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Third crossing gets green light from council

BY BILL HUTCHINS

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A community debate that’s spanned 50 years was finally decided, as city councillors voted to build a bridge across the Cataraqui River.

The historic 8-5 vote in favour of the third crossing project was made close to midnight on June 14, following a marathon 10-hour council meeting that spanned two nights.

“It’s a day I will always remember. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this was one of the biggest votes in the history of our city,” said Mayor Bryan Paterson, a longtime champion of the bridge.

The mayor says the 1.1 kilometre two-lane bridge — plus a four-metre wide multi-use pathway for pedestrians and cyclists — will benefit the entire city. That message was a tipping point in the debate, he added.

“At one point, the third crossing was seen as

primarily benefiting just the east end of the city.

But, I think the realization took hold of council that this is for the rural area, the east end, the north end, the downtown and the west end.”

Pittsburgh Coun. Ryan Boehme, also a staunch bridge supporter, credited public pressure on councillors to build the bridge.

“With all the polls, all the public consultation, all the engagement, this was a true effort of ‘yes’ people standing up and making their voices heard.”

Coun. Boehme hailed the bridge as a project that will “connect the city” in a way that’s never happened since before amalgamation. He noted the city does not own one urban crossing between the east and west ends, and the other bridges are operated by either the provincial or federal governments.

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Kingston’s third crossing gets green light from council Continued from page 1

Coun. George reminded council of the province’s 1998 amalgamation order that puts a high priority on “road linkages” to the former Pittsburgh Township.

But, council’s support for the $180 million transportation link remains contingent on receiving one-third funding, or $60 million, from the federal government. Local MP Mark Gerretsen has expressed optimism the federal money will flow.

The Ontario government announced on June 13 that it will put up its one-third share. The city will also kick in $60 million through a combination of cash, long-term debt and development charges.

Officials said the earliest bridge construction can start is 2019, linking John Counter Boulevard on the west shore with Gore Road on the east side of the river.

Those voting in favour were Mayor Paterson, plus councillors Ryan Boehme, Adam Candon, Kevin George, Gary Oosterhof, Lisa Osanic, Liz Schell and Laura Turner.

Councillors voting against it were Mary Rita Holland, Rob Hutchison, Jeff McLaren, Jim Neill and Peter Stroud.

There was a clear voting line between suburban councillors in favour and central Kingston opponents, a point observed by Coun. Stroud.

“The outcome was never in doubt,” he said, adding, “The car dependent citizens outnumber the non-car dependent residents.”

But, councillors also heard during the lengthy debate that police, fire and ambulance officials

badly wanted another route across the river in order to improve emergency response times. It was a theme several councillors repeated.

“It’s nice to have the options,” said Paul Charbonneau, chief of paramedic services for Frontenac County.

He added, “We know the LaSalle Causeway will continue to need repairs, we know the 401 will continue to have accidents, and I’m sure there will be times the third crossing will be a problem as well — but at least we’ll have three options to get people to hospital when we need to.”

The landmark council meeting gave residents one last chance to address politicians, while staff outlined the various bridge costs, designs, business plans and financial reports before councillors took their turn speaking. The committee of the whole format, offering more relaxed procedural rules, allowed each councillor up to five minutes of speaking time for as many times as they wanted — and many took full advantage.

At one point, Coun. Candon noted his colleagues were “beating a dead horse” by pressing ahead with arguments that would not sway the pro-bridge majority. “It’s probably one of easiest decisions I’ll make all week to support the third crossing.”

But, bridge critics say they continue to have real concerns about how the city can pay for its share, the impact on property taxes and the possibility of a new bridge generating more traffic and suburban sprawl.

“They don’t call this a span to sprawl for nothing,” observed Coun. Hutchison. “We are not ready for this bridge.”

He also predicted the city’s capital tax — a one per cent levy that’s attached to annual property tax bills to finance a variety of infrastructure projects — will remain a fixture of tax bills as long as the bridge financing is needed.

However, Mayor Paterson disagrees with claims that taxes will rise to pay for the crossing. “It is a lot of money that we have approved, but we’ve been very clear in the direction to staff that it has to fit within our existing budget. We have already mandated to staff that we will not tolerate an increase in property taxes.”

Officials say the city’s $60 million bridge funding share includes $30 million from devel-

opment charges that have been collected since 1999, plus $15 million in infrastructure money that’s already set aside, and another $15 million through long-term debt financing.

A cost-benefits analysis suggested the bridge will produce benefits such as reduced commuting times and congestion, less pollution and enhanced transit activity. It’s estimated the new bridge will draw 70 per cent of its users from Highway 401 and 30 per cent from the causeway.

The analysis also found that the average commuter distance will be five kilometres shorter and save eight minutes in travel time by using the bridge.

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Federal funding for third crossing ‘shouldn’t be a problem’: MP Gerretsen

BY BILL HUTCHINS

With a $60 million bridge funding commitment from the province in hand, city officials are optimistic that matching federal money will soon flow to the project as well.

“To have a signal of support from the provincial government going into the council meeting is huge,” said Mayor Bryan Paterson prior to council deliberations on the third crossing on Tuesday.

Ontario transportation minister Steven Del Duca joined

with the mayor, local MPP Sophie Kiwala, and MP Mark Gerretsen in Memorial Hall to unveil the provincial funding just hours before a special council meeting was set to decide the fate of the bridge.

Mayor Paterson says it’s been clear from the outset that construction of the $180 million bridge crossing cannot proceed without one-third funding support each, or $120 million in total, from upper levels of government.

“You need the provincial

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Del Duca says Ontario’s decision to put up its one-third funding share for Kingston’s infrastructure project was actually made in the recent provincial budget, but not publicly unveiled until June 13.

He says the proposed bridge, which still needed council support, will provide alternate routes for commuters, decrease traffic congestion along the LaSalle Causeway, provide addi-

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“We are making an unprecedented investment in infrastructure in every corner of Ontario,” Del Duca explained, adding it is part of his government’s $190 billion investment in Ontario over the next 13 years.

On leveraging the Kingston investment, he added: “Obviously we’re hopeful the Feds will be at the table as well.”

Though he couldn’t give a firm commitment at this point, Gerretsen voiced optimism that matching federal funding for Kingston’s proposed bridge will be seriously considered now that the province is behind it.

“The federal government very rarely gets involved in picking individual projects to do. They rely on the provincial government to prioritize the infrastructure projects. So the big hurdle here always was getting the provincial government to sponsor the project.”

Of the anticipated federal funding, he added: “Provided (the bridge) meets the criteria, it shouldn’t be a problem.”

Gerretsen says he will “ob-

Third crossing bridge design Submitted photo

viously” continue to lobby his government to finalize a matching $60 million contribution to the third crossing. The city plans to pay its $60 million share through a combination of cash in hand, long-term debt, and development charges.

The local MP says Ottawa has multiple funding envelopes available to support infrastructure work but couldn’t say which one might support Kingston’s bridge.

Gerretsen, who supported the need for a city-owned bridge during his time as Kingston’s mayor, says the project makes sense for job creation, economic activity, and meeting the city’s long-term transportation needs. “Why would you not support it … when you’re only

paying a third?”

Subject to final council approval, the city is expected to begin construction of the fixed link over the Cataraqui River — located midway between the causeway and 401 — in 2019.

Provincial and local officials also clarified that while the bridge funding commitment is large, it is not the single biggest government investment made in Kingston.

They pointed to the newlyopened Providence Care Hospital, Ravensview sewage plant upgrades, downtown’s Big Dig phases, and the ongoing widening of John Counter Boulevard as other major infrastructure projects that have relied on either municipal or senior government funding.

Pub Gate: Two councillors apologize for leaving crucial bridge meeting to dine

BY BILL HUTCHINS

Two city councillors have apologized for ducking out of an important council meeting at the height of the bridge debate in order to grab a bite to eat.

Councillors Mary Rita Holland and Peter Stroud were spotted in the Tir Nan Og pub, located beside city hall on Ontario Street, on the evening of Tuesday, June 13. They left the council meeting just before 8 p.m. to have dinner while city staff were in the middle of briefi ng councillors on the third bridge crossing studies.

Members of a pro-bridge group witnessed the pair dining, and a complaint was later filed with the clerk’s office on behalf of frustrated taxpayers.

“There was a complaint because I was seen grabbing a bite to eat at Tir Nan Og during the briefing,” Coun. Stroud later admitted to reporters.

But the Sydenham district councillor defended his dinner break, adding that he did not intend to show disrespect to city staff who had spent countless hours preparing for the crucial political briefing.

Coun. Stroud said he met with the city’s point man on the bridge project prior to the council meeting and was fully aware of the presentation he was about to deliver. “I had already covered all of those points with Mr. Van Buren (city engineering director) in a two-hour face-to-face meeting.”

Coun. Stroud said he also tried unsuccessfully at the outset of the marathon council meeting to eliminate staff briefings from the agenda in order

to fast-track the meeting, but his amendment was defeated. “And then that part of the briefing came up that I knew I wasn’t going to learn anything from. I made my own decision to take care of my own needs.”

Several people were not impressed to see the duo dining on council time. Though she didn’t witness the duck-and-dine, Catherine Phillipson says she was “very displeased” and decided to file a complaint to city officials to protest their behaviour at a time when their colleagues were glued to staff briefings on the first of two marathon council nights to discuss the fate of the $180 million bridge project.

However, both Stroud and Holland have since apologized to the complainant.

“I apologized. She accepted my apology, and that’s where we are,” Stroud told reporters.

In a June 14 email sent to Phillipson by Stroud, he clarified he was on a “10-minute break” in the middle of a fi ve-hour meeting. “I believe Canadian labour law gives each employer a right to a 15-minute break for each four hours of work.”

His emailed apology and explanation was also addressed to the mayor, clerk and all councillors.

In an email from Coun. Holland to Phillipson, the councillor also apologized for her behaviour.

“We requested the removal of the briefings because we have spent many hours meeting with staff on this issue and thought the time would be best spent hearing from the public,” Coun. Holland wrote.

She added, “As that did not happen, I left the chambers in protest (as you noted) and partly to

take a break at a time in (the) meeting when members of the public would not be speaking.”

The staff briefi ngs started after two hours of public delegations had wrapped up.

In an email reply, Phillipson indicated she will “not be wasting my time or the staff’s time” investigating the matter. “I feel that you owe your fellow council members and the mayor an apology, however,” she added.

Coun. Stroud acknowledges the optics of leaving such an important meeting were not good.

“That is true. Had I a press secretary, they probably would’ve been mad at me, because it was bad from an optics point of view for sure.”

But, even prompt apologies may not be the end of Pub Gate.

Mayor Bryan Paterson said because a complaint was fi led, the matter has to be referred to the clerk and city solicitor to determine if further investigation is warranted.

Clause 10.8 of council’s procedural bylaw states, in part, that “members of council must not leave their places without first advising the chair.”

It’s unclear if either Stroud or Holland had advised the mayor of their dinner break, or how long they were gone from the horseshoe.

However, on the second night of the council meeting, Coun. Stroud said he was extra careful about leaving his seat. “I made sure to ask permission from his worship to go the bathroom this time.”

Both councillors later voted against the bridge.

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Councillors seek breakdown of municipal costs for The Breakout Project

BY BILL HUTCHINS

It may have been touted as an epic talent showcase, but some are wondering if the hype justified the tax investment.

Organizers behind The Breakout Project appeared before council to tout the success of the first-ever innovative showcase and competition, held May 10 to May 12 at Fort Henry. The event, organized by a nonprofit group of entrepreneurs from Innovate Kingston, managed to secure about $1 million in mostly-government funding to support the inaugural event — including $100,000 from the city and $600,000 from the provincial government.

“The five-year goal of Innovate Kingston is to create $100 million worth of business in Kingston,” explained director Grant Goodwin of the purpose of The Breakout Project.

The event format brought

together various teams to brainstorm innovative ideas that could attract human and financial capital investment to help propel their ideas from concept to reality over the next year. The teams were sequestered at the fort for two sleepless nights.

“The event attracted a local and global audience, including 700 people at project headquarters in the fort, plus 60,000 hours of video watched and 10 million transitional media impressions,” Goodwin explained.

“Much of the story was unseeable.”

He also noted there were 325,000 hours of volunteer support, mostly coming from online followers, offered to various teams over the 48hour brainstorming period.

“We have leapfrogged the need for money.”

Despite the glowing assessment, councillors had some value-for-money questions related to The Breakout Project.

Organizers initially told council the social and technological brainstorming event would attract 30 teams of up to 10 participants each, plus corporate CEOs and wellknown entrepreneurs. Instead, there were seven teams registered to participate from Picton, Montreal, Toronto and four teams from Kingston.

“You foresaw this as an international event, but most teams only came from eastern Ontario,” said Coun. Jim Neill.

Goodwin explained the group had to downsize its expectations, based on available funding and a shift in emphasis to showcase mainly local ideas that were focused on topics such as youth, indigenous people and education.

“It was a very humbling experience,” said Hakeem Subair, creator of the 1 Million Teachers project that aims to use online technology to train a million teachers in 365 days in impoverished na-

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Coun. Neill also expressed the need for an audit of how the city’s share was spent.

City officials say it was earmarked solely to stage a wrap-up concert in Market Square featuring The Sam Roberts Band.

Community services commissioner Lanie Hurdle assured council the $100,000 municipal investment was managed by staff to stage the free outdoor public concert and not given to The Breakout Project directly. “The funding never actually left the city,” she said, adding, “It was never transferred to Innovate Kingston. It was managed internally.”

The city-funded live concert drew an estimated 4,500 spectators to the square on the project’s last day, Friday, May 12.

Coun. Rob Hutchison also asked whether city officials should do an analysis to “vouch for those numbers.”

However, Hurdle expressed

confidence in how the municipal contribution was managed and the partnership with Innovate Kingston, adding the city will continue to work with the group to foster economic development and social innovation.

She explained, “We haven’t done an audit … we’d like to see them improve on what they’ve started.”

Hurdle says that even though Innovate Kingston representatives appeared before council to provide a status update, there was no formal requirement for them to do so. “We have no reason to doubt they’d bring information that isn’t accurate.”

As for the $600,000 provincial grant, Hurdle said it was outside the city’s responsibility to audit.

Coun. Hutchison defended tough questions about The Breakout Project’s spending of tax money.

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Behind these dancers are teachers who selflessly pour their hearts into their students’ development.

Over the past two weeks, I took in performances

by Arabesque Academy of Dance, TK Danceworx, and the Kingston School of Dance.

For those sitting in the audience, the hundreds of hours of work are invisible.

The teachers behind it all remain in the psyche’s of their young dancers forever.

Below the main stage of New York City Ballet exists a labyrinth of offices, lockers, practise halls, and storage areas. A few years ago, principal dancer Sara Mearns kicked back after a few hours of morning rehearsal, and we chatted. Considered by many to be the best dancer in the world, she maintains a fondness for her first teacher, whom Sara refers to as Miss Anne, AKA Anne Brodie.

That a principal ballerina with NYCB would still refer to her first teacher as Miss Anne is indicative of the importance that the teachers play in the lives of all dancers.

“Miss Anne was my teacher from the age of three until I was 12,” said Sara Mearns. “I became so comfortable on stage because she had us perform hard stuff at the young age of 10.”

By that age, thanks to the inspiration, encouragement, and discipline of this teacher, Sara was en pointe, a tough, brutal technique for any age.

A world full of Miss Anne-type teachers goes into the shows that the public witnessed in Kingston over the past couple of weeks.

In 2018, Kingston School of Dance will mark its 50th Anniversary, quite a feat for what started as a little community ballet school in 1958. In the following year, TK Danceworx celebrates 25 years in the community, a major achievement for a private dance studio. This year, Arabesque Academy of Dance, completed its first year on the Kingston scene and somehow managed to pull off a full dance production, complete with costumes, despite having the rug pulled out from under them by its rented performance space cancelling at the last minute.

“It takes a tremendous amount of work,” said Erin Tackaberry, the artistic director of Arabesque.

“The planning essentially starts a year before, trying to lock down a suitable venue for the performance.”

That didn’t exactly go as planned.

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Older dancers and volunteers all help out, but the major responsibilities rest with the artistic staff.

At TK Danceworx, director Tina Kyle has a number of costumes stored for performances, but for a major end-of-year show, many costumes have to be created/ordered. She also has to create the show program, music set lists, and decorations.

“I search for fun music and decide on the theme,” she said.

Vacation is not a word in her vocabulary. The day after last weekend’s performance was spent at the studio creating a music video. Over the next two weeks, preparations are under way for dance exams. Immediately after the exams, the school takes part in the Canada Day Parade and then a performance at the Tall Ships in Bath.

At the Kingston School of Dance, two days after the end-of-year show, preparations were under way for next year’s 50th anniversary performance.

Dancers from TK Danceworx perform in the end-of-year production, Beach Slam, at the Ambassador Conference Centre last weekend.

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EDITORIAL

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I still love my job

I never really thought I would be a writer or a newspaper reporter. I may have mentioned this before in a previous column, but I honestly never thought I would be in the job I’m in.

When I finished university with an English degree I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. I thought about a teaching career, but quickly realized I didn’t have the patience for it and then I started looking for other options. I stumbled upon a Graduate Certificate Program at Centennial College in Toronto in book and magazine publishing and decided to take that route. While I enjoyed everything I learned there, my internship that went along with the program presented me with an opportunity to write a newspaper article in my first week and the rest is history (a bit of a longer history, but that is the just of it). I explain all of this because I get

asked to explain where ‘I came from’ at least a couple times a week.

As a newspaper reporter, you ask a lot of questions over the course of a week. The main component of my job is asking questions and as I interview person after person, I inevitably encounter questions from my interviewees. I can’t really blame them; after sitting with me and telling me their story for 10 or 15 minutes, they want to know about the person asking them.

Some people ask because they want to know about entering the job market, others ask because they used to be a newspaper reporter – you wouldn’t believe the number of people who used to do this – and others ask simply because they are curious.

Sometimes I feel like I am on a date and that I don’t really have time to explain and other times I just feel uncomfortable because I hate talking about myself, but I have realized that it is just something that comes with the job.

At the end of each of these question and answer periods I always get the same question: do you enjoy/like your job? This question requires no thought for me, even after nearly

four years doing it; I love my job.

I love that I get to meet new people each week and learn new things and for the most part, every week at this job is totally different. One week I could learn about turtle habitats, or prison conditions and the next week I’ll learn about a cool program with school kids and seniors or about a theatre program for individuals in the city. I love hearing the stories and meeting the people and for me, this job doesn’t feel like a job most of the time – until I have to transcribe - and I really can’t imagine doing anything else at this point.

As Korey continues working on his dissertation and nears the end of his PhD at Queen’s I am starting to have conflicting feelings. I am really looking forward to him finishing and I want nothing more than to see him walk across that stage and get his degree, but when that does happen that may mean relocation to another city. I can’t imagine leaving this job, but things inevitably change. I know that there will be other opportunities in other cities and life goes on, but for now I choose to not think about that and just continue telling stories in this great city.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

St. Lawrence Business Park projections should not be used to justify third crossing The proposed plan for funding the third crossing (Third Crossing Business Plan, Final Report, June 2, 2017) relies heavily on the possibility of fully populating the city run St. Lawrence Business Park (SLBP).

The report suggests that the creation of a third crossing will fill the SLBP to capacity, generating millions of dollars in GDP, creating a potential slew of high paying jobs (averaging $76,000 annual salaries each) and business tax revenues.

These are projected as key elements in the economic feasibility of the

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The third crossing will remain ineffective without the improvement and widening of Highway 15, neglected since the days of the township. Spending scarce tax money on a bridge before improving Highway 15 makes no sense.

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The arrival of the Frulact and Feihi companies in Kingston is used by the business plan to suggest that similar industries might be enticed to the SLBP. This speculation is of no value in rationalizing the economic feasibility of the crossing.

Using the possibility of a “full build out� at the St. Lawrence Business Park as an economic prop for a third crossing is neither sound nor acceptable.

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A historic decision After decades of debate, Kingston City Council voted in favour of moving ahead with the construction of Kingston's third crossing across the Catarqui River on the evening of Wednesday, June 14. Council approved the measure by a vote of 8-5. Last week, the provincial government also announced the required $60 million in funding for the project.

Should the remaining $60 million be secured from the federal government, it is highly likely this long-foretold project will come to fruition.

We applaud all of the councillors and city staff who have worked hard on this issue for so many years, including the efforts of both bridge champions and the councillors who articulated a different vision of Kingston's future. Dynamic debate is what our grassroots, local politics is about.

Five councillors forcefully articulated a more cautious vision of our future, and asked us to consider all the alternatives, undoubtedly shaping a more positive, balanced outcome. This was not an easy decision: cost overruns, tax increases, a projected aging and declining population and future technological advancements may well make us live to regret this decision down the road.

However, the decision to build the bridge was made and if the many petitions and polls that circulated prior to the vote were any indication, Kingstonians were strongly in favour of this outcome. A staggering 95 per cent of business owners were also found to be in favour of the third crossing; it's these entrepreneurs that will hopefully lead the city to economic growth and prosperity, and we encourage everyone – whatever side of the debate they were on – to try and see the positives.

Many Kingstonians have long dreamed of a more connected city - one where an hour or more of traffic gridlock isn't a causeway closure or Highway 401 transport truck rollover away. The new crossing will open up new possibilities for east-west commuting, and in so doing allow for new opportunities for active transportation and improved public transit.

Many bridge opponents were concerned about how it might contribute to car culture and climate change, but if the right decisions are made it could have the opposite effect, making it easier for folks to bike and take transit across the city.

Let’s all try to embrace the positives aspects of what this bridge can bring to our city, and work together from here to ensure every opportunity to promote bike, transit and pedestrian culture is seized.

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A journey to one city My fellow Kingstonians, take a moment to consider what it means to truly be ONE city. It means we share in each other's needs and we share the resources to meet them.

Just the other night, one of the biggest decisions in our city's rich history was made. We are, each of us, part of what is likely going to be one of the most momentous votes for our city. We will all be remembered for how we used our voice that evening to bridge the divides in our city, both social and physical, for many years to come.

Personally, I am at once both honoured and humbled by the magnitude of the decision and that I was able to be a part of it. Let hope for what we can build together and the faith we have in our experts banish

any remaining doubts; the studies have been done and the experts have weighed in and recommended an overwhelming host of merits for this project. We will likely never again have this opportunity before us, so let us not live in the past divided, let us correct the issues of the present by connecting with each other and let us build our future united. I asked my fellow councillors to vote in favour of Kingston's crossing and to join with me in uniting our city: south, west, east and north. Through all the debate and all the opinions, there is still no doubt that a bridge will only bring us closer together in the end.

Let this bridge become a symbol of a Kingston that is overflowing with opportunity and prosperity for all, a Kingston finally, at long last, WHOLE!

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Fairness means no exemptions, the tools to enforce rights

Along with the May 30 minimum wage increase announcement, the Ontario Liberals have put forward legislation that would introduce a number of sweeping changes to labour law in the province. This is a start to supporting working people in Ontario, but it doesn’t go far enough.

In a recent speech, Deena Ladd from the Workers’ Action Centre in Toronto described Ontario’s labour law as “Swiss cheese.” Whatever protections it contains do not cover all workers. If you are a young person, a domestic worker, work in agriculture or horticulture, work in a business with fewer than 20 employees, or are a liquor server, then you fall through one of the many holes in Ontario’s workplace protections.

If you are 18 or younger — that is to say, if you are one of the many young people struggling to save up for post-secondary education in a province with some of the highest tuition fees in the country — you are not paid minimum wage. Similarly, liquor servers are not paid the provincial minimum wage — for some, this is offset by tips, but this is not the case for everyone. As a former server, I can personally attest that there are evenings when restaurant workers in Ontario are simply making less than minimum wage, tips included.

If you are a worker in a workplace with less than 20 employees in Ontario, your employer has no responsibility to ensure that there is a trained Workplace Health and Safety representative in your workplace. Having such a rep means that at least

one worker is informed about possible hazards in the workplace and able to make recommendations to management for improvements to safety policy and protocols. This is legally required in larger workplaces. However, smaller workplaces are exempted. The health and safety of workers is compromised as a result.

Lastly, the Liberals’ labour law reforms do not address the exclusion of domestic, agricultural and horticultural workers from the right to unionize.

Domestic workers, a group comprised almost entirely of women, are excluded on the grounds that a domestic worker’s “special bond” with her employer would be damaged if she had the power to file formal grievances when her employer fails to respect her basic rights. This is dubious. What is certain is that non-unionized workers have less power to enforce their rights in the workplace than unionized workers. The Ontario Liberals recognize the importance of improving the enforcement of Ontario’s employment standards. The best protection a worker can have is education and a formal, protected means of filing workplace grievances. While the Liberals have made a good start in supporting working people in Ontario with the minimum wage increase, too many people are still being left behind. Going forward, we need to pressure them to make minimum standards, health and safety protections, and unionization accessible to everyone. No more Swiss cheese!

Lesley Jamieson Kingston and District Labour Council

The vote passed in favour of the bridge being built by 8-5. This represents that not all were in favour of the bridge. That is a fact of which I am well aware.

To all the critics of the project, I would like to say a genuine thank you. Thank you for being engaged, thank you for your oversight. The critical reviews helped to ensure that all facets of the project were being considered and could be factored in. I believe that because of that engagement and critical thinking we will end up with a better product in the end.

To the bridge supporters, I would also like to extend my thanks. Thank you for making your voice

heard. Thank you for working so hard to help see this project receive council's endorsement to move ahead.

The biggest consideration here is that, whether someone was for or against it, this is a win for everyone. In the end, the bridge will only serve to connect us and bring us closer together, with benefits flowing out to all who live in Kingston.

One city, united!

Ryan Boehme Elected in the Pittsburgh District to be a Councillor for the City of Kingston

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Hey Belleville, may we please have a bridge?

Mayor offers no remedy for danger to cyclists and pedestrians on the causeway

At the 2016 census, Belleville had a population of 50,716, whereas Kingston had a population of 117,660. In spite of that, Belleville has eight municipally-owned and operated traffic bridges over the Moira River, not including the Highway 401 bridge and the Ontario-managed Highway 37 bridge.

That's a total of 10 river crossings for traffic within the City of Belleville. It even has two pedestrian bridges over the Moira. In contrast, Kingston has zero municipally-owned and operated bridges over the Cataraqui River. The so-called "third crossing" would actually be the City of Kingston's first crossing.

Why does Belleville have eight municipal bridges and Kingston none?

•Is it because Belleville seizes income opportunities while Kingston rejects them? In April, Belleville received its first quarterly cheque for $575,749 from the new Shorelines Casino. It will spend 65 per cent of that on infrastructure and the rest on social programs. Kingston was the first choice for the casino’s location, but Council rejected it and the $2.3

million a year income that came with it, not counting the jobs it would have provided.

•Is it because Kingston elects all its councillors by district, whereas Belleville elects councillors at large within two wards (representing the Old City and the former Thurlow Township)? When councillors represent all residents, NIMBYism is less likely to sway decisions.

•Is it because Belleville spends its tax dollars on infrastructure, rather than time-consuming, expensive studies of dubious value? The amount of time saved in crossing the river on an average day is irrelevant. It’s the safety issue and the cost of the thousands of personhours’ income lost during gridlock that are the key arguments for approving the bridge. We must also consider the wasted fuel and the carbon emissions produced while thousands of cars are tied up in traffic jams. Hardly a good situation for a “Green City.” As well, if the causeway is closed for repairs during the summer season, Fort Henry will be devastated. There is no alternative,

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providing the necessary transportation infrastructure. If council does not approve the much-needed first municipal crossing over the Cataraqui River, it will therefore expose the city to liability for the deaths, injuries and property damage that will likely occur due to the continued dangerous gridlock.

The residents of Pittsburgh not only lack reliable access to the rest of Kingston, they also lack basic amenities like a gym, a rink, a seniors’ centre and a youth centre. Since 1998, they have contributed their taxes and the grants-inlieu from CFB Kingston, RMC and the Joyceville and Pittsburgh Institutions, but few of these funds have been spent in Pittsburgh. There is a growing sense of inequity and frustration as residents have seen projects like the Centennial overpass and the John Counter overpass take priority over their truly urgent need to have a single safe, reliable means of accessing the city that they supposedly amalgamated with in 1998. Given the aging population, accessibility is a major reason for building the “first crossing.”

Seniors and persons with disabilities living in Pittsburgh require reliable, safe access to the city services that they depend upon. #Builditnow. A vote against the bridge is a vote to reject Pittsburgh.

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On an almost weekly basis, closure of either the 401 or the causeway has resulted in gridlocked traffic along Highways 2 and 15 as well as in the downtown core. The closure of Kingston Mills bridge and Abbey Dawn Road has exacerbated an already appalling situation. Council has recently been told that the 100-year-old causeway lift bridge will need to be closed for repairs for up to two weeks at a time. What if the 401 is closed during the same time period? Anyone requiring hospitalization would have to be airlifted from Pittsburgh. As well, if there is a major fire on the Pittsburgh side, how would additional units reach the scene quickly enough? When the causeway bridge is gridlocked due to a 401 closure, there is no room for cars to pull over to let emergency vehicles pass. If the causeway is closed, gridlock on Highways 2 and 15 plus the lengthy detour could kill a critically-ill patient. We cannot rely on either the 401 or the causeway to provide reliable routes for the emergency services that our aging population needs. The present transportation problems clearly result from the City approving numerous new subdivisions and highrises in Pittsburgh without first

When a Hearing Specialist told Derrick Highet he had a hearing problem the businessman’s first reaction was actually one of relief. “To be honest he was just telling me what I already knew — and he was offering me a solution,” Derrick explains. “I was hoping he was going to give me a large chunk of my life back.”

And that’s exactly what happened when Derrick tried his Miracle-Ear hearing aids for the first time. “The change was instantaneous,” he says. “I do a lot of dog walking and running and the first time I went for a walk with my dog in the woods behind our house I was just astounded by the sounds I could hear.”

Derrick had begun to notice his hearing loss about 18 months before that life-changing moment. “It was a number of issues that brought it to my attention,” he says. “Primarily my wife was complaining about the TV having to be too loud.”

His hearing issues were also having an impact on his work and social life. He explains: “If I was in a pub or a business meeting with friends or colleagues I was increasingly finding it difficult to focus on conversations. I was asking people to repeat things and consciously turning my head so I had my slightly better ear facing them.” He admits: “Sometimes I was guessing at what they said and just hoping I gave them the right answer.”

However once he had acknowledged his hearing problem he was determined to get the right solution, so he took to the internet to research hearing specialists — and Miracle-Ear, with over 1,400 hearing centres across North America, was one of the first names he found. Derrick was impressed with Miracle-Ear’s professional approach and wide range of hearing aid solutions offered, so he booked an appointment.

He says: “My first experience of Miracle-Ear was very positive.

The day before the appointment the clinic called to confirm and to say they were looking forward to seeing me. The following day when I arrived at the clinic, I was made to feel very welcome

At the June 13 special council meeting about the third crossing, our mayor made the following statement: “You take your life into your own hands when you ride a bike across the Causeway.” He’s right.

The La Salle Causeway is an accident waiting to happen — not just for cyclists but also for the pedestrians (young and old) that are forced to walk along the narrow sidewalk next to the road.

What is shocking about the mayor’s statement is not the fact he’s right, it’s the fact that he offers no remedy. Instead, he uses this danger as an argument in favour of building a third crossing, with dedicated bike lanes. But what about the thousands of residents and visitors who will continue to cycle and walk across the causeway because it is the most direct route? Why does the mayor not take these safety concerns seriously? Building ADVERTISING FEATURE a third crossing will only draw resources away from improving (or replacing) the causeway, a critical piece of transportation infrastructure in Kingston. The city and the fedand relaxed.” eral government “Wearing the Miracle-Ear hearing aids has transformed my life. have a fiscal and From a business point of view I feel more confident going out on moral responsiappointments. From a family point of view being able to watch the bility to fix this TV without it being at a silly volume has really helped. And there’s problem first. the added bonus of being able to wear them when I’m out running David McDonor walking the dog and being able to listen to music. I really have ald got my life back.”

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SHATTERED INTO A MILLION PIECES Submitted by Arthur Laramie They say when you truly dedicate your heart and soul to something; you can be successful in anything…

Back in 2011-2013 my definition of success was very different from what the average Canadian citizen may consider “success”.

While other 25 year old guys might consider graduating from University or buying their first house a success, my version was physically surviving 10 months in Afghanistan.

I may have been lucky to make it back in one piece physically, but my mind had been shattered into a million pieces; pieces that neither my heart nor my soul had any idea how to put back together again. When I first got back to Canada; if we are being honest, my heart didn’t want to fix my mind because my soul was still lost in the deserts of Kandahar.

Over the past 6 years I have come to the realization that I can’t mend my mind without my heart and soul fully committing to the cause. Both have to work together to fight for the person I used to be before my boots hit the hot desert sands.

Each time before I left to go on tours my mind was completely fixed on the job I had to do in Afghanistan. On my first tour I was a door

gunner in a Griffon helicopter, and my job was to keep NATO soldiers safe in the Kandahar region. On my second tour I was a convoy ops driver and security for those we escorted through Kabul. For both tours I committed my mind and body wholly and completely to mission success. No matter what I had to sacrifice mentally or physically, I gave it 110% for my friends, my unit and my mission.

During both tours I had to do some things and had some experiences that will stick with me for the rest of my life. The kind of stuff that keeps me up at night, the kind that makes me angry and sad at the same time, the kind that makes me want to make bad choices and to be frank; the kind that makes me want to die.

When you’re in such a heightened state of mind for long periods of time, it messes with you and makes trying to lead some sort of “normal” life when you get back seem out of reach.

After I got back from Afghanistan it took me a while to figure out that things weren’t right, that I was not me. I was more in denial than anything.MypridetookovermyreasonandIsufferedmorethanIknow I should have. Instead of getting the help I needed, I pushed forward, thinking if I stopped to take some time to figure out what was wrong I would be letting my boys down, letting my family down and letting myself down. I didn’t want a label and to be treated like “damaged

goods”. I just wanted to be like the battled-hardened warriors of TF 1-06 and 1-08 that I had come to admire in my battalion.

Eventually things got really hard to deal with. My mind was past repair, my heart was crushed and my soul blackened. I knew that the depression, anxiety, paranoia, aggression, anger and deep rooted sadness I had been experiencing was taking its toll on my family.

There were many days spent buried under blankets in bed, nights that were spent thrashing, crying and screaming in my sleep, errands I couldn’t run, social outings I couldn’t attend, places I couldn’t go,

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people I couldn’t be around. And it was hard. I hated everything and everyone. I wanted to die. The love of my wife and son wasn’t even enough to save me, that is how far gone I had become.

To this day, I remain adamant that the only thing that kept me alive day-to-day was physical fitness. I would spend between 4-8 hours in the gym every single day. It was my safe space, the only place to clear my mind, work out my aggression and not worry about letting anyone but myself down.

When I decided enough was enough, with the full support of my wife, I sought out some guidance from the mental health team at CFB Kingston which ultimately led to the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I finally had that label I had been dreading for years, and it really wasn’t all that bad. I had some semblance of closure and in a way, I felt freed.Things were starting to become clear again, like I had a clearly defined obstacle that was challenging me to overcome it. So I took some time to get my head wrapped around what all of this meant. Let me be clear, this didn’t make everything go away. I still had to battle every day with my symptoms, until I was able to work out what techniques and therapies were right for me. The diagnosis gave me an opportunity to educate myself on making my mind stronger, to function day-to-day, to explore this new person I was and who I could be and who I wanted to be moving forward.

My biggest fear after diagnosis was considering a life and employment outside of the military. I felt my worst fear had been realized, and I was now “damaged” to the rest of society, a society that I knew wouldn’t have any understanding of the experiences I had had, or the skills I possessed, or the contribution I could make. And honestly, it came about like an epiphany. I woke up at 3am one morning, sat up straight, woke my wife and told her I knew what I was going to do with my life. I was going to open a gym where I could share my safe and happy place with others who were going through what I was going through. A place where people could come and yell, scream, cry, smash weights and take it all out on the iron.This gym would encourage military, police, fire, paramedics, corrections, nurses, doctors and those who have experienced trauma in their lives to stay out of the bars, away from addiction and give them purpose.

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POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) Content from www.cmha.ca/ Frightening situations happen to everyone at some point.

People can react in many different ways: they might feel nervous, have a hard time sleeping well, or go over the details of the situation in their mind. These thoughts or experiences are a normal reaction. They usually decrease over time and the people involved can go back to their daily lives. Post-traumatic stress disorder, on the other hand, lasts much longer and can seriously disrupt a person’s life.

What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often involves exposure to trauma from single events that involve death or the threat of death or serious injury. PTSD may also be linked to ongoing emotional trauma, such as abuse in a relationship.

Something is traumatic when it is very frightening, overwhelming and causes a lot of distress. Trauma is often unexpected, and many people say that they felt powerless to stop or change the event. Traumatic events may include crimes, natural disasters, accidents, war or conflict, sexual violence or other threats to life or safety. It could be an event or situation that you experience yourself or something that happens to others, including loved ones.

PTSD causes intrusive symptoms such as re-experiencing the traumatic event. Many people have vivid nightmares, flashbacks, or thoughts of the event that seem to come from nowhere.They often avoid things that remind them of the event—

for example, someone who was hurt in a car crash might avoid driving.

PTSD can make people feel very nervous or ‘on edge’ all the time. Many feel startled very easily, have a hard time concentrating, feel irritable, or have problems sleeping well.

They may often feel like something terrible is about to happen, even when they are safe. Some people feel very numb and detached. They may feel like things around them aren’t real, feel disconnected from their body or thoughts, or have a hard time feeling emotions.

People also experience a change in their thoughts and mood related to the traumatic event.

Who does it affect?

While most people experience trauma at some point in their life, not all traumatic experiences lead to PTSD. We aren’t sure why trauma causes PTSD in some people but not others, but it’s likely linked to many different factors. This includes the length of time the trauma lasted, the number of other traumatic experiences in a person’s life, their reaction to the event, and the kind of support they received after the event.

Some jobs or occupations put people in dangerous situations.

Military personnel, first responders (police, firefighters, and paramedics), doctors, and nurses experience higher rates of PTSD than other professions.

Trauma is not always a single event in the past. Some trauma, particularly repeated acts like abuse or trauma during wartime,

can impact a person’s life far beyond the symptoms of PTSD. Some use other terms like ‘complex PTSD’ to describe these experiences.

What can I do about it?

Many people feel a lot of guilt or shame around PTSD because we’re often told that we should just get over difficult experiences. Others may feel embarrassed talking with others.

Some people even feel like it’s somehow their own fault.

Trauma is hurtful. If you experience problems in your life related to trauma, it’s important to take your feelings seriously and talk to a health care professional.

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Like every year, costumes play a big role.

“Costume decisions are based on intended artistic effect—what shapes, lines, movements, colour palette you are trying to create—characterization needed, what is flattering on the dancer, what is pragmatic from the perspective of allowing the choreography to be performed safely and well, what the dancer needs in terms of speed/access in and out of costume,” said KSD teacher Melissa Mahady Wilton.

To put the preparations in perspective, Mahady Wilton noted that: “The general rule of thumb is that every minute of choreography on stage took about an hour to create, and that does not include lighting, costuming, music editing, rehearsal….”

For their 28-minute section themed from The Wizard of Oz, not only did costumes have to be sourced, “students dyed (red) and embellished by hand, with many hours of sewing, all of the coloured, rhinestone pointe and ballet shoes.”

The hours of teaching time in the ballet studio are but a small fraction of the work (much or most of it unpaid) that teachers and other staff put into the dancers’ training.

According to all the professional dancers, students, and dance teachers I speak with, time and energy pay off.

“We love seeing the changes that happen with our students,” said Erin Tackaberry. “They build confidence in themselves, but also trust with one another.

They truly build friendships and learn to work as a team, both on and off stage.

We also see them work so hard for their moment to shine on stage.”

Tina Kyle sees many benefits for her students.

“The show definitely creates confidence for the dancers,” she said. “I feel like competitions are more stressful; however, a lot of dancers find recital stressful because of more family and friends being there to watch. Our year end shows are such a great feeling for all the dancers.

[We have] so many wonderful dancers at TK Danceworx, and in Kingston.”

Is all the work worth it? The teachers say it is. According the Melissa Mahady Wilton: “There is an enormous beauty and privilege that comes with teaching when you see a student start to see in themselves what you see in them; when their self-concept and ideas of what is possible blossom. They inspire each other and they inspire me every day. This is what education in the arts fosters: creativity, self-expression, discipline, patience, teamwork, compassion, bravery....It allows people to find their authentic voice and share it.”

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New NFU project brings together local food advocates sician Hugh Christopher Brown, the event was the perfect confluence of farming, healthcare, and education, and exactly the sort of thing Local Food Advocates could be doing.

I’m excited to be part of a new project from the The NFU wants to hear from you about this projNational Farmers Union—Ontario called Building a ect, and will be holding kitchen table discussions this Network for Local Food Advocates and Influencers. summer for people who want to get more involved.

In this project, the National Farmers Union is Based on the needs identified in those discussions, reaching out to people in fields like healthcare, eduthe NFU will help to create new materials for people cation, faith communities, and the arts. People who in different fields. For example, a teacher might say: influence the food decisions that others make.

“I love teaching about local food, but I don’t have Local food advocates in these communities and the right resources.” So the project could help creprofessions have the power to build a stronger and ate a local food colouring book to use in their classmore sustainable food system in Ontario. room.

Teachers and educators, for example, influence Or someone active in a faith community might large numbers of young people and help set life-long say: “We’d like to host a community garden at our habits. Healthcare professionals, including nurses and church, but we don’t know how.” We could bring physicians, are respected authorities on diet and can together a brief guide based on what other groups also have considerable influence on institutions. have done. Or a person working in an institution like Writers, artists, musicians, and performers can a university might say “I wish more local produce build an emotional connection with a broad audience. was served here, but I don’t know how to make that And active members of faith communities, for whom community and respect for creation are important val- Musician David Corley, Janette Haase, and Hugh Christopher Brown happen.” We could create a fact sheet about how to make that happen and how the institution might benues, can influence both people and institutions. at the Wolfe Island Garden Party, June 17. efit.

By working together, we can support local food and Aric McBay/Metroland The NFU wants to hear what you need to be a more help make our communities healthier, fairer, and more things to support local food—the Sisters of Providence in effective local food advocate. It’s easy to get involved. connected. And we can help local farmers to thrive Kingston are well known for their support of the Prison Get in touch with the NFU or join us for a kitchen table while protecting biodiversity and the climate.

This first part of this project—the part that’s happen- Farms and for hosting the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary, pro- discussion this summer; just email membership@nfuoning right now—is about reaching out to potential advo- tecting and sharing irreplaceable varieties of many crops. tario.ca.

The Wolfe Island Garden Party, held on Wolfe Island Or fill out an online survey to help shape the project: cates and collecting success stories. One advocate, Anne Marie Males, reorganized the cafeteria at The Scarbor- from June 15-17, was another great example. Organizers https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6QZSKKJ You can find more details by visiting nfuontario.ca and ough Hospital to serve local food because she knew it brought together musicians, farmers, and regular folks for a series of concerts, activities, and farm tours. The event clicking on “Local Food Network”. would help patients to get healthier.

The project was made possible by financial support Other advocates have set up gardens at schools or was organized to raise funds for the community garden churches, or developed songs and arts inspired by farm- at the Community Medical Clinic and for the teaching from the Government of Ontario, in partnership with the Greenbelt Fund. ing and nature. Some organizations have done many garden at Marysville Public School.

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Disjointed Mummy will leave audiences disappointed sacrifice her chosen to bring Set into the mortal world.

Before the ritual could be completed Ahmanet was stopped. As punishment she was mummified and buried alive. For 5000 years she lay buried in modern day Iraq until Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and his partner Chris Veil (Jake Jonson) stumbled upon her. As army scouts they MARK HASKINS were supposed to be running reconnaissance, but in reality they were looking for MOVIE: The Mummy STARRING: Tom Cruise, Annabelle antiquities to plunder.

Unknowingly Nick frees Ahmanet Wallis, Russell Crowe, Jake Johnson and from her prison, and she marks him as Sofia Boutella her new chosen. Cursed, Nick turns to DIRECTOR: Alex Kurtzman archeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabell RATING: 14A Wallis) and Dr. Henry Jekyll (Russell The Mummy is our first introduc- Crowe) for help. They're part of an orgation to the Dark Universe, a new movie nization called Prodigium that exists to universe that will give rise to films and fight evil such as Ahmanet. If Nick can't stories with some of your favourite mon- find a way to break the curse Set will be sters. After all everything is better when unleashed, and with Ahmanet at his side they will rule the world. it's in a universe.

Creating a universe to connect all In ancient Egypt princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) was next in line to the your movies isn't a terrible idea. I think throne until her half brother was born. there's potential to create some interestEnraged that she could be pushed aside ing storylines, but I don't think one film so easily she made a pact with Set the is enough to do it. god of death. She murdered her father, his mistress and the baby prince. Then Continued on page 19 with a magical dagger she planned to

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In the attempt to introduce us to the Dark Universe, and set up all future films The Mummy feels disjointed. It tries to do too much. Case in point would be the gratuitous fight scene between Mr. Hyde and Nick. Combined with the overacting, terrible dialogue and lack of focus The Mummy falls into the area of campy fun instead of serious monster movie.

The cast lacks chemistry. They aren’t terrible, but they never seem to fit together. They are always actors and never their characters. Jake Johnson and Annabelle Wallis fill in what are the stereotypical roles of funny sidekick and damsel in distress.

Russell Crowe phones it in as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I actually like Sofia Boutella as Ahmanet despite her character being fairly unoriginal.

Tom Cruise looks great. He does the stunts, he delivers the dialogue, and hits all his marks.

His character however is unimaginative and his acting performance is just as uninspiring.

It really feels like he’s just going through the motions.

The Mummy isn’t without its charm. It’s good campy fun with awesome effects, and I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t intrigued by the possibilities of the Dark Universe. At the end of the show however Brendan Fraser’s Mummy was way better.

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Kids and community members celebrate First Capital Day at City Park

BY MANDY MARCINIAK

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Each year, on June 15, Kingston celebrates its unique role in history as the First Capital of United Canada.

To celebrate 176 years as Canada's first capital, hundreds of area school kids gathered at City Park on June 15, 2017 to learn about the history of the area. The day celebrates thenGovernor General Lord Sydenham's declaration that parliament was offi cially open in Kingston in 1841, and students have the opportunity to dress up in period clothes and learn about ropemaking techniques, medical practices, First Nations traditions, and more.

Students learn about sword fighting techniques at First Capital Day celebrations in City Park on June 15.

Left to right: Students Natalie Forbes, Emma Tadeu, and Finley Plata dress up in period clothing to celebrate First Capital Day at City Park on June 15.

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A colourful new shop has popped up in Fort Henry’s trade square and the seven local artists behind it hope both locals and tourists will come check it out when they’re up on the hill this summer.

Ye Olde Art Shoppe at Fort Henry opened for the first time last summer and originally featured the work of painters Carol Jackson, Cookie Cartwright, and Susan Swackhammer, as well as wood sculptor Nelson Freedman.

“I did it mainly to get exposure to the public,” says Jackson. “I was really intrigued being able to come to Fort Henry because of the variety of tourism that comes through.”

Her paintings, which she says are inspired by “anything that I find attractive in nature”, ended up being sold to buyers from around the world, including Ireland and Germany.

“That was exciting,” she notes. “I was really happy about that. I wanted to see whether or not there were people who were interested in my work. I enjoy doing it, but I do it mostly for my own pleasure. Being able to actually get out there and share

(Left to right) Artists Barb Simard, Peggy Lum-Brouillard, Susan Swackhammer, Cookie Cartwright, Nelson Freedman and Carol Jackson, as well as Gillian Car (not pictured) are showing their works throughout the summer at Ye Olde Art Shoppe in the Fort Henry trade square. [Insert] Peggy Lum-Brouillard’s work on display at Fort Henry.

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it with other people makes me feel good when I know that people like what I’m doing.”

This year, the original four artists have been joined by glass

artist Gillian Car, painter Peggy Lum-Brouillard, and fabric artist and sculptor Barb Simard.

Each artist brings his or her own signature style to the store.

Lum-Brouillard describes her style as “oriental” in nature, a nod to her Chinese ancestry.

She’s painted everything from peacocks to koi to Siddhartha (Buddha), and even reproduced

some of the works on little lanterns, which are also for sale at the shop.

She decided to join the group at Fort Henry this year as a way of getting back into creating art.

“I’ve been involved in sponsoring a Syrian refugee family for a while and that took up a lot more time than what I expected,” says Lum-Brouillard.

“I still am involved with the family, but things have kind of stabilized so I can do some other regular stuff.”

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Fred Penner hopes to perform for multiple generations of ‘Fred Heads’ at Skeleton Park Arts Festival

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a bit of a summer tour and he will make a stop in Kingston on June 24 as part of the Skeleton Park Arts Festival.

At 70, Penner is still eager to share his Fred Penner has been writing, recording, and performing songs for more than 45 music and while he is mindful of his time years and while his fan base ages, he contin- and energy, he loves performing and engagues to welcome new ‘Fred Heads’ year after ing with fans.

“As long as I still feel that connection and year.

“Certainly, when I began doing any of as long as the phone keeps ringing and the this I had no idea how far it might go,” said festivals and theatres are still interested in Penner, who just released his 13th studio al- having me perform, I am very excited to do bum, Hear the Music, earlier this year. “Part that,” he said. “At this point, there is such a of the purpose of continuing to make music wide foundation that has been created that is connecting with the generation that grew has connected with multiple generations up with me who are now parents themselves that the range of work now is working in and connecting with their kids and now schools occasionally, working in soft seat grandparents too. There is this lovely organ- concerts, working with symphony orchesic process and connectivity with a couple of tras, and working in summer festivals too.”

Penner is looking forward to returning to generations now.”

This time around, Penner decided that Kingston, and he has fond memories of perhe wanted to work with some of those kids forming at the Grand Theatre and even at who watched him when they were younger Kingston Penitentiary. He also remembers on his new album. He presented material to performing a show in Kingston that was for producer Ken Whitely and they started to an important cause.

“I was part of a benefi t concert for saving think about who Penner could work with to the prison farms with Sarah Harmer and make each song.

“A couple of the songs were clearly tunes that was great to be a part of,” he said. “The that someone like Ron Sexsmith would be farms were such a great opportunity for the good harmonies with and then we thought inmates and it was sadly taken away, but I about Basia Bulat, Alex Cuba and the was happy to help with my time and voice.”

This time around, he hopes to delight genGood Lovelies and just this wonderful collection of talented people came together,” erations at Skeleton Park and he also looks explained Penner. “We made the calls and forward to catching up with old friends in everyone was delighted to be a part of it and Kingston.

“Festivals are great for connecting with we even had to turn some people down unfortunately, but maybe that means there will friends and other musicians too," he said.

“Every performance, there is always some be another album like this.”

For Penner, the experience was one that connection that comes from the audience he fi nds hard to describe and one that he that goes a bit deeper than I expect, and those moments spike the delight of persees as incredibly humbling.

“Knowing that these people that I abso- forming. It always goes deeper for me and lutely revere in their talent are excited to be that is what keeps me coming back.”

Penner will perform at the Skeleton Park working with me it is gratifying, to say the least,” he said. “It is humbling as well and Arts Festival at McBurney Park on Saturclearly an opportunity to extend the music day, June 24 at 11 a.m. For more information about the festival and a full list of perforwith both the artists and the fans.”

With the album, Penner is embarking on mances, visit http://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/

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taken to help.

“There were people whose relatives Kingstonian Catherine Bell-Sood on our street actually lost their homes has been a passionate advocate for because they couldn’t afford their prepan-Canadian, universal pharmacare scription medications and didn’t have a secondary plan. They were in that for many years now.

“It all comes literally from the group before they turn 65, so they heart,” she explains. “We became in- didn’t have any help.”

Bell-Sood says another couple had terested because we heard of people to choose between heart medication who were having difficulties.”

Bell-Sood and a small group of lo- for one spouse and cancer medication cal activists started walking the streets for the other, “because if they bought a little over three years ago, talking to both they couldn’t pay their mortpeople who have been affected by the gage, they would lose their house.

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she continues. “It takes a lot of digging to find out how severe the situation is in some cases. We heard more and more essentially horror stories about the poverty that exists that makes people not able to buy medicines; about the working poor who can’t afford medicines, those who are working two jobs and have no plans in their employment. If they fall ill, it’s a catastrophe.”

Bell-Sood, a retired educator, decided to devote her time to try and help.

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but usually they’re with advocacy groups,” she explains. “They might be with the Diabetes Association and they’ll advocate with the government, doctors will advocate the government. Our situation is unique because we’re just people.”

Recently, the Ontario government introduced coverage for all those under 25, and the federal government already covers those 65 and over; a petition on an official government website organized by BellSood and her group asks the federal government to cover pharmacare for everyone of all ages across all of Canada. It can be found here https:// petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/ Details?Petition=e-959.

If a petition reaches 500 signatures, politicians are obligated to present it in Parliament; the pharmacare one is already well past that, with thousands of signatories, but Bell-Sood emphasizes that the more people sign, the more likely it is that real changes will

be made.

“For example, the Islamophobia motion had 69,000 [signatures],” she notes.

Bell-Sood calls the official petition site the “best kept secret of Parliament” because so few people seem to be aware of it.

“It’s a way to have democracy in action without holding a referendum, as I see it,” she says. “You can sign regardless of your age so a knowledgeable teenager who’s worried about getting coverage can sign.”

According to Bell-Sood, “more and more people are realizing there’s a huge cost to society when there’s an illness — in well-being of people and stress in families. We want to let the government know that if they took bold steps it would be fi ne with the population,” she says, adding that “it’s exciting that it kind of started here, in this area.”

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Theatre with a Meal brings joy of performing and performance to community members

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their time to this,” he said. “A lot of the folks that are participating are on disability for one reason or another, mental or physical, and (their) social Six years ago, Randy Johnston life is in soup kitchens and they make realized that something in his life friends through that. This is another needed to change. opportunity for them, and one that is “I decided to write a bucket list a bit more creative.” and No. 5 was to sing in a musical,” Johnston himself experienced a the Kingstonian explained. “I purtime where he frequented soup kitchsued that and I got a part, and for ens, and it is that time that inspires over four years, I sang in musicals him to keep going and run Theatre and plays. I loved it so much. It is with a Meal. that feeling that I want to bring here “I got to know everyone and one to Theatre with a Meal and that is of the things I noted when I was what inspired me.” there was that there was very little Theatre with a Meal is a weekly to do that involved input directly or program that runs out of the Next sparked creativity,” he said. “I creChurch on Colbourne Street in ated this place for people in those Kingston. As the name suggests, situations to come to, and sometimes the idea is a theatrical performance we discuss mental health and life and and a meal, but Johnston set it up to it is more serious. Other times we are serve a specific group of community The Theatre with a Meal performance crew. members.

Submitted photo just silly and have fun, and I think that is great for them.”

“I had the idea to bring theatre For Sarrah Cook, performing to people who may not have the op- and it was successful, and we have They aren’t obligated to come the next week, but Johnston has found with the theatre group was a bit inportunity to experience it,” he said. been going ever since.”

Johnston wanted the structure that a core group has been formed. timidating at first. She actually start“I started out in drop-in centres and “When you start something, you ed coming as an observer, but now soup kitchens and building stages to be very loose, and he invites perwherever we were, and then the op- formers and patrons to come as they don’t always know where it is going she performs each week.

“I started about two months ago,” portunity to do a meal with the show want. Each week, a group of any- to go and your vision may be differcame about through a church that where between 10 and 16 performers ent; but, people started to show up she said. “I had watched a few times, closes down each summer for two meet at the Next Church and come to perform, and they keep showing and then I was encouraged to get up and a half months. We tried it out up with ideas for the show that week. up week after week, and they give and participate, and I loved it. I find

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that I am bored when I don’t come and it really has inspired me.”

In terms of audience, Theatre with a Meal sees about 50 to 60 people each week. According to Johnston, some come just for the free meal, but others come more for the performances.

“We have a lot of elderly people that really enjoy the shows and they just love it week after week,” he said.

“It is a group I didn’t really think about, but they don’t often have access to theatre experiences, either.”

Johnston hopes to keep the program going, and he recently received a grant from the Community Foundation for Kingston and area to help improve the stage and lighting. He loves seeing the impact it is making on the community and even himself.

“Ultimately, when you want to help people, you also want to help yourself, and you want to do things that are fun and creative and have an open door to let people join,” he said. “We have that here, and it is so wonderful to see and be part of each and every week.”

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Canadian Crystal event to showcase local student talent

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Celebrating and enhancing the experiences of Limestone District School Board (LDSB) students is what the Limestone Learning Foundation (LLF) is all about and this year they are also focusing on celebrating Canada with their annual fundraising event.

On June 13, members of the LLF, parents, students and board members gathered at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston to announce the Canadian Crystal.

“This special event is a three act gala performance evening celebrating Limestone District School Board students and graduates and their incredible talents onstage,” explained Kath Leverette, chair of the LLF. “The evening is going to be magical. Canada’s next 150 years will be in the hands of these powerful and confident students and we look forward to seeing everyone there to celebrate them and Canada.”

The black-tie event, taking place Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Isabel, will include food

“We are so excited to be producers for this event this year,” said Mundy, a local music and arts educator and one of the Canadian Crystal’s producers. “This is a fabulous group that came out for two rounds of auditions to get here today. It was a difficult process at times, but we did it.”

The students, with the help of Tim Stiff on piano, performed the Tragically Hip’s song Ahead by a Century at the event announcement and although they only recently came together, Mundy was encouraged by what she saw during the performance and ahead of it.

“This morning we came The 37 students from 14 schools that will perform an all-Canadian conhere for rehearsal and [the cert entitled ‘Ahead by a Century’ at the Canadian Crystal on Nov. 4.

Mandy Marciniak/Metroland producers] had to step out to get organized, but we heard pairings from coast to coast to LDSB students and this year, singing coming from the coast in the form of canapés; 37 students from 14 schools rehearsal hall. We weren’t sure a special concert showcasing will perform an all-Canadian what was going on and we the talent of LDSB students; concert entitled ‘Ahead by heard a piano too,” she said. and a special performance by a Century’ — a 60-minute “We snuck back over and all Lil Magic and the Wise 5, an multimedia show featuring 37 students had spontaneously up and coming Kingston band original music and Canadian broken into song — it was like fronted by Reid Cunningham, classics. Students will perform a real-life musical. It was such a graduate of the LDSB. with the help of mentors and a confirmation for us and we As with past events like local musical professionals really realized how incredible the Crystal Ball Gala, the including Alexandra Mundy, this group of students is.”

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live auction, of sorts, during the event; local artist Evan Sharma, a student at Calvin Park Public School in the Challenge Program, will be painting a piece that night interpreting the themes of the LLF and Canadian Crystal event. The piece will then be auctioned off live later that night.

The event will raise funds for the LLF and will help fund special education projects in the areas of literacy and numeracy, science and technology, the arts and innovative practices. To date, more than $1.72 million has been granted to over 601 projects throughout the area.

“We are very excited for this year’s event," said Leslie Myles, managing director of the LLF. “It will create opportunities for students to create and develop their talents alongside professionals, but with a unique twist in this amazing space. We are really looking forward to it.”

Canadian Crystal will be held Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $150 per person and available for purchase now.

Kingston girl’s wish granted

BY MANDY MARCINIAK mandymarciniak@metroland.com

For many kids, the dream is to go to Disney World and for one lucky nine-year-old in Kingston, this dream is becoming a reality thanks to Pita Pit and the MakeA-Wish Foundation.

“We decided a few months ago that we wanted to adopt a wish and that meant we had to raise $10,000,” explained Marina Leos, senior director for special projects at Pita Pit Canada. “We have three corporate stores in Kingston, but we reached out to other stores too and together 14 stores sold stars in the stores during April to raise funds.”

The stores reached their goal and exceeded it, raising $12,000.

Last week, they received the name of a wish recipient in Nine-year-old Allison Vallier is going to Disney World thanks to MakeKingston — nine-year-old Alli- a-Wish and Pita Pit Canada.

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Leos. “We know that she has an idea that something special is happening, but she isn’t sure exactly what it is.”

Vallier was diagnosed with Leukemia in January of 2015 and after nearly three years of treatment, she is now finished and ready to take on Disney.

As she arrived at Pita Pit to A division of learn about her wish she was overwhelmed, but following the gifts and photos, she was quick to express her excitement.

Alison Vallier with stafffrom Pita Pit and Make-a-Wish in Kingston on “I am really excited to meet www.kingstonregion.com/kingston-on-news June 13. all the characters," she said, alMandy Marciniak/Metroland though she insists she doesn’t have a favourite. “All of this just makes me feel very special.”

Her mom, Tracy, was also excited and the family plans to take the trip just after Christmas this year.

“This was her first wish and we are so excited it has been granted,” she said. “She is excited now, but when she gets home and she realizes it is all real, she will be pretty ecstatic and so are Great we.”

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Library loaning passes to help Kingstonians explore local provincial parks and conservation areas

BY MANDY MARCINIAK mandymarciniak@metroland.com

To celebrate Canada 150, it was announced that Canadians could explore national parks for free sim-

ply by obtaining a special pass. But, what about provincial parks?

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MacDonald had been trying to come up with an idea for something the library could do to celebrate Canada 150 that would be unique and fun, and park passes seemed like a great opportunity.

“We have some fantastic parks in the area, and as I was thinking about that, I also thought about Gould Lake and Little Cataraqui Creek — which are even closer and cool to explore, too,” she said. “I pitched the idea and everyone was keen, and the idea was presented to Friends of the Library and they loved it and wanted to help us support it.”

Starting on June 12, the library launched special packs that are on loan to members of the KFPL. Each backpack includes a park pass, which is good for a week on loan, and information about the park. Some also include books on bird watching and

Deanna MacDonald with one of animal tracking, as well as binocuthe new Park Packs available on lars.

“They are all a little customized loan from the Kingston Fronetnac to the park,” said MacDonald. “And Public Library for Canada 150.

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There are 10 packs in total — two each for Bon Echo Park, Frontenac Park and Sharbot Lake; and four between Little Cataraqui Creek and Gould Lake. Some of the passes can be used for multiple locations.

“With the provincial park packs, the passes can be used at any of the three parks and the same works with the other two sites, too,” said MacDonald. “The only problem we are running into is availability.”

In just the fi rst week, each pack already has at least 20 holds on it.

“If I can say anything to patrons, it would be to please return the packs as soon as you are done with them,” said MacDonald. “You can return it to any branch and we really want everyone to have an opportunity. Summer in Canada is short, so that is a challenge, too.”

The library also can’t guarantee that people will have the passes at a certain time, so MacDonald urges people not to plan excursions with the idea that they will have the passes.

“You will get it eventually, but we can’t guarantee a time.”

The library also launched museum passes with the same idea earlier this year, which have also been very popular, and MacDonald is happy to see the idea taking off so well.

“It is wonderful to see and a great way to celebrate our country,” she said. “We have some amazing local parks and this just gives more people an opportunity to explore them.”

For more information about the park packs and the museum passes, visit https://www.kfpl.ca.

In which we wander through an old boneyard …. and discover a leafy gathering place for kids, dogs and everyone else ent. They lived in a neat brick house right across Balaclava Street. Claude was a longtime city councillor and community leader who headed up an early 1970s Neighbourhood Improvement COLUMNIST Project (NIP) in the near north end. The NIP gave rise to better parks, affordable housing and an early public pool at nearThis is for Skeleton Park and those by Artillery Park. who live here: Gratitude and Inspiration.

Go further back in time to examine a Steve Heighton dedicates his recent 19th century obelisk, the Barclay Monunovel The Nightingale Won’t Let You ment. It’s dedicated to a clergyman who Sleep, suggesting a powerful notion of succeeded in getting dead Presbyterians place. A sense of just how much this vital into the ground alongside Catholics and Kingston landmark means to so many.

Anglicans. The latter had wanted no part I’m not sure whether other books have of it, so parochial was old Kingston. been dedicated to funky neighbourhood In new Kingston, the cemetery evolved parks. But I do know why Steve did. He’s into a fine Victorian square with streets passed endless hours walking his late on three sides. Its paths provide a popudog, the fluffy Isla, beneath the canopy lar thoroughfare for people walking and of old silver maples. And long enjoyed cycling downtown. playing shinny at the rink.

When I moved to these parts in the The former burying ground — hence late 1980s, many a realtor was still sniffthe common, skeletal name for Mc- ing haughtily at the neighbourhood, reBurney Park — is a very cool place. Its garding it as undesirable for middle class understated, friendly vibe makes it the clients. I’ve recently heard tell of house centre of a dynamic neighbourhood. It’s hunters being forced by high Skeleton also sodden with history, a gritty past Park area prices to buy in the traditionthat transcends officially-sanctioned ally pricier precincts south of Queen’s.

Heritage.

Why the popularity?

Old-timers tell some bizarre tales.

Of course, it’s partly location. ProximBack in the days of wringer washers one ity to downtown and major employers, mother heard a rattling sound as she the hospitals and the university. hauled her kids’ clothes from her maThe park itself works as a people magchine. One juvenile rapscallion had been net. Providence Manor residents can get out gathering human teeth from the old out to enjoy the scene. Teens play basketboneyard. (Archeologists and civil ser- ball. Young children cavort on the play vants call bones “artifacts.”) Many of structures. Picnickers picnic. Frisbee our forebears still inhabit the Skeleton tossers toss. Dog walkers discuss pets Park. and who-knows-what-else.

Wander over to the park’s north side and you’ll find a young tree flourishing Continued on page 16 beside a plaque the neighbours installed to recognize Marie and Claude Clem-

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Frontenac Islands recognizes staff, welcomes Ontario Waterkeeper

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Dwyre (27 years), Larry Quinn (20 years), Pat Quinn (15 years) and Christian Prior (8 years). Along with certificates each received a Canadian Mint gift card.

Kingston and Wolfe Island Culture Festival. Deputy Mayor Nossal invited Rebecca Harrison, Manager of Programs Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, to provide information about The Kingston & Wolfe Island Culture Festival — a sevenweek celebration of the Great Lakes to be presented through story and song, June 23 to August 12. The opening ceremony will be held at the General Wolfe Inn on June 23 at 5 p.m.

Harrison reminded council of the ongoing work of Ontario Waterkeeper, and its beginnings in the region, working “for a day when every person in our watershed can safely touch the water, when the water is pure enough to drink and when

The first order of business at the Frontenac Islands June meeting, held on Howe Island, was the presentation of staff recognition awards to four Howe Island municipal employees. This follows a similar presentation on Wolfe Island in May. “Tonight we are recognizing four persons who work on Howe Island representing more than 60 years of employment,” said Deputy Mayor Nossal who chaired the meeting. “So whether they are running administrative affairs for our township, protecting our public assets, or maintain our life line, they play a very important role toward the lives we live here on Howe Island. And on behalf of all Howe Islanders we want to thank you for your service to our community.”

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“The 3rd week (July 7-13) is about history, myths, legends, and stories of Wolfe Island”, she said.

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In which we wander through an old boneyard …. and discover a leafy gathering place for kids, dogs and everyone else Continued from page 9

Neighbourhood people collect garbage or tend the central planter or the south side flower beds.

Skeleton Park has become an popular spot for Kingston gatherings. The Pride Parade now starts there. Ditto the Labour Day gathering. And sundry other public demonstrations.

Then there’s the spirited, citizen-organized Halloween gathering, as many grown-ups as kids arrive to show off their costumes. Hundreds parade around the park behind a raucous group of musicians: New-Orleans-on-

the-Cataraqui.

Of course, Skeleton Park is home to the ever-bigger Skeleton Park Arts Festival, http://skeletonparkartsfest. ca, coming up right at the solstice this month. It started with a modest McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association solstice gathering featuring a lemonade stand, bake sale, three-legged races and a tug-o’-war.

Over the years, it’s morphed into one of Kingston’s coolest arts happenings, a five-day extravaganza featuring music, crafts and food.

Yoga and storytelling and a porch jazz parade (see New Orleans, above).

And, yes, the lemonade stand and old-

fashioned, picnic style games.

With all of this, many continue to wonder why Official Kingston generally neglects Skeleton Park.

By the start of the second week in June, the four brutalist planters around the Barclay Monument were still empty of flowers. Indeed, the only flowers in sight were modest beds that have long been carefully tended, not by the city but by a Clergy Street gardening enthusiast. The central planter features a few forlorn hostas and other perennials planted by neighbours.

Skeleton Park is an afterthought in comparison to other city green spaces.

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Why such negligence, disregarding a vibrant, popular public space in favour of a scantily used ornament?

Who knows?

But I guess it doesn’t really matter. What really does matter is autonomous public activity that persists in spite of city hall shrugs. I’m with Steve, grateful and inspired by the park, its neighbours.

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Loving mother of Herminia Costa (Joseph), Natalia Darling (Joe), Augusto (Yvonne), Connie (Rod), Christina (Andre). Cherished by her 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Sister of Joao Carreiro (Belmeria) of Kingston.

Remembered by her nieces and nephews. She will be missed by her fury companion Cooper. A special thank you to the nurses: Stephanie and Marg; doctors’ of St. Elisabeth, CCAC, Candace and Melanie for their loving dedicated care.

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Mass of Christian Burial in Our Lady of Fatima Church, 588 Division Street, on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 11:00 am. Rite of Committal with prayers in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

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Antiques, Collectibles, Modern Furniture, China/Glass, Deep Freezer, H.D. Wood Working /Shop Tools HELD FOR MR. & MRS. JIM PERRY Miles to John F. Scott Rd. On Left, or from Hwy. 15 Lights North ½ Mile to Codes Corners, Right on John F. Scott 1 Mile to Sale Site #1371

MONDAY JULY 3, 2017

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10:00 A.M.

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ESTATE AUCTION

HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS. ANTIQUES. HONDA CIVIC CAR. PADDLE BOAT. @ 307 Otty Lake Side Rd. Perth, ON K7H 3C5 for the late George & Mary Norris on Sat., June 24/17 @ 10 am Vintage 8 pce oak dining room suite (draw table has 2 pull out leaves, turned legs & stretcher). Side by side china cabinet/buffet. Walnut china cabinet. Mahogany round dining room table. Pine kitchen table. Roxten coffee table. Matching love seat & chesterfield set. Love seat.

2 wicker sets. Queen Anne side chair. Victorian buttonback tub chair. 2 antique rockers. Antique footstool.

Modern pine roll top desk. Magazine stand. Hall tree. 2 hope chests (1 cedar lined). Chest of drawers. Matching armoire & double mirrored vanity. 2 bar fridges. Water cooler. Elec. furnace. Accent & stand lamps. Everyday dishes. Sm. kitchen appliances. Crocks. Cast floor grates.

Prints (incl. Mary de Wolfe). Antique cultivator. 3 water tanks. Milk cans. Upright set of scales. Pressure washer.

Shop vac. Elec & plumbing supplies. 2 table saws. Jointer.

Wooden work benches. Horse harness. Qty of hand & power tools. Bar clamps. Husqvarna 61 chainsaw.

Blacksmith tongs. Qty brick & cultured stone. Push gas lawnmower. Stihl gas weed eater. 22 rifle. Paddle boat.

2002 Honda Civic (sold as is). Featuring many other articles too numerous to mention…..

Join us for a nice clean auction sale. Expect surprises.

Bring a lawn chair to settle the estate of George & Mary Norris, well renowned founders of Norris Sand & Gravel.

Terms on Chattels; Cash & Cheque Only - Catering

Auctioneers & Qualified Appraisers JIM HANDS: THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Phone: (613) 267-6027 www.jimhandsauction.com

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TWO SESSION LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTIONS At Switzer’s Auction Centre, 25414 Highway 62 South, Bancroft, ON LISTINGS, PHOTO’S & REGISTRATION @: www.switzersauction.com CHECK BACK FOR REGULAR UPDATES. GET YOUR CONSIGNMENTS IN EARLY FOR OUR AUGUST 26TH. SALE SESSION ONE: SESSION ONE: ONLINE ONLY CLOSING STARTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 21ST. @ 6:00P.M. EDST. OVER 50,000 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, RELOADING EQUIPMENT, CLIPS AND MAGAZINES, BOOKS, ACCESSORIES, KNIVES, MILITARIA & SCOPES Bidding Starts June 10th!

SESSION TWO: LIVE & ONLINE, LIVE STARTS 9:00 A.M. SAT. JUNE 24TH. 9:00 A.M. EDST., COMPRISING OVER 400 NEW AND USED RESTRICTED & PROHIBITED HANDGUNS, HUNTING RIFLES & SHOTGUNS, ANTIQUE PISTOLS & RIFLES, MUSKETS, MILITARIA, EDGED WEAPONS, ANTIQUE AMMUNITION, PARTICIPATE IN BOTH SALES WITH THE SAME BIDDER # AND PICKUP WEDNESDAY’S WINNINGS ON SATURDAY OR COMBINE SHIPPING FOR INTERNET BIDDERS CONTACT US:

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So we are working with the Historical Society to organize and launch a fundraising campaign to build the ‘Old House Museum’ up to snuff, so that it can become the permanent home for these artifacts. We are hoping to have a followup feature event of photos of these artifacts hosted by the WI Historical Society, and encourage people to contribute so that they can get their collection management system together to bring the artifacts home.”

Harrison identified the remaining weeks as Week 4: Identity (July 14 — July 20) ‘How has Lake Ontario

shaped who we are?’ Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Retrospective Wednesday, July 19. Week 5: Protection (July 21 — July 27) ‘How do we protect Lake Ontario for Generations to come’? That will include water sampling workshops. Week 6: The Future (July 28 — Aug. 3) ‘What does the future look like for Kingston, Wolfe Island, &amp; Lake Ontario?’ Week 7: Celebration (Aug. 4 — Aug. 12) ‘The Wolfe Island Music Festival: Waterkeeper Showcase — Pledge Campaign in Kingston Aug. 9 ‘.

Working with Trail Head, they have planned a Lake Ontario Explore Town event challenging people to go out, walk, paddle, hike, cycle, any-

thing but drive, to different parts of Kingston and Wolfe Island, and take pictures of the lake and post them often, for draws. There will be prizes.

“And that,” she said, “ is just a short list of what we hope will bring people to Kingston and Wolfe Island,” A full schedule of events will be unveiled at the festival launch on June 23. Watch for details.

I will have more about Frontenac Islands Council next time.

Around Town; the sign in Kingston still indicated Big Sandy Bay is “Closed Due to Flooding”.

Slight lowering of water levels since outflow at Cornwall. Cafe Tenango — Coffee &amp; Tea — Main Street, Wolfe Island opens June 23.

Check Shanti Retreat for upcoming programs. The WI Waste Site is open Monday, Wednesday and now Sundays (till the end of summer). WI Crafts opens June 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily (behind town hall).

Coming Events: Severance restrictions meetings. — Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30 p.m. Howe Island Municipal Building; Thursday June 22 at 6:30 p.m., WI Town Hall. The Kingston &amp; Wolfe Island Culture Festival: June 23 to August 12. Wolfe Island Classic Race &amp; Kiddie kilometre Sunday July 2. Visit wolfeisland. com. Canada Day Pancake Breakfast July 1 WI United Church Hall 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Food bank thanks Howe Island Fire and Rescue

BY MARG KNOTT

Howe Island Fire and Rescue Service brought joy to the Gananoque Food Bank with the success of their Howe Island Food Drive.

The food, left for pickup beside mail boxes on the island on the day of the drive, yielded more than 100 bags for delivery to the food bank.

There were also many donations of money, according to Howe Island

Councillor Bruce Higgs.

Councillor Higgs shared a letter with Council he had received, from food bank president Joanne Lancaster, extolling the efforts in undertaking a Food Drive on their behalf.

“The food bank is grateful for all their effort and the product,” she wrote.

“We service over 100 people a month, and all this will certainly benefit the Gananoque and Area Food

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The Howe Island Fire and Rescue Food Drive team included executive officer Joe Beatty, Steve Norris, Mae Squires and Ashley Quinn.

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Councillor Higgs praised the generosity of Howe Islanders and the ongoing generous service to the community of Howe Island Fire and Rescue.

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Electric storms were much worse for Mother in Renfrew than New York

I could sense Mother’s fear. She moved from the stove where she was working, to take a quick glance out the window to the West Hill. I sat on the creton couch holding one of my favourite dolls which helped the nervousness I felt because of Mother’s growing concern over what she saw beyond the river to the back reaches of the farm.

Black clouds were coming closer, and thunder could be heard in the distance, like a heavy barrel being rolled across

the kitchen floor. Even though it was the middle of the day, Mother lit two coal oil lamps and set them in the middle of the table. For some reason, she felt safer if the kitchen wasn’t so dark. There wasn’t much Mother feared. She could work amongst the livestock as well as someone born and raised on the farm, and often at night, when it was blistering hot, she would take a kitchen chair and sit outside on the back stoop, alone in the darkness.

But an electric storm had her blood run cold.

And one was coming, there was no doubt about it. She was sure it was just a matter of time until our old log house was struck by lightning and everything we owned would be burned to the ground, and unless we took extreme precautions, we as well. Fire and an electric storm, I knew were the only real fears Mother had.

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And that day, the storm sweeping towards us had turned the sky black as pitch, and by the time it hit the barnyard, the rain was pelting down and you could scarcely see beyond the pump. Father, of course, was in the barns, and there he would stay. Not to escape the lightning, but the rain. Father had no fear of a storm, even though we once lost 11 cows when the big maple tree on the West hill was struck by lightning. But that day was never far from Mother’s mind whenever a storm hit. Those of us in the house had to sit on chairs in the middle of the floor. No being near an outside wall or a window!

It wasn’t unusual, if the storm seemed to be a real dilly, for Mother to hang a blanket in each of the two kitchen windows to shut out the storm, and she fully believed that by doing so, could actually keep out the lightning.

She also thought if we had something made of rubber in our hands, that too was a safeguard, and so there sat my sister Audrey, who thought it sheer nonsense, sitting inside the house with our feet stuck into two pairs of rubber boots! If we could get our hands on a rubber ball, so much the better. And if the phone rang off the wall, we were forbidden to go anywhere near it! And that day, our number rang two or three times, and we just sat there and looked at it. Now the storm was raging. Mother counted the seconds between the lightning flash and the clap

of thunder, which she said was a sure way of telling how close it was. At that young age, I caught the fear of an electric storm from Mother. Hiding under the covers in my bed was no solution, because it was vital that I be downstairs in case we got hit.

Of course, if a storm came in the middle of the night, we were all ordered out of our beds, and made sit in the middle the kitchen until it blew over. Father of course, never moved a muscle, and slept through the most raging storms as if they were happening in some other country.

But he would hear again from Mother how electric storms were much worse in Renfrew County than they were in New York City. Living beside the high buildings, she said, shielded her from the fierceness, but out in the country, there was nothing to stop the roar of the thunder or the cracking of lightning. The storm was over almost as soon as it came, and all I could hear was the distant rumbling of the thunder, as it headed away from Northcote. The lamps were blown out, the windows opened to daylight, and Mother’s Rosary put back in her bedroom. We survived yet another raging electric storm in Northcote.

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IIHS shines the light on SUVs As I’ve mentioned in previous columns the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) of the US has started testing and rating vehicle headlamp effectiveness. They began this last year and have been working through the various groups of passenger vehicles and light trucks. This month they revealed their ratings of SUVs. Vehicles that don’t receive a good or acceptable rating on their tests can’t receive the IIHS’s coveted Top Safety Pick Plus award, meaning carmakers are definitely sitting up and taking notice.

The tests are performed on a closed road-track equipped with photo-meters and lights are measured in terms of their effective illumination distance on straight-aways as well as on corners and as to the amount of blinding glare they emit to oncoming vehicles. Being able to see down the road at night is becoming increasingly more challenging for aging drivers and those affected with vision problems; a demographic that is growing at an alarming rate.

The IIHS tested 37 different midsized

mainstream and luxury SUVs and only two received a good rating. They were the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe and the Volvo XC60. Twelve got the acceptable score and a whopping 23 were found to be marginal or poor.

"As a group, midsize SUV headlights perform slightly better than the other SUVs and pickups we evaluated last year, and that's encouraging," says IIHS Senior Research Engineer Matt Brumbelow. "Still, we continue to see headlights that compromise safety because they only provide a short view down the road at night."

The IIHS decided to complete these tests because of the growing number of complaints from drivers and because few consumers ever road-test vehicles at night before deciding to buy them.

Also about half of all traffic deaths occur in the dark or at dawn or dusk.

Fancy high-tech lighting doesn’t necessarily make the grade, according to IIHS testers. While Volvo’s XC60 had optional high-intensity discharge (HID) lights that swivel with steering wheel input which earned them a good rating, the Kia Sorento equipped with the same type of lights got a poor rating. The Volvo could light up the road for 315 feet while the Kia was only rated at 148 feet. The testers did evaluate different types of lighting offered on the models they tested. More than half of the 79 variants of SUV lights tested

emitted too much glare to oncoming vehicles.

"Managing glare can be more challenging for taller vehicles like SUVs and pickups because their headlights are mounted higher than on cars," Brumbelow says. "Better aim at the factory can minimize glare."

How does your ride stack up on the IIHS light list? In the 2017 model year luxury SUV category (with the best optional light packages available), the acceptable award went to Acura MDX and RDX, BMX X5, Buick Envision, Infiniti QX70, Lexus NX and RX, and Mercedes GLF. Marginal ribbons were awarded to Audi Q5, BMW X3, Cadillac XT5, Infiniti QX50, Lincoln MKT, and Volvo XC90. Poor ratings were bestowed on Infiniti QX60, Lincoln, MKC, and Lincoln MKX. The non-luxury SUVs that were found to be acceptable were Honda Pilot, Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee, and Toyota Highlander. The marginals were Chevrolet Equinox, Dodge Durango, Ford Flex, GMC Acadia, Nissan Murano, and Pathfinder. Those in the poor category were Dodge Journey, Ford Edge and Explorer, GMC Terrain, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sorento, Toyota 4Runner, and Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (not to be confused with the Santa Fe). You can learn more at iihs. org.

If headlamp performance is impor-

tant to you, make sure you complete at least one demo drive at night on a road without street lights. And be very careful when considering upgrading the lights on your existing ride. There are now laws in Ontario forbidding the installation of HID headlights on vehicles that weren’t equipped with them at the factory and some LED bulb kits can overheat wiring harnesses.

This Saturday, June 24th there’s a 2-for-1 deal happening in Picton with the ¼ Mile Armdrop Drags, Car &amp; Bike Show and The County Tractor Pull all at the Historic Picton Airfield. It’s open to all cars, trucks and bikes (no bike racing) and the gates open at 9:30 a.m. There’s a $5 spectator fee and food vendors will be on site.

And on the same day the very popular Wheels on the Mississippi Car Show returns to Riverside Park in Carleton Place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

If you have any questions, opinions, or stories on anything automotive please drop me a line, [By email to bjoeturner@hotmail.com listing ‘Question for the Car Counselor’ on the subject line or by post to Record News Communications, 65 Lorne St., P.O. Box 158, Smiths Falls, Ont. K7A 4T1]. When using regular mail, please supply a phone number if you seek direct contact (due to volume I can’t always promise replies).

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John Breimer Sales Representative

Cell: 613-453-7621 Office: 613-384-5500 Email: jhbreimer@gmail.com Website: www.johnbreimer.com

For more info:www.realestatekingston.ca

$399,000

NEW LISTING

$199,900

774 BROCK ST. KINGSTON

138 MAIN ST. ODESSA

This well maintained 3 +1 bedroom bungalow offers many updated windows, gleaming hardwood floors, new tile flooring in main entry, kitchen and main bath, roof (2014). Separate side entrance to lower level one bedroom in-law suite. Fenced back yard, close to public transportation, and walking distance to Queens.

Completely updated two story, two bed, 1.5 washroom home has undergone extensive interior updating and renovation. Updates include plumbing, floors, trim, paint and more. Windows and roof within the last 6 years. The gas stove is sure to delight on those cold winter nights. This home is perfect for starting out, downsizing, the recently single or investment. Given the location, this home would also be great for a home based business.

$120,000

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JAMES WILSON RD. Picturesque Sand Lake, build your dream home!Two separate waterfront areas of 177 feet and 262 feet, offering both open and naturalist waterfront.

Spring fed, approximately ½ km wide by 1½ km long and 75-95 feet deep in the centre of the lake. Fishing enthusiasts, will love the challenge of catching everything from pickerel, small mouth and rock bass, to perch. When all you want to hear is peace and quiet, the tranquility of Sand Lake awaits!

$199,900

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I HAVE NUMEROUS BUYERS LOOKING FOR HOMES ALL OVER KINGSTON AND IN MANY DIFFERENT PRICE RANGES. THE SPRING MARKET IS HERE, IF YOU ARE THINKING OF SELLING, CALL ME TODAY FOR YOUR FREE MARKET EVALUATION!

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3438 PRINCESS ST BOTH RESIDENTIAL AN COMMERCIAL D ZONING

NEW PRICE

$450,000

BUILD YOUR BUSINESS HERE Perfect match of elegant living combined with tremendous business opportunities. Zoned both residential/commercial, this property offers a host of opportunities for a home based business or just enjoy the meticulously updated home and parklike yard with beautiful gardens surrounding the peaceful patio & deck areas. Wheelchair accessible 2 bedroom, 2 ½ baths house features hardwood in living/dining rooms, bedroom areas and office. Gas fireplaces. Updated kitchen. Main floor office with convenient separate entrance for customers. Tastefully finished basement. Separate garage, workshop, and storage areas.

Large paved parking lot. The C3 zoning allows for a variety of business applications. Call today. MLS# 360891538

243 KING ST EAST, GANANOQUE $179,000

Renovated family home or rental property located in the heart of downtown gananoque. 2 Storey 3 bedroom home with updated windows and roof. Gas heat. Close to schools.

Currently rented. Your opportunity to own your own home in a convenient location or generate income as a rental.

Call today. MLS# 442480228

525 KING ST EAST, GANANOQUE $799,000

Tremendous opportunity! Commercial building with high visibility located in a high traffic area of downtown gananoque.

Newer construction with ample parking. Zoning allows for a wide variety of potential uses. Ideally set up to host either one or multiple tenants. Seller will consider holding mortgage oac. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity! Act today! MLS# 442440023

Inexpensive ways to boost a home’s curb appeal Curb appeal can go a long way toward making a home more attractive to its inhabitants as well as prospective buyers once the house is put on the market.

Improving curb appeal is a goal for many homeowners, and while many projects aimed at making homes more aesthetically appealing can be costly, there are ways for cost-conscious homeowners to improve their properties without breaking the bank.

• Put your green thumb to use.

A well-maintained landscape can dramatically improve a home’s curb appeal. Pay attention to the plants, shrubs and trees throughout your property, watering them during periods of little rainfall and trimming them when necessary so your lawn does not look like an overgrown, neglected suburban jungle. Professional landscaping services can help you maintain your property, but even if your budget does not allow for such an expense, you can still make sure your landscape adds to your home’s appeal by keeping a watchful eye on the property and addressing any issues that arise.

Maintain your lawn through the colder months of the year as well, making sure no one walks on the grass when frost has settled, as doing so can produce dead spots throughout the lawn.

• Redo your front door.

While their eyes may initially be drawn to a well-manicured lawn, 4

prospective buyers will eventually on improving the curb appeal of shed light on those areas of your at night.

Improving curb appeal may find their way to the front door. their property during the daytime property you’re most proud of, If your door is especially old, hours, but you can take steps to even after the sun has gone down. sound like a significant undertaking, consider replacing it. If your make a home more appealing at Solar spotlights won’t add to your but there are many ways budgethomeowners can budget does not allow for such night as well. Solar spotlights energy bill, as they are powered by conscious an expense, you can still give your placed around trees and other the sun, and they can make certain make their home’s exterior more home’s front entrance an entirely attractive features in your yard can accents on your property stand out appealing without going broke. new look by installing some inexpensive molding around the door before giving the door a fresh coat of paint. Molding around the front door can make an entrance more impressive, while a new coat of paint can make a home feel warmer and more vibrant.

• Plant flowers. Another inexpensive way to make a home more appealing is to plant some colorful flowers around the property. Line walkways with flowers native to your region, as such plants will last longer than exotic alternatives that may not be capable of adapting to the local climate. In addition to lining walkways, hang window boxes filled with colorful flowers or plants outside naked windows.

Doing so can make windows seem larger and add some color to your home’s exterior.

Another creative way to make use of colorful flowers is to place a few planters at the foot of your driveway and painting the numbers of your address on the planters. This can be both effortless and inexpensive, but it can instantly make a home more inviting to prospective buyers.

• Spotlight certain parts of your Maintaining plant life on a property won’t cost homeowners a lot of money, but such an effort can add property. Many homeowners focus substantial curb appeal to a home.

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Things to consider before buying an investment property Real estate can be an incredibly fruitful investment. Buying a property at the right time can provide investors with a substantial return when they decide to sell, and that opportunity compels many men and women to consider investing in real estate.

While there’s no denying real estate can yield a great return on buyers’ initial investments, there’s more to making money in real estate than simply buying a property and waiting for its value to rise. Buyers who are thinking of investing in real estate should consider a host of factors before purchasing an investment property.

Price trends Recent sale activity in a given town or neighborhood is something prospective real estate investors should study before buying an investment property. Would-be real estate investors can explore real estate websites such as Zillow. com for recent sale information, which may also be available through local government agencies. Such data can be invaluable, showing potential investors which neighborhoods are in demand and which may be in decline.

Taxes Investment properties are not eligible for as many tax benefits as primary residences. However, landlords can write off repairs, management costs and other fees associated with rental properties. But it’s not just their own tax bill prospective investors should consider before buying an investment property. Many potential buyers down the road may prefer a property in an area where property taxes are relatively low, so even if you can afford the tax on the

investment property, you may find buyers are unwilling to assume that burden when you put the property up for sale in the future.

Location Prospective real estate investors no doubt know the value of location with regard to real estate, but if you can’t afford to buy in a neighborhood that’s currently hot, that does not necessarily mean you can’t still capitalize on that area’s popularity. When a town becomes popular, its property values rise, and many buyers find themselves just barely priced out. When that happens, the surrounding towns tend to become the next hot neighborhood, as these areas are nearly as close to the attractions that make the initial neighborhood so desirable.

Buying on the outskirts of a hot neighborhood can set you up to benefit nicely when that area gets too pricey.

Schools School systems should be examined even if you do not have children. In a recent Trulia. com survey of American home buyers, 35 percent of respondents with children under age 18 indicated they want to live in great school districts. GreatSchools.org has profiles of 200,000 public, public charter and private preK-12 schools. Investors can use the GreatSchools.org search engine to find information about local schools and school systems so they can better position themselves to buy properties in areas that will appeal to buyers down the road.

Real estate can be a fruitful investment, and investors who want to benefit the most from their properties will explore various factors before purchasing a home or homes.

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• Tray Ceilings with Coving in Great Room and Master Bedroom • Hardwood and Ceramic Tile • 9’ Ceilings on Main Floor • Oversized Garage • Granite Countertops • Gas Fireplace

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NEW LISTING • 1431 COTTSMERE COURT • Luxurious Custom Built Bungalow on Cul-de-sac • Full Stone Exterior • Rear Enclosed Sunroom • Hardwood & Ceramic through out • Custom Kitchen, Granite Countertops, Built-in Appliances • 9 ft. Ceilings • Main Floor Family Room • 2 Sided Gas Fireplace • Main Floor Laundry • Finished Lower Level with Rec Room, 3rd Bedroom, Office • Over-sized Garage • Fully Fenced Rear Yard

$734,900 Call Hugh at 613-531-2500 to set up a viewing.

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Michael MacHale SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Direct: 613-329-8125 Email: michael@michaelmachale.com

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Maggie McNulty

Sutton Group-Masters | 613-384-5500

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Realty Inc. Brokerage Independently Owned & Operated

Direct: 613-217-3449 Email: maggie@mmprorealty.com

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Dir: Milford to Pembridge to Heaton.

Great potential and value in this 2 bedroom bungalow with a complete 2 bedroom in-law suite in the lower level.

Attached garage, fully fenced yard, newer furnace and central air.

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Factors to consider when choosing a neighborhood When shopping for a home, it’s easy for buyers to fall in love with a property. A well-maintained home with updated features can be hard to resist, but buyers must consider more than just a home’s appearance before submitting an offer.

One variable prospective home buyers tend to value more highly than others is the neighborhood where they will ultimately choose to live. Many buyers even value neighborhoods more than homes, feeling they can always fix a home but cannot necessarily fix an undesirable neighborhood. When considering which neighborhood to begin a home search, buyers should research a host of factors.

Crime Crime statistics are public domain, meaning buyers can examine crime figures for any neighborhood where they are considering buying a home.

Some real estate websites list neighborhood crime ratings among the information they offer about a given property. In addition, buyers interested in learning about crime in a given neighborhood can visit a site such as CrimeReports.com to access data on crimes committed near a particular address.

Home values Home values are another factor to consider when choosing 6

a neighborhood in which to buy a home. Buyers can work with a local realtor to find a neighborhood or area where real estate prices are trending upwards. While buyers might be able to find a great deal on a home in a neighborhood where home prices are dropping, it’s important to remember those home prices are dropping for a reason. Work with your realtor to find a neighborhood where you can afford a home and where property values are not in decline.

Realtors will have access to recent sales figures so you can get an idea of whether a neighborhood is trending upward or in decline.

Amenities The proximity of amenities such as shopping, restaurants and parks is attractive to many buyers, and that’s something all buyers should consider before buying a home. Even if you prefer a home in a remote location, that could limit your market of buyers when you want to sell the home down the road. While your own comfort and preferences should ultimately prevail over potential resale value, it’s important that you at least consider access to amenities before making a decision. You might be able to find a compromise in a home that is a short drive away from a town center, but still remote enough that you are not in the middle of the hustle and bustle.

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Commute Quality of life is heavily influenced by commute time.

Many men and women feel their quality of life improves dramatically the shorter their daily commute is. When considering a particular neighborhood, do a test run

before making an offer on a home. Wake up early and drive to the area where you are thinking of buying, and then commute from there during rush hour. Also, do the reverse commute come quitting time.

You might be able to get an estimated commute time online,

but a test run can give you a more accurate idea of what your daily trips to and from the office will be like.

Choosing a neighborhood where you will enjoy living requires some forethought and research.

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263 Ontario Street Kingston, Ontario K7K 2X5 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

91 TORONTO ST

846 WOODSIDE DR

LOT 5 PAULINE TOM AVE

Open House Sun 1-3PM

Investment Property

MLS#360950094 $464,900 4 BEDS

MLS#362621073 $729,000

2.5 +.5 BATHS

164 KILDARE AMHERSTVIEW LOT 35AVE. CLOVER ST

3 BEDS

2 BATHS

4337 NOTRE DAME ST Includes Guest House

This great investment property is not only a 15-minute walk to Queen’s University, most windows have been replaced, roof was replaced in 2014 and boiler 2015. This property brings in a gross income of $81,000 with room for potential increase. Offers to be accepted June 29th.

MLS#360270151 $979,900

ONE 2 BEDROOM UNIT

FIVE 3 BEDROOM UNITS

Panoramic Waterview MLS#360892829 $504,900 3+2 BEDS 2 BEDS

MLS#361390220 $249,900

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