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February 20, 2013
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he Municipal Heritage Committee and the North Grenville Historical Society joined together to recognise five recipients of the 2013 Heritage Awards at a ceremony which took place at the Branch Restaurant on Monday night. A very full house applauded the work and achievements of both the Holy Cross Roman Catholic and the St. Paul’s Presbyterian Churches over the past year. Both congregations published books giving the history
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of their churches in Kemptville over the past century and a half. Mayor David Gordon presented the St. Paul’s group with their award, and minister Samer Kandalaft accepted the award with a prayer for true community in North Grenville. Councillor Tim Sutton presented the award to Holy Cross, and the recipients gave a very eloquent talk on the nature of community. Owen Fitz’Gerald was honoured for his work on bringing Veteran’s Way into being
in memory of those from North Grenville who left and did not return. In presenting this award, Mayor Gordon praised Owen for his long campaign to have Veteran’s Way established in NG. Phil Gerrard, who has worked for the Municipality and its predecessor for twenty-eight years, was honoured for his work on recording and preserving heritage buildings in North Grenville. His award was presented by Councillor Barb Tobin on behalf
of Chair Rowena Cooper, who couldn’t attend because of illness. Barb was very moving in her appreciation of Phil and his work. A different kind of award was presented to Harold Tompkins by Tim Sutton, a neighbour for many years. As part of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, Harold was given an award to mark the fact that his family arrived here from Ireland as part of the post-War settlement program, and has been on
the same land in Oxford ever since. NGHS Vice-President welcomes everyone to the event and introduced the MC for the night, Dr. David Shanahan, who introduced the awards and the recipients. The awards were designed, as always, by Marguerite Boyer, and beautifully framed by Ted Hitsman at Canal Galleries in Merrickville, and presented a wonderful display as the audience arrived for the event.
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At a special part of the Council meeting held in the Municipal Centre theatre on February 11, two residents of North Grenville were presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Sharon Ruth campaigned for eight years to have parents of seriously ill children granted paid leave to care for, and be with their children. After her own daughter was diagnosed with a life-threatening cancer, Sharon fought against real opposition and at great personal cost to herself and her family, to have the federal Government recognise their rights to paid leave. Her success has helped, and will continue to help, many families throughout Canada for years to come. Harry Pratt was chosen by Steve Clark and Gord Brown to nominate candidates for the Jubilee medal in North Grenville. He has been a fixture in our community for decades, and has given a tremendous amount in time and energy to the people of North Grenville. Both recipients were honoured by the award, and join a list of local residents who have been similarly honoured over the past year.
Kemptville Apprentice Deals With A Sad Loss - But Goes Ahead The owner of In the Moment Party & Event Planning, Julia O’Grady, suffered a tragic loss last week when her father, Kirk Fachnie died unexpectedly at the age of 60 after hitting his head on the ice during a pick up hockey game with friends. As Julia’s family prepares for the Celebration of Life on Tuesday, February 19, the Apprentice teams are committed to moving forward to ensure that the three charities that are this year’s recipients of the fundraiser are not affected. Julia spoke to her staff and explained that this cannot stop the progress of these events and she is hoping that the community will come together and help them all ensure that their events are a success. She would like to thank all of her amazing friends and her ITM team that have stepped up at February 20, 2013
this difficult time to help in any way they can. An exciting weekend in Kemptville coming up. All three teams will be hosting their events this weekend in Kemptville. On Saturday the Heels for Wheels event will find ladies making their way through downtown shopping, dining and spending quality time with their moms, sisters and friends while they raise money to help cancer patients get to their treatments. If you have high heels you are no longer wearing and would like to donate them to the high heel sale please contact Shelley at To Be Continued. On Sunday the Beth Donovan Hospice team will be hosting a British High Tea at the North Grenville Municipal Center. The team is looking for the donation of baked goods for the dessert auction as well as anyone who would like to contribute sandwiches and
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other treats for everyone to enjoy. Tickets are $15 each and are available at the Beth Donovan Hospice Office or by calling Richinda at 613-269-2022. Be sure to wear your favorite hat and little white gloves. Women of all ages are welcome, including little ladies. Spend some time with your daughters, granddaughters and nieces and make wonderful old fashion memories. And the last event for this year…Speed Dating in support of Ryan’s Well. Register today for “Find Love at the Well”. The cost is only $25 and includes your appies while you meet and greet. The event will be held at four different locations. Each location is specific to an age group. Come out and meet new people and possibly even find love. The age groups are 18-25, 2540, 40-55 and 55 and up. Register by calling Spa Sans Souci at 613-2693222, ask for Roz.
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Editorial Page Tempus Fugit Faster Folks David Shanahan Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. And maybe it never was. As I remember it, nostalgia meant looking back sentimentally on what seemed to have been simpler, less complicated days. Days of yore, when life was slower and people all knew their neighbours, helped each other out, and generally kept their language and behaviour on a high and respectable level. Growing up in Ireland, I had a very strange sense of nostalgia, as did most people of my generation. We didn’t long for our past, because our past wasn’t very nice. No, instead, I found myself longing after an English past - true! I appropriated another nation’s past. I grew up reading Enid Blyton and Just William books, moving on to Biggles and P. G. Wodehouse as a young teenager. (Does anyone around here know any of those books and authors?) When I dreamed of a happy and carefree past, I imagined English country villages and green woods and fields. When I first read Lark Rise to Candleford in graduate school, it actually brought a jolt of nostalgia once again. And that is just strange, because that book (forget the TV show, it was nothing like the book) was all about a young girl growing up in an English country village in Oxfordshire at the end of the nineteenth century! What had that got to do with a working class boy from Dublin? Absolutely nothing at all. But that’s nostalgia for you: it creates a completely artificial world. And there’s nothing really wrong with that, unless you spend your life trying to recapture it, or trying to recreate it. Now, it may be simply the fact that I am getting on in years, just about past my first blush of youth, as it were, but I am starting to find that nostalgia has changed its basic nature for me. Instead of remem-
brance of things past involving World War flying aces, mildly psychotic English schoolboys, or upper class twits like Bertie Wooster, I now find that I fondly remember things that were part of a much more recent past. For instance, do you remember Bob’s Big Scoop, the Bon Bakery, the Red and White, or no traffic on 43? I am here long enough that I actually do remember those things, but what shocks me is how recently they disappeared. At the end of 2007, just over five years ago, we celebrated Kemptville’s 150th anniversary. As part of that event, a Time Capsule was organised and the NG Historical Society provided a photographic record of sections of Kemptville: all of Clothier street, east and west, and 43 from the 416 to Somerville road, among others. The idea was that, when the capsule is opened in fifty years, people then will be amazed at the changes since 2007. I think that, if we were to open that capsule today, we would be just as amazed. Clothier street west has changed so much, and the changes aren’t over yet. 43 has completely changed in those five years. And we can assume that the County will get around to transforming it into a four-lane some time in the next forty-five years? Can you imagine how that will alter the look of the town? How many people around here were familiar with roundabouts (traffic circles, as they are sometimes less imaginatively known) before 2007? Time changes things: that is History. But time is moving faster and faster, it seems, these days. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. During the past month, Jim Dolan has been evoking strong feelings of nostalgia with his series on how his Kemptville has changed. His walking tour of an older Kemptville has brought in many com-
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ments from his contemporaries here, and across the country. The phrase that is repeated, almost word for word, has been: “I was walking right beside him”. That’s good writing, and a great example of nostalgia. In this issue we also have an article on Shirley Stewart, someone who has deep ties in the community, and a link to the founders of Kemptville and Oxford Mills, the Clothier family. Having these people’s stories and memories set down for us, and for future generations, becomes more than just a nostalgia trip, it becomes an essential responsibility. That is the job of the NG Historical Society, and the Municipal Heritage Committee. Rowena Cooper, Chair of that Committee, writes in this issue of Municipality Matters about the importance of acknowledging and protecting our past in a rapidly-changing world. One of the reasons I think it vital to keep the memories alive, to record the stories of Jim Dolan, Shirley Stewart, and so many others around North Grenville, is that it is not only the surface look of the community that is changing, it is also the character of the place. I have been told a number of times by older residents that they miss walking down a street and knowing everyone they meet. It doesn’t happen now. (In fact, how many people actually walk down the street anymore? More likely, they’re driving and unlikely to talk to anyone). That is going to get more and more common as the population almost doubles in the next ten years. When the Neil Young video came out a very short time ago, it was remarkable how quickly word got around that there were scenes of Kemptville included at the end of the film. What was even more interesting was how many people responded so strongly to it, people who had probably never watched a Neil Young video in their lives watched this one. Discussion started about who the young boy on the bike might have been. (In fact, there were a number of young boys with bikes in that scene). What that says to me is
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that people respond to the past: nostalgia exists and it reflects the importance we place on our past. Let me put in a plug here for the Historical Society: our present will be our children’s past. What we have and do and produce today will be the stuff of history sooner than we like to think. If you have photographs, film, letters, documents, or whatever, that tell your family’s story, think about passing them on to the NG Archives. If you want to keep them, they will scan copies for the Archives and return your originals. Because, one day, someone will want to know who those people in the old photographs are. Things are changing. Let’s make sure we are not forgotten.
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here has been quite a response to the articles published in the NG Times on the subject of the Farmers Market in Kemptville. Woody Armour has generated a surprising number of letters and comments, practically all supporting his position that we need an enlarged market, relocated and with new hours of operation. One or two people have remarked that they were surprised the paper printed the articles in the first place, as they were “just Woody Armour’s opinion”. It is the policy of this newspaper to publish all shades of opinion, whether we are in agreement with it or not, in order to allow the community to have a forum for discussion. The response to Woody’s articles justified that policy, in our opinion, as it shows the need for such a forum if new ideas are to be given an airing. So many have submitted comments and letters, that it may take some alternative venue to take this idea fur-
The North Grenville Municipal Heritage Committee to built heritage and archaeological sites in North Grenville, and, as a purely advisory committee, has absolutely no power as all decisions rest squarely on Council’s shoulders. Most municipalities across Ontario now have Municipal Heritage Committee’s in place, and education for committee members is available through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport. A few years ago the Ministry developed the Heritage Tool Kit, which is readily available online to everyone. The Ontario Heritage Act was passed into law in 1975, shortly thereafter the first Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee’s (as the committees were then known) were appointed. Municipalities were given the power to designate individual buildings under Part IV of the Act, and also to designate Heritage Conservation Districts under Part V of the Act. The first two Heritage Conservation Districts in the Province of Ontario, were designated in 1980, Meadowvale Village in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and Barriefield in Kingston. There are now over a hundred Heritage Conservation Districts in the Province. The Ontario Heritage Act was revised in 2005, following many years of consultation with Provincial Heritage
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uite a few of North Grenville’s residents think that the North Grenville Historical Society and the Municipal Heritage Committee are one and the same. This is not so. The North Grenville Historical Society is an operating historical society that hosts monthly meetings with speakers and keeps a small archive. It is run entirely by volunteers, has a volunteer board and charges a (very reasonable) membership fee. The Municipal Heritage Committee is a subcommittee of Council. The members of the Committee have to apply to the Clerk of North Grenville for membership on the Board, and committee members are appointed every four years following each municipal election. There is also staff support from the knowledgeable folks who work at North Grenville. The committee is in place to advise Council on matters relating
organizations and private citizens. The revision closed a loop-hole that had deeply concerned heritage proponents across the Province. In the original act, an owner of a designated heritage property could apply for a demolition permit, and, following a 180-day period to try to resolve the situation, if no solution could be found, the owner of the property was free to remove the building. This is no longer the case. North Grenville has a good mix of privatelyowned and Municipallyowned designated properties and, over the next few months I will be drawing the readers attention to some of these properties, and the reasons why they were chosen to receive designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. Thus far, there is no Heritage Conservation District in the municipality. While there are a good number of designated buildings in North Grenville, there are many that are worthy of designation for either architectural or historical reasons. If you would like to learn more about the designation process and how a property is chosen for designation, please contact Phil Mosher at the Municipality of North Grenville (pmosher@northgrenville.on.ca).
tion of the campaign I’m very pleased to share the news with you that, at the United Way Leeds & Grenville Annual Volunteer Appreciation Event, the Municipality of North Grenville won the award for Outstanding
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As the days get a little longer and the temperatures start to rise, we know that spring is on its way! Soon enough it will be April, and our 4th annual Home and Lifestyle Show here at the Kemptville Campus. If you have a product or service to offer our community, and would like to speak with 1000 potential clients (bet you can't do that in your storefront in a matter of 9 hours!) please contact us to reserve your booth! Show dates are Friday April 19th, 6pm to 9pm and Saturday, April 20th,
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with the University of Guelph and Farmers’ Markets Ontario in programs to improve food quality and programs for farmers markets in Ontario. This link can become important in the local farmers market scene, given the presence of the University of Guelph in our community. Another important contact interested in the situation would be the Canadian Organic Growers [COG], with whom Woody has been in touch. There is, in short, real potential for development and growth in the Kemptville Farmers Market, if the attitude is right and the minds are open. The Times has no responsibility for this project: we were simply the link between students and landowners, so any further progress is outside our field. (Bad pun?) What has become clear throughout this issue, is that Woody’s ideas are not just his own, the opinions he expressed are clearly shared by many others in the community. Perhaps it is, indeed, time to take this a step further.
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ther. A public meeting of some kind seems the next logical step. Such a meeting would allow the various parties to share ideas, debate and disagree if necessary, in a more immediate and efficient manner. Surely no-one can be against at least talking about things? Some students from the University also asked for landowners to provide them with one or two acres of land, so they could start growing crops for sale in the revised Market. To date, there have been seven offers in response: again, quite a surprising number. In fact, the response was so great that the entire project as conceived by the students is being rethought, with the possibility of enlarging it by including more students. Nor is Woody the only one looking into alternatives. The Woodlot Association are bringing in a speaker from Green Barnursery from West Montreal to demonstrate growing unusual plants/trees in this area. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs [OMAFRA] have joined
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As you may know, the Municipality of North Grenville staff held a very successful 2012 United Way Campaign. Our goal was to raise $2,500, and we exceeded our expected goal by raising $3,863.39 over the dura-
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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor : In response to ZONING CHANGE I believe it is merited to note that in accordance with the Planning Act anyone can apply for a zoning bylaw amendment and, provided the application is complete, the municipality cannot deny processing the subject application and holding a public meeting, amongst other regulatory obligations. To not do so can be appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) and to not act expeditiously can also be appealed to the OMB. The process is all very much prescribed and found in legislation. Hope that helps. Carl Cannon, North Grenville Dear Editor, This letter to the editor is in response to Mr Woody Armour article which was published in the North Grenville Times and which appeared on page 5 of the February 13th edition. I believe that Mr. Armour explained it very well, and I would like Mr. Armour to run for the next Council as we need real leadership. I remember that the downtown used to be very active, and now it looks more like a ghost town, so I wonder if we need another revitilization. And, to the editor, keep the pressure on: we need people like you. Milfred Harper, long resident of Kemptville. Born here.
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Dear Editor, I am writing you this morning as I had read Woody Armour’s article on the potential for a market in the B&H parking lot and had an opinion to share :) I am a vendor at the current Kemptville farmer’s market located up at the old fire hall. I had the privilege of selling my wares there last season and plan to do it again this year. When I read your article, I had some reservations because nowhere does it mention people that create hand-made items for sale. It only mentioned vendors of produce and meats. So my question to you is: IF they create a permanent farmers market, where does that leave people like me? I think the idea is fantastic, because it will extend the season while also providing shelter from the cold November winds, but my concern is being “left out” because I do not sell produce. I hand craft soaps, lotions, body oils, raw stone jewelry and sell loose stone. I know other vendors that also sell things that don’t fall into the category of “produce”, and, without being pretentious, I think I can speak for them when I express my concerns. There is also the cost involved. Will this new market raise its prices to have a stand, or will they remain the same? I can only assume that the cost will go up, which in turn forces vendors to raise their prices to make up for it. Like I had mentioned before, I am seeing great potential here for an extended season and the advantages of having a permanent structure available to the vendors, but there are some fears/ concerns that would need to be soothed to ensure that vendors are willing to participate, step out on a limb and take a chance. Very kindest regards, Candice Harsh Purely Elemental
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Dear Editor, Congratulations to all of you for the wonderful job in producing the North Grenville Times. We love reading your paper and look forward to getting it on a weekly basis. Each article brings with it a new story and a new topic. My favorites are the articles written about our wonderful people who live in our area, e.g. Audrey McClenaghan, a legend in her time. Comments and concerns of our council members, letters to the editor in connection with the farmer’s market which is well overdue, concerns about the possibility of a new retirement home. My comment about that is there is enough land and other accessing areas which would eliminate an entrance to a thoroughfare! For many years now we have been hearing the complaints of our seniors about the lack of space. I could go on, but you get my drift. How great to get news of our own area and the many activities which are taking place which helps us to appreciate the great people that live here. Keep up the great work. Ellen Miller
MUNICIPAL ACT, 2001 THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH GRENVILLE TAKE NOTICE that tenders are invited for the purchase of the land(s) described below and will be received until 3:00 p.m. local time, Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Box 130, 285 County Road 44, Kemptville, Ontario K0G 1J0 The tenders will then be opened in public on the same day at 3:30 p.m. Description of Lands:
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Roll No. 07.19.716.0 15.09303 -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $66,671.54 Part of Lot 15, Concession 3, being Part 3 on 15R-465, Geographic Township of Oxford municipally known as 330 County Road 25, Oxford Mills PIN 68109-006268112-0153 (LT) Tenders must be submitted in the prescribed form and must be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a money order or of a bank draft or cheque certified by a ban k or trust corporation payable to the municipality and representing at least 20 per cent of the tender amount. Except as follows, the municipality makes no representation regarding the title to or any other matters relating to the land to be sold. Responsibility for ascertaining these matters rests with the potential purchasers. This sale is governed by the Municipal Act, 2001 and the Municipal Tax Sales Rules made under that Act. The successful purchaser will be required to pay the amount tendered plus accumulated taxes and the relevant land transfer tax. The municipality has no obligation to provide vacant possession to the successful purchaser. Tender to be submitted on prescribed form in an envelope clearly marked “Tender - Sale of Land for Tax Arrears”. For further information regarding this sale and a copy of the prescribed form of tender contact: Judy Carroll, Deputy Treasurer The Corporation of the Municipality of North Grenville 285 County Road 44, P.O. Box 130 Kemptville, Ontario K0G 1J0 613-258-9569 x 105
Town, the locally owned and operated business in the Creekside Center and the other plazas along the 43 corridor, that I encourage you all to support whenever you can. Don’t get me wrong, I am tickled that we now have a modern shopping center and all the convenience that comes with that. Ultimately, the retail and service selection that the Colonnade development offers will keep people shopping locally. It’s inevitable that many of those locally spent dollars will find their way into the cash registers of our small business community and that is what will sustain our small town quality of life. In the next several years, you will see our population continue to grow and with that growth will come a responsibility to all the members of this municipality. A commitment to, “Community Membership” should be our common mentality. The notion that, “This is My Town and I’m Proud of it”! This is not just a nice sentiment - this is why people move here – the sense of belonging that comes from knowing your neighbours - sending your kids to good schools - playing hockey and soc-
Dear Editor Congratulations to David, Maggie and the whole team at the N. G. Times for their initial success as they continue to weave their pioneering drive and entrepreneurial spirit into the evolution of this publication. It is so important for our community to have a locally owned and operated newspaper to call its own and I encourage your continued support. As North Grenville continues to grow, it will be our sense of community that will define us and keep us from becoming just another Barrhaven (on a smaller scale). I don’t believe any of us want that, not even the people who are moving here from the bigger centres. It is support for our small businesses that will really differentiate us from the pack and keep our small town flavour. It’s businesses like this paper, the retailers and restaurants of the Old
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cer – hosting a backyard fire, boating, fishing or snowmobiling on the river and all the good things that are inherent with that small town feel. That being said, we all have an obligation to support our community. It’s up to all of us to do our part to preserve the gem we call home. That means, saying hello to the person you walk by on the street, picking up a discarded pop can from the sidewalk, participating in a community program and above all, shop locally! I’m proud to be a member of this community and am very thankful we now have a local paper to call our own. Rob Thompson North Grenville
Dear Editor We live downtown Kemptville on Thomas St. We recently received a notice in our front door that LA Group has an application into the town for approval to build a 11 story condominium in the lot behind the old red & white beside the old high school.
We knew they were looking to develop this land but had no idea it would be 11 stories. That is twice the size of the tallest tree that is still left standing on those lands. The footprint is huge! The shade it would cast is immense! I am all for development in the town but a building of this scale seems out of character with an old downtown. 4 or 5 stories would seem to fit the existing architecture better. We also have little faith in our council to make the right choice for the town. I am writing to you because I know you are passionate about the heritage of this town and you are an excellent writer and have challenged the council on many issues. I am hoping you will be able to make it to both or at least one of the development meetings to hear what it's impact will be on our downtown. The first one is February 20th at 7 pm at the Kemptville Youth Centre. The second is on March 4 th at the Municipal Centre at 6:30pm. Kelly Heath & Kevin Toole
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PRIBBLES & NIBBLES Pribbles & Nibbles is a word-play on a term coined by Shakespeare. His use of “pribble’s and prabble’s” meant “vain chatter”, and he used it in a longer speech in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” listing the vices of one of his characters : “And given to fornications, and to taverns, and sack, and wine, and metheglins, and to drinkings, swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles.” By Marc Meyer
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n week 22 of the great countdown to Oxford Mills evening of outdoor theater, we visited Lewis Carrol's walrus, and used him as an example of the diversity of animals hunted for table by the British royals and nobility. We spoke of kings and other things, of venison and pasties. In week 21 we considered Colchester's trade in sea-holly roots and oysters. It is a combination the walrus would have approved of, and the king that springs to mind is Richard the Lionheart (on whose authority the beds were opened for use in 1189 AD.). It being the week in which Valentines falls, we then shifted from the Walrus to the Queen of Hearts (Carrol's thinly disguised parody of Margaret, queen consort of Henry VI). We considered roses, rose-water, and mints imbued with sweet fragrance. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the red roses of the Red Queen's garden are an echo of the red rose of Lancaster, under whose banner was fought the War of the Roses. The Red Queen's rival, the Duchess, has an infant and a house-cat. The child is a place-holder for Richard III, he whose bones were recently unearthed at a church in Leicester (24 km east of the battlefield where he was slain). The feline is that grinning fiend, the Cheshire cat. Now, as the calendar clicks over to 20 weeks, we leave walruses, royalty, and roses behind. We will grab a pasty for the road, and shall see where the white rabbit takes us. TINNERS RABBITS As Morpheus (whose very name suggests a connection to dreams) tells Neo in The Matrix: "I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice." He offers Neo a choice, in the guise of two gelatin capsules, as to whether or not to wake from his personal dream: "You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep February 20, 2013
the rabbit-hole goes”. Perhaps Shakespeare's version of The Matrix would have Neo choosing between a blue kissingcomfit and a red one. Neo is being invited to wake to the truth, but also to an other-world, time spent in which reveals that it is actually the world left behind that is the unreal twin. Shakespeare's version would have Neo entering a mushroom ring or faery mound, eating a hot venison pasty offered him by an elf, and amidst the other-world revelry, good food and drink, dancing and partying, realizing the world outside, more real or not, no longer holds any attraction. Neo makes a choice early on in The Matrix to "follow the white rabbit", and it brings him out of the safe seclusion of his apartment and into less bounded spaces. Ultimately, it leads him to the rabbit-hole that takes him to freedom. Shakespeare's protagonists are as likely to stew up a rabbit as follow one. In The Merry Wives of Windsor we hear of a group of good friends who like to share a hare on occasion: " Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you; and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol." Some will recognize this crew of cony-catching cronies (or perhaps bunny-fetching buddies) as being characters that we see more of in Henry V. Merry Wives is a bridge of sorts to Henry V, following as it does after Henry IV, Part 1 (in which we first meet Bardolph) and Henry VI, Part 2 (in which we first meet Pistol). Bunnies, of course, burrow. Any number of clever ways have been devised to circumvent this underground advantage, not least sending ferrets in after them, or picking them off from the air with hawks, or taking them at speed with greyhounds. Bunnies burrow, and that opens up other options as well. Since rabbits could in a sense 'disappear from the world above', you could hood your hawk
and leash your hound, and instead give a message to the rabbit or hare to deliver. They could bring that message 'elsewhere'; perhaps to those who have also disappeared from the world above (the dead), or perhaps to those who live alongside but separate from it (the faeries). Certain creatures, all of them associated by the Celts with fertility (rabbits, sows, and stags), take on special significance when white - the colour of cadaver and moon-light both. One sees a remnant of it in our own supernatural lore: the white, halfluminescence of ghosts. If a rabbit as such belongs to the underground, a white rabbit, in particular, belongs to the underworld; the mysterious other-world realm of death, transformation, and mystery. More properly, a white rabbit is a creature which, by its juxtaposition of features, can cross from one world to the other. Being ordinary (what can be more ordinary than a rabbit?) and spectral both (deathly white), the white rabbit bridges both realms and can become a conduit (rabbit and rabbit-hole both) for leading others across. If the appearance of a white guide is the invitation, giving chase is the sign of acceptance. Appearance itself merely presages; warns of death, or tempest, or the like. Pursuing leads one off the well-trod path and into uncharted realms. Pursue as one may such a supernatural beast, it will never be caught. Never being caught, the creature remains mysterious, and any possible revelation of the mundane is indefinitely postponed. At the mine in Wheal Vor, recent Cornwall legends (some time after 1854) speak of a white rabbit that appears before fatal accidents in the mine. Chased, it is never caught, even when it seems it has no obvious course of escape. Properly, such creatures are not so much white as the colour of moonlight. It is moonlight that navigates the star-lit dark with gentle glow. In Shakespeare, fairies and
moonlight go together. In Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania, Queen of the faeries, makes the following invitation: "If you will patiently dance in our round, and see our moonlight revels, go with us." Moonlight is a lantern through the pitch uncertainty of night. It relieves the terror that is absolute black closing in... the sort that Cornish miners faced daily when mining tin or copper; when they willingly went down into the deep vertical shafts, with only a lantern to dispel the dark. In Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare offers us this tasty line: "All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog." It speaks to me of the practicality of the typical miner, who I think would call a dog, a dog; a spade, a spade; and a good days work, a good days work. Underground work at the mines was exclusively a male occupation. It was the men who descended into the dark with lantern and lunch box, and it is fair to say that lantern and lunch box were of equal importance in keeping crushing fear at bay. The lantern, because it offered light. The lunch box, because it was a vital connection to the loved ones above, who had packed it with loving care, and who waited for the miner's return at shift's end. Which brings us at last to the eminent practicality of the Cornish Pasty: a snack enshrined forever in the mining lore of Cornwall. The pasties would be sent warm and wrapped, and the thick crust would hold that blessed heat a long time. The conspicuous crimped edge, provided easy purchase for hands and could be discarded after the rest of the pasty was eaten. The dirt and arsenic dust on a miner's hands would stay in the mine on the thin ridge of crust left behind. If a miner didn't eat the pasty at a single go, marks on the one end of the pasty 6
could distinguish it from the half-eaten pasties of others, as well as telling you which end to start at. This was more than a trivial point, since a pasty could serve as meal and dessert in one handy package, with meat filling the one end and jam and dried fruits the other. That extra little crimp also provided an easy bit to offer the fairies, for, as Milton confirms, the mines were also among their haunts. In Comus, a Masque, he writes " Some say no evil thing that walks by night ... no goblin or swart faery of the mine ... hath hurtful power o’er true virginity." The Welsh and the Cornish believed in mine
faeries, called “knockers”. They were benevolent if appeased, mischievous at worst, and might even aid in the discovering of precious deposits. They were never seen, but their singing and banging were sometimes heard. If one paid no special attention to the noises, they often continued for a while, but stopping one's own work often returned the mines to silence. Knockers, if not actual mischievous beings, are perhaps echoes of the other-world bleeding through the thin walls of the rabbit-hole. What lies on the other side of those walls is assuredly a mystery.
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Grammar Minute Patrick Babin This week I would like to focus on an individual who has brought topnotch Canadian literary figures to the attention of the North Grenville populace.
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Follies Talent Scout Highlighted During the last five years, he has managed to attract at least fourteen authors to Leslie Hall as part of the Literary Follies, sponsored by the Friends of the North Grenville Public Library. How does he do it and who is this individual? How? Through his extensive network of musicians, writers, and troubadours! Through perseverance, countless phone calls, and an infinite number of e-mails! And who is this amazing “recruiter” of fiction and nonfiction writers? None other than a member of the Friends Executive Committee who is also a musician with Jazz Latte, George Buys. Along with the enlistment of authors, he has managed to provide a “whimsical blend of the musical and the literary” to the Follies program. What does George have in store for this year’s Follies scheduled for 1:30 P.M., Sunday, March 3, 2013, at the historic Leslie Hall on Clothier Street? Author Mary Jane Maffini
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North Grenville Pioneers Shirley Stewart: A Link to the Beginning
Shirley with daughter Gail family that started everyNG Times Staff thing off in Kemptville, orth Grenville is and Oxford Mills too. The blessed with quite Clothiers laid the founa few seniors who have dation for what we have vivid and, mostly, ac- today, and played a central curate memories of how role in the commercial and things used to be around political life of the area for here. It is very important generations. At the age of that we hear their stories, eighteen, Shirley married record them, and learn into that family, linking her about where we came fortunes with Bill Stewart. from. That way, we can Shirley Sayeau arrived hope to keep some of that in Kemptville when she pioneer spirit alive in the was just over two years decades to come. old, moving with her famShirley Stewart has a ily into a house on Hagen particular claim to fame, street, when her father, in that she is part of the Delbert Sayeau, got a job
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around there back then. You used to have to go home for lunch every day at noon, so she and her friends would cut through the parking lot behind the funeral home on Prescott street and Charlie Kluxton's garage to get to school. She remembers a simpler time, when kids would gather next to the hydro poles and play tag, or hide and seek, under the street light until Mrs. Anderson called her gang in. Then they would all head home. There was no television, and certainly no internet back then. Children played together and parents weren't worried about their children's safety. There was skating on the river at night, or you might catch a cowboy movie at the Empress Theatre on the weekend. Everyone in town knew each other. There was a Ferry crossing over to Ogdensburg and many would get on the ferry to go shopping for the day. Shirley’s memories of Ogdensburg are not so pleasant. Her mother took the ferry to the States to have surgery for cancer. Shirley had 25 cents for the bus, and a lady at the pharmacy on Asa street gave her another 50 cents to buy a bouquet of flowers for her mom. Her mother passed away in 1942. Shirley's father took a job as Police Chief, the pay was higher and he could spend more time with Shirley. Police mostly worked from their homes in those days, walking the streets, looking out for trouble. They were eventually provided with an office in the back of Town Hall, and Shirley has many stories of the people her father dealt with in those days. She could name names, but they’re mostly passed on now, so stories of public drunkenness on a Saturday night can go untold. Shirley lived alone with her father until he remarried four years later. At the age of 18, she married Bill Stewart and moved in around the corner from her father's home. Bill Stewart took the Dairy and Cheese Making course at Kemptville College and went to work for the Kemptville Dairy. Shirley got a job at a glove factory, stitching the ends of gloves to close them. She later worked at the telephone
working in the barns at the Kemptville College, as it was then. It was the dirty thirties, the Great Depression, and Bill was fortunate to have a job. Her grandmother, who lived on a farm near Heckston, would churn her own butter and bake all day; then take her butter and baking, along with some eggs, to the general store to exchange it for groceries. Shirley went to the old primary school which was located where the B&H is now. There was only a fence with row houses
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he had his own drugs. Shirley's father retired from his position as Police Chief due to dementia. He was placed in a nursing home and died just nine months later. Shirley faced a lesser tragedy later on. Bill realised one day that the kitchen was on fire, and warned Shirley to get Gail to safety. This she was able to do, but the 60 yearold gentleman who was boarding upstairs panicked and walked right into the fire. On a personal level, Shirley lost the beautiful, old fashioned white cook stove and new fridge her husband had bought her when they married. It broke her heart. Shirley still lives in Kemptville and has many, many stories of the past. She doesn't know too many people around here anymore. She had hoped to see her father's name on the old clock in the main square downtown in honour of his work as Police Chief for so many years. She has two grandsons, Billy and Jay, the sons of her daughter, Gail, who offers art classes at the Cheryl J. Brown Centre and Gail’s husband, Bill.
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What Is the Bible?
The Bible text: has it been changed?
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here is a common misconception that the actual words of the Bible have been changed over the centuries. These changes have introduced things like miracles, and Jesus’ Resurrection, and other “supernatural” stuff which wasn’t in the original. Last time, I pointed out that the New Testament books were all written within between twenty and seventy years after the events they describe, when eye witnesses were still alive, and opponents of the new movement could easily discredit any false statements, etc. But could things have been changed since those early witnesses died? Could new teachings and ideas have been introduced that altered completely what Jesus taught, what he claimed to be (i.e., God), etc. There are many who want to accept Jesus as a great moral Teacher, a good man who can be admired for his life and philosophy: but who deny completely that he was God, or ever claimed to be. Faced with the overwhelming evidence in the New Testament that he both claimed to be God, and that his first followers made the same claims for and about him after his Resurrection, these “Jesus was a Good Man” believers think the text of the Bible must have been changed to alter the facts. There are also those, often the same people, who simply start with the assumption that the supernatural is impossible, miracles don’t happen, and certainly the idea of Jesus’ physical Resurrection is completely unacceptable. Again, they explain the New Testament accounts were changed in later years, or centuries even, to support ideas that were not in the original. It should be said right away that those who start with such strong assumptions need to be aware of how prejudiced their reading of the New Testament must be. Their preconceptions colour everything they read, as they have dismissed beforehand any possibility that the Gospels and letters might be telling a true February 20, 2013
story. This is a dangerous foundation upon which to try and build an intelligent argument. But back to the immediate question: was the New Testament text altered later? How can we know for sure? As a professional historian, I would find any such interference with the original text deeply worrying. As a Christian, I would find it heretical. In fact, as both Christian and historian, I am constantly amazed at how much supporting evidence there is for the fundamental beliefs of Christianity, and for the integrity of the biblical text. The Gospels and letters were all handwritten, of course, there being no printing press for centuries afterwards. These original manuscripts, called the autographs, are long since gone. Two thousand years will do that. But these documents were copied and recopied over and over in the decades immediately following their creation. They were passed around the early churches, shared and read throughout the Christian community. Many of these copies survive today - more than five and a half thousand of them, some dating from as early as 120 A.D., or within sixty years of the original. That is just the copies written in the original Greek, the language in which they were written in most cases. But they were also translated into other languages for local communities, and we have more than 18,000 copies of them! In addition, the early Christian writers who came after the closing of the New Testament period, that is after 100 A.D. say, continued writing to each other. There are letters, sermons, books of teaching and encouragement, memoirs, etc. that quoted these New Testament books, sometimes at length. And there are more than 86,000 quotes and citations in these sources. This tells us two things: first, that the New Testament books existed and were recognised before these later documents were composed (otherwise they couldn’t have quoted from them!). Secondly, it has been said that, by putting together
all of those quotes and references in the later documents, a complete copy of the New Testament books can be assembled by 250 A. D. This needs to be put into context. Is 5,500 copies within even one hundred years enough? Is it sufficient to ensure a true text has been passed down? Well, compare that with other works from classical literature and history. Everyone has heard of Julius Caesar, and a lot of what we know of him comes from his own writings, particularly his ”Gallic Wars”. It was obviously written before his death, which took place in 44 B.C. We have only eight or nine reliable copies of his book, the earliest of which dates from a thousand years after it was written! The great classical historians, like Heroditus, Livy and Thucydides are completely accepted by modern scholars, although most of their histories have disappeared over time, and the very few fragments we have left usually date to more than 1,300 years after they were originally written. The fact is that the text of the New Testament that we use today can be relied upon to be a true and accurate copy of the original books written within a very short time of the events they describe. And remember also: the four Gospels were based on even earlier oral and written sources. The wealth of copies, the early dates of those copies, and the many references and quotes from the books of the New Testament in the first 150 years, provide a unique body of evidence showing that we can accept the New Testament of today as the very words written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James and the rest. The next question to be asked is: if they wrote the books, can we believe what they said? Were they too “primitive”, too much men of their time, to be taken seriously? If they believed in miracles, the supernatural and, especially, Resurrection, can they be trusted in this more “educated and enlightened” age in which we live? That is for next time.
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ushings Syndrome is a metabolic disorder that affects mostly older horses; however there have been reports of horses as young as eight years old being affected. Cushings Syndrome is caused by a tumor on the pituitary gland, which is the small gland at the base of the brain which regulates the rest of the horse’s endocrine systems. As the tumor grows, it puts pressure on the hypothalamus, the area of the brain responsible for regulating the body temperature. It is believed that this is the primary cause of the coarse, wavy haircoat seen on horses with Cushings. The entire endocrine system will go out of balance as cells in the pituitary gland become overactive, creating excess quantities of the peptide pro-opiolipomelanocortin (POLMC). One of the most common symptoms of Cushings is a coarse, curly haircoat that does not shed out. To avoid persistent skin problems and infections, as well as to accommodate the horse’s comfort, the thick coat should be clipped. A horse with Cushings will also consume as much as 20 gallons of water per day, much more than a healthy 9
horse. Because of this, the affected horse will also exhibit excessive urination. Other symptoms include a pot-bellied appearance, loss of topline muscle, persistent sweating, increased appetite but no obvious weight gain, laminitis, persistent skin, feet, or respiratory infections, lethargy and dullness. Because of the effects on the metabolic system, Cushings cases may also have reduced immunity and an increased chance of developing infections. Once infection is present, it may take longer to clear up, and may require the use of antibiotics, even in situations where the average horse could eliminate it on their own. Wounds can take longer to heal, and simple medical problems can take longer to resolve. While it will usually be apparent that you are dealing with a Cushings case, blood and urine tests are often used to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other problems, such as kidney disease or diabetes. Although there is no cure for Cushings, the good news is that once diagnosed, treatment is simple, if long term, and in many cases, allows the horse to return to normal health. One of the most common drugs available for the treatment of the symptoms of Cushings is pergolide. Although the most expensive, pergolide seems to be the most effective. Once treatment is started, rapid improvement is often detected. It is important to realize that while drugs treat the symptoms, they do not
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treat the pituitary tumor itself. Good management practices will play a large part in the horse’s longevity. Clipping, careful feeding, including a lowgycemic diet, and regular foot care will all contribute to your horse’s comfort. Horses with mild cases of Cushings can be returned to good health for a number of years, but eventually the tumor will compromise the horse’s life, and euthanasia becomes the kindest option.
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Focus on Nutrition THE BODY CLEANSE
by Heather Westendorp
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dvertisements for a body cleanse to improve intestinal health are frequently in the news and health magazines. People fast by depriving the body of solid food. The digestive system is allegedly given time to recuperate from all the bad food you've eaten, and your body is allowed the time to purge itself of any toxins that have accumulated and a cleansing is even supposed to induce spiritual renewal. It is one thing for your doctor to ask you to fast for a few hours prior to a blood or urine test. It is quite another to use the method as a dietary play toy! Let us get one thing straight: your body is a machine. It is a biological machine that has incredible abilities to sustain health and wellness. During the pioneer days, snake-oil salesmen used to sell all kinds of potions and elixirs that promised to cure all ailments! Today we have quite a choice of the same thing! First they spend time convincing you that your body is full of modern toxins, synthetic chemicals, food additives and even poison in the air. They then claim that all of these toxins gather in your body and kill you. Each of the snake oil salesmen tell you that only their potion, or elixir, or method will cleanse your body of all the bad things that live inside you. Wait just a minute! The body is not a container that is sealed with a plastic lid. The human body can breathe, sweat, filter the air
coming into the lungs and can even eliminate its own waste… imagine! I think, much of the time, the medical field has a difficult time commenting on the detox/ cleanse method only because it varies so much. Some demand that you only drink water and eat nothing, others restrict certain foods. Some give you a special elixir to drink. Then there is the time factor: some cleansing plans involve just a weekend, while others can be a full ten-day detox plan. The list is endless. The human body is full of bacteria, white blood cells and even gastric acids! The choice to detox, or starve the body of food, as a cleansing method is actually quite foolish. The body is the ultimate filtration and cleansing device. The human body needs nutrients each day to live. Starving the body quickly sends it into a biological panic. The body will quickly realize it is starving when you eliminate or severely restrict calories (energy) that it needs for food. The snake-oil salesmen will have you believe that deprivation “shocks” the body into a healthier status!! In reality, this will not help you lose weight, or clean out your intestines, and will not likely spew the toxins from your body or induce a spiritual renewal. You need a certain number of calories each day, mixed with the right nutrient balance. Every single day! Losing weight takes time and energy. There is no “magic”. The key is calories in/calories out. Eat nutrient-dense foods and make healthy choices every day. Take the time to learn how to read food labels, listen to your doctor and nutritionist when they give you advice about how to change your eating habits. Follow Canada’s Food Guide. Take care of yourself and
spend time learning “real” information about nutrition. It amazes me that our generation is absolutely obsessed with food and information, yet we have more health-related issues than any other generation before! The Snake Oil Salesman is still alive and well, due to our desperation! Any magazine editor will tell you sales increase the moment the word “diet” is placed on the front of a publication! If someone told you to take a magic pill to lose all your extra weight overnight, how much would you be willing to pay? Instant weight loss is not the reality. It took most of us years to become overweight and develop the health problems that come with it. C’mon…you and I both know that it is going to take daily changes to lose weight, and then it will take a lifetime to keep that weight off. It is work. Losing weight is not a magic solution, elixir, or starvation plan! Fasting/Cleansing can be very dangerous for people with diabetes, heart issues, and some digestive issues. Always consult your doctor and/or nutritionist before making any drastic dietary change. Please realize there is no magic pill. The body needs adequate nutrients daily to function. Heather Westendorp is a graduate of the University of Guelph: Food, Nutrition and Risk Management Diploma. She has also lost over 50 lbs. and is now a healthy weight, improving her health status!
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Paul Hutt, Fire Chief in violation By Mike Pacitto A large mob ring in North Grenville has been unveiled today in one of the most anticipated trials of the year. Participation runs deep from pathfinder leaders and local youth, all the way up to the fire chief and even our very own Mayor Dave Gordon! Charges ranging from overcooking food, fire truck noise violations through the timmy's drive through, and in the case of the mayor, driving without a hat in a convertible in January (setting a bad example for the kids!). This of course was a jail bail fund raiser put on by the Kemptville Youth Center. Those "charged" with offenses were expected to make a set bail upon their "court" appearance on February 18th. Furthermore, depending on how their defense was handled by crown appointed defense attorney Blaine Devine, additional charges were laid that the prosecuted had to match before their release. The North Grenville Times was on hand to act as court reporter (and as defense attorney for Paul Rutt) Presiding over the hearings as judge and jury was local lawyer
Thomas M. Byrne in judicial attire with a hefty Gavel to boot. The youth did an excellent job recreating the proceedings with a full courtroom setup, including a place for mug shots and a full metal jail cell! Although the defendants made excellent cases for themselves, all were found guilty and sentenced to the fullest extent of the Judge's made up... I mean, fair and balanced law. "Do you swear to have fun, only fun, and nothing but fun so help me judge?" Some of the participants and their crimes: Paul Hutt - Fire Chief: noise violations at Tim Horten's - Extra charge of $10 for wasting the court's time with incompetent defense attorney. Dave Gordon - Driving without a hat in his convertible in winter Extra charge of $20 for calling southern Ontario residents "soft". Ashley Sloan - Glue Gun Fire hazard - Extra charge for honesty in court. Cole Rooney - Overcooking food. (youth can come by every Wednesday for cook night!) R o b e r t Wa l k e r Stacking the KYC books
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THANK YOU TO KYLE LITTLE FOR CALLING 911 FOR WAYNE VERNEY WINE & CHEESE PARTY AT THE KEMPTVILLE LEGION TO CELEBRATE OUR 80TH ANNIVERSARY FROM March 3, 1 – 4 PM.
PUBLIC SPEAKING Public speaking competitions at the Oxford on Rideau, Oxford Mills Thursday afternoon, Feb 21st at 1 pm. This is an annual event for all students from the local schools. The winners move on to Merrickville for March 3 and then to Provincials if they win. February 20, 2013
SERVICES One Tear Studio, Paintings/Soapstone Sculptures/ Butterfly Hearts. Visit by appointment or chance www.HannaMacNaughtan.ca
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Jesrae Pottery 830 Law Road, Oxford Station. Please call 613-258-4671 for an appointment.
I Can Sew It: Rhonda Cybulskie-613-258-5248 Rhonda@ICanSewIt.ca Al's Cleanup Services Dumpruns, Grass, Landscaping Al Scott R R #1 Oxford Station (613) 258-3847 House Cleaning - Kemptville area. For quote call 613-294-0385 or dhlacombe@gmail.com Property Clean up,yards, garages, basements, loads to dump,anything removed.613-258-7955
Activité francophone pour les adultes : Have you been thinking of brushing up on your French? Come and meet members of your community that can help you practice your French in a nonstressful environment. Venez-vous joindre à nous pour une soirée amusante avec des conversations en français. Date : jeudi, le 28 février 2013 Heure : 18h30 Lieu : The Branch Restaurant and texas grill, Kemptville SVP réservez par internet à l’adresse suivante : thefrenchconnexion@live.ca
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Free Computer Training for Adults Free Computer Training on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons at the North Grenville Public Library. For your one-on-one training session contact sjones@ngpl.ca or call 613-258-4711.
Mixed Adult Pickup Basketball Game
Every Tuesday night at Holy Cross School gym from 7-9 PM. Cost is $5 per night, or $50 for the season. All skill ranges welcome. For more information, please contact Jeff or Samantha at 613-258-1847 or samantha.rivet-stevenson@ rbc.com
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Men’s Prostate Cancer Support Group
FRIENDSHIP LUNCH
Every Friday from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Leslie Hall, Kemptville Everyone Welcome
A new Men’s Cancer group has started in Kemptville The first meeting was held January 27, with seven members in attendance. The meetings are being held at St. John’s United Church Hall, 400 Prescott St in Kemptville, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., and the next meeting is February 24. One of the members is setting up a website (PCSG.Kemptville@Yahoo.ca) and more details of the name and the aims and objectives of the group will be discussed at the next meeting. If further information is required, please call 613-258-2623 ask for Robert. If there is no answer, please call Ellen 613-258-7778. Hope to see you there and please bring a friend.....
Bedtime Story Hour at the Library
Come to our bedtime story hour - the whole family is welcome! Children may come in their pyjamas and bring a snuggly toy. Juice and Cookies are served. Tuesday March 19 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm Tuesday April 16 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm
THE NORTH GRENVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB The North Grenville Photography club meets the 1st Wednesday of every month at the Old Fire Hall, 25 Reuben Crescent. On March 6th the topic is night photography. Please bring your gear and dress according to the weather as we will be practicing outside. For more info see ngphotoclub.ca.
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Literary Follies March 3 Leslie Hall
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NORTH GRENVILLE TOASTMASTERS First and third Thursday of month, 7 pm at O'Farrell's Financial Services CR 44 (613) 258-7665
YOUNGSTERS OF YORE Every Thursday afternoon Program Room, Library High Tea with refreshments erved Anyone over 50 welcome
BRIDGE
Every Thursday - 6:30 pm and 6:45 pm St. John’s United Church Kemptville Cost $5.00 Partner preferred but not necessary For more information contact Elaine Pratt at 613-258-3783
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Every Tuesday - 12:15 St. John’s United Church Kemptville Cost $3.00 Partner Preferred but not necessary For more information contact Ellen at 613 258-7778
1ST ANNUAL KEMPTVILLE WINE & FOOD Show Sat. Feb. 23 from 5pm-10pm Municipal Centre Presented by the North Grenville Chamber of Commerce No Admission – Tasting Tickets sold at $5 each block
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Kemptville Legion
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Dinner/Dance. Dinner @ 6 pm, dance to follow. Music by DJ-Dynamix. Cost $15.00 per person. For tickets call Lorena @ 613-258-9065.
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Trip Around Scotland Please join the Kemptville Kinsmen and Scotch expert Geoffrey J. Skeggs for a fun night of Scotch tasting at 7pm on February 21st – upstairs at O’Heaphy’s Irish Pub. Enjoy tasty offering from the staff at O’Heaphy’s while learning the differences between Scotland’s whisky producing regions; the Lowland, Speyside, Highland, Campbeltown, and Islay. Geoffrey J. Skeggs guides you through this educational evening on the regional differences found in Scotch Whiskies. Tickets are limited and can be purchased by contacting Chris Drozda at 223-6625
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Kemptville Campus Presents: 6th Annual Rideau Carleton, Night at the Races By: Constance Dagnon, Kemptville Campus BBRM Student nd they’re off! The Kemptville Campus hosts an exciting night of family fun at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. March 3rd is sure be a fun-filled evening for students, families and friends, when the first year Bachelor of BioResource Management (BBRM), Equine students host the 6th annual Night at the Races. Post time is 5pm and there will be a buffet din-
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ner, live Standardbred racing, slot machines for those over 19 years of age, and nothing but a great time to be had for all. There will also be the opportunity for some lucky guests to see the racing action up-close and ride in the pace car! Tickets are $22.00 for students and $30.00 for adults. The event’s proceeds will be going to the BBRM program at the University of Guelph, Kemptville Campus. There will be represen-
the hands-on learning experience of organizing and executing a public event. I am always impressed with the growth and enthusiasm the students display when they become personally involved in the production of their own event." For more information and tickets, please contact Elizabeth Forbes at: elforbes@uoguelph.ca Kemptville Campus was established in 1917 and is one of Ontario's oldest agricultural colleges. Built originally to support and strengthen farming practices in Eastern Ontario, Kemptville is committed to specialized quality education and service with many years of experience, and a tradition of working with communities to meet the needs of the Agri-food industry.
tatives from the BBRM program in attendance to promote the programs and answer any questions about what is offered at Kemptville Campus. Dr. Katrina Merkies, the BBRM program co-ordinator, who will also be in attendance that evening, says that the "Kemptville Campus Night at the Races is a wonderful opportunity for friends and family to get together to enjoy dining and horse racing, but even more, it offers the BBRM students
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Today’s Real Estate Market
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What’s happening in Real Estate?
By Rob Thompson As I see it, after a dismal 4th quarter in our local market, we are starting the year off right. Although prices have definitely fallen over the past year, there are still many Buyers looking to purchase. The important thing to keep in mind however, they are not overpaying for anything. In fact the only homes that are selling at the moment are the homes that are priced, “Right on the Money”. What do I mean by that? In general terms, homes sell within 5% of their asking prices. If a home is priced more than 5% above market value, it tends not to sell until it is reduced to a price that is within that “Sweet-spot”. In the 27 years I have been in Real Estate, much of my business has always been selling homes that have been on the market for a long time. From selling hundreds of homes that did not sell during their first listing term, I have garnered two very distinct observations. One, the Seller is usually ticked off with their
previous agent for not selling the home. And two, in 99% of all cases, there is only one reason the home did not sell - Overpricing. Blaming the Agent is a natural reaction and in most cases is justified, but not for the reason the Seller thinks. Generally, the Seller believes the agent didn’t do his job while the home was listed. This is not necessarily true. In all likelihood, the agent was doing everything he or she could have, to try and get the house sold within the time allotted. In reality, the Agent fell down on the job before the listing was ever signed. You see, most homes are sold the night the listing paperwork is signed. Meaning, if the home is listed for a price that is within that, “Sweet-spot” it is only a short matter of time before it sells. On the contrary, if a home is listed above that spot, it will generally not sell, unless prices are on the rise, which of course we all know, they aren’t. Bottom line, if the agent had priced it right in the first place, it would have sold. That being said, we’re all human and sometimes a good agent just makes a
mistake. I want you to know that I’m not suggesting you should give your home away. I am suggesting, homeowners in general (myself included), are emotionally attached to the value of their own homes and are therefore not qualified to set their own price. Ability to interpret the local market as it relates to price, along with finely tuned negotiating skills, are the most important qualities you need to look for in your Agent. Far better to take the pricing advice of the Agent willing to walk away from a listing appointment without a signed agreement, than to deal with an Agent prepared to take a listing at any cost. The most important thing you can ask yourself when interviewing an Agent is, “Does the person across the table really believe she can sell my home for the price we’re asking or just telling me what she thinks I want to hear?” With listing season about to be upon us, arm yourself with an open mind and the knowledge that prices are not what they were a year ago. Take heart, there is good news
M UNICIPALITY OF NORTH GRENVILLE NOTICE OF PUBLIC M EETING CONCERNING A PROPOSED ZONING BY-LAW AM ENDM ENT TAKE NOTICE that the Corporation of the Municipality of North Grenville will hold a public meeting on MONDAY, March 18, 2013 at 6:30 pm at the North Grenville Municipal Centre (285 County Road 44) to consider the following item: A proposed Housekeeping Zoning By-Law Amendment, File # ZBA-7-13, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended will be considered at that time.
Royal Canadian Legion Provincial Bursary Program
Applications for the Royal Canadian Legion Provincial Bursary Program are still being accepted. If you are a student who is currently attending college, university or any other postsecondary institution, you may qualify for a bursary of up to $500 per each academic year. Applications must be received by Provincial Command before the last Friday of March /2013. Eligibility • Canadian and Commonwealth War Veterans and their children and grandchildren. • Ordinary and Life members of the Royal Canadian Legion and their children and grandchildren. • Associate members of the Royal Canadian Legion and their children. • Ladies’ Auxiliary members and their children and grandchildren.
The purpose of this application is to make a series of changes to the new Comprehensive Zoning By-Law #50-12, correcting oversights and errors, clarifying the intent of certain wording and incorporating previously approved zoning amendments which were not included in Zoning By-Law #50-12. There are a total of 15 changes being proposed to the text of By-Law #50-12 and 13 changes to the land use Schedules. This amendment is deemed to be a general amendment which applies to lands throughout the Municipality.
TAKE NOTE that Municipality of North Grenville initiated this application and deemed it complete February 4, 2013. ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or oral submissions either in support of or in opposition to the above item. In the event that you are unable to attend the meeting but wish to submit written comments, please ensure that your comments are delivered to the Planning and Building Department's office (285 County Road #44) prior to the day of the meeting. IF A PERSON OR PUBLIC BODY does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Municipality of North Grenville before the by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of the Corporation of Municipality of North Grenville to the Ontario Municipal Board or may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.
Application forms may be picked up at high school guidance departments or at branches of the Royal Canadian Legion. For further information contact the Legion Branch nearest you or Douglas Brunton Zone G-3 Bursary Chairman at 613-258-5111 . E mail d.c.brunton@sympatico. ca
COPIES OF THE AMENDMENT AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to this item is available through the Planning and Building Department’s office during regular business hours from Monday to Friday telephone (613) 258-9569. DATED AT THE MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH GRENVILLE THIS 13th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2013. Forbes Symon Director of Planning and Development PO Box 130, Kemptville, Ontario K0G 1J0 Phone (613) 258-9569 Fax (613) 258-1441
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for those of you selling in these lower times. Although your home will undoubtedly sell for less this year than last, so will the house you’re going to buy. Till next month, this is Rob Thompson saying, “Good Luck and Good Selling!” Rob Thompson is the Real Estate Broker of Record for Rob Thompson Realty Corp. and has been helping families, businesses and investors make the right real estate decisions since 1985 and continues to do so with his team of professionals in all the communities from Ottawa to Kemptville to Brockville 613258-0088 robthompson.ca
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The MyView Youth Film Festival: Issues Facing Teens in North Grenville
The MyView Film Festival will be joining the Dandelion Festival this May and airing the contest submissions by youth from Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. Youth 12 to 18 years of age are being asked to create and submit videos that explore important issues relevant to youth, as well as the solutions they see, or hope for. Every submission from youth submitted before April 25 will win a prize ranging from gift certificates to cash prizes. The first prize winner will earn a $1,000 cash prize. Second place will win an iPad. There will also be cash prizes for winners in each of the following categories: · My community · My culture · My health · My environment · My future The MyView Filmfest is a combined effort of many community-minded youth advocates. Youth advocate and local public health nurse, Diana Steadman states: “My hope is that this film festival will give young people in our community a platform to express their ideas; and that local policy makers take a moment and listen up.” MyView Filmfest volunteer, John Barclay from Triune Productions, will be helping any interested youth with pre-production planning, production and postproduction through a series of three free workshops in Kemptville. These workshops will allow youth to learn some basic video production principals and skills. When asked about the workshops, John said: “The focus will be on helping participants get the most out of the equipment and materials they have on hand. It's not necessary to have state-of-the-art gear to create an effective video. Video can be an effective catalyst for social change, and I look forward to helping the participants get the most out the equipment and materials they have on hand in order to get their ideas on the screen”. For youth who may not be able to travel to Kemptville for the free workshops, John will be making them available online on the festival’s website www. myviewfilmfest.ca to view at their convenience. Submission criteria for entering a video into the contest will be to attend a workshop, view them online, or pay a $10 entry fee. Kemptville Youth Centre will be a resource for youth who are planning to take part in My View Filmfest. Youth Centre Executive Director, Robin Heald, explained: “We’d love to encourage youth to express their thoughts, hopes and wishes; to come out to the Youth Centre to use our space, use our computers and share our resources in the process of planning and creating their videos. Having this contest in our community is a gift for us and our youth.” To check out where and when these free workshops will take place, check out www.myviewfilmfest.ca or visit MyView on Facebook and Youtube. If you have any questions, contact Drew MacLean at 613-2585212 or myview@kemptvilleyc.com.
History Section
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How My Kemptville Has Changed: Part IV
Inside the Mid-Town Grill 1955 town was established in people - people like Sam the “Barbers” - the people By Jim Dolan 1835 when Lord Seaford Gaw, Pat Maloney, Hattie who have lived its past. Don’t get me wrong, lot happens in a per- donated 500 acres of land Acton and John and Don paintings and pictures son’s life in just one for the establishment of a serve as great reminders to week. Rose and I took a German settlement. us of what our town looked This trip served to retrip down memory lane like at different times dur- her father’s memory mind me of the importance ing our lives. The last 40 lane. We took a day off of mining the memories seconds of a video on the from indulging in all the of the elders of our home internet of a Neil Young evil things you can do at town, before it is too late to song called “Born in Onan all-inclusive resort in capture their anecdotal stotario” provides a glimpse Montego Bay, Jamaica ries. Stories bring to life of what our downtown to visit her father’s birth- hometowns more vividly looked like in the early to place in Seaford Town. It than brush strokes placed mid-50s, at least the cars is affectionately known on any canvas by the best suggest it might be from by the locals as German cityscape artists. Homethat era. Town. It has the most town stories are painted, Unfortunately, I am unusual history of all com- not by brush, but through not the young boy riding munities in Jamaica. The the textured voices of its the bike through town. It would be interesting to M UNICIPALITY OF NORTH GRENVILLE know his identity. What NOTICE OF PUBLIC M EETING CONCERNING struck me most about the PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE BUILDING BY-LAW clip is how beautiful the downtown looked with all the trees overhangTAKE NOTICE that the Corporation of the Municipality of North Grenville will hold a public meeting on MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013 at 6:30 pm at the North Grenville Municipal Centre ing the street. However, (285 County Road 44) to consider the following item: without the spoken word The Municipality of North Grenville intends to amend the existing Building By-Law, being Bythat allows us to live and Law No. 14-98, as amended, in order to: breathe the essence of our 1. Change Section 6, Fees by adding a policy which states that permit fees paid at the town, we (its inhabitants) issuance of a building permit are to cover the cost of inspection carried out by the are only like archeologists Chief Building Official, or his designate, for a period of two (2) years. - left wondering. 2. Require that all inspections to be carried out after two (2) years from the date of the Part III of my journey issuance of the permit be subject to a new administrative fee of $250, unless in the through town ended at opinion of the Chief Building Official the work has been progressing in a normal fashion and/or the additional administrative fee is not warranted. Jack Wilson’s Shoe Repair
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The Voice of North Grenville shop. Just to its north was the Kandy Kitchen restaurant. It later became the Mid-Town Grill in 1955, when Rollie Lemire took over the business from Lorne Johnston. The Mid-Town Grill building has a special place in my heart. When we moved back to Kemptville in 1957, we lived in the upstairs back apartment until 1962. I can still smell the fresh coffee being poured for the young lads of the coffee club – Mel Johnston, Garland Van Allen and so many others. They flipped coins each day to see who would pay for the coffees. I still remember the woman pouring that coffee. She was my Mom. These young men made my mom feel so special. As a young boy, I always wondered “Why?”. Weren’t all moms just moms? It wasn’t until our family moved to the airbase at Cold Lake, Alberta in 1962 that I finally got to really know my mom. In Kemptville, she worked long hard
gift I ever got in my teens. With each passing year, I witnessed what those young men saw that made my mom so special. It wasn’t just her good looks. It was her inner beauty - an inner beauty that to this day is impossible for me to adequately describe in words. God called my mom home far too early. I was just 25 years old. I never told my mom how much she really meant to me before she passed away. Like so many young people, I thought there would always be a tomorrow. Mom, I am writing this on Valentine’s Day and if you are reading this over my shoulder – I LOVE YOU. Back to the Mid-Town Grill - it was the happening place back in the ‘50s. Everyone showed up at the Mid-Town. Barry Milne used to park his Ford Edsel just outside the place. I met members of the Groskopf family, there – John, Fran, Edith and Jeanette, long before I
The location of the former Mid-Town Grill hours as a waitress for a knew there was one more, pay check and tips. As named Rosemary. Boy, a result, we kids did not were those girls pretty! I have a lot of quality time remember Raymond Maralone with her. But in Cold tineau playing “Big John” Lake, I had her all to my- on the jukebox every time self, she became a stay-at- John Palmer came through home mom. It was the best the door. John Palmer Below: Mid-Town Grill 1955
These changes are being made in order to reflect the additional administrative work associated with managing open building permits which are two (2) years old or older and to recover the costs associated with this additional work. The repeal of By-Law No. 28-98 is intended to reduce “red tape” and streamline the completion of building permits by eliminating the need for performance deposits for all building permits. ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or oral submissions either in support of or in opposition to the above item. In the event that you are unable to attend the meeting but wish to submit written comments, please ensure that your comments are delivered to the Planning and Building Department's office (285 County Road #44) prior to the day of the meeting. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the specific details of the amendments are available, free of charge, through the Planning and Building Department’s office during regular business hours from Monday to Friday telephone (613) 258-9569. DATED AT THE MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH GRENVILLE THIS 13th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2013. Forbes Symon, Director of Planning & Development PO Box 130, Kemptville, Ontario K0G 1J0 Fax (613) 258-1441
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The North Grenville Times was a high school history teacher. He stood six feet eleven inches tall. I played the pinball machines with a future chief of police, his brother, and Carl Stewart. I listened to the best rock and roll music ever played, by artists like Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and Richie Valens, and heard “On the Wings of a Snow White Dove”. The late-50s music was simply some of the best music ever. If you were At The Hop with your Young Love looking for Runaround Sue who was looking for her Dream Lover, who was listening to That’ll Be The Day, then you know the 50s music. I was in heaven years later when My Special Angel, Put Her Head on My Shoulder and Danced With Me to Lonely Teardrops. It brought back so many good memories of the Mid-Town Grill. I remember a time when we had an apple fight off its upstairs front balcony. The Ogilvie boys lived in the upstairs front apartment. We were pummeling the bigger boys raining apples down upon them. Some young lad from street level broke the Mid-Town’s neon sign. We all scattered. For almost forty years, I wondered who broke that sign. I wondered if Deb Sayeau, who was the entire police force at that time, had caught the culprit. A few years ago, the boy, now a man, confessed to my wife and me on our porch. It took considerable liquid courage to get that confession. The best part of his confession is that he fessed up to the owners and paid for the repairs over time from money made delivering papers. On summer nights, my sisters and I used to sit on the upstairs back stoop. It barely held the three of us. If we looked toward the north, we could see the old Empress Theatre. It was located where the Post Office is today. The theatre first opened in the days of silent film, then became offices. It was
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KYC Jail and Bail Fundraising Tally
subsequently reopened as a theatre in 1947, when Mr. Vincent Kelly of Ottawa bought the building and modernized it. On Fire Chief Paul Hutt - Excessive noise (driving particularly hot nights, the through Tim Hortons with the siren on) - $605 Mayor projectionist would open David Gordon - Driving with the top down on his the upstairs front win- convertible in January - $140 Robert Walker (Walker dow and we could see the & Associates) - Stacking the books - $440 Wayne Redscreen from our stoop. On dick (Wayne's Auto-Tek) - Giving too many freebies one such occasion I saw - $365 “Old Yeller” “in silence”, Dr. Sandhu (Dentistry @ Kemptville) - Administering except for the noise of too much novocaine - $245 James Brazeau - Hitting passing cars. too many deer - $250 Joshua Brazeau (KYC youth) Underneath the stoop at Playing too many video games - $70 (Joshua staged an ground level, I had an old escape and was our only jailbird who broke out.) water trough that I filled Paula Brazeau - Hogging the remote - $290 with a mixture of good Cathy Sheppard (Sheppard & Associates) - Driving earth and coffee grounds the wrong way around the roundabout in her Smart from the restaurant. I car - $290 George Fisher (Mr. Kemptville) - Excessing harvested a mighty crop joy and dancing - $1215 Ashley Sloan (Pathfinders) of worms in that trough. I - Leaving glue guns plugged in at KYC - $125 Anne sold most of them to AmerWalsh with her daughters Molly & Stella - Smiling icans who came north via excessively on a Monday - $25 Haley Wright (KYC Highway 16 to fish the youth) - Excessing gifting of peanut butter cups - $50 waters of eastern Ontario Robin Heald (KYC Executive Director) - Fraternizing and western Quebec for with the enemy (Big Brothers Big Sisters) - $260 Kris trophy pike, pickerel, bass Van de Ven - Playing with this Rubik's Cube on the and the mighty muskeljob - $280 lunge. I think most of Alexis Montgomery (KYC Youth Concil President) them came north not for Spending youth council money on canteen - $135 the fishing, but to drink Cole Rooney (KYC youth) - Cooking too much - $100 our much superior beer. (Bailed out by our morning judge Tom Bryne) Labatt’s 50 was the most Graham Pincott (KYC Board Member) - $105 popular beer back then. Connie Lamble (KYC Board Member and afternoon My worms weren’t just judge) - Excessive use of the gavel - $57 worms. They were over Other donations include: caffeinated super worms. Rob Thompson Real Estate - $500 They were so juiced that if Subway - $50 Moose Mart - $50 placed on the seat of a bike they probably could have won the Tour de France. Across the street, wedged, and I mean wedged, between the Capital Store Five and Dime and Schneiderman’s Ladies Wear, was Bill Baker’s Barber Shop. Today it is the location of The Loft Market Row - another great example of how to beautify a downtown while keeping its small town feel. I got my first brush cut at Bill Baker’s. Shortly thereafter I got the nickname Beaver. It was when Leave it to Beaver was a popular TV show. It came from my future brother-in-law, as I always seemed to show up at the wrong time – when he was with my oldest sister. One day he said: “Leave it to Beaver to show up again”. He had to pay me a quarter to get lost. A quarter was a lot of money back then, wasn’t it Bonnie?
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Special thanks too: Teri Devine (KYC President), Blaine Devine (defense attorney), Jennifer Franssen (KYC Board Member and Fundraising Chair), and John Bennett for their help and support to make this event a success. Joshua Earl for building our jail cell.
KYC would also like to thank eveyone who sponsored our jailbirds! Total raised $5752 towards our $10,000 goal with more money to come in from: Gerty Tenbult (Nature's Way) Lawrence Wyatt (Wyatt's Grill) Casey Redmond (Tackaberry) The Crusty Baker and Baffin Building Systems
Family Fun Day a Huge Success!
The Empress Theatre
Kinsmen Justun Steeves, Rob Clement, Josh Earl, Chris Drozna and Brent Kelaher Every Year on Family Day, the Kinsmen head out in force to the Municipal center. After a free movie and skate, the hundreds of familes that came out were fed hot dogs and hot chocolate. The Kinsmen would like to thank Jim Beverage of B&H grocery store for providing the free hot dogs and hot chocolate for all the kids. The free skating and movie were provided free of charge thanks to: Rob Thompson Realty; Westerra Homes; The BIA; Jim Perry Automotive; GK Finnie and Sons Insurance. Over 400 people attended the event and the Kinsmen gave out over 46 dozen hot dogs that day. The Kinsmen would like to thank the Community for supporting them. February 20, 2013
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St. Michael Senior Girls Capture 3rd consecutive Leeds and Grenville AA Volleyball Championship
North Grenville Curling Club News By Jim Dolan Homan, Ross, Arsenault and Devereaux Skipping Teams at the Scotties The Scott Tournament of Hearts, the most prestigious women’s curling event in Canada, is being held this week at the K Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario. NG Times readers might be interested to know that four of the teams competing in this year ’s Scotties have played at the Royal LePage OVCA Women’s Fall Classic at the North Grenville Curling Club in Kemptville. The teams are: Ontario’s Rachel Homan, the 2012 Fall Classic Champion; Quebec’s Allison Ross: Nova Scotia’s Mary-Anne Arsenault: and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Stacie Devereaux. Rachel Homan’s rink of Emma Miskew, Lisa Weagle and Alison Kreviazuk from the Ottawa Curling Club is one of the hottest women’s teams in Canada right now. If readers are going down to Kingston to see some games later this
week, and have the opportunity to say hi to any of the members of these teams, please let them know how much we appreciate them coming to our event each year. It is truly an honour for the North Grenville Curling Club to host an event each November that attracts such world class athletes to our community. Dave Brown Wins Prescott Men’s Bonspiel Dave Brown and teammates Lester McInnis, Jim Dolan and Randy Fequet won the Prescott Men’s Points Spiel held on February 1 and 2. Bill Bouwman and teammates Wayne Pitt, Brian Condon, Arndt Vogel also claimed prizes with their sixth place finish in the 16 team event. Bill White Finishes Runner-up in C Event at Manotick Senior Spiel Bill White and teammates Jim Dolan, John Brooks and Wayne Pitt came home with $160 after finishing runners up in the C event at the Senior Cash Spiel held last week at the Manotick Curling Club.
the number one seed St. Michael in a best of five championship final. The Mustangs got out to an early lead in the first set and did not let up, defeating the Giants 2514. In the second set, the Mustangs were firing on all cylinders and easily defeated their opponent, with strong serving by Lara Aleinik and Danielle Fawcett, and excellent setting from Robyn Kluke. Sam Prosper led
Angus MacDonald, Head Coach, Mustang Volleyball,St. Michael Catholic High school
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he St. Michael Mustangs are heading to the OFSAA qualifying tournament next Thursday in Cornwall after winning their 3rd straight Senior Girls Volleyball title. In semifinal action, the South Grenville Giants in the third set defeated an injuryplagued crew from St. Marys and earned the right to face off against
the team with fourteen kills in the match to help the Mustangs cruise to a 25-8 victory over the representative from the UCDSB. In the 3rd set, the Mustangs proved once again to be too much for the Giants and won decisively 25-12. Strong passing from Alda O’Grady and great serving from Linsey van Koppen led St. Michael to victory. The senior girls look to proudly
represent St. Michael in the OFSAA qualifier next week. In junior action, the St. Michael Mustangs continued their winning tradition and handily defeated the St. Mary Crusaders 25-12 and 25-16 to capture the Junior AA girls’ volleyball championship. This marks the 4th time in the last five years the Mustangs have won this championship.
Quotable Quotes John A. McDonald: “Do nothing by halves, which can be done by quarters.”
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