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May 8, 2013

Annual Honours and Awards dinner LAURIER

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Doug Brunton receiving certificate of appreciation for his work as a Long Term Care Surveyor

Mother’s Day brunch buffet Celebrating 125 Years by Thanking Mom

The Salvation Army and The Branch Restaurant will be hosting their annual Mother ’s Day Brunch again this year; but this year with a carnival twist. Spend your morning with your mom at the North Grenville Municipal Center, on Sunday, May 12th, where she can be served a wonderful

brunch prepared by The Branch Restaurant, known for its delicious Texas style foods prepared fresh, locally sourced and organic ingredients. While Mom relaxes the kids can enjoy the fun and laughter of the Cowguys, a juggling, comedy extravaganza. As well as a bouncy castle and slide, face painting and lots

of more fun.

Tickets Are Still Available Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door, kids 12 and under pay their age. Tickets can be purchased at The Branch Restaurant or at The Salvation Army.

All proceeds go to The Salvation Army.

Members of the Ladies Auxiliary received their years of service pins vibrant community of youth The Legion Branch 212 that offer their services”, said Kemptville held their AnPam Owen in her blessing nual Honours and Awards before the meal. “They have Dinner on May 4 to celelected to study and learn ebrate and honour the many the traditions of the milideserving men and women tary. These young men and who have served in the milwomen give of their time to litary over the years. come and serve us our meals Comrade Doug Brunton and we give thanks for their was the guest speaker for dedication.” the evening. He spoke about The dinner was followed the history of the Kemptby the Awards. Members, Asville Branch of the Legion sociate Members and the Laand the extensive research dies Auxiliary received their that went into piecing it pins for between 5 and 40 together. He and the late years of membership. LifeLawson Arcand spent many time Membership awards, months reading through old Executive Members Medcopies of local newspapers als, Branch Service Awards in order to put together the and the Legionaire Awards story of the Kemptville Lefollowed. gion’s beginnings.

We at The North GrenThe dinner was prepared ville Times felt honoured to by the Ladies Auxiliary, an have been there, this being active group whose kitchen the first time the press had skills are undisputed. They been invited to this kind of also do a great deal of work event. It was obvious from behind the scenes, and were the beginning that this is a thanked for their dedication. very warm and loving group, The Navy Cadets were there quite willing to accept and to serve the meal, as well as embrace anyone who walks providing the Colour Party through their doors. for the evening. “We have a

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Honours and Awards 2013

ORDINARY Ray Ansell 5 year pin Charles Langlois 5 year pin Ralph Pulfer 5 year pin Terry Meagher 20 year pin ASSOCIATE Ernie Clarke 5 year pin Connie St-Germain 15 year pin Margaret Parker 30 year pin JP Moore 35 year pin LIFE MEMBERS Doug Brunton 20 year pin ORDINARY John Miller 20 year pin ASSOCIATE Branch Executive Medal Sean Casey Sgt-at-Arms Kelly DenisTreasurer Patricia Vandereyken 1st Vice President Ruth Garrett Youth Education Branch Service Medal Bruce Bilow accepted by Keith Bilow on behalf of his late Father Joanne Dudka Patricia Vandereyken Sheila Coughler Norman Lavoie Sharon Murray Aubrey Callan The following will be presented the Branch Service Medal at our next General meeting May 15th Syd Vandusen Kevin LeBlanc Scott McLaurin Phil Wiseman Legionnaire of the Year John Miller Lorena Miller Guest Speaker Douglas Brunton

Ladies Auxiliary: Wendy Chenier, Linda Chambers, Sheila Coughler, Pat Vander Eyken and special help from Don Dowall

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Editorial Page Deja Vu All Over Again

by David Shanahan For a few minutes, it seemed that the calendar was lying when it read the present time, as Phil Ochs would say. Let me take you back almost a decade. I went to my very first Council meeting in 2005, I think it was. It was held at the Ferguson Forest Centre, long before the fancy theatre was the scene of the weekly dramas played out for our entertainment. There were two main items that grabbed my attention that night. The first was that Maplewood School in Oxford Mills was in danger and the Community Association were trying to make arrangements with the Municipality to take over management of the building for the use of the community. When it was announced at the meeting that talks between the Municipality and the Community Association [OMCA] had ended without agreement, I was stunned. You see, I was one of the two people on the negotiating team for OMCA, and I

hadn’t heard that talks had broken down. In fact, we were still waiting to get the Municipality’s position in writing. Apparently, they didn’t think we were important enough to keep informed.

The other issue concerned Canada Day - it was in danger of being cancelled. The Chamber of Commerce had been organising events for a few years but had to pull out of the job. There was a serious chance that nothing would happen to celebrate Canada that year. Randy Stevenson, who was on Council then, announced proudly that he had come to a solution based on using staff hours to keep the party going. It wouldn’t cost taxpayers a cent, he assured everyone. To his amazement, the mayor and other councillors sharply reprimanded him for acting without authority. What was Canada Day to them? It certainly was not a matter the Municipality should be dragged into. But all Randy wanted was to find $3,000 for fireworks! No, the Council had just bought a house in

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor Re: North Grenville Organics Survey Asking residents to complete a “Curbside Organics Survey” without providing sufficient information is both premature and amateurish. Deputy Mayor Finnerty is chair of the “waste reduction” committee; responsibility for this survey is his. I presume Mr. Finnerty can, if he so chooses, answer the following points and questions. I don’t recall the issue of a green bin program being raised during the last election campaign. With a little less than two years to go before the next election why not wait and have this question resolved through referendum?

1. Why was “survey monkey” used as a survey tool?

This free program can be

manipulated by simply erasing your computers cookies after submission of the survey then simply filling it out again and again and again thus manipulating the totals. Survey monkey is not a tool to use when you are considering municipal policy. Any data reflected by this survey tool is unreliable and should not be considered.

2. What savings would there be if we moved to bi-weekly garbage collection? Would a reduction in service mean a reduction in taxes or bag tag costs? Would the frequency of blue box pick up remain the same or did you forget about that aspect of waste collection.

3. Instead of implying that increased costs would or could be added to property taxes, why not cover them with the savings derived from bi-weekly service? (question

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Well, here we are all these years later, and what’s happening? Well, the Municipality is treating OMCA with a complete lack of respect once again over the future of Maplewood and the Rotary Club has had to cancel their involvement with the Canada Day Parade. The Municipality has a budget of $5,000 for Canada Day, which should just about cover fireworks, but nothing else. Maplewood is closed for now, until OMCA and the Municipality can find a way of paying for insurance on the community hall (see Municipality Matters in this issue). Plus ça change, etc.

It seems that there has always been a tension between what the community expects from the Municipality and on what Council and staff feel they should be spending taxes.

We have seen a good deal of discussion over the years about what the role of staff is when it comes

to municipal expenditures, etc. But things like Canada Day, community halls, and legal documents such as leases should have a special place in our thinking about these things.

The day-to-day reality of life is that municipalities are under increasing stress over budgets and expenditures. This issue carries a special feature on what I think is one of the most important stories happening all too silently throughout Ontario today: the problems caused over insurance claims made against municipalities.

Almost unnoticed, community events, services and much of what we have come to take for granted as part of our Canadian lifestyle is under threat. Municipalities are far beyond feeling the chill over massive insurance compensation payments levied against them - they have become frozen in fear. Unwilling to take risks, it is becoming increasingly likely that, unless something is done at the provincial level, there will be an end to activities in municipally-owned facilities, or, at the very least, large-scale

tax increases to pay for hugely inflated insurance premiums.

In those far-off days when Randy Stevenson was condemned for wanting North Grenville to protect Canada Day, the objections were based as much on ideology as finance. Certain people on Council simply did not believe that tax money should be spent on taxpayers. Today, the situation is much more complex. It is not just a matter of ideology (though that is still a factor for some), it is also a matter of fear: fear of the Municipality being made liable for enormous sums, millions of dollars, if one person falls over at a Canada Day parade, or drinks too much at a beer tent and crashes their

car on the way home, or chokes on a hotdog. This may sound a little paranoid or overly-dramatic; but read some of the cases described in the articles this week, and then see if we are being alarmist.

Things have to change quickly, we cannot afford either to see insurance issues dictate our lifestyle as a community, or to drive up our taxes to pay inflated premiums.

Municipalities are being named in lawsuits because it is seen that they have “deep pockets” and can afford to pay. If matters continue as they are going, that will certainly no longer be the case. Those pockets will have holes and we will all be paying the piper.

is rhetorical) 4. Will we be supplied with a green bin and liners or need to buy our own? What will be the cost to taxpayers if the bins are supplied? Is the cost in this year’s budget?

5. Has Council done any research on this issue? Web site greenventures.ca provides many links to sites related to composting. Researching composting of pet waste suggests that it not be composted with kitchen organics as it requires special treatment to ensure pathogens are properly handled. Yet, the expensive plastic handout we all received this week has pet waste as a permitted compostable item. (Why couldn’t this handout have been printed on biodegradable recycled paper?)

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Ottawa’s contract with “Orgaworld” costs $8 million a year to process 80,000 tons of waste. What will our contract cost be and with what organization will we

be contracting. What are the specifics of the proposed contract. Mr. Finnerty have you even looked into a contract cost yet?

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Perhaps, the plan is to simply consolidate all the green bin waste in one big pile at the Oxford Mills landfill. If not, then I assume a separate transfer cost will be required to take the waste somewhere?

8. I would like to know, if expansion of the current back yard composter program was considered. Free composters are in use by many.

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How will the municipality manage “policing” of the new bylaw should there be one. Will we have special garbage and green bin police?

Cost? Will fines be levied if people mix “green garbage” with the rest of non-recyclable items?

10. How will restaurant and others who use a “private collection” service be treated?

Will separation of compostable organics be imposed on

schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, restaurants, tea rooms, community facilities etc. or will this be imposed only on private residences.

11. Will private contractors who haul waste from the above sites be permitted to dump such waste at the Oxford Mills transfer site? Who will separate the waste if the contractors don’t?

12. Mayor Gordon suggests that waste diversion is a community concern? If there is such a concern, then why isn’t that concern manifested in the press through continued articles and/or letters to the editor.

I’m not disputing the value of composting; however, being asked to “cast a vote” or comment without appropriate detail suggests to me that the residents of this community are not being treated fairly. Present the facts. Solve the need and desire through a municipal referendum

during the next election campaign.

Your survey is premature and should be withdrawn. Do your homework then hold a series of public meetings to discuss the proposed program.

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Insurance Liability for Municipalities: A Growing Threat

by David Shanahan There have been a number of major court cases over the past few years that have brought more than a chill of fear to municipalities in Ontario. In places like Halton, Windsor and Oshawa, courts have awarded millions of dollars in damages in cases of road accidents, almost all of which these municipalities have ended up paying. And this has all been because of a legal nightmare called “joint and several liability”. Even where municipalities are not logically involved in a court case, they have been named as defendants because joint and several liability can result in municipalities paying 100% of costs awarded. This is because liability is considered to be equally shared between all defendants, regardless of their degree of responsibility for an event. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario [AMO], which represents 444 Municipalities in the Province, have described the situation in stark terms: “Municipalities are increasingly being targeted as ‘deep pocket’ defendants in law suits because legal conventions can hold them accountable to pay high settlements when other defendants lack the means. Municipal insurance premiums and liability claims are increasing dramatically, despite enormous improvements to safety and better risk management practices.

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other reforms that would address the legal convention, which is known as joint and several liability.

“Under the regime of joint and several liability, if other parties are unable to pay, damages can be recovered from any defendant even if they are deemed just one per cent responsible. Just a fraction of fault can push municipalities to pay huge damage awards, often targeted deliberately as insurers of last resort.”

The nature of some of the cases involving municipalities shows how bad the position has become. In Windsor, a man crossing a quiet residential street was struck by a car driven by someone who had been drinking and whose licence was suspended at the time of the accident.

The victim suffered severe injuries, and sued the driver and the municipality, arguing that the accident only happened because he crossed the street. Obviously. But, he went on to argue that he only crossed the street because there was no sidewalk on his side and he was crossing to the sidewalk on the other side. He was awarded $12.8 million. The driver’s insurance would not cover that amount, so the municipality was landed with the expense. As a result, Windsor’s liability insurance premiums rose by 70% the following year, adding an additional 1% to the average tax bill for residents.

Another example of the effects of joint and several liability on municipalities is seen in a 2009 case. A single vehicle accident occurred on a road which was under construction. The driver was impaired and speeding while overtaking another vehicle where the pavement turned to gravel.

The driver lost control of the vehicle and was killed.

His passenger suffered a catastrophic brain injury.

Neither was wearing a seatbelt. The township was named in the legal action because it was responsible for the road construction.

While the township did not meet standards with respect to signage warning of construction ahead, the actions of the driver (who was impaired, speeding, and not wearing a seat belt) almost wholly contributed to the extent of

the injuries sustained. The claim settled for $9.39 million, of which the driver’s insurer contributed $2.67 million. The remaining $6.72 million was paid by the township’s insurer due to the application of joint and several liability.

Ye t a n o t h e r c a s e , Deering v. Halton et al, was based on an accident which took place in 2004 in the Oshawa area.

The lawsuit arose out of an accident that occurred when the Deering sisters, along with three friends, took evasive action when it appeared an oncoming car had veered into their lane. The car rolled and hit a rock culvert and the Deering sisters sustained catastrophic spinal injuries. The other three passengers were also injured.

The original court case found Shannon Deering, the City of Oshawa and the Township of Scugug each one-third responsible for the accident, and awarded a total of around $30 million in compensation.

The municipalities were held responsible because the road was opened to traffic without proper line markings and speed reduction warnings after having been repaved.

Shannon Deering was responsible for negligent driving, as she was driving over the speed limit and had not paid proper attention to road conditions. In December, 2012, The Supreme Court of Canada rejected Scugog and Oshawa's application to overturn an Ontario Appeals Court decision that held the municipalities partially liable. The Court dismissed the municipalities’s appeals with costs, without giving a reason for the decision.

These huge sums being awarded in litigation, and paid under municipal insurance coverage, are becoming more and more common. This kind of approach by judges, based on the law as it stands, has meant that, as AMO says, municipalities are being discouraged to hold community events, and in some cases, are scaling back services. We in North Grenville are beginning to see the effects of this freeze by our own Municipality. The fact is that, in spite of careful supervision of playgrounds, swimming

pools and other municipal facilities across the province, joint and several liability means that there can be no guarantee of immunity for municipalities when it comes to court action. Even where their responsibility in a given case is 1%, their liability may well be 100%. In a survey conducted by AMO of Ontario municipalities, it was calculated that total insurance costs had risen between 2007 and 2011 by almost 21%. In that same period, Municipal expenditures increased by less than 5%. And these insurance costs are projected to increase significantly over the next decade: from about $155 million in 2011 to $180 million in 2015.

There are ways to change this impossible situation, and most other jurisdictions in North America have moved to amend the law in this regard. Various alternatives are available, including limiting a defendant’s liability to whatever percentage for which the courts deem they are responsible.

This means that, even if other defendants cannot pay their share, municipalities are only obligated to meet their own portion, and not cover the defaults of others.

AMO has called on the Ontario Government to start moving in this direction, and follow the example set by other Canadian and US authorities, particularly as it affects “deep pocket” municipalities and others. The warning explicit in AMO’s statements should concern us all in North Grenville: “Ontario municipalities ought not to be insurers of last resort, targeted deliberately in some instances because of joint and several. If this situation is allowed to continue, the scaling back on public services in order to limit liability exposure and insurance costs will only continue. Regrettably it will be at the expense of local communities across the province.”

This is already happening in North Grenville, as illustrated by the case of the Oxford Mills Community Association [see accompanying story]. It is not municipalities alone that are vulnerable, but also any organisation or

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taxes that moved other jurisdictions across North America to amend the joint and several liability elements in legislation.

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How Kemptville Has Changed Part X Clothier Street East of the Bridge

by Jim Dolan It is early May and I am standing in the beautiful Rotary Park at the north east corner of Prescott and Clothier Streets. When I was a young boy in the late 50s and early 60s it was the home of the Supertest Service Station. There were no hydraulic hoists at the station. You just drove your car over an open pit and the mechanic went underground to change the oil and grease the car. A small booth facing Prescott Street was also built on the site. In the summer, you could buy ice cream cones, soft drinks, cigarettes, and other non-organic treats at that booth.

Next to the Supertest, Alex Bien and his wife, Ida, operated the Jack and Jill Shop. The store specialized in children’s clothing, but if you were a little older you could find a nice pair of blue jeans at a reasonable price.

As it is such a nice day, I think I will continue walking east on Clothier Street. I pass by the Holiday Hilton (the blue apartment building beside Salamander’s Restaurant) and quite a few more houses before I turn right and walk down to Curry Park. It wasn’t a park when I was a kid but as a middle-aged adult I truly enjoyed the Canada Day Celebrations at that location. The atmosphere was charged. Entertainers, dressed in period costumes of days long gone by, took us back in songs and spoken words to a time when the South Branch of the Rideau River was the gateway

to Kemptville’s soul, its downtown – a downtown that reverberated with the sounds coming from the sawmills, the hotels, and individually-owned shops of various kinds.

Walking up from the park, I cross Clothier Street and head west. I stop and sit on the steps of the Odd Fellows Hall.

I let my mind take me back to March 1960. It seems like every lady who arrives at the hall is carrying something fresh homemade rolls, beans, pies, cakes, scallop potatoes, salads and platters of ham, beef and turkey. What’s happening? Why it’s the annual Fireman’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. We kids always made a mad dash for the basement to be part of the first of the evening’s three sittings.

If you told the ladies, who were serving the food they looked mighty fine that evening, you might receive a generous portion of everything, or an extra piece of pie.

The real action, however, didn’t start until after the meal. The firemen always had a live band for the dance and for this one time only we (the younger generation) were allowed to stay and watch how the adults behaved or misbehaved, depending upon your point of view. If you stepped outside for a break from the action you might see more than one flask being passed from person to person. I knew even back then that each contained more than just “The Real Thing”. In the 30s and 40s you could attend the dinner and dance for 50 cents, but it probably cost a dollar or more when I

became acquainted with the Fireman’s Ball. Every male was encouraged to bring his “Colleen” and to leave his Shillelagh at home. If memory serves me well, John Casgrain (John the Barber) and his long-time friend Gary McHale may have played at one of these dances.

My memory is stuffed but I haven’t gone 50 feet west on Clothier Street, when my appetite is aroused again.

The scent of fresh baked bread, world famous butter tarts, apple fritters and rolls draws me into “Grahame’s Bakery”, yet another of Kemptville’s true treasures.

Three generations of the Grahame family have worked in the bakery.

They might never have owned the business had it not been for the Second World War. Bert Frisby owned the business at the beginning of the war.

The story has it that Mr. Frisby’s son was being groomed to take over the business, but he decided to go off to war as a pilot. Being short of help, Mr. Frisby hired Leonard Grahame in 1939. In 1960, Leonard bought the bakery and it has remained in his family for the past 53 years.

This bakery isn’t just any bakery. It was established as such in 1885.

Rick Grahame and his sister, Debbie Wilson, Leonard’s grandchildren, became the current owners when their dad Ken (Red) passed away in 2005. Rick and Debbie take pride in the fact that all products continue to be baked in the business’s historical woodburning brick oven and that the ingredients used

L-R Ken Finnerty, Sherm Christie, Wayne Scobie, Manfred Boal and John Capes are from original recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation.

When I was young and my dad took me to the bakery, I was able to not only sample the best fresh baked goods for miles around, but also listen to the world news and local gossip according to Leonard and later from his son Red. Red was a great story teller and you could always tell when he was stretching the facts a bit. Rose, his wife, the real boss, would roll her eyes and smile a smile that would melt more than the butter on the bun you were about to sample.

At the corner of Clothier and Sanders Streets stands another historical stone building, circa 1847. Today it is home to Rowland Leather. Owner Michael Rowland is devoted to making leather goods of exquisite style and enduring quality. His award-winning designs attest to his passion for excellence. When I was growing up it housed Maxie Miller’s General

Store. You could buy just about anything there, including the saddle shoes that were so popular in the 50s. For more than twenty years, Maxie had a “Going Out of Business Sale” sign in his front store window. The whole town was shocked the day he actually closed his business for good.

In the late 70s, the Hartley family ran an ice cream parlour at this location. You could also get a tasty soup and sandwich for a reasonable price. I still remember the day one of the waitresses thanked me profusely for finding her earring in my soup.

At the north east corner of Clothier and Sanders Streets, where the parking lot is today, stood a building with beautiful wooden columns until it was destroyed by fire in 1991. When I was young, it housed two businesses - Shaw and Henderson’s Hardware Store and Lorne Johnston’s Pool Hall. Ross Scobie bought the pool hall in the early 60s and he owned the General

Store as well. I can still remember the first time I played pool. I was eleven years old. It was April and Doc Flay (Ronnie) and I had just ridden our bikes back from mudpout fishing up at the Oxford Mills Bridge. I think that there was a minimum age and size to play pool back then, but, heck, I knew the owner. I couldn’t do anything about my age, but we could certainly do something about my height. Lorne, Mr. Johnston to me, and a good friend of my father ’s, quickly solved my dilemma by giving me an old wooden coke case on which to stand. I was finally tall and I was proud – so proud. I got to be pretty good with a cue, but I was no match for the real sharks in town - Ken Finnerty, Sherm Christie, Manford Boal and John Capes. These guys could really shoot and so eventually could Eddie Thompson. Where are you buddy, I haven’t seen you since Acapulco in 1987?

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French High School for North Grenville We feel that it is time to start talking about a French High School for North Grenville. We are realistic people so we are not asking for the construction of a new building. What is happening now is that the kids should go to Nepean (50 km direct) to continue in French. Most give up and transfer to St. Mikes. Here is an English extract of what we are circulating to our families...

What do we want?

We want our teenagers to live, work and study here in North Grenville.

We have started a process to create a French secondary school in our community. We have studied a model that is in place in Northern Ontario, a school called Écho du Nord. In general terms, a French school board rents classrooms from an English school board.

The French high school is its own entity and offers the same education as any other French high school. While this high school has less than 100 students, they can participate in the extracurricular activities of the host high school. In addition, students from either board may take courses offered by the other. É c o l e s e c o n d a i re francophone à North Grenville… pourquoi pas?

D’après le recensement 2011 de Statistique

Canada, plus de 20% des résidents de North Grenville sont bilingues et 6% d’entre eux ont indiqué que leur langue maternelle était le français. C’est peut-être surprenant pour certains d’apprendre qu’il y a tellement de gens qui parlent le français, puisque la plupart des francophones parlent l’anglais sans accent. Les enfants de North Grenville qui fréquentent l’école élémentaire de langue française se rendent à Merrickville. Toutefois, les adolescents qui continuent leur éducation secondaire en français doivent se rendre à Nepean au Collège catholique Franco-Ouest.

Présentement, la tendance de nos familles exogames (un parent francophone et un parent anglophone), est de transférer l’adolescent au système d’éducation anglophone après la 6e ou la 8e année. La distance et le temps pour se rendre à Nepean, les obstacles pour participer aux activités parascolaires, les différences culturelles entre les régions, et les difficultés pour une vie sociale saine ne sont que quelques-uns des facteurs qui influencent les familles.

Un groupe de parents de North Grenville a commencé à mettre des pressions sur le système d’éducation afin de trouver une meilleure solution pour leurs enfants. On propose qu’un conseil scolaire francophone loue des salles de classes d’un conseil scolaire anglophone à North Grenville. Ici, les

élèves recevront la même éducation de langue française que fournissent les autres écoles francophones.

Tant que « l’école francophone » aura moins de 100 étudiants, les élèves pourront participer aux activités parascolaires de l’école anglophone. Il y aura possibilité de suivre des cours du côté anglophone et vice versa. En bref, les adolescents resteront à North Grenville pour leurs études secondaires et participeront aux activités parascolaires de l’école déjà établie, ce qui est la tendance actuelle. TOUTEFOIS, à l’intérieur de la salle de classe, les élèves recevront leur éducation en français. Le conseil scolaire anglophone recevra des frais de location pour les salles de classe, et aura la possibilité d’exposer ses élèves d’immersion à des cours de français plus avancés, leur permettant ainsi d’améliorer la qualité de leur français. Ce serait une situation gagnante pour tous.

De quoi avons-nous besoin?

Le Conseil des écoles catholiques du centre-est (CECCE) va nous recevoir le 28 mai pour une présentation de nos besoins et du modèle décrit ci-dessus.

Nous aimerions avoir une liste informelle de familles qui préfèreraient envoyer leurs enfants à ce genre d’école, plutôt que de les faire transporter à FrancoOuest ou de les transférer au système anglophone. Si cela vous intéresse, nous

vous demandons d’envoyer un texte dans un courriel au Comité francophone à l’adresse ecolefranco_ northgrenville@yahoo. com. Vous pouvez adresser toutes questions à cette même adresse. Prière de répondre d’ici le 15 mai.

Merci!

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Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways

by David Shanahan Just as the rest of us say goodbye to winter and try to forget what driving on icy roads is like, the Municipality’s Public Works Department is absorbing the implications of a fascinating piece of writing called: Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways [MMS], a revision of which came into effect last January.

Section 44 of the Municipal Act 2001 requires municipalities to keep highways and bridges in a reasonable state of repair and imposes liability under the Negligence Act for failure to do so. It also authorises the Minister responsible to set out minimum standards which would remove such liability as long as they are observed by the municipality in question. The MMS are designed to establish what “reasonable”means under the Act, and attempts to lay down guidelines on road maintenance, monitoring, and especially on road clearance during winter conditions. The amendments which came into force on January 31 are aimed at correcting problems created by Court rulings in the case of Giuliani v. Region of Halton, in which municipalities were found liable despite adhering to these minimum maintenance standards for roads.

Guiliani v. Region of Halton was the subject of a special presentation at the ROMA Conference at the end of February. ROMA [the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association] and the Ontario Good Roads Association hold a joint conference every year for mayors and councillors of rural municipalities to come together and discuss matters of common interest. And Guiliani was certainly of interest, as it seemed to completely do away with any protection they had received from the MMS regulations.

The case centred on a road accident that had taken place in Halton Township in 2003. A driver, travelling along a two-lane road which was icy, lost control of the car and hit an oncoming vehicle. The courts gave judgment against Halton, even though they had technically complied with the MMS regarding clearing snow off roads and dealing with icy conditions, because May 8, 2013

it was held that the terms of the MMS didn’t apply in the Giuliani case. Although these gave Halton four hours to clear snow 5 cms deep, it did not cover snow that was less than that. At the time of the accident, the snow was only about 2 cms. deep. In addition, it was held that the Municipality should have been monitoring the weather so as to know that the roads might become icy and so take steps to prevent that happening.

The Municipality pointed out that the MMS gave them four hours to deal with icy roads once they became aware of them. The judges’ response was that the MMS applied only after Halton became aware of icy conditions, but said nothing about the responsibility to prevent icy conditions forming, and therefore did not apply in that case. In short, it was clear from the courts that the MMS simply did not cover each and every possible situation that could arise. Hence the need for a revision of the MMS. The new regulations attempt to tie up the loose ends identified by Guiliani.

Specifically, it lays down guidelines for increased monitoring of weather and road conditions by Municipalities and this is where the costs will come in. Karen Dunlop, Director of Public Works for North Grenville, spoke to the Times recently and emphasised the fact that this Municipality has always exceeded the MMS standards. Every truck in the Municipal fleet is equipped with the technology which allows the Department to know where each is at all times and to ensure that every road is examined and maintained in a managed pattern to maximise safety and to keep close watch on road and weather conditions.

Karen pointed out that: “The Automated Vehicle Locator is a GPS unit

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mounted in each truck with a wireless connection which we use to track the movements of the trucks and the sensors provide information as to their action, ie: plowing or sanding (even speed).

All this information is automatically sent and stored on our Fleet Complete software which we can use to query if there is an accident, complaint or liability issue.”

The revised MMS will be adhered to as always, but they require further investment of time and resources at the very least, as weather monitoring must now take place a minimum of three times a day during the winter months. It is possible that adherence to the MMS in future will also require investment in training in new technology and software by the Municipality, to allow it to use a new system of weather monitoring that will be established on a provincial basis. Fortunately, good planning has meant that North Grenville has the fleet of vehicles required to deal with the growing population over the next ten years. Snow ploughs and sanding trucks and all the other equipment needed by the road crews are in place.

Other financial implications for North Grenville of the revised MMS will be in the need for extra shifts of workers that will likely be needed to comply with the new regulations.

As Karen says, the MMS are not mandatory, but failure to fully comply with them would leave the Municipality open to the kind of litigation experienced by Halton in the Giuliani case under the joint and several liability criteria. And, of course, the implications of Guiliani will certainly lead to higher insurance premiums and a further chill among municipal officials as they try to curtail the number of events and activities that could conceivably lead to litigation.

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Mind how you go

by David Shanahan Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.

Matthew 22.36-37.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12.2 Christianity, as I’ve tried to show in these columns, is far from the “pie in the sky, check your mind in at the door” kind of religion. In fact, it is not really a religion: it is a relationship, one that demands that you use your mind and think about things.

But the Bible also teaches that our natural state is a fallen one. Our minds, as the old Catechisms used to put it, have been darkened. As Paul says: “But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away”. 2 Corinthians 3.14.

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is the one thing that stops us from seeing and learning and knowing as we should. We repeat the same blind attitude that caused the Fall in the first place: we want to be as God, we create God in our own image, and anything the Bible shows us about him that we find offensive, or objectionable, or threatening, we reject in a superior way. God wants us to use our minds; but first he wants us to acknowledge that our minds alone can never see the things of the Spirit. “Only in Christ is [the veil] taken away”.

This, therefore, does away with any idea that Christianity is a spectator sport, or that it is something we can get secondhand. If you think that you can know God by listening to a professional Christian, a clergyman, pastor, minister, priest, or whatever your group calls them, you are mistaken.

You have to come to him alone, and ask, and seek, and knock. He will answer the humble of heart (and mind).

Churches these days are designed as theatres. They are shaped that way, with a stage in front where the show is put on. The audience is sitting there, joining in when the script calls for it, but trained in many ways to be recipients,

not activists.

Remember this: Jesus has called us individually.

He wants each of us to know and love him, and know how much he loves us. It doesn’t depend on education, social position, or status, or wealth.

Get together with those who know this, and are seeking honestly, expecting to find.

And no-one comes between you and the Lord. “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 Tim. 2.5 Don’t wait to be “worthy”: you never will be. Don’t wait until you feel ready: you never will be. Come to him on the basis that he has invited you, that he welcomes you and loves you. Think about these things. Don’t believe in blind faith, there is good reason to believe: it is there in Scripture, in his Word, in his promises. It answers every question, if you are willing to ask and receive an answer, even when it doesn’t suit you.

“Just as I am, without one plea but that thy blood was shed for me And that thou bidst me come to thee.

O Lamb of God, I come. I come” Charlotte Elliott.

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Bishop’s Mills annual Community Day Mark your calendar for the 10th Annual Bishop’s Mills Community Day which will take place on Saturday, May 18.

Discover treasures at several community-wide yard sales. Treat yourself to some delicious baked goods from the Bishop’s Mills Women’s Institute’s famous bake sale. Partici-

pate in a silent auction or purchase some of the many quality “Made in Bishop’s Mills” crafts. Get close and personal with alpacas at the Alpaca Tracks farm and check out products made from their fine fibre.

Take a self-guided walking tour of the village (part of the North Grenville 150 km Trail) and discover

some of its historical sites.

And don’t forget to drop in for lunch at the St. Andrew’s Church Hall.

Maps for the yard sales and the Alpaca Tracks farm will be available at the Community Hall at 8 am. The bake sale, canteen, silent auction, displays etc start at 9 am.

This community day

event is hosted by the Bishop’s Mills Community Association, the Bishop’s Mills Women’s Institute, and the St. Andrew’s United Church Women.

Come out and experience the friendliness and charm of our hamlet!

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Cancellation Impacts on North Grenville II: Oxford Mills of Rotary’s Maplewood Community Hall, mean the Municipality’s they did it and felt it was

by David Shanahan policy would worth the effort to mainCanada Day Almost ten years ago, insurance still cover events at the tain a true Community was reported in a local Hall. The Committee was Hall in Oxford Mills. It parade for itpaper that the Municipal- established by Council and was never easy to find the ity was going to either sell the work began. revenues to pay the rent or 2013 In the years since the the hydro and oil bills. But or demolish Maplewood

The Rotary Club of Kemptville regrets to announce the cancellation of this years’ Rotary Canada Day Parade due in large part, to current Club commitments both in the community and abroad. The Club has organized the parade for many years and has brought joy to children and families in this community.

We wish to thank those companies and organizations who have participated with us in the past and we hope that parade entrants and spectators alike will be with us in the future. It is our intent to plan the parade for July 1, 2014 to coincide with the Municipality of North Grenville’s Canada Day festivities. The Rotary Club of Kemptville does apologize for the disappointment but trust that all will raise a flag and enjoy a safe and happy Canada Day.

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school in Oxford Mills unless the Oxford Mills Community Association [OMCA] was prepared to buy it for $1 and run it themselves. This was part of a retrenchment in municipal spending that also included cancelling the Community Grants Program. Talks began between OMCA and municipal staff. The Municipality ended the talks soon after, but in 2008 OMCA were approached by the Municipality to reopen the issue. As a result, OMCA took over the day-to-day running of Maplewood as a Community Hall, handling rentals, maintenance, and paying a rent to the Municipality which were meant to be paid into a special account to cover expenses to the exterior of the building.

Insurance was a major issue at the time, as OMCA realised that they could not afford to cover the cost, nor the possible liabilities that might come with opening the building to the public. Staff came up with the answer: create a Committee of Council, which would be a subsidiary of OMCA to manage Maplewood. This would

first lease was signed, OMCA members have worked long hours handling rentals, reporting to staff on bookings, preparing and cleaning the Hall, and dealing with the many emergencies that always arise in such an operation. The furnace died one year, and everyone stepped in and provided portable heaters from their own homes until a new furnace could be installed. The water filtration system had to be completely replaced.

One OMCA member personally handled cleaning toilets, sweeping, washing floors and any other work that needed to be done without charge for the first year of the lease.

A web site was established, and an on-line booking system devised to make the Hall accessible to the community. Groups who could no longer afford to rent other Municipal buildings were catered to

by Maplewood’s OMCAset rates, which, unlike those of the Municipality, made allowances for non-profit groups. It was incredibly hard work at times and made real demands on OMCA members to keep it going. But

as 2013 began, things were looking very good after all the hard work. Bookings of the hall between January and March of this year were double those of last year.

Then came the bombshell. The Municipality, probably in response to the Guiliani and other cases, suddenly announced that Maplewood was not run by a Committee of Council and demanded OMCA take out extra insurance to cover activities there. In spite of several attempts

by OMCA to meet staff requirements, none were acceptable to the Municipality, in spite of the terms of the lease they had signed with OMCA which stated the Municipality’s responsibility for insurance coverage at the Hall.

Overnight, the individual members of OMCA, who have put so much time and labour into running the Hall, were abandoned by the Municipality, vulnerable to insurance claims for anything that might happen during rental activities. They could lose their own homes, businesses, whatever, because the Municipality arbitrarily decided to ignore the facts

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of the case. OMCA were even obliged to postpone their AGM in order to take time to deal with the issue before allowing the public into the Hall.

In the meantime, all booked events are being honoured by OMCA, who have acquired insurance coverage for those activities (which include at least one wedding), but no further bookings are being accepted until the issue is resolved. Insurance coverage for OMCA will cost at least $1,500 - a large sum for a voluntary organisation.

Not that the Municipal staff or Council ever admitted that it was insurance issues that prompted this retreat from responsibility. They claimed it was a concern for the health and well-being of OMCA members that prompted the action: the volunteers were working too hard, it was “slave labour”, and they should be glad to have the Municipality take back management of Maplewood. Committees of Council are covered by municipal insurance.

Maplewood could easily

be named as such a Committee again without cost to the Municipality. That, apparently, is not the issue.

The real fear staff have is that the more events take place at Maplewood, or other municipally-covered facilities, the more likely an accident will happen that will lead to serious liability for North Grenville.

What they may not yet have realised is that, even if OMCA cover every event with their own insurance, the Municipality will still be liable in any litigation as long as Maplewood is owned by them. The choice seems to be to either make OMCA a Committee of Council, as previously, or sell Maplewood to OMCA for $1 and get the fear out of their system. Either way, Council and staff have treated OMCA and the hard-working volunteers with a grave lack of respect and a lack of transparency and honesty. This is another example of what joint and several liability has done to communities across Ontario.

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Profile of a local horseback rider: Jessie Christie (Part 2)

by Dina Snippe and Jessie Christie While her name is undoubtedly familiar to anyone who’s spent much time at local hunter/jumper horse shows in the past two decades, North Grenville as a whole has a lot to learn about Jessie Christie. This week, I talk to Jessie about her show competitions and future goals.

In which equestrian discipline do you compete? Describe the discipline, please.

I compete in Hunter/ Jumper. Hunter is all about subtlety and style. You jump over a seemingly straightforward course, but you are constantly striving for perfection while making everything appear effortless. You are judged on your horse’s jumping technique, gaits, and overall way of going. It tends to look really simple, but the reality is that you are making corrections and adjustments throughout the entire course. However, if you are doing it well, your efforts as a rider are completely invisible to anyone watching (which is the whole idea of Hunter).

Jumper is a whole different ball game. The idea is to complete a challenging, technical course of jumps with the goal of having the fastest time and least amount of faults.

There is no subjectivity in Jumper. Faults are given when a horse knocks down the top rail of a jump, refuses to jump, or if you come in over the set time limit.

Do you ride in horse

shows? If so, what level?

How often are the shows?

I started competing in Hunter/Jumper shows soon after I started riding.

My first year, I stuck to local shows, but I moved up to the national circuit the next year. Since then, I’ve done at least some competing every year. The level and the amount of shows I do tends to vary depending on what horse(s) I’m riding and what else has been going on in my life. There have been years where I’ve done both the national and provincial circuits and competed virtually every weekend from May to September (on my own horses and “catch riding” for other owners). Other years I have stuck to six national shows, since that is usually the minimum number you need to have a chance at qualifying for the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, which acts as the championship for the national circuit. And some years, I have done the Trillium shows exclusively (usually between 6 and 10 shows).

What kinds of divisions are available? How do you know which division to enter?

There are four levels of Hunter/Jumper shows in Canada. There is a huge range of divisions available at most horse shows. There are hunter and jumper divisions for both ponies and horses, and junior, senior, amateur, and non-amateur riders.

Depending on the level of the competition, the height of the jumps can range from 18” in the smallest beginner divisions to 1.60m in the biggest grand prix classes.

The division you enter depends entirely on the level of experience of both you and your horse. If you are in your first year of showing, it’s probably best to learn the ropes by competing with an experienced horse at a low height. If you are experienced, but your horse is green (horse-

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speak for inexperienced), lower divisions are probably the best choice in this situation too. As you (and/ or your horse) gain experience, you can move up the ranks to compete over higher jumps and against more competitive riders.

Beginner divisions can be found at most horse shows, from Bronze to Gold, but they seldom offer prize money, so sticking to the Bronze circuit is generally more affordable as the entry fees are lower. Once you move up to the more advanced divisions, prize money is almost always awarded. Gold shows offer the most prize money, but they also have the highest entry fees.

How have you financially supported your love of riding and horses?

My parents have always been incredibly generous and supportive of my riding. They are the only reason I was able to get so much experience and have so many opportunities growing up. I will also be eternally grateful to Debbie for giving me so many opportunities to ride and compete, and the chance to gain experience on her young horses and sales horses. Since becoming an adult, I have taken on financial responsibility for my horses. I won’t lie, it’s tough. I’ve had to come to terms with the trials and tribulations of neverending debt. And there’s a lot I’ve had to give up. I see a ton of my friends taking regular vacations and buying houses, and that’s just not in the cards for me right now. But, in the end, my beautiful, amazing horses are 110 percent worth anything I’ve had to give up.

I am also unbelievably lucky to work for Beelineweb.com, an amazing company that believes in supporting the goals and dreams of their employees. Competing on the national circuit means taking tons of time off work, and calls for a truly frightening amount of money. Not only is Beelineweb.com allowing me to spread my three weeks of vacation time out sporadically across the spring and summer in order to attend horse shows, but they have provided me with an incredibly generous monetary sponsorship

to help cover the cost of competing.

What are your future goals in horse sport? How do you plan to achieve these goals?

Two years ago I gave up my amateur status in order to start coaching and focus more on horse training. Coaching has been amazing, and I’m honoured to be able to help and work with such fantastic people at Turnout Stables (under Debbie’s expert guidance). So it is definitely something I want to continue doing. However, giving up my amateur status also means having to move up from the amateur divisions at horse shows.

This summer, my goal is to compete with Cohen in the Combined Hunter division on the A circuit. It will be my first time competing as a non-amateur at the national level. I’ll have to go up against some incredibly talented riders who are backed by so much experience—which is terrifying, but really exciting at the same time. Eventually I would also love to compete at higher levels of jumper (1.30m+). This is something I’ve always wanted to do, but something always seems to get in the way, such as insufficient finances, and other personal circumstances.

But, one of the greatest things about riding is that it’s something you can do for the long haul. Take Ian Millar for instance. The man is 66 years old, has been riding for literally decades (and competed in a world record-breaking 10 Olympic Games) and isn’t even considering retirement yet!

Ladies and gentlemen of North Grenville, there you have it: An insider’s view into the life of local equestrian Jessie Christie.

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By Patrick Babin

After rotting in the cabinet for weeks, Aunt Alice brought out some grapes.

Poor Aunt Alice!

Five bands from North Grenville District High School participate in Atlantic Band Festival Five bands with 109 students, staff and chaperones from NGDHS headed out east last week to participate in the Atlantic Band Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Participants, a grades 7/8 concert band, a grades 9-12 concert band, a grades 7-12 jazz band, and two drumming groups – Big Bang (grades 7/8) and Bigger Bang (grades 9-12) – boarded two 55seat coach buses and drove 18 hours to Mount Saint Vincent University, the venue for the event. They participated in performances, workshops, and tours of landmarks including the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. The group performed at the event with approximately 3,000 other musicians from Canada and the United States.

The experience became even more special for NGDHS when Big Bang received a silver recognition for their performance.

Vice-principal David Morrison said students had the opportunity to watch the National Youth Orchestra perform, as well as attend a celebration party to meet the other participating musicians.

“It’s a great opportunity for the kids,” he said.

“As a former music student, events like these were the highlights of my educational experience. This is where some of the gems of the educational experience come about.”

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How Much Sodium Do The Kids Eat?

by Heather Westendorp Children eat far more sodium than they need!

There has been little research into the effects of sodium on our little ones.

A child only needs a small amount of sodium for good health. Two slices of bread or a single cup of breakfast cereal provide more than enough for the whole day. The average child will consume almost 2,000 mg of sodium in a day… some even more.

The science is not paying much attention to how all this sodium affects young bodies, short or long term.

Too much sodium affects our water balance.

When a person eats salted foods, the blood concentration of sodium rises, thirst prompts the person to drink more water until the appropriate sodium to water ratio is restored.

When a person consumes too much sodium, it can contribute to high blood pressure. The upper tolerable intake for adults is 2300 mg per day. By the time a child is 17 years old, the average consumption is over 3,500 mg per day. A simple bowl of soup can contain well over 1,500 mg of sodium. Salt has been and continues to be a great preservative for foods, but our bodies cannot take the large amounts used in processed products.

The human body does need sodium to provide electrolytes and regulate extracellular fluid volume, but the amounts required are far less than a 1,000 mg per day. One single teaspoon has 2,000 mg sodium. It is no wonder we are always thirsty! The body is trying to balance all the salt we consume.

Most of the sodium in our diet comes from the added salt and a variety of additives and seasoning in processed foods. Some of the most common ingredients that provide sodium include: Salt, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Celery Salt, Garlic Salt, Monosodium Glutamate(MSG), May 8, 2013

Onion Salt, Seasoned Salt, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Benzonate, Sodium Caseinate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrate, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium propionate, Sodium Saccharin, Sodium Tripolyphosphate.

A child’s body is much smaller and the foods that child eats are often full of sodium based preservatives and flavours. If you think a child’s salt intake is low because he/ she rarely uses the salt shaker, think again! Lots of processed foods aimed at kids have extremely high sodium levels, but you can’t always tell the sodium content from the taste. You would think that potato chips and French fries would be high in sodium because they taste salty, but in fact they have only 135-200 mg per 14 chips. A single hot dog or hamburger contains upwards of 500-1,000 mg sodium for a single serving. Cheese is also very high in sodium. The v-8 juice that you think is healthy because it is equal to 2 vegetable servings can contain upwards of 400 mg of sodium.

Children are seldom checked for blood pressure yet they can easily have high blood pressure in part due to consistent high sodium intake. Many of us read labels, but reading the ingredients list can be very important too! You will definitely be surprised how much sodium is contained in every day foods. Instant puddings, soups, cereals, pies, ketchup, salad dressings, canned vegetables and even meats have high sodium. In addition to high blood pressure, new research is showing that lifelong diets high in sodium increase the risk of osteoporosis. When the body excretes excess sodium, a little calcium goes with it. Too much of anything will cause long term damage. Even if your children have already learned to love salt, you can help them unlearn it.

Although it takes time to reduce salt intake, within a month people usually find their taste buds end up preferring less salt. It is wonderful to taste the natural flavours in foods!

Hypertension is a disease that is largely preventable. Wouldn’t it be nice if our children’s generation

enjoyed much lower rates of hypertension leading to heart disease than their parents? This is another argument for returning to the kitchen where you control the things that are added to your foods. Salt is often not needed and should not be added until the very end of cooking any food. Frozen dinners and fast foods are fantastic culprits for excess sodium due to preservation and food safety. Why not spend a little time in the kitchen knowing what your children are eating?

Snacks out of the cupboard are nice and quick, but if they were not there, the kids would take fruit out of a bowl or vegetables and mini yogurts or sandwiches prepared from the fridge. Children are looking for quick, grab foods on the run, why not have some ready to go without all the sodium?

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!

Already rated the best small hospital in Ontario by both patients and staff, Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) now joins an elite group of Canadian hospitals awarded Exemplary Standing, the highest ranking possible under the rating system.

The Accreditation Canada team was onsite at KDH in November 2012 and provided its final decision and report April 22, 2013. The accreditation process is a third-party assessment of the quality of care and services provided, measured against best practices.

Accreditation is a tool that Canada’s hospitals use to measure their performance, explains Lana

LeClair, Manager of Corporate Affairs & Organizational Development at KDH: “Evaluating our quality of care and service against best practices allows us to measure our performance, both clinical and operational, giving us a clear picture of our strengths and areas where there may be an opportunity for improvement.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chair of the hospital’s Board of Directors, extended congratulations to hospital staff, physicians, volunteers and partners. “The Board is incredibly proud of the great people who work at KDH,” he said, “and I personally want to let you know the deep confidence

the entire Board places in you and the tremendous effort everyone puts into getting the job done day by day.”

Colin Goodfellow, KDH’s Chief Executive Officer, added his commendation of the KDH team, whose efforts included developing new processes, writing and updating policy, gathering information, and sharing their knowledge about KDH. “This accomplishment could not have happened without the deep commitment of each member of the organization,” he said. “It reconfirms everyone’s dedication to our work of building healthier communities.”

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9 WEEKS REMAIN SWAN ISLAND An island rising out of the wetlands. A saint on a journey. A planted staff that blossoms into a tree. The founding of a religious center. This story is told not once, but twice, once in the east and once in the west of England.

In Lincolnshire, in the west in the 8th century, St. Etheldreda founds a church at Alftham, a place name translatable as Swan Island. This may well be a site now known as Stow Green where midsummer fires burn, revels are held, and gypsies gather.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare contrasts swans and crows: “Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” and in The Rape of Lucrece adds more detail concerning the virtues of one o’er the other: “The crow may bathe his coalblack wings in mire, and unperceived fly with the filth away; but if the like the snow-white swan desire, the stain upon his silver down will stay.”

MAY NIGHTINGALE In Glastonbury, in the east, in the 1st century, St. Joseph of Arimethea founds the first Christian church in Britain at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. Perhaps it is founded later in the 7th century

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and credited to him, or perhaps the 7th century abbey carries on a tradition he started.

On the southern slope of Wearyall Hill on the Tor (which was once hemmed in by water or marsh on all sides) there once grew three hawthorn trees, and a 16th century poem recounts how they blossomed twice a year: “Three hawthorns also, that groweth in Wearyall, do blossom and bear green leaves at Christmas, as fresh as other in May, when the nightingale wrests out her musical notes, as pure as glass; of all woods and forests she is the chief chantress. In winter to sing if it were her nature, in Wearyall she might have a place on those hawthorns to show her notes clear.”

Shakespeare writes also (in Passionate Pilgrim) of the nightingale in May, resting against a thorn: “As it fell upon a day, in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade, which a grove of Myrtles made. Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, trees did grow and plants did spring. Everything did banish moan (set aside sorrow), save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn leaned her breast up-till a thorn and there sung the dolefullest ditty, that to hear it was great

pity : “Fie, fie, fie” now would she cry, “Tereu, tereu!” by and by, that to hear her so complain, scarce I could from tears refrain.”

Later in that same century, the miraculously twice-blooming hawthorn becomes associated with Joseph of Arimethea, and the legend grows that he, who carried the Holy Grail to Britain (which later Arthur’s knights will quest for), planted the shepherd’s staff of Jesus there, or perhaps the crown of thorns Jesus wore at his crucifixion, or perhaps a hawthorn staff grown from a spike of that thorny crown, and that this blossomed and grew to a hawthorn tree ... the famous Glastonbury Thorn, that blooms at Christmas (Jesus’s birth) and Easter (Jesus’s resurrection) .

Seven centuries later In Lincolnshire St, Etheldreda plants her staff on a piece of land “hemmed in by water or marsh “ and from it grows a tree also; perhaps an ash or an oak.

There really is a tree at Glastonbury Tor which blooms once at Christmas (the old Christmas, around January 5) and at Easter. It is a middle-eastern variety and is blooming once in synchrony with its middle-eastern brethren and once in synchrony with the other varieties of hawthorn in Britain. www.ngtimes.ca

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Y oungsters of Y ore, K emptville P ublic Library, 1:3 0 pm guest speaker Sam Gaw, Tales of Kemptville The North Grenville Concert Choir will be performing Beatlemania at Southgate Community Church in Kemptville at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15.00 and are available at Brewed Awakenings or at the door. Info: 613-258-9978 M ultiple Sclerosis Carnation Campaign-selling sites for this campaign are the Post Office, B&H grocer, LCBO, Independent Grocer, Royal Bank, Scotia Bank and T.D. Bank. If you can spare 2 hours to help, please call Margaret at 613-258-2626 or email to lionelmohr10@gmail.com Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser - Oxford-on-Rideau Public School, 5-7 pm. Support the school’s activities and programs. Cost $8 per adult, $5 for children (3-12) and children under 3 free, families $25. Tickets available at the door. Entertainment by the North Grenville Knights Intermediate Band South Branch Elementary School Plant & Bake Sale. Rain or Shine, 9 a.m. to Noon. 2649 Concession Rd. Includes a Silent Auction, Scholastic Book Fair and Theme Basket Raffle. Funds raised support South Branch School and its students. All are welcome!

Burritt’s in Bloom Plant Sale - Burritt’s Rapids Community Hall, 8:30 to 10:30 am. Historic perennials, Fire Island hostas, gardening tips...inspiration!

The Ottawa Carleton M ale Choir is performing at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Followed by a post-concert reception. Tickets $ 15, seating limited. Advance tickets available at Tallman Truck Centre and Royal Lepage Gale Real Estate or contact Ruth Bond 613-258-3467 (Day) 613-989-3200 (Eve) Annie Blaine 613-258-3646 or 613-983-3582 cell) email ablaine@hotmail.com Spring Y ard Sale and BBQ at the Salvation Army Thrift Store 9:30-4:00 p.m.

Kemptville Horticultural Society, Kemptville Pentecostal Church, 7:30pm. Program: Spring Flower Show ! plus Guest speaker: Mary Lou Devine - "Introduction to Paverpol" (paverpol is a fabric hardener used in sculpture) New M embers & Guests welcome Contact Arline: 613-258-4645 Bishop’s M ills 10th Annual Community Day. Community-wide yard sales, bake sale, silent auction, displays, crafts and more. For more information contact Victor Desroches at 258-2115.

Oxford M ills Community Association will host May festivities. It will be a family friendly event with May Pole dancing and a potluck lunch.

Planting Day at the Giving Garden- community members invited to garden located on Hwy 43 at 9 am. Bring your clippers, sunhat, watering can and your smile!

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The North Grenville Photography Club - Meeting first W ednesday of every month at the Old Fire Hall, 25 Reuben Crescent. For more info see ngphotoclub.ca Bingo- First and third W ednesday of the month, Kemptville Legion.

Games start at 1 pm. All welcome. Refreshments available Bridge - Every Thursday, St. John’s United Church, Kemptville, 6:30 and 6:45 pm. Cost $5, partner preferred but not necessary. For more info, contact Elaine at 613-258-3783 North Grenville Toastmasters - Meeting first and third Thursday of the month, 7 pm at O’Farrell’s Financial Services, Cty Rd 44. For more info, call 613-258-7665 Friendship Lunch - Leslie Hall from 11:30-12:30 pm. Everyone welcome.

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BNI Netw orking Group Breakfast- Alumni Building, University of Guelph, 7-8:30am. Call 613-258-0553 for more information Mixed Adult Pickup Basketball Game- Every Tuesday night at Holy Cross School gym, 7-9pm. Cost is $5 per night or $50 for the season. All skill levels. For more information, contact Jeff or Samantha at 613258-1847 or Samantha.rivet-stevenson@rbc/.com Bridge- St. John’s United Church, Kemptville, 12:15pm. Cost $3, partner preferred but not necessary. For more info, contact Ellen at 613-258-7778 M others of Preschoolers Support Group-St.John’s United Church, 6:30-8 pm. W hether you’re a townie, rural, stay-at-home, working, teen, adoptive, special-needs, single or married, M OPS is for you! For more information, call Angie Brown at 613-223-3979 The Branch Artisans Guild - The third Tuesday of each month, (except during the Months of July & August), NG Community Church, 7:00 p.m. For more information contact Sharon Billings at 258-4382.

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by Debbi Tryon, Community Living North Grenville Residential Manager Kevin and Tim Armstrong are brothers who live in Kemptville, sharing a house with two other housemates and supported to do so by Community Living North Grenville. Kevin and Tim were born in 1978 and 1984 respectively, and were diagnosed with physical and intellectual disabilities as very young children. Their Mom and Dad, Joanne and Ray, were not offered a lot of hope of the boys living out happy, independent lives in their community, because of their disabilities.

Parents of children with disabilities learn something very quickly. They learn to be stronger, braver and

more ferocious fighters for supports for their children.

In the 1980s there were very few educational resources in Grenville County for children with significant disabilities. Schools in our area were not equipped to support the boys in a meaningful way. Joanne and Ray heard of a specialized school in Ottawa that was educating children with disabilities. They were determined to have Kevin attend this school and set off on a course of advocating toward this goal. There were many barriers to overcome and Joanne learned how to be persistent and stay focused on her objective of an education for her sons. In due course, Kevin was accepted to the John Butler School but in order for him to attend he needed to have a place to

live. Once again, the family fought their way through many levels of bureaucracy and Kevin was placed with a foster family in Ottawa.

He was able to come home on weekends and school holidays. Tim would eventually follow in his brother’s footsteps, having to leave his home community to attend an educational program tailored to his needs.

Several years passed and the boys continued to attend school in Ottawa. In 1995 the Armstrong family was pleased to engage in planning for Kevin to return to his home community. The family met with Community Living North Grenville staff members many times over the next few years. Once again, Joanne and Ray were strong advocates during the planning process ensuring long term plans included the goal of having the boys live together in the North Grenville community. In 1999, Kevin moved to his current home on VanBuren Street in Kemptville. Tim moved in with his brother in 2002.

Community Living North Grenville’s vision and belief is that “all persons live in a state of dignity, share in all elements of living in the community, and have the opportunity to participate effectively”.

We all know that a person’s home is an expression of who they are and often a home reflects the personal-

ity of the people who live in it. Kevin and Tim’s home is painted in vibrant colors, with an abundance of colorful pictures of the men and their friends. Because both men love to spend time outdoors, their backyard is outfitted to accommodate their leisure choices.

Relationships are also an important part of home life. Kevin and Tim are supported by their families who drop in all the time. Dad and Mom are currently involved in redecorating Kevin’s room with all of his favorite things. Kevin has friends that visit him in his home.

Josh is a weekly visitor for dinner and Jamie drops by for lunch most weeks.

Tim enjoys the company of Dustin and Jeremy who share his love for music and noise in general.

Kevin and Tim share their home with two other people who grew up in the Kemptville area. Joanna and James have similar interests and support needs.

Tim has the opportunity to spend time with Rosemary Theriault who drops by weekly to walk with him.

The staff members who support Kevin and Tim to participate in everything there is to offer in Kemptville earned high praise from Joanne.

“Kevin and Tim are dressed in the latest styles with nice haircuts. Everyone is interested and they

The Voice of North Grenville really care. Often staff members go above and beyond what is expected.

The family Christmas party organized and hosted by the staff members is greatly appreciated.”

Kevin and Tim love to be active participating in community based activities as often as they can. Both men enjoy being out of the house. Tim, in particular, loves the car and never tires

of going for a drive. Tim enjoys bowling, swimming and horseback riding.

Joanne credits Community Living for the lives her sons are living. Community Living staff members are readily able to see the gifts people bring to us, not the limitations. Community Living North Grenville is helping Kevin and Tim enjoy success in their community in their own way.

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