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Clockwise from left: Gord Schermerhorn (left) accepts congratulations from fellow mayoral candidate Robert Dorey on election night in Greater Napanee on Oct. 27; Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne campaigns in Napanee in June; Michael Oulton (left) and his son Charles pay their respects to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo on a Hwy. 401 overpass; Natalie MacMaster and family play at the L&A County 150th anniversary celebration.
Town sends dispatch services to Kingston BY ASHLEY ESPINOZA Staff Reporter
This month, Greater Napanee’s Emergency Services’ dispatch will be relocated to allow local staff to concentrate on public education, inspection and emergency response as opposed to administrative dispatch duties.
As of Jan. 15, a partnership with the City of Kingston’s Regional Dispatch Centre will begin, which will focus on optimizing technology. “There was a number of factors that helped us to choose Kingston over other centers,” explained Terry Gervais, fire chief and general manager of emergency services for Greater
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Napanee. “While cost was a factor, one of the biggest factors was the that once this happens, the Regional Dispatch Center in Kingston will dispatch and handle the emergency calls for all the departments in Frontenac and L&A Counties. What this means (is) we will provide a better level of service to the residents in
those counties because of only having one center,” he explained. Under the current system, there are two dispatch centres. When help is needed, each dispatch location must be called, which Gervais says causes delays in response time. “With one center, they will be able to dispatch various stations and departments seamlessly.
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Another major factor is the Regional Dispatch Center has a completely upgraded computer aid dispatch center and is in the process of putting in a new radio system. We will be able to take advantage of their technology to provide a better service for our residents,” said Gervais.
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Shopping Party enjoys best-ever crowd Good weather makes for good turnout for downtown stores, and good results for local charities BY ASHLEY ESPINOZA Staff Reporter
ecember’s downtown shopping party was a great success, according to organizers, bringing in truckloads of food and piles of money for local charities. Cat Monster, co-owner of Starlet and one of the organizers of the downtown shopping party, said the event was better than ever. “It was fantastic. It was a great success. I would say it was the best shopping party yet,” said Monster. “Downtown was just buzzing with Christmas spirit; it was absolutely awesome. And the weather was a huge part of that, the fact that there was great weather.” Starlet alone collected over a truckload of food, as well as donated part of their sales from the event to Interval House, the Morning Star Mission and the Salvation Army. “Throughout the downtown, every business chooses a different charitable organization within our community, which is really nice because it creates an even spread
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The Evangel Temple band plays some Christmas songs from a stage on Dundas Street during the Downtown Shopping Party on Dec. 19. throughout the community and helps everyone in need,” she said. With more businesses participating, more people came out to shop, which in turn raised even more for
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event. “The weather, and the fact that there are more merchants participating down here (contributed to the success). There are so many wonderful, awesome
DISPATCH | Service change should be seamless CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Gervais said more fires should be prevented in Greater Napanee now that full-time firefighters will not be tasked with administrative dispatch duties and will be able to focus on prevention and education in the community. “We have been falling short of our goals due to lack of resources. Without having our full-time firefighters responsible for doing administrative work, like answering the emergency lines,
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food donations are gathered,” said Monster. She said participation has increased both in downtown merchants and in shoppers, which helped to create a festive and fun
new businesses in downtown Napanee to check out,” said Monster. “The downtown was just buzzing with Christmas cheer. It was absolutely awesome and there was so many people out walking around and running into neighbours and going for wagon rides and checking out the reindeer and just stopping, talking and catching up. It was a fantastic night,” she added. Monster said there was a number of first-time downtown shopping party participants this year, making her hopeful that the event will only grow more next year. “We had some people who had never been to the downtown shopping party before and just said, ‘Wow, I can’t believe how much Christmas cheer is down here,’ between the lights, the reindeer, the wagon rides and all the different promotions downtown,” Monster explained. “That’s what this time of year is all about: Christmas spirit and Christmas cheer.” The event took place downtown Greater Napanee on Dec. 19 from 6-9 p.m. Over 20 downtown businesses participated in the seventh annual event.
they can now be reassigned to public education, inspections, legislative requirements and emergency responses. In conjunction with our volunteer firefighters, this will enhance the service we are providing today at no additional longterm costs to the residents,” said Gervais. Gervais said the municipality may see a short-term loss financially, but in the long-term partnering with Kingston will not only help operate services better but also help the financial bot-
tom line. “Initially there will be a small loss of revenue that we would have gotten from the other departments that we dispatched for; however, in the long term our municipality could not afford the money that needed to be invested in bring our dispatch center up to legislative requirements,” said Gervais. On top of that, the partnership allows for better services and technology that Greater Napanee would not have been able to afford and run as efficiently on its own.
“We are currently working on mid-2000’s technology and the estimated cost to bring our center up to where it needed to be would be around $200,000. And even when we did that, we would still lose the ability to better utilize our staff where we need them, doing public education and inspections,” he explained. Gervais ensures that the transition will be “seamless” for residents and staff. All residents are reminded to call 911 if they require any emergency service.
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Local golfer makes jump to pro ranks Augusta James hoping to carry amateur success to the next level on the professional tour
BY ADAM PRUDHOMME Staff Reporter
Opportunity knocked for Augusta James — and the 21-year-old Bath native just had to answer. Rather than return for her final semester at North Carolina State and compete for the Wolfpack golf team, she’s decided to join the professional Symetra Tour in February. “I just thought of where I would be happiest,
whether it was returning for another semester at NC State or going pro,” James said of the decision, which she added was a very difficult one to make. “I worked hard over the last couple of months to reach this status and I didn’t want to return to school and then start the process all over again next year.” In order to turn pro, James needed a strong showing at five stage qualifiers held across the United States. After a bit of a
stumble in the middle stages she rebounded to qualify for the 21-stop Symetra Tour. The tour is known as a developmental stepping stone for golfers looking to join to LPGA Tour. After playing well enough to earn her way onto the pro tour, she decided now was the time to shed amateur status and make the jump. “I had an amazing three-and-a-half years there,” James said of her
time at NC State. “Page (Marsh, NC State Wolfpack golf coach) and the entire team taught me so much and helped a lot in my time there.” The way James sees it, there will be plenty of time to finish her courses down the road, whereas an opportunity to turn pro doesn’t happen every day. Though the official schedule is yet to be released, James hopes to play on all 21 stops. The tournament will tee off in late February and typically features stops in all corners of the U.S. Last year’s top-ranked
money earner was Marissa Steen of the U.S., who earned more than $75,000 while playing in 16 events. For James, this step brings her just that much closer to her ultimate goal, which she has been striving for since before she could remember. Growing up in a house that backs onto the 18th hole of the Loyalist Golf and Country Club in Bath, she fell in love with the game at an early age and has never looked back. “The staff at Loyalist Golf and Country Club have always been so good to me and my brother
(Austin),” said James. “Jim Burlington (operations manager at LGCC) and the staff there have always provided a great place to not only play but to call home as well.” A graduate of NDSS, she also credits Golden Hawks coach Mike Hartwick for helping her get to this level. While playing the Symetra Tour, James says she plans to continue taking part in LPGA Tour qualifiers as well and hopes to make the cut for the highest level in women’s golf in the near future.
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open at 8 p.m., sponsored by the Odessa Agricultural Society. At the palace on the Odessa Fairgrounds. Music by Sarah Leigh (Shiloh). Refreshments, bus home. Tickets $35 each. Available at Pop-In and Savages Home Hardware. Call Marg Henshaw at 613-386-3453. NEW YEARS EVE DANCE Hosted by the Enterprise Firefighters, country and western theme. From 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bring your party to our party! $15 per person, $25 per couple. At Community Hall in Enterprise. Tickets available at the door. NEW YEARS EVE DANCE At the Golden Links Hall in Harrowsmith, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Cost is $25 per person. Cold buffet, door prizes, bus ride home. For tickets, call Brenda at 613-372-2410 or e-mail regandbrenda@hotmail.com. JANUARY 1 COMPLIMENTARY SKATING At the Stone Mills Recreation Centre in Tamworth from 1-4 p.m. Free hot chocolate. Sponsored by the Township of Stone Mills. NEW YEAR’S DAY LEVY At the Bath Legion in Millhaven, from noon until 5 p.m. Everyone welcome. Food available. JANUARY 3 SHUFFLEBOARD At the Bath Legion in Millhaven. Registration at 11 a.m., play starts at noon. Everyone welcome.
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MEAT SPIN At the Bath Legion in Millhaven, starts at 1 p.m. $2 per play. Everyone welcome. JANUARY 4 SUNDAY BREAKFAST At the Bath Legion in Millhaven, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Home-cooked food, everyone welcome. JANUARY 6 GENERAL MEETING At the Bath Legion in Millhaven, starting at 7 p.m. JANUARY 7 LINE DANCING At the Tamworth Legion, from 7-8:30 p.m. JANUARY 8 ZUMBA GOLD At the Tamworth Legion, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. JANUARY 9 BINGO At the Tamworth Legion, starting at 7:30 p.m. $500 Jackpot. JANUARY 10 HOMETOWN COUNTRY JAMBOREE At the Napanee Lions Hall, 57 County Rd. 8 Napanee. Entertainers are: Dusty King Jr., Bonny Mitchell, Darlene Brooks and Zakk Badour with MC Joe Saunders and the Heartland Country Band, Tickets are $15 at the door or in advance at Hooked on Hair, Marie’s Place, Smart Florist, Chit Chat Café and Corner Market and Grays IDA. Kick up your heels on our dance floor or just sit and listen to some great classic country music. CONCERT Trent Severn, the multiple award winning Canadian folk trio appears in concert at the Tamworth Legion on January 10 starting at 8 p.m. Admission $30. Three great voices, a fiddle, an acoustic bass and a guitar. Go to tamworth.ca and select Events/TECDC Concert series for details or call 613-379-2808. JANUARY 11 GRAND OLD ENTERPRISE JAMBOREE The Grand Old Enterprise
Jamboree will be held at the Enterprise Hall starting at 1 p.m. Guest entertainer is Don Cochrane. Many other entertainers will also be in attendance so come out for a great afternoon of fun, good music and dancing. Canteen will also be available. Sponsored by the NewburghCamden Lions Club. Call 613-530-5859 or 613-3799972 for more information. JANUARY 12 GENERAL MEETING At the Tamworth Legion, starting at 7:30 p.m. JANUARY 14 LINE DANCING At the Tamworth Legion, from 7-8:30 p.m. JANUARY 15 ZUMBA GOLD At the Tamworth Legion, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. JANUARY 19 BATH GARDENING CLUB The Bath Gardening Club and Horticultural Society will meet in St. John’s Hall, Bath at 2 p.m. Darryl and Laura Silver from Silverbrook Farms are our guest speakers. Visitors always welcome. Further details at www.bathgardeningclub.com. JANUARY 20 HASTINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ‘An Evening with Sir John A. and The Missus’ - Celebrate the bicentennial of Sir John A’s birth in January 2015 when re-enactors Brian and Renée Porter from Brockville present an in-costume, multi-media portrayal of our most famous politician and his wife. Planned as a birthday party, complete with cake, this special event also celebrates the Historical Society's move to new meeting facilities which include ample free parking and level access from the rear of the building. This free public presentation takes place at 7:30 p.m. at our new location, Maranatha facility, 100 College St. West, Belleville. Bring a friend. Visit www.hastingshistory.ca.
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Hillier re-elected… along with Liberals ety executive, that transfer was going to happen even sooner than expected. At its regular meeting at the end of May, L&A County council passed a motion directing the county to take over ownership of the Macpherson House no later than Nov. 28. Further, the county would also earmark $5,000 to assist the historical society in operating the Macpherson House until the county took over ownership. n Napanee Mayor Gord Schermerhorn announced he would seek re-election,
filing his papers in early June. A major issue Schermerhorn said he wanted to work on was reducing how much the provincial government can dictate to municipalities what they have to pay — specifically increased policing costs. “Policing costs are certainly something we’ve been expressing our disappointment in for the last number of years, and I think we have to keep stressing that,” said Schermerhorn. “I want to stress that I’m not picking on the police; I’m
picking on the province downloading costs of policing to this municipality, or municipalities across the province. And then of course the cost has gone up tremendously over the last number of years… I don’t think it’s fair that the people that live here have to pay $4.4 million in policing costs.” n Despite witnessing a Liberal majority get elected throughout most of Ontario, Progressive Conservative MPP Randy Hillier was voted in to once again represent Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington. “I am getting used to being in opposition,” said Hillier, during his electionnight victory party speech at Fiddlehead’s Pub in Perth. “I thought I would be on the government side. (But) the people are always right in a democracy.” The PCs saw their number of seats reduced in the wake of the June provincial election; the Liberals, meanwhile, picked up enough seats to restore the majority government the party lost in 2011. Also running locally were Bill MacDonald (Liberal), Dave Parkhill (NDP) and Cam Mather (Green). Afterwards, Hillier blamed party leader Tim Hudak’s 100,000 job cuts pledge for giving him an “uphill battle,” and for “causing reluctance” among those who supported him in the last election. He admitted that his majority in the riding was “not as large a majority as last time.” He said that the policy had not been “communicated effec-
n More than $80,000 was raised during Napanee’s Relay for Life, held on NDSS’ track. A total of 33 teams took part in the relay, which began on the evening of June 13 and ended early the next morning. n The Napanee Express finished first at the OASA Junior Eliminations, held during the last weekend of June at the Fairgrounds. With the win they clinched a spot in the Canadian championships.
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n Greater Napanee was pushing ahead with a sweeping review of the municipality’s services and taxation policies. Greater Napanee council received a report relating to the town’s ongoing service area review in late June. The review was initially sparked by concerns brought forward from a resident being taxed at the urban rate despite the fact his property does not receive urban services. Staff proposed a sixstep process that would compile data, review it and in the end present council with a proposal for the municipality’s services and
tax policy, which council could then choose to adopt — or reject. By following this process, a decision would likely be made in the winter, by the new council, in time for the 2015 budget.
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Looking ahead to 2015 And so another year begins. 2014 proved to be a challenging year, regardless of whether we’re looking at the local, national or international picture. Last week in this space, we talked about hope. In many respects, we’re hoping that 2015 proves to be a better year than 2014. There isn’t much we can foresee — although we do know, barring some very unexpected developments in the halls of power in Ottawa, we will see a federal election this fall. Both the NDP and the Liberal Party have new leaders at the helm — Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau, respectively — who’ll hope to succeed where the likes of Stephane Dion, Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton have failed. That is, of course, the goal of toppling Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In many ways, Harper seems to be as vulnerable as he’s ever been. His party has been trailing in the polls for much of the past several months. That said, the Conservatives appear to have halted the slide, and are clawing back some of that popular opinion. Mulcair, whose party has lost much of the popular support it garnered in the last election — if opinion polls are to be believed — will have to do some ‘clawing back’ of his own. Trudeau, meanwhile, has largely coasted on his own personal appeal since winning the leadership just less than two years ago. He’s going to have to put more on offer to voters if he hopes to unseat the current occupant of 24 Sussex Dr.; he’s running out of time to do it. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past few elections, it’s to expect the unexpected — as hackneyed as that phrase might be. Nobody saw Jack Layton nearly sweeping Quebec in the last federal election. Especially a few months out, nobody saw Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne and her party winning a majority government in Ontario. In other words, don’t expect any federal election predictions from us. Locally, we’ll be watching our new councils, and what they’ll do with their four-year mandates. In Greater Napanee, we’ll see whether the council can make some headway on building a new indoor aquatics centre. To be certain, it’s not an easy issue. We suspect most residents would love to have an indoor pool, but not at any cost. During the campaign, were heard from candidates that council and staff will have to “be creative” in devising a solution; we’ll see just how creative they can be in the coming months. Greater Napanee will also be completing its service area review, which could affect taxation levels across the municipality. A report is to come to council early on in 2015 — it will be interesting to see what they do with it. Oh, and the Beechwood Road Environmental Centre/Richmond Landfill issue — or ‘issues’, we should more accurately say — is still on the table. Will it be resolved in 2015? If you thought we were shy about making political predictions, we’re not going to touch this one with a 10-foot pole. There will be much to follow in the new year. We can’t wait for it to get started.
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Vicki Hallam (left), chair of the Napanee chapter of KidSport, accepts a $250 donation from Born 2 Dance Boutique owner Nicole Penney. The money, which was raised during the store’s one-year anniversary barbecue, will be used to cover the registration costs of a local dance student who would be otherwise unable to afford it.
Survey says: BRM programs need work More than two-thirds of Ontario Federation of Agriculture members surveyed believe that the currently available Business Risk Management programs do not meet their needs. When OFA surveyed approximately 250 members this fall asking them to rate the performance of government-funded BRM programs, 69 per cent of respondents felt the programs fell short for their farming businesses. The online survey measured member opinions about three BRM programs — production insurance, Agri-Invest and Agri-Stability. The OFA will present the results to the recently established Agriculture Policy Framework Planning and Analysis Committee. This new committee, spearheaded by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, is tasked with providing program recommendations to government, identifying policy outcomes for the 2015 federal election and
Keith Currie OFA Comment offering direction to government on the agri-food industry’s needs for the next agricultural policy framework, or Growing Forward 3. The OFA survey results will support discussions on how to improve BRM programs based on feedback from Ontario farmers about the three government programs. The message sent by survey participants was very clear. BRM programs must be improved as soon as possible. The survey found 69 per cent of respondents felt the current government programs do not meet the needs of their farm operation. However, this was an improvement when compared to a similar survey OFA conducted in
2010 that found 88 per cent were dissatisfied. Production insurance ranked as the most popular BRM program with OFA members – 77 per cent said the program is easy to use, and 80 per cent would recommend the program to other farmers. Agri-Invest is also a popular BRM program with Ontario farmers with 76 per cent saying they would recommend it to other farmers. An Agri-Invest account allows farmers to deposit up to 1 per cent of allowable net sales and receive a matching government contribution. Many survey respondents said they found parts of the program confusing, but 80 per cent agreed that when considering the time and costs required to participate the program was still beneficial to their farm business.
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Long-time columnist hangs up his pen Terry Sprague spent a half-century unravelling the natural world to readers across the region
BY ADAM BRAMBURGER Special to the Beaver
Whether he was trudging off the beaten path or sitting down to type, Prince Edward County-based naturalist Terry Sprague was interested in sharing the seldom-heard stories of nature with others. Sprague is stepping back from a task he has fulfilled dutifully for the past 50 years, that is, sitting down to write more than 2,600 columns. The columns appeared most regularly on these pages — Sprague’s work was a weekly feature in The Picton Gazette for 48 of those years, along with The Napanee Beaver for more than 10 years. His work has also been published in nature magazines across the Quinte region and internationally. Sprague is also moving on from his regular interpretive hiking business as he looks to refocus his energies. While Sprague has become a go-to person for many people with nature questions, some would be surprised to find out that much of what he has learned about the world around him has been selftaught. “I was very interested in nature growing up on the farm and I was very fortunate to have a schoolteacher in the one-room school I attended in Grades 6, 7, and 8 and she’d have all these wonderful stories about birds coming into her hand. I thought that was remarkable,” Sprague said. Though he later learned ways to lure birds into his own hands and his own yard, Sprague indicated he never would forget what Marie Foster taught him and it transferred to a lifelong love of birding. “I was fascinated with her stories,” he recalled. Following his high school days, Sprague used to visit Foster to hear more and to gain knowledge. All these many years later, Sprague said he is still learning with each hike he takes and each article he reads about his interest. “You never stop learning. When I go out today, someone will show me or tell me something,” he said. “The only way to remember it is if I incorporate it into a column or into a hike. That’s how it sticks for me.” Around the same time he was visiting Foster, Sprague began to send snippets of information
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When he wasn’t writing his weekly nature column, Terry Sprague (centre) was often leading hikes at various wildlife areas. about his own bird sightings to then-Gazette editor Phil Dodds. An avid naturalist himself, Dodds would take articles about bird sightings Sprague submitted and use them as fillers in the paper. Then, one day in 1965, Dodds very firmly suggested Sprague write a regular column, a proposition that didn’t really interest him, he recalled. “At the time, for whatever reason I never really had much interest in writing,” Sprague said. He tried it anyway, however, and obviously Dodds was satisfied with the result. “He never really told me to quit, so I kept going,” Sprague joked. As a young columnist, Sprague enjoyed the freedom he was given to write about anything from the outdoors ,and he learned a bit about the job by going on hikes around Presqu’ile with Brighton Ensign nature columnist Orval Kelly. In those days, Sprague said he struggled to find a style. He remembered modeling his phrasing after several other writers, but eventually decided he’d just do what works for him. “It was always more of a conversational type, as though someone like yourself was sitting here and I was telling you a story,” he said. “Sometimes when I write a column, I don’t really know where it’s going — I probably know what the topic is, but don’t know where I’m going with it until it is written.” One thing it rarely did was stir controversy.
Sprague said he learned early in his career that stepping into the fray on political issues took away from his intent to inform and educate. In recent years, he has waded into the wind turbine debate, however, though he said most of his readership tends to see things the same as him so many of the responses he received were positive. The topics came easily and, eventually, the articles went from simple sightings of wildlife to more thematic pieces. Sprague said, generally, his first draft has always taken about 10-15 minutes to write, with revisions coming over the next few days. He recalls the shift of technology during the past 50 years fondly as he moved from his mother’s Underwood typewriter, to another manual typewriter, to an electric typewriter, to an electronic typewriter, to a word processer and, ultimately, to a computer. With so many columns written over the years, Sprague says a common question he is asked is whether he ever runs out of topics, but he noted that’s never been a problem. “It actually gets easier as you write the column longer because you have all these stories and experiences to draw on. That’s what made things interesting,” he said. He added with so much information at his finger tips with the Internet, it’s easy to bring in little-known facts and trivia that can even make weeds exciting. For a brief period of
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time, Sprague even did double duty as a country music columnist and remains proud of the distinction he was the only one in the County to interview Dolly Parton. Over the years, Sprague’s following grew and as technology advanced, he said he has had a greater interaction with his readership. “Most, of course, is by email these days. Most people ask me what this plant is or say, “Here’s a picture of this bird, what is it?’” he said “I get probably between 30-40 e-mails a day, they’re not all questions, but maybe a dozen or so are.” An early riser, Sprague gets up at 4 a.m. (when he said he’s typically at his brightest) and he spends an average of two hours responding before getting on with his day. In most cases, he said he can provide answers or he can find someone who knows more about a specific subject. He says he always replies, however. “I’ve always been very proud of the fact I try to answer each e-mail and say ‘Thank you for your interest,’” he said. “I think that’s important, so many people today have forgotten how to say ‘thank you’ or ‘please’. I try to make sure I contact everyone and answer them.” Sprague’s experience telling stories about nature also played a role in his career path. While working at the Glenora fisheries station as a resource manager in the 1980s, a friend working on the Ontario Parks
received a clear message that these programs must change to meet the needs of Ontario farmers. These survey results will feed OFA efforts to shape future BRM programs and government investments in the sustainability of Ontario farms. Keith Currie is vice-president of the OFA.
system asked if he’d ever be interested in a job at Sandbanks. “I said, ‘Say what?’ That was something I’d always dreamed about,” he said. As a columnist and occasional weekend reporter, Sprague had covered events at the park in the 1970s, including the launch of the interpretive nature program. In 1984, the park came calling for an assistant interpretive naturalist. He received the job and stayed until 1991. For someone who admittedly prefers quiet to crowds, Sprague said it might have been a bizarre place to work with 10,000 people a summer coming into the visitor centre alone, but he found a way. “The people would ask the same three questions: ‘How do you get the sand dunes?’ ‘Where can I camp if you’re full?’ and ‘Where’s the washroom,” he recalled. “You had to answer those questions as if you were getting them for the first time and you’d deal with irate people and there’d be a few.” Beyond that, however, a big part of Sprague’s job was guided hikes through the park as an interpreter. “My job was to interpret. You describe what you are talking about and put it into perspective why it is there and the problems it has surviving,” he said. “Really, you’re making a story, it’s a park story.” Those hikes worked so well, Sprague started to do similar hikes in partnership with Quinte Conservation in 1996 throughout its 6,200-square kilometre watershed before branching out with his own business, Nature Stuff Tours, three years ago, covering all the area between Cobourg and Kingston. Over the past 19 years, he said he’s led hikes for 26,000 people (though many of those spaces were held by repeat visitors). He said the hikes started out as a social gathering. “Getting out there with people was a big thing. A lot of these people were seniors and they didn’t feel safe going out by themselves,” he said. “It was an opportunity for them to get out and enjoy it... it’s nice to see people enthused with big smiles saying they’ve enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to the next hike.” Sprague said he’ll miss that, but he is still considering staging impromptu hikes where I’ll say ‘Here’s the date, come along if you can.’”
Those programs kept Sprague on the run nine or 10 months of the year and he said he now has arthritis in his feet and some back pain, so it’s time to scale them back. Liability issues and administration have also changed considerably in recent years and have become a larger task. Despite the change in his routine, Sprague says he doesn’t want people to be alarmed he’s not doing the things he used to any more. “Just because I’m retiring the column doesn’t mean I am dying,” he said. “I want people to continue doing what they’ve been doing and sending me things. I’m not retiring, I’m just restructuring. I feel the time has come.” Sprague said in his next chapter, he plans to continue to hike and he has a goal to do all the trails at Frontenac Provincial Park — some of which are very lengthy. He said those hikes will give him a chance to do something he enjoys very much, which is to be alone in nature and take time to ponder. “I want to enjoy what I enjoy doing,” he said. He says he’ll still be active in offering private hikes and serving as a stepon guide for bus tours. Sprague will also keep writing as he is looking to write more books after the success of Up Before Five The Family Farm, which was a collaboration of humorous stories from life on the farm. It sold out in a month. His next offering, Naked In The Sand, will offer some stories and misadventures from the various jobs he’s done in his lifetime. He’s also considering a book that will feature past columns with a current take on the issues discussed and one that outlines the natural areas of the Quinte region to let people know how they can get to them and to enjoy them. Sprague said he owes a debt of gratitude to the faithful readers and hikers who have helped him share his stories over the years. “I thank people for the success I have achieved, and by success, I mean large interest and readership,” he said. “I think that’s important today because we depend on biodiversity for our survival. We need to not regard wildlife as a nuisance, but a very essential part of our survival. We cannot let development and big money get in the way. We need to have a balance.”
Correction The Dec. 18 article in the Napanee Beaver ‘Remembering the message of Christmas’ was incorrectly attributed to the Rev. Elaine Kellogg, who is scheduled to start at the Deseronto and Grace United Churches on March 1, 2015, God-willing. The article was written by myself, the Rev. Jean Brown, temporary supply clergyperson for Deseronto and Grace United Churches for the period of Nov. 1, 2014 to March 1, 2015, when the Rev. Elaine Kellogg will then start her permanent fulltime position. My attempt to pave the way suffered a typographical error, so I wanted to explain and to apologize for any confusion. Rev. Jean Brown, Retired United Church Supply clergyperson.
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A trip through the pages of The Napanee Beaver 50 Years Ago January 6, 1965 n It appeared as though the closure of the Napanee Armouries would be delayed for the foreseeable future. The 22nd Works Company was to be stationed at the Armouries, and as such, the facility would stay open as long as the company was stationed there. That was good news for the many community groups that were regularly using the building. They were advised that they could continue to use the Armories as long as the 22nd Works Company was occupying it. n The Napanee Post Office reported that it saw a decline in the number of Christmas cards it processed this holiday season. The local postal officials weren’t exactly sure why there was a drop; nevertheless, they saw about 30,000 fewer cards processed in Napanee than the year before. In 1963, the post office saw a total of 229,161 Christmas cards come through its system. An increase in postal rates was speculated to be the possible cause for the drop in Christmas card volume.
35 Years Ago January 2, 1980 n The was a push to ‘draft’ Progressive Conservative MPP James Taylor to seek the federal PC nomination in the riding of Hastings-Frontenac. According to the report, a number of members of the PC riding association were trying to convince the former PC cabinet minister to make the switch from the Ontario legislature to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Not everyone, however, was behind the ‘draft Taylor’ movement, including Noble Trousdale, the association’s president. He said he knew nothing about it. Further, he said that it would highly unusual to replace a sitting MP in Bill Vankoughnet, who had only just been elected to the House of Commons for the first time in 1979. n Work was about to begin on a new hydro transmission line from southern Lennox and Addington to Prince Edward County. The line would run from Greta Station in North Fredericksburgh to the Picton transformer station. The line would include a two-kilometre stretch of submarine cable across the Hayward Long Reach. It would be the first time Ontario Hydro installed a 230,000-volt line under water; it was not clear just how much that part of the project would cost.
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ow that we’re ringing in 2015, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look back on my favourite reads of 2014. It was difficult to narrow it down, but here are my top 10: In Amanda Lindhout’s memoir A House In The Sky, the author writes about her childhood in rural Alberta spent pouring over National Geographic magazines and trying to stay out the way of her dysfunctional family. After high-school, she moved to Calgary where she could work on and off as a cocktail waitress, a lifestyle that could accommodate her wanderlust. Every trip she took was more and more off the beaten path of Western travel until finally, in Mogadishu, her luck runs out. She is kidnapped by Islamic extremists and is forced to live in captivity. I found this book to be absolutely ‘unputdownable’ and rumour has it that it is being made into a movie. Another memoir, Between Gods, follows author Alison Pick’s journey towards coming to terms with her family history. As a teenager, Alison made a discovery that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from the Czech Republic during the Second World War, were
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Catherine Coles Coles’ Notes Jewish—and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. As an adult, she begins to feel compelled to discover more about where she came from and, eventually, convert to Judaism. Sisterhood and the struggles of depression and suicide are fully explored in All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, a novel of two Mennonite sisters, Yolanda and Elfrida. This book was easily the most hyped Can-Lit novel of 2014 and, in my opinion, rightfully so. It takes talent to write a book that is equally funny and heartbreaking. A strange coming of age novel set in Montreal around the time of the last referendum, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill follows Nicholas and Noushcka Tremblay, twins and former child stars, as they struggle to find themselves as 20-year-olds. If you appreciate novels that feature complex, dysfunctional characters, this is a great choice. I am a huge David Sedaris fan and his latest (from 2013) Let’s Explore
Diabetes With Owls did not disappoint. Like all Sedaris books, this is a collection of hilarious musings about his unusual family, quirky worldview and the bizarre situations he finds himself in. His books are best experienced in audio format so his brand of understated irony can really get across. If you enjoyed Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse, you’ll love his latest novel Medicine Walk. It follows Franklin Starlight, usually referred to as “the kid”, and his search of who he is and where he comes from. A 16year-old boy wise beyond his years, Franklin is summoned by the alcoholic father who abandoned him as a baby, to accompany him in his final days as he journeys to his burial place. Very loosely based off true events, The Bear by Claire Cameron is a suspenseful story narrated by a little girl who must fend for herself and her baby brother after a deranged, rogue black bear attacks their family’s Algonquin Park campsite. Smoke River by Krista Foss centres on a land dispute between a land developer and a First Nations community but Foss doesn’t take a side. She writes a third person omniscient narrative that tells the story from multiple points-
of-view including the developer, First Nations protestors, the town mayor, a tobacco farmer and local teenagers, among others. I would describe Bittersweet by Miranda Beverley Whittemore as a ‘gothic beach read’, if there was ever such a thing. Family secrets, New England summer cottages, longing to belong, wealth, privilege and extremely unlikeable characters, this book has readers polarized. I firmly reside in the “liked it” camp because I just couldn’t put it down. Wild by Cheryl Strayed was released in 2012 and I had put off reading it until this year because I was worried it would be an Eat Pray Love situation. I’m glad I finally got around to it (and in advance of the movie no less). It is a memoir that follows the author as a grieving and heartbroken young woman who decides to hike the daunting Pacific West Coast trail. It has all of whining and navel-gazing of Eat Pray Love, but the author is 100 per cent less deluded. All of these titles are available in a variety of formats from the County of L&A Libraries. Happy new year! Catherine Coles is the manager of the library services for L&A County.
COMMUNITY PULSE If you have a non-profit community event or program you would like to promote? Let us promote it in our Community Pulse event listings. Send the details to beaver@bellnet.ca (‘Community Pulse’ in the subject line), fax them to 613-354-2622 or drop them off at the Beaver office. Events must be in by the Monday before our Thursday publication to ensure the event is entered into our system in time. Events are listed chronologically and printed when possible. For more details on the Community Pulse listings, please call 613-354-6641 ext. 109. ARTS ASSOCIATION The Greater Napanee and Area Arts Association will be offering paint-ins staring Jan. 9. Every Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, artists can bring their own art material and work and connect with other artists in a an artfriendly environment. Location: SOS 55 -Plus Activity Centre, 310 Bridge St. in Napanee. Free for members, nonmembers are requested to pay $5/at their discretion. For membership registration please contact Elaine Taranu at elainetaranu@gmail.com. FUNCTIONAL FITNESS 50-PLUS Enjoy a gentle workout to improve your balance and strength, free on Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-11:30 a.m. Social fun. Also great for 40-plus. Funded by LHIN – Fitness Program for Fall Prevention. At The Tyendinaga Fitness Resource Centre (613) 9622822.
BATH LIONS PANCAKE BREAKFAST Third Sunday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon. St. John’s Hall in Bath. Cost is $7, kids under 6 free. NAPANEE COMMUNITY BINGO Come join us at the Napanee Lions Hall for our community bingo every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Run by the Lions Club and the Rotary Club of Napanee. Money raised from our bingos goes right back out into the community to provide funding and support for those in need. Come with friends, or come make some new ones. Canteen is open for a light lunch and refreshments. Everyone welcome, must be 18 years of age. PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Napanee Parkinson’s group meets every second Tuesday of the month at the SOS building at 310 Bridge St. W. at 1:30 p.m. Light lunch will be served. Everyone welcome. For further information, contact Don Ryan at 613-3545238. JANUARY 8 SOUP AND SANDWICH LUNCHEON At the St. Mary Magdalene Church Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $7 per person. Welcome in the new year, and bring a friend. JANUARY 15 LUNCHEON At Riverside United Church in Yarker from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Homemade soup, sandwiches, dessert, coffee and tea. Cost is $7. Call 613-377-1700.
JANUARY 17 ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY The Kingston Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will meet in the Wilson Room of Kingston Frontenac Public Library, 130 Johnson St., at 10 a.m. Joyce Fingland will speak on ‘The Rathbun Family and the Town of Deseronto.’ Visitors welcome. Further details at www.ogs.on.ca/kingston. JANUARY 21 LINE DANCING At the Tamworth Legion, from 7-8:30 p.m. JANUARY 22 ZUMBA GOLD At the Tamworth Legion, from 9:3010:30 a.m. JANUARY 23 ROBBIE BURNS DINNER A Fairfield-Gutzeit Society fundraising dinner. Celebrate the bard’s birthday and support the work of the FairfieldGutzeit Society. Tickets are now available for the Robbie Burns Dinner at St. John’s Hall in Bath. The evening features a three-course Prime Rib dinner, the traditional Haggis ceremony, and entertainment by Royal Scottish Country Dancers of Kingston. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 613-352-9911. JANUARY 28 LINE DANCING At the Tamworth Legion, from 7-8:30 p.m. JANUARY 29 ZUMBA GOLD At the Tamworth Legion, from 9:3010:30 a.m.
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n L&A SOS Social Diner — Thursday, Jan. 15 L&A Seniors Outreach Services Social Diners at Napanee Lions Hall, commencing at noon. Cost is $10. Seats must be purchased in advance by calling the SOS office – 613-354-6668, no later than Jan. 12. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible. Transportation provided upon request.
n L&A SOS/55Plus Activity Centre RECREATION FUN— L&A SOS and the 55Plus Activity Centre are offering Fitness Classes: Cardio, Stregth, Stability Ball, Toning, Stretching, Pilates, Yoga and Zumba Gold programs are offered Monday thru Firday – all levels welcome! Social Programs: Euchre and singing for fun; Bridge Refresher for those who want to challenge themselves. Arts & Crafts Programs: Knitting, Quilting and Painting (both Beginners & Intermediate, as well as a dropin) are offered. Educational: a new session of Creative Writing will begin Nov. 4. Wednesday afternoons we are hosting a seminar series with topics ranging from Health and Wellness, to Financial and Protecting of self and identity. Offsite Programs: Tai Chi is offered at Trinity United Church, Wednesday mornings with Beginners at 9:30 a.m. and Intermediate at 10:30 a.m. You must be a member of the SOS to attend. For information call 613-354-6668 ext 110. Ashley Espinoza-Staff
Four-year-old Connor Dodds-Horner and his twin sisters Emily (middle) and Claire (right) sit on Santa’s knee at Trinity United Church, in Napanee. This was the first year the Lennox and Addington Interval House provided gifts to local kids. This year, 35 children received gifts at the event, and Interval House hopes to run the event again next year. Local schools, businesses and individual donations helped to provide gifts and resources for the event.
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Supply Minister: Rev. Jean Brown 613-354-4373
DESERONTO UNITED CHURCH
112 Fourth St., Deseronto Corner of Thomas & Fourth AA Meeting Fridays at 8pm
GRACE UNITED CHURCH
150 Robert St., Napanee Corner of Bridge St. W. & Robert St. Cable 10 Broadcast: Fridays at 8pm and Sundays at 12:30pm Please join our caring family congregations in Sunday Worship. Sunday School is available at both churches.
DESERONTO PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
469 Dundas Street, Deseronto, Ontario 613-396-3841 Pastor: Rev. Howard Dudgeon Assistant Pastor Dan Rooney 10am - Sunday School Morning Worship at 10:45am Evening Service at 6:30pm Tuesday 5:30pm-Kid’s Program “Faith Weaver Friends” Wednesday 7pm - Bible Study Thursday 7pm - Junior Youth Night Everyone welcome - Affiliated with PAOC
WESTDALE PARK FREE METHODIST CHURCH (across from the hospital) Pastor Derek Spink 7 Richmond Park Drive, Napanee 613-354-2669 www.westdaleparkfmc.ca email: info@westdaleparkfmc.ca SUNDAY 10:00am - Worship Service 11:15 - Coffee/snacks and small groups
NAPANEE STANDARD WESLEYAN CHURCH
51 Palace Road Pastors: Rev. Ivan and Anne Langdon Sunday Worship - 10:30am and 7pm Children’s Program - 10:30am Wednesday: Ladies Bible study/prayer 10:30am Men’s Bible study/prayer 10:30am Bible study/prayer 7pm “In essentials: unity, In non-essentials: liberty, In all things: charity (love).” Phone: 354-1924, 354-5637 Everyone welcome
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ROBLIN WESLEYAN CHURCH
Pastors: Bert McCutcheon, Dustin Crozier, Paul DeMerchant SUNDAY SERVICES 8:45am - Worship Service 10:15am - Sunday School 11am - Worship Service MOMENTUM - Youth - Thursday 7pm OTHER MINISTRIES: Men’s, Women’s & 50+ Small Group Studies
For more information 613-388-2518 www.roblinwesleyan.com roblinw@gmail.com Find us on Facebook!
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH
25 Bridge St. E. 613-377-6406 www.mosriv.com 261 West St., 354-5910 Minister: Rev. Christine Sloan 613-354-3858 ‘Like us on Facebook’ (near Prince Charles School) Charge Office: (613) 352-5375 Epiphany; a Christian festival ekellogg@persona.ca Pastor Rev. Stephen Lush Email: bath.morvenuc.office@bellnet.ca held on Jan. 6th The United Church of Canada Sun. Morning 10:30am MORVEN UNITED CHURCH in honour of the coming of the three kings Rev. Elaine Kellogg Worship Service Service: 9am to the infant Jesus Christ: a moment in RIVERSIDE UNITED CHURCH SonShine Corner Ages 4-9 Sunday School and Nursery which you suddenly see or understand 2 Mill St, Yarker, ON Wednesday 7pm - Bible Study & Prayer BATH UNITED CHURCH something in a new or very clear way. 9:30am Worship Service & Sunday School Welcome! Come and Worship with us. Service: 10:30am Join us this Sunday as we “Celebrate MOSCOW UNITED CHURCH Visit us online at: Sunday School and Nursery Epiphany.” Service begins at 10:30am. 25 Huffman Rd, Moscow, ON www.templeofprayerandpraise.org Fellowship with refreshments after services. www.napaneetrinity.ca Worship Service 7pm - Social to follow Everyone is welcome. Kids Club, ages 5-12, Sat. 10am-11am NEWBURGH-CENTREVILLE Everyone is always welcome ST. MARY MAGDALENE
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137 Robinson St., Napanee K7R 2S3 613-354-3141 155 St. George St., Deseronto Priest: Rev. Richard Hetke Minister: Rev. James Gordon Rev. Brother D.B. Smith 396-3119 or 396-2347 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:00am - Church Service 8:00am Holy Communion & Sunday School 10:30am Holy Communion December 24th 9:00pm Children’s Ministry Programs Christmas Eve Service TUESDAY 6:30-8pm: ENTERPRISE-ROBLIN UNITED ST. PATRICK’S Youth Program “The Heard” CHURCH PASTORAL CHARGE CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Anne MacDermaid 389-5548 WEDNESDAY 10am - Holy Communion 179 West Street, Napanee ENTERPRISE 9:15am - Worship Serv- Sun. Dec. 21st 7pm - Lessons and Carols “Christmas Eve” Dec. 24th 4pm ChilRev. Mark Chochrek, Pastor ice and Sunday School dren’s Service Phone: 613-354-5354 ROBLIN 11am - Worship Service and 7pm and 11pm - Service Website: www.stpatsnapanee.com Sunday School Christmas Day Dec. 25th 10am Saturday 5:15pm - Mass Everyone Welcome Visit us at www.stmarymagdalenenapanee.ca Sunday 9:00am - Mass; 10:30am - Mass 474 Belleville Road 613-354-1083 or 613-354-6934 Pastor: Tom Breeden Come join us in Worship Sun. 10:30am & 6:00pm Wed. Prayer & Bible Study 7:00pm Everyone Welcome
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613-378-2511 The United Church of Canada Minister: Rev. Barbara Mahood Worship Service and Sunday School 9:30am at Centreville 11am at Newburgh (Third Sunday of the Month is Contemporary Praise Service at Newburgh) Everyone is Welcome!
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD 4735 German Rd., Petworth Pastor: Rev. Ruth Ann Paul Phone: 613-358-2824 Morning Worship - 11am Everyone is always welcome at all our Services
SELBY - EMPEY HILL PASTORAL CHARGE
The United Church of Canada Minister: Michael Putnam Charge Office: 613-388-2375 Worship for all ages: Selby: No service on December 28th Worship with Empey Hill Empey Hill: 10am - Joint Worship Service Guest Speaker: Rev. Frank Hamper
EVANGEL TEMPLE
(Affiliated with PAOC) 320 Bridge St. W., Napanee Pastor: Rev. Jim Somerville Sunday - 10:30am and 6:00pm Sunday School (ages 3-12) Wed. 6:00pm: BG Club - Ages 3-11 Thurs. 7:00pm: Jr. High (Grades 6 and 7) Sr. High (Ages 13-18), Small Groups 50+ Men’s & Women’s Ministry For more information, call the Church at 613-354-4281 www.evangelnapanee.com
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82 Richard St., Napanee Office 354-4735 Major Craig and Patsy Rowe SUNDAY - 10:30am Morning Worship WEDNESDAY - 12 noon Bible study 1st Wed. - 12 noon Ministry to Women Wed. - 4:30pm Friends Club Ages 5-11 3rd Thurs. - 12:30pm 55+ Everyone welcome.
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Sir John A. makes his return to Napanee in July n Communities across Lennox and Addington County dressed in red and white as they celebrated Canada Day with parades and fireworks. n Lennox and Addington County council decided it was going to take the time it needs in developing a new official plan. At a regular meeting in July, county council voted to have a second draft of its new official plan brought back to council for approval prior to public meetings relating to the planning document later in the fall. The county had been compelled to develop a new official plan in response to a change in provincial government policy requiring all upper-tier municipalities to have their own official plans. Only four other municipalities in Ontario found themselves having to create official plans. n Jessica Boomhower would have a long road of
recovery ahead of her, but it was clear she had no shortage of supporters who’d be with her every step of the way. The 20-year-old firefighter became critically ill while preparing to go out on a call at the Napanee fire station in early July. The community rallied around her by hosting a series of fundraising events to help cover her medical costs. n A prominent voice from Napanee’s distant past was heard once more on the Market Square in July — sort of. Canada’s first prime minster Sir John A. Macdonald, surrounded by some other prominent faces from Canada circa 1867, was at the square most recently named in his honour; he also visited another of his boyhood haunts in the Allan Macpherson House. Macdonald and his companions were actually
members of SirJohnA2015, a project of SALON Theatre Productions in Kingston, to mark the 200th anniversary of Macdonald’s birth on Jan. 11, 2015. n Augusta James was playing some of the best golf of her season heading into the Canadian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship, held in Woodstock, Ont. in July. The 21-year-old Bath native won the tournament by six strokes, carding a two under 69 in the final round and finishing 14 under overall. Her eightunder 63 third round was a tournament record. “I felt pretty confident going into the tournament,” said James. “My swing and my game were in a good place. It all came together.” n Following a 12-1 loss to open the double-knockout tournament, the hometown Novice Express girls ral-
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lied to claim the final spot in the ‘A’ Grands at the Napanee Fairgrounds. “Our girls played well, they battled back,” Express head coach Doug Kane said of the team’s efforts to win three straight following the rough first game. “We certainly got our money’s worth, we played five games. We gained a lot of experience and ultimately we achieved our goal.” n Deseronto council decided it wouldn’t move forward with a plan to allow egg-laying hens within the town’s limits. The issue was first brought to council in early April, when a handful of residents informed Deseronto municipal staff and council that they were displeased with not being able to have laying hens in town. A few weeks later, more letters and verbal complaints came to the municipality, asking for the bylaw to be changed to allow chickens in town. Over several weeks, council debated whether allowing laying hens in town again would be beneficial for the community. While some councillors argued that if it were regulated properly it would not be a problem, others felt it was an issue they didn’t want to bring back. n Lennox Agricultural Society President Dave McNichols was more than
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Paul Dyck, playing Sir John A. Macdonald, looks out from the balcony at the Greater Napanee Town Hall. It’s from that spot that the real Sir John A. delivered his final political speech in 1891. pleased with Napanee Fair. McNichols good crowds weather, it was
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be satisfied. “Everybody seemed to go away happy, and we got a lot of good ideas for next year,” he said.
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n Shaking off the disappointment of so many past tournaments, the Napanee Abundant Insulation Midget Express clubbed their way to a gold medal at the Western Canadian Midget Fastball Championship in August. Napanee capped off an undefeated weekend in Battleford, Sask. with a 178 mercy win in the goldmedal game against the Irma Tigers. n Bath’s Austin James continued the family tradition in Niagara, winning the Canadian Junior Boys Championship by four strokes, finishing 15 under par. Just one week prior his
sister Augusta had claimed the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship in Woodstock. “I just wanted to stick to my game plan and try to make good golf shots,” said James, who entered the final round of the junior championship up by five strokes. “I was just trying to keep it going. I was playing well that week and just wanted to keep the rhythm going.” n A new plaque was unveiled outside of the Lennox and Addington Court House depicting the evolution of the historic site over the past 150 years. Presented by the Greater Napanee Heritage/Street Smarts Committee, the plaque contains reproduced photos of the unveiling of the cenotaph in 1920, the court house in 1910, the county jail (which would later become the present day museum and archives) in 1909, the jailer’s house in 1909, the land registry office in 1995 and an updated version of the court house from 1994. n Napanee’s first ‘Innovation Academy’ opened in August with state-of-theart 3D printers and $100,000 in federal and local funding. Prince Edward-Hastings MP Daryl Kramp and the Prince Edward/Lennox and Addington Community Futures Development Corporation announced that $100,000 in Eastern Ontario Development Pro-
gram funding would go toward the Napanee Innovation Academy. The academy is located in the former Napanee East Ward schoolhouse, which was initially built in 1874. The building has been renovated and now includes 10 offices, as well as state-of-the-art 3D printers and PC workstations for 3D modelling and design. n A new OPP billing model was announced at council in August, a move which was expected to reduce policing costs for Greater Napanee. Yasir Naqvi, Ministry of Community Services and Correctional Services Minister, released the framework for the new policing cost system which stated, “OPP bills are expected to be between $200-$400 per property based on 2015 estimates.” n A mere four outs away from gold at the U21 Men’s Fast Pitch Canadian Championships, the Shoeless Joe’s Napanee Express Juniors were instead the victims of some two-out magic by the host Irma Tigers. Clinging to a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth, Express starter Ty Sebastien ran into some trouble with a leadoff walk followed by a base hit. After retiring the next two Tigers with a pop out and a fielder’s choice, he promptly surrounded three straight RBI singles. The Express were unable to mount any
threat in the top of the seventh, losing 4-2 to place them as silver medalists for the second straight year. n Napanee’s Britt Benn’s name was etched in Canadian rugby history as the national women’s team that captured silver at the World Cup in France. Canada fell 21-9 to England in the finals, their first-ever appearance in the championship game. Prior to this year Canada’s highest finish was fourth, which they did on three separate occasions and most recently in 2006. The rugby World
Cup is held every four years and features the top players from around the world. A total of 12 teams took part in this year’s event, split into four pools. n Lennox and Addington’s annual geocaching event lived up to its ‘mega’ billing. Organizers estimated that almost 800 people — some from as far away as England and New Zealand — took part, as geocachers equipped with global positioning systems tracked down ‘caches’ scattered around the county.
n David Bradshaw was one shot better than his closest competition, good enough to win the Great Waterway Classic in Bath in late August. He tapped in a birdie on his 72nd hole to finish 21-under and edge fellow American Adam Long and Argentina’s Tommy Cocha by a stroke. Bath’s Austin James had the distinction of being the only amateur to make the cut after Round 2, finishing tied for 49th at four under. Napanee’s Josh Whalen also took part in the tournament, playing on an exemption.
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n For its 150th birthday, Lennox and Addington County put on a party to remember. An estimated 3,000 people gathered on the rear lawn of the county court house on Aug. 23 for the county’s sesquicentennial celebration. The show included a performance by world-class fiddlers Natalie McMaster and Donnell Leahy along with pyrotechnic acrobatics from Circus Orange. Local acts the Kim Pollard band, David Archibald, Sam and Emma McNichols and Dallas Daisey also took to the stage. “It really exceeded our expectations,” said Stephen Paul, Community and Development Services Director for L&A. “The weather cleared and all the performances were top rate.”
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TransCanada moves ahead with Napanee GS plans n Deseronto Mayor Norm Clark said in early September that he expected to see “drastically” reduced policing costs in the future. Clark attended the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference where a new OPP billing system was announced. The new billing model would be introduced starting Jan. 1, 2015, and
include a flat-rate charge in addition to the cost for each call made to the OPP. “If I understand it correctly, there’s going to be a flat rate based on households in the community plus the cost of calls made. So as far as Deseronto is concerned, ours should drop fairly drastically,” the mayor said during a regular council meeting.
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n A manhunt for a Tamworth-area resident ended a day after it started when the suspect surrendered himself to police in September. The man turned himself over to the authorities at the Napanee OPP detachment. The chase started when Napanee OPP officers, along with members of the OPP’s Tactics and Rescue Unit, attended a residence on Carroll Road near Tamworth in order to execute a search warrant. When the officers arrived, the suspect fled the scene. The OPP Emergency Response Team, along with the TRU, conducted a search of the area with the help of a helicopter. The police were unable to locate the suspect.
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The suspect was charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, careless storage of a firearm, possession of a loaded restricted weapon and possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order.
n For the first time, Greater Napanee municipal election candidates would have the opportunity to attend a meeting to discuss ongoing and future projects with municipal staff prior to fully developing their respective platforms. A candidate information meeting was scheduled for Sept. 24 to provide information on the new online and phone ballot system. After that meeting, Greater Napanee candidates were to have the opportunity to stay for a second session, where information would be provided on a variety of ongoing topics, projects and issues the new council will be faced with. Greater Napanee Chief Administrative Officer Callery said staff often provided information to candidates upon request so this year staff decided to compile information to provide to all candidates.
n Rural and urban tax rates were a hot topic again during a Greater Napanee council meeting in early September. Council had been discussing rural and urban tax rates for months. Staff was actively reviewing and compiling information for the new council to decide whether tax rates and policies should change or stay the same. Still, the current council had a few more questions before the new town council was to take over. Ward 5 Councillor Shaune Lucas insisted that public consultation should take place before a decision was made regarding tax rates. “My concern was that nowhere in that report from Aug. 8 do I see alluded that council would have public discussions,” said Lucas, asking if there was a way to ensure the new council would be required to hold a public meeting regarding tax rates. However, staff explained the new council could discuss whether to have public meetings, change the tax rates or keep things the same. “The intention is to have the RFP out and the
n Greater Napanee staff was instructed to apply for government grants to fix Water Street and upgrade the water pollution control plant. Government grants were announced that would allow small municipalities to apply for fund-
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ing through the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund and the Small Communities Funds. An application to reconstruct Water Street was being applied for under the OCIF grant. The grant had some restrictions, but road reconstruction fell within the guidelines. n If went according to plan, shovels would be breaking ground on TransCanada’s proposed Napanee Generating Station by early 2015 That was the message the company presented to Greater Napanee council in late September during a deputation outlining their community host agreement. In one of his final presentations to council, TransCanada’s vice president of power development Terry Bennett outlined what was left to do before construction can begin. “We expect that process to come to conclusion by late October, early November. Once we complete that we’ll be woking on finalizing our environmental compliance approvals and the actual permits that allow the construction of the project.” Bennett added that he expected to have all those by the end of this year and that construction could begin in January 2015. As for the town, Bennett says they have all permits save for the building permits. As part of the community host agreement ,the company promised $2 million in funding to by distributed in $400,000 increments over the next five council terms. A four-member committee, made up of two town staff members and two representatives from TransCanada, would determine what those funds would be put towards.
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Tight mayoral race in Gr. Napanee n Gord Schermerhorn was re-elected as mayor of Greater Napanee in October’s municipal election, by a slim three-vote margin over challenger Robert Dorey. “Well, I suspected that it was going to be close,” said Schermerhorn after the results came in on election night. “Mr. Dorey certainly worked very hard in the campaign, and so I knew it was going to be a close race. But, I didn’t think that it was going to be quite this close.” Schermerhorn said he wouldn’t seek re-election in the next municipal election. “I felt like I did well,” said Dorey, reflecting on the campaign and the narrow margin between himself and Schermerhorn. “I didn’t know how it would go. But, there was so much support in the community. I think people really appreciated the opportunity to discuss the future of the town, to have a platform to bounce their ideas off. I think we got a lot of ideas going and a lot of people talking about what they’d like to see in town, and what kind of council they want.” n The tiny margin of victory in the Greater Napanee mayoral race, however, caused the town’s new electronic voting system to come under fire. Not long
after the results came in, Robert Dorey requested a recount of the votes. Concerns regarding electronic voter ballots being mailed to old addresses, no proof of identification, and the ability for someone to gain access of another person’s voter PIN were topics of concern among some residents since the campaign began, Dorey said. He said a number of people had brought these concerns to him, which convinced him that a recount would help bring light to some of the concerns. “I do not expect that such a recount, which will merely repopulate the electronic system’s numbers, will have an effect on the result. However, I think that a recount, in the presence of the clerk and attended by the candidates involved, is a necessary and important first step in a full review of the electronic voting process,” Dorey said. n There were some new faces and some familiar faces elected to municipal councils around the area. In Greater Napanee, councillor Marg Isbester moved up to the deputy-mayor’s spot, while deputy-mayor Roger Cole took a step back to councillor. Max Kaiser and Carol Harvey were elected for the first time to council. In Deseronto, Mayor
Norm Clark was re-elected; , Dan Johnston was elected as deputy-mayor, and Steven Everhardus and Trish Dickinson were added as new councillors. In Stone Mills, Clarence Kennedy was elected to the reeve’s chair after serving a term as councillor; new councillors included Wenda Lalande, former councillor Martha Embury and former reeve Deb Thompson. n Once based out of their garage on County Rd. 11, Strathcona Solar Initiatives CO-CEO Karl Hollett and CAO Susanne Hollett announced a major global expansion for their company in October that would create 50 jobs in Napanee and an additional 130 in the Belleville region. Teaming with solar manufacturers around the world, Hollett announced his company had launched a renewable energy holding group known as Strathcona Energy Group. This would allow the Napaneebased company to ship to European and American markets. Local manufacturing would take place in the recently renovated 60,000 square-foot plant, located at 61-A Enviro Park Lane. “In the Napanee plant the Fath Volt BuildingIntegrated Photovoltaics module will be produced here for our Canadian mar-
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Sara Kennedy is a goalie with the Napanee Crunch Midget Denny’s team as well as the NDSS Golden Hawks. She played particularly well during the Crunch Cancer tournament, helping her team to a 2-1 victory over the Otonabee Wolverines. She was named player of the game. If you know someone who should be our Athlete of the Week, call the Beaver’s newsroom at 354-6641. Or send us a picture and a brief write-up to 72 Dundas St. E., Napanee, K7R 1H9.
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coMMERciAL sPAcE available for lease, 91 Dundas Street East, Unit B, Napanee, $900 plus property tax, plus HST, plus electric, includes water, 1,085 sq ft. 613-388-2953. nAPAnEE coMMERciAL storefront, prime location, Dundas Street, back entrance, handicap accessible, bathroom, showroom window, efficient utilities, $700 plus H.S.T., plus utilities, lease negotiable. Call or text 613-539-4847. RETAiL sPAcE available for lease, 20 Dundas Street East, Napanee, $1,000 plus property tax, plus HST, plus utilities per month, fully renovated including new furnace and hot water tank, approximately 1,200 sq ft. 613-388-2953.
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207 DUNDAS ST WEST NAPANEE Quiet adult security building Two bedrooms Eat-in kitchen Laundry room Fridge/stove included
613-354-9444 613-354-9188
DEsERonTo, TWo bedroom duplex, quiet street, large deck and backyard, new carpeting, excellent condition, no smoking, pets, references required, $875 plus utilities. Call or text 613-539-4847. if YoU are a quiet, non-smoker with no pets, this spacious one bedroom apartment is for you, downtown Napanee, above retail store, suitable for single person, parking off site, first and last rent required and references, $830 all inclusive, comes with stove and fridge. 613352-5162 or 613-876-1677. LARGE 1 bedroom apartment with loft bedroom, walking distance to downtown Napanee, $700 plus hydro, first/last and references. 613-530-7409. nAPAnEE, 1 bedroom apartment, downtown area, private entrance, large porch, spiral staircase to second floor bedroom, unique layout, suitable for one or two people, non-smoking, no pets, $800 inclusive, application required. Call or text 613-539-4847.
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nAPAnEE, sPAcioUs 1 bedroom apartment attached to single family home, quiet, private central location, senior preferred, no smoking, $750 monthly, all inclusive. 613572-0836 or roberts@kingston.net
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Spacious 2 bedroom apartment. Secure, well maintained building, non-smoking, no pets, and new laundry facility.
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REnoVATED MAin floor, 2 bedrooms on main level, open concept, updated kitchen, living room, no carpets, jacuzzi in updated bathroom, private fenced-in back yard, 1 parking space, suited for 12 people, $800 plus, under $100 for gas and electric heat, available January 1st. 613-331-1417. TWo BEDRooM apartment, downtown Napanee, laundry and superintendent on site, laminated floors, $750 monthly plus hydro, available immediately. Call Joe, 613-354-8185.
REAL ESTATE WANTED
WAnTED To buy, 2 bedroom bungalow in the Town of Napanee, in the New Year. Call Ken at 613379-2499.
MEMORIAMS
BRoWn - In loving memory of a dear husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, Ray, who passed away 15 years ago on December 21, 1999. So many things have happened Since you were called away, So many things to share with you Had you been left to stay, Every day in some small way, Memories of you occur every day, Though absent, you are ever near, Still missed, still loved and always dear. Lovingly remembered by Helen, Karen, Alan, Angela and their families.
HARPER, ANASTASIA (Stacey) In loving memory of a wonderful and much loved mother and grandmother, July 10, 1943-Jan. 1, 2009
Dearly loved and missed beyond words every day and in every way. We keep you in that special place. Love infinite, your children and grandchildren.
WANTED
MinT AnD used postage stamps, covers, post cards, coins and paper money. Call Bob, 613-967-2118.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED
coMPUTER REPAiRs Mac, PCs, Linux, Pro Gamers - Fast service Reasonable rates, Napanee. Call 613-985-7500.
HELP WANTED
WE ARE expanding, hiring full-time experienced auto body repairer/ painter, we offer good pay package including health benefit program. Drop off your resume to 28 Advance Avenue, Napanee or e-mail Rj@babcockcollisionservices.com
SPECIAL NOTICES
Do YoU feel that your personal life is or has been deeply affected by close contact with a problem drinker? If so Al-Anon can help you. For more information call 613384-2134, 613-354-9835. fEEL YoU have a drinking problem? Help is available. Call Alcoholics Anonymous. Napanee, 613-354-9974, 613-354-4890; Deseronto, 613-396-2543.
napaneekarate.org BRIAN LOWRY kicks@kos.net
COMING EVENTS
fiREARMs AnD Hunter Education course, Harrowsmith, Firearms Course, January 23rd, 24th; Hunter Education, January 30th, 31st. Wild Turkey licence examinations. Call Bill for course details, 613-335-2786.
MEMORIAMS
BEnJAMin - In loving memory of our dear son and brother, David, who passed away January 3, 2009. Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, still missed and very dear. Sadly missed by Mom, Dad, Ken and Blair.
ROLAND HICKS
In loving memory of our father, grandfather and greatgrandfather who passed away January 2, 2014. We thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new, We thought about you yesterday and the day before that too. We think of you in silence and often speak your name, All we have are memories and your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake with which we will never part, God has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts. Lovingly remembered by Roger, Clayton, Donna, Michael, Gregory, Shawn and their families.
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Treasured precious memories of a dearly loved “Special Brother and Uncle” who passed away December 19, 2011. You have left a void in our lives that can never be filled. You will always be loved, forever missed and never forgotten. Lovingly remembered by Shirley, Dale and Darren McFarlane.
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DEATHS
coTTRiLL, stephney (nee Jenkinson) (born May 9, 1921)
Peacefully, at Seasons of Clarington Retirement Home in Bowmanville on Monday, December 22, 2014. Stephney Joan Cottrill formerly of Napanee, at age 93. Wife of the late George Cottrill. Stephney was a British World War II veteran as a WREN working in the motor transport pool. When she came toCanada she was a caregiver (nanny) to many throughout her entire career. Loved and cherished like a second mother to Tom and Peri Ongarato, Linda and Fred Rabiner and family, Michael and Jenny Springer and family, Sheila and Irwin Lancit, Gerry and Shelley Richler, Allan Madras and Neil Madras. Dearly loved friend to Sylvia Madras, Ruth Richler, Rose Springer (deceased), Carmela Ongarato (deceased), Ann Armstrong and children Brian, Carol and Kevin as well as many others, including cousins in Great Britain. Friends were received at the HANNAH FUNERAL HOME in Napanee at 123 Dundas Street West (613-3543341) on Saturday, December 27th from 10am followed by a Service in the Chapel at 11am. Interment RiversideCemetery. Memorial donations made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the C.N.I.B. would be appreciated. Online condolences at www.hannahfuneralhome.com
PERRY, Jack Leonard
Passed away suddenly at the Village Green Nursing Home in Selby on Thursday, December 25, 2014, at age 82. Beloved husband of Stella (nee Martin) and the late Clara (nee Cuthill). Loving father of Shelley McCutcheon (Bill) of Roblin and Geoffrey (Christine) of Napanee and cherished grandfather of Jason and Kyle McCutcheon. Jack will be deeply missed by his four legged best friend Cody (who knew he could get treats at anytime by sitting at his feet and staring at him). Dear brother of Morley Perry of Alberta and predeceased by siblings, Edith, Byron, Vernon, Bud, Doug and Mike. Fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews. The family received friends at the Wartman Funeral Home "Napanee Chapel" on Tuesday from 2pm-4pm and 7pm-9pm. Funeral Service was held in the Chapel on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 11am. Interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery. Donations to the Village Green Residents Council would be appreciated by the family. (Donations by cheque please). Online condolences at www.wartmanfuneralhomes.com Two locations to serve you.
448 Camden Rd. at Newburgh Rd., Napanee, K7R 1G1 - 613-354-3722
980 Collins Bay Rd. at Taylor-Kidd Blvd., Kingston, K7M 5H2 - 613-634-3722
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DEATHS
JUDGE, Alberta May (nee Harten)
Passed away peacefully at the Friendly Manor Nursing Home, Deseronto on Tuesday, December 23, 2014, in her 100th year. Predeceased by her husband Roy Judge (1976) and her sisters, Mary-Elsie Smithies, Rose Wilson, Julia Ewart and Josephine Whalen. Survived by her sister Elgay Armstrong of Vancouver Island, her son Lorne (Linda) of Napanee and her daughter Mary Mayo (John, deceased) of Roblin. Cherished grandmother of Mark (Sue) and Jennifer (Ron) and missed by 5 greatgrandchildren. Fondly remembered by her nieces and nephews. The family received friends at the Wartman Funeral Home "Napanee Chapel" on Sunday, December 28th from 2pm-4pm and Monday, December 29th from 10am11am. Funeral Service followed in the Chapel at 11am. Interment Moscow Cemetery. Donations by cheque or credit card to the Lennox and Addington Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences at www.wartmanfuneralhomes.com Two locations to serve you.
448 Camden Rd. at Newburgh Rd., Napanee, K7R 1G1 - 613-354-3722
980 Collins Bay Rd. at Taylor-Kidd Blvd., Kingston, K7M 5H2 - 613-634-3722
PERRY, Madeline
Peacefully, at the Friendly Manor Nursing Home in Deseronto on Saturday, December 20, 2014. Madeline Carolina Perry of Deseronto, at age 79, beloved wife of the late Michael Perry. Dear mother of Mary Pelky of Picton and stepmother of Rob Perry (Wanda), Byron Perry (Fern), Tony Perry (Debbie) and David Perry (Mary Anne), all of Napanee, also remembered by 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Cremation has taken place. A private family inurnment will take place at Belleville Cemetery. In the care of Hannah Funeral Home in Napanee. Memorial donations made to the CNIB would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences at www.hannahfuneralhome.com
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RENDELL, Kathleen Margaret (nee Holland)
2014! Here’s your opportunity to show off those little ones (just a little). We will be publishing our Annual Showcase of Babies on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Just bring in, or email your baby’s colour picture, along with the information below on or before January 15, 2015! DON’T MISS OUT!
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Kathy passed away peacefully at the Lennox and Addington County Hospital on Saturday, December 27, 2014, at age 51. Beloved wife of Jim Rendell and loving mother of Nicole Matthieu (Daniel), Jordan Rendell (Adam) and Kyle Rendell. Dear daughter of David and Rosemary Holland and sister of Steven (Cathy), Paul (Janice) and Bill (Tracy). Daughter-in-law of Rosemary and the late Paul Rendell and sister-in-law of Cathy McKinley (John). Fondly remembered by her many nieces and nephews, extended family and friends. The family will receive friends at the Wartman Funeral Home "Napanee Chapel" on Thursday from 2pm-4pm and 7pm-9pm. Funeral Service in the Chapel on Friday, January 2, 2015 at 11am. Cremation to follow. Donations to the Lennox and Addington Hospital Palliative Care Unit would be appreciated by the family. (Donations by cheque please). Online condolences at www.wartmanfuneralhomes.com Two locations to serve you.
448 Camden Rd. at Newburgh Rd., Napanee, K7R 1G1 - 613-354-3722
980 Collins Bay Rd. at Taylor-Kidd Blvd., Kingston, K7M 5H2 - 613-634-3722
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DEATH
WALLS, Jon
Passed away quietly in his 30th year on December 22, 2014 at the Lennox and Addington Hospital with his family and friends by his side. Jon is survived by his mom Bonnie and his grandma Phyllis. Family and friends are invited to the McGlade Funeral Home, 78 Centre Street, Deseronto (613396-2310) on Friday, January 2, 2015 from 2pm-4pm to share memories and remember Jon. For those who wish, memorial donations may be made to the Diabetes Association in memory of Jon. Online condolences may be made at www.mcgladefuneralhome.com
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ACCOUNTING & TAX SERVICES
BOTTOM LINE ACCOUNTING AND TAX SERVICES Heather Shetler, BComm, (Queens) 10 - 2 Dairy Avenue Tel: 613.308.9404 PO Box 161 Fax: 613.308.9401 Napanee, ON K7R 3M3 heatherbla@cogeco.net PLUMBING
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TREE SERVICE
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H O R O S C O P E S
ARIES (Mar 21/Apr 20) It may seem that you have your head in the clouds, Aries. But you know that you have everything under control. Disregard the critics and keep plugging away. TAURUS (Apr 21/May 21) Taurus, look inside yourself for the solution to a problem that has puzzled you. You understand the situation better than anyone else, so bear down and find the solution. GEMINI (May 22/Jun 21) There is no easy way out of the work you have to get done, Gemini. Just hunker down and accept that these tasks have to be completed before you can move on. CANCER (Jun 22/Jul 22) You may feel some pressure from higher-ups, Cancer. But don't allow that pressure to distract you from the tasks at hand. You will get things done on time. LEO (Jul 23/Aug 23) Leo, after weeks of running around, it is finally time to kick your feet up and relax. The concept may seem strange to you, but soon enough you will get the hang of it. VIRGO (Aug 24/Sept 22) Virgo, you have been stuck on a problem but the solution is right around the corner. Perhaps you should change your perspective and go about it in a new way.
LIBRA (Sept 23/Oct 23) Focus on the positives of a new venture even if you're nervous about the outcome, Libra. If you let negative thoughts slide in you can quickly be overwhelmed. SCORPIO (Oct 24/Nov 22) New possibilities seem to arise out of nowhere, Scorpio. Embrace the good fortune coming your way and make the most of these wonderful and exciting opportunities. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23/Dec 21) It will take some energy to referee a situation at home, Sagittarius. Strong personalities can clash at times, but you have a way of working through the obstacles. CAPRICORN (Dec 22/Jan 20) Don't try to hide your emotions this week, Capricorn. If others know just how you are feeling they will be more likely to offer a helping hand and some valuable advice. AQUARIUS (Jan 21/Feb 18) You have an infectious amount of energy this week, Aquarius. That will serve you well because many things are piling up on your to-do list. You're ready to meet tasks head-on. PISCES (Feb 19/Mar 20) Do you feel like you're being pulled in too many directions, Pisces? Let up on accepting any new responsibilities for now.
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Year In Review: November/December
Out with the old council, in with the new n As November began, the dust was still settling on the Oct. 27 municipal election. At the behest of Greater Napanee mayoral runner up Robert Dorey, who lost the election by three votes to incumbent Gord Schermerhorn, town council agreed to hold a recount of the results. The result of the recount, however, was the same: 2907 votes for Schermerhorn, and 2904 votes for Robert Dorey. Dorey attended the recount, while Schermerhorn did not. Dorey, while expressing his appreciation to staff for holding the recount, said that his concerns regarding the electronic voting process remained — and his concerns were not allayed by the recount. “I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this information, but it’s becoming clear to me that this online process… does not fill the requirements of an election under the Municipal Elections Act,” he said shortly after the recount. “Now that I’ve had the opportunity to go through the recount process, it is also unable to fulfill a recount. In effect, nothing was counted today. The clerk opened a PDF document and printed it,” Dorey said, comparing the electronic system to the paper ballot system, where ballots would be physically
recounted and able to be viewed. Schermerhorn, meanwhile, said he was satisfied with the recount, and added that the entire process would be reviewed in the spring of 2015. “The process has always been that we’ve always reviewed the election before the next election to try to make it better, to try to make it easier, to do whatever we have to do to give people a better chance to vote. This election will be reviewed too, the same as always,” he said. n Greater Napanee’s last council meeting of the term was held in late November, giving outgoing council members a chance to say goodbye. Shane Grant and Bill Pierson bid farewell and ended their terms by moving to confirm the proceedings and adjournment of their last council meeting. During the ‘statement by members’ portion of the regular council meeting, both Ward 4 councillor Bill Pierson and Ward 2 councillor Shane Grant said their goodbyes and thank-yous to council and staff, followed by a send-off from Mayor Schermerhorn on behalf of council.
Lennox Community Futures Development Corporation. The grant, announced in November, would be put towards a skills development program. The Eastern Ontario Development Program funding would support the hiring of skilled trades workers as well as retrain current workers at the Goodyear Plant, allowing them to update their skill set. The goal was to help keep Goodyear’s operations in Napanee competitive while creating new jobs in the future. n Toronto Maple Leaf legend Wendel Clark was in town in November to deliver an early Christmas gift to hockey fans, announcing that Napanee would host an IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship exhibition game between Finland and the Czech Republic on Dec. 19. Speaking from Napanee’s RBC, Clark revealed the Strathcona Paper Centre would serve as both team’s training facility for the week before the tournament, as well as the site for the pre-competition game. Napanee would be one of eight centres across Ontario and Quebec that had been selected to host an RBC Road to the Juniors pre-competition camps in advance of the tournament,
which runs Dec. 26-Jan. 5. Tournament games would be split between Toronto’s Air Canada Centre and Montreal’s Bell Centre. The Finns and the Czechs didn’t disappoint when they held their exhibition tilt in front of a capacity crowd at the SPC. After playing to a 1-1 draw in regulation and overtime, the Finns took the win in a shootout. Representatives from both the Czech and Finnish teams said they enjoyed their time in Napanee. n When it comes to fundraising, this community has been generous, particularly as far as it relates to the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital. That fundraising power, however, was going to be focused on a new goal. The L&A County General Hospital, along with the L&A County General Hospital Foundation, announced in late November that it would be throwing its support behind a push to bring a new magnetic resonance imaging unit to the region. The new unit will be situated at Kingston General Hospital. While that new MRI unit wouldn’ t be installed at the Napanee hospital, there was no doubt that patients in L&A would benefit from it. “Well over 25
per cent of the total number of MRIs that will be done at Kingston come from L&A County,” said LACGH Chief Executive Officer Wayne Coveyduck. “It’s a significant number. We felt that the project is regional in scope… we felt that we had not an obligation but an opportunity to support them in this initiative.” n Greater Napanee’s new council was sworn in on Dec. 2. Prior to the inaugural meeting, Chief Administrative Officer Ray Callery congratulated councils of the past for all the hard work put in to better the municipality. “The accomplishments since amalgamation, in 1997, have been enormous. Those accomplishments have come from a community that’s willing to work with council, and from a council that’s willing to work with staff. The relationship between this staff and council really is the envy of other municipalities,” said Callery. Mayor Schermerhorn said he looked forward to working with council, staff and the community to move the municipality forward. “I enjoy working with council. We must work as a team to see the community grow. I enjoy working with staff, we do have a great staff that council can look
to,” said Schermerhorn. “We have a number of projects for the next four years and much longer than that, and a tough budget year coming up.” A few weeks later, Scherrmerhorn would also be re-elected by his fellow county councillors to serve a sixth term as warden of Lennox and Addington County. n As December began, the Canadian Football League announced that Napanee’s Leroy Blugh — an NDSS graduate who went on to have a great career as a defensive end with the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts — would be part of the 2015 class of inductees into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. “It’s a tremendous honour to be selected and inducted,” Blugh told reporters during a conference call. He thanked his family, as well as those he played with and against during his career, which spanned from 1989 to 2003. “I was very fortunate to be able to play with some great football players,” he said. “With a group such as that, it just makes your game that much better… I accept the award on behalf of those guys, because it wouldn’t be possible without the teammates that I had.”
COMMUNITY FARM CALENDAR n Napanee’s Goodyear plant said it would make good use of a $50,000 grant from the Prince Edward-
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Jan. 8 - Prince Edward Federation of Agriculture Monthly Director Meeting, 7:3010pm, OPP Office Boardroom, County Rd. 1, (Schoharie Road), Picton. All Welcome! Contact Patti Stacey at 613-476-3842 or email princeedwardfarmers@gmail.com
Jan. 15 &22 - Environmental Farm Plan (EFP), Roblin, 10am – 3pm Producers are invited to attend free EFP (Fourth Edition) Workshops to learn more about: Best management practices. Develop an action plan for their farm. Learn about cost-share funding opportunities. For more information and to register visit www.ontariosoilcrop.org Feb 12 - Prince Edward Federation of Agriculture Monthly Director Meeting, 7:3010pm, OPP Office Boardroom, County Rd. 1, (Schoharie Road), Picton. All Welcome! Contact Patti Stacey at 613-476-3842 or email princeedwardfarmers@gmail.com
Changes to Farm Licence Plate Requirements
Mar. 4 & 11 - Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) - Belleville, 10am – 3pm. Producers are invited to attend free EFP (Fourth Edition) Workshops to learn more about: Best management practices. Develop an action plan for their farm. Learn about cost-share funding opportunities. For more information and to register visit www.ontariosoilcrop.org Mar. 18 & 25 - Growing Your Farm Profits – Workshop, Napanee, 10am – 3pm. Start the business planning process by attending this Free two-day interactive workshop. You will: Assess business management practices. Determine priorities and key goals. Learn about cost-share funding opportunities.For more information and to register visit www.ontariosoilcrop.org
Starting January 1, 2015, vehicle owners wishing to purchase or attach farm plates to a new commercial vehicle over 3000 kg will need to provide documentation to demonstrate that they have a farm business. Only those clients purchasing or attaching new farm plates to a vehicle will be required to show proof of farm business as of January 1, 2015. The new requirements will not affect any current farm plate owners who are renewing their farm plates. What documentation do I have to show to prove I have a farm business? Your Farm Business Registration (FBR) number is proof that you run a farm business. Any one of the following documents will prove that you have an FBR: • A farm organization membership card; • A Gross Farm Income Exemption Certificate; • A letter from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal indicating religious exemption; • A letter from Agricorp with your FBR number; or • A letter from the Indian Agriculture Program of Ontario confirming that the producer has met the FBR eligibility requirements. Why is the Ministry of Transportation making these changes? Ontario's Auditor General (OAG), in its 2012 annual report on the Drive Clean Program and the 2013 annual report on ServiceOntario, noted an increasing number of vehicles with farm plates and was concerned that no verification is required to obtain farm plates. In both audit reports, the OAG recommended the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) review the requirements for obtaining a farm plate, to ensure that no abuse of the system was taking place. As a result, MTO is implementing new requirements for issuing or attaching farm plates to a commercial vehicle. This will ensure that only qualified farmers obtain farm plates and receive the benefits associated with having a farm plate. For more information: About the Farm Business Registration program, please contact Agricorp. Their Contact Centre is open Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be reached by calling 1-888-247-4999 or TTY: 1-877-275-1380. Their email address is: contact@agricorp.com. About farm licence plates, visit a Service Ontario location near you or contact them at https://www.ontario.ca/serviceontario or by phone at 1-800-387-3445.
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