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RMHA AWARDS The Renfrew Minor Hockey Association handed out its 2010-11 awards at the Ma-Te-Way Activity Centre. They also capped the hockey season with their annual general meeting, which drew the largest turnout in years.

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Gallant a confirmed no-show The Renfrew County Federation of Agriculture calls it a “slap in the face” that RenfrewNipissing-Pembroke MP Cheryl Gallant will not be attending its all-candidates forum Thursday in Cobden.

As of noon Wednesday the organizers had received official confirmation that Gallant would be the only candidate not present.

The all-candidates meeting is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Cobden Agricultural Hall.

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Storm leaves its mark STEVE NEWMAN steve.newman@metroland.com

This week’s torrential rain and high winds created one of those storms that comes along every 75 years, says Renfrew development and works director Mike Asselin.

Environment Canada says about 100 millimetres (or more than four inches) of rain fell in a 24-hour period Sunday and Monday.

Hydro One officials said 11,000 Ontario households were without power Sunday, of which about 10,000 were in eastern Ontario.

Calls to Hydro One Sunday night indicated more than 5,000 households near Cobden and Eganville were without power for an hour or more.

In Renfrew, ravines were flowing like rivers and the Bonnechere River was full of fast-flowing sediment.

The ETM building on Hall Avenue was flooded and eight-foot high fencing at Marshalls was ripped up when several 4 x 4 wooden moorings were ripped out of the ground.

“All 29 of them,” said company owner Dave Bennett.

“It’s hard to remember when a storm came through like this.”

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O BROTHER! Lola Sine, a student at Our Lady of Fatima School in Renfrew, represented Zone G7 in the Royal Canadian Legion Public Speaking District competition held in Bells Corners on March 26. Lola won the zone finals held in Cobden, taking first place in the primary division with her speech Brother for Sale. She also won first place at the Renfrew Branch 148 contest. Deputy District Commander Ken Sorenti presents Lola with her second-place award. Photo courtesy of Ella Box

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Town council has approved a long-term agreement for exclusive use of Coca-Cola products at Ren-

frew’s recreation facilities. But the vote was far from unanimous.

The vote at Monday’s council meeting was 4-3 in favour of the sponsorship agreement. Dissenting votes came from Coun. Andrew

Evans, Coun. Gail Cole and Reeve Audrey Green. Mayor Bill Ringrose and councillors Clint McWhirter, Tom Anderson and Jim Miller voted in favour.

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Potential $20,000 embarrassment for Horton Township STEVE NEWMAN

tions were credited (from Horton’s bank account) to two employees in error. steve.newman@metroland.com An exception to normal Horton policy was apHorton Township is scrambling to recover about proved by council last week to accommodate one $20,000 after its administration mistakenly overpaid Retirement Savings Plan benefits to six employees.

Human resources committee members were told at their Jan. 24 meeting that the employees were asked to review options to pay back the overpayments.

According to minutes taken of the meeting, four of the “employees reported that after consideration they have rejected all options, as they don’t believe they should be responsible to pay back the money when it was an administrative error.”

The two other employees have yet to make arrangements to pay back the money owed. Of these two, one is on leave and the other has since retired, says Horton chief administrative officer Mackie McLaren.

“The township has sought legal opinions on what our responsibilities are for the employees and for the ratepayers,” McLaren told The Mercury.

“A copy of the lawyer’s opinion has been given to the (four) employees and we’re waiting for a (collective) reaction,” said McLaren.

Earlier options extended to the employees included a settlement of 50 per cent of the owed money.

The overpayments occurred over a four-year period. The overpayments range from about $700 to $5,000 per employee, for a total of about $20,000.

The confusion began after a new payroll program was established for the township in January 2006, says McLaren.

A software company set up the program that resulted in the township portion of the RSP benefits being paid to the employees twice.

The errors occurred while Linda Novossiltzeff was treasurer. She is currently on extended sick leave.

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FOCUS ON FORESTS Liberal candidate Christine Tabbert attended the woodlot owners annual meeting Saturday in Eganville where she listened to their concerns.

For a full report on the meeting’s featured speaker, see next week’s Renfrew Mercury.

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Public debates begin JOHN CARTER

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Let the debates begin.

It appears the five candidates for MP in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke will be attending most of the all-candidates forums to be held in the next two weeks.

Even Conservative Cheryl Gallant, who has been selective in choosing which meetings to attend in past campaigns, has indicated she will be at three of four of the all-candidates forums in the next week.

Her campaign manager, Brendan Mulvihill, said Tuesday she would be attending the Sportsman’s Club debate Wednesday, as well as this Saturday morning’s Valley Heritage Radio forum and the Greater Arnprior Chamber of Commerce all-candidates meeting Tuesday, April 19.

However, she wasn’t planning to be at the debate tonight (Thursday) hosted by the Renfrew Branch of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture at 7:30 in the Cobden Agricultural Hall.

Liberal Christine Tabbert is attending all three forums this week and will decide in the next day or two if she will attend the Arnprior session, which will be held at Arnprior District High School at 7 p.m.

NDP candidate Eric Burton, the Green’s Rosanne Van Schie and Independent Hec Clouthier have indicated they will be attending all the forums.

As for the Valley Heritage Radio debate, the public is welcome to watch it live at

the station on Burnstown Road from 10:30 to noon or listen on the radio. COGECO television is taping the forum for airing later.

The public is invited to submit questions for the candidates to moderator Bruce McIntyre at info@heritagevalleyradio.ca. The questions will be directed to candidates in the first half of the meeting and the second half will feature individual debates with candidates going one-on-one.

FIVE IN THE RACE There were no surprises when the deadline to register to run in the May 2 election passed Monday. There will be five candidates in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke: Burton, Clouthier, Gallant, Tabbert and Van Schie.

VOTER CARDS Election Canada is advising voters who did not receive their voter information card by Wednesday (April 13) or received a card with incorrect information to contact the riding’s Elections Canada office (1-866-275-1647) no later than 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26. Electors who receive a card for a deceased person or someone unknown at the address should also contact the office.

Elections Canada mailed almost 24 million cards April 6 to 8 to people on the list of electors.

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Independent candidate Hec Clouthier of Petawawa travels down the main street of Renfrew Thursday while campaigning to win the riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke. The driver is one of Clouthier’s three sons, Tyler.

Billboard approach for Clouthier STEVE NEWMAN steve.newman@metroland.com

Independent candidate Hec Clouthier is running his federal election campaign out of his Petawawa home, and on the road.

He and campaign supporters have four trucks out and about the riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke driving billboard signs sporting Clouthier’s likeness from a painting done several years ago and motto, “Give ‘em Hec!” “To run a credible campaign you have to spend between $40,000 and $50,000, and I plan to spend that,” said Clouthier.

However, he says advertising and other campaign expenses mean he doesn’t have the finances to open campaign offices across the riding.

The billboards will help deal with that shortfall, says Clouthier.

He says donations are coming in, but admits changes a few years ago to the Elections Finances Act make fundraising more difficult, since campaign donations must be personal, but not business, contributions.

“It’s problematic, but it’s problematic for the other candidates too.”

Clouthier made travelling-billboard visits to Renfrew and Arnprior Thursday, while he has made billboard visits to such other communities as Combermere, Barry’s Bay, Eganville, Killaloe, Pembroke and Petawawa.

“Every day you have to be out there,” insisted Clouthier, who was elected the local Liberal MP in 1997 and defeated by current Conservative Cheryl Gallant in 2000. She has remained the MP since then.

To contact Clouthier, call 613-687-6423 or visit hecclouthier.com.

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Susan Love of Renfrew will have to wait weeks, perhaps months, to hear the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal’s decision on the appeal of the man convicted of the second-degree murder of her son, Phillip Love.

Love, who grew up in Arnprior, was living and working in Darmouth, N.S., where he was badly beaten Jan. 8, 2007. He died nearly a week later in hospital.

In the January 2010 trial overseen by Justice Felix Cacchione, Shane Ward was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for at least 16 years.

Ward’s appeal hearing was held Friday morning (April 8) in Halifax before Justices Jamie Saunders, Duncan Beveridge and David Farrar.

One of the major topics of argument for Ward’s lawyer, Alfred Seaman, and senior Crown counsel Jim Gumpert revolved around whether the judge erred in allowing jury members to hear evidence that Ward’s brother, Matthew, yelled over the telephone to his stepfather James Oickle that Shane had killed Phil.

Seaman argued that the evidence was prejudicial to the jury. He also said the judge erred in failing to instruct the jury on the issue of provocation, which could have formed a defence for Ward’s actions, reported the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

In the previous trial, the stepfather’s testimony was presented for the strict purpose of narrative and not as admissible evidence against Shane, Gumpert told The Mercury.

The narrative also helped to explain why no one called 9-1-1 for some time, said Gumpert.

Evidence states Oickle arrived at the scene and got Matthew to call 9-1-1. Six days later, Jan. 14, Love was taken off life-support and several of his organs were donated to organ recipients.

Gumpert said his argument was the trial judge didn’t make a mistake because he had already directed the jury to treat such evidence in a certain way. And even if the judge did error, Gumpert says there was “no miscarriage of justice because there is an overwhelming case of evidence.”

The evidence, says Gumpert, includes the facts that Shane Ward visited at least three households seeking refuge from the police, during which time he told people he’d had a fight and hit someone with a baseball bat.

If one person hit another person with a baseball bat and the recipient of the blows subsequently lies on the floor not moving (before later dying), how can the comment that Shane has killed Phil be any worse, argued Gumpert.

Ironically, the beating occurred at a birthday party for Matthew.

A decision by the panel of justices isn’t expected for at least several weeks, maybe two months, says Gumpert because of the Court of Appeal’s busy schedule and the thorough nature of Ward’s hearing.

If Ward’s second-degree murder charge was reduced to manslaughter, the new sentence could range from a suspended sentence to life in prison.

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Town’s 2011 OPP contract to cost over $2 million STEVE NEWMAN

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Treasurer Keray O’Reilly learned he’d gained a few thousand dollars for Renfrew’s 2011 budget during Monday night’s council meeting, The savings will be about $20,000 because the 2011 OPP contract will contain lower per-unit costs for January through April, and higher numbers for the remainder of this year.

“It is relief for 2011 ... so it helps a bit,” said O’Reilly.

Sgt. Paul Legault, a contract policing analyst with the Ontario Provincial Police, addressed town council Monday. Renfrew OPP Staff-Sgt. Colin Slight also provided periodic insights into reasons for the town’s policing costs.

The contract has yet to be formally approved, but the Renfrew Police Services Board has given its stamp of approval. RPSB members include council’s representatives, Reeve Audrey Green and Coun. Tom Anderson.

The contract’s entire budget, which pays for the full-time equivalency of 13 officers and civilian staff, amounts to $2,079,648.

This includes nearly $1.9 million in benefits and salaries. The remainder is for a variety of operating expenses, including vehicle usage that averages nearly $10,000 per officer. Telephone costs account for another $1,348 per uniformed officer.

For January through April, all contract items not related to salary, such as car and communication expenses, will carry forward at the same unit costs as in the 2010 police contract. Salaries, on the other hand, have recently risen just over four per cent.

Sgt. Legault explained that council’s passing of an amending bylaw will allow Renfrew to maintain those 2010 costs until the end of April.

Renfrew’s 2010 OPP contract was estimated at $1,842,759, but refunds reduced the cost to $1,645,616.

Police officers have recently received salary increases of just over four per cent, but their salaries will be frozen for the next two years.

The Renfrew OPP detachment, with more than 40 uniformed officers, also serves the municipalities of Admaston-Bromley, Horton, Whitewater Region, Greater Madawaska and McNab-Braeside.

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Provincial $100,000 list keeps growing

JOHN CARTER

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The Renfrew County public school board had 52 employees on the list, the Catholic school board 32 and Renfrew County 13. But the Town of Renfrew has not one solitary soul listed.

It’s the annual Ontario ‘Sunshine’ list of public service workers who are paid more than $100,000 by taxpayers.

There were about 300 Renfrew County public service employees among 71,478 in Ontario making at least $100,000 in 2010, an 11 per cent increase from 2009.

In the south end of the county, only the Town of Arnprior had an employee on the list, CAO Larry Donaldson at $116,346.

None of the area’s townships had any employees making $100,000-plus.

Renfrew Victoria Hospital had four employees in the $100,000 club, the same as Arnprior District Memorial Hospital.

RVH CEO Randy Penney (who also is CEO of St. Francis Memorial Hospital in Barry’s Bay) made $218,317 and the hospital’s three vice-presidents – Julia Boudreau, Paul Chatelain and Christine Ferguson – made between $122,818 and $126,952.

SCHOOL BOARD EMPLOYEES The Renfrew County District School Board’s 52 employees on the list, up from 44 in 2009, included six administrators, 27 principals, 13 vice-principals and four secondary school teachers.

Leading the way were director of education Roger Clarke at $179,752, superintendent of business Lisa SchimmensKuehl $148,487, and superintendents of education Dennis Jenkins, Debra Rantz and Gayle Bishop at $141,824, $139,004 and $131,200 respectively.

At the Renfrew County Catholic Board,

the number of employees on the list increased from 28 to 32. They included director of education Michele Arbour at $166,572 and superintendent of business Mary Lynn Schauer and superintendent of education Jaime Perry both at $144,061. Catholic school board employees making at least $100,000 also included 22 principals, three vice-principals and one teacher.

The County of Renfrew’s 13 employees making over $100,000 was up three from 2009.

They included outgoing CAO and Native claims co-ordinator Norm Lemke $232,031, development and property director turned CAO Jim Hutton $154,814, treasurer/deputy clerk Jim Kutschke $155,669, public works and engineering director David Darch $128,164, human resources director Bruce Beakley $129,964, social services director David Anderson 129,501, emergency services director Michael Nolan $124,265 and deputy chief of operations Michel Ruest $102,900.

LEGAL FIELD The other five county employees listed are in the health field, including Miramichi Lodge administrator Shelley Sheedy at $123,380 and Bonnechere Manor administrator Shayne Hoelke at $122,470.

In the legal field, provincial court judges Jane Wilson, Bob Selkirk, Grant Radley-Walters and John Waugh each earned $250.149, up about $5,000 from 2009 but still 10,000 below what they made in 2008.

Crown attorney Jason Nicol earned $175,607. Four Renfrew County-based assistant crown attorneys made the list – Peter Hageraats earned $192,032, Teresa James made $176,452 and John Pepper $167,402. Justice of the peace Barry Moran earned $115,111.

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Admaston-Bromley councillors underscore stands LUCY HASS Lucy.hass@metroland.com

Admaston-Bromley council has, once again, reaffirmed its position on three key issues on municipal agendas these days.

A unanimous resolution at the April 7 council meeting once again endorsed heritage designation for the Ottawa River.

Mayor Raye-Anne Briscoe also used coloured maps to underscore ongoing concerns regarding farm and forest rebates and the unfair burden on rural municipalities who receive no taxes on large swaths of the land within their boundaries.

Nor has it changed its position that it wants to remain a client of Beauman Industries’ recycling services but has no interest in its acquisition.

GAS PAINS Admaston-Bromley council also received a report on diesel and gas usage and soaring prices. The report was based on the first three months of 2009, 2010 and this year.

The totals were for the purchase of

clear diesel, coloured diesel and gas.

Total usage in 2009 was 26,123 litres at $20,861.34.

In 2010 usage increased to 31,236 with a price tag of $27,124.23 – up 30.02 per cent from 2009.

Over the first three months of 2011, the township purchased 31,629 litres at a cost of $32,485. 36. That represents a 19.77 per cent increase from 2010.

BUILDING PERMITS In other municipal business, council accepted the March building report that indicated five permits were issued last month.

Five building permits were issued in Admaston-Bromley Township during the month of March.

One was for construction of a $200,000 dwelling and two for residential renovations valued at $25,000 and $5,000.

Another was for solar panels valued at $63,000 and the other for a $38,000 grain bin.

One sewage permit was also issued last month.

Several OPP officers were on the list, including new Renfrew OPP Detachment Commander Colin Slight at $116,348 and recently appointed Killaloe OPP Detachment Commander Paul Dowdall at $108,918.

Several local Ontario Power Generation officials joined thousands of OPG and Hydro One employees on the list, including OPG president Tom Mitchell, who earned more than $1.3 million.

A dozen employees of the Champlain Community Care Access Centre and eight of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network STAFF are on the list. Outgoing LHIN CEO Robert Cushman made

$296,354.

Seven employees of Renfrew County Family and Children’s Services and several Algonquin College officials are on the six-figure list.

Renfrew County medical officer of health Dr. Michael Corriveau wasn’t listed, but was a late addition for 2009, when he made $256,474. The health unit’s director of corporate affairs, Catherine Bloskie, also made the 2008 list at $109,172.

Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP John Yakabuski made $137,063.

For the full list of $100,000-plus income earners, see www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/2011.

SMELT GATE - PART 4 This installment of “Smelt Gate” will explain what we need to do in order to end the ecological imbalance imposed on Muskrat Lake by the Natural Resources Ministry.

First - petitions must be circulated to all lake front property owners - sportsman / environmentalist groups - conservation clubs - area businesses and fish and game organizations - after which our Provincial M.P.P. John Yakabuski will be asked to approach the Ontario Government about ending the Ministries arbitrary trout stocking program in Muskrat Lake.

If they refuse - we will then turn to our Federal Member of Parliament who will be asked to deliver our representations to the Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans - because they have the authority to override the Provincial Government in this affair.

Moreover - the Ontario Landowners Association will be asked to support our efforts to save the Rainbow Smelt fishery - before the damage to this unique species becomes irreversible.

As for Renfrew County Councils support - that remains doubtful at best - because last August County Council voted unanimously to endorse the “Heritage Site” designation.

Nevertheless - this matter remains of vital concern to us all - because if we don’t put an end to unwanted interferences in our valley now - we will end up under the boots of even more addle brained bureaucrats and the arbitrary controls they are determined to impose upon us.

As an example of what can happen to private property owners - we have the Clarington Ontario family - who faced fines of $50,000 after contravening some asinine regulations - by hosting a freedom seminar on their family farm attended by 72 people.

Fortuitously - they held a “Land Patent” on their property that trumped the province - and as a result - the Supreme Court - ruled against the regulations - and dismissed the case.

This “Land Patent” protection costs little to obtain and is something - every property Owner in Canada should acquire - because a “Land Patent” is simply another weapon in the arsenal of private property protections available to us in order to fight the mind-boggling intrusions of government agency bureaucrats - who are determined to legislate our rights and freedoms out of existence - and they will soon try to get rid of this “Land Patent” protection - because it represents a tremendous legal impediment to their escalating agenda of regulatory oppression.

In any case we don’t want the Resources Ministry - backed by Toronto planners - local politicians and Heritage site proponents - to gain another beachhead in our valley from which more constraints and depredations such as Muskrat Lake has undergone can be imposed.

Folks - we are not the people destroying our lands and forests - fish and game - or the pristine valley God in his infinite wisdom saw fit to provide us.

Nor are we the enemies of Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources whose job it is to protect everything we hold dear - but we are the enemies of Resource Ministry functionaries who have meddled with something very sacred - and we want it stopped!

And when the need arises - we will name these individuals publicly - in the interim we invite them to consider these questions - are we fed up - angry and disgusted?

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Continued from front page The town’s sewage-treatment plant also had its highest-ever flow on the Bonnechere River.

The previous largest flow was measured at a rate of 44,000 cubic metres per day, says Asselin.

The new plant has a 50,000 cubic-metre capacity, but the plant measured flow, at its highest point, of 56,000 cubic metres.

“In summary, it was a rainfall that’s not common,” said Asselin.

Renfrew resident Mike Bergin, who was out taking photos afterwards, called it a major storm that came with no real warning.

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EDITORIAL

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Hockey, politics collide

RCI helps make cancer history

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nly in Canada would hockey trump politics.

This week, the French-language TV debate amongst the leaders of Canada’s major political parties – minus Green Party leader Elizabeth May, of course – were due to debate – or evade – the big questions of this campaign in our other official language today (Thursday, April 14).

Then came word that the first game of the Stanley Cup playoff series between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins would be taking place on the same day. So, Heaven and Earth were moved to accommodate that other staple of Canadian life – hockey.

But for all of the complaining about our priorities of what this showed as the priorities of Canadian voters – or lack thereof – this latest wrinkly in Election 2011 is interesting for what lies beneath.

“All I’m asking is that the debate take place Wednesday so that Quebeckers have as much access to this debate as Canadians,” said Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe this past Sunday.

Two things about what he said – Francophones do not live just in Quebec, first of all. They live right here in eastern Ontario, and we see their schools in our midst in places nearby like Kanata, Merrickville and Carleton Place. New Brunswick is a bilingual province and Francophones live all across this country.

Also, his request was accepted by the other parties, thereby showing that, even for arcane matters like this, compromise is possible, and that federalism and reasonable accommodation – which Duceppe and his fellow Quebeckers are grappling with themselves – are working, and their separatist vision are not.

This decision also shows that, in a small but real way, some politicians are actually listening. “Were I not in this election, I might make the same decision,” to watch the game instead of the debate, said NDP leader Jack Layton, himself a native Montrealer.

We also got an interesting look into the minds the broadcasting consortium, which is running the debates.

“I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone who wants the debate to be held on a night when many Francophones are otherwise engaged,” said Troy Reeb, chair of the consortium. Like Duceppe’s comments, there is a lot at play here. While the Canadiens fan base is mostly francophone, it is not exclusively so. More than a few people out here cheer for Les Habs.

Also, like the people who joke that French speakers sound like they’re getting more information during the safety demonstration on Air Canada flights, more than a few anglophones will tune in to the French-language debates – with translation, of course – either because they missed Tuesday night’s English show down, or because they are simply curious, or don’t want to miss anything…or to make sure that the politicians are advancing one theory in one language, and backtracking in another.

Either way, game on.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Concerned with voter treatment

To the editor: Re: Beulah Wright’s letter to the Editor concerning the way she was treated when she wished to place her ballot in the box herself.

The polling officer who refused to allow her to do so in a rather mean-spirited way seemed not to know the law. A quick browse of the website Elections_ Canada_On-line gives a very clear explanation of the rules. Ms. Wright was right and there was no reason for the gentle-

man to have been rude.

I am concerned because I see a decline in the number of people voting in recent years. I hope that Ms Wright will not be turned off voting because of this incident. We tend to take our democratic rights for granted and some have become jaded with the process or, in the case of this official, he may not have been trained in the reasons for such rules.

Carolyn Edson Renfrew

Where are our Christian leaders?

To the editor: I was just thinking about the election and the advance poll.

Why, when we are a country based on the Christian religion, are we holding advance polls Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday?

The polls open at noon on Good Friday, the most sacred time in the Christian faith.

I was asked to work on the advance polls, went through the training and realized I was selling out my beliefs for a

couple of gold coins, and I resigned.

The next question is where are our Christian leaders about this? The Catholic church, the United church should be in the forefront and demanding that the time be changed. It seems more important to change a debate to accommodate a hockey playoff game.

What is next? This might mean the end of Christmas as well.

Just my thoughts.

Diana Wakely Renfrew

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To the editor: After a great deal of planning over the past two months, RCI finally held its kick-off breakfast and assembly for the Relay for Life on Friday, April 1.

Thanks to the generous support of the school and community, over $2000 was raised for the Canadian Cancer Society – our highest total to date.

First of all, I would like to thank all of the people who attended the event.

Secondly, I would like to say a special thank you to Scott and Sons Hardware Store, Brian Smith, David Stewart and Tim Norton’s for their various donations.

I would like to make a special mention of Wanda at Stone Meadows Cooking store, who generously offered me her knowledge and expertise of holding and organizing events, like the one held at RCI. I would like to say a major thank you to the Miss Teen Ontario East participants.

They made great pancakes, served, and helped clean up afterwards.

I would also like to say thank you to the RCI cafeteria staff who cooked up the sausages for the breakfast.

To conclude, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Barber, Ms. Cox, Mr. Frew and all other staff advisors and student volunteers were the backbone of this event.

I know that the Canadian Cancer Society appreciates the support given by our community to the Relay for Life event.

This incredible generosity has meant that we have been able to raise over $300, 000 in the last four years – getting us closer to our goal of making Cancer History!

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CONSERVATIVE - CHERYL GALLANT

Lower taxes to create jobs

LIBERAL - CHRISTINE TABBERT

Committed to communication

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Cheryl Gallant says one of her proudest achievements in her 10-plus years as Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MP is helping create jobs for Valley residents in a time of economic upheaval and change.

She is asking to be re-elected, arguing that electing a Conservative majority federal government is Canadians’ best chance to protect jobs and complete the country’s recovery from the global economic recession.

“The economy’s the number one issue on everyone’s minds,” she says. The ‘Here for Canada’ Conservative policy platform will continue to create an environment that will provide for more jobs, she says, adding that keeping taxes low is the best way to stimulate economic growth.

The controversial MP admits she has deeply-held conservative views, but says they are in line with most of her constituents. The Conservatives are “taking action on the priorities of Canadians who work hard and play by the rules,” she says.

Despite criticism, she isn’t inclusive enough, she insists she does her best to ensure she collects input from as many people as possible in the riding through surveys and town hall meetings.

She says she tries to anticipate what upcoming legislation is of most interest to her constituents and get input, which helps shape the way she, and her government, will proceed.

“Democracy is not just in play during elections,” she said. “Fortunately, we have a very active citizenry (in this riding).”

Being able to help the constituents in causes important to them has led to some of her most satisfying moments as MP, says Gallant, citing the government’s decision to strengthen food allergen labelling regulations.

She says local input provided in her information mailers and a well-attended public info session impressed on the health minister how important the issue is to people.

New labelling regulations that will come into effect on Aug. 4, 2012 will honour the memory of Valley anaphylactic shock victim Sabrina Shannon and be imitated across North America, she says.

Liberal candidate Christine Tabbert is ready to bring a fresh, new style of representation to local federal politics.

“My representation style will be much like my campaign style has been for the past year and a half – very open, accessible and interested in hearing the views of residents in the riding,” she says.

Tabbert is also committed to hosting at least one town hall gathering a year where residents can ask any question they want, and get answers.

“Whether it’s a minority or a majority (government) I will be working hard to make sure our residents’ concerns are heard,” she says.

“Right now we have a representative (Cheryl Gallant) in a minority government, she’s a member of the government and her own government doesn’t want to hear her,” says Tabbert. “And so I think the starting point has to be establishing credibility.”

Tabbert’s top three issues in this election are jobs for youth, care for seniors and care for soldiers and their families.

“As I travel around the entire riding there are concerns about people being able to maintain their lives here in the Ottawa Valley, stay here after they graduate from high school, find a quality job and build a life here. That’s something I want to address,” says Tabbert.

To that end, she is proud of the Liberal Party’s plans for early childhood education and its Learning Passport.

“Those are concrete ways that we can invest in our youth and give them the tools that they need to succeed,” says Tabbert.

“But we also need to find opportunities for them once they’ve committed to developing themselves.”

That means creating jobs.

“One of the things that I want to do is try to see us get our fair share of money in the Eastern Ontario Development Program. Then we need to work hard to make sure those funds get distributed in a fair way to create opportunities in this riding,” she says.

Tabbert grew up on a farm just outside Pembroke and graduated from the University of Guelph where she earned a spot on the Dean’s List for her strong academic performance.

She then attended law school at the University of Western Ontario and was called to the bar in 2000.

She is employed with leading international law firm Fasken Martineau, specializes in civil and commercial litigation, and was made a partner in the firm in 2006.

How she wants to pursue a career in federal politics and ‘pay it forward,’ help-

SEEKING FIFTH STRAIGHT TERM Gallant, who is seeking her fifth straight election victory, has been the riding’s MP since she upset then Liberal Hec Clouthier in 2000.

She disputes the contention by her

Cheryl Gallant opponents she has done little to create jobs in the riding since then. She maintains the Conservative government has taken major steps to provide the infrastructure investments needed to attract new types of industry and development to the area and to support jobs at AECL and CFB Petawawa.

The federal, provincial and municipal governments are working together to spread high-speed Internet service throughout the riding. The federal government has also funded everything from bridges to doctor recruitment (through supporting a residency program) that will help the riding, she says.

Gallant points out the government has also provided funding and encouragement for college and Employment Insurance programs to retrain workers laid off when industries closed.

Workers are given the education and skills to fill other jobs that are going begging, particularly in the skilled trades, she says. “If you wanted something repaired, you know where the shortages are,” she says, adding, “you usually have to wait several weeks.”

Gallant says the government will also implement programs, such as ‘Helmet to Hard Hat’, to ease the transition of soldiers to civilian life.

Another key to job creation is to find new markets for Canadian products.

Farmers and others realize they can’t always depend on the recession-battered U.S. economy, she says. As a result, the government has worked out new trade deals finding markets for food products in Japan and hardwoods in China.

The wood pellet plant being set up in the Pontiac will help forest companies in this riding, as it gives them a place for their pulp wood, she adds.

See ‘Gallant’, Page 13

Christine Tabbert ing today’s youth to follow their dreams as well.

Tabbert also believes seniors should have security, dignity and support.

“Our family care plan is an investment in our seniors and in our children. It is a plan that would allow families to take time off work, in a manner similar to the employment insurance fund, to be able to care for aging relatives when they’re ailing and sick.

“But more than that,” she says “we want to strengthen the Canadian Pension Plan, invest more money into the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and provide Canadians – right now – with an opportunity to invest in a supplementary Canada Pension Plan so that they can save, so that when they become seniors, they have security and dignity.”

Tabbert is also concerned how the government treats and respects its veterans.

“Now we have a government that came in with a mandate that they were going to improve the lives of veterans and they’ve, instead, taken veterans’ private information and used it against them.

And they hired an ombudsman, didn’t listen to a word he said and eventually got rid of him.”

FARM GIRL AT HEART Farming and forestry are also part of her personal heritage.

“I know the struggles of farm life because I grew up on a (dairy) farm in the riding. It’s not easy to operate a family farm these days and it’s getting harder and harder all the time,” she says.

“We have committed to building farm programs from the farm up rather than from Ottawa down.”

See ‘Tabbert’, Page 12

“We’re taking action on the priorities of Canadians who work hard and play by the rules.”

“Whether it’s a minority or a majority government, I will be working hard to make sure our residents’ concerns are heard.”

Cheryl Gallant, Conservative Party of Canada

Christine Tabbert, Liberal Party of Canada

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RENFREW-NIPISSING-PEMBROKE VOTES NDP - ERC BURTON

INDEPENDENT - HECTOR CLOUTHIER

Seniors, employment among priorities

Hec of a candidate

SHERRY HAAIMA

STEVE NEWMAN

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Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke’s new federal New Democratic Party candidate Eric Burton may be young, but he’s already got political experience under his belt that’s helping him in his new role.

The 30-year-old Arnprior-born and raised Burton, who won the uncontested NDP nomination April 2 in Cobden, says he will draw on what he learned in four years as a municipal councillor in Arnprior as he campaigns leading up to the May 2 election.

“I have the benefit of my record,” said Burton, a married father of three young kids. “I do think that by all accounts I kept my integrity intact throughout my whole four-year term.”

While Burton said some people have suggested he lost his bid for the reeve seat in the 2010 municipal election after having opposed a proposed Wal-Mart development, he never wavered in his stance.

“I’m very proud of that,” he said.

While some politicians have to keep close track of past promises and conversations and are regularly exposed for actions contrary to what they’re saying, there’s something to be said for standing by your beliefs.

“You don’t have to remember everything you’ve ever said because you know in your heart how you stand on things,” said Burton.

His council experience will benefit him as he addresses some of the key NDP issues. “There were times at the council table when it was difficult to speak up,” said Burton. “At times people didn’t want to have the discussion at all let alone hear what I had to say about it.”

While lots of words are being bandied about while the campaign’s running, the real work starts after the vote, he said.

“Winning an election is only a means to an end. Winning an election is not the end in and of itself,” he said. “That’s the difference between true community leaders and politicians.”

He warned voters to beware campaign promises that are being tossed around.

“I think the voters really should be looking at these promises,” he said. “Are they a one-time thing? Is it money just being tossed around loosely? Or is it a permanent solution?”

So far Burton’s been busy touring the riding, getting signs up and talking to voters. He has opened a Pembroke office, which will be his main headquarters, though much of the work will be done out of his home, alongside his campaign manager wife Mandi.

Whether it’s meeting with students at the Pembroke campus of Algonquin College or talking with voters at the Greater Arnprior Chamber of Commerce,

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Eric Burton Burton wants to hear people’s concerns and, moreover, see what can be done to address them.

“The goal is to get out and recruit volunteers and supporters. There are a lot of people excited about this campaign,” he said.

Also high on his list of priorities is encouraging people to get out and vote.

He has encountered a lot of voter apathy and those who feel this election will bring about the same results.

The public has lost faith in politicians, Burton said, which is something he’d like to change. “That’s not easy because it’s not like that happened overnight,” he said. “People feel politicians don’t represent them.”

Burton said his time on the hustings will be spent not only “shaking hands and kissing babies” but also listening to what the voters have to say and seeing what can be done to help them.

“It’s not all just photo ops,” said Burton. “It’s about working with people to address their needs.”

An example is the owner of a Deep River plumbing business that is trying to obtain a licence to facilitate the expansion of his company. Dyslexia and other factors have complicated his efforts and Burton would like to help the man.

“None of the other candidates or our Member of Parliament would give him the time of day,” said Burton.

“They’re more concerned about how they look in photo ops and who said what on a personal basis than the real issues facing the people,” he said.

Among the main issues being championed by the NDP is seniors in poverty, See ‘Burton ’, Page 13

“It’s about working with people to address their needs.”

Eric Burton, New Democratic Party

He loves horses, hunting, wearing hats and going the long haul.

That’s Hector Clouthier, 61, who’s trying to unseat the Conservative incumbent in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke.

It could be a long uphill battle against the popular Cheryl Gallant, who received 61.1 per cent of the vote in the last election. But Clouthier, a resident of Petawawa, says several recent Gallant gaffes − in critics’ eyes − are about to turn the tables on the MP who has even been criticized by her party leader.

Clouthier has campaigned since June 2010 after resigning as executive director of the Ontario Harness Racing Industry Association to focus on the federal campaign.

“I’m the underdog in this, that’s for sure,” says Clouthier.

After an unsuccessful bid for office in 1993, he was elected in 1997 as the Liberal MP, thus succeeding long-time MP Len Hopkins. But, against his better judgment, he made supportive comments of the long-gun registry at the Pembroke Sportman’s Club all-candidates that sent supporters flocking to Gallant’s side.

Recent comments by Renfrew County residents suggest many former Gallant supporters are about to jump ship. But it remains to be seen if it’s enough to turn the tide, since candidate Christine Tabbert and the Liberals are thought to have significant, traditional support in the riding.

Hec, who was named after his dad, came into this world as an extremely premature baby weighing three pounds, three ounces. But there has been a bounce in his step for the longest time.

Call it bravado, self-confidence or the desire to talk, Clouthier speaks his mind (usually while wearing a fedora), and won’t stop doing that, win or lose.

As his billboards and several campaign signs say: “Give ‘em Hec!” PLENTY OF ENERGY And why not. He has the energy to do so, partly because of his running.

The life-long runner didn’t run his first marathon until age 51, but in the last decade he has completed 23 full marathons, 12 half-marathons and two 30-km races.

He’s skipping the 2011 Boston Marathon this month, but plans to run the New York Marathon in the fall.

The desire for more endorphins, it appears, may also have carried over to the political landscape.

He loved being the MP, which he wants to be again.

“I absolutely loved being the Member of

Hector Clouthier Parliament. In a crazy sort of way, it may have hurt me because people thought I was having too much fun.”

He says he also wants that opportunity while bringing to the riding the voice of an Independent candidate who doesn’t have to toe the party line.

Like when he tried to justify the longgun registry Bill C-68.

“I was ordered to defend the bill,” admits Clouthier. “I tried to justify it, and when you’re trying to defend something that is indefensible (it’s a problem).”

A decade later, he’s still taking heat for his stand.

Ironically, Clouthier points out that he never actually voted for the bill, while Stephen Harper did in April 1995.

There are more important things in life than our guns, says Clouthier. “The three most important things are family, health and our jobs. Whether we register one or 50 guns should not be on our (topthree priority) list.”

But he assumes the blame for his 11year-old comments. “At the end of the day it was my fault. I defended Bill C-68 that I didn’t want to defend.”

Last year, Clouthier met Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff to discuss the possibility of seeking the Liberal candidacy. Clouthier says Ignatieff balked at the former MP’s notion he would vote as his constituents wanted, not as the Liberal Party wanted.

“I figured, ‘My political career is over.’

But then I started making some enquiries with local reeves, local mayors and some opinion-makers … and heard that Mrs. Gallant wasn’t delivering the goods she said she was going to deliver.”

See ‘Clouthier’, Page 12

“I absolutely loved being the Member of Parliament.

In a crazy sort of way, it may have hurt me because people thought I was having too much fun.

Hector Clouthier, Independent

GREEN PARTY-

For more democracy, more green STEVE NEWMAN steve.newman@metroland.com

Rosanne Van Schie’s upbringing in Timmins, Ont., was as varied, recreational and invigorating as most children ever experience.

Her dad emigrated from Holland after the Second World War through Halifax’s Pier 69 while not knowing how to ask for much more in English than apple pie and coffee. But he became part of the logging industry in northern Ontario, married, and raised three children who embraced the gold-mining town’s landscape of varied cultures, languages and food.

Van Schie’s dad, Johannes, also worked, in the 1990s, as the campaign manager for Liberal MP Peter Thalheimer.

Years later, Rosanne Van Schie is running as the candidate for the Green Party in the riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke and suspecting her dad would have approved of her decision.

She says her dad came to Canada for democracy and political freedom after experiencing the German occupation of his homeland. So she practically bristles when she says a major platform in her campaign is the lack of attention to democratic government by the Conservatives.

“I really decided to do this (run for office) because of the threat to democracy by this (Conservative) government, and to bring a voice from the local voters up to Parliament,” she stresses.

“The large-party politics seems to be dysfunctional and the voice of the people from the local riding is not making it (to Parliament Hill).”

Harper’s two granted requests for prorogation of Parliament (in 2008 and 2009) are insulting, says Van Schie.

The Conservatives’ refusal to face a vote of confidence in the House of Commons, by closing the doors of Parliament, leaves her saying: “At that point, I felt Stephen Harper was treating the business of Parliament like it was his own business and not the business of Canadians.

“When I see democracy being broken down like this, this puts me back to what Canadians fought for in the first and second world wars and where we are now. I’m very emotional about it … When we come back (to talk about) Canada’s reputation in the wars and the (tremendous Canadian) support for our troops, it’s always been about democracy and freedom.”

And, as if to add insult to injury, Van Schie says Prime Minister Harper has also failed to uphold Canada’s climate-change commitments in the Kyoto Accord.

In fact, Van Schie was a speaker at the 2009 conference in Copenhagen, where Canada was bad-mouthed by many countries for inaction. At the same conference, Van Schie met Canada’s Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

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Rosanne Van Schie Van Schie’s other prominent platform issues are a newer, greener economy both in her riding and across Canada, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint by taking more responsible actions in such industries as forestry and agriculture.

Already, the 47-year-old says Renfrew County is a mover-and-shaker, as a leader in green projects.

The county already has a better reputation that most for movement in projects related to biogas, micro-fit solar systems, food cooperatives, eco-tourism and the 100-mile diet, she says.

PIONEER RIDING POTENTIAL “This really is a green riding, and it could do so much better with a Green representative in the House. It could be a pioneer riding in Canada for the Green Party.”

Van Schie isn’t just green. She’s also bilingual, and has her three children enrolled in French school.

Her kids are also part of what Van Schie calls an increasingly green new generation.

“I think they’re a new generation that thinks entirely different than us.

“They’re a technologically-inclined generation that is learning to recycle, reuse and reduce.”

While she hopes more and more youth connect with the Green Party, Van Schie has already been inroads in some of her own work with the green economy.

Back in the 1990s, she and her kids lived in British Columbia, where she was involved with eco-tourism for the Government of France and operated her own kayak company.

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“(With prorogation), I felt Stephen Harper was treating the business of Parliament like it was his own business and not the business of Canadians.”

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Tabbert

Continued from Page 9 Key to that process is listening to groups like the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and National Farmers Union, she says.

“We’ve also put a national food strategy on the table as part of our platform; something farmers have been looking for, for a long time,” she adds.

“Give a farmer a problem and he’ll find a solution,” she says. “I have a lot of confidence in the farmers in this area. I think there’s a bright future ahead for them and I think they need a government that partners with them and listens to them and that’s what we’re committed to doing.”

She sees the same need for innovation and government support in the forest industry.

“One of the commitments we’ve made with forestry is opening up the availability of credit to provide foresters with an opportunity to purchase the equipment they need.

That is one of the problems in the forestry industry,” she says.

She describes foresters as “a really creative group of people who have been working in our riding, basically since the country began. I remember stories of my grandpa and my Uncle Ed who went up to the shanties for the winter and, of course, studying the shantymen of Cache Lake when I was a kid at school. This is a part of our history, but it should be a part of our future, too.”

Clouthier

Continued from Page 10 Examples of Gallant’s failure to deliver, says Clouthier, include her votes to support Quebec as a distinct society and her federal-enabling vote Dec. 9, 2009 that allowed Ontario to bring in the harmonized sales tax (HST).

“Mrs. Gallant and even the Conservatives are prone to say, ‘We didn’t raise taxes’. But she supported the HST, which added eight per cent taxes to home heating, legal fees, real estate fees … HST is the wrong tax at the wrong time.

Ironically, says Clouthier, she has promised to enshrine private property rights in the constitution,

Tabbert is also a strong proponent of Ottawa River heritage designation and the development potential it represents.

“I would absolutely pursue that. It’s been a long time coming and there’s really no reason left why it shouldn’t occur,” she says. “We have representation that seems to want to stand in the way of it rather than creating an opportunity from it.”

She says the Liberal party is also committed to keeping more doctors in rural areas, rewarding volunteer firefighters through tax credits, supporting AECL, promoting Internet connectivity, giving attention to aboriginal issues, dealing with the gun registry and “finding the middle ground everyone can live with.”

“For far too long, it (urban versus rural) has been used as a wedge to divide Canadians rather than bring them together. For far too long in this riding we’ve had fear-mongering rather than a message of hope; a message of what can be done to address serious issues that affect the daily lives of people – things like health, education and jobs. Those are all things that can use a lot of work in this riding,” she says.

So what is the May 2 vote really all about?

Tabbert has no doubt.

“It’s about economics.

It’s about education opportunities. It’s about health care. It’s about all those things and it’s very, very important that, no matter where you live, you have equality of opportunity.

We are all Canadians,” she

says.

As a lawyer, Tabbert listens to and helps people.

It’s a skill she’s offering to the people of RenfrewNipissing-Pembroke.

“I find out what the problem is and I try to find a solution for it. And I try to do that collaboratively with my client. It’s the same thing with constituents.

I need to listen to them. I need to know what their problems are, what the issues are, and find creative ways to help them solve their problems. That’s what I want to do. I want to bring those skills to the riding and to the people here.”

Ultimately, she hopes more people will get out and vote because “We have a much healthier democracy when more people participate in it.”

Meanwhile, she’ll keep knocking on doors.

“Often people will say, I’m sorry, I don’t support your party,” she explains with a smile. “And I say, well, that’s okay. We can still be friends.”

It’s the Valley way.

“It doesn’t matter what someone’s political stripe is to me. At the end of the day, if I’m elected, I want to represent everyone here.

“And that’s my goal, to bring the kind of representation that people remember, growing up in this riding. Whether it was Progressive Conservative or Liberal, people had respect for their member of parliament and felt that they had an effective MP and someone who was willing to listen to them. That’s the kind of representation I’m trying to bring back to the Ottawa Valley.”

in response to the Back Off Government, It’s Our Land contingent.

“These (HST and Quebec’s distinct society rights) are two issues people in this riding should be hopping mad about.

“Maybe her comeback is (that) Stephen Harper ordered me to. But as an Independent, I don’t have to be that way.”

He says he’s also critical of Gallant’s fear-mongering opposition of Canadian heritage designation of the Ottawa River, which was the brainchild of former MP Len Hopkins.

As a property owner along the Ottawa River, Clouthier says he’s totally supportive of the designation.

He says the designation could be a boost to local

tourism. Gallant is opposing the designation by suggesting it may play havoc with property rights along the waterway.

“In no way does it supersede any provincial or national regulations.

She’s blowing smoke,” says Clouthier who, along with his four brothers, owns ample acreage along the river.

“If we thought it was going to deter any development, we’d be against it.”

As for the Liberal candidate, Tabbert, Clouthier says the Toronto lawyer (who grew up in Renfrew County) hasn’t demonstrated that this county is really where she wants to be.

Hec and wife Debbie have three adult-age sons, Tyler, Geoff and Nick.

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“It’s awful that the very people who built this community are now living in poverty,” he said. “We need to make that right.”

The Canada Pension Plan provides just $11,000 annually, said Burton.

“Nobody can get by on $11,000. It’s a sad state of affairs,” he said.

Canadians in general and people throughout Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke won’t stand for nothing being done about this issue, said Burton.

“We have an obligation to do something about it.”

And the NDP will, he said, with their plan to increase the pension to $22,000,” said Burton. Other candidates will talk about token support for seniors, said Burton, but none make the solid commitment pledged by the NDP. Another important issue is employment, said Burton. “Farmers are struggling,” he said. “And they’re struggling because the government is only looking out for the multi-national corporations who are swallowing up all the profit.”

Nothing is being done to help out the local producers, he said. “They’re the backbone of our local economy,” he said. “While food prices are going up, the amount farmers make does not,” he said. The Conservatives are giving tax cuts and handouts to corporations, while small business owners and workers continue to struggle, he says.

The NDP proposes to provide tax incentives for small business, said Burton. “The NDP will provide tax incentives based on the creation of jobs right here in Canada,” said Burton.

Existing local industry, including AECL at Chalk River, needs to be a focus, he said. “There are a lot of other industries and businesses dependent on AECL as well. “We have a first-class science and technology research lab here,” he said. The government needs to invest time and money in AECL to prepare it for the future. There’s potential in nuclear waste management that should be explored, he said. “The world needs leadership in nuclear waste management,” he said.

Forestry and other local industries are suffering and the government has to take steps before companies and business disappear altogether.

Another issue of utmost importance to Canadians is health care, said Burton. Improving emergency wait times, access to services and access to doctors are among the priorities for the NDP. Affordable medicine and increased care for seniors are also on the NDP’s list of priority.

“We’re calling for long-term care and home care to be part of the Canada Health Act,” said Burton. “The Romanow Commission told us 10 years ago that this is going to need to be addressed,” said Burton.

Not to be forgotten is another critical issue – the environment. “We need to be thinking of the environment and a way to create change.”

Van Schie Contnued from Page 11 She later moved back to Ontario and now works as a contracted economic advisor for the Algonquin First Nation of Wolf Lake, located near the north end of Algonquin Provincial Park.

In that work, she helped establish the Algonquin Canoe Company, which employs eight staff and uses a 500-kilometre trail network of portages, lakes and rivers for canoe and kayaking trips.

Van Schie, whose partner is Toronto-based lawyer John Richardson, lives near Kiosk, at the north entrance to Algonquin Provincial Park. The household also lives in the greenest of backyards, it seems, with 400 acres, of which 10 acres are set aside for a short-rotation willow nursery.

Van Schie points out she’s also a supporter of Canadian heritage river designation for the Ottawa River, despite opposition to the move by MP Cheryl Gallant.

“The river heritage designation,” says Van Schie, “connects all of us, from First Nations people and early explorers, to who we are today.

“There is no reason not to support it.”

Gallant

Continued from Page 9 Gallant said that another crucial element in enabling the government to foster economic development is to eliminate the deficit by 2014-2015. That is a year earlier than previously thought, she says, noting the deficit was shrunk 25 per cent last year and will shrink another 25 per cent this year.

She insists the government can eliminate the deficit without raising taxes and cutting back services to families, seniors, soldiers and caregivers.

There are still plenty of areas where spending can be controlled and waste can be cut, she says, noting it will be easier to do if the Conservatives have a majority government.

Joining the economy and eliminating the deficit as her main issues are law and order.

Gallant notes the Conservatives have been stymied in some of their tough-on-crime legislation, but plan to wrap a dozen bills in one omnibus bill

for quick passing, if reelected.

They include such things as cracking down on organized crime, streamlining long and complicated trials, getting rid of house arrest for violent criminals, eliminating pardons for “serious criminals,” tightening day pass rules for sexual assault offenders, increasing penalties for repeat violent young offenders, and giving police and security forces the tools they need to fight crime and terrorism, she says. “We will be making our streets safe through new laws to protect children and the elderly,” she adds. “Our focus will be more on helping the victims, not on protecting the criminals.”

Gallant characterizes herself as a strong defender of rural Canada and individual rights, including the right to own and enjoy private property.

Despite a reputation of being a maverick, Gallant insists she is a team player, pointing to the many positions she has held on various standing committees in the House of Commons.

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Teacher offers unbiased, informed comment on coalition To the editor: As the Program Leader for History at St. Joseph’s High School in Renfrew, I have been asked many times about the “coalition question.” When your most recent editorial was also unclear on the issue “only winners get to form a coalition”, I decided that I would give an unbiased and informed comment on this situation.

First of all, some background information: We have what is called a “Westminster Parliamentary Democracy” named after the British system and now common throughout the Commonwealth. When I studied this in university, I heard the following statement many times: “People elect parliament and parliament selects the government.” It is a simple and helpful saying when trying to understand how our system works. And I may say, as a teacher of Civics, that it is a very confusing system, based not only on documents dating back to 1215 (Magna Carta) but also on may unwritten traditions.

(For example, read the constitution that created Canada on July 1, 1867. You will not find the term “prime minister” in it!

Honestly.)

Now, on to the coalition question. Coalitions are a normal and often necessary part of our system of government.

Until political parties developed in the mid 1800s, almost every government was a coalition. Since elected members were not part of established parties, they simply met in parliament, grouped themselves with like-minded people, chose a leader (the prime minister – or first minister) and set about governing the country. As political parties gained popularity, there was often no need for a coalition, since many like-minded candidates had already joined the same party and chosen a leader.

When the MPs met in parliament, one party often emerged with a majority, and its leader became the prime minister. But this did not mean coalitions were at an end. Any Grade 8 history student could

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Another misconception, the one that was in the Mercury’s editorial on April 7, was that the party with the most seats was the only one that could form a coalition. No. There are no rules about this, and any group of Members of Parliament may form whatever type of governing coalition that they want. For example, in 1925, the Conservatives won the most seats (117) but the second and third place parties formed a coalition government.

(Liberals with 101 and Progressives with 24.) The attempted coalition of two years ago was almost an exact replication of the 1925 election, but for some reason, people said it was unconstitutional. They either did not know their history or they were lying to us. (I can’t think of a third option.)

A further misconception is that parties must declare during a campaign whether or not they will form a coalition. Wrong again. The example of 1925 proves this point, but a better example is the creation of the Union Party in 1917 –six years after the last election. This coalition formed when all MPs in favour of bringing about conscription in the First World War created this new party to ensure they could have a majority and pass the Military Service Act. None of the information above is controversial or hard to find. In fact, I would expect many of my students to be able to explain this topic. It is embarrassing that the leaders of our top parties do not understand how our system works.

I hope that this clears up some of the misconceptions about this important topic.

Your truly, Dave Rowat Renfrew P.S. It is encouraging to see so many editorials and letters to the editor debating politics. Just try to keep it clean, folks!

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Has every conservative Member of Parliament and wanabe Member of Parliament been commanded to use the word coalition as many times as possible, ad nauseam? Every possible piece of communication from the conservatives mentions a Liberal, NDP, Bloc coalition, or as some conservatives diehards would love to say, Liberal, socialist, separatist coalition! Never mind that the fact that Mr. Harper sat down a few years ago in coalition discussions. This is of course complete deflection, and nothing else. I’m amazed that they believe that we are unable to see through it. The conservatives obviously hope that this tactic will take the mind of voters away from the ignominious defeat of the government, and their unforgiveable actions.

Note to all politicians of all stripes: stick with the facts, spare us the insulting spin. We can see what all your silly little whiz kids are cooking up in the back rooms. Never mind the coalition and, by the way, I don’t want to see a coalition,

but I am not going to run and hide under the bed at mention of the name. There are many successful coalitions around the world; in fact one is working very well in the UK at the present moment of time. If Mr. Harper had spent a little more time travelling outside of Canada, and getting a sense of the rest of the world, he would realize this. Here is a government that for the first time ever in our country’s history was found in contempt of parliament and which then fell on a resulting no-confidence motion. Don’t try and scare us.

There are some deadly serious questions here …. simply, did the government mislead the House and did they hide figures of major expenditures? Why did they not supply enough information on the cost of the F-35 fighter jets, on their justice system reforms and their projections for corporate profits and tax rates? Why? Please tell us, and tell us straight, without deflection, and without using that silly word coalition please. Otherwise, what and who are we really supposed to believe?

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Option to purchase at lease end is $12,535/$7,725/$10,185/$13,060 plus applicable taxes. Other lease options are available. ♌/♌♌/*/¼/‥/▟▟Freight & PDI ($1,450/$1,450/$1,450/$1,450), registration, air and tire levies and OMVIC fees are included. Insurance, licence, PPSA, dealer fees and applicable taxes are not included. Offers apply as indicated to 2011 new or demonstrator models of the vehicle equipped as described. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in the Ontario Chevrolet Dealer Marketing Association area only (including Outaouais). Dealers are free to set individual prices. Dealer order or trade may be required. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See your dealer for conditions and details. ***Factory order or dealer trade may be required. Δ2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Ext. Cab 4WD equipped with 4.8L Vortec V8 engine and 4-speed automatic transmission. 2011 Chevrolet Cruze equipped with standard 1.8L ECOTEC I-4 engine and 6-speed automatic transmission. 2011 Chevrolet Equinox FWD. 2011 Chevrolet Traverse FWD. Fuel consumption ratings based on Natural Resources Canada’s 2011 Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. †Subject to Vehicle Redemption Allowances. For complete GM Card Program Rules, including current Redemption Allowances, transferability of Earnings, and other applicable restrictions for all eligible GM vehicles, see your GM Dealer, call the GM Card Redemption Centre at 1-888-446-6232 or visit TheGMCard.ca. Subject to applicable law, GMCL may modify or terminate the Program in whole or in part with or without notice to you. ††2011 Cruze LTZ with GBE, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $26,754. 2011 Chevrolet Equniox LTZ, MSRP with freight, PDI & levies $35,244. Dealers are free to set individual prices. 1With purchase or lease of most new or demonstrator 2011 GM vehicles delivered from dealer stock between March 5, 2011 and May 2, 2011, and with payment of an additional $0.01, customers receive a Preferred Price™ fuel savings card at participating dealers, redeemable for $0.20 per litre on 5,000 L of fuel. Chevrolet Cruze LS-1SB is eligible for 5,000L; all other Cruze models and Chevrolet Aveo will receive 2,500 L of fuel. The $0.20/L savings includes applicable taxes. Cards valid as of 72 hours after delivery. Cards valid only at participating Petro-Canada retail locations (and other approved North Atlantic Petroleum locations in Newfoundland) and not redeemable for cash. Offer excludes 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible and PDJ Trucks. GM reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer and/or the program for any reason in whole or in part at any time without notice. Petro-Canada is a Suncor Energy business™ Trademark of Suncor Energy Inc. Used under licence. ▟Offer applies to new or demonstrator 2011 MY Silverado Light Duty Extended and Crew Cab C/K Models, 1SF, 1SB, 1SD (excludes hybrids) delivered between February 1 and May 2, 2011 at participating dealers in Canada. Dealer order or trade may be required. Offer available to retail customers only and consists of a pre-installed Chrome Accessories package (grille, 6" tubular assist steps, door handles and mirror caps) ("PDJ Truck") valued up to $1500 (tax exclusive). This offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See your GM dealer for details. +To qualify for the GMCL Cash For Leases Bonus under Lease Busters’ Cash For Leases program, you must: (i) be a Canadian vehicle leasing customer with at least four months remaining on your lease; and (ii) execute and complete a lease transfer by listing your vehicle pursuant to a lease-take-over listing on leasebusters.com. Lease listing and transfer fees apply. Cash For Leases Bonus, a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive), is available to eligible retail customers, for use towards the purchase/finance/lease of a new eligible 2010/2011 MY Buick/Chevrolet/GMC/Cadillac vehicle delivered between 01/13/2011–06/30/2011. Incentive may not be combined with certain other offers. Some conditions apply. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate offer in whole or in part at any time without notice. GMCL is not responsible or liable for the Lease Busters lease-take-over program. See dealer or gm.ca or cashforleases.com for details. ♠Customers eligible for a GM Owner Loyalty Bonus will receive a $1,000/$750/$500 manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive). Example: $10,000 purchase price, after tax price is $11,300 ($10,000 plus $1,300 applicable taxes). After applying $1,000/$750/$500 credit, after tax price is $10,300/$10,550/$10,800 ($885/$664/$442 reduced purchase price plus $115/$86/$58 applicable taxes), with the $1,000/$750/$500 credit being the $885/$664/$442 reduction from the purchase price and the $115/$86/$58 reduction in taxes which would have otherwise been payable on the full purchase price. $500 Credit may be applied towards the purchase/finance/lease of an eligible new 2010/2011 Model Year Chevrolet Aveo, Cobalt and Cruze (excluding 1SB). $750 Credit may be applied towards the purchase/finance/lease of an eligible new 2010/2011 Model Year Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain. $1,000 Credit may be applied towards the purchase/finance/lease of other eligible new 2010/2011 Model Year Chevrolet, Buick, GMC or Cadillac vehicle, delivered between February 1, 2011 – June 30, 2011. Ineligible vehicles: Chevrolet Cruze 1SB, Corvette ZR1, all Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and HUMMER vehicles, and medium duty trucks. 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Cultural teachings abound at workshop Focus on aboriginal awareness LUCY HASS lucy.hass@metroland.com

Aboriginal awareness was the theme of the workshop – Cultural Teachings Two – Saturday in Renfrew.

It was the second annual workshop resulting from a partnership between Omamiwinini Pimadjwowin-The Algonquin Way Centre and Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church in Renfrew. Together they created the Right Relations with Aboriginal Peoples study group.

Close to 40 people attended the workshop that included smudging/cleansing ceremonies, medicine wheel teachings, the blanket game, a kids’ programming area, give-away and closing ceremonies.

Author Tim Yearington was among the participants, and his focus was the medicine wheel.

A $12 admission fee was shared by the sponsoring groups with $2 going to the host church and the balance to the cultural centre group for instructor costs and program development.

RENFREW COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD Invites Requests for Tenders RFT #2011-15 THE RCDSB IS ISSUING A REQUEST FOR TENDER FOR ROOF REPLACEMENT AT KILLALOE PUBLIC SCHOOL, 100 QUEEN STREET, KILLALOE, ON. Specifications will be distributed at a MANDATORY site visit on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 10:00:00am.

Only those bidders who attend the mandatory site visit, and have their attendance recorded, will be eligible to submit a bid.

Only those members who are presenting in good standing in the Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association (O.I.R.C.A.) will be considered.

Sealed, stipulated sum tenders will be received before 2:00:00 pm on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Tenders to be enclosed in a sealed envelope and submitted to the following address: RENFREW COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ATTN: Peggy Fiebig, Purchasing Agent 1270 Pembroke Street West Pembroke, ON K8A 4G4 The Renfrew County District School Board reserves the right to accept or reject any or all submissions.

Lowest or any submission not necessarily accepted.

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Storytelling was just part of the children’s program Saturday afternoon. Sharing the moment were, clockwise from left, Rae Clayton, Cali Duchene, Victoria Bergeron, Fiona Fournier, Sage Jull and Meaghan Bissett.

Mercury photo by Lucy Hass

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The ladies of Pampered Chef, from left, Alice Smaglinski, Terri Lee Cameron and Karen Clemow, were delighted as about 670 ladies enjoyed 62 business displays at this year’s Girls’ Night Out. All things feminine were showcased Friday evening in Renfrew at the fourth edition of the evening that continues to grow in popularity.

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Now Open in Two Locations–RENFREW & ARNPRIOR

TLC helping others. Charles Prowse is the grateful recipient of help from the AFAC 433 Wing’s TLC Group, represented by, from left, Jane Gaul, Pay Soucy and chair Suzanne Lachambre. The group’s motto is Helping Those in Need. Mercury photo by Lucy Hass

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NEW HOME FOR KIDS CORP Barb Walters of Kids Corp was gathered by fellow board members for an official opening Saturday morning at the Renfrew Armouries.

But first she gathered with some of the children enjoying all the program has to offer, from left, Taavi, Kenya, Kobi and Tal Stevenson.

Mercury photo by Lucy Hass

who have not been able to secure funding from any other source, and all requests will be kept confidential.

The TLC group will accept financial donations, and tax receipts will be issued upon request. The group also welcomes the donation of any medical equipment no longer in use.

Follow the Renfrew Mercury Community Calendar for upcoming events.

For more information, call 613-432-4485 and ask for the TLC chairperson.

A brochure on the program explains: “Knowing that there are many people in our community in need of assistance for medical and mobility devices, they decided to continue helping other and formed TLC.” Seed money from the 433 Wing, along with regular fundraisers, allows TLC to help Renfrew residents, with a demonstrated financial need, with medical and mobility devices.

The TLC group notes that the program is intended as a last resource for people of all ages

A fundraiser was held Saturday afternoon at the AFAC Wing in Renfrew to make life easier for an area man.

A target of $1,000 was set to help paraplegic Charles Prowse with the purchase of equipment to help him enjoy greater mobility.

TLC is a program sponsored by the Air Force Association of Canada 433 Wing. It was started in 2008 by a group of concerned Renfrew citizens who helped a young man acquire a new scooter.

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The Corporation of the Town of Renfrew NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS TOWN OF RENFREW In the matter of Sections 17, 34, 51(20)(a) and 51(21) of the Planning Act, the Town of Renfrew hereby gives NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) (2) (3)

An application for the approval of a plan of subdivision (application 47-T-11011).

An application for an amendment to the Town of Renfrew Official Plan (OPA1/11) An application for an amendment to the Town of Renfrew Zoning By-law 46-2010. (ZBA2/11)

Subject Lands

The County of Renfrew has received application No. 47-T-11001 for approval of a plan of subdivision and the Town of Renfrew has received an official plan amendment and a zoning by-law amendment to allow the proposed subdivision, for lands described as Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block R, Registered Plan 8, in the Town of Renfrew, located at 130 Arthur Avenue, as shown on the attached Key Map.

Proposed Plan of Subdivision The proposed plan of subdivision consists of 0.35 hectares (0.86 acres) of land to be developed into three blocks. The most westerly block will remain vacant at this time and the other two blocks will be developed for residential use. Each of the two blocks is intended to accommodate a building containing four townhouse units, for a total of eight townhouse units. The townhouse blocks will front Arthur Avenue. The blocks are each approximately 0.11 hectares (0.27 acres) with road frontages ranging from 32 metres (105 feet) to 35.2 metres (115 feet).

Mercury photo by Peter Clark

Past program director Cathy Leclaire-Underwood leaves Renfrew Kids Corp in very capable hands. In front are board member Trent Skelhorn, and treasurer Mary Leigh Elliott with Elliott’s son John; and standing, vice president Spencer Hopping, board member Gail Valliquette, secretary Johanna Mathieu, Leclaire-Underwood, program director Barb Walters and president Jayne Stevenson.

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After 18 years, Cathy LeclaireUnderwood has moved on from Kids Corp.

Barb Walters has already taken over the reins as program director.

“I got married in the summer, and I’ve moved to Ottawa to do bookkeeping and administration,” Leclaire said.

“I’ve seen kids grow (from infancy) to university. It’s scary,” he added.

Members of Kids Corp got

together March 23 to thank Leclaire-Underwood for her many years of service to the organization.

They kidded her that she is the new Underwood in town (Ottawa), since the Senators traded Mike Fisher (married to singer Carrie Underwood) to Nashville.

President Jayne Stevenson noted that Kids Corp held an open house in its new location, upstairs in the Renfrew Armouries at the former Renfrew Daycare site.

Kids Corp can be reached at 613-433-9901.

Plenty of free services in April BARB WALTERS Kids Corp

Kids Corp, your Ontario Early Years Satellite, is a “fun place to play, learn and grow.”

During the month of April, join us for free services to support: • Families – a warm and friendly environment to interact and learn with your child.

• Children – age/developmentally appropriate activities that include a place to play and make friends, stories, crafts, and opportunities to practise language and early learning reading and writing skills.

• Parents/caregivers – have an opportunity to meet and talk with other adults, access parenting workshops and information, access and referrals to other community services, and support from early childhood professionals.

• Play and Learn – Monday to Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Our new location offers a big

spacious room for adults and children to interact with their peers and play.

Staff provides group circle time activities and prepares materials to promote creative learning. Please bring indoor shoes, small healthy peanut/nut-free snack with a drink and don’t forget your smile! Please note Wednesday mornings we have our play and learn at the rec centre.

• Prenatal Nutrition – for pregnant women and new moms, Monday afternoons from 1 to 3 p.m. Join us for a snack and/or lunch.

Resources include vitamin supplements and food vouchers for those requiring additional support. All prenatal women are invited to attend.

• Under One Club – Wednesday afternoons come join us for early learning with infants and their parents.

Come spend the afternoon and share some smiles and meet some new friends.

Additional information regarding the proposed plan of subdivision is available for inspection at the Development & Property Department at the County of Renfrew Administration Building during regular office hours.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the County of Renfrew in respect of the proposed plan of subdivision before the County of Renfrew gives or refuses to give approval to the draft plan of subdivision, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the County of Renfrew to the Ontario Municipal Board, and the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the County of Renfrew in respect of the proposed plan of subdivision, you must make a written request to: Paul Moreau, Director of Development & Property, County of Renfrew 9 International Drive, PEMBROKE, ON, K8A 6W5 Tel: 613-735-3204 Purpose and Effect of the Proposed Official Plan Amendment The proposed official plan amendment would redesignate the lands from Industrial to Residential to allow the site to be developed for residential purposes (townhouses).

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Town of Renfrew before the proposed Official Plan amendment is adopted by the Town of Renfrew, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the County of Renfrew, to the Ontario Municipal Board and the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or the public body as a party.

If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed Official Plan amendment, or of the refusal of a request to amend the Official Plan, or for further information, you must make a written request must be submitted to: Kim Bulmer,Clerk, Town of Renfrew 127 Raglan Street South RENFREW, ON K7V 1P8 (613) 432-4848 Purpose and Effect of the Proposed Zoning Amendment The proposed zoning by-law amendment would rezone the lands from Light Industrial (M1) to Residential Two Exception-Ten (R2-E10). The R2-E10 zone will permit the site to be developed for a total of eight (8) residential townhouse units, with the following exceptions: 1) 2) 3)

To increase the permitted lot coverage from 40% to (66% of the lot area per townhouse unit).

To reduce the interior side yard requirement from 3 metres to 1.5 metres.

To reduce the rear yard setback requirement from 7.5 meters to 6.0 metres.

The complete By-law is available for inspection at the Town municipal office during regular office hours.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Town of Renfrew before the by-law is passed by the Town, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Town of Renfrew, to the Ontario Municipal Board, and the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Town of Renfrew regarding this proposed zoning by-law amendment, you must make a written request to: Kim Bulmer, Clerk, Town of Renfrew 127 Raglan Street South RENFREW, ON K7V 1P8 (613) 432-4848

A public meeting for this application is required under the Planning Act. Notice of the Public Meeting will be provided in accordance with the Planning Act, at a future date to be determined.

NOTE: One of the purposes of the Planning Act is to provide for planning processes that are open, accessible, timely and efficient. Accordingly, all written submissions, documents, correspondence, e-mails or other communications (including your name and address) form part of the public record and will be disclosed/made available by the County/local Municipality to such persons as the County/local Municipality sees fit, including anyone requesting such information.

Accordingly, in providing such information, you shall be deemed to have consented to its use and disclosure as part of the planning process.

Dated at the Town of Renfrew this 11th day of April, 2011.

Kim Bulmer, Clerk Town of Renfrew 462218

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Horton Township has eliminated the optional $50 fee for set-up or tear-down service at the Horton Community Centre. Groups already pay $200 to rent the facility.

“You can’t raise the price, or they’re going to go elsewhere,” said Coun. Bob Kinsgbury at the April 5 Horton council meeting. At the early-March recreation committee meeting, Ralph Miller said

there are sometimes problems with private renters at night’s end. Possibly because they’re tired, tables end up being dragged across or dropped on the floor, causing damage to the floor or tables.

The rental agreement offered the option of a $50 for set-up or tear-down. But council has decided to absorb the cost, and pay a community member for private functions’ set-up and tear-down.

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Green Tomato Productions presents the highly-acclaimed Beatles tribute show, With The Beatles, Saturday, May 7 at the Renfrew Armouries.

“In February the show performed to a capacity crowd in Pembroke, so it made it only logical to bring it to Renfrew so fans can enjoy top-notch entertainment,” says promoter Brian Abdallah.

The With The Beatles band was created by professional artists from Canada’s capital region.

Each of its participants has a deep knowledge about the history and music of the internationally known British band, The Beatles.

The band plays a two-hour show with an intermission. The first hour covers all the biggest hits between the years 1962 to 1964 and is continued in the second hour with hits from years 1965 to 1969. All details are accounted for, the black suits, boots, vintage instruments, staging, lighting and sound, in order to fully respect the originality and simplicity of the famous Fab Four.

The group’s reputation has grown rapidly due to performances at Québec and Ontario casinos, festivals, corporate events and more recently at Le Capitole de Québec and Lac Leamy Casino fireworks show in front of more than 25 000 spectators. With The Beatles, who has obtained great reviews, is proud to present a 100 per cent live performance with no sequencing or backing tracks, all of which provides a real blast from the past.

Tickets are only $25 (plus HST) and are available at the Renfrew Armouries, Mill Music, Valley Heritage Radio, in Arnprior at The Prior Sports Bar or visit the website www.ticketweb.ca to purchase tickets online. For more information on the show visit www. withthebeatles.ca or www.greentomatoproductions.com.

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Miss Teen Ontario East 2011 delegates Danielle Fournier, left, and Katie Caughey work on the pancakes that were enjoyed by so many people at Renfrew Collegiate’s annual fundraising breakfast for the 2011 Relay for Life May 27.

Join us for our

Change of Council Meeting Dates Committee of the Whole Thursday, April 21 at 4:30 p.m.

Council Thursday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m.

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It was an emotional morning at Renfrew Collegiate with the school’s annual Relay for Life breakfast and assembly Friday.

Then again, when is cancer ever not emotional!

The 2011 Relay for Life is scheduled for Friday-Saturday May 27-28 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., getting underway with the Survivor Lap. A fundraiser leading up to the Relay is RCI’s Bonnie Kerr Carnival of Hope on Friday, May 13. Both events are at Ma-Te-Way. The Raiders have raised well over a quarter of a million dollars in cancer-related events over the years, an amount not lost on Cam Whalen of the Canadian Cancer Society.

“Whenever I come here, it’s always a humbling experience,” Whalen said. “You have raised over $300,000 over the last four events. You have a tremendous impact on people’s lives.”

A number of speakers took to the stage during the assembly.

They included: • Cancer survivors Elizabeth Brumm and Jodie Barrett; • Canadian Cancer Society Renfrew Branch president Ray Beimers and wife Sandra Beimers, who is battling cancer; • Cheryl Barber, speaking on behalf of good friend Debbie Beimers, who lost her 10-year battle; • RCI student Jessica Archand, whose father enjoyed her first birthday, but succumbed to cancer before she turned two; • Shawn Bulger, son of RCI staff member Mike Bulger, who learned in one fell swoop that both of his parents had cancer.

They had successful treatment and are now cancer survivors.

• And Amber Gillan. Her mom,

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PETER CLARK

Annual General Meeting Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Janet Robertson, was first diagnosed with cancer 17 years ago, and continues to beat the disease today. But three of Amber’s uncles, Ross, Stuart and Don, all lost their battles inside of six months in 2010.

All of the speakers stressed the importance of supporting RCI’s cancer-related events.

“I always had hope, and never more than at these Relay for Life events,” RCIS staff member Brumm said. Cancer doesn’t care who you are, she added. “Walk together for a common goal.”

“The doctor told me to run, not from cancer, but to beat it,” Barrett said. She has since participated in a number of running events such as half marathons.

“Live your life to the fullest every day. I am a very fortunate survivor.”

Barber showed the assembly a photo of the RCI cheerleading team from 1985.

Debbie Beimers was given three years to live after being diagnosed. He survived for 10.

“She was a supporter of RCI’s Relay for Life, and our own personal cheerleader,” Barber added of this year’s event.

Sandra Beimers said she had two choices upon learning she had cancer Dec. 14, 2010, be bitter and angry, or embrace the journey and the will to live.

“The victory (survival) lap means a lot more to me,” Ray Beimers added.

The community is again welcome to purchase luminaries for $5 to honour those who have lost their battles, who have survived, or who currently have cancer.

There will also be a silent auction, and entertainment throughout the Relay.

The theme of Relay for Life 2011 is sports.

The school’s goal is to raise $90,000.

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291 Plaunt St. S. Rev. Heather Kinkaid Rev. Barry Goodwin Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Wheelchair Accessible Loop Hearing System Upgraded Sound System Church Office 613-432-2285 Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Call if transportation required Website: http://www.tsarenfrew.ca

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St. James Lutheran 66 Elgin Ave. E. 432-5078 Pastor Cathy McCaig SUNDAY, APRIL 17 10:00 – Palm/Passion Sunday Worship Joint service with St. Paul’s Friday, April 22 10:00 – Good Friday Worship Joint service with St. Paul’s _____________________________

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“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless” ~Sherry Anderson ~ April 10-16th is National Volunteer Week and Family and Children Services of Renfrew County (FCS) would like to extend their gratitude and appreciation to all of the Agency’s volunteers.

FCS is fortunate to have dedicated volunteers who are committed to helping the children of Renfrew County.

Whether it is our Foster Parents who provide a child with a stable and supportive home, or our Volunteer Drivers who assist a child with transportation to an appointment, all of our volunteers play a critical role in our children’s lives.

With currently 278 children in care in Renfrew County, we rely heavily on our limited number of volunteer drivers to provide the transportation that is needed for these children to attend medical appointments, access visits with biological families and many other important events.

Our drivers are always willing to help, even if it means early mornings, late nights or giving up their Friday night plans, and they are always eager to do so with a smile.

“It mans a lot to have people like you” and “I really appreciate all of the times you have driven me, Thank You,” are just a few comments we received when we recently asked our children in care to help create thank you posters for our volunteer drivers.

If you are interested in making a difference in the life of a child, we ask that you join our group of volunteers by contacting our main office, located at 77 Mary Street in Pembroke, at 613-735-6866.

Thank you to all of our volunteers, your big hearts and hard work is greatly appreciated by our Board, Staff, Families and Children.

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The Renfrew Presbyterian Church Ministers: The Reverends Brian and Alison Sharpe Organist: Mrs. Elizabeth Brumm, H.B.Mus., A.R.CT.(2) SUNDAY, APRIL 17 10:00 a.m. – Worship Nursery Care Available Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

If transportation is needed, please call Shirley at the Church Office 432-5452.

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22 Tenebrae Service 10 a.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 24 Worship Service & Sacrament of Communion Wheelchair Accessibility EVERYONE WELCOME Come join us in worship “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the Lord’s house’.”

(Psalm 122:1) Good News Bible

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Parkview Free Methodist

563 King Street Pastor: Rev. Chris Holmes Pastor David Tigchelaar 613-432-5458 433-3598 Sunday 431 Albert St. 10:30 a.m. – Worship Sunday 10 a.m.

Tuesday Worship Service – Nursery Available 7:00 p.m. - “Alpha” Sunday School During Service Wednesday Coffee Break 7:00 p.m. - Fresh Power Women’s Interfaith Bible Study Prayer Time Wednesday mornings Worship With Us _____________________________ From 10:00 -11:30 a.m.

Story Hour and Nursery for Children 5 yrs. and under Available Renfrew Baptist Church Corner of Plaunt & Railway Everyone is welcome 432-4266 _____________________________ Rev. Tom Smith

Castleford United Church 3875 River Road Rev. Dr. Richard Hollingsworth Sunday 9:00 a.m.

Worship Sunday School _____________________________

Elmwood Bible Chapel 200 Francis St. 432-4572 432-3087 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. – Bible Study, Prayer SUNDAY, APRIL 17 9:30 a.m. – The Lord’s Supper 11:00 a.m. – Family Bible Hour and Sunday School _____________________________

The Salvation Army 8 Argyle St. at Munroe Corps Officer/Pastor SUNDAY SERVICE 10 A.M. Women’s Ministry Men’s Ministry Bible Study 613-432-7721 All Are Welcome! _____________________________

Calabogie Bible Fellowship Congregational Church 538 Mill St., Calabogie, ON Pastor Bill & Diane Griffiths Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Worship Sunday School

SUNDAY, APRIL 17 10:00 – Worship Cable Channel 22 Sundays 11 am & 3 p.m.

Bible Study, Wednesday 7 p.m.

All Are Welcome _____________________________

The Anglican Church of Canada ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE Corner Argyle St. at Patrick Phone 432-3062 Ministry Rev’d. Cathy McCaig with the members of the Parish.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17 8:00 a.m. – Liturgy of the Palms and Holy Eucharist 10:00 a.m. – Joint Service @ St. James Lutheran APRIL 21 Maundy Thursday Service 7:00 p.m.

APRIL 22 10:00 a.m. Good Friday Joint Service @ St. James Come and Worship _____________________________

The Roman Catholic Community OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH 100 Lisgar Avenue, West 432-8525 Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Sunday 9:00 a.m.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER PARISH 331 Plaunt Street, South 432-5825 Saturday 5:00 p.m.

Sunday 10:30 a.m.

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hapless and hopeless German brothers looking for redemption and insight in one of Tokyo’s traditional Zen monasteries. The screening of Enlightenment Guaranteed is Sunday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at Trinity-St. Andrew’s Church on Plaunt Street in Renfrew. This film is part of

a four-month series hosted by the Red Maple Sangha.

Admission is on a free-will donation basis and all donations will be forwarded to The Red Cross for Japan relief. For more information visit www.realperson.com/ reeldharma.htm or call Innen at 613-433-9405.

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Come and awaken to the Zen of laughter! Two community organizations are hosting the riotous film, Enlightenment Guaranteed, in aid of relief of the Japanese disaster. The Red Maple Buddhist Congregation and the Outreach Committee of Trinity-St. Andrew’s United

priest. We wanted to showcase the beauty of Japanese culture as a way to encourage financial support for the Japanese. We are pleased to share this inter-faith expression of Renfrew’s generosity with Trinity-St.Andrew’s.”

The film tells the laughfilled adventures of two

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Film to raise funds for Japan

Church are collaborating on an evening of comedy with a serious purpose.

“We’re a Renfrew-based congregation with strong connection to the religious and cultural heritage of Japan,” says Red Maple’s leader, Rev. Innen Parchelo, Canada’s first Tendai Buddhist

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This scenic area of Ontario, where the Ottawa River makes

a “Big Bend” northward into the hills of Quebec, is steeped in history and the new site highlights the role of early settlers and community builders throughout the decades.

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the Whitewater area, will be able to keep up with local events now year round, via the Internet.

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nization is the main focus of www.westmeathtoday.ca.

The value of volunteering is at the heart of this organization and pride in the achievement of volunteers and their great community spirit is evident.

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Calendars of community events and sports schedules, as well as information to help people enjoy and rent the Westmeath Recreation Centre facilities will now be available online.

Details for booking ice time in the arena

The Corporation of the Town of Renfrew Once again, the Town of Renfrew will be conducting drinking water sampling and testing for lead to comply with Ontario Regulations. The town is seeking volunteer test sites in single family homes, multi-unit buildings, commercial properties, and industrial properties.

Under the provincial legislation, the municipality must test the drinking water for lead at 40 private residences, 4 non-private residences, between December 15, 2010 and April 15, 2011.

• Tests would be performed at older residences suspected of having lead pipes or pipes with lead solder.

• Homes built before the mid-1950s could have lead pipes.

• Lead solder was used to join copper pipes and was phased out in the late 1980s; any new construction done after those years should not be affected by lead in the piping system.

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AUCTION SALE

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First barber pole for Windle

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JACK & ANNE CLARKE 7896 5th Concession, Quyon, Que. Off Hwy 148] at Quyon onto Ch du Lac-des-Loups (Wolfe Lake Rd), onto 5th Conc., 1/2 mile to sale, signs posted.

N.H. TL90 tractor with Stoll F10, HD loader, cab, radio, heater, 76HP, 4 new tires; Allis Chalmer 6080 tractor, 2WD, 82 HP; Ferguson 30 tractor; Beaudin (Anderson) tubeline bale wrapper, with 13 HP Honda motor; N.H. 1410 flail discbine 10’3”, 5 yrs old, mint shape; N.H. #163 tedder; Farm Fleet 8 wheel double 4 rake; N.H. 640 round baler with bale kicker; 26’ wire mesh rack wagon with 12 ton wagon; N.H. 679 tandem manure spreader with end gate; 25KW generator on trailer, PTO drive, used 6 hrs; Westfield 51’x7” grain auger, P.T.O. drive; HD #10 post driver, 3 pth; 2-Ritchie #300 water bowls, never used; 5’x8’ single horse 2 seater sleigh, excellent condition; single seat horse drawn buggy on rubber tires; assort. of farm items.

Jack & Anne have sold the farm. They are retiring & moving to town.

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Renfrew barber Kate Windle takes joy in little delights – like her first-ever barber’s pole in the fourth site for Kate’s Barber Shop on the main street.

“It took 40 years to finally hang up my own barber’s pole, but it started to turn on the seventh of March,” said Windle of her newest business home at 277 Raglan Street South.

Her first site was the former Stringer’s Barber Shop from 1988 to 2000, prior to subsequent sites at 276 and 220 Raglan St. South.

High rent forced one move, while expansion of a local business precipitated the most recent move.

But she’s happy with the newest change. With a wide-open window, she says potential customers can drive by, then pop in once seeing there’s no one in the chair.

Windle, who began cutting hair in Renfrew in 1974, says the hottest topic in the shop is the Mercury photo by Steve Newman federal election.

This is Kate Windle’s fourth site for The new site for Kate’s BarKate’s Barber Shop on the main ber Shop was occupied several street, but her first with a barber’s years ago by Phil Bolger’s barber shop. pole.

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Owner Dan Donohue welcomes you to Donohue Art & Frame, which has a new awning and signature ‘D’ handle at the entrance to his Raglan Street business.

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Ownership of Donohue Art & Frame, which opened in 1990 in downtown Renfrew, hopes its new front is indicative of an apparent bloom in the economy.

Owner Dan Donohue garnered the products and services of local business and family members to create the Donohue Art & Frame’s newest awning since its early years, and a nicely-stylized ‘D’ handle at the front door.

The store front now features a rectangular awning with new graphics, in contrast to the older and smaller semi-circular awning that was flanked by side panels.

The panels are now gone, while the new look came with the help of an all-local partnership.

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a new front door and material for the awning.

He also used the services of contractor and son Devin, metal artist and son Brady, and graphic artist and sister Laura to stylize the job.

“After 20 years, the store needed a freshening up,” said Donohue. “After three years of pretty slow business, all of a sudden this spring is feeling a little more lively.”

And he trusts the new store front will contribute to the business’s well-being.

“There’s more glass in the door to let in the light and make it a little more welcoming,” he said.

“It’s amazing the comments I’ve had, not just from regular customers, but people from Nova Scotia who said, ‘We really like the look of your store.’ ” The new door and awning went up in early March.

Chamber calls for nominations The Renfrew & Area Chamber of Commerce needs public nominations to recognize and celebrate the people, businesses and volunteer organizations that make our community such a great place to live and work. Previous nominees but not recipients from the last two years are eligible to be nominated.

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The deadline for nominations is noon, Friday, April 29.

Nomination forms are available at the Chamber office, 161 Raglan St., 613-4327015, and on their website www.renfrewareachamber.ca, Renfrew Town Hall.

The annual awards semi-formal gala is Thursday, May 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Renfrew AFAC Hall, 164 Argyle St. S., Renfrew.

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Renfrew County Expo 150 update

HIKE FOR HOSPICE The May 1 Hike for Hospice committee members, from left, are Jo-Anne Dowdall-Brown, Nives MacLaren, Margaret Agnew, Connie Legg, Amanda Hass, Hannah MacMillan and Marci Joyce.

Missing from the picture are Barb Westgarth, Connie Watchorn, Joan Skebo and Pat Debenham.

JENNIFER LAYMAN Renfrew County Expo 150

Lisa Ellis, left, holds up a hen’s egg not five minutes old while St. Thomas the Apostle Grade 5 students Chloe Cayen, Sydney Perry, Loraina Marzano and Avery Jones take a look to see how mom is doing.

Several pilots who are members of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) at the Pembroke & Area Airport have joined together to bring a new event to Expo 150.

Known as the COPA for Kids Aviation Program, this is a free of charge aviation program that puts COPA member pilots together one-on-one with young people 7 to 17 years of age to show them what aviation is all about and to give them an experience of being in the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.

Participants will experience an enjoyable flight that will give them new perspectives on the world and life in general. Kids will attend a “ground school” and then take part in a 20-minute flight.

Flights are being held on Friday, June 10 from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday, June 11 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Children must register in advance, and the free flights are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Forms are available at www. expo150.com and should be returned to the Pembroke & Area Airport. For more information, contact Natalie at 613-687-5300.

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St. Thomas Grade 5 student Cody Gray gets a better look at this intriguing pickled egg at Farm Comes to Town in the Renfrew Armouries. Farm Comes to Town has been teaching Grade 5 students in Renfrew County how the industry works for the last 19 years.

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A popular event made its 19th annual trip into the Renfrew Armouries April 6.

Farm Comes to Town gives Grade 5 students from schools throughout Renfrew County an opportunity to learn about agriculture first hand.

The tour includes seven stations: soil and crop, pork, poultry, sheep, apiary (bees), beef and dairy.

There were also milking and sheep shearing demonstrations.

“It’s a hands-on experience designed to educate everyone on just where our food comes from, and how it is handled and processed,” said Farm Comes to Town chair Angela Field.

This year’s Farm Comes to Town drew close to 300 students from throughout the county, Field said.

There could have been more, but under the recently incorporated staggered bells system implements in many schools, buses are hard to come by in the afternoon because of high school schedules.

The public was invited to experience Farm Comes to Town in the evening.

The SkyHawks have Expo 150 on their schedule! The SkyHawks are the first parachute demonstration team of Canada.

Established in 1971, the team already has more than 5,000 successful jumps that have dazzled more than 75 million spectators throughout the world.

The SkyHawks’ mission is to promote the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Army at major events and in media appearances to inform the public of its various trades and work environments by exemplifying a high standard of training, professionalism, teamwork and fitness.

Algonquin College students and CFB Petawawa are involved with site preparation Students at Algonquin College will be assisting in preparing the site of Expo 150 with surveying and fencing.

Students involved with the forestry program at the College will assist Laurentian Valley Mayor Jack Wilson and Fred Blackstein in marking the perimeter of the site, as well as the layout for various streets and avenues, exhibit space and more.

In addition to the College students, members of CFB Petawawa will also be assisting with site preparation. This work will be done a month before Expo 150 takes place.

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Dolly is a very sweet girl and would love for you to welcome into your home. Dolly is a senior dog. At nine years old, she was brought to the shelter because her owner became sick and could no longer take care of her. She is quiet and a little shy at first but once she knows you she is quite affectionate. She would be an ideal pet for a senior, she likes going for short walks and enjoys squeaky toys. Dolly is good with cats but is unsure of children. Please consider adopting this sweet little girl.

Abby was found in a shed with her five kittens. All her kittens have found homes and now its Abby’s turn. Abby is affectionate on her terms and enjoys being petted. She is a busy and active cat who loves to explore. She does not like other animals and would be best suited in a home where she is the only pet. Abby is at the Arnprior Pet Value for viewing. Please consider adopting this pretty little girl, she will make a wonderful companion.

The shelter is in desperate need of laundry soap and paper towels.

The Annual General Meeting will be held at the library on Monday April, 18 at 7 p.m.

You can call the Arnprior and District Humane Society at 613-623-0916 between noon and 5 p.m Monday to Saturday or visit www.arnpriorhumanesociety.ca

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Renfrew County farmers looked ahead to the future and what improvements they and the industry can make during a roundtable forum held April 2 at the Cobden Agricultural Hall.

Reuben Stone, Jennifer Doelman and Ian McGregor spoke to the gathering of 25-30 people in the event hosted by Eric Burton of the New Democratic Party.

The day was an opportunity to get points of view out on the table, and to see what the provincial and federal governments can do to support the future of agriculture in Renfrew County, Burton said.

“We have some dynamic producers in Renfrew County,” cochair Bob Dobson said before introducing the three guest speakers.

STONE FARMS – VALLEY BIO Reuben Stone of Stone Farms near Cobden and CEO of Valley Bio is a fourth-generation farmer. His dad was a beef father and his grandfather dealt in dairy before him.

Rueben Stone focuses on industrial hemp and said hemp is

a growing industry.

Stone Farms is Eastern Canada’s leading hemp producer, he pointed out.

“We grow two per cent of the Canadian market,” Stone said, adding they also produce about one per cent of the entire world’s production of hemp.

To get a licence to grow hemp, you go through Health Canada, Stone noted. It is a free process, but you must have a criminal record check and proof of certified seed.

Stone said their are many advantages to the crop, which includes rare to encounter insect or wildlife damage, it’s an effective break crop to disturb the life cycles of pathogens, it generally will leave the field clean and there is no need for regular herbicides or pesticides.

It can help farmers increase efficiency and profits, Stone added. It provides work and earnings for the combine and other machinery between cereal and soybean crops.

“Hemp is easy to transport. It’s a high-value crop,” Stone said. “I can ship hemp from here to Europe cheaper than I can send a load of corn to Prescott.”

He said there is another advantage.

Because of regulations, “Americans can’t grow it. They can buy it, but they can’t grow it,” he said.

Stone adds, for someone still young in the business, hemp is the way to go. “Hemp is here to stay. As a young farmer, this is the way I want to participate in the industry. It’s all food products.”

Stone Farms hemp products are grown pesticide free or are fully certified organic.

BARCLAY DICK AND SONS Jennifer Doelman of Barclay Dick and Sons Inc. near Douglas is a certified crop advisor.

Barclay Dick and Sons is a fourth-generation family farm of 2,100 acres, dating back to 1991.

“It takes several generations working together at one time to make and keep a farm strong,” Doelman said. “Renfrew County’s primary producers is one of its main economic drivers,” she said. “Trucking, building, fabrication, equipment, hardware stores, retailers, grocery; yes, even Wal-Mart needs farmers. These businesses depend on farm income as a financial stimulus to their success.”

While they don’t do farmers markets as a rule, Doelman said they do participate in Rural Ramble, Taste of the Valley and the Cobden Christmas Farmers Market. They’ve also held farm safety training for the Douglas Fire Department and Renfrew County Paramedics.

Doelman said regulations are going to kill the family farm.

Rules are important but many of the regulators don’t know the rules themselves.

“Farmers are expected to be held at a very high standard.

This is our job to make things healthy and safe.”

MCGREGOR’S PRODUCE McGregor’s Produce is well known for what the name implies, but they have been involved in much more since they immigrated to Beckworth Township from Scotland in 1818.

They purchased the current 200-acre farm at Lochwinnoch in 1856. They started out with mainly beef cattle, logging, and small crops of grain and hay.

Jim McGregor began farming in the late 1970s, Ian McGregor pointed out. “That’s kind of when the McGregor’s Produce was born,” McGregor

said. It started out with one acre of sweet corn. Two years later strawberries were added, and the ’80s and ’90s saw a continued growth with more vegetables.

McGregor’s began to attend more farmers markets since 2000, and have roadside stands set up around the Valley at seven locations.

“We stopped selling wholesale and focused on direct farm sales,” McGregor added.

“We have three different soil types on our farm from sand to clay,” McGregor said. They have also extended the season later into the fall by using row covers to protect against the frost.

He said challenges include wages which cost more than 50 per cent. McGregor’s hires Jamaicans each year as they can’t find people locally to do the work consistently. “There are a lot more other work opportunities out there than there used to be,” McGregor added.

Imported food processed lower than cost of production, is also a challenge in running a farm.

But the future looks good.

“My brother (Cameron) and I are the fifth generation to work on that land,” McGregor added.

“We both have children, so hopefully, there will be a sixth.”

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~ ~ Hospice A Celebration of the County of Renfrew Renfrew SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE FEATURE hosts fifth Celebrating 150 Years! annual Hike for Hospice PUBLISHED THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011 DEADLINE FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011 May 1 JUNE 9-12, 2011

There is, perhaps, no more amazing land than that which comprises the Country of Renfrew. People who are new to this area remark at how beautiful it is and how it is bursting with potential. Those from this area believe there is no better way of life than what is offered here.

Holly Mooney, accompanied by grandfather Daryl and “Nobody”, presents a donation for Healing Garden to RVH Foundation Director Barb Desilets.

Seven-year-old Holly Mooney makes priceless contribution to Healing Garden

On Sunday, May 1, volunteers from across Renfrew County will participate in the fifth anual Hike for Hospice Palliative Care, hosted by Hospice Renfrew at Renfrew Presbyterian Church, 460 Raglan St. S., Renfrew.

Registration begins at 1 p.m. hike starts at 2 p.m.

Entertainment will be provided by Forty Creek and refreshments will be served after the hike.

This year Hospice Renfrew celebrates emergency services workers – police, paramedics and firemen and their dispatchers and the incredible work they do in the community.

“The Hike for Hospice Palliative Care has three main goals: fundraising, awareness and recognition,” explained JoAnne Dowdall-Brown.

“Volunteer hikers help us in achieving them all. Not only do they raise funds needed for hospice palliative care programs and services in our community, but they also help raise awareness of those programs and services.”

According to Statistics Canada, more than 259,000 Canadians die each year, and that number is projected to increase to more than 330,000 by 2020.

Almost 90 per cent of those who die each year in Canada can benefit from hospice palliative care. But only two or three out of 10 are lucky enough to receive hospice palliative endof-life care.

Even fewer receive support to help them and their families cope with grief and bereavement.

Hospice Renfrew is working to ensure that more Canadians, especially in Renfrew County, receive the end-of-life care they and their families need.

To support or participate in Hike for Hospice Palliative Care, or for more information, please contact Hospice Renfrew at 613-433-3993, or visit their website at www.hospicerenfrew.ca.

To learn more about the Hike for Hospice Palliative Care, you may also visit www.hikeforhospice.com.

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A Grade 2 student at Queen Elizabeth Public School in Renfrew has made a contribution to the Renfrew Victoria Hospital’s Healing Garden project that can only be described as priceless.

The Healing Garden project aims to raise $60,000 to provide a peaceful place for cancer patients, their friends and caregivers to enjoy when they come to the RVH for treatments.

Seven-year-old Holly Mooney, whose grandfather Daryl Mooney is the chairman of the Healing Garden project, recently donated $400 to the project.

But Holly’s monetary donation was just a small part of her contribution. She also taught an invaluable lesson about the power of kindness and the generosity of a child.

A year-long program in Anne Lefebvre’s classroom, called Who is Nobody™, started Holly on her fundraising project.

The program, developed by Toronto teacher Kelly Clark, involves each student in caring for a doll called Nobody for a week.

The nondescript blue denim doll is used to encourage students to get involved in communitybuilding projects and to develop emotional and social skills while they learn that everyone, even they, can make a difference.

As students individually learn to identify a passion or a cause of

their own and to act on it, they add their own memento to Nobody, which develops the doll’s character.

During her week, Holly wanted to teach Nobody to be kind, so she learned how to make bracelets that she sold to raise funds for her grandfather’s Healing Garden project.

Holly had another reason for contributing to the Healing Garden project.

“It’s a place where people can go and it will make them feel better,” she said. That’s especially important to her right now because she’s thinking about her grandmother in Alberta.

“Someone like my Nanny Marie who has cancer and lives in Jasper could go there and feel better,” she said.

Barb Desilets, RVH Foundation director, said, “Holly brought tears to my eyes telling her story. The foundation is grateful for all the gifts and support it receives, but there is always something very moving when the support comes from someone so young.”

Desilets added: “Nobody was very fortunate to have had Holly as the teacher of kindness and we are fortunate to have Holly supporting a great cause.”

What was Holly’s memento for Nobody?

A bracelet, of course, which she had made when she was raising funds for the Healing Garden.

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Who will be Eganville’s 2011 chili champion?

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

APRIL 14-15 Laft Players celebrate their 10th anniversary with the presentation of Late Flowering at the Renfrew Recreation Centre at 7:30 p.m. each night. Tickets, $12 reserved and $10 regular at the door.

Treats, free draws.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 • Harmony in Music, a musical concert at St. Andrew’s United Church, Beachburg at 7 p.m. Features Valley Harmonizers Barbershop Chorus and Silvertones Quartet, Shades of Sheen, church choir, sing-along. Freewill offering to accessibility/lift Fund. Refreshments.

• Our Watershed Our Future: The Art and The Science. A community forum, AGM and art exhibition hosted by the Bonnechere River Watershed Project at the Eagle’s Nest in the Eganville Arena.

Presentations on stream condition, local values, environmental governance, 2050 futures; discussion and performances by local artists from 2-5 p.m., AGM 5-5:30.

Visual and performing arts exhibition 79:30 p.m. Admission free. All welcome.

See www.BonnechereRiver.ca for details.

• Eganville & District Seniors celebrity chef chili cook-off at 30 Bell St. from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Enjoy a chili lun-

• Calling all Djembes IV. The amazing Catherine Veilleux at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church. Intermediate workshop 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; beginners workshop 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Workshops $40 each or $75 for both. To register, contact Debi Virtue at debivirtue@distributel.net or 613-432-0908.

• Spring dinner at Calabogie United Church 4 to 7 p.m. Ham and turkey with all the trimmings, salads and homemade pies. Adults $12, children 6-12 years, $5, under six, free.

• The Renfrew County Fiddlers Association monthly dance at the Eganville Legion from 8 p.m. to midnight. Bring a friend and enjoy the waltzes, two-steps, polkas, and old-time square dancing. Light lunch served at 10:30 p.m. Non-members $6, members $4. For more information, call Evelyn at 613-646-7810.

• Easter party at the Admaston-Bromley Library in Douglas from 10 a.m. to noon for children ages 4-10. Crafts, games, snacks, and an Easter egg hunt.

• Full Gospel businessmen’s breakfast, 9 a.m. at Kenwood Corporate Centre boardroom, Arnprior. Speaker: Dave Lawrence. Worship music by Don McIssac.

Tickets $8.

• Job fair 1-4 p.m. Santa Fe Restaurant,

Raglan Street South, Renfrew.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17 • Benefit film for Japan. The laugh-filled adventures of two hapless and hopeless German brothers looking for redemption and insight in one of Tokyo’s traditional Zen monasteries. Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church at 7 p.m. A by-donations event co-sponsored by The Red Maple Sangha, Renfrew County’s Buddhist congregation and Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church.

• Easter bingo at the DACA Centre, 7 p.m. Turkeys, hams and prizes. Light lunch served afterward. Cost $2 per card.

NEIL SQUIRE SOCIETY Do you have a disability, injury or illness and want to work? The Neil Squire Society is offering a free wellness workshop on Monday, April 18, What Employers Want, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. For more information and to register your space, call Natalie at 613-735-4586.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Dances of Universal Peace: These active meditations in community are circle dances using sacred songs and chants drawn from the world’s may faith traditions. All ages, abilities and faith traditions welcome. No musical or dance experience needed. Third Tuesday of the month at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church from 7-9 p.m. Dance leader Patricia Tamosetis.

Freewill donation. Call Felicite Stairs at 613-432-5583 or Debi Virtue at 613-4320908 for more information.

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Mayors Breakfast 2011 at Rocky Mountain House. Join Mayors Bill Ringrose, Raye-Anne Briscoe, Peter Emon and Don Eady for breakfast. Hosted by Renfrew and Area Chamber of Commerce. Doors open at 7:30 a.m., breakfast at 8 a.m. $15 members, $20 non-members. RSVP

by April 15. Contact 613-432-7015.

• Ride the Valley for Soldier On at Calabogie Peaks. Registration is $30. People are welcome to register online at the Peaks calabogie.com website, or they may do so prior to Ride the Valley from 8 to 10 a.m. The motorcycle ride leaves Calabogie Peaks at 10:30 a.m. The day also features a pig roast from 2 to 5 p.m., poker run, live music and vendors. The chair lift will also be running. A $5 charge goes to Soldier On, a ski program for disabled soldiers.

• Anniversary dinner at St. Andrew’s United Church, Beachburg 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Turkey and ham. Adults $12, children 12 and under, $5.

• New to You Sale at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Quarry Avenue entrance. All welcome.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 The Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group meets at 7 p.m. at the library, 222 Dickson Street (corner of Maple), Pembroke. This month’s topic is Making Use of Our Library. What does the future hold for genealogy research? Will we be relying more on the internet than on books?

Please come and express your opinion.

Also, librarian Diane Burnett will give a tutorial on ordering films from FamilySearch.org. Visitors are welcome.

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 The 2011 Ottawa Valley Tourism Conference is being held at Twin Rivers Golf Course on the Canadian Forces Base in Petawawa. This year’s conference promises to be a value packed event with learning and networking opportunities designed to help those in the tourism industry succeed. There will be guest speakers and a social media panel made of up OVTA members and partners who have successfully developed strong social media campaigns. For more information or to register, contact Lauren McIllfaterick at 613-732-4364 or lmcillfaterick@countyofrenfrew.on.ca.

APRIL 29-30 Renfrew University Women’s Club will hold its annual used book sale on Friday, April 29 from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 30 from 9 a.m. to noon in the MacNeil Gymnasium at Renfrew Collegiate Institute. Proceeds are used for scholarships for local high schools. Call 613-4339005.

MAY 1 Hike for Hospice Renfrew, registration 1 p.m. at Stewart Park by the Renfrew Presbyterian Church, hike starts at 2 p.m.

Contact www.hikeforhospicerenfrew.ca for pledge sheets, online donations and other information.

Township buys timber rights at landfill site STEVE NEWMAN

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Horton Township has upped its price from $20,000 to $30,000 for the timber rights on about 45 acres of property surrounding the landfill site From 1977, when the landfill site was opened, the township originally leased the land from the Barr family.

In the mid-late 1990s, the township purchased 55 acres, of which about 10 acres are occupied by the current landfill site.

But owner Findlay Barr had retained the timber rights. Following negotiations and evaluation of the property last September, Horton increased its offer to Barr.

Other members of the family live in the immediate area, but Barr, who lives in Co-

chrane, Ont., wasn’t able to visit to firm up an agreement until more recently.

Barr will be paid $30,000, with installments of $15,000 in 2011 and 2012. No interest will be added.

It’s a good price, while the trees also offer a visual barrier on the Ottawa River side of the property, said Horton chief administrative officer Mackie McLaren.

There are two other good reasons for paying that much for the timber rights, said Mayor Don Eady at the April 2 Horton council meeting.

Should there be leachate in surrounding land, the trees serve as a filter. Owning the timber rights,” added Eady, “also gives us control if we want to move bush back for fire purposes. I can see it only as beneficial to the township.”

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quality and cost of the work. Therefore, they recommended approval of three consecutive 12-month blocks, to extend the contract with Fast Eddie’s that ends April 30, 2011.

However, following discussion among council members, no seconder was available for the motion during the May 2 meeting of Horton council.

Consequently, council voted to request tenders for the grinding contract.

Last week’s Mercury photo recognized Bromley Farm Supply as a million-dollar dealer of Kioti Tractor equipment for the second time in three years. But the photo of the McHale owners, Terry and Jim, inaccurately referred to them as Terry and Bill. The Mercury apologizes for the error.

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The $14,000 annual contract typically features a two- or three-day grinding of waste products, including brush and material salvaged from construction demolitions.

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Renfrew minor hockey’s executive for 2011-12 consists of, in front row from left, fundraising convenor Mandy Dowd, vice-president Kim Greer, president Lesley Wright, senior house convenor Jill Shields and secretary Lori Murdock; and back row, registrar Christina Briscoe, equipment manager Joel McCrea, past-president Mike Martin, treasurer Keray O’Reilly, junior house convenor Jim Congdon and ice allocator Randy Pender. Intermediate house convenor Robert Fulton, referee-in-chief Paul Simard and statistician Jeff Rekowski are missing.

Based on the turnout at the annual general meeting, support for Renfrew minor hockey is alive and well.

“This is the best turnout at an AGM since I’ve seen around,” out-going president and former coach Mike Martin said of the 87 people who signed in for the March 31 Renfrew Minor Hockey Association meeting.

That was a far cry from a meeting just three years ago.

“We didn’t have enough people for a quorum,” treasurer Keray O’Reilly recalled.

Many of the 87 people at the 2010-11 season-closing get together made their presence felt, on a number of topics.

Included is body checking in house league hockey, and whether or not it should continue.

Martin noted all the presidents from District 5 of the Ottawa District Minor Hockey Association will be meeting to discuss the topic in Cobden tonight.

This year’s top fundraising efforts were a tag day, which raised more than $7,000, and a raffle.

Minor hockey will not continue with the beer garden at the Renfrew Fair.

There was no Nevada outlet this year. That usually draws upwards of $15,000 for fundraising.

“We had 278 kids registered, and about 100 coaches and bench staff this year,” registrar Christina Briscoe said.

Minor hockey is off to a good

start for 2011-12 with 150 kids already signed up. Fifty were registered at this time last year.

Parents can pay an extra $50 if they wish not to be a part of fundraising efforts.

Minor hockey used 900 hours during the 2010-11 season, ice allocator Randy Pender said.

Martin thanked the Second Ice Pad Committee for supporting minor hockey with funds to help off-set the cost of ice time.

He also thanked Peter Payton for his work on the RMHA website.

Lesley Wright has been promoted from intermediate house convenor to RMHA president.

Her two-year term starts May 1.

She thanked Martin and out-going vice-president Steve Leclerc for their years with the executive and coaching.

Bantam house teams finish hockey season

Two Renfrew bantam house hockey teams completed their 2010-11 seasons in tournaments over the past two weeks.

Budget Roofing had a 3-3 tie, 2-0 win and 5-0 loss in a Kingston event. Jonathan Vezina had

Jaguars participate in Try Day

Mercury photo by Steve Newman

2011 MINOR HOCKEY ACCOLADES These people helped make the Renfrew Minor Hockey Association a fun and exciting place to be this season. In the front row are coach of the year Kim Acres-Scott of the atom house league champion Farrell’s and sponsor of the year Rob Fulton of B.R. Fulton’s Construction. From left, in the back row, are awards presenter and RMHA vice-president Steven Leclerc; Jared Riopelle, with the Norman Wilson Memorial for midget sportsmanship and dedication; trainer of the year Perley Black of the major midget Timberwolves; and Braedon Vincent, winner of the Herb McQuade Memorial for peewee sportsmanship and dedication. Missing are rep coach of the year Don Pierce of the bantam Timberwolves and Brian Pierunek Award winner Colby Bleeks for novice sportsmanship and dedication.

Once again, funding of up to $800 per school has been made available in 2010-11 for secondary schools across the province to initiate a new or non-traditional sport of physical activity into their school programs with the focus on Grade 9 students.

The Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) supported financially by the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion is providing this opportunity in an effort to motivate students just entering high school to enjoy sport and to incorporate physical activity into their lifestyle.

This is the seventh year of the Grade 9 Try Day program. which has assisted schools province-wide to enhance their physical education programs.

St. Joseph’s Catholic High School is among those participating in the 2010-11 Try Day project.

They were also a part of the program last year.

three goals for the local side. Justin Visinski and Justin KnightLocke added solos. Carter Blimkie posted his second shutout.

Fraser’s Clothes Shop travelled to North Bay where they posted a 1-1 tie and 4-0 win be-

hind goaltender Jonathan Carlson’s fifth shutout before dropping 3-0 and 5-0 decisions.

Neal Gibbons had a two-goal game while Carson Eady, Kellee Bovair and Will Vincent notched singles for Fraser’s.

Bring on the playoffs Last September, or thereabouts, I predicted a Detroit Red Wings - Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup final, only because Wings legend Steve Yzerman is now the general manager of Tampa Bay. So why change anything?

The run to the Stanley Cup got underway for many teams last night, and will for the rest this evening.

• Washington vs. New York: The Capitals topped the Rangers in seven games a couple of years ago. Another long series with a similar result. Caps in six.

• Philadelphia vs. Buffalo.

The Flyers look primed to be knocked off by a team with a stellar goaltender. Sabres in six.

• Boston vs. Montreal: Wireto-wire. Bruins finally wear down the Habs in seven.

• Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay: Can’t go against my seasonopening prediction. Bolts in six.

• Vancouver vs. Chicago: Simply put, I think the Canucks prevail this time, in a tough six games. If they don’t, the big C on their sweaters will stand for Choke!

PETER CLARK PETER’S PUTTERINGS • San Jose vs. Los Angeles: Despite their playoff history, we give this one to the Sharks in five games.

• Detroit vs. Phoenix: Was there ever a doubt? Wings in six.

• Anaheim vs. Nashville: Nashville will give their firstround opponent as scare, as they do every year. Then the Predators will lose in six, as they do every year. * * * The two teams that have failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs every year since the 2005 work stoppage are the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs.

And for this week: This year’s meeting is the fifth in playoff history between the Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks.

The Hawks have won three of the previous four. Who coached the Canucks to their lone series win?

Sports The Upper Ottawa Valley Ringette Association send out a big thankyou to sponsors J&K Storage, Deslaurier Custom Cabinets, Hydro One, Mike and Tracy Dillabough of Eganville Foodland, Harding Mechanical of Carp, Caradoc golf carts, and Dentistry in the Valley Doctors Nick and Diana Atanasiu for their support during the 2010-11 season.

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Certified Yoga Instructor with O.Y.A. Certified Prenatal Yoga (Mary Deslaurier)

In photo above, Janet Robertson accepts the Gord Bilson Award from Jeff Millar, right, in memory of her brother, Donnie Robertson.

At left is UOV Ringette president Guy Audet. In photo at right, Jamie Broome receives the John Yates Most Sportsmanship trophy from head coach Jeff Schwan. Photos

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2010-11 UOV Ringette season saluted CAROLYN DOUCETTE UOV Ringette Association

Upper Ottawa Valley Ringette held their year-end banquet April 10 at The Ma-Te-Way Activity Centre.

The day began with the novice and petite players inviting a friend to come and try ringette.

The ice was full of young players getting an introduction to the game.

UOV coaches challenged the Belle B team to a match which ended a 7-7 tie. The game was enjoyed by all who participated and watched The AGM was well attended and the awards ceremony followed. All teams were recognized with trophies, clothing or

flowers.

It was a very successful year for all nine UOV teams.

The Gord Bilson Award is presented to someone who shows a love for ringette and volunteers their time to the association.

The award this year honoured the memory of Donnie Robertson. Donnie lost his battle with cancer in 2010 and was always a great supporter of ringette and for many years was the driver for our float in the Renfrew Santa Claus Parade. He offered his truck and wagon every year and enjoyed the smiling faces of the players on the float. Janet Robertson accepted the award in memory of her brother.

See UOV Ringette, Page 34

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Renfrew TENNIS Club 2011 REGISTRATION MA-TE-WAY ACTIVITY CENTER

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Sports RACQUET FROM THE COURTS

Serving up 2011 tennis season JANE DONNELLY Renfrew Tennis Club

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where my racket is.

Yes, it’s time to dig your tennis gear out of storage. But first come and pick up your membership at the Ma-Te-Way Activity Centre this weekend, April 15 and 16. See our ad in this paper for details.

Buying your membership now has several benefits. It’s convenient, it will entitle you to a free key ($3 after this weekend) and it will give you a chance to sign up for our ever-popular leagues. If you are new to either the game or the club, please drop by and let us answer any questions you might have. New members are always welcome.

We have another exciting season planned for you. Eldon Ferguson and Robert Pelletier have volunteered once again to run the doubles and singles leagues respectively. Sign-up sheets will be available at registration, or by contacting Eldon and Robert directly. Spots fill up quickly, so make sure you get your name on their lists. Those who enjoy a less competitive structure may prefer the Morning Tennis sessions.

This very informal group meets most summer mornings, and anyone who shows up is welcome to play.

Gary Irving, our stellar junior instructor, will provide his twice weekly lessons to our younger members starting June 30. The sessions run for six weeks, are free for any registered junior members, and are a hit with kids and parents alike.

Maybe you’ve never played the sport, but would like to give it a try. Then Robert Pelletier’s novice clinics are just the ticket for you.

He will be teaching tennis basics at these one-hour sessions scheduled for May 2, 4, and 6 at 7 p.m.

They’re free and open to anyone over 14 years of age, members and non-members alike.

Garry Irving (613-432-5944) and Robert Pelletier (613-432-6132) will also be offering private lessons during the season for anyone wanting one-on- one instruction.

There are a host of other activities planned, such as a Canada Day tournament, the Wilson Tennis Fair, fun tournaments and barbecues, club tournaments for all ages in August, and a seniors invitational in September. It’s still the best value for your sports dollar in the Valley, so hope to see you at Ma-Te-Way. Please note that after this weekend memberships can only be purchased at the recreation centre during normal business hours.

BEHIND THE GLASS

Week of champs: Part 2 ANDY SKLEPOWICZ Renfrew Curling Rink

The busy end to the curling season required the spreading of the news over two columns and this week’s will allow me to complete the report.

The winners of the Monday night A side playoffs was the team of Ed Lepack, Derek Visutski, Tony Lapienes and Don Lowe in a win over the Karl Mann rink.

The B side went to the team of Brian Yolkowskie, Dave Eady, Larry Visneskie and Jim Freemark as they defeated the Andy Sklepowicz foursome.

The team of Rob Warren, Andy Humphries, Jim Berg and Brian Hewitt claimed the C side with a draw to the button to win over Bill Bowles and his team.

The Wednesday night skins league was really close. Both the Yolkowskie and Warren rinks ended with a single loss but the team of Rob Warren, Andy Sklepowicz, Gail Keyes and Kerry Papineau was declared the winners since they had defeated the Yolkowskie rink in round robin play. Rob Warren continued his steady play to take the Thursday afternoon mixed fourth draw with his team of Vi Bujold, Willard Kranch and Roy Leitch.

The Friday Night League declared the team of Charlie Ricard and his Angels, a.k.a. Gert Brydges, Helen Hayward and Lee Sharpe as winners of the final draw.

Its hard to believe another exciting season of curling is over and by all reports it was greatly enjoyed by all. I will do one more column with the Mercury’s blessing and in the meantime it’s time to start my off season training….now where did I put that beer cooler?

Beavers sink Hawks The Clarence Creek Beavers captured the club’s third Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League title Sunday afternoon.

On home ice before a capacity crowd, the Beavers edged the Winchester Hawks 4-3 to tuck away the 2010-11 championship series in five games.

Clarence Creek also claimed Junior B championships in 1994 and 2001. Winchester has never won a league title.

The Beavers ousted Metcalfe and Ottawa West, and then topped the Renfrew Timberwolves four games to one to win the Metro-Valley championship.

The Wolves defeated Perth and Arnprior to capture Renfrew’s first Valley Division title since 2000.

UOV Ringette caps 2010-11 season From Page 33 The John Yates Memorial trophy recognizes a novice player who shows sportsmanship, leadership and fair play in the game of ringette. The trophy is sponsored by Sylvia Pudsey and her

daughter Virginia Yates. The recipient this year was Jamie Broome of Cobden.

The UOV Bench Staff of the Year Award was presented to the Novice C team, and their bench staff of Jeff Schwan, Kirk Ben-

Quail Creek Retirement Centre would like to thank the following businesses for their generous donations towards our very successful Fashion Show for the RVH Cat Scan Unit.

Douglas Moore Fashions Frasers Clothes Shop Barker’s Collision Centre Medical Pharmacy Primal Studio & Skin Care Tom Dicker Construction Old Town Hall Tea Room Margi’s Catering Hairitage Beauty Centre Home Sweet Hair Design Dahl’s Convenience Store R & D Insurance Renfrew Home Hardware Balloons N’Critters The Co-Operators Insurance Zio Nicolas Pizzeria Scotts & Sons Hardware Renfrew Pizzeria Flamingo Restaurant Step N’ Back Diner Signature Styles by Tia & Co Stone Meadows’ Kitchen Shop Mark’s Work Wearhouse Donohue Art & Frame Shears Unisex Hairstyling O’Neil & Company Inc. Home Health Med. Supplies The Warehouse Keeping Company Best Western Inn & Conference Centre

Ella’s Fashions Alia Omega Jewellers Giant Tiger Laurier Optical Metro Pick it Fence Korner Hutch Mill Music Vincent Taxi Renfrew Printing Shanloon Renfrew Jewellers Tim Hortons Money Concepts Sandy’s Deli Finnigan’s Road House Odie’s Beads Odi’s Kingburger Scapa Tape Studio D Hairstyles J D Optical Bonnechere Bakery Dairy Queen Scott’s Shoe Store Ray’s Flowers First Choice Haircutters Pura Vida The Lighthouse Tanning Salon & Spa Coco Jarry’s 460731

nett, Larry Broome, Karen Hubert and Natalie Atkins.

Thank goes our to all our sponsors.

Watch for registration dates and important information at www.uovra.ca.

Bereaved Families of Ontario – Pembroke

We Can Help the Healing Begin

BFO Pembroke Grief Support Satellite Group Thursday, April 21, 10 a.m.

Renfrew Seniors Home Support Office For more information contact Tracy at 613-732-7894

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BFO Pembroke is committed to providing an encompassing bereavement service for Renfrew County in conjunction with our community partners by providing one on one support, group support and education sessions to grieving individuals, providing training, supervision and support to volunteers who are providing support to grieving individuals, and offering education opportunities and increasing awareness in this community on the needs of bereaved families.

TOWNSHIP OF ADMASTON/BROMLEY

TENDERS

TOWNSHIP OF WHITEWATER REGION TENDER FOR GRASS CUTTING

Contract 01-11 – Granular ‘M’ Contract 02-11 – Winter Sand

CONTRACT GR#11-1

Sealed Tenders will be received at the Township Office until 4:00 p.m., Thursday, May 5th, 2011 for the following: 1. Supply, crush and haul approximately 18,000 metric tonnes of Granular ‘M’ material.

2. Supply and stockpile approximately 4,000 metric tonnes of winter sand.

Tender forms must be picked up at the Municipal Office – 477 Stone Road, RR 2, Renfrew ON. Any additional information, please contact the undersigned.

Envelopes should be clearly marked as to contents.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Chris Kunopaski Road Superintendent ckunopaski@admastonbromley.com (613) 432-3175 RR 2, Renfrew ON K7V 3Z5 461987

The Township of Whitewater Region invites tenders for grass cutting, for 2011, 2012, 2013 grass cutting seasons (a three year term).

There will be a mandatory site meeting and an optional tour of locations on Tuesday April 19th starting at 8am. The meeting will start at the Townships Public Works Office located at 1798 Westmeath Road, Westmeath Ontario Tender Forms will ONLY be handed out at the mandatory meeting.

Participants are required to submit one tender price for all areas requiring service, but are to show a breakdown of cost per cut at each area on the supplied form. The successful contractor will supply all equipment and labour for this contract. The successful contractor will be required to provide proof of adequate liability insurance before the contract will be awarded (minimum $2,000,000.00) Sealed Tenders will be accepted by the undersigned at the Municipal Office in Cobden till 2pm on Wednesday April 27th, with tender opening to follow.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. For further information please contact the Public Works Office at 613-587-4764.

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season, whether or not you’ve played baseball in the past, or in the league before. Newcomers are always welcome.

Renfrew County 150 celebrations are on this year in Pembroke in early June, and among other events over the years, sports in the county will be saluted. Anyone willing to lend any baseball memorabilia – photos, stories, etc. – for display at the 150 event is asked to call the above phone number.

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The Tuesday Night Recreation Baseball League has been in business on Seeley Field at MaTe-Way Park for about two decades, and organizers will endeavour to keep the tradition alive this summer.

The Legends, Rebels and Arnprior have been mainstays in the league for several years.

It is hoped that enough players can be rounded up to create two more teams for 2011. Call 613-4324641 with you wish to play this

reation departments and township offices throughout Renfrew County.

For more information about the 2011 Games, or if you would like to be involved, call Stephanie Atkinson at 613-625-2910 or Marianne Street at 613-756-7958.

You may call the Renfrew Recreation Centre at 613-432-3131 to pick up a registration form.

Don’t forget Hike for Hospice May 1

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“Each year between 300 and 400 senior participants play in these games and enjoy the camaraderie and fun of competing with other seniors of their age groups,” notes Games chair Stephanie Atkinson.

“There are also other activities planned for the day with a closing banquet where gold, silver and bronze medals are presented to the winners in each venue.”

With this being a non-actifest year, many of the medal winners will be able to compete in the Eastern Divisional District Games Aug. 23 in Smiths Falls.

The events that day are bid euchre, bridge, cribbage, mixed doubles darts, euchre, floor shuffleboard, golf, open doubles horseshoes, lawn open doubles lawn bowling and five-pin bowling (mixed teams with pins over average).

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The 2011 Games will be held in Barry’s Bay Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2.

Three of the activities are on June 1, lawn bowling in Deep River, five-pin bowling in Renfrew and pickleball, a relatively new sport to Renfrew County, at Dundonald Hall in Base Petawawa.

The bowling is at Renfrew’s Opeongo Bowlodrome and features team and singles action.

Bid euchre, carpet bowling, contract bridge, cribbage, darts, euchre, floor shuffleboard, golf, horseshoes, tennis, bocce, cycling and prediction walk are on June 2 at various locations in Barry’s Bay, Wilno, Combermere and Killaloe.

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PETER CLARK peter.clark@metroland.com

Calabogie Peaks Resort is best known for its skiing, but no matter what the time of the year the resort is often a hub of activity.

On Saturday, April 30, the Peaks will be hosting its first Ride the Valley for Soldier On. Proceeds from the motorcycle ride are going to Soldier On, a ski program for disabled soldiers.

“We do a tremendous amount of work with disabled people and disabled children. We have been running our CADS (Calabogie Adaptive Ski Program) for seven years. Now we are doing it for disabled soldiers,” Peaks special projects manager Liz Murphy said. “It didn’t take us any time to come up with our beneficiary,” Murphy was quick to point out.

The Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Department of National Defence combined to form Soldier On in 2007.

Six soldiers participated in a Soldier On Adaptive Ski Program at the Peaks Feb. 13-17 of this year. The solders spent time with CADS volunteers who helped develop their adapted ski skills, Murphy said. They also benefited from the opportunity to interact with others who are living with challenges similar to their own.

The Peaks hopes to make Soldier On during the ski season an annual event at their facilities, Murphy added.

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RIDE THE VALLEY The Canadian Army Veterans (CAV) Motorcycle Unit will be working with the Peaks at the upcoming Ride the Valley event.

CAV started in 2003. They have, and continue to assist numerous charities in achieving their monetary goals.

Registration for Ride the Valley is $30.

People are welcome to register online at the Peaks calabogie.com website, or they may do so prior to Ride the Valley from 8 to 10 a.m.

The Ride leaves Calabogie Peaks at 10:30 a.m. The route takes participants through Griffith, Dacre, Renfrew, Burnstown, White Lake, Waba, Pakenham, Clayton and Tatlock, and back along Highway 511 to Calabogie.

“The route covers over 200 kilometres,” Murphy added.

There are also a number of other events in conjunction with Ride the Valley during the day.

People not participating in the actual motorcycle ride itself can still enjoy a pig roast from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Peaks for $20.

The day will also include a poker run, live music and vendors.

“The chair lift will be running that day so people and families can enjoy,” Murphy points out.

The cost is five dollars, which will also go to benefit Soldier On.

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Charges pending in assault at Friday dance at Renfrew Recreation Centre

At the Renfrew Recreation Centre during a dance April 8, a 13year-old female was assaulted by a 14-yearold female who was know to the victim.

The victim required

10 stitches at hospital and was released. The incident was reported to police, and charges are pending. Const.

Limlaw investigated.

It was one of 185 calls that the Renfrew

OPP responded to for service last week.

PROPERTY CRIMES

Some time overnight on April 8 while parked at the Arn-

prior high school a Chev pickup truck had its wipers and mirrors broken off by unknown persons, PC Rebertz investigated.

A break, enter and theft was reported

to the Renfrew OPP on April 9. Unknown persons broke into a cottage on Eastside Way. Nothing of value was taken. Const.

Kolkowski investigated.

Overnight April 8 a Mazda was damaged on Raglan St. by unknown persons.

On April 9 about 1:30 a.m., Const. Limlaw observed a female walking on Lochiel

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97 AIRTH BLVD. Excellent residential location – three bedrooms on main level + living room, dining room, kitchen, family room at rear and a 4 pce. bath + rec. room, bedroom and kitchenette on lower level + 3 pce. bath – gas heat – attached garage – affordable living. Call Helen at 432-0058.

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OPP report

Continued from Page 38 On April 10 around 12:13 a.m., Const. Limlaw located a male in a parking lot on Argyle Street in Renfrew with open liquor. A 22-year-old Renfrew man was charged under the liquor licence act.

On April 10 about 12:23 a.m., Const. Besner observed a male walking on Raglan Street with open liquor. A Renfrew male, 20, was charged under the liquor licence act.

About 2:30 a.m. April 10, PC

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Limlaw observed a male walking on Argyle Street with open liquor. Charged was a 31-yearold Renfrew man under the liquor licence act.

On April 10 around 3:46 a.m., PC Besner observed a male walking on Lochiel Street with open liquor. Charged under the liquor licence act was an 18-yearold Renfrew youth.

On the same morning at 4 a.m., Const. Carruthers observed a male walking on Raglan Street with no pants or boots.

An 18-year-old Renfrew youth was charged under the liquor licence act.

refused to comply with the demand. As a result, a 38-year-old Gloucester woman was charged with impaired operation and failing to provide oral fluid or urine under the Criminal Code of Canada. She is scheduled to appear in court May 11.

MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS Renfrew OPP responded to 12 motor vehicle collisions since April 4. Charges range from failing to stop at a stop sign to impaired driving and failing to provide a urine sample.

On April 4 at 1:26 p.m. police responded to the report of a possible impaired driver that while being followed went into the ditch.

Police attended and spoke to the driver who appeared unsteady on her feet. After conducting several tests, a urine sample demand was read and the female

DOMESTIC DISPUTES Renfrew OPP officers responded to six domestic disputes during the past week.

UPCOMING EVENTS Renfrew OPP has put a Fatal

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Reduction Plan into effect due to the number of fatal collision’s that have occurred in the past year. This includes more patrols, Ride Checks and the assistance of the Ottawa Traffic Management Unit. The OPP reminds motorists, the 2011 Spring Seat Belt Campaign runs April 13-23.

Crime Stoppers Pembroke/ Renfrew County believes that someone may have information that could assist police in solving these crimes. If you have information on any criminal offence that results in charges being laid, you qualify for an award of up to $2,000.

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2 1/2 story brick home. Kit, Large LR; 2nd Flr 2 BDR 1- 4 pc bath. Top level Large MBR. Basement unfinished, F.A. Gas with central air , mostly new windows throughout. Price $139,900. Call Ross for details at 433-1133

170 TASSE AVE. R-4000, brand new bungalow, open concept, kit., D.R., separate L.R., 14pc bath jacuzzi, separate shower, 2 good size B.D.’s, full unfinished basement with plumbing for bath, laundry room facilities, E.B.R. heat.

Asking $219,000. Call Ross at 613433-1133.

186 PINNACLE ROAD 4 LEVEL SPLIT - MINUTES FROM RENFREW Eat in Kit with new pot lights, leads to large deck, Separate D.R., L.R., all overlooking Renfrew. Upper level features BDR, 1-4pc bath, Large MBR, 1-3pc ensuite with jacuzzi tub highlighted by skylight, large walk in closet; 2nd level has, cozy family room, laundry room plus 1-3pc bath, furnace room. Lower level, B.D.R., large hallway, 2 car fully insulated garage, beautiful hardwood floors throughout this home, pave drive, quality landscaped, Call Ross for details at 433-1133.

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Mobile home; with large addition, features include: kit., L.R., 2 B.D.R., family room 17’x12’, sewing room 18’x11’, propane heat, separate insulated shed, two decks out front, all this on large lot, asking $98,500. Call Ross for details 613-433-1133.

246 OPEONGO RD. Custom Brick bungalow, kit, D.R., L.R., with brick fireplace, mbr. with 4pc ensuite, 2 b.r. lots of closet space, and full family bath. Walk-out basement with rec room on ground level, large unfinished area, gas heat, a/c, large back deck overlooking part of Renfrew, 2 car attached garage, paved drive, many more highlights.

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1075A LAKE DORE RD Location, Location! Family home on the beautiful shores of Lake Dore. 165ft of magnificent eye catching waterfrontgreat swimming.The home has been freshly painted throughout.Hardwood floor in LR & hall. Ceramic tile in kitchen & hall bath. Livingroom overlooks the lake.Huge rec room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace.2 car garage, gazebo, dock, c/a & c/v.New roof June/10.

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184 Prince - $172,900 • Many Updates • Gas heat , Central air • Hardwood floors • Paved driveway • Centrally located

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728 Aberdeen St - $224,900 • Custom Design • Hardwood & Ceramic Flooring • Ensuite Bath • 2 Bedrooms • Economical Living

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• Gas heat, Central Air • Separate dining room • Fully finished lower level • Interlock driveway • Single Garage MLS #779022 $259,900 Call Dennis for more info 613-432-0041

• All Brick • Double paved driveway • Gas heat - Central air • 3 Bedrooms • Quiet neighborhood MLS #785132 $189,900 Call Morris for more info 613-432-1830

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NATURE

Rare trumpeter swans create excitement

Hi Jim and Ila: Terry and Joanne Hoelke write, Lots of excitement here on the Bonnechere River just above Eganville. We have had two swans feeding for the last few days; birders have identified them as trumpeter swans and tell us they are very rare.

Bob and Laureen Clarke have also seen the birds in the reach between the damn in Eganville and Crooked Rapids. Indeed the swans are rare and although the birds travel north through our area few of us see them during migration. The swans winter along the New England coast.

REDPOLLS

Fred Lockwood has had a flock of common redpolls at his feeder for the first time. It is definitely a winter bird and its ability to survive the cold nights has been a mystery for many years. Their ability is associated with

Plenty on fishing just a click away

JIM FERGUSON SCENE FROM THE HAWK’S EYE a substantial crop situated halfway down their neck called an esophageal diverticulum. The pocket is used to store seeds, especially toward nightfall and during particularly cold weather.

The extra food provides energy at night and on very cold days.

AMERICAN KESTRELS Janice Eady reports that one of the pairs of American kestrels has returned to their property. The birds have been nesting in the area for several years.

The kestrel is a jay-sized falcon with pointed wings, cinnamon coloured back and tail, mustached black-andwhite face pattern and they hunt for

Fishing is popular activity that many Ontario residents and visitors enjoy year-round.

It’s a great way to get outdoors and enjoy the province. About 1.3 million anglers fish in Ontario each year, and they catch more than 100 million fish and spend $2.5 billion in the province annually.

The Ministry of Natural Re-

prey on rapidly beating wings. Males have blue-grey wings. Their sharp “killy, killy, killy” call is diagnostic during the spring and summer.

Kestrels will nest in home-made wooden boxes 12 inches (30 cm) on each side with a two- to four-inch (6 cm to 12 cm) entrance hole. The boxes should be placed 15 to 30 feet (3 m-6 m) from the ground in open country.

ALL ARRIVE AT ONCE Photo by Ryan Hoelke, Eganville Richard McManus saw a number of water birds in the same area and Very rare trumpeter swans. they all appeared to have arrived on local lakes and rivers within the same few days. Common mergansers, 517 CASTLEFORD RD, hooded mergansers, buffleheads, CanRENFREW ada geese, wood ducks, mallards, ringFabulous 4-bedroom family necked ducks, goldeneyes, mallards, blacks and scaup were in separate home on 28 acres of private bush. Space to spare with rafts but in the same area. main floor laundry and den, lower level family room, See ‘Hawk’s Eye’, Page 44 detached insulated this one is a MUST SEE! workshop. $399,000

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Heritage APRIL 13, 1911 WEDDING IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY: A wedding in Bellingham, Washington Territory, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Yuill, will be of interest to friends in Renfrew. At four o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 26, 1911 Miss Frances Eleanor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Rogers, of Glendale, Ont., was united in marriage to Mr. Alexander Sterling Ross of Renfrew. They left on a trip to Seattle, Washington,

before going to Vancouver B.C. where they will reside.

LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING: The local Board of Health held a meeting in the Council Chambers at which were present the Chairman Mr. J. Connolly, Mr. R.B. Campbell, the mayor and the Clerk Treasurer. Chief Plaunt reported that Mr. W.A. Smith had complied with requirements of the Board in regard to his closet.

A fee for the scavenging will be henceforth charged to the property owners, and be payable and collected along with other taxes of the town. The public health notices regarding the cleaning

OLGA LEWIS FROM THE OLD FILES of yards will be distributed.

APRIL 9 , 1936 LEAVES FOR PARIS & GENEVA: Miss Charlotte Whitton, director of the Canadian Welfare Council sailed from Halifax on Saturday last to attend the Advisory Commission for the Protection and Welfare of Children and Young people in Paris and Geneva. Miss Whitton has been a member of the organiza-

tion since 1926, and last year was appointed Canadian delegate to the permanent commission.

A COACH SERVICE TO RUN THROUGH RENFREW: Colonial Coach Lines Ltd. of Ottawa notified Dr. Wade, Mayor that they will institute a daily coach service from Montreal to North Bay, passing through Renfrew. The company has received permission from the Railway Board.

APRIL 14, 1971 O’BRIEN APARTMENTS SPRING PAINTING: Del Leclaire took advantage of the spring weather last week and painted

the windows of the O’Brien apartment building on Raglan street. Suspended by a small platform which hung from a chain attached to the roof of the building, Del hoisted himself up and down the building presenting an interesting picture to many passersby who watched his escapade from far below.

But the height of the O’Brien building doesn’t bother Del in the least. He’s had plenty of experience before. Del works on the inspection of Ontario Hydro Chimneys at Lambton and Mantico in Southern Ontario, which took him to a height of 590 feet.

See ‘Old Files’, Page 45

Farm Safety & Health These local businesses care about the health and safety of the farmers, ranchers and agricultural workers they serve.

As we recognize MacKILLICAN & ASSOCIATES Farm Safety & Health, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS please take a moment Partners (established in 1951) to review these simple tips designed to protect your health and safety on Lockwood 1054 the job.

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• Never allow extra riders on machinery. No seat, no rider!

• Never attempt to unplug equipment when power is engaged.

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• Plan an escape route when working around animals in tight areas.

• Wear protective equipment like masks and goggles to safeguard your lungs and eyes.

• Review and enforce basic safety rules for employees and family members, and set the example by following them yourself.

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The attacks will continue until the eggs have been laid and Continued from Page 42 Waves of birds travel north on the female begins incubation. south winds in the spring and At that time the birds reduce south on north winds in the fall. the area they defend to about a Any change in the weather has an influence on when and for how Need Legal Assistance? long birds will migrate. Clear Call a paralegal skies and moderate wind speeds Susan Sheehy Paralegal Services send them on their way. Low cloud cover and strong head winds force • Free 1/2 hour consultation • Evening and weekend appointments available them stop their migration.

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SPECIAL NOTES Velma Durant has a redpoll that is a partial albino. The bird

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tournament?

Enjoy your birding. Ila and Jim Ferguson, 5313 River Road, R. R. 5, Renfrew, Ontario K7V 3Z8 Phone 613-432-2738 or email jamesh@nrtco.net.

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All persons having claims against the Estate of Peter Carl Comba, late of the Town of Renfrew, in the County of Renfrew, who died on or about the 24th day of March, 2011, are hereby notified to send particulars of same to the undersigned solicitor for the Estate Trustee, duly verified, on or before the 28th day of April, 2011, after which date the Estate will be distributed, with regard only to the claims of which the undersigned shall have notice, and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of whose claim they shall not then have notice.

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AND TAKE NOTICE that after the last mentioned date the assets of the estate will be distributed to the persons entitled, having regard only to those claims of which notice shall have been received as aforesaid.

DATED at Renfrew, this 7th day of April, 2011.

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Ruby and Jim Vieland heard the calls of several pairs of killdeer this week at Cobden. It is a bit late for them to be arriving.

Camouflage is the killdeer’s best mode of defence. The alternating bands of black and white on the head and neck break up the outlines of the bird and make it more difficult to see against a multi-coloured background than a bird that is uniform in colour.

Killdeer eggs are mottled with browns and grays to blend in with the surrounding ground cover.

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REMEMBER WHEN Renfrew Collegiate Institute will be hosting a reunion the weekend of April 29 and 30, highlighting students who entered Grade 9 in the years 1964 to 1969. Members of the 1968-69 senior girls’ championship basketball team were, from left, seated, Susan Nichols, Pat Hume, Janet Eady and Debbie Donaldson; kneeling, Gail Thom, Eva Gauthier, Wendy Perry, Isobel Hayes, Carol Prentice, Sharon McKenzie and Anne Monsell; and standing, Linda Stewart, Betty Ottema, Reina DeVries, Marva Currie-Mills, Mrs. Grant, Camie McNab, Charlene McIntyre, Helen Skinner, Linda Taylor and Carol Sidock.

cept the Organic Choice. It was other ingredients included 50% vent water loss and soil compac- ning it through my fingers –real the only one that had “pasteur- composted bark, sphagnum peat tion. See what I said about it not soil that is full of nutrients. But not the stuff in the plastic bags ized poultry litter.” I laughed moss and organic wetting agent. being a soil.

RURAL ROUTES To be fair to the potting soil with bits of sticks in it. when I read the label. Did the Most common ingredients in Actually, you don’t need good hens eat only organic grains? I potting soil are peat moss, com- industry, local potting soil bags I asked about pasteurized poultry posted bark or other plant mate- checked says it is to be mixed in soil to grow plants. Hydroponic litter and why only the Organic rials, sand and perlite (for drain- with existing earth – uh, garden gardeners grow plants using only nutrient-rich water.

I always get a chuckle when I Choice had that as an ingredi- age). Perlite is an amorphous soil.

Happy gardening!

I like seeing good soil and runsee stacks and rows of potting soil ent. Store staff didn’t know. The volcanic glass, which helps prebags at grocery stores, hardware stores and at greenhouses. This is the time of the year when you see the stuff. The so-called potting soil has become an industry built on misconceptions.

Renovations, Additions, Potting soil isn’t really a soil.

Custom Building Sure it looks black and earthy and the real thing for your plants, but Hardwood Flooring & Ceramic Tiling it delivers hardly any nutrients.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY The Renfrew County Housing Corporation manages rent-geared-to-income housing in the County of Renfrew for low to moderate income households. Tenants of the Renfrew County Housing Corporation are 16 years of age and older representing families, singles, seniors and people with special needs. Renfrew County Housing Corporation has offices located in Arnprior, Renfrew, and Pembroke.

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COUNTY OF RENFREW Employment Opportunities BONNECHERE MANOR Long Term Care Home

Thank you for your interest, however, only applicants considered for an interview will be contacted.

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ELECTRICIAN 1 Part Time Position Competition #11-55

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Qualifications: x Grade 12 graduate or equivalent combination of education and experience x Must hold a current trade license as a registered Electrician with proven mechanical abilities x Successful completion of the Facilities Maintenance Mechanic Certificate Program, an asset x Must display departmental and position competencies of Personal Sensitivity/Empathy, Flexibility/Adaptability, Teamwork, Accuracy & Thoroughness, Creative Thinking, and Decisiveness Compensation: $26.71 per hour, 32 hours bi-weekly.

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Qualifications: x High school graduate or equivalent combination of education and experience x Knowledge of Laundry operation, an asset x Knowledge of Laundry chemistry and textiles, an asset x Must display departmental and position competencies of Personal Sensitivity/Empathy, Flexibility/Adaptability, Teamwork, Accuracy & Thoroughness, and Efficiency

For complete job descriptions and qualifications, please see the County of Renfrew website at http://www.countyofrenfrew.on.ca/departments/human-resources/unionized-job-descriptions/

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KI Pembroke, a world class manufacturer of office furniture Requires a Licensed Electrician

Looking for a General Manager

This person will report to the Maintenance Coordinator and should meet the following criteria:

Responsibilities

Min of 3 years experience in an Industrial environment Mechanically inclined Experience in a Lean environment preferred.

Excellent troubleshooting skills PLC and Robotics experience would be an asset Knowledge of the MP2 computer program would be an asset Must be able to work shift work, overtime and weekends

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schedule & organize work for various dept’s serve customers in a retail environment balance cash daily selling automotive accessories, detailing & undercoating to customers - sourcing & ordering from suppliers - managing small inventories - provide assistance to various dept’s when necessary

This person must be a motivated team player who requires minimal supervision. They must have a positive attitude and adapt well to change.

Requirements high school diploma excellent customer service skills strong communication skills driven & self motivated critical thinking & problem solving ability salesmanship & computer skills dependable positive attitude collision estimation experience would be an asset

Remuneration competitive based on candidate’s experience & qualifications

Please submit your resume by April 22, 2011 to Harry Lane at 1000 Olympic Drive, Pembroke, ON, K8A 6X7 or by email at harry.lane@ki.com or by fax at 613-735-6600 (attn. H.Lane)

EXPERIENCED CHILD CARE infants & tots welcome, hours 7a.m. to 5p.m. Snacks & lunch provided, close to Queen E. school, receipts & references, call Alicia 433-9750

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Job Title: Permanent Full-Time District Service Representative Department: Circulation Department Location: Ottawa Job Summary: This is a challenging role that requires an enthusiastic and energetic individual who is a self starter with strong communication, organizational, computer and problem solving skills. Experience is not necessary as on-the-job training will be provided for the right candidate.

Position Accountabilities: • A flair for dealing with customers in a patient and understanding manner • Excellent verbal & written communication skills • Detail oriented and highly organized • Ability to handle multiple demands and prioritize tasks • Address timely concerns in a timely and professional manner.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Windows, Word, Excel and PowerPoint • Valid driver’s license and ability to provide his /her transportation • Previous customer experience an asset • Bilingualism in English and French an asset

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Want to prepare your children for Kindergarten? Need before and after school care? Call Marcinda 613-4322627, view website: www.childsparadise.ca

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KIMBERLY’S Precision cuts for women & men perms, colours, nose & ear piercing, waxing, pay NO TAX. 180 Tasse Ave., Renfrew, Mon. to Fri. (9a.m.-5p.m.) 613-4327100 after 6p.m. 613433-1773 Professional Handyman “Honey Do This” Company specializing in small jobs. Painting, Plumbing, Carpentry.

Creative solutions with reasonable rates. 30 years experience. Bill Weiss 613-570-1488, Renfrew, Arnprior, Calabogie weissmaintenance@ gmail.com

SENACK MAINTENANCE PLUS. Now accepting new customCL23609 ers for the 2011 season. Complete property maintenance, cottage MORTGAGES and handyman service. & LOANS Call 613-432-0611 for a free estimate. *Profes$$MONEY$$ Consoli- sional asphalt sealing date Debts Mortgages and crack repair now to 95% No income, available* Bad credit OK! Better Option Mortgage #10969 1-800-282LAWN & 1169 www.mortgageGARDEN ontario.com FREE YOURSELF FROM DEBT, MONEY FOR ANY PURPOSE! DEBT CONSOLIDATION. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd mortgages, credit lines and loans up to 90% LTV. Self employed, mortgage or tax arrears. DON’T PAY FOR 1YR PROGRAM! #10171 ONTARIO-WIDE FINANCIAL CORP. CALL 1888-307-7799. www.ontario-widefinancial.com MORTGAGES FIRST second, private loans. Personal/business L.O.C. Credit problems, I have solutions. Private money available.

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CERTIFIED MASON 10yrs exp., Chimney Repair & Restoration, cultured stone, parging, repointing. Brick, block & stone. Small/big job specialist. Free estimates. Work guaranteed. 613-250-0290.

GRASS CUTTING - trimming - fertilizing Shrub trimming - tree removal Cedar rail fencing Free estimates – fully insured

Campbell McFarlane 613-433-0096 613-649-2631

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MOSSEAU’S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE spring clean up is here, for ground rolling, dethatching and aerating & seasonal grass cutting, please call for appointment, free estimate Home 613-4324477 Cell 613-4321860 TOTAL LAWN CARE we provide the following services: lawn maintenance, garden tilling, hedge trimming, residential & commercial, fully insured. Contact Dan Fraser 613-4328142/613-570-1168 “Treat your Lawn to some T.L.C.” PUBLIC NOTICE

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2-5 p.m. Community Forum 5-5:30 p.m. AGM - Election of Board 7-9:30 p.m Visual and Performing Arts Exhibition FRIDAY, APRIL 15th Eagle’s Nest, Eganville, 178 Jane St. Details: www.BonnechereRiver.ca

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ARE YOU STILL SINGLE? Isn’t it time you gave Misty River Introductions a call? Ontario’s Traditional Matchmaker. www.mistyrive rintros.com (613-2573531 SEEKING INFORMATION regarding birth parents or siblings.

BIRTH NAME: Robert McLaughlin, born and registered to LETA (Letitia McLaughlin). Born in Pembroke ONT, July 3, 1933.

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RENFREW University Women’s Club will hold its annual USED BOOK SALE Friday, April 29th from 4 to 9 pm Saturday, April 30th from 9 am to 12 pm in the MacNeil Gymnasium Renfrew Collegiate Institute.

Proceeds are used for scholarships for local high schools.

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Fulton’s Pancake House

AMBUSH Saturday May 7, 9 pm.

Cobden Agricultural Hall, $15.00 advance tickets available at Dahl’s, Renfrew; Rooney’s, Cobden. $20.00 at the door. Restricted event. Photo ID req’d.

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Fulton’s Pancake House Maple Spring Season OPEN April 14th

Seniors Music Days: April 20, 21 (11am to 1:30pm)

Easter Weekend Fun all 4 days, April 22 - 25.

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FREE SHOWCASE 2011! April 15,16,17.

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ART SHOW AND SALE ORIGINAL GLASS HANDMADE SOAPS SAT. APRIL 16 & SUN APRIL 17 10a.m. to 4p.m.

3537 CALABOGIE ROAD (BETWEEN BURNSTOWN AND CALABOGIE)

Easter Egg Hunt Saturday & Sunday

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613-256-3867

SEE A GREAT ARRAY of women’s products at SHOWCASE 2011.

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SHOWCASE 2011.

There is something for every member of the family. You’ll have a great time. www.showcaseinpetawawa.ca.

Check out our great Exhibitors and all of the new products. Petawawa Civic Centre.

TOWNSHIP OF ADMASTON/BROMLEY

Police Services Board Monthly Meeting Tuesday, April 19th at 7:30 pm at the Township Office 477 Stone Rd Public is Welcome!

MARRIAGES

Happy 16th Birthday

HANNAH Still a Cutie!

Leanne (nee Nixon) & Kevin Woermke welcome with love,

LOVE — MOM, DAD AND NICOLE April 19

Tia Russell & Kevin Barnes were married Feb. 10, 2011 in Punta Cana Dominican Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Barnes

Chase Murray Abbott,

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Blessed grandparents are Bob & Carol Nixon and looking down from heaven, Barry & Sue Woermke.

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Fundraiser for Neil Eady held at the Best Western to assist with out of country medical expenses for Multiple Sclerosis “Liberation Therapy”

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April 16, 2011 The Canadian Toy Testing Council Is launching its Annual Fundraising Campaign to support the production of the Annual Toy Report. Join us at the Hazeldean Mall, 300 Eagleson Road, Kanata, from 9:00am to 2:00pm, Spring Toy Sale – 50% off ticketed price of slightly used, previously tested toys + HST.

A big thank you to my family and especially my brothers, Clayton and Gordon, who spearheaded this fundraiser.

Thanks to the sponsors: Bob Barker – Barker’s Collision Centre Ken Dillabough – Protyre Sales and Service

Sincere thanks to my family and everyone who made my 90th birthday celebration such a memorable occasion.

The cards and gifts are greatly appreciated.

What a Happy Time together!

To all who provided gifts for door prizes and the silent auction: Jean Dick Scotiabank Renfrew Sheila Kemp – Aikenhead’s Drug Store Renfrew Golf Club Shopper’s Drugmart Phillip Marcella Pat St Michael Insurance Jockey Clothing Andy Pigeon – Sound Man

Jack Dougherty

GARAGE SALE SEASON IS ALMOST HERE!!

We will be running a special “GARAGE SALE” section in the Renfrew Mercury from May to September

MOVING SALE SATURDAY April 16, 8:00a.m. 369 Archibald Ave. Rain date Sunday.

Everything must go! Great prices on a wide variety of items

Thank you to all who attended a wonderful evening of music by Grievous Angel (The Legend of Gram Parsons) To the numerous friends and family who donated cash for the cause, helped set up the room and worked the tables, etc Another high note – we held a 50/50 draw for the food bank, raising $650. The winner, Ms Julia Broomfield donated her winnings of $325 back to the food bank. More evidence of the kind hearted people of the area.

With sincere thanks Neil Eady

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Email stonemaninpetawawa@live.ca GARAGE SALES YARD SALES

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ARNPRIOR FARMER’S MARKET on Elgin Street West invites farmers, gardeners, artists, crafters and home cooking vendors to participate in markets to be held Saturdays, 8am to 1pm from May 28-Oct. 8. A seasonal fee has been introduced.

Occasional vendors also welcome. For further information contact the market convener: 613-6220611 or jim@antiquesetc.ca

MUSICIANS and Entertainers wanted for the ARNPRIOR FARMER’S MARKETS to be held Saturdays, 8am to 1pm, from May 28 to Oct. 8. For further information contact the market convener: 613-6220611 or jim@antiquesetc.ca

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A booklet of commemorative verses is available for viewing at our office to help you get through this difficult time.

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HEY KIDS!!! Horse rides, games and demonstrations; some of Ontario’s coolest endangered species and lots more. See you at SHOWCASE 2011. It’s fun and admission is free. Bring Mom and Dad if you want. We’ll let them in as long as you keep them under control. www.showcaseinpetawawa.ca

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DEATHS

IN MEMORIAM

KENSAY ALEX WAITE OCTOBER 4, 2008 – APRIL 14, 2010

The family of the late Jennie Vanderwal wish to express their sincere gratitude to Dr Strader and all the staff of the Renfrew Victoria Hospital. Thank you to all our family, friends and neighbours for their visits, prayers and cards. Thank you to Pastor Dave Tigchelaar for his visits and prayers. Thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of the Hebron Christian Reformed Church for the lovely luncheon after the service. A special thank you to Melissa Vanderwal for the Remembrance.

To the pallbearers, Jennie’s grandsons, Adam Vanderwal, Adam Baker, Trent Tracey, Mark Mooney, Darrin Peplinski and Matt Brennan, thank you. A very special thank you to Kirk Anderson of Anderson Funeral Home, for his comfort and support during our loss.

I loved you before you were born Before I ever saw your face Before I held you in my arms Before I gave you a name Before I heard your voice Or saw your first tiny smile Even before I realized You were only here for a while I loved you in every moment Imagined those we never shared Your first steps, your first words Your first lock of hair As the angels quietly sing I struggle to understand Wishing for one more moment To hold your tiny hand Love you always and forever, munchkin Mommy and Daddy XOXO

Bless you all The Vanderwal family IN MEMORIAM

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GAGNON, DEANNE FLORENCE In loving memory of Mom; passed away April 13th 1998

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DARLENE KENNELLY In loving memory of a dear wife and mother who passed away April 19, 2009 We thought of you with love today but that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday and days before that too.

We think of you in silence, We often speak your name, But all we have are memories and your picture in a frame.

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JAYME VICTORIA HAY August 21, 1987 – April 14, 1996 For very few years, an Angel existed on earth Now 15 years later, we remember fondly, and with so much love, The people she affected, lives she fulfilled The hugs she gave and the sunny personality she emitted.

Your family loves and cherishes your memory, Living life with your spirit in us.

Someday we will be together again, Until then you will be in our hearts.

Love — Mommy, Colin, Momma and Poppa

If roses grow in heaven Lord In you we put our trust To gently place some in Mom’s arms And tell her they’re from us.

You are missed and remembered Moya and James

FREAMO MICHAEL ANTHONY August 10, 1956 April 13, 2010 In memory of our beloved father and grandpa, Mike A year has passed but still the hurt remains.

Looking forward to the day when we can see you once again.

You have missed so much in the year that you’ve been gone.

You would be so proud to see how much your grandchildren have grown.

We miss you every day and think of you often.

You may be gone but you will never be forgotten.

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Love always, Corin, Glen and Justin HARTWICK, Allan Geoff, Lisa, Emily, A loving husband, dad Annabelle and Mallory and grandpa who left us 15 years ago April 18, 1996.

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You left us so suddenly Goodbye was not to be But the memories you left us Are locked with a golden key Because you were so special No words can ever say How much we love and miss you Each & every day Forever remembered with love Lorraine & family

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The funeral service was conducted at St. Peter’s Cathedral Basilica, 196 Dufferin Avenue at Richmond on Monday, April 11 at 10:00 a.m. Interment took place at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Barrie on Tuesday, April 12 at 1:30 p.m. Parish prayers at the funeral home on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Memorial contributions to the Arthritis Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be gratefully acknowledged.

(October 11, 1945 – March 30. 2011)

On March 30, 2011 Mr. Vince Woods of Sherwood Park, formerly of Belleville, passed Ontario away suddenly and peacefully at the age of 65. He is lovingly remembered by his wife Shirley, his daughter Debbie (Dale) Schmidt, his son Mark, five grandchildren Travis, Tara, Alexia, Madilaina and Harmony, sisters; Dawn McKillop (Harry), Lana (Bob) Anderson, Ruby (Bob) Kimball, Carol (Rick) Horan, his brother John (Liz), his brother-in-law Paul (Debbie) Lefort, his sister-in-law Cherie (Bob) deSalis, mother-in-law Margaret Lefort as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, friends and golf buddies.

Love you Nana

Respecting Mary Ellen’s interest in Medical Education and her wishes, her body has been donated to Medical Science. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday morning April 16TH at 11 o’clock in St. Augustine’s Anglican Church, Beachburg. Final Interment will take place in the North Horton Cemetery at a later date. In memory of Mary Ellen donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated. Arrangements in care of the MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, Pembroke.

Condolences, tributes, donations www.murphyfuneralhome.ca

In Renfrew Victoria Hospital on Saturday April 9, 2011.

Anastacia Yantha beloved wife of the late Palmer (Pal) Carter. Dear sister-in-law of Doris Thacker of Renfrew. Also survived by several nieces and nephews.

Friends called at the Anderson Funeral Home & Chapel, 22 Raglan St. S., Renfrew on Monday 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. where Funeral Service was held in the Chapel on Tuesday, April 12th at 11:00 a.m. Spring Interment Thomsonville Cemetery.

For those desiring donations to Hospice Renfrew would be appreciated.

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Senack; Martin August Peacefully in Pembroke Regional Hospital on Sunday April 10, 2011. Martin Senack age 81 years.

Beloved husband of the late Eileen Deslaurier (Feb. 27, 2011). Loving father of Brad Senack and Trevor Senack. Loved grandfather of Jesse and Matthew. Dear brother of the late Leo Senack, Clara Blaskie (Joe) and Helen Russell (Garnet). Survived by sister-in-law Helen Deslaurier (Horst Walter) and fondly remembered by niece Pauline.

Friends may call at the Anderson Funeral Home & Chapel, 22 Raglan St. S., Renfrew on Saturday, April 16th from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. where Funeral Service will be held in the Chapel at 11:30 a.m. Cremation.

For those desiring donations to the Sunshine Coach Service or Hospice Renfrew would be appreciated.

Vince is predeceased by his parents John and Naomi.

In Lloydminster, Saskatchewan on March 21, 2011, in his 55th year. Beloved son of Rosamond and the late Albert Donnelly. Loving father of Chad, Edmonton, and Dane, Great Slave Lake, Alberta.

Dear brother of Randle (Jane), Renfrew, Patricia Asquini (Michael), Kanata, and Pauline, Renfrew.

Predeceased by sister Barbara (Bob Lucy). Also left to mourn are many nieces and nephews. Jon was a true original, with a unique sense of humour and an ability to make people laugh. We will miss him greatly. A Memorial Service was held at Westlawn Memorial Gardens, Edmonton, Friday, April 8.

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A celebration of Vince’s life will be held in Belleville at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Foundation.

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HAY, Jayme Who left us April 14, 1996 You had a smile for everyone You had a heart of gold You left us with the sweetest memories This world has ever known

Peacefully at Marianhill Residence on Friday April 8, 2011 in her 85TH year. Mary Ellen Boell (nee Obrey) of beloved Pembroke, mother of Robert Boell (Perri-Rae), Pembroke and Susan Hanniman Renfrew.

(Barry), Loving grandmother to Trina Hanniman (Terry Dowsett), Stacy Higgins (Colin), Brady, Shelby and Callie and great-grandchildren Ethan, Cole, Emily and Michael. Dear sister of Irene Hanniman (late Hilary), Renfrew and predeceased by brothers George Obrey (late Armaline) and Alvin Obrey.

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McAuley, Dorothea Peacefully at University Hospital on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Dorothea McAuley, nee Matthews of London and formerly of Barrie and Ottawa, in her 97th year. Beloved wife of the late Joseph McAuley. Loving mother of Elizabeth and her husband Tom Fenton of London and the late Nancy Dorothea.

Dear Nana of Kathryn, Christopher and Andrea (Eric Murray) and greatgrandmother of Renee Johnson, Evan and Freya Murray. Predeceased by her sisters Margaret and Patricia. Visitation was held on Sunday from 2 – 4 p.m. at the James A. Harris Funeral Home, 220 St. James Street at Richmond.

DEATHS

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