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Back to the future at Heatherlea Farm Shoppe

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A decade of ecoliving

Grow your own mushrooms 12 local lunches for $5 Where rivers rise

A guide to our headwaters

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MARIA BRITTO … e m u s e R s r o t l a e R ’ A …should be more than a list of industry awards.

Real Estate 1) Licensed Realtor since 1985 2) 32 years a full-time Realtor 3) Licensed as both Residential & Commercial Realtor 4) Over 1200 real estate transactions 5) Over $500 million in Real Estate Sales (representing selling, buying & rental) 6) Appraisal; Real Estate Law; Building Process; Mortgage Financing; Septic & Wells; Planning & Zoning; Conservation & Other Commenting Authorities 7) Home construction & development

Non-Real Estate 1) Chair of the Board, Employment Insurance (E.I) Tribunal (2003 to 2012) 2) Chair of the Board, Central West Local Health Integration (LHIN) (2011 to present) 3) Chair (past) & current Board Member, Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation 4) Chair of the Erin Economic Development Committee 5) Member, Caledon Economic Development Committee (CEDAC) (2010 to 2014) 6) Member, Brampton Economic Development Committee (1997 to 2010) 7) Member, Headwaters Tourism Association 8) Member, William Osler Health System Board of Directors (2009 to 2011)

A Realtor’s broader life experience is a great benefit… to you. Currently, I oversee a budget of almost $1 billion dollars. At E.I., I oversaw the appeals process of E.I. claimants – rendering judgements and rulings. At the Community Foundation, as a member of the Board, I am responsible for the governance and strategic direction with respect to philanthropy, charitable legacies and the funding of worthy charities in our community. When charged with that level of responsibility, one becomes better at judgement, decision-making, negotiation and navigation.

I have purposely omitted my industry awards. Although I, too, have achieved the 100% Club and the Re/Max Hall of Fame, these designations do not a Resume make.

Every time a Realtor interviews with a potential client to represent that client in the purchase and/or sale of real estate, the interview is a job interview. A Resume should give insight into your Realtor’s capabilities… their character… their personality. A Resume is important. You should ask for it!

Beyond the mechanical elements of selling a home, the intrinsic capabilities of your Realtor matter. They matter a lot! Dealing with complexity of today’s Real Estate transactions requires experience, judgement and capability. As an example, in today’s real estate market, there are more seniors, as both buyers and sellers. Seniors, collectively, own and control a huge portion of real estate.

Brooke Cooper – Toronto

When a senior is selling or buying property, there are serious implications for a Senior, for a Senior’s family and for a Senior’s estate. Personally, I take the time to understand and evaluate each situation, always being cognizant of the particular and unique needs of my Seniors’ clientele. If you are a Senior, or, if you are a family member helping your parent(s) with the sale or purchase of their home, be sure you choose a Realtor who has both competence and compassion. Navigating this maze of complexity effectively is the difference between failure and success.

Negotiations, at the time of an Offer of Purchase and Sale, sometimes can become intense; difficult; emotional. You need your Realtor to be firm, credible and effective at these times; never losing sight of the objective to successfully sell or purchase your house. Your Realtor is representing your interests. At the time of the negotiation, your Realtor is your champion. Choose the Realtor who can win for you.

When I represent a client, we work together… we have a great real estate experience… and the house is sold!

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I S S U E F E A T U R E S 24 WHERE RIVERS RISE

A primer on the rivers of Headwaters

by Tony Reynolds 41 MORE THAN A DROP IN THE BUCKET

Water security for First Nations

by Kristi Green 48

48 PL ANTING A FOREST FUNGI GARDEN

Grow your own mushrooms

by Tralee Pearce 54 BACK TO THE FUTURE AT HEATHERLEA

A new market based on old traditions

by Tralee Pearce 66

60 WITHOUT WORDS, ARE WE LOST IN THE WOODS?

How words connect us to nature

by Nicola Ross 66 WHOLE VILL AGE

A decade of sustainable living

by Liz Beatty 76 12 LUNCHES FOR $5 OR LESS 82

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Cheap, fabulous local dining

by Janice Quirt

78 THE OTHER EYE

Anthony Jenkins’ fascination with faces

by Jeff Rollings D E P A R T M E N T S 14 LET TERS

Our readers write 17 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Darlene Hassall 18 MUST DO

Our favourite picks for summer 21 FENCE POSTS

A fish story

by Dan Needles 38 HISTORIC HILLS

Floods on the Grand River

by Ken Weber

64 MADE IN THE HILLS

Creature comforts

by Tralee Pearce 73 COOKING CL ASS

Pam Fanjoy’s “deliciousness” slaw

by Tralee Pearce 82 GOOD SPORT

The good old soccer game

by Nicola Ross 84 HEADWATERS NEST

Goodbye to “Uncle Buck”

by Bethany Lee 86 OVER THE (NEXT) HILL

Caledon Seniors Centre

by Gail Grant 88 AT HOME IN THE HILLS

A storied home in Mono

by Pam Purves 106 WHAT’S ON IN THE HILLS

A calendar of summer happenings 118 A PUZZLING CONCLUSION

by Ken Weber I N D E X 102 FIND AN ADVERTISER

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Rivers run through us It is common in conversation for someone here in the hills to suddenly interject with renewed wonder how very lucky we are to live in such a beautiful part of the planet. And it is not uncommon for someone else to add, “If only it were on the water,” by which they mean the seaside or lakeside.

Well, there is no sea and no real lake here (though there are some very large ponds given the name lake, in the way the local escarpment is given the name mountain) – but there is no shortage of water. It springs up all around us in the streams and rivers and marshes and pools of the four major watersheds that sculpt our landscape and feed three Great Lakes.

It was this water, and the hydro power – thus commerce – it generated, that determined the location of the first settlement areas here. But over the years, the mills fell into disuse, their ponds silted up; some of the villages grew into towns while others languished. A new breed of settler arrived, mostly exurbanite, not in search of a livelihood, but attracted to the natural glory of the hills and forests – the very things that had made life for those first settlers so challenging. The rivers continued to flow, but they no longer had a central role in the community psyche.

That is changing again. It has taken awhile, but over recent decades Hurricane Hazel, the Walkerton crisis, global news of droughts and floods resulting from climate change, the disap­ pearance of fish from our local waterways, and the need in certain developed parts of Caledon to draw water via a big pipe from Lake Ontario have rung alarm bells and brought the vital role of our rivers and their source waters back to centre stage.

Now attention is being paid at the highest level. The pro­ vince is in the final stage of consultation on its Co-ordinated Land Use Planning Review and has begun review of the Conservation Authorities Act. The management and preser­ vation of our watersheds have a central role in both. So it seemed an opportune time for us to re-explore the rivers of Headwaters. In this issue Tony Reynolds provides an in-depth profile of our local waterways, their ancient and recent history, the impressive actions many local groups and individuals are taking to protect them, and his own happy memories of dis­ covering them. Photographer Rosemary Hasner accompanies his words with her stunning portraits capturing diverse moods along each of the rivers, including our cover of the swing bridge and sparkling falls on the Credit River in Belfountain.

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Beverley Frank with Nazar.

Hat Mystery

Camel Food Re: “Zoo Food” [spring ’16]. In my quest to meet the nutritional require­ ments of my Bactrian camel Nazar, imagine my surprise to find exactly what I needed on my doorstep and to find the products were being milled by a company I’ve trusted since starting my racehorse training career in 1982. Going on four years now, Budson Farm & Feed Company in Erin has kept Nazar supplied with fresh Züküdla Herbivore Cubes at a price point below many brands of processed horse feed.

When I purchased Nazar, well-meaning people advised, “just feed him like a horse.” My training told me this was wrong, but just how difficult would it be to meet the nutritional requirements of a camel in Southern Ontario?

Contact with the Metro Zoo led me to a nutritionist working with Züküdla who suggested their Herbivore Cubes. Sceptical that I was being pointed at “the best substitute” to a correct diet, I researched the product.

It checked all my boxes and even included “camel” on the bag tag, along with antelope, bison, elephant, gaur, hippopotamus, kudu, llama, tapir, rhinoceros, yak and zebra.

Nazar is thriving on a diet of Herbivore Cubes and fresh fruit and veg­ gies, as well as the opportunity to browse and enrichment activities that fulfill his need to travel across the vastness of East Garafraxa Township.

I would also like to acknowledge Nazar’s medical team, Dr. Rex Crawford and Dufferin Veterinary Services Professional Corporation, who have so much camel knowledge, it never ceases to amaze me.

Nazar is priceless and what a relief to find these excellent people have made it so easy to give him the high standard of welfare he deserves.

Beverley Frank, East Garafraxa Township Editor’s Note: We couldn’t resist asking Beverley Frank for more information about her camel. This is what she told us: You ask why a camel? I’ve had horses for 50 years with many of those years as a professional. I am more than qualified to say, “horses are a poor design.” Twenty-five years ago I decided camels were much better engineered and I started my search. I could have bought a dromedary at any time, but I really wanted a Bactrian and they are very rare. I am also a hand spinner and fibre artist, and there’s about 25 pounds of fine under­ coat on Nazar, which I make into sweaters and such.

So I searched and hired animal brokers to search for me, and watched camels being shot from planes in Australia and slaving on riding strings in Egypt, being used as food in Mongolia and lastly, as prisoners in petting zoos. Camels helped create the civilized world long before horses were useful. They deserve respect.

When I found Nazar, it was with a huge leap of faith that I bought him.

The price was staggering and I didn’t know if he’d kill me with his huge tusks [incisors]. He’s a complicated animal, much more intelligent than a horse and has strong opinions. Nazar took two years to trust me, but he looks on me now with a much softer eye and we’re good friends.

Re: “A Tip of the Hat” [spring ’16].

This is not an answer to your ques­ tion, “What’s This Beanie’s Story?” but about why someone would roll up newspaper inside their hatband as Major Justice did in his military cap.

The story doesn’t say whether it’s one layer or more. If it’s long and more than one layer, it would be to make the hat slightly smaller, to fit better. Or maybe as an identification tag (since it was signed).

Very interesting article with great photos.

Lisa Garber, Mulmur

Home on the Range A huge thank you goes out to In The Hills for such a wonderful write-up about our ranch in your latest issue [“Good Sport: Home on the Range” spring ’16]. Thank you to Nicola Ross for truly capturing the ranch and everything that we do here. And an­ other thank you to Rosemary Hasner for taking such beautiful photos. We had such a great time talking to both of them and showing them our beau­ tiful horses.

We have another big thank you to give to our amazing friends/boarders for saying such kind things about their experience here and for giving up some of their time to Nicola.

Carl Cosack, Peace Valley Ranch, Mulmur

A QUESTION FOR OUR READERS Have You Kicked Your Grass Habit?

We’re talking lawn grass here. In The Hills nature writer Don Scallen is researching an article on alternatives to lawns. He would appreciate talking to readers who have replaced all or large portions of their lawns with something else. This might include meadows, vegetable gardens or other ecologically sound alternatives. If you have found a way to turf your turf, Don would like to hear about it. You can reach him at dscallen@cogeco.ca.

ONLINE IN THE HILLS We welcome your comments! For more commentary from our readers, or to add your own thoughts on any of the stories in this issue, please visit www.inthehills.ca. You can also send your letters by e-mail to sball@inthehills.ca.

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clockwise from top right eggs are gettin’ cold, acrylic and oil stick, 36" x 48" Mother Knows Best, acrylic on canvas, 24"x 30" Market Square, acrylic, 20"x 16" For You, acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 30”x 24”

Darlene Hassall Darlene Hassall’s exuberant colours and wavery lines filter remembered pleasures with childlike joy. “I want the lack of logic and use of colour to cause the viewer to stop and take another look. Then laugh or say, ‘I have been there. Where is that?’ It is anywhere you have been – I want to capture a memory, to evoke the feelings we have when we remember those moments in life.” You can see the Shelburne artist’s work in Toronto this summer at a show by ten Headwaters artists at Art Square Gallery & Café (July 26–August 8), and locally in October during the North of 89 Studio Tour and Brushfire Artists’ fall show. www.darlenehassall.com IN THE HILLS SUMMER 2016

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mustdo A highly selective guide to the picks of the season.

mustlisten Don’t worry, there will still be fiddle music. But the Shelburne Fiddle Fest has been reborn as the Heritage Music Festival, with its inaugural outing August 3 to 7 at the Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex. The new event is presented by the Rotary Club of Shelburne.

In addition to the 66th annual Canadian Open Fiddle Championship, Canadian superstar singer Jim

Mary Pickford in a Lucile creation in 1917.

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The exhibit Lucile: Fashion. Titanic.

Scandal at the Guelph Civic Museum portrays the life and times of the Guelphborn Edwardian-era fashion darling – a woman credited with inventing the fashion show and the fashion model, and ensuring the corset’s demise – and her escape from the Titanic.

If you heard the name Lucile mentioned in Downton Abbey, this is your chance to step back in time and see her famously diaphanous gowns, oversized hats and lingerie, on loan from private collections and museums – all in a setting that Hugh curated to evoke her salons. Your inner Mary Crawley will be right at home. The exhibition runs until November 13. www.guelphmuseums.ca

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The Next Generation Leahy headlines the Heritage Music Festival on August 4.

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Mulmur author Hugh Brewster just can’t shake his interest in all things Titanic.

The 1912 sinking of the luxury liner and the secrets and stories of those aboard have been ongoing creative fodder for works including RMS Titanic: Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, a compelling peek into the lives of the ship’s most famous passengers.

Hugh’s new offering delves deep into the story of one of those passengers: Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, a prominent British fashion designer of the time who was aboard the Titanic’s maiden voyage and survived in the first lifeboat. Scandal erupted in England when it became known that she and her husband were among only 12 on a lifeboat which could have held 40.

Cuddy will be performing his signature folkcounty with his band. The impossibly cute Next Generation Leahy also hits the stage with their family’s celebrated Celtic energy.

Tickets for individual events are available at Holmes Music and Appliances in Shelburne. For details see www.heritagemusicfestival.com.

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Island Lake, the beautiful 332-hectare conservation area sitting at the edge of Orangeville, entices residents and visitors alike to its peaceful trails and waterfront year-round. Make the most of this gem by renting a vessel and going offshore this summer.

Aluminum boats with electric motors cost $90 a day or $60 for a half day, with a $5 reservation fee. (Motors are available for rent if you already have a boat.) Or go on your own steam with a canoe, kayak or paddleboard for $50 a day or $20 an hour. Fishing rods are available free of charge if you have a valid Ontario fishing licence.

For more information on fees, deposits, permits and rental schedules, visit www.creditvalleyca.ca.

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mustattend The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride gallops through Headwaters twice this season – bringing its famous bridal arches, wagon wheels and other breathtaking formations to Orangeville’s fairgrounds on August 26 and to Erin’s fairgrounds on September 10.

The tour, involving 36 horses and 45 personnel, is a massive undertaking, requiring local hosts to board, feed and care for the horses as a prerequisite for a visit. In return, the hosts can earmark ticket profits for local charitable projects.

The Erin Agricultural Society hosts the tour in Erin and proceeds will go towards making the society’s dining hall accessible for seniors and persons with disabilities. The Youthdale Riding Program in Hockley Valley hosts the Orangeville event. It benefits the non-profit therapeutic program for at-risk youth living at Youthdale Treatment Centres across Ontario.

Youthdale has a special history with the RCMP and one officer in particular, Constable Terry Russel, who lives in Newmarket and works in the GTA. Constable Russel, a former Musical Ride rider himself, has helped secure the donation of three retired RCMP horses to the Youthdale program – and he also volunteers, helping the kids orchestrate their own Musical Ride-style performances.

For ticket information for the Erin event visit www.erinfair.ca/ rcmp-musical-ride and for the Orangeville installment visit www.youthdaleridingprogram.com.

mustshop Farmers’ markets are full steam ahead. Farm gate operations are open for business. And CSAs are already shipping fresh produce and other wares to their members. Do you have all the information you need to eat local this summer? Map it out with two excellent local food maps covering our region.

You’ll find the regionwide map produced by Headwaters Food & Farming Alliance at www.headwatersfoodandfarming.ca/location.

The Grown in Peel guide (covering Caledon) is at www.GrownInPeel.ca.

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am teaching my son to fly-fish. We are wading the mouth of the Beaver River on Georgian Bay in search of Atlantic salmon, a species recently restored to these waters.

I know from experience it is dangerous work.

I learned to fly-fish for salmon in England on the River Mole in North Devon. My teacher, a retired country doctor named John Wingfield, took me out to the front lawn in front of his Victorian cottage and taught me how to cast the fly, flicking the rod like a paint brush between the ten o’clock and two o’clock positions. When he was satisfied I could hit a handkerchief at 30 feet, he sighed and waved me off to the river. “Try not to frighten the fish,” he said.

I spent the summer of 1971 wading the Mole and bringing back news of it to Dr. John. I caught little speckles and cooked them on the bank as the cows watched. I once saw two large brown trout flash by in the silver water, but I never saw any of the salmon for which it was famous.

A few years ago I returned to those waters in the company of Andy Gray, a business partner of Dr. John’s daughter. Andy is what is known in the Devon countryside as “a keen shot.” His car looks and smells like someone had lived in it for several years and then died in it. This is because he hunts and fishes with a wet dog and the back seat fills with the detritus of the chase along with pieces of dead rabbit for his falcon, which always rides on his wrist.

“I think the cell phone rule is a bloody good one,” he says, reaching across to change gears. “You abso­ lutely cannot drive with a falcon on one hand and a cell phone in the other.”

a Fish Story We had a pint in the Grove Inn at King’s Nympton, which welcomes dogs and falcons, and then drove down the hill to Wampford Bridge, which crosses the Mole. We walked across the meadows to a stretch of the river that flows down into a newly-formed pool called The Pot. Nothing about the scenery has changed in 40 years, not even the cows. Andy hand­ ed me two flies, a Stoat’s Tail and a Hairy Mary, and told me to work across the river down to The Pot.

I fought down the surge of adrenalin and said firmly, “You are not going to catch this fish. Just enjoy the moment and don’t do anything stupid.”

“Don’t do anything stupid or we’ll pick you up in the Bristol Channel,” he warned. We wished each other “tight lines” and set off.

It had rained in the night and the water was high and very fast. I tossed the fly gently upstream and watched it float down. It snagged something. On the very first cast I feared I had lost Andy’s expensive Hairy Mary fly. I gave the rod a tug and a beautiful salmon leapt up out of the water, flapping its tail.

I fought down the surge of adrenalin and said firmly, “You are not going to catch this fish. Just enjoy the moment and don’t do anything stupid.”

Then I dropped my net. I lunged forward and grab­ bed it before it went to the Bristol Channel. My waders took on a gallon of water and I had to let the rod tip down and stagger out to the safety of the shallows. Letting the line go slack on a fish is almost always fatal. But when I raised the rod again, the fish was still on. He raced away down the river and then raced back up. We fought ferociously for the next 15 minutes.

As the fish tired, I eased him into the shallows and snuck up behind him with the net. He zipped right around me, the line caught behind my ear and flipped my glasses 15 feet out into the river. I had no spare pair, I had a rental car and it was four hours to the airport. I had to find those glasses. I fixed my eye on the spot they’d gone in and waded toward it, still holding the rod high. Then the sun emerged and I saw a glint of gold rim on the gravel bottom.

Sometime later, Andy found us lying together in the shallows, both gasping for breath. I had strained so hard with the rod, I had popped the bicep muscle off my elbow. But the fish was in the net.

“I thought I heard someone screaming for help,” he said cheerily. “Oh my! That’s a real fish. It must be seven pounds.”

“Is this catch and release?” I wheezed.

“God, no. The savage has maimed and drowned and blinded you,” he said. “The river wouldn’t be safe if you threw him back.” ≈ Author and playwright Dan Needles is a recipient of the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Order of Canada. He lives on a small farm in Nottawa.

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WHERE RIV Shifting Currents The Ontario government has introduced its ideas for legislation based on the recommendations of David Crombie’s advisory panel for the Co-ordinated Land Use Planning Review. Among the far-reaching recommendations are those that will have a significant impact on management and preservation of our local headwaters. The public has until the end of September to comment and legislation will follow sometime later. Queen’s Park is also reviewing the Conservation Authorities Act and writing a wetlands strategy, although they have set no deadlines as yet.

Change is coming and many feel it is about time.

Non-profit organizations working on behalf of Ontario’s natural heritage have praised the advisory panel for its emphasis on protecting natural water above and below ground, but they continue to press the province to follow through on reforming current policies and regulations that are often confusing, sometimes contradictory and inconsistently enforced. Ducks Unlimited, for example, discovered the province has at least 15 different definitions of wetlands. While they are generally scientifically accurate, the organization notes, “due to variation in level of detail and the presence of scope-limiting definitions, there is a potential for confusion that may limit intended protection for wetlands.”

Andrew McCammon, executive director of the Ontario Headwaters Institute, says the government

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already knows what needs to be done. The Ontario Natural Heritage Reference Manual from 2005 includes technical criteria and approaches. “It’s brilliant, an excellent document, but it does not have the force of law behind it,” he says. “It’s voluntary.”

Along with those two organizations, a host of other environmental groups have a long wish list for the coming legislation. Among their recommendations: • Expand the Greenbelt to include a “Blue Belt” to encompass currently unprotected watershed features such as the Orangeville Moraine, Luther Marsh and the Grand River headwaters • Make the minimums of the Ontario Natural Heritage Reference Manual mandatory • Better fund the activities of the conservation authorities • Initiate oversight at the provincial level so appro­ priate studies and practices are followed through • Introduce more specific regulations and standard­ ize criteria related to development, watercourse protection and interference with wetlands.

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You won’t find Headwaters on a municipal map. As a formal civic entity it doesn’t exist. But the rivers that rise within the disparate communities of Headwaters – and give the region its name – define our landscape, shape much of our thinking, and are the subject of discussion on front pages and in back rooms from local town halls to Queen’s Park to Parliament Hill.

Here is a primer on the four major watersheds that rise right under our feet: the Humber, Credit, Grand and Nottawasaga, along with the smaller but significant Etobicoke and Mimico creeks.

The Name Years ago – I was in my teens – Dad and I used to drive up to these hills to fish for trout. As soon as the melting snow started to run down the street toward spring, we spread topographical maps on the dining-room table, weighed down the corners and traced the course of the meandering streams. We looked for places where the blue lines crossed close-set contour lines and imagined deep pools below swift rapids or waterfalls. I was always impressed by the amount of blue on the maps.

Now that I live in these hills, I am still awed by all the water.

Drive along any road in town or country and you will not go far without crossing a culvert or bridge or seeing a swath of cattails and marsh marigolds at the side of the road. Sometimes you will see open water with little floating hearts – water lilies – and other aquatic plants.

Headwaters may not show up on municipal maps, but the word is certainly part of the local lexicon. The name gained currency when Mono Township hosted two well-attended conferences in the early 1990s. Focused on exploring how rural municipalities could protect groundwater from the threat posed by private septic systems, the conferences became known as Headwaters I and II. From that beginning the name caught on – and acquired its capital H. It is now used by many area organizations and institutions, including Headwaters Tourism, founded in 1994 to attract visitors to the 2,534-square-kilometre area encompass­ ing Dufferin County and the towns of Caledon and Erin.

Headwaters is now officially part of the York, Durham and Headwaters tourism region, one of 13 tourism regions recognized by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport. And it’s on the ministry’s tourism maps that you’ll find it.

(The community of interests defined by the landscape are also recognized in the Dufferin-Caledon electoral riding.)

Writer Tony Reynolds on a recent fly fishing outing to his boyhood haunt at Pine River Provincial Fishing Area off River Road in Mulmur.

Clouds reflect in a serene stretch of the Pine River, a tributary of the Nottawasaga.

Marsh marigolds brighten the banks of the Credit River near Belfountain.

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The Rivers The Grand River flows into Lake Erie, the Nottawasaga flows into Lake Huron via Georgian Bay, and the Humber and Credit, as well as Etobicoke and Mimico creeks, flow into Lake Ontario.

But Headwaters can also lay claim, at least in some measure, to the headwaters of two other rivers. The main branch of the Saugeen River, which flows into Lake Huron, rises in northwest Melancthon Township, and the West Holland River rises in northeast Caledon and flows eastward to Lake Simcoe. So this region is home to the sources of eight rivers.

Nottawasaga River Name, which derives from Anishinabe words for “Iroquois” and “coming-out place,” refers to a battle at the mouth of the river between the Anishinabe and the Iroquois.

Rises in Amaranth and Mono and flows 120 km into Georgian Bay at Wasaga Beach.

Tributaries rise in Melancthon, Grey Highlands, New Tecumseth and northeast Caledon and include Innisfil, Boyne, Pine, Mad and Noisy rivers.

Three branches cut through deep, wooded Hockley, Pine and Boyne valleys.

Drains 3,300 sq km, of which 1,400 sq km are wetlands, including Minesing Swamp.

Headwaters portion of watershed includes Pine River Provincial Fishing Area, Boyne Valley Provincial Park, Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve and Mono Cliffs Provincial Park.

Rare lake sturgeon is one of 75 fish species that spawn in the Nottawasaga.

Credit River Called Rivière au Crédite by French traders who did business at the river’s mouth with the Mississauga people, who called it Missinihe, “trusting water.” Both names refer to the French practice of extending credit to the Mississauga. Name later anglicized to Credit River.

Main river rises near Orangeville, where two tributaries flow through town. A western branch rises in East Garafraxa. Several more tributaries, including Shaw’s Creek, Caledon Creek, and East and West Credit join as river flows 90 km to Lake Ontario at Port Credit.

Drains an area of about 1,000 sq km.

Encompasses 332 ha Island Lake Conservation Area, more than half of which is the lake formerly known as Orangeville Reservoir, but renamed for the Island family who originally settled there. The reservoir was created by two dams built nearly 50 years.

Headwaters portion of watershed also includes Dragonfly Park, Elora Cataract Trailway, Belfountain Conservation Area, Ken Whillans Resource Management Area, Terra Cotta Conservation Area, Upper Credit Conservation Area, and Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. continued on next page

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Grand River Called Pesshinneguning, “the one that washes the timber down and drives away the grass weeds,” by Anishinabe people. Downstream, the Mohawks knew it as O:se Kenhionhata:tie, “place where willows grow.”

Largest river located entirely in Southern Ontario.

Main waterway rises north and east of Dundalk, but Black Creek, Willow Brook, Mud Creek and Butler Creek, as well as many unnamed tributaries, rise in Headwaters.

Flows 290 km into Lake Erie at Port Maitland.

Drains a total of about 7,000 sq km.

Named a Canadian Heritage River in 1994.

Encompasses 5,900 ha Luther Marsh Wildlife Management Area, one of Ontario’s most important wetlands and a vital stopover for migrating waterfowl. Birdwatchers have identified some 240 species. More than half, including least bittern, black tern and great egret, nest in the marsh.

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Named for the Humber River in northeastern England.

Anishinabe people called it Cobechenonk, “leave the canoes and go back” or “portage,” a name that related to the ancient Toronto Carrying Place Trail linking Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay. Main and west branches rise in Mono and Caledon.

Flows 126 km through Toronto to Lake Ontario.

Drains more than 900 sq km.

Named a Canadian Heritage River in 1999.

Headwaters portion of watershed includes Albion Hills Conservation Area, first conservation area in Ontario. Also includes Glen Haffy Conservation Area, the 973 ha Bolton Resource Management Tract, an environmentally sensitive area, and the 306 ha Palgrave Forest and Wildlife Area.

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Etobicoke and Mimico Creeks Names of both creeks derive from Algonkian words: Etobicoke from Wahdobekaug, which means “place where alders grow”; Mimico from Omimeca, which means “resting place of the wild pigeons,” a reference to the now extinct passenger pigeons that migrated through the area in flocks so dense that they darkened the sky.

Various streams, brooks and creeks rise in the Oak Ridges Moraine in southwestern Caledon and feed into one of the two creeks.

Both creeks empty into Lake Ontario. Etobicoke Creek is 59 km long; Mimico Creek stretches 33 km.

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Combined watersheds drain about 288 sq km.

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, which is responsible for the watersheds of both creeks, describes them as “two of the most highly developed, and therefore degraded, watersheds in the Toronto area.”

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The fish ladder in the Pine River Provincial Fishing Area.

The Credit cascades over a small falls and rocks in Belfountain Conservation Area.

Favourite Places Mono Cliffs Provincial Park, Mono Second Line EHS, north of Mono Centre The well-worn path that starts where the Second Line stops north of Mono Centre slopes gently downhill, past old stone walls and erratic boulders.

Huge beech and maple trees, felled by ice and old age, are giving way to younger growth.

Farther along the path from the view­ ing platform, a staircase, often called Jacob’s Ladder, descends between two rock faces – the cliff and an outlier – that split asunder some time long ago.

You can see tiny ancient cedars grow­ ing out of cracks in the stone and prehistoric shellfish embedded in it.

Along the base of the cliff, wetlands and ponds mark the source of this branch of the Nottawasaga River.

Centre Road, Mulmur North of 10 Sideroad Past the No Winter Maintenance sign and down a rough road, the valley glows in cool, soft green light under a canopy of basswood, beech and maple leaves. It has the feel of an ancient cathedral, with the sun shining on motes of dust in expectant silence.

We stop in the quiet and listen to the tintinnabulation of tiny waterfalls.

Little rivulets trickle out of the steep hills beside the road and flow into a small creek the road follows down to the Pine River, a tributary of the Nottawasaga. The sound it makes, plashing in tiny waterfalls, is magical.

Because of where I have lived for the past 30 years, most of my favourite places are in the Nottawasaga and Grand River watersheds, but there is water and beauty throughout the hills of Headwaters. In a good friend’s sugar bush in Caledon, for instance, a little creek meanders clear and cold between the trees and eventually makes its way into the Humber River.

Fishing was my introduction to the rivers of Headwaters, but catching the fish was never important. Being near the water was – and is. When I walk through the trees down the hill to the river, I don’t leave the world behind; I find it.

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We used to live in Waldemar, across the road from the Grand River, where Willow Brook joins the main flow.

There is a deep swimming hole at the juncture and the fishing can be good.

I’ve seen bass, carp and pike in the Grand and speckled trout up Willow Brook. But the main attraction of this part of the river is its springtime power. When the snow melts, the Grand can rise three metres, almost up to the bridge at Station Street. Some years, I understand, it’s even higher.

My wife Susan and I could sit in our living room and listen to the rush.

Every once in a while, as a sheet of ice cracked against the bridge support, we would hear a muffled crash and feel a deep thrum. I always hoped to see the moment of breakup and imagined a wall of water lifting the ice, but it al­ ways happened when I wasn’t looking.

Long before we moved from Toronto, Susan and I got off a bus at Primrose with packs on our backs and followed the Bruce Trail down one side of the Boyne Valley, up the other, and even­ tually over to Rock Hill Park where we camped for a while. Little did we know that we would live here one day.

This is where the Bruce Trail cros­ ses the Boyne River, a tributary of the Nottawasaga. At the crossing, board­ walks and bridges keep feet dry and attest to the hard work of the Bruce Trail volunteers. It’s a place to feel the ancient times, deep in the valley.

Adjala Concessions 3, 4 and 5, north of Hockley Road The Nottawasaga, where Dad and I often fished, flows under these roads.

We started at the bridges and worked

our way upstream, casting bright spinners into the dark shadows where trout lurked. Sometimes in the quiet springtime pools, we could see schools of rainbow trout and suckers migrat­ ing upriver from Georgian Bay, but we rarely caught any. We tried every­ thing. When we dabbled a worm down with the current or reeled a spinner up the flow, the fish all but ignored them. They would simply drift apart to make a path for the bait to go by.

Horning’s Mills, Melancthon Off County Road 124 (formerly Highway 24) We used to live near the Pine River in Horning’s Mills. On the road going into the village, in front of a tumble­ down house, a pond is all that re­ mains of the concrete pools of a fish hatchery. This river flow begins in a pond behind this house, continues under the road and drops down into a large millpond.

When Mr. Grey lived in the mansion on the shore, we called it Grey’s Pond.

His home had originally been a hunt­ ing lodge owned by a group of Toronto businessmen. The walls were covered with mounted fish, moose and deer heads, and other trophies. Years ago, Mr. Grey invited us to fish there and we caught many speckled trout.

In the centre of Horning’s Mills sits a house that was built astride the Pine. The people who lived there had a hatch in the kitchen floor and, so the story goes, used to catch fresh trout in the river below. continued on next page IN THE HILLS SUMMER 2016

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A spring riot of marsh marigolds in the wetlands of the Upper Credit in Caledon.

Rushing water and rocky rills on the Nottawasaga River along Hockley Road.

The Formation of Headwaters rivers continued from page 31

In the 1930s, my father was a pas­ senger in a truck bringing potatoes from Dufferin County to my grand­­ father’s produce business in Toronto.

There was no bridge then. As it cros­ sed the river on the ice, the truck skid­ded and broke an axle. Waiting for parts and repairs, they stayed over­night at the house. Dad remem­ bered seeing the hatch in the floor.

Someone had set mirrors in the bot­ tom of the river so the trout stood out.

Pine River Provincial Fishing Area, Mulmur River Road and Prince of Wales Road The Pine River is a tributary of the Nottawasaga, so rainbow trout – aka steelhead – make their way up­ river from Georgian Bay to spawn.

The river is dammed here, but there is a fish ladder to the large pond above. In the late 19th century, this was the millpond for two mills, and in the early 20th century, it was the site of a powerhouse that brought water-generated electricity to Horn­ ing’s Mills, Shelburne and part of Orangeville. When the powerhouse shut down, the place became the Horning’s Mills Fishing and Golf Club Reserve, a short-lived country retreat for wealthy businessmen.

Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, Caledon McLaren Road, south of Regional Road 24 From Cataract to Belfountain, the Credit River tumbles over the Nia­

gara Escarpment, flowing through breathtaking countryside. Dad and I used to stay overnight near the falls, pitching a tent or sleeping out in the open, so we could get an early start.

We fished up and down the river from before dawn until mid-after­ noon and rarely caught anything.

But truth be told, it didn’t matter.

We just wanted to be there among the trees and near the water. We saw owls in the night and deer in the morning mist, heard foxes yip and raccoons yowl, and listened to the sound of water tumbling over the rocks.

Glen Haffy Conservation Area 19245 Airport Road, south of Highway 9 On the way back from a day’s fish­ ing, Dad and I would often stop at Glen Haffy late in the afternoon. It is where the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine meet and one branch of the Humber River begins. The spring-fed waters here stay cold enough for a resident population of speckled trout. Trails meander through mature forest and offer dramatic views from the tops of the hills, but it was the rainbow trout we were most interested in.

Glen Haffy has a fish hatchery on site and when the trout mature they are released them into the ponds here and at Heart Lake Conserva­ tion Area in Caledon’s south end.

When we were skunked elsewhere we could pretty well count on the stocked Glen Haffy ponds for a nice fat rainbow trout to take home!

The Headwaters region perches on a height of land that began 500 million years ago when it was rock, not water, that flowed. Molten rock solidified to become what is now called the Algon­ quin Ridge, the foundation of the Niagara Escarpment.

In ensuing eons, warm salt seas and freshwater lakes covered the area and laid down strata of coral, clay, sand and so on. Intervening glaciers compressed the layers into sandstone, limestone, shale and a combination of fossils and dolomite called dolostone. They also left behind deposits of sand, gravel, rocks and erratic boulders.

The most recent glaciation, which ended about 11,000 years ago, covered the region in a sheet of ice that was 2,000 metres thick (more than a mile high) and weighed about 1.8 million kilograms per square metre. As the glacier melted, water eroded the land and carried off the softer layers of shale and sandstone, leaving behind the sharp dolostone and limestone cliffs, or scarps, of the Niagara Escarpment.

The sharp edges and sheer cliffs were formed not by tectonic shift but by water flowing into cracks in the rocks.

Carbonic acid in the rainwater dissolv­ ed the limestone, widening the joints.

As the water froze, it expanded and split the rock as cleanly as a mason’s chisel and opened the way to the softer layers under the cap rock.

When a mile-high glacier melts, it releases a lot of water, and many of our streams still follow ancient spillways.

Now that the glaciers have receded, precipitation is an important source of the water in the rivers of Headwaters.

When warm, moist air rises and cools, the moisture condenses into rain

and snow. Because we live on a height of land, we get a lot of both: an annual average of nearly 900 millimetres in many parts of the region. The highest point in Headwaters is in the Dundalk Highlands, more than 540 metres above sea level. Compare this with Lake Erie, which is 174 metres above sea level and Lake Ontario, which is only about 75 metres.

But not all the precipitation that falls on Headwaters goes into the region’s waterways, at least not right away. Some of it percolates into the aquifers depo­ sited by glaciers and into an under­ ground river called the Laurentian, which drained the region before the Great Lakes were formed.

The Laurentian still flows from Wa­ saga Beach to High Park in Toronto as deep as 200 metres below the surface.

As this groundwater returns to the surface through fissures and cracks in the escarpment, it feeds the rivers of Headwaters. About 50 per cent of the Credit’s flow, for example, comes from groundwater – a percentage that rises during periods of drought.

In fact, water springs back up every­ where in these hills. Often it is just a trickle, but sometimes it gushes out of a crack in the limestone. Less obvious are the springs in the bottoms of rivers and streams, which also provide places for fish to lay eggs because that water is less likely to freeze. In addition, underwater springs cool the flow in summer, help­ ing to keep the water temperature low.

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When European settlers climbed these hills with their axes and ambition, they cleared the land for farming, sold the lumber and used the abundant water to power their mills. By the end of the 1800s, in Horning’s Mills alone, at least half a dozen mills were situ­ ated along the Pine River.

The name Mill Street in many Headwaters’ towns and villages harks back to that era, and some commu­ nities even have the word “mill” in their name. Many stone skeletons of the old mills still stand along the region’s riverbanks, and some of the buildings have been restored to use, though no longer as mills. Notable

among these are the Millcroft Inn and the Alton Mill Arts Centre.

This early settlement activity mark­ ed the beginning of a decline in both the amount of water in the region’s rivers and its quality. Clearing the forests reduced the ability of the land to absorb precipitation and release it in a steady flow. It also increased the amount of silt, soil and livestock waste that washed into the rivers. Water caught in the millponds warmed up and raised the temperature of the rivers. As a result, some of the cold, clear gravelly streams became muddy, warm and polluted.

In the 20th Century – and Beyond Major events in the previous century reshaped thinking and the way Head­ waters’ watersheds are treated. By the turn of the 20th century, the market for lumber had stripped much of the region of its forests.

Longtime Mono resident Shelley Anderson, who was noted for his blue­ bird houses and his reforestation ini­ tiatives, recalled what it was like when most of the trees were gone and the region was hit with several dry years in a row. “This country was blowing away,” the nonagenarian told In The Hills in an interview a few years be­ fore his death. “The wind was blow­ ing the sand out onto the road so deep you couldn’t go through it with a car.

It was drifting on the road like snow.”

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first tract of land for what would become the Dufferin County Forest, for example, was purchased in 1930.

Then, in October 1954, Hurricane Hazel dropped nearly a third of the average annual precipitation on parts of these hills. Widespread flooding and damage occurred in communi­ ties such as Grand Valley, Orange­ ville, Bolton and Snelgrove, where 214 millimetres of rain fell in 48 hours.

But the damage downstream was much greater, especially along the Humber River in Toronto and parts of York Region. Eighty-one people died and nearly 1,900 were left homeless.

Among the dead was Shelburne busi­ nessman Walter Gamble, who had been on his way home from Toronto via Woodbridge when his truck stalled on a bridge over the Humber. Gamble, his aunt and a would-be rescuer were swept away in the torrent.

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orities had existed before Hazel, the storm and its aftermath prompted an expansion of both their mandate and number. Today, the Grand River Con­ servation Authority, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Author­ity, Credit Valley Conservation and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (as well as the Saugeen Valley Con­ servation Authority in a northern corner of Melancthon), pro­tect and manage the flora and fauna of Head­ waters, as well as the amount and quality of water in both the rivers and groundwater. Their goal is not only to husband what is there now, but also to expand and improve upon it.

The quality of municipal drinking water came into sharp focus after the contaminated water tragedy in Walk­ erton in 2000. In 2006 the Ontario government brought in the Clean Water Act, which strengthened the regulatory framework that governs how municipalities safeguard drink­ ing water.

In these hills, most drinking water comes from underground, which means we must protect not only the aquifers but also the recharge areas, where surface water percolates into the soil to replenish the underground supply – all the swamps, fens, bogs, marshes and ponds, as well as open meadows and forests.

Conservation authorities are major participants in meeting the require­ ments of the Clean Water Act. In the past 10 years, they have undertaken extensive studies to map both ground­ water and recharge areas, and to develop water budgets: what goes in and what goes out, how much of the water in rivers and creeks is runoff and how much is spring-fed. They have also assessed threats to the wa­ tersheds and the factors that place

stress on them, and they conduct the studies required before development can proceed. All these measures help meet the Clean Water Act require­ ment that all plans and actions be “based on sound science.”

Today, more and more people are moving into the region. In prepara­ tion, developers cut down trees, scrape off the topsoil, reshape the natural contours of the land, and cover mea­ dows and forests with roofs, roads and driveways. This means that rain­ fall, which once fed the waterways in a measured flow, becomes destruc­ tive. Unless it is properly controlled, stormwater is a spate that quickly floods streams, carrying with it earth, silt and the detritus of human habita­ tion. Today, many streams and rivers contend with a cycle of f loods and droughts, made worse by the increas­ ing severity and frequency of storms caused by global climate change.

Canadians consume more water than most other people on Earth.

According to Statistics Canada, every Canadian uses 251 litres of water every day. Our volume of use is second only to that of Americans and double that of the average European.

Though household water in parts of Caledon, including Bolton, comes from Lake Ontario through the South Peel Drinking Water System, else­ where in Headwaters, residents get their water from either municipal or private wells that tap into under­ ground aquifers. But these sources are increasingly at risk. Without meadows and wetlands to hold surface water and allow it to percolate down to the aquifers and other underground res­ ervoirs, precipitation quickly flows off the land into the rivers, and the un­ derground water supply is depleted.

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The Credit River winds along a Caledon roadway as it makes its way to Lake Ontario.

Taking Action This past winter, dump trucks, excavators and backhoes invaded Mill Creek in Orangeville. The town, in partnership with Credit Valley Conser­ vation, the Greg Clark Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada and the Izaak Walton Fly Fishing Club, finally completed a project that had been under consideration for many years. From Bythia Street to Townline, the heavy equipment scoured the silt and muck out of the riverbed, reshaped the banks, and set large stones and gravel into the banks and riverbed to control erosion and create the little riffles and deep pools favoured by fish.

Karen Morrison, who grew up in Orangeville and often played in the creek, remembers the trout. “We used to pole a little flat-bottomed boat along part of it,” she said.

Morrison is now a member of the Headwaters Streams Committee for the Town of Mono. This committee has undertaken many projects in the headwaters of the Nottawasaga, such as rehabili­ tating Baker Creek and planting 700 mixed native shrubs behind the Headwaters Tourism office on Hockley Road.

“The water was heating up,” said Morrison. “They call it thermal pollution, but farther upstream it was cold and there were crayfish and brook trout.”

More of that cold water can now f low into the Nottawasaga.

Like Morrison, volunteers across Headwaters don waders and wellingtons and fan out across the watersheds every year. As both individual volunteers and members of groups, they clean up garbage, plant trees, set out plants and carry buckets of little fish to small streams. Sometimes they organize protests. They attend meetings, write letters and make presentations to try to keep decision makers on their toes and policy makers focused on what is important. Often, they work in co-operation with other organizations that share an interest in achiev­ ing specific goals.

At the centre of these efforts is a dedicated core of people who work year in and year out to protect, maintain and restore Headwaters’ natural heritage.

These groups can always use more help. If you would like to lend a hand, or are looking for advice about water on your own property, here are some of the groups, large and small, whose work is essential to the watersheds of Headwaters.

Conservation Authorities Conservation authorities play a leading role in protecting and enhancing their respective water­ sheds. Though programs vary from one authority to another, all offer assistance to private property owners. This help can take the form of grants or hands-on help with projects such as well capping or upgrading, fencing to keep livestock out of head­ water streams, wetland restoration, tree planting and more.

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Ontario Nature Formerly the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, Ontario Nature is another province-wide organiza­ tion helping to protect headwaters. This year marks the 85th anniversary of the founding of this “voice for nature,” whose members, both individuals and groups, work to protect critical habitats, stand up for at-risk species and connect people with nature.

Among its many projects, Ontario Nature has been documenting the decline of the province’s wetlands and advocating for their conservation since 1931. (www.ontarionature.org)

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better off today than we were in the ’60s. There was a lot less forest coverage then and we’ve restored a significant amount.”

In partnership with CVC, for example, the Scott Mission Camp in Caledon has planted more than 9,000 trees and shrubs on its property over many years. Today, some of the earliest trees planted have grown quite tall and completely changed the look of the property – and this is just one of many similar projects across the region.

Throughout Headwaters dams have been re­ moved or taken offline, riparian borders have been expanded along streams and brooks, and both water quality and quantity have improved. A good indication of the success of these steps might be the re-establishment of the Atlantic salmon in the Credit and Humber rivers.

Central to the effort to re-establish Atlantic sal­ mon and other fish, such as rainbow and brook or speckled trout, are groups such as the Islington Sportsmen’s Club, the Ontario Steelheaders and the Nottawasaga Steelheaders. In addition, groups such as the Humber Valley Heritage Trail Association work closely with conservation authorities to re­ habilitate and conserve watersheds.

Ontario Headwaters Institute The Ontario Headwaters Institute is an example of a province-wide registered charity that works to protect headwater areas and the health of down­ stream watersheds.

Started by Mono and Mulmur residents just after the Walkerton water crisis, the OHI focuses on research, education and best practices. The group is, for example, working to develop indicators of head­ waters health to include in watershed report cards.

They deliver educational programs on headwaters mapping and hikes, and comment on issues such as the Provincial Policy Statement, the Ontario government’s policies on land use planning, the Coordinated Land Use Planning Review and the Great Lakes Protection Act. (www.ontarioheadwaters.ca)

Since 1974, Ducks Unlimited Canada has completed 3,000 habitat projects across Ontario, including several in Headwaters. Most recently they have been involved in rehabilitating and maintaining wet­ lands near Luther Marsh. Wetlands are healthiest when they go through drought conditions, so the group will occasionally draw down the water to let the area dry out then flood it again. This keeps the plants growing vigorously. (www.ducks.ca)

Alton Millpond Rehabilitation Committee Located on the Alton Mill Arts Centre property in Caledon, the millpond was created well over a century ago by damming Shaw’s Creek to power what was then the Beaver Knitting Mill. The dam created a barrier to fish migration and warmed the water. Now the pond is silting in and exposed to contaminated stormwater from the municipal sew­ age system.

Established in 2009, the millpond committee’s goal is to restore the pond at the same time as creating a bypass to cool the water in the creek so it is more welcoming for coldwater fish.

As with many projects in the watersheds of Head­ waters, the millpond plan involves private property owners, several levels of government and various organizations and groups, including Credit Valley Conservation. (www.altonmillpond.org)

Alton Grange Association The volunteer association’s purpose is to protect and restore the natural, scenic and educational value of the 142-hectare property at the confluence of Shaw’s Creek and the Island Lake branch of the Credit River. Once a farm owned by E.R. Grange, the property was purchased by the Ministry of Natural Resources in the mid ’70s, operated largely as tree plantation for many years, and is now designated as a provincially significant wetland.

Downstream from the Alton Mill, the Alton Grange Association takes an active role in monitoring the millpond restoration project. (www.sites.google.com/site/altongrangesite) ≈ Tony Reynolds is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.

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Before (and even after) the Luther dam was built, Grand Valley was accustomed to annual spring flooding, but some years were worse than others. Although the village escaped much of the damage its neighbours experienced in the great flood of 1929, the flood of 1918, shown here, made for one of the bad years.

Not only does the Grand River lay out nature’s beauty, it also offers opportunities for recreation, commerce and development.

Yet all this comes at a cost, for the Grand can be both friend and foe.

s March 1929 blended into April, the residents of Grand Valley were breathing easy for a change. In springtime, keeping a wary eye on the Grand River as it loops through town is a long-ingrained community habit. But that year the snow had melted evenly, and most important, the ice cover had floated away without creating a dam. It seem­ ed that ’29 was going to be a no-flood year. Until the afternoon of Friday, April 5.

On that day, the clouds opened with a force no one could recall seeing before. By early evening, town consta­ ble Stuckey was visiting village homes along the flood plain urging families to evacuate. By midnight, three feet of water covered the south end of town with a fierce, swirling current. And the level kept rising, for north of the village the normally placid Black Creek was pouring the waters of Luther Marsh into the Grand. By three a.m., water on the road south of the village approached the height of an adult. Power went out. Telephones didn’t work, roads were closed and trains were halted by washouts. Grand Valley was in a crisis and on its own.

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In the mid-19th century, when Grand Valley was known as Joice’s Corners – also Luther Village and Little Toronto for a while, acquiring its current name in the 1880s – the river was a commercial neighbour. In 1870, for example, more than 5,000 logs cut in Amaranth alone were floated down to Lake Erie.

Though this benefit was significant, it pales next to the value offered today by the regulated flow of the river with its two crucial reservoirs and dams. The water level in the Grand drops dramatically in summer – in 1936 it dried up completely between Dundalk and Fergus – and this once limited the growth of riverside communities through lack of sewage facilities and drinking water. The Luther and Shand dams became the solution. (An alternative proposal, considered briefly, was an irrigation canal from Georgian Bay through Luther Marsh to the Grand.) The water flow and capacity managed by the Grand River Conservation Authority today has once again made the river the commercial neighbour it was years ago.

Management of the Grand’s watershed also offers major recreation benefits. While life beside an Ontario river has always offered wonderfully simple pleasures, such as catching tadpoles in summer and skating in winter, the Grand today has even greater attractions. Wildlife in the Luther Marsh and boating on Belwood Lake are obvious examples. Downstream, especially below Elora and Fergus, canoeing and rafting are major tourism incentives, while upstream the Grand has been listed by Canadian Fly Fisher magazine as the top stream in the province for brown and rainbow trout. Entertainment on the river has come a long way from the days when children in Grand Valley were let out of school to watch ice dams being blown up with dynamite.

Nothing new about a flood Yet as dawn broke it was evident the people of this town were used to life on the river. Boats were on the streets moving some residents to higher ground, delivering supplies to others.

John Reith was rowed from his home, literally on an island, to his business on Main Street. (He opened at noon.)

George Maxwell, the village black­ smith, had moved his horses to the second floor of his shop at midnight and was already refiring his hearth.

The mailman picked up the day’s mailbags at the railway station and rowed along Main Street making deliveries – on a Saturday! Even the

village livestock seemed to know what to do. Mary Small had lost her chickens, but most villagers reported that flocks simply stayed up on roosts until the water receded.

And recede it did. The flood that had risen with such speed went down the same way, so that by late Saturday afternoon the river, although greatly swollen, had pretty much returned to its natural course. In the great flood of ’29, Grand Valley had gotten off easy. Nearby Waldemar, well above the riverbank, had also escaped. But farther down the Grand – indeed throughout Southern Ontario – there was utter devastation.

The flood of the century?

It was not until several days had passed and services were restored that Grand Valley learned just how bad and how big the storm had been. Downriver, the water’s fury had caused enormous damage in Fergus and Elora. In Guelph, where the Grand added the Speed River to its flow, a dam collap­ sed, inundating that city and then Kitchener, Galt and Brantford, caus­ ing damage in the millions.

Elsewhere, rivers smaller than the Grand had gone on a rampage too.

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No way to treat a neighbour In 1937 Maclean’s magazine called the Grand River an “open sewer.” The people of these hills must have winced at that, even though the criticism was directed mostly at downstream communities such as Kitchener, where a 1934 report described the sewage dumped into the Grand as the “strongest in Canada.”

Still, the neighbours of the Upper Grand were not innocent of environmental sin, for when the Grand Valley Conservation Authority was formed in 1948, its studies of the deforestation, agricultural runoff and “dumping” from Fergus to Dundalk shocked the entire province.

The gradual return of the Grand River to a pristine state is an environmental good news story. More than 28 million trees have been planted in the watershed, and 82 species of fish – nearly half the number of freshwater species found in Canada – now thrive in its waters. In Luther Marsh, more than 240 bird species have been recorded. Among these are once-absent ospreys and bald eagles, which have returned.

But a watchful eye must never close. In 2013, for example, a study by Environment Canada and the University of Waterloo found that, in the Grand, concentrations of artificial sweeteners, which pass unaltered through both the human body and sewage systems, are the highest found so far in any of the world’s surface water bodies.

isolated for two days. Oshawa became a refugee centre as trains from all directions had to back up into the city because of washouts. Orangeville, as it turned out, was one of the few com­ munities left relatively untouched, though a number of residents had to abandon their cars in the unpaved mud of Highway 10.

Arguably, this flood had more ser­ ious consequences in Ontario than Hurricane Hazel, 25 years later.

Though there were fewer fatalities – eight compared with 81 in Hazel – the damage geographically was far more widespread. Either way, the impact for neighbours of the Grand River after the flood of ’29 was similar to that for neighbours of the Humber River after Hazel. Everyone agreed that flood control in the watershed was neces­ sary and urgent.

Managing the Grand River The idea of flood control was not new; it had been bandied about for years, a crescendo rising with the annual spring floods and then fading with the – also annual – drying up of the Grand River to a mere trickle in sum­ mer. But the flood of ’29 coincided with the beginning of the Great De­ pression and the cry for public works, so that by 1942 the Shand Dam was completed just upstream from Fergus, dramatically enlarging Belwood Lake.

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Then 1954 saw the completion of the Luther Dam, effectively creating Luth­ er Lake in the great Luther Marsh.

Coincidentally, war affected the building of both dams. A shortage of materials at the beginning of World War II delayed the Shand, while the onset of the Korean War raised fears of another shortage – and this spurred the building of the Luther Dam. The two dams turned the Grand River into a more amenable neigh­ bour. Both established flood control along the river’s length, but the flip side, “flow augmentation” – managing the annual summer trickle – may have been even more important. Commu­ nities need water to grow, and before the dams were built many of the Grand’s neighbours had reached the limit their wells could provide. Now with Belwood and Luther lakes re­ serving spring floodwaters for release in summer, decades of municipal prayers were answered.

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This Shawanaga First Nation student is working with a groundwater hydrology model that shows how water levels rise and fall as water in an aquifer is depleted.

MORE THAN A DROP IN THE BUCKET A Creemore charity works to ensure clean water security for First Nation communities

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he air in the Grade 5 classroom at Erin Public School is filled with waving arms. Visiting clean water advocate Katie Vander Wielen has just asked the 24 enthusiastic students how they used water that morning.

Washing. Cooking. Drinking. Brushing teeth. Vander Wielen records the children’s answers on the chalkboard. Then she turns and poses a new question to the group: Do they know there are communities in Canada without clean water?

This time, not one hand goes up.

Vander Wielen is the busy education co-ordinator for Tin Roof Global, a Creemore-based organization whose mission is to provide and protect water through education. Vander Wielen and the Tin Roof team give more than 200 interactive workshops a year at eight school boards across Ontario. With 80 of those ses­sions under her personal belt this year alone,

Vander Wielen is a pro at using hands-on methods to teach young people where water comes from, how to use less of it and what can be done to keep it clean.

Vander Wielen goes on to explain to the Erin stu­dents what it’s like to live on one of the 20 per cent of Canadian First Nation reserves where water must be boiled before it is safe to drink. Just three short hours from where these students are sitting, for example, is Shawanaga First Nation, where wells and toilets routinely run dry. Since 2007, “Band-Aid trucks” have been shipping water from Parry Sound to the reserve.

Unfortunately Shawanaga’s story is not unique. Water may be a necessity of life, but access to clean water is still a luxury on many reserves. Last year, CBC reported that two-thirds of all First Nation communities in Canada had experienced at continued on next page

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least one drink­ing-water advisory some time in the pre­v ious decade, the most common being the recommend­ ation to boil water before using it.

Water advisories are put in place for a variety of reasons, from poor pipe connections and low pressure to im­ proper filtration and disinfection, as well as bac­terial contamination. At Neskantaga First Nation in the north­ ern reaches of this province, residents have been boiling their water for more than 20 years.

“You don’t have to travel all the way to Uganda to find a water crisis, you can just drive up the 400.”

Why? There is no easy answer. The problems are various and complex, ranging from underfunded water systems to procedural issues. Some commu­nities simply don’t have en­ ough water to meet the needs of the population or there is a shortage of trained personnel to run treatment facilities. Though reasons for the clean water crisis can be murky, Tin Roof founder and executive director John Millar says the solution is more clear.

He believes the key to improving the situation lies in understanding water science.

“It’s a knowledge issue. First Nation communities need people to under­

Temagami First Nation students take turns examining zooplankton under a microscope. Students collected the sample from Lake Temagami at the dock in front of their school.

stand water and operate treatment systems,” he explains. “Virtually all First Nation reserves have treatment plants, but 20 per cent of them aren’t working. It comes down to a question of education and training.”

That’s where Tin Roof steps in.

Named for its first projects in Uganda, the organization started out replacing the old, leaking and rusty tin roofs on school buildings with new tin roofs that directed clean rainwater to large cisterns where it could be stored. This meant students could spend their days learning in the classroom instead of making repeated trips to a well.

Since its beginnings, Tin Roof has maintained a focus on education. In Africa Tin Roof representatives gave workshops about hygiene and sani­ tation. Now Millar is bringing the clean water message home.

“After starting Tin Roof to address a Ugandan issue, I began to be asked about water in this country,” he says.

“People pointed out that you don’t have to travel all the way to Uganda to find a water crisis, you can just drive up the 400.” Millar knew that if Tin Roof could provide training and edu­ cation to people in another country, it could do the same in Canada.

So a couple of years ago he started a pilot project to deal with issues specific to First Nation reserves. The

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It’s a hands-on experience for Grade 5 students at Erin Public School as Katie Vander Wielen instructs them about where water comes from, how to use less of it and what can be done to keep it clean.

new program, called Water First, was developed to generate interest in water science. It integrates traditional knowledge, promotes community en­ gagement and ensures projects are led by the people who live on the reserve.

In the three years since Water First began, it has expanded to 17 First Nation communities. Today 90 per cent of Tin Roof ’s work focuses on water on reserves. And come this fall, while continuing some work in Ugan­ da, Tin Roof will change its name to Water First to reflect its new direction.

These days Millar and other Tin Roof staffers travel regularly to and from reserves in Ontario, offering curriculum-based workshops to all grade levels, taking students out onto lakes to learn water-testing techniques and providing professional training to community members. They teach residents how to biopsy a fish to test its mercury levels and how to use instru­ ments like a sonde, which measures water quality. To attract high school students, Tin Roof ups the cool factor with teaching tools such as a helicop­ ter drone for studying watersheds.

The goal of the program is long term: to increase local knowledge and interest in water science for the future.

Tin Roof wants to inspire young peo­ ple to pursue training programs and to give them guidance when choosing

high school courses. The organization is committed to nurturing the commu­ nity link by hiring and training local water science technicians and high school graduates to work on projects.

According to Millar, kids can’t get involved too soon. From his office in the heart of Creemore, he fields anxious calls from reserves across the country. He recalls one woman who contacted him because her father, the community’s only water treatment plant operator, was about to retire – and there was no one to replace him.

“Our resources are disappearing faster than most people realize,” says Mongrain. “Our water is pure now, but it’s not necessarily always going to stay clean.”

“The young people are the future,” says Millar. “First Nation youth are dramatically underrepresented in the sciences, which is another important part of the issue. By increasing the understanding of water in First Nation communities, we can help them be­ come interested to learn more and develop the skills they’ll need in the future.”

Because every First Nation commu­ nity is different, Water First is cus­ tomized to address local needs. Take Temagami First Nation, for instance.

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The reserve is located on Bear Island in Lake Temagami, where the water is clean and clear – and members of this First Nation want to keep it that way.

So when the Tin Roof team comes to visit, they train people to provide a contemporary snapshot of the water quality in the First Nation’s tradition­ al lands.

“Increased knowledge about water science can lead to communities that are healthier and more independent,” says Millar.

Dan Mongrain, an A lgonquin Anishinaabe who lives on the reserve, has been providing local guidance to the Tin Roof team while training with them as an environmental technician.

He helps the team gather important benchmark data, including water and fish samples, and carry out other work, including restoring walleye habitat, which will contribute to the health of the local environment.

“Our resources are disappearing faster than most people realize,” says Mongrain. “Our water is pure now, but it’s not necessarily always going to stay clean.”

Mongrain’s work with Tin Roof has inspired his ambition to enrol in a four-year water waste management program at Nipissing University. Both he and Millar believe the baseline information they are gathering will help reserve residents continue to monitor the quality of their water for years, thus helping to protect the community against the effects of pol­ lutants in the future.

“There are longer-term implica­ tions to having this data, which First Nations see as a protective shield for their communities,” says Millar. “If they get a scientifically valid snapshot of the water quality now, they can do a similar study five, 10 or 20 years down the road, and they will have rock-solid data to compare against and address any concerns with.”

Clean water is for the thirsty, but it’s also a requirement for communi­ ties to thrive. In addition to health risks, the lack of safe water can lead to psychological stress and decreased morale. Tin Roof staff members teach local populations how to study water, and unlike other programs, give the community full ownership of the data they collect.

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council. But with more water educa­ tion and training, the band council will be able to increase its autonomy by conducting its own measurements.

“It’s about more than just drinking, it’s about community independence and sustainability,” says Millar. “In­ creased knowledge about water sci­ ence can lead to communities that are healthier and more independent. You can’t have autonomy or a good quality of life if you don’t have your own safe, clean drinking water.”

“For some of us, easy access to clean water can allow us to forget how precious a resource it actually is,” says Vander Wielen.

Last year Millar gained an audience with Bob Rae, who praised the efforts of Water First at a conference for the Canadian Water Network. Tin Roof’s work is funded through donations and corporate sponsors such as Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Royal Bank of Canada. The registered charity recently received a $90,000 grant to develop its work in Temagami, and the federal government has also kicked in the funding needed to hire a full-time water treatment engineer.

Millar plans to expand his youthbased education program to more First Nation communities in Ontario,

before reaching out to reserves in other provinces. Though the progress is encouraging, Millar remains real­ istic: “It provides stability for the organization, but it’s a drop in the bucket for what needs to be done to tackle the problem.”

With Prime Minister Justin Tru­ deau’s call for a renewed relationship with Canada’s Indigenous peoples ringing across the country, Millar is more hopeful about the future. The government has committed to ending boil-water advisories on First Nation reserves within five years, and finance minister Bill Morneau recently allo­ cated $2 billion toward achieving this goal.

But Millar believes investing in in­ frastructure will solve only part of the problem. “If the physical infra­ structure is addressed, but training for current and future First Nation operators isn’t, then the systems will just break down again,” he says. “Sig­ nificantly increasing water training and education opportunities for First Nation participants will be an integral part of any successful long-term solu­ tion to boil-water advisories. Increas­ ed training leads to the successful operation and maintenance of water treatment infrastructure, while the status quo clearly leads to boil-water advisories.”

Meanwhile, back at Erin PS, Vander Wielen is wowing students with water facts. In her right hand she holds a common one-litre kitchen pitcher,

John Millar (left) and Dan Mongrain check a map to decide the best place to take water samples from Lake Temagami. Bear Island in the background is home to Temagami First Nation.

filled to brimming. Then, to the chil­ dren’s amazement, she reveals that, on average, every Canadian uses the equivalent of 251 such pitchers-full of water each day.

To Vander Wielen, water education is essential. She says people are always shocked by how much water Canadi­ ans use. “For some of us, easy access to clean water can allow us to forget how precious a resource it actually is,” she says. And though the Erin stu­ dents are a knowledgeable bunch who use words like “aquifer” and know the chemical name for NaCl, she says she has also met kids who believe water simply comes from the tap.

Centuries ago Leonardo da Vinci said water is the driving force of all nature. In this century the United Nations declared access to safe, clean and affordable drinking water and sanitation underlies all human rights.

Through education and hands-on support Tin Roof is helping make that fundamental right a practical reality for all people in Ontario. ≈ Kristi Green is a freelance writer who lives in Mulmur.

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Planting a Forest not in a hurry? growing your own mushrooms might be for you

BY TRALEE PEARCE

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ou’re pondering what to have with your morning eggs and decide a few sautéed shiitake mushrooms would add an earthy kick. Imagine being able to take a short walk into the woods behind your house, cut a few plump ones from your personal garden, and tuck into the feast a few minutes later.

That’s Howie Phelan’s enviable situation on his farm in Mono. But the gratification isn’t as immedi­ate as it might seem. While plucking the succulent, umami-rich mush­ rooms for breakfast is a valuable payoff, they are in some ways the ultimate slow food. Wood mushrooms take time and considerable work to get established, mostly because the wood they live on must be the right age, have the right levels

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of sugars and moisture, and be placed just so. Then the har­ vest is an exercise in patience. Mushrooms have no schedule.

“They’re unpredictable,” Howie says, as we stride through the woods on a recent spring day to visit his two mushroom gardens, one for shiitake and one for oyster, nestled in two dips in the undulating forest floor. Each garden consists of two rows of 20 logs propped against each other. Mushrooms bloom on the bark of these logs four or five times a year – but exactly when is anyone’s guess.

“You have to keep an eye on them,” he says. “You’ll look every day and see nothing, then go back a few days later and you’ll have many. You never know when they’ll pop up.” continued on next page

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Holes drilled in felled limbs are filled with plugs inoculated with mushroom spawn. The first mushrooms may take months to appear, but after that they’ll just keep coming. Howie collects his with a special harvesting tool.

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The adventure started for Howie in the winter of 2013 after he’d attended a talk by Bruno Pretti of Fun Guy Farm (Get it? Fun-gi.) months earlier at the annual Guelph Organic Con­ ference. At his Goodwood, Ontario Pag farm, Bruno grows mushrooms and sells the materials home growers need to get started.

Howie’s first step was to cut maple limbs from trees in his forest as the planting base. A year later, he and his wife Ann were regularly noshing on hyper-local mushrooms.

Why the wait? Those cut limbs had to rest over that first winter, stacked in rows on a bed of cedar rails to keep them off the ground. In the spring he and his friend Chad Blough, who was also starting a wood mushroom garden, got their families together in the Phelan barn to cut the limbs into four-foot logs. They drilled holes into the logs and filled them with plugs inoculated with mushroom spawn, then pulled the logs back out into the forest by horse and wagon.

“It’s something everyone can en­ joy,” Howie says of the process. In the forest, the logs rested again in stacks for a few months before they were arranged into a standing formation.

Howie “shocked” them by whacking them with a stick, which is known to help the mushroom crop get started by emulating a natural process. Mush­ rooms will sprout after a log is hit by lightning, for instance. A few of Howie’s bloomed early while the logs were still resting, but the first crop arrived in earnest after the garden was completed.

“I’d come and visit them. Are they

ready?” he says, adding that trying to predict a mushroom harvest is like trying to predict the day tree buds will burst in spring.

Now, Howie, who retired from the electric motor business in 2008, says his mushroom habit takes “zero maintenance” and the logs should last five years before he starts the process again with new ones. He figures he has harvested hundreds of pounds, often returning to the house with full shopping bags weighing him down.

Frequent foraging visits have become a pleasant routine. They also serve as reconnaissance missions to watch for slugs, who are no fools and have found there’s a delicious new food source in their midst.

Howie admits he is no Fun Guy yet.

“He’s got 10,000 logs. I’ve got 80. He has a greenhouse, processing plant ...”

For Howie, the operation is more of a personal exercise in controlled seren­ dipity. Each harvest is different, he says. Sometimes the mushrooms are clustered one on top of the other, sometimes they’re separate indivi­ duals. They can be tiny and round or huge and flat. “They taste different every time.”

Sometimes a shiitake will be this big, he motions, with elaborate designs on its cap, “like a hand-painted plate.”

The tall, youthful 62-year-old does­ n’t mention fancy mushroom dishes – really, simple eggs with onions and mushrooms is the ultimate perfect meal. He happened upon mushroom broth when blanching some of his crop for freezing – “It makes delicious soup.” Pickled mushrooms were an­ other discovery. He also recommends

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Howie has watched the humble mushroom grow in popularity during the last decade. “People used to think it was a garnish, which is now not the case at all. It’s very nutritious,” he says. Mushrooms boast B vitamins, including ribof lavin, antioxidants, potassium, phosphorus and selenium among other vital nutrients.

Still, it can take awhile to acquire a taste for the chewy, meaty bite. “Some people don’t think they’ll like them, but when they try them ...” Howie beams in the spring sunshine.

As a new aficionado, his enthusi­ asm may be as attached to learning the science of mushrooms as to their taste. For instance, mushrooms are actually the fruit or bloom of a fun­ gus, producing spores for reproduc­ tion. The vegetative portion of the fungus is the white stringy mass called mycelium, which feeds on the nutrients in the soil or wood in which it grows. In the case of wood mush­ rooms, the fungi absorb nutrients from the decaying logs.

Mycelium is having a cultural moment. It’s the subject of a growing number of books and talks on its role in keeping forests – and by extension all of us – alive in ways we can’t see.

As one new book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by German forest ran­ ger Peter Wohlleben, explains, we’re learning that trees in a forest use this network of interconnected fungi as a support system and even to “warn each other of danger by sending elec­

trical signals” to one another, as The New York Times described it. Wohlle­ ben calls it the “Wood Wide Web.” Howie also namechecks mycologist and author Paul Stamets as “the mush­ room guru of the Western world,” credited with bringing Japanese wood mushroom practices to the West. The expert’s TED Talk, “6 Ways Mush­ rooms Can Save the World,” explores how mycelium – “Earth’s natural Internet” and the first organism to come to land – can be harnessed to clean polluted soil, create insecticides and work as antiviral medication.

Then there’s ethnomycologist Terence McKenna’s “stoned ape” the­ ory – the idea that humankind gained consciousness when our ancestors ingested psychedelic mushrooms – which is another favourite discussion point. It’s all fodder for Howie’s new­ found, multilayered obsession, giving him something to ponder as he waits for his shiitakes and oysters to bloom.

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Logs lined up and ready to produce mushrooms in Howie’s forest garden.

Growing Mushrooms To start his shiitake and oyster mushroom garden, Howie turned for advice to Bruno Pretti of Fun Guy Farm in Goodwood, Ontario.

Here’s an adapted version of the steps Bruno recommends at www.mycosource.com, which Howie followed. Visit the website for more details.

Be patient. The whole process, from the time you cut the wood in which the mushrooms will grow to your first meal, usually takes longer than a year. But once they start producing, you can harvest them for up to five years before starting the process again.

What you’ll need Access to live trees Saw or chainsaw Drill with ½-inch bit Inoculation tool or a small funnel and a tamping rod Mushroom spawn, which is grown in loose sawdust or in sawdust formed into plugs (NB: Fun Guy now sells only loose sawdust spawn. They no longer sell the sawdust spawn plugs Howie used.)

Pick your trees Choose hardwoods, such as sugar maple or oak, since their bark stays put for a long time, keeping moisture in. Skip softwoods, fruit woods and walnut.

Cut the limbs Cut limbs from live trees in the late fall or winter.

Don’t use trunk wood or cut wood that has been around awhile. Fresh limbs help ensure no other fungi are already in the wood and that the sugars in the wood, which usually fuel the production of leaf buds, will instead help the fungi to produce mushrooms.

Leave them there After you’ve cut the limbs, stack them for good ventilation, keeping them raised on, for example, a base of cedar rails so they don’t touch the ground.

For photos of stacking options, see mycosource.com

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Cut them into logs In late April or early May, cut the limbs into 4-foot lengths. The ideal diameter is between 4 and 8 inches.

Drill holes Drill a series of holes to a depth of 1 1⁄8 inches. The holes should be 4 to 6 inches apart, in offset rows that are 2 to 3 inches apart (in a diamond pattern).

Insert mushroom spawn Fill the drilled holes with mushroom spawn and seal each hole with a Styrofoam tab, cheese or beeswax.

(This helps keep the spawn from drying out.)

Stack the logs Stack the logs again in the shade or forest. For the next three to four months, soak the logs using a sprinkler for three to four hours once a week, unless you experience heavy rain. (This may not be necessary, but you might get mushrooms earlier if you do it.)

Stand the logs up In the garden’s permanent location, string a length of wire between two posts. Then line up your logs on either side, tops leaning against each other to form an upside-down “V” shape.

Watch for mushrooms You’ll start to see white mycelium at the end of the log in a ring shape, possibly within weeks. As early as that fall or in the following spring or summer, mushrooms should pop out the sides of the logs.

Each log can produce one to two pounds of mushrooms a year. Inoculated logs should last up to five years before you’ll need to start again with fresh ones. Harvest using scissors or a knife. Never rip the mushroom off the log. Enjoy!

Other resources Terence McKenna’s Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution (1999) Paul Stamets’ website www.fungi.com and TED Talk, “6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World.”

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BACK TO THE FUTURE AT HEATHERLEA

with its own livestock and in-house butchers,

BY TRALEE PEARCE

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utcher Jason Cooney makes tiny cuts along the breastbone of a deep red Muscovy duck to gently separate the meat from the rib cage. “People think butchers hack away using cleavers – it’s more about little cuts,” he says. “You follow the natural curva­ ture of the duck breast.”

Jason is the head butcher at Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, the new on-farm market opened in Caledon this spring by Pat and Gord McArthur. He wields his knife with ease, showing me and my fellow work­ shop participants how he portions the poultry dis­ played in the shop’s 18-foot meat counter behind us.

There are many revelations on offer tonight, after hours, in the pristine and bright cutting room tuck­ ed behind the meat counter. Jason shares insights

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on which cuts are best for brining, a better way to truss a whole chicken for even cooking, and how to make carving easier by removing the wishbone before roasting.

“Butchery is a lost craft,” says Jason, his oldtimey wool and leather apron a chic throwback.

Pat McArthur and her daughter-in-law Melinda McArthur are also attending the workshop this evening. As they look on and share the story of Heatherlea and its long history in Caledon, it’s evident this farm family believes the lost craft of butchery, married with their experience producing naturally raised Aberdeen Angus beef, is the key to a sustainable, even prosperous, future.

Melinda, who is married to Pat and Gord’s son Don, is a partner in the business. “Melinda and I

wanted to offer more for our customers,” Pat says of the family’s 2013 decision to supersize their onfarm retail operation. (Daughter Shannon and her husband Rod are “involved in spirit,” says Pat.) Gord has been raising black Aberdeen Angus cattle on this and other nearby properties since the 1970s. The herd now numbers about 140, with 60 females producing calves each year on a total of more than 250 acres.

After noticing a spike in customers wanting to buy the naturally raised beef directly from the farm, the McArthurs started selling frozen cuts out of their farmhouse in 2009 – a project that even­ tually took over three rooms and required seven large chest freezers. Other meats, fish, dried goods, baking and frozen prepared foods rounded out the

P H O T O S P E T E P AT E R S O N

left to right : Pat and Gord McArthur, Kayleigh, Melinda, Chloe, Don and James McArthur.

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mix. (Before that, there had been a bed and break­ fast and a go at agritourism, complete with corn mazes. “That didn’t work,” says Pat dryly.)

the new chapter

That first shop’s earnest vibe now permeates the new 5,000-square-foot, cedar-sided shop overlooking Winston Churchill Boulevard. The space houses the meat counter and those same chest freezers, cutting and hanging rooms, a café and bakery, retail shelves of dry goods and tables of local pro­ duce from such suppliers as Reid’s Century Farm Potatoes from Mono and Zócalo Organics from Hillsburgh.

But the meat counter is undoubtedly the heart of the operation, with Gord’s strain of Aberdeen

Angus front and centre. Jason figures he’ll be sel­ ling two sides a week this summer. If you eat beef, consider it one of the shortest supply chains you’ll ever participate in. The cattle graze on grass and are finished for up to 90 days on grain also grown

by Gord. They’re sent to Peel Sausage in Drayton to be slaughtered. (Gord has just started offering farm-raised white Plymouth Rock chickens too.)

“Gord takes a lot of care and pride; I try not to mess it up,” says Jason, who came to butchery after working as a chef in local restaurants, including The Barley Vine Rail Co. in Orangeville and Mono Cliffs Inn. Jason and fellow Heatherlea butcher Steve Aspinall fill the rest of the case with meat from partners such as Cambridge’s Murray Allan Thunberg, who

is supplying Berkshire pork. (Watch also for his multi-hued heritage-breed eggs in the dairy fridge.)

Jason and Steven paired Murray’s pork with for­ aged wild leeks and morels in homemade sausages.

Set behind a large window, the hanging room provides the kind of insider access customers crave in an era when shrink-wrapped, mass-produced meat has lost its lustre. The night of our workshop, we huddle in the 2°C room (the cutting room had been a balmy 6 to 10 degrees) as Jason kindly let us stray off schedule, asking him questions about the dry aging process.

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Scenes from a busy farm shop including the meat counter and head butcher Jason Cooney (top right) in the hanging room. Gord McArthur is now raising chickens (bottom right) as well as cattle.

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2011 to prepare stews, curries and other takeaway frozen dishes for sale.

Folks at the Ontario Farm Fresh Marketing Association, a non-profit group helping farmers promote their products, pointed out that having a kitchen in a separate building was a lost opportunity. “‘If they smell it, they’ll buy it,’ we were told,” says Pat. “Gord and I said, ‘We think we’d better move.’”

With those fateful words, the cou­ ple and their family embarked on a three-year journey, always keeping their current and hoped-for custo­ mers in mind.

We check out the giant walk-in fridge and matching freezer at the back of the building, connected by a hallway. It’s as spotless as the customer area. “People want small and local, but they also want professional,” says Melinda. “And clean,” adds Pat. The café at the north end of the building is anchored by a long bar, made from reclaimed wood by local craftsman Chris Cull, and a Men­ nonite butcher block. It was supposed to function mostly as a spot for more workshop demos, but demographics are nudging it elsewhere. “The cycl­ ists want lattes,” says Pat with a smile.

So an espresso machine is on the way. continued on next page

HEATHERLEA BUTCHER JASON COONEY’S TIPS FOR PERFECT SUMMER BARBECUING BEST CUTS Look for cuts of meat that have a higher fat content. I love a very simple beef burger with good lettuce, aged gouda and onion jam on a brioche bun.

Otherwise, I prefer cuts such as flat iron steak, skirt steak or Korean short ribs.

For chicken, use thighs and drumsticks on the bone. (Skinless chicken is a pet peeve because its surface gets dried out. Even if you don’t like chicken skin, leave it on while it’s cooking and remove it before eating.)

PREP RIGHT Take meat out of the fridge and cover at room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour. This decreases cooking time and allows for more even cooking.

Don’t leave a marinade with a lot of salt or acid on your meat for too long or it will make it tough. Marinades are best on less tender cuts of beef and on chicken.

Dry rubs are good for introducing flavours as well as creating an exterior crust.

As with marinades, don’t leave salty rubs on for long. Be careful with sugary rubs – they will burn very quickly.

With seasoning, less is more. A high quality steak or chop only needs salt and a little pepper. Again, add salt just before cooking. Season before serving with a high quality finishing salt like smoked sea salt or a Himalayan pink salt.

Unless you’re using a marinade that has a lot of oil in it, massage or brush a small amount of oil onto the surface of the meat after applying seasoning or dry rub.

I only use sweet barbecue sauces on ribs. If you like these sauces, make sure they’re added at the end of the cooking process to avoid charring.

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WATCH THE HEAT Use the palm test. Hold your open palm three or four inches over the surface of the grill and count to see how long you can hold it there before having to pull away. Two seconds is high heat, five seconds is medium heat and 10 is low heat.

Watch for flare-ups. Flames should never come into contact with the meat.

Even if they don’t char it, they can give meat a bitter, astringent flavour. Use a spray bottle to extinguish them. I use this as an opportunity to introduce more flavour. Try beer when you’re cooking sausages or red wine for steaks.

Use thermometers – your barbecue’s and a probe thermometer to make sure meat is cooked to your liking.

HOW TO FLIP If you’re trying to sear meat, don’t flip it more than once. Only move it to get it away from a hot spot on the grill or because there’s a flare-up. The more time it spends on the grill without moving, the better crust and grilled flavour it gets.

Don’t use barbecue forks or any implements with sharp edges. Stick to tongs and steel spatulas to keep meat juicy.

LET IT REST Let your meats rest for up to half as long as it took to cook. Cover loosely with aluminum foil. The meat should have some space around it for circulation or you’ll lose your exterior crust. Most proteins will continue to cook, so remove from direct heat when your steaks are still a little undercooked.

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The “café queens” as they’re called – Claire Loftus, Elizabeth Rowe and Caitlin McLeod – make baked goods and meals from scratch, also filling the freezers with comfort foods like butter chicken and chili. Pat says Heatherlea is one of just eight mar­ kets in Ontario doing on-site, fromscratch cooking. A huge upside: Al­ most nothing goes to waste, especially fresh meat. And yes, the smells waft out over the shop.

“We’d talk about how [on-farm food retailing] should be part theatre,” says Cathy Bartolic, executive direc­ tor of OFFMA. “They’ve taken it to the next level with the hanging room and cutting room. It’s very transpar­ ent and makes the customer feel a part of the whole process.”

ing farmers increase their income and, in turn, their commitment to the land. Farming is expensive, says Pat, “Let’s face it, tractors cost $70,000 now. In Gord’s grandfather’s day you’d pay cash for a tractor.”

In the McArthurs’ case, Pat has worked off-farm, commuting for up to four hours a day at times. Gord and Don have run second businesses, including fencing, landscaping and constructing covered utility build­ ings. “It’s always been that way,” says Melinda. “You need someone work­ ing off the farm.”

Pat credits OFFMA for helping her find the right retail formula and lay­ out, and connecting the family to other on-farm businesses and butch­

ers in Ontario. Jason was able to visit other operations for training long before the shop’s construction was complete.

On the day of the grand opening in April, the stress of launching a new business all seemed worth it. “When the lights went on, it was ‘Wow!’” says Pat, adding she was blown away by the support of the community.

Oh, and that commute? In the winters it can feel like a long walk from the farmhouse to the shop. “I’ll call to make sure the coffee’s on,” Pat laughs. “It’s a lot of work and a lot of fun,” adds Melinda.

But this team is not the type to sit down long with that java. A softspoken and unassuming woman, Pat

a lengthy journey

Arriving here wasn’t easy. There were seemingly endless bureaucratic hurd­ les. Pat is candid, admitting there were times she felt overwhelmed. But for others who follow, the Town of Caledon has made changes, allowing for more of these kinds of on-farm businesses (see sidebar, below).

It feels like the way of the future: keeping land in agricultural use, help­

freely shares her long list of to-dos.

She wants to serve fresh prepared meals to go, offer more butchery and cooking workshops, and tweak Hea­ therlea’s catering offerings. There’s space for an outdoor patio this summer. Ice cream is on the way, per Gord’s request. (The story goes that as a child he carried a spoon in his back pocket just in case of an encounter with the cold creamy treat.) And there’s that espresso machine to buy.

“We’re always game to try some­ thing new,” Pat says, surveying the shop. While it is well stocked, it’s not packed with merchandise; there is room to grow.

“Our customers have doubled since we opened,” she says, adding that she’s noticing a lot more young people with families. About 30 per cent of custo­ mers live close by, with the rest coming from 45 minutes or more afield.

There are pricey green juices in the fridge, those gourmet sausages made with fancy ingredients, and there will be lattes, but the predominant ethos here is anything but pretentious. As Pat discusses what’s ahead, she loops back to her family’s farm roots, citing the longtime 4-H motto: “‘Learn by doing’ – that’s what we’re doing.” ≈

Heatherlea’s grass-fed black Angus cattle are raised without growth hormones or antibiotics.

A LONG ROW TO HOE It seems like a no-brainer. You have a farm gate operation selling meat you raise or vegetables you grow on the family farm. Now, you’d like to build a bona fide shop to serve your growing customer list.

Not so fast. Get ready for red tape and fees at every turn. Despite a groundswell of support for on-farm shops as a means to get healthy local food to consumers faster, keep agricultural land in use and allow farm families to boost their slim profit margins, some rural municipalities have been slow to adapt their policies to the obvious advantages.

In the case of Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, it took three years from application to opening – and a bumpy and expensive three years at that. Pat, Gord and Melinda McArthur dealt with bylaws, applications and fees from a variety of departments at the Town of Caledon and the Region of Peel, including several meetings with the fire department.

They also chased approvals from other planning authorities, including a nail-biting wait for a permit from Credit Valley Conservation as the June 2015 ground-breaking deadline was imminent.

They were given no administrative template, no road map through the bureaucracy, no time frames.

They’d celebrate clearing one hurdle only to be confronted with another.

In addition to the expected site applications and building permit fees, there were also many thousands in development fees, plus funds earmarked for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District

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School Board. The Region of Peel required the family to pay for a survey in order to turn over three metres of road allowance for any potential widening of Winston Churchill Boulevard – which meant building a new fence line.

“Every fee charged was a surprise,” says Pat, who would have especially welcomed a fee schedule explaining what was coming.

“It was pretty darn scary going through the process,” she says, admitting some of the drawn-out negotiations left her in tears.

The bureaucracy is “crazy,” says Cathy Bartolic, the Aurora-based executive director of the Ontario Farm Fresh Marketing Association, a non-profit group dedicated to helping farmers promote their products. Cathy says Heatherlea’s struggles – and the similarly onerous ones experienced by nearby Spirit Tree Cidery in Caledon a few years before it – are common across the province. “It’s the municipalities. Maybe they haven’t had to deal with these kinds of applications before, but they throw up extra barriers.”

The Town of Caledon recommends hiring a planning consultant for “those who are not familiar with the planning process,” says Rob Hughes, the Town’s manager of development. Yet Pat, Gord and Melinda’s experience suggests no farmer embarking on this kind of project could be familiar with the process until they’d come through the other side.

The family did pay a consultant $30,000 and were

disappointed by how little that helped.

Others following their lead should, theoretically, have a better go of it.

Hughes says when Heatherlea first proposed its shop, the Town wasn’t “fully permissive” of this kind of development. But because amendments to the Official Plan were underway to allow for certain secondary agricultural activities, Heatherlea obtained permission through a committee of adjustment application.

The Official Plan amendments were approved in September 2014, with the relevant zoning provisions approved in June last year. Those “are now supportive of on-farm diversified and agritourism uses, and staff are working with several prospective applicants in this regard,” Hughes says.

OFFMA’s Cathy Bartolic is optimistic that with the provincial government’s recent local food push and policy shifts such as those in Caledon, change is coming. Still, she says, “I’d warn people to do their homework and take baby steps.”

Pat says in the end she did feel supported by both customers and many bureaucrats and elected officials. (The family was also grateful to receive a financial grant from the provincial Local Food Fund, which went toward equipment costs.)

She’s hoping others can benefit from their journey.

“It ended up really well for us, but it shouldn’t have taken from August 2013 to May 2016.”

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Without Words, are We Lost in the Woods?

BY NICOLA ROSS

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s much as we might disparage dandelions, the cheerful yellow flowers are a fact of life in Caledon and throughout Headwaters. Spring couldn’t arrive without them. They are as embedded in our landscape as beavers, herons, porcupines and ferns. So it is inconceivable that a dictionary would not define “dandelion” – or any of the words in that list. But such is the case. The Oxford Junior Dictionary, intended for children in the primary grades, has eliminated all those words, along with a host of other nature-related terms to make room for tech terms such as “blog,” “chatroom,” “broadband” and “MP3 player.”

This action compelled Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, British author Robert Mac­ farlane and 26 other writers, journalists and naturalists to write an open letter to Oxford University Press last year.

They expressed concern about children spending their time downloading YouTube videos and communicating through chatrooms rather than getting out into nature to turn dandelions into chains and learn that those pointy tree stumps are the work of the clever rodent that is one of Canada’s national emblems.

“In light of what is known about the benefits of natural play and connection to nature; and the dangers of their lack, we think the choice of words to be omitted shocking and poorly considered.”

The authors of the letter pointed to research showing a strong connection between wellbeing and natural play, and argued that link is in danger of unravelling. A generation ago,

according to a study undertaken for Natural England, a government-funded environmental advisory body, 40 per cent of English youngsters used to play regularly in natural places, but only 10 per cent do so today. And whereas 16 per cent of children a generation ago preferred indoor play, some 41 per cent now choose that option. Children’s bedrooms are no longer where they are sent to be punished; instead, they have become entertainment centres.

Best-selling author and environ­mental acti­ vist George Monbiot is at the forefront of a movement to help protect the natural environ­ ment by smartening up the language used to describe it. Indeed, Monbiot dislikes the term “environment,” believing it fails to conjure up an image worthy of the awe-inspiring nature it is intended to describe. He prefers “natural world” or “living planet.” Personally, I’ve taken to using “natural landscape.” continued on next page

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Some even argue that the term “conservation” – as in Credit Valley Conservation or Toronto and Region Conservation Authority – is partially to blame for society’s distancing itself from the very organizations and ini­ tiatives that set out to protect nature.

The objective of “conservatism” is to conserve, to maintain the status quo, which is often not what motivates peo­ ple who revere a particular landscape.

What they want, suggests Macfarlane, author of the widely acclaimed book Landmarks, is “nostalgia,” a term he says “laments the prevailing state of things and agitates for change.”

Glenn Albrecht, an Australian aca­ demic and environmental philoso­ pher, is similarly dismayed by the shortcomings of our vocabulary. On his website he explains he is devel­ oping “a language and conceptual landscape to match the rich range of emotions and feelings people have about nature and place.” His first attempt is “solastalgia,” a word he coined by combining “solace” and “algia,” which derives from the Greek for “pain.” As opposed to nostalgia, which he describes as a feeling of homesickness for a place where you lived in the past, solastalgia is the distress felt when the place where you currently live is destroyed or debili­ tated by environmental change.

Macfarlane writes, “The natural 11:02 AM world becomes far more easily dis­ posable if it is not imaginatively known, and a failure to include it in a literary regard can slide easily into a failure to include it in a moral regard.” In Landmarks, to sum up the role of language in protecting nature, Macfarlane quotes prolific American writer and environmental activist Wendell Berry: “To defend what we love we need a particularizing lan­ guage, for we love what we particularly know.”

Having grown up in Caledon and spent the better part of two decades actively protecting my landscape, often through my writing in this magazine, I was intrigued by the idea of a “particularizing” language.

Stephen Quilley, a British-born pro­ fessor at the University of Waterloo, blames Southern Ontario’s poor and shrinking countryside lexicon for our failure to adequately protect our farm fields, forests and villages. His theory is that whereas Canadians revere wilderness and have a rich language for and literature about it, we fail to similarly appreciate and celebrate what I think of as Caledon’s “near wilderness,” for lack of a better phrase.

Quilley is using Caledon as the central focus of a project he calls Hedgelaying in Southern Ontario. To help us revere and hopefully improve

our ability to describe our landscape, Quilley took a small group of us to visit the National Hedgelaying Cham­ pionships in England last October.

Those who grew up or have spent time in Britain will likely be familiar with the hedges that often line rural roads. These hedges are designed, among other things, to be impene­ trable by livestock, to provide habitat for birds and small animals, and to improve links between villages. What you may not realize is that each region of England has its own style of hedge.

Like local beers or cheeses, hedges in Devon, for example, are construc­ ted differently from those in, say, Yorkshire.

Participants in the trip discovered hedgelaying has a particularizing language, including “pleaching” (a means of interweaving tree branches so they form a solid barrier), “tiller­ ing” (the act of making a tree or shrub

“The natural world becomes far more easily disposable if it is not imaginatively known,” writes Macfarlane. bushier by cutting it so it produces “tillers” or suckers), and – my favour­ ite – “hefting” (the process by which cattle and sheep learn to identify with a particular landscape so they don’t wander away).

Macfarlane admires the Gaels for the elegantly specific terms they use to describe their landscape. Given a copy of Some Lewis Moorland Terms: A Peat Glossary, he learned of some 120 Gaelic words used on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. They include èit, which refers to “the practice of placing quartz stones in streams so that they sparkle in moonlight and thereby at­ tract salmon to them in the late sum­ mer and autumn”; rionnach maoim, which means “the shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day”; and teine biorach, which is “the flame or will-o’-the-wisp that runs on top of heather when the moor burns during the summer.”

Here in the hills we are not entirely bereft of a language for our natural landscape. We have “badlands” and “escarpment” and “moraine.” And though these terms aren’t specific in the sense of èit, they would please Monbiot because they elicit a picture when referred to in the context of Caledon. Many of us, for example, share a mutual image of the incised red clay hills banded by greenish

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the stream of light yellow maple sap that freezes overnight at the end of a metal spile

a phenomenon seen early on fall mornings when a spider’s web is covered in dew

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the delicate layer of opaque, sometimes patterned ice that caps small potholes in a driveway; it is impossible for children and adults alike to resist stepping on and breaking through clisp if only to hear that special crackle as it shatters

the act of removing the autumn leaf through which a spring ephemeral flower, such as a trout lily or bloodroot, has grown so that its leaves cannot properly unfurl

shale along Olde Base Line Road, and as governing bodies have discovered, we care passionately about what is to become of that famous landmark.

Most rural residents have heard of the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine. But what about the Mayfield or Humberview students who are married to their iPhones, or urban newcomers attracted by spank­ ing new subdivisions built on land where the topsoil has been stripped and farmlands or forests expunged?

For them, does the word “badlands” conjure up an image of Cheltenham, or Arizona – or perhaps a bad case of acne?

And does it matter? Macfarlane says yes. “It matters because language deficit leads to attention deficit.” And he adds, “As we deplete our ability to denote and figure particular aspects of our place, so our competence for understanding and imagining possi­ ble relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.”

Journalist J.B. MacKinnon, one of Canada’s most thoughtful nature writers, worries about what he calls the “great forgetting.” In a Q&A with a Harper’s blogger, he wrote, “If you know that whales belong to Vancou­ ver’s past then it becomes possible to imagine their presence in the future.

If you aren’t aware of their history, then the absence of whales will seem perfectly normal – natural in fact.”

Already Caledon’s urban popula­ tion, which outnumbers the rural one, suffers from MacKinnon’s great forgetting. For many residents, acci­ dent-proofed playgrounds and chlor­

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inated drinking water are normal – natural in fact.

Although some 80 per cent of Caledon’s landscape is protected from development by one government pol­ icy or another, the town is slipping ever closer to becoming “Bramalea with hills.” People who live in the sub­ divisions that are sprouting like weeds in an abandoned garden may be fine upstanding citizens, but most will have no memory of walking freely over the badlands or across meadows. They won’t have duchthas, a Gaelic word that Macfarlane says means “the sense of belonging in a place” – for a wilder Caledon where nature is normal.

Concerned by the prospect of a Cal­ edon swamped by urban values and frustrated by my inability to convey the passion I have for the place where I was born, I began compiling Caledon’s particularizing language. It would be my contribution to “geophany,” a term coined by British author and cartographer Tim Robinson to des­ cribe language that celebrates place.

Then my imagination switched to the idea of creating my versions of èit and teine biorach. This task was electrifying. It caused me to feel as though I radiated with the sunshine collected by a field of intensely yellow dandelions. It was hefting. The exer­ cise required me to think about and picture the specific natural pheno­ mena that make me love Caledon so much, and then invent words to describe them.

My contributions to geophany (see sidebar) will never find their way into the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, much less the Oxford Junior, but this unique way of studying the things – great and small – that make Caledon so special may pleach our community, thereby helping us avoid being over­ whelmed by solastalgia. ≈ Freelance writer Nicola Ross has recently published Caledon Hikes: Loops & Lattes, a guide to 37 walking loops in Caledon. Her new hiking guide, Halton Hikes: Mostly Loops & More Lattes, will be available in November 2016.

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Creature Comforts It should come as no surprise that makers in these hills draw heaps of inspiration from the animal kingdom. How could they not? Dog lovers and the horsey set have fields and trails to roam with their four-legged companions. Farms are teeming with life, both domesticated and wild, fencing be damned. And the summer skies are filled with avian traffic.

From artful renderings of man’s best friend to cuddly felt critters, here is a taste of the irresistible animal magnetism all around us.

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Caledon artist Joan Gray has carved out a niche creating detailed watercolour portraits of pets – mostly dogs, but also horses. She prefers to meet the beloved animals in person and photograph them from many angles before picking up a brush.

Pictured is Balder (9" x 13"), a handsome fellow from Caledon.

(Pet portraits in various sizes $400–$800, Joan Gray)

in miniature Jennifer Osborn of All Sorts Acre in Mono raises sheep and felts their wool into all manner of magicallooking fauna. Here, wild-looking horses keep company with a quirky goat and a teensy fox. Want something more personal? She’ll sculpt to order. ($25 and up; custom $100 and up, All Sorts Acre)

who’s a good boy?

At Orangeville’s Dogs We Love, pooches get the royal treatment with homemade healthy and fresh foods to go, including meatloaf and colourful yogurt or carobcovered treats for the well-executed shake-a-paw. (Horse treats are also available.)

Look for a table of cute bandanas made in house for added canine flair. (Single treats 75¢–$1; 400 g bag of “bits” $8; bandanas $2–$5, Dogs We Love)

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feathered finery A local classic, The Little Chicken Book manages to transform mere barnyard critters into haute portrait subjects. Rare and fanciful breeds including bearded silkies, silver laced wyandottes and other charmers look noble and fearless in photos by In The Hills photographer Pete Paterson, with text by Lesley Kelly. ($16.98, BookLore)

on her sleeve Mono-based equine photographer Ellen Cameron is known for her work documenting the Headwaters horse scene and her on-farm animal portrait sessions. Her newest venture is wearable art – silk scarves and tops that feature digital prints of her horse images, available on a U.S. site called Vida. (Silk tee $65 USD; silk scarf $40 USD, Vida)

that’s the spirit These 43 glossy cards, featuring haunting images of owls, wolves, moose and other creatures, stand alone as reprints of Alton artist Sandra Kunz’s original acrylic paintings. Their companion book, Messenger Cards: Guidance from the Spirit Animals, assigns each card a corresponding inspirational message to ponder. Sandra also leads readings of the cards in her Alton studio. (Set of cards and book $45, Sandra Kunz)

in full colour In her cheeky animal canvases, local artist and art educator Jenny Lorito pairs her whimsical ink drawings with brightly coloured oils. Her menagerie includes “Ostrich” and “Chickens in Love” shown here. She is represented

by Noodle Gallery in the Alton Mill and sells archival prints (8.5" x 11") of the original canvases on her own site, theraiseanartistproject.com. She takes commissions too. (Canvases $30–$60; archival prints $25, Jenny Lorito) S O U R C E S All Sorts Acre, 388252 Mono Centre Rd, Mono. 519-942-0540. www.allsortsacre.com BookLore, 121 First St, Orangeville. 519-942-3830. www.booklore.ca Dogs We Love, 328 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-940-3598. www.dogswelove.com Ellen Cameron, Mono. 519-938-5376. www.ellencameron.com; shopvida.com/collections/ellen-cameron Jenny Lorito, 905-691-2864. www.theraiseanartistproject.com Joan Gray, Caledon. www.joangray.ca Noodle Gallery, Alton Mill, Alton. 647-505-8995. www.noodlegallery.com Sandra Kunz, Alton. 780-399-2331. www.youranimalspirits.com; etsy.com/ca/shop/TheMessengerCards

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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WHOLE VILLAGE caledon’s first ecovillage celebrates 10 years of sustainable living

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reat Expectations.” Ten years ago, that was the headline on a story in this magazine about Whole Village, Caledon’s then brand new ecocommunity. And there is no doubt expectations were great.

Part of a global ecovillage network, Whole Village members’ common ambition for their 191-acre farm on Shaw’s Creek Road was as lofty as it was simple: to create a culture of living peacefully with one another and the planet. At the heart of this co-operative of up to 30 residents was one common denominator – sustainability, in every sense.

Cynics might say the concept was anything but sustainable. Indeed, several similar “inten­ tional communities” from Hamilton to Orange­ ville have failed. But a decade later, Caledon’s Whole Village thrives. In that time it has made great strides toward its members’ key object­ ives: reducing their ecological footprint, living simply with shared resources, employing re­ newable energy and energy-saving building techniques, and stewarding their land by im­ plementing principles of permaculture. They also run outreach programs to share their values and know-how with the outside world.

Still, Whole Villagers themselves insist the key to their success, past and future, is a commit­ ment to sustainability that reaches far beyond the environment alone.

“It’s a hell of a thing to try to recreate tribe or clan,” says Stephen Wilson, the Whole Village

property manager. “You spend centuries devel­ oping individualism. Now trying to go back to the tribe, it’s a challenge, but it is a good feeling most of the time.”

In the late 1990s, zoning restrictions doomed Whole Village’s original vision, which included 30 self-contained co-housing units on a prop­ erty in King Township. The project then moved west and morphed into an 11-unit, 15,000square-foot single-family ecoresidence called Greenhaven. It boasts 6,500 square feet of com­ mon living, cooking and dining space. Ten of the suites have bedrooms, a sitting room, bath­ room and kitchenette with no stove. The 11th, a six-bedroom family suite, does have its own stove. In addition to meeting Town of Caledon planning requirements, this one-big-happyfamily design ended up being a much stronger fit with the values of the community.

While Greenhaven was in the planning and construction stages, community members lived in the heritage farmhouse on the property. This classic red brick house has been renovated and updated, and a number of residents con­tinue to call it home.

Whole Villagers view community as basic to life, drawing parallels to an ecosystem in which a community of species lives in balanced rela­ tionships with one another. Longtime resident Brenda Dolling explains, “Whole Village tries to recreate that basic human community and to live in harmony with each other as well as the natural environment.” continued on next page

upper left : Longtime resident Brenda Dolling takes a rare break in front of the property’s heritage barn. far left : A mural on an exterior wall of Greenhaven reflects members’ values, as does the rain barrel. near left : Trina, one of the village’s four rare-breed Kerry dairy cattle, inspects a visitor. above : Josh Scheerer happily works to prepare the CSA gardens.

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Brenda emphasizes how spending time together eating (members try to have dinner together as many as five nights a week), socializing and work­ ing through problems and possibilities has been a big part of what has made this particular community work. And though individual residents, both renters and owners, have come and gone, Whole Village has accomplished a great deal as a community.

Greenhaven reflects a deep com­ mitment to reducing their ecological footprint. The super-insulated build­ ing, for example, is heated by passive solar design and a highly efficient masonry heater fuelled by wood col­ lected on the property, as well as a geothermal system. A new solar hot water array, known as an evacuated tube system, uses the sun’s energy to heat water for domestic use.

But residents aren’t entirely off the grid. They are, for example, online – with a website, a Facebook page and even a 12-episode YouTube video. On an ecovillage scale that ranges from rustic to luxurious, they claim the mid­ dle ground. “Our first goal is to be a sustainable community, which means working toward a self-sufficient ideal, but also working with the realities of Western life,” says Stephen.

Outdoors, Whole Villagers have worked hard to implement the prin­ ciples of permaculture – an agricul­ tural ecosystem that works with the natural forces of wind, sun, water and soil to attain self-sufficiency. Stephen says subsidized modern agriculture uses 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food. “For the first time in human history,” he says, “agri­culture operates at a net loss of energy.”

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Whole Village has been exploring ways to change this while ensuring the soil at the base of the food chain is clean and healthy. Their biodynamic garden, which amounted to half an acre in 2005, has grown to 10 acres planted in fruit, vegetables and nuts.

It is cultivated largely by young farm­ ers who pay rent to learn hands-on permaculture practices while running the Whole Village Community Sup­ ported Agriculture program. From June to October, CSA customers in the GTA buy shares in the farm’s harvest of diverse fruit and vegetables.

The surplus is sold to local restaurants and farmers’ markets.

Elsewhere on the farm food pro­ duction includes perennials, an api­ ary, maple syrup, a mixed orchard, an edible forest and poultry. Their mixed farming model also includes four Kerry cattle, a rare dairy breed that

originated in Ireland. Every process is chemical-free and every possible bit of waste is reused, which may include feeding the previous night’s salad to the chickens or using extra building materials from Greenhaven to foxproof the chicken coop.

With the help of local farmers, landscape designers, the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy and Credit Valley Conservation, the community has brought permaculture values to the property’s living infrastructure as well. They’ve planted more than 20,000 native trees as windbreaks that enhance crop growth, heat traps to protect more delicate crops, wild­ life corridors, and calm areas where people and livestock dwell. Woodlots and wetlands have been protected with buffer zones. continued on next page

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A view of Greenhaven across the strawberry patch. inset : Jon Gagnon with one of the farm’s Rhode Island red laying hens.

DISCOVER PARTS OF THE WHOLE You can experience and learn more about Whole Village in many ways, from buying a share in their CSA to volunteering for a work bee or even becoming a farm intern. Or spend time “in community” by staying in the village’s B&B, which can be booked through either the village website or Airbnb. For more information, go to www.wholevillage.org and check out the 12-part YouTube series by community member and videographer Jon Gagnon.

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Wherever possible, human power replaces combustion-powered mach­ ines. “Most of us haven’t farmed be­ fore,” says Brenda. “Some things we do well, and some things, like our nut trees, are a work in progress.” The group agrees. Their efforts aren’t ex­ amples of perfected farming practices.

They’re an object lesson in the as­ tounding things people can accom­ plish when they work together to re­ connect to the land.

Community members have found ways to spread these permaculture val­ ues beyond the property lines through internships, tours, workshops, confer­ ences, cultural and orientation events for potential new members. “We teach a permaculture design course once a year,” says resident and professional videographer Jon Gagnon. “I’m still in touch with people who took the course three or four years ago, and I’ve seen the projects that are starting to spread throughout Ontario.”

Still, Whole Village’s greatest suc­ cess in permaculture, in sustainability, may be within the community itself.

Village elder Barbara Wallace has lived “in community” with various groups since the 1970s. She says 99 per cent of ecovillages have difficulty at the stage where they must trust each other and

put money on the table, find land and get along. That’s when most disappear.

What makes Whole Village an ex­ ception? How does this diverse group – young singles, couples, families with children, senior – who’ve been drawn together only by their shared values live harmoniously, like a big family?

“Striking this balance is a constant and conscious work in progress,” says Brenda. “We work very hard to be civil, to cultivate emotional maturity and to work together like good neigh­ bours.” The group uses a flat organiza­ tional hierarchy with a formal process for finding consensus, and they say diversity – social, cultural, economic, professional and spiritual – helps them make better decisions. That’s why it’s important every resident has a voice.

The group’s commitment to honest and kind interpersonal communica­ tion is remarkable. They read books on the subject, work on exercises.

Sometimes they bring in outside help to work through issues. Says Brenda, “It’s probably one of the most difficult, but rewarding pieces of communal living. One can be so easily defeated by a comment or action of another. It is very hard to stay whole and con­ fident, but we are cultivating ways of living together here we would never

have learned in the outside world.”

“Socrates said an unexamined life is not worth living,” adds Wilson. “I want to be willing to say to myself, That wasn’t a good decision, but now I’ll do better. That comes with know­ ing people are there to pick you up when you’re down. It’s safe to lean into the uncomfortable.”

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ow that much of the pioneering work is done, what does the next 10 years hold for Whole Village?

For the small group sipping green tea and lounging in the Greenhaven l iv i ng room on a recent spr i ng morning, the priority is clear: further strengthening the sustainability of community culture.

Jon explains how a big part of this is refining their mission beyond liv­ ing harmoniously. “At first, we just wanted to be accommodating and welcoming to people,” he says. “We thought if someone was interested in us there would be a natural mutuality.

Now we realize we need to be clear about what’s involved and what’s ex­ pected. We need people who know their own needs and want to do the work to keep the project of the prop­ erty going. That clarity will help avoid friction.”

Barb chips in, “If ego is above the collective good, that’s not okay.”

Though they celebrate being a shining alternative to the capitalist grind of agribusiness, they have no problem with the goal of boosting profitability in the years ahead – all part of the sustainability piece in our Western world. Right now, many resi­ dents have part- and full-time careers off the property and subsidize the farming of the land.

Brenda smiles broadly and says that in a decade she wants to be alive to see the trees grow. She wants to experience the results of this exciting transition­ al time.

Finally, after listening quietly, Ste­ phen pipes up. “In 10 years I’d like to see even more of a culture of sacrifice.

Too many people everywhere want things fixed, like climate change, but they don’t want to sacrifice to make things happen. In community, I want us to keep pushing each other to a higher standard. There’s a lot we get out of sacrifice and then there’s some­ thing to draw on when things get tough. I believe it’s sharing the chal­ lenges of sacrifice together that makes this journey sustainable.” ≈ Liz Beatty is a freelance writer who lives in Brimstone.

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Chef Pam Fanjoy: “Cooking gives me energy. It’s why I need to be in the kitchen.”

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am Fanjoy is rushing around her small food shop and restaurant, The Friendly Chef Adventures, gathering ingredients for a dish she’s sharing with this magazine. She’s chatting all the while. “Which cabbage is fresher?

Where are the limes? Take a look at these scallops!”

Still, her activity is positively leisurely consider­ ing her usual pace. In the last few months, on top of running this Erin business with work and life partner Carmenza Angel (“People call us ‘the girls on Main Street,’” she says), Pam has been promoting her “Tall Chef Tall Order” campaign, for which the chef (who is six feet tall) presold meals, fresh foods and catering gigs to crowdfund a down payment on a new, larger location she opened this spring.

In the midst of working seven days a week to fill the more than $10,000-worth of pledges that rolled in, Pam was also tapped to be a contestant on the Food Network show Chopped Canada. She bested three other contestants and won $10,000. (The episode aired in February.) Pam added the winnings to her TCTO funds and in late April announced she

had made a down payment on a spot in nearby Hillsburgh, at 100 Trafalgar Road North.

“I’ve had a crazy year, a challenging year,” says Pam with a radiant smile. “A fresh start will be amazing for us.”

The ride has reinforced the career path she chose about a decade ago after a successful career as a clinical social worker (she still maintains a small pri­ vate practice) and has fortified her belief in the power of food to boost social bonds and build healthy communities. The customers and friends who sup­ ported her now have a personal stake in her future.

“The campaign has opened doors for me to build relationships with people who understand me as a chef and a female entrepreneur,” she says.

Another way to understand Pam? This dish, built on the “Deliciousness Slaw” which helped her ace the Chopped Canada audition. With crunchy cab­ bage, daikon and red radishes, and a hit of curry, it’s an encapsulation of her drive to marry inter­ national inspiration with local sources. Here, for instance, the daikon comes from Everdale organic

farm near Hillsburgh.

Pam suggests serving the slaw with Ontario steel­ head (rainbow) trout. (Because it wasn’t quite in season when she cooked up the dish for us, Pam substituted Arctic char). She became fascinated with steelhead trout after hearing about how members of the Credit River Anglers Association manually lift the trout through the Norval Fish Ladder on their way to the Upper Credit River each spring.

Watch for it on the menu at Pam’s new location, where there will be about 40 seats, along with a selection of takeaway foods, cooking classes and CSA-style meat, fish and cheese clubs. It all may seem like a tall order indeed, since Pam continues to accept requests to participate in new television opportunities and community events. But there is one caveat: Nothing can take her away from the stove for too long.

“Cooking gives me energy. It’s why I need to be in the kitchen.” recipes on next page

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Steelhead trout with seared dry scallops and “deliciousness slaw” Serves 4.

Prep time about ½ hour.

Cooking time about 15 minutes. slaw ingredients ½ head cabbage, Chinese, red or green, shredded finely ½ daikon radish 7 or 8 red radishes, thinly sliced 60 g snow peas, diagonal cut ¼" ¼ cup raisins, optional

dressing ingredients 1 ½ cups mayonnaise, homemade or store-bought 2 tbsp vinegar ½ bunch fresh cilantro (large handful) 1 lime, juiced 1 gherkin pickle, chopped ½ tsp curry powder or paste ½ tsp salt pinch white pepper

proteins 4 steelhead trout fillets (about 120 g each), skin on and scored 8 dry scallops (size U10/20)* salt and pepper 2 tbsp oil, grapeseed or canola

Thinly slice the cabbage (or use a box grater or food processor).

Peel and shred the daikon radish. Trim and thinly slice the red radishes.

Slice the snow peas to ¼ inch on the diagonal, reserving some for garnish. Add raisins if using. Combine all in a large bowl.

To make the dressing, use a blender to combine the mayonnaise, vinegar, cilantro, lime juice, pickle, curry powder, salt and white pepper.

Adjust seasoning as needed.

Combine all the slaw ingredients.

Dress until coated, reserving extra dressing for garnish and later use.

Pat the trout and scallops with a paper towel to dry. Score the outer skin of the trout, being careful not to slice right through. Season the flesh side of the fish with salt and pepper. It is important to have a hot pan. Add the oil and heat to just below smoking point. When hot, begin with the skin side down and sear the fish for about 2 minutes or just until it begins to lift at the edges and you can easily insert a spatula underneath without forcing or tearing. Gently turn the trout and cook for just another minute until the flesh is golden. Remove from pan.

Drain the pan of excess oil and bring back to a medium-high heat. Season the scallops with salt and pepper.

Place them into the hot pan and sear about 2 minutes until golden.

Turn each scallop gently and sear on the other side for approximately 1 – 2 minutes or just until they turn opaque. Remove immediately.

Plate the scallops with the trout and slaw. Garnish with some reserved dressing, snow peas and fresh cilantro for a delicious summertime lunch! ≈

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* The more common “wet” scallops are soaked in preservatives, adding water weight and affecting flavour.

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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but $5 will get you a deliciously fresh meal in the rolling hills of Headwaters.

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Euphoria is great for the vegan or health-conscious crowds. Salads are $5 and include the bean and quinoa, a veritable flavour explosion, and the soba noodle, which comes with lots of veggies, including shred­ded carrots and edamame. Cheap and heal­ thy too!

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Call it elevenses, call it lunch – we’ll eat freshly baked scones anytime, especially served with Devonshire cream and homemade preserves for $4.90. Or if bis­ cuits aren’t your favourite, a cup of their delicious soup will only set you back $3.95.

At Soulyve you can get two delicious Trini doubles, which are curried chickpeas in a bara bread bun with tamarind sauce for $3, and the savoury concoc­ tion will keep you full until dinnertime. Or try the Power Patty for $4. It’s a Jamaican patty elevated to new heights with the addition of cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and Cajun mayo.

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Everybody loves the iconic grilled cheese ($4), and this one is done right, oozing with loads of aged cheddar and a satisfyingly crispy exterior. The Tin Roof Café also makes a great yogurt parfait with homemade seasonal fruit compote and the house special granola, complete with chia and local maple syrup. What a fabulous way to eat healthy for only $4.50.

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There is something so ridiculously satisfying about crunchy, crispy spring rolls. As this is a dish that not many are likely to cook from scratch at home, why not indulge in three delicious spring rolls from Bolton Thai, stuffed with glass noodles, mushrooms, cabbage and carrot. Light and summery.

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Pretty much everything at Landman Gardens & Bakery is drool-worthy, but in keeping with the lunch theme (sadly, cinnamon rolls do not qualify) the homemade sausage rolls at $2.25 a pop are a good bet, and made with Landman’s own farm pork. Two of those make for a satisfying and scrumptious lunch.

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This old-school coffee shop is billed as “the place where friends meet” – and after devouring their homemade cheddar cheese bagel with cream cheese ($2.85), you’ll see why. There’s also the Sante Fe, a bagel topped with scrambled eggs and bacon along with homemade Tex-Mex cheese sauce and season­ ings ($4.95). The laidback retro style is perfectly genuine and it’s a warm and friendly place to stop for a while and imagine life the way it used to be.

Mondays at Symposium are all about the $5 burger or sandwich deal (must be purchased with a bever­ age, but that’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make). At this GTA-area franchise, choose from the 8 oz beef burger (veggie option too), grilled chicken sandwich or grilled fish, and prepare for belly-satisfying good­ ness. A side Caesar or garden salad is also under $5.

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the other eye

Anthony Jenkins stages a retrospective of his caricatures of the famous and infamous – and finds a new fascination in the faces of the hills.

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rom an elder in the Borneo jungle to a stock clerk in an Orangeville grocery store, Anthony Jenkins is fascinated by faces. In fact, studying their essence and capturing it in a few strokes has been his life’s work.

Anthony moved to Mono in 2012, two years before retiring from his position as an editorial illustrator with The Globe and Mail. This summer, a retrospec­ tive of his work will be shown at Dufferin County Museum & Archives, featuring highlights of his caricature work over nearly 40 years at the Globe.

“I always wanted to be a cartoonist,” Anthony says. “A lot of people, when they’re little, say, ‘I want to be an astronaut, or a firefighter,’ but that’s what I wanted to be.”

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Though he received a BA in fine art and English from the University of Waterloo in 1974, his car­ tooning career started in high school when he came across the entries for a drawing contest held by the Scarborough Mirror. Thinking he could do better, he submitted an independent drawing of his own– and they bought it. “Eight bucks I got. I’ve still got the pay stub. So I kept sending them in, kept getting paid eight bucks. Did that for two years.”

However, his career path wasn’t as clear as it seemed. His parents were determined their son should be a dentist. “In those days you had to choose, arts or science,” he says. “They said, ‘Artist, that’s real dodgy.’ So I thought about it, dropped all the arts for science; took math, chemistry, biology, all the stuff

I hated. And my average plummeted. I wouldn’t even have gotten into university. So, it was art.”

Anthony drew for the university’s student paper and following graduation snagged a summer posi­ tion with the Toronto Star as a vacation replacement for longtime Star cartoonist Duncan Macpherson – considered a god in the industry. It was a plum opportunity to show off his chops and when Mac­ pherson returned, fate stepped in. Someone quit at the Globe and Anthony was invited to fill the spot.

Anthony’s work there spanned a variety of editor­ ial illustration, including but not limited to political cartoons. Over the years, his caricature work evol­ ved into a distinctive style he calls “elegant line.”

To begin with, he says, “I used a lot of cross-

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Realtor, Mono Centre “If Keith Richards sold houses…”

John “Doc” Gillies retired developer, raconteur, dynamo, orangeville “When good things get done in Orangeville, Doc’s fingerprints are usually all over them. He has led a fascinating life, knows everybody – and cares.”

Nancy Frater owner, booklore, orangeville “If you read and care about books, you know Nancy. Or will.”

Neighbourhood Faces As a way to get to know his community better, Anthony Jenkins produced these caricatures of familiar local faces, with a brief description of each, exclusively for this magazine. See 14 more of his caricatures of local people at www.inthehills.ca.

Anthony Jenkins in his Mono studio at work on a caricature of Donald Trump.

hatching. But everyone does that, so I was looking for something different. Also time constraints at a daily newspaper are fairly tight, so the faster the better.” He began eliminating detail, reducing his

images to very spare lines, even going so far as to leave out an eye or a nose.

“At first it took educating people,” he says. “‘I know that’s Billy Graham, I know that’s Tony Bennett, or that’s Nixon.’ So you know who it is. Sometimes editors would say, ‘Well, where’s his other eye?’ like they were getting shortchanged. I’d say ‘Do you know who it is? Yeah? Well then, do you need the other eye?’

“Sometimes I’d put the other eye in and it would­ n’t be as good. I remember at one point I did the Shah of Iran with no face at all, just festooned with medals and the hair. It would have been lesser if I’d done the face.” The reverse could also work. One of Anthony’s best known portraits showed only the

eyes, nose, moustache and mouth of Jack Layton, with no other detail. It appeared on the front page of the Globe when Layton died in 2011.

While capturing a recognizable likeness is the key goal, with elegant line style another goal is to infuse the lines themselves with artistry. “So you could almost turn the drawing sideways and think, Yeah, that’s a pretty amazing arrangement of lines,” Anthony says.

A consummate traveller who has visited 84 coun­ tries, Anthony’s appreciation for beautifully formed lines arose in part from an unlikely source – an elder from a tribe of one-time headhunters, deep in the jungle of Borneo. continued on next page

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“I get off the boat and I’m like some visitor from Mars,” he says. To bridge the communication gap, Anthony started drawing people. “At one point I get this old guy, he’s halfway naked, he’s just got sort of a loincloth on, and he’s wizened and covered in tattoos, his face, throat, everywhere. I take it he’s the head guy, so I think, I’ll draw him.” Anthony set to work, investing some time to get it right, while a few dozen people studied his every move.

When he handed over his complet­ ed drawing, the man seemed pleased, yet confused. “He looks at it and smiles, turns it sideways, turns it up­ side down. It took me until the next day to realize he was visually illiterate.

He’d never seen a photograph or a drawing of a person, and the concept that these lines on the page were him was something he just didn’t get. He just liked the way it looked, like his tattoos. That experience made me like pretty lines.”

Anthony’s extensive travels also led to a career as a writer. During a visit to India, he began sending personal notes about his experiences back to his editor. To his surprise his editor published them. “So my writing was accepted on its own,” Anthony says.

“That was a real revelation, because the cartoonists were always seen as second banana. You’re in a room full of 150 writers – really good ones –

and you’re kind of considered to be the idiot savant who draws funny pictures.”

While most of us have had a good chuckle at someone else’s expense thanks to the clever imagination of a talented editorial cartoonist, Anthony says the role is not universally cele­ brated. “Some people think doing caricatures is a mean way to make a living. That you’re making fun of people, making people look stupid.”

Though he disagrees with that view, he acknowledges caricature can be used that way. “If you’re doing a really nasty bastard like Pol Pot or someone, you can go as extreme as you want. Or Donald Trump. Some people have got a face for caricature, and he’s certainly one of them. And his personality is a caricature too, so it doubles up.”

On the whole, though, Anthony sees his work as tribute, not assassination.

“If I’m taking the time to look at someone really carefully to see what makes them unique, what makes them different from the other six billion people on the planet, that’s a compliment. I’m capturing them in a style unique to me, but recognizable to everybody. It’s not to be mean, it’s to make them interesting and differ­ ent. A camera can take ten different pictures of you, but it’s still you. But ten caricaturists will all think, I’m going to do it my way.”

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Retired with time on his hands, but not ready to put away his pens, Anthony continues to do commis­ sioned work and pursue personal projects. His inspiration for the series of local people featured on these pages was simple: “Just an excuse to draw,” and an opportunity to get to know his new community better. He describes it as an evolution. “I was drawing the famous and infamous. Pretty much anyone you can think of, I’ve drawn

them over 40 years. That’s behind me now, but I’ve always loved faces, so I figured, well, I’ll do local faces.”

Anthony’s first subject was Shannon Hewitt, a stock clerk at an Orangeville grocery store. “He has this great Elvis coif and a great face. I thought, Well, he’s a part of my life. I didn’t even know his name at the time, but I see him and other people see him, and I wanted to do people like that, who are in our lives.” ≈

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the Good Old Soccer Game leaving hockey behind, sports lovers in the hills and beyond are heading to the soccer pitch in record numbers

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Caledon’s Ashley Lawrence will be competing on the Canadian women’s soccer team in Rio this summer.

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ith the Raptors’ playoff efforts making team history this year, the Blue Jays’ stellar season last year, and the Maple Leafs being, well, the Maple Leafs, sports talk has focused on hockey’s waning popu­ larity. It’s too expensive. It doesn’t resonate with new Canadians. Con­ cussions are rife…

Hovering just outside the spotlight in Canada – and in Headwaters – is soccer. According to the Department of Canadian Heritage, 42 per cent of five- to 14-year-olds who participate in sports play soccer, while only 22 per cent lace up hockey skates; 16 per cent shoot hoops, and even fewer don a baseball glove. We may not know it yet, but Canada is a soccer nation. It’s a fact that will become more evident as millennials tune into Manchester United rather than the Vancouver Canucks.

Consider this: FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, reported in its most recent Big Count that about 8.5 per cent of Italians, for example, played soccer. Canada was not far behind.

Nearly 2.7 million Canadians – about 8.2 per cent of the country’s popula­ tion at the time – got out onto the pitch. And these numbers are grow­ ing. Worldwide, the number of soccer players increased by 10 per cent be­ tween 2000 and 2006, and women accounted for much of that growth.

Though the number of male players rose by 8 per cent, their female coun­ terparts increased their number by 19 per cent.

These goalkeepers, defenders, mid­ fielders and forwards are among the 3.5 billion people – yes, nearly half the population of the planet – who claim to be soccer fans, according to various websites dedicated to tracking such statistics. One in five Germans may play soccer, but it was Canada

that set an astounding record in 2015 when it hosted the FIFA Women’s World Cup and 1.35 million specta­ tors filled the seats for the matches.

That event set a new attendance re­ cord for a FIFA competition other than the men’s World Cup. Yet the Canadian women made it only as far as the quarter-finals, and no matches were played in Toronto, arguably the country’s hottest soccer market.

Given the number of pitches pop­ ping up, the fact that minimal equip­ ment – cleats or running shoes, shin guards and a ball – is needed to play, the country’s changing demograph­ ics, and the growing popularity and success of the national women’s team, Canada’s soccer future looks as gold­ en as a referee’s jersey.

Caledon East’s Lange family pre­ sents a soccer portrait. As kids, the three Lange girls had a choice of play­ ing T-ball or soccer. When all three chose soccer, father Eric became the local league’s treasurer and a coach, and at 40, mother Mary began play­ ing in the women’s pickup league. “At one point,” says Mary, “all five of us played.”

Now in their 20s, both Melissa Lange and her sister Veronica play in the same women’s league that Mary retired from after eight seasons. Moreover, the sisters are co-captains. “It’s come full circle,” says Melissa. “It’s fulfilling a dream.”

The adult soccer league in Caledon is friendly. For the four women’s teams, there is zero tolerance for rough play, though the eight men’s teams are a little more lenient in that regard. In addition, players sign up as individuals and are placed on a team, so all teams are equal. “It about a sense of com­ munity,” says Melissa. “There’s no Palgrave versus Caledon East.”

The physical fitness aspect of the game is the most important, says

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GET FITTED & GET FIT Members of the Orangeville Athletic Sports and Social Club women’s league play weekly at Rotary Park throughout the summer.

Gisele White, who co-ordinates com­ munications for the Caledon Soccer Club. “Most players pick up soccer skills pretty quickly,” she adds.

“Recreational soccer is catching on over competitive soccer, ” says Keith Robbins, co-ordinator of the Orange­ ville Athletics Sports and Social Club leagues. Eight teams play in the women’s league, usually on Thursday evenings, at Rotary Park. And on Fri­ day evenings, four squads of adult men take their turn.

In Caledon’s south end, players who want to play competitively have a chance to progress through the Brampton North Soccer Club’s tiered system. The club plays in Caledon at the Brampton Fairgrounds. With the largest indoor pitch around, they attract the best adult players. Club president Diane Sasek insists men’s teams in the top division “would beat the Toronto FCs on any given day.”

This indoor, winter-only league at­ tracts 50 teams – 18 women’s and 32 men’s – of 18 players each. Sasek ex­ plains they no longer offer adult soc­ cer in the summer because they are overwhelmed by the 2,000 kids who take part on the outdoor pitches at Mayfield Secondary School.

Twenty-one-year-old Ashley Law­ rence, a soccer star when she attended Mayfield, still visits her mom in the Village of Southfields in south Cale­ don. She played on the national wom­ en’s team alongside her hero, team captain Christine Sinclair, at that record-breaking World Cup last year, making her practically a veteran on the squad going to Rio this summer.

The attacking midfielder can’t wait to compete there in her first Olympics, but she wasn’t always so excited about international play. “I remember cry­ ing,” says Ashley, as she recalls climb­ ing aboard a plane as the youngest member of Canada’s under-17 squad.

“I was so scared to go to Trinidad and Tobago, but my parents encouraged me.”

Ashley is the future of soccer in the land of hockey, and not just because she is a team player, has explosive speed and great ball-handling skills.

While her father is from Jamaica, her mother is a ninth generation Canadi­ an. “That makes me the tenth gener­ ation and I kind of like that,” she says.

Ashley knew soccer was it for her when she was 10. “I loved the feeling of being on the field,” she says.

She made the national under-17 team when she was 14 and the national team at 17, and although she’s taken a break from school to focus on the Olympics, she is set to graduate from West Virginia University in 2017 with a degree in sport and exercise psych­ ology.

For this year, however, soccer is Ashley’s full-time job. She says the team practises soccer skills on the field for about two hours a day, spends three or four hours in the gym, has team meetings and puts in time on mental fitness as well. Leading up to games and training sessions, she uses a computer program that helps her stay focused and calm. “It really helps me maintain energy and stay involved in the game during the slow parts,” she says.

On Livestrong.com, journalist Rogue Parrish writes, “Soccer allows a fair amount of legal contact, although it still falls short of being a collision sport like hockey.” Nonetheless, un­ like local adult soccer, the interna­ tional game Ashley Lawrence plays is a rough one. “You don’t have to be big,” says the five-foot-six-incher with rock-solid quadriceps, “but you have to be strong.” ≈ Nicola Ross is a freelance writer who lives in Belfountain.

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H E A D W A T E R S

Farewell to “Uncle Buck” “Peas, if you carrot all, lettuce be friends!”

Are you up for a wander among some veggies, smoky meats, fresh bread and bakery treats?

Live music and pets on parade? Then you must visit one of our area farmers’ markets this summer. I was surprised to see the listings this year (on page 108) – so many to explore! Kids are always intrigued and fresh air markets offer great learning – and snacking – opportunities.

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sharp rap at the front door on an otherwise quiet night, just before 10 p.m., made the dog woof from her spot on the chair.

There was my family friend from down the road, Stan, in his pyjamas, breathing heavily and pale as a ghost, leaning for­

ward, hands on the doorframe to hold himself up. He could barely get

any words out, and I thought he was having a heart attack on my doorstep – I knew he had very recently had major heart surgery. The cold wet air from outside washed over me.

Happy Birthday, Canada!

The hills are bursting with all sorts of family activities for Canada Day on July 1. At Mill Street Park in Creemore the festivities start just after lunch and include a kids’ bike parade and fireworks at dusk. At Albion Hills Conservation Area things get underway at 4 p.m. – don’t miss the lumberjack show!

– and also conclude with fireworks at dusk.

My family’s favourite fireworks happen in Orangeville over Island Lake. Arrive early on foot or park in one of the store lots off Highway 10. Bring chairs and blankets, sit with friends and gaze up at a fabulous spectacle.

There’s lots of daytime activities in the town too. Check www.orangeville.ca for details.

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“Come in, come in. What’s wrong, Stan? Do you need an ambulance? Where’s Annie?” The questions tumbled from my mouth as I tried to triage the situation. I pushed the dog back and she wagged hesitantly and woofed again under her breath. My son Adrian’s eyes looked like saucers.

“Do we need to talk privately?” I asked Stan. Yes, he nodded. “Off to bed, Adrian,” I motioned.

We went to the kitchen of my tiny century bungalow nestled in the twinkly lights of Orange­ ville, shut the door and somehow he got out that my dad was going to be calling from Florida, that he had bad news and wanted someone to be with me when he called. We were gripping each other’s arms and I pleaded, “Just tell me, just tell me.”

That’s when he told me my brother was dead.

When the phone rang, I managed to pick up. At first there was silence on the other end, but now I already knew. My parents had been contacted by

the Harriston OPP, who had found my brother alone in his country house, on his couch, after he had missed work for several days. A friend had called the police to ask if someone could go check on him. Even though his friend didn’t know my brother’s address, she knew he rented it from Mennonites, enough information that in his small rural community the officer was able to find the house.

I talked to the same officer that night – he was very kind. And I spoke with a coroner who would be brought in to help determine the cause of my brother’s death.

My brother’s name was Jeffrey James Lee – the James Lee for my dad, and for his dad before him, and the name Adrian now carries as well. Jeff died just a few days short of his 48th birthday.

Everything was a blur. Telling my friends and colleagues, calling family and Jeff’s friends, meet­

ing my parents in a quiet room at the airport when they arrived two days later.

Meeting with a pastor. Answering what felt like a million emails, calls and texts.

People bringing food to make sure we ate.

I didn’t tell Adrian that first morning.

I needed to get my own words in order before I did, and I wanted to be able to spend time with him afterward. Jeff was his closest uncle. He was the wacky uncle who would talk about just about anything with Adrian, including world politics, fishing, technology, movies, camping, construction, the upcoming U.S. election ... well, you get the idea.

My brother had some pretty passionate ideas about life, and that only made him more interesting to his nephew. In fact, my brother was much like the persona we imagined the late John Candy to be – full of outward humour, terrifically smart and witty, slightly off kilter, own­ ing his pathos and determinedly doing things his own way. All my life, I have never watched SCTV, The Great Outdoors, or especially Uncle Buck, without think­ ing of my brother. In fact, pretty much everybody referred to Jeff as Uncle Buck.

When I told Adrian later that first full day, he screamed out in pain. He turned into the couch and beat the back and arms with his forearms. I was afraid he would hurt himself. I asked him to stop.

At 11 years old he knew instantly this wasn’t a disappearing trick; he knew Jeff was gone and not coming back. For the rest of the day he was inconsolable and untouchable. My touch would burn him and bring him back to reality. I imagined that the blanket he rolled up into was a cloak he dreamed would make him invi­ sible. I wished I could roll up with him and we would be transported to a time just one day before when the words hadn’t yet been spoken. Just one more day of not knowing.

Since my brother’s death I have spent much time walking and finding solace in the hills. I walk the Island Lake trail as often as possible. We’re fundraising to build a memorial bench there in my brother’s memory. We had a true cele­ bration of his life in the ballroom at the Best Western where we all laughed and cried together in one ocean of emotion, ebbing and flowing together, our stories parallel and washing over us. Adrian lis­ tened intently to every word, and I knew his healing was beginning as the room breathed in and out in sorrow and cele­ bration together with him.

My brother’s ashes will be buried this summer in a tiny, pastoral cemetery on the 7th Line of Mono. If you drive by it, you will see two Lee pillars supporting the gate. My family is a part of this com­ munity and it helps us heal. ≈ Bethany Lee is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.

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Meghan Trainor! Votes are in, and last we looked Mulmur seemed headed to win the Air Miles Detour Contest. Votes were cast across Canada for one lucky community to win a once-in-a-lifetime live music performance by Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Meghan Trainor (“All About That Bass”). In the ’60s and ’70s, Mulmur welcomed tens of thousands each year for the Freak Out Festival, Canada’s answer to Woodstock. Fingers crossed we can now share this history with our kids and see this popular artist in the hills! Date and winner to be announced soon.

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Meet one of our community elders in this first of what will be a regular companion piece to Over The (Next) Hill. If you know an elder who should be profiled, send your suggestions to gailgrant@rogers.com S N A P S H O T

Susan McNeill

Never a dull Moment

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Susan McNeill became the first woman to complete Ryerson’s men’s tailoring course.

Susan McNeill doesn’t understand boredom. From the moment she opens her eyes in the morning until she turns out the light in the evening, she’s on the go. She believes in making the most of each day.

Her passion is sewing. She has been at it since she was eight years old, making stuffed toys on a treadle machine with her mother’s leftover fabric. She says that was the beginning of her lifelong passion for creative sewing.

In 1954, Susan became the first woman to complete a five-year men’s tailoring course at Toronto’s Ryerson Institute of Technology, now Ryerson University. Her passion led her to the couturier houses on Bloor Street, where she built a loyal following creating exquisite men’s and women’s suits, vests, blouses, coats, skirts and dresses.

After her marriage and the birth of her three daughters, Susan brought her sewing machine, and her business, home.

She sees every piece of fabric as a creative challenge and has made lampshades, purses, wall art, quilts, an oriental robe and even a room divider.

“I can’t stop sewing,” she says with a laugh. A widow for six years, Susan is happiest creating in her sewing room, with the sounds of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and other big bands playing in the background. She takes particular joy in Chanel designs and is in the process of creating a designer outfit for each of her daughters.

“Give me a piece of fabric and I’ll show you what I can do,” she says with a twinkle.

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an a building have a split personality?

If so, the Bolton seniors’ centre might require therapy. A proliferation of signs, mostly Rotary related, at the entrance declare I am about to enter “Rotary Place,” “Caledon Seniors Recreation Centre” and “Rotary Place Seniors Centre.” Mild perplexity about the official name aside, the building has a comfortable and settled look that somehow reminds me of a faintly dowdy but well-loved favourite auntie.

Walking through the entrance doors, I spot what I initially think is a euchre group settling in for an afternoon of cards. Did I say euchre? Not at all. It is in fact a poker game, with each of the four players wearing the intense and focused look of a high roller.

The dream of building the centre began in the early 1990s when an anonymous donor gave the Bolton Rotary Club $100,000 earmarked for sen­ iors. For the club, the donation was something of a mixed blessing. “With just 44 members, the mag­ nitude of financing and building a seniors’ centre was somewhat daunting,” says Don Ogden, who was president of the club at the time.

“But with the help of an extremely supportive community, plus untold hours of volunteer time logged in the planning and execution of golf tour­ naments, dream auctions and galas over a four-year period, our club managed to raise approximately $250,000,” he says. “With in-kind donations, fin­ ancial support from other service clubs in the area, plus help from the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors program, the club finally reached its $500,000 fundraising goal.”

Despite the hairpin turns and dead ends that projects of this magnitude inevitably experience, the building officially opened in 1995.

Today, more than 725 seniors between the ages of 55 and 98 pay an annual membership fee of $15 to use the building regularly. Last year, 26,300 visits were logged.

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social at the centre Activities as varied as table tennis, line dancing, art classes, bridge lessons and games, darts, shuffleboard, and exercise and computer classes are available. The centre is also the meet­ ing place for an outdoor Nordic walk­ ing group and men’s and women’s golf in season.

And then there are the excursions.

Over the past few years, a group from the centre travelled to Ireland; others enjoyed the fall colours in Halibur­ ton; and still others took in Oktober­ fest in Kitchener-Waterloo, as well as theatre events in both St. Jacobs and Toronto. There is a book club and an Italian club, as well as woodcarving, sewing and craft groups. For $5 you can enjoy a soup-and-sandwich lunch three days a week.

Marg Patterson is a sprightly 78 and one of the poker players on the day of my visit. The mother of nine, grand­ mother of 21 and great-grandmother of 18 is at the centre at least four days a week. She’s usually there by 7:30 in the morning to get everything ready for the centre’s 8:30 opening, and she is rarely home before 4 p.m.

As is the case for many people who use the centre, Marg’s involvement is a mix of volunteer duties and parti­ cipation in scheduled activities.

For her a typical day starts with setting up the coffee station and prepping the lunch soup. Tuesdays are devoted to baking or making preser­ ves. She ensures the lottery tickets for the group who buy them are in hand, serves coffee and cookies to the table tennis group, and organizes local

“Brenda is a hard working business owner whose creative ideas, tireless work ethic and positive attitude keep her at the forefront of the senior move management industry. Congratulations Brenda!”

catering jobs, an additional revenue source for the centre. Depending on the day of the week, Marg will also fit in some bridge, euchre or poker, and often takes part in carpet bowling.

The centre’s mandate is to provide the opportunity for older adults to come together to fulfil their social, educational, cultural and recreational needs. But according to Marg, she is there to meet new people, enjoy her friends and have fun. “I love my involvement at the centre,” she says.

“It defines my week. It is my sanity.”

Longtime Bolton resident Henry Maag, 80, echoes Marg’s sentiments.

He has volunteered in the centre’s kitchen from the beginning. “Any day I can help out at the seniors’ centre is a good day for me,” says Henry, who has worked as a chef and restaurateur his entire career. He has watched the facility evolve from an “occasionaluse” facility in the 1990s to a bustling building bursting with activities that appeal to seniors.

Paraphrasing Napoleon’s words, Henry says with a chuckle, “A seniors’ centre runs on its stomach.” Henry has found his place orchestrating the centre’s busy kitchen.

With the ballooning cohort of active seniors now living in the area, it seems certain that the centre, by whatever name, will continue to be a lively place where old friends meet and new friends are made. ≈ Gail Grant is a happily retired senior who lives in Palgrave.

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his is a story about a stone house in Mono that has al­ ways attracted people with a slightly different way of thinking and somewhat unconven­ tional lives. Current owners Frank and Barbara fit the mold.

The story begins with the Brinkman family in 1889. We don’t know a lot about them, but we know a little about their son Josh. He was among many Canadians who took in one of more than 100,000 mostly poor and occa­ sionally orphaned children sent to this country from the U.K. between

the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.

Known as Home Children, they were sent here on the premise they would receive an education and a healthier life. The child Josh took in, George Collins, came from one of the Barnar­ do Homes, founded by Irishman Dr. Thomas Barnardo, the most famous proponent of the child emigration movement.

The majority of Home Children were settled with farm families to provide domestic help and farm la­ bour, and many of their stories were unhappy ones. However, although

Josh undoubtedly needed help on the farm, he seems to have raised and educated George with real affection and in time became the beloved grandfather to George’s family. They all lived together in the Mono farm­ house until Josh passed away.

While researching the history of the house, Barb learned that two of George Collins’ children still live in the area. Barb talked to his daughter, now in her late 80s, who remembered from childhood how Aboriginal peo­ ple camped nearby and her mother became friendly with them. When

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She remembers there was no running water or electricity when she grew up, and she had to dress beside the wood­ stove in the winter. Toilet facilities were in a chilly two-hole outhouse.

Through a few more owners, the house remained primitive. It was never insulated or modernized. Bathrooms were not added. The kitchen remained without water and the only appliance was the original woodstove. It is thought a later owner – a professor of Medieval studies – kept conditions

rustic to give his children a taste of life in the Middle Ages.

The current owners were looking for a country place that would be handy to both their home in the city and to Frank’s family in Collingwood. A friend stumbled onto the house when riding and told Barb about it. That was in 1991 – by then the house had been abandoned for at least 25 years.

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Mackenzie. The authors described it as an example of simplified farm Italianate.

The house was built of local field­ stone with a mortar of cement, moss and horsehair. It is probable the mor­ tar prevented the house from falling down because by the time it was “dis­ covered,” the roof leaked, the floors were a mess, windows were broken, raccoons had moved in along with mice, snakes and squirrels, and scrub trees had grown up against the walls.

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one of Barb and Frank’s early visits, they found fresh ashes in the fireplace and mattresses scattered on the floor.

Unwelcoming language was sprayed on the walls.

It looked like a “sinkhole for money,” recalls Frank. Nevertheless, a city girl and a small town boy compromised and, with the assurance of their con­ tractor Don Doucette of Tottenham that the structure was basically sound, they bought it. The fact that Frank had given Barb a horse for her 50th birthday, and it needed a home, sealed the deal.

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The property itself is spectacular.

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A basement was dug by hand – dirt removed on a conveyor belt through a window. In went a furnace, hot water tank, plumbing, electricity and in-floor radiant heating. Up went a new roof. The former two-hole privy had previously migrated to a large work­shop addition the professor had

built onto the back of the house. The workshop was constructed with such craftsmanship, using no nails, that it was able to be lifted whole by a crane and moved to a new cement pad to serve as a farm implement shed and tack room.

The four upstairs bedrooms became two, each with its own bathroom.

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above : The east elevation of the house shows how well the old and new rooflines blend.

The addition cuts into a corner of the large walled garden (lower left) which came with the property and where the owners have installed formal, European-style plantings. right : The fireplace is the focal point for gatherings in the new addition.

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porch were added where the workshop had been.

The addition connected the house into a corner of one of the home’s most alluring outdoor features – an expan­ sive 45- by 55-foot walled garden the professor had built, apparently in­ spired by enclosed Medieval gardens.

Barb and Frank installed a charming European-style garden within its walls. Paddocks and a loafing shed were built for Barb’s quarter horse Flash – who is now 30 years old.

Barb, who doesn’t mind being called

a “scavenger with a good eye,” saved everything she could from the old house. A bed, a cupboard, a table and other odds and ends were cleaned and painted. The woodstove remains in place.

Bits from their roving lives have found homes here: fishing gear, an antique Italian riding crop, a rug from Egypt, handmade dolls from a women’s prison near Guadalajara, Mexico that Barb visited, paintings, cowhides, furniture from Frank’s mother’s attic, Barb’s framed photo­ graphs, boots, vintage clothing, coun­

try coats, books galore, wall paintings and furniture painted in a trompe l’æil style by Barb’s friend Karen. All contribute to a delightfully Blooms­ bury feel about the house.

Barb says she loves the “Zen” of be­ ing in the house: “The horse, dog and cat all together in the beautiful silence.”

As for Frank, he loves the rolling land and seclusion: “We’re in the middle of nowhere. Clearing trails for Flash and just nature-loving keep me busy.” ≈ Pam Purves is a freelance writer and photographer who lives in Caledon.

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69 ACRE VACANT LOT 2 gorgeous ponds, open clear and wooded areas. $479,000 Also for sale is the adjacent 55 acre vacant land with great building site, includes a 40’x50’ coverall structure, potential for a pond. $399,000

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HOCKLEY VALLEY RETREAT Set back in the hills, tree-lined driveway, paddocks, forest and trails surround the French inspired chateau, barn turned retreat centre and log cabin perfect for guests or family. Outstanding views and endless options, horse farm, wellness retreat, artist studio, private getaway or family estate. $1,550,000

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Very private and beautifully landscaped. $639,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

CHANGING VIEWS FOREVER Original schoolhouse renovated into beautiful, creative urban style loft with 30’ ceilings and wide open for open concept living with panoramic views. 9.2 acres, Mulmur Hills. $889,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

COMPLETE COUNTRY PACKAGE Private, rolling 9+ acres. 6-stall barn, paddocks. 3+2 bdrm bungalow with walkout. Separate granny flat and pool.

Backing onto agreement forest for hiking and riding. South Erin. $949,800 Call Martha Summers

CHARMING NEAR MONO CLIFFS PARK 27 acres, sun filled country home, views.

2 bedroom + loft, main floor family room, cathedral ceilings, walkout from master to deck. Great weekend retreat, trails and nature. $675,000 Call Martha Summers

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Close to GO. Erin. $1,899,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

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FINE QUALITY ESTATE This custom beauty is situated on a picturesque, manicured lot complete with concrete driveway and two entrances. Soaring ceilings, granite, crown mouldings, waffle beamed ceilings and gourmet kitchen. Finished lower level with 2nd kitchen. Saltwater pool, patterned concrete, 3+2 garages, 2 acres and so much more. Erin. $1,895,000

CALEDON ESTATE ON 10+ ACRES Sprawling, stately residence. This fine home sits on the hill with little property to maintain as it is forested, offering privacy and an estate-like feeling. Soaring ceilings, heated marble and travertine floors, waffle beamed ceilings, granite. Finished walkout lower level, 2nd kitchen. 2-road frontages, pond area and forest. 5-car garage. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website! $2,595,000

MAJESTIC MONO ‘SHOW PLACE’ Stunning bungaloft on 10+ acres with backyard oasis. Great rm with impressive fp, gourmet kitchen, hrdwd floors, granite counters. Finished walkout lower level. In-law/nanny suite loft area. 3-season ‘Muskoka’ room overlooking pool, hot tub, pond with waterfall, large fire pit, cabana and elaborate landscaping. Home generator, 4-car garage. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website! $1,800,000

GEORGIAN BAY WATERFRONT Family owned since 1940! Beachfront property with 2 cottages! Rental income potential for both buildings plus boathouse/bunkie. Outstanding westerly views over Georgian Bay! Prime waterfront at Woodland Beach. Includes: all appliances, window coverings and furniture! Sunshine, lake breezes, awesome sunsets and a lifetime of memories. Tiny Township. $879,900

UNIQUE COUNTRY PROPERTY Allowed for 2 dwellings, large chalet-style home, 2 self-contained apartments with excellent income. 2 additional buildings. There is opportunity to build your dream home with complete privacy, conditions may apply. Gorgeous ‘Swan Lake’ at the rear with island and bridge, stocked with sport fish. Operated as a farm for crop or grazing plus sugar maple bush. Caledon. $1,499,000

BEAUTIFUL HOCKLEY VALLEY Log-like home, 3.13 acres with a large part of the Nottawasaga River running through plus cold water stream. Main floor master. Det 25x30 garage/shop plus additional bldg 16x20 with potential as a bunkie. Mono. $794,900

A HORSE LOVER’S DREAM 23+ acres with large, 80x160 arena plus 68x32 barn with 6 stalls and ability for more. Pond and back field for hay. Older home, could use upgrading. Has potential for extended family or farm help uses. Erin. $899,000

RARE OFFERING Almost 100-acre parcel among ongoing dev.

Residential dev to the west in same block and light industrial to the south. Existing home and bank barn. Large road frontage, great views.

Mono/Orangeville. $9,995,000

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Never before offered 54-acre parcel may have future possibilities. Large Hwy 9 frontage across from comm properties and car lots. Old house in need of significant updating + detached metal building. Caledon. $2,495,000

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CUSTOM HOME TO BE BUILT Build your dream home on this 1-acre lot.

Surrounded by forest with ability for a walkout basement. Current plans can be altered to your needs or bring your own plans. Price will reflect new format. Caledon. $1,195,000

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Large, almost 50-acre parcel in prime area adjoining golf course. 2 road frontages.

2 bungalow homes that may have possibilities in the future, buyer to make application with the town. Mono/Orangeville. $5,500,000

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STUNNING GEORGIAN EXEC HOME Palgrave home, 2.42 acs o/l 2 ponds. 3000+ sq ft, updated. Kit w/ granite counters, marble backsplash, s/s appliances. Fin bsmt w/ 5th bdrm/office. Hrdwd, family rm w/ fp. $989,000

LOVELY GEORGIAN HOME ON A HILL 4 bdrm, 3 bath brick home w/ main flr living rm, sep dining rm, family rm w/ custom panelling & gas fireplace. Family size kitchen is open to a solarium addition. $974,000

RENOVATED ADJALA HOME Country home on 2.09 acres. Built-in garage converted to a sunken living rm and addition of a large 3-car garage & mud rm with 3-pc bath. 3 large bdrms on upper level and option for a 4th bdrm in rec room area. $739,000

FAMILY FRIENDLY CUL-DE-SAC North Hill home on a lrg lot, close to schools.

Finished lower level with w/o to patio & rear yard. Main flr family room has hrdwd floors, gas fp & w/o to deck. Updated windows, doors, roof, furnace & CAC. $669,000

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SEVERN BRIDGE 151’x295’ private lot. Easy access to Hwy 11. Main floor guest bdrm, lrg main rms with 3 additional bedrooms upstairs. Master with walkout to deck, spa style ensuite. Triple car garage is a hobbyist enthusiast. $434,800

MONO ADJALA TOWNLINE 4.2 acres, large ranch bungalow in a private setting. 2 streams, stocked pond, breathtaking views. Horse stalls, chicken coup, double car garage. Large entertaining rooms yet formal & cozy in design. $699,800

COUNTRY LIFE & TROUT FARM What could be better than country living and running a trout farm too! Nestled among trees on 40+ acres, the 3 bedroom raised bungalow allows you to live where you work & play! Up to 70,000 lbs trout/yr. $1,500,000

HUGH HEFNER NORTH What a unique property! With over 8000 sq ft of living space, this is the place to party! Sumptuous kitchen, huge indoor pool in separate enclosure with hot tub and sauna for year-round enjoyment. $1,199,000

DOWNTOWN BRAMPTON This executive home needs to be seen to be appreciated. High ceilings, large rooms for entertaining and separate sleeping area. The backyard oasis will have you believing you took a plane ride to enjoy it! $1,200,000

BUILD TO SUIT 62.5’x170’ lot in the heart of Brampton amongst executive homes. Build your dream home or build on spec. Rare offering – fun location. $499,800

FANTASTIC 25 AC HOBBY FARM 3 bdrm w/ 2 bdrm in-law suite, 6-stall barn w/ water, hydro, hay loft. Paddocks w/ run-ins & heated water, sand ring. 80'x40' workshop w/ 2 offices & 2-bdrm apartment, tons of parking. Fields, mature trees, trails. $875,000

SPECTACULAR 47.44 ACRE LOT Set well back, build your dream home in privacy surrounded by mature trees and breathtaking views. For nature enthusiasts, Elora-Cataract Trail is great for walking, running, hiking, cycling. $649,000

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2 HOMES – 185 ACRE FARM Rare opportunity to enjoy 2 newer luxury homes, heated workshop, summer kitchen, detached garage, completely restored bank barn, superb farm outbuildings with 120+ arable acres + pasture. $3,399,000

27 ACRE EQUESTRIAN FACILITY South Erin ‘A’ Circuit show facility. 177’x79’ arena attached to fully equipped 23-stall barn. 10 oak board paddocks, 3 stall quarantine barn/workshop. 2 unit staff home.

Zoning permits 2nd home. $1,375,000

STUNNING COUNTRY HOME ON 13.5 PRIVATE ACRES Superior built construction with above ground 2 bdrm in-law suite. Great rm, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, granite counters and custom milled cabinetry in kitchen. Saltwater pool.

MULMUR $1,150,000

PERFECT WEEKEND RETREAT Chalet style on private 29 acre wooded lot.

Large deck overlooking south/east views.

Great room with newly laid hardwood floor and 14’ ceiling. Floor-to-ceiling wood burning fireplace. Perfect country retreat.

MULMUR $689,000

EXQUISITE & EXTRAORDINARY Contemporary and classic with birch hardwood floors and fine finishes throughout.

Walkout lower level with 9’ ceiling, propane fireplace, 4th bedroom and luxury bath. 50 acre nature lover’s paradise. $2,150,000

SERENITY IN SOUTH ERIN Private and scenic setting with western vistas on 8.5 acres suitable for a couple of horses. Stunning newer open concept 1.5 storey with custom kitchen, magnificent great room and fine finishes. $1,250,000

INVITING COUNTRY HOME 17 acres back from the road, this approx 1700 sq ft home started with a log cabin (1868) and more recently added great room with views on 3 sides. Barn/workshop and shed perfect for horses /hobbyist.

MULMUR $610,000

ROOM FOR EVERYONE Fabulous 5 bedroom, 4 bath family home just 3 years old in Shelburne. Over 3000 sq ft of finished space with open concept kitchen/dining/living area with gas fireplace.

1 hour to airport.

SHELBURNE $519,000

QUALITY RURAL LIVING – ERIN Superb kitchen with handmade cabinetry and top-of-the-line appliances for the family chef. Elegant living spaces finished top to bottom, geothermal heat, detached workshop on one landscaped acre. $949,000

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! Nearly new 2880 sq ft shop with offices, bathroom, mezzanine, in-floor heating, 2 14’x16’ roll up doors. 100-acre farm (40+ arable), bank barn and beautiful bungalow restored foundation to roof. $949,000

EXCELLENT LOCATION ON AIRPORT ROAD At the 4 corners of Mansfield is this 2200 sq ft commercial bldg with the adjacent lot that would be perfect for a drive-through restaurant among many other uses.

MULMUR $989,000

45 ACRE BUILDING LOT Gently rolling parcel perfect for a hobby/horse farm with a corner of bush lot.

Building site approved – 180 degree views of beautiful.

MULMUR $339,000

BACKYARD VACATION – MONO Pristine 3-bedroom bungalow with newer detached 3-car garage/workshop. 24 acre nature lover’s paradise with rolling walking trails, crystal clear swimming pond, cozy insulated waterfront cabin. $925,000

AT HOME ON THE SHORE 4 bedroom circa 1860 stone home tastefully restored. Spacious living spaces, wide plank pine floors, chef’s kitchen with heated limestone floor. Stone 2-car garage. Relax riverside this summer! $899,900

7.7 ACRE LOT ON BOYNE RIVER With the huge swath of the Boyne River on 2 sides of the property, this building lot is ready for development. Mixed natural bush with cleared area for the house. Building site approved/driveway.

MULMUR $289,000

GREAT BUILDING LOT - 8 ACRES Ready and waiting for your house design – off a paved road into the approved building site through the winding treed driveway.

Private, mixed bush and hiking trails.

MULMUR $229,000

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arts + culture + theatre Alton Mill Arts Centre ⁄ 110 Dragonfly Arts on Broadway ⁄ 22 Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives ⁄ 107 Rose Theatre ⁄ 16 Theatre Orangeville ⁄ 107

art supplies Craft Happy ⁄ 22

auto Caledon Motors ⁄ 28 Go Tire ⁄ 80 Orangeville Volkswagen ⁄ 15 WROTH Auto ⁄ 80

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Dolce Rustic Italian Eatery ⁄ 72 Forage ⁄ 72 Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 19,70 Land & Fire Local Kitchen ⁄ 72 Landman Garden & Bakery ⁄ 72 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 70 Mono Cliffs Inn ⁄ 70 Mrs. Mitchell’s Restaurant ⁄ 20,72 Orange Bistro ⁄ 70 Pia’s on Broadway ⁄ 72 Ray’s 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery ⁄ 70 Rustik Local Bistro ⁄ 72 Terra Nova Public House ⁄ 72 The Black Wolf Smokehouse ⁄ 70 The Consulate ⁄ 70

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financial services Centurion Asset Management ⁄ 40

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Artizan ⁄ 114 Devonshire Guest House & Spa ⁄ 47 Henning Salon ⁄ 62 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 115 Skin ’n Tonic ⁄ 23

Caledon Country Club ⁄ 115 Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 19 McLean Sherwood Event Rental ⁄ 114 Mendonça Catering Equipment Rental ⁄ 114 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 115 Shelburne Golf & Country Club ⁄ 113

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Headwaters Arts Festival ⁄ 109 Heritage Music Festival ⁄ 111 RCMP Musical Ride ⁄ 46

Bolton Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75,108 Creemore Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 Fromage ⁄ 22 Garden Foods ⁄ 51 Heatherlea Farm Shoppe ⁄ 112 Holtom’s Bakery ⁄ 47 Inglewood Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 Lavender Blue Catering ⁄ 112 Mount Wolf Forest Farm ⁄ 115 New Lowell Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 Orangeville Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 Pommies Cider ⁄ 57 Rock Garden Farms ⁄ 29 Route 145 ⁄ 23 Shelburne Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 Stayner Farmers’ Market ⁄ 75 The Chocolate Shop ⁄ 23 The Friendly Chef Adventures ⁄ 46

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Furnace & AC Experts ⁄ 11 Tanco Group ⁄ 90

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Caledon Country Club ⁄ 115 Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 19 Mad River Golf Club ⁄ 37 Shelburne Golf & Country Club ⁄ 113

Dr. Richard Pragnell ⁄ 68 Family Footcare ⁄ 83

GB Stone ⁄ 32 GBC Design + Build ⁄ 91 Hackstone Landscapes ⁄ 37 Hill’N Dale Landscaping ⁄ 27 Maplecrest Landscaping & Property Maintenance ⁄ 91 Outdoor Elements Landscaping ⁄ 83 Plant Paradise Country Gardens ⁄ 30 The Local Gardener ⁄ 68

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Downsizing Diva ⁄ 87

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builders + architects + developers Classic Renovations ⁄ 13 Dalerose Country ⁄ 81 Dutch Masters Design & Construction ⁄ 69 Harry Morison Lay, Architect ⁄ 34 Pine Meadows ⁄ 39 Village Builders ⁄ 89

charitable organizations Brampton & Caledon Community Fdn. ⁄ 50

fashion + jewellery dance Academy of Performing Arts ⁄ 23

dental Ridgeline Denture Clinic ⁄ 85

dining Barley Vine Rail Co. ⁄ 70 Belfountain Inn ⁄ 70 Bistro Riviere ⁄ 47

A.M. Korsten Jewellers ⁄ 23 Chez Nous Thrift Boutique ⁄ 22 Chic à Boom Consignment ⁄ 85 Creek Side Clothing ⁄ 62 Gallery Gemma ⁄ 110 Hannah’s ⁄ 46 Just Be Customized ⁄ 22 Manhattan Bead Company ⁄ 23 Off Broadway Clothing Boutique ⁄ 22 Scented Drawer Fine Lingerie ⁄ 23 Seconds Count Hospital Thrift Store ⁄ 23 Shoe Kat Shoo ⁄ 65

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Adam & Company Interior Design ⁄ 93

pet portraits home décor + furnishings

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MONO HILLS – DIVIDED OPPORTUNITY Two separate properties. Charming country style 4 bedroom, 3-level residence. Pool, tennis court. Privacy, hilltop views, approximately 10 private acres. Adjacent to second separate 41-acre lot to the south. Sell or build second residence. The option is yours! $1,150,000

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WELCOME TO THE "RIVER HOUSE" Set on 44 acres of forest, you will discover this enchanting stone home with over 2000’ of the Mad River. Spacious open concept floor plan features living room with vaulted ceilings, hemlock plank floors, 22’ dry stacked stone double fireplace, and multiple walkouts to outdoor verandah. Custom maple kitchen. 5 bedrooms, 5 baths. Professionally landscaped grounds.

Located 1km west of Creemore. www.river-house.ca $1,795,000

BEAUTIFUL 25 ACRE TURNKEY EQUESTRIAN Updated 3+1 bedroom family home with walkout separate entrance. This warm and inviting home is situated on 25 private acres. Vistas from every room. Pond, paddocks, barn, 13 stalls, indoor arena and viewing room. Set back from the road. Idyllic country living at its best.

10 minutes to Orangeville, 20 minutes to Caledon Equestrian Centre. $1,549,000

FOUR SEASON MULMUR RETREAT This immaculate chateau-style home set hillside at Mansfield Ski Club features an impressive great room with vaulted ceilings, hand hewn pine beams, fireplace and walkout to wrap-around deck. Family room with fireplace. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. Hot tub and sauna.

Includes rights to 17 acres of parkland with large swimming pond, the Pine River and tennis courts for fun in the sun. $759,000

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pools D&D Pools & Spas ⁄ 90 New Wave Pools & Spas ⁄ 81

professional services Coster Law, Technology & IP ⁄ 83 Purple Shield Canada, Zammit Agency ⁄ 68 Wiesner Insurance ⁄ 3

radio Country 105 ⁄ 75

real estate + home inspections Bosley Real Estate ⁄ 42 Velvet Alcorn Chestnut Park Real Estate ⁄ 103 Patrick Bogert, Sandy Ball, Sue Collis, Sarah MacLean Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 97 Marc Ronan, Sarah Lunn Johnston & Daniel ⁄ 103 Jennifer Chalmers Johnston & Daniel ⁄ 96 Peter Bowers, Gayle Woods Moffat Dunlap Real Estate ⁄ 95,100 Moffat Dunlap, John Dunlap, Peter Boyd, Murray Snider, George Webster, Nik Bonellos, Elizabeth Campbell ReMax Creemore Hills Realty ⁄ 103 Austin Boake ReMax In The Hills ⁄ 10,99 Chris Richie, Philip Albin, Sean Anderson, Dale Poremba ReMax Realty Services ⁄ 100 Julianne Budd ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 104 Sigrid Doherty ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 5 Maria Britto ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 104 Tav Schembri Royal LePage Locations North ⁄ 105 Matthew Lidbetter Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 100 Mark Latam, Mélodie Rose, Kevin Latam Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 98 Paul Richardson, Martha Summers Royal Le Page RCR Realty ⁄ 105 Basia Regan Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 39 Dorothy Mazeau 104

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recreation Scenic Caves Nature Adventures ⁄ 35

schools + education Brampton Christian School ⁄ 45 MEI International Academy ⁄ 6 Orangeville Christian School ⁄ 85 St. John’s-Kilmarnock School ⁄ 63

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7500+ sq ft finished. Finished lower level with extra kitchen, theatre room, games room, party room, fireplace, walkouts to patios and entrance to 2-car garage. Plus detached 3.5-car garage, to store toys or workshop. Saltwater pool, tennis court and landscaped. Steps to shopping, schools, parks and easy commute to GTA. $1,785,000 Tav Schembri_layout 16-05-30 1:47 PM Page 1

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seniors’ services Headwaters Home Care ⁄ 68 Montgomery Village Retirement Residence ⁄ 87 Senior Saviour Solutions ⁄ 50

toy stores Cardboard Castles Childrens Emporium ⁄ 62

CUSTOM BUNGALOW Spectacular picturesque ravine lot featuring a renovated kitchen, 3 spacious bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, custom cabinets and wine cellar. $1,219,000

MUST SEE 2.25 ACRE HOME Outstanding home backing onto Banty's Roost Golf Course. Exceptional landscaping. Kitchen is a chef's dream.

Hardwood on main and second floors, so many great features! $1,448,000

ULTRA STYLISH LUXURY Stunning custom home on nearly 3 acres with superior finishes and extraordinary quality. Imported marble, granite, quartz and hardwood. High ceilings and abundant natural light. $1,698,000

EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY One of a kind 95 acres, pre-approved zoning for private elementary school, daycare and associated equestrian centre in high demand market with current enrollment waiting list. $5,327,000

tourism + travel Cruise Holidays ⁄ 47 Divine Destination Collection ⁄ 34 Orangeville BIA ⁄ 22,23 Port Perry BIA ⁄ 112 Village of Erin ⁄ 46,47

tree services Ott’s Tree Service ⁄ 69

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THE OLD BANK IN CLEARVIEW Preserved art deco building. Soaring 10’ ceilings, light-filled mullioned windows with potentially 4 bdrms or storefront and 3-bdrm apartment upstairs. Weekend getaway or full-time home and/or business. $299,900

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY 4 acres in Mulmur. Barn reno’d for events & parties. Main house with wrap-around deck, outdoor kit. Large bdrms, baths with heated flrs. Det garage with commercial kit & in-law suite. Character, luxury throughout. $750,000

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BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME Build in Mono amongst the mature hardwoods with dramatic ravines as the backdrop. Rolling 25 acres with views over quiet countryside. Close to skiing, golf and easy commute to the city. $375,000

CENTURY FARMHOUSE 28 acres in Mulmur. Great room, custom kitchen, slate & hrdwd floors, beautiful baths, huge master with ensuite. Att 4-door garage, sep in-law apt, inground pool & 20-stall barn.

Close to golf, Bruce Trail & skiing. $849,000

MONOPARK.CA A spectacular home set in a private 70 acre oasis of rolling hills, woods, trails, ponds, manicured lawns and lush gardens. This house has everything – an opulent marble entrance with grand winding staircase, elevator, and indoor parking for 9 vehicles.

Visit the website for your on-line experience – then book a showing. You won’t be disappointed. $4,300,000 Call Matthew Lidbetter 705-443-7250 or Basia Regan 705-466-2115

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MULMURVIEWS.COM Less than one hour from the Toronto airport is an utterly unique 68-acre estate that offers privacy and stunning views. This 8000 square foot dream home tucked away in the Mulmur Hills was built by master craftsman Timothy Bullock, known for his dramatic rooflines and distinctive log design features. Offering relaxed country living, with every modern amenity.

A handcrafted log home that isn’t a house, it’s a piece of art. $4,300,000 Call Matthew Lidbetter 705-443-7250

SPECTACULAR VIEW IN MULMUR 7 acre bldg lot amongst pines, tamaracks, apple trees & hrdwds. Complete with drilled well, engineered driveway, solar gates & entry fencing. Ready for your custom design build!

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2 ponds on spectacular south facing 41 acres. Trails through the woods, near golf, skiing, Bruce Trail and Creemore. $1,195,000 Call Basia Regan 705-466-2115 www.basiaregan.com

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people. Proceeds to Heart and Stroke Foundation in Mitchell’s memory. 10am4pm. Station on the Green, Creemore. merrijoy.kelner@utoronto.ca JUL 26 – AUG 8 : NORTH MEETS SOUTH

Ten accomplished local artists, including Linda Jenetti, Andrea Trace and Darlene Hassall, present a show in Toronto. July 28: opening reception, 6-9pm. 9am-11pm.

Art Square Gallery & Café, 334 Dundas St W, Toronto, 416-595-5222 JUL 28 & AUG 25 : GET WRITING WITH RICHARD – INDIVIDUAL WRITING CONSULTATIONS 45-minute creative

writing appointment with Richard Scarsbrook. Register online. 1:30-7pm.

Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca AUG 13 : WATERCOLOUR EN PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP WITH MARLENE MADOLE

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students. Jun 16: reception, 6:30-8:30pm. $5; students & seniors $4; family pass $12. Peel District School Board, PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – JUL 3 : STOKED Ann Randeraad’s

heightened journey through the clay pro­ cess. June 3: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com NOW – JUL 3 : VICE VERSA Carlos Delgado

and Alex Usquiano share human expression through painting and photography. WedSun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-940-0199; thebartlettgallery.com

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NOW – NOV 13 : LUCILE: FASHION. TITANIC. SCANDAL Curated by Mulmur’s

JUL 2 – AUG 2 : TOUTE BEAUTÉS (ALL BEAUTY) Return of world-renowned artist

Hugh Brewster, the life and times of fashion maven and Titanic survivor Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon. Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph. 519-836-1221; guelphmuseums.ca

Johane Landry. July 2: reception, 2-4pm.

Mad & Noisy Gallery, 154 Mill St, Creemore.

705-466-5555; madandnoisy.com

NOW – ONGOING : ART LESSONS WITH CJ SHELTON Improve skills or learn the

basics. All levels. See website. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca JUN 25 – AUG 20 : A FINE LINE – THE CARICATURES OF ANTHONY JENKINS

40 years of caricature and illustration for The Globe and Mail. Donation. June 25: reception 6pm, $25, reserve. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

NOW – AUG 7 : BEATS N’ STREETS

Photography of David Bastedo (Canadian bands) and Susan Holland (various). WedSun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-0211; noodlegallery.com

JUL 6 – AUG 14 : SOME LIKE IT HOT!

Open show from members of Headwaters Arts. July 9: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com JUL 9 : ART IN THE PARK & MEET THE COMMUNITY WITH RIVERBEND ARTISTS Rain or shine. Art show,

community venues and activities. 10am4pm. Riverbend Park, Grand Valley. riverbendartistsofgrandvalley.ca JUL 19 & AUG 16 : ORANGE THREADS

Monthly stitchery group meets to discuss projects and good books. 1-2:30pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca JUL 23 & 24 : MITCHELL KELNER’S IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA 2007-2015

Evocative landscapes and ordinary

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Caledon Parent-Child Centre

Dufferin County Museum & Archives Regular admission: $5; seniors $4; children 5-14 $2; under 5 free; family $12

East Wellington Community Services

Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

PAMA

SBEC

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives Regular admission: $5; students, seniors $4; family (2 adults & 5 children) $12

Orangeville & District Small Business Enterprise Centre

CVC

Credit Valley Conservation

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Dufferin Child and Family Services

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SPCA

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Demos, one-on-one assistance and critiques. 11am-4pm. 16+. $40, register.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca AUG 17 – SEP 11 : THE BEST OF SOVA

Works by the Southern Ontario Visual Artists group. Aug 20: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com AUG 21 : MYSTERY AND MAYHEM – AUTHORS IN THE HILLS OF MULMUR

Panel discussion with Canadian mystery writers Ian Hamilton, Steve Burrows and others. Tickets at BookLore, Shelburne Library, Mulmur Township office (Terra Nova) and pegrampicnics.com. 1-4pm. $35. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. Mulmur Township, 519-925-0267 AUG 28 – OCT 30 : CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION BY 5 – AGROUP Five

artists with unique abstract styles. Aug 28: reception 2pm. Donation. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 16 – OCT 10 : HEADWATERS ARTS FESTIVAL JURIED SHOW, SALE & GALA

Amazing one-of-a-kind artwork, open studios, workshops. Sep 16: Opening Gala, 6:30-9:30pm, $50. See website. WedSun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 17, 18, 24 & 25 : HILLS OF ERIN STUDIO TOUR Quality artists repre­

senting multiple media. 10am-5pm.

Various studio locations, Erin. Map at hillsoferinstudiotour.com SEP 23 : AUTHORS’ NIGHT – HEADWATERS ARTS FESTIVAL BookLore

presents an evening of authors, books and wine. Tickets at BookLore or online.

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at Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives Canada At Play: 100 Years of Games, Toys and Sports June 18 – Aug. 21 Organized and circulated by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Explore. Create. Connect to Programs and Events • Family Art and Stories • Family Art and Yoga • Fun Weekend Family Drop-in Activity • Canada at Play Family Workshop • Watercolour En Plein Air Workshop with Marlene Madole (Ages 16+) • Concert in the Courtroom with R & B singer Jenna Burke • Games Night (Ages 14+) • Summer Camp and Staycation Days

Pay what you can admission this summer!

www.pama.peelregion.ca

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continued from page 106 OCT 1 & 2 : HARVEST OF COLOUR ART SHOW Works in various media. Sat:

8-11am. $7; children 10 & under $5.

Hockley Seniors’ and Community Hall, Hockley Village. 519-940-4395

award presentation and reception, 7-8pm.

Sat 8am-9pm. Sun 10am-6pm. Free.

Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. orangevilleartgroup.com

JUN 25 : KNOX PRESBYTERIAN STRAWBERRY SUPPER All are welcome!

OCT 1 & 2 : NORTH OF 89 STUDIO TOUR

4:30-7pm. $15; youth $17. 8933 Cty Rd 9, Clearview. 705-466-5531

Twenty artists in five locations in south Dufferin. Mixed media, as well as alpacas and a geodesic dome greenhouse. 10am5pm. Free. 1-877-941-7787; northof89.ca

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NOW – ONGOING (THURSDAYS) : ZOOMERS, BOOMERS AND SENIOR THURSDAYS Health and wellness work­

FARMERS’ MARKETS 2016

shops. 10am-3pm. Free. The Exchange, 55 Healey Rd, Unit 10, Bolton. Caledon Community Services, 905-584-2300 x273

ORANGEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET :

Saturdays, 8am-1pm, to Oct 22. Second St & Broadway. Orangeville BIA, 519-9420087; orangevillefarmersmarket.ca CREEMORE FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays, 9am-1pm, to Oct 8. Station on the Green. creemorefarmersmarket.ca BOLTON FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays, 9am-1pm, to Oct 8. Sterne St & Ann St. boltonfarmersmarket.ca ALLISTON FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays,

8am-2pm, to Oct 29. Mill St & Victoria St. 705-440-1402; allistonfarmersmarket.ca

121 First Street, Orangeville 519-942-3830

INGLEWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET :

Wednesdays, 3-7pm, to Oct 5. Lloyd Wilson Arena Grounds, 15551 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. villageofinglewood.com NEW LOWELL FARMERS’ MARKET : Wednesdays, 5:30-8:30pm, to Aug 31.

New Lowell Recreation Park Pavilion. clearview.ca SHELBURNE FARMERS’ MARKET : Thursdays,

3-7pm, to Sep 22. 1st Ave & Owen Sound St. shelburnefarmersmarket.ca STAYNER MUSIC AND MARKET : Thursdays,

5:30-8:30pm, to Sep 1. Station Park, Downtown Stayner. clearview.ca THE MARKET AT SOUTHFIELDS VILLAGE :

Thursdays, 3:30-7:30pm, to Oct 13. Village Blue, 415 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 647-2096272; caledonmarket@gmail.com ERIN FARMERS’ MARKET : Fridays, 3-7pm, to Sep 30. Erin Agricultural Society Fairgrounds. erinfair.ca ROSEMONT FARMERS’ MARKET : Fridays,

3-7pm, to Oct 7. Rosemont Hall parking lot, beside Globe Restaurant, Hwy 89, Rosemont. rosemontfarmersmarket.ca

FRESH. FUN. LOCAL. June134 - October 10 8 June Saturdays,99a.m. am - 1pm Saturdays, p.m.

Municipal Green “P” Parking Lot (near Tim Hortons)

www.boltonfarmersmarket.ca boltonfarmersmarket@hotmail.com @boltonmarket

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JUN 25 : WINES OF THE WORLD Wine,

NOW – JUN 30 : CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY LOCAL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Wheels of Hope, Relay

for Life, daffodil convenor. Canadian Cancer Society, 32 First St, Orangeville.

1-866-711-0111 x3836; cancer.ca NOW – ONGOING (3RD WEDNESDAYS) : CAFÉ CALEDON Discuss current

interests in a coffeehouse-like setting.

Topics on website. 7:30-9pm. Free.

St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-9635; stjamescaledoneast.ca

NOW – ONGOING (1ST SUNDAYS) : SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST Bacon,

sausage, eggs, hash browns. 10-11am.

Free, register. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905584-9635; stjamescaledoneast.ca NOW – ONGOING (WEDNESDAYS) : W.I.S.E. CHELTENHAM Health

beer and cider tastings paired with mouth­ watering appetizers. See website for tickets. 6-9pm. $50. Caledon Equestrian Park, Palgrave. Rotary Club of Palgrave, rotarywow.com JUN 26 : RIDE DON’T HIDE Four distances, breakfast, BBQ, entertainment, kids’ zone.

Raleigh Canada available for mechanical support. Various starts. 7am. $45; children free, T-shirt $12. Lloyd Wilson Arena, Inglewood. Canadian Mental Health Association-Peel, ridedonthide.com JUN 26, JUL 31 & AUG 28 : PALGRAVE CHURCH PUB DINNER – SUNDAY SCHOOL 5-course menu features local

promotion and social program for seniors (55+). 10am-noon. Free. Cheltenham Baptist Church, 14520 Creditview Rd, Cheltenham. Caledon Meals on Wheels, 905-857-7651; cmow.org

food and drink. 5:30-9pm. $50, reserve.

The Church Public Inn, Palgrave. Caledon Supper Club, 905-583-2222; churchpub.ca

NOW – ONGOING (2ND THURSDAYS) : PROBUS CLUB OF ORANGEVILLE AND DISTRICT Retired/semiretired people

strawberry shortcake, homemade tarts.

5-7pm. $14; children $6; preschool free.

346255 15 Sdrd Mono. 519-941-0972; highcountryunited@auracom.com

enjoy guest speakers, interest groups and events. July 14: Churchill and King. Aug 11: Fraud and Scam Awareness. Sep 8: Tai Chi. 10am-noon. Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Sdrd Mono. 519-9392711; probusorangeville.ca JUN 24 : FRIDAY MONTHLY DINNER

Peameal on a bun. 5:30-7pm. $10.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca JUN 24 : BOLTON TRUCK & TRACTOR PULL Largest one-day pull in the GTA!

6-11pm. $15; children 12 & under $5. Albion & Bolton Fairgrounds.

Albion & Bolton Agricultural Society, boltontractorpull.ca JUN 25 : FRIENDS OF ST. ANDREW’S STONE CHURCH SCOTTISH AFTERNOON

Pipes, Celtic step dancing, BBQ lunch.

11:45am-3pm. $10, $12 at door; children $5. 17621 St. Andrew’s Rd, Caledon. 519927-5987; stoneridge@bell.net

JUN 29 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED STRAWBERRY SUPPER Cold ham dinner,

JUN 29 : CALEDON EAST & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING Chris

Raible: William Lyon McKenzie’s alleged escape through Caledon. 7:30-9pm. $5. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. cedhs.ca JUL 1 : ORANGEVILLE CANADA DAY

Noon: opening ceremony and cake cutting.

Free family swims, inflatable activities, SuperDogs. Noon-5pm. Free. Alder Street Recreation Centre. 10pm: fireworks over Island Lake. Free. orangeville.ca JUL 1 : CANADA DAY IN CREEMORE Kids’

bike parade, activities at the Legion, fire­ works at dusk. 12:45-10pm. Mill St Park, Creemore. Creemore Legion, 705-466-6748 JUL 1 : CALEDON CANADA DAY

Campfire Poets, birds of prey, West Coast Lumberjack Show, vendors, fireworks.

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continued from page 109 JUL 1 : KNOX UNITED STRAWBERRY SUPPER Celebrate Canada Day. 4:30-

7pm. $15; ages 6-10 $6; 5 & under free. Caledon Village. 519-927-3320; knoxunitedcaledon@gmail.com JUL 1 – SEP 30 : VINTAGE SIGNS

Finest and rarest signs from DCMA’s collection. Regular admission. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUL 6 & 20, AUG 3, 17 & 31 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBRARY Hands-on help with

your devices or use ours. 2-4pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca

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JUL 21 : STEAK BBQ & CASINO Games start at 10am. 10am-2pm. $25, register.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca JUL 28 & AUG 18 : GAME NIGHTS AT PAMA – AGES 14+ Something for

everyone. 7-8:30pm. $5; students & seniors $4; family pass $12, register.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca AUG 4 : LIGHT UP THE RUNWAY

Proceeds to Bethell Hospice. 7pm.

13691 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon.

Brampton Flying Club, 905-838-1400 x225; bramptonflightcentre.com AUG 5 : CERC’S WINE PAIRING WITH JAZZ Wine, cheese and marché stations

with award-winning jazz trio. Proceeds to Caledon East revitalization. 7-10pm. $75.

Glen Eagle Golf Club, 15731 Hwy 50, Bolton.

905-880-0131 x236; gleneaglegolf.com AUG 5 – 7 : ALLISTON POTATO FESTIVAL

JUL 7 : CALEDON’S LEADERSHIP FORUM FOR WOMEN Open Forum

Summer Retreat with past speakers and networking opportunities. Noon-2:30pm. $35 early-bird/$45. Hockley Valley Resort, 793522 3rd Line Mono. 905-951-1217; theleadershipforum.ca

“Pearls Are Always Appropriate” Jackie Kennedy

Organic shaped cultured pearls strung with 18ky gold handmade jewels and gemstones

www.altonmill.ca

Whatever your style...

JUL 9 : CHELTENHAM DAY Soapbox derby, street sale, duck race, pie-eating contest, tube races, beer garden, firefighters’ BBQ, band. 9am-9pm. Free. Cheltenham General Store, 14386 Creditview Rd. 416605-3865; facebook.com/cheltenhamday JUL 9 & SEP 11 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIEN­ TATION Tour the farm and eco-residence.

1-4pm. $10. 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. 519-941-1099; wholevillage.org JUL 10 : WORSHIP IN THE PARK Outdoor

service at Charles Haines Pavilion, Chelten­ ham. BBQ. 10:30-11:30am. Cheltenham Baptist Church, 905-838-3122; cbchurch.ca JUL 10 : FAMILY FARM TO TABLE 9 & DINE FOR KIDZ CALEDON 9 holes with cart

and dinner. 4-9pm. $100/family of 4. Glen Eagle Golf Club, 15731 Hwy 50, Caledon.

905-880-0131 x236; gleneaglegolf.com JUL 15 – 17 : ORANGEVILLE ROTARY RIBFEST Mouthwatering BBQ ribs, beer

tent, midway, bands. Proceeds to the new Rotary Way bike route and GrandPals program. Fri 4-10pm. Sat 11am-10pm.

Sun 11am-7pm. Free, donations.

Alder Street Recreation Centre. Rotary Club of Orangeville, 519-942-0267; orangevilleribfest.com JUL 16 – SEP 16 : WOMAN Precious textile

www.gallerygemma.com

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pieces and powerful stories of local women. Jul 23: reception, 6 pm. Special speakers: Dini Petty and Ken Weber.

Donation. Reception $25, register. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

Entertainment, amusements, vendors and downtown deals. Downtown Alliston.

Alliston BIA, 705-435-1787; rurban.ca AUG 6 : DCMA GOLF FUNDRAISING DAY

Morning/afternoon tee-off times. 9 holes, BBQ, prizes. Continental breakfast for morning golfers. 9am-4pm. $75, register.

DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 7 : BRITS ON THE LAKE CLASSIC MOTORING REVIVAL Saloon cars, sports

cars, motorcycles, buses. 8am-5pm.

Queen & Water St, Downtown Port Perry. discoverportperry.ca AUG 12 : GLEN EAGLE CHARITY CLASSIC TOURNAMENT 18 holes with carts,

BBQ lunch, cocktails, 4-course dinner.

Proceeds to Bethell Hospice. 10:30am8pm. $150 until July 1; $175. 15731 Hwy 50, Caledon. 905-880-0131 x236; gleneaglegolf.com AUG 12 – 14 : GRAND RIVER RODEO RAM Rodeo Tour, live music, horseshoe

tournament, classic cars. Fri $10; kids free. Sat Sun $20; children and seniors $15. 173367 Cty Rd 25, Grand Valley. Grand River Rodeo Committee, 519-217-8566 AUG 13, SEP 10 : BOLTON KINSMEN TOONIE SALE Proceeds to community

projects. 10am-1pm. Free. Albion Bolton Community Centre. Kinsmen Club of Bolton, boltonkin@gmail.com AUG 14 : SAVOUR FAIR Best food, drink and art from the region. Proceeds to students pursuing agriculture.

1-4pm. $25; children $10; family of 4 $60. Landman Gardens & Bakery, 322345 Concession 6-7, Grand Valley. landmangardens.ca AUG 17 : TERRA COTTA COMMUNITY CENTRE GOLF TOURNAMENT, DINNER/ FUNDRAISER Lunch 11:30am. Shotgun

start 1pm. Dinner at Terra Cotta Inn

and dance $30; dance only $20. 76 Fifth Ave. 519-941-0741; orangevillecurlingclub.ca SEP 11 : LIVE FUNDRAISING AUCTION WITH BOB SEVERN 9am: preview. 10am-

7pm. Before June 30: $165 single, $620 foursome; $185 & $700. Dinner only, $50.

Caledon Golf and Country Club, Inglewood.

647-297-0611; keith@keiththoy.com

noon: auction. Antiques, collectibles, household items. Proceeds to DCMA. Bidders register onsite. All payment forms accepted. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 11 : OPEN HOUSE AND FLY-IN

Noon: lunch. 1pm: show. $25, register.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca

Activities for aviation enthusiasts and families. 10am-4pm. $5. Great War Flying Museum, Brampton Flight Centre, 13691 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon. 905-838-1400 x333; bramptonflightcentre.com

AUG 19 : GREAT TASTE FASHION GALA Beautiful clothes and delicious

SEP 11 : MONO MILLS UNITED 150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

AUG 18 : VARIETY SHOW & LUNCHEON

tasters from local eateries. 7-9pm.

Mill St, Orangeville. 519-942-0087, downtownorangeville.ca AUG 19 & 20 : BOLTON ROTARYFEST

Food trucks, ribs, bands, Kid Zone. Fri 4-11pm. Sat noon-11pm. Free. Caledon Community Complex, Caledon East. boltonrotaryfest.ca AUG 20 : SPIRIT OF THE HILLS – HILLSBURGH’S FAMILY FUN Classic cars,

games, bouncy castle, vendors, music and silent auction. 10am-2pm. Free. Trafalgar Rd, Hillsburgh. Let’s Get Hillsburgh Grow­ ing Committee, 519-855-6343; erin.ca AUG 20 : TASTE OF ORANGEVILLE

Tasting menus, music, extended patios and fantastic shopping. 11am-4pm. $2 entry; food tickets $1/ticket. Mill St, Orangeville. downtownorangeville.ca AUG 20 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED BEEF BBQ Corn on the cob, homemade pies,

MS research, programs and services.

8am-2pm. Royal Ontario Golf Club, 6378 Trafalgar Rd, Hornby (Milton). Atlas Care Heating + Cooling, MS Society of Canada, Peel-Dufferin, 416-922-6065 x3237; joanna.sullivan@mssociety.ca

horses will be stabled onsite all weekend during the fair and open for public viewing. Tickets on website. $10; children $5; family of four $25. Erin Fairgrounds, 190 Main St, Erin. Erin Agricultural Society, 519-833-2808; erinfair.ca SEP 10 : ORANGEVILLE CURLING CLUB FALL DINNER & DANCE Entertainment by

the Campfire Poets. Tickets at BookLore and Artizan Hair Studio. 6:30pm. Dinner

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SEP 17 : AN EVENING WITH SPIRIT

Witness proof of life after life. 7-9:30pm. $50. Orangeville Opera House, 87 Broadway. theatreorangeville.ca

SEP 18 : PALGRAVE TERRY FOX RUN Run,

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New location! Square dancing, live fiddling and calling, pie auction. Kids’ lessons 5:30-6pm. 5:30-9pm. $15; children $5, register. Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St, Melancthon. DCMA, 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

AUG 26 : RCMP MUSICAL RIDE – ORANGEVILLE Famous formations

activities and car show. Noon-6pm.

Mill St, Creemore. Creemore Springs, copperkettlefestival.ca

Proudly Presented by the rotary club of Shelburne

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SEP 17 : DCMA COUNTRY BARN DANCE

SEP 17 & 24 : RUMMAGE SALE Clean, gently used clothing and linens. 9amnoon. High Country United Church, 346255 15 Sdrd Mono. 519-941-0972; highcountryunited@auracom.com

AUG 27 : CREEMORE SPRINGS COPPER KETTLE FESTIVAL Live music, food,

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silent auction. W off Hwy 10 at Camilla.

5-7pm. $15; children $5; preschool free.

346255 15 Sdrd Mono. 519-941-0972; highcountryunited@auracom.com

with 36 horses. Proceeds to Youthdale Treatment Centres’ at-risk youth programs.

4:30pm: gates open. 6pm: ride starts.

Online $10; children 12 & under $5; Gate $15; $8. Orangeville Fairgrounds, 5 Sdrd, Mono. Youthdale Riding Program, 705434-0993; youthdaleridingprogram.com

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Refreshments follow service. 11am. 60 Richmond St, Mono Mills. 519-941-2909; dorothy.switzer@bell.net

walk or bike 10km along the Caledon Trailway. 8am: registration and free Rotary breakfast. 9am: start at Stationlands Park, Brawton Dr and Hwy 50, Palgrave.

Rotary Club of Palgrave, 905-583-0144; gordonlreid@rogers.com

all Performances at the centre Dufferin recreation complex. buy tIcKetS online at HeritageMusicFestival.com or at Holmes Music & Appliances downtown Shelburne 519.925.3037 The Next Generation Leahy

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SEP 18 : BOLTON TERRY FOX RUN

Run, walk, skate or bike the 1, 5 or 10km route. Run starts at the Kinsmen Centre, 35 Chapel St, Bolton. 9am-1pm. Free.

Kinsmen Club of Bolton, 416-904-4841; boltonkin@gmail.com SEP 18 : EVERDALE FARM CARROT FEST Live music, U-pick carrots, farm

tours, lunch, crafts, games. Noon-4pm.

Free. 5812 6th Line, Erin. 519-855-4859; everdale.org SEP 18 : FEAST OF HOPS Includes six gourmet food tastings and six Ontario craft beer samples. Cash wine bar. Drive home service. 19+. 2-5pm. $30; $35 at door. Erin Agricultural Centre, 190 Main St. Rotary Club of Erin, feastofhops.ca continued on next page

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for the whole family. 9am-4pm. Downtown Port Perry. discoverportperry.ca bring dessert. Come in themed costume, decorate your table. Marketplace, silent auction. 7pm. $20; table of 8 $140 (host ticket free). Proceeds to programs for adults with developmental disabilities.

Community Living Dufferin, 065371 Cty Rd 3. 519-941-8971 x165, sweetseats. weebly.com

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SEP 24 : SALAMANDER FESTIVAL

Local music, food and crafts. 10am4pm. Belfountain Conservation Area.

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Brampton Fairgrounds, 12942 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. Bethell Hospice Foundation, thehealingcycle.ca JUN 29 : COMPOST ON THE FARM

Turning equine waste into a resource.

6:30-8pm. Free, register online. Trailwood Farm, Caledon. CVC, 1-800-668-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca

OCT 1 : DUFFERIN TOWN & COUNTRY FARM TOUR Self-guided tour to learn

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FALL FAIRS 2016

Showcase of Headwaters’ best, including livestock, home craft, entertainment, pulls of all sorts, and, of course, food. See websites for more details.

SEP 2– 4: ORANGEVILLE FALL FAIR

Orangeville Fairgrounds, 247090 5 Sdrd, Mono. Orangeville Agricultural Society, orangevillefairgrounds.ca SEPT 16 –18: SHELBURNE FALL FAIR

Shelburne & District Fairgrounds, 200 Fiddlepark Lane – Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, Shelburne. shelburnefair.com SEPT 23–25: GRAND VALLEY FALL FAIR

Grand Valley Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, 60 Main St N, Grand Valley. grandvalleyfallfair.ca SEPT 23–25: BOLTON FALL FAIR Albion & Bolton Fairgrounds, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. boltonfair.ca OCT 7–10: ERIN FALL FAIR Erin Agricultural

Centre Fairgrounds, 190 Main St, Erin. erinfair.ca

outdoor NOW – SEP 28 (WEDNESDAYS) : BIKE NIGHT Roar on over during riding weather.

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JUN 26 : CYCLE FOR BETHELL HOSPICE – HEALING CYCLE RIDE Register online.

Walk 5k to stop violence against women.

Entertainment, BBQ. Proceeds to Family Transition Place. 9:30am. $20; children 5 & under free. Island Lake Conservation Area. fergusonmemorialwalk.com

PORT PERRY

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races, overnight camping. Albion Hills Conservation Area. chicoracing.com

SEP 25 : FERGUSON MEMORIAL WALK

about farming. 9am-4pm. Donation to local food bank. East Garafraxa. dufferinfarmtour.com

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JUL 7 : HIDDEN GEMS GARDEN TOUR & TEA Evening stroll through interesting

gardens. Tickets in advance at BookLore, Dufferin Garden Centre or Orangeville Flowers. 5-9pm. $10. Pheasant Court, Orangeville. Orangeville and District Horticultural Society, orangevillehort.org JUL 8 – 10 : ISLAND LAKE BASS DERBY

Admission and boat launch included.

Camping available. Cost for boat rentals, live bait and BBQ. 7am-3pm. 2 days, $70; 1 day $45; children 11 & under $10. Island Lake Conservation Area. CVC, 1-800-3670890; creditvalleyca.ca JUL 9 : THE CREEMORE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FLOWER SHOW Flowers and

plants from members’ gardens. 8:30am1pm. Station on the Green, Creemore.

705-466-2315 JUL 9 & 10 : DELPHINIUM DAYS FESTIVAL Guided tour and lunch.

Gift for first 150 guests who donate to Caledon Community Services. 9am-5pm.

16258 Humber Station Rd, Caledon. plantparadisecountrygardens.ca JUL 13 : TACKLE INVASIVE PLANTS Tricks

of the trade. 6:30-8pm. Free, register online.

Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. CVC, 1-800-670-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca JUL 23 : CHECK YOUR WATERSHED DAY

80 people needed to survey streams in the Upper Credit River watershed. Noon4pm. Free, register online. Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Trout Unlimited and Ontario Streams, 905-670-1615 x445; creditvalleyca.ca AUG 1 : LE TOUR DE TERRA COTTA Tour de France-like cycling experience, vendor expo, BBQ and beer garden. Cycling races for ages 8 to 80 on closed roads. Terra Cotta Inn, 175 King St. 416-500-4231; letourdeterracotta.com

AUG 6 : CREEMORE VERTICAL CHAL­ LENGE RUN 25km loop of half dirt roads,

JUL 17 : SOURCE OF THE SONG 33 – SONGWRITERS’ CONCERT Award-

half trails. 250 entries only. 6am-7pm.

75km $90; 50km $80; 25km $70. Register before race day. Starting area, 7237 Sdrd 6 & 7 Nottawasaga. Outrace, ouser.org

winning songs performed by the people who wrote them. Cash bar. 2-4pm. $22; $30 at door. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Bruce and Marlene Madole, 519941-9300; altonmill.ca

AUG 10 : WINDBREAKS: TREES AT WORK

Design the right windbreak for the job.

6:30-8pm. Free, register online. Property in Hillsburgh. CVC, 1-800-668-5557 x436; creditvalleyca.ca AUG 20 : TRAIL RIDE FOR BREAST CANCER Two-hour trail ride through the

Dufferin Forest. Best dressed horse/rider.

Volunteers welcome. $55. Dufferin Forest, Airport Rd, Mansfield. 416-407-6695; trailrideforbreastcancer.weebly.com AUG 27 & 28 : MUD HERO RUN Wild mix of trails, water, obstacles and rolling terrain. Camping available. Albion Hills Conservation Area. Crazy Canucks, mudhero.com SEP 5 : ISLAND LAKE CLASSIC 10K RUN AND 5K RUN/WALK BBQ, chip timed,

prizes, medals. Proceeds to Friends of Island Lake. 8:30: register. 9:30: free kids’ event. 10am: race starts. $40. Island Lake Conservation Area. rundufferin.com

AUG 3 – 7 : HERITAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Fri: The Jim Cuddy Band and Leahy family headline the new festival combining with the Canadian Open Fiddle Championship. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, Shelburne. Rotary Club of Shelburne, heritagemusicfestival.com AUG 12 : BACA AT CROSSCURRENTS CAFÉ Brave and Crazy Acoustic is

Samantha Pollard, Suze Burmester and Elana Harte. Free, donations welcome.

Bolton United Church, 8 Nancy St. crosscurrentscaledon@gmail.com AUG 13 – 21 : BELFOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Chamber music, free young

artist concerts and professional concert series. 8pm. Melville White Church, 15962 Mississauga Rd, Caledon. Belfountain Heritage Society, belfountainmusic.com

SEP 10 : MONO ON A BIKE Tour the

AUG 21 : CONCERT IN THE COURTROOM WITH JENNA BURKE Music from her

Niagara Escarpment. Mountain and hybrid-type bikes. Lunch, T-shirt, prizes. 9:30am. Earlybird: $27; children $15; family of 4, $75. Mono Centre. experiencemono.com

nominated and chart-topping albums.

2-3:30pm. $5; students & seniors $4; family pass $12, register. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

SEP 13 : ORANGEVILLE & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETING AND FLOWER SHOW Owen Goltz: The

AUG 26 : CHURCHVILLE PARK AT CROSSCURRENTS CAFÉ Old-time country,

Importance of Soil for Vegetable and Flower Gardening. 7-9pm. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. orangevillehort.org

music JUN 25 : UNDER THE MAPLES FEATURING THE PRACTICALLY HIP Food,

beer tent and local artisans. Proceeds to the Fort McMurray Red Cross Relief Fund.

Tickets at ticketpro.ca, Higher Ground (Belfountain) or Inglewood General Store.

4-9pm. $20. Caledon Ski Club parking lot, 17360 Mississauga Rd, Belfountain.

Belfountain Community Organization, 519-993-1715; belfountain.ca JUL 15 : MELANIE PETERSON AT CROSSCURRENTS CAFÉ Aching

vibrato and prairie roots. 8-10pm. Free, donations appreciated. CrossCurrents Café, Bolton United Church, 8 Nancy St. crosscurrentscaledon@gmail.com

folk and bluegrass classics. 8-10pm.

Free, donations welcome. CrossCurrents Café, Bolton United Church, 8 Nancy St. crosscurrentscaledon@gmail.com

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Offering the discerning Bride and Groom the most romantic of settings for their wedding with wonderful cuisine, spectacular views and exquisite memories to last a lifetime.

kids KIDS’ CAMPS

From dancing to farming, and from drama to pet care, there is a wide choice of summer camp activities for local kids of all ages this summer. Check out the many offerings at the Kids’ Camps link at inthehills.ca JUN 25 : MARY POPPINS

Shelburne Golf & Country Club

Everyone’s favourite musical nanny. $10-$20. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; orangevillemusictheatre.com

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JUN 25 : NATIONAL TD SUMMER READING DAY KICK-OFF Activities for

the whole family. 1-3pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca

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JUL 16 : DAIRY DAY AT MILLER’S DAIRY

JUN 28 : ADJUSTMENTS AFTER BIRTH

Good old-fashioned dairy fun at the farm!

11am-3pm. Miller’s Dairy, 7280 Cty Rd 9, Creemore. 705-466-2525; millersdairy.com

Support after the birth or adoption of a child. Child care available. 10am-noon.

Free, register. CPCC, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JUL – AUG: CALEDON LIBRARY SUMMER PROGRAMS From reptiles to resiliency,

monarchs to movies to mega machines, something for every youngster. Check website for details, times and branches.

Caledon Library. 906-857-1400; caledon. library.on.ca JUL 7 : TEEN SUMMER READING CHALLENGE LAUNCH PARTY 13+ Creative

activities, prizes, friendly competitions.

6-7pm. Free. Shelburne Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca JUL 9 : TD SUMMER READING CLUB LAUNCH PARTY AGES 3-12 Reading

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10:30am. Shelburne Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca JUL 9 & AUG 6 : FAMILY ART + STORIES

Hands-on activities to inspire lifelong learning. July: Watercolour Markings.

August: Action Art. 2-4pm. $5; students/ seniors $4; family pass $12. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUL 13 & AUG 10: BONES & STONES KIDS’ SUMMER CAMP Mock dig sites,

coded messages, real fossils. Ages 7-12. 10am-3pm. $50, register. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

JUL 16 & 30, AUG 13 & 27 : FAMILY ART & YOGA Classic yoga for all levels, create art

to take home. Supplies included, bring yoga mat. 2-3:30pm. Regular admission, register.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUL 23 : FOUNDERS’ DAY/URBAN SLIDE

Family fun with 1000-ft waterslide, buskers, entertainment. 8am-7pm.

Free, see theurbanslide.ca to register. downtownorangeville.ca JUL 23 : PAINT THE BUS! Founders’ Day. 10am until the bus is done! Supplies provided. Proceeds to the Orangeville Art Group scholarship fund. 10am. $3-$5. orangevilleartgroup.com JUL 23 : DUFFERIN TREASURE TROVE: FAMILY SUMMER PARTY Dress as an

outlaw, pirate, explorer or archaeologist for treasure-hunting activities. 1-4pm. $8.

DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com JUL 27 : DUFFERIN TREASURE TROVE: DETECTIVES EDITION SUMMER CAMP

Solve the mystery of the missing artifact.

Ages 7-12. 10am-3pm. $50, register.

DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com JUL 29 – 31 : WILLY WONKA Presented by the Theatre Orangeville Young Company – Drama and Musical. Fri 7pm. Sat 2 & 7pm.

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A Chronology Quiz for Canada Day ottawa – 1 (1868) orangeville – 2 (1881) caledon township – 3 (1907) france – 4 (1917) toronto – 5 (1957) caledon east – 6 (1974) mississauga – 7 (1979) grand valley – 8 (1985) canada – 9 (1993) salt lake city – 10 (2002) stockholm – 11 (2013) parliament buildings – 12 (2014)

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Silas Renarm Returns to Palgrave 40 Sibling Rivalry at the Sheep Farm Three. Anson, Betty and Clarence together have 22 (Delilah’s number).

Clarence has 12 and Betty 7.

On a Rainy Day at Sandhill School The alphabet positions of the first and last letters of knack, round, human and beast add up to 22. (‘k’=11 so ‘k’ + ‘k’ = 22, etc.)

Shelburne Bridge Physics The truck had consumed a weight of fuel at least equal to, if not greater than, the weight of the sparrow.

To submit your community, arts or nonprofit event, go to inthehills.ca and click what’s on on the menu bar. That takes you to the listings page.

Click submit your event and complete the easy form.

For the autumn (September) issue, submit by August 5, 2016.

We reserve the right to edit submissions for print and web publication.

For up-to-date listings between issues, go to inthehills.ca and click what’s on on the menu bar.

theatre+film JUN 28 & 29 : SWEET DREAMS: A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE An evening

Sun 2pm. $5-$15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca JUL 30 : CREEMORE CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Broaden creative minds through

interactive play. 10am-4pm. Free. Mill St, Creemore. creemorechildrensfestival.com AUG 6 : PLAY WITH CLAY Ann Randeraad

hosts an experimental morning (handbuilding or wheel) in her booth. 9amnoon. Free. Orangeville Farmers’ Market, 87 Broadway. annranderaadpottery.com AUG 13 : KICKIN’ IT OLD SCHOOL – FAMILY SUMMER PARTY Treats and

games in the garden. Make two historic games to take home. 11am-2pm. $8.

DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 20 : TD SUMMER READING FINALE CELEBRATION Mystic Drumz show

and big reading reveal. 1-3pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca NOW – AUG 21 : CANADA AT PLAY 100

years of games, toys and sports from the ROM. $5; students & seniors $4; family pass $12. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca AUG 24 : DUFFERIN TREASURE TROVE: PIRATES EDITION SUMMER KIDS’ CAMP

Pirate games, buried treasure. Please bring lunch. Ages 5-10. Wear your pirate costume. 10am-3pm. $50, register.

DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 26 – 28 : THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Presented by the

Theatre Orangeville Young Company – Drama and Musical. Fri 7pm. Sat 2 & 7pm. Sun 2pm. $5-$15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

of 30 greatest hits with Leisa Way. Tues 2pm. Wed 2 & 8pm. $42. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville.

Theatre Orangeville, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca JUL 14 : A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Comedic events surrounding the marriage of Theseus to Hippolyta. 7pm. Suggested donation $20. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Humber River Shakespeare, 519941-9300; altonmill.ca JULY 14 – 16 : ADVENTURES OF A REDHEADED COFFEESHOP GIRL Out of the

coffee shop and into the jungle! Thurs Fri 8pm. Sat 2 & 8pm. $35. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

Whether you celebrate inside our historic mill or party outdoors on our beautifully manicured grounds, the stunning Shaw’s Creek Falls and warm tones of the old Limestone Mill will set the stage for your special day.

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JULY 21 – 23 : LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS A middle-aged restaurateur

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Thurs Fri 8pm. Sat 2 & 8pm. $35. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca AUG 4: CRACK ME UP COMEDY – SEARCH FOR THE FUNNIEST COMIC With host

SPECTACULAR That’s what best describes the natural beauty of our incredible setting.

GOLF • DINING • WEDDINGS • EVENTS • MEETINGS • PATIO

Marc Trinidad and headliner Shannon Laverty. $20. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca AUGUST 12 & 13: CANADIAN IMPROV SHOWCASE An interactive comedy

experience featuring some of Canada’s hottest talent. 8pm. $22. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca AUGUST 17: ASSISTED LIVING: THE MUSICAL – HOW THE OLDER HALF LIVES! 21st-century seniors are partying

like it’s 1969. 8pm. $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca SEP 9 – 18 : SPITFIRE DANCE Female

flyers of the Air Transport Auxiliary, with memorable songs from World War II. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. $20. 72 Trafalgar Rd, Hillsburgh. Century Theatre Guild, 519855-4586; centurychurchtheatre.com ≈

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a Puzzling Conclusion How Far Can You Get Without an ‘N’?

The numbers one, two, three and so on into infinity are cardinal numbers, whereas first, second, third and so on are ordinal num­ bers. Using words – not figures – what is the largest cardinal num­ber you can write without using the letter ‘n’?

Silas Renarm Returns to Palgrave No one in the village seemed to mind that each time Silas set up his medicine show in the field by the Hamilton and Northwestern railway station, the elixir he had for sale always tasted the same, even though he invariably called it a new and powerful potion. What did matter in the village was the puzzle he always had for the local children, or more likely, the prize of candy given to those who solved it.

The challenge in his most recent visit was to identify the number of squares in this pattern. How many are there?

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A Chronology Quiz for Canada Day We all know that the biggest news event of 1867 was Confederation. In the 149 years since then, many truly memorable events have captured the attention of the hills, of the whole of Canada, and often of the world.

The challenge: Insert numbers in the blank squares below to identify the ORDER in which the following twelve Canadian events occurred. The earliest event in the list happened right after Confederation. The latest one is quite recent. Note that each of the events in the list occurred in a different year.

We have identified the chronological position of one event to get you started.

8 grand valley An F4 tornado devastates the village, tears through Amaranth Township and smashes into Barrie. (The year was 1985.)

ottawa Thomas D’Arcy McGee, MP, close associate of Sir John A. Macdonald is assassinated following an evening session in the House of Commons.

salt lake city Team Canada takes Olympic hockey gold after Wayne Gretzky buries a loonie at centre ice.

toronto At Maple Leaf Gardens, Elvis Presley begins the only national tour of his entire career outside the U.S.

Sibling Rivalry at the Sheep Farm Four siblings in a family that farm­ed in Melancthon near Corbetton each owned a number of sheep. The follow­ ing comments were heard on a warm Sunday afternoon as the four leaned over a fence, looking at the flock.

“If I had just three more sheep,” Anson said, “then I’d have only one less than Betty has.”

To which Clarence replied, “Yeah, well if I had three fewer sheep, Anson, I’d have exactly three times the num­ ber you have.”

Delilah smiled ever so slightly. “You realize, of course, that my 22 sheep make up the same number as the three of you put together.”

Betty was silent. She always stayed out of discussions like this.

Just how many sheep does Anson have?

france Canadian Corps captures Vimy Ridge after other allied armies tried twice and failed.

parliament buildings For the first time, gunfire is heard in the halls of the Canadian parliament during an attack by a single terrorist.

stockholm Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

caledon east Town of Caledon is established as part of the Region of Peel.

orangeville Dufferin County is officially established, becoming the newest county in the Ontario (a position it still holds).

canada Avril Phædra “Kim” Campbell becomes Canada’s first (and so far only) woman prime minister, serving for four-and-a-half months.

mississauga Train derailment causes what was until then the largest peacetime evacuation in history.

caledon township A speeding passenger train derails on the infamous Horseshoe Curve, leading to one of Ontario’s worst rail accidents.

On a Rainy Day at Sandhill School On a rainy day in 1890, Mr. Potter pre­ sented this problem to his pupils dur­ ing recess at Sandhill Union School (S.S.#4 Albion and S.S.#20 Chingua­ cousy). It was not an easy problem but, as he expected, some of the children in the early grades got correct answers well before older students because these younger ones had been reciting the alphabet every day.

Four of these eight words have something special in common with one another. What are these four words and what is this common factor?

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Shelburne Bridge Physics

A tractor-trailer 10 metres in length together with the load it carried weighed precisely 10,000 kilos. The tractor was a cab-over-engine design. This rig left Shelburne for a destination in Mexico and was being driven across a bridge two kilometres long. During the crossing no other traffic was allowed onto the bridge because it was constructed to tolerate an absolute maximum weight of 10,000 kilos; a weight of even a single gram greater would have caused it to collapse. When the tractor-trailer had 250 metres of distance left to complete the crossing, a sparrow landed on the cab and stayed there. Yet the bridge did not collapse. Why not? our solutions on page 114 118

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