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City-run Belle Park golf course on par for closure

BY BILL HUTCHINS

It’s the end of the links for Belle Park Fairways.

The city-owned golf course will close for good this season more than 40 years after it opened atop a municipal landfill site.

“I think it’s time for a new chapter for Belle Park,” said Mayor Bryan Paterson.

Councillors voted 12-1 at their Sept. 19 meeting to adopt a staff recommendation to eliminate the operations and maintenance of the nine-hole course, and to undertake a Master Plan study to revamp the 80-acre property on Montreal Street with a variety of potential new uses.

“We have some amThe ninth annual Prom Dress Rugby game was held at the St. Lawrence College North Field bitious possibilities in Kingston on Saturday, Sept. 23. Players from the Kingston Panthers and the St. Lawrence on the site,” remarked College Alumni played the game in prom dresses to raise money for the Happy Soul Project in Coun. Jim Neill.

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The motion approved by council specifi cally gives staff permission to open talks with the Kingston Panthers Rugby Club and Kingston Pickleball Association to explore partnership models for Belle Park.

Both groups have been lobbying the city to have a permanent home for their sports.

“Right now we don’t have a supply of courts to meet the demand,” said Deanna Hanes, president of the local pickleball club.

She says constructing dedicated outdoor courts will allow the club to host more tournaments.

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Belle Park Fairways is on par for closure.

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Steve Jamieson, a captain with the Panthers rugby team, also called council’s decision “very encouraging” for its 350 members.

But not everyone supports the move to carve Belle Park into multi-uses.

Mary Louise Adams, a member of the Belle Park working group, called the staff recommendations premature. She says they were based on a public survey that did not canvass other options such as naturalizing the entire park space. “A public survey is not the basis to decide the future of 80 acres of land.”

Adams doesn’t think recreational courts and fields would be a good fit alongside plans to expand some of the naturalized areas. “I

don’t think this is the place to put it. It would be a missed opportunity.”

Some councillors also wondered why rugby and pickleball seem to be getting preferential treatment for active park space ahead of other community groups.

“It seems to prioritize a couple of sports over others,” said Coun. Peter Stroud.

However, city officials say no other groups have expressed an interest in using space in Belle Park, and field and court sports ranked high in the public survey.

“We’ve not heard of others jumping up for partnerships,” said Luke Follwell, the city’s director of recreation and leisure services.

While the future of the park space will remain the focus of ongoing public debate and input during the development of a Master Plan, the fate of the golf course is sealed.

The decision follows years of attempts by the current and former councils to generate more golf memberships and revenues, both of which have been in steady decline.

“We gave golf another try. It just didn’t take,” said Mayor Paterson.

Closing the course will save the city about $100,000 a year in operating costs while eliminating an annual defi cit that reached $236,000 in 2016.

In fact, the golf course never opened this season due to extreme flooding in the spring.

The estimated $500,000 cost to repair and restore some of the damaged fairways was another factor in council’s decision to close it permanently.

But golfers won’t lose everything.

The city intends to provide a driving range and pitch-and-putt greens on site starting in 2018.

Coun. Mary Rita Holland tried to persuade council to launch a public visioning exercise for Belle Park — similar to what was done recently for Kingston Penitentiary and Portsmouth Olympic Harbour — while keep-

ing the golf course open. She also fears that competing uses of game whistles and nature walks will impact the park’s attractiveness.

“The recommendation is trying to do too many things.”

However, Mayor Paterson says the golf course had a good run but it’s time to “reimagine” new uses for the inner city space.

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The statement said that Tim will be dearly the Canadian Forces member who was reported missed by family and friends. "We will draw missing on Aug. 29.

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"Captain Bowman was an enthusiastic airman, colleague, friend, and father who will be sorely missed by both his immediate and military families. He was a professional who was driven to succeed. As an accomplished pilot and athlete with a passion for sailing, he was always ready to provide encouragement and advice to those who asked."

Cunningham said that their priority at this time is caring for Bowman's family during this difficult period.

"I have assigned an assisting officer from the unit whose job it is to support the family and ensure that they are aware of the services and benefi ts available to them. Additionally, both the family and the members of the Headquarters are well supported by the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplaincy and Base Social Workers."

Cunningham said that an investigation is ongoing into the nature of Bowman's disappearance and death; he indicated it's standard procedure to convene a Board of Inquiry in response to the death of any serving member of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Ariel Salzman says the latest of four arborist reports, prepared by Eco Tree Care, relied on state-of-the-art technology to recommend that only one willow be removed, while concluding the remaining two are structurally sound and only need pruning.

The point was also made that the willows are part and parcel of what makes Sydenham a heritage conservation district. “These willows

BY BILL HUTCHINS

Heritage protection is not just confined to buildings.

City councillors had to referee a neighbourhood dispute over the future of three mature willow trees in the historic Sydenham district.

Some consider the trees in the courtyard of Annandale Complex condominium at 67 Sydenham St., between William and Earl streets, to be a dangerous accident waiting to happen. In fact, a fourth willow came crashing down onto a nearby electrical transformer last May, prompting fears the same fate could await the three remaining trees — each believed to be 80 to 100 years old.

“The condominium corporation is concerned about someone being hurt or property being damaged,” said Cheryll Wood, a lawyer representing Annandale’s board of directors at Frontenac Condominium Corporation No. 15.

She urged councillors to have all three trees removed based on the advice of arborists. The condo board submitted the application for public safety reasons. “The corporation does not want to gamble with safety.”

She added that any risk or liability would fall to city hall should it not take action.

Judi Cova also lobbied council for the trees to be removed.

“The graceful willows hide serious problems,” she said, adding the root structure isn’t strong enough to support the 75 foot tall canopies and that the trees weigh about 38 tonnes. Two willow trees will be spared the axe.

But, some residents of the building who opSubmitted photo pose their own board’s wishes say two of the

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Salzman added: “It will impact the esthetics of the entire complex.”

The city’s heritage committee sided with Salzman and other residents by recommending to council that only one willow should get the axe, based on professional advice and heritage preservation.

After hearing from both sides, councillors voted 12-0 at their Sept. 19 meeting to approve the committee’s recommendation to cut one

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“We’d be foolish not to follow the expert advice,” added Sydenham district Coun. Peter Stroud.

City solicitor Susan Nicholson was asked to comment on the condo board’s assertion that the city could be liable for damages if the two remaining trees fell down.

“I would submit there is none,” she replied, noting the willows are important heritage features of the district.

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City hires new integrity commissioner as council watchdog are required. “It’s on a per-use basis exactly the same as the current arrangement that we have with our interim integrity commisCity councillors can now get advice on sioner.�

The city currently has a budget of about speed-dial to avoid potential conflicts of $50,000 a year for an integrity commisinterest.

Principles Integrity, a newly-formed sioner to provide consultation or investigapartnership of retired civil servants, has tion services. Council will be informed if been hired by the city on a four-year con- the budget is exceeded, staff said before the tract to provide the services of integrity hiring was approved Sept. 19.

City offi cials also did not disclose the commissioner with sweeping powers to advise, educate, or investigate council actions. value of the four-year contract, citing the The new watchdog role did not come need for confi dentiality in the competitive bidding process. with an estimated price to taxpayers.

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Until now, an integrity commissioner has been hired on an ad hoc basis to handle complaints and questions. Officials say advancing the role to full-time retainer status is meant to improve political transparency and accountability at city hall while providing councillors with critical advice prior to their involvement in debates and votes. “Instead of getting an opinion from a lawyer, you’re getting an opinion from the integrity commissioner and that way you’re covered,� the mayor explained.

Council has launched three separate integrity investigations in this term, each ending with a ruling that a councillor had breached the city’s code. In response, councillors adopted a revised Code of Conduct that’s designed to govern their behaviour.

Councillors held a special meeting last March to discuss the new ethical framework and public complaints protocol. A key recommendation was to retain an integrity commissioner “on an ongoing basis� to advise councillors on whether their actions could be deemed in violation of Inside council chambers.

Metroland file photo the code, along with powers to investigate their actions.

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Vigil held in memory of elusive goat killed on Hwy. 401

BY TORI STAFFORD

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“Hopefully, this is the beginning of something,” said Carla Moore.

“Hopefully, this is the beginning of a change,” responded Krystal Petitpas.

Moore and Petitpas are two women who worked tirelessly over the past few weeks to capture and rehome the goat who had become well known throughout the area after eluding authorities and animal outreach workers. Moore is the founder of Happy Tails Farm Sanctuary, and Petitpas is the founder of Homes 4 Paws.

Since the elusive goat was first spotted during the last week of August, the two have worked with local residents and a handful of different authorities in an attempt to get it to safety. The goat, known on social media as #ygkGoat and lovingly known as OJ by those who tried to capture and care for it, had been wandering around in Kingston since the last week of August. Frequenting the Sydenham Road, Highway 401 and McIvor Road area, the goat crossed Highway 401 at least three times, and was spotted by numerous members of the public who reported sightings both on social media and to authorities.

Sadly, the goat did not survive long enough to be captured and transported to Happy Tails Farm Sanctuary, as it was struck and killed by a transport truck on the Highway 401 eastbound at about 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19.

A handful of those who had worked to keep the goat safe and fed gathered at the Cataraqui Community Centre on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 20 to pay their respects to ‘OJ,’ who was named by Moore for its ability to elude capture. There, Moore, Petitpas and a few other independent animal rescue workers discussed the issues that arise when farm animals become loose. Moore and Petitpas had spent weeks contacting various authorities from local animal control, Kingston Police and the OPP, to the OSPCA and the Ministry of Natural Resources. None of those agencies were able to help as none of them deal with farm animals, Moore explained.

“There is no one to help in a case like this.

It’s not within anyone’s mandate,” said Moore, noting that she didn’t want to blame anyone for the void in this area of animal welfare, but that she certainly hopes it’s going to change.

“This is not going to be the last case like this.”

Petitpas, who spent every day since the goat was fi rst sighted trying to keep tabs on ‘OJ,’

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The loss of a best friend I often say that while I genuinely enjoy the company of (most) people, I prefer dogs. While this statement is usually taken as a joke, and half-meant as such, it also has a lot of truth to it.

Dogs love their human companions in a way that is simple and unconditional. They are always happy to see you and they don’t expect you to talk — though, if you want to talk, they are happy to listen, and they don’t judge you if what you have to say is not smart or witty or loud.

As a child, I was very shy, and my family’s dogs were among my closest friends. As an adult, I insisted that Steve and I get a dog as soon as we moved into a house (as opposed to an apartment). I yearned for that companionship — to me, a house just doesn’t feel like “home� without a dog.

We knew of a farm east of Kingston where a golden retriever had just given birth to a litter of puppies, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity. So one

sunny September afternoon 10 years ago, Steve and I welcomed a tiny golden fluffball into our family. We named her Stella, in honour of the character in A Streetcar Named Desire. We thought it would be funny to call her name. (This is the kind of thing that amuses us.)

Stella passed away on Monday, Sept.

18, after a decade of being the best canine companion we could have asked for. She was a gentle soul — loved all people and other dogs, and had endless patience for our two young children.

I was expecting the most difficult part to be breaking the news to fiveyear-old Summer, but honestly I think I’m taking it the hardest. Summer cried for about 10 minutes, then asked when we could get another dog. Her lack of concern made my own sadness more poignant, I think, though perhaps it’s unrealistic to assume that someone so young will truly understand the nature of death.

Ultimately, Stella’s passing wasn’t a huge shock. Her health declined pretty dramatically in the last six months — she had bad dementia and always seemed tired and in pain when moving

around. I was in the process of preparing myself to make the hard decision to put her down, perhaps in a year or so.

Still, it was unexpected to see her go on her own, and relatively suddenly, too.

The vet fi gured she had a tumour on her spleen, which ruptured. Perhaps it was for the best in the end — her suffering ended and we were not forced to make that choice.

But now here I am faced with a house that has a certain emptiness to it, even when all four human members of the family are home. I no longer have a good excuse to go for the long evening walks I love so much, and I’ve lost the best listener in my life.

We will get another dog, but not right away. We’ll wait until the kids are older and life is a little less crazy. In the meantime, I will fondly remember the good times we had with Stella. I will also honour her memory by remembering a popular meme that’s been going around social media for a few years that goes “Be the person your dog thinks you are.�

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The commemoration of people and events in a multicultural society needs to be open to diverse but factual perspectives, because multiculturalism means more than acknowledging and celebrating different cultures. It means listening to their concerns, too.

One good reason for our multicultural policy is that it provides for the greatest range of options for the greatest number of people to choose their values, beliefs, life plans and conceptions of the good life. Another good reason is that it provides for the greatest range of considerations when we decide the public goods and services most needed and desired.

However, the greatest benefit of these good reasons is not realized with only one dominant voice. Reducing everyone to our broadest commonality does not help address particular problems.

When a narrative excludes others, it is a form of censorship and colonialism directed at the marginalized. The state’s

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necessary neutrality toward values such as religion, life plans and conceptions of the good life needs to be extended to our stories and history. The state needs to find a working neutrality toward our commemoration policies.

One way the state can be neutral is by making room for the voices of minority groups when there is an event, thing or person worth commemorating. When the state gives a single official narrative, it is not being neutral — it is creating the dominant narrative. But, by leaving room for other perspectives and by providing the freedom to express marginalized but factual versions, we all learn to see things with better accuracy. Recognizing a multitude of perspectives and life experiences better fulfils the spirit of multiculturalism.

This is particularly important in Canada, and especially in Kingston, now that we are debating Sir John A. Macdonald’s legacy. Part of the dominant narrative is that he was the first prime minister, was a father of ConVice Bishop Vice President President &&&Regional Regional Publisher Mike Vice President RegionalPublisher PublisherPeter MikeMount Mount pbishop@metroland.com mmount@perfprint.ca mmount@perfprint.ca Ext. 613-283-3182 104 613-283-3182,ext. ext.108 104

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federation, united this country with its fi rst transcontinental railroad and prevented American expansion north of the 49th parallel. This is one factual perspective. Macdonald has had a profound influence on all Canadian lives, then and now. But, this perspective and this influence is not the only one. His actions also had a deep influence on many First Nations peoples and on the Chinese who helped build Canada’s fi rst transcontinental railway. These groups’ life experiences were formed, in part, by the events of the past and the actions of Macdonald in a different way than the majority.

Fairness in multiculturalism requires the freedom and the opportunity to voice the perspective of groups who experience history differently.

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According to the report, the western provinces have been hit hardest by the crisis, but numbers in Eastern Canada are rising at alarming rates; Ontario had 865 deaths last year with Canadians aged 30 to 39 accounting for the highest proportion of deaths.

The report also outlined the drugs that are causing these deaths and illicit synthetic fentanyl and fentanyl-like drugs are outlined as major drivers of overdose deaths in Canada as well as drugs mixed with fentanyl.

The crisis is not only a concern in terms of deaths, but also in terms of the strain being placed on the health care system. According to the CIHI, in 20162017, 16 Canadians were admitted to hospital for opioid toxicity per day, up from 13 per day just two years ago. Those admitted and treated for opioid toxicity also typically have longer hospital stays, straining facilities further.

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Listening to all concerned voices is absolutely vital for truth and reconciliation. Authentic recognition of marginalized groups promotes the peaceful cohabitation of this land. Like a successful marriage needs authentic recognition, communication and some adjustments, so, too, does the union of our all our peoples. We cannot choose with whom to cohabit this land. Therefore, we must accommodate each other in order to live, grow and prosper successfully and equitably together.

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and social justice.

The principles of equality, dignity and human rights all suggest that devaluing or ignoring the concerns of some people because they are not in the privileged group should be offensive.

Failing to treat the concerns of the marginalized is a type of discrimination based on race or ethnic group.

As such, marginalization is discrimination. A better multiculturalism in line with equality, dignity and human rights is an answer that can overcome this discrimination.

A fi rst step to a more just, multicultural society is to have the dominant and privileged groups just hear the message of the marginalized. We in the privileged group should not dominate the debate, because marginalized groups often have much more pressing concerns than what the privileged groups may even know about.

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Last week, in the midst of the hot spell, a group of peaceniks (myself included) set up a tall, vertical banner at the corner of University and Union. The little PeaceQuest Kingston band was part of a national push to get Canadians thinking about a United Nations effort to get the world to ban nuclear weapons. We armed ourselves with Sharpies.

We succeeded in getting dozens of Queen’s students to sign the our big, official looking “treaty.”

The local “Citizen Signing Ceremony” was one of a half-dozen across Canada. We were urging Ottawa to sign the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that opened for signature at the UN on Sept. 20. Some 122 nations have supported the treaty.

When you do this sort of thing, especially in the public square, you sometimes feel that you’re on a lonely quest But we knew that some 970 Order of Canada recipients have already lent their support to an effort to get their country to take the lead in negotiations for the nuclear weapons convention proposed by the United Nations Secretary General.

The Order of Canada is the centerpiece of our honours system, recognizing people who have dedicated their lives to national service. Many OC recipients receive the recognition later in life and are no longer with us. But in Ottawa, the energetic Quaker Murray Thomson, 94, is still working for a more peaceful world.

In May, the dean of Canadian peace activism’s hand was evident in a letter to the Prime Minister.

Mr. Thomson and his fellow activists wrote that “The world has entered its most dangerous nuclear moment since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.”

They went on to quote former US Defense Secretary William Perry’s frightening conclusion that “The likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe today is greater than it was during the Cold War.”

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Telling the truth is important in order to be truly multicultural. To be more welcoming and to reconcile differences, we must hear the facts from the point of view of the marginalized.

This is a more advanced form of multiculturalism. I hope the city will continue to be at the forefront of multiculturalism by adjusting and

But here’s a problem. A freshly negotiated Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an essential step towards eliminating the most lethal weapons of mass destruction. But the Trudeau government refuses to sign on.

Not only that, it didn’t even bother to participate in the United Nations sponsored negotiations aimed at banning weapons that could easily vaporize us all. Given the North Korea/United States standoff over the former’s nuclear program, the issue is more important than ever.

Nuclear sabre-rattling by frightening leaders Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump will lead nowhere. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently observed that the North Koreans would rather eat grass than give up their nukes. A remarkable article

by Evan Osnos of The New Yorker recently underlined the hideous uncertainty the world faces today.

Mr. Osnos has worked a correspondent in Iraq, China and Egypt, had been allowed into North Korea.

“To go between Washington and Pyongyang at this nuclear moment is to be struck, most of all, by how little the two understand each other. In eighteen years of reporting, I’ve never felt as much uncertainty at the end of a project, a feeling that nobody—not the diplomats, the strategists, or the scholars who have devoted their lives to the subject—is able to describe with confidence how the other side thinks.”

As with so many knotty war and peace problems, there’s only one way out. Talking. Negotiating. Learning about who’s thinking what.

The achievement of a UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons is not specifically about the standoff on the Korea peninsula. But the negotiations for the Treaty do, according to Cesar Jaramillo of Canadian peace group Project Ploughshares, “constitute a welcome shock to an otherwise lethargic nuclear disarmament regime.”

Canada’s allies are divided, with most other NATO members opposed and even working to subvert the moves towards a new nuke ban treaty. It could limit nuclear weapons sharing practices as well as nuclear weapons related planning and training.

clarifying our commemoration policy to recognize and add room for factual narratives from marginalized perspectives.

Jeff McLaren is councillor for the Meadowbrook-Strathcona district. His motion asking staff to adjust the city’s commemoration policy to allow for marginalized perspectives at any city commemoration will be voted on at the Oct. 3 council meeting.

Canadian diplomacy has apparently been colonized by a military alliance dominated by the US and countries like Britain and France, whose military establishments are addicted to nukes. This isn’t about Trump. The unstable president’s predecessor was so keen on the nuclear arsenal (it makes “weapons of mass destruction” an absurd understatement) that last year Barack Obama authorized a nuclear weapons “modernization” scheme that would cost a trillion dollars. Not billions. A trillion – with a “T”.

As prominent Canadian military analysis put it pungently in Canada in the Great Power Game “asking our soldiers if NATO was a good thing was like asking the barber if you need a haircut.”

Canada’s military is so tied up with the Ameri-

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cans – they use the word “interoperability” – that it’s hardly a wonder that the government listens when it hears about the alleged folly of limiting nuclear weapons planning and training.

Yet, it was protracted diplomatic negotiations that produced the 1997 treaty to ban land mines.

Many countries using these hideous weapons weren’t at the table, at least at the start.

This past June a Prime Minister Trudeau referred to a treaty to ban nuclear weapons as “useless.” Murray Thomson, Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi, former Conservative Senator Doug Roche and 970 other Order of Canada recipients have rejected this doomsday logic. We need Canada to show some leadership.

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Most school bus runs were rural at one time. It was great to drive through the country in the morning, picking up kids and then heading home for a more leisurely cup of coffee. Then things started to change. There were now fewer children and schools needed to consolidate to be able to operate.

New neighourhoods were being built without schools and all of the children were being bused to existing schools across town. Then, to make bus driving more cost effective, the boards shifted school start times so that buses would pick up high school students first, then drive around to pick up the elementary students. Finally, we got French catholic schools and French public schools and suddenly there were school buses everywhere and the busing shifted from rural to urban.

These French boards have had the most problem attracting drivers. The students were being picked up all over the territory and have become the longest and the most circuitous, weaving all of the way across the city and on to neighbouring towns. Some students cannot understand English, which makes it diffi cult to explain to them why they need to sit down.

Bus routes are contracted out to private bus companies that put in the lowest cost bid. As a result, any bus company that paid its employees more would be penalized by the loss of its routes. Wages have thus stagnated and are now just above minimum wage. The drivers who work for family owned businesses are better off than those working for the large multinationals.

They don’t have to pay for upper managers and they don’t have to pay high dividends to shareholders. Companies have saved money by not upgrading their buses. Instead of having a fleet of newer buses, they have very old buses that break down constantly. I had a

bus that broke down fourteen times in one season. I don’t work for that company anymore. It is shocking to find out that school crossing guards make more money than school bus drivers and that transit drivers make twice as much. School bus drivers must have a B class license, have defensive driving skills, regular medical check-ups, CPR/ first aid trainings as well as child management skills. Teachers tell me that they could never do my job, yet they make four times as much money.

If a driver is lucky enough to get a good bus run with great kids and good management, then school bus driving can be a great job; but, for the most part, drivers are over stressed, grossly underpaid and definitely under appreciated.

JEFF SCOTT

The school boards have added immensely to the difficulty of driving a school bus. First, there was the creation of all day junior kindergarten.

Although four-year-old children are some of the most enjoyable to have on the bus, they do not understand that they have to sit and be quiet.

They just aren’t old enough to be on a bus, not to mention the bladder control required for an hour bus ride. The boards have also brought mentally challenged children into the regular classroom where they have educational assistants to help them out. The EAs do not come on the bus, though, and the driver is left to deal with serious additional challenges. I had a non-verbal autistic child who screamed all the way home every night. I also had a child who needed to be put into a harness to keep them from running around the bus biting the other children.

The school boards, in their wisdom, have also decided to cram the school buses to capacity. That means that

three children are required to sit in a seat. This is ridiculously unrealistic.

Just try to do that with teenage boys and their football gear!

A school bus is much easier to drive than you might think, but there are some really stupid problems. In order to keep drivers from backing up and running over students, it has been mandated to have extra mirrors.

The problem is that the mirrors obstruct the view of oncoming traffic at intersections. Drivers are instructed to “rock and roll” or check, check again and recheck before going out into an intersection. Then add in fans, safety stickers and bus numbers and you have really obstructed vision. The buses are now equipped with GPS systems so that the bus company and the board know where you are and what speed you are going. The problem is that the driver does not have this same system. They can’t see their route on a screen or see traffi c problems the way all modern vehicles can. Then there is the fact that school buses do not have airconditioning! Just try to deal with those problems, as well as rush hour traffic and 72 noisy children!

Now we get to the really difficult part of driving school buses: everyone else on the road. Traffic has become really bad in the city and school buses are on the road at rush hour.

We have to stop traffic to make sure that the children can get on and off the bus safely. The other morning, I had a women yell at me because I was making her late for work. I have also had drivers run right past my stop arm while I was loading sixteen children at a daycare. Then there are the texting millennials who blindly walk out into traffic, the e-bikes that you can’t see, the parents who block your way into the school yard while they are dropping off their children, and of course there are the multitude of aggressive drivers. No wonder I have anxiety dreams. Then there is also winter!

If a driver is lucky enough to get a good bus run with great kids and good management, then school bus driving can be a great job; but, for the most part, drivers are over stressed, grossly underpaid and definitely under appreciated.

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“Dry Stone Canada approached us for ideas for their annual festival and I immediately thought of Barriefield,” explained Shirley Bailey, president of the Frontenac Heritage Foundation. “It seemed like a great fit.”

Every year, Dry Stone Canada hosts a festival with a partner community to promote dry stone craft. In 2015, they hosted the event on Amherst Island, and last year, they helped rebuild a bridge in Perth. This year, they will take on the wall in front of St. Mark’s Anglican Church, which will celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2018.

“The walls really needed some attention and we settled on that pretty quickly,” said Bailey. “The wall looks OK right now, but it is not structurally sound, and when it is completed, I am sure it will be good for another hundred years.”

The festival will be held from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, with both professional and hobbyist wallers coming from across North America to participate. Community members will be invited to take part and even sign up for a workshop about walling if they’d like to.

“That is the only part of the festival with a cost and we still have space,” said Bailey. “If I weren’t so busy organizing, I would have been signing up for the workshop. It sounds so interesting. I will be watching for sure.”

The weekend will also include stone shaping and carving demonstrations, free children’s workshops, tours of St. Mark’s church, walking and guided tours of the village and more.

“When the city gave us the heritage permit, they wanted the date of the wall restoration to be part of the new wall and the carving demonstration will show that,” explained Bailey. “We are also putting up signs for 28 houses that were actually standing in 1867 in the area to celebrate Canada

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The Barriefield school and antique market will also be open to the public and the Kingston Trolley will be in the area to help people get around.

“It should be a fantastic time,” said Bailey. “We really want to showcase the area.”

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Full agenda at recent Frontenac Islands council meeting

BY MARGARET KNOTT

Too many interesting items came up at Township of Frontenac Islands September meeting to let them slip by without a mention.

--Under the planning applications component, for instance.

Following Frontenac county planner Megan Rueckwald’s minor variance application presentation for a “tear down” the old and rebuild a new 900 sq. ft. cottage with a “portable outhouse” for sewage disposal, Mayor Doyle expressed concern about the outhouse and grey water disposal because of the cottage location near the water. A member of the public also expressed similar concerns.

Deputy mayor Nossal noted that a compostable toilet is acceptable, but was a portable outhouse? The township will ask chief building officer Lavigne to clarify the situation, and to determine what can be added as a condition of the building permit application before it is brought back to the Nov. 13 meeting of council.

--The Frontenac Islands “Renaming of the highways, streets, roads and private roads bylaw was amended to state that where a request is made to rename a street

or road, all abutting landowners must agree in writing before a name can be changed. A complete list of all roads in Frontenac Islands was attached to the agenda, with thanks to Carol and Rob. --Questions also arose with public works manager Rob Dillabough’s actions-pending report.

Coun. Grant questioned the slowdown of the Simcoe Island dock rebuild, and was informed that due to spring flooding the condition of the docks must be reviewed. “Lots more work needs to be done. Cribbing has shifted.

The design needs adjusting,” Dillabough said, noting ongoing discussions with MTO. Those review costs were submitted to municipal disaster relief.

Coun. Grant wanted long grasses/weeds behind the WI Medical Clinic cut when possible. Mayor Doyle was also concerned about long grasses and the need for roadside brushing to prevent situations with deer and snow drifts -- “situations where we could be liable.” Dillabough noted that work is well started. The long wait for county funding available for a new welcome sign at Dawson Point Road 7051 was questioned

by Coun. Springgay. “Should we do it on our own?”

--There was a brief discussion

related to the Howe Island foot ferry, a barge with an open concept compartment, that Transport Canada says should be a bilge ferry. “Rob is stick-handling this with them and MTO. I suggest we just wait and see,” said deputy mayor Nossal.

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--Further business: *Speed limit changes from 70 kilometres to 60 kilometres on WI Road 96 from 725 metres west of on Road 95, to the 2nd line, were approved.

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Other Business: *Coun. Springgay requested a report of municipal expenses/revenues associated with the Wolfe Island Music Fest. * A letter is to be sent outlining Coun. Grant’s concerns relating to inconsistent ambulance/paramedic service on WI, and instances of no coverage. And neither was Fire& Rescue service called.

This will be going to chief paramedic/director emergency services Paul J. Charbonneau requesting a resolution to the problem. * A site visit to Big Sandy Bay, revealed limited beach improvement and many trees uprooted.

“The summer students maintained the trail to the beach very well,” said administration assistant Quist. An expression of thanks was made by Coun. Higgs to Public Works for a completed Lower Side Road. *WI resident W. Knott again expressed concern re Rd.7051 and its need to be straightened and it was his intention to contact MPP Kiwala.

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Campsalls lived in both Sydenham and Verona during that time.

For the past two years they have lived at the Helen Henderson Care Centre in Amherstview and while they found it tough to downsize from

their home in Verona, they are happy to be together.

“It is home now,” said Bill. “We just try to enjoy ourselves everyday.”

For their anniversary this year, the couple went out for dinner — a tradition they continue each year.

They also received a surprise at the care centre.

“On our anniversary we had friends of ours walk in with a

Bill and Margaret Campsall have been married for 72 years, but if you ask them, their wedding day still feels like yesterday.

“It still feels the same today as it did then; we just take it one day at a time and always have,” explained Margaret, who is now 89.

The Campsalls met over dinner at Margaret’s house when they were both teenagers. Bill was a friend of her brother and he remembers being invited over and falling in love at first sight.

“That is how he tells it, but I remember that it took time and we worked up to love,” said Margaret.

The couple were married on Sept.

15, 1945 and they took their honeymoon in Belleville shortly after. They lived in Sunnyside, now Cataraqui, and had three children — all boys.

“I stayed home and raised them and it was very pleasurable,” said Margaret. “Now, we have seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.”

Bill, now 93, worked as a trade worker most of his life and he also served in the military overseas. For the last 25 years of his working life, he worked in the water and sewage Margaret and Bill Campsall celebrated their 72nd department in Barriefi eld and the wedding anniversary on Sept. 15.

guitar and they started playing for us,” said Bill. “It was during lunch and it was such a nice surprise.”

The couple have had many other memorable anniversaries including their 70th when they had a big party at the Lions Hall in Verona.

“125 people signed the cards. Our son said there were even more people than that and some didn’t sign the card,” said Margaret. “We also got remarried on our 50th anniversary and my sons gave me away. That was a very special one.”

They also remember dancing at

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each anniversary celebration and they continue to go out dancing on Friday nights whenever they can.

“We don’t dance as much as we used to and I have to hold him up a bit, but we manage,” joked Margaret.

So what is the secret to 72 years of married bliss?

“Our best piece of advice is to not go to bed mad, don’t carry that anger with you,” said Margaret.

“You just need to try and get along and love one another,” added Bill. “You need to work at it and take it one day at a time.”

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Seven candidates were in the race. Oosterhof was elected with 598 votes, 10 votes more than runner-up Louis Cyr. Financial documents filed by each candidate also reveal a wide range of money they spent during the campaign for things like election signs, brochures and office expenses. The spending limit per candidate was set at $10,921.

Karen Pagratis spent the most of any candidate at $8,977 and finished fourth with 368 votes. Jeff Scott spent $8,659 and finished third with 435 votes. Louis Cyr spent $5,165 for a second-place finish. Joyce MacLeod-Kane’s campaign amount was $2,108 to wind up in fifth place with 225 votes.

By comparison, Oosterhof spent $2,170.

“I didn’t really go into fundraising. I just absorbed the cost,” he explained.

Oosterhof says he kept costs down by running a basic campaign.

“I worked hard. A lot of walking. I kept it simple and just met the people.”

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In fellowship with Jan. 1, the Tuesday after Labour Day marks the beginning of a new year, the academic one.

New hopes. Fears. Will I fit in? Will I have a good year?

What does a good year mean: I’ll have friends?

I won’t fail?

Who is my new teacher, instructor, professor?

It doesn’t matter what age; starting Grade 4 isn’t a whole lot different emotionally from first year of college.

We put our children in the hands of nearstrangers and hope for the best. Or, at an older age, we enter a course in a college, putting our brains in the hands of those we hope will challenge us, help us grow, and lead us to careers that bring us fulfi lment. Sounds intense. It is from the other side, too. At St. Lawrence College, we who teach are constantly challenged to do the best we can in the classroom. We are encouraged and supported in always looking for new ways to improve what we do: educate.

But this week’s column is about those who teach the younger ones who have not yet reached a post-secondary level in their education.

In this realm, teaching, like medicine, is a noble profession.

Oxford Dictionary defi nes noble as “having fine personal qualities that people admire, such as courage, honesty and care for others.”

According the Cambridge reference text, noble is “moral in an honest, brave, and kind way.“ Merriam-Webster defines noble as “possessing, characterized by, or arising from superiority of mind or character or of ideals or morals.”

Any way you look at it and whichever dictionary you choose, teaching fits within this definition.

I started thinking about teachers, like many of us do, in late August when I saw a hilarious video posted online.

A woman wanders through aisle upon aisle, tossing things into her shopping cart. She starts by tossing in some yellow folders that were on a list of supplies a teacher had requested be sent into the class.

By the end of the video, this woman is picking up luggage and putting it in for the teacher.

She's chastising caregivers who complain about having to buy things for the new school year. She says whatever teachers want on the startup lists for the new school year, give them more than they ask as it will always be put to good use in the classroom. Give them luggage for a vacation.

Give them anything, because they are doing what few are capable of.

Teachers get few rewards for their efforts.

They are inevitably the brunt of every imaginable complaint about why a child is not doing well at school. Our provincial government bureaucracy harangues them endlessly. It doesn’t matter what a teacher is doing in the classroom, some administrative bureaucrat will come up with a new way of teaching math or English that becomes the new mandated way of teaching. No matter that the old way worked. How can bureaucrats justify their own existence if they don’t keep coming up with new ways for teachers to teach?

Most school boards around the province of Ontario (and elsewhere in North America) are too top-heavy. I believe some school boards even have a superintendent of superintendents. Seriously? Now that’s bureaucratic self-service run amok.

Imagine how much more effi cient and productive the education system would be if some (most!) of the top-heavy salary costs were used for more teachers, more classroom resources, more non-bureaucratic purposes.

Living with a teacher, I know how much of their own money (lots!) that teachers spend to improve their own classroom and skills. During

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their careers they spends many thousands of dolSo now you see a job description that should lars on supplies, further training to stay on top of read: Unpaid forced leave in summers and no new developments, and they work endless hours time to hit the bathroom during your workday. in evenings and on weekends preparing lessons or Why do they do it? We’re back to the definimarking/grading assignments. tions quoted at the start of this column. Noble People whine that teachers get summers off. professions tend to attract noble people.

So what? How would you feel about unpaid sumI love teaching at the college level. I have no mers off? That’s right. Those summers off are idea how elementary and high school teachers do unpaid time. Teachers do not get paid for those it. I am forever in awe of their skills and devotion long summer vacations. They simply have their to those they teach. ten-month salaries pro-rated throughout the year, so they keep getting an income over the summer.

Mark Bergin on Twitter @markaidanbergin But for June and July, teachers actually receive no income, no salary, no perks.

They are simply averaging their pay cheques out over 12 months. How do you feel about summers off now?

Not quite so rosy.

By some bureaucratic slippery manipulation years back, it was also deemed impossible for teachers to receive employment insurance during those summer months. The educational assistants who work with teachers in the classrooms get employment insurance during the summer, but not the teachers.

Working from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. is another fallacy. When do you think they do their marking and preparation? At night and in the evenings. Sure, we hear about the time they get during the day for lessons planning time. In reality, many teachers can never even find the time Viktoria Barnes teaches math to her Grade 3 class in to get a bathroom break until after Kingston last week.

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Waterfront store, Dead on Apparel, Chapters and Perez enjoyed being part of putting the whole the YGK Collective. A PDF of the guide is also thing together and he was happy to have a bit of available at www.visitkingston.ca. whimsy in it as well with a sticker page, a colouring section and even some puzzles.

"We wanted to do something that was more playful and we came up with the idea of making it an adult activity book," he said. "We also have a guide book written by a local poet and some of the locations are pretty ordinary, but when you read his write-up about them, they take on a magical tone. It feels special."

Perez hopes that the guide enriches peoples experiences in the city, whether they are tourists or not, and he hopes that it encourages people to explore new places and see them in new ways.

"I hopes it leads people to view things through a lens that they may not have considered," he said. "I hope people feel they are being let in to the inside track and they are seeing places that maybe they would have just passed by before."

According to Perez, each one of the collaborators who worked on the guide was happy to Vincent Perez and Flame Eadie at the Visit participate and proud to be part of the project, Kingston office with the new Maker's Guide and he hopes that comes through. He also hopes this new way of approaching tourism in the city to Kingston on sale now throughout the city.

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the barest facts and I just started imagining what would have happened, and very quickly, the great uncle became my grandfather — and as soon as I made that switch, I was in the realm of fiction.”

As Chabon continued writing, he asked more family members about the story that started it all.

He was surprised to find that many different versions of it existed.

“Nobody knows the truth — and that is when I realized that the theme of the novel was going to be the idea of truth in families and the history of families, and the unreliability of memory,” he said. “How all of that comes together to produce memories we think are factual, but are really just inventions and misrememberings.”

According to Chabon, writing the novel was enjoyable and easy after that.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is excited to come to Kingston later this month as part of the Kingston’s ninth annual Writersfest.

“I am very much looking forward to it. I have been to Toronto and Barrie — those are the only places I’ve been in Ontario,” he said in an interview with the Heritage. “I am always curious to travel to places I have never been to before.”

Chabon will be featured at this year’s International Marquee event on Sept. 28, where he will discuss his latest novel Moonglow with veteran broadcaster Eric Friesen. The novel is being categorized as autobiographical or a memoir and Chabon admits that it was a bit of a departure for him.

“It is a departure for me, but in a way, I think all of my books are sort of a departure from the ones before,” he said.

“What makes this book different is that it takes the form of a memoir and it pretends to be a memoir, but it is actually a novel like all my other novels. In a way, it is kind of pretending to be a departure, but it actually is just more of the same.”

The idea for the novel came to Chabon through a story his grandfather told him about his great uncle. Chabon heard the story a number of times over the years and it stuck with him.

“The story was that he was fired from his job to make room for Alger Hiss The International Marquee event featuring Michael when he got out of prison,” he said. “I Chabon will take place at the Grand Theatre on Sept. was just thinking about the story and I 28 from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

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Chabon has been promoting the novel since it was released this past spring and he is looking forward to sharing his thoughts with the audience at Writersfest, too.

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sure what it will be like, but I like to meet people and talk to people, and I hope to put on a good show,” he said.

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Like so many young athletes, Harnett found that hockey was only going to take him so far in life and as he was drafted to the OHL to play for the London Knights, he faced a difficult decision.

“At that training camp, I decided I was going to pursue a cycling career and two years later I was at the Olympics with a silver medal around my neck,” he said.

Harnett competed in three Olympic Games after that fi rst accomplishment and he recently worked as the chef de mission for both the 2015 Pan Am Games and the 2016 Rio Olympics for Canada. It was there that he learned about the RBC Training Ground program.

“My story is a perfect example of what this program is trying to do,” he said. “They are looking to recruit young athletes that may be interested in a secondary sport — it is kind of like Canadian Idol for athletes.”

The RBC Training Ground program, which was established last year, gives local athletes the chance to test their strength,

speed, and endurance in front of offi cials from 11 Olympic sports, and earn 'Future Olympian' funding. The program is part of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) initiative to bring new and undiscovered athletes into Canada's Olympic talent pool, and on Sept. 30, the program will visit Kingston.

“Last year’s initiative saw about 400 to 500 athletes come through and they sent four athletes to Rio where I had a chance to meet them,” said Harnett. “It is a really great program to engage athletes in a second sporting career. It is a great way to explore your options and see what else is out there.”

My story is a perfect example of what this program is trying to do; they are looking to recruit young athletes that may be interested in a secondary sport — it is kind of like Canadian Idol for athletes.

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The event in Kingston is one of 26 regional events happening across the country in 2017 and is open to athletes aged 14 to 25. Top performers in Kingston (and any athletes deemed to have potential) will advance to an Ontario regional final at Scarborough's Pan Am Sports Centre on Oct. 14.

Athletes that are interested are asked

to register online and Harnett encourages them to not be intimidated.

“It is a really welcoming environment and the testers are well versed in how all of this goes and athletes come ready to work out and test themselves,” he said. “A number of the stations that are available are not necessarily ones that we promote because we don’t want athletes practicing; we want to test their rawness, so we want people to come with an open mind.”

If athletes make it to the final round in Scarborough, they could also have a chance to attend the next Olympics in Pyeongchang.

“They get support to pursue their career and they get a trip to the next Olympics and a chance to see what it is like to be an Olympic athlete,” said Harnett. “It really is an amazing opportunity and it is so inspiring to see all these passionate athletes ready to take on more.”

In addition to the testers, scouts from various sports are also expected to be on hand at the event in Kingston.

“We’ve seen athletes that don’t qualify further get scouted right away and that is just another amazing benefit of this program,” said Harnett. “I think it is worthwhile for any young athlete to come out — you never know where it will take you.”

The RBC Training Ground event in Kingston takes place on Sept. 30 at the Curt Harnett is a three time Olympian in track Queen’s University Athletics and Recreation Centre. For more information and to cycling and is now an ambassador for the RBC register, visit http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ Training Ground program.

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She and her friends used to make “flower Local illustrator Jillian Gilliand likes to fairies” out of real fl owers, inspired by Cicely Mary Barker books. quote Einstein on the subject of fairies.

“They have very beautiful watercolour pic“A mother once went to him and said: ‘What can I do to make my children clever like tures of flower fairies,” Gilliand notes.

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Gilliand, who was also a founding member of the local miniature society, found many of the items already in her own home, but she’s also added some new pieces.

“The garden evolved with the help of my granddaughter,” she says. “She said to me: ‘Granny, you have to get some blue beads to make a river with.’ So, we did.”

On days when there are no children around to play, everything is laid out in its proper place, and Gilliand sets it up so it looks pretty and orderly. When her grandchildren or the grandchildren of friends come over, however, they are free to play with everything in the garden.

“They move stuff around and make their own stories. You hear them sitting down there, talking to themselves, and playing.

It’s very good for the imagination. You see the potential — maybe a little leaf would make a nice boat, things like that. It gets kids thinking and seeing the world from another perspective.

“It’s also good for the grown-ups,” she adds, noting that a little imagination can expand one’s way of thinking.

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CABINETMAKING MACHINERY. 1995 GMC TRUCK. LAWN MOWERS. from the village of Mallorytown take Hwy 2 east to # 1575 Cty Rd 2 for Bob Morrison on Sat., Sept. 30/17 @ 10 am.

Craftex 10”-220v single phase, 3 hp table saw (w/ sliding table & b/in router table, comm. grade). Delta 10” unisaw 220v 3 hp (comm. grade). General Inter. 110v belt drum sander w/ 10 spindles (random oscillating, comm. grade). General Inter. 24”-220v thickness sander (industrial). General 6” finishing sander. 6 ton elec. 110v/220v scissor lift. Rockwell Beaver 36” lathe on stand. 2 Busy Bee 220v Indust. shapers w/ 3 spindles each (reversible).

New & used shaper cutters, rail & style moulding cutters.

Rockwell 14” bandsaw (combo steel & wood). 2 down draft sanding tables c/w stands & G15 fan motor. 8” bench grinder on stand. 6” finishing bench grinder. Fein multi master saw. Devilbiss 5 hp-220v industrial vertical air compressor (w/ 80 gal tank). Sm. air compressor.

Upright Rockwell 110v drill press. Drill press moulding head & blades. General mortising attachment kit (new).

8 ft stroke sander w/ Delta power heads. Contact cement spray system. Lge qty elec., air & hand tools. 3 Devilbiss air spray guns. Air nailers & staplers. Mastercraft carving set. 2 hp-220v elec. motor. Craftex 4 bag dust collector. Stanley 45 plane (almost complete). Other wood planes & spoke shaves. 4’ x 8’ sheets of veneer, particle board & melamine. Qty of select oak, pine & Western cedar lumber. Work benches. Shelving. Qty Reddy 15” steel racking (adjustable). Stock rollers. Saw & dado blades. Router bits. Mortising, chisel, wood & steel bits. Lge qty hole saws. Lge qty bar & C clamps. Extra lge qty of screws, nuts & bolts. New brass fireplace handles. Cupboard hardware. Electrical supplies. New drawer sliders. Sandpaper. Edge banding. Oils, greases & stains. Shop manuals. Maxi Pox Tork Molnlyck towel dispenser. Shop vac. Garden tools. 20’ logging chains.

Qty rope. 24’ fiberglass extension ladder. 1995 GMC 1500-4x4-V6 truck (running, as-is). Tailgate for GMC full size box. Toro Z Master Commercial zero-turn mower w/ 52” cut 25 hp Kawasaki engine. Wheel Horse 312-8, 12 hp lawn tractor. WT190 walk behind wheeled trimmer. Echo PB-251 gas powered leaf blower. Single axle trailer. Meridian Compact ICS40 phone system. 2 hanging antique Aladdin lamps (complete). 2 antique rockers (1 pressback, 1 Boston). Wicker doll carriage.

New Raymond treadle sew machine (cabinet model). 30 gal. cream can. Right handed golf clubs. Old d/barrel 12g shotgun (Henry Arms). Old muzzle loader shotgun.

Steel gun cabinet & many other cabinetmaking items too numerous to mention……..

Mr. Morrison was a pro cabinet maker. A designer he was. A one-man show master. A clean workshop, as are his tools & equipment. Mr. Morrison is retiring from the industry. Bring a lawnchair & participate in the bidding.

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~ UNRESERVED. Affordable Housing ~ Located in a private mobile home community having a quiet atmosphere. Featuring a 1979 -14 ft x 64 ft Bendix Park model home with an 8 ft x 20 ft factory manufactured addition. A simple floor plan having lots of space & amenities for the money. Featuring a large living room. A sizeable eat-in kitchen w/ 30” elec. stove & 2 door fridge included (both only 2 yr old). Washer (2 yr old) & older dryer, both included. 2 bedrooms w/ closets. 4 pce bath.

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION @ #4156 South Lavant Rd., Lanark Highlands from Perth take Hwy 511 through Hopetown, turning left onto Cty Rd 16 from Kingston take Hwy 38 to Sharbot Lake turning left onto Hwy 7 turning right onto Hwy 509 to Cty Rd 16 on Wed., Oct. 4 /17 @ 6 pm.

~ Year Round Living or Summer Vacation Home ~ A perfect place for all seasons. And who needs higher lakefront taxes when they are only a 3 minute walk from a 4 acre community park w/ sandy beach, public boat launch, 3 acres of manicured playing field & a community hall. Located across from beautiful Robertson Lake.

This maintanence free vinyl sided bungalow boasts a great room. Raised panel oak eat-in kitchen c/w island.

3 bedrooms. 4 pce bath w/ double sink vanity & laundry closet. Full unfinished basement awaits your design. 200 amp service. Water softener. Central vac. Air exchanger.

High efficiency propane furnace (new ’13). New roof ’14.

New hot water tank (’12). On well & septic. Inclusives; fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer, dryer & window coverings. Surveyed 1.2 acres(+/-). Taxes; $ 2,060.00 (+/-).

High speed wireless internet & cell service. For private viewing, terms & conditions please call our office at 613267-6027.

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MF 1531 DIESEL HYDROSTATIC 4X4 COMPACT TRACTOR W/ 374 HRS C/W MF L90 LOADER & BUCKET. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES. @ #3654 Hwy 29 north of Almonte for Warren Snider on Sat., Oct. 7/17 @ 10 am Tractor & Firearms sell @ 12 pm.

MF 1531 diesel hydrostatic 4x4 compact tractor w/ 374 hrs c/w MF L90 loader & bucket. 14 ft Dory boat. Large boat anchor. Vintage nautical maritime boat anchor.

Browning semi auto 12g shotgun. Browning CITORI o/v 12g shotgun. Mossberg b/a 22 rifle/repeater. Steel gun cabinet. Western saddle. Wilnow back to the wall cpbd.

12 pane pine corner cupboard. Open style corner cupboard. German influenced double glazed door step back cupboard. 6 pane folkie cupbd (German influence). Chip carved early bookcase. Early oak hanging cpbd. Tiger maple/butternut bonnet chest. Bird’s eye maple bonnet chest. Sheraton style bonnet chest. 2 oak chest of drawers.

Fancy chiffoniere w/ bird’s eye maple drawer. Fancy ¼ cut oak sideboard. Early c1880’s sideboard w/ moustache pulls. Oak sideboard w/ change to: bevelled glass mirror.

Early ornate 5 glass paned curio cabinet. Combination fumed oak side bd/china cabinet. c1950’s china cabinet.

Walnut china cabinet. Mahogany corner whatnot shelf.

Oak hoosier. Oak pulpit podium (Gothic). Good 2 board top side table w/ double stretcher base. Harvest pine top table. Extension table. 2 antique drop-leaf tables. Oak gate leg table. 2 round oak tables. Oak side table. Duncan Phyfe side table. Stick tables. Sm. magazine table. Small oak/stretcher base parlour table. East Lake parlour table.

Wicker dressing table. 2-3 pce coffee & end table sets. 3 tier walnut side server. 5 pce wrought iron patio set. 6 early blanket boxes. Nun’s bed. 8 ft church pew. Several washstands (1 open). Queen Ann vanity. Early knee hole desk. Davenport desk. Oak hall mirror. Oak framed magazine hanging rack. Large mirrored transom window.

Verandah posts. Set of fanners. Brass & iron stillyards.

Framer’s auger. Set upright scales. Brass faced scales.

Singer treadle sewing machine. Georgian keywind brass roasting spit (rare). Blacksmith made peel. Set of 5 inlaid stacking trays. Qty grey & blue agateware. Carving sets.

S/steel pails. Crocks. Early fire nozzles. Old Almonte public school stamp. Writing & deed boxes. Ruffle press/iron.

Matching & single brass candle sticks w/ pushups. Tin candle moulds. Glass funnel. Wood block planes. Wooden shop vise. Several bridge lamps & wall sconces. Set of 4 outdoor commercial grade lights. Gingerbread clock.

Long box telephone. Wicker baskets. Cheese box. Soft drink boxes. Flat irons & trivets. Antique brass sprayer.

Brass fire fender. Brass fireplace screen. Brass fire dogs.

Brass brazier (vessel used for burning). Lg copper frypan.

Bread boards. Ladles. Tobacco chopper. Old cameras. Oil & elec. table lamps. Pr folk art statues. 2 faux scrimshaw tusks. Horse crops. Toleware. Hackle (flax comb). Dutch girl string holder. Turnip slicer. Pr. upholstered East Lake side chairs & others. Morris chair. 2 oak hall chairs. Early ladder back chairs. Set 4 early kitchen chairs. 3 wicker side chairs. Several habitant chairs. Shaker style arrow back armchair. 2 East Lake platform rockers. Fold down rocking chair. Nursing rocker. 2 Boston rockers. Set 5 walnut dining room chairs. Nova Scotia plank bottom armchair (c1820). Wooden stool. Vintage Jefferson Bachelor ironing board step stool chair (soft blue paint). Wicker pram.

Wicker doll’s carriage. 2 early doll houses. Composite dolls. Metal doll’s cradle. Tin model airplane. L.O.L. 214 marching drum. Numerous portrait & landscape paintings (oil, charcoal & watercolours). Qty prints. Antique pictures & photo albums. Reference books. 2 pitcher & basin sets. Crystal decanters. Nippon vase. Mixing bowls.

Serving dishes. Plus many other articles too numerous to mention…….

Mr. Snider is a reputable & successful antique & collectibles dealer. He always had a genuine interest in a way of life & a knack for preserving history & culture. Poor health has forced this auction sale. Plan an antique holiday excursion for this Thanksgiving weekend with family & friends. Bring a lawnchair. Please Note Payment. Clip & Save this ad short notice only next week.

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REAL ESTATE PLUS ESTATE AUCTION SALE CHILDHOOD MEMORABILIA. COLLECTIBLES. JD 40S GAS TRACTOR. 28 FT PROWLER LYNX TRAVEL TRAILER. ANTIQUE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS. APPLIANCES. from the village of Athens take Cty. Rd. 5 north & turn onto Lake Eloida Rd to # 20 Deir Road for the late Hubert & Maureen (Minnie) Deir on Sat., Oct. 14/17 @ 9 am Property to be sold @ 11 am Firearms to be sold @ 11:30 am Prowler Trailer to be sold @ 12 pm

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This block of land is very appealing. Reason being?

Because large farmsteads nowadays have diminished in size being split & sold off. This large parcel consists of hayfields & bush & is still severable. The property is diverse & rich in location having a 5 min. drive to Athens or Eloida Lake boat launch. Parcel 1 - 60.6 acres (+/-) c/w 5 detached metal roof clad bldgs. Century clapboard house w/ kitchen, sitting room, bedroom, parlour, pantry, 2 & 4 pce baths. 2 stairwells lead to upper 3 bedrooms & useable attic. On well & septic. Legal - Conc 11 Pt Lot 13 subject to hydro pole line easement, Athens Twp. Zoned Rural. Taxes $915.55 (+/-). Parcel 2 - 134.9 acres (+/-).

Legal - Conc 10 part Lots 13 & 14 Athens Twp. Zoned Rural. Taxes $360.96 (+/-). Property to be sold w/ a very reasonable reserve bid to settle the estates. For private viewing, terms & conditions please call our office at 613-267-6027.

This is a huge, delightful nostalgic auction sale. Why? Because of the diversity of the items & their connection to local history, literature & folklore. So come & take a stroll down memory lane at this 3rd generation farmstead.

Bring a lawn chair & participate in the bidding to settle the estates. Numerous photos on website.

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MABERLY, ON (FALL RIVER) OFF HWY # 7 (WATCH FOR YELLOW SIGN) ON THURS., OCT. 5/17 @ 6 PM. ~ Unreserved Property - Bridge Over the Fall River ~ Featuring 23 acres (+/-). Owned single concrete bridge spanning the Fall River, adding value to your property. Zoned EP, environmentally protected wetland, having agricultural & recreational use, excluding building permits. Major recreational activities conduced in and around wetlands include waterfowl hunting, bird watching, fishing, hiking, boating or canoeing, and general nature observation. Even kids young at heart have a propensity to want to frolic and play in wetlands. Visit website for property details. For private viewing, terms & conditions please call our office at 613-267-6027.

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AUCTION SALE ESTATE OF DOUGLAS F LESTER 1430 COUNTY ROAD 12, R.R.# 1 PICTON, ONT PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH AT 10:30 AM 5 miles SOUTH of Bloomfield on County Road 12- vicinity of Sandbanks Park VINTAGE VEHICLES 1932 “Rigby� open station firetruck with 6 cyl engine – running condition; 1962 Cadillac 2 door hardtop , automatic, 84,000 miles – running condition; 1959 AMC Rambler 4 door sedan – running condition; 1962 Vauxhall Victor 4 door sedan with automatic – running condition; 1960’s Toyota Deluxe 700 2 door – restoration project; 2 1970’s Honda Trail 70 cc mini bikes, vintage Cady mo- peds, vintage Honda Express mo ped, 1960’s Mercury “Rocket�, “Lightning� and “Iekhaefe� snowmobiles, ; COLLECTIBLES 3 Gilbarco gas pumps – need restoration; vintage Vendo Coca Cola vending machine, Buckingham tin sign, McLaughlin horse drawn buggy, antique horse drawn Democrat 4 seat wagon, antique 2 wheel pony cart, 2 antique cutters, wooden spoke buggy wheels, sleigh bells, harness, antique wheelbarrow handle scales, wooden butter churn, wooden washing machine, vintage milking machine, cast iron pieces, lamps and lighting, several antique agricultural related hand tools, antique chainsaw, vintage CCM bike, baskets, steel wheels, antique kitchenware’s, antique fire extinguishers, hose reels, EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES Massey Ferguson 50 diesel tractor- running condition; Massey Harris single furrow sulky plow, horse drawn cultivator on steel, Caterpillar D326 Series F stationary generator with electrical box; Onan 15 kw 3 phase generator; 1986 Oldsmobile Toronado 2 door coupe with automatic trans – running condition – as is; 1985 Ford 350 Econoline camper van , automatic, 128,000 kms, running condition – as is; 1990’s Hyundai “Pony� 4 door hatchback , automaticrunning condition , as is; Trillium 12ft single axle camper, tandem axle vehicle trailer, 1962 Cadillac parts only, 1929 Durant body parts and engine block, 2000 Chevrolet dual wheel pick up with 5 speed trans, flat deck platform with post hoist- as is, 1995 GMC SLE1500 pick up with auto trans – as is; 1989 Chevrolet Cheyenne dual wheel truck with standard trans, dump box- as is; quantity of vintage car parts including carbs, generators, lights, horns, springs, engine blocks, Chilton manuals, numerous other articles.

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The Moellman Family in concert Saturday, Sept. 30, 3 p.m. Free Admission St Paul’s Anglican Church corner of Queen & Montreal Street. Violin, piano and organ music includes Dvorak, Mozart, Schubert, Kreisler & Wieniawski.

RCL branch 560 Ladies Auxiliary, are sponsoring an Oktoberfest Event on Sept. 30, from 1 to 5. There will be Chili and Oktoberfest Sausage on a bun together for $6, $3 each if sold individually. There will be music provided by Disc Jockey “Tom�. Come out and have some fun and enjoy some great food!

Mon. Oct. 2 - The legion presents cribbage games every Monday except holidays...register early...play starts at 1 p.m. Everyone welcome.

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No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Meetings every Sunday at 7 p.m. at Sydenham St United Church, 82 Sydenham St. Colleen 613-384-8260 or 613-572-1923. www.foodaddicts.org.

Harrowsmith Free Methodist Church is looking for venders for their annual craft fair, “Christmas in the villageâ€? on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.. Tables are $20 each and homemade craft’s and artisans creations are welcome. If interested , please call the &KXUFK 2IÂżFH # DQG speak to Michele.

Weekly volleyball every Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. except when school is closed for holidays until MidMay 2018. Cataraqui Woods Public School, 1255 Birchwood Dr. Info: 3OHDVH HPDLO RSID OLPHVWRQH#JPDLO FRP RU FDOO 'RXJ %URZQ # 6200.

Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 560 Ladies’ Auxiliary is sponsoring an Oktoberfest Event on Sept. 30, from 1 to 5 p.m. There will be Chili and Oktoberfest Sausage on a bun together for $6. They are $3 each if sold individually. There will be music provided by Disc Jockey “Tom�. Come out and have some fun and enjoy some great food! Everyone welcome.

Celebrating 25 Years of community service. Ernestown/Loyalist Community Sharing Centre, Amherstview welcomes all former and current volunteers. Saturday Sept. 30, meet and greet 2 – 4 p.m. Community Hall, Amherstview. Light refreshments.

The Kingston Amateur Radio Club meets on the first Tuesday of every month from September through June at Smitty’s Restaurant, in the Meeting Room, located at 2376 Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7M3G4.

All are welcome to attend. Dinner at 6 p.m; Meeting is called to order at 7 p.m. For more information please visit www.ve3kbr.com or email viFHSUHV#YH NEU FRP Vendors wanted for Christmas Craft and Bake Sale at Glenburnie United Church, on Saturday, Nov. 4. Cut off date to submit a request for a table rental is October 21st. For details call 613-542-3556.

Bath Legion Every Wednesday morning -Legion Breakfast, 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. - everybody welcome!

Every Thursday is “Tasty Tall Boy Thursdays�. Tall Boys will be $4.25 all day Thursday plus buy one meal get the second for half price (must be an entree, dine in only, drinks not included) Come enjoy lunch with a friend.

Every Friday come join us for lunch at the Legion.

An evening of tasting on Saturday, Sept. 30 will let you sample wines from around the world, sip an assortment of Scotch whiskies, and enjoy some very tasty food. At the same time, you can bid on an extensive and eclectic array of items in a Silent Auction. The event is a fund raiser for Our Lady of Lourdes parish, from 6:30 to 9:30 at the parish hall 490 Days Road, Kingston.

Tickets are $45. For information,

,Q *RRG 7DVWH LV D ÂżQH GLQLQJ H[SHUL ence for single seniors and will meet at Minos, 340 Barrie St at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 29. If interested to attend, please contact Norma at 613-542-3622 or Nicole at 613-634-1966.

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call the parish office at 613-3893532 or Elaine at 389-1276 or Marianne at 389-4368.

The Kingston Heirloom Quilters welcomes new members.We meet 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church Hall, 41 Church Street in Portsmouth Village. Guests are welcome. Please bring a lunch and enjoy the company of fellow quilters throughout the day. Learn to quilt or improve your skills in a friendly, relaxed group. October 2017 meeting dates: Tuesday, Oct. 3 and Thursday, Oct. 19. For further information please visit our web site at www.quiltskingston.org Rideau Trail Club of Kingston-Saturday Sept. 30 “Amazing Places�

Series - Gould Lake Mine Loop and Point Spur Level 2-3, moderate pace, 15 km., with afternoon on the Tom Dixon Trail. Depart Canadian Tire Parking Lot along Bath Road at 9 am. Gas $4 plus share of park fee. Leader: Lynn 343-363-0384 esDXO\QQ#JPDLO FRP DQG 1DQF\QDQFH\QHOOHV#JPDLO FRP Sunday October 1 Frontenac Challenge Slide Lake Loop. Level 3, moderate to fast pace, 27 km. Join us for this exhilarating 7.5 to 8 hour hike around Frontenac Park’s most rugged and rewarding loop. Bring plenty of water, a lunch and snacks.

Depart Canadian Tire Parking Lot along Bath Road at 7:45 am. Gas $4 plus shared park fee. Leaders: Lynn HVDXO\QQ#JPDLO FRP DQG 0LX \PLX ODP# gmail.com Tuesday, Oct. 3 Frontenac Challenge - Arkon, Arab Gorge, Doe Lake Level 2, fast pace, 15 km.

Enjoy beautiful fall colours while completing 3 hikes. Bring lunch and plenty of water. Meet at trail head.

Call leader before 9 pm for meeting time and place. Gas $4. plus park fee. Leaders: Nancy 613-372-2157 QDQF\QHOOHV#JPDLO FRP 0LX \PLX ODP#JPDLO FRP 39 Club of Kingston dance takes place on Friday, Sept. 29, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 631, 4034 Bath Rd., Collins Bay. Music by Cordu-

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Enjoy a lovely afternoon with friends at lunch, soft music & fashions by “Simply Elegant Boutique� of Napanee. Saturday, Sept 30. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Cash bar. Door Prizes.

Tickets $40 include lunch & are availDEOH DW .LQJVWRQ 6\PSKRQ\ RIÂżFH 11 Princess St., Suite 206, (613) 5469729; Simply Elegant Boutique, 79 Centre St. North, Napanee, (613) 8774356; Nutrition House, 1046 Princess St., Unit 3 (Kingston Centre), (613) 549-6424.

Canadian Club of Kingston Luncheon Meeting Wednesday, October 11. Non members welcome. Speaker: Mayor Bryan Paterson, “The State of the City�. Minos Village Restaurant 2762 Princess Street, Kingston. Lunch reservations: 613 384 2021. Members $27; non members $35. Club information: 613 530 2704; www.canadianclubkingston.org.

(XFKUH )XQ 1LJKW )ULGD\ 6HSW # 7 p.m. Harrowsmith & District Social & Athletic Club, 4041 Colebrooke Rd. RSVP Pam (613)929-7003 or Marilyn (613)372-0917. Prizes, light refreshments, cash bar.

Collins Bay Horticultural Society monthly meeting. Meeting Date: Monday, Oct. 2nd (1st Monday, not 2nd) Meeting Time: 7:30 - 9 p.m.

Contact: Diane Huddle (613) 3890756. Location: St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anglican Church, 4333 Bath Road, just east of Coronation. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guest is Robbie Preston from the Kawartha Lakes area. An active environmentalist, Robbie has developed a life-long dedication to growing food. Hear him talk about â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nature of Things: Past, Present and Future in our GarGHQV ´ &RPH FKHFN XV RXW <RXU ÂżUVW visit is free and annual membership is only $10.

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Rummage sale Saturday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anglican Church Hall. On the corner of Queen and Montreal Streets 613-542-5870.

Perth Road Sunday School Hall Board is hosting a buffet style roast beef supper on Sept. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. - No reservations required. Adults- $15, Under 12 yrs- $7, Under 3 yrs- FREE For info call 613-353-2470.

Quill Lecture - Sunday, Oct. 1, 2:003:30 p.m. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. Jamie Swift, author, social justice advocate, lecturer, Smith School of Business. Goodes Hall, School of Business, Rm 101 143 Union Street. www.quillkingston.org â&#x20AC;&#x153;New West End Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market located 5km west of the Cataraqui Town Centre on Highway #2 at Westbrook United Church. Every Wednesday 2-6 until October 11th.

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Roast beef summer, Parham United Church Christian Education Building Sept. 30, 5 - 7 p.m. Adults $13, children 6 - 12 yrs. - $5. Under 6 yrs.

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Join us at Crossroads United Church, 690 Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd (across from Loblaws) Friday, Sept.

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Kaitlyn Perry is tougher than your average guy.

The Grade 10 Sydenham High School student grew up on a cattle farm near Harrowsmith, and works at another nearby farm milking goats.

Kaitlyn is also quite the athlete – but she’s easily bored by the non-contact nature of most sports; she notes that farm life has prepared her for something a little more rough-and-tumble.

“I just like pushing around and being rough,”

she says. “When I played soccer, I was very rough.

When I hit people, the refs would always say ‘you can’t play like this, go play football’.”

So that’s exactly what she did.

Every Tuesday night over the summer, Kaitlyn joined fellow SHS football team hopefuls for some vigorous pre-season training.

“One night we had to carry a log up a big hill, climb ladders,” she explains. “You’d learn different techniques. At high school, the tryouts are right at the beginning of the year, so you’d go every Tuesday and you’d do some things so it wasn’t such a

big shock on your body.”

It turned out all the training paid off, and on Monday, Sept. 18, Kaitlyn learned that she now has the distinction of being the SHS football team’s sole female member. Kaitlyn made the team as a ‘red shirt’ member, meaning she will practice with the team, attend all games and likely won’t get a ton of play, but she could play if needed.

Still, it’s quite the accomplishment - this is Kaitlyn’s football debut, and more often than not, the regular team spots go to kids who have indeed played for a number of years; her brother Grant, a Grade 9 student at Sydenham is among them.

“She could have played in Grade 7 and 8 in the Thousand Islands Football league, but she was too busy working, she didn’t want to give her job up,” explains dad Dave.

Mom Kim says her daughter’s interest in playing football didn’t come as any shock.

“I was able to watch her interest grow over the last couple of years. Her younger brothers played

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Challenge tackled: SHS student makes waves by making football team

football with the Thousand Islands Football League and they always encouraged her to play.

They told great stories about how much fun they had and always reminded her that they would have liked for her to play too.”

Kim notes that she’s very proud.

“It makes me happy to know she feels strong mentally and physically, and that she feels the support of her family, especially her siblings.”

Kaitlyn’s advice to other girls who might be interested in venturing into traditionally very maledominated sports like football: Don’t expect any special treatment.

“It shouldn’t be such a shock that you’re going to get hurt,” she says. “I wouldn’t go in thinking that you’re invincible and not going to get hurt, because even though they’re all guys they’re not going to treat you special.”

Dave has his own take on his daughter’s new adventure: “I pity the guy she tackles,” he laughs.

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Also, my bottom started to develop pins and needles, so I had to stop the process to fetch a cushion from the couch to sit on. It looked to me like this was going to turn into an all-morning job. The wall clock ticked away, and I could feel my eyelids start to droop, and it felt like any minute I was Mother said I was old enough. There were going to keel over in a heap on the kitchen floor. many little chores I was already doing, like keepAnd then it happened. The plunger was no ing the wood box full, and making sure the pan longer splashing cream out the opening in the lid. under the icebox didn’t overfl ow. And now It got heavier and heavier to pound, even Mother Mother said I was old enough to make butter! I and Audrey who were doing other things in the was both delighted and annoyed. Delighted be- kitchen, knew that the moment had come. They cause this was a very important job, and annoyed could tell by the sound! My arms felt like lead. because we always churned on Saturday morning, Mother came over and lifted the lid, peered inand this new chore was certainly going to cut into side, and said, “Well, good for you, Mary. You my playtime. have made your first batch of butter.”

My sister Audrey, who up to then, was in The rest of the job would be up to my sister charge of the churning, was more than happy to and Mother. With a big flat wood scoop, the butgive it up. I certainly didn’t have to be taught how ter was moved to the largest bowl we owned, and to do it. Goodness knows I watched Audrey ev- without measuring, Mother tossed in some salt. ery Saturday, and to me, all I had to do was sit The butter was mixed and mixed until it was to on a chair, with the churn between my knees, and Mother’s liking, and then pressed into the butplop the plunger up and down in the cream until ter mold. Packed down until it was a solid mass, I made butter. the butter was then released from the mold onto It was an early Fall day when Mother an- waxed paper. Audrey said it was exactly a pound nounced that was the Saturday when I would take when it came out. It would be wrapped and put on this new chore. The churn had been rolled into in the ice box, some of it peddled door to door in the kitchen, very carefully, because it was half full Renfrew, and the rest of it used on our own table. of cream, and a chair put in front of it. I was I had never been so tired in my life. I went over ready to begin. But Mother said I would have to to the creton couch by the stove, and stretched put on a big pinny, and it didn’t take me long to out, aching from top to bottom. I figured it was find out why. I had watched Audrey often enough too soon to try to barter with my sister to change to know that you simply grabbed the plunger back to her making the butter, and me doing with both hands and pumped until you could something that didn’t wear me down to a dishrag. feel butter forming in the bottom of the churn. Mother could see the state I was in, but instead of So I pulled up a chair, wrapped my bony knees giving me sympathy she said, “each Saturday it around the churn, and began. Plop, plop, plop. I will get easier. You’ll see.” I didn’t believe her for speeded up the pace, figuring the faster I went, the a minute. And I wondered how long it would take sooner I would be finished. for that feeling of accomplishment for a job well The lid on the churn had a hole in the center done that Mother always talked about, would hit big enough to give the plunger lots of room. It me. didn’t take me long to find out why I had to don Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s the big fl our-bag pinny. The cream splashed up books? Go to https://www.smashwords.com through the hole, and since I was so much shorter and type MaryRCook for e-book purchase dethan Audrey, much of it hit me square in the eyes, tails, or if you would like a hard copy, please and the front of the pinny was soon covered too. contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.

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Landscaping needs vary by season Judging a home by its appearance is often par for the homebuying course. In fact, according to the National Association of RealtorsÂŽ, 49 percent of buying decisions are made from the street.

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maintaining a lawn is something many homeowners may think is exclusive to spring and summer, lawn maintenance is really a yearround endeavor. The following steps can help anyone maintain curb appeal no matter the season.

SPRING Spring is a season of renewal when plants and trees will begin to look fresh and green once more.

Spring maintenance includes applying fertilizer to lawns, replenishing mulch in planting beds,

creating more pronounced edges around the lawn and garden beds, and testing soil. Some homeowners like to apply a weed-prevention product in the spring as well.

Spring is a good time to plant annuals that will add a pop of color to the landscape. For those concerned about permanent planting, container gardening allows homeowners to move around planters in a configuration that works best for them.

SUMMER Summer landscaping is all about maintaining what was established in the spring. Regular mowing, weeding and trimming can keep a landscape manicured. Other than drought, weeds are perhaps the biggest lawn and garden nuisance to a landscape in the summertime.

Black medic, carpetweed, knotweed, mallow and prostate spurge are some of the weeds that will crop up during the summer. Seeds begin to germinate as soil warms up. According to the University of Maryland Extension, control with a broadleaf postemergent herbicide applied when the weed is actively growing will help prevent weeds from suffocating lawns.

AUTUMN Autumn is often a forgotten season when it comes to maintaining a landscape. However, fall is a key time to keep landscapes in order. According to the landscaping resource LoveYourLandscape. com, fall is the ideal time to tend to a lawn that just endured summer heat. Seeding and fertilizing can ensure a stronger lawn come next spring. Perennials should be pruned and cut back. Raking leaves will help keep the property looking presentable.

WINTER One of the ways to maintain an attractive landscape throughout winter is to install plants that can survive the colder temperatures.

Winterberry is a cousin of holly, but loses its leaves in the fall. The bright red berries can be a stark contrast to the white of winter snowfall. Camellia is an evergreen that blooms from fall to early spring and looks like pink roses.

Heather is a popular plant in the United Kingdom, but is growing in popularity on this side of the Atlantic as well. The Home Depot says this plant blooms all year and offers beautiful flowers in summer and fall. In winter, the thick foliage makes for an appealing contrast to the more delicate blooms of other winter plants.

Maintaining a landscape through the seasons makes a home attractive all year long.

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According to Realtor.com, spring is the busiest and best season to sell a home. While a good home can find a buyer any time of year, homeowners might find the buyers’ pool is strongest in spring and into summer. The reasons for that are many, ranging from parents wanting to move when their children are not in school to buyers wanting to move when the weather is most accommodating.

Because spring is such a popular time to sell a home, homeowners who want to put their homes on the market should use winter as an opportunity to prepare their homes for the prying eyes of prospective buyers. The following tips can help homeowners during the pre-selling preparation process.

1. Address the exterior of the home.

Winter can be harsh on a home’s exterior, so as winter winds down, homeowners who want to sell their homes should make an effort to address anything that might negatively affect their homes’ curb appeal. A study of homes in Greenville, S.C., from researchers at Clemson University found that the value of homes with landscapes that were upgraded from “good” to “excellent” increased by 6 to 7 percent. If it’s in the budget, hire professional landscapers to fix any problematic landscaping or address any issues that arose during the winter. Homeowners with green thumbs can tackle such projects on their own, but hiring professionals is akin to staging

inside the home.

2. Conquer interior clutter.

Clutter has a way of accumulating over the winter, when people tend to spend more time indoors than they do throughout the rest of the year. Homeowners who want to put their homes on the market in spring won’t have the luxury of waiting until spring to do their “spring” cleaning, so start clearing any clutter out in winter, even resolving to make an effort to prevent its accumulation throughout winter. Just like buyers are impressed by curb appeal, they are turned off by clutter. The Appraisal Institute suggests homeowners clear clutter out of their homes before appraisers visit, and the same approach can be applied to open houses. Buyers, like appraisers, see cluttered homes as less valuable.

In addition, a home full of clutter might give buyers the impression, true or not, that the home was not well maintained.

3. Eliminate odors.

A home’s inhabitants grow accustomed to odors that might be circulating throughout the house.

Pet odor, for instance, might not be as strong to a home’s residents as it is to guests and prospective buyers. Because windows tend to stay closed throughout the winter, interior odors can be even stronger come late-winter than they are during the rest of the year. A thorough cleaning of the house, including vacuuming and removal of any pet hair that accumulated

over the winter, can help to remove odor. In the weeks leading up to the open house, bathe pets more frequently, using a shampoo that promotes healthy skin so pet

dander is not as prevalent. Open windows when the weather allows so more fresh air comes into the home.

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potentially lucrative time to sell a home, and homeowners who spend winter preparing their homes for the market may reap even greater rewards.

Eliminating pet odors, including those associated with pets, can help homeowners prepare their homes for prospective buyers.

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How to transform a fixer-upper The real estate market will always have its ups and downs, but real estate is an oft-profitable investment. Real estate investors do their investing for various reasons.

Some see a house as a place to hang their hats for years and years, while others look at properties as nothing more than investments.

Buying a home with the intent to fix it up and resell it is called a “fix and flip.” In such situations, investors buy homes at belowmarket prices before refurbishing the homes with the goal of recouping their initial investment and then some when the homes are ultimately put back on the market.

Flipping has become popular for both expert remodelers and novice investors. RealtyTrac®, the nation’s leading source for comprehensive housing data, noted in its “Year-End and Q4 2015 U.S. Home Flipping” report that 5.5 percent of all single family home and condo sales during the year were flipped properties. This marked an increase from the same time the previous year.

Investing in a fixer-upper requires a leap of faith and a vision of what the home can look like in the future. Turning a real estate lemon into lemonade requires certain skills and a good measure of patience. The following are some guidelines to get anyone started.

• Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Make an honest assessment of your abilities and which renovations, if any, you

can handle. If you are unskilled or inexperienced working with your hands, then it can be easy for an investment property to quickly become a money pit. Before purchasing a property, hire a trained home inspector to tour the home with you and point out all of the areas that will need renovation. With this list, begin getting estimates on how much money the work will entail. Determine if this fits with your budget or not. You do not want to invest so much that it exceeds what you could feasibly recoup when it comes time to sell.

• Overlook cosmetic things when visiting properties. Cosmetic issues include all of the easily replaceable items in a home, such as carpeting, appliances, interior paint colors and cabinetry.

Focus on the bones of the house — the architectural integrity and those little touches that you envision having a “wow” factor.

• Seek the help of experts. Some flippers think they’ll save the most money by doing all of the work themselves. This isn’t always the case. Professional architects, designers and contractors may help you save money.

Contractors have an intimate knowledge of where to buy materials and may be able to negotiate prices based on wholesale or trade costs. In addition, experts can help you avoid common pitfalls because they’ve already done this type of work

time and again. It’s smart to rely on expert advice, even if it means investing a little bit more.

• Save money by doing some work yourself. While the pros may tackle the more complex parts of a given project, such as rewiring electricity or changing the footprint of a home, you can still be involved. Ask to participate in demolition, such as taking down walls or removing old materials from the home.

Such participation may be fun, and it can save you substantial amounts of money on labor.

• Recognize that not everything must be completely redone. Realize that, in some instances, a coat of paint and some new accents may be all you need to transform a space. For example, if kitchen cabinets are in good condition, see if they can be refaced or painted instead of replaced entirely. Install new door pulls/handles to add visual interest. Look for some ready-made items, such as bookshelves, instead of installing custom carpentry.

• Think about what the buyer wants and not what you want.

Renovate with an eye toward prospective buyers’ needs. Keep things neutral and accommodating. Research the latest trends to understand what buyers might be seeking in a home. You want potential buyers to envision themselves moving right in.

Renovating a fixer-upper takes

time, but it can be a worthwhile project, and one that can help anyone turn a profit in a booming real estate market.

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