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Ellis rides red wave to seat in Liberal majority Bay of Quinte mirrors national trend as voters choose to replace Harper with Trudeau JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER

A former two-term mayor of Belleville has painted the Bay of Quinte red.

Federal Liberal candidate Neil Ellis crushed the field in Monday's election, capturing the newly minted riding with 29,366 votes or 50.6 per cent of the vote share.

His nearest competitor Jodie Jenkins had 19,882 votes (34.3 per cent) whilst waiving the Conservative banner and the NDP candidate Terry Cassidy was relegated to an alsoran with 7,081 votes (12.2 per cent).

Green party candidate Rachel Nelems barely made a blip on the Bay of Quinte riding radar with 1,278 ballots or two per cent of the vote share.

At the Ellis post-election event at the Empire theatre, nervous optimism was fuelled by early returns from the Maritimes where Atlantic Canadians overwhelmingly supported Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau and his team of candidates.

As the clock ticked towards 9:30 p.m. Monday evening and the closing of the polls in other parts of Canada, about 150 supporters watched the big screen and the CBC feed to see if the red tide that rose in the east would turn into a wave of support in Que-

BAY OF QUINTE Neil Ellis (Liberal) 29,366 (50.6%) Jodie Jenkins (CPC) 19,882 (34.3%) Terry Cassidy (NDP) 7,081 (12.2%) Rachel Nelems (Green) 1,278 (2.2%) Trueman Tuck (Ind.) 373 (0.6%) bec, Ontario and the Prairies.

That nervous optimism turned into half-muted relief that was interspersed with cheers as the Bay of Quinte results were posted and showed that the local candidate was surging towards being the first Member of Parliament for the new riding.

Even CBC's prediction of Trudeau's rise to become the 23rd prime minster of Canada and that the Liberal party would form at least a minority government was met with cheers and hand clapping but the mood seemed more of comfort than celebration.

The returns for the Bay of

NEIL WHEELS TO OTTAWA With his wife Sue standing by his side, Bay of Quinte MP-elect Neil Ellis speaks to supporters at the

Empire Theatre Monday evening. Ellis and his Liberal colleagues. will form the next Canadian government. (Jason Parks/Gazette staff)

Quinte escalated towards an Ellis landslide and the magnitude of the 42nd general election began to sink in when a Liberal majority government was announced.

Yes, the supporters could finally see the light at the end of a ten year tunnel and it was tinted red.

“At the beginning of the campaign, (Jenkins) said that

Neil was in for the fight of his life,” said an ardent Ellis and Liberal supporter. “Well, it looks like Jodie forgot to duck.”

Maybe the 78-day run up to Monday's moment only seemed like a 15-round title fight and that led to a subdued celebration but when their champion entered the Empire Theatre, the crowd

stood and offered its approval.

Flanked by his wife Sue and his children, Ellis was introduced by former MP and local representative Lyle Vanclief who congratulated him on being a member in the next government of Canada.

Surveying the results that will see 184 Liberal members occupy seats on the right side

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of the House of Commons, Vanclief remarked that Canadian voters wanted change.

“Tonight Canadians want people in Ottawa that work and co-operate and do things differently than the way its been done in the past 10 years.

Neil is going to be big part of that team,” Vanclief said.

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NDP’s Cassidy frustrated as voters make strategic, habitual choices Former Quinte West councillor says wedge issues shifted seats CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

SURPRISE RESULT Bay of Quinte NDP candidate Terry Cassidy eyes the election results as they come in on Monday evening at Wild Card Brewery in Trenton. As he gave his concession speech, Cassidy remarked that the result was unusual and attributed it to strategic voting.(Chad Ibbotson/Gazette staff)

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It appears federal NDP candidate Terry Cassidy chose a fitting location to view the election results on Monday.

As Cassidy delivered his concession speech at Wild Card Brewery in Trenton, he remarked that the election itself was a bit of a wild card.

Few polls predicted a Liberal majority government, let alone one as strong as was achieved by new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday evening. “The circumstances tonight are unusual to say the least,� Cassidy said. “It's an absolute strange election in terms of all the history we've seen in Canada.�

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councillor believed strategic voting played a strong role in the disappointing results for the NDP. “It seems strategic voting, the fear of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, and the sense that people had no choice to do what they've traditionally always done has played itself out in a big way tonight,� he said.

Locally, Cassidy garnered 7,081 votes, finishing third behind Conservative Jodie Jenkins (19,882) and new Bay of Quinte MP Neil Ellis (29,366). Green candidate Rachel Nelems received 1,278 votes while independent Trueman Tuck received 373 votes. Voter turnout was strong with just over 69 per cent of registered electors voting. “There was a definite conspiracy in my mind to make sure people voted strategically and people generally go back to what they're familiar with and the national scene in this county has been a twoparty system — the Liberals or the Conservatives,� said Cassidy.

He said large media organizations seemed to tilt in the last few weeks in toward the Liberal party and generated enthusiasm and momentum for Trudeau's party.

This election was also unique in that the NDP seemed to take on more of a centrist role, campaigning on a balanced budget while the Liberals promised three years of modest deficits before balancing the budget in the fourth year of the term. “That will probably be something pundits will say was a factor,� said Cassidy. “The bigger factor might have been wedge issues in Quebec, which devastated our seat totals in Quebec and really boosted the Liberal seat total dramatically.�

He said that shift had nothing to do with economics and more to do with the Harper Conservatives “shooting themselves squarely in the

head� with the niqab debate.

He said in the end, both the Conservatives and the NDP paid for it.

Contrastingly, Cassidy said the NDP campaigned on value-driven issues. “In a kind of competitive environment where people wanted to buy votes by spending or buy votes by giving people tax breaks, meant that we were trying to appeal to people at a different level,� he said. “That's a hard thing to sell when people are saying 'I can cut your taxes and put money in your pocket.'�

Cassidy said he never expected a Liberal majority, but said it's a “natural outcome� of strategic voting.

Campaign manager Brad Ford was equally shocked with the results. “It's very disappointing,� he said. “We had hoped for a bit of an orange wave coming along and it's not there.�

However, Ford said seeing the Conservatives ousted offered some consolation.

He said the party had limited resources and admittedly got a bit of a late start, but Ford said he didn't believe there was much that could have been done to improve the outcome.

Ford said nationally the party moved slightly to the right, but he said it wasn't a negative. “By moving into the centre a little bit and coming up with the policies that the party has come up with, and to hold onto our social justice and issues like that, I think we managed to keep our soul in that,� he said. “I don't have any negative feeling about that at all.�

While Cassidy didn't say specifically whether he would run again, he said it would be up to the party to select the appropriate candidate in the next election. However, Ford did ask those in attendance to save any of Cassidy's election signs if they see them. “Don't throw them away,� he said.

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Jenkins pleased with local campaign, says national sentiment too strong Conservative candidate says Bay of Quinte team did everything right but it couldn’t overcome momentum for leadership change ADAM BRAMBURGER STAFF WRITER

News of the Liberal surge to a majority government Monday was met with a subdued reaction by Conservative Jodie Jenkins' supporters at the Trent Port Marina.

Save for the moment Jenkins and his wife Shauna entered the room, the largest burst of excitement came from a Toronto Blue Jays home run before the polls even closed. There was hardly a trace of collective grumbling when the CBC called the majority. Many just continued with their private conversations.

While there may have been some shock as the numbers rose — one senior Tory commented "That's four-years scary" moments after the polls closed in Ontario — the mood was already tempered.

When asked by a supporter what happened, campaign manager Frank Hendry suggested the Liberals’ national campaign surged while the Conservative campaign stalled. The reason seemed evident.

"The thing that really sunk us was this hatred for (Prime minister Stephen) Harper."

Hendry pulled Jenkins out of the room at about 10:45 p.m. and shortly there-

after the candidate moved to make his concessions speech. When the final tally was in, Liberal Neil Ellis beat Jenkins, tallying 27,795 votes (50.6 per cent) to 18,844 (34.3 per cent). New Democrat Terry Cassidy garnered 7,081 votes.

In his address to a full room, Jenkins maintained his local campaign was solid.

"We did nothing wrong in this campaign," he said.

"I'm so proud of every single part of our team. People who have canvassed doorto-door, installed phones, put up maps, and made food. Every single person in this room contributed and there are many, many more that contributed."

Jenkins told supporters that "in the big picture, we have won. I don't know what it is yet, but there is a victory here," and added that: "Regardless of what it looks like tonight, the future is bright in Bay of Quinte.

We'll be back and we'll be back better than ever before."

He noted the Conservative party locally was energized leading up to the campaign with many new faces and young faces lending their time and efforts alongside traditional supporters.

When asked if he would change anything during the campaign, Jenkins said he

NO REGRETS With his wife Shauna by his side,Conservative candidate Jodie Jenkins told his team they ran the campaign they needed to win in Bay of Quinte, but they were unable to overcome national momentum for change.(Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

felt the Conservatives ran the best campaign of any party in the riding. In response to a question from the Gazette, he also indicated he didn't feel the national campaign limited his ability as a representative in any way.

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aging," he said. "There was a sentiment out there that individuals weren't quite comfortable with the per-

sonality we had at the helm…people got caught up in a wave of discontent."

Jenkins said he didn't see where that discomfort came from. He said there were positive responses at doors about Harper's steady hand controlling the economy and concerns about Justin Trudeau.

"Obviously that wasn't the case," he said. "I have a lot of good friends who were incumbent MPs that went down or appear to be going down tonight. That's democracy. People made their voices heard and that's the way it is."

That said, Jenkins said he believes Canadians may regret the way they voted.

"I think a lot of people don't understand what they're getting. They got caught up in more of a personality over substance campaign," he said. At the end of the day, people are going to have more money taken out of their pockets.

There's no question on that.

Individuals need to realize that what they voted in is a

government that believes they know what is best for your finances. If people are comfortable with that, so be it.

"In the next few years, I think there will be some people in our country regretful of what they've done today."

With regard to his own future, Jenkins said he left the door open for a return to politics and noted he loves serving the community and believes he can offer a strong voice for supporters. In the meantime, he's not rushing for answers.

"I'm not in any hurry. I left the door open," he said.

"There's a process to being the candidate and nothing is taken for granted, however.

It isn't going to be given on a silver platter."

In the meantime, the candidate says he intends to live his life.

"I'm going to play golf in the morning, I have a beautiful two-year-old at home, an amazing wife, and the world is my oyster," he said.

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Ellis was gracious in his acceptance of the results and quipping that he didn't think Vanclief had been this happy

in “about a decade.'”

Another former Liberal warhorse that could only attend in spirit was honoured as Ellis dedicated the win to former MPP Hugh O'Neil

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who passed away this fall.

“Hugh I know you are up there with my dad Fred and I know you two are saying 'I can't believe he pulled it off.',” Ellis said.

The MP-elect thanked his family for their steady support through the campaign and his political life.

Campaign staff, riding association volunteers and board members were also heralded for their efforts in swinging the Quinte region from blue to red.

“We weren't predicted to win, but in our hearts we knew we could it,” Ellis said, adding the enthusiasm to a positive message both locally and abroad built the volunteer base.

“Even on Saturday we had new volunteers. At Wellington Pumpkinfest, a lady came up to me and said 'I just started today and I want to help you win,” Ellis explained.

On Monday, over 150 Liberal volunteers gathered to knock on doors, man phone banks, drive people to and from the polls and pitch in at the final hour.

Those efforts helped foster a clear majority of eligible voters in favour of Ellis and the Trudeau team.

“The people in this riding have spoken and I think going forward, having a win this big speaks volumes to the people in Ottawa,” told supporters.

“Thank you for lending me your vote and hopefully I can prove I was the best candidate to represent this riding.”

FEDERAL RESULTS Liberal Party 184 seats Conservative Party 99 seats New Democratic Party 38 seats Bloc Quebecois 10 seats Green Party 1 seat Just prior to Ellis' remarks, the Gazette spoke to the last man to work under the Liberal brand and represent the taxpayers of this region in Ottawa.

Vanclief said that Ellis had worked hard to become the Liberal candidate and had continued that hard work right thorough the campaign.

“He's a good candidate and he showed his ability and experience as Mayor and I'm sure he will take that to Ottawa. Neil Ellis is the type of person that works with people and for people,” Vanclief said.

Monday's triumph brought back a flood of emotions and memories for the retired Prince Edward County farmer when, in 1988, his efforts stopped then MP Jack

Ellis and more than eight decades of continuous Conservative reign.

“It brings back memories of the fall of 1988 for me when the riding had been a different colour for some time and that night we changed it red and I said to Neil 'We have to change it back.' and he did,” Vanclief added.

Being a rookie MP, it's hard to imagine where Ellis will wind up in the machinations of Ottawa when the dust settles and the business of government starts to percolate.

But if the Bay of Quinte member does wind up with a cabinet post, Vanclief hopes that Trudeau is true to his word and allows ministries to have a greater degree of autonomy than they have in the last decade.

“I hope it returns to that.

As I've said, as agriculture minister, I met twice with (former prime minister) Jean Chretien in six-and-a-half years and in my mind, that's the way it should be,” Vanclief said. “In the last 10 years we had a C.E.O. that we called P.M. that was really demanding and wanted to have his hand in and run everything.

Trudeau had clearly indicated that he wants to change that and I hope he does.”

Voter turnout in Bay of Quinte was 69.06 per cent of the 83,954 registered electors not including those registering on polling day. That turnout was slightly above the national mark of 68.49 per cent.

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Kramp defeated Monday night

The sitting Conservative MP in the former Prince EdwardHastings ridings was among the political casualties of the Liberal sweep Monday.

Retired police officer and municipal politician Daryl Kramp was unsuccessful in his bid to win the HastingsLennox and Addington seat.

In a tight race that was not decided until the wee morning hours, Liberal Mike Bossio defeated Kramp by a margin of 20,813 to 20,440.

A Madoc native, Kramp represented the riding since 2004, winning four elections.

Kramp was instrumental in bringing improved broadband access to the region through the Eastern Ontario Regional Network and he was a champion of Community Futures Development Corporations. Recently, Kramp was the chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. He was also the Canadian president of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption.

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Consecon to host Haunting in the Hamlet this weekend CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

Consecon with be the site of fright this weekend.

Organizers of Consecon's Haunting in the Hamlet promise a fun-filled, familyfocused harvest and Halloween celebration.

Lead organizer Toby Toth said Halloween was always a favourite time of year and she said it's important to get together with neighbours. “We have a great community in Consecon — a real community spirit,� she said. “It seemed like — before everybody hunkered down or disappeared for the winter in their respective corners of the world— it was a good opportunity to get people out and socializing.�

The event was organized entirely by community volunteers who are unaffiliated with any particular organization, Toth said.

The day kicks off with a

hot breakfast at the Consecon Legion at 8 a.m. with an arts and crafts sale in the Consecon United Church Hall and Kristie's Portable Petting Zoo on the lawn between the legion and the Masonic Hall following at 10 a.m.

From 10:30 to 1:30 p.m. participants can enter bakeoff, jack-o-lantern, Halloween costume and dog costume contests inside the Masonic Hall. Kids games and crafts will be held from 11 to 3 p.m. at legion.

The Consecon library will hold a story time for kids at 11 a.m., Sherri Bergman will share “The Truth About Witches� at 1 p.m. and stories for teens will take place at 2 p.m.

Bergman will also conduct a family drumming circle in the Masonic Hall from 3 to 4 p.m.

Cascades Pub and Grill will have free hot chocolate

and treat bags for kids and Open Stage with Tony Broad and Friends from 4 to 8 p.m.

Also between 4 to 8 p.m. the Masonic Hall will be screening some family movies.

Toth said the event is kiddriven because there aren't many events that focus on families in the area. “There's not much on the go for kids other than our summer festival,� she said.

She said there's an eclectic crowd in Consecon and it was fitting that the event should have a lot of different

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If the event has one goal, Toth said it would be to foster community spirit. For updates or more information about the event visit www.hintheh.weebly.com.

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COMMENTARY Trudeau ran best campaign, his next test is governance

CANADIANS wanted change at the top. Voters made that evident on Monday as they turned out in higher numbers than at any time in the past two decades to send a majority Liberal government. The strength of the mandate they handed Justin Trudeau was stronger than many observers dared to imagine.

It’s a remarkable turn of events when just months ago, pundits were saying the relatively inexperienced Trudeau could never lead a party to power and it appeared the Liberals were destined to return to the third-party status they were relegated to in 2011. While Trudeau has promised a platform with a multitude of spending on infrastructure and social programs as enticements, one could be left to wonder how he was able to climb so high so fast. We’re inclined to believe it is not completely a case of policy, but rather a study in approach.

Even going into the campaign, the Conservative party had to have seen in their own polling that a large segment of Canadians didn’t see their leader Stephen Harper in the same light they did. He’s been painted as authoritarian, calculating, and withdrawn by many and whether that is a fair calculation or not, it is one their party simply didn’t demonstrate a will to address until far too late in the race for control of the House of Commons.

With all of those image problems plaguing Harper — who, perhaps even more than most leaders has become synonymous with his party’s brand after many of his long-serving ministers left in recent years — one would think the governing party would try to show a softer side. They needed to portray Harper as a man of the people and an ordinary Canadian who also happened to be doing a fine job running the country. Instead, they limited the public questions and tightened security at their events. Many of the representatives they were trying to sell as independent voices also read for scripts that seemed like they were written by the prime minister’s own staff for his speaking. They also didn’t re-

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ceive any image points for setting forth a long campaigning period that many already cynical commentators easily linked to their financial strengths.

By contrast, Trudeau had no trouble posing for selfies with people who came to his rallies and he understood the transformative nature of social media and experiential campaigning. People who met him and noticed his eloquence and friendly demeanour were likely to share their experiences with friends and state that he earned their trust. They were also less likely to question him about what he plans to do with hot-button issues like Bill C-51 and the Trans-Pacific PartJean Morrison Debbie McCann nership, or his decision to run deficits because they felt he could be trusted.

Publisher Business Manager The Conservatives also seemed to shoot themselves in the foot with the niqab issue in Quebec, reinforcing the fears some had in embracing their brand and pushing the NDP to take a position that ultimately weakened their base in Quebec and might have given the Liberals a push over the top. Indeed, they are fortunate to sit with 99 seats and a chance to rebuild over the next four years under a new leader who may rebuild the trust lost.

The NDP campaign, which showed so much promise at the start of the formal election period did lose ground to strategic voting, but like in the Ontario election, there seemed to be a question of where the party stands and whether its centrist positions catered to its base as much as Trudeau’s policy did. One suspects that Karen Gyde Christine DeMille question will be much debated in coming weeks.

Classifieds Manager Classifieds Trudeau showed he is adept at a key facet of politics and that is finding a connection with the electorate. His test will be in how he delivers his ambitious platform for change and how that plays out for the economy. We wish him and all the new MPs well and hope his message of collaboration across party lines and with other levels of government proves to be more than election rhetoric.

Canadians made an overwhelming choice, it’s his opportunity to realize.

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HERITAGE ON THE GO More than 60 people joined engineer Ernie Margetson as he guided an Architectural Conservancy of Ontario walking tour in downtown Picton.

The tour included properties on Johnson, Paul, Hill, and Main streets and featured some prominent historic buildings like the Ross-McMullen House (Picton Legion), St. Mary Magdalene Church,the Merrill Inn,the Washburn House and Shire Hall.Here he stops at the Johnson farm house,circa 1835.The neighbourhood is one of Picton’s oldest and traditionally most affluent. Margetson shared the history of the buildings and spoke about their architectural influences. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

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n Mayor Fred Newman clarified rumours about a new bylaw requiring the chief of police to rule on whether farmers could sell hay, wood, or other goods in Picton away from the market square. He said the bylaw was to eliminate congestion downtown on Main Street, not to restrict farmers’ trade. n With no cold storage and a limited supply of shipping materials, it appeared county apple growers could see crop spoiled. The paper’s editorial advocated for people to consume locally grown fruit. n Two civil engineers were to visit Monday to make recommendations about Picton’s pure water supply.

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n Picton mayor W.A. Jones was rushed to hospital where he died of a ruptured appendix. It was his first year as the town’s top elected official.

Jones was a well-known businessman and Anglican church member. n Two men from Toronto drove to Wellington and canoed out onto Lake Ontario where they stole nets owned by local fishermen. Police recorded their licence plate numbers and expected to make arrests within several days of the incident. n The Prince Edward Fish and Game Protective Association were lobbying the province for a three-day open hunting season on partridge and pheasant.

1955

n Jim Thompson was slated to bring his unlimited hydroplane Miss Supertest II to Picton to challenge for a Canadian speed record over a onemile course. Bill Braden was to drive. n The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment made Lord Tweedsmuir an honourary colonel during a reunion in Belleville. Tweedsmuir led the regiment in its assault on Assoro in a battle historians were calling one of the most spectacular offenses of the Second World War. n The drive to build a new county hospital was still $162,000 short of its targets. Organizers sought new sources of funding for completion.

1975

n The province’s environment ministry was conducting studies to see if it should create a resource recovery plant in the area between Gananoque and Trenton. The plant would divert some light waste materials out of landfills for resale or reuse. n Branch 78 of the Royal Canadian Legion donated 500 tulip bulbs to the town of Picton to plant around the base of the Main Street cenotaph. The bulbs, imported from Holland, marked the Legion’s 50th anniversary. n County council was to vote on creating a special committee to review the roads budget after its roads committee overspent by five per cent.

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The people in this riding have spoken and I think going forward, having a win this big speaks volumes to the people in Ottawa. Thank you for lending me your vote and hopefully I can prove I was the best candidate to represent this riding.”

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We also reserve the right to refuse to publish submitted letters for the same reasons.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Loss of family farms impacts our connection to the land

Thousands of sheep grazing farm after farm after farm in the area south of Milford is a pleasing sight, but it has a disturbing significance. The land these sheep are on is not owned by the farmers grazing them. Almost everywhere you see the sheep a family farm has been lost to corporate agribusiness expansion. In the same area, to a lesser extent, family farms have also been lost to wealthy people seeking second or retirement properties.

Though high real-estate prices paid to farmers mask it, this transfer of land was basically forced. The fourdecades-long farm-income crisis has left many smallholder farmers in the position of having to sell their land in order to retire.

High risks, unmanageable workloads and grim eco-

Regent opera broadcasts very special

Recently I attended the opera Il Trovatore at the Regent Theatre. This was a world class performance with the finest singers and actors. There were only about 50 people in attendance, all of whom felt that they had witnessed something very special.

The English subtitles and close-up cinematography bring the story to life.

We are so fortunate to have these Metropolitan operas available to us at such cheap prices.

I want to thank the theatre management for arranging these programmes and would encourage more people to come .

Pam Noxon West Lake

nomic prospects have left 75 per cent of retiring family farmers without a family member able to take over.

And our provincial policy of allowing anyone or any corporation in the world to own our farmland has pushed land prices out of reach of most entry-level family farmers.

The loss of family farming here isn't just about land. It is also about the loss of economic equality in our community. Traditionally, the many families that farmed here owned about the same amount of land, and were basically as rich or poor as each other.

Today our new corporate neighbour owns around forty times as much land as our remaining family farmers, and is at about five thousand times as wealthy.

The ownership of farmland in this community by

affluent non-farmers also creates unprecedented inequality.

Equality is the foundation of solidarity in a community, and its loss is reflected in the loss of our ability to work together for the good of everyone. This can be seen in the fighting that goes on over the wind turbines: we have become so isolated and self-interested that we miss the obvious. The wind, insofar as it belongs to anyone, belongs to everyone. Because we don't see ourselves as a community we don't have the vaguest sense that we are handing ownership and control of a common resource over to the one percent to sell back to us at a profit. As a connected community we could have asserted our collective ownership of this resource and insisted that energy

SHARING SMILES FOR HOSPITAL

Through its annual Smile Cookie campaign and through a mobile site at the Picton Fair, Tim Hortons Picton raised $5,060 for the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Here, owners Paul Massey (second from left) and Valerie Massey (right ) present the money to PECMHF president Leo Finnegan and executive director Penny Rolinski. (Submitted photo)

production be carried out for our equal good.

The loss of family farming is also about the loss of connection with the land.

This connection is palpable when you listen to an older local farmer describe the many fields there once were on his land, their different soil types, what they could and couldn't grow.

So is its loss, when you see the same hundred acres, now rented and cashcropped, entirely covered in chemical-dependent monoculture production; or when you consider the level of experiential knowledge a "farmer" who owns forty time as much land and lives over a hundred miles from it will ever gain.

Agriculture was once necessarily based on stewardship of our food-growing land. As a result of the economic and technologi-

cal destruction of our traditional connection, agriculture is now the single biggest threat to the continued ability of our land to produce food. This disconnection also has a striking impact on the community.

In unprecedented numbers and ways, how agriculture is done here today cuts us off from nature.

To quote Kalle Lasn, "When you cut off the arterial blood to an organ, the organ dies. When you cut the flow of nature into people's lives, their spirit dies.

It's as simple as that."

Vast resources are being expended in this community on protecting the appearance of our heritage. Perhaps it would serve us better to try to protect the reality.

Rosalind Adams Milford

Public library week worthy of celebration

This week, Ontario Public Library Week, is a time to celebrate our wonderful public libraries. A time to be grateful to those dedicated folks who were determined that Ontario citizens in village and city alike would always have free access to information and learning. We all benefit today from their herculean efforts to raise funds and to overcome all the obstacles to such an ambitious goal.

Times have changed a bit – we’re downloading ebooks and finding our information on I-pads, but our local library is still a place to gather for discussion, interesting speakers, and book clubs. Not to mention language groups, craft activities, and free

Internet and movies !

My mother got me a library card when I was five and in the northern mining town where we lived, the Friday arrival of the bookmobile was the exciting event of the week.

Now as an author, I’m constantly grateful for the support of area libraries in promoting Canadian books.

As the leaves start to turn once again, I’m particularly glad of this cozy bastion against the long Canadian winter. I’ll be eagerly checking out the new book lists and programs of coming events. See you at the library !

Robin Timmerman Picton

Popular computing workshops among library learning opportunities

Technology is ever changing and the public library’s offering of free, relevant workshops evolves with it. Over the past few years, the library has delivered computer training to hundreds of people in our community, and the demand for instruction continues.

Initially, the requests were for the very basics as people who had never owned a computer welcomed technology into their lives. Many needed help with everything from how to turn on their new hardware to connecting to the Internet.

Today, the requests are more likely how to use an iPad, transfer photos from phones to laptops, or understanding Windows 10. Whatever the question, the library is here to help.

Computer workshops are held on a regular basis at the library with a one-month cycle happening at the Picton branch and one at the Welington branch. The larger

INSIDE THE LIBRARY Christine Renaud

branches with meeting rooms make ideal spaces in which to hold workshops, but training can be arranged in the smaller branches if there is demand and a number of people interested.

Staff who work in the computer lab at the Picton branch and who provide

both one-on-one tutorials and workshop instruction are generally hired through government grants such as the Youth Internship Program. Julie Lane is one such recent hire.

A graduate of PECI, this newest library staff member was very involved in community theatre when in high school and active as well with the Marysburgh Mummers.

“I moved to Hamilton to attend university and graduated with a honours bachelor of arts degree in theatre and film then did a masters education degree in administration,” says Lane, who says she’s thrilled to be back in Prince Edward County and to be working at the library.

“I've only been here a week but I am loving the library environment, especially running the workshops! Being surrounded by books all day long is a dream and I can't wait to see what else I will learn in the next 5 months!”

Lane will be teaching a number of workshops including an Android 101 workshop Oct. 28, basic computers parts one and two on Nov. 4-5, iPad 101 on November 11th, Android 101 Nov. 18, file management part one Nov. 2 and file Management part two Nov. 28.

A “Welcome to Windows 10” workshop, being taught by local computer expert Carl Joly, is also being offered. It takes place on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For a complete list of workshops, including dates, times and locations, please visit the library’s website events calendar at: peclibrary.org or call 613-4765962.

Workshops are free, however, you must register with Tracy at bookkeeper@peclibrary.org or by calling 613399-2023.

Also upcoming at the library, the Consecon branch presents story times as part

of Haunting the Hamlet on Saturday Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and the annual Zombie Walk happens at the Picton branch library on Tuesday, Oct. 27 beginning at 5:30 p.m. with the walk at 6:45 p.m.

On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. join Lorna MacDonald of Community Care for Seniors at the Picton branch as she speaks about the many programs offered in our community and how they can help seniors stay healthy, engaged and independent.

If you would like to receive regular updates about special events presented by the library, consider signing up for our new books list. This is a weekly e-mail sent to advise of new books added to the collection and upcoming events. Simply go online to sign up at: peclibrary.org or call 613476-5962 and any staff member can help you.

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Strain on roads infrastructure, increased competition for private campgrounds among issues representatives raise with Ontario Parks staff

Councillors raise concerns about increase of traffic from new Sandbanks campsites CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

County councillors sought the ear of Ontario Parks officials as they were brought up to speed with expansion plans at Sandbanks Provincial Park last week.

Concerns about the impact to county roads were voiced at last Thursday's committee-of-the-whole meeting as WSP project manager Mark Routhier and engineer Andrew Tulk spoke on behalf of Ontario

Parks regarding a planned 75-RV campsite expansion with a new entrance onto County Rd. 12.

The expansion was identified in a 1993 Sandbanks management plan and would be adjacent to the Dunes Beach day use area.

Routhier said the park is currently at capacity overnight during peak park season and the new campground would provide additional RV parking spaces for overnight camping facilities, would allow some registra-

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tion traffic to relocate from the main gate, and would provide a new western access point for day use visitors.

The expansion would consist of three new campground loops, a new twolane entrance and exit on County Rd. 12 with a gate house/office, and improved trail connections.

“A new western access will likely reduce traffic to the main gate, but may increase use on County Rd. 18,” Routhier said. “A traffic impact study has been completed and supports the proposed design.”

He said the proposed entrance and exit has gone through a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment process and was classified Category A/A+ and were pre-approved.

“I do know, from our traffic study we undertook, we took a look at the existing traffic counter provided by County staff as well as user information we were able to

UPGRADES WSP representatives Andrew Tulk and Mark Routhier discuss proposed upgrades at Sandbanks Provincial Park with councillors at last week’s committee-of-the-whole meeting. The plans include 75 new RV campsites. (Chad Ibbotson/Gazette staff)

obtain from the park and we've modelled that entire area,” said Routhier. “We found the overall operation of the proposed intersection has next to no effect with the additional 75 sites.”

The campground devel-

opment was evaluated as a Category B project under the Class Environmental Assessment for Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves, meaning the potential for low to medium net negative effects or public concern.

Routhier said the project has gone out to tender and the tendering period is expected to close in November. Notification will be sent to stakeholders prior to construction.

Site preparation is scheduled to take place this fall with construction commencing next fall with a spring 2017 completion target.

Councillor Bill Roberts said a 75-site expansion would bring with it a significant increase in vehicle traffic.

“We've already seen the impact of increased traffic on our roads and infrastructure here in the county,” he said.

“Could you pass along to whoever's pay grade it is that our roads infrastructure is already stressed and it's just a logical conclusion that expanded capacity at the park will lead to increased traffic and additional stress.”

Several other councillors voiced a similar sentiment.

Councillor Kevin Gale asked whether the development needed any municipal permits prior to commencing before suggesting that the municipality withhold any approvals until councillors have a chance to speak with Ontario Parks.

“I'm not against tourism campgrounds or anything else, what I am concerned with is an extension at the park is a direct hit on our locals who have campgrounds,” said Gale. “…I would personally like to see the municipality issue no permits until some of our concerns have been addressed.”

Engineering, development, and works commissioner Robert McAuley said no approvals are required for the on-site work, but permits are required at the connection point for the new entrance/exit.

“We have full authority to issue or not issue entrance permits on a road,” he said.

McAuley said County staff continue to discuss the municipality's concerns with project officials.

While Routhier explained many of the councillors' questions were beyond the scope of his work, he said the message would be passed on to Ontario Parks officials.

This month at St. Andrew’s in Picton Worship: 10:30 am

Remembering the pilgrimage to Iona with Music by Tom Dietzel, Wellington Lambert (tenor) and Luke Norton (fiddle)

Single Malt Tasting

Fri Oct 30 at 7 pm; sample 5 Scottish Island malts with the Rev. Dr. Paul Scott (6 places available-contact Lynne)

Labyrinth

Sun Nov 1 at 2 pm, Introduction to the Labyrinth (multi-media presentation in the sanctuary) Sun Nov 1 at 3 pm, A Walk to Remember—a ritual of remembrance for those who have gone before

Mandala Making as Spiritual Practice Sat Nov 14, 1-3 with Celtic artist, David Rankine $30 pp; register at Ten Thousand Villages, 190 Main St. or contact Lynne

For more information contact Lynne at rev.lynne@sympatico.ca or 613-476-1167 www.standrewspicton.com 31 King St., Picton

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WHATTAM’S COMMUNITY CALENDAR The Community Calendar is donated as a public service to our community by The Whattam Funeral Home, 33 Main St., West, Picton (613-476-2450) SPACE IS AVAILABLE TO all non-profit groups or organizations that serve 'The County' ONLY. Calendar items can be faxed 476-3031, email communitycalendar@whattamfuneralhome.com or placed in drop box at the side door of the Funeral Home

by Saturday at noon.

E-MAIL, staff@whattamfuneralhome.com & for community calendar, communitycalendar@whattamfuneralhome.com

CONTENDING CARGO Grower Kelsey Bryson,of Ormstown,Quebec,rides to the weigh-off in style with relative Harley Sproule’s winning 1,645-lb pumpkin.The annual event at Wellington’s Pumpkinfest attracts many Anglophone growers from Quebec. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

Squash narrowly misses world record Kline second to reach 1,500 lbs with entry weighed in Wellington ADAM BRAMBURGER STAFF WRITER

Those who braved the cold winds at Wellington's Pumpkinfest weigh-off Saturday afternoon were rewarded for their dedication when a record-winning squash hit the scales.

Shawville, Que. grower Todd Kline's giant produced a 1,533.5 lb reading when it was lowered onto the platform, which was just 45.5 pounds off the world record.

The squash is one of just two grown anywhere in the world over the 1,500-lb mark and it is the Canadian record holder.

Pumpkinfest judge John Vincent, himself a world record holder, said there is some genetics and a lot of luck involved in producing a squash as opposed to a giant pumpkin as it must be completely green, blue, or grey without signs of orange colouring.

"There's no difference with squash, but you have to meet the colour criteria," he said. "There are certain genetics that express that colour, so a lot of growers are choosing seeds that consistently give that colour.

You have to have luck on your side, too."

Benefits of the declaration include competing for a record around 1,500 lbs instead of more than 2,300 lbs in the pumpkin class.

Vincent said that Kline had an opportunity to take the squash to other weighoffs, including one in the Pembroke area, but waited until the last Ontario weighoff of the year to get his weight — a decision that may have cost him prize money, but ultimately gave him a shot at the record.

That was especially valuable this year as Vincent said a decent growing season ended well.

"September was extremely good this year and you can get 25-30 per cent of your weight during September alone," he said, adding there's also a delicate balance of what gains can be

ROW OF GIANTS Volunteers from the Wellington Rotary Club harness a giant pumpkin to be weighed as a line of this year’s best entries are on display at C.M.L. Snider School Saturday, Many volunteers make the event happen. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

made late.

"It's the end of the season and a lot of growers were pushing hard and they blew up a lot of pumpkins," he said of those who had pumpkins split open by growth or excess moisture.

By and large, however, the heat and moisture this summer were a positive, he said, so long as growers could prevent disease. Ideal conditions are crucial for Canadian competitors, also, as more entrants in the United States are involved and they often have more moderate conditions. Vincent said there is talk of finding innovative way to nurture plants, including green housing.

While last year saw a high number of spoiled pumpkins, this year's weigh-off saw more entries 18 entries in the giant pumpkin competition, three squash, 11 field pumpkins, six giant watermelons, three long gourds, two giant tomatoes, three giant cabbage, seven sunflowers, and three rutabagas, and a kohl rabi.

The largest pumpkin also came by way of Quebec as Harley Sproule turned in a 1,654-lb entry, which bested second-place Chris Lyons, of Scarborough by 322 lbs.

Reese and Gavin Rusenstrom of Bristol, Que. had the heaviest field pumpkin, at 90 lbs, which beat local hopeful Dan Langridge.

Al Eaton bested Kline in long gourds with a 136.5inch world-record winning zucchini. Brant and Brandon Timm, of Pembroke, had the biggest tomato, coming in at 5.82 lb. James Reid, of Martintown, had the biggest cabbage weighing 32 lbs and the biggest rutabaga, tipping the scale at 70 lbs.

Kelsey and Jim Bryson of Ormstown, Que. brought the tallest sunflower at 245.5 inches. The lone county grower able to boast he grew the largest entry in its weight category, Connor Foster, who grew a 100-lb watermelon with some help from his neighbour Matt Rabbie, who won the category last year.

See PUMPKINFEST, page 10

WHATTAM'S is proud to present.... 'Free Family Movie Day' at the Regent Theatre the last Sunday of each month 2pm. October 25th feature is “A Monster in Paris”.

PICTON UNITED CHURCH COUNTY FOOD BANK: Donations of canned meats, peanut butter & personal products are needed. All donations are sincerely appreciated. Please drop off donations for the PUC County Food Bank at the Church office Tues-Fri from 9-12noon or at the Food Bank on Fri mornings 9-11:30am (12 Chapel Street, Picton).

LOYALIST HUMANE SOCIETY: Always in need of food, litter, cleaning supplies, paper products as well as kitten food canned & dry.

ROTARY CASH CALENDAR WINNERS: October 6th John Dulmage, 13th Jaqui Burley.

HOSPICE PRINCE EDWARD: Is offering a grief support group Tuesday Oct 20th-Nov 24th. The weekly program encourages participants to share their grief journey in a safe, confidential environment. If you are interested, or know of someone who might benefit from this group, contact our Service Coordinator, Melissa Dunnett 645-4040 ext 204.

CHRISTMAS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: The Salvation Army will be accepting applications for hampers & toys beginning November 3. Please go in person to the church on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday between 9am & 12 noon to complete an application. Bring proof of identity for each family member & proof of income & expenses.

SHOEBOXES FOR OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD: Are now available for pickup at the Salvation Army 46 Elizabeth St. Picton.

PEC WALKERS: Picton, Free Walking Group from Mary St. parking lot Tuesday 1pm, Wednesday 5:15pm, Thursday 7:20am, New walks Mon-Wed- Fri 8:30am & Tues-Thurs 9am. Info: Diane 476-5635.

YANG STYLE TAI CHI CLASSES: Monday 9am Picton Town Hall, Tuesday 9:30am Bloomfield Town Hall, Wednesday & Friday 9:30am at the Picton Town Hall. Cost is $5/person/class. Everyone welcome! Questions & info 476-6557.

FALL YOGA IN THE VALLEY: Thursdays from Oct 15th to Nov 5th. Yoga with Carrie 5:30-6:45pm. Athol Town Hall Cherry Valley 1685 Cty Rd 10. $5/session, all levels. Mats supplied or bring your own. Sponsored by the Athol Recreation Committee. www.atholreccentre.com.

CHERRY VALLEY GAMES NIGHT: Every 3rd Friday of the month. Board games, cards, table tennis & conversation. Adults only, everyone welcome. Bring your own snacks. 7:30-10pm Athol Town Hall, 1685 Cty Rd 10 Cherry Valley. Presented by Athol Recreation Committee.

EUCHRE AT NORTH MARYSBURGH: Euchre at the North Marysburgh Hall has changed its starting time to 7pm on Monday Nights.

WELLINGTON ST. ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH BASEMENT: he What Not Shop open Tuesdays 10am-12noon, Thursdays 2-4pm, Saturday 10am-12noon.

AA: Meets every Wednesday 8pm Picton Hospital Boardroom.

AL-ANON: (adults) Meets 8pm every Tuesday at Gilead Fellowship Church Picton. Info 1-866-951-3711.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA) MEETING: Every Friday 10am, Prince Edward Learning Centre, basement of The Armoury Main St Picton. Info 476-1811.

SILENT PRAYER: Tuesdays 8-8:30am, St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, 335 Main St. Picton (across from Shire Hall).

NEED PRAYER OR A QUIET PLACE: Gilead Fellowship, 2 Downes Ave, Picton. Every Monday 2-4 & 7-9pm. Info 476-2622.

WELLINGTON DISTRICT LIONS CLUB: New members welcome. Club meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at Wellington Town Hall. Information contact Membership Chairs Marilyn or Stan 399-1164.

PICTON LEGION BR 78 DARTS SOCIAL NIGHT: Every Wednesday from 6-8pm. Open Mixed Fun Darts Night. Dedicated Darts Room with Professional Standard Boards. Draw for new teams every week. Casual coaching in rules & basic technique. Only a Loonie to play. Open to the Public. All welcome. Info: 476-3648. All proceeds support worthy Picton Legion causes.

TOPS #4918: Take off Pounds Sensibly meets every Wednesday at the Anglican Church Hall in Picton. Weigh in 5:45-6pm & meeting at 6:45pm. Info Sheila 476-2786.

OCTOBER 22: PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP – Meets to discuss the establishment of a support group for people living with Parkinson’s based in the County.

Wellington Br Library, 1:30pm, 261 Main St, basement (use East St. entrance). All welcome.

OCTOBER 23: WEEKLY INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED FRENCH CLASSES – Wellington Br Library 2pm. Info 399-2023.

OCTOBER 23: REDNERSVILLE ALBURY CHURCH ANNUAL SPAGHETTI DINNER – With salads, refreshments & desserts between 5:30 & 7:30pm at 2681 Rednersville Rd (Cty Rd 3) between Rednersville & Carrying Place. Adults $10/Children $5 & under 6 free.

Tickets available at the door. All welcome.

OCTOBER 23: PICTON LEGION BR 78 – Members only potluck. Info: Legion 476-3648.

OCTOBER 24: SATURDAY “SPOOK” TACULAR EVENT – At the HUB Child & Family Centre, 10 McFarland Crt, Picton 10am-noon. Pumpkin decorating, goopy play, costume parade, orange & black snack plus more. Pre-registration required. Call 476-8142.

Web:thehubcentre.ca.

OCTOBER 24: 7thTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY – A public presentation “The History of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte” with guest speaker Chief R. Donald Maracle, 1:30pm at Ameliasburgh Community Hall, 13 Coleman St. Ameliasburgh.

OCTOBER 24: FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH CEMETERY HILLIER – Invite you to enjoy a Chili Supper in St. Andrew’s Anglican Church Parish Hall.

Serving 4-6pm. Adults $8/Children under 12 $5. Info 3993082 or 978-3320.

OCTOBER 24: BLOOMFIELD UNITED CHURCH – Annual Fall Smorgasbord & Silent Auction. Serving 4:307pm, 272 Main St. Bloomfield. Adults $15/Children under 12 $7. Everyone welcome. Info: 393-3172.

OCTOBER 26: SNUGGLES STITCH A THON – Picton Br Library downstairs 1-3:30pm. Last Monday of every month. Knitting or crocheting 6”x6” squares to be made into blankets for children in South Africa. Light refreshments. Yarn donations accepted, not 100% or baby wool.

OCTOBER 27: CRAFTS CARDS & CONVERSATIONS – Bring a friend, an ongoing project, a favorite game or play cards. Sophiasburgh Town Hall 1-4pm. Light refreshments served. Sponsored by Sophiasburgh Recreation Committee.

OCTOBER 27: WESLEY UNITED CHURCH – 44 Union Rd. Fall Chili Supper 4:30-6:30pm. Chili, dinner rolls, veggie trays & apple crisp & ice cream. Hot dogs & cookies available for children if they don’t want chili.

OCTOBER 27: DAM BUILDERS – Presentation by award winning naturalist, author & photographer Michael Runtz on beavers & their role in shaping the natural world.

It’s free & open to all. Bloomfield Town Hall 7pm.

(PECFN monthly meeting).

OCTOBER 27: AL-ANON - Meets (adults) 8 pm at Gilead Fellowship Church, for persons affected by someone’s drinking. (1-866-951-3711).

OCTOBER 28: LOAVES & FISHES LUNCHEON – 12 noon at the Salvation Army. No charge for this meal. All are welcome for good food & fellowship.

OCTOBER 29: WEEKLY THURSDAY THE HUB PLAYGROUP – Drop in 9:30-11am Picton Br Library.

OCTOBER 29: AL-ANON - Meets 10:30am Gilead Fellowship Church. If someone’s drinking is bothering you Al-Anon is for you. (1-866-951-3711).

OCTOBER 29: OVEREATER’S ANONYMOUS – Meets 7pm at 5 James Ave Picton. A fellowship of individuals recovering from overeating. Newcomers welcome. Info: Mary 476-3949.

OCTOBER 31: PECI E WASTE EVENT – Prince Edward Collegiate Institute & its Environmental Club will be hosting another Free E-waste collection event from 8:30am-2pm at the back of the school. Old tires with rims & scrap metal will also be collected. All proceeds will go to Loyalist Humane Society of Picton, a no kill shelter run by volunteers.

OCTOBER 31: HALLOWEEN SHELL OUT – Free treats for the youngsters at the Wellington Town Hall on Main Street. Doors open from 5-7:30pm. Sponsored by, Wellington on the Lake Residents Association. All welcome.

OCTOBER 31: PICTON LEGION BR 78 – Meet Roll 2pm & at 8pm The Reason’s play for the Halloween Dance.

Tickets available at the Legion $20/couple, $15 single.

OCTOBER 31: HALLOWEEN DANCE – Cherry Valley Town Hall, 1685 Cty Rd 10. Live music with “Little Bluff”.

For details go to www.atholreccentre.com.

NOVEMBER 4: BETHESDA WOMEN’S CIRCLE – Christmas Tea & Bazaar at Bethesda Hall, 1483 Fish Lake Rd from 1-3pm. Admission $5. Everyone welcome. Draw on Groceries & Quilt. Door prize & Bake & Craft Table.

NOVEMBER 4: WITH EYES OF THE HEART – Suzanne Pasternak (writer) & Otto Rogers (painter) will share how they see their own spirituality reflected in their creative work. St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, 335 Main St Picton 7-9pm. Free-will offering.

NOVEMBER 7: QEMA’S 9th ANNUAL VICTORIAN GALA – 5:30 pm at The Restaurant On The Knoll, Isaiah Tubb’s Resort at West Lake. Buffet dinner, silent auction & a live auction with Manson & Lori Slik. Entertainment with the talented Roanna, Penny & John Kitchen. Tickets $65/person with a $20 tax receipt. Enjoy this fundraiser for Quinte Educational Museum & Archives and The Victoria Schoolhouse in Ameliasburgh. Tickets & info Kathy 6452035.

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The Picton Gazette

Festival goers line streets in Wellington to take in parade, visit vendors, and enjoy events PUMPKINFEST, from page 9

"Matt lives up the road and he's been coaching Connor regularly. Matt grew a 200-lb watermelon last year and, I believe, went to the Royal Winter Fair, " Vincent said.

Fellow 4-H member Christopher Bell took home the Bill Greer Memorial Award for the heaviest pumpkin grown in the county at 861.5 lbs. Vincent said Bell took up growing in recent MAGNIFICENT MELON County grower Connor Foster grew the years and has had some real success as he also had the win- largest watermelon this year. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff) ning pumpkin in the club's Howard Dill Award, which is prettiest. Vincent said that was Picton Fair weigh off. presented to the pumpkin a boon for the Sandy Hook Langridge captured the over 600 lbs judged to be the Road grower who said he

struggled to grow heavyweights this year due to the wet conditions on his farm.

Even despite the challenges, the Langridge family brought more entries than any growers.

"They have an interesting approach," Vincent said of the commercial growers. "They grow 25-30 plants, while a lot of people grow two,three or four. They also have other acres to look after because it is their livelihood."

The weighing may be the reason for the 19-year-old celebration, but it was clear again Saturday that it is only one aspect of the annual fall cele-

bration. Dinners throughout the village were well attended, vendors showed off their wares, and people stood several rows deep for the parade.

"It was a fun parade. Hearing the forecast and hearing it was snowing in Kingston last night, I was worried there might not be much of a crowd — but this was a big day," said MPP Todd Smith.

"Pumpkinfest Saturday is the biggest day in Wellington and it was great to see the parade route lined with enthusiastic people dressed with their orange and their pumpkin hats having a good time."

The Wellington Lions sponsored awards for four different categories in the parade. The best comedy float was the McGill family with "Northport Zombies."

We l l i n g t o n - o n - t h e - L a k e earned an honourable mention for their kazoo band. The best group was handed to the Wellington Auxiliary Rescue Association, with the Lions Club and Dog Guides deemed runners up. The Langridge family earned the award for best large pumpkin float, while the Prince Edward County Atom BB Kings topped the charts for the best fall-themed display.

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The Picton Gazette

Finding Your Way seminar provides advice to prevent harm from wandering Six of 10 dementia sufferers go missing at some point in lives ADAM BRAMBURGER STAFF WRITER

An estimated 250,000 Ontario seniors are living with dementia. Experts believe 60 per cent of those people will go missing at some point in their lives.

Those are the harrowing statistics Alzheimer Society of Hastings-Prince Edward education and support co-ordinator Barry Flanigan shared during a special Finding Your Way community seminar Thursday at Picton’s Hope Centre.

Flanigan explained the impetus behind such meetings is to alert the public about the potential for individuals with dementia to wander and give caregivers and others useful information to help keep individuals safe from harm.

“Half of those (who wander), if they’re not found in 24 hours, they’re in real trouble.

They’ll probably get injured or they might not even survive,” Flanigan told about a dozen engaged participants.

Flanigan said instances of wandering tend to begin when a person is in the midstages of dementia when their symptoms are starting to begin to impact their way of life — perhaps difficulty getting dressed, or more commonly among males, issues with hygiene.

At that stage, he said, the individuals often aren’t monitored too closely and loved ones might not realize something is wrong until it is already too late.

“The biggest problem is they get disoriented. They cannot find their way and they don’t know where

PROMOTING SAFETY Last Thursday, Alzheimer Society of

Hastings-Prince Edward support and education co-ordinator Barry Flanigan shared some information about how to keep wandering dementia patients safe. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

they’re going,” he said. “Some people get back eventually, but not always.”

Flanigan said that more than 75 per cent of the people who wander typically don’t go more than half a kilometre from home. Often, however, they’ll develop a form of tunnel vision.

“The thing about people with dementia wandering is that they will go in a straight line. They’ll walk as long as they can walk,” he said. “In a wooded area or somewhere heavy with brush, they’ll drop to their knees or stomach and just keep going straight.”

Flanigan said people with dementia also seem to be drawn to water often.

Driving in a similar state can often be a problem with individuals not knowing how to return home.

Flanigan said those who come in contact with someone they suspect may be a wanderer should try to make eye contact and they should be patient in waiting for responses.

“When you’re talking to somebody with dementia, you have to give them time to answer. The average processing time is about 45 seconds, so look at your watch and count it out.”

For those people who have loved ones missing, Flanigan also offered some tips. The first, he said, is to call 911 immediately to start a police search.

“It’s the first thing to do. It is an emergency and you’re not going to get in trouble for it,” he said.

Another critical thing is to not form a search party, espe-

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cially in rural areas because search dogs can only pick up the last scent in the air. While many people looking may seem helpful, rushing onto the scene compromises the search.

Caregivers and spouses are also encouraged to use some tools to help in the search. During the seminar, a detailed safety kit was distributed. It has a personal information page that logs vital statistics and tendencies and features a current photograph of the individual. One of the attendees suggested that caregivers make two copies so that they can hand one over to police and keep their own record to allow searches to begin more quickly.

Flanigan also spoke about the Project Lifesaver initiative the OPP is working toward.

The initiative would see two police cruisers fitted with a radio transmission system and individuals — whether they’re suffering from dementia, autism, or other conditions — would wear a bracelet that connects directly to the transmitter.

“It’s more accurate than GPS,” Flanigan said. “The company that produces it guarantees 100-per-cent recovery.”

Flanigan said police training for the system is already underway. He said he had heard it would cost about $7,000 for a community to start with the system and indicated there had been talk with service clubs about sup-

porting the program and providing funds for families in dire need to access it.

Another initiative being considered, said David Inch, the Hope Centre pastor who has been involved with the Finding Your Way process, is a campaign that promotes awareness and safety.

Inch explained the concept would see a pin developed that individuals with dementia could wear. Store employees and others could identify the pin and if a person is acting confused or confrontational, they could call the Alzheimer Society or police to

come and assist.

There would be training and recognition for those in the community involved with such a program.

Some discussion ensued about ways to get people with dementia to participate in tracking or identification programs without impinging on their rights and freedoms.

Some strategies could include approaching the issue early following diagnosis, using technology like microchips to minimize visual identifiers that might cause stigma, and developing tagging items that are less intrusive to wear.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE A TREE TO THE COUNTY FESTIVAL OF TREES? Once again, the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will be sponsoring the County Festival Of Trees at Isaiah Tubbs Resort, West Lake, Friday, November 27 To Sunday, November 29.

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Picton Terminals seeks noise exemption to allow ships to visit port at night Doornekamp seeks more flexibility, offers to limit night noise when vessels aren’t in CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

Picton Terminals is seeking zoning and municipal noise bylaw changes.

Ben Doornekamp spoke to councillors on behalf of Picton Terminals at last week's committee-of-the-whole meeting.

Doornekamp said his main reason for appearing at the committee meeting was to address the municipal noise bylaw. Council asked staff to come back to the next committee-of-the-whole meeting with a report on the request.

Currently the bylaw

restricts noise above 60 decibels between 2 and 7 a.m. and Doornekamp said it's important that the port be open to accept vessels at any time. “As much as it's our operation, if we do what they say and what they want, they will come back to us. You only get one chance because there are other ports and other big players,� he said.

He said shipping is big business, and comes with big penalties if vessels are delayed. “When a vessel is at port one hour longer than it's supposed to be, we're paying $10,000 an hour penalty on that vessel being there,� he said.

He said one of the first questions any shipping company will ask is whether the

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He proposed a “trade� in that the operation would limit noise to 70 decibels immediately at sundown in exchange for allowing an exemption of up to 70 decibels when a ship is at port. “At sundown we will take the noise level down to 70 decibels as soon as the sun sets the whole night. Right now we have no restrictions until two in the morning,� he

said. “We're asking basically for an exemption to the bylaw when a vessel is at port of 70 decibels.�

He said the business has its own sound equipment to monitor the noise level and track sound in 14 different receptor locations including White Chapel Road, the centre of Picton Bay, and the far side of the bay.

He said Picton Terminals has been investigating other ways of mitigating sound, including altering their biggest noise creator — backup alarms. “We've talked with the Ministry of Labour, and we're working with them,� he said. “We've got some ideas from Essroc. Their back-up alarms are duck calls and they're just

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Doornekamp said the operation has already received one noise complaint from a resident across the bay,

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but that came at 10 p.m. “We're trying to fix it before it becomes an issue,� he said.

Councillor Bill Roberts applauded Picton Terminals for their efforts in communicating with council and with the public. “You've been very sensitive to community communications and a great commercial neighbour,� he said.

Councillor Gord Fox said the proposed compromise brought forward from Doornekamp “made a lot of sense.� He said he lived across from such an operation and, eventually, people get used to the low hum of the operation. “Actually, a lawnmower is twice as loud,� he said. “The problem right now is we've introduced something new again, there are new noises down there and people aren't used to the noises.�

Councillor David Harrison said Fox was right in his assessment of the hum created by such operations. He said council should act quickly so that Picton Terminals isn't faced with a situation where a vessel has to wait to unload, which would lead to financial penalties. “We should try to expedite this as quickly as possible,� he said.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, Doornekamp said the operation is looking to return the zoning for the site back to a port, having been altered to a quarry zoning sometime around 2006. “We've promised a lot of the locals and our closest receptors that live there we are not applying for a license for a quarry,� he said. “We're almost at the finish line to get a quarry and we don't want to do that. In both cases we're asking for a sort of administrative amendment to allow the port to run the way it was and put the zoning back to what it was.�

Engineering, development, and works commissioner Robert McAuley confirmed the municipality has received a zoning amendment request from Picton Terminals, though he said it wouldn't be appropriate to discuss the application prior to the required public process. “I would prefer no discussion on the zoning,� he said. “We have received a zoning amendment request application in house and it is being processed.�

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In Sept. 2006, Tim and Nicky Egan set out from Waupoos Marina to pursue a shared dream on the open water.

With time to enjoy their retirement and a shared love for boating, the couple boarded its brand-new 42-foot luxury yacht, Sea Symphony, with a plan of making it to Miami, Florida before Christmas, then charting course for the Bahamas early in 2007.

“We’d done some trips on Lake Ontario across to the U.S. and up the Rideau Canal, but this was a new experience for us,” Tim said.

The Egans did make it to Florida by Christmas and their adventure culminated in Key West March 14, 2007. There, they decided that’d be far enough as at times, the dream trip had turned into a nightmare.

“It ended for various reasons, but most were mechanical,” said Egan. “When I bought a brand-new boat, I assumed it would be like a brand-new car and that you wouldn’t have too many mechanical issues. That wasn’t the case.”

Sea Symphony provided some challenges along the way as the Egans moved through the Hudson River system into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City and down the coastline. It provided a series of frustrations that Tim humourously detailed in emails to friends. Mystery leaks, a faulty air conditioning system, and a mechanic that erred spectacularly were among the challenges along the route.

One enjoyed the updates so much he encouraged Egan to write a novel — so, he did.

Egan self published What’s Next? Life aboard “Sea Symphony” a 200-page account of the journey and the couple’s eventual sale of Sea Symphony in 2009.

“Anybody contemplating doing a long boat trip should read it,” he said. “I didn’t write it to put them off, but rather to give them a realistic explanation.”

Egan enlisted the help of Steve Ferguson to edit his book and suggest improvements.

He said the e-mail logs of the adventure remained mostly unchanged, but he added some background about himself and his wife, more detailed descriptions about the areas visited and some historical information in his final draft.

“Steve really helped me with the editing and offered good guidance on writing,” he said. “I encourage anyone

thinking of writing a book to work with an editor. You don’t write as well as you think you do.”

Despite the mechanical concerns and weathering a storm on the Gulf of Mexico he and Nicky thought would do them in, Egan said the trip was still an adventure of a lifetime.

“Bottom line: no regrets,” he said. “It was a very magical trip seeing the wildlife down the eastern seaboard.”

With a sense of humour and humility, Egan’s story details some of the colourful characters along the route, the interactions of husband and wife as they approached the unknown on their journey, and the intricacies of travel along the American coastline that many might not realize. It also features cartoons drawn by Dave Wallace illustrating some of the memorable moments along the way.

Copies are available at Books & Company or in ebook format through Amazon.

Still living in the county, Egan said he’s not certain what the next adventure will be for him and Nicky or whether he will continue writing books.

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According to a government press release, winter tires enhance safety and reduce the likelihood of collisions by improving traction, braking and handling in frost, snow, slush and under cold and icy conditions. When buying winter tires, the government of Ontario is also reminding drivers to: look for tires marked with a logo of a peaked mountain with a snowflake; install winter tires in sets of four; do not mix tires with different tread patterns or size; change tires that are worn close to the tread-wear indicators; and check the tires' air pressure at least once a month Winter tires that are in good condition can shorten braking distances by as

MATURE DRIVING REFRESHER COURSE

A 55-Alive safe driving course for seniors will be held on Thursday, October 12th at the Prince Edward Community Care office in Picton. This is a six-hour course from 9:30 am to 3:30 p.m. The Canada Safety Council developed this mature driver retraining program and it is designed specifically to help older drivers improve their driving skills.

The cost is $30 per perDebbie son, which includes workMacDonald Moynes book, refreshments and a light lunch. Call 613-4767493 to register or for more much as 25 per cent. information. Space is limitDrivers with winter tires ed so call today. need to first contact their insurance company to deterWINTER DRIVING mine the amount of the discount they offer and the docWORKSHOP umentation they require to verify use of winter tires.

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The presenter is Gary Magwood, one of Canada’s most respected advocates of improving and upgrading the driving environment. Gary is a former national racing champion and creator of one of the first racing schools in North America, at Mosport Park in Ontario. He is an acknowledged expert in the art of handling a vehicle under duress.

You’ll learn vision skills, braking and steering on an icy surface, dealing with front and rear wheel skids, and recovery after hitting the shoulder of a two-lane highway.

There is a recommended donation of $10 per person.

To register for this workshop call 613-969-0130.

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The Picton Gazette

County considering purchase of new aerial fire truck for nearly $1.2 million Need for replacement vehicle identified in 2013, funding to come through fire equipment reserve and development charge proceeds CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

A new addition to the County's fire fleet could be on the way.

Council will have the final say on Oct. 27, but committee of the whole voted last Thursday in favour of purchasing a brand-new Pierce Ascendant aerial truck with a 107-foot ladder at a cost of $792,291 USD. That amount would equate to just under $1.2 million CAD including HST. The purchase would be funded $800,000 from the municipality's reserve for fire equipment replacement and $400,000 through development charges. A report presented to councillors at the committee meeting says the cost has been built into the annual contribution to the fire fleet reserve and would have no further impact on the budget.

The need for a new aerial truck was identified in 2013 and was deferred to 2016 to allow for the construction of the new Picton fire station.

The new truck would be a single-axel vehicle and would include a full fire pump, a full set of ladders, 500-gallon water capacity, and equipment storage space. The unit also features a pin-able water way, and quick deploying stabilizing jack systems.

The purchase of the new vehicle would allow the fire department to replace the current aerial as well as allow the fire fleet to be reduced by one pumper truck. The reduction would reduce future contributions to the fire fleet reserve. Pumper trucks are currently priced at about $350,000.

While the majority of councillors were in favour of procuring the vehicle, councillor David Harrison said he had difficulty approving more than $1 million in spending.

“I'm not comfortable spending that kind of money at this point,” he said. “I know it's in the budget, but just because it's in the budget doesn't mean we have to spend it.”

He said he'd like to see the purchase deferred until the new Picton fire hall is complete.

“We have a lot of irons in the fire and if we happen to go over on something there and I'm just not comfortable

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with the difference between fixing a truck up for maybe $75,000 and $1.2 million at this point,” he said.

The County's current aerial unit is 27 years old, a 1988 model with a 50-foot ladder that was purchased following a fatal fire on Picton's Main Street in 2003. The unit has been used for some major fires in the county, including the Mid-Town Meats fire, a large residential fire in Ameliasburgh, and at the Waupoos marina fire.

However, the aerial is currently out of service because it is in need of serious repairs.

The torque box which controls the ladder is cracked and leaking. The aerial is also not accredited by the municipality's insurance underwriters because of the age of the unit.

The report says if parts are available for the aging vehicle, the repair cost could exceed $25,000. Efforts to research used trucks found aerials in good working condition of the same age were priced between $10,000 and $15,000.

Councillor Treat Hull said he fully supports the purchase of a new vehicle.

“It's been planned for a long time and there's been reserves set aside to minimize the tax impact,” he said.

He said the appropriate truck has been thoroughly studied and fits the County's needs. Hull did caution about committing to purchase the vehicle in U.S. dollars, however, saying the Canadian dollar could sink further.

Councillor Steve Ferguson also supported the purchase.

“As distasteful as I find contemplating spending a million bucks, this is money well spent,” he said.

Fire chief Scott Manlow and corporate services and finance commissioner Susan Turnbull have pushed for the

purchase of a new truck, indicating the current vehicle is not large enough to reach the roof lines of most of the downtown cores, large commercial operations, some apartment complexes and some larger homes in Prince Edward County.

“Our current aerial is out of service and it is financially unfeasible to repair it,” said Turnbull. “Approval of this purchase in October gets us in the queue at the factory, but delivery and payment will not occur until, potentially, well into 2016.”

Turnbull said there's been a lot of investigation into the vehicle and staff believe the recommended truck is the best option for the County.

Manlow said the need for a new aerial truck has been on the fire department's radar since 2013.

“We have a lot of two and three-storey structures just residential,” he said.

He said the new 107-foot ladder would reach the roofs of most the structures in Prince Edward County.

“It will reach a lot of buildings that, right now, we cannot reach,” he said.

He said shorter ladder trucks were considered, but were ruled out. Manlow said the Ontario Building Code was recently changed to allow wood-framed structures up to six storeys. He noted the dangers that come along with that type of construction, citing the massive Dec. 17, 2014 fire on Princess Street in Kingston which caused considerable damage and forced a helicopter from CFB Trenton to rescue a stranded crane operator.

“This truck will be utilized time and time again,” he said.

“It will be the first deployed, it will have the capabilities of being a full-flung pumper and will also be capable of being a command post and

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we'll have the luxury of having an elevated water system.”

The County is a member of the Hastings & Prince Edward Mutual Aid Association, which has a reciprocal agreement which gives county firefighters the ability to request an aerial truck from a neighbouring municipality if one is available. Manlow said while the current truck is out of commission, the agreement remains intact and County firefighters can request an aerial if one is needed.

Without an aerial, however, the municipality would have to remove the apparatus from the mutual aid agreement.

The report says without an aerial of its own, the municipality could seek to contact surrounding municipalities to investigate whether they would be open to entering into a separate

agreement to supply an aerial truck on a case-by-case basis.

Under such an agreement, the municipality would be required to pay the hourly rate for the truck, plus regular and any overtime wages for the responding personnel.

The report indicates all aerial trucks are designed an manufactured in the United States. The quoted cost in Canadian dollars is about $1.04 million excluding HST, but the report says when any U.S. manufacturer quotes in Canadian dollars, a buffer will be factored in to account for the fluctuating dollar. The report says there may be an advantage to the County if a commitment is made to purchase the truck in U.S. dollars as the exchange rate can be monitored to purchase the funds at when the exchange rate is most advantageous.

Once an order is placed, delivery can take up to 320 days, the report says.

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The Picton Gazette

Proposed amendments to municipal ATV bylaw under consideration County considers changing wording of bylaw to offer expanded definition of vehicles included and to define parks and prohibit use within them CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

More restrictions on all-terrain vehicles could be on the way in Prince Edward County.

Councillors voted at last week's committee-of-thewhole motion to amend the municipal ATV bylaw to include a definition of park, a new definition of ATV and a clause prohibiting the use of ATVs within municipallyowned parks and recreational areas excluding the Millennium Trail.

However, the bylaw will still have to be approved by council and, judging by comments made at the committee meeting, will focus on ATV use in urban areas of Prince Edward County and could include a list of exempted parks.

Staff will bring forward a recommended bylaw based on councillors' comments to a future meeting where more changes could be made.

The discussion was sparked earlier this year when Picton residents

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voiced safety concerns with ATV use in Delhi Park and around Glenwood Cemetery where they said pedestrians and children could be at risk.

The definition of park would include all public parks, approved parks, trails, pedestrian walkways, pathways, recreational trails, waterfront lands, buildings, structures, gardens, golf courses, marinas, skate parks, and recreation areas owned or controlled by the municipality.

The definition of ATV has been expanded to include multiple-passenger ATVs and multiple-passenger offroad vehicles and utility terrain vehicles.

Councillor David Harrison said he wouldn't support a bylaw prohibiting ATV use in all municipal parks.

“For example, at the

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North Marysburgh park, many people come in and put their boats in with ATVs,” he said.

Councillor Dianne O'Brien said she wouldn't support a “blanket restriction” either, noting that events such as the Prince Edward Auto Club Street Meet regularly use ATVs at

kinds of things going on in the cemetery,” he said. “It's not clear to me there's a real problem elsewhere in the community.”

He said councillors should solve the identified problem and deal with future problems as they arise.

“The solution of urban parks or even parks in Picton would solve the actual problem,” he said.

McAuley suggested council could compile a list of parks that would be exempted from the bylaw.

He suggested the bylaw could also be worded to allow ATVs to be used for things like launching boats.

“What we don't want to have, and what we are seeing, is we're spending maintenance dollars to fix up damage in our green space,” he said.

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Mayor Robert Quaiff said residents were mainly concerned with safety in urban parks.

Councillor Jamie Forrester said the municipality should be able to identify proper pathways for vehicles to mitigate much of the concern.

“There's no reason in any park that we can not have designated pathways,” he said. “What we really want to stop is people heading out into a park and then going for joy ride through a park.”

Councillor Treat Hull said there may not be a problem in rural areas, but there is definitely a problem in Picton — especially around Delhi Park.

“I walk my dog in that area and I can tell you that the newly sodded grass was full of 100-foot diameter donuts and we have similar

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“There’s no reason in any park that we can not have designated pathways. What we really want to stop is people heading out into a park and then going for a joy ride through a park.’

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The Picton Gazette

PECI students walk out to back their support staff About 100 join protest to stand by CUPE Local 1022 GREGORY TURNER AND JASON PARKS STAFF WRITERS

PECI students were taking a message of support to the front lawn of the local secondary school on Wednesday afternoon.

Nearly 100 students offered a peaceful protest in support of CUPE Local 1022 members that are joining in with 55,000 provincial brothers and sisters and participating in the second phase of a work-to-rule campaign that sees support staff including the likes of educational assistants, custodial staff, and office administrators completing only minimum daily tasks.

As a result, of that action, conditions inside the school's hallways deteriorate and by the end of the day, the halls are littered with leaves, dust and discarded paper and other materials.

Organizer Christopher Zachariah said he and his fellow students wanted Local 1022 members to know that students support the union's action as it tries to secure a new deal with the province â&#x20AC;&#x153;We're trying to help people understand what's going on,â&#x20AC;? Zachariah said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These workers in our school are being told to do more with less resources.â&#x20AC;?

Zachariah said he and his classmates don't believe that

SUPPORTIVE PANTHERS PECI students participate in a protest in front of the local secondary school on Wednesday afternoon.About 80 students voiced their support for CUPE Local 1022 members who are working to rule. (Jason Parks/Gazette staff)

conditions at PECI are as bad as other schools in the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board but things are â&#x20AC;&#x153;getting progressively worse.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The support staff are just not doing the extra stuff they used to. EAs are not scribing as much and that impacts students that have difficulty writing. Janitors can not do the extras that they were doing and the situation is getting worse,â&#x20AC;? Zachariah said, adding that without the support staff, daily learning exercises cannot take place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Support staff) sometimes get forgotten with the teachers coming to an agreement and

people think they are part of the same union. If the custodians aren't here, the school is shut down,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The protest lasted roughly 40 minutes and custodians appreciated the support.

"We really enjoy all the support from the kids, it felt good when they walked out there in support of us,â&#x20AC;? offered a support staff member who requested anonymity.

Principal Darren McFarlane said it can be difficult to strike a balance between the learning process and political activism but thought students taking part on Wednesday were well intentioned and well mannered.

"I am proud of our students for supporting our staff through this challenging period, our students were respectful, and communicated their support in an organized manor. They concluded their protest in an orderly fashion. As a school, our students have embraced the vision that we are better together, and while we cannot control the politics unfolding, it is the positive relationships among students and staff that will emerge strong,â&#x20AC;?

McFarlane said.

Ideas that the support staff encouraged the protest in hopes of greater compensation for cleaning floors than before are false, according to a custodian.

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We get paid for cleaning classrooms, washrooms, the cafeteria, and for emptying garbage bins and that does not include managing hallways,â&#x20AC;? they said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to receive an offer of a contact and then negotiate benefits, vacation, sick days, and compensation. Now we are getting pushed into mandatory contracts without negotiation, you can take it or leave it.â&#x20AC;?

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Pirates get revenge as McCann scores late goal to beat Raiders Picton rebounds Tuesday after difficult third period Saturday in Showcase loss to Napanee CHAD IBBOTSON STAFF WRITER

Despite their record, the coach of the Picton Pirates said it isn't tough to keep his team feeling positive and working hard.

The Pirates' record now stands at 2-6-0 on the season with a 7–1 loss to Port Hope last Thursday, a 7–0 defeat at the hands of Napanee on Saturday, and a hard-fought 3-2 victory over the Raiders on Tuesday evening.

The Pirates halted a fivegame skid with a solid effort on Tuesday.

While the first period remained scoreless, Picton held the edge in shots heading into the middle frame.

Just over six minutes into the second Devin McCann took a feed from James Pero and Tye Eaton and beat Napanee goaltender Tomo Mikuljan.

The lead lasted until the 12:44 mark, when Aidan McFarland scored to bring the game back even.

The Pirates kept working and late in the frame a Gerald Bilker shot found its way behind Mikuljan to restore the Picton lead. Liam Hunter had the assist on the play.

Brandon Major made it 2–2, scoring 5:07 into the third period as the Raiders applied some good pressure, Three minutes later Nolan Van Vlack had a chance to give the Pirates their third lead of the contest, but was unsuccessful on a penalty shot attempt.

Late in the game Michael Parr was sent to the penalty box for hooking. The infraction would prove to be costly.

On the man advantage it was McCann firing the puck past Mikuljan with 18 seconds left in the game to seal the victory. Tristan Nugent and Matthew Panetta had the assists.

Coach Chris Masterson said it isn't tough to keep the Pirates' outlook upbeat.

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a shot from Picton’s Gerald Bilker during the Pirates’ 7–1 loss to the Panthers last Thursday.The Pirates will take on Gananoque tonight at 7:30 in Picton. (Chad Ibbotson/Gazette staff)

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Panthers strike gold in Ottawa Willis scores with 10 seconds left to lift team over All Saints in tournament final ADAM BRAMBURGER STAFF WRITER

The PECI Senior Basketball Panthers struck gold in Ottawa last weekend.

Playing in the St. Matthew's Fall Classic, the Panthers posted a 4-1 record with their lone blemish coming in overtime against the All Saints Avalanche team they'd eventually topple in the final by the slimmest of margins. Hard work and togetherness ultimately paid off for the Panthers.

"We played as a team all weekend and the girls should be very proud of their accomplishment," said coach Rob Garden. "It was a great effort."

Rob Garden said the Avalanche were easily the most aggressive team the Panthers have seen this year, but his team was undaunted by them early on in the opener.

The Panthers led 12-6 after a quarter, but All Saints would not back off and they managed to have a one-point lead going into half time.

The teams traded points in the final two quarters to come to a 41-41 draw at the buzzer.

The Avalanche would drain a pair of three-pointers early in the extra stanza and that gave them a lead the Panthers could never touch in a 50-48 setback.

Kylie Moyer led PECI scorers with 14 points.

Vanessa Willis had 11.

The Panthers didn't let the disappointment fester as they right to work in their second game, facing a familiar foe in the Centre Hastings Centurions. Garden said PECI ramped up its intensity and used a fullcourt press to cause havoc for their Bay of Quinte Conference rivals. The result was a lead from tip to buzzer and a 35-17 win.

Willis was the top scorer with 12, while Hailey Van Rossum and Moyer each contributed eight in the victory.

THRILL OF VICTORY The PECI Senior Basketball Panthers celebrated a tournament win last weekend at Ottawa’s St. Matthew’s Fall Classic. Back row, from left, are Marlee Van Vlack, Mackenzie Leavitt, Kylie Moyer, Vanessa Willis, Allison Hegadorn, Mallory Lindsay. Front row, from left, are Casey Hegadorn, Hannah Smith, Lauren Smith (statistician), Hailey Van Rossum, Lydia Snider, Lynsey Corbin.

The Panthers are in first place heading into play in Trenton today.(Submitted photo)

The third game of the preliminary round was a must-win affair with playoff positioning on the line. The Superior Gryphons of Thunder Bay lined up across the court. Garden said the Panthers turned in their best effort of the season knowing they needed the win.

"The girls were up against a top team from the north, however their aggressive defensive style and transition offence was too much for the team from Thunder Bay." The Panthers held the Gryphons to just 10 points in the first half, which matched their effort in the second quarter alone. Superior didn't find much more room to operate late, either, with just six as PECI won 39-16. Willis contributed 14, Van Rossum 10, and Moyer eight. Six Panthers found the basket in the contest.

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Panthers and the Gatineau College Saint-Alexandre Titans as it was at 8 a.m. The first half was a nail biter with the Panthers taking a one-point lead through 16 minutes. After the half-time break, however the maroon and white got a spark from Van Rossum. She hit two three-point shots and her teammates seemed to feed off the energy. Hannah Smith delivered an offensive gem with 12 points. Willis also put up a dozen.

The final would give the Panthers a chance for revenge against the Avalanche and they wanted it.

"The girls were determined to get pack back," Garden said.

With each team playing its fifth game in three days, the coach indicated there were many tired legs on the court. Willis persevered however as she lifted her teammates. She scored 12 points in the first to stake

her squad to an 18-12 halftime lead.

All Saints brought its high-pressure game late, however, and drew its way back to take a 30-29 lead with just 30 seconds to play.

Again, it was Willis' turn to shine.

Garden said she controlled the play and scored the winning lay-up with just 10 seconds to play. The Panthers ratcheted up the pressure defending and All Saints couldn't find the net.

Willis finished the game with 20 points.

Following the high of the weekend, the Panthers surged back into Bay of Quinte play Monday with a 31-22 decision over the rival Nicholson Crusaders at home. Willis had 13 points to lead the Panthers. Lianna Bailey led the Nicholson attack with 14.

PECI is back on the court Monday when Trenton visits at 4 p.m.

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Dukes feel they deserved better result in Markham Doyle’s disallowed goal late in game would have forced Royals to overtime JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER

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6PM to 9PM Mistress Lloyd will be preparing this traditional Irish Halloween dish in the 1850s kitchen!

Also special presentation of the Graveyard & Gallows Walking Tour at 7:30 (limit of 20 people, first come, first served) Macaulay House—35 Church St., Picton. www.countymemorytrail.ca museums@pecounty.on.ca Contact 613.476.2148 x258 for details.

the front of the Aurora Tiger net during his team’s 3-2 overtime win Friday evening as Aurora goaltender Alex Brooks-Potts holds tight to his post.(Jason Parks/Gazette staff)

about seven seconds left.

If the net was moved from its resting spot as the puck was travelling over the line, it was likely done by Colitto in a last ditch effort to deny Wellington.

“We played a great game and it was a legal goal and the video supports our claim,” Dukes coach Marty Abrams said. “We deserve an overtime result out of that game it's tough to accept what the officials told us afterward.”

Despite the loss that moved them to 8-8-0 on the season, Wellington hung with a veteran-laden squad and outplayed the Royals at times.

On Friday, the Dukes faced the Aurora at home and the game marked the debut of new Tiger's bench boss Tom Milne.

Milne took over for Mark Joslin who was dismissed by General Manager/Owner Jim Thomson just 13 games into the season.

Whether the Tigers had many practices under Milne, the team put together a pretty solid road effort, clogging up the hard working Dukes just

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After Wellington broke out on top just over a minute in as Doyle and Labelle fed Shaw Boomhower for his second of the season.

Wellington controlled most of the first but only came away with one goal thanks to former Kingston Voyageurs netminder Alex Brooks-Potts slamming the door on every other Dukes' volley.

In the second, the Tigers got on the board thanks to a tip shot that from Matthew Bernard's stick to Even Kearns' foot and the top corner behind Wellington netminder Anthony Popovich.

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It most certainly shouldn't have been but it was another one-step-forward, one-stepback weekend for the Wellington Dukes.

The Dukes had another one-win, one-loss weekend after downing the Aurora Tigers in overtime on Friday and losing Sunday after a sure Wellington goal was called back in the dying moments in Markham against the Royals.

With the hosts clinging to a 4-3 lead, Colin Doyle's volley with seven seconds left at Centennial Arena beat Royal's goalie Nathan Colitto but officials decided that the net came off its moorings prior to the puck crossing the goal line.

It was a remarkable return for Wellington to Markham, a place they hadn't played since 2011 when the Waxers franchise was scuttled.

The relocated and rebranded former Hamilton Red Wings are in the national rankings but Wellington gave the hosts everything they could handle in a back and forth affair that wasn't settled until the very last whistle.

After former Wellington Duke Marco Azzano opened the scoring in the first, Brodie Butt got Wellington rolling in the second with a power-play goal.

Markham would extend the lead to 3-1 later in the frame by virtue of a pair of powerplay goals but Wellington added another powerplay marker of their own as Brodie Maracle cashed in on the man advantage.

Down 3-2 starting the third, Wellington potted their third power-play goal of the game when Luc Brown converted a Dylan Mascarin feed just 39 seconds in.

It stayed that way for most of the third but it would be a couple of former Dukes teaming up to haunt the locals.

Defenceman Trevor Abbot found Azzano and the scrappy sniper found a hole in Olivier LaFreniere with just 3:06 remaining.

That set the stage for a final push by Wellington in which, upon review of the Fast Hockey feed, shows the puck entering the Markham net with

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ARTICLES FOR SALE

4 gOOdYEAR winter tires on rims P195/65R15 came off 2000 Chrysler Cirrus, 2 winters wear $300. 613-476-7425 ATV’S, SNOwMObILES. The snow is coming.... repair/replace seat covers before the season starts.Call Weldon 613-885-6871. dRY FIREwOOd, cut/split and delivered or picked up in Prince Edward County $270/bush cord delivered. 613-332-1199.

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RYTE GUYS COMPUTERS We are new to the Picton Area We service computers We sell new and used computers We also do house calls if you can't get to us we will come to you.

We sell computer accessories Come see us at 188 Main Street Picton or call us 613-645-2311

PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS. Guitar, Bass Guitar & piano. $15/ 1/2 hour lesson. 613-503-5255. Warren Jackson. qUALIFIEd, ExPERIENCEd music teacher (A.R.C.T, B.Mus, B. Ed) is offering conservatory or popular based piano lessons to students of all ages. Studio is near Queen Elizabeth School, Picton.

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Includes transfer from local place of death (20 km), required documentation, transfer to crematorium, cremation casket and urn, cremation fee and Coroner’s cremation certificate.

Hicks FUNERAL HOME

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Hicks Funeral Home and Cremation Centre - providing full range of services to our community. Locally owned and operated. www.hicksfuneralhome.ca 2 Centre Street, Picton 476-5571 Robert C. Osborne Funeral Director NOTE: Report errors immediately. The Picton Gazette will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion of an advertisement.

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FOR RENT

EMPLOYMENT wANTEd

NEW and USED

PICTON & WELLINGTON INDOOR STORAGE

RECYCLABLES

THE COUNTY CHESS CLUb, resumes it’s weekly meetings at the Picton Library on Tuesday afternoon at 1pm, learners welcome.

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Bethesda Women’s Circle

APPLIANCES USED REFRIGERATORS

Stoves, washers, dryers, freezers, dishwashers, 3 mos. old & up. Sold with written guarantees. Fridge's $100. & up.

NEW APPLIANCES

At the lowest prices in the area.

Trade-ins accepted on new appliances.

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CASH PAId FOR. Old milk bottles.Signs, advertising items, oil & gas related items, watches, clocks, toys, old banks, marbles, MahJong games, shaving items, fountain pens, lighters, Moorcroft pottery, glass, kitchenwares 20’s-50’s, and much,much more; also buying gold and silver. 613-393-5886

www.movablebeast.ca 613-438-3345 Fitness at your home in Prince Edward County

FARM

HAY FOR SALE, large round bales. stored inside. Phone 613-476-5917 TRAILER MOUNTAIN Wick bale chopper/mulcher, very good condition. Asking $1,400. 613-393-1855

PETS

dOg SITTINg in my home, large exercise yard, personalized care for your pampered pooch.

Wellington area. Call Karen anytime. 613-399-5682. gENTLE TOUCH GROOMING & TRAINING offering at home services.

Contact Richelle 613-920-2326. qUINTE PET Minders. Loving care for your pets in their own home.

Daily visits also overnights and vacation stays. 613-476-6265

CARS & TRUCKS

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AUTO PARTS, new and used auto parts, tires. Napanee Auto Recycling Inc. Call Dan, 613-354-3838.

COMMERCIAL FOR RENT

PICTON MAIN Street frontage, 420sqft plus storage room and shared washroom, $875/m incl. all utilities with A/C and parking space.

Available Nov. 1st. 613-476-4085 or bwybenga@rogers.com

Boats, Campers, RVs, Trailers, Marine & Vehicle Storage 613-813-4402 davin@reach.net

1 bEdROOM 1400sq.ft bungalow with 12ft ceilings, 4pc bath with jacuzzi tub, wide open floor plan with designer kitchen, new high end appliances, ground level rear deck to large very private backyard. Walk to Wellington beach and all amenities. Short or long term rental. 917974-6720.

2 Bedroom 1 bathroom house for rent in quiet neighborhood, $1500.00/month inclusive (gas, hydro, water). First and Last required as well as references. Available Dec 1, 2014. Please call 613 827-5252.

2 bEdROOM 2nd floor apartment of a house in Picton, available Nov 1 $875+ water/sewer, includes heat, parking, front yard, low maintenance, fridge and stove not included.613-476-8052.

2 bEdROOM apartment,2 levels close to downtown and all amenities. Large backyard, lots of parking, 2 full baths. First/last and references. Available October 1st, $750+hydro. 613-484-0828.

2 bEdROOM large luxurious furnished loft apartment above Arts on Main, 223 Main Street, 5 appliances, references $1100 plus hydro. No Smokers. No pets. 613476-3666.

2 bEdROOM, 2 bath available, 39 A Pitt St., Picton. $900 monthly includes water plus hydro & gas.

Please call Maws, 613-393-1485

Indoor Storage

Rv’s, Boats, Cars, Trailers Located in Cherry Valley Secure with Supervised Access Only Outdoor storage also available By appointment

613-503-1819

SPACIOUS 3 bedroom ground floor duplex, private driveway & entrance, close to school & downtown, laundry room, 5 appliances, washer/dryer, stove/fridge, dishwasher $950/mo incl. water/sewers.

Hydro extra. First/last/references please. Non smk, no pets, available October 1 613-476-4021.

REAL ESTATE wANTEd

HOUSE FOR SALE $299,000: 2 bedroom + office sidesplit, large porch, pastoral setting, 2.7 acres at 215 Fry Rd, dug well. HE Propane Furnace, Central Air, 60 gal electric HWT, 200 Amp Service, 24x24 Det. Garage, 17x6 Shed, Flex closing. Call Lisa, 613-476-4737 or visit: lisaoneilmusic.com/house-forsale.php for photos and info

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MINT ANd used postage stamps, covers, post cards, coins and paper money. Call Bob, 613-967-2118 wANTEd STANdINg Timber, hard and soft wood. Also looking for field boulders 613-968-5182.

wANTEd TO bUY WILL Buy Scrap

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ExPERIENCEd HOUSECLEANINg. Sewing, knitting & crocheting, references available call Donna 613-471-1686.

HOUSEKEEPINg, Caregiving, cooking, laundry. I can make it easier for you to stay in your own home.

Give me a call at 613-393-1357.

SHEILA bRUSHEY Catering. Buffet lunches, dinners and banquets.Now taking bookings for Christmas parties. Sandwich trays, hors d’oeuvres and homemade dessert trays. 613393-5021.

HELP wANTEd

wANTEd: Plow Operators. Operating “one way” plows with combinations sanders. Picton and Belleville area. Please call: 613-476-1651, 613-476-1405

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EMPLOYMENT wANTEd

A FALL dAY is the time to clean eavestroughs, get yard work done, to get rid of unwanted trash, trees trimmed, pruning and any other jobs. Half ton truck available. No job too small. For reasonable rates call Paul, 613-393-5021

STUMP GRINDING Available week of Nov. 2nd only Book Now Reasonable Rates Joey Vaughan

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PICTON IRON & METAL (previously Harrison’s Auto Wreckers)

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• Scrap Metals • Sell Used Parts • Pick Up Cars & Trucks

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Rubbish Removal Scrap Metal & Scrap Cars & Electronics - TV’s, Computers, etc.

Appliances

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EMPLOYMENT wANTEd

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COMINg EVENT CRAFT SALE

Christmas Tea &Bazaar

Wednesday, Nov. 4 1-3pm 1483 Fishlake Rd Bethesda Hall

Bake & Craft Table Everyone Welcome Draw on Groceries and Quilt Door Prize

SPECIAL NOTICE

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the President, Executive and Membership of the Royal Canadian Legion Br. 78 for two unauthorized ads I had placed in the local paper, one on August 20th, 2015 and the one on September 10th, 2015.

My wording was inappropriate and I meant no malice or disrespect to Br. 78 or the members by placement of these ads.

476-6717 Respectfully, Mike Slatter Service Officer, Br. 78

BLACK RIVER TREE SERVICE

Stump Grinding Tree Trimming and Removal Brush Chipping Lot Clearing Cabling & Bracing Fully Insured 15 years Experience

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613-476-3757 COMINg EVENT Bloomfield United Church

Annual Fall Smorgasbord and Silent Auction

Adults $15.00 Children (under 12) $7.00 Saturday October 24, 2015 272 Main Street, Bloomfield 4:30 to 7:00 pm Everyone welcome for info 613 393-3172

MEMORIAMS

FOx, Johnny. In loving memory of a dear son and brother who passed away October 21, 2012.

Softly the leaves of memory fall Gently we gather them, treasure them all.

Unseen, unheard, your always near, So missed, so loved, so very dear, No longer in our lives to share, But in our hearts your always there.

Forever loved by Mom and family.

HOOK- In memory of Robert W. Thomas Hook. October 26, 1916April 2, 2010.

After Apple-Picking

by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

Lovingly remembered, Gloria, Dianne and Debra.

MEMORIAMS

HINEMAN, Laverne

In memory of a dear husband, dad and fottie, who left us October 24, 2014.

They say there is a reason They say that time will heal But neither time nor reason Will change the way we feel For no one knows the heartache That lies behind our smiles No one knows how many times We have broken down and cried We want to tell you something So there won’t be any doubt You’re so wonderful to think of But so hard live without.

Forever in our hearts Love your family.

ISENOR, Evan. In loving memory of a loving husband, father, papa, and great papa, who passed away October 26, 2011.

I remember the day I met you the day God made you mine I remember the day I lost you And will to the end of time.

With all the tears and heartaches the thing that makes me glad Is that you chose me, to share with you, the wonderful years we had.

Sadly missed and will always love you, your wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

In Memory of

MEMORIAMS

RYCKMAN- In loving memory of a wife, mother and grandmother, Martha Mae, who passed away, October 24, 2010.

You never failed to do your best, Your heart so warm and tender, You lived your life for those you loved.

And those you loved remembered.

Loved and sadly missed husband Gerald, son Ron, Cindy, Cassidy and Olivia.

RYCKMAN, Martha Mae. In loving memory of a dear mother and grandmother who passed away October 24, 2010.

She has gone across the river to the shore of evergreen, And we long to see her dear face But the river flows between.

Someday, sometime, our eyes shall see the face we loved so well.

Somday we’ll clasp her loving hand and never say farewell.

Always loved and missed by daughters Lisa & Krista and grandchildren tyler, Paul, Kendra.

RYCKMAN, Martha.

If flowers grow in Heaven Lord, then pick a bunch for me.

Place them in my Nanny’s arms And tell her they’re from me. tell her that I love and miss her And when she turns to smile Place a kiss upon her cheek And hold her for awhile.

Loved and sadly missed by grandson Gage.

RYCKMAN, Martha. In loving memory of a dear mother and grandmother who passed away October 24, 2010.

Dear Mother, you are not forgotten though on earth you are no more Still in memory you are with us As you always were before.

Deeply missed, Angie, Dale and family.

RYCKMAN, Martha. In loving memory of a dear mother, who passed away October 24, 2010.

Along the road to yesterday, that leads us straight to you.

Are memories of the happy days together we once knew.

And always every evening We seem to have a way Of wandering back to meet you On the road to yesterday.

Always remembered and loved by son Michael and Christine.

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MEMORIAMS

RYCKMAN, Martha. October 24, 2010 those who have a Mother, Cherish her with care, For you never know the heartache, till you see her vacant chair.

Five years ago God took you, Mom He took my closest friend, And left me with a broken heart, I know will never mend.

Remembering you is easy Mom I do it everyday, And missing you is something that will never go away.

Lovingly remembered, Lori, Mike, Nathaniel and Miranda.

SLAVEN, Harry.In loving memory of a dear husband, father and grandfather who passed away October 21, 2004.

It’s hard to believe You are no longer here We think of you You feel so near, In some small way, every single day, Memories of you come our way.

Always remembered by wife Shirley and family.

TICE, Burton

In loving memory of a dear father who passed away October 19, 2010.

Always we remember our dear Dad with love and gratitude for his unconditional love and willingness to help whenever needed.

We miss the twinkle in his eye, his faith and courage and open welcoming spirit to all he met.

Forever loved and missed Marilyn and Dianne

DEATH

SEDORE, Barbara Jean

Passed away with her family at her side at Hospice Prince Edward on Saturday October 17, 2015, Barbara Sedore (nee Stevenson), at the age of 81.

Beloved wife of the late Samuel Richard Sedore and loved mother of Norma (Max Benoit), Linda (Kim Williams), Sandra (Arnold Wannamaker), Kathy (John Brooks), Bonnie (Rick Wannamaker) and Debbie (Robert Pounder). Proud grandmother of 10 and greatgrandmother of 14. Dear sister of Gerald (Linda), Audrey Creighton, Ruth (Rocky) Lunan and the late John, Ralph, Norm (Bev) and Stan (Ellen). Mrs. Sedore rested at the Hicks Funeral Home, 2 Centre Street, Picton. Memorial service was held in the Chapel on Wednesday October 21 at 2 pm followed by interment in Cherry Valley Cemetery. the Reverend Audrey Whitney officiated. Memorial donations to Hospice Prince Edward would be appreciated. the family received friends on Wednesday afternoon from 1 pm. until service time. www.hicksfuneralhome.ca

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CARD OF THANKS South Bay United Church and East Minister United Church Foodgrain Project Our project of 11 acres of Wheat or Soybeans supports food hunger in 30 different countries. We would like to thank the following individuals and companies for their support: Anderson Elevators County Centre Pioneer Seeds — Gary Parks Brummell Family Parksdale Farms — Steven and Ken Parks Vader Family — Mill Creek Farms Hagerman Family All Cash Donators Chairmen: George Emlaw & Doug Murphy

HELP WANTED

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AUCTIONS

“On YOUR BehalF” ESTATE TAG SALE

Part Time and Full time positions available.

Cashiers and floor staff.

Must be available to work seven days a week anytime between 5am and 11pm.

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AUCTIONS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH

AT 9:30 A.M. SNIDER’S ANNUAL FALL AUCTION 12 Miles West of Kingston, From 401 (Exit 599 Odessa) Cty. Rd. #6 South Through Lights #2 To Odessa Fairground on Left.

Horse/Pony Drawn Vehicles, Horse Trailer, Horse & Pony Draft Equipment, Several Collections From Private Museums; Primitives of all types, Service Station Memorabilia, 60 Plus Ontario Named Milk Bottles; Milk/Cheese Memorabilia, Antique Farm Equipment, Other Collectibles.

We usually have 400 to 500 lots. Receiving consignments daily. You never know what will be found.

Watch Web Site for updates/pictures. Listing as consigned. www.davesniderauctionservice.ca DAVE A. SNIDER, AUCTION SERVICE (613-386-3039) or BRAD SNIDER (613-328-8575)

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at 10:30 aM aUCtIOn Sale - JOhn and MaRY GOweR 17 platt ROad, R.R.#5 tRentOn, Ont. exit nORth off 401 highway onto wallbridge loyalist Road for 1/4 mile and turn weSt onto Grills Road for 2 miles and turn nORth onto aikins Road / Bonisteel Road for 3 miles and turn nORth onto platt Road. antIQUeS and COlleCtIBleS: Antique walnut cased American made Grandfathers long case clock, antique rosewood games box, antique walnut tea wagon, antique needlepoint fire side bench, antique walnut pie server, antique settee, antique spool back chairs, antique drop leaf centre pedestal side table, antique centre pedestal tilt top side table, antique oak washstand, antique occasional chair, antique parlour table with inlay, antique spool bed, walnut telephone table, antique OG clock, antique mantle clock, antique wooden crib, hand painted Nippon china, Sterling silver pieces, silver plate serving pieces, silver flatware,costume jewelry,flo blue pieces, cups and saucers, Baccarat crystal, Susie Cooper pieces, Limoge jardiniere, custom built solid ash dining table with extensions, hoop back dining chairs, oak bar chairs, Leather La-Z-Boy chairs, rattan dinette table and chairs, patio furniture, single beds, lamps, oil paintings, Christmas decorations, YaRd and wOOd wORKInG eQUIpMent: Yard Machines 13.5 h riding lawn mower, lawn sweeper,walk behind string trimmer, Hitachi combination 12″ surface planer/6″ joiner, Rockwell 14″ band saw, delta floor model drill press, JDS dust filtration unit, Craftex dust collector, Makita power tools, builders hardware, hand tools, power tools, Fishere wood stove , 15 hp gas engine, craft wood, quantity of ash, pine, cherry, oak and walnut lumber, numerous other articles. teRMS- CaSh OR CheQUe wIth IdentIFICatIOn OwneR & aUCtIOneeR nOt ReSpOnSIBle FOR aCCIdent OR InJURY daY OF Sale SUllIVan aUCtIOneeRS plainfield 613-477-2082 www.sullivanauctions.com for photos

Call 613-476-3201 to advertise your Auction in The Picton Gazette

Friday Oct 23 from 2-6 pm & Saturday Oct 24 @ 9am 72 Weller Court, Cobourg, ON From Hwy #401 take exit 474 Division St South to the end.

Turn left (east) on County Rd #2. Turn Right (south) on Willmott St. Turn Right (west) on Cooper Ct. Turn left (south) on E House Cres Turn right to 72 Weller Court.

Lois Bell retired to Cobourg in 2003 after a career as a typographer for Cooper & Beatty in Toronto. Lois volunteered at Northumberland Hills Hospital on a weekly basis since her move here. Lois & her husband enjoyed their drives in the country or even sometimes into Toronto looking for unique glass & antiques. We are proud to represent the family as we offer Lois’s collected treasures and Cooper & Beatty posters from many years ago. You won’t want to miss this special opportunity to find your next treasure.

Large Collection of Antique Glass & Art Glass: Large Collection of Lalique & Oorefors Crystal & Antique Glass, Hobbs Cranberry Inverted Thumbprint, Opalescent Cranberry Windows, Hobbs Pitcher, Ribbed Opal Lattice Candlesticks, Hobbs Brockvnier White Opalescent, Dew Drop Hobnail Tumblers, Candlesticks, Luncheon Plates, Cakeplate, Pickle Tray, Covered Bowl, Cream & Sugar, Cruet, Bristol Glass Candlesticks, Amberina, Vaseline Glass, Pink Opaque Vases, Spatterware, Lenetiar Glass, Milifora, Black Amethyst, Soapstone, Amber Overlay Decanter Cut to Clear and we are still unpacking…

Figurines: 20” Bronze Figurine, 22” Bronze Figurine, “Woman with Gown & Book” 151/2 “ Austria figurine “Turn Wien”, Royal Doulton “Lyda” HN1908, 11” Boy “Contentment”, Toby “The Lumberjack” and a lot more…

Furniture: Mid-century Modern Danish Dining Room Table & Chairs with Matching Teak Hutch (2 Wooden Doors & 2 Glass Doors), Danish End Tables with Rosewood Legs, Danish Chest of Drawers, 19th Century Oak Bowfront Glass Curio Cabinet, Ivory Upholstered Sofa, White Lacquered Bedroom Suite with Queen Platform Bed, Bedside Tables & Dresser, Burled Walnut Curio Cabinet, Nursing Rocker, Brass & Iron Bed, Cannonball Pine Bedroom Suite with Bedside Tables, Highboy Chest of Drawers, Drop-leaf Pine Kitchen Table with 2 Hoop Back Chairs, Leather Recliner, Loveseat & Matching Ottoman, Entertainment Cabinet, Camel-back Navy & Gold Print Sofa, Sofa Bed, Midcentury Modern Glass & Chrome Coffee Tables, 3 Tier Pine & Glass Front Display Unit, Bookshelves, Walnut Tea Wagon, Antique Arm Chair, Navy Wingback Chair, Wicker Chest, Washer/Dryer, Freezer & Fridge, Sewing Machine Table and much more…

Please visit our website onyourbehalf.ca for photos and other information.

What is a Tag Sale? This is a sale of priced (Tagged) items. It is not an auction. Customers are welcome to purchase items at the tagged price on a first come first served basis. The goal of the sale is to have everything gone by the end of Saturday so prices of unsold items will be reduced beginning about noon Saturday. You are welcome to leave a bid for an item that you feel is priced too high for you. If the item is still available Saturday afternoon, we will contact you to conclude the sale for your bid amount.

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See my web site for detailed list & photos. dOUG JaRRell aUCtIOnS 613-969-1033 www.dougjarrellauctions.com

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A FINE DAY FOR A FALL PARADE AT PUMPKINFEST

It was a great celebration in Wellington Saturday for Pumpkinfest. Clockwise from top left: Tina Konecny sells souvenir Pumpkinfest buttons; the Atom BB Kings hand out candy from their award-winning fall float; Briar Boyce bundled up to enjoy the festivities; Maggie Lindsay and Codie Goodman sell tickets for the 4-H Club; a Trenton Twirler entertains during the parade; Ras Binji shows off some of his barbecued offerings at Wellington museum; The Wellington Auxiliary Rescue Association won best group entry for this float; Wellingtonon-the-Lake residents had fun with their kazoo band; and Blaine Way drove his two-horse team. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

Reaching For Rainbows entering fifth year of mentoring girls after school

A dozen county musicians will gather for their third annual Canadian Song Celebration at St. Andrew’s this Sunday in support of Reaching for Rainbows, Reaching for Rainbows is entering its fifth year.

“It’s been a huge learning curve,” says Rev. Lynne Donovan who pulled together a community team to start the program in response to some clear statistics around teen pregnancy, school success and poverty in the county.

The, program overseen by director Jane Wollenberg, a former Montessori School principal, supports the unique needs of 30 girls ages 6-9.

Donovan says there are three things that make the program unique.

First, Reaching for Rainbows recognizes that early intervention is the key.

“The girls join us in Grade 1 and stay with the program for four years at which point we encourage them to connect with other local resources,” said Donovan.

She continued that Reaching For Rainbows’ partners, both in the elementary school system and those

who provided support services for the families encouraged St. Andrew’s to create a program that would give these girls basic life skills to function in a community.

Many of the girls come from homes where there is mental illness or addiction as well as poverty. The girls who are referred to Reaching For Rainbows have deep needs for healthy relationships and the tools to change the way in which they relate to people.

Therefore, Donovan said the primary focus is to provide the girls opportunities to learn conflict resolution, decision making and very basic relational skills.

The volunteer staff is trained to facilitate this kind of learning in a play based learning setting where the girls are engaged in literacy, numeracy, science and art activities.

Second, in order to create a program that addresses such fundamental life skills we are committed to a very low adult-child ratio. This enables the program to give the girls the one-on-one time they so desperately need.

Donovan said Reaching For

GIRL TIME Reaching For Rainbows volunteer Elizabeth Etue engages the after-school program’s participants in skills needed to develop healthy relationships in a play-based learning environment.

The program continues at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.(Graham Davies/For The Gazette)

Rainbows is, therefore, very dependent on volunteers.

With so much personal attention the girls who very often do not function well at school receive the support and patience they need to

discover their own gifts and to confront many of their challenges.

Finally, Reaching For Rainbows is licenced by the Ministry of Education. Not only it is held to a high standard but

the program, its staff and the girls benefit from resources provided by the ministry. This is vital, Donovan said, because so many of the girls are high need.

Furthermore, because the

program is licenced, it exists in partnership with Community Living Prince Edward whose staff work with vulnerable families and their children. These staff works alongside the Reaching for Rainbows director and volunteers to bringing consistency to the lives of the girls.

The Reaching for Rainbows budget of $30,000 per year is raised due to the generosity of the Prince Edward County Community and St. Andrew’s Church in Picton who has given its entire church hall over to this project. “We are accomplishing much with a relatively small budget,” said Donovan.

“We have very generous community partners who see the need in this town on a daily basis. But raising the operating budget continues to be a yearly challenge.” If you are interested in coming alongside the Reaching for Rainbows team in order to create new foundations for vulnerable girls call Lynne at 613-476-1167.

Sunday’s show starts at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.

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BATTLING THROUGH Panthers ball carrier Esther Prinzen tries to break a Bayside tackle during

recent Bay of Quinte Conference play.Also pictured, from left, are Panthers Gillian DeMille, Erica Algar, and Alyssa Roche. The Panthers are in Trenton today. (Adam Bramburger/Gazette staff)

Team environment aids development

ADAM BRAMBURGER STAFF WRITER

The PECI Rugby Panthers may not have had the traditional winning season in terms of winning games, but coaches Rob Furmidge and Lisa Fraser are pleased with their charges' successes.

"The season has been going well. Although we have not won any games, the girls are having a great time and have learned a lot," said Furmidge. "We take such pride in the team's perseverance. The girls never get down on themselves despite the score of the game."

Unlike many of the schools the Panthers face, PECI runs a varsity program where senior and junior players take the pitch together. Furmidge also added his staff's philosophy is that any player that wants to play makes the team. Three Grade 9 girls are on the roster.

A Rotary exchange student from Denmark and a transfer student from the United States had never seen rugby before this year but they're on the team and are playing min-

utes.

"One of our biggest strengths is how they have meshed as a team. Students new to the school were welcomed and made to feel part of the team immediately," Furmidge said. "That is what makes us continue to coach.

There is no issue with having all the girls play on one team as we traditionally always practice together."

That culture is fostered by some of the older leaders playing with the Panthers.

Olivia Crouse suited up for the rep Belleville Bulldogs in the summer and Furmidge says her experience is transferring well to the high school game. Esther Prinzen has also furthered her leadership skills from last season and can often be counted on to help newer players adjust.

With a few games under their belts, Furmidge said the Panthers are improving their grasp on some of the more technical aspects of the game.

"We continue to develop our tackling and rucking skills," he said. "The girls who are new have an understanding of how the game progresses and our returning players have developed a better understanding of their positions."

The Panthers are also look-

ing to strengthen their team bonds and their knowledge of the game off the pitch as they enjoyed a festive potluck dinner recently and they're hoping to go to Queen's University to watch the CIS women's rugby championships Nov. 7.

Furmidge and Fraser have also been fortunate this year to have some extra help on the sidelines. Mike Levesque offered to step in as a teacher coach and two of the program's graduates, Cassie Dobosh and Lindsay Ferguson have volunteered to coach. Dobosh is a Georgian College grad in personal fitness management. Ferguson played rugby at Trent University while studying for her degree in Forensic Psychology. She now attends Loyalist College. Furmidge said their efforts have been invaluable.

"They confirmed for us the relationships developed while playing Panther rugby do not end when students graduate," he said. "These ladies quickly came together and created an amazing coaching partnership. They mentored our team and showed them fitness and rugby need not end when you leave the county."

The Panthers are slated to wrap up their regular season today, visiting the Trenton Tigers at 3 p.m.

Atom AE Kings register 19-1 win over Tweed

The Ainsworth Funeral Home Atom AE Kings hosted the Tweed Hawks today for their first regular season game at the Essroc Arena and showed the Hawks no mercy.

The first period started with what looked like a good match but the Kings quickly pulled ahead with Dakin Jones opening the scoring with the first two goals of the game, Charlie Smith and Matthew Vincent, and assist Nolan Brinco and Bethany Foster drew assists respectively. Vincent potted the third at end the period with assists from Jones and Carter Black for a 3-0 lead.

The Kings caught fire in the second with Vincent, Smith,

and Jones all scoring in the span of a minute from that point on the Kings were on fire! Black, Vincent, Hayden Blakely (two), Ethan Snider and Jones all scored the remaining second period goals to finish the period 12-0. Assists went to Vincent, Jordan Doxtator, Jones (two) and Black.

The last period of the game the Kings worked hard on their passing plays with Cooper Facette-Grondin holding strong in net for the team.

Dante Closson, Vincent (two), Black, Blakely, Smith and Keagan Zantingh all tallied with assists going to Jones (two), Brinco (two), Black (two), Cameron Osterhout and Smith. The game ended with

the Kings on the happy side of a 19-1 drubbing.

As is the case with almost all the Kings squads this weekend, the Atom AE team will be competing in the sixth annual Prince Edward County Dairy Farmers Recharge with Milk Fall tournament.

Games take place in Wellington, Picton, Deseronto, Quinte West and Frankford arenas and over 50 teams from Western Ontario to the Island of Montreal will be taking part.

Check out the web site www.pecmha.com for the master schedule.

-Jason Parks, Staff

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Coaches stay positive as young team battles early adversity with strong work ethic PIRATES, from page 18

“It's not that tough, they are pretty positive, they're a great group of kids,” he said. “They know we're the youngest team and they know there's a learning curve.”

With the team facing some adversity early in the season, Masterson said team officials continue to highlight a strong work ethic and effort level.

“The biggest thing we keep talking about is how the effort is there,” he said. “At the Junior C level, in some cases on some teams, you get sporadic attendance to practices and stuff — we don't have that.

Everyone is eager to be there, they like each other, and other than the Port Hope game the effort has been great.”

The Pirates were put in a difficult situation almost immediately on Thursday with Mitch Thompson receiving a two-minute minor and a 10-minute misconduct for head contact just 1:19 into the

PRESSURE Picton Pirate Trey Maracle tries to corral a loose puck behind the Panthers net with Port Hope’s Mike Smith bearing down.

The Pirates were able to stop a five-game losing streak on Tuesday with a 3–2 win over Napanee. (Chad Ibbotson/Gazette staff)

first period.

Port Hope's Evan Foley scored on the ensuing power play to give the Panthers an early lead. While it would be the lone goal of the frame, the

Pirates faced another setback with five minutes left when Gavin Ronan was assessed a minor and a 10-minute misconduct for boarding.

“In both of those (miscon-

duct) plays it's frustrating because both were what I consider to be decent hockey hits,” Masterson said. “It seems to be, in modern hockey, you can't throw big body checks.”

Masterson said he's advised players to be cautious and not look to make hits when they aren't there.

The Panthers increased their lead 22 seconds into the second and Dalton Lawrence extended the lead to 3–0 with a power-play goal midway through the frame. Foley would score shorthanded at the 14:34 mark to make it 4–0 heading into the third.

Jon Campbell scored 4:44 into the third and Foley completed the hat-trick less than two minutes later to bring the score to 6–0.

McCann was able to get Picton on the board with a power-play marker at 8:24 of the third with Port Hope's Evan Wasylyk serving an interference infraction. Pero picked up the assist.

Dan Lagrois capped off the scoring with less than six minutes remaining to ice the game.

“The disappointing thing about the Port Hope game was that it was really our first weak effort of the season,” said Masterson.

The Pirates headed to Amherstview on Saturday to take part in the Empire B Junior C Showcase. Picton took on the Napanee Raiders and played fairly solidly through two periods, Masterson said.

The Pirates managed to keep the score even and match Napanee in shots through the first 20 minutes.

The deadlock was finally broken midway through the second period when Cullen Hinds found the back of the net on Picton goaltender Dustin Myskiw. Less than three minutes later McFarland doubled the Raiders' lead.

“We played a great first period, held on a bit in the second and then there was a bit

of an altercation,” said Masterson.

He said defenceman Nate Kellar led a rush, fired a shot and drove the net for a rebound. The puck caromed into the air and Kellar was knocked hard into goalie Cameron Parr. The result was a five-minute major for interference for Kellar and the incident sparked at least three fights.

“It really wasn't a case of us being frustrated, it was more a case of inadvertently hit their goalie and that just caused on-ice chaos,” Masterson said.

Napanee scored four times on the ensuing five-minute advantage with Michael Parr, Hinds, Austin Boulard, and Matt Tedford scoring. McFarland would add another with just over two minutes remaining to bring the score to 7–0.

The Pirates face Gananoque tonight at 7:30 in the first half of a home-andhome series with the Islanders. Picton will visit Gananoque Sunday at 7 p.m.

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November 12 - The Prince Edward Federation of Agriculture monthly board of directors meeting will be held at the Bloomfield United Church in the Sunday school room beginning at 7:30 p.m. All members are encouraged to attend. Contact Pat Stacey at 613-476-3842 or princeedwardfarmers@gmail.com for further information.

November 14-15 - Heritage Parade of Lights Show,

Country Heritage Park, 8560 Tremaine Road, Milton. The parade consists of vintage farm tractors and machinery decorated with festive lights. Guests wil be shuttled around the park on beautifully lit wagons and stop and walk amongst the machines and admire the lights. Santa and Mrs. Claus will also be on hand, along with some of their helpers.

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AUTUMN SKATE STARS

Atoms, Peewees unbeaten

The Terra Vista Prince Edward County Atom BB Kings crowned the Douro Dukes 11-1 at the Essroc Arena Sunday in their only game of the weekend to remain undefeated.

Mackenzie Moyer fired a hat trick for the locals while five other skaters had two goals each.

Austin Stock posted his sixth win of the season. n The Beatty Seeds Novice BB squad paid a visit to Otonabee Friday and bit the Wolves 5-1.

Jaxson Payne had a hat trick for the Kings while Mitchell Sills and Kaden Koutroulides had singles.

Lainey Van Vlack and Alex Pickle shared the win in the Kings' cage.

In Bantam action, the Essroc BB Kings picked up a pair of road wins this weekend, dropping Ennismore Friday night 6-2 before handing the Napanee Stars their first loss of the season, winning 3-2 Saturday at the Strathcona Paper Centre. Scoring details were not made available. n In Bantam AE action, the Canadian Tire Kings picked

up a 4-0 win over the Douro Dukes on Saturday in Picton.

It took some time to get the Kings offence rolling but in the second, Cole Matthews finally found the range, getting set up by Kaleb Stacey and Brady Lane.

That proved to be the game winner as Skylar Cole, Max Lindsay and Matthews with his second of the contest all replied in the third period.

Cole, Matthews, Nick Marshall and Will Ronan all added helpers. n At 6-0-0, the Kerr Construction Peewee Kings are PECMHA's other undefeated squad. This weekend, the stingy Kings only surrendered a single goal over two games.

In Picton on Saturday, the Kings marooned the Islanders to the tune of 9-0.

Nolan Lane had his first shutout of the season.

In the Kingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; other contest of the weekend, the locals downed the Ennismore Eagles 5-1 in Wellington Sunday night.

-Jason Parks, Staff

The Prince Edward County Skating Club sent skaters to Ottawa to compete in Autumn Skate Oct. 2-4. Pictured here, from left, are coach Janice Beer, Mikayla Shelter (5th Star 3 U-13), Mrian Guadegnin (1st Star 5 O-13), Marisa Koning (6th Star 5 O-13), Marlow Slatter (4th Star U-13), and coach Lisa Conley. The skaters trained hard leading up to their recent competition. (Submitted photo)

Popovich, 16, shows confidence in Wellington crease The Tigers would pull into the lead off a play that's become a prototypical by product of Wellington's power play.

A the rebound from shot from the point that went wide with about five seconds to go on a Wellington man advantage was collected and fired through the middle to an awaiting Alex Forementon who had just sprung from the penalty box.

Formenton put a nice move on the 16-year-old goaltender and Wellington fell behind 2-1.

They would stay down a goal due to frustrating play through the second.

It seemed every time Wellington would get a chance to make a play towards the Aurora net, the team passed it up looking for a better chance.

But these chances were scant thanks to some very good play through the neu-

tral zone by the Tigers.

In the third, Wellington again beat the Tigers to the puck early in the frame and it was Luc Brown setting up Ben Sokay for an equalizer exactly 60 seconds in.

It would Aurora taking the play to Wellington somewhat in the third period but Popovich was more than equal to the task, earning his club a point.

Wellington dominated much of the four-on-four session, forcing the Tigers to eventually take a late minor penalty.

Early in the second overtime, it would be Ben Sokay winning a draw at the Tiger blue line, kicking the puck to Brown.

Brown quickly gained the zone, found Sokay who roared to the high slot and ripped a wrist shot past Brooks-Potts for Wellington's third overtime win of the season.

The win was Wellington's first home victory of the

campaign, something that Abrams said the team hadn't discussed but was likely on every players mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never talked about it but we wanted to make sure we put up a good effort on Friday,â&#x20AC;? Abrams said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some good games at home but we have not been on the right side of the score board.â&#x20AC;?

Popovich picked up his fourth win of the season and despite being a freshman,

appears to have commanded the Wellington net at this point of the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anthony is a winner, he wins everywhere played and he's given us very good goalkeeping. We have lots of confidence in him,â&#x20AC;? Abrams added.

Wellington has a homeand-home with Lindsay this weekend, visiting the Muskies on Friday and welcoming the fish on Sunday evening for a 7 p.m. start.

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NEW LISTING

This is a quiet area off of Rednersville Road, the lot is one of the bigger lots on this dead end lane and has an old cottage that has not been torn down to allow a new house or cottage to be constructed on the footprint close to the water. There is a good dug well and the septic is older and will need upgrading. The lane is accessed off of an newer cul-de-sac, Brickworks Lane that is a paved road. The shoreline is clean walk in swimmable water on the Bay of Quinte, known for its world class fishing. $385,000 MLS QR21505843

VILLAGE SETTING Spacious home but needs work to reach it’s potential – ideal for a handy family!

Large lot with two large detached garages. This could be your step up into the real estate market! Only $159,000 CHRISTINE & COLIN HENDEN, Broker & Sales Rep Tel: 613-922-2251 PeCountyProperties.com colinhenden@remax.net

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NEW LISTING

VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON OLD CHARM ON LG CORNER LOT Great potential for vacation rental. 2+ bedrms, 4 pc on main floor, 3 pc on 2nd level, lg open concept kitchen, dining rm and family rm, lg living rm. Main floor laundry, lg mud rm leads to deck on back of home. New sitting deck on front of home. New gas furnace 3 yrs old, newer windows, laminate flooring & carpeting. Lots of windows, bright, cheery home, lg lot, detached 2 car garage. Close to beach, parks & walkable to all restaurants & art shops. Asking $214,500 MLS® QR21506996

GEORGE REID, Broker 613-399-2134 quinteisle.com

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FOR LEASE 2,300 sq ft. custom built 3 bed home with gorgeous ensuite with soaker tub, main level den and amazing kitchen with huge centre island and granite countertops. $2,000/month. Available immediately. QR21505210 ARNOLD FAITH, Sales Rep 613-476-7800

Prince Edward County Realty Inc. Brokerage

98 Main Street, Picton, ON

NEW PRICE

YESTERDAY REVISITED Built in the 1800's, this 2 storey home offers a galley kitchen, dining room w/built in china cabinet, large livingroom, gracious foyer, hardwood and 9 foot ceilings. Sun streams through long windows providing lots of natural sun light (some w/ original coloured glass & design), original staircase plus 3 season sun porch. Perfect home for a growing family with its 4 bedrooms & 2 baths . Great for gatherings of family and friends. 26'x 42' garage/workshop/studio including 13 block high storage area for boat, camper etc. Large lot for the gardener or for the children to play.

ASKING $265,000 MLS QR21502505

Call CAROL BROUGH, Sales Rep 613-476-2100 or carolbroughc21@hotmail.com

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NEW LISTING

SURROUNDED BY TREES 3 bedroom rural home, close to Belleville, has been beautifully renovated. Open concept kitchen/living area with walkout to enclosed sunroom, cozy family room with fireplace, main floor laundry and much, much more. Nestled on private, fully treed lot. Good value at $289,000 MLS QR21506897 KEVIN GALE, Sales Rep 613-476-1874 H. 613-242-7295 C. kevingale@remax.net

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The main house is over 100 years old and still has many original features.

With 2 large barns, ANOTHER house and various fruit trees and gardens this property is perfect for a studio, home based business, extended family or tenants! $175,000 MLS QR21503566

Call MARY JANE MILLS, Broker 613-476-7400 613-921-0028 mjmills@hwrealty.ca hwrealty.ca

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Call GAIL FORCHT, Broker or SHANNON WARR-HUNTER, Sales Rep Office: 613-471-1708 Cell: 613-961-9587 www.homeinthecounty.com

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NEW LISTING

$284,900 A great opportunity to secure a private and beautiful lot to build your dream cottage or permanent home on! 2.97 acres and 310` of waterfront is certainly a find in `The County`. Prinyer`s Cove is a very well-known and protected safe haven for sailors and boaters. One of the sellers is an Architectural Technician and could help you plan your new home! MLS QR21506739

Call ELIZABETH CROMBIE, Sales Representative 613-476-2700 or toll free 1-877-476-0096 www.pictonhomes.com

OPEN HOUSE SUN OCT 25 2-4 PM

2589 HIGHWAY 49 Here is value at a glance! Situated on 3.7 acres offering much privacy is this very modern 1496 square foot 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 7 year old home. This home is all hardwood & porcelain tile flooring throughout. High end windows & doors plus 3 sets of patio doors. Beautiful modern eat-in kitchen w/ceramic backsplash, island & breakfast bar, pot lighting, appliances (less fridge), formal dining room, main floor laundry. Great room with vaulted ceiling, pot lights & patio doors to deck, good size master bdrm with patio doors to deck. Double 24`x36` fully insulated detached garage w/workshop, forced air propane heating, c/a, HRV, on demand hot water. Aluminum soffit, fascia & eavestrough, drilled well, fish pond, beautiful private rear yard. Great chain link dog kennel. 10x14 utility shed.

Don`t miss this beautiful smoke free, no pets, no children home. Absolutely move in condition & not a penny to spend. Quality galore! $349,000 MLS QR21504245

HERB PLIWISCHKIES, Sales Rep

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On the edge of Picton sporting a large lot and beautiful gardens, this 3 bedroom 2 bath split level brick & aluminum home boasts central air, gleaming hardwood floors, new windows and a great open concept kitchen/dining/living room. Beautiful decor and well maintained. Just move in your things and away you go! $299,900 MLS QR21503354 Call MARK GARDINER, Sales Rep Office: 613-476-2700 Cell:613-391-5588 mbgardiner@yahoo.com

WWW.THECOUNTYFAMILYTEAM.COM Just Move in! Well maintained home with several improvements including new kitchen & bathrooms. Living room, dining room & 4 bedrooms with stunning hardwood flooring and attractive decor throughout. Pull-down stairs provide easy access to the large attic space for extra storage.

Welcoming porch and back deck to enjoy the outdoors. Large drive, spacious yard with beautiful perennial gardens and a view of Picton Bay. A must see! Prince Edward County steal of a deal! $168,000 MLS QR21502877

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CANNIFTON RD., THURLOW 2 bedrm condo backing onto Moira River, private & pretty. Brick building, patio area, electric awning. Lg bright living rm, eat in kitchen, utility room. Energy efficient radiant heating, hardwood in living rm, hall & master bedrm. Close to all amenities. $159,900 MLS® QR21403624

SHARON ARMITAGE, Broker of Record 613-399-2134 quinteisle.com

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HANDYMAN SPECIAL - There is work to be done on this century home with room to grow on a desirable street in the vibrant town of Picton! Newer Windows and Furnace are in place with many projects still on the go and to be completed. The home has many original features to be rejuvenated as desired and provides a canvas to be creative. The smaller lot reduces general yard maintenance, while offering two decks, secluded back yard, and a porch-covered area to enjoy the outdoor space. Priced to Sell - Explore the Possibilities! $208,000 MLS QR21506382

Call ROB PLOMER, Sales Rep or KATE VADER, Sales Rep 613-471-1708 www.robandkate.com

Near Picton, South Bay. Waterfront property with clean, clear swimming and boating at flat shoreline, plus sleeping cabin. Large home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, main floor laundry.

Updated/renovated kitchen, super workshop or studio, all on 37 acres. Waterfront is very private and set well back off the road, offering a truly tranquil space for you to relax all summer. You can invite all your friends and family over, as the house is spacious and laid out in a way that your guests could have their own space! (Inlaw suite potential!) $599,000 MLS® QR21501838

BILL RORABECK, Sales Rep 613-476-2100

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1585 Crookston Road, Tweed

22 Pitt Street #12, Picton

NEW PRICE

ELSIE WIERSMA Sales Rep 613-848-4810

Approx 600' shoreline on Adolphus Reach, Updated large country kit, LR w/gas fireplace. Updated wiring & plumbing. $379,900 MLS QR21503287

1800'S, 2 STOREY HOME many original features. Plus 26' x 42' garage/workshop/studio with storage area $265,000 MLS QR21502505

IMMEDIATE INCOME POTENTIAL 20 minutes from Belleville. 10 bed/4 bath home with endless possibilities. $319,500 MLS QR21504242

CONVENIENT LOCATION Fantastic maintenance free living.

Large 3 bedroom condo in Picton. $92,500 MLS QR21504796

155 Willis Road, Picton

44, 46, 48, 50 Cedar Lane, Hallowell

3&5 York Street, Picton

1506 County Road 35

QUIET COUNTRY LIVING Upgraded one and a half storey home.

Nature lover’s paradise. $259,900 MLS QR21501117

BEAUTIFUL WATERFRONT PACKAGE All available for one price.

All are year round homes. $929,000 MLS QR21503405

ROW HOUSE A unique turn of the century building featuring two, three bedroom units. $159,900 MLS QR21406991

IMMACULATE WATERFRONT HOME 3 bedroom side-split, move in ready home ideal for retirees or snowbirds. $325,000 MLS QR21506463

58 Smith Road, Belleville

470 Rosseau Cross Road

2987 County Road 7

110 Main Street, Wellington

STEVE SENSENSTEIN Sales Rep 613-885-1307

PAT BENSON MOORE Sales Rep 613-849-8501

WOLF BRAUN Sales Rep 613-476-2100

Sold COUNTRY RANCH BUNGALOW Approx 3,000 sq ft living space on 2 levels.

Open concept, 1.9 ac lot, detached garage. $374,900 MLS QR21505391

50 PLUS ACRES Just outside Picton. Lots of potential and privacy. Zoned Rural, lots of possibilities $119,000 MLS QR21505958

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175 NILES Zoned R-3 in heart of Wellington. Concept plan on file for town house complex. $525,000 MLS QR21504900

PAUL GENTILE Broker 613-476-2100

VINCE MARTEL Sales Rep 613-476-2100

BILL GOODMAN Sales Rep 613-813-4573

$379,000 MLS QR21505894

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2265 County Road 13, South Marysburgh

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$179,900 MLS QR21505158

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CAROL BROUGH Sales Rep 613-476-2100

ENGLISH COUNTRY COTTAGE

6.6 Ac of vacant land in North Marysburgh area. Fully renovated home overlooking West Lake.

Walking distance to downtown Wellington.

Waterfront owned property, Adolphus Reach.

Open House Sun. Oct. 25th 2:30-4pm

WELLINGTON ON THE LAKE WELLINGTON ON THE LAKE 2 bdrm/2 bath bungalow in adult lifestyle community, 2 bdrm/2 bath bungalow in adult lifestyle community. walking distance & view to recreation center.

6’ high basement with workshop. Den with fireplace. $135,000 MLS QR21506891 $139,900 MLS QR21506881

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PRIVATE WATERFRONT HOME Large 3 bed/2 bath home, updated kitchen, super workshop and Inlaw suite potential. $599, 000 MLS QR21501838

VACANT LAND

VACANT LAND

(A) SE OF BLACK RD BLACK RD Build your dream home on this 12.5 acre building lot with drilled well. $79,900 MLS QR21504190

(B) SE OF 934 BLACK RD Beautiful 12.5 acre lot with mature trees, stream, and 2 acres for building. Dug and blasted well. $78,000 MLS QR21504191

Sold 86 BETHEL RD Low maintenance bungalow on 2 acre quiet county lot north of Picton. $195,000 MLS QR21503243

HUGH JACKSON Broker 613-476-5026

ERIN FORESTELL Sales Rep 613-827-4456

1133 COUNTY ROAD 5 Retirement home known as `The Maples`in excellent condition & close to Picton. $399,900 MLS QR21504198

STEVE KOZMANUK Sales Rep 613-967-7216

KARI KOZMANUK Sales Rep 613-921-7951

ERNIE MACMILLAN Sales Rep 613-476-2100

GARY MORDEN Broker 613-885-2304

KEVIN YOUNG Sales Rep 613-476-2100

SANDY YOUNG Sales Rep 613-476-2100

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Four easy tips for a basement makeover

By Scott McGillivray The start of a new season is the perfect time to check some tasks off of your “to-do” list — whether it’s to get in shape or tackle at-home projects. If you’re planning on making some simple but effective changes at home, here are some tips on how to give your basement a total 180-degree makeover.

Soundproof it Installing acoustic insulation is the perfect excuse to crank up the subwoofer, host a get-together or let the kids run wild.

Soundproofing is the ultimate solution to maximize your basement’s peace, quiet and privacy.

Industry experts suggest using Roxul Safe n’ Sound, which effectively absorbs sound and is easy to work with.

Out with the old, in with a floor Installing a new floor or updating the existing one can improve the overall comfort level and look of your basement.

Many unfinished basements have basic concrete flooring, which is cold year-round. Flooring options are endless — hard-

wood, laminate, cork and Berber flooring all add warmth to a basement bedroom or TV room; play mats are great for kids’ playrooms; and carpets are perfect to make any room feel more comfy and welcoming.

Get creative with a fresh coat of paint Transform the dull and boring space into an inviting entertainment oasis or a colorful playroom with a simple coat of paint. When considering the paint, think about what color will compliment your existing furniture. To add some drama,

consider adding depth and visual interest to your space with a different colored accent wall.

Accessorize it Throw pillows, rugs, lighting, and artwork are simple additions that can immediately enhance or change your basement’s look and feel. Pot lights can modernize, while art work and throw pillows can add a splash of color. Decide on a theme and color scheme for your room and keep your eye out for staple pieces that will make it feel like an entirely new space.

Scott McGillivray is an award-winning TV host, a fulltime real estate investor, contractor, author, and educator. Follow him on Twitter @smcgillivray.

- MCC

The Elizabeth Crombie Sales Team 613.476.2700 104 Main Street, Picton 1.877.476.0096

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NEW LISTING

NEW PRICE

CLASSIC CENTURY $389,000 2 storey 3 bedroom century home with many original features including trim, staircase, high ceilings, stained glass windows and hardwood flooring throughout. MLS®QR21406917

ELEGANT TOWNHOME LIVING $499,000 A luxury townhome with heritage inspired architecture on 3 floors with an elevator. High efficiency building with solar supplemented hot water in-floor heating & many more desirable features. MLS®QR21506801

HOBBY FARM $249,900 3 bedroom home with a barn, workshop and 43 acres of land with easy access to 401 or Picton.

MLS®QR21505193

OPEN CONCEPT COUNTRY BUNGALOW $329,000 `Green` environmentally friendly - low heating and low maintenance with passive solar heat, superior insulation. Central to Trenton, Belleville and Picton. MLS®QR21506860

CENTURY HOME IN PICTON $399,000 Circa 1890. Features lots of original character including tin ceilings, pine floors, wainscoting, high baseboards & wood trim. Come & fall in love!

MLS®QR21505211

ON TOP OF THE WORLD! $348,900 Amazing waterviews from this hilltop location which affords vistas of woods & shimmering waters! 5 bedroom,3 bath home near Lake on the Mountain. MLS®QR21502503

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GREAT LOCATION!! $199,000 In a great location near wineries and a new brewery. Tastefully renovated old home! Dream big with a small price tag! MLS®QR21503406

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IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTY $349,000 This century farm home features `The Heart Rock Vacation Rental` a 5 star, private, well appointed one bedroom apartment. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths in main house. Almost 4 acres of land with 1500 trees (planted in the spring of 2015) - white pine and spruce that surround the property. Vintage barn and fruit trees.

Excellent location for home based business. Location! Location! Location!

MLS®QR21505285

SHARON GEORGE ARMITAGE REID Broker of Record

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GREAT HOME FOR FAMILY View of Lake Consecon close to Trenton & 401. Large 3+ bedrm home on approx 5 acres of land. Set in trees on a ridge, great view of the lake. Lg family rm, living rm /dining rm combined, eat-in kitchen, den area. Lower level recroom with walkout to back yard, workshop, utility area for laundry, etc, cold room, lg unspoiled area great for hobby room, etc. Asking $279,900 MLS® QR21502034

NOT MANY AROUND LIKE THIS ONE Main St., Wellington Core Commercial.

Approx 1800 sq ft commercial space plus 2 bedrm apt, corner of Wharf & Main. Close to all amenities. Municipal sewer & water. Walking distance to Drake Devonshire, East & Main & Stache. Put your business in here, you have all the traffic. Asking $425,000 MLS QR21505585

WALKABLE TO ALL AMENITIES ARENA, CHURCH AND SHOPPING Executive home, large lot, village of Wellington.

Open concept family rm / kitchen / eating area, separate living rm / dining rm. Main floor master bedrm, ensuite, walkin closet. 2 pc bath, laundry on main floor, inside entrance to 2 car garage. Second level has 2 bedrms, 4 pc bath. Unspoiled basement, rough in for bath. Call on this one. MLS® QR21407050 GREAT SOIL FOR GARDENING Older renovated home on municipal water, Village of Consecon.

Immaculate inside, totally renovated. Lg country kitchen, woodstove, lots of cupboards, island. Separate living rm, lg 3 pc bath, 2 bedrms upstairs, small office area, loft in 2nd bedrm.

Detached 1 1/2 car garage, outbuilding could be used as workshop or small bunkie, 20x20 3rd building. Lg 2+ acre property, great for young entrepreneur for home occupation.

Call to view. Asking $199,900 MLS® QR21404242

ASHGILL GARDENS Village of Wellington, Niles St. Great lot in area of nice homes.

Mature trees, close to all amenities. Walk to beach & schools.

Municipal services available. Asking $74,900 MLS® 2143581

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Over 330 ft. Bay of Quinte waterfront, 3 bdrm bungalow $589,000 MLS QR21504293

WELLINGTON

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2 acre building lot, great neighborhood within 5 minutes of Picton. $64,000 MLS QR21502157

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50 Belleville St $259,900 MLS QR21506249

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3+1 bed family home close to everything in Picton! $299,000 MLS QR21504030

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Don't buy the best house in the neighbourhood. Buy the best deal! 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car garage. Nearly 3/4 acre country lot with mature maples on desirable Rednersville Road. New furnace 2012. $169,000

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333 Main St $249,000 MLS QR21502538

282 Niles St $449,000 MLS QR21503436

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SOUTH BAY SHORE – almost 500 ft. of level shore and 4.30 acres of beautiful, park-like property.

Well-built, brick bungalow with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms & main floor laundry plus a full, high basement. Includes 1,600 sq. ft. building close to the road presently used for antique furniture sales.

Asking $550,000. MLS QR21506306

3 bed, 2 bath Lake Consecon cottage, fully winterized. $399,000 MLS QR21502864

Beautifully restored century home in Picton with in-law rental apartment. $699,000 MLS QR21505866

PICTON BAY WATERFRONT - 2 acres of wooded land, cleared just enough for spectacular Bay views, 200 feet of shore with seawall & dock. Hidden from the road the elegant, custom built home offers three levels of tastefully-finished living space, designed for one-level living & additional space for guests. Spring possession possible. $1,200,000 MLS QR21506448

Close to all town amenities. New roof June '15. $315,000 MLS QR21504846

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565 Bakker Rd $895,000 MLS QR21506554

1350sq.ft. professional building, large waiting/ reception room. $235,000 MLS QR21503333

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Rolling hills, tall pine trees and a seasonal waterfall. $499,000 MLS QR21503335

PT LT 20 CTY RD 20 $330,000 MLS QR21501227

ICF quality built home with large garage and clean shoreline. $465,000 MLS QR21504741

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2414 County Road 49 - Midway between Hwy. 401 & Picton Unique 8.5 acres on different levels. Panoramic view of Long Reach on top level – surveyed with building envelope shown. Down the lane, following the escarpment is a lovely 3-season cabin close to the Lake. A short walk takes you to the water’s edge – great for swimming, boating & fishing! Want a private get-away? Call us for your personal tour. $375,000 MLS QR21500662

Meticulously kept 4 bed raised ranch. Move in condition. $219,900 MLS QR21506258

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BLOOMFIELD – Large commercial building with 3-bed apt. $425,000 QR21500082

118 Pleasant Bay Rd $539,000 MLS QR21505555

3500sq.ft. bungalow on 2.5 acres close to Belleville. $429,000 MLS QR21504800

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GLENORA ROAD – Close lot close to Picton. 2,000+ sf on main level & finished lower level.

Municipal water. $339,000 QR21502749

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Totally renovated home in the very desirable Waupoos area. This home features a living room with hardwood floors and wood-burning fireplace, a newly renovated eat-in kitchen with new cabinets, marble counter tops, new stainless appliances, sink and faucet. Main floor bedroom now has a new ensuite plus there is a second main floor bathroom and laundry room. Upstairs features a generous second bedroom with large dormer window looking over the lake. Other upgrades include new roof, new propane furnace, new flooring, new windows and doors and new light fixtures.

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VACANT LOT Milford Millpond Views! Appealing 1-acre building lot features gently rolling terrain and stunning bucolic views. Enjoy village life with a great country feel! Certainly one of the prettiest lots currently available, this one will have you dreaming of your new home in The County! $45,000 MLS QR21506877 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

This 5.2 acre lot is located on beautiful County Road 8 which connects Picton to Cressy. With rolling terrain and mature trees, this is a spectacular opportunity to create your own home, with beautiful vistas all around. Situated among some of Prince Edward County’s most significant properties, there is scope here to create a substantial retirement home or full-time residence – and to enjoy the many charms of “The County”. This lot has an established well, and has hydro access. Create your own winery here on the “Waupoos Wine Bench”! $85,000 QR21502388 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Prinyers Cove building lot upon which to build your new waterfront home. Steps to the water allow for swimming, fishing, boating, kayaking and canoeing. Level, nicely treed lot in a fantastic location. Set in a rural community with lovely homes on either side and mature trees for privacy. A mooring for your boat is in place. $141,900 MLS QR21506071 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Lovely property on 1.7 acres near Lake on the Mountain. 1.5 story older home with open main floor and enclosed porch, country eat-in kitchen and living room with patio doors to back yard. 2 bedrooms upstairs and full 4 piece bath has cast-iron soaker tub and separate shower. Some newer windows. Propane wall furnace. Previous owners had a pony in the paddock to one side - property is surrounded by lilacs and has a nice cedar split-rail fence. Set back from the road with a nice storage building. $150,000 MLS QR21504880 Gail Forcht**

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Great opportunity with spectacular views! Build your dream home here among substantial County homes. 4.8 picturesque acres close to Picton or to Long Point beaches. Ideal for those who appreciate nature, wildlife and great birding! One-of-a-kind... $129,000 MLS QR21502567 Laurie

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Build your dream home on this 2.86-acre lot located on Smokes Point Road - minutes to the 401, County wineries and events, and the conveniences of Trenton. Enjoy the waterviews and sunsets over Weller’s Bay. Recently tested dug well with excellent flow rate – and don’t forget the public boat launch down the road, too! $99,000 MLS QR21502398 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

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Cleared waterfront lot on the Adolphus Reach. The lot is flat with clear shoreline, ideal for a dock and walk in swimming. Build your dream home today! $160,000 MLS QR21504533 Lori Slik* www.asenseofplace.ca

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Set in a popular family community, this home is a great opportunity for someone to get into the market. Lots of room for a family, includes a garage and all set on a quiet cul-de-sac. Property sold `as is` and Seller has no knowledge of UFFI warranty. All measurements & lot size are approx.only. Buyer to verify realty taxes. Vendor makes no representation or warranty regarding any information and will not be responsible for any error in measurement, description or cost to maintain property. Buyer agrees to conduct his own investigations and satisfy himself as to any easements/rights of way which may affect the property. Easy to show and early closing is possible! $157,500 MLS QR21506797 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Large century home on a quiet no exit road with water views of Muscote Bay. 4.6 acres.

4 Beds and 2 full Baths with main floor laundry. Open concept kitchen and dining room with wood stove and entrance from large side deck. Living room with pellet stove and French doors to recently installed patio. Great for a growing family or County retreat.

Close to Belleville, 401 and Picton. $198,000 MLS QR21501443 Gail Forcht**

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Gorgeous escarpment waterfront on Smiths Bay between Waupoos and Black River. Private location for your dream home. Protected Boat moorage in sheltered harbour. Located below Rutherford Stevens Lookout.

3.6 Acres. 10 mins to Picton. Shared lane. $248,000 MLS QR21505235 Gail Forcht** www.homeinthecounty.com

Perfect one-level living in the country. This home offers the ultimate in privacy, set back from the road with nice mature trees out front and fruit trees scattered around the property. 3 bedrooms, an open concept living, dining and kitchen. Main floor laundry. Mudroom entryway. Heated by a propane fireplace with electric baseboards as backup. A full crawlspace with poured floor offers dry storage and the potential for a propane forced-air heating system. Large front deck with awning structure.

Double garage with space for a workshop. Enjoy the quiet country setting only 15 minutes to Picton - close to Waupoos, Lake on the Mountain, and many wineries, cider companies, cheese factories etc $250,000 QR21505324 Gail Forcht**

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Betty Burns

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Mark Davis

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Darlene Eldridge Broker

This stylish home will resonate with a buyer who wants a low-maintenance, renovated open-concept home a short walk to all Picton amenities. Welcoming kitchen/dining area is open to the living room. An updated 4pc bath with tiled shower.

The laundry area features a second entrance. The kitchen upgrades include back splash tile, cabinet space/storage, dishwasher and included stainless steel appliances. Includes many of the furnishings. $214,900 MLS QR21503722 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Set on a double lot, this 4200 sq. ft steel building on 1.46 acres in Picton’s industrial park has many potential uses due to the zoning. Full municipal services and extra large natural gas line. Slab foundation. Presently being used for professional laundry.

Formerly used for a catering business, and the industrial kitchen and refrigeration is intact. $219,000 MLS QR21506928 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Family home, weekend retreat or perfect rental property – with all furniture included!

This is a charming, secluded County dwelling with deeded access to the Adolphus Reach. Bring your canoe! Large family kitchen, pretty gardens and separate garage.

Total of four bedrooms and two baths, on two spacious levels. Your home in the County, just past Lake on the Mountain. $249,000 QR21503714 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

WHOPPERTUNITY! 11 Acres of beautiful sloping land with 303 feet on County Road 7 and 124 feet of sandy beach on the Adolphus Reach! Charming access by right-of-way leads to this hidden, private site, ideal for your beachfront cottage. Dug-well already in place. Start your County dreams here! $249,000 MLS QR21503699 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Great opportunity to own an investment property in the heart of Bloomfield, tucked away on a quiet street away from all the hustle and bustle. This property features hardwood floors, original tin ceilings, modern kitchen, great open-concept living room with fireplace and a cozy den. Close to Picton and ten minutes to Sandbanks Provincial Park, this house is a must see! $215,000 MLS QR21504298 Rob Plomer* & Kate Vader*

This eye-catching century home is ready for its next steward and continued years of enjoyment! Well-maintained and filled with uplifting character, the space evokes a true sense of tranquility alongside the vibrant country backdrop on an expansive lot overlooking protected wetlands. Spend time in the gardens or pursuing hobbies in the separate workshop. This stunning ‘turn-key’ century home is waiting for you in growing agri-tourism and wine region of Prince Edward County. $265,000 MLS QR21506503 Rob Plomer* & Kate Vader*

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Brick century home in Picton, currently being used as a duplex. Many original features are intact, and a recent renovation has updated this home to realize it`s full potential. Lower unit has two bedrooms, laundry, kitchen, family room with dining, and a more formal living room. Bright windows and views of the yard complement the space. The upper unit is drenched in sunshine through the many bright windows and features a large washroom, spacious bedrooms and living room, and kitchen.

Lovely flooring, tall ceilings and an airy, open flow make this space very easy to live in. Both units have separate entries and parking for a vehicle. Located walking distance to all Picton amenities, including restaurants, shopping and dining. $229,000 QR21506266 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

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Retire in style and maintain your independence in this 2 Bed, 2 Bath townhouse in the heart of Belleville. This unit has an open concept kitchen, living, and dining room with hardwood floors, ceramic tile, and natural gas fireplace. No need to worry about snow removal, yard or exterior maintenance. Worry free, convenient independence, all in the privacy of your own home. $249,900 MLS QR21506325 Gail Forcht**, Ken Arsenault*

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`The Bloomfield” model features open kitchen with centre island facing into the great room and large porch with plenty of oversize windows allows for natural light, cross ventilation and glorious views of the surrounding environmental protected zone, great for birding. $279,999 MLS QR21505279 Lori Slik* www.asenseofplace.ca

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Kate Vader

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Jim Wait

Sales Representative

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Fabulous cottage with spectacular panoramic views. Quiet private lane and large lot. level waterfront, great for swimming or boating! Great room with wood stove for 4-season use. 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths providing room for the whole family. Currently rented seasonally as a vacation retreat. Patio, dock, and a welcoming hammock at the shore. Come enjoy a private piece of Prince Edward County waterfront! $288,000 MLS QR21506162 Gail Forcht**

Last chance to be a part of “Prince Edward Landing”, an enclave of luxury homes on Picton Bay! 1.5 acre waterfront lot features an elevated building site and a gentle slope to the appealing shoreline. Wonderful views of the Yacht Club, the bay, and the sailboats drifting by. Municipal water, sewers and natural gas. Build here and be part of this vibrant town! $289,000 MLS QR21505269 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Fabulous location on a double lot! 8 year old 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with wraparound covered verandah, open two-story great room with wood-burning fireplace and walls of windows, main floor master suite with 4 piece ensuite, walk-in closet. Main floor laundry and powder room. Bright and airy kitchen and eating area with walkouts to the verandah and a great back deck. Water views over the reach. New Double Garage with space for a workshop. Walk to the resident`s beach and boat launch.

Brand new High Efficiency Propane Furnace Fall 2014! Close to marina, wineries, cheese factories and farmer`s markets. $299,000 MLS QR21502851 Gail Forcht**

Beautiful bright bungalow on the edge of Milford! Three generous bedrooms including master with en suite bath. Huge principal rooms. Double attached garage, and separate workshop/bunkie all on 2.36 acres! Absolutely nothing to do - just move in! $319,000 MLS QR21502468 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg* www.monicaklingenberg.com

A family home in the country, 20 minutes to Belleville and 35 minutes to CFB Trenton. Secluded 1.82 acres of peaceful bliss. This is a solid custom built home. The West side yard is perfect for a pool and patio. A plethora of large vinyl casement windows fills the home with natural light at every angle. $329,900 MLS QR21504646 Ken Arseneault* www.homeinthecounty.com

Immaculate Prinyer's Cove 3+ bedroom Bungalow - fully finished walkout basement. Open concept Kitchen, Dining & Living rooms with fabulous new windows overlooking the deck and water! Great 1.5 car Garage/Workshop. Nothing to do but move in and enjoy the summer!! $348,000 MLS QR21501850 Gail Forcht** www.homeinthecounty.com

This property holds tremendous potential for an investor. Circa 1834, this Picton property has charming brickwork, a terrace at the front, all set on a prime location on Main Street. Restored period window details, reproduction front door, and glass transom. Interior rooms show pine flooring on both floors, two brick hearths with original mantles, gorgeous matched baseboard and door frames. There is a full commercial kitchen in the back and washrooms on both floors. There is parking in the rear, backing onto mature trees. This restoration won the Loyalist Park Award! Core Commercial zoning allows for many potential uses. $350,000 MLS QR21506918 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Spectacular gardens surround this unique century home, now expanded and updated for our time. Reclaimed pine floors, wood-burning fireplace, generous lightfilled rooms! Geo-thermal heating system! Wonderful woodland trails lead to charming, wildlife-rich Muscote Bay waterfront ideal for canoes. This is a very special County retreat! $399,000 MLS MLS QR21502112 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Just move in! Impeccable Sheba`s Island home in exquisite condition offers two levels of living space, beautiful grounds and spectacular views over the channel and marsh. Hardwood floors, walls of glass and a huge deck over the water. Just minutes from Picton, Bloomfield and the beach! Ask us about all of the upgrades and renovations. This is an outstanding package! Longer closing available. $419,000 MLS QR21502668 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Idyllic country setting for your new home! Enjoy exceptional rolling vistas from this 2-acre lot, with a drilled well. `The Smithfield` offers 1,780 square feet of living space and features 3-bedrooms, 2-bathrooms, vaulted ceilings and an attached double garage. Farnsworth Construction is a reputable builder who will work with you to customize this plan, choose a different model, or create your own design. Minutes to the conveniences of Picton and the beautiful Sandbanks Provincial Park. Price includes HST. $425,000 MLS QR21506065 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Fabulous retreat overlooking Picton Bay. 2 bedrooms. Bright sunroom and deck.

Open concept great room offers updated kitchen and dining room with natural gas fireplace and vaulted ceiling. Front office doubles as spare bedroom. Updated wiring and many upgrades. Incredible views. Walking distance to everything in town, on a great quiet street. $428,000 MLS QR21505286 Gail Forcht**

Wellington! Close to the action, but quiet and serene, your friends and family will love to visit! This pebble-stucco home built in 1920 has modern updates throughout.

Walking distance to downtown, boardwalk, beach, shops and restaurants. Staying home is easy when you’re lounging by the pool, enjoying the breeze on the back patio. The tri-level coach-house is 2000+ sqft of prime creative space. Use it as a Bunkie, studio or workshop or all three. The possibilities are endless here. $438,000 MLS QR21504226 Gail Forcht**

The perfect place to be close to everything in your own private oasis. Well-built stonefaced home on 1.3 acres. Full wheelchair accessibility. 2+ bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms - Great room with wood burning stone fireplace, cathedral ceilings, and spacious deck. Elevator to large workshop area, utilities and garage bays. Walk to the bistro and restaurant at Lake on the Mountain. Provincial park access to the lake for swimming, canoeing or kayaking. Only 8 minutes to Picton. 2 mins to the Ferry. $450,000 MLS QR21503541 Gail Forcht**

This classic two-storey brick home has been grandstanding on Main Street Bloomfield since 1867. The original part of the home features a large living room and adjoining dining room. The kitchen has a walkout to a lovely deck. A family room with separate entrance boasts a lovely natural gas fireplace. The newer main floor master bedroom suite has a full bath and a deck for enjoying a private coffee in the morning. There is an unfinished attic space that would be an amazing child’s playroom! This property backs onto parkland and gives a rural feel while being in the heart of this boutique village. Currently operating as a B&B, many contents are available to enable a turnkey purchase. $469,000 MLS QR21504709 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

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Beautifully-built 1990 bungalow on 7 picturesque acres close to Picton and Point Petre!

Outstanding reception rooms, very generous master suite with adjoining sunroom, plus two more bedrooms, spacious lower level with walk-outs, wonderful wide decks on two sides. Perfect opportunity to take this one right off the grid! Just add solar! $349,000 MLS QR21501980 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

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Opportunity to own 150’ of accessible shoreline on South Bay to build your dream cottage. This secluded double lot features terraced perennial gardens, mature trees, canoe dock and pristine water for swimming - pebble bottom, shallow enough for the whole family and still great for boating, fishing, kayaks, canoes. There is a simple well maintained three-bedroom, two-bath mobile home w/ a large screened porch. Fully serviced with hydro, well, water purification, septic, new electrical and 8’ by 10’ storage shed. High speed internet is available. $299,900 MLS QR21504497 Gail Forcht**

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Outstanding live/work opportunity in the heart of Prince Edward County! Three bedroom, Guildcrest home (1990) and adjacent convenience store in a busy, highly-visible location. ATM, lottery, dry cleaning transfer and groceries. On route to Sandbanks Provincial Park and across from LCBO. House offers excellent space and potential for development of lower level. Oversized garage, too! $475,000 MLS QR21407460 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

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Relax on your deck overlooking fields, forests and pond. This Brick bungalow has lots of space for family & guests with 3+ bdrms, 3 baths, office, Kitchen/Family room w/ double-sided wood-fireplace + formal living and dining rooms. Hardwood floors.

Master w/ 5 piece ensuite. 70 acres! Double attached garage+ detached 26x30` garage with power and space for a workshop. Centrally located only minutes from Picton, Bloomfield or Wellington. $478,000 MLS QR21502997 Gail Forcht**

Residential - Development opportunity in downtown Picton, on the `town hill`, with views over the Picton Bay. Walking distance to all amenities, restaurants and shopping. This is an ideal location for a retail/condo development, or bring your vision!

Full town services to the lots and zoning is Core Commercial-very flexible. $499,000 MLS QR21506304 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

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What a wonderful opportunity to restore a classic centre hall plan century home on acreage in Prince Edward County! Only a few minutes from Picton, this property features two outbuildings with workshop, and attached workshop/storage shed, and two barns. Approx. 30 acres of tillable soil is currently being farmed. Grand mature maples and gentle breezes in a peaceful setting complete this lot. The home has some pine flooring, beautiful wooden bannisters, 10ft ceilings ceilings, and spacious formal rooms. Bright windows are 6ft tall, and high baseboards and lovely trim are reminiscent of a by-gone era. There are 4 spacious bedrooms upstairs, one with a walk-in closet. A full 4pc bath offers modern convenience. The modern eat-in kitchen leads to a pantry and 2pc washroom. This home has a newer roof and efficient propane furnace, as well as a cozy wood stove. $549,000 MLS QR21505307 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

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A classic century home in Picton. Currently operating as La Vita e Bella Bed & Breakfast, which boasts top notch reviews on Trip Advisor. Three upstairs bedrooms, all with beautiful pine flooring and their own fully renovated bathrooms. The main floor has an open concept formal reception and dining-room area, with tall ceilings, high baseboards and windows, hardwood flooring and fireplace. Large den with fireplace leads to the wrap-around sunroom overlooking beautiful gardens. Main floor bedroom and laundry too. Mechanical systems and overall conditions of the house will allow you to unpack and enjoy. Central location. $499,900 MLS QR21504426 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

This two-year old home sits on a coveted street backing onto a natural wood setting.

A spacious foyer welcomes you into this lovely home. Main floor includes laundry room, pantry, plus three bedrooms and two baths (one ensuite), open-concept kitchen/dining/living room with 2-sided fireplace. Professional appliances in the kitchen are perfect for the foodie. Finished lower level is fantastic for visiting family, including two large multi-purpose rooms, washroom and storage. Paved drive, interlock walk, perennial gardens, and many upgrades. $529,000 MLS QR21506280 Darlene Eldridge**, Jim Wait*, Mark Davis*

Custom built 4 bedroom, 3 Ѕ bath home has only had one owner. The home is open concept with gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors throughout, propane fireplace, wood burning air tight fireplace, large master bedroom with ensuite and walk in dressing room. The outdoor living space is awaiting for the next backyard party with a salt water inground pool, hot tub, cabana with change room, and large pool house with bar, eating area and large billiards room. The detached garage has four bays to store all the toys, an office area, separate heating system and large private gym.

Only minutes to Picton and Belleville, this home has it all for the family. $549,000 MLS QR21505069 Lori Slik*

Splendid restoration of a classic 1838 County inn, now perfect as a family retreat or as an elegant B&B! Four bedrooms, all with ensuite baths, beautiful formal reception rooms with hand-painted detail, renovated kitchen and mechanical services. Double garage with adjoining space for studio or workshop. Truly an exquisite and authentic restoration. An outstanding opportunity! (Seller will consider selling additional acreage.) $559,000 MLS QR21503801 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Spacious, energy efficient and thoughtful design throughout this 4 bedroom, 3 bath stone home. High ceilings, custom tile work, incredible chef`s dream kitchen with huge walk-in pantry, commercial Jenn-Air range, fantastic working island and a great desk area all topped with Quartz counters. Huge maintenance free composite veranda plus a covered patio. Incredible master suite complete with 5 piece ensuite and a dream closet! 2nd level laundry. Radiant in-floor heating and central air, R60 insulation (Arxx). The 70 acre property is a magical private oasis of wildlife with a seasonal creek, rolling hills and limestone with trails to tour the forest and meadows, fruit trees and even concord grapes! $725,000 MLS QR21504163 Gail Forcht**

Captivating water views from a 1.7 acre lot, mins. to Picton, offering privacy and room for a tennis court/pool. This home boasts 3 beds and 3 baths and the addition of a great room with cathedral ceiling, spacious master with ensuite, walk in closet and 3 gas fireplaces, gourmet kitchen and dining room looking out to the water. One floor living, studio/family room filled with light that would suit an in-law suite or a perfect layout for a B & B and guests. $728,000 MLS QR21501768 Gail Forcht**

The property you have been looking for! Updated Century home with space for the whole family or perfect for a B&B. 24 acres with over 600’ of waterfront on Adolphus Reach.

Covered front veranda, original tin ceilings, pine and hardwood floors, fabulous trim and mouldings from the mid-1800`s! Renovated, finished and insulated space in the historic barn would make an excellent studio, bunkie or yoga space. 2 adjacent outbuildings in excellent condition. Stairs to the shore. Adolphus Reach is excellent for boating. Potential to sever. Great hobby farm. $875,000 MLS QR21503581 Shannon Warr-Hunter*

This fully brick 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom waterfront home is on 2.9 acres with mature trees for complete privacy. The home is a bungalow with a fully finished walk out basement, large guest suite above the garage, a detached 4 1/2 bay garage for all the water toys, decks off of every room that face the water to capture the views and outdoor living to the fullest. The decks have all been replaced with maintenance free composite decking, newer kitchen, large separate dining room, living room and family room with fireplace on the main floor and on the lower level. The home is located on the Bay of Quinte with all the amenities of Quinte West and Belleville, while enjoying the lifestyle of County living. $899,000 MLS QR21501073 Lori Slik*

A much-admired County landmark in the heart of Picton! This impeccably restored Colonial Revival classic is featured in “The Settler’s Dream” and other publications.

5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, exquisite period detail, two staircases and splendid entrance hall with fireplace, expansive verandahs and balconies and a recently-built carriage house. Unique opportunity! $915,000 MLS QR21501704 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

OUTSTANDING EAST LAKE ESTATE. 36.5 acres with over 1,000 feet of waterfront and your own private inlet. Two houses: an expansive, beautifully-built and gracious bungalow, and an adjacent three-bedroom cottage. Much-admired stone barn, plus large utility building. Truly a unique opportunity! $995,000 MLS QR21504399 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Spectacular family retreat on a sheltered cove in Prince Edward County! Stunning 6-year old house on over 2 acres, features 4 bedroom suites, amazing family room and huge waterside porch. Double and triple garages. Property can be run as a marina with 31 boat slips, 8 moorings and a clubhouse. Looking for a family live/work opportunity or a perfect situation for a snowbird? Opportunity! $995,000 QR21503344 & QR21503346 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Stunning contemporary custom-built 3 bed, 4 bath waterfront home with 35 x 15 foot boat slip & lift. Waterviews from nearly every room and spectacular sunsets! Hardwood and ceramic floors. Spacious gourmet kitchen, master bedroom with fireplace overlooks the water. Large recreation room, exercise room, sauna and hot tub. New roof and professionally landscaped with sprinklers. An immaculate home that is sure to impress! $998,000 MLS QR21501758 Gail Forcht**

Your own, all-inclusive resort minutes from Belleville! Seven remarkably quiet acres with mature trees, sprawling lawns, and exquisite landscaping! Add a pool and watch the sailboats drift by on the Bay of Quinte! Sophisticated stone executive home features three levels of wonderful family space including 4+1 bedrooms, a main floor den and family room, and expansive games areas. Triple garage, too! Early possession is possible. $1,050,000 MLS QR21506294 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Much-admired Waupoos farm on 80 acres right on Lake Ontario! Beautifully-renovated 1867 red brick farmhouse, handsome barn plus a charming cottage on the shoreline. Recent septic and dug well. Main house features cathedral ceilings, extensive decks and large screened porch. Main floor library and laundry. Incomparable family retreat! Price is $1,695,000 MLS QR21505033 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

Elegant and welcoming, the Merrill Inn has on several occasions been named one of the top 25 small hotels in Canada - and no wonder! Impeccably-updated and meticulously-maintained, its thirteen rooms offer private ensuite baths, and its fiftyseat restaurant and patio is one of the County`s busiest. Classic 1878 Victorian on 1.07 acres with parking for 24 cars. Substantial upgrades and renovations since 2002. Beautiful reception areas and exquisite detail throughout. Situated among other impressive historical buildings on Picton`s Main Street. Impressive financials available with signed confidentiality agreement. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! $2,600,000 MLS QR21500909 Laurie Gruer*, Sam Simone*, Monica Klingenberg*

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This all-season, private retreat is nestled among mature trees and exquisite perennial gardens on the shores of Long Reach. This spacious, bright, fourbedroom, custom-designed home takes full advantage of the scenic water`s edge. The easiest access to a remote property only 10 minutes from the 401 and Picton! $699,000 MLS QR21502862 Lori Slik*

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Country setting right in town! Romantic home, Circa 1873! Pool!

3 storey barn! $447,000

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Artisan`s Playground on 26 acres - Renovated century home w/ B&B + 2 rental suites in the coach house. 2-story gallery studio w/ heat&hydro. Pottery studio, summer kitchen and sleeping cabin. Fabulous 3 story red barn houses a welding shop, woodwork shop, and large bays for storage. An original County hops barn has a glass-blowing studio+vaulted ceiling to 2nd gallery. Convertible pavilion provides great space for events. Landscaped grounds with wood-fired pizza oven, BBQ pit, outdoor kitchen and pergola. Come and explore! $1,200,000 MLS QR21503442

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1 EAST MARY STREET The old adage `Don`t judge a book by its cover` rings true with this older home. You must see the interior to truly appreciate the blood, sweat & tears that has gone into this home. Completely & professionally renovated.

This 4 bedroom home features an open concept living design. Separate dining room. Sunroom with walk out to rear deck. Main floor laundry. Short walk to downtown, harbour & schools. $299,000 MLS QR21506336

3 bedroom bungalow with full finished basement. Maintenance Free exterior, mature trees and shrubs for privacy, 5 different varieties of Apple Trees, gardens with rhubarb, veronicanorton@bellnet.ca straw berries, raspberries and horse radish. A private 3 level deck. Within walking distance to in town shopping and parks. $250,000 MLS QR21501484 Call VERONICA NORTON, Sales Rep Office: 613-399-5900 613-922-1860

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WELLINGTON BUNGALOW Well kept 3+ bedroom home near the Community Centre. Open concept living room & kitchen with walk out to sunroom. Large family room with gas fireplace plus a large games room. Attached 2 car garage with inside entry. $259,000 MLS QR21506744

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SURPRISINGLY ROOMY Plan No. SHSW00534

This rugged cottage is more spacious than you’d expect from a mountain retreat, especially in the first-floor master suite.

From this generous private bedroom, there’s easy access to the full bathroom on one side and sliding doors to the deck on the other. A vaulted ceiling brings an airy feeling to the living room and dining area.

Don’t miss the cozy and bright bay that holds the fireplace. Upstairs, another big bedroom, a bath, and a loft provide space for visitors or family.

First Floor: 1,022 sq. ft.

Second Floor: 551 sq. ft.

Total: 1,573 sq. ft.

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PlanPlan No. SHSW00534 No. SHSW00534

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SURPRISINGLY ROOMY First Floor: 1,022 sq. ft.

Second Floor: 551 sq. ft.

Total: 1,573 sq. ft.

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