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EMC News - Belleville - With a growing population and an aging transportation master plan, the City of Belleville is looking at ways to accommodate all forms of transportation in the future, and bicycling figures to be a key aspect of that plan moving forward. “I think council as a whole is very supportive of promoting cycling in the city … the more people that cycle, the less cars there on the road, and the less the city needs to spend upgrading the

roads to accommodate more cars,” said Rod Bovay, Director of Engineering and Development Services department for the City of Belleville. “This plan is a start to identify where we need to look at putting some cycling infrastructure, whether it be bike lanes on roads, or off road trails, and completing a network that lets people get around the city safely and efficiently.” On June 26, the city hosted the second of three transportation master plan open houses at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, with the aim of gathering feedback

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on a number of proposed solutions to both current and potential future problems. The former transportation master plan was created in 1990, and transportation planner Jennifer Armstrong of Morrison Hershfield (an engineering firm employed by the city) says the idea is to take a proactive approach, rather than a reactionary one. “If you want to accommodate future population and employment growth, you need a plan,” Armstrong said. One of the first steps to creating a new master plan was to create a vision

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EMC News - Belleville - A member of Quinte Health Care’s quality of patient care committee, Doug McGregor, raised concerns about getting more allocations for diagnostic services like MRIs at the hospital board’s regular meeting Tuesday. McGregor suggested the board should seek to get an increase in allocations from the Local Health Initiatives Network in the wake of increasing demand for MRIs from local physicians. He was told senior staff is working with the LHIN to revise current quotas not just for MRIs but for all other surgical procedures. Katherine Stansfield, chief nursing officer, confirmed that all surgical and diagnostic services are in fact controlled by budget allocations established by the LHIN. She agreed that with increasing demands, there is a need for the agency to review its quotas. But she added that such allocations pose no threat to necessary surgical or diagnostic cases. “There is a built-in sleeve to accommodate emergencies. And since most such procedures are elective, we can arrange a timing procedure that keeps us within our allocations,” she explained. In other business, the board formally announced a new senior staff appointment to fill a vacant vice-president position. He is Jeff Hohenkerk, who comes from the Route Valley Health System, another multi-site hospital community where he has been director of medical diagnostic imaging and laboratory services since 2003. His previous experience also includes director of diagnostic imaging at the Shriners’ Hospital, Montreal. President and CEO Mary Clare Egberts commented: “Jeff is joining us with a wealth of experience and energy. We were thrilled with the calibre of applicants for this position and Jeff stood out for his track record of enhancing the patient experience and improving staff morale.” His appointment is expected to commence as of August 12. He will have responsibility for emergency/primary care, diagnostic and pharmacy services, human resources and support services. He fills the position left vacant with the retirement of Jan Richardson after 36 years with QHC last March. The meeting also marked the final one for Brian Smith as chair, a position he has held for three and a-half years. Under the board’s bylaws, Smith must now retire not just from the chairmanship but the board. He was praised by fellow board members for steering the board through several very challenging years involving serious budget issues plus massive change. Steve Blakely, vice-chair, said of him: “His personal knowledge and background (a professional health care facility administrator) made him the obvious choice. We could not have gotten a better chair.” He reviewed accomplishments such as a balanced budget, hiring a new chief executive officer (Mary Clare Egberts) and more. “We will miss you for your leadership and your warm and caring personality,” he said. In reply, Smith, a former Belleville city councillor, said: “It has been a challenging but exciting time. I have been blessed to have this opportunity.”

Celebrating Canada Day in Belleville EMC News - Belleville - The city was their way to Zwicks Park for an afternoon The day’s events kicked off with a five- pie eating contests, petting zoo, slip and afternoon of Canada Day fun, ending with a beehive of activity for Canada Day on of fun family events, food and live enter- kilometre fun run starting at 10 a.m., be- slides, car show, live music, train rides the traditional display of fireworks to celMonday, as thousands of people made tainment, all on the scenic Bay of Quinte. fore hose-drawn wagon rides, magicians, and much more made for an action packed ebrate Canada’s 146th birthday in style.

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Torrent of complaints at hospital annual meeting EMC News - Belleville - A normal annual meeting: some reports, an audited statement, election of some directors, almost all of it sailing through on a rubber-stamp basis. Not so with Quinte Health Care Tuesday. Some of the reports, especially by representatives of the Trenton Memorial and Picton hospital foundations contained a litany of complaints and concerns about cutbacks by QHC which, in turn, have been impacting their success at raising badly needed funds. Larry Matheson, for the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation, was particularly outspoken. He said the community has a real fear that the ultimate goal is to close the hospital. He

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EMC News - Belleville - Hastings County Council Thursday got a sneak peek into its future in terms of growth. A consultant’s report commissioned

The photos from London, England, showed a sea of red and white—red balloons, red and white beach balls, small Canadian flags waved in the air. Pictures showed take-out containers of poutine cradled lovingly in revellers’ hands while music played from an outdoor band shell. Yes, I had heard or seen fireworks each night of the long weekend in my neighbourhood. I had witnessed parades and music and festivities in Canada, but the images of Canadians celebrating Canada Day in such a large city in an entirely different country took me by surprise.

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used for additional long-term-care beds to alleviate another major problem. Expressing similar concerns and goals but in milder language was John Smylie on behalf of Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation. He affirmed that the foundation will “continue to challenge the board on the importance of a viable hospital in Trenton� and hoped the board can find ways to increase some services at the hospital. The audited statement presented at the meeting showed that in spite of huge obstacles, Quinte Health Care ended its financial year on March 31 with an operating surplus of almost $163,000. Earlier financial reports indicated that board is very close to a balanced budget for the current year and in cutting staff to accommodate that without having to actually discharge or lay off any employees at this point. If necessary, such numbers will be minimal, said CEO Mary Clare Egberts.

by the county’s planning department was presented by Jamie Cook of Watson and Associates indicating slow growth for the next few years plus an aging population higher than the Ontario average. Cook divided his study into two distinct “market areas�: the north embracing the townships of Wollaston, Limerick and Tudor-Grimsthorpe and north, and the rest as the south where increased population and commercial development is fuelled by Belleville and Quinte West. For the five years ending 2011, the entire county population grew by about four per cent, about 1,700 persons, about .28 per cent. Belleville area, by contrast, grew about .62 per cent. Population in north Hastings has actually declined slightly, he noted. Job growth during the same period for the while county has been “modest� and is likely to continue that way, with the main factors for job creation in the north being retail and tourism. “Approximately 80 per cent of forecast employment growth will be allocated to the South Hastings Market Area,� he predicted. The increase of senior-age residents will require some additional specialized housing as the trend continues, but it also offers opportunities for new taxes and population by retirees, but as residents and summer property owners. He also projected the long-established trend of rural areas being the most popular for newcomers. That, he noted, creates challenges for the county to comply with provincial

policies wanting new growth concentrated in urban areas where adequate services are available. His position was sharply challenged by Wollaston Reeve Dan McCaw who said simply that a rural plot is what newcomers want and it can’t be changed. He added that it should be encouraged by allowing more small rural lots, like about one acre. Some other councillors countered that lots in the 10 to 20 acre range seem more popular in their townships. County Planner Brian McComb commented after that he expects the county can negotiate arrangements with the province to continue to allow modest rural dwellings increase providing there are also urban developments. He also agreed that creating suitable housing for retirees and seniors will remain a challenge. In other business, council was told that their long-time Hastings-Quinte Land Ambulance Director, Doug Socha, will be taking a two-year leave of absence to work as a portfolio manager with the Department of National Defence Research and Security Services. County CEO Jim Pine described his being seconded to that position as a “feather in the cap� both for Hastings County and Socha himself, who then outlined his new duties and introduced John O’Donnell, who has supervised the Bancroft area ambulance services, as his fill-in for the next two years.

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the board had recently passed a firm commitment to maintain all four present hospitals and continues to pursue a new hospital facility at Picton. Adding fuel was the Reverend Al Reimers, speaking for POOCH, an organization working to de-amalgamate the Picton hospital. He reviewed a petition with more than 5,000 signatures presented to the provincial government during a massive protest day at the Legislature recently and while Health Minister Deb Matthews has said there will be no de-amalgamation “at this time,� his organization sees hope for that in the future and will continue to work toward that. He suggested the present board could help accommodate residents’ concerns by moves such as establishing a local committee to help operate some aspects of Picton hospital, even on a trial basis. He also suggested that doctors could come to Picton hospital from time to time for “special services.� And empty rooms at PECMH might be

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hinted that might not be the actual situation, but there have been enough cutbacks since the fourhospital amalgamation to generate and sustain such fears. The most recent cut, the obstetrical service, “blindsided us,� he said. He added that having committed to and successfully raising funds for special equipment for that ward, the foundation will now sit on those funds until they see some good use for them. He also reminded that the Picton hospital had been operating on a solid financial basis and had even been chosen as a teaching branch hospital by Queen’s University, which helped attract good quality physicians. Some of these are now starting to leave and the Picton hospital is caught up in funding shortfalls with BGH and the other hospitals in the QHC complex. Chair Brian Smith reminded him that

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The reasons for Canadians’ deep sense of national pride are undoubtedly varied. Our geography, multiculturalism, sense of freedoms and opportunities, as well as our right to lobby for change may all contribute to a sense of community and belonging. We proudly poke fun at ourselves for currency that prompts us to ask for loonies and for the way we state ideas as questions with a ubiquitous “eh?� On Canada Day, our youngest Canadian citizens grow in their understanding and love of Canada when we celebrate together. Throughout the rest of the year we teach children about being Canadian through conversations, outdoor experiences, trips to local attractions, and through exposure to uniquely Canadian books. We know alphabet books help children make connections between alphabet letters and their sounds. Many alphabet books, however, are also great for sparking conversation with children about Canada. Eh? to Zed by Kevin Major, as the title implies, is a truly Canadian Alphabet book. With Napanee listed on the page for “N� along with Neepawa, narwhal and nickel, this book hits especially close to home. Explanations are included at the end of the book about why specific people, places and words were chosen to signify Canada. A is for Algonquin Park by Lovenia Gorman, explores places, people and fun facts about Ontario.

Z is for Zamboni by Matt Napier is an alphabet book for our youngest hockey fans that celebrates our national sport. M is for Maple: A Canadian Alphabet is written by Mike Ulmer and highlights historical events and people like cancer crusader Terry Fox, hockey star Rocket Richard, and Ojibwa First Nations people. Loonies and Toonies: A Canadian Number Book, also written by Mike Ulmer, feature aspects of Canada’s past and present as well as the metric system. The picture book Little Beaver and The Echo, by Amy MacDonald, is perfect for preschoolers and young school-age children. The story is about a beaver that is lonely. When Little Beaver calls out, “I need a friend,� he hears the same words echoed from across the water. Little Beaver searches for the voice thinking someone else is lonely too. As he searches, Little Beaver finds other animals in the Canadian forest that are looking for friendship too. Canada is vast and it is challenging to give young children an inclusive picture of what it means to be Canadian. Through picture books we enable children to see, hear, think and talk about Canada and its people from coast to coast to coast. That has to be a good thing, eh? Susan Ramsay

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is expected to grow 32 per cent in that same time frame. Using this data and looking at current problem spots in the city, projections are then made as to what problem areas there may be in the future and should corrective measures be undertaken. “We’re looking for things that the city can do to try and improve the way people get around the city by all different modes, and creating a more equitable transportation system that balances not just cars, but also walking cycling and transit as well,� Armstrong said. Based on the information, potential road solutions were then studied, four of which were presented at the open house. Of the four solutions presented, three focused on the Belleville East Arterial Road, with one proposal stretching all the way from the airport parkway down to Highway 37. Each of the proposals was also weighted based on factors such as cost and convenience. “We’re not recommending anything at this point, because the purpose of the open house is to get feedback from people,� Armstrong said. Another aspect of the open house focused on the aforementioned cycling network, and ways to improve connections across the city. The plan for an extended cycling network was developed in parallel with the road

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

$200 an hour to clean your teeth?

Dear Editor, I would like to address the obscene cost of dentistry here in Ontario. Someone really should bring out in to the open the unnecessarily high prices being charged for dental work here, the rest of Canada, and in the U.S.A. Plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, and other trades take years to learn their trades and get certiďŹ ed. They spend many thousands of dollars to obtain the tools and other needs of their respective trades to equip themselves properly to do the job. These trades generally charge $65 to $80

per hour for their work. Why then does a dental technician need to charge $200 an hour to clean your teeth? In Mexico the regular price of teeth cleaning by a dentist is 350 to 400 Pesos, around $30. Why can’t we get our teeth cleaned here, 45 minutes work and $1 worth of materials plus water for $75? Nobel Biocare is one of the top brands in dental implants. A Toronto dentist quoted $5,000 for one of these implants. A local, really good dentist, here quoted $3,500 for an implant but didn’t specify the brand he would use. Five dentists in Mexico quoted

$1,500 to $2,025 for a Nobel Biocare implant put in by a specialist assisted by a dentist. Does anyone think that Nobel Biocare sells their implants any cheaper to the Mexican dentist than they do to the Toronto dentist? Is it any wonder people are walking around with half their teeth here because they can’t afford the cost of replacing them. High quality non-metallic caps or crowns on a tooth here cost $900 to $1,000 per tooth. In Mexico the same quality crown is $350. So the story continues. If a dentist here

needs $250 to $300 an hour for his time and you equate the time spent you will not reach the obscene prices being quoted for their work. Why? The governing body of dentists really has to look at their commitment to the community and address the affordability of what they are charging for their work. Why do we, the Canadian population, and the retired people have to go without teeth, eating on spaces instead of teeth to feed their greed. It’s time we stood up to these people and tell them we are fed up and will not pay these prices. There are laws in the Unfair

Business Practises Act, with Criminal Code consequences for people overcharging for what they do. Why are dentists exempt from these laws? Surely it’s an unfair business practice for a dental assistant to charge $200 an hour for her time and $1 worth of paste. Surely it’s an unfair business practice for a dentist to charge $5,000 for an implant or $1,000 for a crown. We need to address this issue and we need to do it now as the Boomers start to retire on old teeth. Are we about to become a country of toothless people? Garry Hershberg, Havelock

Dear Editor: Prince Edward-Hastings MP Daryl Kramp’s reading of Conservative talking points in the House of Commons on June 18, 2013 proved to be pathetically transparent. Kramp’s feigned outrage regarding Justin Trudeau’s ability to command some rather hefty fees on the speakers’ circuit was obviously just another attempt by the Prime Minister’s OfďŹ ce (PMO) to shift Canadians’ focus away from Mike Duffy’s sordid little affair. Bloated greed surfacing in false expense claims from a Conservative senator bears no comparison. One would think Conservatives might applaud such fair functioning within the free enterprise system. Justin Trudeau’s speaking engagements are booked through an agency called Speakers’ Spotlight, which represents a wide range of public speakers. In Conict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson’s April 13, 2010 report, written in response to Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del

Maestro’s March 15, 2010 complaint about Justin Trudeau getting paid to speak, she wrote: “He [Mr. Trudeau] has included a letter from Mr. Martin Perelmuter, President of Speakers‘ Spotlight, conďŹ rming their bookings for Mr. Trudeau are only in his capacity as an individual who speaks about environment, youth and education. Mr. Perelmuter added that this is made clear to clients, and if the event seems remotely political, clients are directed to his Member of Parliament ofďŹ ces to book him as a Member of Parliament.â€? Commissioner Dawson concluded her report by stating, “On the basis of the information provided, I have no reason to believe that Mr. Trudeau has contravened sections 8 or 9 of the Code [as alleged by Del Maestro]. He is carrying on business as a paid speaker while respecting his other obligations under the Code, and this is permitted under Section 7 of the Code. For these reasons, I have decided that an inquiry is not warranted.â€?

This public offensive against Justin Trudeau was sparked when the PMO released a letter written by Grace Foundation board member Susan Buck to the Speakers Spotlight. President Perelmuter responded to Buck via email on April 9 saying, “we were confused by the request for a refund since we had followed up after the event, nine months prior to receiving the letter, and were told that the Grace Foundation was pleased with the outcome of Justin’s presentation.� Two weeks ago Justin Trudeau offered to reimburse any organization which feels they did not get their money’s worth from his speaking engagement. To date he has had none ask for a refund.

Dig deeper and the light starts to creep in on this situation, courtesy of Revenue Canada ďŹ les, where we ďŹ nd the vice chair of the Grace Foundation (aka The Church Home Charitable Foundation Inc.) Judith Baxter, has very close ties to the Conservative Party. In 2011 Heritage Minister James Moore gave her a lucrative four-year term as a “trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.â€? Judith Baxter’s husband Glen happens to sit on the Riding Executive of Conservative MP for Fundy-Royal Rob Moore, who was the MP who delivered Susan Buck’s letter to the PMO. Baxter posted a photo of herself on Facebook receiving a Jubilee Medal from Moore in

the PMO last February. The deeper we look the more incestuous it gets. Dragging this dead horse out of the Conservative PMO, since the Ethics Commissioner gave a very clear ruling on this issue over three years ago, shows how desperate Harper’s brain trust on the Hill has become. No doubt Daryl Kramp was only too willing to obey his master’s request to read their note in the House since getting time in the spotlight of Question Period is hard to come by. Having something valuable to say is what Justin Trudeau was paid for. My guess is that Mr. Kramp can only wish his own thoughts were equally valuable. Alan Coxwell, Stirling

Dear Editor, Chutzpah is a word derived from Yiddish and Hebrew that can be deďŹ ned as shameless effrontery, utter nerve and even insolence. It could be used to describe many activities of the current Harper Conservatives, including the following. It’s only been a month since the Federal Court found that widespread voter suppression targeting non-Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) voters took place during the 2011 election, and that the most likely source of the data used to make the fraudulent calls was the CPC’s database. In a stunning move we now learn that the Conservative MPs in the case have ďŹ led a request in Federal Court seeking reimbursement of $355,907.56 in legal costs from the nine individuals who bravely launched this case. They even go so far as to

refer to this as a “modestâ€? amount that is a “small fraction of the actual costsâ€? the MPs spent ďŹ ghting the applications. Remember, these are the same Conservative MPs who, in the words of Justice Richard Mosley, “engaged in trench warfare in an effort to prevent this case from coming to a hearing on the merits.â€? Let’s be clear here: All Canadians have the right to defend their vote where it has been infringed upon. Nine individuals stepped up to challenge the robocall scandal and $1,000 in security for costs was ďŹ led with each application in each of the seven ridings. They faced months of relentless attacks and shameless delays by the Conservative MPs and their high-powered legal team who tried to stop them at every turn. Thanks to support from thousands of generous Canadians, they were able to overcome these obstructions, pursue justice and prove widespread election fraud happened in May 2011.

Now, rather than accepting this exposure of the most vicious attack ever on Canada’s democracy, these Conservative MPs want these individuals to pay them more than $350,000, instead of thanking their lucky stars that the judgement did not go so far as ďŹ nd them guilty as individuals. The Conservative Party has also been strangely silent about how its voters’ lists were accessed and its security was breached by those who used them to perpetrate this crime. Hopefully the voting public will remember this and many other examples of obfuscation and oft-employed viliďŹ cation together with the secrecy, misinformation, mismanagement and abuses of public ofďŹ ce that have characterized Harper’s Conservative government and crush them at the polls in the next election. Better to have them pensioned off at great expense to us than completely ruining the country, morally and ďŹ nancially as well as Canada’s reputation abroad. Iain Henderson, Brighton

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The Nicaraguan canal

Gwynne Dyer

EMC Editorial - On June 10, the Nicaraguan parliament voted in favour of building a $40-billion canal across the country connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Since the country is dirt poor, the money would have to come from international investors. It would be raised by a Hong Kongbased firm, HKDN Group, which in return would get the right to build and run the canal for 50 years. But nobody outside Nicaragua took the plan very

seriously. On June 15, Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, and Wang Jing, the owner of HKDN, signed a contract that gives the Central American nation 51 per cent of the company’s shares. Wang said the capital could easily be raised from Chinese companies and international banks, but since his only business experience has been in running telecommunications firm Xinwei Telecom, again nobody took much notice. So on June 25, Wang went public. Speaking in Beijing, he said he had already attracted global investors. Work on the canal would start in 2014, and it would be open by 2020. “We don’t want it to become an international joke, and we don’t want it to turn into an example of Chinese investment failures,” he said, adding that returns on the project were “sure to make every investor smile broadly.” Promoters always talk like that, and there would still not be much reason to take Wang and Ortega seriously if it were not for one fact: Chinese businessmen do not launch projects of this scale without the support of the Chinese government. The risk of embarrassment is just too high. Wang denies that he has official support, of course: “I am a very normal Chinese citizen. I couldn’t be more normal.” But if Beijing really is behind the project, then it may actually happen. So what would be the implications of a 286-kilometre (178-mile) waterway connecting the Caribbean with the Pacific via Lake Nicaragua. For Nicaragua, they would be huge. The Nicaraguan government claims that work on the Great Interoceanic Canal and associated projects—a “dry canal” freight railway, an airport and two duty-free zones—could double Nicaragua’s GDP and triple employment by 2018. In a country that still does not have a proper highway connecting its two coasts, that would change everything. For Panama, whose existing canal has been the mainstay of the country’s economy for a century, the competition

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would be very serious. A $5-billion project to double the Panama Canal’s capacity by building a third chain of locks across the isthmus is nearing completion, but it will still be restricted to taking ships of 65,000 tons or less. The rival canal in Nicaragua would be able to accommodate the new generation of ships ranging up to 250,000 tons, but there will not be enough shipping to keep both canals in business unless world trade continues to expand rapidly. In any case competition in transit rates would be fierce, and it might well come to pass that neither canal was very profitable. Then there is the environmental question. The new route would cross Lake Nicaragua, the region’s largest freshwater lake, bringing with it not only pollution but the risk of introducing salt-water species that could disrupt the lake’s ecology. But if it is forced to choose between economic growth and environmental purity, there is no doubt that Nicaragua’s government would choose growth. The biggest question, however, is strategic. The United States built the Panama Canal and ran it for many years. Two-thirds of the cargo that goes through the canal comes from or is going to U.S. ports, and American warships still have the right to jump the queue of ships waiting to go through. As a country with coasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific, the United States sees control of the fastest way between the two oceans as a high strategic priority. Despite the hand-over of the existing canal to the Panamanian government in 1999, at the moment the U.S. still has that control. It would have far less control over a Nicaraguan canal, and will doubtless do its best to derail the project. That’s an inevitable strategic reflex, but it is not necessarily the case that a Nicaraguan canal would really lessen the U.S. Navy’s strategic dominance in the region. Nothing is more vulnerable than a canal in wartime, and even in confrontations where force is not yet being used canals are easily blockaded. And although the Chinese navy no doubt enthusiastically backs the Nicaraguan project, it’s hard to see what real strategic advantage it would gain. The new canal is certainly feasible from an engineering point of view. It may be viable economically, depending on cost factors that have not yet been calculated and on the rate of expansion of world trade. But its fate will probably be decided by the Chinese government’s willingness to back what is, for China, a vanity project. And that, in turn, will depend on whether China’s economy remains strong enough to afford such an indulgence. At the moment, I wouldn’t bet on it.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Remove the Senators and elect new ones

Dear Editor, The Canadian Senate is far from being democratic. No one elects the Senate, it is appointed by the prime minister in power. The prime minister can appoint anyone they want to be a senator. The person may be a friend or someone the prime minister owes a favour to, or just someone who helped them become prime minister. They will usually pick people who will benefit them. The Senate has the power to refuse laws and should therefore be loyal to the people of Canada not the prime minister. The Senate is supposed to protect Canada from irresponsible laws. But how can we be protected when they are working for the government making the irresponsible laws? The Senate also gets paid tax dollars to question the government. Should they not be unbiased? The Senate needs to be reformed so that all Canadians will have more power to change Canada. What Canada, as a democratic country, needs to do is

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repair the Senate. To do this, Canada needs to collectively decide to remove the people working as the Senate. Once that is done, Canada can choose to elect people to become a new democratic Senate. Canadians can vote on the details in a referendum such as who will qualify, where they must be from and how they will be elected. An elected Senate will make Canada a true democracy. We will no longer have to have laws approved by people who are born into wealthy families or considered to have better judgment. This will create more needed jobs as the people appointed by the prime minister are often individually wealthy. Also every Canadian will have a larger voice on deciding what our country will be like. Laws control our entire world therefore we should, as Canadians, have more say about how we want our nation run. Katey Townsend, Stirling

By Terry Bush

EMC Editorial - Well, we can’t actually claim that distinction alone but we’re in pretty good company along with the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Can you guess who’s number one? When all is said and done, being one of the United States “second class” or “second party” countries isn’t much to brag about. All it really means is that under international intelligence agreements, the aforementioned English-speaking countries are more trusted than well, those darn Europeans. Those crazy eavesdropping, fun-loving people at the U.S. National Security Agency don’t waste a lot of time listening to our phone conversations or tapping into our email mainly because our own governments are probably busy doing that for them and passing along the information. Germany definitely isn’t enjoying their third-class status at the moment. Last week’s revelations, courtesy of Edward Snowden, have Germany more than a little upset with their ally. It seems despite the fact that the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Italy all have formal agreements to provide communications data to the U.S., that wasn’t quite enough for the Yankees. Now, it’s come to light that the Americans have been bugging the European Union’s offices in Washington and at the UN while hacking into their computers. Only a fool would believe the United States and most other countries in the world don’t spy on one another but the country that likes to draw lines in the sand apparently has crossed a very big one and put its foot squarely in it. Considering that the Americans and Europeans have spent years laying the groundwork for a free trade agreement worth hundreds of billions of dollars, timing is everything. Could you imagine spending years setting things up for negotiations (which were supposed to start this week) only to find out that the U.S. was listening in on the phone conversations of your top officials. To add fuel to the fire, the U.S. is also accused of running an operation out of NATO headquarters in Brussels to infiltrate the telephone and email networks in the Union’s Justus Lisius building which is the venue for EU summits and is the home of the European council. Using NATO headquarters as a base for spying on the European parliament certainly won’t win any friends in Europe or among its allies. Germany, the EU’s powerhouse, bore the brunt of the U.S. shenanigans, with Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger quoted in the German newspaper Bild as saying, “If the media reports are true, it is reminiscent of the actions of enemies during the cold war. It is beyond imagination that our friends in the U.S. view Europeans as the enemy.” Der Spiegel magazine reported that leaks from Edward Snowden claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency tapped into half a billion German phone calls, emails and SMS messages each month. The Brits, who seem to follow on American coattails whenever possible are said to have done extensive tapping of German phone and Internet traffic and shared that information with the NSA. The Germans are not amused. On Sunday it was announced that Germany is preparing charges against UK and U.S. intelligence services. Given that the German is rated as thirdclass trustworthy in the eyes of Americans, the Germans may want to seriously downgrade the trust status of the Americans to a negative number. With these latest revelations, the Americans’ threatening language to any and all countries that might grant Snowden asylum, may be explained by their need to apprehend Snowden before more spit hits the fan. Threatening Venezuela was just plain comical. They must have felt they were in the movie Groundhog Day, it’s such an every day occurrence. Threats by U.S. senator and chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez to Ecuador were met with amusement and scorn by President Raphael Correa. Menendez threatened to take away U.S. trade benefits which would hurt Ecuador’s flower and broccoli exports to the U.S. Correa responded, “Ecuador doesn’t accept pressure or threats from anyone and doesn’t barter its principles and sovereignty or submit to mercantile interests.” Correa then proclaimed that he wouldn’t be blackmailed by the U.S. and renounced the $23 million per year in reduced tariffs afforded in the trade benefit deal while offering the Americans $23 million in aid to train U.S. government employees to respect human rights. He went on to complain about the usual U.S. double standard. Ecuador has tried for years to get the States to extradite two bankers wanted on criminal charges but the U.S. has ignored them. Now they expect Ecuador to extradite Edward Snowden should he seek asylum there. As for Snowden himself, he’s still holed up in Russia in the Moscow airport hoping one of the 20 countries he’s contacted with the help of the Russians will offer him asylum. Politicians in France are so upset by the U.S.’s behaviour that support for granting asylum to Snowden has crossed party lines. Russia may in fact be the country he stays in because as Putin pointed out, no doubt with a smirk on his face, Russia has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and has never extradited anyone. Father Putin has advised his wayward son Snowden, however, that releasing any more information may not be in his best interests. The strangest part of this whole affair is that China, Russia and a couple of South American countries are the ones sounding like true human rights activists and the U.S. definitely is not. It’s become quite the topsy-turvy world.

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A gardener’s delight EMC Lifestyles - Belleville - The summer of 2013 wouldn’t be complete without the annual Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Belleville and District Garden Tour and Tea, and with eight distinct locations this year the tour is sure to get a few green thumbs itching to get back into the garden. “I think people are interested in seeing what other people are doing in their gardens,” said Tour co-convener Sandi Repic. “Gardening is huge for both young people and retirees.” Taking place on July 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the garden tour is a self-guided experience through some diverse gardens in both the city of Belleville and in the county. The tour is an annual fund raiser for the organization, which in 2012 awarded $15,000 in scholarships to

students in the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board secondary school graduates. Last year the tour sold almost 400 tickets, and Repic said they are hoping to reach that number again in 2013. “We have a really big range of gardens each year,” said co-convener Lee Casselman. “We have little ones, big ones that a landscaper might do, or ones that a gardener would have totally designed and did themselves … there’s quite a variety.” One of the properties on the tour this year belongs to long-time gardener Manuel Rodenkirchen. Rodenkirchen has lived at his current property for about three years, but in that time has cultivated a charming organic vegetable garden on the roughly 12 and a-half acre property. A first-time host on the tour, he said that

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crack. Here is the concern. When you wait for a tooth to break, there is a serious possibility that your dentist may not be able to fix that tooth. Even if the tooth were fixable, the underlying tooth structure would be damaged after the fracture, the longevity of that tooth would not be as good. If you happen to crack a tooth (rather than fracture the tooth), the problem is more significant. A crack, once it starts, cannot be stopped. Sometimes, these crack can run down to a nerve of the tooth or bone, which makes it extremely difficult to fix and can cause some serious discomfort. Unfortunately, a lot of cracked teeth end up with extractions. Here is the good news. Some of these weak teeth can be effectively protected with full coverage restorations that can cover the biting surfaces of the teeth. Since there is less wedging effect compared to fillings, these restorations (usually made of porcelain) can give a long lasting treatment option for your largely restored, structurally weak teeth. The key is to get these type of restoration earlier than later, before the crack happens.

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place on July 13. Photo: Steve Jessel

Dreaming of that cottage by the lake EMC Lifestyles - Well, sum-

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while he was a little nervous to have close to 400 people come through his garden, he was excited to show off the fruits of his labour. “[Gardening] has been with me since I was a kid, I remember helping my dad put in some fruit trees in the garden, digging holes and watching things grow, and I just sort of got into it,” Rodenkirchen said. “And I’m really good at it.” Tickets are now on sale for this year’s tour, and are available in Belleville at Inova Opticians, Century 21 Real Estate, Barber’s Flowers and St. Thomas Anglican Church after 9 a.m. on July 13. In Trenton tickets are available at Lottie Jones Florist, in Madoc at Century 21 Real Estate, and in Picton at Lockyers. Tickets are $25, and include a map and a boxed lunch. Purchase of a ticket also provides a chance at winning an Endless Vacation Rentals Resort Certificate for a sevennight stay. For more information, call 613966-5677, 613-771-0601, or email Manuel Rodenkirchen’s organic vegetable garden is just one of eight stops on the annual CFUW garden tour this year, taking <gardentour@cfuwbelleville.ca>.

mer is finally here; school’s out and that longed-for vacation is almost within our grasp. Whether you travel many miles across our beautiful province or just a few, here at Belleville Public Library we have great resources to help you plan your trip.

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Teen’s love of art leads to pottery creations By Richard Turtle

EMC News - Stirling - Annie Nicholas has learned a lot by doing and her education so far, she says, has been a very well rounded one. And while she is younger than most serious potters, Nicholas has a keen eye for esthetics and a curiosity and fearlessness many would envy. And that curiosity and resulting selfexpression have come naturally and been warmly encouraged all her life, she says. The homeschooled teen recently completed her first year of high school online but says her interest in art has guided much of her learning to date and her plan is to stay the course. Still years away, and following completion of her high school requirements, Nicholas hopes to enter a fine arts program at the post-secondary level.

“I’ve been interested in art for as long as I can remember.” A member of an artistic family, Nicholas has always had a strong appreciation for music, painting, poetry and most recently pottery, and each, she explains, has encouraged her to further explore her own creative limits. “I just do whatever I think,” she says of making art in any form, noting

many projects develop in the process. Music in the background, she adds, can help shape a piece in progress or set a slightly different tone. But pottery can be a particularly expressive medium. Working with the material, whether on a wheel or free form, is only part of a process that doesn’t end until after the work has taken a lot of heat. And the difference between success and failure can be measured in degrees while the kiln is sealed. So there has been plenty of trial and error in the learning process as well, she admits. But she has continued undaunted. “I’ve been interested in art for as long as I can remember,” Nicholas notes, “and for the past few years have been taking pottery classes through Loyalist College.” Admittedly, she says, it has turned into something of a passion. That interest has also developed into Annie Bea Creations, her own label to help market her more functional work locally. With pieces already on the shelves and available for sale at nearby West Wings on West Front Street, Nicholas also has a display of pottery and painting at the StirlingRawdon Public Library this month. And she hopes the exposure provides more creative inspiration. Further information about any of her work is available by emailing <anniebeacreations@gmail.com> or Annie Nicholas has been experimenting with pottery and is now marketing her work under the Annie Bea Creations label. Some samples are on display at the Stirling-Rawdon Public Library. by following her on Facebook.

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we have taken over,” said Susan Walsh, Event Coordinator for the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce. Starting on Thursday, July 11, and running through until Sunday, July 14, West Zwicks Park in Belleville will play host to the annual event, which is expected to attract over 30,000 people over the four days. While

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EMC Entertainment Belleville - The City of Belleville’s biggest summer festival is fast approaching, and with over 25 years of experience under its belt, this year’s Belleville Waterfront and Ethnic Festival is shaping up to be a can’t miss event. “I do truly feel that this is the best year ever since

the festival was initially just a waterfront festival, it later entered into a partnership with the Quinte Ethnic Council, broadening the scope of the event. The festival was taken over by the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce in 2008, and after abandoning the admission fee in favour of a free festival format, Walsh said the response has been tremendous.

the organizers have been fo- stage all day with a variety of starting at 9 a.m., with over cusing more on tribute bands acts and performances from 15 teams participating this as they seem to be more acces- 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Friday year. Back at the Waterfront sible to the general public. also features the opening of Festival, meet and greets with “We do a lot of research to the popular children’s village, popular children’s characfind out what people want to and at 5 p.m. the 120-member ters begin at 12:30 p.m., and hear,” she said. Gouverneur New York Wild- throughout the day festivalFriday brings a different cat Marching Band will make goers can enjoy a variety of flair to the festival this year their way through the festival, live entertainment. Sunday with a pair of new inclusions. performing all the while. follows a similar format, howThe 2013 Bay of Quinte Poker “There is literally some- ever, begins with a Heart and Run and Outdoor Powersport thing for everyone,” Walsh Stroke Foundation Waterfront “We do a lot of research Show has this year partnered said. Walk or Run event, with registo find out what people with the Waterfront and Eth- Saturday the festival opens tration beginning at 7:30 a.m. nic Festival, and will be tak- once again from 11 a.m. to For more information, inwant to hear.” ing place from July 12 to 14 11 p.m., but nearby at Victo- cluding a full schedule, visit at East Zwicks Park. Also ria Park, the Bayshore Credit the festival web site at <www. “I think it’s one of those things on Friday, the Canadian In- Union Community Dragon bellevillewaterfrontfestival. that’s certainly a tourism draw, but die Music Festival will be on Boat Festival is taking place com>. it’s also one of those things where people locally look forward to it, and you could say it improves quality of life locally,” she said. “There’s no doubt in our minds that 2011 and 2012 have been the two most successful years since the chamber became involved.” The festivities kick off on July 11 from 4 p.m. until 11 p.m., where the always-popular midway attractions will make their return. At 5:30 p.m. Lone Star Texas Grill will host a special Pony Hops family event, and at 6 p.m. the tastes and flavours of the ethnic food village are sure to excite the taste buds. The ethnic village this year will also feature an entry from Nova Scotia Tourism, featuring maritime delicacies such as lobster. The rest of Thursday evening will feature live entertainment on the main stage, including the talents of The Reasons, Carl Dixon and the 80’s Rock Ma- Bubble Walkers are just one of the attractions at the always popular children’s village of the Belleville Waterfront and Ethnic chine. Walsh said that in recent years Festival taking place from July 11 to 14. Photo: Submitted

Farm machinery has the right to the whole road roads are not built to accommodate farm machinery. “Most farm machinery is wider than the pavement,” he noted. Jim Alyea said the back roads are often substandard and it can be dangerous for farm machinery to travel on them. “A car could be coming up over the hill,” he said. “It could be dicey.” Henny Bergveld commented. “Farm machinery has just as much right on the road as cars. We don’t have to get off the road!” Dave Ludington agreed, “They have the same rights.” Ron Hamilton said there is often no room to pull over to let the cars pass. “The public doesn’t seem to know we have the right to the road,” Henny added. Jim Harrison said some people seem to feel the farm machinery should pull over. He asked if hay

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wagons need to have lights. Dave Ludington said he has been here 15 years and won’t pick on a farmer. Alyea said he does some farming in Prince Edward County and they will pull you over for anything. “I was just moving from one field to another and they stopped me for not having chains,” he said. Harrison said they need more caution signs advising motorists that farmers may be on the road. Ludington said farm machinery is not allowed on any King’s Highways and cannot be driven by anyone under the age of 16, unless they are just crossing the road to get to another field. “They have the same rules of the road as any moving vehicle,” he said. “They have to follow the Highway Traffic Act.” He said some places have paved shoulders which can be used for bicycles or for farm tractors and

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they don’t need maintenance which saves money. Harrison said the Stockdale repaving has included paved shoulders, at a cost of about $40,000 a kilometre. Ron Hamilton said ATVs are on a lot of the side roads and create dangerous situations when they pull out onto traffic to get back on the road. “ATVs are causing problems,” he said. Dave Ludington said if the speed limit is 50 the ATVs can only go 20. If it’s over 50 they cannot exceed 50. There are no side-bysides allowed on a highway. Mayor John Williams asked where OPP Sergeant René Menard was since he is the one who suggested he come and talk to the committee about farm machinery. Ludington said he must have another appointment.

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Prince of Wales students raise money for BGH EMC News - Katie Soule and Carley Henderson, both Grade 7 students from Prince of Wales School, organized a Kids for Care Bake Sale in May and raised $340.90 for the BGH Oncology Department. Photo: Submitted

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EMC News - Belleville - Massive floods in Alberta and British Columbia this past month are lending themselves to a heightened sense of flood alertness across the country, but locally Quinte Conservation Water Resources Manager Bryon Keene said many residents have no idea that their property could be at risk. “That’s a persistent problem in the area, that people will buy a home and they will not be informed as they are purchasing that they are in a floodplain,� Keene said. This past week, Quinte Conservation issued one of their first flood outlook statements of the year because of expected heavy rainfall, and while the forecast was later rescinded as the rain never materialized, history shows that risk of flooding is very present in the region. Most recently in April 2008, the community of Foxboro was subject to what Keene called a

“ten-year return� event where melting snowfall swelled the banks of the nearby Moira River, closing local roads and contaminating water supplies. Other local areas of risk include Corbyville and Cannifton, and there are a number of lakes in the region controlled by dam. “If [the rainfall] had materialized we would have had some high lake levels, that would have been uncomfortably high,� Keene said. In Alberta, much of the damage is being blamed on development of homes in floodplain areas, something Keene said is enforced more strictly here. While many homes, especially in the Foxboro area are built on floodplains as a result of Foxboro being an old community, regulations today prohibit development in these areas. Keene said the vast majority of homes in the City of Belleville proper follow these regulations. “However, very heavy thunderstorm events will cause problems

in the urban areas, so we do see problems like that in Belleville and Quinte West,� Keene said. Flood events most often take place in springtime owing to a mixture of snowmelt and heavy rainfall, however, the effects of climate change are producing higher rainfall levels than in past decades. Quinte Conservation acts as a regional forecaster, and stays in touch with local communities to provide any and all pertinent information as weather shifts and changes. In the event of a flood, Quinte Conservation advises that residents keep an eye on water levels near their property, and to exercise caution around all watercourses because of strong currents, while dams and other water control structures should be avoided at all times. Updated information and forecasts can be found on the Quinte Conservation web site at <quinteconservation.ca>.

The City of Belleville’s Green Bin Organic Waste Recycling Program is available to single family residences starting on August 5. Delivery of Green Bins will be made to homes between June 25 to July 19. The Green Bin Organic Waste Recycling Program is designed to help our environment by reducing the amount of waste that reaches our landfills. As much as 40% of garbage is organic (like food waste) and should be composted. The City is hosting Public Information Sessions on the Green Bin Organics Recycling Program to provide more information and provide citizens with the opportunity to ask questions.

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EMC News - Glen Miller - The Bleasdell Boulder is a well-travelled rock. The glacial deposit was originally formed during the Great Ice Age 20,000 years ago when Ontario was buried beneath a huge ice sheet several kilometres thick. When the ice retreated, 12,000 years ago, glaciers began to move south, scraping soil and rock along the way. The Bleasdell Boulder was one of the remnants of this event. “The bedrock of this area is mostly sedimentary, but rocks of igneous or metamorphic origin are strewn about our landscape,â€? notes research from the Bleasdell Boulder Preservation Corporation. “These out-of-place rocks, known as erratics, were picked up and placed here by glacial ice or water.â€? Most erratics are fairly small and can be found in backyards and ďŹ elds as well as in stone fences where early settlers and farmers placed them. The Bleasdell Boulder is unusually large. This boulder probably came from the Precambrian or Canadian Shield about 40 kilometres north of its Glen Miller site, shoved along by a glacier. It is composed of Grenville marble (calcite) with veins and patches of quartz, surrounded by actinolite with bits of

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Gemologist Morsink has a new best friend EMC News - Stirling - Diamonds. They are the hardest substance on the planet, have been revered and treasured for centuries and today commonly represent the promise of marriage. But gemologist and diamond expert Kees Morsink says for a major purchase that is often made only once in a lifetime, diamond buyers are woefully unaware of the facts about one of the world’s most recognizable rocks. For starters, Morsink says, while a new player in the market, Canada ranks third in the world for diamond production. But until three years ago, we were the only diamond-producing nation without an operational diamond bourse. The Diamond Bourse of Canada, of which Morsink is a member, was established in 2010 to provide a diamond and gemstone trading facility and network of industry services for Canadian traders. In essence, he says, it brings the producers and sellers together on a grand scale. As a qualiďŹ ed diamond grader and head gemologist of the Nirvana Corporation, Morsink can quickly spot

the differences in a pair of seemingly identical specimens that can have a signiďŹ cant impact on their comparative value. And while he has access to a world of precious and semi-precious stones, he admits to a new favourite. “I love these things,â€? he says. “I want to sell diamonds.â€? Morsink can’t hide his enthusiasm, whether describing different cuts, the refraction and reection of light or the simple fact that nothing is harder than a diamond. And while Morsink is keen to sell, he says, there is a lot for a buyer to know. “That’s the fun part,â€? he says. In the diamond business, he explains, relationships are built on trust. But in most cases by the time the ring reaches the consumer, there have been multiple parties involved in the transaction. Even today, Morsink says, Canadian diamonds are shipped to Europe for grading before being returned to their place of origin to be sold on the open market. But, he adds, because of their growing global popularity, it is only a matter of time before grading facilities will be available in Canada.

But the Canadian stamp also carries a premium and Morsink, who also sells international non-conict diamonds, says the decision is really up to the buyer. But because he can buy direct from manufacturers and cutters both here and overseas, eliminating steps in between, Morsink promises savings of 30 per cent. And an education to go along with it. “I’ll tell you everything you want to know,â€? he says of the precious stones, “whether you want them for jewellery or as an investment.â€? Truly valuable diamonds, Morsink says, don’t belong on necklaces and rings anyway. “They go in a safety deposit box.â€? But to the naked eye, he adds, a tenfold difference in value can be difďŹ cult to spot. And when you’re in the market for diamonds, “it’s important to know what you’re getting,â€? he says. Always available to answer questions about rocks of all descriptions, Morsink can be reached at 613-395-4079. More information is available on the Gemologist Kees Morsink has a lifelong interest in rocks of all descriptions but admits his favourites are some of the smallest. Morsink recently ventured into the world of diamond sales. Internet at <kingofgems.ca>.

Another tower controversy looms By Scott Pettigrew

EMC News - Tweed - First there was the communications tower that Xplornet put up on the Flinton Road which raised all kinds of concerns but was installed anyway. Then there was another Xplornet tower proposed to go in east of Vanderwater Park that would have seriously affected an organic farming operation that was eventually moved through public pressure (although it was deemed to have been moved because a better site was found) and now there is a Bell communications tower being proposed for 99 James Street in Tweed. Council plans to send a letter of concerns to Bell in response to the pub-

lic notiďŹ cation to the proposed site. Councillor Don DeGenova sits on the Persons and Property committee and recently attended a public meeting held in regards to the new tower. “Their satellite images are way out of date and do not even show residences on Alexander Street,â€? said Don. “It is my opinion that Bell is competing for their share of the wireless market. The feeling from those at the meeting was the letter they received was rude and condescending.â€? The letter being sent by council will address the following issues; old satellite mapping does not show the new residential development on

Alexander Street, tower placement would be detrimental to residential development in the immediate area of the proposed site. The municipality is not aware of issues or complaints about current cell phone and Internet access in the village; other sites have been suggested to Bell which would be more suitable. The municipality has been provided with copies of unfavourable comments from neighbouring property owners to Bell in response to the public notiďŹ cation of the proposed tower site. Mayor Jo-Anne Albert noted that Bell said they should meet with the municipality but it has never happened.

Councillor DeGenova also said that at the end of the day council does not have the power to stop the tower from going in. In other news from the Tweed council meeting, a vote was needed to pass a recommendation to allow the Tweed Elvis Festival an extra day of camping on the Thursday night of the three-day festival. Councillor Justin Bray said he had heard concerns trailer park operators â€œâ€Ś who are tax payers, might be losing business to the camping at the Elvis site. If we allow them the Thursday this year, will they be asking for Wednesday next year?â€? Council did pass the recommendation to allow the

Elvis festival the extra day of camping and also gave them an exemption from the new smoking bylaw. In Patti Bergeron’s CAO report she said she received a letter from Canada Post that they will be reducing their hours by half an hour each day and will be closing at 5 p.m. instead of 5:30. She also said that after council sent a letter to MP Daryl Kramp explaining concerns about the Post OfďŹ ce and its importance to Tweed, that MP Kramp made a phone call to the Municipal OfďŹ ce in Tweed, said he had met with representatives of Canada Post, and they assured him there is no danger of the Tweed Post OfďŹ ce closing.

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Great teamwork pays off for U-13 girls EMC Sports - The MKR Cabinets Teamwork was a key factor in the U-13 Belleville Comets girls remain 3 - 1 victory. Goals were provided by undefeated after beating Cataraqui in Amy Vieira, Brylie Ivey and Hannah recent action. Farrell.

Belleville Comets Boys U-15 report big win EMC Sports - The Belleville Comets Jancar with four goals and Maxi Braig were in action versus the St. Lawrence with three. United squad and emerged with a 7 - 1 The winning goalkeeper for victory. Goal scoring was led by Owen Belleville was Matthew Jaeger.

Belleville U-14 earns a shutout EMC Sports - Belleville U-14 played a fantastic game against Kingston United in Kingston. Despite the very hot weather, we held the lead of 4 - 0,

EMC Sports - While much of Belleville had a relaxing weekend in preparation of Canada Day celebrations, Belleville Youth Soccer Club Action continued unabated on Sunday afternoon, where Ryan McMahon (blue) tried to take the ball away from opponent Ryan Murphy. Photo: Steve Jessel

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EMC News - Quinte West - Six local athletes will be added to the Sports Wall of Fame at the YMCA on July 6 at 2 p.m. Mike MacNeil, Craig Maxfield, Dave Stewart, Gord Tripp, Rob Couture and Derek Zandstra have been added to the prestigious list of athletes who have won exceptional recognition in their field. Mike MacNeil has competed in 34 marathons, eight of which he ran in under three hours including the Boston Marathon. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, McNeil is a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and arrived at CFB Trenton in 1988. In the Armed Forces he captured gold in 1993 in the Masters Category in the 10,000-metre national Running Championships. The following year he was a gold medal winner as part of the Ontario team. In 2000 he captured gold at the half-marathon Masters. In 1990 he obtained a team gold in the Ontario Regional Championships and gold medals in 1993 and 1994. Craig Maxfield is one of the greatest high school distance runners. His athletic career included multiple track and field cross-country titles, medals, records and finals at the local, regional, provincial, and national levels. Maxfield is the fastest high school senior boy to ever run the 1,500 metre at the Bay of Quinte Track and Field Championships by completing it in a record time of 3:58.3. Dave Stewart lent his talent to horses, excelling in training in the 1970s. The Stewarts started with the Hastings County Riders, Eastern Appaloosa Club, Odessa Arab Club, Quarter Horse Blue and formed Araquest at Belleville Fair Grounds. Stewart won a string of titles with his horses including the Jack Lange Memorial in 1993. He has won 13 Silver Buckles and was named Man of the Year. Gord Tripp won the golf club championship more than once over the past six decades. A native of Edmunston, New Brunswick, he arrived in Trenton in 1963 and joined the Trenton Golf Club, winning his first of nine championships. Tripp also competed in the 2001 Canadian Champion of Champions Tournament in Nova Scotia and won two Senior Club Championships in Trenton in 1999 and 2000. Rob Couture attended Trenton High School. He won the Bay of Quinte Golf Championship in 1990. This was the beginning of a long list of golf achievements that included a scholarship to East Tennessee State University and third in the 2012 Canadian mid-amateur championship. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas. Derek Zandstra is a world class cyclist. He won the Canada Cup Series Champion in 2007, and placed first in the 2012 U. S. Cup Finals. He also placed high in the Pan American Games, World Championship Austria, Canadian Championship and Provincial Championships. More information is available about these athletes, builders and teams in the Wall of Fame booklet that will be given out at the ceremonies on July 6.

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Weight lifter raises funds for oncology department By Kate Everson

EMC News - Quinte West - Local weight lifter Rich Machell is pulling his own weight when it comes to fighting cancer. In fact, he is pulling much more than his own weight, by competing in world championships to raise funds for the oncology department at Belleville General Hospital. “My father-in-law is battling brain cancer and lung cancer,” he said. “He is an example of how strong you can be.” Rich is partnering with the oncology department for the fund-raising campaign which officially starts this fall, helping support new procedures, specialized equipment and a new doctor. “I’m kicking off my end of the fund raising today,” he said, tied to a 21,000pound truck loaded with 72,000 pounds of paper from Norampac. He gave it a few tries but couldn’t budge the total 100,000 pounds. “You weren’t supposed to have it loaded,” he said to his friend Terry McInnes, owner of Titanium Company which hauls scrap paper. McInnes was there with his son Tyler for a truck pull-

ing “photo op” for the kickoff. McInnes is a sponsor for Rich and shares the same concerns of family and friends with cancer. Quinte West OPP Constable Ed Jouwstra and an unknown accomplice also showed up for the kickoff. They tied the rope to the cruiser so Rich wouldn’t slip when he tried the big pull. Jouwstra is also a supporter of Rich’s efforts for oncology. He runs Cross Fit Training in Belleville, where Rich sometimes works out. “He’s one of my fans,” Rich said with a smile. Rich is practising for a World Natural Strongman Federation competition in Maryland on July 27 where he will join Team Canada against Team USA. The federation is called “natural” because it does not allow any drugs at all in the competitors. “They do random testing all the time,” Rich says. Rich says he has never included drugs or steroids of any kind in his weight lifting. He has been training since he was 14. He is now 30. He has been compet-

ing in strongman competitions for the past eight years, including several in the Quinte area. “I was going to retire, but decided I still have a few good ones left in me,” he said smiling. He works out three or four days a week, in his spare time from his real job of working with the new Hercules-J model aircraft on the base. “I weigh 300 pounds, not all muscle,” he admits. “Some of that is fat.” Rich says he needs that bulk to help him in strongman competitions. In Maryland he will be carrying a 400-pound stone, pressing a monster dumbbell over his head, carrying an 800-pound frame and walking with it. “All this weight lifting is hard on your body,” Rich acknowledges. “It’s not worth losing your health.” But he decided to do it for the oncology fund raiser because that means something to him. “It’s important that the money goes there,” he said. “My father-in-law in- Rich Machell tries to pull a 100,000-pound loaded truck to kick off his fund raiser for the oncology spired me, what he has been through department Quinte West OPP Constable Ed Jouwstra stands by making sure the rope doesn’t get already. Every dollar I make will go to tangled. Photo: Kate Everson oncology.” After competing in Maryland, Rich Rich was born and raised in Trenton. has invitations from The World Natural His wife supports what he is doing be- Strongman Federation to compete in cause she knows it is for a good cause. England, Hungary and Brazil.

Golfing for a cause mark in total funds raised. The growth of the tournament has also allowed the organizers to broaden the scope of people who receive funds from the event, as initially the tournament had a focus of helping children with special needs in the Quinte region. Today, six “Driving Dreams for Youth” scholarships of $5,000 awarded to students from area high schools entering the health care field each year are just one example of how the funds raised directly benefit the local community. “Our goal, and our hope is that we’re going to give them a hand up,” Sullivan said. Other projects of note completed with funds raised from the tournament include a playground at Zwicks Park, the pirate ship at West Riverside Park and the Tom Gavey Pavilion. Other charitable recipients include Belleville Dialysis, Hospice Quinte, Belleville YMCA and the BGH Children’s Treatment Centre, among others. “I think the community sees the work that we do,” Sullivan said, when asked why she thought the tournament had such longevity. This year, the star-studded

lineup of celebrity golfers taking to the course on Saturday, July 13, include Eric Tangradi, PK Subban, Andrew Shaw, Dale Hawerchuk, Billy Smith, Matt Belesky, Elizabeth Manley, Brian Price, Wayne Cashman, Matthew Barnaby, Rob Ray and more. The event is sold out this year, but spectators are more than welcome to take in the day’s event. For more information, visit their web site at <www.celebrityclassic.ca>.

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EMC News - Hillier - Members of the military from 8 Wing/CFB Trenton and their families may not have far to travel any more if their autistic children need treatment, or adults with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety or depression want help. The HEAL Equine Centre in Hillier, Prince Edward County, continues to improve its qualifications for the treatment of these and other disorders, including holding a two-day training course Tuesday and Wednesday from world-renowned Horse Boy founder Rupert Isaacson. The HEAL farm was the training centre for practitioners learning the Horse Boy techniques from Isaacson and Lliane Lorenz, both from the Texas headquarters of the Horse Boy Camp. Isaacson works internationally teach-

ing his Horse Boy method at camps and centres in North America and Europe. In 2010, the Autistic Society of America awarded Isaacson the Autism Award for his significant contribution to improving the lives of all who are affected by autism. The HEAL farm, owned and operated by Suzanne Latchford-Kulker, sprang from her love of horses, nature and helping others. Fascinated by horses since she was eight years old, she has been involved with horses off and on in Canada, Italy and Germany for most of her life, except for a ten-year absence beginning in her mid-20s. Seven years ago, in 2009, she purchased the 35-acre property in Hillier and the day they took possession of the farm, their first horse “showed up.” “All of our horses came from various backgrounds and needed homes,”

she said. “Instead of buying a horse, they’ve all come from people who couldn’t care for them anymore or were too old.” As the principal training tool at HEAL farm, Latchford-Kulker pays attention to the horses she acquires. She now has seven. “They are definitely horses that like people and like to interact and have a bit of character,” she states. “It’s very important that our horses live as a herd and they live as close to their natural instincts as possible. They’re outside 24/7, they’re not put in a stall at a certain time every day and they’re healthy, hearty horses. They all have their pecking order and herd dynamic which can teach people a lot, as well, because horses are always authentic. They’re always in the moment.” “Meaning they’re jolly rude,” Isaac-

Rupert Isaacson, right, Suzanne Latchford-Kulker, middle, and Lliane Lorenz assess a horse to be used the next day in a two-day workshop. Photo Ross Lees

son interjects, chuckling. “They don’t know how to live any other way and they are prey animals, so they’re very, very in tune to what’s going on around them at all times because that’s how they survive, right?” notes Latchford-Kulker. “That makes them very good at judging people, so you can’t hide anything from them. They know what you’re feeling before you do.” It is that very awareness that pulled Latchford-Kulker back to horses and led her to certification in Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning, a healing process grounded in helping people through a partnership with horses to better deal with emotions or behavioural patterns they’d like to change. HEAL farm runs two-day workshops where people come and connect with the horses.

According to Latchford-Kulker, the people would start opening parts of themselves to the horses they didn’t know were there or they would start to listen to “their authentic voice rather than their analytical thinking mind. My job as a facilitator is to help them come out of their analytical thinking mind and go into their body and access their truth.” This is a very transformational process, according to Latchford-Kulker. One of the first things she does with her clients is have them meet the herd. “I take them through grounding, meditation and breathing and I say pick up anything from each horse—it doesn’t matter what it is—then we’ll go through each horse and we’ll talk about it. Sometimes they pick up something about themselves that they’re getting from the horse, thus bringing it into the discussion.” Often what they initially pick up from the horse is something basic, like it’s the youngest, or this horse seems nervous, or this is the head horse and they relate it to themselves in the end, she indicates. “There are lots of reflective, quiet moments,” she notes. “They get ‘Aha’ moments and there’s journaling, as well. They do an activity and then they go away and they sit at the pond and write about their experience which gives it more meaning, more value for that person, and it’s theirs, it’s nobody else’s but theirs.” She says the process is very much an educational process and a great partnership between the horse and the person. Horses are revered for their opinion, she says, garnering another response from Isaacson. “It was a saying in medieval times the horse was the only living being that would tell the king the truth, because the horse would dump your ass in front of your subjects just like that,” he laughs. “And lots of kings were killed in falls from horses,” he said as a result of their authentic voices, the one true voice coming through. Latchford-Kulker recalls a workshop she ran one time with four military members, a workshop sponsored by Soldier On. Because teaching can include many forms of spiritualism, meditation and shamanism, workshops are often tailored to the people involved. That particular workshop she recalls using smudging and mandalas. Please see “Issues” on page B2

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“I had them draw how they were feeling first and at the end of the day, they drew another mandala and we compared the two. It showed them ‘this is where I was and this is where I am.’” It is this workshop which directed Latchford-Kulker to the Horse Boy method of teaching.

The popular Donegal Fiddlers Orchestra kicked off the Norwood Lions Tuesday night concert series at the Asphodel-Norwood Community Centre. Inclement weather forced the show inside but that didn’t stop a large crowd from enjoying an outstanding show with generous donations toward the Norwood Lions splash pad campaign.

After that one course, Soldier On would not fund more workshops because the equine facilitated learning had no riding in it and Soldier On’s mandate includes recreation, sports and healthy living. “Our method addresses those issues,” Isaacson noted.

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EMC News - Norwood - Good music and an enthusiastic crowd trumped bad weather at the Norwood Lions kickoff splash pad fund-raising concert. The popular Donegal Fiddlers Orchestra made the arena floor feel like home after organizers quickly shifted the concert indoors as thunder clouds loomed and rain arrived at show time. A large crowd was on hand to enjoy the orchestra’s fiddling excellence and the barbeque put on by the host Lions. Money raised through donations at the shows will go toward the Lions’ splash pad campaign. The Norwood Lions are spearheading fund raising for the facility which is estimated to cost $300,000. The Lions hope to raise $75,000 by the end of the summer; they’ve already garnered approximately $68,000.

“If the generosity of the patrons is any indication of the future, the concerts will yield all that was expected and more,” says Lions member and splash pad committee member Ron Scott. Scott did double duty as a member of the Donegal Fiddlers and the Lions Club. Scott and the Lions were surprised by the number of people who showed up early for the barbeque and the crowd swelled as show time approached. Spectators were “very generous” with their donations during the intermission, he said. “The arena turned out to be a very satisfactory rain venue for the event and once again proved that the acoustics, mentioned before by various musical groups, are of very high standards in this state-of-the-art facility.” It was a very busy night at the

community centre with the Norwood District Public School Grade 8 graduation filling the Millennium Room and mite softball drawing fans to J.J. Stewart Field. The Tuesday night series aims to use the outdoor picnic shelter as its stage with spectators opening up their lawn chairs on the well-maintained grounds surrounding the venue. “It’s reassuring to know that this alternative is close at hand,” says Scott. The July 2 concert featured the blues and rock band Candy Mountain. July 9 will be a special family entertainment featuring Tim Holland (aka Tim the Puppet Tamer), Peterborough singer, clown and entertainer Dan Fewings and the one-of-a-kind Kitchen Kuties. There will also be face-painting provided by local esthetician Janet Banks. On July 16 the contemporary and country trio Western Avenue will perform giving a preview of what fans can expect at the Havelock Country Jamboree. Peterborough alternative rock band

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The Detourists will light up the stage July 23 while Debbie Drummond and the Inclines, a tribute to the life and songs of Patsy Cline, appear July 30. The Cat Sass showcase featuring the

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Lisa Tahara rehearsed with the full orchestra June 29 on Westben’s newly acquired Steinway Concert Grand Piano. Photo: John Campbell By John Campbell

EMC Entertainment - Campbellford The performances were exceptional at Westben’s Piano Concerto Gala Weekend, featuring the talents of some of this country’s most accomplished musicians, but the biggest star of them weighs over 900 pounds—and has three legs. The newly acquired Steinway Concert Grand Piano made its debut Saturday afternoon, June 29, with a program that included Canada’s premiere pianist Robert Silverman playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. The first half of the program showcased Westben’s own co-founders,

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pianist Brian Finley (who played Beethoven’s Fantasia in C minor for piano) and soprano Donna Bennett, along with a 40-piece orchestra and the Westben Festival Chorus, with six of its members performing solo. “It’s a powerful elegant instrument … just made for full concert wear,” Finley said at rehearsal Saturday morning. “A piano is like a companion, the more interesting the companion, the deeper the conversation … It becomes a dialogue with your instrument.” Steinways, he said, “are real conversationalists.” It cost $65,000 to purchase the 40year-old piano with the help of a $40,000

Celebrate Canada grant. Westben Arts Festival Theatres, Inc. has raised about $10,000 thus far of the balance by means of a keynote campaign in which people who give $300 get their name put on one note, while a donation of $500 is good for two. Bennett, Westben’s director of marketing, said pianists had started saying it was time for Westben to replace the Heintzman it had been using that was more than 85 years old. “The other piano was good, too, but this is like a whole new step up,” she said. Conductor Dan Warren said the new piano “makes a big difference,” not only in the audience’s enjoyment of the music, but also for the performers. “To have a piano of this quality to play just brings out the best of them,” he said. “It’s just so easy and natural to play, the sound is really beautiful,” said Lisa Tahara, who took to the stage for Sunday’s concert. She performed The new sign marking progress in Westben’s campaign to raise $25,000 was Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 put on display Saturday, to mark the arrival of a Steinway Concert Grand Piain C minor, after pianist Leonard Gilbert no that was purchased for $65,000, director of marketing Donna Bennett said. opened the program with music by both Photo: John Campbell Chopin and Schumann. Her first time at The Barn, she said the “venue is just amazing, it’s truly one of a kind.” Warren said it “is an amazing place … [and] the driving force behind it is really the love of music. Both Brian and Donna give so much of themselves for the art form.” The orchestra drew most of its members from the Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo symphonies, the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet Orchestra. The musicians love Westben and ask at the start of every year if there will be an opportunity to play there, Warren said. “It’s wonderful.” Beginning Thursday night, July 4, with a preview and continuing until Sunday afternoon, The UBC Opera Ensemble will stage its production of Carmen, and they will be joined by members of the Westben youth and teen choruses.

Giant Hog Weed spotted in the area

EMC News - Regional - It has been referred to as “the blistering, blinding, potentially lethal weed from hell.” Giant hogweed, (Heracleum mantegazzianum) an invasive plant sighted in eastern Ontario in the past few years seems to be making a home for itself in the Tweed area. A resident who spotted one giant hog weed plant last year on the Flinton Road was shocked to find about a dozen of them this year along the same road. Giant hog weed, originally imported as an ornamental plant, is extremely dangerous, more so than any other plant growing in this area. The sap from broken stems and leaves can cause blindness if even a tiny drop on the hand is transferred to the eye. The sap on exposed skin, after exposure to sunlight, produces painful blisters which often leave scars which persist for years. So potent is the chemical agent in the hog weed sap, that if open wounds are contacted, it can have systemic effects through the whole body, including death. Allan Broek, Public Works

Supervisor for the Municipality of Tweed, has observed the plant north of Highway 7 and will be bringing the matter to the attention of the appropriate committee. He says his department’s attention has been mainly focused on the problems of the wild parsnip which is also becoming more prevalent in the area. Contact with wild parsnip can also result in rashes and skin eruptions, but only at certain stages of its development and not with the severe dangers presented by giant hogweed. Mr. Broek has developed a training manual for staff working outdoors who are likely to come into proximity with giant hog weed and wild parsnip, but so far the emphasis has been on the latter. He says that municipal staff people do not have the mandate or training to undertake an eradication program at this point. Until very recently, he has received no complaints or reports about giant hogweed. John Apsley, Noxious Weed Inspector for Hastings County, says he has not had extensive experience working with the plant, and has had only a few sightings and complaints.

According to the rules of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, he says, landowners are responsible for dealing with giant hog weed if it occurs on their own property. Dealing with the weed is no simple matter. If attacked with weed trimmers or bush cutters, the toxic sap would be sprayed around the workers. One method of control involves cutting of the flower tops before the plant can reseed and then drenching the remainder of the plant with herbicide such as Round Up. Municipal staff people in Tweed are not licensed currently to apply these herbicides. Eradication of giant hogweed is a challenging proposition. Each plant may produce from 20,000 to 100,000 seeds which are carried by wind and water and can remain viable for up to 15 years in the soil. However, locating and identifying the plants and educating people about them might avoid tragic incidents of contact with giant hogweed, especially among children, who may be particularly vulnerable. It is disturbing to contemplate the consequences of allowing these plants to spread unchecked.

Conductor Dan Warren led the Westben Festival Orchestra in a rehearsal at The Barn hours before The Regal concert was held Saturday afternoon, as part of a two-day Piano Concerto Gala Weekend. Photo: John Campbell

Warm weather draws out flies, mosquitoes and thieves EMC News - Campbellford - The weather might be nice but there are lots of people around who aren’t, and they’re up to their old tricks—breaking into homes. Northumberland OPP report officers have investigated a number of break-and-enters over the past week, some of which took place during the daytime. Police remind people that, even though the weather has been very warm at times of late, they should always lock their windows, as well as doors, when they leave their home. The OPP also suggest that residents who spot suspicious vehicles or persons who appear out of place to call 911 or 1-888-310-1122 and provide descriptions of the people, vehicles and licence plates. Their actions could prevent the commission of a crime or help to solve one. The OPP web site, <www.opp.ca>, offers a number of useful resources, tips and links about improving personal safety. “Please do your part and ‘target harden’ what is yours so that it will still be there when you return,” the OPP said in a news release. Any anonymous information about a crime can be reported to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). EMC Section B - Thursday, July 4, 2013 B3

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Dan Clost EMC Lifestyles - Earwigs Earwigs are ugly little things; brown, flat, an inch long with pincers on their bottom ends. There is a myth that they like to crawl into people’s ears. We seem predisposed to kill them without a second thought—other than a full-body shudder coinciding with the crunch.

Reality Check: EMC Lifestyles - I was six and a-half years old when I first rode on a plane by myself. My father was in Boston and it was time for my once-a-year, one-weeklong summer visit. I don’t remember much about that first short flight, but a few years later he moved to Vancouver. Since I lived in Toronto, that trip lasted four and a-half hours each way. I quickly learned that if you’re flying as an unaccompanied minor, and you sniffle and cry a little, stewardesses give you cookies. And not the oatmeal raisin kind, the chocolate chip kind. I cried a lot. The rules have changed now, and you can’t put kids on a plane by themselves anymore. That will likely make those once-a-year, week-long summer visits with “the other parent� more difficult, and perhaps even less frequent. I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing. Looking back on my early summers those visits were always odd. I felt more

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Garden slugs Garden slugs, snails without homes. There are many, many different critters called “slugs,� most of them are small. I have seen, in tropical plants shipped to the greenhouse, slugs that are almost four inches long with a delightfully repulsive look about them. Generally, slugs are not good news as they can cause quite a bit of damage. Practically speaking, there is very little difference between a snail and a slug when it comes to chowing down on plants. Snails are easier to find— they can’t squish themselves into small cracks like a slug can. How do you know what is making the big holes in your favourite plant’s leaves? Look for a slimy trail. No trail = earwig. All three are nocturnal unless it’s a dark, cloudy day; the best way to know which of three you have is to go out after dark with a flashlight and catch them in the act.

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The summertime custody split awkward than a Quebec separatist at the Queen’s garden party. You didn’t belong, and you spent your life trying to figure out small talk. Sure, we did some lovely sightseeing, and I’m very grateful for my father’s wife who made such great efforts to include me, but it was still not right. Perhaps because I never lived with my father I never bonded with him. And one week a year can’t accomplish that. If your ex is raising your child (or children), don’t fool yourself into thinking you can be a parent only on holidays. Move closer to your children and be involved in their lives. Yet I’m not sure the opposite custody arrangement, where the children see both parents equally, is that easy either. The problem with joint custody is that no adults know the child’s whole life.

In a kid’s mind, Mom knows everything that happened to me on Week 1, and Dad knows everything that happened on Week 2, but I’m the only one who knows what happened in both. And because each home has different rules and different ways of relating, the child has to almost split in two. And it’s not just that; they spend their lives in flux, always moving from house to house and living out of suitcases or hockey bags rather than out of closets and drawers. We would never live like that, yet we ask hundreds of thousands of Canadian children to every day. Custody arrangements are always built around the parents’ best interests. As a society, we may give lip service to it, but we’re not really interested in the children’s best interests, or we wouldn’t

do things like this to them. I can think of several friends who divorced their husbands, claiming their husbands were too harsh. The family would be more peaceful and better off without him. Now that harsh, demanding dad gets the kids by himself 50 per cent of the time. Even if he were harsh and demanding, which in these cases the guys really weren’t, how does splitting up save the kids from this? It only puts them in his house without you there to run interference. Divorce can definitely be in the kids’ best interests when there is abuse, or open hostility, or addictions. But these are a minority of divorces. Most of the time we want to make our own lives better, and we rationalize it saying that what’s good for us is what’s good for them. Yet we would never live the way

Sheila Wray Gregoire we ask so many children to. If you’re in a difficult place in your relationship, I just ask that you picture your children’s future summers if you break up. Kids always bear the brunt of adult decisions. We owe it to them to put aside our own issues and put the kids first.

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Generally, the big three are not that much of a problem unless you begin to notice it. Sort of like ants in your lawn. Short grass or long grass doesn’t make any difference as to the number of ants your sward contains; the former just means you can see more of them. So, back to the pests of the day: if they are not causing you distress, just leave them be. (An exception can be made: pear slugs on purple leaf sandcherries.) You will never kill them all but you can manage them somewhat. In the case of slugs and snails, you can always turn the tables and eat them, but cook well because they can be vectors of parasites that will cause you internal stress. You can squish them; you can set up little tubs of beer with a squirt of dish detergent. For earwigs you can roll up some damp newspapers; in the morning squeeze the ends closed, walk out into the street and unroll. You can remove

EMC News - There’s clutter and then there’s hoarding so extreme it can put your own health at risk, and jeopardize the well-being of others, if left unchecked. The scope of the problem was outlined in a presentation public health inspectors Carol Chan and Sami El-Hajjeh made recently to the board of the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit. “People who hoard are usually socially isolated [and] live in unsafe housing conditions,� Chan said. Their overwhelming accumulation of goods creates multiple household hazards that increase the risk of fire, structural collapse, falls, infestations, and respiratory infections. Hoarding, according to the Mayo Clinic in the United States, is “the excessive collection of items, along with the inability to discard them,� often resulting in “such cramped living conditions that homes may be filled to capacity, with only narrow pathways winding through stacks of clutter. Some people also collected animals, keeping dozens or hundreds of pets often in unsanitary conditions.� Hoarding may be a symptom of obsessivecompulsive disorder but the people who act this way don’t see their behaviour as a problem, which makes “treatment very challenging,� Chan said. The reality show, Hoarders, “doesn’t reflect real life� because “there’s no quick fix,� she said. It takes a lot of patience, effort and the involvement

of professionals “to help them to understand their compulsion, so they can live a safer and more enjoyable life.� Chan said hoarding also poses a danger to neighbours, and makes it difficult for firefighters, police and EMS personnel to do their jobs when responding to an emergency in the household. Over the years there have been reports of people dying after their huge collections caught on fire and they were unable to escape. El-Hajjeh said a multidisciplinary approach works best to address the issue, which agencies in Northumberland County have done by forming a coalition last summer. The group is currently working on an action plan that will define their role and responsibilities in helping individuals receive treatment. He cited various factors why the problem will worsen in future, including an aging population and easy online access to the purchase of products that are then delivered to the home. Chan said hoarding occurs in “any age group� but “it gets worse� as a person ages. City of Kawartha Lakes Councillor Doug Elmslie complained that when his municipality tries to enforce its “clean and clear bylaw� in situations where “people accumulate treasures� outside their homes prompting neighbours to complain, the court usually extends the time they are granted to clean up Public health inspector Carol Chan said “there’s no quick fix� to helping their property so “the problem never gets solved.� people who hoard deal with their disorder. With proper treatment, they Please see “Are you� on page B5

“can live a safer and more enjoyable life.� Photo: John Campbell

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Exploring Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve EMC Lifestyles - Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is made up of three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail; the entire park encompasses 511 square kilometres of land and ocean along the southwest corner of Vancouver Island. This awesome park is primarily renowned for its lush rainforests and rugged coastline, and it’s definitely worth a visit. I spent my time in the most accessible and popular region of this park reserve, Long Beach. It’s the coastal area located between the villages of Ucluelet and Tofino, and it has the most extensive sand dune/beach area found on all of Vancouver Island. I

low tide can’t be completed at high tide. Furthermore, since this area is considered to be “Canada’s surfing capital,” a lot of surfers congregate along here at particular times of the day, depending on the tides/waves. I learned that they, too, must be cautious, for there are dangerous rip currents (powerful currents of water moving away from the shore) and the water temperature remains quite cold yearround, so there are worries about undertows and hypothermia for surfers and swimmers. The Long Beach unit of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is located within the traditional territories of the Ucluelet and Tia-o-qui-aht First Nations, and the park is termed a “reserve” because of

A combination of driftwood and mist in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

explored much of this land between the tides (the seashore), and I discovered that there are generally two low and high tides each day, so activities had to be planned accordingly. For example, some of the wide, sandy beaches at low tide disappear at high tide, so visitors don’t want to be caught out there at the wrong time (warning signs are posted), and certain hiking trails, such as Combers Beach Trail and Schooner Cove Trail, that are accessible at

pending treaty settlements. More of the natural and cultural history of the area can be found by visiting the Pacific Rim Visitor Centre at the Tofino-Ucluelet junction on Highway #4 and the Kwisitis Visitor Centre located at the end of Wick Road, 3.5 kilometres from the highway. Green Point Campground, the only campground located in this section of the park reserve, is located on a forested terrace above the beach; it has 112 walkin and drive-in campsites.

While I was in this Long Beach section, I explored several excellent hiking trails, including Radar Hill, where a short, steep path leads to a panoramic view of the ocean, inlets, rainforest, and mountains; Shoreline Bog, where a wide boardwalk traverses an area of acidic soil that stunts the growth of the aged trees; Combers Beach, which leads to the beach via a steep slope, and from here there’s an opportunity to spot sea lions and nesting birds on nearby Sea Lion Rocks; Schooner Cove, which took me to the cove/beach, via long flights of wooden stairs, and then offered me a glimpse of the distant village of Esowista; and the Rainforest Trail, which also included long flights of stairs—and tree boughs thickly draped with hanging moss. However, before going on any of these trails, you should check about tides and trail conditions. As I previously stated, some of the trails are not accessible at high tide, and I also discovered that some may be closed for other reasons, too. For example, when I visited the park reserve, two of the trails were “off limits” because of “high bear activity.” After all, there’s a lot of wildlife in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. According to posted signs, I was in “black bear, wolf, and cougar country.” Yet another section of this park reserve, the Broken Group Islands, is made up of more than 100 small islands and islets in Barkley Sound. Visitors here will find a stunning maze of channels, densely forested islands, shell beaches, tide pools, exposed islets, sheltered bays, and windswept rocks. This area is accessible only by boat. Therefore, it’s particularly popular with kayakers, and they’ll find a few camping areas scattered throughout the islands. The other region of the park reserve, the West Coast Trail, is now a very popular long-distance (75-kilometre) hiking trail. Once a trade and travel path, then a lifesaving route used to assist in the rescue of shipwrecked sailors, it has now been transformed into a challenging, multi-day adventure trek that takes the experienced backpacker

I found this sign near the park.

A youngster runs along the beach within the park

along rocky beaches, across rather rugged, rough terrain, past majestic waterfalls and sandstone cliffs, and through lush rainforest. The spectacular setting and magnificent scenery make Pacific Rim National Park Reserve a wonderful tourist destination, and not only is it popular with surfers, birders, naturalists, and wildlife

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Christopher Beveridge, the health unit’s director of environmental health, said “enforcement has been the traditional response” to hoarding but “it doesn’t work,” that’s why the coalition was formed, “to solve the problem from a prevention point of view.” Chan said statistics in the United States indicate about four per cent of the population hoard, a proportion she said was likely the case in Canada as well. Christine Herrington said “there are probably people out there who have tried to influence family members to change their patterns of behaviour and it’s probably fallen on deaf ears.” She asked if they should they call the health unit for help, and Chan replied: “Definitely.” The International OCD Foundation Hoarding Center has a Clutter Image Rating Scale that measures the amount of clutter in a kitchen, bedroom or living room with the aid of photographs. People whose accommodations are rated four or higher on a scale of nine are encouraged to get help for their hoarding. The scale can be found at <http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/cir. pdf>.

photographers, but apparently many are drawn here to simply watch storms rolling in. Can you believe it? Apparently storm watching, particularly severe winter storms, are attracting even more tourists to the area! One particular ad reads: “Come experience the raw power of the mighty Pacific Ocean as ferocious waves roll in.”

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Cowboys and cowgirls saddle up for Western Weekend

Bucking broncs gave riders a reason to hang on at the RAM Rodeo last year. Photo: Norm Betts By Sue Dickens

EMC Events - Warkworth The Warkworth Western Weekend returns for its 16th year with the Stars Western Riding Club hosting the popular gaming show on Friday night, featuring local riders.

The Percy Agricultural Society (Warkworth Fair board) and the RAM Rodeo Tour will again feature all the thrills of a real rodeo on July 5, 6 and 7. “The rodeo, started by the Percy Agricultural Society, and run for many years by the

Travellers Hockey Team, has been a centrepiece of the summer in Warkworth. The fair board is excited to continue to host this amazing event,” said Tina Spooner, chair of the committee. “We will be featuring barrels, pole bending, Dash for Cash, key

hole and a stakes barrel class,” said Spooner. “We have a 12 and under pony, youth, and adult divisions,” she added. The cost is $5 to enter each class and the paybacks are: 1st place $25, 2nd place $20, 3rd place $15, 4th place $10 and 5th place $5. Stake class is $10 with $100 added money. “The gaming show is open to all local riders. Registrations start at 5 p.m. on Friday and the show starts at 6 p.m. sharp! The beer gardens and vendors will be open. The Masons are holding a barbeque dinner, This event is free to spectators. “We are already having a lot of entries coming in for Friday night, so people need to preenter to avoid the late fee,” said Spooner. “So come out and have something to eat and a cold beverage and enjoy a fast action evening, from your own local talented horse riders,” said

Spooner, with enthusiasm. She and her committee have been working hard to make this year another successful event. The Ram Rodeo happens on Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. On Saturday night there will again be a Country Video Dance Party, a venue popular with rodeo goers. The Junior Farmers will again be running the bar. On Saturday, from 5 until 7 p.m. there will be a southern barbeque cowboy dinner put on by the Ramblin’ Pit featuring smoked beef and pulled pork “with all the fixins.” Ticket prices are $16 for adults and $10 for children. “A limited amount of tickets are being sold so again get yours early,” said Spooner. Advance tickets are available at Warkworth Farm Supply, Newman Oliver & McCarten Insurance in Campbellford and at Greenhawk in Stirling. On Sunday morning an ecumenical service will be held on the fairgrounds at 11 a.m. Everyone is asked to bring their own chair.

The cowboy breakfast rodeo special is from 9 to 11 a.m. Again this year the committee is delegating events to local organizations, hoping to help each group raise money. “We will have lots of new exciting vendors this year too,” said Spooner. The Western Warkworth Weekend committee this year includes: Tina Spooner, chair; Christine Edwards co-chair; and directors Tracy Russell, Sandra Mitchell, Ann-Marie Switzer, Jenna Ward, Mark Switzer, Schelle Holmes, Jake and Cherie Whalen, Greg Torrance, Charlene Wells, Kylie Spooner and Jessica Russell. In the past the Warkworth Ram Rodeo event has raised money for a new score clock and a new sound system in the Warkworth arena and has been used to support local churches, Millennium Park, minor sports, the skateboard park, the Santa Claus parade and more. To learn more about the weekend including where to get tickets, online and in outlets, go to <http://www. warkworthramrodeo.com>.

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from our SFT Young Company and also from local drama clubs, dance schools, college theatre programs and church choirs. “Right now we’re looking for details about local stories,” Vanderlip says, and while there are many well-documented events there are others that are equally important. “Family connections and oral histories are critical because they put a human face on it. These are real stories about real people,” he says. “I’ve written a few Canadian historical plays,” says Turtle, “but this is very different.” Those, he says, focused on a person or a small group of people while the Stirling Historical Community Play Project is about a place. “But the good news is, Stirling is a very interesting character.” Working in connection with several local groups, including officials at Farmtown Park, the SFT is hoping to mount a fullscale production in 2015.

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EMC Entertainment - Stirling - The Stirling Festival Theatre (SFT) will be bringing a little local history to the stage. SFT Managing Director David Vanderlip recently announced the theatre was successful in its recent grant application for Ontario Arts Council funding to finance the development of the project, culminating with a staged reading next year. “This is great news for us,” Vanderlip says, “because it gives us an opportunity not only to bring the community to the theatre, but also bring theatre to the community.” While still in the research stages, the play will focus on Stirling’s history and its people with the intention of wide-reaching public involvement. A staged reading is scheduled for April 2014 at the theatre. “We have to thank the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario for funding support for this project,” he says, noting it is important to both the theatre and the community. “Along with playwright Richard Turtle, we hope to engage the community in the creation of a play around the various significant historical events that have occurred in the Stirling area over the last 400 years,” Vanderlip says. “Champlain travelled these shores around 1615 and this area was regularly travelled as immigrants moved from Lower to Upper Canada.” And there are plenty of other stories to bring us up to the present day. “In addition to professional theatre actors, we intend to utilize actual descendants of the stories and events and engage young and old from the community with an eye to incorporating up to 200 community members in the acting company,” he says. A significant portion of the acting company, he adds, will be comprised of new generation, emerging artists, drawn

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Garage to become a gallery for contemporary art By John Campbell

EMC News - Warkworth - A not-forprofit arts organization based in Toronto wants to transform a Main Street garage here into a gallery that showcases contemporary art and includes space for an artistin-residence. To achieve its goal, Sunday Drive Arts Projects has enlisted the help of the Municipality of Trent Hills which has agreed to act as the lead applicant for $150,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and $100,000 from the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund. Applications were to be submitted this week. Most of the money will be used to renovate the Johnston Co. car garage, the balance on programming “That’s our plan and we’re working toward it,” but at this point, it’s “far from set in stone,” cautioned Tania Thompson, founder of Sunday Drive Arts Projects.

Still, “we feel pretty good” funding will be forthcoming, she said. “We’re super excited … there’s been such great encouragement from everybody,” including the owner of the garage, Mike Johnston, who continues to service vehicles of valued clients at the garage, which is up for sale or lease. Supporters include the Warkworth Business Association, the Trent Hills and District Chamber of Commerce and Northumberland County’s tourism department, she said. Two others are involved in the organization with Thompson, an arts administrator: Scott Smith, a film producer and artist, and Randall Okita, a filmmaker and educator.

The three are “very optimistic” the gallery will be ready to open by the end of the summer in 2014. Thompson said the exterior of the garage will be given a facelift but will essentially retain its look so that it “tells the history of Warkworth” and the building, Thompson said. She said she “fell in love with the village” when she owned a weekend house in Warkworth for a time and later worked as a consultant in helping to develop the Warkworth Lilac Festival. “Our mandate is to partner with other organizations [in Toronto] that need to do outreach,” she said. “The whole name is supposed to conjure up this idea of getting outside the city and

worth and just increase it,” she said, by featuring pieces of a kind that can’t be packaged and taken home, such as installation work. It’s “an expansion of the idea of Warkworth as a designated arts community,” Thompson said. Warkworth and area “is so beautiful” that international artists will find it attractive to “come with an idea” to incorporate the local landscape into their work. They would stay for three to six weeks to make their art, exhibit it and talk about it, Thompson said. One of the gallery’s main programs will be directed to young people over 14, to make them aware of culture and how they can “feed into” it, Thompson said. To keep the gallery operating after it A not-for-profit organization, Sunday Drive Arts Projects, has applied for opens, memberships will be sold, sponsorfunding to convert the garage at the east end of Main Street into a nonships sought, and fund-raising activities commercial gallery that will include space for an artist-in-residence. Photo: held. going into rural environments compete with existing businessfor a day trip.” es where artists’ works are sold. The gallery will be non“We’ll share an audience commercial in nature and won’t that’s already attracted to Wark-

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Tenth year for the Moira Lake regatta By Diane Sherman

EMC News - Madoc - Members of the Moira Lake Property Owners Association continue to support the non-motorized regatta they originated ten years ago. In 2003 a group of MLPOA members began a family fun event at the Kiwanis beach and boat launch on Moira Lake. They made their paddle boats, kayaks and canoes available for anyone to use. Bob Hadley, MLPOA president, was at Centre Hastings municipal council June 26, to give $500 from his group to help with expenses of the event. He told council, “Each year organizers

try to encourage more families to come out from the village and rural areas. For some of these kids it may be one of the few times they have access to a canoe, kayak or paddle boat.” In 2010 the regatta became a sub-committee of the municipal parks and recreation committee and the name was changed to Centre Hastings Regatta. It continues to be a free family day with prizes for everyone and a chance to win a kayak from Pro Tackle Musky shop. Organizers have a new category this year, the cardboard boat race. Committee member Hazel Gill was at the Madoc market last Saturday with her

cardboard boat called Flower Power. Gill said there are rules for building the boat and encourages potential entrants to contact her at 613-473-5624 or look for directions on the Centre Hastings Regatta Facebook page and information on the Centre Hastings municipal web site. She said the original instructions came from the Cape Coral Regatta <www.capcoralregatta.com/index/boatbuilding>. The big day is scheduled for Saturday, July 13, which coincides with Ontario’s Licence Free Fishing week. Registration for races begins at 9 a.m. with the paddle boat races launching off at 10 a.m.

Moira Lake Property Owners Association contributed $500 toward expenses of the 10th annual Moira Lake non-motorized regatta. Secretary Dana Gawley and president Bob Hadley presented Parks and Recreation director Jeff Bitton, centre, with the big cheque at Centre Hastings council meeting June 26. Photo: Diane Sherman

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Muriel Gribbons, who passed away June 27th, 2007 Mom, it’s been six years since I heard your voice and I miss you every day. I awake each morning to start a new day But the pain of losing you never goes away. I go about the things I have to do And as the hours pass I think again of you. I want to call you and just hear your voice Then I remember that I have no choice For you are not there and now my heart cries Just to see you again to tell you goodbye To say Mum I love you and I always will And hope that much of you, in me you’ve instilled. The day that you left I just didn’t know That you were going where I couldn’t go. And now all my memories of you are so dear But gosh, how I miss you and wish you were here. Who now can hear me when I need to cry? It so hard to tell you “Mum goodbye.” Someday I know all will be well And I’ll see you again with stories to tell Of how you were missed and how we have grown And how good it is to finally be home. Until then my memories of you I’ll keep near And I’ll pass them on to those who are dear. I miss you Mum, Love you and miss you, Wendy, Dale, Brendan and Courtney

PLEASE NOTE: BOOKING DEADLINE FOR ADS IS MONDAYS AT 3 P.M. Ads can be placed by calling 613-966-2034 ext. 560 or 1-888-967-3237 B10

Stove Pellets, 40 lbs bags, $4.75 per bag plus HST. Low Ash/moisture, high BTU. shavings@live.com or 613-847-5457

MILLS, James Allen “Jim” Peacefully at Maplewood Nursing Home , Brighton on Monday June 24th, 2013 in his 86th year. Beloved husband of Lois Mills (nee Carthy). Loving father of Lea & Bruce, Kim & Greg, Diane & Sally, Jay & Julie, Dana & Gary and Jack. Lovingly remembered by many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Brother of Ken and Sid Mills and pre-deceased by his sister Eleanor. At Jim’s request there will be no visiting or service and a private family graveside service will be held at a later date. If desired donations may be made to Trenton Memorial Hospital. Condolences received at www.MacCoubrey.com FITNESS & HEALTH

FITNESS & HEALTH

ROOM / BOARD SHARED ACCOMMODATIONS BRIGHTON, 312 Raglan Street. Private home, furnished bedroom, cable, telephone, heat, hydro included, use of home. $475 month. No pets. Call 613-475-3841.

Classified Deadlines: Mondays at 3 p.m. Ads can be placed online at www.EMCclassified.ca or by calling 613-966-2034 x560 613-475-0255 or 1-888-WORD-ADS

RESIDENTIAL ADS starting at

HEALTH PROBLEMS

Not improving? Treatments not working? Bayview Natural Health

613-968-9626

Join the Health Team!

12.75/wk

$

2nd week FREE!

COMMERCIAL ADS Includes rental ads

starting at

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ANNIVERSARY

VEHICLES

Junk removal & willing to move articles for individuals. 613-475-9591

In loving memory of

To my dear mother,

Carrie Galvin & Gordon Kennedy

FOR SALE

DUMP RUNS

IN MEMORIAM Sonnenburg In loving memory of our cherished nephew/cousin Ty Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear Fond memories linger every day Remembrance keeps you near May the winds of love blow softly And whisper so you’ll hear; We will always love and miss you And wish that you were here Forever in our hearts Bud XOXO Janice, Harry, Jen and Kate

FOR SALE

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Word Ad Deadline: Monday at 3 p.m.

CL422941

1-888-967-3237

14.80/wk

$

Office: 250 Sidney St. (in the parking lot behind Avaya) Belleville or 21 Meade St. Brighton

FOR SALE

FARM

PETS

FINANCIAL / INCOME TAX

COMMERCIAL RENT

FOR RENT

FOR RENT

NEW & USED APPLIANCES

Airless spray painting, roofs & sides, steel roofs repairs. 5 & 6� seamless eavestrough, soffit, facia, gutterguard installed or delivered. Free estimates. 1(877)490-9914.

Dog Grooming by Bernadette. Professional services with TLC. New clients welcome. 550 TrentonFrankford Rd, 1 minute north of 401. (613)243-8245.

160 COCKBURN ST CAMPBELLFORD

LIVESTOCK

Warkworth Main Street, 530 sq. ft., storefront retail office space, available August in fabulous potter block building. $550/month negotiable with lease, plus gas and hydro. Call Kerri 705-924-3341 after 6 p.m.

Prince William Apartments

FDI DIESEL INJECTION Pump testing and repairs. NOW IN TRENTON 613-392-3636

Debt Relief Allen Madigan Certified Credit cousellor. Solving financial problems for over 15 years. Renew hope seniors respected. Free confidential consultation. 613-779-8008

At the lowest prices in the area. Trade-ins accepted on new appliances. Big selection to choose from.

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Barn and roof painting, screw-nailing existing roofs, new steel installed. All major barn repairs by Ron Anderson (613) 395-2857 1-800-290-3496

PAYS CASH $$$

FOR SALE

For good used appliances in working order or not, but no junk, please. VISA & MASTERCARD accepted. We have our own financing also. Shop at our competitors and then come see for yourself, quality at low prices. Open evenings 7 days a week. WE DELIVER.

MORTGAGES

FOR RENT

Mortgage Solutions Purchases, Consolidations, Construction. Lower than bank posted rates (OAC) On-Site Private Funds for credit issues, discharged bankrupts and BFS without proven income. Chase Financial 1-613-384-1301 Chase Financial o/b 835289 Ontario Inc. Brokerage License #10876

FARM

1-866-906-3032

TRENTON WEST SIDE Attracted 1 bedroom apartment with interior updated. Comes with new fridge and stove, heat, hydro, water and laundry facilities. $725/month.

Kenmau Ltd. (Since 1985)

Property Management

Nicely treed lot. Attractive, 2 bdrm with fridge, stove, water & balcony. Building has security entrance & laundry facilities. $750/ mth plus heat & hydro

FARM

Kenmau Ltd.

Property Management

Twin Sisters Hive & Honey Products 231 Frankford Road, Stirling We sell bulk honey in your containers, prepackaged liquid and creamed honey, beeswax skin creams & lip balms, candles, pollen, maple syrup and more. We also have sweet little honey wedding favours

Open Saturdays only, 10 am-4pm. Call 613-827-7277

CENTRAL BOILER OUTDOOR WOOD FURNA FURNACES ES

3 Bedroom Townhomes:

613-374-2566

DALE LOCKLIN APPLIANCE SERVICE PARTS, REPAIRS, SALES & INSTALLATIONS

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Bay Terrace Apartments

334 Dundas St. E., Belleville STUNNING 1, 2 and 2+ den suites, GREAT VALUE! Indoor pool, gym, social rm with events, laundry. AWARD WINNING CUSTOMER SERVICE! DAILY OPEN HOUSES! Drop in for a tour! Ask about move-in incentives.

BRIGHTON DOWNTOWN 1& 2 Bedrooms with fridge & stove $525-$675 plus utilities

Kenmau Ltd. since 1995

Property Management 613-392-2601

BELLEVILLE

DEBT CONSOLIDATION PURCHASE FINANCING & CONSTRUCTION LOANS

East side (Turnbull St.) 1 bedroom with fridge, stove & water included, $635/mth + heat & hydro

MORTGAGE BROKER Lic. #10343

NEW LOCATION 72 KING ST., TRENTON

CALL: (613) 394-8536 • (613) 395-9009 IN YOUR HOME REPAIR • DRYER & DRYER DUCT CLEANING

/FF s 2ES &RONT 3T #ENTURY 0LACE "ELLEVILLE CRAIG?MARBELLE LKS NET Each office independently owned and operated.

• RECONDITIONED APPLIANCE WITH A 6 MONTH WARRANTY • DELIVERY AND REMOVAL • NEW & USED PARTS FOR MOST MAKES AND MODELS

COME IN AND YOU’LL SAVE!!

MORTGAGES

www.reconappliances.com www.dalelocklin.com

CENTRAL BOILER 2013 SALE!

Save up to $1,300 on selected models Call for more information Your local DEALER

613-392-2601

FSCO Lic# M08002475 Broker# 10202 Independently Owned and Operated

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www.mortgagesbyandrea.com

2 bedroom row house. Parking. Older building. $695 plus utilities. 62 West Moira St., Belleville; 1 bedroom apt., laundry facilities. No parking. $695/mth. Includes utilities. 363-1/2 Front St., Belleville. 613-966-4471, 613-970-1932 (cell).

REAL ESTATE 10.6 acres of vacant land with 1,100 ft of paved road frontage. 980 Bellamy Rd, Mississippi Mills. $ 6 9 , 5 0 0 . 0 0 . (613)624-5534 or (613)327-2349.

Beautiful 2 bedroom basement apt. Havelock area. Clean and dry. Private entrance. Backyard, parking. Available mid July. 705-639-5757, 705-740-4746.

NOTICES

Brighton downtown 1 bdrm apartment, clean, $500/mo plus utilities. First and last. Available now. 613-475-6096

TRUE PSYCHICS For Answers CALL NOW 24/7 Toll-free 1-877-342-3032 mobile #4486 www.truepsychics.ca

VACATION/COTTAGES

EMC Classifieds Get Results!

Sandy Beach Resort on Otter Lake, seasonal trailer site available, full hookup, Pristine Lake, great for swimming and fishing. Call 613-283-2080. Website: sandybeachresort.ca

FOR RENT

FOR RENT

APARTMENTS P R A D A

C O U R T

Featuring 2 bedroom apartments with all amenities including: fridge, stove, air conditioning and wheelchair access. The apartments are attractive and the buildings are secure. Ideal for Seniors or retired couples CALL

1-800-706-4459 613-475-3793 9am - 5pm www.pradacourt.com NOTICES

NOTICES

Sandy Beach Resort on Otter Lake. 1, 2 and 3 bedroom housekeeping cottages, beautiful park setting with natural sand beach shoreline on pristine lake. Perfect for swimming, great fishing, use of canoe and kayaks. We are located 1 hour south of Ottawa or 1 hour north of Kingston on Hwy 15. Check out our website at sandybeachresort.ca Call 613-283-2080. Skinny Dipping: Keep cool in summer! Lakesun Nudist Club is a traditional family naturist club for couples and families. Private lake, sandy beach, camping and cabins in a beautiful natural setting just north of Kingston. I n f o : w w w. l a k e s u n . n e t 613-353-2463 Waterfront cottages, excellent fishing, sandy beach, miles of boating. $525/week. Relaxing affordable family fun. Singleton Lake Family Campground. w w w. s i n g l e t o n l a k e . c a 1-855-887-3230

HELP WANTED WORK OPPORTUNITIES + TRAVEL Childcare positions in Unites States, air fare, medical etc. provided. Childcare in Holland, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, England, China, etc. Different benefits apply. Hotel jobs in England. Teach in South Korea, air fare, medical etc. provided. Apply at: 902-422-1455 Email: scotiap@ns.sympatico.ca

WORK WANTED EXPERIENCED PSW provides respite / enrichment services for those frail or with dementia in their homes. Elaine Mann 613-475-6018 Painter or Handyman. No job is too small! Also any odd jobs. Seniors discount. Call Roger on cell 613-242-3958.

BUSINESS SERVICES

County Water TreatmentSofteners, U.V. Lights, R.O. systems, chemical free iron and sulphur filHELP WANTED - LOCAL ters. Sales, installation, service and repair. Steven PEOPLE NEEDED!!! Simple & Flexible Online Menna. (613)967-7143. Work. 100% Genuine Opportunity. F/T & P/T. In- Hardwood Floor Installaternet Needed. Very Easy... tion and resurfacing. CeNo experience Required. ramics. Light renovations and upgrades. Over 30 Income is Guaranteed! w w w . e z C o m p u t e r - years experience. Please call for free estimate Work.com 613-394-1908.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED Person needed for weekends only at a fast paced coffee shop must be able to work on own. Apply in person to 162 Russell St. Madoc.

HAVE YOU been denied CANADA PENSION PLAN DISABILITY BENEFITS? The Disability Claims Advocacy Clinic can help. Contact Allison Schmidt at:1-877-793-3222 www.dcac.ca

Hilts Butcher Shop (Norwood) looking for enthusiastic, motivated person to eviscerate poultry. 1-2 days/week. 705-696-2172, or drop off resume.

Ken Chard Construction. Renovations, decks, siding, sidewalks, fences, ceramic, windows, painting etc. Free estimates. Call: 613-398-7439.

NOTICES

Roger’s Mobile Wash and Detailing: For all your washing needs. Auto, Boats, RVs, Homes, Decks, Patios, Driveways, Heavy Equipment, and Monument cleaning. Also, Store Front, and Graffiti cleaning. Bug Spraying available. Free Estimates Home 613-962-8277 or Cell 613-885-1908.

Local Contact: Tel. 613-547-6732 Toll Free 1-800-492-1605

All bids submitted to:

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VACATION/COTTAGES

The Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services wishes to dispose of two single family detached houses located in Deseronto, at 122 Green Street and 257 Thomas Street. The houses will be sold “AS IS�. Interested parties may view the houses between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 pm on July 11th, 2013. All interested proponents shall submit bids in sealed enveloped by 2:00 pm July 25th, 2013. Bids on one or both properties must be submitted separately.

MORTGAGES

200 Dundas Street E, Suite 305 Belleville, ON K8N 1E3 OfďŹ ce: 613-968-5151 Toll Free: 1-888-216-7770 ext 306 Email: andrea005@sympatico.ca Web:

Havelock- 4 bedroom. Clean, well maintained, backyard, $950/month, heat included. No smoking, first, last and references required. Available i m m e d i a t e l y . 705-696-2970.

Call Kenmau Ltd.

Property Management (Since 1985)

s 2ENEWALS s -ORTGAGES ,OANS s ,EASING - 1st, 2nd & Private Mortgages/Loans • Free Down Payment Program OAC • • Bank turn downs, self employed welcomed

THINGS ARE HEATING UP!

Perfect For Mature Tenants SECURE ENTRANCE Lndry Rm on Each Flr LOVELY + SPACIOUS! Lrg 2 BDRM + Balcony Storage Room In Suite New Floors+ Upgrades $1030 Includes Utils/Prkg 705 653-3784 or 416 638-9633

PERSONAL

Are you tired of being lonely?? Me Too. I’m an attractive widow lady 79 looking to meet an hones caring gentleman 79 to early 80’s in good health for companionship to live in my home. Must be a nonsmoker and only a sociable drinker. I enjoy scenic drives, dining out, movies and enjoying each other’s company at home. Please send photo and phone number to PO Box 22045 Trenton ON K8V 6S3

East side (Albert St.) 1 bedroom with heat, fridge, stove and water included, $650/mth + hydro

METRO CITY MORTGAGES

OUTDOOR FURNACES

WOOD HEAT SOLUTIONS

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Kenmau Ltd.

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Godfrey, ON

613-392-2601

FINANCIAL / INCOME TAX FINANCIAL / INCOME TAX

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Family Style Living, Full Unfinished Basement With Laundry Hook-up. Close to Schools, Shopping and City Transit. $900 + Utilities, No Appliances, No Pets Preferred. Contact 613-969-0101 Ext 6.

Delivery and maintenance package included. Limited time offer. Instant rebates up to $1,000.

FURNACE BROKER

Property Management

www.realstar.ca

Gilbert Corners

$

3 bedroom apartment with fridge, stove and heat included. $850/month + hydro and water.

1-888-478-7169

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SMITTY’S APPLIANCES LTD. 1-613-969-0287

5,990

613-392-2601

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HONEY FOR SALE

GLEN MILLER

Newly renovated 2 bedroom apt. Balcony. Belleville. New fridge, stove and vanity. Laundry on site. $760 plus hydro. 613-922-8866, 613-849-8866.

(Since 1985)

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BRIGHTON

www.realstar.ca

Kenmau Ltd.

613-392-2601

(Since 1985)

We Sell Gas Refrigerators!

Starting at

BRIGHTON semi-detached with carport, quiet tenants preferred, no smokers/pets. $900/mo plus utilities. 613-475-0306

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WANTED TO RENT, two or three bedroom house or winterized cottage near or on the water in the Quinte area. Non-smoking mature couple with cats. Call 613-393-5116, evenings.

FOR RENT

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NEW APPLIANCES

Bedding & Feed: Shavings for $4.75/each, bedding pellets for $4.00/each, Tiz Whiz grain for $15/each and Triple Crown grain for $25/each. plus HST. shavings@live.com or 613-847-5457

CL423475

Turn your exhausted wood lots and unused pasture lots into productive farm land. Phone 1-705-653-7242 or 1-905-436-5954

WANTED TO RENT

165 Herchimer Ave. Lovely 1 & 2 bdrm suites, GREAT PRICE! Outdoor pool, excercise room, social room, events! Drop in today!

CL416343

Stoves, washers, dryers, freezers, 3 months old & up. Sold with written guarantee. Fridges $100. and up.

CL423761

USED REFRIGERATORS

PERSONAL

FOR RENT

Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services 500 Bay Street Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 1X5 Attn: Larry Bellerose

Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services reserves the right to decline any or all bids. Successful proponents shall provide certified funds payable to Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services upon successful acceptance of their bid. CL415319

1 AD 4 NEWSPAPERS 1 SMALL PRICE Wedding Announcements starting from

$20.95

1 column, without photo

Call 613-966-2034 x 560 or 1-888-967-3237

PLEASE NOTE: BOOKING DEADLINE FOR ADS IS MONDAYS AT 3 P.M. Ads can be placed by calling 613-966-2034, 613-475-0255 or 1-888-967-3237 EMC B Section - Thursday, July 4, 2013

B11

www.careeredge.on.ca

Quinte West Automotive is seeking a full time experienced Class “A� Automotive Technician. Candidates must have Grade 12, class “A� license, valid driver’s license and insurance. Extensive knowledge of different automobiles and their service needs and ability to diagnose vehicle repairs is required. Must have strong observational and trouble shooting skills, comfortable with computer diagnostic programs and be able to learn new technology, repair and service procedures and specifications. Wage range is $20-$25/hr depending on experience. A clean criminal record check will be required upon offer of employment.

Email Resume to Kim at Career Edge: kimb@careeredge.on.ca 81 Dundas St. West, Trenton On K8V 3P4, (613) 392-9157

Brighton, ON

Dennis 905-269-6295 Sharon 905-925-4081

IAN SCRIVEN

FINISH CARPENTRY & HOME IMPROVEMENTS RR #4 Brighton, ON K0K 1H0 Tel: 613-475-2073

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up to 75 words

GARAGE SALE

GARAGE SALE

MULTI-FAMILY

GARAGE SALE

HUGE MULTI-FAMILY

YARD SALE 75 Church St, Belleville

(corner of Church & Paul) Location picked for lots of parking.

Tons of interesting items including: Clothing, Electronics, Books, Garden Items, Toys, House Hold Items, and Much More!

✔ Contract position ✔ Dropping carrier bundles to individual carriers ✔ Need for medium to large vehicle ✔ Pick up and delivery from Trenton warehouse location ✔ Valid driver’s licence required ✔ Direct deposit bi-weekly pay ✔ Interested persons must be available Thursdays

WHERE? Rosewood Drive and Ashwood Crescent Frankford, ON (Just off of Huffman Road)

WHEN? Saturday, 06 July 2013 7:30am – 1:00pm

Boxes of treasures from my 90 year old Grandmother’s cupboards. Lots of copper moulds, 170 Beanie Babies including Maple, Erin, Peace, Lefty and Righty. 2000 decorative items and much more. Lots of clothes size 12-14.

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HELP WANTED

The Regional Hospice of Quinte has an immediate opening for a part-time Patient/Volunteer Coordinator. The Regional Hospice of Quinte, Inc. assists terminally ill patients and their caregivers by giving them support and companionship in an effort to improve their quality of life. The Patient/ Volunteer Coordinator is responsible for numerous duties in the day to day operation of the palliative care services offered through Hospice Quinte. These responsibilities include: s 7ORKING AS PART OF THE PATIENT VOLUNTEER TEAM THAT DELIVERS PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES OFFERED by Hospice Quinte including: assessment of patient needs, matching volunteers and patients, monitoring service delivered and evaluating the service provided and coordinating other related resources. s 0ROVIDE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO VOLUNTEERS PROVIDING PALLIATIVE CARE s #OORDINATE AND FACILITATE ALL INITIAL VOLUNTEER TRAINING ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INTERVIEWING volunteers, evaluating patient volunteer training programs, coordinating all ongoing training. s -AINTAIN ALL VOLUNTEER AND PATIENTS RECORDS AND ENSURE ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION IS COMPLETED TO MEET ,(). AND -INISTRY OF (EALTH REQUIREMENTS s ,IAISE WITH HOSPITALS REGIONAL SERVICE AGENCIES These duties are reflective of the position but not inclusive other duties may be assigned. Qualifications A degree or diploma in nursing, community based experience in the delivery of palliative care, EXPERIENCE IN PROGRAM PLANNING VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF RELATED COMMUNITY AND PROVINCIAL RESOURCES %XCELLENT ORGANIZATIONAL AND TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS ARE ESSENTIAL 4HIS POSITION IS THREE DAYS PER WEEK &OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS POSITION PLEASE VISIT WWW HOSPICE QUINTE CA !PPLICATION DEADLINE IS &RIDAY *ULY Please apply to: $OROTHY $AVIES &LINDALL "OARD #HAIR c/o Bioniche Hospice Quinte Centre $UNDAS 3T % "ELLEVILLE /NTARIO + . %

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905-355-1357

Part time, experienced Pharmacy Assistant or Registered Technician required for busy pharmacy. Must be able to multi-task, provide excellent customer service, and have flexible availability (incl. weekends). Experience on Nexxys system, dispensing medication (including methodone) required. Must have strong communication skills, detail oriented, and work well under pressure. Apply via email: 6943general@rexall.ca or by fax 705-6531355

LARGE MULTI FAMILY SALE, Sat. July 6th, 8 am - 1 pm, 28 Stephen Street, Brighton. Household items plus furniture.

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Electrical. Plumbing. Carpentry. Painting. Flooring. Cleanup

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SUNSTRUM’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS

General Home Repair & Remodeling

GARAGE SALE

HELP WANTED

REXALL CAMPBELLFORD

Class “A� Automotive Technician

Steve Collins, InsulationBlown cellulose, attics, walls, floors. Save money -live comfortably. Warm in winter, cool in summer. Quality work since 1974. Free estimates. Call (613)847-6791.

HELP WANTED

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HELP WANTED

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HELP WANTED

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Scrap vehicles and farm implements. Removed quickly and courteously. For cash. Scrap metal pick up. Call Roger 705-768-2440.

HELP WANTED

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BUSINESS SERVICES

COMMUNITY CALENDAR EMC Events

BELLEVILLE Parkdale Baptist Church is hosting a backyard club in Foxboro, Monday July 8-Friday July 12, 9-11:30 am for grade 1 to six. Info: church at 613-968-5761 ext. 110 or www.parkdalebaptist.org Belleville Brain Tumour Support Group meets monthly on the second Wed.,7:30 p.m., Eastminster United Church. If you or someone you know has been affected by a brain tumour come join us. FOOD Addicts in Recovery Anonymous meets Wednesday, 7 p.m., Hillcrest Community Centre, 69 Centre St, Belleville. No dues or fees for members. Info: Susan at 613-471-0228 or Hilly at 613-354-6036 or foodaddicts.org. The Ontario Early Years Centre at Family Space drop-in playrooms, 301 MacDonald Ave., Belleville. Open 6 days a week. Info: www.familyspace.ca or 613966-9427. Continuing On In Education on-line silent auction beginning Monday July 8 at 9:00 am and ends Friday July 12 at 12:00 pm. www.continuingonineducation.ca. All proceeds will directly support Continuing On In Education and OWLS. Shout Sister Choir is looking for new members. Practices are Tuesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Eastminster United Church, 432 Bridge Street East, Belleville. www.shoutsisterchoir.ca

Seniors 5-pin Bowling, Tuesdays, 1 p.m. Come and meet new friends for fun and fellowship. Belleville Pro Bowl, Bayview Mall. Call Ken 613-962-3429 Distribution of nutritious, churchprepared and frozen meals continues in July and August every Friday, 2 to 4 p.m., Bridge St. United Church. No cost/no pre-ordering. Register on your first visit by showing ID for each meal to be picked up. Use 60 Bridge East entrance.

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Directions: The sale site is west of BloomďŹ eld heading towards Wellington at 15519 Loyalist Parkway. Oak oval kitchen table with 4 chairs & a matching server, Antique Duncan Phyfe drop leaf table & 4 chairs, Lady’s writing desk, White leather chesterďŹ eld, glider rocker with stool, swivel rocker, Victorian style wicker chair, 2 wicker bar stools, wicker corner what not, round end table, small maple drop leaf table, lamp stand, oak book shelf, Panasonic microwave, TV & stand, small plant tables, corner what not, maple bedroom suite consisting of double bed/ box spring & mattress, 4 drawer chest, night table & a matching double pedestal desk, Krug single pedestal desk/ mirror & matching high boy, rocker, 4 section book case set, wicker chest, wicker fernery, brass double bed with pillow top mattress, pine night table, oak deacon’s bench, set of stacking tables. Large qty. of smalls including Spode “Cowslipsâ€? pattern approx. 75 pieces including 2 meat platters, trivet, cream, sugar & tray, covered butter, oval open vegetable, square vegetable, round meat platter, butter pats, small kitchen appliances, Hart & Lazier crock, 2 matching antique prints, needlepoint, Royal Doulton “Home Againâ€? HN 2167, Indian Tree cup & saucer & plate, cranberry, pinwheel bowl, black amethyst, corning ware, bake ware, pots & pans, every day dishes, large number of books, delft pieces, orals, costume jewelry, several numbered prints including “Algonquin Octoberâ€? by Tom Thomson, “Island Georgian Bayâ€? by Franklin Carmichael, “Algoma Stretchâ€? by Lawren Harris, “Asters & Applesâ€? by E.H. Macdonald & “Wildowersâ€? by Tom Thomson and assorted garden & hand tools also including a Yard Machine 21 inch push mower & numerous other smalls. This sale offers a nice selection of clean, well maintained furnishings & household effects. See my web site for detailed list & photos. AUCTIONEERS: DOUG JARRELL & BEN TREVERTON 613-969-1033 www.dougjarrellauctions.com Terms: Cash, Debit, Visa, MC or Cheque/ID Lunch available Owner and/or auctioneers not responsible in case of accident

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Tweed Legion: Mixed darts every Friday night, 7:30 p.m. Mixed pool Wednesday nights (except 3rd Wed. of the month), 7:00 sharp. Everyone welcome. Bid Euchre every Tuesday night 7 p.m., Actinolite Recreation Hall Tweed Lions Music in the Park, July 7: Jim Hayward & Willow Ridge. 2-4 pm.

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MARMORA July 5, 7 pm First Fridays Marmora Open Mic, Marmora Curling Club Lounge, 2 Crawford Dr. No cover. Bring your ears, your voice, your instrument, your friends. All types of music welcome Marmora Legion Bingo, 7pm. every Monday night. Monday Bid Euchre is cancelled until September. Cooper Remington Women’s Institute Strawberry Supper, Wednesday, June 26, Cooper Community Hall, 5-7 pm. Info: Shirley 613-473-4187

Norwood Branch: Story time every Friday, 10 a.m. Event info: www.anpl.org. The 53rd annual Buck Family Reunion, Sunday July 7, Asphodel Park(3rd line Asphodel-Norwood). Potluck dinner at 12:30pm followed by an afternoon of games and reminiscing. In case of rain, the event will be held at the Hastings Trinity United Church, 3 Albert St.

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Hospice reaches milestone with first admission By John Campbell

EMC News - Warkworth - The Bridge Hospice has crossed a milestone supporters eyed eight years ago when they began their journey to establish Northumberland County’s first residential hospice: it received its first resident in mid-June. “We are doing what we set out to do so many years ago,” hospice chair Dr. Bob Henderson told the annual general meeting of the registered charity June 27. He thanked “the three visionaries

Dr. Bob Henderson, chair of The Bridge Hospice, told the annual general meeting of the charitable organization June 27 that it had reached a milestone earlier in the month with the admission of its first resident. Photo: John Campbell

who lit the candle that other people took up”—Lynda Pecora, Pauline Faull and Rosaleen Dunne—and all those who played a part in fulfilling the organization’s mission, to address the needs of the terminally ill. More than 100 volunteers along with donors and staff “understand that provision of compassionate end-oflife care to our neighbours, friends, [and] family is an important part of community,” Henderson said. He noted The Bridge Hospice encountered roadblocks “quite a few times” along the way that seemed insurmountable, until everyone put their heads together and “managed to overcome each of those challenges.” Henderson said the “next big challenge” is to find “stable and predictable” funding that will allow us to operate with a little less stress,” he said, “and I am confident that we will find the answer to that as we go forward.” The organization still has slightly more than $47,000

from the $188,000 the Trillium Foundation provided to help with its costs, and will look again to the foundation for assistance once the money is spent.

“We need to be creative and look at what it is they’re prepared to pay for and figure out how to ask for the right thing.” Although Trillium prefers that you not apply for the same thing twice, “they are very open to receiving requests from us,” Henderson said. “We need to be creative and look at what it is they’re prepared to pay for and figure out how to ask for the right thing.” A key “part of the pitch” in applying for funding is to make note of the “sweat equity” that has been invested in the local organization by volunteers. “The last few years we’ve

been averaging close to a thousand hours a month,” he said, in design, construction, fund raising, committee and board work, training, and now, round-theclock care. The hospice balance sheet showed it had a surplus of more than $566,000 at the end of its fiscal year March 31. “The surplus is there for us to continue to operate with, and we can get families to stop we hope as we go forward that and consider their own heart we are able to identify [other] health, it will work for all dis- revenue streams that will help to eases.” To register, or to find out more information, visit <www.walktheblock.ca>.

Spreading heart health awareness EMC News - Belleville - The local branch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation is hoping to start something big this month with their first annual Walk the Block Challenge, and Heart and Stroke Foundation area manager Maureen Corrigan said it’s all about connecting with as many people as possible. “It’s a chance for people to remember loved ones lost, celebrate lives saved and protect your heart,” Corrigan said. On July 10, individuals and families not only in the region, but across the country are being encouraged to take part in the first annual Walk the Block Challenge. This grassroots event doesn’t take place in any one location—rather, the idea is that wherever you are on July 10 at 6 p.m., you take part in the challenge by walking your block to both raise awareness of heart history and get a little exercise in the process. “Everyone participates from their own house, from their cottage, from their work … if they’re on vacation in Hawaii, you can walk there,” Corrigan said. Corrigan said that in Canada one person dies every seven minutes from heart disease, and that while recent medical advances are reducing that number, further research needs constant funding. In support of that goal, the Walk the Block Challenge also has a fund-raising aspect, and Corrigan said they hope to raise in the area of $5,000 from the inaugural event. Once a donation is made, participants receive a “Walk the Block” poster to put in their window, which in turn promotes discussion about heart health in the community. “It’s to get people talking about their family heart history, and to celebrate their family heart history … they should know about it,” Corrigan said. “Even if you have no heart disease in your family you still have every reason to keep your heart healthy and strong, so it’s definitely for everyone.” In support of the event, Belleville city council recently declared July 10 Walk

the Block day in an effort to promote heart health and awareness. “There’s nothing better than a healthy community, and it all starts with healthy families,” Corrigan said. “If

sustain us,” Henderson said after the meeting attended by about 30 people at St. Paul’s United Church. He said the Trillium funding supports staffing at The Bridge—an executive director and administrative assistant— which will have to be replaced when it runs out. “That’s a significant chunk of our operating dollars, [and] we have to find those people who are able to help us fill that gap,” he said.

Following a presentation of a plaque recognizing former board members for their contributions, Dean Peters, a former board chair, praised Henderson, saying as “the captain of the ship” he “hasn’t got the recognition that he deserves” for the calming influence he has exercised in solving problems. “He deserves an enormous amount of credit for the leadership over the last few years,” Peters said.

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The Bridge Hospice will post a plaque in its residence on the Old Hastings Road that recognizes the contributions made by 18 former board members to its establishment. Six of them were at the organization’s annual general meeting to receive the honour: l-r, Lorne Sampson, David Pollack, Martin Hare, Dr. Cheryl Gibson, Dean Peters and Madeline Conacher. Photo: John Campbell

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