering and mourn their dead ... I do not want to be part of a generation that sees these gentle giants wiped off the face of the earth.” Greg Gubitz often return to their home commu­ nities to provide leadership and much needed skills and services.

Another program, the Predator Compensation Fund, was designed and developed in close collaboration with the local Maasai community.

The fund acts as an umbrella of pro­ tection for persecuted species such as lions, hyenas, leopards, wild dogs and jackals that are viewed by livestock owners as dangerous.

Retaliatory killing for livestock predation is a major threat to Africa’s lion population. The goal is to replace conflict and retaliation with tolerance and cohabitation. The compensation fund pays farmers 50 per cent of the value of predator-killed livestock, but only after 90 days if they, or anyone else in the community, have not killed a predator.

“We believe it is the most effective conservation strategy in Africa,” says Greg, noting that a community that

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rounding areas. The poachers are moving farther afield.

To avert further devastation just outside the range of its protection, Big Life has established an elite rapidresponse mobile team to cover areas identified as high risk over an addi­ tional 500,000 acres.

These teams, composed of the best rangers, set up camp at a different location each night. Their potential presence is a strong deterrent to poachers on foot.

Greg was first drawn to elephant conservation when he went on a photo safari a few years ago and now returns at least once or twice a year. While other countries are taking action to crush ivory and announce zero-toler­ ance measures to halt the ivory trade, he bemoans the fact that Canada has remained silent on the issue.

“Elephants are highly developed and live in family units,” he says.

“They have feelings. They take care of each other. They know suffering and mourn their dead. They are killed for trinkets, their tusks hacked out and their carcasses left to rot. I do not want to be part of a generation that sees these gentle giants wiped off the face of the earth.” ≈

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“Don’t fret,” Pia says. “Use what you have.” She sold her Orangeville café to her son-in-law Xel Campbell (inset) two years ago.

fish soup cooking with pia wiesen

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ia Wiesen’s cooking philosophy can be summed up in three words: Keep it simple.

So when we asked the former owner of Pia’s On Broadway in Orangeville to suggest a recipe that is both elegant and easy to prepare, she chose this simple fish soup that she says has become her signature dish.

Although it is based on a traditional bouilla­ baisse, Pia has dispensed with complicated French cookery techniques and exotic, difficult-tosource ingredients.

“When I first made this,” she says, “for my husband’s 40th birthday, we were living in Picton, Ontario. I had wanted to make a bouillabaisse, but I couldn’t find many of the ingredients, so I had to be inventive.”

Pia uses what is available – fish, seasonal veggies, water – to produce a delicious soup that allows the individual ingredients to shine. The recipe calls for salmon, halibut, sole, and scallops or mussels, but Pia urges cooks to substitute whatever looks freshest at their local fish counter.

The indisputable star of the dish is her spicy

rouille, which combines the silkiness of home­ made mayonnaise with the complex heat of sambal oelek, an Indonesian condiment available in most grocery stores. But, says Pia, any good quality mayo mixed with whatever hot sauce you have on hand will do.

“Don’t fret,” she says. “Use what you have.”

The soup recipe is included in her eponymous cookbook published last fall (Pia: My Three Little Lands), a compendium of classic recipes, from quiche lorraine to tarte tatin, whose overall design embodies the freshness and simplicity its author espouses.

Pia’s friends and family had been urging her to write a cookbook for years, but she was so busy operating her popular Orangeville bakery/café that she could never find the time. Then two years ago she sold the business to her son-in-law Xel Campbell, who was pastry chef at the café, and suddenly she was free.

“My daughter fell in love with the chef,” she laughs. “It was perfect.”

Creating the cookbook has also been a labour of love. And like all love affairs it has been a very

intense experience.

“We did 110 recipes in ten days,” she says. “Cook­ ing, styling, photographing.”

In the evenings she would invite friends over to eat the spoils – osso buco, roast lamb, boeuf bourguignon.

“I love to entertain, I love to eat,” says Pia. “And it’s all real, the food in those photos.”

In the meantime, the café has been thriving.

Xel and his wife Laura have a young son Kip, and another baby on the way.

“It’s very busy,” says Xel, who has just completed another hectic lunchtime shift. Not simple at all.

The café, which Pia opened in 2009, still embraces all things local, seasonal and organic. The bread is made on site. The soups are homemade, many of them based on Pia’s original recipes.

And this fish soup is one of her favourites, perfect for impressing the most discerning guests.

“It’s fabulous,” she says. “You can make the veg­ gies and broth a day ahead. The next day you just heat it up, add the fish, and serve. It’s so easy.” ≈ recipe on next page I N T H E H I L L S S p r in g 2 0 1 5

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Fish Soup serves 4– 6 ingredients 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 red pepper, diced 1 orange pepper, diced 1 green pepper, diced 2 tomatoes, diced 1 zucchini, diced 2 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and cut into small cubes Salt and pepper Water to cover 1 fillet of salmon, cut into bite-sized pieces 2 fillets of sole, cut into bite-sized pieces 1 fillet of halibut, cut into bite-sized pieces 1 lb (½ kg) bay scallops (or mussels) 12 large shrimp sauce 2 cups mayonnaise (homemade or good quality store-bought) 2 cloves garlic, crushed 2 tsp sambal oelek 1 cup cilantro, chopped

Heat oil in a large cast-iron pot. Add onions and sauté until transparent.

Gradually add peppers, tomatoes and zucchini and sauté until tender-crisp.

Add potatoes, salt and pepper. Stir.

Add enough water to cover.

Bring to a boil and simmer on medium-low heat until potatoes are tender.

Mayonnaise 2 tbsp Dijon mustard Salt and pepper 3 tbsp white wine vinegar 2 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk 1 ½ cups olive oil Place mustard, salt and pepper, vinegar and eggs in a blender.

With the machine running, slowly pour in the oil through the top.

Can be stored in refrigerator for two to three days.

Prepare sauce by mixing mayonnaise, garlic, sambal oelek and cilantro in a bowl.

Add fish fillets and shellfish.

Bring to a boil and cook for 5 to 7 minutes or until mussels open. (Discard any mussels that do not open.)

Serve with a dollop of sauce and lots of crusty French bread.

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ennis lifelong sport

With nine community clubs and one busy private club, you can find a game anytime, anywhere in Headwaters.

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n acquaintance of mine immigrated to Canada in the 1950s to escape racial tensions at his home in South Africa. An avid tennis player, he headed down to the local racquet club in Montreal hoping to make some friends. As he walked up to the courts, he noticed a large green sign. In block letters, it stated, “Whites Only.” It took him a long moment to realize the sign referred to the colour of the players’ attire.

Modern tennis has shed much of its genteel “Whites Only” image. Today’s top players, including Canada’s own Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard, are superstars, often admired as much for their good looks and colour co-

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ordinated outfits as for their slice backhand. While the local tennis scene in Headwaters has been active for years, it is attracting a new crop of youngsters drawn by Canada’s unpre­ cedented success on the world tennis stage. Now seeded number seven, Bouchard was the first Canadian ever to break into the top five seeded players. Raonic, the eighth seed, was a semifinalist at Wimbledon last year.

Headwaters Racquet Club, a pri­ vately owned facility in Orangeville, reports its junior programs are swel­ ling by 20 per cent per year. Joanna Phang, formerly a member of Malay­ sia’s national team, is a pro at both the Racquet Club and several of the region’s nine outdoor clubs. Between

the ones in Caledon Village, Erin, Belfountain and Palgrave, Phang in­ structs some 40 to 50 kids. She says Erin’s club is so busy “there are week­ nights when members have to wait for a court.”

All of this activity, says Phil Staite, a Caledon Village resident who had a successful varsity career, is the result of there being over 2,000 active local players – some of whom have won provincial and national titles in their age groups.

People are drawn to tennis (and other racquet sports) because it re­ quires a mix of technical skills and fitness, doesn’t require much equip­ ment (tennis shoes, a racquet and three balls) and is simple to organize.

You only need two players for a game of singles, or four for doubles, rather than a whole team. Moreover, tennis is considered a “life sport” – one that can be played at all ages. Brian Millar, head pro at the Headwaters Club, says they have four-year-olds enrolled in Tiny Tennis, and octogenarians can be crafty players indeed.

While the Headwaters Club is ten­ nis central for players of all ages and skill levels in the winter, it’s the nine outdoor facilities that echo with the sound of tennis balls during summer.

There are clubs in Mono Centre (two courts), Palgrave (four courts), Caledon East (two courts), Bolton (four courts), Inglewood (two courts), Belfountain (two courts), Caledon

far left : Andrea and Dave Adsetts (left) congratulate Carol Hall and Dennis Beentjes at a recent 95+ tournament on Mono Centre courts. left : Joanna Phang is a pro at Headwaters Racquet Club and several of the region’s outdoor clubs. below : Caledon’s Erin Routliffe is poised to become one of Canada’s new superstars.

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With the exception of the privately owned Headwaters Racquet Club in Orangeville, the region’s out­door tennis clubs are municipally owned courts that are managed and main-tained by volunteer boards.

Members have priority court access. Membership fees vary.

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Orangeville has a public court alongside the Orangeville Tennis Club. It is free to play on this court.

Village (four courts), Erin (five courts) and Orangeville (four courts). Add in the Racquet Club’s four indoor and four outdoor courts and the total adds up to 37.

In addition to being simply places for people to play a “set” or two with a friend or friends, most clubs also of­ fer lessons for kids and adults. There is also a host of leagues and a number of tournaments. In other words, if you want to play tennis in Headwaters, there is a club and a program for you.

The much loved Caledon-Dufferin Interclub League is as competitive as it is fun. Teams from each home com­ munity play against one another on a weekly basis. The league culminates in a day of playoffs and great food.

The ever-popular 95+ Mixed Doubles Tournament in Mono Centre was the brainwave of Carol Hall, the owner of the Mono Cliffs Inn, tournament sponsor and two-time winner. Hall realized that if the combined age of a mixed doubles team had to add up to over 95, it would force participants to play with someone other than their spouse. As Hall puts it, “There was too much bickering between couples.”

Proving tennis is both a lifelong sport and intergenerational, one year my mother, who was almost 80, play­ ed in the 95+ tournament with Carol’s son Jason Hall, who was 19. They didn’t win, but they had a good go of it.

Since it opened five years ago, the Headwaters Racquet Club has been adding programs as members and non-members demand them. There is a popular men’s league, some house leagues and two InterCounty wom­ en’s teams, as well as lessons for adults and kids of all skill levels taught by six pros. Another option is Cardio Tennis, “a fun group activity where players of all abilities enjoy tennis together.”

JoAnn Pilkey, a pro and provincial champ, says the club’s Cardio Tennis is attracting people who may not otherwise be interested in the game because it’s free for the club’s fitness members.

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Given all this tennis, it’s not sur­ prising that Headwaters has spawned a potential superstar.

At six foot two and about to turn 20, Erin Routliffe is burning up the courts in the Southeastern U.S. where she’s on a tennis scholarship at the Univer­ sity of Alabama. In 2012, Routliffe made it to the quarterfinals in the junior women’s doubles competitions at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Last year, she and her partner won the NCAA Doubles Champion­ ship and she made the honour roll.

A former Mayfield Secondary School student, Erin started playing in Caledon Village. She may wallop her forehand, but Erin’s advice to other players is pretty simple: “Make sure you are having fun.” ≈ Freelance writer Nicola Ross lives in Belfountain.

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If you have a shovel, please bring it. Light refreshments and a free barbeque will be offered after the tree planting. www.creditvalleyca.ca

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was eating a slice from Airport Pizza on a Tuesday night before a community meeting with some women from work – when the topic of the “birds and the bees” came up. Or, to drop the euphemism, how were we managing to talk to our kids about sex and reproduction.

Our discussion and laughter ricocheted off the walls of the town hall atrium as we chowed down and spilled our experiences, from good to bad.

One mom is readying her daughter for high school, so she recently bought her books to start the conversation. “Isn’t it a little late?” I asked her. “Oh, no,” she replied, covering her eyes.

She had been avoiding the talk as long as possible, and intended to keep it that way!

The Ministry of Education sets curricula and standards for all publicly funded schools in Ontario, including the subject of sexual health and orientation in the elementary school grades.

The current review of that subject in Ontario has produced the predictable controversy, but I’m just pleased that “sex ed” is taking place in a safer, more inclusive and friendlier environment than when I went through the system. Still, books and sex-ed at school don’t take the place of the parents’ role, or cover every situation.

Indeed, another woman in our chat recalled a family member who had missed much of what was said in her sex ed class because of an undiagnosed hearing disability. She literally had not heard the information. When her normal reproductive cycle began, she was shocked and traumatized, thinking she was hemorrhaging and going to die.

As for me, I don’t ever remember a time when I didn’t know about the birds and the bees. Let me explain: I grew up on a farm. My parents kept horses (and a menagerie of other animals) throughout my childhood. “Breeding season” was just a part of life. Trust me, when you see horses doing their thing up close, the mystery disappears quickly.

The happy birth of a foal happened almost a full year later, with my mom listening by monitor, or sleeping in the barn, in anticipation of a mare going into labour. Sometimes the foal would quietly appear overnight while everyone was asleep – its momma nickering in the morning to announce her baby. At other times we were there to assist her with the birth. Either way, there was no surprise for me about how this soft, spindly-legged creature came to be.

My girlfriend Renée told me that because she has two kids, one born biologically to her and her husband and one adopted, full and trans­ parent disclosure was key in the story of the development of her family. Making a baby biologically is significant and wonderful, but it does not define how her family four-pack

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For me and my son, it has been a mash-up of experiences and learning that has told the story of how we came to be, and how we came to be together. Knowing his cousins Cole and Jace from hours after birth helped us to tell the story of conception, labour and delivery. Adrian asked about things early on, and I didn’t skip a beat.

While the questions make some (especially men?) feel pale and faint, I much preferred to get it over with up front. I pulled the proverbial bandage off quickly, hoping to avoid painful discus­ sions, backtracking and language corrections later on.

If anything, what I worry about is the proliferation in the other ways our kids are now learning about the facts of life. Not just from mom and dad, not just from the animal kingdom, and not just from school. Of course, some informa­ tion has always come via word of mouth from other kids at school.

But what concerns me most these days is the online activities that can steer our kids in the wrong direction.

In a 2014 survey of boys in grades 7 to 11 across Canada, 40 per cent admitted to looking online for porn, and the ones who did said they did so frequently. It’s hard not to suppose that those images and videos are exerting a strong influ­ ence on their burgeoning under­ standing of sexual relationships.

While girls’ participation was much lower, they were looking online as well. And “sexting,” the act of sending images of a nude or sexy nature, is also happening with alarming frequency. I am readying myself to have a conversation with Adrian about the “reality” of what is online, and to talk about feelings of intimacy and safety. (When the time is right. Deep breath.)

In the meantime, growing up in the hills, Adrian has had the bene­ fit of drive-by field sightings that make us blush or laugh or want to cover our eyes. Somehow, even though I know it makes him a bit squeamish, there is something to be said for old-fashioned nature doing what nature loves to do. It’s part of the “birds and the bees” education, so maybe slow down the car a little and have a good look the next time you are driving by the farmer’s field. ≈

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Get Current on the Curriculum As I was writing this column, Ontario’s new Health and Physical Education curriculum was just about to be released. I encourage all parents to go online and get up to date on the curriculum in full. www.edu.gov.on.ca

Our hills are never more alive than they are in the spring – daylight stretches, branches bud, and flowers and greenery unfurl fingers and toes.

This season I sign off with a quote from William Wordsworth that indeed seems fitting: “Let Nature be your teacher.” — Bethany

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by Ken Weber

Seneca Ketchum Lived Large

Some of his contemporaries admired his generosity, devotion and commitment. Others called him a stubborn zealot, eccentric and “not very sane.” But all of them agreed on one point: Seneca Ketchum was impossible to ignore.

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round 1830, when Seneca Ketchum settled in the Purple Hill area of Mono Township, the capital of Upper Canada was still called York, settlements such as Bol­ ton and Erin were tiny blips on the map, and these hills had yet to meet Orangeville’s deemed founder, Orange Lawrence.

But to Seneca, the gradual spread of civilization into the wilderness of newly surveyed Mono Township was an opportunity to pursue his life’s passion: spreading the word of God via the Church of England. For 20 years he did just that, in Mono and beyond, with an intense single-mind­ edness that moved almost everything in his path.

Worthy of a Dickens Novel Seneca was nearly 60 when he came to Mono, an age when many people look forward to ease and comfort.

And that choice was open to him – by 1830 he’d become well-to-do on his lands in present-day North Toronto.

But the plot of Seneca’s life, even its very beginning, was anything but ordinary.

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He was born in 1772 near Albany, N.Y., just in time for the American Revolution, which, because the Ket­ chums were Loyalists, made for an uneasy and often dangerous child­ hood. In 1788 his much-loved mother died after the birth of her 11th child (she was just 36), and like a character in a Dickens novel, he was literally tossed out into the world. Ten Ketchum children were settled with neighbours, but Seneca, at 16, was told to fend for himself.

Another Dickensian blow was deli­ vered when he reunited some years later with his younger brother Jesse (see sidebar), freely taking Jesse into his comfortable home where the housekeeper was a radiant young widow whom Seneca hoped to marry.

The housekeeper married Jesse.

But perhaps the greatest emotional pain of all for Seneca was an unful­ filled desire he carried throughout his life. From early childhood on, he felt a powerful call to the ministry and had committed his life toward be­ coming ordained. However, circum­ stances conspired against him and it never happened. Still, it was this dream of ordination that brought him to Canada.

For Seneca, only the Church of England mattered, and in post-revo­ lutionary America that made him an outlier. Thus in 1792, with his hope of achieving holy orders still very much alive, he set out for a country where the denomination meant something.

At age 20 he landed in Cataraqui (Kingston) where his passion for ex­ panding the Church of England took its first step.

Upper Canada’s Busiest Churchman?

Over the next 50 years Seneca Ketchum became what one historian called “an Anglican whirlwind.” The year he ar­ rived in Kingston, he helped establish that community’s first Anglican church. Within months he had moved to Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) and helped build St. Mark’s there. When Governor Simcoe moved the seat of Upper Canada to York, Seneca moved too, and in 1797 became a builder, charter member – and voice to be rec­ koned with – of York’s first Anglican church (eventually St. James’ Cathedral).

On Sunday mornings, from his home near present-day Yonge Street and Highway 401, Seneca would walk two hours to St. James’ for morning

Cou r tesy S t. John ’ s Yo r k Mills A n g lican C hu r ch

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Seneca Ketchum, 1772–1850

services. Then in the evening he would hold a lay service in his home – until 1816 when he cofounded St. John’s Anglican in York Mills. With this neighbourhood church in place, he then moved these home services to Thornhill and Markham. All this before he moved to Mono where his activity ramped up even further.

Preacher, Builder, Benefactor, Irritant Seneca came to Mono with a theore­ tical step up in the Anglican hierarchy.

He was licensed as a lay missionary

by Archdeacon (later Bishop) John Strachan. It was an unpaid, quasiofficial position that gave Seneca some status, but it is easy to believe Strachan saw it as a way to entice Seneca to leave York where they regularly locked horns. In any case, the new lay mis­ sionary was eager for challenge and his arrival in Mono was marked by a flurry of activity that began before the ox carts were unloaded.

Like all first-in pioneers, he built a family home and then helped build more homes on his several tracts of land for the families he’d persuaded to come to Mono with him. Over subsequent years he built bridges and

Sorting Out the Ketchums Seneca’s brother Jesse (1782–1867), younger by ten years, is perhaps the best known of this active and influential family, owing to his involvement in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, his successful commercial and real estate enterprises in Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., and his support for universal education. (A Toronto school is named for him.)

He was a philanthropist and, like Seneca, a strong believer in temperance (their father, also named Jesse, was a notorious drinker). Unlike Seneca, this Ketchum was a Presbyterian. (Perhaps not coincidentally the brothers’ house­ keeper, Ann Love, whom Jesse married in 1804, was a fervent Presbyterian.)

A third Jesse (1820–1874), the son of Jesse and Ann Love, is well known in Orangeville. This Jesse is credited with positive developments in the town, such as the wide design of Broadway, its main street, and the numbered grid pattern of streets to the north. He also donated the land for present-day St. Mark’s in 1854.

Orangeville’s Jesse is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery on the edge of town.

His father lies in Buffalo, N.Y. Seneca is buried at St. John’s, York Mills. He died there while in Toronto to petition Bishop Strachan for a full-time pastor for his beloved St. Mark’s.

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roads and was regularly celebrated for providing food to the township’s pioneer families.

But all this effort was secondary to his lay missionary work. He spread the word, freely handing out Bibles and the Book of Common Prayer. He taught catechism (and literacy), and held services everywhere at every opportunity. These hills were still the domain of the saddlebag preachers in the 1830s, and because Seneca’s home became a regular way station for them, his role continued to expand.

In 1837 Seneca built St. Mark’s, arguably his most enduring legacy because it became the foundation for today’s St. Mark’s Anglican parish in Orangeville. This first version was a log church on Seneca’s land on Mono’s 1st Line East. It instantly became a focal point of religious activity in the township and beyond. And, possibly because it was a project by Seneca, it quickly attracted some controversy too.

Just six concessions to the east at Mono Mills was St. John’s, also an Anglican parish. Neither church had a resident ordained minister, both being served by an overworked itinerant pastor (called “travelling missionary”) who had still other churches in his charge. There being no rectory, the two Mono churches competed to house this pastor, and it seems St. Mark’s,

as a consequence of Seneca’s generous hospitality, was a frequent winner.

This not only stirred the ire of the parishioners at St. John’s, but even led Bishop Strachan to warn one itinerant pastor there was “much to fear from Seneca’s excited state of mind.”

Sadly, Seneca died before St. Mark’s ever did get a resident pastor, but throughout the 13 years after building “his” church, he continued to pursue his passion at full throttle, preaching, teaching, building – and giving. In 1845 he gave the (Anglican) Church Society of Toronto 300 acres “for the benefit of the missionary doing duty in Mono Township.” He built a rectory at Melville. Although records are fuzzy, he is said to have built at least six more churches, likely family chapels, in Mono.

Although Seneca never escaped his reputation as an eccentric (perhaps deserved to some extent – in 1847, for example, he set aside land in Caledon Township for a Sailors’ Home), there can be no doubt about his significant contribution to the development and growth of Upper Canada. In the early history of these hills especially, there are few pioneers to match him for energy, achievement and profile. ≈

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At Seneca’s Side Ketchum family lore has it that Seneca was utterly devastated when his housekeeper chose to marry his brother Jesse in 1804, but two years later Seneca married his neighbour Ann Mercer (1782–1847). The marriage bond lists her as “a spinster of York” and contemporary accounts portray her as gracious and becoming. Her family was prosperous and she shared Seneca’s sense of generosity. The couple had no children and when they left Toronto for Mono, they donated most of their land for what became the city’s first mental hospital.

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by Gail Grant

r osem a r y hasner

is it time to downsize

Pat and Gary Vipond moved proactively from their Caledon acreage to an Orangeville bungalow: “What a delight it is to be able to walk to meet friends at a local café,” says Pat.

from the family home ?

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o, the kids have moved on, the family home feels empty. Yet there is no end to the chores, both indoors and out. And it’s taking a lot more time than it once did to wash the windows and cut the grass. The stairs are getting steeper, the job jar is overflowing, and there is a persistent niggling feeling that there really should be more to life.

Making a good lifestyle choice at the right time could make the dif­ ference between anticipating your retirement years with joy and hope, or with dread.

Well-known area residents Gary and Pat Vipond had lived in their large country home for 32 years. Their four children grew up happily roam­ ing the grounds on their Caledon estate, but maintaining the 3,800square-foot house on 20-plus acres

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was now becoming a hassle.

Before life defined their margins for them, they became proactive in the hunt for their next home. Pat remembers watching her own parents move from the family home in Etobi­ coke to full retirement at their cottage.

“It wasn’t the right move for them.

They left behind all their support systems and most of their friends.

Although the area was familiar to them, the transition was too drastic,” she says.

With this in mind, Pat and Gary were lucky to find a beautiful bunga­ low on a tree-lined street in Orange­ ville. Pat says when she first walked in the front door, she could see the potential of the house. They did some renovating with the help of their contractor son, and have been enjoy­ ing their freedom ever since.

“What a delight it is to be able to walk to meet friends at a local café, to our doctor, lawyer, dentist. The size of this house is so much more manageable, and with a bit of shuffling, we are still able to squeeze in our entire family of 25-plus for Christmas dinner,” says Pat. The Viponds were fortunate in that they had family to help with the actual move. The clearing out of be­ longings accumulated over 33 years was a horrendous job, and one they couldn’t have done without the dedi­ cated help of their children.

Brenda Alderdice, Caledon’s Down­ sizing Diva, says, “I went through the downsizing transition with my dad, and learned firsthand how difficult the process was for him. When an opportunity came up to get into the downsizing business, I jumped at it. I love dealing with seniors.”

Brenda emphasizes the time to look at options for the next phase is before a crisis. “For seniors, often there is a trigger that changes their path, such as a fall, restricted mobility, diagnosis of a progressive disease, loss of a spouse, loss of a driver’s licence or financial setback,” she says. “Any one could pre­ cipitate hasty action and result in loss of control of where and how you live.”

Moving is always stressful, but for a senior, it can be overwhelming. The family home holds a lifetime of mem­ ories. Photographs, furniture, dayto-day items, and the boxes in the basement the kids left behind. It all must be sorted. Determinations must be made on everything from tattered sheets and towels to the most precious family treasures. If family isn’t near­ by to help out, it may be time to call the experts.

And that’s just what many people seem to be doing. The concept of sen­ ior-move management professionals was initiated in the U.S. about 12 years ago. Downsizing Diva is a Canadian franchise that is opening offices ac­ ross the country. As one of the first Canadian franchisees, Brenda has seen her business grow significantly in just four years. She now employs a team of seven, and has recently ex­ panded from Etobicoke and Caledon to Dufferin.

Following a free initial consulta­ tion, Brenda develops a quote out­ lining the services she recommends.

“I encourage family members to be present during this discussion, but I feel strongly that the senior should be part of the decision-making process every step of the way.”

A usual job sees Brenda helping the client decide what to take, what to scrap, what to pass along to family members, and what to sell, recycle or auction. She and her crew arrange for disposal units, hire movers and clean­ ers, and pack the boxes. If the house is

to be sold, they will transform it to ensure it shows to the best advantage.

On moving day, Brenda usually suggests a client find something fun to do for the day. When they meet later at the new residence, everything is set up. Dishes are in cupboards, furniture has been placed according to the agreed plan, pictures have been hung, the TV is working, clocks and phones are operational.

Before the move, the Divas take photographs of the client’s dressing table and knick-knack cabinet, and everything is put back exactly the same way in the new home. The bed is made, toothbrush is where it should be, clothes are hung, and coffee is in the fridge. Some clients even find themselves with new sheets and towels.

Moving from the family home is one of life’s most difficult decisions.

Brenda’s succinct advice is, “Before safety and well-being become issues, take the time to regroup, rethink your needs and preferences, and move for­ ward.” ≈

With this inaugural column, Gail Grant begins her exploration of the “later years.”

“Those of us entering our 70s are in the vanguard trickle of what will soon be a tsunami of baby boomers rolling over the next hill,” says Gail, who recently turned 71. And she adds, they are carrying their attitudes with them – “We resolutely refuse to age as previous generations have.”

Gail Grant A shining example of that philosophy, Gail has embraced this new stage in life with vigour. In the past four years, she has successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro with her daughter, canoed the Yukon River from Pelly Crossing to Dawson City, hiked through the mountains of Peru into Machu Picchu, and backpacked in Southeast Asia.

For some of us, even those a lot younger, that list of impressive accomplish­ ments just sounds exhausting. But Gail knows her approach is not one that appeals to everyone, nor one that is available to everyone.

Gail moved to these hills 25 years ago, when her Bay Street job became one she could do from a home office. Although she is now long retired and most often winters in Mexico, she maintains a keen interest in politics and environmental issues, and her involvement with the establishment of Abbeyfield House, a residence for active seniors in Caledon East, introduced her to many of the issues related to growing older in a rural setting.

“In this column, I plan to address the wave of new issues rolling toward us as we age,” she says. “Those include downsizing our homes, estate planning, health care, stretching our retirement savings, grandchildren, changes in our mental abilities, finding activities that don’t stress our aging muscles and joints, and, inevitably, the grief of losing dear friends and family.”

In spite of all these challenges, she adds, “We have been given one last tremendous gift – that of time. As we enter our senior years, may we use our time wisely to age purposefully and with grace.”

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an Unexpected Country Life A Sunday drive in the hills took a surprise turn, leading a Toronto couple on a delightful journey into the past.

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his is the story of a couple from Toronto who weren’t looking for a country pro­ perty. Not because they didn’t like the countryside, but because their children were grown with families of their own and there no longer seemed to be a compelling reason to move out of the city. It is also the story of what can happen when you’re ambling around these hills and happen to fall in love.

It started innocently enough – a weekend drive in the country, a visit

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with friends, a peek past a for sale sign to see what a property was like.

How many of us know what a dan­ gerous game that is! Beyond the sign, they found a slice of history with a wonderful view.

The wife is a landscape architect with a particular interest in the his­ tory of gardens. As the two wandered the property, she saw it had once boasted apple and pear orchards.

Although the orchards were mostly gone, a few apple trees had survived and were clearly very old. And a very old, unusually tall pear tree also re­

mained. Covered in vines, it was in need of serious doctoring.

The home itself was a historically designated, charming Gothic revival farmhouse with a wide front veranda and a big old maple out front. The setting was breathtaking. But the couple had no real interest in buying – or so she thought.

On the Monday after their ramble, she was at work when she took a call from her husband, who said, “You’ve got a farm!”

“We had never had a second pro­ perty and didn’t have a single spare

spoon!” she said. “This was starting from the bottom up.”

They acquired the spoons, and much else besides, and began to make the place their own.

It wasn’t long before they began to look into the history of the property.

The original farmstead was register­ ed in the early 1800s by the widow Cobean. She had immigrated from Northern Ireland with her five young sons during a period when many Irish Protestants were looking for econo­ mic betterment. They were part of the wave that had made the Irish one of

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The early days of the family’s life in Mono Township must have been brutal. The land had to be cleared and a dwelling built, and the children, all younger than seven, were too small to assist much, though there may have been money enough to hire some help.

In any event, the Cobeans stayed, prospered, and over time bought more land in the surrounding area.

The original section of the current house was built by one of the sons. A small graveyard nearby is filled with tombstones bearing the family name.

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One day, an elderly man arrived at the door and told the couple that when he was young, he had walked by the house every day on his way to school and that he and his friends used to sneak in and steal the “grape­ fruit-sized” apples from the trees.

And another man, in his 90s, drop­ ped by to tell them about the 30 years he had lived in the house and farmed the land. Layer by layer, the history of the place was coming to vivid life.

One of the first things the new owners tackled was the gardens. The pear tree got special attention, and days were spent pulling down vines and pruning dead branches. It was touch and go for a while, but the tree survived and is once again produc­ ing pears. continued on next page

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Perennial beds were reshaped and simplified. All the original plant Page material was kept, carefully moved and replanted, so that the gardens are ablaze with the colour of traditional favourites: old-fashioned perennials such as peonies, irises, poppies and black-eyed Susans.

Along with weeds, the digging turned up an old English silver spoon, bent and twisted but now treasured as a relic of a past age.

Standing proudly in the turning circle at the top of the lane is a heritage lilac. Probably planted to improve the appearance and certainly the fragrance of the first privy, which would have stood near the widow Cobean’s ori­ ginal dwelling, this lilac has been carefully nurtured as a tribute to the continued on next page

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resilience of the property’s first own­ ers. “It really speaks to the past,” said the wife.

PageA narrow cattle path leading into a “cathedral forest” has been widened into a walking and skiing trail. It took weeks of effort to rid it of brambles and wild grapes, but the avenue now leads to a special destination.

When they weren’t elbow deep in the soil, the couple noticed that their surroundings were quiet – too quiet.

They realized the property, which had a perfect lawn, was probably contam­ inated by pesticides. That stopped, and within a year or two, birds and butterflies were back in abundance.

The couple tackled the house in phases. As in many farmhouses of the period, the rooms were small, making them easy to heat. They didn’t want to change the character of the house,

but they wanted more light, as well as spaces more accommodating for children and grandchildren. They also wanted to simplify its appear­ ance, so they worked with Toronto architect Paul Roth to reconfigure the existing space.

They shifted the main entrance from the side to the front of the house and took out some walls to make a foyer that is roomy and elegant. The original “birthing room,” which would have been the warmest room in the house, is now an intimate library.

The previous owners had added a large master bedroom, living room and later a dining room. The couple’s major task was to improve the flow from one room to another. Walls were knocked down or through, so the foyer now connects to the living room and the kitchen to a spacious

sitting room. The changes also cre­ ated long vistas from one room to another, making the interior brighter and giving it a more expansive feel.

Mindful of their growing family with young grandchildren, the couple completely renovated the basement, creating a new staircase and a twobedroom suite with windows and a walkout to the garden.

Although this country home wasn’t always part of the family’s life, it has become a centre of family activity.

Summer days are likely to be alive with the sounds of children and dogs splashing in the large pond, adults huffing and puffing as they work in the beautiful gardens, and ice cubes tinkling in tall glasses on the porch. ≈ Pam Purves is a freelance writer and photographer who lives in Caledon.

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MAJESTIC 12,000 SQ FT, KING 10 acres, approved for barn and paddocks.

Rob McDonough $3,295,000

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DEV POTENTIAL, ALLISTON 84 acres abutting residential development.

Rob McDonough $2,995,000

95 ACRE FARM, ADJALA 10 paddocks, bank barn, permit for arena.

Rob McDonough $1,349,000

100 ACRE FARM, ADJALA Log home with fabulous views for miles.

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GRANDE FARMS, HOCKLEY VALLEY Renovated main house. Deluxe indoor arena + 24-stall stable. Views, pond, rolling pastures.

15 minutes to the Caledon Horse Park. 2 staff apartments. 100 acres, 2 lots. $2,999,000

PRIVATE LAKE, MONO HILLS Gracious residence overlooks 10-acre trout pond. Spectacular country retreat with 2 houses, charming boat house, workshop on 100 acres with trails, fields, woodlands. $4,475,000

HORSE FARM, ADJALA Renovated Victorian home. Barn, paddocks, pond. Rob McDonough $795,000

EQUESTRIAN FACILITY, NEW TEC 39.5 acres, 25 stalls, arena, multi outbuildings. Rob McDonough $1,499,900

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CUSTOM BUILT, CALEDON Large lot, open concept, many upgrades.

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90 ACRES, BEAVER VALLEY Newer home, gas heating, barn, workshop, pond. Rob McDonough $799,000

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LAKE FRONT HOME, ADJALA 27 acres, 5+2 bedroom, 4 bath, 7-yr-old home. Rob McDonough $799,900

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CALEDON SKI PROPERTY Stunning 1860 stone house. Deluxe renovation. 10 acres of privacy. $1,995,000

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Over 50 years of combined experience at your service! Caledon, Mono, Adjala and surrounding areas.

STATE OF THE ART High quality & class exec home with many extraordinary features. Huge crown mouldings & millwork throughout. Unprecedented ‘automated’ house w/ controls for tv’s, fp’s, elevator, pool, lights, cameras, heating & more! Calcutta marble, 3-sided aquarium, lavish mstr, 4-level elevator, 15 seat home theatre with 3D. Stunning pool & cabana. 5-car garage w/ lifts. The list is extensive. Situated on almost 4 acs. Come & experience the quality, finishing & lifestyle you deserve. Caledon. $2,290,000

CUSTOM EXECUTIVE ESTATE Stately home in a prestigious Orangeville neighbourhood. Wonderful country setting, in town. Set well back from the road in a hardwood bush surrounding. Spacious layout and potential for in-law suite, nanny suite or home occupation. Finished walkout basement. 6 fireplaces, cherry floors, lavish master suite, 3-car garage and backyard oasis with inground pool. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,295,000

UNIQUE OFFERING Two homes on adjacent park-like properties, individual deeded parcels. Both w/ 4+ acres (8.16 total) & sep driveways. Main century home beautifully preserved with modern amenities & i/g pool. The 2nd home is an open concept cottage that overlooks & has access to South Lake suited for a guest house or rental unit. 2nd property includes a large, multi-use barn. Caledon/ Adjala border. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,307,000 (total pkg) or Century home w/ 4.12 acres. $849,000

POST AND BEAM BUNGALOFT ON 11+ ACRES Privacy on a dead-end court of executive homes just north of Caledon East village.

2 stone fireplaces, soaring beamed ceilings, finished walkout lower level. Detached 2-car garage with loft. Steel roof. Extensive landscaping including an inground, saline pool, small games court for sports, hiking trails and more. Caledon. $1,395,000

PRIVATE & PICTURESQUE ON ALMOST 100 ACRES Post and beam home nestled in the forest with a peaceful setting seldom found. Custom cherry cabinets, granite tops and exposed wood walls. Open concept main floor with beam and log, top floor with 4 bedrooms and bath. Double detached garage with coach house apartment. Separate pole barn. Reforested areas with copious trails. A true nature lover’s oasis. Mono. $950,000

ALMOST 90 ACRES - MONO FARM Family owned since 1922 and previously organically farmed. Rolling lands with over 50% workable.

Suitable for horses or cattle with a unique mix of forested areas, natural springs and creek. Older 3+1 bedroom, brick & stone bungalow with great countryside views. Several outbuildings including a large barn, pole barn, drive shed, implement shed and hay storage super structure. Just north of Mono Cliffs Park. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,149,600

52 ACS ATOP CALEDON MOUNTAIN Captivating views framed by the skyline of Toronto. A unique residence, once a barn, now an open concept home. Fin w/o bsmt w/ 2nd kit. 4car tandem garage, 2 paddock areas w/ run ins.

View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,499,000

CUSTOM HOME TO BE BUILT Approx 5.82 acs hidden on a hilltop surrounded by forest and potential for views. A reputable Caledon builder offers a terrific floor plan with quality upgrades to choose from. Price will vary depending on upgrades. Caledon. $1,475,000

BUNGALOW ON 10 ACRES Private and pristine on the edge of Bolton.

Meticulously maintained home overlooking a pond. Finished walkout basement with indoor pool. 2-car garage plus a det 4-car garage/ shop with 2nd level guest area. $1,495,000

PREMIUM CALEDON EAST LOCATION Superb neighbourhood & community w/ all town amenities & excellent schools. Designer décor & quality throughout. Professionally fin bsmt w/ full 2nd kitchen, 6th bedroom & more. Inground sprinklers & extensive landscaping. $969,900

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CUSTOM HOME ON 7 ACRES Nestled in the hills of Mulmur is this chalet-style home with 3 bedrooms, 2 storey stone fireplace, soaring windows, pine plank floors and gorgeous kitchen. Walkout basement to private yard. Beautiful perennial gardens and grounds. $589,900 CENTURY BRICK FARMHOUSE Tastefully restored preserving original character. Contractors/hobbyists will love the 20’x40’ steel-clad drive shed + 40’x80’ storage building. 1.7 acres on paved road in Guelph/Eramosa Village. $729,000

PRIVATE PRISTINE PRACTICAL If your wish list includes a bigger kitchen with granite, or a huge ensuite bath with Jacuzzi, you’ll want to see this newer Erin Viceroy! Spectacular 15-acre treed setting to enjoy nature. $615,000

CHALET ON 23 ACRES Trails throughout the property and views of the wonderful rolling hills of Adjala. European style 4 bedroom, all-season chalet with deck overlooking beautiful swimming/skating pond.

Also a barn for a few horses and an easy commute to the city. $575,000 Paul Richardson_layout 15-03-03 7:57 PM Page 1 HORSE FARM - RIVER VIEW Beautiful bungalow with elegant living space offered by original owner. Separate garden suite for in-law/barn manager. 55 idyllic, scenic acres with 16-stall barn, paddocks and hayfields in Mono. $1,149,000

GREEN 29 ACRE HORSE FARM Mill-stone Cape Cod with energy efficient geothermal furnace. Hybrid wind/solar system powers water & 50’x70’ horse barn.

Heated cottage/workshop. Pond, paddocks, 14 acres fenced. East Garafraxa. $919,000

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84 ACRE HOBBY FARM - ERIN Excellent home for a large family with 5 bedrooms, large country kitchen, new propane furnace + 3-season guest house.

80’x40’x14’ high barn/workshop. Forest, stream and 50 acres of farmland. $895,000

CHARACTER + CONVENIENCE Circa 1880 3,000 sq ft farmhouse with 1997 addition, newer well and septic, 32’x56’x10’ high drive shed with concrete floor and bank barn on 58+ scenic acres in Erin.

Large pond, 45 arable acres. $1,149,000

489 ACRE SHANGRI-LA - ERIN A unique and rare opportunity to own one of the largest and finest land holdings in Erin.

4 individual pristine farms connected by internal road. 2 newer luxury homes, 2 farmhouses, car collector’s 6-car showroom, summer kitchen, 2-bay workshop. 14+ good outbuildings/barns, cattle feedlot, abattoir. 350 arable acres + pasture, 4 ponds. $7,999,000

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MODERN COUNTRY Spectacular modern on 93 private acres near Belfountain. For those with discriminating taste. Spacious with great light; set amongst nature, packaged in the latest technology and an easy commute to the city. $3.5 million

TERRA COTTA BUNGALOW 4.7 private acres. Sun-filled custom bungalow.

Open living space. Walkouts to mature gardens and flagstone patio. Main floor family room. Lower level with fireplace. Separate shop. Geothermal heating. $899,000

CALEDON ESTATE HOME Customer design near Palgrave. Main floor master. In-law apartment, saltwater pool.

Approximately 2 acres. An entertainer’s dream for the large family. $1,549,000

LIVE AND WORK IN CALEDON For the entrepreneur who wants to forget the commute and live and work in one space or the investor looking for income. Currently 1500 sq ft apt and 3000 sq ft commercial...or change it up! Great hwy exposure. $799,000

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STUNNING VICTORIAN REPRODUCTION FARMHOUSE Beautiful interior finishes, pine flooring, upscale kitchen with granite and stainless steel appliances. 2 fireplaces, garage with in-floor heating and fabulous workshop.

31 acres. MULMUR List $799,000

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ENCHANTING COUNTRY PROPERTY Rural retreat on 24 acres with house overlooking 3 acre+ pond. Great room with barn beams and wood-burning fireplace.

On dead end road and no traffic.

MULMUR $799,000

CIRCA 1836 STONE MASTERPIECE Gorgeous home filled with character & unique features. 4 bedrooms, eat-in kitchen, several rooms to sit and relax, sunroom with views of pool. 97 acres, tennis court, pond, gardens, views and detached workshop/garage. $1,899,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

GREAT SPACE FOR ENTERTAINING Set on 16+ acres is this gorgeous 4-bedroom home with floor-to-ceiling fireplaces, beamed cathedral ceilings, large eat-in kitchen with centre island with breakfast bar. Plus pool, sauna, firepit and great views. $2,450,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

45 ACRES OF VIEWS AND ROLLING HILLS Build your home on the highpoint and take in all the surrounding views of the rural landscape. 8 acres of mixed bush with walking trails. On a quiet road.

MULMUR $329,000

12 ACRE BUILDING LOT IN SCENIC MULMUR Many sites for a home on this desirable lot – with rolling views to the west. Private, treed, located on a quiet rural road. 10 minutes to Mansfield ski hills.

MULMUR $269,000

ARTISTIC DESIGN ON 14 ACRES Long winding driveway through the trees leads to this one-of-a-kind, 4+ bdrm home on 14+ serene acres just south of Village of Erin.

Open concept, huge windows, slate roof.

Beautiful gardens. Bonus 1-hole golf course. $859,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

MAJESTIC COUNTRY LIVING Down the private road you will find this beautiful executive home with grand foyer, master suite, finished basement, open concept kitchen & great room with fireplace and walkout to nature setting on 10 acres. $1,299,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

CONTEMPORARY COUNTRY LIVING 4 acres, totally renovated 2234 sq ft bungalow and walkout basement. Hardwood and limestone flooring, chef’s kitchen, vaulted ceilings, 3 fireplaces. Private with pond.

ADJALA List $759,000

APPEALING LOG HOME Reconstructed log home (circa 1843) on 44 rolling hills. Refurbished century pine flooring, solid wood doors with stained glass. Sunroom overlooks pond. Workshop.

MULMUR List $729,000

PROPERTY HAS IT ALL! 4 bdrms, 16-stall horse barn w/ attached modern 2000 sq ft in-law suite, indoor arena, paddocks, track, stream, pond & trails through bush. All this on 14 scenic acres w/ close access to 401, Mohawk Raceway & Guelph. $1,299,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

GOTHIC REVIVAL 2-1/2 storey, 6 bedroom Yeo house replica on 2.3 acres with gorgeous landscaping, wrap-around porch, gingerbread trim, reclaimed wood floors and widow’s walk.

Finished basement w/o to pool and hot tub. $1,499,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

A WORK OF ART Many unique features in this 3 bdrm on 38+ acres with 2+ acre pond, barn and paddocks.

Open concept kitchen and living room with amazing view. Dining room with tree trunk entrance. Third floor loft/bdrm with 360° views. $1,499,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

NATURE’S PARADISE - 4 ACRES 2-1/2 storey, 3 bdrm log home with walkout from master to deck, hot tub and pool. Huge great room currently used as gym/studio but could be family/games room, art studio, etc.

Detached 2-bay garage. $899,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

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THE GORE ROAD, CALEDON A long winding tree-lined driveway will take you into your private 30-acre oasis.

Two fully renovated homes; one bungalow, one two storey. Each with privacy from each other.

Live in one and rent the other or alternatively have your family close by. Walking and riding trails abound. 45 minutes to Toronto. $1,499,000

5TH LINE MONO Within this 100 acre tranquil property sits a 2400 sq ft 3-bdrm bungalow w/ fully fin w/o bsmt. The att 3-car garage boasts the same size workshop below it and is joined to the bsmt. Pool, sauna, miles of trails. $1,295,000

DUNBY ROAD, MONO Peaceful 10-acre setting overlooking Hockley Valley. 3-bedroom bungalow with walkout doors to large deck overlooking perennial gardens. Gorgeous mixed forest with trails for hiking or snowshoeing. $589,000

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24 FIELD CREST, INGLEWOOD 4-bedroom home with all the bells & whistles and upgraded with private quarters for Nana. Larger property 161’x139’ with beautiful views. Spacious inside and out with renovations galore. Ski trails, hiking, biking, a true sense of community are all waiting for you in the quaint village of Inglewood. See virtual tour for open house details and homes not listed at jbudd.ca or please call 416-458-6120. $769,800

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Testimonial “Julianne’s professionalism, hard work and perseverance served us well as we sold our home. She was consistently helpful, positive and reassuring. She is well-connected within the industry and is a strong negotiator.

Julianne turned a potentially daunting experience into something very positive.”

Sandra and David Mowat

Due to my marketing efforts and large referral network, I have more buyers looking for Caledon properties. I am hunting for vacant land, building lots and bungalows in particular. If you’re thinking of selling, please call me for my confidential, no obligation, experience market evaluation. By living, working and playing here in Caledon, I easily bring buyers and sellers together. I love what I do and would love to help you too!

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Karen Willison

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PRIVATE 10 ACRE HORSE FARM Sophisticated 3200 sq ft bungalow, forest in front, artesian spring-fed pond, 6-stall barn, shop, paddocks. Convenient country living, 2.5 km to Yonge St/Green Lane E. $2,395,000

46 ACRE FARM IN PRIME LOCATION Large country home set back from road, 3-bay shop, renovated 4-stall bank barn has run in, heated tack room, paddocks, Class A farmland. $998,000

101 ACRES EQUESTRIAN FACILITY Set along Humber River, minutes to Caledon Equestrian Park, custom stone home.

15 stalls, indoor arena, sand ring,10 paddocks, galloping track, apt/office above. $2,995,000

100 ACRE FARM IN THE HILLS OF SOUTH ADJALA Humber River, mixed bush, paddocks, trails.

Minutes To Orangeville, Hockley Valley and Caledon. Old Ontario farmhouse and outbuildings in need of repair. $995,000

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CREEMORE VILLAGE Custom-built bungalow on 2.3 acres with award-winning gardens. New granite counters & appliances in the kitchen, cozy breakfast nook with fp, 4 bdrms & finished basement. MLS® #582210073 $500,000

CHEZ MICHEL Classic French restaurant in Creemore with loyal clientele built over 25 years. Incredible opportunity to own a successful business and century building in Creemore Village.

MLS® #582200249 $799,000

YOUR OWN PRIVATE RESORT Located in Ontario’s recreational playground, enjoy escarpment views over the property’s 50 acres from the fully remodeled 4-bedroom century home. Guest house, pool, tennis court, 5-stall barn, indoor riding arena and trails make this a remarkable property. You’re just a short drive from Thornbury, area ski and golf clubs, and much more.

MLS® #371590059 $2,250,000

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NOISY RIVER RETREAT Custom-built retreat nestled on 12.5 picturesque acres. Property features an abundance of privacy, huge pond, river, woods, bunkie and studio. Relax in the outside sauna, take a dip in the pond or enjoy the hot tub room. A spectacular wall of windows brings nature’s best indoors. The openconcept design is perfect for entertaining. Luxurious main floor master suite. Great location for Devil’s Glen skiers, plus a short drive to Mansfield Ski Club and The Mad River Golf Club. $899,000

CREEMORE SECLUDED GEM 35 acres with approximately 450 feet of river frontage can be yours to explore. Walking trails, stream, and woods leading to a high plateau lookout with delightful views. The easy care 3-bedroom home offers an open-concept living, dining and kitchen, plus a walkout lower level, spacious family room and inviting screened porch. 3 bedrooms, 3 ensuites and 3 entrances allow for numerous possibilities. Oodles of patios and picture windows to bring nature’s beauty indoors. $875,000

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MAD RIVER FARM, CREEMORE This Creemore Victorian farmhouse set on 100 acres has been beautifully restored and updated while keeping original character intact. Separate coach house for 3 cars and farm equipment/workshop + lovely comfortable 2nd storey 2-bdrm apt. Superbly landscaped property features lighted tennis court and stone milk house that would make a wonderful artist’s studio or playhouse. Lots of river frontage to explore at back of property plus plenty of trails, forest, fields and fire pit at river. $1,800,000

COUNTRY HIDEAWAY...MULMUR 3-level retreat in wooded setting with stream, trails, and level land to play on. Stone landscaped patio with water feature and fire pit. Close to Creemore, Mansfield Ski Club and The Mad River Golf Club. $549,000

MONO...COMING THIS SPRING NOTTAWASAGA RIVER Long private lane leads to spacious family home with river view and in-law suite for caretaker or extended family. 16-stall barn, hay fields and fenced paddocks. $1,149,000

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Caledon $1,995,000

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Terra Cotta $795,000

CONTEMPORARY CALEDON ON 80 ACRES • Floor-to-ceiling private escarpment views • Showcase of natural woods and stone • Luxury appointments throughout • Minutes to skiing/golf/riding/hiking and more...

• Within 45 minutes to Toronto Airport $7,950,000

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Mono $375,000

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Mono $1,395,000

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Belfountain $729,000

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Caledon East $539,000

CENTURY BRICK FARMHOUSE ON 10 ACRES • House interiors - charming style - all modern comforts • Property exteriors - rolling green landscape/ country gardens/pond/tennis court • Location - complete peaceful privacy in the hills of Mono - within 1 hour to city of Toronto $899,000

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arts+crafts NOW – MAY 3 : EXCHANGE: PAMA ARTISTS SELECT Invited artists select

PAMA works to display with their own.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – MAY 31 : WINDING LANE BIRD SANCTUARY Photographs reveal Roy

Ivor’s and Bernice Inman’s passion.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – JUN 24 (SUNDAYS & WEDNESDAYS) : SEEING WITH NEW EYES Improve your drawing skills with CJ

Shelton. All levels. Pay as you go. 1-3pm. $30 session. See website for other classes.

Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-9422018; dancingmoondesigns.ca MAR 29 : HEADWATERS REGION ART BATTLE 12 artists compete in three

20-minute rounds. Audience chooses winner for entry in regional playoffs. Cash bar, music. 1-4pm. $15; $10 online or for students and seniors. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-0559; altonmill.ca APR 2 : KNIT AT PAMA Drop in, meet

local knitters. Yarn supplied. Donations to Regeneration Outreach Community Brampton. Beginners welcome. 6-8pm.

Free. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca APR 4 – MAY 3 : GLORIOUS ART

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APR 8 – MAY 10 : THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Mill-wide event showcases

effects of climate change. Wed-Sun 10am5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton.

519-941-9300; altonmill.ca APR 11 : PAINTING DRAMATIC SKIES

Watercolour workshop with Doug Purdon.

10am-4pm. $70, register. Victoria Parks Community Centre, Mono Mills. 519-3070210; orangevilleartgroup.com APR 18 – MAY 10 : THE MADE OF WOOD SHOW Juried show and sale of one-of-a-

kind works by Canadian artisans. April 18: reception. Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-806-8560; madeofwoodshow.com APR 21, MAY 19 & JUN 16 : ORANGE thREADS Stitchery group. Share projects,

informal book conversation. 1-2:30pm.

Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 25 & 26 : SPELL OF THE YUKON ART SHOW Photographs, paintings, pastels

and pottery inspired by a Dempster Highway expedition. 10am-5pm. Free.

Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com MAY 2 : WESTMINSTER UNITED QUILT SHOW Various quilts and demos.

10am-3:30pm. $5, children free. 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca MAY 2 & 3 : GARDEN PARTY AT DRAGONFLY! Joan Hope, studio

artists, Garden Club Jewellery. Free. 189 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-5249; dragonflyarts.ca MAY 2 – 30 (SATURDAYS) : SPRING INTO ART – OPEN STUDIOS AT WILLIAMS MILL

25 artists, various media. Noon-5pm.

Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre, 515 Main St, Glen Williams. 905-873-8203; williamsmill.com MAY 5 – 16 : BRUSHFIRE ARTISTS SHOW & SALE Eight artists, various media.

11am-5pm. Beaux-Arts, 74 Main St N, Brampton. Brushfire Artists, 905-4545677; randi1958@gmail.com MAY 8 : THROUGH THE SACRED KALEIDOSCOPE 13 paintings, music, cash

bar. Proceeds to Ricky Schaede to study Renaissance painting. 5-9pm. Maggiolly Art Supplies, 158 Broadway, Orangeville.

519-217-3059; rickyschaede.com MAY 9 : SPRING CRAFT MARKET & BRUNCH Local artisans, brunch. Market:

9am-1pm. Brunch: 10am-noon. Brunch $10; 12 & under, $5. Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St. horningsmills.ca MAY 9 : AUTO EXPOSED: A SNAP FROM THE PAST TO A SHOT OF THE FUTURE

Join 18 Click Connect photographers for art, entertainment, refreshments.

Proceeds to the photographers. 7-9pm. $10. MacMaster Buick GMC, 207171 Hwy 9 E, Orangeville. Community Living Dufferin, 519-941-8971 x126; communitylivingdufferin.ca MAY 9 & 10 : ALL THINGS WOOD WEEKEND Workshops, seminars and

woodworking demonstrations. See website. 10am-5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-806-8560; madeofwoodshow.com MAY 9 & 16 : DESIGNS IN NATURE Trail walk with photographer Bryan Davies in search of designs in nature. Meet 9 Wellington St E, Creemore. All levels.

10am-2pm. $65, register. Bryan Davies Photography Studio, 705-466-5775; bryandavies.com

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What’s on in the Hills

MAY 24 – SEP 2 : CREATIVITY ART RETREAT Weekly workshops, gourmet

food, daily yoga. Register online. 8961 Cty Rd 9, Dunedin. Shelley Yampolsky, 647347-7799; creativityartretreat.com JUN 14 – SEP 27 : LONG MOMENTS: NEW WORK BY OLEX WLASENKO

Inspired by images from PAMA’s archives collection. June 14: reception, artist’s talk, 2-4pm. Free. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives

JUN 20 & 21 : CUISINE-ART FESTIVAL

MAY 10 : MOTHER’S DAY TEA AT SHAW’S CREEK CAFÉ Scones, tea and art for

Mother’s Day. See website. Noon-5pm.

Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Shaw’s Creek Café, 519-938-9696; altonmill.ca MAY 12 – JUN 2 : THROUGH THE PANE

Woodturner Jennifer McKinnon work on display in Dragonfly’s Window on Broadway. May 30: reception streetside, 10am–2pm. Dragonfly Arts, 189 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-855-9639; turnoffatestudio.ca MAY 13 – JUN 14 : RED Potter Ann

Randeraad and painter Janet Simons Sweet explore “red.” Wed-Sun 10am-5pm.

Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-9431149; headwatersarts.com

Local chefs, Alton Mill artists, wine, beer and cider makers in one delicious week­ end. Noon-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

Exchange: PAMA Artists Select

literature

Invited artists have selected a work from the permanent collection to be displayed alongside one of their own.

NOW – APR 30 : SHORT STORY WRITING CONTEST – PAN AM STYLE Win money

and tickets to Pan Am! Details online or library branches. Free. Caledon Library.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 9 : BOOKLORE – THE LITERARY JOURNEY Nancy Frater discusses 25 years

with BookLore. 7-9pm. $15, includes refreshments. Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com APR 11 : CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Skills and ideas suitable for fiction, memoir. All skill levels. 10am-3pm. $45.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca Sponsored by Friends of Caledon Library.

All funds to CPL. Apr 23 (friends only): 5-8pm. Apr 24: 4-9pm. Apr 25: 10am6pm. Apr 26: 10am-2pm. Members free.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

to vital programs at My Friend’s House.

5-8pm. $30. Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. My Friend’s House; fran@api-adpeople.com

artifact collection. 2-3:30pm. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca MAY 21 : GROUP OF SEVEN IN BELFOUNTAIN Jim and Sue Waddington’s

40-year journey photographing landscapes painted by the Group of Seven, including Belfountain and Caledon. 7:30-9pm. $20, reserve. Melville White Church, 15962 Mississauga Rd, Caledon. 519-316-0060; belfountainheritage.com MAY 22 : HEADWATERS REGION ART BATTLE FINALS Winners compete for

the provincial round. 6-9pm. $10; $15 at door; students and seniors, $10. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

Our Feathered Friends March 1 to May 31, 2015 A travelling exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Nature.

APR 23 – 26 : MONSTER BOOK SALE

APR 25 : AN EVENING WITH TERRY FALLIS Cocktails, live auction, proceeds

MAY 20 & JUL 12 : PAMA COLLECTS: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: CURATOR’S TOUR Annemarie Hagan explores PAMA’s

Now to May 3, 2015

APR 25 : TRAVEL WRITING & PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Practical

information from Nicola Ross and Rob Stimpson. 10am-5pm. $125. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 705-898-2500; nicolaross.ca MAY 8 – 13 : WRITE ON THE FRENCH CREATIVE WRITING RETREAT Hone your

skills with three of Canada’s craftiest writers. All levels. 9am-5pm. Register online. The Lodge at Pine Cove, Noelville.

Nicola Ross, 705-898-2500; frenchriver.com JUN 18 : CONNECTIONS ART AND BOOK CLUB Book discussion: The Invention

of Hugo Cabret by Brian Sleznick, tour PAMA’s exhibition Long Moments.

7-8:30pm. Register online. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. PAMA/Brampton Library, 905-793-4636; pama.peelregion.ca

Winding Lane Bird Sanctuary March 1 to May 31, 2015 The records of Canada’s ‘Bird Man’ Roy Ivor and Bernice Inman.

May is Museum Month Visit PAMA for FREE Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, 2015.

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community MAY TO JUNE: FARMERS’ MARKET OPENINGS Shop for Headwaters’ freshest

foods. Check websites for details on special events at each venue.

MAY 9: ORANGEVILLE Saturdays, 8am-1pm. Second St & Broadway. orangevillefarmersmarket.ca MAY 16: CREEMORE Saturdays, 8:30am-12:30pm. Station on the Green. creemorefarmersmarket.ca MAY 16: ALLISTON Saturdays, 8am-2pm. Mill St & Victoria St. allistonfarmersmarket.ca MAY 20: NEW LOWELL Wednesdays, 6pm-dusk. New Lowell Recreation Park Pavilion. clearview.ca MAY 28: SHELBURNE Thursdays, 3-7pm. 1st Ave & Owen Sound St. shelburnefarmersmarket2013@gmail.com JUNE 11: STAYNER Thursdays, 5:30-8:30pm.

Station Park, Downtown Stayner. clearview.ca

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Frederick Banting Rd, Alliston. Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation, 705-440-7126; bantinglegacy.ca MAR 27 : BOWLING FOR COLLARS 3 games, shoe rental, pizza, drink. Register individual/group. 6:30pm. $20. Proceeds to Upper Credit Humane Society.

Georgetown Bowl, 12 Mountainview Rd S, Georgetown. Laura, 416-706-7406; uppercredit.com MAR 27 : HOLI GALA Food, music,

Bollywood performance. Proceeds to Osler’s Etobicoke General, Brampton Civic and Peel Memorial hospitals.

6:30pm. $150, reserve. Embassy Grand Convention Centre, 8800 The Gore Rd, Brampton. William Osler Health System Foundation, 905-494-6556; oslerfoundation.org

JUNE 11: SOUTHFIELDS VILLAGE

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Join us as we reveal our new Garden-Inspired Jewellery Collection Saturday & Sunday May 9 & 10 Special Guest David Warburton, Master Gardener “Ask the Expert” (bring your garden and landscape questions)

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Thursdays, 4-7:30pm. Denison Pk, 110 Learmont Ave, Caledon. info@ southfieldsvillagevoice.com JUNE 13: BOLTON Saturdays, 9am-1pm.

Downtown Bolton, Queen St N & King St. boltonfarmersmarket.ca JUNE 19: ROSEMONT Fridays, 3-7pm.

Rosemont Hall parking lot, beside Globe Restaurant, Hwy 89. theredrockfarm@ gmail.com

MAR 28 : BRIDGE AND EUCHRE TOURNAMENT 10am-1:30pm. $10.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca MAR 28, APR 11 & 25 : ORANGEVILLE INDOOR WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET

ERIN FARMERS’ MARKET: TBD

Fresh local fare and crafts. 9am-1pm.

Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway.

Orangeville BIA, 519-942-0087; downtownorangeville.ca

Erin Agricultural Society Fairgrounds. erinfair.ca

MAR 28, APR 11 & 25, MAY 23 : AUCTION AT THE REUSTORE Antique hunting, fun

INGLEWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET: TBD

and unique items. 10-11am. 109 Industrial Rd, Bolton. 905-857-7824; ccs4u.org

AMARANTH FARMERS’ MARKET: TBD

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Village of Inglewood. eatlocalcaledon.org NOW – MAY 1, MAY 5 : FOOD INSECURITY – DO THE MATH CHALLENGE Community leaders eat

a food bank diet for five days and blog about it. May 5: Town hall wrap event.

Lord Dufferin, 32 First St, Orangeville.

Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance, headwaterscommunities.org NOW – JUN 3 (WEDNESDAYS) : ADULT FITNESS DROP-IN CLASSES Increase

mobility and fitness. All levels. Details online. 1:30-2:30pm. Donation. Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St, Horning’s Mills. 519925-9181; horningsmills.ca NOW – JUN 24 : (WEDNESDAYS) DROPIN MEDITATION CLASSES Improve

the mind through contemplation and meditation. See website. 7-8:30pm. $10/ class, $40 for five. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada, 866-523-2672; kadampa.ca NOW – DEC 8 (TUESDAYS) : BANTING HOMESTEAD HERITAGE PARK Also

open 1st and 3rd weekends. See website.

Historic farmhouse, learn about diabetes and insulin. Free, donation. 5116 Sir

APR 1 & 15, MAY 6 & 20, JUNE 3 & 17 : CAFÉ CALEDON Discuss current topics in

a casual setting. All welcome. 7:30-8pm.

St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-8506; mark.cafecaledon@gmail.com APR 2 & MAY 6 : BETHELL HOSPICE VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION – BOLTON Explore volunteer opportunities

at Bethell Hospice. Apr 2: 6-7:30pm. May 6: 10-11:30a.m. Locations TBA, 905-8383534 x2245; bethellhospice.org APR 2 – 30 : SIKH HERITAGE MONTH AT PAMA Exhibition, special Thursday

evening events, weekend family activities.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

Sikh Heritage Community, 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 4 : CREEMORE EASTER FARMERS’ MARKET Food, local arts and crafts.

9am-1pm. Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E. 705-466-6001; creemorefarmersmarket.ca APR 7 & 9 : ARCHIVES SERIES: BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS Browse documents,

maps and photos. 11am-noon, 2-3pm.

Regular admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 8 : BRITISH HOME CHILDREN

Lori Oschefski speaks on the 120,000 children sent to Canada alone from Britain 1867–1949. 7pm. Mono Mills United Church, 60 Richmond St. 519-939-8822; donna.rivada@gmail.com APR 9, MAY 14 & JUN 11 : PROBUS CLUB OF ORANGEVILLE Active seniors meet for

speakers and interest groups. 10am-noon.

Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Siderd, Mono. 519-942-0515; probus.org APR 11 : RABIES & MICROCHIP CLINIC

Dogs leashed, cats in carriers. Nail clipping $5; 3-year rabies vaccination, $30; microchip $30; cash only. 10am-1pm.

Premier Equipment Ltd, 8911 Wellington Rd 124, Ospringe. 519-833-2287; uppercredit.com APR 11 : KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL GARAGE SALE Lots of treasures. 8:30-

11:30am. 16379 The Gore Rd, Caledon.

647-526-7645; kingscollegeschool.ca APR 11 : GAMES FOR AFRICA Board/card games provided, magic event, African marketplace. All ages. Proceeds to Stephen Lewis Foundation. 1-5pm. Donation.

Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St, Orangeville GoGos, 519-941-9966; eventbrite.ca/d/local/games-for-africa APR 11 & MAY 9 : AUCTION AT CHEZ THRIFT Find something special and

unique. 11am-noon. 301 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-8121; ccs4u.org APR 12, MAY 9, JUN 14 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIENTATION Tour the farm and eco-

residence. See website for activities and work bees. 1-4pm. $10. 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. 521-941-1099; wholevillage.org APR 16 : RISK MANAGEMENT FOR SMALL BUSINESS 9am-noon. $10.

Tony Rose Sports Centre, 6 Northmen Way, Orangeville. Small Business Enterprise Centre, 519-941-0440 x2286; orangevillebusiness.ca APR 18 : WELLIES TO WISHES

Entertainment, auctions, local food.

Proceeds to Dufferin Children’s Fund.

7pm. $60. Mono Community Centre, 754483 Mono Centre Rd, Mono Centre.

Dufferin Child and Family Services, 519941-8711; dcafs.on.ca APR 21 : HEALTHY AGING – NUTRITION SEMINAR Transform your body and life

with Jen Thomas. To register, email info@caledonhillscoffee.com. 2-4pm.

Free. Caledon Hills Coffee Co. Cafe & Grill, 15980 Airport Rd, Caledon East. 905-8601500, ageless-fitness.isagenix.com

APR 24 : SPRING FASHION SHOW

Champagne cocktails, 3-course farm-to-table dinner. $65. Hockley Valley Resort, 793522 3rd Line, Mono.

519-942-5490; hockley.com APR 24 – 26 : CALEDON HOME & LIFESTYLE SHOW Latest trends in

home décor, renovations and demos, antiques. Albion Bolton Community Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. Caledon Chamber of Commerce, 905-857-7393; caledonchamber.com APR 25 : SHRED FOR CRIME STOPPERS

10am-noon. $10 per grocery-sized bag. Proceeds to Crime Stoppers.

Canadian Tire Parking Lot, Orangeville.

Crime Stoppers Dufferin Committee, crimestopperssdm.com APR 25 : HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE CENTRE SPRING FLING Live music buffet,

prizes. 8pm. $25. Monora Park Pavilion, Hwy 10 N of Orangeville. Lord Dufferin IODE, 519-942-3721; sus_ryan@hotmail.com APR 25 : GRAND VALLEY SPRING FLING

DJ, cash bar, prizes. 9pm-1am. $10. Grand Valley Community Centre, 90 Main St N. Agricultural Society, 519-216-6859; grandvalleyfallfair.ca APR 25 : CALEDON CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOL 50TH ANNIVERSARY Displays,

time capsule, children’s performer. 11am2pm. Free. 18357 Kennedy Rd, Caledon Village. 519-927-5231 APR 28 : STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS

Business plan, tools for success. 9amnoon. $20. Tony Rose Sports Centre, 6 Northmen Way, Orangeville. Small Business Enterprise Centre, 519-941-0440 x2286; orangevillebusiness.ca MAY 1 : ROAD TO RIO 2016 DINNER

Proceeds to help Andrew Yorke prepare for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games and 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. 6-10pm. $90, includes dinner, 2 drinks. Glen Eagle Golf Club, 15731 Hwy 50, Caledon. 416791-9308; friendsofandrewyorke.com MAY 2 : MYSTIC MASQUERADE – AN EVENING IN VENICE Fine dining,

dancing, live and silent auctions. $225. Hockley Valley Resort, 793522 3rd Line, Mono. Headwaters Health Care Foundation, 519-941-2702 x2303; hhcfoundation.com MAY 2 : RESPONSIBLE ESCARPMENT DEVELOPMENT CALEDON (REDC) GARAGE SALE Accepting items

Apr 25-May 1. No clothing, electronics, appliances. Volunteers needed. 8am-1pm. $2; children free. Caledon Hills Honey, 17895 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 519-9273376; peopleforcaledon.com MAY 2 : Seniors’ Concepts Trade Show Local products or services

catering to anyone 55+. 10am-4pm. Free.

633421 Hwy 10, Mono. 519-415-5500; horizonseventcentre.com MAY 3 : HIGH TEA & HIGH HEELS

Catered English high tea, accessory sale. Proceeds to various services.

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MAY 4 – JUN 29 (MONDAYS) : BETHELL HOSPICE GRIEF GROUP – INGLEWOOD

Our beautifully manicured grounds, the stunning Shaw’s Creek Falls and warm tones of the old limestone Mill will set the stage for your uniquely special day.

8-week personal journey to honour loss and approach healing. 6:30-8:30pm. Free, register. 15835 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood.

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MAY 5 : HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS AND DETOX SEMINAR Methods

with Jen Thomas. Register at info@ caledonhillscoffee.com. 2-4pm. Free.

Caledon Hills Coffee Co. Cafe & Grill, 15980 Airport Rd, Caledon East. 905860-1500, ageless-fitness.isagenix.com MAY 6 – JUN 24 (WEDNESDAYS) : BETHELL HOSPICE GRIEF GROUP – BOLTON An 8-week personal journey

to honour loss and approach healing.

6:30-8:30pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905951-3534; bethellhospice.org MAY 8 : WESTMINSTER UNITED HAM DINNER Homemade pies for dessert.

Tickets at church office. 5-7pm. $15; $17 at door; children 12 & under, $6; under 5, free. 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca MAY 9 : PRIMROSE UNITED MOTHER’S DAY PLANT & BAKE SALE Pre-ordered

Call today for more information or to set up a tour with one of our wedding specialists.

hanging baskets, urns, planters, local vendors. Pre-orders by May 2. 8-11am.

Hwy 10 and 30 Sdrd, Mono. 519-925-2397; gailbrown.pharm@yahoo.ca

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MAY 9 : ORANGEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET OPENING DAY Free pancake

breakfast, pony rides, local produce, crafts. 8am-1pm. Second St, Orangeville.

Orangeville BIA, 519-942-0087; downtownorangeville.ca

Travel Writing &

MAY 9 : PALGRAVE UNITED PLANT AND BAKE SALE, BBQ Large selection of plants,

Photography

baked goods. 8am-noon. 34 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-880-0303; palgraveunited.ca

with

MAY 9 : DCMA SPRING BUS TOUR Wayne

Nicola Ross Rob Stimpson

Penguin Random House

Wednesday, April 29 6:30pm Enjoy a rare opportunity to join Lori Lansens, acclaimed author of The Mountain Story, for dinner at Rustik in Orangeville.

If you want your travel stories to sparkle and entertain, join us for a day-long Travel Writing & Photography Workshop at the Alton Mill in the Caledon Hills.

Saturday, April 25 $125 + HST

7-8:30pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 13 : BUYING A BUSINESS OR FRANCHISE Pros and cons, strategies

ROB STIMPSON

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5-9pm. $15; children $6. 2976 Charleston Sdrd, Caledon Village. 519-927-5714; mariewade@bell.net MAY 12 : ESSENTIAL OILS WORKSHOP: MEDICINE CABINET MAKEOVER AND ALLERGIES Ease what ails you naturally.

Tickets, available at BookLore, include dinner and a copy of the book.

www.booklore.ca

Townsend takes you through Dufferin County. Homemade lunch. 10am-3pm. $30, reserve. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com

nicolaross.ca www.nicolaross.ca robstimpson.com www.robstimpson.com for more information

for transition. 9am-noon. $10. Tony Rose Sports Centre, 6 Northmen Way, Orangeville. Small Business Enterprise Centre, 519-941-0440 x2286; orangevillebusiness.ca MAY 16 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED GARAGE SALE Recycle, reuse, reasonable

prices. 6km N of Orangeville, W of Hwy 10. 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. highcountryunited@auracom.com

MAY 16 : UPPER CREDIT HUMANE SOCIETY THRIFT SHOP PLANT SALE

Proceeds to shelter animals. 10am3pm. Free. 68 Main St N, (Moore Park Plaza), Georgetown. 905-702-8661; uppercredit.com MAY 16 & 17 : MAY IS MUSEUM MONTH – FREE WEEKEND Create, explore and

connect with PAMA. Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca MAY 16 – OCT 10 (SATURDAYS) : CREEMORE FARMERS’ MARKET Fresh

local produce, meet artisans. Explore art galleries, shops, restaurants and brewery.

8:30am-12:30pm. Free. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore.

705-466-6001; creemorefarmersmarket.ca MAY 16 – OCT 31 (SATURDAYS) : ALLISTON FARMERS’ MARKET Ultra-

fresh produce, pastured meat, handharvested honey. 8am-2pm. Victoria St West and Mill St. ABIA, 705-440-1402; allistonfarmersmarket.ca MAY 23 : LIONS DUCK RACE Community

breakfast, garage sales, children’s activities, music, spaghetti supper, dance.

Ducks dropped at 2pm. Free, duck ticket $5. Grand Valley Community Centre, 90 Main St N. grandvalleylions.com MAY 23 : TRINITY ANGLICAN YARD & BAKE SALE Rain or shine. Coffee and

lunch counter. 8am-1pm. 3515 King St, Caledon. 905-450-8928; ruth.wiggins@ sympatico.ca MAY 23 : INDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING

Traditional entertainment, food, vendors.

Speakers: Dr. Lynn Gehl, Tori Cress.

1pm: presentations. 11:30am-4:30pm. $40. Westside Secondary Auditorium, 300 Alder St, Orangeville. 519-216-1219; dufferincountyculturalresourcecircle.org MAY 23 : GREAT TASTE SHOPPING PARTY Ladies’ night out, sales, giveaways,

sample tasters prepared by downtown eateries. 5-10pm. $20. Downtown Orangeville, Orangeville BIA, 519-9420087; downtownorangeville.ca MAY 23 : CALEDON SENIORS’ CENTRE DINNER & DANCE Fundraiser. 6-11:30pm.

$25, reserve. 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905951-6114; caledonseniors.ca MAY 30 : UPPER CREDIT HUMANE SOCIETY GOLF TOURNAMENT Shotgun

start 1:30pm. Dinner, contests. Contact uppercreditevents@gmail.com for registration or sponsorship. 1:30pm. Golf and dinner, $175; golf only, $145; dinner only, $50. Eagle Ridge Golf Club, 11742 Tenth Line, Georgetown. 416-706-7406; uppercredit.com

MAY 30 : PALGRAVE UNITED SMOKED BBQ PORK CHOP DINNER Salads, baked

beans, baked potato, Palgrave United famous pies. 5-7pm. 1 chop $14; 2 chops $16; children under 10, $5. 34 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-880-0303; palgraveunited.ca MAY 31 : PURINA WALK FOR DOG GUIDES 40-minute walk to raise funds for

Lions Foundation Dog Guides. Doggie fair, silent auction. 9am-noon. Donation, register online. Alder Street Recreation Centre, 275 Alder St, Orangeville.

Amaranth Lions Club, 519-941-1633; purinawalkfordogguides.com JUN 1 : SENIORS “HOME COMING” LUNCHEON Food and entertainment

open air market, Legion breakfast, kids’ activities. 10am-4pm on Main Street.

Town of Shelburne, Shelburne BIA, 519925-2600 x230; shelburne.ca JUN 13 : CALEDON DAY Live performances, Kid Zone, car show, vendors, beer garden, fireworks. 2-10pm.

Free. Caledon Community Complex, 6215 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. Town of Caledon, 905-584-2272 x4248; caledon.ca JUN 12 & 13 : PAN AM TORCH relay

Volunteers carry the Pan Am torch through Palgrave, Bolton, Inglewood, Belfountain, Alton and Caledon East. toronto2015.org/torchrelay JUN 14 : BARN FEST FOR FOOD AND WATER FIRST Celebrate with farmers,

at Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park for ages 55+. 11:30am-3pm. $10, register.

Sponsored by Town of Caledon Parks and Recreation and Caledon Meals on Wheels.

200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

artists, musicians and food lovers. 11am4pm. $15. Pegram Farm, 558021 MulmurMelancthon Townline. Pegram Picnics, 416-918-7956; pegrampicnics.com

JUN 6 : CORN FLOWER FESTIVAL BRUNCH, MEET & GREET Globe

JUN 19 – OCT 9 (FRIDAYS) : ROSEMONT FARMERS’ MARKET Local fare, preserves,

Restaurant: Two menu choices, dessert, coffee and bar. Noon-3pm. $45, reserve.

Rosemont Hall, 995722 Mono-Adjala Townline, Rosemont. DCMA, 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUN 6 : WINES OF THE WORLD (WOW)!

70-plus premium wines, beers, local ciders, assorted foods and live music.

6-8:30pm. $50. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. Rotary Club Of Palgrave, 905-857-0651 JUN 7 : DCMA CORN FLOWER FESTIVAL

Bring a favourite/rare piece of corn flower to our sharing sessions, shop consignment sale. Live auction, light lunch. 10am-4pm. $10. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUN 8 : OSLER OPEN: BRAMPTON INVITATIONAL Proceeds to redeveloping

Peel Memorial, diagnostic equipment and technology at Brampton Civic. 8:45am. $500. Lionhead Golf & Country Club, 8525 Mississauga Rd, Brampton. William Osler Health System Foundation, 905-494-6556; oslerfoundation.org JUN 11 – OCT 8 (THURSDAYS) : SOUTHFIELDS VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET Join us. 4-7:30pm. Denison Park,

SouthFields Village, 110 Learmont Ave, Caledon. info@southfieldsvillagevoice. com; southfieldsvillagevoice.com JUN 12 – 14 : CALEDON FAIR Midway, live

entertainment. Friday night: truck and tractor pull. Saturday: lawn tractor pull and BBQ. Horse shows, beef, dairy and 4H shows, exhibits and vendors. Friday $10; Saturday and Sunday $8; $15 per car; 12 & under free. Fairgrounds, Caledon Village. Caledon Agricultural Society, 416-697-7792; caledonfairgrounds.ca JUN 13 : SHELBURNE CLASSIC CAR SHOW & STREET FESTIVAL Classic car

and bike show, ride, live entertainment,

soaps, crafts. 3-7pm. Free. Rosemont Hall, 995722 Mono Adjala Townline, Rosemont.

705-440-9668; thegloberestaurant.ca JUN 21 : RELESSEY MEMORIAL SERVICE

Please join us for our memorial service.

2:30pm. Relessey Church, Mono Centre Rd at 5th Line. Cemetery Board, 519-9411100; luellaholmes@aol.com JUN 24 : HEART AND STROKE BIG BIKE

Team ride on one bike. $50+ individual pledge to enter. Noon-8pm. Kelsey’s Bar and Grill, 115 5th Ave, Orangeville.

Wellington Dufferin Heart and Stroke Foundation, 519-837-4858; bigbike.ca

www.cdvs.ca

outdoor NOW – APR 6 (WEEKENDS): SUGARBUSH MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL Tap into spring!

Wagon rides, demos. Days/prices vary by location. See website. Kortright Centre, Bruce’s Mill and Terra Cotta Conservation Areas. TRCA/CVC; maplesyrupfest.com MAR 28 : EXTREME WEATHER: ARE YOU PREPARED? Reps from Emergency

Measures, Public Works, Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority and insurance industry speak. 10am-noon.

Free. Monora Park Pavilion, Hwy 10 N of Orangeville. Mono Mulmur Citizens’ Coalition, 519-942-3283; monomulmur.com MAR 28 & 29 : ISLAND LAKE MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL Sleigh ride, maple bush

tour, demos, all-day pancake breakfast, BBQ. Free parking, shuttle. 10am-4pm. $10; 4 to 12, $5; 3 & under, free. Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville.

416-428-1499; orangevilleoptimists.ca MAR 31 : PUNKS & BIRDWATCHERS

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www.canadagives.ca Toronto & Creemore offices www.canadagives.ca

APR 11 – MAY 30 : PLANT PARADISE COUNTRY GARDENS SEMINARS Apr 11:

Dividing Perennials. Apr 18: Sensational Shade Perennials. Apr 25: Pruning – How, When, Why? May 2: Long-Blooming Perennials. May 9: Spectacular Garden Design. May 16: No Guff Vegetable Gardening. May 23: Yoga for Gardeners.

May 30: The 4 Bs: Beauty, Butterflies, Bees and Beneficial Insects. 10-11am. $10, register. Plant Paradise Country Gardens, 16258 Humber Station Rd, Caledon. 905-880-9090; plantparadise.ca APR 11 : SMALL-SCALE FARMING WORKSHOP Tips for a small farm, CSA

or market garden. 2pm. Free. Whole Village Farm, 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. Credit Valley Conservation, 800-668-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca APR 14, MAY 12, MAY 30 & JUNE 9 : ORANGEVILLE AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETINGS

A Canada Gives Donor Advised Fund makes it easy for you to create your own charitable foundation and to support the causes that matter most to you.

Call us anytime at our new Creemore location (705) 466-5557 or in Toronto (416) 644-1573.

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Apr 14: Ferns and Orchids of the Bruce Peninsula. May 12: Landscape Design Using Environmental Sensitivity. May 30: Monthly meeting and plant sale. June 9: Gardening from a Hammock. 7-9pm.

Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. orangevillehort.org APR 16 : CALEDON HIKES: LOOPS & LATTES Nicola Ross details 36 local loop

routes, post-hike destinations in her new book. 7-9pm. $15. Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com APR 21, MAY 19 & JUN 16 : BOLTON & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETINGS Apr 21: No-Fuss Backyard

Fruit. May 19: Rocks & Blocks & Wood: Understanding Hard Landscaping. June 16: The Secret Lives of Plants. 7:30-9pm. $5; members of other societies, $2.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. bolton@gardenontario.org

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APR 23 : SPELL OF THE YUKON Al Pace presents slides of the Dempster Hwy. 7-9pm. $15. Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com APR 25 : MONO TENNIS CLUB REGISTRATION 10am-noon. Next to the

community centre in Mono Centre. Mono Tennis Club. 519-307-0253 APR 25 : ORANGEVILLE EARTH DAY TREE PLANTING & LET’S MAKE ORANGEVILLE SHINE Meet at Rotary Park. Equipment

provided, bring a shovel. BBQ lunch 11:30am. 9am-noon. Rotary Park, 75 Second Ave, Orangeville. CVCA, OSAT, Orangeville Rotary, Tim Hortons, ljennings@creditvalleyca.ca

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features, wells, septic systems and landscaping. 9:30am-2:30pm. Apr 25: Terra Cotta Community Centre. June 20: Inglewood Community Centre. Free.

1-800-668-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca APR 26 : CALEDON HILLS BRUCE TRAIL CLUB – INTRODUCTORY HIKE 9:30am-

12:30pm. Free, register by email robert. gillespie@sympatico.ca. Scotsdale Farm, Trafalgar Rd. caledonbrucetrail.org APR 26, MAY 10 & 24, JUN 7 & 21 : LILACTREE FARM GARDEN OPEN DAYS

A 3-acre garden combining thoughtful design with unusual plantings. Rare trees. Meadow maze. 10am-4pm. Free.

547231 8 Sdrd, Mulmur. 519-925-5577; lilactreefarm@gmail.com APR 28 : GREENING YOUR GROUNDS

An overview of storm water landscaping with plants. 6pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 20 Snelcrest Dr, Caledon. 905857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 28 : LYME DISEASE – INCREASING IN ONTARIO University of Guelph

professor Andrew Peregrine speaks on parasitic infections. 7:30-9pm. Free, donation welcomed. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. 519-942-2972; uppercreditfieldnaturalists.org APR 29 : HISTORY OF THE BRUCE TRAIL

Louise Carberry speaks on the history of the Bruce Trail. 7:30-9pm. $5. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. Caledon East & District Historical Society, 905-584-0352 x352; www.cedhs.ca APR 30 : NATURAL HISTORY OF HOCKLEY VALLEY Terrestrial ecologist

Dan Barcza and biologist Natalie Atkinson. 7-9pm. $15. Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com MAY 2 : KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL PLANT SALE Unique hanging baskets, vegetables,

indoor and outdoor plants. 8:30-11:30am.

16379 The Gore Rd, Caledon. 647-5267645; kingscollegeschool.ca

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APR 25 & JUN 20 : CARING FOR YOUR LAND AND WATER Manage natural

TICO Registration # 50020258

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MAY 3 : HIKE FOR BETHELL HOSPICE – INGLEWOOD Hike the Caledon Trailway.

MAY 23 : BOLTON SUNKIST WOODS COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING Improve

Register and pledge online. 9am-noon. $25, register. Inglewood Community Centre, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. Bethell Hospice Foundation, 905-838-3534; bethellhospice.org

wildlife habitat and water quality. Park at pumping station, Old King Rd at King St E. 10am-noon. Free. Bolton & District Horticultural Society, 905-857-3228; rich. hunt@sympatico.ca

MAY 3 : MATTHEWS HOUSE HIKE FOR HOSPICE 2km paved stroll or 6km

MAY 24 : FRIENDS OF ISLAND LAKE TRAIL DONATION DAY Proceeds to

hike. BBQ. Dogs welcome. 11am-2pm.

Free, register online. Adjala-Tosorontio Municipal Office, 7855 30 Sdrd, Alliston.

705-435-7218, chpca.convio.net/ matthewshousehospice

continue trail encircling the lake.

8am-4pm. Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville. 519-941-7211; wanda.wayne@rogers.com

MAY 3 : HIKE FOR HOSPICE DUFFERIN

Identify local trees, shrubs and plants.

9am-noon. $5; children free, register.

Little Tract, Dufferin County Forest, 938130 Airport Rd, Mulmur. Dufferin Simcoe Land Stewardship Network, 705-435-1881 x23; dslsn.org

A walk or 5km run, kids’ activities.

Pledge sheets available. BBQ. Noon4pm. Monora Park Pavilion, Hwy 10 N of Orangeville. 519-942-3313 x1, hospicedufferin.com MAY 9 : NATURAL POND MANAGEMENT

Improved water quality and wildlife habitat. 9am-noon. $15. Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Credit Valley Conservation, 800-668-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca/events MAY 9 : FRIENDS OF ISLAND LAKE SPRING SCRAP METAL DROP-OFF DAY Proceeds to the trail system. For

large item pickup, call Bob Shirley, 519-938-6443. 9am-4pm. Free. Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville. wanda.wayne@rogers.com

MAY 30 : WHAT TREE IS THAT ANYWAY?

MAY 30 : GARLIC MUSTARD PULL/ PULL AT HOME BBQ, hike, prizes. Pull

bags at home, drop them at Belfountain Conservation Area. 9am-1pm. Free.

Belfountain Grade 5s, CVC, BCO, 519927-5212; garlicmustardbusters.ca JUN 5 – 7 : MOTHER/DAUGHTER EQUINE ESCAPE Two nights’ accommodation,

meals, inspirational speaker, horse riding lesson. $220, register. Teen Ranch, 20682 Hurontario St, Caledon. 519-941-4501; teenranch.on.ca JUN 6 : EDIBLE WILD Lisa Yates, master herbalist and folklorist, identifies edible and medicinal wild plants. 9:30am-noon. $10; children free, register. Mansfield Outdoor Centre, 937365 Airport Rd, Mulmur.

Dufferin Simcoe Land Stewardship Network, 705-435-1881 x23; dslsn.org

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Downsizing Diva can help with  De-cluttering and downsizing  Sorting and organizing  Donating, selling and disposing of unwanted and unused items  Moving – packing, unpacking, setting up Contact Brenda Alderdice at 416-818-8249 to book your free in-home consultation! brenda @ downsizingdiva.com movingseniorscaledon.com Serving Caledon and Dufferin

Specialists in downsizing and moving for seniors!

JUN 7 : HIT THE ROAD FOR HOSPICE DUFFERIN Poker run and scenic ride.

MAY 9 : HIKE FOR BETHELL HOSPICE – BOLTON Hike Dick’s Dam Park and

Boston Mill Park Trail. 9am-noon. $25, register. Dick’s Dam Park, 250 Glasgow Rd, Bolton. Bethell Hospice Foundation, 905-838-3534; bethellhospice.org MAY 14 : MORE TRAILS, MORE TALES: EXPLORE CANADA’S TRAVEL HERITAGE

Bob Henderson speaks on his latest book. 7-9pm. $15. Farmhouse Pottery, 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com MAY 21 – 24, JUN 14 – 17 : WOMEN’S BODY & SOUL YOGA RETREAT Yoga with

Belfountain’s Renée Holden, paddling adventures, fine food, wine, cottages.

Register online. The Lodge at Pine Cove, Noelville. 705-898-2500; frenchriver.com MAY 23 : FRIENDSHIP GARDENS PLANT SALE Excellent perennials, reasonable

prices. Expert gardeners offer advice.

8:30-11am. Headwaters Health Care Centre – Kids’ Garden, Orangeville. friendshipgardens.ca MAY 23 : WILDFLOWER IDENTIFICATION

Identify local wildflowers and shrubs.

9am-noon. $5; children free, register.

Little Tract, Dufferin County Forest, 938130 Airport Rd, Mulmur. Dufferin Simcoe Land Stewardship Network, 705-435-1881 x23; dslsn.org

8:30am: registration. 10am: poker ride motorcycles leave. 10:30am: scenic ride leaves. Donation, pledges. Orangeville Curling Club, Orangeville Ontario Hospice Dufferin, 519-942-3313 x1; hospicedufferin.com JUN 20 : BEES TO BUTTERFLIES & BEYOND Presentations, kids’ activities,

honey-tasting bar, local food. 9am5pm. Not So Hollow Farm, 838369 4th Line E, Mulmur. 705-466-6290; notsohollowfarm.ca JUN 20 : SHELDON CREEK DAIRY DAY ON THE FARM Live music, kids’ games,

farm tour. 10am-4pm. Free. 4316 5th Concession, Adjala. 705-434-0404; sheldoncreekdairy.ca JUN 21 : DUFFERIN HI-LAND BRUCE TRAIL CLUB 50TH ANNIVERSARY One-

or two-day 50km challenge. Proceeds to Bruce Trail Conservancy. Checkpoints with snacks, drinks, encouragement.

Minimum $400 in sponsorships. Mono Community Centre, Mono Centre. 519217-6689; dufferinbrucetrailclub.org JUN 27 : HIDDEN TREASURES GARDEN TOUR Eight gardens in Creemore,

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Dragonfly Arts on Broadway ⁄ 40 Dufferin County Museum & Archives ⁄ 20 Meta4 Contemporary Craft Gallery ⁄ 55 Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives ⁄ 113 Rose Theatre ⁄ 9 Theatre Orangeville ⁄ 12

Academy of Performing Arts ⁄ 41

A.M. Korsten Jewellers ⁄ 41 Brock’s Footwear ⁄ 55 Chez Nous Thrift Boutique ⁄ 40 Chic à Boom Consignment ⁄ 123 Creek Side Clothing ⁄ 52 Dana’s Goldsmithing ⁄ 55 db Silversmith Designs ⁄ 55 Gallery Gemma ⁄ 114 Hannah’s ⁄ 30 Just Be Customized ⁄ 41 Manhattan Bead Company ⁄ 41 Off Broadway Clothing Boutique ⁄ 40 Scented Drawer Fine Lingerie ⁄ 41 Seconds Count ⁄ 41 Shoe Kat Shoo ⁄ 73 The Fashion Outlet ⁄ 31

auto Orangeville Volkswagen ⁄ 115 Tony’s Garage ⁄ 38 Total Mechanical ⁄ 75 WROTH Auto ⁄ 60

beauty + fitness Artizan ⁄ 102 Devonshire Guest House & Spa ⁄ 30 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 114 Skin ’n Tonic ⁄ 40

bird services

dining Aria Bistro & Lounge ⁄ 87 Bistro Riviere ⁄ 30 Cabin at Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 19,84 Caledon Hills Coffee Company ⁄ 82 Forage ⁄ 82 Gabe’s Country Bake Shoppe ⁄ 84 Landman Gardens & Bakery ⁄ 82 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 84 Mono Cliffs Inn ⁄ 82 Mrs. Mitchell’s Restaurant ⁄ 16,82 Orange Bistro ⁄ 84 Pia’s on Broadway ⁄ 82 Ray’s 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery ⁄ 84 Rustik Local Bistro ⁄ 84 Soulyve ⁄ 84 Spirit Tree Estate Cidery ⁄ 82 The Black Wolf Smokehouse ⁄ 84 The Globe Restaurant ⁄ 82 Terra Nova Public House ⁄ 82

Caledon Mountain Wildlife Supplies ⁄ 50

fencing McGuire Fence ⁄ 38

fireplace sales + service Caledon Fireplace ⁄ 93 Hearth & Leisure ⁄ 32

equestrian books

Orangeville Home Hardware ⁄ 11

event centres + services

Old Flame Brewing Co ⁄ 55

builders + architects + developers Classic Renovations ⁄ 32 Dalerose Country ⁄ 91 Dutch Masters Design & Construction ⁄ 69 GBC Design + Build ⁄ 51 Harry Morison Lay, Architect ⁄ 79 Pine Meadows ⁄ 95 Upstream Construction ⁄ 48 Village Builders ⁄ 87

Caledon Country Club ⁄ 118 Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 59 McLean Sherwood Event Rental ⁄ 74 Mendonça Catering Equipment Rental ⁄ 74 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 116 Shelburne Golf & Country Club ⁄ 44

events

Kids Inc. Camp ⁄ 91

Alton Mill, Art Battle ⁄ 112 Alton Mill, Cuisine Art ⁄ 114 Caledon Fall Fair ⁄ 123 Caledon Strawberry Festival ⁄ 123 Erin Village Summer Celebration ⁄ 31 French River Creative Writing Retreat ⁄ 14 Headwaters Health Care Gala Dinner ⁄ 119 Hike for Bethell Hospice ⁄ 117 Pan Am Games ⁄ 128 Travel Writing Photography Workshop ⁄ 116

charitable organizations

farm + feed supplies

Canada Gives ⁄ 118

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TCM Healthcare ⁄ 64 Thai Healing Massage ⁄ 58

heating + cooling Bryan’s Fuel ⁄ 49 Don’s Heating & Cooling ⁄ 69 Land & Sky Green Energy ⁄ 102 Reliance Home Comfort ⁄ 65

home décor & furnishings AMG Studios ⁄ 15 Apex Plumbing Décor ⁄ 100 Boss Leather ⁄ 6 Chic à Boom Consignment ⁄ 123 Core 77 ⁄ 62 Decor Solutions Furniture & Design ⁄ 30 From the Kitchen to the Table ⁄ 44 Genesis Interiors & Home Décor ⁄ 40 Granny Taught Us How ⁄ 16 Luke’s for Home ⁄ 55 Olde Stanton Store ⁄ 75 Orangeville Furniture ⁄ 27 Pear ⁄ 40 Recovering Nicely ⁄ 87 Sproule’s Emporium ⁄ 40 The Weathervane ⁄ 30

food + catering

BookLore ⁄ 116 Caledon Public Library ⁄ 123

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Caledon Dufferin Victim Services ⁄ 117 Headwaters Communities in Action ⁄ 121

Islandview Farm Equipment ⁄ 68 Kubota ⁄ 127 Larry’s Small Engines ⁄ 60

Bolton Farmers’ Market ⁄ 42 Core 77 ⁄ 62 Creemore Farmers’ Market ⁄ 42 Fromage ⁄ 41 Heatherlea Farm Market ⁄ 121 Holtom’s Bakery ⁄ 31 Lavender Blue Catering ⁄ 40,114 New Lowell Farmer’s Market ⁄ 42 Orangeville Farmers’ Market ⁄ 42 Rock Garden Farms ⁄ 61 Shelburne Farmers’ Market ⁄ 42 Stayner Farmers’ Market ⁄ 42 The Chocolate Shop ⁄ 41 The Friendly Chef Adventures ⁄ 30 Wicked Shortbread ⁄ 83

golf Caledon Country Club ⁄ 118 Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 59 Mad River Golf Club ⁄ 89 Shelburne Golf & Country Club ⁄ 42

home improvement + repair All-Mont Garage Doors ⁄ 98 AllPro Roofing ⁄ 2 Celtic Carpet ⁄ 97 Deep Water Wood Products ⁄ 79 Dufferin Glass & Mirror ⁄ 98 Enviroshake ⁄ 4 Fast Form Insulated Concrete Forms ⁄ 65 Headwaters Windows & Doors ⁄ 100 Karry Home Solutions ⁄ 32 Kitchen Painters ⁄ 99 KitchENvision ⁄ 44 Kurtz Millworks ⁄ 73 Leathertown Lumber ⁄ 38 Orangeville Building Supply ⁄ 98 Paragon Kitchens ⁄ 3 Rubber Deck ⁄ 99 RVP Roofing Systems ⁄ 39 Synergy Roofing ⁄ 101

hospice services Bethell Hospice ⁄ 117

health + wellness Avita Integrated Health & Well Being ⁄ 64 Dr. Richard Pragnell ⁄ 58 Family Footcare ⁄ 63 Harmony Health Clinic ⁄ 64 Inaturopath Naturopathic Clinic ⁄ 64 Renee J Fitness ⁄ 121

interior decorating + design Decorating Den Interiors ⁄ 97 Genesis Interiors & Home Décor ⁄ 40

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continued from page 119 JUL 10 – 26 : TORONTO PAN AM GAMES 2015 EQUESTRIAN EVENTS Dressage and

stadium jumping at Caledon Equestrian Park, Palgrave. Cross-country at Will O’Wind Farm, Mono. Town of Caledon, 905-584-2272; caledon.ca JUL 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 & 26 : HEADWATERS HORSE COUNTRY STABLE TOUR Visit

equine facilities in Caledon, Dufferin, Erin and King. Hills of Headwaters Tourism Association, 519-942-0314 x204; headwatershorsecountry.ca

theatre+film MAR 27 – 29 : BUT WHY BUMP OFF BARNABY? A frantic, hilarious rush to

2: 2:15 & 8:15pm. Matinee $13; evening 16; dinner and show $30. 18365 Hurontario St, Caledon Village. 519-927-5460; caledontownhallplayers.com APR 28 : LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL Classical and contemporary

APR 30 : CIRQUE MECHANICS Traditional circus with cirque elements, comedic characters and acro dancing. 8pm. $58; children $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca APR 30 – MAY 3 : SNOW WHITE and THE NOT SO YOUNG SEVEN DWARFS PANTOMIME Call for tickets. Fri, Sat:

solve the clues. Fri 8pm. Sat 2 & 8pm. Sun 2pm. $15. Grace Tipling Hall, 120 Main St, Shelburne. tiplingstagecompany.com

7pm. Thurs, Sun: 2pm. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905951-6114; caledonseniors.ca

MAR 27 & 28, APR 4, 10 & 11 : HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? A Fawlty

MAY 7 – 24 : BACO NOIR Bruce Berne

Towers-type hotel is at risk of foreclosure.

Mar 28: Theatre, Italian dinner, 6pm, supporting Caledon Meals on Wheels at Inglewood United Church, $20. 8pm. $15.

Inglewood Community Centre, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. 905-838-2874; inglewood schoolhouseperformers.leene.ws APR 9 – 12, 16 – 18 : RAVENSCROFT

Eccentric women are questioned where Patrick Roarke has been murdered in this dark comedic puzzler. Apr 9, 10, 16-18: 8pm. Apr 11: 4pm. Apr 12, 18: 2pm. $20; group rate available. Centre 2000, 14 Boland Dr, Erin. 905-873-6868; erintheatre.ca APR 9 – 26 : NORMAN BRAY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS LIFE Aging, still

makes wine the natural way, but the neighbours aren’t smiling. By Dan Needles. Fri, Sat: 8pm. Sun, Wed: 2pm. Thurs: 2 & 8pm. $42 evening; $35 matinées. 87 Broadway, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca JUN 5 & 6 : WINGFIELD ON ICE Walt

is alarmed about feuds that divide the neighbours. By Dan Needles. 8-10:30pm. $35. Fergus Grand Theatre, 244 St. Andrew St W, Fergus. 519-843-4852; ralphbasset.com JUN 12 – 27 : LEGALLY BLONDE Elle

Woods’ life is turned upside-down. Fri, Sat: 8pm. Sun: 2pm. $22. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. 519-942-3423; orangevillemusictheatre.com

talented (he believes), Norman wishes people would see his true worth. By Trevor Cole. Thur-Sat: 8pm. Sun, Wed, Thurs: 2pm. $42; $35 matinées. 87 Broadway, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca APR 10 : ELECTIVE SURGERY – GAME OF MURDER MYSTERY Buffet dinner and

show, Councillor Gord McClure is the victim, 13 suspects defend themselves.

Prizes. 6:30-11pm. $40. Peel Jr Farmers’ Building, 12942 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon.

Home United Church, 905-840-2077; bonnie@duskteam.com APR 14 : RICK MERCER The genius makes

you laugh at everything about Canada.

8pm. $72. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca APR 17 : LAUGH OUT LOUD WITH YUK YUK’S Antipasto bar, waffle station, silent

auction. Tickets until Apr 15. 6:30-11pm. $75, advance only. Royal Ambassador, 15430 Innis Lake Rd, Caledon. Caledon ParentChild Centre, 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org APR 23 : THE JUST FOR LAUGHS ROAD SHOW Comedians from the world’s most

prestigious comedy event. Mature themes and language. 8pm. $48. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca APR 23 – 25, MAY 1 & 2 : SELF-HELP

BY DUMMIEZ A psychologist is late for

work, so those waiting must fend for themselves. Apr 23-25, May 1: 8:15pm. May

The Headwaters Community Well-Being Report

dance by an internationally renowned company. 8pm. $41. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

NOW – MAY 28 (THURSDAYS) : NIA WITH AYRLIE Dance, martial and healing arts.

All levels. 7-8:15pm. $15 per class; first class free. Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St. horningsmills.ca MAR 28 : CELTIC-STYLE GOSPEL GREATS & THEIR STORIES 5-time GMA Canada

Award nominee Sharon Thompson brings drama, song and dance. Tickets at Aardvark Music, BookLore, or door.

7:30pm. $15. Jehovah Jireh Christian Ministries, 20554 Hurontario St, Caledon.

Celtic Cross Productions, 519-942-8299; celticcross.ca APR 7 – JUN 9 (TUESDAYS) : LINE DANCING IN HORNING’S MILLS Robert

“Croc” Young leads. Prepay March: Masonville Store or Shelburne Library.

7-8pm. $50/10 lessons, paid first night.

Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St. 519-9251272; horningsmills.ca APR 18 : BEYOND THE CHAMBER STRING TRIO Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

music+dance MAR 28 : Source of the Song 30: Songwriter in the Round Concert

Bruce Madole, Katherine Wheatley and Corin Raymon sing Americana, jazz and more. 2-5pm. $20; $25 at the door. Terra Cotta Community Centre, 18 High St, Caledon. 905-459-9753; brucemadole.com

8-10pm. $30; 16 & under, $15. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-880-2445; caledonchamberconcerts.com

MAY 4 – 6 : ORANGEVILLE & DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL Performance

APR 25 : CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, JAMES COTTON & JOHN HAMMOND Living

MAY 25 : ORANGEVILLE & DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL GALA CONCERT

MAY 24 : ITALIAN MASTERWORKS – THE VERDI REQUIEM A massed choir of 100

(Headwaters and Brampton)and supersized orchestra. 3:30pm.

NOW – MAR 31 (TUESDAYS TO THURSDAYS) : ORANGEVILLE & DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL REGISTRATION Forms

available at Westminster United or online. Register by April 1. Noon-4pm.

247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-4334; odmf.ca

headwaterscommunities.org/survey All entries with contact info will be entered in a draw for $100 at a local restaurant.

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unless noted. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

legends who have forged blues history.

Please take 5 minutes to share your ideas at:

A night of great music. 8-11pm. $25.

Avening Hall, Airport Rd, Creemore.

705-466-9906; aveninghall.com

opportunities with personal adjudications, all levels and disciplines, non-competitive. Scholarships awarded.

2-9pm. Nonparticipants $2. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-8675; odmf.ca

MAR – MAY: LIVE MUSIC AT ROSE THEATRE All performances at 8pm,

What would make Headwaters a better community?

Tues-Fri 9-6; Sat 9-5; Sun 12-4 17049 Winston Churchill Blvd, Caledon 519.927.5902 heatherleafarmmarket.ca

Performances, scholarships and the Most Promising Musician Award. 7-9pm. $10; children 12 & under, $5. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-8676; odmf.ca JUN 4 – 7 : ORANGEVILLE BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL Consistently recognized

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kids NOW – APR 26 (SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS) : DROP-IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES Families

landscaping + gardening Cold Creek Contracting ⁄ 42 Cold Creek Landscape ⁄ 42 GBC Design + Build ⁄ 51 Hill’N Dale Landscaping ⁄ 35,37 Home Grace ⁄ 53 May Flowers by Design ⁄ 52 Peel Landscaping ⁄ 60 Plant Paradise ⁄ 29 Raymar ⁄ 68 Stephanie’s Country Greenhouse ⁄ 53 The Local Gardener ⁄ 50

moving services Downsizing Diva ⁄ 119

ponds Pond Perfections ⁄ 36

pools Betz Pools ⁄ 8 D & D Pools & Spas ⁄ 65 New Wave Pools & Spas ⁄ 36

professional services Carters Law Firm ⁄ 52 Edward Jones Investments, Mario Citta ⁄ 63

Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 108 Paul Richardson, Martha Summers Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 106 Gillian Vanderburgh, Andrea Kary Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 111 Ginny MacEachern Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 108 Jacqueline Guagliardi Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 102 Kathy Lawaska Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 106 Roger Irwin, Barbara Rolph, Dawn Bennett Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 109 Susan Brown Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 108 Suzanne Lawrence Royal Le Page RCR Realty ⁄ 15,109 Wayne Baguley Sotheby’s International Realty Canada ⁄ 103 Jamie Gairdner Sutton-Headwaters Realty ⁄ 10 Jim Wallace Sutton-Headwaters Realty ⁄ 110 Sarah Aston Sutton Group – Central Realty ⁄ 39 Mary Klein, Kelly Klein, Kaitlan Klein

schools + education Brampton Christian School ⁄ 7 The Maples Academy ⁄ 5

real estate + home inspections

seniors’ services

Bosley Real Estate ⁄ 99 Velvet Alcorn Carriage House Realty ⁄ 69 Derrik Libawski Chestnut Park Real Estate ⁄ 111 Patrick Bogert, Sandy Ball, Sue Collis Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 106 Marc Ronan Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 104 Rob McDonough Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 110 Sarah Lunn Moffat Dunlap Real Estate ⁄ 104,105 Moffat Dunlap, John Dunlap, Peter Boyd, Murray Snider, George Webster, Peter Bowers, Nik Bonellos, Peter Cooper Remax In The Hills ⁄ 13,107 Chris Richie, Philip Albin, Sean Anderson, Dale Poremba Remax Real Estate Centre ⁄ 100 Radha Diaram Remax Realty Services ⁄ 110 Julianne Budd Royal LePage Locations North ⁄ 110 Andres Paara, Karen Willison

Headwaters Home Care ⁄ 58 Kingsmere Retirement Living ⁄ 62 Lord Dufferin Centre ⁄ 74 Montgomery Village Seniors Comm ⁄ 93

toy stores Brighten Up ⁄ 31

tourism + travel Caledon Travel ⁄ 118 Orangeville BIA ⁄ 40,41 Port Perry BIA ⁄ 55 Town of Erin ⁄ 30,31

tree services Maple Leaves Forever ⁄ 25 Ott’s Tree Service ⁄ 89 Sunshine Trees ⁄ 83

make creative projects inspired by PAMA’s exhibitions. 1-5pm. Museum admission.

Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – APR 9 (THURSDAYS) : UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING DVD

by Alfie Kohn, reconnect with your best parental instincts. 7-9pm. Free, register.

Island Lake Public School, 50 Oak Ridge Dr, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca NOW – MAY 28 (THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS) : THEATRE ORANGEVILLE YOUTH SINGERS (T.O.Y.S.) Ages

8-16. Thurs 4-6pm. Sat 10am to noon. $400. St. Mark’s Anglican Church, 5 First Ave, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca NOW – MAY 31 : OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS Exhibition on loan from the

Canadian Museum of Nature, touching stations, interactive displays. Museum admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca NOW – JUN 15 (MONDAYS) : BOLTON SEA CADETS Ages 12-18. Birth certificate

and health card to register. 6:30-9:30pm.

Albion Bolton Community Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-533-1960; facebook.com/Navy-League-CaledonBranch-RCSCC-253-Crescent NOW – JUNE 26 : KIDS INC CAMP REGISTRATION Ages 4-14. 30-acre facility,

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MAR 28 : STATION ROAD NURSERY BUNNY BRUNCH Continental breakfast,

magic show, crafts, bouncy castle, vendors.

Proceeds to the school. 9am-noon. $5; children 2 & under free. Centre 2000, 14 Boland Dr, Erin. 519-833-2882; stationroad.ca MAR 28 – 30, APR 3 – 5 : DOWNEY’S EASTERFEST Crafts, wagon ride, baby

animals, magic show, Great Easter Scramble. 10am-5pm. $12. Downey’s Farm Market, 13682 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon.

905-838-2990; downeysfarm.com MAR 31 & APR 16 : SCHOOLWORK STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS Tips to

help your child in an effective and enjoyable way. 7-9pm. Free, register.

Mar 31: Parkinson Centennial School, 120 Lawrence Ave, Orangeville. Apr 16: Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca APR 1 : HEALTHY EATING FOR THE BUSY FAMILY Melanie Grime RHN (holistic

nutritionist) shares tips for maximum nutrition. 7-9pm. Free, register. Parkinson Centennial Public School, 120 Lawrence Ave, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca APR 3 : EASTER EGG HUNT & PANCAKE BREAKFAST Pancakes 9:30am, hunt

10:30am. Crafts, exotic critters. Kids 12 & under, free with adult. $5; Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St. horningsmills.ca APR 4 : EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA Easter egg hunts, pony rides, giant swing, petting farm, crafts, games, skating. Trail rides $10. 1-4pm. $20/vehicle. Teen Ranch, 20682 Hurontario St, Caledon. 519-9414501; teenranch.on.ca APR 4 : IF THE WALLS COULD TALK

saltwater pool, pond, trails, forest area, sport zone. June 20: open house, 1-3pm.

4th Line Erin, N of Hwy 124. 519-855-6074; kidsinc.ca

Kids explore colours, shapes, materials, construction techniques and history of local buildings. 1-4pm. Donation.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

NOW – JUN 30 (TUESDAYS) : GROWING TOGETHER WITH THE CPCC Families and

APR 4 : SHELBURNE FAMILY EASTER EGG HUNT Crafts, storytelling, golden

children (birth-6) share a meal, activities.

To qualify call 905-857-0090. 4:30-7pm.

Free, register. 25 Stationview Place, Bolton. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 905857-0090; cp-cc.org

eggs win prizes, bring basket. 1-3pm. Free.

Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddlepark Ln. Town of Shelburne and John’s No-Frills, 519-925-2600 x230; townofshelburne.shelburne.ca

NOW – JUN 30 (TUESDAYS) : LET’S GET TOGETHER: RAISING A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS Parenting a child (0-6) with

APR 6 – 11 : SPRING PROGRAM REGISTRATION AT CPCC Interactive

special needs. 5:45-7:15pm. Free, register.

Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org

adult/child and school readiness programs. 9:15am-4pm. Free. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org

NOW – JUN 30 (TUESDAYS) : ADJUST­ MENTS AFTER BIRTH SUPPORT GROUP

APR 7 – MAY 12 (TUESDAYS) : LEGO CLUB @ ALDER STREET LIBRARY Get creative

Support after the birth or adoption of a child. Child care available. Free, register.

Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090, cp-cc.org MAR 27, APR 24, MAY 29 & JUN 26 : CALEDON PARENT-CHILD CENTRE: THE VILLAGE CAFÉ @EXCHANGE Healthy

food and bodies, snacks, crafts, activities.

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with LEGO. 4-5pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 275 Alder St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 8 – APR 15 (WEDNESDAYS) : ANGER, PARENTING AND YOU Coping strategies

for parents and children. Family dinner 5:30pm. Childcare available. 6-7:30pm.

Free, register. Ontario Early Years Centre – Shelburne, 167 Centre St. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

APR 9 – MAY 14 (THURSDAYS): LEGO CLUB @ MILL STREET LIBRARY Get

APR 22, MAY 27 & JUN 24 : TEEN MEET & MUNCH BOOK CLUB Snacks, book

creative with LEGO. 4-5pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca

discussions, new friends. 4-5pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca

APR 14 : SKILLS FOR SINGLE PARENTS

APR 28 – MAY 26 (TUESDAYS) : SIBLINGS WITHOUT RIVALRY Help

Co-parenting, managing single-parent life, dating. Childcare available. 7-9pm.

Free, register. Parkinson Centennial Public School, 120 Lawrence Ave, Orangeville.

Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519940-8678; dpsn.ca APR 19 : MOMSTOWN BRAMPTON COMMUNITY CELEBRATION Fisher

Price toy testing area, magic show, crafts, activity stations. 10am-2pm. Free. Century Gardens Recreation Centre, 340 Vodden St E, Brampton. 905-781-1207; brampton. momstown.ca APR 21 : LIFE SPAN CHANGES Strategies

for autistic children and caregivers to cope with transitions. 6:30-8:30pm. Free, register. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

kids solve conflicts on their own. 7-9pm.

Free, register. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville.

Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

MAY 5 : TEEN WRITERS’ INK Vanessa

Grillone helps teens find their voice and confidence. 7-8pm. Free, register.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 6 : HONEY, I WRECKED THE KIDS

Alyson Schafer shares effective discipline techniques. 7-9pm. Donation, register.

Orangeville District Secondary School, 22 Faulkner St, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

MAY 2 : TEDDY BEAR CLINIC Doctor’s

MAY 9 : CPCC’S LITTLE TYKE HIKE WALKA-THON & BBQ Meet at North Hill Park

checkup, BBQ, pony rides, games, tooth fairy express. Free parking. 10am1pm. $2. Headwaters Health Care Centre, Orangeville. hhccauxiliary@ headwatershealth.ca

(beside Caledon Centre for Recreation and Wellness). Forms available online April 1.

10am-1pm. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org

MAY 4 & 11 : RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS: HONOURING OURSELVES AND OTHERS Tips for conflict resolution,

MAY 11 : DISCOVER PAN AM Learn about countries, test your endurance, create Pan Am swag. 7-8pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 20 Snelcrest Dr, Caledon. 905857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

setting healthy boundaries, for parents.

7-9pm. Free, register. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

MAY 13 & 15 : PAUSE TO PLAY CAMPAIGN

Screen-free activity for the whole family.

4-5pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca MAY 13, 20 & 27 : LET’S EXPLORE COMMUNICATION Effective speaking and

listening skills, encouragement. 7-9pm.

Free, register. Parkinson Centennial Public School, 120 Lawrence Ave, Orangeville.

Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519940-8678; dpsn.ca MAY 23 – JUN 20 (SATURDAYS) : MUSEUM DETECTIVES – PAMA KIDS

FRI JUNE 12 — SUN JUNE 14 Caledon Fairgrounds Highway 10, Caledon Village FRI PM : Giant Truck/Tractor Pull SAT : Lawn Tractor Challenge, BBQ & Country Music Concert, Horse/Dog Relay SAT & SUN : Livestock Competitions & Horse Show Plus Exhibits & Midway Rides!

Canada Day Strawberry Festival July 1st Celebrate CANADA’S 148th BIRTHDAY

strawberry pancake breakfast, live music, miles of classic cars, Christmas in July craft/artisan trade fair, Bavarian beer garden

www.caledonfairgrounds.ca

Learn art-making techniques, papermaking process. 10:30am-12:30pm. $45, register. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca MAY 25 & JUN 1 : RAISING YOUR SPIRITED SCHOOL-AGED CHILD Tips

p u z z l i n g

sol u t i ons

A Chess Set for PAMA? A genuine 11th century chess set from the Far or Middle East would not have had bishops, which are Christian figures. Saracenic or Arabic chess sets used elephants for the bishop piece, or often just an abstract figure.

Dividing the 80 Acre Potato Farm

(Other configurations are possible.)

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The Girls at the Party Jacqui wore yellow. Michael liked Sanja best.

A Slip-up at the Jolly Morphology Club?

A pottle (4 pints); a magnum holds 2.64 pints and a quart 2 pints 2 butt (126 gallons); a firkin holds 9 gallons 3 hogshead (52.5 gallons); a barrel holds 36 gallons 4 tun (252 gallons) 5 gill (8 tbsps) A Digital Clock in Shelburne After 5:55, 245 minutes will pass before the clock will present three identical numbers in a row (10:00). Three identical numbers in a row appear on a digital clock 34 times in 24 hours.

(From midnight to noon: 12:22, 1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, 5:55, 10:00, 11:10, 11:11, 11:12, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16, 11:17, 11:18, 11:19; 17 x 2 = 34)

to self-regulate and self-manage. 7-9pm.

Free, register. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville.

Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca MAY 28 : FAMILY FEUD FOR TEENS

Teams minimum of 5, named and emailed to ys@caledon.library.on.ca by May 14.

Prizes. 6:30-8pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 28 & JUN 4 : POSITIVE PARENTING FROM SEPARATE HOMES Manage changes

so kids don’t get caught in the middle.

6:30-9:30pm. Free, register. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 655 Riddell Rd, Orangeville. 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca MAY 29 – 31 : ANNIE JR A spunky orphan

is determined to find her parents.

Fri 8pm. Sat 2 & 7pm. Sun 2pm. $17.

Westside Secondary School, 300 Alder St, Orangeville. orangevillemusictheatre.com JUN 3 : FUN WITH SCIENCE Dinosaurs,

magnets, animal habitats, birds and space with Ontario Early Years Dufferin. 10:1511:45am. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca ≈

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a Puzzling Conclusion

Dividing the 80 Acre Potato Farm After several decades of “doing it their way” on a very productive potato farm in Melancthon Township, Vince and Rose ran up against government regulations.

Their plan was to sever a lot from one corner of the property (the farm was a perfect square) and build a retirement home on it for themselves. The re­ mainder of the property they would then divide into five plots for their five daughters to grow potatoes or engage in other agricultural endeavours.

Upon applying for the necessary permissions from municipal and pro­ vincial governments, Vince and Rose learned a severed lot for their retire­ ment home had to be entirely inside the property. It could not touch any outer border of the farm. Further, each of the five subsequent divisions of the farm for their daughters had to be identical in area and in shape.

Design a layout that will satisfy the government stipulations and at the same time, divide up the entire farm giving Vince and Rose a severed lot and each daughter her own subplot.

by Ken Weber

The Girls at the Party All the way from Grand Valley to Alton, little Michael talked excitedly about the birthday party he’d just attended but had difficulty getting some details straight. He did remember there were five girls at the party besides the boys, but most of what he remembered about the girls was colours. He knew that a girl named Berney wore a red dress and Elaine wore a blue one. He knew that Moira did not wear a yellow sweater, but he was sure the girl who did wear that yellow sweater was a partner with Berney in a game they played against Sanja and the girl in green.

As he was being tucked into bed that night, Michael commented that he liked the girl with the brown overalls best.

A Chess Set for PAMA? a n i n t h e h i l l s m i n i m y s t e r y

The set was magnificent, no doubt about that. And in mint condition. Except for one of the bishops missing a tiny piece of his mitre, and a black pawn – each pawn was a different craftsman – holding what appeared to be a broken crosscut saw, all the figures were intact.

They were exquisite too, carved from black jade and ivory. The kings especially were outstanding, their importance accentuated by tiny but fiery opals inset on their robes. Even the chessboard with faint Arabic script running along the outer edges, was in a class by itself. According to the agent, the set dated from the late 11th century, and had been brought to Europe during the Crusades.

“Magnificent indeed,” agreed Diane Allengame, “but way out of our league. In fact, PAMA wouldn’t even have contemplated bidding on this set were it not for the Perkins Bull connection.”

The agent had approached PAMA with a tantalizing claim that the set had once been owned by William Perkins Bull, a point that quickly got PAMA’s attention and explained why Diane, as regional archivist, was more than pleased to investigate. As she later acknowl­ edged, the venture was thrilling for her, but at the same time, short-lived. It took her no time at all to realize Perkins Bull would never have acquired such a rare artifact if it was not authentic.

Who did Michael like best?

And what colour did Jacqui wear?

A Digital Clock in Shelburne Through the window of a clothing store on Shelburne’s main street, Eddie could see a digital clock reading 3:33. It occurred to him that one hour and eleven minutes ago, that same clock had read 2:22, and in one hour and eleven minutes from now, it will read 4:44. Interesting, he thought, because in one hour and eleven minutes after that, it will read 5:55 but strangely, after still one more round of one hour and eleven minutes, it will read 7:06.

“I wonder,” Eddie said out loud, “how many minutes will pass after 5:55 before the clock will again show three identical numbers in a row?

And come to think of it, how many times in a 24hour period does a digital clock present the same three numbers in a row?” Help Eddie.

How did Diane know the chess set was not what the agent claimed?

A Slip-up at the Jolly Morphology Club?

At the former tavern near Mono Mills which had so successfully converted itself to a word game club during the “dry days” of Prohibition in early 20th century Ontario, a new vocabulary challenge drew some unwanted attention from inspectors. Outlined on the chalkboard that hung on the wall behind the bar – former bar – were the names of items used in the brewing, distilling and wine-making industries at the time. These items were used for measuring, serving or storing liquid, and patrons found their names intriguing, if a bit arcane. (Inspectors, because of the association with beer, wine and liquor were not as amused.) As a patron, in how many challenges below would you have chosen correctly? In each group of three that follows, which item will hold the largest quantity of liquid?

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magnum quart bottle pottle

firkin gallon jug butt

barrel hogshead magnum

tun firkin pint bottle

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