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Council requests tax-funded boards and agencies to join Sunshine List By Bill Hutchins
News – City council wants to shine some light on the top salaries paid to employees of external agencies that receive most of their funding from local taxpayers. Councillors voted unanimously on a motion requesting any board or agency that receives at least 50 percent of their operating budgets from the city to publicly disclose salaries of $100,000 or more on the so-called Sunshine List. Coun. Jim Neill, who introduced the motion Dec. 15, says it’s in keeping with Kingston’s push for a more open and transparent government. “There’s an expectation from the community,” he argued. The Sunshine List already includes top paid earners who work for the city and its various internal departments. Of those external agencies that receive most of their funding from municipal taxes, Kingston’s police service already reveals the salaries of its top earners. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington public health and Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority also disclose top salaries. But there are a handful of municipally-funded boards and agencies that are governed by other laws, such as the Corporations Act and Libraries Act, that don’t require public salary disclosure, including Kingston’s economic development agency and the Kingston Frontenac public library board. KEDCO’s board has already indicated that it intends to comply with the Sunshine List disclosure pending a thorough review of its operations, expected to be completed this summer. Kids ages four to eight gathered at the Isabel Turner branch of the Kingston Frontenac Pub“KEDCO got out in front of this and they will, in lic Library on Dec. 30 for a special Happy Noon Year celebration; no celebration would be fact, be doing this,” Coun. Neill added. He says council can’t order boards and agencies to complete without a toast, in this case with sparkling apple cider. Photo/Mandy Marciniak
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comply with his motion. “It was beyond our ability to say ‘thou shalt.’ So we are requesting this.” The list of doctors, teachers, public administrators, fire fighters, police officers and other civil servants earning six-figure salaries continues to grow each year. The annual disclosure of public sector salaries is based on a 1996 provincial law that’s been in place since Mike Harris was premier. It requires hospitals, schools, municipalities, judiciary, crown corporations and other public sector employers to disclose the $100,000-plus salaries at the end of March. However, critics say the 20 year old law has never been updated to reflect inflation and other factors that are putting more civil servants on the disclosure list. Coun. Neill says the salary threshold should be adjusted to $125,000. More than 100,000 people were on the expansive list in 2014, based on figures disclosed in March 2015. More than 185 employees with the City of Kingston were also on the six-figure list, including police officers and fire fighters. The highest paid municipal employee in 2014 was City Hall chief administrator Gerard Hunt, who made $214,343. Police chief Gilles Larochelle had the city’s second highest tax-funded salary at $197,716, while former fire chief Rheaume Chaput made $144,587. Kingston’s highest paid public servant was Leslee Thompson. The outgoing president and chief executive officer of Kingston General Hospital had a salary of $511,377 in 2014. Coun. Rob Hutchison acknowledges a certain amount of public envy and curiosity with the Sunshine List - along with privacy concerns of those individuals with listed salaries - but says the financial disclosure law is still important to show transparency to taxpayers. ®
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Success of first Frontenac Christmas Bird Count will lead to annual event By Craig Bakay
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it went really well,” said Manager Carolyn Bonta. “We had 21 people come and hundreds of birds from 38 species were counted. “But perhaps more gratifying than that was the realization by several ‘novice’ participants that they are actually familiar with more birds than they thought, as well as the insights and knowledge gained by those who might never before have thought to identify
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Bird counters lined up on the Red Trail at the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre for the first ever Frontenac Christmas Bird Count recently. Photo/Laurie Swinton
gansers at 357. There were 136 black-capped chickadees, 121 ring-billed gulls, 106 hooded mergansers and 93 blue jays. There was also one common loon, seven bald eagles and a pileated woodpecker. Buoyed by this year’s success, Bonta said they plan to get started organizing much earlier for next year’s event. For more information and count totals, you can visit elbowlakecentre.ca. They also have links to the national Christmas bird counts.
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Big Dig 3: Massive reconstruction of Princess Street about to begin By Bill Hutchins
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News – It’s been said that Kingston has two seasons – winter and construction. And the two will collide this month when the Big Dig 3 gets underway along several blocks of downtown’s Princess Street. Len Corcoran Excavating Ltd. has the $12.9 million contract to undertake the complex work, the same firm that completed the previous two phases of lower Princess
Street’s reconstruction in 2009 and 2012. The latest phase of the Big Dig is also the biggest. It involves replacing the century-old underground infrastructure and repaving the surface of Princess Street, between Bagot and Clergy Streets, plus reconstructing the cross-streets and sidewalks. The work will be done in stages. Princess Street from Bagot to Montreal Streets will be closed to vehicle traffic between Jan. 4 and April 29. Princess Street from Montreal to
anticipated sub-zero temperatures, snow and ice. “Think about trying to dig a hole in your backyard in the frozen ground. Before we can dig we have to put heating blankets onto the ground to thaw the ground.” There’s no telling how long the unusually mild start to winter will last. But the construction company has to be ready to work in some of the worst conditions. That means running temporary water lines above ground when the excavation begins with plenty of insulation to prevent the lines from freezing. Continued on page 7
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Kingston may spend $2M to construct walking trail along west end creek News – Residents of Kingston’s west end could soon have their own urban walking trail. A feasibility report on constructing a paved pathway along the west branch of the Little Cataraqui Creek concludes it can be done at a cost of nearly $2 million. But there are several factors that would need to fall into place, including private land access, in order to complete the pathway project. Public enthusiasm for the project appears to be strong. “The proposed trail project scope and alignment was met favorably and the majority of respondents were in agreement with the study approach and
proposal,” according to a report by Luke Follwell, the city’s director of recreation and leisure services. The proposed pathway would extend from Days Road just south of Bath Road, to Vista Drive and Bath Road along the west branch of the Little Cataraqui Creek. A city-hired consultant found a series of informal footpaths in the area have been used as a recreational and pedestrian corridor for decades to access parkland, residential areas and Frontenac Secondary School. The recommendation is to create a more formal 2.5 metre wide asphalt pathway system. However, the study’s recommendation and budget must still be approved by city council. The previous council launched the feasibil-
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Secondary School site. The other landowner is Brock-King Properties, which owns and manages apartment buildings at 480-485 Canatara Court. “Staff have discussed the proposed trail plan with the land owners and received support, in principle, for the plan and no major concerns were expressed. The school board and apartment management representative identified that they were attracted to the opportunity to increase access for their students and residents respectively,” said Follwell’s Dec. 9 report to the arts, recreation and community policies committee. There are other factors which could either delay the project or increase the overall cost, namely, clearing any soil contaminants during the trail’s construction and the need for future utilities work along the proposed trail corridor. The city would also have to shoulder ongoing trail maintenance costs. “Public Works has estimated an additional annual cost of $5,500 for future maintenance of the pathway, if fully built out, along the west branch of the Little Cataraqui Creek. This cost includes grass cutting and trimming, forestry management, litter and waste collection, and graffiti removal,” explained Follwell. Council recently approved spending $3.4 million to extend the K&P Trail by 6.5 kilometres into the downtown core. R0013622478
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Odessa Lions Club hope to bring a natural play experience to the area in the New Year News – Growing up, Dave Savage loved playing outdoors, getting dirty and exploring nature. Now, he and the rest of the Odessa Lions Club, hope to provide those same fun experiences for kids growing up in the area today. “Playgrounds are a bit different for kids now and are all about plastic and artificial elements,” explained Savage. “Those things can get boring for kids and really aren’t the greatest in terms of cost, durability or function. We really want to focus on a natural approach.” Brainstorming for the project started a few years ago when the Odessa Lions were looking for a project that they could start in the community. They had originally thought about a splash pad, but after looking into cost and benefits of that idea they looked for a different approach. “My sister has two small kids and was over in England and saw a natural playground,” said Savage. “She suggested the idea to me and we thought it was really interesting. We connected with recreation services of the township and after a bit of back and forth we started looking into the project more seriously.” Through research, Savage and the Odessa Lions found Earthscape, a Canadian group that works to cre-
Example of an Earthscapes Natural playground. Photo/ Submitted
ate these natural plays spaces and recently built one in Batawa. An Earthscapes natural playground focuses on incorporating natural elements and materials into the design of a friendly play space. The goal is to provide opportunities for growth and play for children of all ages, abilities and play styles through the use of complex and challenging structures, with dynamic features encouraging climbing, balancing, jumping, mobility, strength, imagination and coordination. “We found some research and we actually found that the play value of the natural playgrounds is actually better than those other plastic playgrounds,” said Savage. “It has logs and stumps and natural areas and that is what kids like to play with, that is what I liked to play with as a kid and that is what our kids should have.” The Odessa Lions Club presented these ideas at their monthly meeting to two councilors from Loyalist Township and after positive feedback they brought the idea to the rest of council at the meeting on Dec. 14. “We are proposing a natural play space at the Babcock Mill,” explained Savage. “But we do need the support of council and the community to get our ideas going.” Council was very positive in their feedback
on the project and Savage hopes that bodes well for them in the New Year. Next, the project will go through recreation services and then hopefully back to council for further support. The Odessa Lions Club is asking for 50 per cent support from Loyalist Township, or $50,000 with the other $50,000 coming from community fundraising and the Lions Club itself. The group already has $25,000 ready for the
project and while costs for the project could range from $100,000 to $150,000, the play space could be completed in phases over time. “We are fully committed to the project and we are applying for a charitable tax number to hopefully raise even more funds,” said Savage. “It would be really unique for the area and I think that is really appealing. This is just the initial stage, but we are really hopeful.”
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CARDBOARD & STYROFOAM Please REMEMBER that any cardboard or packing styrofoam put out for recycle collection must be flattened and tied into bundles no more than 3’ X 2’ X 8” in size. Remove all staples and tape and put out no more than 2 bundles per pickup. Any more than 2 bundles or loose cardboard/Styrofoam may be left. If you have a stockpile of cardboard, it will be accepted free of charge at either the Portland or Loughborough WDS when open.
WINTER MAINTENANCE To assist our crews in their winter control efforts, the parking of vehicles on Township roads and village streets from 12:00 midnight to 7:00 a.m. is not permitted from December 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016. As well, pursuant to Section 181 of the Highway Traffic Act “No person shall deposit snow or ice on a roadway without permission in writing from the road authority responsible for the maintenance of the road. Please be advised that the Township of South Frontenac will NOT be responsible for damages to mailboxes, newspaper boxes, recycle boxes, garbage cans or parked cars where said boxes or vehicles interfere with the winter maintenance on Township roads.
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WINTER HOURS - HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DEPOT Winter hours have now begun for the Household Hazardous Waste Depot. For the month of January the HHW Depot will only be open January 14 and January 28 from 3pm to 7 pm. Please remember accepted items are hazardous materials, electronics and bale wrap only. A full listing of accepted materials may be found on our website under Living Here/Solid Waste/Recycling/ Household Hazardous Waste
PUBLIC SKATING AT FRONTENAC COMMUNITY ARENA Invite a friend and come out to the Frontenac Community Arena and enjoy a leisurely skate every Wednesday from 10:00 to 11:00 am and Sundays from 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm. The cost is $2.00 per person and a CSA approved helmet with screen is recommended. For more information see their website www.frontenacarena.com
COUNCIL MEETINGS The next regular Council meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 7:00 pm. The next Committee of the Whole meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm. Kingston Heritage/Frontenac - Thursday, January 7, 2016 4432 George Street, Box 100, SydenhamGazette ON K0H 2T0 613-376-3027 • 1-800-559-5862 • www.southfrontenac.net
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Conception préliminaire et étude d’évaluation environnementale Améliorations opérationnelles à l’échangeur de l’autoroute 401 et de la route 15 (GWP 4059-11-00)
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L’ÉTUDE Le ministère des Transports de l’Ontario (MTO) a retenu les services de WSP | MMM Group pour effectuer la conception préliminaire et l’étude d’évaluation environnementale sur les améliorations opérationnelles à l’échangeur de l’autoroute 401 et de la route 15 (échangeur 623), dans la ville de Kingston. L’étude a prévu des améliorations tant à court qu’à long terme. Les améliorations à long terme recommandées sont les suivantes : • une nouvelle configuration d’échangeur, avec de nouvelles bretelles au nord de l’autoroute 401, et des bretelles élargies au sud de cette autoroute; • l'ajout de voies de virage sur la route 15; • le remplacement du passage inférieur de la route 15 selon un nouveau tracé; et • un déplacement mineur de l’actuel terrain de covoiturage. LE PROCESSUS L’étude a été effectuée conformément au processus de planification approuvé pour les projets du groupe « B » en vertu de l’Évaluation environnementale de portée générale pour les installations provinciales de transport (2000) et le public aura l’occasion d’intervenir pendant toute la durée de l’étude. Le présent avis a pour but d’informer le public qu’un rapport d’étude environnementale sur les transports (REET) a été rédigé et sera disponible pour examen public pendant une période de 30 jours, soit du 7 janvier au 8 février 2016. Le REET pourra être consulté aux emplacements suivants pendant les heures d’ouverture : Hôtel de ville de Kingston 216, rue Ontario Kingston (Ontario) K7L 2Z3 Du lundi au vendredi, de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30
Ministère des Transports, région de l’Est 1355, boulevard John Counter Kingston (Ontario) K7L 5A3 Du lundi au vendredi, de 8 h 30 à 17 h
Bibliothèque publique de Kingston, succursale Pittsburgh 80, chemin Gore Kingston (Ontario) K7K 6X6 Du mardi au jeudi, de 10 h à 20 h Le samedi, de 9 h à 17 h
COMMENTAIRES Les personnes intéressées sont encouragées à examiner le REET et à formuler leurs commentaires, d’ici le 8 février 2016. Si, après avoir consulté le ministère des Transports, vous avez encore de graves préoccupations non résolues, vous avez le droit de demander que le ministère de l’Environnement (11e étage, immeuble Ferguson, 77, rue Wellesley Ouest, Toronto, Ontario M7A 2T5) « reclasse » le projet, c.-à-d. émette un arrêt en vertu de la partie II, lequel pourrait mener à la préparation d’une évaluation environnementale individuelle. Une copie de la demande devrait être envoyée aux adresses ci-dessous. S’il n’y a aucune préoccupation non résolue après le 8 février 2016, l’étude sera considérée comme satisfaisant aux exigences de l’Évaluation environnementale de portée générale. Si vous avez des questions ou des commentaires, n’hésitez pas à communiquer avec l’une ou l’autre des personnes suivantes : M. Michael Chiu, ing. Chargé de projet de la firme MMM Group Limited 2655, North Sheridan Way, bureau 300 Mississauga (Ontario) L5K 2P8 tél. : 905 823-8500 sans frais : 1 877 562-7947 téléc. : 905 823-8503 courriel : chium@mmm.ca
Mme Tina White Gestionnaire princ. du MTO chargée du projet Ministère des Transports, région de l’Est 1355, boulevard John Counter, Sac postal 4000 Kingston (Ontario) K7L 5A3 tél. : 613 545-4871 sans frais : 1 800 267-0295 téléc. : 613 540-5106 courriel : tina.white@ontario.ca
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Bottle Tree Productions launches its tenth season on February 24 with Ghost of the Tree, a poignant play about mothers, daughters, and family secrets. The show’s window card features the words, “The roots of sin run deep.” Sounds intriguing. Ten years ago, playwright and director Charles Robertson, who founded Bottle Tree Productions, wrote a play to feature the acting skills of young KCVI actor Mackenzie Gruer in the Sears Festival. The play became Ghost of the Tree and made it to the finals of the festival. “I wanted to create the kind of show that would only work with a virtuoso character,” said Robertson. “Mackenzie won best actress in the Sears Festival, as well as extra awards. She has to play seven roles. The play opens with a young girl coming back to the old family home, a big Victorian mansion that’s falling apart and empty.” Robertson described the play as a history thriller in which you get the viewpoint of people from different generations, including the girl’s mother and grandmother. “In life, people tell stories to get by. They tell these stories to themselves and to others. Ghost of the Tree looks at these stories from the girl’s past. The audience finds out the truth at the end, but none of the characters knows the whole story.” Robertson explained that it’s a show that should have universal appeal, but he has found that women often like it more than men do. One of the issues dealt with is what women really think about men, and sometimes men don’t like to hear that.
“It’s interesting; a lot of women will talk to me and say, ‘You’re a guy, how can you be so into how we think?’ But I think it’s actually about how anyone thinks. All people think differently, but it’s neat if I write what I believe in and people say they can identify with it.” In addition to the girl who returns to her family home, there is also a tree (Sasha French). “This tree is very ethereal and haunting,” said Robertson. “She represents the female line of the house and occasionally comes in to be a character.” A musician (Darryl Bryan) accompanies the character on stage. In previous productions, the musician has played such instruments as a violin and a guitar. In the upcoming Bottletree production, Darryl Bryan plays a flute. “Music is always good to enrich the emotional experience of the show.” Robertson said he was stunned by audience reactions during the play’s early performances. “By the second scene, people were laughing, and at the end they were crying, so we knew it had worked.” During the show, the audience experiences the house being built as well as the planting of the tree. By the end, the tree is falling apart and so is the house. Robertson explained that the show is called Ghost of the Tree because the tree is related to the original sin of the family line. “The tree is an active participant and has hurt people through the family line.” Robertson said the play involves an epic story. “You don’t necessarily go to see this show for great acting, although it has that. “It’s a very emotional story. It could almost be seen as a huge soap opera over the centuries. Continued on page 14 R0012783232
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higher than a competing bid from Taggart Construction, but city officials say Corcoran’s bid was superior in detail and addressed many of the finer details such as working in cold weather, aggressive completion timelines, pedestrian safety and public relations, continued access to businesses and risk management plans. Officials with Taggart have suggested they may pursue legal action against the city for not accepting their lower bid. Corcoran says the project is incredibly complex but his firm’s experience on previous Big Digs made the difference. “Taggart is an excellent company. I have so much respect for them but they have not worked in that environment - not with the bar raised as high as we have in the last couple of years. That’s where the gap in the price is.” Whether the weather cooperates or not, Corcoran is confident of meeting a tight timeline to complete Princess Street’s reconstruction by Canada Day. “That’s the commitment. It’s an incredibly aggressive schedule but we are confident we can get it done.”
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And, Corcoran says worker productivity in the outdoor elements will also be put to the test. “Think about the productive hours that your workforce gets. Go stand outside for an hour in January. After 10 minutes it’s time to get warm. So those things chase the costs up significantly for the winter work,” he explained. Downtown businesses have been well-briefed on the construction disruption that’s about to start. Many are already planning to downsize their staff in anticipation of a drop in customers. But the contractor must make accommodations for those merchants on the front lines of the road work to keep their businesses accessible for store deliveries and customer foot traffic. Corcoran says the combination of construction in the winter and accommodating stores is what drove up the contract price beyond the city’s initial project estimate of $10 million. He says extra staff, also called greeters, will be brought in to guide shoppers around the construction zones. “There’s a whole lot of bodies there who aren’t doing any physi“THERE ARE GREAT JOBS IN THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY” NEXT CLASS STARTS ON JANUARY 11, 2016 cal work. People AIR BRAKE CERTIFICATION COURSE JANUARY 14-15, 2016 come to a corner and have a blank look on their face. And one of our staff TRUCK TRAINING ACADEMY comes up and 10-12 Maple Avenue, Smiths Falls ON K7A 1Z5 says ‘Excuse me For course information please call 1-866-529-1113 or 613-742-7499 sir, can we help $ CALL TO DISCUSS FUNDING OPTIONS $ you? Where are you trying to go?’ That’s what our folks will do.” The contract given to CorcoCOACH & TOURS ran was one million dollars
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THE STUDY The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) retained WSP | MMM Group to complete a Preliminary Design and Environmental Assessment Study for operational improvements to the Highway 401 interchange at Highway 15 (interchange 623) in the City of Kingston. The study identified both short-term and long-term improvements to the interchange. The recommended long-term improvements include: • A new interchange configuration, with new ramps north of Highway 401 and widened ramps south of Highway 401; • The addition of turning lanes on Highway 15; • Replacement of the Highway 15 underpass on a new alignment; and • A minor shift in the location of the existing carpool lot. THE PROCESS The study was carried out in accordance with the approved planning process for Group ‘B’ projects under the Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) for Provincial Transportation Facilities (2000), with the opportunity for public input throughout. The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that a Transportation Environmental Study Report (TESR) has been completed and will be available for a 30-day public review period from January 7, 2016 to February 8, 2016. The TESR can be reviewed at the following locations during normal hours of operation: Kingston City Hall 216 Ontario Street Kingston, ON K7L 2Z3 Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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A few things I learned in 2015 I think I will always remember 2015 as the year I aged 10 years in 365 days. There are lines under my eyes that I’m pretty sure weren’t there a year ago. Or maybe I’m just noticing them now because I feel older. 2015 was also the year I grew a backbone, after all, and learned some key facts about human nature that have left me feeling wise. Most notably: 1) Toddlers are smarter than you think. If you underestimate them, they will trick you into getting their way. 2) People absolutely hate it when you correct their grammar. Just don’t correct people’s grammar if you want to be well liked. Shut up and feel superior in silence. (Yes, I should have learned this lesson long ago but it never fully sunk in until now.) 3) People really, really like to read news stories about death and destruction - even when they say they want to read good news about nice things happening in the community. People are liars, basically.
4) People don’t like to think too hard about things. They will ‘like’ and share things on social media based on the headline alone, without actually clicking on the link to read the story. What will make them click on a link? A photo of a car engulfed in flames on the 401, ideally if someone has been taken to hospital with life threatening injuries. 5) It’s okay to cry at work. If other people don’t like the fact that you are crying at work, that’s their problem, not yours. Maybe they should try a good cry themselves, it’s actually very cathartic. 6) Having a healthy work/home life balance is important. I haven’t figured out how to accomplish this yet, but have concluded it’s something I need. I think it might be a good goal for 2016. Some other goals for the new year? 1) Be healthier. I got a Fitbit for Christmas and am already obsessed with it. I am not overweight, but I am interested in being more ‘fit’ – drinking less wine and more tea, paying closer attention to my activity vs. calories I eat, etc. I’ve never really thought about this sort of thing before; it’s kind of alarming how many calories are in basically everything I like to eat. Except kale, but telling
people you love kale will make them hate you even more than correcting their grammar will. 2) Read more books (while pacing around the house, getting my Fitbit steps in). My reading goal for 2015 was 12 books, and while I stopped counting at some point during the summer I know I blew this goal out of the water. This year I’ve decided on 20 books: setting the bar a little higher but still keeping it manageable. 3) Be more present for my family, especially Summer. This is related to the whole work/life balance thing. She deserves a mom who can physically and mentally step away from monitoring web traffic to read a bedtime story. 4) Learn to accept and make the most of circumstances, such as not being bitter about a lack of tropical vacation. This is the ultimate first world problem, I know, but for the past several years we’ve briefly escaped winter/very early spring to spend a week in the Caribbean and it was glorious. We can’t this year because all our money is going to the new house/ mortgage and, to be frank, it sucks. At the same time, this is the only winter of 2016 I’ll ever get. Other good things can still happen and I want to make the most of it.
One thing all guitar players have in common is a wish list but there are still a few of us old around (let’s say country rockers). And judging by all the Facebook posts mourning the death Kanata Kourier-Standard of Motorhead’s Lemmy last week, Arnprior Chronicle-Guide there are more than a few closet metal-heads as well. But regardless of genre leanings, Arnprior Chronicle-Guide Column — It’s been said that there there are two things all guitarists are fourteen hundred and ninety-two have in common — callouses on all West Carleton guitar pickers in Nashville. Review four fingers of the left hand and . . Now it’s unlikely we have that . a wish list of guitars we’d like to many in Frontenac County Review given have (all I want is a brand new bus West Carleton that the population of Nashville full of old guitars). is about 660,000 and we’re about I’m no exception and there are a 29,000. But we certainly have our number of axes I’d like to own one share. day. Now a great percentage of both Here’s my wish list. the Nashville and Frontenac County 1. Rickenbacker 360/12 . . . & Regional Publisher Mike Mount guitar pickers are country types Vice President The only decision to be made mmount@perfprint.ca
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Editorial - According to BBM Canada, the average Canadian watches a whopping 30 hours of television a week or about four hours and 20 minutes a day. Many of these hours are spent watching television through a cable subscription, or at least they used to be. In recent years, basically since the emergence of Netflix, cable subscribers have become more and more vocal about their dissatisfaction with cable companies. Many feel they are paying too much for what they get and feel as though they are being forced into channel ‘packages’ that may not suit their tastes. Some, especially in younger generations, have even gone as far as cancelling cable and just using streaming services. These changes have inevitably had an impact on cable companies and just like the music industry and even taxi companies, cable companies have been forced to adapt to their consumers and revaluate how they do business. Beginning March 1, 2016, all Canadian TV providers will have to offer a basic package of channels for no more than $25 a month and give consumers the option of ordering individual channels Ă la carte or in small bundles. By December, TV providers must offer both Ă la carte ordering and small channel bundles. This seems to be good news, but major companies are still tiptoeing around the details of these options, leaving us skeptical about the outcomes. Both Bell Media and Rogers Media have yet to release details about their so-called ‘skinny’ plans and whether the add-on options will actually allow for a cheaper cable bill. The fear is that cable companies may try to make up the difference by not allowing cable, internet and phone bundles and some may up their internet costs in order to capitalize on consumers who choose to stream instead of buy into cable packages. On top of all this, various niche channels might not be able to survive such a system. Smaller, less popular channels that benefit from being a part of packages will no longer see those benefits and may have to adapt accordingly or may be forced to shut down. It is clear that the system needs to change, but at what cost? A cable buffet seems to be a step in the right direction, but only time will tell. Perhaps it is time to revaluate how you spend those 30 hours a week.
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Editorial – Councillors will face a million dollar dilemma at their first meeting of the New Year. They’re expected to resume a debate over awarding a costly contract to complete the preliminary bridge design for the muchtouted third crossing of the Cataraqui River. It’s a key component to getting the project shovel ready within the next two years. A political debate was touched off in December when senior staff recommended a $2.3 million contract be awarded to the J.L. Richards design team, even though two of the four other competing bids said they could do the job for a much lower price of $1.3 million. The optics of selecting the highest bid certainly look bad on a city that’s trying to save money where it can, even though the $2.3 million is still within the project’s budget envelope. So why should the city spend an extra million bucks? Why seek competitive bids when the lowest price doesn’t win? Those are among the questions and concerns the city’s in-house engineering staff started to address before the debate was deferred. Confused councillors shelved the bridge design report to Jan. 12 to try and better understand the rationale behind the controversial recommendation. You’d expect those kind of questions from critics who still aren’t convinced the 1.1 kilometre east-west transportation link is necessary given the recent widening of Highway 401 and a greater investment in public transit to reduce traffic congestion. Instead, it was bridge supporters leading the charge for fiscal justification and accountability.
Coun. Adam Candon, much to the chagrin of east end councillor and staunch bridge advocate Ryan Boehme, struggled to understand what makes the J.L. Richards bid so much better than the rest. After all, staff admitted all five bids come from reputable firms that have built bridges before, including across the Rideau Canal waterway that is a UNESCO world heritage site. “I feel if you’re going to be double the price you need a heck of a sales pitch and I don’t think that sales pitch was there,” explained Candon. Coun. Boehme countered that cost isn’t the only deciding factor, noting staff are looking for creative ways to make sure the bridge design meets heritage, environmental, active transportation and a raft of other standards that will be demanded by the provincial and federal governments. The city may own the bridge, but other governments have jurisdiction over the waterway. “Different companies bring different methodologies,” said Boehme. Mark Van Buren, the director of engineering tasked to explain the higher-priced contract, insisted J.L. Richards’ plan is the best qualified and got strong marks for its non-financial details such as experience, work plan, creativity, innovation, vision and accessibility. The same firm did, in fact, prepare the complex environmental assessment a few years ago that recommended a bridge connecting John Counter Blvd. to Gore Road, so it’s already done much of the legwork. Kingston’s conundrum – similar to the city’s go-with-the-highest Big Dig 3 contract bid – is that councillors approved the terms of grading the Request for Proposals that they are now questioning. The evaluation process, which was outlined in detail in the RFP document, was based on the following evaluation criteria: Experience, Qualifications and Availability of Team Members – 20 per cent, Understanding of Objectives, Proposed Work Plan, Schedule, and Level of Effort – 22 per cent, Creativity, Innovation and Vision, Quality of Approach and Meth-
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Column - “Wow, it sure is beautiful out for December.” I had conversations like this again and again during the early holidays, as temperatures around the Kingston area soared to 16 degrees Celsius. Almost inevitably, these exchanges would be followed by some acknowledgment of global warming: an awkward joke, a grimace, or nervous laughter. “What terrifyingly nice weather we’re having.” Reports from Central Park in Manhattan
announced over the holidays that the previous record high for Christmas Eve had been broken—by the 2015 low temperature. The past year, 2015, broke the record to become the warmest year on record. Of course, this has become almost a yearly routine. Hohum. Yet another record-breaking warm year. It piles up. The last five year period is the warmest five year period ever recorded. We did break one record that doesn’t come around every new year, however. A very innocuous sounding record: we passed the one degree mark. That is, the world’s average tem-
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the atmosphere. The Amazon, a global air conditioner, withers from drought. It wouldn’t take much more. Even the conservative political consensus out of the recent conference in Paris was that more than two degrees of warming would lead to catastrophe for all of us. (Even knowing that, they produced a climate agreement that is non-binding and essentially unenforceable.) It took us centuries to reach that first degree. But our climate emissions—from the tar sands, in particular—have grown so explosively that we’ll lock in that second degree within decades. Already, there are troubling signs that the ability of the oceans to buffer climate change is breaking down. We may have to deal with another half a degree of warming from that alone. As a farmer, one of the first things I worry about is global warming’s impact on food. We live in a temperate climate in Ontario, and we can cope for a while. But most of the world is far more precarious, and millions of people are already becoming climate refugees. It’s unsettling to ring in another new year to record-breaking temperatures. But what I find truly frightening is the notion that we might one day find the effects of climate change routine. Record numbers of refugees? Oh well, just like last year. Record droughts, yet again? Hohum. Ho-hum. Or we can break that routine. We can act. But we don’t have much time. Aric McBay is a farmer and author.
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Rabid raccoons in Ontario prompt warnings to local pet owners By Hollie Pratt-Campbell hpratt-campbell@perfprint.ca
News - After rabies made an appearance in Ontario last month for the first time in 10 years, officials at KFL&A Public Health are urging residents to take precautions to protect themselves and their pets from the devastating virus. While the raccoon rabies strain is highly prevalent in New York State, it hasn’t been seen in Ontario since 2005. According to the City of Hamilton, a total of 10 cases of rabies were found in that city during the month of December; while that might seem far away from us here in the Kingston area, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be careful. In order to prevent the spread of rabies, the Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry (MNRF) distributes an edible rabies vaccine in bait in regions with high populations of foxes,
raccoons and skunks annually. The vaccine that is absorbed through the lining of the animal’s mouth. Animals are said to become immune to rabies approximately two weeks after ingesting the vaccine. Following the detection of cases of raccoon rabies in Hamilton, MNRF will be implementing increased surveillance and other interventions to prevent the further spread of this virus in wildlife. Still, pet owners and residents in our area are urged to exercise caution by keeping dogs and cats up to date with rabies vaccinations; preventing dogs and cats from roaming offleash; and avoiding all contact with wild animals, including contact between pets and wildlife. There are two main ways in which animals can exhibit rabies symptoms: “furious rabies”, where the animal will exhibit aggressive behaviour
and seem vicious, and “dumb rabies”, where the animal becomes paralytic and docile, but seems to be having trouble with movement and maybe is drooling; however, animals can be infected with the virus before they start showing any of these symptoms. Rabies is transmitted through the saliva of an infectious bite, or possibly through an infectious scratch. Residents are asked to report wild animals exhibiting abnormal behaviour (particularly raccoons) to either the local Animal Control services, or directly to the MNRF Rabies Hotline at 1-888-5746656. People are also asked to report all animal bites and other possible exposures, including contamination with the saliva of animals to scratches, abrasions or cuts of the skin or mucous membranes to KFL&A Public Health at 613549-1232 ext. 1441.
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are also working with them on resolving maintenance requirements for the docks on both Howe and Simcoe Islands,” he said. “ The Howe ward established a Ferry committee which has been very successful in working with MTO and we have recently decided to do the same in the Wolfe ward with the prime objective of helping with the EA underway and determining how we can cope with the traffic until we get the new and larger second ferry in operation. We will also be working with the province political representatives, and MTO staff, to prioritize building the backup ferry which hopefully will be available in the two year time frame, while the larger ferry may realistically take 4 to 5 years. It’s obvious by working with our provincial partners to solve the issues we can come up with positive and significant improvements,” Mayor Doyle said. Mayor Doyle was enthusiastic in his thanks to the Wolfe Island Waste Management Committee. “We have successfully transitioned the Wolfe waste site to a transfer station within budget. We are also diverting bio-waste to the De Bruin bio digester, an improvement which other municipalities have told us, can reduce normal waste by 35 to 40%. If everyone participates in this program that means up to 40% fewer trips to haul garbage across on the ferry.” There was mention of road improvements and of course the establishment of a community Keylock Gas pump station. Aspirations for the future of Frontenac Islands include moving forward on as much road work as is affordable, the senior housing project, improvements to the Howe Foot and Simcoe Island Ferry systems, increase of By-law enforcement, continuing to implement best management/business practices, and continuing to improve waste management and recycling, and looking for more cost effective ways to provide policing, which has increased by nearly four times our previous cost ( of major concern to all townships.) ”We hope to do all of this while keeping tax increases close to the inflation rate and will continue with the special levy of setting aside 1% of the overall budget to assist with asset replacement to address our current infrastructure deficit,” Doyle said. In summarizing his term as Warden of Frontenac County and his ongoing participation as a member of County Council, Mayor Doyle commented on a very busy year. “We transitioned to a new Council with 5 new County Councillors, negotiated three union contracts, finalized the first Official Plan, worked on a senior housing plan, established a better working relation with the City of Kingston and our Provincial and Fed-
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ma now paints on giant four or five foot canvases and uses a stepladder to reach the top. He enjoys creating such big works and his favourite is a piece entitled ‘The Good, the Bad and the Vibrant’ - an elaborate portrait of Clint Eastwood. Recently, Sharma applied to a prestigious art show in Toronto and was selected from a jury of independent art professionals to display at the show alongside 200 other artists from around the world. “I’m not sure what I am going to take yet, but I am thinking about taking a few landscapes and a few portraits to the show,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to meeting different artists and asking them questions about their styles and techniques.” The show takes place in February and until then Sharma will continue to display his art locally at both Days on Front and the Tett Centre, where his interpretation of Peggy’s Cove can be seen as community members go down the stairs. He hopes to continue working on his painting skills and learning more, but he is unsure whether or not painting will become a career in the future. “I love it and it is a great activity where you can really express yourself and put what you want onto canvas,” he said. “I’m not sure if it will turn into a career or a hobby just yet, we’ll see.” His parents feel the same way and are happy with the recognition he has received so far. “It is lovely for us and for him,” added mom. “We are surprised by the attention but also very proud.”
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Happiness helped warm the heart during a cold winter’s day While in the depth of winter, I expected the barns to be bitterly cold inside. But I was always amazed at how warm the cow byre was when the temperatures dipped well below zero. Certainly, there was no stove in there to take off the chill.
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