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This is the time of year when we look back and think about the many Canadians who left their country to fight in wars all over the world. The Twentieth Century was a long series of conflicts which saw Canada develop from a colonial outpost of Empire into a sovereign nation charting its own course on the world stage. And the wars in which it was involved reflect that development. The century started with Canadians volunteering to go to South Africa to fight on the side of the British Empire against the Boers. One hundred and twenty years ago, Ca-
nadian men and women were to be found on the veldt and creating a sense of national identity, if only among themselves. More than 7,000 Canadians, including 12 women nurses, served overseas. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, Canada was automatically included when Britain declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. By 1915, the first Canadian Expeditionary Force had landed in France to take part in a long and bloody conflict. Some 619,636 Canadians enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war, and approximately 424,000 served overseas. Close to 61,000 Canadians
were killed during the war, and another 172,000 were wounded. Many more returned home broken in mind and body. Battles at Ypres, Vimy, the Somme, and Passchendaele were fought in horrendous conditions, with men drowning in mud, as well as dying from bullets, shell and disease. Just three decades later, Canadians would be back again, fighting all over the world. During the Second World War, approximately 1,159,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders served, of whom 44,090 died. Places like Dieppe, Hong Kong, Juno Beach, Caen, and so many others, would burn their
names into Canadian history. But that was not all. Just five years after World War 2 ended, fighting broke out in Korea, and the Canadians were sent out again. Another 516 names to inscribe in memorial books. Since then, we’ve had Afghanistan, peace keeping missions, and the Canadian contribution in all of these conflicts has brought about a different status for the country in world affairs. But now, in this strange year of 2020, as we all fight an unseen enemy, it’s right and timely to remember all those who went away, some came back, others didn’t. So, we remember.
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#NGGives campaign promotes charitable giving for Giving Tuesday gram this year. “You’ve port the initiative and chalLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter got nothing without food,” lenge others to do the same. says Daren. “All charities He encourages people to not make a big difference, but only participate themselves, The North Grenville if you can’t feed families in but also pick up the phone, Community Fund (NGCF) a community, that is a big send emails and texts to challenge others to get on has launched an initiative problem.” Local food banks have board. The NGCF will be to encourage charitable giving this holiday season. been hit hard by the COV- donating $5 for every social The #NGGives Campaign ID-19 pandemic, with fewer media post using the hashtag is inspired by Giving Tues- donations and higher de- #NGGives to HOL, to a limit day, a global movement mand. “Food banks around of $1,500 – the equivalent for generosity that takes the country have been seri- of feeding seven families. place each year after Black ously impacted by the pan- “There is incredible moFriday, when charities, demic, having to manage mentum behind this to get companies, and communi- with fewer volunteers while it going,” Daren says. “But ties join together to sup- adapting their operations the only way it’s going to port their favourite causes. and serving new clients af- get out there is if people talk In 2019, Giving Tuesday fected by the crisis,” says about it.” Donations to the NGCF was celebrated in over 200 HOL Food Bank Director, Kim Merkley. “The wider campaign for HOL can be countries and engaged millions of Canadians, raising community plays an im- made through their website over $21 million for causes portant role in taking action www.northgrenvillecommuacross the country. At the against increasing food in- nityfund.com. All donations meeting on November 3, security accelerated by the must be made before Giving North Grenville municipal pandemic. The #NGGives Tuesday on December 1, council threw their support campaign will inspire dona- when money raised will be behind the initiative and tions at a variety of levels, presented to HOL through a proclaimed December 1 helping us work towards Facebook Live event. The NGCF is a charitable as Giving Tuesday in the alleviating hunger in our community.” organization that manages a municipality this year. The NGCF is encourag- permanent endowment fund “We know it’s a very significant day, so we’re re- ing local businesses, fami- through the Ottawa Commually pleased to see that you lies, or individuals to donate nity Foundation. The earnwanted to mark that moment the $200 needed to adopt ings from that endowment here in North Grenville,” a family in need for the fund are distributed in the Mayor Peckford told NGCF holidays. Fundraising can form of grants four times a Chair, Daren Givoque, who be done through all kinds of year to support a wide range made the presentation about challenges and fundraising of charitable causes in the Giving Tuesday to council. efforts, and the NGCF would North Grenville community. The NGCF has spear- love to see the community headed #NGGives to inspire get creative. Mr. Mozzarella businesses and individu- in Kemptville will be donatals to take part in Giving ing a portion of the sales of Tuesday this year. People their cannoli between Nocan participate by donating vember 17 and December 1 to any local charity, but to the cause, and the Kempthe NGCF’s campaign is tville Rotary Club will be centred on raising money hosting an online seminar, for the House of Lazarus’ with proceeds going towards (HOL) Adopt a Family pro- the #NGGives campaign. Daren says the hope is gram. This program provides gifts, treats, and a that people will use the holiday meal to families, #NGGives hashtag to post couples, and seniors in need what they are doing to supin the community. Usually, the people who the north grenville sign up to donate shop for groceries; but, this year, HOL is providing all the food for the holiday hamGord Logan pers. According to the HOL, Marketing Consultant they already have 100 food Phone 613 258 6402 bank clients signed up for Email: gord@ngtimes.ca the Adopt a Family proby Hilary Thomson
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families together. It’s a nice after dinner game.” She is very pleased that they were able to coincide the launch with the start of the holiday shopping season. NatureMatch is now available at To Be Continued in Kemptville, and can also be purchased through NatureMatch website. Aleta is trying to get the game into stores across Canada, and has already had success in getting it into the Robert Bateman Foundation gift shop in Victoria, B.C. and the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John. “We’re gradually getting it into more shops,” Aleta says. Games ordered through the NatureMatch website are shipped directly from The Playing Card Factory, freeing up time for Aleta to start working on future versions of the game, which will include Canadian flowers, birds, and insects. “I can get busy doing watercolours for the next edition. People will be able to have a whole row of these on their bookshelf, or in their games cupboard.” For more information or to purchase NatureMatch visit www.naturematch.ca.
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Local artist and naturalist, Aleta Karstad, officially celebrated the launch of her new NatureMatch game on Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1. NatureMatch is a memory game that features 36 of Aleta’s original watercolour paintings of Canadian wildlife. The first order of NatureMatch cards was funded by a very successful Indigogo crowd funding campaign earlier this year. With 145 backers, the game reached across Canada and internationally, with orders from the U.S., U.K., Kenya, and Sweden. Aleta expressed her gratitude to all: “I am very grateful to all our backers”. NatureMatch is now available to the general public, and Aleta marked the launch with an outdoor
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celebration at her home in Bishops Mills. There was a tent canopy to shield them from the elements, a fire pit, live music courtesy of musician Larry Pegg from Ottawa, lots of food and hot apple cider that was generously donated by Jim Beveridge from B&H Grocer. “He said local in support of local,” Aleta remarked. Aleta is thrilled with this new way of sharing her art with the world. She has never been very good at advertising her paintings; but she feels that NatureMatch is a great way to promote it in a fun and affordable way. “It’s a lively and playful way of enjoying my art. It will be interesting to see if that’s the way my art gets more well known.” Not only is NatureMatch a great game for all ages, it is also a wonderful way to learn more about Canadian wildlife. Each game comes with a
little booklet that explains a little bit about each of the animals on the cards. Aleta is also in the process of including more about each of the animals on the NatureMatch website, making the game even more of an educational tool. “People can correspond with us about the species as well. There is a depth of knowledge and information that we can provide along with the game.” NatureMatch was conceived, designed, and manufactured in Canada, out of all ethically-sourced Canadian material. The cover graphics were designed by COBA Studios in Merrickville, and the game is produced by The Playing Card Factory in Mississauga. Aleta is thrilled with the quality of the game, with its sturdy, glossy cards that are easy to flip over on a table. “It pulls people away from their computers and pulls
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CDSBEO Virtual Learning Elementary School
The Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario Virtual Learning Elementary School provides live interaction which takes place in real-time between the educator and students, while they are participating in learning activities. Students login on a daily schedule and can communicate directly with their teacher, and with each other. Synchronous virtual learning is, in many ways, similar to a physical classroom, and students have access to allow for immediate feedback, interactions with educators and peers, and guided exercises to motivate and increase student learning. Principal of Curriculum, Nancy McIntyre and Principal of the CDSBEO Virtual Learning Elementary School (VLES), Catherine English, presented information to the Board recently on the many successes of the new school, which includes 65 classrooms, 1672 students, 72 teachers, 12 early childhood educators, four educational assistants, one differentiated instruction teacher, one special education consultant, and two secretaries.
“The highest student registrations can be found in the JK/SK level and the Grade 8 Level. Currently, 83 per cent of our virtual learners are participating in synchronous learning – which means that they are learning in real-time with their instructor. Approximately 17 per cent of our learners have chosen to participate asynchronously, which means that they complete their work without necessarily being part of the live instruction,” explained Ms. McIntyre. To help support this new school, the Board has purchased licenses for a variety of online, digital programs for Literacy, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Coding. Through these rich resources, teachers can access Ontario curriculum programming when planning for their students. “Our Kindergarten students all have access to a Math Gaming program Zorbits, that provides teachers with feedback that can drive their instruction and assessment on student learning,” noted Nancy. “Many rich digital learning resources to support Mathematics and Reading
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have been provided to all teachers, including a digital textbook library with instructional resources categorized by theme or curriculum.” The Board continues to adjust, modify and adapt to the needs of virtual learning families through the development of new resources, parent tutorials, and consistent communication. “Daily, engaging routines have been established in the virtual classes to promote the tenets of our Catholic faith and to build school culture and community,” noted Principal, Catherine English. “There has been a strong emphasis on social-emotional learning activities whereby the students are learning about the benefits of a growth mindset and the acknowledgement of individual strengths.” Learning activities are linked to daily online lessons and delivered to both the synchronous and asynchronous students. Students are also engaged in learning strategies to promote self-regulation and mindfulness.
A flowering Star Fish Cactus was highlighted on the virtual tour of the Kemptville Campus Greenhouse. by Anna Van Adrichem Rochon The majority (all) of the PROBUS members in North Grenville are retired; but that doesn’t mean they are not willing to learn new skills. Many are “gingerly” stepping on the Zoom platform to attend monthly meetings. In the world before Covid-19, the purpose of PROBUS was to open opportunities to meet people, share a joke or two, conversation, and hear a speaker on topics of interest. We are continuing to do the same now. It was with great plea-
sure that we welcomed Claude Smith as our guest speaker at the Probus meeting held on October 21. Claude is a Certified Horticulturalist, former Co-ordinator Horticulture Program, University of Guelph, Kemptville. She heads and manages the Kemptville Campus greenhouse located at 75 Campus Drive. She discussed how
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Kemptville Quilter’s Guild of larger sized quilts. Two different specified patterns were chosen for members to use to create blocks. In order to encourage participation, members were offered one free raffle for each block completed. Even though many raffles were offered free for the blocks, the challenge still managed to raise a sizeable amount to donate. Three local charities were chosen and voted on. Not only do our members sew quilts, but they also donate home made pillow cases and cloth masks to the organization. We hold monthly meetings from September to June, with guest speakers, and hold a variety of workshops. At the moment, the meetings are being conducted through Zoom until a time when we can meet in person again. We are open to new members. If you would like to get involved, we can be contacted through our blog: http://kemptvillequilters.blogspot.com/, or our Facebook page https://www. facebook.com/K0GQuilters. If you are interested in becoming a member, you can email teresa.harrison@gmail. com for information.
KQG President, Karen McCullough, presents a cheque to KYC President, Bruce Wehlau and some of the KYC youth. submitted by the Kemptville Quilters Guild The 20th anniversary celebrations of the Kemptville Quilters’ Guild culminated on Monday, October 26, with the donation of $1,385 to the Kemptville Youth Centre. The celebration activities kicked off in 2019 at the September meeting with a birthday cake which was made by one of the members, and a special traditional bed-turning demonstration. Among the special guests invited were former November 11, 2020
presidents of the guild. Various special activities were held throughout the months until the pandemic interrupted the planned events. A collection of sewing related items were donated by numerous businesses and gathered into baskets to be raffled off every month, with the intention of the proceeds being given to a charity voted on by the membership. The Guild members have always been very generous, and donate their time and
materials to create quilts for Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. During the past year, 142 quilts were donated, which is a record in the 20 years that the Guild has existed. The Guild’s Outreach Committee collects donations of fabric and puts together kits for members to take home and sew into quilts. Most often, smaller sized quilts are created, so one of the 20-year celebration events was to create a couple 4
to properly put our gardens to bed, what to prune, and what not to prune before winter. For instance, she told us that we should leave the stems on our purple coneflower so it will collect snow, as snow is a great insulator protecting this lovely perennial. Her tips on where and what to plant in various locations of the garden proved to be most interesting and invaluable for the plant’s growth and longevity. Our next get together will on November 18. Our speaker that day will be Thomas Byrne, Barrister and Solicitor in Kemptville. He will be presenting topics of concern that we should all be aware of and prepared for from a legal prospective. The meeting will be via Zoom. If you would like to join us, please email Anna at anna.varochon@ gmail.com to receive a link to the 9:30 meeting.
by Judy Littau With the tough times we have been experiencing the past 8 months, it is nice to be able to share this feel good story with you. Robert Noseworthy, owner of Westerra Homes, a local home builder, was cleaning out the garage at his model home and came upon a large photo frame collaged with pictures of a family’s vacation to Disney World, which obviously was created with love and great memories. Robert had no idea who the people in the pictures were and figured that it was accidently mixed in with his staging materials during a move. He contacted the company that moved his staging furniture from model home to model home, and they did not know who the family was. Rather than throw the picture in the trash, Robert knew that if it were pictures of his family, he would want the picture back. Thus, Robert made a trip to his local realtor, Royal LePage Team Re-
everyone” in town, to see if they could identify who the family was. With the help of social media, the owner was found living 1½ hours from Kemptville. She explained that, four years ago, when she moved from the Kemptville area, she was missing three pictures. One was of a family vacation, a picture a family member painted, and one that meant the world to her, a Bateman print that her parents gave her 20 years ago for her birthday. I contacted Robert to tell him that the person was also missing a Bateman print, so he went back to his garage, searched the boxes and found the long lost print. He had assumed that the print was something that his stager had purchased for his model home decorating. To say this woman was thrilled to have her pictures back is an understatement. In her thank you note to Robert, she says “it’s amazing you found it”. Few people would have had the heart and kindness of Robert Noseworthy to take the time to try to find the owner of a picture that had found its way into his staging supplies – most would probably have just tossed it in the trash. We need more “Roberts” in the world. www.ngtimes.ca
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North Grenville welcomes new taxi company taxis with Executive Taxi in Brockville. “My father in law actually owns the company there, and I’ve been helping them manage and do some stuff around the business. I was looking at how I could expand on my own.” Seeing as North Grenville didn’t have an active taxi company, it seemed like the perfect fit. “It’s growing so fast,” he says. “It’s a great community.” Right now, they have two taxis, with plans for more, and their home base is at 200 Sanders Street, near the B&H. Fletcher is driving the taxi at night, while his mother, Mary Lyn Baker, has been looking after days. While the first week or so has been slow, Fletcher says he is already enjoying meeting people in the community. He hopes Elite Taxi will become a trusted name in North Grenville. “I want a good reputation too. That’s a big thing. Clean looking cars, reliable cars, reliable service. We worked really hard to get that in Brockville and
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which is standard across the industry. Fletcher was extremely happy about this decision, as they already had both of their cars ready to go. “I even had the meters already in, and everything was done. It was just a matter of if and when.” Fletcher is looking forward to having Elite Taxi become an integral part of the North Grenville community. He has been working in the taxi business for a while, and owns some
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I want that same mentality here.” He also hopes to be an affordable option for people who may not have access to a vehicle. To facilitate this, they will be putting together a flat rate program for people to get to and from work. “It’s just to help individuals budget. It’s always the same price, to and from work, even if it’s a crazy snowstorm and it takes longer to get there.” They also offer a 10% discount for seniors. All the Elite Taxi cars are outfitted with a plexiglass barrier between passenger and driver, and they also supply masks and hand sanitizer to make sure clients and drivers are
safe. They take all forms of payment (except for cheques), including debit, credit, apps like apple pay, and cash. Mayor Peckford and members of council met Fletcher in the B&H parking lot last week to officially welcome Elite Taxi to the municipality. Mayor Peckford said that, in a community that is growing as quickly as North Grenville, it is welcome news that residents will have another option for transportation. For more information, visit the Elite Taxi Facebook page, or contact them at 613-215-1516, or elitetaxikemptville@ gmail.com.
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Ontario budget report by Steve Clark
Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark welcomed the provincial budget, Ontario’s Action Plan: Protect, Support, Recover, calling it a comprehensive $45-billion investment to keep our communities safe and economy strong as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our health-care heroes, essential workers, businesses and everyday citizens have stepped up to meet the unprecedented challenges we’ve faced over the past eight months. We’re honouring our commitment to spare no expense in providing critical investments to support everyone from children to seniors and small businesses, including those in our local tourism sector,” he said after the budget was released at
Queen’s Park by Finance Minister Rod Phillips. “Today’s budget delivers the necessary health resources to continue protecting people along with vital programs and tax measures to support individuals, families and job creators impacted by the virus, while laying the foundation for Ontario’s strong economic recovery,” he added. Spending under the budget’s three pillars include: $15.2 billion to protect Ontarians through urgent COVID-19 response measures, $13.5 billion to support people and jobs and $4.8 billion to recover by creating the conditions for economic growth. In addition to that $33.4 billion, the budget contains $11.3 billion in measures to improve cash flow for individuals, families and businesses. “The virus remains a threat. Not only to our health and well-being, but to those families struggling to make ends meet and small businesses that have been hardest hit. We’re investing $45 billion over three years to keep us safe and to help Ontario get back on its feet – and we’re doing it now because
we can’t afford to wait,” said MPP Clark. Highlights of today’s budget include: Increasing the average daily direct care from a nurse or personal support worker per long-term care resident to four hours per day over a four-year period – making Ontario a leader among Canadian provinces in caring for our seniors. Helping seniors stay in their homes longer by proposing the new Seniors’ Home Safety Tax Credit for 2021, which will provide a 25 per cent credit on eligible renovations up to $10,000. Providing parents with $200 per child under 12 and $250 for children and youth under 21 with special needs through the Support for Learners initiative. Attracting investment by lowering electricity rates to save medium-sized and larger industrial and commercial employers approximately 14% and 16% respectively. Saving job creators $450 million annually in property taxes by lowering high Business Education Tax rates for over 200,000 employers, or about 94% of all business
properties in Ontario. Empowering local municipalities to cut property taxes for small businesses, with a provincial commitment to consider matching the reductions, which would provide up to $385 million in property tax savings by 2022-23. Proposing to make permanent the Employer Health Tax exemption increase from $490,000 to $1 million to ensure 90% of employers would not pay the tax – a savings of $360 million next year. Making 2021 the Year of the Ontario Staycation by providing Ontarians with support of up to 20% for eligible tourism expenses. Providing $100 million over two years for the Community Building Fund to support community tourism, and cultural and sport organizations facing financial pressures. A one-time investment of $25 million for Ontario’s arts institutions to help cover operating losses. Providing $500 million over four years to make government services more reliable, convenient and accessible through the Ontario Onwards Acceleration Fund.
Jail Opposition Group protests in downtown Kemptville
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About 20 North Grenville residents gathered on Saturday to protest the establishment of the new provincial correctional facility for the Kemptville College Farm lands. Members of the North Grenville Jail Opposition Group (JOG) met at Rotary Park at 1 pm on Saturday and marched through the downtown core, carrying signs speaking out against the correctional facility. “The facts are clear, and they support our gut feeling that this is a bad idea for Kemptville,” JOG member Kirk Albert November 11, 2020
said at the protest. “The facts support that prisons do more harm than good in small communities.” According to the research done by JOG, prisons need networks, social services, access to public transportation, courts, public utilities, and infrastructure, homeless shelters, hospitals of a sufficient size, indigenous support programs, and community supports like the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry Societies. “The fact is Kemptville has none of those,” Kirk said. Jim Bertram of JOG also noted that the correctional facility would be a burden on the municipality’s infrastructure,
like the water and wastewater system. “Guess who is going to pay for that,” he said to the crowd. “I’m looking at them.” Kirk said that, while everyone present at the protest had their own reasons for being there, they were all united in their appreciation of their small but growing community, with schools, restaurants, recreation, green space, culture, agriculture and, most of all, neighbours. “Neighbours like all of you who care enough to be here today; who recognize that we are being told to be the solution for the provincial government’s problem, and know that, once shovels go
in the ground at the proposed site for the prison, that what we have now will be forever changed.” According to Kirk, JOG’s goal is to have the province rethink, reassess and, hopefully, backtrack on their decision to build the correctional facility on the Kemptville Campus. “The Ford government has a lengthy list of decision backtracking examples. We need to add one more entry to that list.” Although the number of people who joined the protest on Saturday was small, Kirk noted that there are many other people in the community who support their efforts 6
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Steve Clark praises his government for internet investment The Ontario government is making an investment of nearly $1 billion over six years to improve and expand broadband and cellular access across the province, including Eastern Ontario, says Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark. The government has announced a $680-million investment, which is on top of the $315 million announced previously to support Up to Speed: Ontario’s Broadband and Cellular Action Plan. This funding will be used for shovel-ready projects starting in 2019-20, will create jobs, and connect unserved and underserved communities during COVID-19 and beyond. “One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for our rural communities to have access to faster, more reliable broadband to work, attract new investment and jobs, help our businesses market their products to online customers across the globe, allow our children to learn, and keep us connected to the digital world,” said MPP Clark. “I am so proud that our government continues to make these critical investments, and at historic amounts, to deliver on the commitments I’ve made to improve the connectivity for the residents of Leeds and Grenville.” The investment doubles funding for the Improving Connectivity in Ontario (ICON) program, bringing the new total to $300 million. This program now has the potential to leverage more than $900 million in total partner funding to improve connectivity in areas of need across Ontario. ICON was launched in July, 2020. The program leverages partner funding by inviting applicants like telecom companies, municipal governments, First Nation communities and non-profits to submit innovative proposals and lend their investment, expertise and experience to improve connectivity in communities across Ontario. The province funds a portion of each approved project. Over 1.4 million people in Ontario do not have broadband or cellular access and as many as 12 per cent of households in Ontario, mostly in rural, remote or Northern areas, are underserved or unserved from the perspective of broadband, according to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) data. “This investment will connect even more residents in communities across Ontario to faster, more reliable Internet and cell service,” said Minister Scott. “Today’s commitment to connect more people to reliable broadband and cellular service — along with many others we’ve made — will make it easier for more people to work and learn from home, run their businesses and connect with others.” In October, the province released Ontario Onwards: Ontario's COVID-19 Action Plan for a People-Focused Government. Improving access to broadband and cellular service is one of the initial projects. Through Ontario Onwards, the province will help make government services more efficient and the lives of people and businesses better. Today’s announcement is another example of the government’s commitment to making Ontario the world's leading digital jurisdiction. Over the past several months, Ontario has partnered with the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) to invest $71 million in a $213 million project to improve access to cellular service and mobile broadband in Eastern Ontario. Access to broadband is a core component of the province’s Learn at Home plan. Reliable Internet, particularly in rural and regional areas, is essential to supporting students’ success in school. The provincial government recently called on the federal government to take immediate action to improve Internet connectivity for Ontario students. who couldn’t be there due to COVID-19, or other stressors. The JOG Facebook group currently has 103 members. “We are a large group that is growing, and I think we can make a difference.” For more information about JOG’s efforts, visit the NG Jail Opposition Facebook page.
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North Grenville’s Council is seeking nominations for outstanding individuals and groups who volunteer in service to our citizens and community to be honoured with a Civic Award. As there was no award ceremony in 2019, nominations will be accepted for both 2019 and 2020. “The Civic Awards program is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the important contributions and accomplishments of North Grenville’s residents, businesses and organizations make each year for our community,” said Mayor Nancy Peckford. “While COVID-19 has changed how community groups and individuals have contributed to our community, it is crucial that we step back and recognize those that have gone above and beyond in 2019-2020.” The Civic Awards are presented annually to one volunteer in each of the designated age groups, consisting of Youth (25 years and younger), Adult (26 to 55 years) and Senior (56 years and older), in addition to one group award, in the each of the following categories: • Arts & Culture • Exemplary Work in the Community • Environment • Health & Wellness • Heritage • Recreation, Sport & Leisure • Seniors • Youth Nomination packages are available on our website (www.northgrenville.ca), and hard copies are available at the Municipal Centre and at the Public Libraries (1 Water St. in Kemptville and 1 Grenville St. in Burritt’s Rapids). The deadline to submit nominations is 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 30. The Mayor and Council of the Municipality of North Grenville established the Civic Awards Program to recognize and honour the selfless efforts and dedication of outstanding individuals and groups who volunteer in service to our citizens and community. Since the Program began in 2009, more than 40 individuals and 6 groups have been recognized for their efforts.
FAIL TO REMAIN (MERRICKVILLE-WOLFORD, ON) On October 26, 2020, at around 10:00 a.m., Grenville County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) members responded to an after the fact fail to remain collision on County Road 15, just North of County Road 41 in the Township of Wolford. It is believed that sometime between October 21 and October 23, 2020, a vehicle struck two mailboxes, entered a ditch and struck a wire fence. A driver's side rear view mirror, antennae and a silver/grey piece of the vehicle, possibly part of a bumper, was left at the scene. The investigation is ongoing. MISCHIEF (KEMPTVILLE, ON) - On October 31, 2020 officers from the Grenville County Detachment of the OPP received a report of vehicles along Prescott Street being egged by individuals at some point overnight during the course of a week. Many of the vehicles were owned by senior citizens. Police will be focusing patrols in that area and residents are asked to report any suspicious people or vehicles. If you have any information on the above investigations or any other please contact Grenville OPP on 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-(TIPS) 8477 or submit your tip on-line at www.tipsubmit.com. Crime Stoppers does not want your name, you don't go to court, and you could earn cash reward.
OPP warn of door to door scam in the area The Grenville Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to alert home and business owners of a door to door scam that has recently been reported to police. On October 29, 2020 at 12:00 p.m., an individual was contacted via telephone, advising them of a government energy rebate program. In order to receive a rebate, the company needed to come to the residence and inspect the homeowner’s furnace and freezer. The resident called their utilities company and confirmed this was a scam. Police spoke with the energy board and they confirmed that the scenario as described was, indeed, an active fraud and they do not have their employees going door to door. If there is a question as to the legitimacy of the canvasser, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre can be contacted. Suspicious canvassers and/or salespeople can also be reported to the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. The public is reminded that, before you hear a sales or fundraising pitch and open your door to a salesperson or canvasser, remember: - ask for photo ID and get the name of the person and the business/charity; - never share personal information (e.g., an electricity or gas bill); - if you ask a salesperson to leave, they must leave right away. If you feel unsafe, call local police; - look at the company name on the salesperson's business card and promotional material and see if it matches the company name on the proposed contract; The OPP encourages residents to be aware of another resource available to them from Consumer Protection https://www.ontarioconsumer/protection before they make important decisions like purchasing a home, hiring a contractor or home inspector, renting a water heater, and other such transactions. If you have any information on the above investigations, or any other, please contact Grenville OPP on 1-888-310-1122, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-(TIPS) 8477, or submit your tip on-line at www.tipsubmit.com. Crime Stoppers does not want your name, you don't go to court, and you could earn cash reward.
The Brockville Rifles mourn the loss of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugo Grout, CD (retired)
from National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces It is with a heavy heart that The Brockville Rifles recognize the passing of a member of their regimental family. Lieutenant-Colonel Hugo Grout CD served a distinguished military career including as Commanding Officer of The Brockville Rifles from October 1972 to April 1975. As Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, he acted as the liaison officer, assisted with official functions, ensured November 11, 2020
protocol requirements, and attended the needs of the Lieutenant-Governor when required. Lieutenant-Colonel Grout passed away October 27, 2020. Remembered as a family man and a businessman, he was General Manager of W.B. Reynolds Coal Co. Ltd and later purchased and expanded Culligan Brockville into franchises throughout Eastern Ontario. He spent many summers at the family apple orchard “Homewood”, now a museum on Highway
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2, and on the family cottage “Red Roof” on Grenadier Island. A private interment service will be held at The Blue Church Cemetery, Prescott, at a later date. In memory, donations to the Brockville and District Hospital Foundation Palliative Care would be appreciated by the family. Allan Bird, Honorary Colonel, The Brockville Rifles, issued a statement: “The Brockville Rifles are a tight knit regiment with strong connections to the community. The unit and the extended Regimental family mourns his loss and sends our thoughts and prayers to his loved ones at this time.” Lieutenant Colonel, Dave Beyer, Commanding Officer, The Brockville Rifles, said: “Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Grout served his community and his nation as a citizensoldier, rising to be appointed as the Commanding Officer of The Brockville Rifles, a storied local reserve unit. His leadership and legacy live on today in our Regiment; from the youngest Army Cadet to the most senior among us, we are proud to continue his legacy and to join in offering a final salute. ‘We will remember him’.”
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Heroes by David Shanahan There is a saying that I’ve often heard among veterans: “The real heroes are the ones who didn’t come home”. I understand what they mean. It must be extremely hard to see your friends and comrades die, often in incredibly brutal fashion, and then for you to return to your home and loved ones. So many returning soldiers have asked: “Why me? Why did I get through that hell, and they didn’t?” It’s often referred to as survivor guilt, and gets added on to the Post Traumatic Stress that many, many veterans experience for years afterwards. But, with the greatest respect to these veterans, I think they’re wrong. They are the true heroes in many ways. Their comrades died, it is true. They were robbed
of, perhaps, decades of life, of their own children and grandchildren. They never got to experience what their returning friends did: the myriad little and big things that go to make up a long and happy life. They gave it all away in the name of a cause that, perhaps, wasn’t always clear to them. Over and over again, the testimony of veterans is that, while they may have enlisted out of patriotism and honour, in the midst of the battle, as life seemed to exist in a narrow world of blood, death and fire, it was not those principles alone that motivated them, that kept them fighting, regardless of the odds. Instead, it was their comrades they fought for, they fought for each other, depending upon the ones around them, and knowing that others depended on
Letters to the Edior Dear Editor, I was saddened to read the article (North Grenville Times, November 4, 2020) written by the two people who participated in the recent stakeholders meeting regarding the proposed prison. The details emerging from that meeting clearly tell us the plan to build a prison here will be a disaster for our town, and for North Grenville as well. The attention and money focused on promoting us as “green and growing”, supporting our local businesses, and more recently promoting tourism, will all be wasted. It does not make sense that a town of 4,000 people would house a correctional facility to serve a city of over 1 million people. I am proud to join the voices opposing this plan. Christiane Charron, Kemptville
Dear Editor, Sincere thank-you to Colleen Lynas and Kirk Albert for their article entitled ‘Stakeholders’ meeting solidifying our opposition to the proposed prison. I am grateful for your efforts! “Built to maximum security standards” is an important statement in this article. Also
“There is no guarantee the prison footprint will not be expanded in the future.” “Concerns regarding the required upgrades to our already ‘taxed water and sewer systems’ were discussed. Who pays for the updated version to support these systems? Do our municipal taxpayers wish to share this cost? Do the chain stores and restaurants want to take on this extra cost even supposing they might get more business? Thanks also to John Gagnon for a great letter! Also, to Marie-Therese Voutsinos. I agree this land should be used for ‘Agriculture’ which it was meant to be. Another excellent contribution! I very much appreciate the ‘Times’ for this information because I don’t use the internet and the Ottawa Citizen doesn’t do Kemptville local, vital information! Kathy Piche
Dear Editor, Thank you for your consideration of my letter. Since the surprise announcement from Mr. Clark our MPP, that a prison facility is being planned to be placed in Kemptville, several irking characteristics from the
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them. That, in part, is why returning veterans felt traumatised that they had survived, while others didn’t. As survivors of deep psychologically damaging experiences, they often found it really hard, sometimes, impossible, to just slot back into “normal” life. Because nothing was normal anymore. The day-to-day lives of their family and friends who had not gone through the same trauma was something they now found alien. And the only ones who could understand, to whom they could talk, if at all, about the events that had forever changed them, were other veterans. You hear of so many wives, children and grandchildren who remember that the man who returned to them rarely, if ever, spoke about what they had seen and done “over there”. Those who never re-
turned from war are rightly honoured each November, wherever they died, and for whatever cause. That is progress. It’s strange how one-time enemies can relate to each other more than they can with their own friends and neighbours who were never put in that place of death and danger. Those who died are remembered: not always by name, or as an individual, but we read the names on too many cenotaphs and wonder about them. Who they were, where they came from, what happened to bring them to the place. Each year, the Times tries to bring some of them back to remembrance, and reintroduce them to the generations they never lived to see. In that way, it doesn’t matter what your own views on war, military life, or specific conflicts might be: we remember and honour the
men (almost all men) who did what they did for their own personal reasons. But, as I’ve said, they are not the only heroes. Yes, they died, and, I would imagine, unwillingly, in the sense that they would rather have survived and returned home having done their duty. But the ones who did come back, who faced long years of recovery, PTSD nightmares, and, to whatever extent, guilt over just surviving, they are real heroes too. Most of them were very young when they went through those experiences. Young men from farms, factories, schools, offices, who faced things their previous lives could never have prepared them for. Those are years of formation for us all, years when who we become as adults is shaped. Imagine what shaped them. At least now, a small mercy, we use
terms like PTSD. In the past, those suffering from “shell shock” were often diagnosed as cowards, deserters, mentally unfit for duty. Some of them were shot, executed by their own side because their minds couldn’t take what they saw and did. Those who survived, those who returned, whether wounded, crippled in mind and body, or who seemed to be just fine: none of them should be forgotten. What they endured must never be underestimated. There aren’t any left now from WW 1, and fewer and fewer from the second world horror. But we still have some, and some from Korea, Afghanistan, and other “theatres of war”. Let’s agree to honour them all, to remember them all, and to declare, with genuine and passionate fervour: Never Again.
communication particularly stand out. Mr. Clark pointed out land owned by Ontario can be designated as needed by the Ontario Government first before other interests. This Ontario owned land is now bespoken for this prison. Next, Mr. Clark indicated consultation (?) will follow. Hmmm... was not a decision just announced prior to consultation? Mr. Clark’s Executive Assistant indicated Kemptville, North Grenville residents can consult on some aspects of design and placement and such. However, the tone of the announcements, or when trying to get more clarity from our MPP’s office, the message is: it is not actually open to be reconsidered. WHY? Perhaps there are benefits to such a project, but I cannot understand how the ideas, aspirations, plans, and hopes of the residents of Kemptville/ North Grenville were not solicited before a decision was announced? Why this land was chosen, apart from ownership by Ontario, is not explained! Is there no other less arable, less central to downtown, land owned by Ontario that would do for ploughing under and asphalting under prison structures?
What else was considered? The explanation seems something like: each ministry can speak up for “dibs” if it is rejected by another ministry. And voila a use is found by the concerned public servants/minister for the land in question. If not, then the affected community can at last have a chance for dibs. They may not know anything about us and our town. The concerned MPP can write in his news announcement that he is proud of his achievement in getting this project placed. Is it gratifying that Mr. Clark is proud BEFORE consulting? It is said that Ontario has first “dibs” on Ontario Land. But are we in this area not citizens, residents, and tax payers of Ontario? We live here and perhaps had a different “personality” in mind for the development of our area!
It is arable land, with useful buildings, and is part of the history of our town! There may be economic considerations I, as a nonconsulted resident, do not yet know about. Perhaps the explanation and consultation might make me feel less disappointed that this project is being planned to be near schools, day care centres, downtown, and the projects planned for township owned land on the previous Guelph University Kemptville Campus. It may be a modern, good prison structure that is planned. But how will its presence be a positive influence, or enhance our corner of Ontario? This proposed project does not seem to be green, artistic, nor aspirational for Kemptville. Other towns have gone through this process of their
plans or ideas being overridden. Perhaps the logistics of the process of how decisions and plans in Ontario are decided needs to be reconsidered. Perhaps consultation should be done before decisions are announced? Perhaps, in the whole large area of the riding Leeds/ Grenville/Thousand Islands/ Rideau Lakes, there is other land owned by Ontario that could accommodate a prison NOT close to schools, daycare centres, downtown, or in conflict with community aspirations! Best wishes. Nadia Gray
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Council approves site plan for new cannabis facility
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from the facility. Since the site plan was first brought to Local Journalism Initiative Reporter council, Mayor Peckford and North Grenville council Deputy Mayor McManaman passed a resolution at the have sat down with Era Canmeeting on November 3 to nabis to go through some of give site plan approval to a their site plan concerns. new cannabis facility in the “I was satisfied with the municipality. In October, conversations we had, and 2019, council had passed a better understood the very zoning by-law amendment hard work that the cannabis to allow Era Cannabis to facility has undertaken to enestablish a production facil- sure that they are meeting all ity at 382 Townline Road the provisions that are laid out in Kemptville. As part of for them, both ours and federthat amendment, council put ally,” Mayor Peckford said. a holding symbol on the North Grenville resident, property requiring a site plan Aaron Nichols, came to the agreement before permitting council meeting last week to Era Cannabis to build their express his concern about the facility. The area involved new cannabis facility, which is designated Economic En- will be located about 2km terprise, as per the munici- from his home. His main pality’s official plan, which concern is the possibility of means that it is meant for the odour that can sometimes industrial and manufacturing come from these facilities. land uses. Surrounding busi- Through his research, he nesses include Kemptville found that the system for Marine and Spa Jada Esthetic regulating odour when it Centre. Era Cannabis is one comes to cannabis facilities of two businesses which re- is disjointed, with neither ceived an exemption from the municipalities nor Health interim control bylaw on can- Canada taking responsibility nabis facilities that council for the issue. “The concern put in place in August, 2019, is that it often ends up in the and extended for another year residents’ hands,” he told on August 19, 2020. council. “The residents are Site plan approval for the the ones facing the issue and Era Cannabis facility has been suffering the consequences.” deferred twice while council According to Acting did their due diligence to Director of Planning and ensure that many of the is- Development, Amy Martin, sues that came to light with odour is not something they the other cannabis facility can regulate under site plan in North Grenville, Fleurish control. CAO Gary Dyke also on County Road 20, were confirmed that, while council addressed. This included is- has the ability to put a bylaw sues like landscaping, noise, in place to address odour, lighting, and odour emanating it would be very difficult to
enforce. He said that odour is even more difficult to regulate than noise, because it is hard to determine what the threshold would be for it becoming a nuisance. “It really is beyond the expertise of a municipality of our size, even larger municipalities, because of the nature of the measuring equipment that is needed to determine it,” he said. According to CAO Dyke, the Ministry of the Environment and Health Canada are the two bodies that are better equipped to deal with odour issues when it comes to cannabis facilities. Aaron’s main concern about leaving odour regulation up to these provincial and federal bodies is that it may be difficult to have resident complaints heard, should there be any odour issues. “[If] I, as a resident, start experiencing next summer odours of cannabis that make my property unusable, I don’t want to have to go through a federal framework for somebody at Health Canada to talk to, for somebody at the Ministry of the Environment to talk to,” he said. “They really don’t want to talk to citizens.” CAO Dyke suggested that, rather than put in place a bylaw that may not be enforceable, the municipality make the commitment to help residents with complaints liaise with the provincial and federal bodies that are equipped to regulate odour. “That would be where I would say the best efforts for the municipality, moving
forward, is regulating stuff that we can regulate and can enforce ourselves, and then becoming advocates on behalf of our citizens where the company is not complying with its provincial and federal regulations.” Mayor Peckford mentioned that, when it came to the issues surrounding the other cannabis facility in town, the municipality was very vocal with Health Canada, leading to some significant improvements. She also said that, unlike the previous facility, the Era Cannabis building is being built from scratch and will be specifically designed for cannabis production. “The conversation we had last week led me to have some more confidence that the kind of technologies being used reduce the chances of odour becoming pervasive,” she said. Council will check back in with staff in about three months to see what types of recourse might be available to them to regulate odour from cannabis facilities. “Even if it’s just us being the squeaky wheel to get Health Canada engaged,” the Mayor said. Now that the site plan has been approved by council, the holding symbol will be removed from the property to allow Era Cannabis to apply for their building permit.
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connect people. To say that I am going to truly miss all of you is an understatement! The many ways in which each of you has enhanced my life is immeasurable, and has left an enduring impression on me. Wishing everyone happiness, Susan Susan E. Smith
Equinelle? 2. Why isn’t there an entrance access to Equinelle off of River Road? The latest phase of homes is pretty much right on River Road or in the back yards of homes on River Road. 3. The ditch “a narrow channel dug in the ground, typically used for drainage alongside a road or the edge of a field” on both sides of the road have been filled in with literally tons of rock and paved over. Where is the spring runoff going to go? The year the forest was cleared for phase one of Equinelle, causing less storage capacity, we experienced unprecedented flooding along the Rideau River. 4. Considering the possible impact on the Rideau River, was RVCA consulted on this project? Regards, J.S., Kemptville
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took it all in. The kind words and remembrances continued to bring tears and smiles. Dear Editor, I am so overwhelmed In fact, I had to wait until and grateful for all of the Saturday morning to reread thoughts and well-wishes everything, as it was truly as I left my position as Ex- touching that so many took ecutive Director of Seniors’ the time to put ‘pen to paper’. Thank you to Bill Forbes Community Services (SCS). It was so nice being able to and Aaron Nichols, repreconnect with a few people senting the Board of Directo say goodbye; however, tors, for stopping by the with social distancing, it was office on my last day and impossible for us to gather. conveying their best wishes. That being said, Ann Miller, I know that your vision for Carol Friesen, and Jennifer the organization will conGraham, the phenomenal tinue with the great team of staff at SCS, collected the volunteers, Jennifer, Carol, emails, notes, cards, well Ann, and your new Executive wishes, and items from peo- Director. Many thanks to Maggie ple over the past weeks and put everything together in the Boyer and David Shanahan, most beautiful presentation owners of the North Grenon my last day at work. In ville Times, for being an this time of social isolation, advocate for the seniors of when it was just the four of this area, as well as a great us, everyone needs to know supporter of Seniors’ Community Services (SCS). This that they did you proud! Ann, Carol and Jennifer has led to higher visibility were all so understanding of for the great programs and my freely flowing tears as I services at SCS, and helping November 11, 2020
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UPDATE UPDATE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
The Municipality has created a dedicated webpage for updates related to COVID-19 (www.northgrenville.ca/coronavirus)
UPCOMING MEETINGS COUNCIL MEETING
November 12, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. (Closed Session at 5:30 pm) November 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm While members of the public are invited to attend the meeting, seating has been arranged to facilitate physical distancing and accordingly is limited. Pre-registration at clerk@northgrenville.on.ca is required. Persons arriving without pre-registering will be accommodated where there is sufficient seating capacity to permit attendance while complying with safety protocols. All attendees will be required to self-screen and masks must be worn when physical distancing cannot be maintained. If you require accommodation, please advise the Clerk when pre-registering so that we may best assist you. This meeting will be live streamed at https://www. northgrenville.ca/govern/governance/agendas-andminutes. To make a deputation in relation to an item on the agenda, please provide your comments no later than 2 hours prior to the start of the meeting to clerk@northgrenville.on.ca
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Accessibility Advisory Committee – Monday, November 16 at 4:00 pm Environmental Action Advisory Committee – Monday, November 23 at 6:00 pm Agriculture & Rural Affairs Advisory Committee – Tuesday, November 24 at 4:15 pm Active Transportation Advisory Committee – Thursday, November 26 at 5:00 pm **NOTE: Committee Meetings are being conducted electronically via Microsoft Teams. Should you wish to participate in the meeting or have any questions, please contact the Committee Clerk (jworkman@northgrenville.on.ca) by 2:00 pm the day of the meeting for instructions to access the meeting. Any deputations can be e-mailed and will be read aloud to the Committee and will be made part of the public record.
NORTH GRENVILLE MUNICIPAL OFFICE HOURS
The Municipal Office is open to the public between the hours of 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Residents and businesses can continue to access Municipal services by phone, email and online. For more information visit www.northgrenville.ca/coronavirus.
Dear Editor, I am so glad you printed the last few letters regarding the road construction on County Rd. 44. Besides the all too obvious mess and mismanagement of the operation; there are a few very disturbing questions that come to mind. Questions that warrant answers from the Municipality, who have provided zero information about this project up to now. 1. Who is paying for the two turning lanes being built for the residents of
GARBAGE & RECYCLING
Please be advised that the new Garbage and Recycling Calendar between November 2020 to January 2021 is available for download at www.ngrecycles. ca. Remember to have your bins out by 7:00 am.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITUES
Deputy Chief Building Official The Municipality of North Grenville is accepting resumes for interested and qualified candidates for the position of Deputy Chief Building Official. The closing date to receive applications is 4:00 pm Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Additional information is available at www.northgrenville.ca/careers. Municipal Custodian (Part-Time) The Municipality of North Grenville is accepting resumes from interested and qualified candidates for the position of PartTime Custodian. The closing date to receive applications is 4:00 pm Friday, November 27, 2020. Additional information is available at www.northgrenville.ca.
CIVIC AWARDS
North Grenville’s Council is seeking nominations for the 2020 Civic Awards. For details visit www.northgrenville.ca
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Diabetes Educators at KDH provide support Meet Jason Larmour for people with Diabetes eating and activity goals; achieve and maintain a healthy weight; • test your blood sugars; • recognize the signs and symptoms of high or low blood sugars and what to do about it; • take medications if required; • monitor your eyes and feet to catch problems early, and • reduce your risk of complications. Here is some of the recent feedback from patients who have participated in the KDH Diabetes Education & Support Program: “I am touched by the attention to details and the knowledge that you offered. It seems my biggest challenge will be exercise and nutrition. But I am committed to make changes to have an improved and more productive life.” “Thank you for taking the time to talk with me today and for your email. I really appreciate the education you provided and how you made the information literally easy to ‘digest’.” “Thank you for your dietary recommendations! With smart shopping and planning ahead I feel like I am able to enjoy my food and make healthy choices at the same time. I don’t feel like I am missing anything and I feel like my choices are sustainable long-term. Your support and kind words mean a lot!” “Thank you for your guidance. I am actually looking forward to my next blood work as I think my doctor will be pleasantly surprised with my results!” KDH’s Diabetes Education & Support Program is led by a Diabetes Dietitian Educator and a Diabetes Nurse Educator who take pride in providing patients with the tools they need to live well with diabetes. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the KDH Diabetes Education & Support Program is available (virtually) for patients with prediabetes and diabetes who require assistance. The clinic is currently closed to outpatient visits; however, education can be provided via email or phone. Services are free and we accept both selfreferrals and family doctor referrals. To inquire more about the KDH Diabetes Education & Support Program call 613258-6133 extension 289. •
Julia leading one of her popular grocery store tours to provide shopping tips for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes - this was pre-pandemic of course! Julia Hicks R.D., C.D.E., Diabetes Dietitian Educator To mark World Diabetes Day 2020, November 14, the Diabetes Education & Support Program at Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) would like to take the opportunity to raise awareness about the condition and explain their role in providing patients with the tools they need to live well with diabetes. Today, more than 11 million Canadians are living with diabetes or prediabetes. As the number of people with diabetes continues to rise across the world, the role of nurses and other health professional support staff becomes increasingly important in managing the impact of the condition. People living with diabetes face numerous challenges, and diabetes educators may often be the first – and sometimes only – health professionals with whom a person interacts. As a result, the quality of their initial assessment, care and treatment is vital. Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the body cannot produce insulin, or when the insulin the body does produce cannot be used effectively. If left uncon-
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trolled, diabetes results in consistently high blood sugar levels, which can cause damage to organs, blood vessels and nerves. There are three main types of diabetes: Type 2 Diabetes is the most common diagnosis and occurs when there is insufficient insulin production and/ or insulin resistance. In some cases, Type 2 diabetes can be managed with healthy eating and regular exercise alone, but it may also require medications or insulin therapy. Roughly 90% of people living with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease and is also known as insulin-dependent diabetes. People with Type 1 diabetes are unable to produce their own insulin because their body is attacking the pancreas. As a result, insulin injections or use of an insulin pump is required for people with Type 1 diabetes. Approximately 10% of people living with diabetes have Type 1 diabetes. A third type of diabetes, known as Gestational Diabetes, occurs during pregnancy and is usually temporary.
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by Retired Navy Captain Peter Milsom, President, Kemptville Navy League Chief Petty Officer (CPO2) Jason Larmour did not achieve his high rank by accident. His over four years of service with Sea Cadets has, due to his hard work and active participation in the program, turned out a strong leader and a capable performer in a wide range of skills and activities. In cadets, and out in his day-to-day life, he has proven himself to be a wellrounded super achiever, balancing the demands of schooling, the Cadet Program, volunteer activities, and employment in a wide range of part-time and summer jobs. Jason has lived in the Kemptville area all his life, now over seventeen years. Well-rounded? – you be the judge! From 2013 to the present, he has volunteered with the Grenville Fish and Game Club for community brush and roadside cleanup, and helped with the annual silent auction and dinner. He served as parking lot attendant and ticket booth helper for the South Mountain Fair. He has worked on weekends and during the summers for the past several years with Airsoft/Siloki Combat Centre in Smiths Falls as a referee and in constructing various structures and bunkers. He has also, through his hard work, earned a position as line co-captain, and on the Traffic Control Team for Drain-All Limited hazardous waste pickup. In the meantime, he has maintained an average of 85% and Honour Roll status every year since Grade 9 in all of his courses at North Dundas District High School. He has studied to be bilingual in the French language since Grade 1. His hobbies include archery, small engine repair, welding, paintball, and car restoration. Archery is not just a casual interest. Jason started archery at six years of age and has since competed in many provincial, national, and international tournaments. He has competed on the school archery team for the past several years. In Cadets, Chief Petty Officer Second Class does not happen easily. Jason was required to pass a formal competitive Review Board assessing his naval and general knowledge, his leadership skills, and knowledge to earn this promotion. An excellent leader and dependable and consistent hard worker, he is constantly striving to improve his skills with special courses, such as the Sail Training Course at RMC in Kingston, weekend workshops and training designed to develop skills in communication, team building, seamanship, and team management and leadership. His participation in Biathlon and Range team competition has been a source of real enjoyment, especially in meeting new friends and gaining new experiences. A Power Award winner in his first year of cadet training, he started as he meant to go on, achieving, learning, participating, competing, and succeeding in all he undertook. the north grenville
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by David Shanahan When most of the Canadian soldiers who had served overseas during the First World War returned home in 1919, they might have expected to find “a land fit for heroes”, as they had been promised. They had fought the “War to end War”, and for this they had suffered so much. But, instead, many returned to unemployment, death by influenza, or a life of pain and struggle as they dealt with the effects, physical and psychological, of what they had been through. Some were not even to enjoy home, as they were sent away again, to Vladivostok, to fight against the Bolsheviks. For many others, coming home would mean the loss of everything they had fought for: the fight to protect the rights of small nations didn’t extend to the nations to which they belonged. The thousands of indigenous people who had volunteered for service in WWI are the forgotten heroes. And
pride of place in that sad band goes to Francis Pegahmagabow. Francis signed up at the very start of World War I, in August, 1914. He is the most highly decorated indigenous soldier in Canadian history. He was awarded the Military Medal, not once, but three times and was seriously wounded during his time serving in the First World War. As a scout and sniper, he was credited with 378 kills, and he single-handedly captured 300 prisoners. Along with every other man in uniform, he was granted the vote in federal elections in 1917, and returned to his home community of Wasauksing on Parry Island celebrated as a hero and a credit to his people. Then the reality of life in Canada for native people hit home. This hero had his right to vote stripped from him because he was an Indian. Indigenous people did not regain that right until the 1950's. Although he was Chief of his community for many years, every attempt to improve the lives of his people was thwarted by Indian Agents who dictated every aspect of life on the Wasauksing Reserve. He, along with every other indigenous person in the country, was not allowed to send a letter of protest to the Government, they all had to go through the Agent. Residents of Reserves were under the Indian Act, a piece of legislation that controlled their lives, refused them the right to hire a lawyer to represent them, refused the right even to leave the Reserve without written permission from the Agent. This was how Canada treated its decorated heroes. The First World War was fought, it was said, to protect the rights of small nations, like Belgium. Britain (and therefore Canada) entered the war to protect the neutrality of that country. It is ironic, then, that the rights of small nations, First Nations, were so blatantly ignored and degraded, in spite of legal treaties with Britain and Canada. What was fought for then, what we remember every November 11, is that millions of people died to safeguard basic human and civil rights from being infringed upon by bigger and stronger nations. Canada has been doing that very thing to many smaller nations within its own borders for generations. In spite of which, around 4,000 men like Francis Pegahmagabow, that’s around one-third of all indigenous men between the ages of 18 and 45, went to war and distinguished themselves in defending this country. This is something that we, as Canadians must honour, acknowledge, and do what we can to show our gratitude. We must educate ourselves and our children about the indigenous people of this country and their history. We must sort out truth from myth, and recognise the rights and status of the people who also died and served, and who were later reduced to children in the eyes of the law of Canada. Lest we forget.
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Stanley Bliss Tallman was born May 19, 1892 to Esley Hardy and Frances Maria Devitt Tallman in Merrickville. He was the youngest of three children including Harold and Hardy. His father was a merchant in Merrickville. He enlisted on Sept 24, 1914 in Val-
cartier, Quebec at the age of 22 and assigned to the 6th Battalion. He had also served with the 56th Regiment Lisgar Rifles for a year before enlisting. Lt Tallman served with the 20th Border Horse from Aug 12, 1914 until Sept. 24 when he was as-
signed to the 6th battalion. On October 4, 1914, he sailed on the SS Lapland from Halifax to England, and, on June 8, 1915, he was assigned to the Royal Canadian Dragoons in France. On January 21, 1916 he was promoted to Lance Corporal, and on Oct. 25, 1916, he was promoted again to Corporal with the RC Dragoons. In December, 1917, he was transferred from the Dragoons to Canadian Calvary Regimental Depot in Shornecliffe, England and promoted to Lieutenant on April 9, 1918. On April 29, 1918 he went back to the RC Dragoons in France. On May 9, he went to Gun School and on July 21, he went to Gas School.
He became seriously ill on Oct. 16, 1918 and was hospitalized at the 8th General Hospital in Rouen, France. He was moved to the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth on November 2. Lt Tallman died November 5, 1918 with Broncho-Pneumonia at the 3rd London General Hospital while with the Royal Canadian Dragoons of the 1st Armoured Regiment. He was buried at the Canadian Military Hospital in Brookwood, Surrey. He also has a grave site at the Wolford Rural Cemetery at 705 Kilmarnock Rd. from the Merrickville Heroes of WW1, at: www. merrickvillesheroes.weebly. com.
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The British Empire went to war in South Africa in 1899 in an imperial venture to take control of minerals and territory. Opposed by the Boers, descendants of earlier Dutch settlers, Britain put pressure on Canada to send troops, although Canadians had never served outside of the homeland before. Canada was divided over the prospect, and Prime Minister Laurier compromised by agreeing to pay for a volunteer corp to join the war. 7,368 Canadian volunteers and 12 nursing sisters were eventually to serve in South Africa, of whom 89 were killed or died of wounds. Some 252 were wounded, 135 more died by accident and disease. The Canadian War Museum records that “Canadian troops burned Boer houses and farms, and moved civilians to internment camps. In these filthy camps, an estimated 28,000 prisoners died of disease, most of them women, children, and black workers. Civilian deaths provoked outrage in Britain and in Canada”. 32-year old Thomas Michael Griffin of Asa Street in Kemptville enlisted to serve in South Africa on January 8, 1900. He was a farrier by trade, a man who took care of horses’ hoofs and shoes, something that was highly prized in a war in which calvary played a major role. The son of Irish Catholics immigrants who arrived at the height of the Great Famine. He was attached to the Royal Canadian Field Artillery. Thomas was promoted to Sergeant and returned safely home to Kemptville in 1901 to be welcomed in a blinding snowstorm by hundreds of neighbours and Reeve G. Howard Ferguson. He was awarded the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, for service in Belfast, Cape Colony and the Orange Free State.
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In 1944, he was based outside Loretto, Italy, when heavy gun fire broke out. “Without any order, I crawled up to them [the enemy] and threw a grenade,” says Bob. “I acted instinctively.” After a short period of silence, the enemy began firing mortars. “I remember an explosion and the smell of gunpowder,” he says. “I then realized that my weapon was gone and, in the place where my hand held the machine gun, there was nothing – I had lost part
of my left arm below the elbow. I felt like I was dying because my whole life flashed before my eyes.” Bob was awarded the Virtuti Militari, the Polish equivalent of the Victoria Cross, for his valour in destroying two enemy machine gun nests. He also received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restitua from Poland, the Cross of Valour, Merit Cross, Second Corps Army Medal and Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross. In 1954, Bob immigrated to Canada where he became a member of The War Amps, an Association originally started by amputee veterans returning from the First World War to help each other adapt to their new reality as amputees. For the last 50 years on Remembrance Day, he has laid a wreath to honour his comrades. “I’m grateful that I have been able to take part in these ceremonies. It’s important to me that I pay tribute to my fellow veterans and all those who lost their lives,” says Bob. Photo: Second World War veteran Bob Gondek.
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On the same day at the battle of Arras Both hailed from town of Merrickville Mr. Hugh Knowles of Carley’s Corners, receive the very sad intelligence last Friday morning, that his son Hugh L. Knowles was killed in action at the battle of Arras on Easter Monday, April 9th, and the same night came a message that another son, William, was also killed in action at the same place. Surely this is a very heavy blow for one home on the same day. It seems that the two brothers were operating a machine gun with Hugh L. in charge, and William assisting, when they met death in the name of their country. These young men had enlisted with the 80th Battalion and were together in the machine gun section. The 80th was broken up in England and used for reinforcements, some going into the 50th Battalion. The men of the 80th went into the trenches about the middle of August, 1916. They were there for about eight months on the firing line. Mr. H. L. Knowles was bookkeeper of Percival Plow and Stove company [Merrickville] when he enlisted. These young men have made the supreme sacrifice. They lay down their lives for home and country and for the liberty of the world. There is a feeling of profound sympathy in the community for the bereaved relatives. [Weekly Advance, May 3, 1917]
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Canadians on patrol in Korea PA-115034 published by permission of Veterans Affairs Canada At the end of the Second World War, Japan’s empire was dismantled and the Soviet Union, seeking to gain influence in the region, occupied North Korea while the Americans moved into South Korea. The Soviets and the Americans eventually left, but not until a communist government had been established in the North and a democratic government in the South. Tensions between the two Koreas grew to a climax and, on June 25, 1950, the military forces of North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel into South Korea. This marked the beginning of hostilities which were to rage on for more than three years, throughout the country known to its people as the Land of the Morning Calm. The UN, created to resolve conflict between member nations primarily through dialogue and negotiation, also had the flexibility to use force in the pursuit of peace. The situation in Korea would require armed intervention, and 16 member nations, including Canada, would contribute military forces under United States command. Initial advances of North Korean troops reached Seoul, the capital of South Korea, but a September 1950 UN sea landing at November 11, 2020
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Word has been received of the death in action somewhere in France of Pte. John Fleming Percival Foster, a well-known Merrickville boy. He was a son of Mrs. Arthur Eastman, Merrickville, and was a valued member of the staff of the agricultural department, enlisting in the fall of 1915, and going overseas last year. He joined to the Grenadier Guards and was in training for several months at St. John’s, Que., after which he was sent overseas, being transferred to another battalion. It was after some of the heaviest fighting last November that Pte. Foster was reported missing. Recently his mother was notified by the militia department that her son had been killed in action on November 18. His commanding officer wrote to the bereaved mother, stating that Pte. Foster had gone to his death bravely and praising the splendid work he had done while in the company. Pte. Foster was one of Merrickville’s favourite sons and news of his death has caused widespread expressions of regret. April 12, 1917
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Attempted closure of the Kemptville court foiled by David Shanahan A motion introduced at the United Counties Council meeting last week saw a motion being presented that, if passed, would have discontinued all sittings of the Provincial Offences Court in Kemptville. The immediate result of such a move would be to require all residents in North Grenville and northern Grenville County generally to travel to Brockville for any court proceedings in which they would be involved. The Court House in Kemptville would no longer be used. The motion was passed on a UCLG staff report to Council recommending the closure, using as a rationale the fact that the Ontario government had recommended that municipalities embrace technology during the pandemic to avoid having in-person meetings and gatherings. And, at first, it seemed a straightfor-
ward motion, as moved by Township of Rideau Lakes Mayor, Arie Hoogenboom, and seconded by Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands Mayor, Corinna Smith-Gatcke on behalf of the Joint Services Committee of the UCLG. Almost before Township of ElizabethtownKitley Mayor, Brant Burrow, who was in the Chair for the Council meeting, could respond to the motion, Mayor Nancy Peckford was heard, asking to speak to the motion. Mayor Peckford was very direct in her comments, noting that the motion was “premature and a little offensive”, lacking in information, and “extremely tone deaf”. The Mayor recognised the severe limitations presented by the old Court House, and noted that it was not the only possible venue in North Grenville that could be used by the courts. Most importantly, the people, council, and municipal staff in North
Grenville had not been consulted about the proposed decision before it was brought to the UCLG Council, and Mayor Peckford demanded that the motion be withdrawn until “wholesome discussion of the community impact” for NG and surrounding areas could take place. Consideration of remote access, via on-line sittings of the courts, she said, must take into consideration public access to remote broadband. There was, at this time, no way of knowing how many residents would have access to such virtual meetings. “To close the office and deny opportunity to appear to those without adequate broadband, which is the case for 45% of NG residents, compromises the judicial system.” Asking that our residents be given more respect on this issue. It seems, she pointed out, that North Grenville was, as so often in the past, not being
To everything there is a season!
by Councillor Doreen O’Sullivan Hunting season is upon us. Make room for everyone in our natural resources. North Grenville is a mix of rural and urban areas with roots in both cultures. We need to respect the varied uses and users of our trails and forests. Remember that the forests are also home to wildlife. While enjoying the lovely forests and trails we are so fortunate to have, we need to be aware that hunting is happening, and I feel it is November 11, 2020
important to educate people about safety and the values of sustainable hunting. In response to public questions about hunting, Ed Patchell, retired CEO of the Ferguson Forest Centre provided me with the following information. Bow hunting has been going on in the nursery and surrounding crown land for many years. This area actually has its own designated wildlife management unit (66B) with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).
The Ferguson Forest Centre is designated for bow hunting and for only one week, the second week of November. The hunt is a controlled hunt to manage the herd population, and a limited number of licenses are given out each year. Bow hunting is a much more controlled form of hunting, the range of the firearm is only about 30 meters and must be clear of obstructions that could impede the travel of the arrow. So the hunter must have a clear line of sight to the animal being hunted and must be fully aware of what they are shooting at. The purpose of the bow hunting season is to control the deer population on the property so that it doesn’t adversely affect the regeneration of plants in the crown forest and on the nursery property. Controlling the population also helps to ensure a healthy deer population. At one time the nursery had a resident herd of over 50 deer and you could easily see deer in the evening throughout the property. The herd was known to do significant damage to the nursery crops. The nursery has experienced the complete destruction of White Cedar crops over the winter in the past and this has had a disastrous effect on 23
treated with proper respect, a case in point being the attempted closure of the Service Ontario office a few years ago. She called for the motion to be withdrawn until proper consultations take place, more information provided, and some options suggested by staff. Mayor Brett Todd, Town of Prescott, immediately spoke in support of Nancy Peckford’s statement. He had, he said, wondered if North Grenville had been consulted, and found it astonishing that they weren’t. This, he pointed out, was not the only example of lack of coordination between UCLG staff and council. The mover of the motion, Ari Hoogenboom then agreed that more discussion was needed. Remote services are not always appropriate for rural municipalities either, and there ought to be more moves towards virtual services. More work needs to be done, and noted that his
municipality’s residents need to drive an hour either to Brockville or Kemptville to question a ticket or something else connected with the court. Mayor Doug Struthers, of Merrickville-Wolford, spoke up to question the value of the current location in Kemptville. “We need perspective”, he thought, since the court only sat in Kemptville 6 days a year, which doesn’t seem much. Maybe that is not fiscally responsible, but perhaps with technology it would be worthwhile. After some discussion around the table about how to deal with the motion - withdraw it, or defer it, Andy Brown, CAO of the UCLG, agreed that
the nursery’s ability to supply its clients. In the past, the herd had a much larger land base and roamed from where the Colonnade mall is now through all the new sub divisions (eQuinelle, Settlers Grant and Tempo) with plenty of habitat and food. Now there is only the nursery and crown land that are suitable for the herd, and there have been deer in a number of the nursery fields this year. Without the hunt, there is once again potential for significant damage on the nursery crops, it could impact the health of the deer population, it could attract more carnivores that could also impact other animals, and it could result in more dangerous vehicle interactions. The City of Ottawa allows hunting with both guns and bows within the rural areas which have intensive trail systems. Limerick Forest allows both types of hunting and at various times of the year. This is also a multi-use forest with an extensive network of trails. There is No Hunting allowed on the Kemptville Campus, and so I recommend that residents explore those trails. The Sugar Bush and Discovery Trails in there are wonderful and full of po-
tential. There is some work to be done to enhance them with trimming of branches, creating connections and marking the trails. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Director Mark Guy at the Municipality of North Grenville or myself. mguy@northgrenville.on.ca, or dosullivan@ northgrenville.on.ca. Safety is paramount as is etiquette while sharing the trails with other users: - During hunting season, avoid the trails where hunting is allowed and dress appropriately with bright coloured orange or red clothing - Dogs on the trails must be kept on leash. The Dog Park is an option for letting your dog run loose. - Pick up after your dog and don’t toss ‘poop bags’ in the bush - Respect horse riders on the trails. There re-
there should be further consultation with North Grenville, and more talk about how to deliver the service remotely. The motion was then withdrawn by a unanimous vote of council. It is concerning that such a move, with real implications for this municipality, should arrive before the United Counties Council without warning or consultation. It seems consultation with the residents and council of North Grenville is not something that occurs to some before decisions are made. Fortunately, in this case, Mayor Peckford was on hand to put the brakes on the bureaucrats.
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cently was an incident in the Limerick Forest where an ATV spooked a horse and the rider was thrown off. Similar incidents have been reported with off-leash dogs spooking horses. - Don’t litter – Take out whatever you bring in. Garbage not only looks bad, it is a risk to the health of the wildlife. The Ferguson Tree Nursery generates revenue that is used to support the Ferguson Forest Centre, including the trails on both its property and the MNR lands. With the winter season upon us soon, the trails will bring more opportunity for enjoyment. Walking, XC skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling and riding fat bikes - let’s enjoy the wonderful trails we are so fortunate to have and share them with all users.
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Ronald George Edward Elstone March 27, 1932 – October 26, 2020
With profound sadness the Elstone family announces the unexpected passing of Ron Elstone in Kemptville hospital on October 26 in his 89th year. He will missed by his wife Mavis, and his children Paull , Nanci Hunter (Jeff), grandchildren Alex and Mallory Elstone, Ryan (Sydney) and Nick (Jaimie) Hunter, and great granddaughters Annalee and Kinslee Hunter, his brother Mervyn (Dorene) and sister Judy Rennick (Don) and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by parents Clifford and Dora Elstone, and sister, Helen Feir (Creighton). Ron was born and raised in the town of Haliburton. He married Mavis Sisson in July 1955; they celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this past summer. On leaving high school Ron worked for the Department of Highways Surveys Branch, T. Eaton Company in Toronto, and Canadian General Electric in Peterborough. In 1955 he began his career in policing, first with the OPP in the Ottawa area, and then the Nepean Police force where he attained the rank of Inspector before retiring in 1986. The family moved from Bells Corners to Bishops Mills in 1974. He and Mavis restored their grand brick house and lived there until his death. They became avid antique collectors and restored many of their findings. Up until about 10 years ago, they were frequent fixtures at auctions and garage sales. Ron was an accomplished painter, and wood carver. He has won awards for his carving of ducks. He enjoyed his www.ericscarpentryservice.com time carving loons, water fowl, feathers and any other item that came to mind and was especially proud of the detail on the delicate feathers. Many of these artefacts adorn the homes of his extended family. He attended St Andrew’s United Church in Bishops Mills. He enjoyed volunteering for his community. He was a great communicator and could hold a conversation and share stories with almost everyone. His gardens were legendary among the family and neighbours, not to mention the tasty vegetables. Ron was a collector of the collectable, collector of the uncollectable, grower of vegetables, painter of paintings, carver of birds, teller of tales, salt of the earth. Father, Brother, Husband, Son, Friend, Grandfather, Uncle. The family would like to thank the staff of Kemptville District Hospital, The Champlain Lihn Home Care and the many friends, family and neighbours who lended their helping hands when needed. Cremation has already taken place. Interment in the Bishops Mills Cemetery with a private ceremony, observing the COVID constraints.
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by Deron Johnston The Board of Management of the Old Town Kemptville Business Improvement Area (BIA) are excited to announce the grand opening of Blackbird Tattoo at 10 Prescott Street in Downtown Kemptville. Melanie Jones has always been an artist. She went to college for graphic design, and, after having no luck finding a job in that field, she moved to Ottawa from Kingston. She had a couple of tattoos already, and committed herself to making a go of it as a tattoo artist. She found herself an apprenticeship and realized that she was pretty good at it. Just over 8 years later, Melanie decided it was time to follow her dream and open her own shop. Debbie Wilson, Board Chair of the BIA, welcomed the new business to the Downtown: “We’re excited to wel-
come an art-based business to our Old Town Kemptville BIA family. Melanie and Tyler have already invested financially in their space, and have demonstrated they are serious about the health and safety of their clients. By having established a substantial client base previously, we have no doubt that Blackbird Tattoo will be part of our downtown business community for many years to come.” Melanie is very happy to be settled in a community like North Grenville. “I grew up in Brockville, so being in a big city was a little hard to get used to. After tattooing in Ottawa for 8 years, I wanted to move away from the big city and into a community. Downtown Kemptville has been amazing so far. We hope to be a part of this amazing community for many years.” Please join us in welcoming Melanie and Tyler to
Downtown Kemptville. Due to health unit protocols, there will be an outdoor by-invitation-only ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, November 13, at the front of the building at 10 Prescott Street. We expect all participants and visitors to respect all current public health unit protocols by maintaining social distancing and wearing a mask, where applicable, as part of this very special event. For more information about Blackbird Tattoo, follow them on Instagram @ blackbirdtattookemptville, or email them at blackbirdtattookemptville@gmail.com. You can also call them at 613258-5756, or feel free to drop by the shop at 10 Prescott Street beside the bridge in Downtown Kemptville. Their hours are 11am-7pm from Tuesday to Saturday.
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Local businesses promote paying it forward
Katie Weststrate with her 4-month old daughter Lilianna and Robyn Fredrickson outside The Village Bean - one of the businesses participating in Pay It Forward Merrickville. by Hilary Thomson
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A local business owner has spearheaded a pay it forward initiative in the Village for the month of November. Katie Weststrate, of Ahimsa Naturopathic, felt that encouraging local business owners
and individuals to partake in random acts of kindness throughout November would lift the spirits of the community as we head into winter and continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been a year that has brought challenges and opportunities for people, and I think pay it
forward is a great initiative to bring more joy and happiness into people’s lives and kind of change the conversation from the heaviness,” she says. Katie has created a Pay It Forward Merrickville Facebook page to challenge business owners and residents to take part in the initiative. Many of the businesses in Merrickville have responded very positively to the idea, thinking about creative ways that they can give back to the people in the community. Katie’s first act was to buy 100 artisanal caramels from Pickle and Myrrh, with the request that they be given out to the first 100 customers that come into the store. Healthily Ever After is also participating by giving out free tea bags to all their customers. Katie is adamant that pay it forward gestures don’t have to be monetary, and can be as simple as calling a friend and saying you were thinking about them. “The idea is that no ran-
dom act of kindness is too big or too small.” When Robyn Fredrickson of The Village Bean heard about the initiative, she knew she had to participate. “I love the concept, and try to do random acts of kindness in my own daily life,” she says. “When I saw the event, it was certainly something I was interested in.” The Village Bean now has a pay it forward gift card, where people can donate money for a coffee to be given out randomly throughout November. Robyn already picked the first recipient last week - a lady who was having a hard day. She was so touched by the gesture, that she cried and even shared her gratitude on Facebook. “It’s funny, even just within a day or two, to see how it has circulated,” Robyn says. To help get the word out, Katie has created little Pay It Forward Merrickville business cards. The idea is to give them out with as many random acts
Merrickville’s Handmade Christmas Makers Market coming to Village manageable,” Laura says. Local Journalism Initiative Reporter “They all said yes.” She decided that, instead of having the NoA Christmas version of the Merrickville’s Makers vember market at the fairMarket is coming to the grounds, where the ground Village this weekend. Lo- could be messy due to cal maker, Laura Starkey, potential snow and rain, has been organizing mak- she would spread the veners markets in Merrickville dors out throughout the for the past four years. Due Village in a European-style to COVID-19, and the holiday market. “I’m so closure of the Merrickville excited about it, because Community Centre, she I’ve always wanted to have organized a very success- a European market.” The roughly 50 venful outdoor Fall Market at dors will be spread out the fairgrounds in September, which featured local in eight different spots makers from Merrickville throughout the Village. and the surrounding area. Most of the vendors will Laura would usually be outside, with about 10 be organizing a Christmas indoors at The Knox event market for December, but venue, which is in the old again, due to COVID-19, Presbyterian church on she is finding that people St Lawrence Street. All are looking to do their stations are within five shopping a bit earlier this blocks of each other, and year, to send gifts via mail. there will be maps at each “I asked everyone in Sep- location showing where tember– would you be visitors can find the other willing to do an outdoor vendors. “It gives people a market in November if I chance to wander around could do it early enough the Village and visit some where the weather is still of their favourite stores by Hilary Thomson
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at the same time,” Laura says. “It will be laid back and casual.” There will be a wide variety of locally made items for sale, including knit ware, jewelry, clothing, ornaments, soaps and lotions, tea, art, and baked goods. They are even featuring a few new vendors, including someone who makes meditation cushions, and a Batik artist. “There will be quite a huge variety for everybody.” Non-perishable food items will also be collected throughout the day in support of the Merrickville Food Cupboard. Laura believes that this is extremely important, as they will not be getting their usual influx of donations from the CP Holiday Train this year. “Usually, the holiday train comes through town and the food bank gets enough food for almost the entire year just from that one event. That’s not happening this year, so that’s pretty scary for us.” Food
will be collected beside the Merry Christmas Shop and at Healthily Ever After. A list of items that the food cupboard is looking for can be found on the Merrickville’s Makers Market Facebook page. Laura hopes that people come out, meet the local makers, and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere that Merrickville has to offer. “I hope they connect with some of the makers on another level,” she says. “For me, doing this for the last four years, we’ve all become friends. They’re such wonderful people, and they really give their heart and soul into what they do.” The Merrickville’s Handmade Christmas Makers Market will be held on Saturday, November 14, from 11:00am4:00pm. For more information, and to get a map of all the vendor locations, visit the Merrickville’s Makers Market Facebook page.
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of kindness as possible, to remind people to pay it forward. “Ideally, this grows exponentially and could take off to within families, or little neighbourhoods, or anywhere.” It seems the pay it forward initiative has already spread over social media, and Katie’s had people contact her from Kemptville and Lanark who were interested in learning more. “It’s Pay It Forward Merrickville to inspire that local community and local support, and the whole idea that we’re in it together. We’ve got each other’s backs,” she says. “I think that’s helpful for people in times of isolation; but pay it forward doesn’t have to stay local.” Katie has been having a lot of fun promoting the initiative and thinking of other ways she can pay it forward to the people in the community. “It’s always good to have a reminder, and to have that collective, the excitement of life. You don’t know where it is going to land;
Support Your Local Lions Club JOIN TODAY! but you put that ripple in the water.” Everyone is encouraged to check out the Pay It Forward Merrickville Instagram account for inspiration about different ways they can participate in the initiative. You can also share your own pay it forward moments on social media by using the #payitforwardmerrickville. “Nobody ever does it for recognition,” Robyn adds. “But by sharing that you are doing it, it inspires other people to do it as well.”
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Snowmobile Club memebrs Jean Hhutcheaon and Carol Lavigne Tickets, get your tickets! The Kemptville Snowmobile Klub will be out and about town selling tickets for the Upper Canada Snowmobile Region Snowmobile Draw. Proceeds go to the Snowmobile Education and Safety Fund. This package is worth $29,860. For $5 you could win two 900 Ace Skidoos and a covered trailer. Tickets are 1 for $5 or 10 for $50. You can also purchase your ticket(s) for the District Sled draw by calling 613 258 3648, via email (tickets@ucsr.ca) or ask a club member, they may have some to sell. The draw will take place December 17, 2020. Good Luck!!! www.ngtimes.ca
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Shaking:
An annoyance or Parkinson’s Disease?
It’s fair to say, these are shaky times! In keeping with the rocky ride of 2020, have you noticed your hands shaking lately? Are you having trouble tying your shoes, signing your name, or embarrassed that the glass you’re holding is shaking? You think of those suffering from Parkinson’s disease. And you wonder if you are experiencing first signs of this trouble. Parents may also have concerns if their child has shaky hand movements. A report from the University of California says that a condition called essential tremor can occur in young children and young adults. This problem increases with age. At around age 60, about 5% of people notice a slight tremor. Another study states that about 1% of the population suffers from tremor. Essential tremor is the most common form and usually involves the hands and arms, less often other parts of the body. It occurs with movement, not at rest. This
slight shaking can also affect the head, with movement from side to side, or up and down. On rare occasions, it involves the vocal cords, and the voice becomes halting. It may also be associated with poor balance. No one is certain of the cause. Researchers are studying a part of the brain called the cerebellum which plays a role in movement and muscle control. Doctors can usually make the diagnosis when symptoms have been present for at least three years and no other signs of neurological disease are evident. But there are differences between essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease that help doctors to distinguish one from the other. For instance, considering statistical chances is helpful. Essential tremor is approximately eight times more common than Parkinson’s disease. Essential tremor normally occurs during action, such as writing, eating, or extending an arm to shake hands. But, in Parkinson’s disease, the
tremor occurs when the arm is not being moved. This is a “resting tremor”. There’s a difference in the tremor’s frequency and the magnitude. For essential tremor, it’s usually of higher frequency, with more repetitions over a length of time. In Parkinson’s disease, the frequency of movement is slower. A look to relatives may provide clues. A family history of essential tremor exists in more than 50% of cases; whereas in Parkinson’s disease, only 10-20%. In terms of symptoms, in essential tremor, the primary issue is anxiety regarding the shakiness. In Parkinson’s, other symptoms appear apart from the tremor, such as rigidity, slowed movements, and balance issues. Treatment of the two is different as well. The majority of people who have essential tremor do not require treatment. In fact, researchers report that those with this condition rarely bother to seek treatment. Or they wait
Increases in direct care for long-term care residents by David Shanahan The Ontario government announced last week that they are increasing the hours of direct care for each long-term care resident to an average of four hours per day, which will be provided by nurses or personal support workers to support individual clinical and personal care needs. Targets have been set in order to reach that target by 2024-25, and, in order to ensure this, regular reports on progress will be expected. Tens of thousands of new personal support workers, registered practical nurses, and registered nurses will be required, and, as part of the province's COVID-19 Fall Preparedness Plan, an additional 3,700 frontline workers will be recruited for its health workforce. The government has pledged to work in collaboration with labour, education, and training providers, as well as sector November 11, 2020
leaders, in order to achieve the goals they have set. Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care, cautioned against unreasonable expectations, however: "Although we will continue to make progress, these changes will not happen overnight, as we have to hire and train a great number of staff and build modern new facilities so our residents get the level of care they deserve." The commitment is part of the government’s initiative to build 30,000 new long-term care beds over 10 years. The government is also driving the development of new long-term care homes through the Accelerated Build Pilot Program, adding 1,280 beds by early
for many years before seeing a doctor. A change in lifestyle may ease mild tremors. Since sleep deprivation aggravates tremors, the answer is to get more shut-eye. There is little doubt that anxiety plays a major role with tremor. Sufferers indicate they try to avoid stressful activities, such as public speaking, due to the visibility of hand tremors. Yoga, stretching, and relaxation exercises can be beneficial. Alcohol also has a moderating effect on tremor, as long as it is used in moderation. Smoking must be eliminated, as nicotine aggravates tremor. For patients with Parkinson’s disease, alcohol has no effect on the disease. But drugs such as levodopa usually provide some improvement of symptoms. And for parents who notice a child with shaky hands: have a doctor follow the case and keep a journal of what you see. As the child grows and becomes self-conscious of tremors, help them gain confidence through understanding of essential tremor. Sign-up at www.docgiff. com to receive our weekly e-newsletter. For comments, contactus@docgiff.com.
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SHOP LOCAL Staying Well During Cold and Flu Season – The Immune System and Supplements by Danielle Labonte, Registered Dietitian and Public Health Nutritionist, Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit Cold and flu season is here, which often brings up conversations about our immune systems. The immune system is very complex and its job is to find a balance between defending us from things like viruses, while also not overreacting. Autoimmune diseases like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis are examples of an overactive immune system, and when we have an allergic reaction, that is our immune system at work. We often hear and see messages around “boosting” our immune system, especially during cold and flu season, and even more so with COVID-19, but the truth is that there really is no way to “boost” our immune system. We also may hear about certain supplements being promoted with the claim that they can support our immune systems; however, taken individually, some vitamin and mineral supplements can throw the immune system off balance and might interfere with prescribed medications. It is recommended to talk to your pharmacist or family doctor before starting any supplements. For more information, go to www.healthunit.org, follow us on Twitter and Facebook (@ LGLHealthUnit) or call 1-800-660-5853.
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by Bill Forbes, President, Board of Directors, Seniors’ Community Services A passionate advocate. An empathic leader. A committed professional. These are just a few of the phrases that best describe our outgoing Executive Director, Susan Smith. On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff at Seniors’ Community Services, I want to take this opportunity to thank and recognize Susan for her more than seven years of leadership and service to our organization. Susan joined the organization, then Kemptville and District Home Support, in August, 2013. She came to us
with an academic background in geriatrics and leadership, and extensive experience in the healthcare and social services sectors. Her warmth and compassion quickly resulted in the development of strong relationships with our clients and volunteers. Over the years, she successfully increased our client base and expanded the role and size of our dedicated volunteers. She is recognized for her skilled approach to supporting clients, especially those in crisis or distress. Susan’s staff describe her as a collaborative leader who has fostered their individual development and ensured their effectiveness as
a cohesive team. I know they are proud of what they have accomplished under Susan’s stewardship. Susan has also been the “face” of Seniors’ Community Services in her role as Executive Director. She has sought out and built meaningful relationships with local businesses and service groups, and in doing so, has strengthened our supporter base and profile in the community. As a small community service organization, we rely on donations to bridge the gap our funders cannot fill. Susan’s outreach and fundraising skills have been critical in that regard. More recently, Susan played a pivotal role in our rebranding, including the transition to our new name, and led Seniors’ Community Services in a safe and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in that response has
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Is staying active enough? by Richard Chartrand Many people believe that, if they are active, doing things like gardening, that they do not require formal exercise. In fact, when asked about why they don’t do formal exercise, they will usually point out that either their job is physical or that they have hobbies that “keep them active enough”. Dr. Bryce Lee, DPT (www.strength-space.com) is both a doctor of physiotherapy, and he owns a strength training facility that specializes in high intensity strength training. In his article, of the same name as this one, he points out a number of very important points about why staying active alone does not replace proper exercise. The following is excerpted from the longer article on Dr. Lee’s website. To answer, “is staying active enough?”, we have to define “enough.” Because the last thing I want is to imply that gardening (and many other activities) isn’t healthful. Fresh air, sunshine, and exertion are enormously beneficial, not to mention the November 11, 2020
deep satisfaction of seeing the fruits of our labors. But there are some benefits that none of these activities can provide - benefits that are crucial to preventing age related decline in whole body muscle mass, bone density, and insulin sensitivity. It’s a scary fact that even active people can lose muscle and bone at an alarming rate. This starts in our 30’s, and accelerates significantly in our 60’s. Suddenly, we lack the strength and stability to garden, or do all those healthy activities we once treasured. We stop doing them, become increasingly sedentary, and the health consequences increase exponentially. How does this happen? Our bodies are masterfully efficient. Our nervous systems always attempt to use the least amount of muscle, and to burn the fewest calories, to do a task. This is just sound biology - being efficient means you get to survive during the famine, or hard winter. And the more we do a given task (running, gardening, etc), the more ef-
with slow twitch muscle fibres. Our body so efficiently cycles between slow twitch fibres for one purpose - to avoid having to recruit the larger, “fast-twitch,” easily fatigueable muscle fibres. These fibres take much longer to recover: hours, days, or even weeks! This is an eternity compared to the seconds or minutes that slow-twitch fibres take to be refreshed. What is more, when these larger fibres are deeply fatigued, they become very hungry. Because of this, our bodies only call upon these fibres in true “emergencies,” or situations in which absolutely maximal amounts of effort are required. Use muscle or lose it! When these fast twitch fibres go unused for long enough, the body, like a sensible business owner, starts asking the hard questions: “Are these big, expensive muscle fibres really necessary?” And that’s when the atrophy starts. After age 30, we lose 3-10% of our muscle mass each decade, and
ficient we get. Maintenance is a myth. Someone who takes up running will initially become fitter. But it is a cruel irony that if you run exactly 3 miles, 3 times a week, on the same course, and at the exact same speed, you will be weaker, less fit, and possibly less lean 10 years later than you are today. Their bodies will master the task and learn to shut off as many muscle fibres as possible, so the task can be done with the fewest calories burned, and the fewest muscle fibres in need of repair. Efficiency makes it hard to keep muscle: When we go to exert ourselves, our bodies will always turn first to the smallest muscle fibres, which require the least energy, and recover the fastest. These smaller, “slow-twitch,” fatigue-resistant muscle fibres are the workhorses for most of activity. Small but numerous, our bodies rely on them for all the low to moderate force activities we do - any task that can be sustained for more than a few minutes can be done largely or exclusively 28
10-40% of our strength! That means that, by the time we’re in our 70’s and 80’s, we may have lost between 25% and 50% of our muscle mass and strength. This is an unacceptable risk. Nothing replaces high effort resistance training. Recreational activities like gardening, tennis, or yoga can feel very challenging at times. They can make you sweaty, winded, and quite fatigued. And those are very good things! What they are very unlikely to do is to deeply exhaust the fast twitch muscle fibres throughout your body. We’re just not going to achieve truly max-effort contractions during these activities, and instead tend to accumulate hundreds or thousands of fatiguing but low-force muscle contractions instead. It feels hard, but it isn’t maximal in effort. Muscle is the best insurance policy for a "rainy day." Are you comfortable hoping you’ll never get acutely ill or suffer a severe injury? After all, we can also live a long and healthy life without seat-
belts or an emergency savings fund. But when an emergency occurs, these things go from “nice-to-have” to “absolutely essential.” Muscle and bone are the same. We need to understand how muscle and bone are like an emergency savings fund. Maybe we are just strong enough to enjoy our day to day activities, but what happens when we have to spend a month in the hospital due to a severe, acute illness? Or when we sustain a serious fall? We have to start drawing upon this “emergency fund.” According to the evidence, we need very little exercise to see major benefits. In fact, exercising less than an hour each week can reap many, if not most of the benefits of this higher effort training! By using what we understand about how the body works, we can save an enormous amount of time for what we really love to do, whether that’s playing tennis with our friends, or working in the sun on a new garden bed. www.ngtimes.ca
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Holiday chocolate fundraiser with curbside pickup by Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind 2020 is the year of online shopping. Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind [CGDB] and Purdy's Chocolatier have partnered for a fundraising campaign for the 2020 holiday season. You can purchase chocolate for gifts, or just for yourself, and support CGDB, providing professionally trained guide dogs to Canadians who are visually impaired since 1984. Order chocolate online, pay the same prices as in Purdy's stores, and 25% of the price is donated to CGDB. Order before the deadline of November 25, 2020, and then plan for safe, curbside pick up at Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, 4120 Rideau
Valley Drive North, Ottawa between December 21-24. Stay safe, support an amazing cause and, best of all, get or give chocolate! To order, or for more details, go to the events page at www.guidedogs. ca, Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind. Purdy's Chocolatier is a Canadian chocolatier with a rich history. Founder, Richard Carmon Purdy, started selling homemade chocolates in downtown Vancouver in 1907. After 100+ years of crafting fine chocolates, you get to know a thing or two about doing it right. Truly Canadian and truly delicious, Purdys is a family-owned company that's proudly all about chocolate. CGDB was established
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Olivia Wright of Brinston donated her watercolour painting of a Redheaded Woodpecker to help SNC raise funds for tree planting by South Nation Conservation South Nation Conservation’s (SNC) first ever Art for Trees online silent art auction has raised nearly $6,500 for the Conservation Authority’s Spring 2021 tree planting season. In total, 125 participants placed 244 bids on 33 items donated by local artists, photographers, and artisans. The silent auction ran entirely online from October 8 to 29, using the website www.32Auctions.com. All funds raised are going towards helping SNC reach a record-setting goal for 2021: planting 200,000 native trees across its Eastern Ontario watershed in a single year. “We couldn’t be happier with our fundraising total, which will help to buy and November 11, 2020
plant thousands of additional trees to support next year’s ambitious planting target,” says Taylor Campbell, SNC’s Communications Specialist. “We would like to thank residents for participating and placing bids, and the artists and photographers who donated items,” he added. Since 1990, SNC has planted more than 3.4 million trees across its watershed, thanks to community and municipal partnerships, and annual fundraising initiatives to enhance local forest cover. The Conservation Authority had its eyes on a recordsetting planting season next Spring, when the pandemic forced SNC to cancel and rethink its traditional in-person fundraising events. The Art for Trees auction is yet an-
other example of how SNC has adapted to working, fundraising, and engaging with its partner municipalities and area residents during these times. “We will continue to find new and innovative ways to raise money and offer cost effective programs that protect and restore the local environment on behalf of our partner municipalities and local residents,” added Taylor. Donations to SNC can be made online at www.nation. on.ca/donate, or by contacting the Conservation Authority’s head office in Finch at 1-877984-2948, or info@nation. on.ca. SNC is a registered charity with the Canadian Revenue Agency and may issue donation receipts for tax return purposes. 29
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Antiquity meets High Tech
by Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer Over the past decades, we have witnessed and embraced the advancement of technology in cars, TVs, computers, and cell phones. The list goes on and on. We have the opportunity to learn anything via reputable websites over the internet, as well as YouTube videos. Although technology has changed,
the night sky has appeared the same for countless millennia. Back in 1965, when I fell in love with astronomy, spacecraft nor humans ventured into the cosmos to discover the unknown. Humans only stepped on the surface of the Moon in 1969. The few discoveries made by ground-based telescopes were usually
buried in small newspaper columns, or dedicated astronomy magazines that only came out three months later. Books usually took a year or more. Today’s ability to keep up with “breaking news”, no matter what the topic, is literally at our fingertips. A discovery, or recent photos taken from Mars or the cosmos, can be delivered to our laptops and smartphones within hours. We can also use state of the art techniques to learn and image the night sky. Along with smartphone astronomy apps that might cost a few dollars, such as Sky Guide for IOS, there are also free programs (freeware) anyone can download from the internet, such as Stellarium www. stellarium.org, which portrays the night sky that has been seen for thousands of years. I highly recommend this download. My younger days
would find me at the DOW planetarium in Montreal. The mighty Zeis projector showed a dark starry sky setting including the Milky Way and the visible planets on the ceiling of the dome. I stared up in amazement and helped set my path in wanting to learn more. Photographing the night sky was only accomplished with film and a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. Everything changed with the introduction of the digital variety DLSR) in the mid1980s. What took hours can now be accomplished in mere minutes, thanks to the advancement of CCD chips in the camera. Free programs, such as “Deep Sky Stacker” and “Registax”, help in combining multiple images (subs) and processing the results. Smartphones are great for daytime shots, but not so much at night. So the next clear moon-
less night, set up your DSLR camera on a sturdy tripod and a cable release (intervalometer) so as not to touch the camera. On the lens, switch to the manual focus setting and carefully bring a bright star to a pinpoint focus. Set the ISO (light sensitivity) to 1600 and open the camera shutter at a bright constellation for about 30 seconds, using the cable release. You will be amazed at what the camera will record. Welcome to the world of astrophotography and remember: pixels are free, so experiment. Feel free to contact me with any questions via my website.
Till next time, clear skies. Known as “The Backyard Astronomer”, Gary Boyle is an astronomy educator, guest speaker, and monthly columnist for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He has been interviewed on more than 50 Canadian radio stations and local Ottawa TV. In recognition of his public outreach in astronomy, the International Astronomical Union has honoured him with the naming of Asteroid (22406) Garyboyle. Follow him on Twitter: @astroeducator, or his website: www.wondersofastronomy.com.
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Farmer mental wellness – a key priority for OFA and Ontario farm families by Teresa Van Raay, Director, Ontario Federation of Agriculture If someone asks, “how are you doing?”, do you want to throw something at them, or do you break down in tears, or both? I’m not one to judge, I’m a ‘both’ kind of person. The pandemic has brought many changes into our everyday lives. It has offered some relief from external expectations related to travel and busy schedules. However, this roller coaster of uncertainties has increased the level of pressure and stress in our families, businesses, and on our farms. Most farmers I know want to be in control and fix everything. When you are facing emotional exhaustion because of COVID constraints, there may be little control or desire to fix anything. The good news is we are not alone. Without the traditional season of gatherings and meetings with friends, family, and the farming community, we’re encouraging everyone to be aware of the care and wellness necessary to thrive, not just survive, through the winter months. This week, we are paying tribute to all November 11, 2020
the efforts across the farm and food sector that have stepped up to respond, create conversations, and share compassion, helping shine a light on mental health and wellness to strengthen our agricultural and rural communities. Mental health continues to be top of mind for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) advocacy and outreach efforts, and we’re seeing positive progress in government and organizations focusing on managing stress and increasing the understanding of how mental health struggles can impact life on the farm. Recently, OFA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario Division, to address key mental health issues affecting Ontario farmers, agriculture employees, and farm families. This is a tremendous opportunity to offer half-day, evidence-based, mental health literacy programming, and create awareness and support specific for farmer mental health through ‘In the Know’ sessions. These sessions, developed at the
University of Guelph, are the Listowel Agricultural expected to be launched in Society Farmers’ Toolbox early 2021. raising the profile and OFA continues to drive increasing awareness of home the point that the resources. agriculture industry must Provincially, organibe recognized in the new zations, including Grain Centre of Excellence for Farmers of Ontario, are mental health and addic- increasing awareness by tion announced by the sharing listings of agenOntario government in cies and counsellors who February. In the meantime, understand the realities of to help raise the profile farm life, and focusing on of farmer wellness, OFA wellness-themed social launched two campaigns media posts. The Ontario through CTV Bell Media Veterinary College of the Fields to Forks, featur- University of Guelph has ing farm voices speak- divided the components ing about the importance of well-being into eight of seeking help in times domains, accompanied by of distress, and planning simple, everyday activities for support to avoid the to encourage mindfuldangers of working alone ness, which is available on when overwhelmed. OFA’s website. At the grassroots level, The harsh reality is that county federations of ag- sometimes the struggle for riculture have been lead- balance and mental welling the way on hosting ness on the farm is closer workshops and Mental to home than we realize. It Health First Aid training. brings priorities into sharp The Farmer Wellness Pro- perspective when we learn, gram is gaining traction sometimes too late, that as Lennox and Addington, someone in our circle is in Hastings and now Nor- a really dark place. thumberland members Think of mental health have access to counselling and wellness as a dashsessions, and other coun- board using these helpful ties are poised to join this tips: model in the future. Even Check your own levels Agricultural Associations – are you close to ‘empty’ are championing the cause, on energy, patience, sleep, with the recent release of hydration ... or cruising 30
close to burnout? Is your “give a darn” meter broken? Find ways to recharge – hobbies, staycations, breaks from everyday farm tasks, enjoy a favourite comedy show, write down something you are grateful for (chocolate counts). Do a circle check of your network – check in on neighbours, friends, and family. When you ask how they are doing, really listen. Don’t hesitate, reach out for help – Look for help from a specialist if the situation is overwhelming, or start by talking to a trusted COVID comrade. We are in this together. We advocate for economic growth and prosperity for Ontario farm businesses, but, at our
core, we care about the health and wellness of our 38,000 farm family members, as individuals. As farmers, we often pride ourselves on our work ethic, strength, and entrepreneurial spirit. But in order to maintain the resilience required to thrive, mental well-being must be part of the equation. It begins with starting a conversation and watching out for each other. Together, our sector is looking out for the most important resource in Ontario agriculture ... our people. For information, resources and help lines, visit ofa.on.ca/issues/mental-health. If you need immediate help, please contact the toll-free mental health and addictions line at 1.866.531.2600.
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