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By Angela Saxe If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life. —Siberian Elder

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ecently, a friend’s sister lost her job and not being the type to sit idle, she volunteered at a large senior’s centre. The task she set herself was to visit the elderly and to ask them for their story. Over the past months she has recorded the stories they have generously shared with her.

Some recount stories from their early childhood, wishing to remember the people and events that shaped their lives decades earlier. Others mapped out the journey their life has taken them on; leaving behind ancestral homes in faraway places or leaving one’s small community to work in a large city.

Some wish to revisit old grievances or joys; to speak of their struggles with loneliness or ill-health. Everyone has a story and every person seeks someone who is willing to sit and listen and who will in turn say: “Yes, that’s how it was for me as well, or at least that’s how I felt.” Storytelling is the most human of traits – just as our personal stories define who we are as individuals, every culture can be understood by examining its myths, fables and history.

In today’s culture, we are constantly inundated by stories that are not ours.

Television, newspapers, radio, movies and now social media present us with stories that are either fictional or are masqueraded as reality. We hunger

for stories about celebrities while we reduce our own experiences to postings on Facebook or Twitter. We turn our experiences into short videos and post them on YouTube, eager for the world to see and hear us.

Stories – whether they are oral or written, set to music or sung – allow us to explore the complex weave of human emotions, providing the listener, and often the teller, with wisdom and insight. Memoirs and biographies mine the reality of real people’s lives but fiction, through the use of imagination can also create a world that we recognize and that resonates within us. “ Tell me a stor y!” Ever y parent recognizes that plea as children snuggle into their beds after a hard day of play or going to school. Storytelling can help a child make the transition from his active day to the world of sleep and dreams. Myths and legends help them to make sense of the natural world and personal stories help them to feel the strong connections that bind them to their families. When a parent asks: Tell me what happened at school today, the child is able to share her experiences in a safe and accepting manner, while practising the art of creative imagination or truthful recall.

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St. in Tamworth not only lives up to their businesses is when I go to purits hard-earned reputation of servchase fresh bread, smoked almonds ing slow cooked, fresh food without or specialty cheese, I bring one of preservatives as well as tasty baked my dogs, sit on the patio and talk goods but it continues to grow and “dogs” with Dalton. Sounds like a expand especially now under their new show: Dogs with Dalton… nevnew owners: Dalton Cowper and er a dog’s breakfast!

Beverly Frazer. As a team they work The website for the ReBy David More long hours but it is quickly evident gal Beagle www.regalbeagleunt’s a real trick. There are some rare things, to Watch Officer, leaving the program at 18 that they are doing leashed.com offers a wealth of inand organizations, which seemwhat to bethey able love. with all the experience and training required to blend past, present and future into a to successfully pass Transport Canada’s Many of us still recall the formation for dog lovers. soul-healing whole that makes one appreciate licensing exams. Hugh Mackenzie, General things in aoriginal differentowners way - a really Manager of Kingston 1000 Islands Cruises, Poppygood, Harrison The website for the Bakery is in red wine, for instance. On the other hand, puts it this way, “SL2 grads are my best and David Greenland who opened progress: www.riverbakery.com obnoxious examples of the failure to achieve employees.” Mackenzie finds jobs for a couple this perfection are as common as, well, cellof Brigantine, Inc. alumni each year in his own their doors boasting that “they made phone towers, which are undoubtedly useful, business, and he helps place up to half a dozen Teens climbing the rigging of the tall ship St. Lawrence Top photo: Dalton and Bev. but don’t lend themselves to demonstrating others with cruise lines down the river. the best bagels in Eastern Ontario.”

II. Photo courtesy: Brigantine Inc. this grace-filled, zen-like balance. My own Bottom: Dalton, Anita, and Bev. Over the years the Bakery changed personal not-favourite, sprouted suddenly Unlike most sail training programs, this one each cruise themselves, and commit to finding partnership withBarry the Fairfi eld-Gutzeit Society, Photo credits: Lovegrove. last summer, as these things do, up on must successfully persuade enough teenagers support for up to a quarter of the trainees which owns and operates several properties owners but the quality of the food yonder hill, where a cactus-like antenna to transform themselves into responsible each year. Most of those disadvantaged kids in Bath, including a beautifully restored 1796 now dominates my pines – well, my eye’s adults to maintain an offi cer cadre. Grand and the baked items only got betsioned as the culmination of a five recognize this opportunity to learn and grow Loyalist house and 1812 Discovery Centre pines, anyway -- with bristling, hi-tech selfdreams or not, there was never enough as the lifeline it is. The organization works a pier on the waterfront. During 2013, importance,ter. reflecting unnatural money to be able afford to hirefirst a complete Now itsBevhideously and Dalton, with the year planto when they moved toclosely with Pathways for Youth, Katarokwi with the two living history enterprises are devoting image from our loon-quiet, low-tech lake. set of permanent officers. MacLachlan says, aid of David, who still does the bulk working at a full-Native Friendship Centre and the Family considerable energy to celebrating SL2’s smiling,Kingston.

“We had toWhile learn that we weren’t and Children’s Aid for Frontenac and Lennox Diamond Anniversary by creating a legacy Anyway, difficult though it seems to be to going to be funded like the Navy. There are of the baking, have expanded the time position, Dalton managed to and Addington Counties to find deserving of lasting value. They are inaugurating an make antennas invisible, I would be quite no adult volunteer officers available and kids who can benefit annual Port of Bath Marine Heritage Festival willing to menu bet that quitea agreater lot easier operate years of part-time work andit’soffer varietyqualified of fit toin several from this unique on May 24-26. This is a family-oriented event, than solving the ageless problem of how to a square-rigger, and opportunity.

Sponsors including a rendezvous and deck tours of rare take-outto take items.

Bev always a learning more about dog training “Watching the kids’ faces as are always welcome. motivate teenagers themselves safely hasTranspor t Canada vessels typical of those built in most of the through adolescence into successful young rules make even hiring they climb down the rigging rivers, bays, creeks and lakes of the region, warm smile to greet everyone who with boarding experts in Kingston. adulthood. But local volunteer-led charity officers challenging!

One of the first things heritage skills workshops, entertaining Brigantine,enters Inc.’s mission blends past and of her Trainee Dalton crewmembers The Bakery and many believes for that the whenfirst dogstime are while she’s the crews learn (after speakers about our forgotten but important present to achieve just this goal. Amazingly, showing aptitude and under sail is awesome.

When mand ator y safety freshwater marine history, gunboat mock are strong now inindemand. boarded, they are embarking on not only is recipes it still going 2013, thisAnnette commitment become is how the battles, a band, a beer tent, a bateau race, a they feel the deck underfoot training) is the 60th anniversary of its traditional junior officers. They dozens of lines control pig roast.

Wilson, along with Anita Wilson, their own holiday from home.

They youth sail training program – the first in sail free, and get again, they know they can do SL2’s nine sails. A North America -- and itsthe iconic square-rigged promoted welcome patrons and provide join quickly. the Cowper anything!” dogs who live there square-rigger’s sails The partnership also intends to leverage some tall ship St. Lawrence II. Perhaps even more This model has proven extend crosswise, or significant fundraising initiatives to create a surprising, it seems entirely possible that the pop itself since early first class service.

Customers (all our seven of them) for the duration square to the long axis marine heritage skills and living history venue best is yet to come. days.” But among of the boat. SL2 has in Bath second to none in North America. by to pick up a bagels, bread, mufof their stay; they become a part of other things, there still must be a qualified two of those, and they each have their own So, in the process of teaching living history Francis MacLachlan certainly thinks so. Now a professional Captain and First Mate aboard fins, pies and a wide variety of other the dog pack.

Dalton’s love of dogs buntlines, sheets, halyards, and braces, some and thereby helping today’s teenagers grow sprightly 87, the local naval architect not only before the vessel can sail. duplicated on each side. Not to mention the these enterprises and their anachronistic designed the 35-tongoods steel-hulled shipcan and its baked or they sit down was evident when he rhymed off hisseven other sails. It all seems mind-boggling, up, sailing ship are carving out a future, not just two 16-metre wooden masts, he persuaded One can imagine the difficulty in hiring the crew learn quickly. And they must for themselves and their crews, but also for andhishave a delicious from the dogs names: Dabney, Saxonbut his father and flourishing lumberlunch business qualifiedown sailing ship commanders in the 21st learn more than sail handling. They are taught the entire region. All from integrating past, to raise much of the funds to build her, and century. The days when they were as common rudiments of navigation, anchoring, steering, present and future into a single, sustainable expanding menu.

The old favou(the newbie), Porter, Kilty, Cooper, became her first Captain. He remains an as seagulls on the Lakes are gone forever, but how to cook (for 25). How to clean the ship, whole. Perhaps cellphone companies could enthusiast of the such program he helped design lemon SL2’s Captain, ChrisLouis Chafe,Target is one of(yes, them.he Heis so rites, as the much-loved Lacy and inside and out. Including the pots and pans. learn from them. Mind you, some of those a lifetime ago. He’ll be the dinner speaker looks a bit like a seafaring Jake Doyle. Chafe’s Including the three toilets (called heads). They likely won’t survive 60 years. tartsJubilee are stillBanquet available but look aforveteranspecial he hassailor, his own last name).swim, they sing, they stand night watch. at the Diamond at Picton’s trans-Atlantic a boat-builder Waring House on May 23. That kicks off a full and the former Captain of 275-passenger For more info, call 613 544-6140, visit www. new. and A big been the Labs, threevessel Beagles, weekend ofwhat’s celebrations, youhit justhas know Empire There Sandy, are the two largest sailing Chafe feels strongly that the program really brigantine.ca, or write to Francis is going to be waving those drawings on the Great Lakes. Remarkably, he’s also all slow-cooked ribs that are offered a Bloodhound and a Coonhound; does turn kids around. “Traditional, livemore@brigantine.ca of his around again. You know, the ones that only 33 years old, hailing from Sydenham. aboard sail training is pretty special,” he sketch out Friday the linesnights of SL2’s He’s an of alumnus the program and also asreplacement. part of a prix fixe them ofserving as excellent hostssays.ers, this is a huge relief knowing that “In just a week or two, kids usually “People scoffed, back in ’53, as well,” he skippered one of SL2’s sister ships for Toronto a whole on taking menu five delicious courses.Brigantine. welcoming other dogs into thehavetheir petsnewareoutlook in good hands.charge Even BUCKET TRUCK SERVICES - FULLY INSURED chuckles, blue eyeswith twinkling, “I savour every He simplythe loves to sail, squareof themselves and their lives. There are not minute I’m given.” in particular. Experienced sailors Dalton, well known for riggers his kennel. a youngster, drawn manyas other programs youDalton can say was that about.” agree that he makes that big, heavy, squareSince 1953 year-round over 30,000 teenagers havekennel trod rigger SL2 dogs onto her boarding for dance! Sailing Some maymooring neverathavePeterto Milley, dogs, caring for hisPresident own family’s volunteer of (and scrubbed) the Douglas fir planks of SL2’s Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in the shadow Brigantine, Inc., put it this way.

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Wildlife Kidnapping

A Totally Avoidable Event

By Leah Birmingham

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ver the many years that SPWC has been advising the public about wildlife issues, we have perfected the art of avoiding unnecessary patients. When you are admitting over 2000 wild animals a year, you make very sure they need help before they arrive at your doorsteps. Avoidable patients that are newborns or juveniles are known as “kidnapped” wildlife. This terminology is commonplace at a wildlife rehabilitation conference, however when the general public hears the term they often have a varied degree of response. Some people are offended by the notion that their “help” wasn’t beneficial, they hold staunchly to the notion that the young and vulnerable animal is in need of rescue, even if all signs point towards kidnapping. We have a 48-72 hour window for reintroduction to Mom, after that point, often it is too late.

Several species in particular tend to repetitively wind-up in the hands of well meaning but unaware individuals who thought the scenario deemed a rescue. These individuals are generally very disappointed when they call SPWC and face a series of questions instead of an automatic “Oh, you have a baby bunny, come on in!” We ask these questions from years of experience and knowledge of the each species natural history, including behaviour and seasonal habits. For some animals the conversation doesn’t take long before we have determined the animal’s immediate need. Young orphaned Grey Squirrels for instance have a tendency to crawl up onto passer bys until someone recognizes that they are hungry and need help. A duckling or baby Loon found alone in either water or on land, needs your help. A fawn found alone in the bush, or even in your backyard is not necessarily an orphan! Double check before you remove that young one from the last place its mother has seen it, especially if it is a fawn, bunny or fledgling bird.

Any person involved in wildlife rehabilitation would get a little chuckle when reading my quote above about the baby bunnies, because be it Snowshoe Hare or Eastern Cottontail bunnies they are frequently kidnapped and brought to veterinary clinics, Humane Societies, and wildlife rehab centres for care. Even though they are ready for release generally within a month of arrival (which is a fairly short stay for an orphaned animal) baby bunnies are incredibly difficult to raise until release time. Rabbit mothers are only with their young a couple of times a day, once in the very early morning, and once at night fall. The rest of the time her nest is safer without her there. It is highly unlikely that the mother will make an appearance even if you watch all day long. The best way to determine if they are truly orphans is to place a grid like pattern over their nest with straw, yarn or twine in the evening. If it is still there in the morning, untouched, there is a good chance their mother is not around. However if it has been moved, and the babes are still safe and alive, Mom has been to visit throughout the night, and every attempt to protect the site for at least two weeks will give her young a chance to grow into juvenile rabbits and start wandering off on their own.

So the first question we will ask a caller is: “Where is Mom?” While the person explains the circumstances that led them to “rescue” the animal; we are going over the scenario in algorithmic order determining the likelihood that this bird is truly orphaned.

Occasionally the rescuer mentions a species that can be a bit of a gray zone, such as a

litter of young raccoons found in the attic or above the garage. With continued questions we determine whether or not Mom will be back, if she will be, we can then talk them through a humane method of encouraging her to move on with her young. She has several den sites ready to move into. Sadly, often the caller has already had the mother removed and relocated or killed. Which means these young are not so much kidnapped, as they are orphaned due our own ignorance.

Unfortunately that circumstance happens all too frequently, if we are already at capacity the young orphans have to be euthanized, unless another rehabilitation centre can fit them in. Their “rescuers” often have a hard time understanding why we cannot take them in. It is not uncommon for us to take a fair amount of verbal abuse from the frustrated person on the other end. While they are cute and intelligent animals, it is illegal to keep them as pets, and raising them improperly leads to habituation to humans, which is generally a death sentence for most wildlife. You might be a safe human to visit, but your neighbour likely isn’t and when that intelligent young animal is released, it will visit everyone in the neighbourhood. Not to mention the keeping of any Native Wildlife Species is illegal unless you are licensed by the Ministry of Natural Resources to do so.

Each fawn raised at SPWC costs several hundred dollars in animal care and nutrition by the time it is released. They are a high stress animal that imprints/habituates to humans very easily. You don’t have to go far to hear about a sad story of fawns raised improperly that end up being too tame for release, or shot shortly after because of their very inappropriate behaviour. What might be cute from a fawn may not be so endearing when the full-grown buck does it. In fact a large animal like that is quite dangerous when they do not have the proper fear of humans.

A SPWC patient. Photo courtesy: Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre. provoked by human interference) and vocalizing, calling for its mother. It may look thin, have flies bothering it, obvious wounds, have sunken and dull eyes, be weak and have trouble balancing. There may be a history of a dead Doe found on the road near-by, which may lead us to believe this animal is orphaned.

But if it is lying quietly, and doesn’t move even when you touch it, that is a well behaved fawn that has learned to play dead and remain still.

If you really want to aggravate a wildlife custodian such as myself, mention that you believe the animal is abandoned, or was rejected from its mother because a human had picked it up. This is a sore spot for most of us, because we know differently. So let me clarify two points that remain sore for those who care for these “orphans”. Firstly, wild animals are no more likely to abandon their young than a human mother would be. Not that it doesn’t happen, but most wild animals have a strong mothering drive, and only abandon their young if they are cold and lifeless or dead. Which leads me to my second point, the scent of a human on their offspring does not make them abandon their young. I assume that myth was created to stop curious children from attempting to handle wild animals, but it is not true. In fact most birds do not even have a sense of smell, so they cannot even “smell” our scent on their young.

Fawns can be tricky to determine clearly whether or not they A story that helps are orphaned, unless highlight this scenario the scenario can be “...wild animals are no more involves a woman monitored from a that called SPWC distance. White Tail likely to abandon their young and described to me Deer mothers spend how she had rescued a lot of time foraging than a human mother would an abandoned crow, while leaving their while she was talking young in a location be.”

I could hear the crows they deem to be safe. outside of her home However, as with all calling frantically, she wild animals their would place the young habitat is dwindling bird outside for a short and sometimes while in the day, and their hiding spots become back yards in then bring it in for the rest of the day/night. subdivisions. Some thoughts on this by While I patiently explained to her that her naturalists also describe this behaviour as actions were actually hindering them from adaptation, because it is less likely that a raising their young, she refused to listen, and coyote (predominant fawn predator) will I never heard from her again. I can only hope capture their young in the city limits during that since a different perspective had been the daytime, and by night their young are presented she may in fact notice the stress traveling with them. We get several calls on both the young one, and its family who regarding fawns in yards every year, and we were desperate to get their nestling back. give the advice to keep any pets in, and leave Crows are a species that raise their young in the young alone. So what should you do if you family groups, so even if orphaned, the other find a fawn in your yard? Well for starters; do members of their family may also help raise not call your neighbours, kids, friends and them. The crow she described sounded like a relatives over to see this vulnerable animal, nestling that had blown out of the nest, and do not approach the fawn at all. Especially if simply placing it in a makeshift nest, as high this is the first day you have seen it. Instead up in the same tree as possible would have remain calm, and protect the fawn by keeping provided its family with ample opportunity its whereabouts a secret, that only you and to continue feeding the bird. Sometimes the its mother know. If a fawn is truly orphaned animal becomes an orphan because the finder it will be running around (without being holds onto the animal for too long before

getting help and now the animal is failing to thrive after days with the wrong diet, and substandard care. They call us and we insist on an attempt to reunite, but the baby is now unhealthy and either the wild animal’s family cannot save them, or they have already moved on and are not in the area anymore.

The last commonly “kidnapped” orphan to discuss is Fledgling birds. This is not a species of bird, but rather a stage of growth all birds go through. In Raptors they are called Branchers. These birds are not quite ready to fly, but are attempting to do so, and often end up on the ground. While on the ground they are spotted by well-intended individuals, who actually have a heart big enough to attempt to rescue this young animal, however they are not true orphans, they have parents, often both parents are responsible for raising their young in bird species. The likelihood of both parents being dead is rare, but one parent maybe struggling to get to their entire fledging clutch and the one in question has been alone longer than normal. Given that young birds require hand feeding from sun up to sun down, it is fairly easy for us to explain why the parents should be raising them, and how much work that would put on our small charity with limited resources (it also helps convince those who think they can raise the bird themselves, as not too many people have that much free time). We admit hundreds of actual orphans every summer, we cannot be “rescuing” those who have parents because they may be injured in the future if a feral cat comes by. It would mean thousands of baby birds would have to be raised. It is not possible, so in this scenario we advise the finders to place the bird into a tree or bush as high as possible, so that a cat wandering by cannot attack them. Ideally the bird will be watched from a distance, and even if it takes over an hour, eventually one of the parents will be back to tend to the one you are monitoring, as long as the parent bird feels it is safe to do so.

When it comes to wildlife it is always better to err on the side of caution and give the parent or parents another chance. Their parents ALWAYS do a better job at raising them.

With some help from SPWC we can talk you through a successful capture of a true orphan, or determine that the best action to take is no action at all. In some scenarios it is better to keep your pets, children and friends away, and let nature take its course.

Leah Birmingham is the Assistant Director at SPWC. As a Registered Veterinary Technician, she helps manage patient care and treatment.

As well as coordinating a successful Internship Program, handling media relations, and assisting Sue Meech with management of the staff and operations of SPWC.

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Fuel for Fitness

By Thomasina Larkin, RMT

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common question asked by people who are getting serious about their fitness regimen is what and how much to eat and drink on exercise days.

One of the scariest things I often hear people say is that they’re cutting carbs from their diet so they can lose weight. Carbohydrates should represent the largest portion of food intake each day, with 65% of your diet consisting of it.

There’s a very good reason for needing so many carbs: it’s our primary source of fuel because its breakdown product, glucose, provides the energy for just about everything our body does. Virtually every cell needs it to perform its metabolic activities and it is the brain’s number one food source, which is why when we’re using our brain for heavy functions like studying or doing taxes, we instinctively grab a piece of chocolate or a cookie to re-power up.

However, it’s the refined carbs – white breads, pastas, cakes, cookies, etc. – that we should try to stay away from because they are heavily processed and have lots of artificial products and sugars added. Complex carbs – vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains – provide our bodies with fibre, vitamins, minerals and fuel.

In Canada whole wheat does not equal whole grain so you have to make sure your bread, pasta, etc. says “includes germ” in the ingredients. This means you’re getting all three layers of the grain. The outer later, the germ, contains most B vitamins we need as well as essential fatty acids. The middle layer is bran, which gives us fibre and minerals.

The inner layer is starch, which provides us glucose.

Carbohydrates, unlike protein and fat, are a clean burning fuel. When we burn carbs during exercise, the by-product is carbon dioxide (through exhaling breath) and water (through sweat). If we don’t eat enough carbs and we rely on protein and fats for fuel, the by-products are lactic acid and ketones respectively, which can have a toxic effect on the body.

Proteins repair and build tissue in our body and come from dairy, eggs, meat, poultry,

fish, beans and tofu products. When we do strenuous exercise, we break down muscle tissues in the process. If we rely on protein sources to power us through our workouts, we deplete the resources needed to properly regenerate our muscles. After our muscle’s protein sources have been depleted, our body leeches it from organs such as the liver. The by-product of burning protein is the release of lactic acid, which makes us feel really sore the next day.

And now for fats. If you think carbs has a bad rap, you should really feel sorry for poor old fats! Our best sources come from cold water fish (salmon, trout, mackerel and sardines), oils, nuts (especially walnuts) and seeds. We need fats to keep us warm, protect our organs and line our nerves. After water, our brain is composed mainly of fat and the walls of cells are also mostly fat.

Fats are our final source of energy. It’s where our bodies turn to if we have no carbs or proteins to burn through. This sounds great, right? Wrong. When we get to this state, we’ve already depleted our body and brain of its essential energy source and are breaking down our muscles and organs without being able to properly regenerate them.

If our body taps into fat stores, it gives our brain the message that we’re in starvation mode. We don’t have adequate means to power our bodies so we need to use fat. This means that every time we eat fat, our body will grab onto it and tuck it away in less-thandesirable places and will try to hold onto it for the sake of survival.

That said, if we’re good to our bodies and give it the proper amounts of carbohydrates, proteins and fats while leading a physically active lifestyle, our bodies will naturally shed off unneeded fats stores, will build beautifully toned muscles and will offer us minds that are happy and clear.

To break it down a little more... Every day, whether exercising or not, we should eat: 60 - 65% carbohydrates.

20 - 30% fats.

10 - 12% protein.

We need an average of 2000 - 3000 calories a

day. That means for 2000 calories: 1200 calories come from carbohydrates.

400 - 600 calories come from fats.

200 calories come from protein.

As always, please refer to the Canadian Food Guide for more details on eating well in Canada.

Those partaking in regular exercise should consider altering their intake to keep their bodies and brains functioning optimally. The following is recommended:*

Pre-Workout Nutrition • Eat foods high in carbohydrates to fuel muscles, feed the brain and maintain normal blood sugar. Glucose enhances stamina and endurance. For one hour of exercise, 0.5 grams of carbs per pound of body weight is recommended. So for a 150lbs person, this would be 75 grams of carbs.

• Drink plenty of f luids to prevent dehydration. On exercise days, consume 10 - 12 cups of fluid.

• Eat food you’ve eaten before and that you know settle well in your stomach.

Timelines • • • •

4 - 6 hours before activity: Large meal.

2 - 3 hours before activity: Small meal.

1 - 2 hours before activity: Large snack.

20 - 60 mins before activity: Small snack.

During the Workout • Keep hydrated! As little as 1% dehydration can negatively affect exercise performance.

A general guideline during physical activity is to drink 600 - 1200 ml (2.5 - 5 cups) per hour. Every gulp is about 30 mls, so take at least 5 - 10 gulps every 20 minutes.

• Sports drinks are actually recommended over water for preventing dehydration.

Spor ts dr inks that contain a 6% carbohydrate solution will provide energy to working muscles, stimulate rapid fluid absorption and help enhance performance.

Sports drinks also replace electrolytes and have just enough sodium to trigger thirst and to help your body hold onto the fluid you’ve consumed, rather than lose it through urine.

Post-Workout Nutrition • More fluids!!! After exercise, consume 3 - 6 cups per hour of activity you did.

• More carbohydrates!!! Eat and drink carbs as soon as possible to refuel and replace depleted glycogen stores. Glycogen is needed to fuel our entire body and brain, so don’t skimp out! An effective recovery program includes 0.5 grams of carbs per pound of body weight within the first hour of post-exercise. Repeat that 1 - 3 hours later, followed by a snack every 2 hours.

• Although the exact amount of protein needed is still not fully researched, for muscle maintenance and repair it is recommended to eat 0.5 - 0.75 grams of protein per pound of body weight on exercise days. On inactive days, 0.4 grams is sufficient.

Examples of Carbohydrates • Whole grain products: Breads, cereals, pasta and rice. Make sure the label says “includes germ” so that you are getting the “whole grain” and not just the starch.

• Vegetables.

• Beans & Legumes: Chickpeas, lentils, kidney beans, lima beans and soy beans.

Non-Meat Examples of Proteins • Grains: Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning it provides you with all the essential amino acids that your body can’t make on its own.

• Tofu and soy.

• Mild, cheese and yogurt.

• Eggs.

• Beans, peas and lentils.

So keep fit, have fun and don’t forget to eat lots of good food! *Information was provided by the Canadian Fitness Professionals, which is the regulating body Thomasina is certified under as a personal trainer, fitness instructor and nutrition & wellness specialist.

Thomasina teaches Zumba, Piloxing, & Yoga at the Enterprise Hall. She is also a Personal Trainer & Nutrition & Wellness Specialist. For more information visit www.thomasina.ca.

Snow Pitch

By Barry Lovegrove

n February 16th Tamworth’s Baseball diamond was covered with about fifteen centimetres of snow. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and the temperature hovered around the -3c. The bleachers were full of excited spectators waiting to watch the first of what is hoped to be an annual event - The First Snow Pitch Tournament. Basically it’s a game of softball played in snowy winter conditions. Five teams competed that day. The spirit of fun and competitiveness was certainly in the air. It was great watching and hearing the laughter and shouts of encouragement from the spectators as players struggled not only to hit the ball but also to run in the deep and slippery snow.

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The idea behind this tournament was to help raise money for this year’s Tamworth Canada Day events. It was a joint effort by the Stone Mills Tamworth Volunteer Firefighters Association and the Canada Day Committee to raise funds for this summer’s Canada Day. A thousand dollars was raised so a big thank you

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goes out to the teams and to all the organizers.

It is a brand new Canada Day Committee this year and they need all the support they can get.

Something else to watch out for and mark on your calendar, the Dance and Silent Auction on May 4th at the Tamworth Legion which will also help to raise funds in support of Canada Day.

Winning team BGM Metalworks. Back row L-R Jessica Briceland, Rick Tolls, Debbie Toll, Brock Cook, Mike Madden, Nate Maleska. Front L-R Ange Fleming, Rebecca Asselstine, Ashley Asselstine, Tiffany Walker.

Weighing the Costs

Free Local Food Cooking Workshops This Summer in Sharbot Lake

Building a Case for a Local Food Economy S harbot Lake Farmers Market is pleased to announce “Weighing the Costs: Building a Case for a Local Food Economy” on May 11, 7-9:30 pm, at Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall, 1107 Garrett Street, Sharbot Lake. This presentation and interactive workshop is part of an educational series on local food and sustainability sponsored by Sharbot Lake Farmers Market and funded by the County of Frontenac. The May 11 presentation will be followed by three local food cooking workshops over the summer. The entire series is free and open to the public.

At part one of the series on May 11, local food advocate Karen Holmes will talk about the importance of supporting a local food system and will reveal the real costs of our food and the true-sustainability of a local food system.

Local food is any food that is grown within a 100-mile/160-km radius of the eater.

Determination of local-food status is not based on farming-methodology (e.g. industrial, organic, biodynamic), although many who are drawn to the local-food movement for issues of sustainability or health are also attracted to organic and other ecological methods of agriculture. Food’s “localness” is based on where its ingredients are from, rather than on where it is prepared or sold.

In 2011, Karen Holmes interviewed 18 people to get their take on eating local and wrote an article in Food Down the Road about the challenges interviewees had identified.

She responded with a list of “Top Twenty Needs for Meeting the Challenges of Eating Locally” (www.fooddowntheroad.ca). Here is a condensed version of Karen’s article . . .

Cost, availability and convenience are the most common reasons consumers rely on the global food system. However, the hidden costs of this are not readily apparent.

Challenge #1: Cost Assumption: “Local food costs considerably more than the same food at a grocery store.”

Many people cited this concern, but did not know how much they would save by buying non-local food. Whether local food costs more (and by how much) needs further research.

If you are like most North American consumers, you will buy your groceries where you can get them the most cheaply. But are the savings really worth it within a broader system of values or in terms of real economy?

The Cost-Illusion: Many local foods are not much more expensive than their non-local counterparts, even in deep winter. In some cases, local food is actually cheaper than nonlocal. In other cases, it is at par -- the same price as their grocery store counterparts).

There are also many hidden costs to non-local foods that we and our children will pay for in the generations to come. The costs of nonlocal and industrial-scale food-production (socalled cheap food) have been outlined by many writers and commentators before, but they bear repeating: environmental degradation, resource-depletion, dependence upon fossil fuels, and the weakening of safeguards on public health and safety.

Challenge #2: Availability Assumption: “Local food is not available in sufficient variety and quantity especially during the off-season months of November – April.”

Of the 18 people interviewed, almost all stated that the most challenging aspect of trying to eat locally occurred in the winter months: specifically, getting a sufficient variety of fresh local vegetables and fruit and locally-produced staples.

processing produce and developing valueadded products according to regulations.

20. A central site (virtual and/or real) for feedback about the local food-system as well as where to get local food and recipe exchanges.

Acquiring local flours, oils, dairy products and other staples were listed as challenges. Local meats are becoming more available and are widely used year-round. Fish is rarely available from local sources.

Conclusion

Challenge # 3: Convenience Assumption: “Local food is not as convenient to purchase or prepare as super-market [or restaurant] food.” On average, the local eaters whom I interviewed for this article spent 1.5 hours/day in food preparation.

Although there are retailers who sell prepared local food, most local food still requires preparation on the part of the eater (i.e., cooking, preserving or processing) and this preparation demands time and skills that many people do not possess. In response to this identified need, Sharbot Lake Farmers Market will be sponsoring a local food cooking workshop series this summer.

Local foods are not always available for purchase in one convenient location. CSAs and cooperatives are working to address this concern, and there are also local-food delivery-services such as Desert Lake Gardens and Wendy’s Mobile Market, but it is still the case that most local eaters had to make several “stops” to acquire the various items on their weekly shopping lists.

Top Twenty Needs for Meeting the Challenges of Eating Locally In addition to the need for sound policydecisions at all levels of government that will benefit a local and sustainable food-system, implementing the following ideas will help us all meet the challenges of eating locally: 1. Canning, preserving and storage knowhow.

2. Meal-planning and food-preparation know-how.

3. Greenhouse production for produce out of season.

4. Gatherings of local food enthusiasts.

5. More sources for local staple-foods.

6. Cooperative food preparation and sharing organizations.

7. Low-income food-programs that utilize local food: buying groups, cooperatives, food boxes.

8. Local fish, eggs and dairy.

9. More sources of prepared local food.

10. Delivery of local food boxes to families with transportation needs.

11. M o r e d e l i v e r y - s i t e s a n d m o r e conveniently-located sites.

12. More community gardens, storage facilities and seed exchanges.

13. Farmer action-research groups and services to price local food accurately and fairly.

14. “Story” marketing of local foods that stresses the accountability (nutrition and safety) of the local food-system and its suppliers.

15. Shifting values: me, my family, my community, the planet deserve something better.

16. A local food terminal.

17. Gleaning-programs.

18. Year-round producers’ farmers’ markets.

19. A central and large commercial kitchen for

The challenges of eating locally are real, and cannot be met in isolation; they will require the ingenuity, goodwill and hard work of the entire local food-producing and eater communities. Many are already being addressed, but more and more people will need to take up the work if we are to make the local food-system an integral part of our everyday living – as ordinary as breathing or eating itself. Those I interviewed said that overcoming these challenges could also be a source of deep joy, satisfaction and genuine community in their lives. Again and again, people said eating locally was all about relationships – among family-members, community-members, farmers, producers, eaters, and citizens; relationships with their own selves and with the planet. Our industrial food-system, on the other hand, relies on anonymous relationships that are both dependent and exploitative. It is time to take our dignity back; through sustainability and commitment, creatively and cooperatively meeting the challenges of eating locally together.

Andrea Dickinson, a local food instructor, cooks regularly with local food. Attending the farmer’s market, getting to know local farmers and buying seasonal produce allows for great inspiration in the kitchen. Andrea has lived in Central Frontenac for ten years and many of you may remember her as Owner/Chef of Sunsets Restaurant, or perhaps you’ve attended one of her cooking classes at Crow Lake Schoolhouse. She has an extensive background in cooking, baking, catering, event coordination and food safety, with an emphasis on healthy cooking.

Throughout the course of the Cooking Workshops, participants can feel comfortable asking Andrea questions pertaining not only to cooking technique but also how to adapt recipes for allergies or low-carb, low-sugar diets. Participants will learn to incorporate local available products into their everyday cooking habits and have fun learning new recipes and techniques.

These workshops will be held on June 4, July 4 and August 22 at 7-9:30 p.m., Oso Hall/ Soldiers Memorial Hall in Sharbot Lake. Details on the workshops will be available at slfm. handsonharvest.ca and at Sharbot Lake Farmers Market, opening for the season on May 18.

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In keeping with surfacing solutions to local food challenges, an impressive report on local food, published in January 2012 and titled “Plan to Grow, Scaling Up Local Food in Kingston & Countryside,” was prepared by Linda Stevens and Cathy Cleary of Community Voices Consulting Group, and Harris Ivens of Grounded Business Solutions for the NFU Local 316 New Farm Project. Funding for this report was from Heifer International and the National Farmers Union Local 316.

Karen Holmes is a remedial teacher, spiritual director and educator living in Verona. She has been involved in local food issues for over ten years. She has published articles in The Scoop, Food Down the Road, The Hamilton Spectator and LILIPOH. Karen and her husband Kevin raise chickens and Russian bees and operate a small-scale market. They are members of the National Farmers’ Union. Karen’s website and email address are: karenholmeseducation@gmail.com www.ChildrenReadyToLearn.WebStarts.com www.AnamCaraHealingEducation.com

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By Ivy Vinette All names have been changed to protect privacy.

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ou may remember in the last issue I decided to look up to the stars and the skies and to declare that YES, I am once again ready again to start meeting men!

Well, the stars responded. The skies opened up and hallelujah, it’s raining men! And ‘round this neck of the woods, when it rains, it pours.

However, just as the weather can be temperamental and discouraging, so can men.

After only two months of getting my feet wet in the dating scene, I’m ready to give it up and head for drier grounds.

So here’s what happened. First I decided to go with some coworkers to a bar in Kingston. Not my ideal spot to meet a man, but I spent most of the night engaged in conversation with the bar’s owner, Jake, who was completely sober. At the end of the night he asked for my number, which began weeks of texting back and forth.

Is texting a legit way to get to know a possible mate?

The problem with texting is that you can’t read the person’s tone or pick up on nuances.

Jake was really sweet. He texted every day to ask how I was and he seemed genuinely interested in getting to know me. However, he kept coming across with this “poor me, everything goes wrong in my life” attitude, so our relationship didn’t make it much further than my iPhone touch screen.

I thought the texting stage was way too early to be pulling the pity card. Maybe if we’d met again in person I would’ve seen that he had a sarcastic type of humour and was actually always in high spirits, but his depressing texts left him floating somewhere in tele-cyber land.

Meanwhile at my gym, a big burly handsome man started smiling at me every time I saw him. I was ecstatic! He seemed to be there on Monday and Thursday nights, so I conveniently allowed my schedule to sync up with his. To my surprise and delight we started chatting when our paths would cross.

His name is Josh Woods, he’s a police officer and he’s very polite, gentlemanlike and charming.

After running into each other a few times, we discovered that we both like to play volleyball and he asked if I’d like to go for dinner to discuss the possibility of joining his co-ed

team. So I got his contact info and as soon as I got home I tried to find out everything I could about him on the Internet, lol. However, as a cop I guess he managed to hide an online presence very well.

on my date and then broke into my car and hid in the back. At least this was what was running through my mind.

We wrote back and forth a few times to finalize plans for our big first date. I was over the stars and off the moon with excitement.

But then the big day arrived and something very strange happened. I received a friend request on Facebook from some chick named Jocelyn Woods. Not Wood, not Woodes Woods. So of course I immediately turn to my sleuthy internet skills, only to find pages of information about Jocelyn’s long and twisted criminal past. OMG, WTF?? And not only had she friend requested me, but she was “following” me on Facebook. What does that even mean? Does she get e-mails every time I post a status update? CREEPY!

Finally I decided to pull over and check it out. It was late, cold and pitch dark. Nobody was around. I was sure this would be my gruesome end.

I tried to open the hatch but it was stuck somewhere between open and closed. Then I remembered that I had backed into a post the day before, and I must have slightly dented and jammed the hatch door. No crazy lady was waiting inside for me. It was just reusable shopping bags and my emergency blanket.

She’s 10 years younger than Josh and since she finished high school has left herself a trail of theft and narcotic charges. Could she be his younger sister who rebels against her authoritative older brother? Is she his ex-wife in a classic-yet-extreme case of opposites attract? My mind was racing with possibilities and I couldn’t wait to ask him all about it.

But is that appropriate for a first date? “By the way, some chick with the same last name as you is following me. I investigated her and she’s a criminal. Do you know her?”

Being the open book that I am, that’s pretty much how the conversation went. Josh was surprised and concerned. He said he had never heard of her but he would look into it for me. He made it very clear that he protects the people he’s close to.

The date went swimmingly and I was super excited about seeing Josh again. I would’ve spent the whole drive home replaying our conversations in my head, if I didn’t think a crazy lady was hiding in my hatch and preparing to kill me on a dark and deserted country road.

Every time I hit a bump the light in my car came on indicating that one of the doors wasn’t completely shut. Since I had only used the driver’s door and I could see there was nothing in the back seat, I was quite unnerved by what else could be causing it. I drive a hatchback and every time the light came on, I could see a big poufy pile of blankets in the hatch and it seemed to be moving around ever so slightly. It had to be her, there was no other explanation. She stalked me on Facebook and then she found me in real life. She followed me

I never heard any more from Jocelyn. I blocked her and actually forgot about her. I’d love to be able to report that Josh and I are a solid loving couple, but no. The more I got to know him, I discovered how controlling and powertripping he is. He liked to show his authority and often talked about how aggressively he responded to people who didn’t show respect to his title.

Maybe Jocelyn is related to him and is rebelling against him? That is something I hope I will never have to find out.

Finally I’ll mention Fred, who was hired for a week at my work as a contractor to fix up some things around the building. I wasn’t physically attracted to him because I like guys who look like they exercise from time to time, but his personality was sparkling.

He was full of compliments and had a really cheerful outlook on life, so when he asked me out for coffee I obliged.

The more I got to know Fred, the more I liked him and realized that physicality might not have to play such a big role in finding a steady boyfriend. We got to know each other on a deeper level and I started seeing him as a very spiritual person. His beliefs and ideals reflected my own and I was moved.

But then it started getting weird. I’m a pretty open person, so I was really quite fine with talking about other worlds and dimensions.

I was even open to him suggesting he has magical powers. What turned me off was when he told me about how his son (he has four kids from two different moms) was away visiting his 13 siblings. For real. And all the kids, except two sets of twins, are from different dads.

Of course, my first thought was cult. But as it turns out, this woman is a career childsupport collector, and I don’t think I should really get involved in that big family.

So there you have it. The stars have aligned some pretty interesting men along my path.

I may not have found true love in the past couple of months, but it sure has been entertaining. I’m going to keep open and optimistic. I have no expectations, but that’s when you usually meet someone, right?

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Looking Back, Looking Forward…

Tamworth-Erinsville GrassRoots Growers

By Mary Jo Field

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t was almost a year ago that I first wrote an article for The Scoop, the best little community newspaper I have come across.

But this is not written to praise The Scoop, much as that is deserved. It is written to talk about the Tamworth-Erinsville GrassRoots Growers’ events and activities, both past and upcoming, plus a few random thoughts on Spring in general and gardening in particular.

The tremendous turnout for a very informative talk given by Ken Allen and Brian Burt on sweet potatoes was the impetus for my first article. When I think back to that night, I am still amazed at the number of people who braved some pretty nasty weather to come to the Tamworth Library to hear Ken and Brian. Obviously it was well worth their time and effort, as the enthusiasm for the topic held throughout the evening. The other really amazing thing is that the date was March 21, 2012. Here I am thinking this winter is dragging on far longer than necessary, and I look back to see the weather on March 21 last year was a snowy, gusty winter storm. So what’s to worry about? Spring will arrive, all in good time.

On April 23, 2012 GrassRoots Growers hosted an evening with Ed Lawrence of CBC’s “Ontario Today” Monday gardening phonein show. It was entertainment plus for 120 lucky ticket holders for this sold-out event.

Memorable highlights of the evening were the amusing banter between Ed Lawrence and emcee Susie Meisner, the tips on pruning, the advice to never cut your grass shorter than 3 inches, and Ed’s comments on pesticides – “Don’t use ‘em.”

Martin-Fabius, Cam Mather, Kathy Pogue, Carolyn Smith, Karen ten Cate and Brian Wilson. Once again, the interest of the audience was impressive and wonderful to see. Particularly nice was the attendance of some young, beginning gardeners. We hope to see lots more of them at upcoming events.

In October 2012, guest speaker Paul Fritz presented his ideas about replacing some of our lawns with more ecologically friendly and less labour-intensive natural and native gardens. In November, we turned our minds to the challenges of building a local food economy, as Karen Holmes introduced some provocative facts and ideas about corporate food and its impact on our world.

I suppose that is enough about last year, but I do want to sum it up by saying all the events were great fun and well-attended, not to mention the free refreshments made by Marilyn McGrath of the Sweet Side of Town.

My purpose in writing this is to induce you, dear reader, to come to the events of the 2013 season. We have already held one this year – on January 21, 2013, a demonstration ably presented by Colleen Martin-Fabius on seed planting, transplanting and hardening off, plus a free seed exchange and book sale. It was a good way to start to get in the mood as Colleen showed samples of soil and soilless mixtures and containers, and talked about timing, temperature, light requirements and steps in bringing those tiny seeds to a point where they are ready to go into the garden.

In May, the GrassRoots Growers held their third annual plant and seedling sale at the Lions’ Park in Erinsville. I love plant sales, not only for the sight and smell of all those delightful plants but also for the opportunity to engage with other like-minded and animated gardeners. It seems to me everyone is happy at a plant sale, anticipating another season of growing and harvesting. In July, twenty members signed up for a tour of 2 local gardens – a chance to see one garden with a focus on garlic and sweet potatoes and the usual mélange of other vegetables plus chickens, cold frames and a greenhouse, and another garden with lots of raised vegetable beds and perennial plants in full bloom.

By the time you have read this, the second of our 2013 events will have already happened.

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7 pm, GrassRoots Growers is hosting Paul Pospisil, the acknowledged Canadian expert on garlic.

Paul is the editor and publisher of Garlic News, a Master Gardener Emeritus and a long-time promoter of organic garlic growing. In a world full of fads and seemingly shortened attention spans, interest in growing garlic has shown remarkable staying power, perhaps because of the putative health benefits, perhaps because of the relatively little effort and space required to get started on your own crop, perhaps because of the unfavourable publicity that has attended the overwhelming abundance of the “grown in China” product we now see everywhere. Whatever the reason, we can only benefit from hearing Paul.

September saw another surprisingly large audience gather at the Tamworth library to throw out their gardening questions to our knowledgeable panel of experts – Colleen

If you missed Paul’s garlic session, make sure you don’t miss the April event. On Monday, April 15, at the Royal Tamworth Legion hall, Lorraine Johnson will be giving a talk

titled “Grow Wild: Gardening to Attract Birds, Butterflies and Other Pollinators”.

A committed and passionate advocate for urban gardening (and backyard chickens!), Lorraine has authored or co-authored 10 books including one with Mark Cullen on composting, and teaches a course on plant ecosystems at York University. Lorraine has been referred to as a punk rock earth mother, and for years has supported unconventional approaches to gardening that have later evolved to become mainstream. It seems she is consistently ahead of her time. Tickets for this event are $10 in advance and are available in Tamworth at Bon Eco Design, Stone Mills Family Market, Village Video or by calling Brenda Stinson at 613-379-3089, and at Tara Natural Foods in Kingston. Don’t miss what promises to be a stimulating and educational session. With pollinators necessary for threequarters of food crops, and both honeybees and wild pollinators under threat, Lorraine will throw some light on how we can each help.

Two further events are planned for later in the spring / summer. Our annual plant sale will again be held at Erinsville Lion’s Park on Saturday, May 25, 2013 and this year the Lions will be bringing mushroom compost

to sell to gardeners. In July on a yet to be determined day, we will have another tour of two interesting local private gardens with a limited number of tickets available.

You can view pictures of past occasions and get details of future initiatives and events on our website shown below. Unless otherwise stated, all events are admission free with donations welcome at the door.

Tamworth-Erinsville GrassRoots Growers is a community-based group whose main activities are to encourage interest in local and organic growing of both food and ornamental plants. We strive to raise awareness of issues surrounding food production and to improve our practical knowledge of gardening in all its glory. We welcome new members.

Visit our website at: te-grassrootsgrowers.weebly.com

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CALENDAR OF APRIL-MAY EVENTS April 6: Seed Exchange, Sharbot Lake Farmers Winter Market & Workshop, 9:30 am 12:30 pm Workshop 10 - 11 am: Raising Poultry. Presenter Janet Ducharme. How to organically raise chickens (on a small scale). $10. Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall.

April 20: Sharbot Lake Farmers Winter Market & Workshop, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Workshop 10 - 11 am: Bloom Where You are Planted. Growing perennials, presented by Nancy Cole, horticulturalist and Master Gardener. $10. Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall.

May 11: Workshop 7 - 9:30 pm “Weighing the Costs: Building a Case for a Local Food Economy”. Presentation and interactive workshop by Karen Holmes, local food advocate and educator. Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall, Sharbot Lake. Free to the public.

May 18: Summer Market Resumes 9 am - 1 pm Sharbot Lake Farmers Summer Market resumes on Saturday, May 18 at Sharbot Lake Beach, 9 am - 1 pm, featuring a Plant Sale and early-in-the-season products. Summer market runs every Saturday through Thanksgiving.

June 4, July 4 & August 22: 7 - 9:30 pm Three free cooking workshops by Andrea Dickinson, local food instructor, demonstrating cooking with local food from the market. Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall, Sharbot Lake.

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Getting to Know Red Cedar

Juniperus virginiana

By Blair Richards

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etting to know a new plant is like making a new friend. Sometimes it’s like love at first sight and you know that there will be lots to talk about. Other times a plant that has always been in the background will one day emerge and its story will begin to reveal itself. This happened to me the other day when I was walking and all of a sudden I was struck by the unusual beauty of a common and often overlooked plant, the red cedar.

higher levels of oxygen in the air but the red cedar is able to handle larger amounts of CO2 - yet it is not one of the most efficient at fixing carbon. (Another plant that thrives in high CO2 is poison ivy.)

Early spring is a time when the red cedar seems to glow – each of the many tiny fingers of foliage has a miniature golden bud at its tip. These are the flowers of the male plants preparing to release their pollen. The females have subtle green flowers that turn into blue berry-like cones.

One of the first plants to flower in the spring, they may be flowering right now. I like to admire the subtle beauties of nature: the minor variations in colo u rs , t he fa i nt fragrances, the minute details in leaf structure and the red cedar takes the cake on leaf details. I noticed some of the red cedars have feathery wisps for leaves and the others have a complicated puzzle of interconnecting green.

Scaly joints seamlessly turn from foliage into branches. The feathery wisps belong to the immature plants and to shaded, slow-growing areas on mature trees. The puzzling pieces of the story surrounding this tree are as complicated as the foliage.

On walks in the spring I have often stopped to ponder the slimy, swelling, orange octopuses that appear after a rainfall on red cedar branches. They look like a nut of some kind with small dots covering their surface on dry days. This is the home base of the Cedar Apple Rust (Gymnosporanguim juniperivirginianae). This is a fungal dance that goes on between the Eastern Red Cedar and apple trees. The nut/gals open up on warm rainy days and spread their spores to young apple growth which will, in favourable conditions, attach itself to and within two weeks form little orange dots on the wood or fruit.

These orange dots dry up and then later on in the season produce spores that infect the young growth of red cedar and within two years produce a gal capable of infecting apple trees. The orange dots on the apple trees are incapable of infecting other apple trees and the gals are unable of infecting other red cedars. They need each other to keep the cycle going. It has been recommended that these trees are cleared from orchards to protect apple crops.

Not a true cedar, red cedar is really a juniper.

Junipers usually prefer to take on a shrub form, but red cedar will slowly grow to a height of up to 66 feet. The rugged, reddishbrown bark becomes frayed and peels as it ages taking on character as branches fall and wounds heal over, creating trees with odd trunk shapes. Once I came upon a book about root depth and it explained that regular shrubby junipers have a root depth of over 300 feet. One can only imagine how deep the roots of this tree may go, drawing up water and minerals from far below.

Red cedar is often thought of as a weed tree: something that takes over your fields and pricks you while you’re on a walk. I think of a red cedar as a tree on a mission - to hold and protect the land that it inhabits. This mission was once tailored to a very specific environment where other plants were unable to germinate or grow. As a pioneer tree red cedar inhabits damaged land and reforests fields and pastures. Going beyond that a red cedar may even thrive on a near soilless plane or from a crack in a rock face. One unique characteristic of this plant is that it isn’t a fast dying tree, like most pioneer trees, it can live for up to 700 years. These trees are not fire resistant and in past times they would have been periodically wiped out by forest fires thus keeping them in check.

The branches from red cedar, as they litter the ground, form an inhospitable environment for other plants to grow in (although it does attract earth worms). It’s not unusual to see an old pasture being taken over by red cedars and thistles. Many plants cannot thrive in high CO2 environments, having adapted to

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Creating a very specific habitat, red cedar is the home of the rare Hairstreak butterfly, whose larva feed on the branches. There are also habitat opportunities for other birds and animals within the shelter of red cedars.

The wood from a red cedar makes a rot resistant fence post, or deters a moth from your wool clothes, the heart wood is among the best for making pencils. This wood was useful to First Nations peoples for baskets and bowls.

I have not personally used this plant as a medicine so I will not speak of this in detail, although the berries are a kidney medicine and the foliage has been used in respiratory illness. This is a powerful medicine and it is not recommended to use it without thorough research. Juniper berries have also been used as a traditional flavour for gin and sauerkraut.

I find the berries to have a pleasant taste which is an opinion shared by the cedar wax wings. The seed germinates more readily after it journeys through the guts of a bird. This herb has also been used traditionally as a spiritual medicine. Considered the tree of life it was burned in sweat lodges or during other ceremonies, for purification and protection.

Red cedar is a plant that is expanding its territory due to forest fire control. It gets mixed reviews from farmers and is not loved by orchardists. I admire it for its ability to grow in places where nothing else can and to create habitat. This plant illustrates how a native plant can become confused when land uses change. Some plants disappear; the red cedar is determined to fill in the empty spaces.

Blair Richards is a Chartered Herbalist and Plant Geek who lives in Marlbank. You can email her at blisstian@gmail.com.

The New Norm for Farming Story and photo by Cam Mather

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armers are per petual optimists. They must be, otherwise they’d never bother to plant a crop and hope for a decent harvest. Last summer was certainly a wake up call as to the reality of growing food on a warming planet. Plants don’t thrive in conditions like we had last year, going almost eight weeks without rainfall.

It was heart breaking to watch fields of corn wilting under the late July sun. Last year was one of the warmest years on record on the planet and the heat and drought were merciless.

If you were able to spend your summer at the cottage sitting on the dock, the weather would have seemed fantastic. Every day was perfect for swimming. Michelle and I spent the summer running a market garden and supplying families in the area with a basket of fruits and vegetables every week for the growing season, and it was a ‘challenging’ summer. It was discouraging and exhausting. If this is the new norm I’m thinking about getting an air-conditioned condo in the city and running away from it all.

But like all farmers I have convinced myself that this coming summer can’t be as bad as last summer, right? If it does continue we will all have to be prepared for some changes. Not just higher prices for food but shortages as well. More than 60% of North America experienced the drought last summer and prices for staples like corn and wheat increased in price accordingly. This is great for the farmers who get rain, but tough on everyone else.

Last year Michelle and I drew on all the resources we could muster to maintain the volume and quality of our weekly produce boxes. This was made even more challenging because we live off the electricity grid.

Pumping water is one of the most energy intensive uses of our renewable energy, so we have to get creative. We mulched extensively with composted hay to maintain moisture. We pushed our drilled well to its max. We used a solar-powered pump on a dug well near the garden at 100% of its capacity and that well was the lowest we had ever seen it by the end of the drought. We increased our use of drip irrigation, which is the most efficient way to get water to a plant’s roots without it evaporating in the heat.

It was a huge challenge but we got through it and our members seemed very happy with the results. This year we’ll be investing in more drip irrigation and another solar pump. I’m at the point where I assume we’ll have no rain for eight weeks, so any that does fall will be a blessing. I’m hoping that all the farmers in this area will have abundant rain to nourish their crops. And to keep them motivated.

While I’ve been growing food for 35 years, I’ve just hit the average age for a farmer in this country, which is 54. It was 49 in 2001.

It’s a disturbing trend. It means young people aren’t signing up to become farmers. And I can’t say as I blame them. It seems way cooler to write “apps” for smartphones and work in an air-conditioned office.

At some point though, we need farmers. A century ago a farmer could feed 10 people.

Today a Canadian farmer feeds 120. In the U.S. a farmer feeds 150. This is a staggering and terrifying statistic, made even more worrisome by the fact the International Energy Agency says the world hit peak oil in

Cam & Michelle’s garden harvest.

2005 and all farm inputs from fertilizer to diesel fuel have nowhere to go but up.

I am grateful to live in a community like Tamworth with a committed group of gardeners like the Grassroots Growers who meet monthly to share information and skills.

This will be critical as the world moves forward into a warming climate with 7 billion mouths to feed. I know Michelle and I will continue to share what we’ve learned growing food and we hope more people in our community will join us in this new way of linking up farmers and consumers. In a CSA you know the farmer. We cut out the middleman. Your weekly box of food is picked hours before you receive it. And the miles that your food travels are significantly reduced. It’s better for the planet, better for your health and better for the security of our food supply. It keeps money in the community and it nurtures the skills we need to pass on to future farmers.

Growing food is ultimately THE most important profession. Without people doing it successfully everyone else really doesn’t have the option of pursuing other interests.

After last year Michelle and I questioned the wisdom of running the CSA again. Then Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City and we saw how climate change is happening faster than climate scientists had projected.

And then we experienced those winter days when a gardener starts getting antsy to get their hands into dirt. Now we have hundreds of seedlings started under our grow lights and in every window and I can’t wait to get out and get planting.

We hope you’ll join us in our local foodgrowing endeavor. We will commit to provide you with the healthiest organic produce available anywhere. We will share what we learn with other growers in the area, especially young ones! We will get up early each morning, regardless of the heat and drought, to water and weed and nurture our plants. I will smile all day as I work in the heat and… okay, I won’t go that far, but I’ll try not to grumble about it too much. Besides, this summer it’s going to be sunny every day and rain every night! Right?

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No Plot? No Problem!

By Faith Woodland

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ou know that feeling you get right after you commit to something big. You feel sick to your stomach, regretting such a bold promise and wondering what possessed you to do it in the first place. There should be a word for it. Is it regret? Anxiety? Or something like buyer’s remorse?

I had that feeling on New Year’s Eve and it was completely my own fault and partly my mother’s. It had nothing to do with New Year’s resolutions or a new job or any other typical change one makes at that time of year.

On December 31, I went out on a limb and committed to do something I had never done before and worse, I made the commitment public!

It all began when I received an unusual Christmas gift from my mother. The gift looked like a book and opened like a book, but was in fact a box in disguise as a book.

Printed on the top of the box were the words: The No Plot? No Problem! Novel Writing Kit

by Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month. The bottom of the box read, “A Treasure Chest of Tools, Tips and Righteous Gear to Help You Bash Out a Novel in a Month.” Inside was all the necessary equipment to allow one to write a novel in one month (assuming you have pens and paper or a laptop). The booklet outlined the month-long novel writing method which in a nutshell, is to sit down every day and write 1600 words. I found a deck of 30 cards, one for each day of the month, providing daily advice and encouragement for the writer. There was a progress chart and gold stars to help keep track of word count and progress. I also found stickers and a pin-on button which declared that I was a “novelist”. Most importantly there was a “Noveling Affidavit” which came as a scroll rolled up and tied with a ribbon. This document stated that I would hereby pledge to write a 50,000 word novel in one month’s

time. It was to be signed and dated by myself and a witness.

During the week between Christmas and New Year’s I kept looking through this intriguing little box and wondering if I could actually do this. Could I write a novel? I had never done anything like this before. I had written a few non-fiction articles for magazines and made up some short stories and poems for my kids. Heck, I had even written a few country songs for my singing son. But a novel! Novels are big; they are meaningful, structured, organized, and LONG! All sorts of thoughts passed through my mind. What would I write about? Could I stick with it?

Would it be publishable? Did it have to be? I wavered back and forth.

One day as I was perusing and posting on Facebook, a blogger friend posted a dreary comment about not having anything remarkable to do in the near future so I tossed out the novel idea with a promise that I would do it if she would. I guess I picked the right person because she jumped at the chance. And that became my affidavit; I made the commitment. Then I had the bright idea of opening it up to anyone else who was interested. Ten Facebook friends expressed interest, so I started a Facebook group called January Novelists and invited anyone on FB to join. I would use the novel kit for direction and post the daily advice to motivate everyone in the group. The project was gaining momentum and getting exciting.

On the first of January I connected with my newly-formed Facebook writing group and posted Chris Baty’s Day One Inspirational message: “A blank page. And a slight panic about starting the book off on the right foot.”

I opened my wordpad and began my novel, writing 1500 words in about an hour and half...and then I deleted all of it. I hated the

Judy Wearing, Faith Woodland, and Kate Kristiansen. character, the beginning, everything. But I took a break and started again. By the end of New Year’s Day I had written the required 1600 words for the day and was satisfied with my start.

The method Chris Baty suggests in the kit is basically to sit down and write 1600 words a day for thirty days resulting in a 50,000 word novel. You do not edit as you go, or even plan ahead. You just write. Most people have a few characters that they create and the story develops around them. You don’t worry about quality. You just plow ahead. My former principal Sherri, (from my teaching days many years ago), now lives in Florida. She joined the Facebook group and said of her writing, “It was definitely difficult at first, but once I got into it, the story pretty much wrote itself.” The same was true for me. It was actually much easier than I thought it would be.

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At the end of the month I invited anyone close enough to travel to a celebratory dinner. We feasted and celebrated by reading a page or two and talked about the whole experience and what would come next. Judy exclaimed how amazing it was that at least six novels existed which had not even been thought of a month before. While I had the satisfaction of completing a mediocre version of a Nicholas Sparks-type novel, the greatest satisfaction I felt was when the others expressed their gratitude at having been prodded into doing something so life-changing. We were charged with creative energy and the knowledge that anything could be possible. I am pretty sure that at least one of our novels will likely be published but even if not one makes it into Chapters, I enjoyed the best January of my life.

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Doris Dubé

Marg & Brian Weese

By Angela Saxe

By Linda Selkirk

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M

arlos Santana’s Latin-infused rock music fills the Legion Hall as our class moves to the beat, following our Zumba teacher’s instructions. Doris Dubé leads the class through an hourlong Latin-dance f i t ne s s pro g ra m that is not only fun and exhilarating but also a great cardio-vascular work out that leaves us invigorated and limber. Of course, it’s Doris’s enthusiasm that keeps us moving faster and trying harder because she truly believes in providing a fitness program for active older adults: “You don’t have to know how to dance; you just have to keep moving. And if you can’t do certain steps in the choreography then I’ll offer alternatives.”

Doris, who was born and raised in Baie Comeau, Quebec, moved to Montreal and got a job with Molson Breweries in the mid-70s. In 1985, she was transferred to their head office in Toronto, building a 35 year long career in Human Resources.

Looking towards her future retirement, Doris purchased a property on Beaver Lake north of Erinsville in 2003 and moved into her newly-built home in 2010. Always an active and social person, she wanted to get involved in activities that would enable her to meet people in her new community, while remaining engaged in her passions: fitness and dance.

“During a particularly stressful time when both my job and my parents’ failing health were taking a lot of my energy, I realized that I needed to find some balance,” Dubé tells me. “I’m not one to go to the gym for exercise, so since I’ve always enjoyed music and dance I thought I’d look for a dance class. Dancing without a partner has its limitations, so I considered line dancing. I attended my first line dance class in 2003 and was so intimidated that I sat out the first couple of classes thinking that I’d never be able to remember all those steps and turns.

Once I got the nerve to join the line, it’s become a passion and it’s changed my life.”

Initially Doris thought that line dancing was “stomp & kick” done to country and western music, but, it’s much more diverse than that. Doris teaches line dances set to a range of music including gospel, waltz, tango, rock & roll, Celtic, hip hop and new country. She travels extensively attending workshops where she learns new steps and

routines to bring back to her students and where she meets up with new friends who share her love of line dancing. “Line dancing is popular world wide – Europe, Asia, there are even line dancing cruises!” she tells me.

“There are online newsletters from around the world listing new dances and then I go to YouTube to watch the videos and learn the steps.”

Realizing that she wanted to do more to keep in shape, it was a natural progression for Doris to teach the Zumba Fitness program and specifically Zumba Gold, which is a program modified for baby boomers. It takes the Zumba formula and adapts the moves and paces to suit the needs of the older participant as well as those who are just starting a healthy lifestyle program. But before offering class, Doris wanted to obtain her Fitness Instructor Specialist certificate: “I wasn’t comfortable teaching a fitness class without it. The program includes CPR, how to teach group fitness and it has a written and practical exam.” Once she had her certificate, Doris became a licensed Zumba Gold instructor and started giving hour long classes in Tamworth in 2012. “There are many reasons why people attend: weight management, general fitness, improving balance and coordination, but there’s also the emotional and social component as well.

And really, it’s a lot of fun.”

As we all know, baby boomers are a huge demographic and as they move into their senior years, they are remaking the image of the retiree. Doris is an excellent example of this phenomenon. Not only has she transitioned from an active career woman into a busy dance and fitness instructor giving classes in Cloyne, Belleville and Tamworth, but she also gives back to her new community by volunteering at Adair Place, a senior’s residence, and she is now on the executive of the local Legion chapter.

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Staying fit and healthy, being involved, giving of one’s time and energy and following one’s passions – these are the lessons Doris shares with her students on and off the dance floor. As Doris says in her classes: “Keep moving, don’t stop!”

arg and Brian Weese own and operate a local gem: The Five Corners Craft Centre and Devon Café on the main street of Tamworth and this coming September they will celebrate their 20th anniversary of operation. Prior to their ownership of the café, it was known as the Devon Tea Room, a nod to the English birthplace of Monica Ver muellen who, with her husband Buster, ran the café over twenty years ago. They generously shared all their experience with the new owners, another trait unique to and appreciated by the local customers. arena last year.

The Weeses are always busy: multiple trips to gift shows; catering weddings and other events locally and beyond; hosting special events at the Café such as Valentine’s Day Dinner and the Italian Dinner; baking for their own use as well as supplying other retailers; providing food for local school events and running the café from 8:30 to 4:30 daily except for Mondays. Diane Beek is their right hand aide working in the café all week and they also employ two experienced weekend helpers, Sarah Gullins and Jen Galamb.

Their menu features long time favourites such as date squares, butter tarts, carrot soup (a must try), and the Salmon River Breakfast. From the Devon Club sandwich to their delicious lasagna, all food is fresh and homemade – something that restaurateurs and customers alike in our local small towns appreciate. No cutting corners here (no pun intended).

The gift shop is splendid and there are new offerings all the time. At this time of year they sell garden decorations as well as a line of clothing that is always unique and very reasonably priced. Birkenstock footwear is available at the store as are all kinds of accessories in the newest styles and colours: popular this year is a retro look featuring lime and orange. The new line of scarves include the newest jeweled ones have a wider selection than the big-box stores. Many of the items featured in the store are from local artisans, including some fabulous mosaic plates and wooden platters and handmade quilts.

Brian, who retired for health reasons, has put in a lot of work remodeling the café.

The newest theme is rich with browns and taupes and boasts a lovely hand-made quilt on the wall. The tin ceiling, while always interesting, now boasts artwork to showcase it making it unique as well as attractive. Brian also ran the canteen at the Stone Mills

Wedding planners have nothing on the Weeses. When they cater weddings, they also provide a myriad of ready-to-go items, such as chair covers, linens, dishes, cutlery et al. One stop shopping certainly sounds good. They also have what you need for anniversary and birthday parties including helium (the longlasting helium) for bright balloons. Marg has the enthusiasm and energy to take on new projects as people request them.

Frances the Frog, who most of us got to know during his stay, was a mainstay and mascot near the front door; he now proudly stands in the garden of the lucky buyer who took him home. Not wanting to be without a mascot, Marg has found just the perfect one – an adorable dragon who will greet us this year. I resisted suggesting renaming part of their store The Dragon’s Den – somehow I think there might be a copyright issue. But the permanent mascot however, is Miss Lilly, their pup who has a little fan club of her own.

I would encourage anyone who hasn’t been there yet to take a couple of hours to enjoy a meal and shop at leisure through the large gift area – a great outing that will likely yield some treasures for you to take away along with some new special memories.

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MEDIA RELEASE TOWNSHIP OF STONE MILLS APPROVES 2013 BUDGET On April 2th, 2013, the Township of Stone Mills approved a 2013 budget totaling $9,285,928.51 The Municipal Portion that will be raised through property taxation amounts to $4,504,686.95.

In order to raise this amount the Township of Stone Mills residential tax levy will increase by 3.40%.

It is the Township’s responsibility to levy for the County of Lennox and Addington and the Minister of Education.

The County’s Levy is $3,500,360.56 The Educations Levy is $1,682,799.26.

The average residential household assessment in 2012 was $194,674. In 2013 the average assessment has increased to $199,748. Based on this increase in assessment an average household can expect to pay approximately $41.56 more for their municipal share of taxes.

When both the county and education levies are factored in, the average household increase will be approximately $66.82.

Breakdown of share of taxes based on each $100,000 of assessment Total Residential Tax Rate 0.01365964 County Education Township

Assessment

Total Taxes

100,000 36.94% 15.52% 47.54%

$ 1,365.97 $ 504.59 $ 212.00 $ 649.38

Municipal Tax Disbursement General Government Fire Services Police Protection & By law Transportation Waste & Recycling Cemeteries Recreation & Libraries Arena Planning Properties & Building Maintenance Total

$ 58.45 $ 77.63 $ 89.11 $ 8.25 $ 307.78 $ 29.06 $ 0.92 $ 7.82 $ 10.72 $ 10.51 $ 49.13

Breakdown of Municipal Taxes 2013 Properties & Recreation & Libraries 1% Cemeteries 0% Waste & Recycling 4% Transportation 47%

Arena Planning 2% 2%

Buildings Maintenance 8%

General Government 9% Fire Services 12%

Todd Steele Nikole Walters Kathy McCaffrey Donna Hodson Gary Hodson

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Rick Bowen Susan L. Wright Brian Powley Tracey Moffat Sally Blasko

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By Law 1%

$649.38

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A Natural View

Wood Warblers - The Butterflies of the Bird World I

By Terry Sprague

t is early morning during the second week of May at Prince Edward Point, the south-eastern tip of Prince Edward County. The trees along the groomed Point Traverse trails are wet from the overnight rain. Yellow warblers are everywhere, and the much sought after northern parula with its dazzling colours is so common as to be considered almost a nuisance bird. There are the finely marked chestnut-sided warblers, and as the sun works its rays through the mist, it accentuates their dazzling yellow crowns and chestnut side streaks.

will the males get more serious with their song and try to attract a mate.

There is a standing joke among birders that Nashville warblers, Tennessee warblers and Connecticut warblers are easily identified by their song, since they sing with a southern or New England accent. Actually they are so named because this is where early ornithologists first discovered them, and named them accordingly. While birds clearly do have readily noticeable dialects, depending on what part of the continent you happen to be when you hear them singing, there is nothing about the song of the Nashville warbler that is twangy, or suggests booze and broads and slipping around.

Birders in May enjoying the warblers. Photo credit: Terry Sprague.

T hat bird This is a fallout, something birders dream species often deliver songs differently is about finding along the shores of Lakes well known. It doesn’t really matter how a Ontario and Erie – Presqu’ile Park, Rondeau yellow warbler sings, we always know that Park, Point Pelee…and Prince Edward Point. it is a yellow warbler. Other warblers, too, There may be thousands of birds here this have an incredible variety of deliveries, but day as other warblers land throughout the we always know their identity because they morning, exhausted by the rainy, windy have a certain tonal quality that is unique. flight across the lake. Several golden-winged Some warblers, like the northern parula, offer warblers hang by their feet like bats as two totally different songs, and under what they methodically search the undersides of circumstances they sing one over the other is the leaves for insect larvae. Black-throated not clearly understood. greens gasp their wheezy notes, while blackthroated blues call from deeper within the During a guided hike a few years ago, one woods. A male appears in one tree, its pocket person claimed she was having difficulty handkerchief showing on the wings in the understanding me as she was from Toronto form of delicate white patches. and was adjusting to my “dialect.” I know about dialects. I have heard people talk in New York American redstarts, their contrasting black City, and I could listen to the New England and orange coats seem more appropriate dialect forever. I am even aware that Ottawa for a Halloween evening, and not a spring seems to have its own dialect. But I wasn’t morning. There are Tennessee warblers aware that the Prince Edward County did singing their staccato notes, yellowthroats also. I don’t think the folks in Napanee have casually feeding in the prickly ash as though an accent, or those in Tamworth, Kingston they belong there rather than in a wetland. or Harrowsmith. Perhaps they do, and I just Palm warblers work the branches, their tails don’t bobbing up and down as though the tracery of branches is too much for them to maintain proper balance. There are magnolia warblers radiant against the rising sun, Blackburnians with their sunburst throats, ovenbirds and yellow-rumped warblers - the list goes on. In all, over 20 species of warblers have arrived en masse to this diminutive point of land, the first land mass these neo-tropical migrants saw upon arrival.

These small passerines are on a remarkable journey that has taken them all the way from their wintering grounds in northern South America and Central America, and many will not stop until they reach the boreal forests where they will nest. Peninsulas of land that jut out into the open lake are staging areas where they will rest awhile, fatten up on the spring supply of emerging insect larvae, and then move on. After departing their refuelling stations, that’s when we start seeing them locally in our backyards and woodlots as they fan out and browse their way northward, feeding and singing, seemingly, for the love of expressing their joy of life. Only on territory,

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detect it.

Birds, too, have dialects.

We can suppose that individual species understand each other well enough when proclaiming their territories, but whether a straggler of the same species that wanders up from the south is understood, we will never really know.

Songs of many species often incor porate a r b i t ra r y e l e m e n t s learned in the individual’s lifetime. The basic song is there, but the young b i rd s l e a r n d e t a i l s of their songs from their fathers, allowing variations to build up over generations. As these warblers return to roughly the same Yellow Warbler. Photo credit: Derek Dafoe. location each year, and residential populations begin to build over watching these little butterflies of the birdtime, it is easy to see that birds could develop world flitting about the branches on their what could be referred to as a dialect, peculiar way to the northern forests. Think about to their geographical nesting location each their destinations and their songs when the year to which they arrive. warbler family passes through your backyard this spring. Consider, too, that only days What researchers have found though, is that earlier they had been associating with resident some birds may be bilingual. They will sing bananaquits and motmots in Costa Rica. the local song that has been passed on to them by their fathers, but may occasionally For more information on birding and nature and sing a second dialect that they apparently guided hikes, check out the NatureStuff website have learned from members of their species at www.naturestuff.net passing through and migrating farther north.

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curative remedy for a March day is an invitation to an artisan’s workplace to view objects offering escape from winter’s doldrums. Margaret Everett of Napanee recently afforded me such an escape by showing me her crafted miniature room boxes, made with love and attention to detail.

These decorated tableaus took me back to my childhood when I played with my dollhouse and my brother worked nearby making toy models of airplanes and cars.

Margaret Everett, miniaturist enthusiast.

Room boxes is the name given to free standing, miniature decorated rooms, generally constructed on a scale of 1:12 (one inch equals twelve inches or one foot).

Dollhouse interiors are made on the 1”/12” scale Some miniature rooms today are constructed with a half inch or quarter inch to a foot scale and they are minute in size.

The rooms can be historical period replicas such as the amazing sixty-eight lavish boxes commissioned by Mrs. James Ward Thorne and displayed permanently at Chicago Art Institute as The Thorne Miniature Rooms.

The Thorne Rooms are historically accurate interiors from the 13th century to the 1930’s. Room boxes can also depict seasonal festive themes or be theme rooms, fancifully imagined and built by their maker.

Miniatures of all sorts have a long history.

Some of these miniature mementoes were found while excavating the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, and historically royalty everywhere has always enjoyed and collected them. The late Queen Mary of Great Britain collected dollhouses; and her grandson, Prince Charles, is also known to be a collector of miniatures.

Inuit and aboriginal people also crafted

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miniature pieces of furniture and carved tiny weapons, dolls and animals. Some of these ivory pieces can be seen in the Lord Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Toronto’s Canadiana Rooms. Two other great museums containing miniatures can be seen in Rochester, NY--The Strong National Museum of Play and in London, England at The Museum of Early Childhood.

Margaret delighted in miniature worlds since childhood when her Grandfather Tayler built her a dollhouse. Much later her husband Don Everett built her a “cabinet house” called Tayler Hall. Today it contains fourteen small rooms and sits inside a large china cabinet. In the 1970’s she began to research dollhouses and room boxes and she wrote an article for the Toronto Star newspaper, inviting other Toronto enthusiasts to come forward and form a Miniature Enthusiasts of Toronto Club. In 1976 sixty-five miniature enthusiasts were members of M.E.T. and they still meet for workshops and to share advice; they have also given public shows.

These individuals and other Ontario clubs hold an annual convention called “The Ontario Gathering” --this year’s convention will be held in Gananoque for three days in April. Margaret’s late husband designed a woodcutter for miniature construction which he demonstrated and sold to other fabricators at these workshops.

N.A.M.E. (North American Miniaturist Enthusiasts) is another Miniaturist organization started in Los Angeles in 1972, and its motto is “Only through sharing can miniaturists really enjoy their treasures.”

N.A.M.E. clubs and members meet once a year at their convention and now there are N.A.M.E. clubs throughout the world.

Margaret is serving her second term as Regional Chairperson for Ontario and all of Eastern Canada’s N.A.M.E. groups. She is adamant about her wish to encourage people everywhere to craft miniatures and form their own clubs of enthusiasts.

In the 1990’s she and Don moved to Napanee from Toronto. Today Margaret is known as the founder of A.M.E.N (Area Miniature Enthusiasts of Napanee). The A.M.E.N. members have displayed their work to the public at the County Museum in Napanee. For her community contribution (she also does voluntary work for church and MacPherson House) Margaret earned the June Callwood

Outstanding Achievement Award.

She was eager to share her collection with me and escorted me to “Tayler Hall” with the china cabinet shelves containing fourteen delicate rooms.

Each room had its own special identity: a nurser y, a One of Margaret’s many miniature displays. kitchen, a sitting room, etc. There were tiny pieces of tableware, and Margaret made sure to put the famous elaborate carved furniture, toys, rugs and “casting couch” in the center of the room. On many more items filling the rooms. I especially a miniature side table stands a tiny Oscar won liked the miniature chandelier, brightly lit by for one of his films and the walls are covered minute batteries. with his black and white movie posters.

I was then guided to other pieces she had made. “The Falconry Room” is a small historical room in a box; it emulates the room of an old castle where men return from hunting small game with their falcons. The falconry gloves are laid on a table, alongside a tankard of ale; a coat of arms and tapestry grace the stone walls and spears and shields lean next to winter cloaks.

The “Japanese Box” has been constructed within a shadow box made of glass. Margaret copied the Japanese room construction and placed a brightly coloured kimono on the wall. Also hanging on the walls are Japanese fans and there is a low bamboo table with a Japanese tea set and plates nearby containing sushi. Margaret told me she has traveled from “sea to sea” to acquire such authentic theme pieces like the sushi servings.

Over the years she has acquired original miniature paintings and prints and she has hung these pieces in her “art box”. Different galleries are stacked atop one another and each gallery contains a miniature flower arrangement. One gallery has a miniature bust of Queen Victoria.

I especially enjoyed “The Hollywood Box”.

It depicts a Director’s room from the 1940’s

Occupying one large section of the display table were Margaret’s interpretations of Canadiana rooms from the late 19th century.

One room box depicts a country kitchen of that time with a freestanding pantry with cages at its base for chickens. Eggs, no larger than crumbs, rest in a basket nearby and a bread-making table holds a rising loaf of dough, waiting to be rolled by a rolling pin and then baked. Nearby was a freestanding exhibit of Inuit and Aboriginal artifacts such as tiny mukluks, moccasins, a painted buffalo skin rug and, most important, a peace pipe.

There was also a Coca-Cola Refreshment Stand with miniature coke machines; nearby was a Cow Vignette dedicated to black and white Holstein cows. I finished my tour of Margaret’s rooms inside the glass shadow box for “The Garden Room” with replicas of exotic plants and a white rattan gardener’s chair.

“Miniatures are an art form,” she told to me, and I agreed: I had lost myself within the rooms. Her extensive collection is a delight for all who view it and she has made these small environments to be shared. She is a living treasure to the peoples of Lennox/ Addington County and her enthusiasm for miniatures brightened my March day.

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Jonathon walked onto the stage and picked up his guitar, put on his hat and didn’t say a word - he just started to sing.

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Spring Tips for a Spotless House

By Merola Tahamtan

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pring is here! The birds are chirping, days are longer, and the sun is shining and most of us are gearing up for spring-cleaning. We all love a spotless house, but we don’t want to spend the bulk of our time actually cleaning. Here are some methods to make chores easier, more effective and much less time- consuming, so you can have a tidy, sparkling home in no time.

In the Bathroom • Rubbing a teaspoon of lemon oil on glass shower doors twice a month causes water to bead up and roll off.

• If mold and mildew are attacking your shower curtain liner, then throw it in the wash with a couple towels, which will help scrub it clean, and then hang it back up to dry.

• As a child we all loved the drink Tang, but never considered it as a toilet bowl cleaner. Drop a teaspoon of Tang Drink Mix in your toilet bowl. The citric acid acts as a scrubber and it’s nontoxic, in case the dog takes a sip. Let it sit for a few minutes, then swish and flush.

• Get rid of those annoying stray hairs on the floor by sweeping them up with a damp wad of toilet paper every morning.

• Use bedtime as clean time; while the kids are washing up at night, wipe down the tub, toilet and mirrors, and toss out clutter. When they’re are finished, quickly wipe down the sink and floor. Bathroom done.

In the Kitchen • Always begin on the right side of your stove, then move clockwise around your kitchen. The stove is typically the dirtiest part of the kitchen, so ending with it keeps you from spreading dirt and grease.

First soak drip pans, knobs in warm soapy water. By the time you’ve worked your way around, they will be easier to clean.

• Once a week, shake baking soda on a damp sponge and wipe around your dishwasher’s edges to remove stuck-on food or stains. To clean the inside, run an empty cycle with a product designed to kill bacteria like E.coli. During cold and flu season it’s a good idea to add a quartercup of bleach to the regular dish cycle to kill bacteria. The dishes will be safe and sanitized after the rinse cycle is finished.

• To get rid of odors in your garbage disposal, drop in a cut-up lemon, some salt and a few ice cubes. The lemon deodorizes, and the ice and salt clean away residue.

• It’s hard to believe, but your dirty kitchen sink has more bacteria than your toilet seat. You can make your own disinfectant.

To disinfect, clean your sink with soap and water first, then spray a mist of vinegar followed by a mist of hydrogen peroxide, and let air-dry. If your sink is stainless steel, make it sparkle afterward by putting a few drop of mineral oil on a soft cloth and buff. This prevents water buildup, which deters mold and keeps the sink looking clean longer.

• Clean as you go - fill your sink with hot, soapy water as you start dinner. Place used dishes and pans in the filled sink

so they they’ll be soaking while you eat.

Also, wipe up spills immediately- don’t give sauces, oils and spices a chance to sit around.

• We all know that sponges can be breeding grounds for bacteria. Disinfect yours every night by squeezing it out and microwaving it on high for a minute.

In the Bedroom • Wake up with the bed. If your bed is made, your bedroom generally looks neat, so when you wake up, pull the covers to your chin, then scissor-kick your way out of bed so it’ll be half made. Finish the job before you walk away.

• Know the essentials. Have a pamper basket next to your bed with a book, some moisturizer, your knitting or something else you like to do in bed. Then keep your clock, a lamp and a box of tissues on your nightstand. And that’s it.

• Most women have drawers full of clothes they don’t wear, and their dresser tops then become repositories for things they can’t store. Get rid of things you haven’t worn in a year and vow to put away the clean laundry each week.

In the Laundry Room • Since fabric softener and dryer sheets can strip towels of their absorbency, add ¼ cup white vinegar to the rinse cycle or throw two new and clean tennis balls in your dryer to get rid of static electricity, soften fabrics and eliminate the need for dryer sheets.

All Around the House • If you actually time how long it takes to do certain chores, you won’t mind doing them as much. Believe it or not, most chores only take 10 minutes.

• Multitask - Do two things at once. While on the phone, fold laundry, fluff pillows, pick up stray magazines, toys, do the dishes or sweep and dust.

• Make a Lost–and-Found - Every house needs one. Use a lidded storage container to stash lost game pieces, stray screws and buttons, and similar small items. When you need the item, you’ll know where to look first.

• Go room by room, and do a 5 minute sweep through each room, taking a laundry basket with you. Place in anything that doesn’t belong in that room, and then put away the stuff that does belong there.

These are just some simple tricks to make your spring cleaning a little easier this season. Cleaning one room at a time will make this tedious task a lot easier and then sit back and enjoy your spotless house!

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Beavers

The Bother and the Beauty

By Susan Moore

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he beaver is a brilliant hydroengineer and a colossal pain in the keyster. What does it take to live side-by-side with beavers? For some answers, go to Beavers and Us, an all-day workshop on Monday, April 22 in Perth, Ontario. The Stewardship Councils of Frontenac, Lennox & Addington, Hastings, Renfrew, and Lanark counties will co-host a productive day of fascinating revelations about Canada’s largest rodent. Read on for the impressive line-up of speakers.

The well-known Michael Runtz (of wolf howls and other shenanigans) will present the natural history of beavers, one of earth’s most powerful and fascinating animals. They have a split toenail for grooming, the most versatile tail of any mammal in the world, and the ability to transform entire landscapes to suit their needs - just like us. Unlike us, they create diverse habitats ranging from ponds to wetlands to meadows.

But beavers can be a bother, especially for those responsible for roads and watersheds.

Folks in the front lines of these struggles will present their points of view and explain new tools and schemes for managing our national rodent.

If we want to cohabit amicably with beavers, we must learn how. Michel Leclair has successfully managed beavers in Gatineau Park for over 30 years using specialized tools and management plans incorporating habitat information. Over time, Michel has developed an unmatched expertise, while installing more than 200 water control devices in the park on over 300 colonies of beavers on 360 km ². This has virtually eliminated the negative impacts of beavers on the infrastructure.

Did you catch our local beavers on CBC? Michel Leclair was an active subject in The Beaver Whisperers, aired on March 28 on The Nature of Things. His Gatineau Park operation - as well as the Eagle Lake area (south of Sharbot Lake) - was filmed, including realtime action inside a beaver lodge. You can view the making of The Beaver Whisperers at www. cbc.ca/beaverwhisperers or the beavers at play at www.cbc.ca/player.

In North America, Cherie Westbrook has measured the effects of beaver ponds on the groundwater at great distances from the ponds. She will discuss how beavers helpfully divert rain and snow from surface runoff and into our groundwater supply instead. She and her research team are just returning from Tierra del Fuego, where they gathered evidence for the Argentinians on the hydrological effects of transplanted Canadian beavers on watersheds at the tip of South America. Dr. Westbrook will give us the perspective of beaver activities at the scale of our watersheds and the larger water cycle.

Photo credit: Michael Runtz.

Beavers, you can love ‘em or hate ‘em but you first have to understand them.

Workshop Program • The Influence of Beavers at the Watershed Scale by Cherie Westbrook, professor and researcher at University of Saskatchewan Hydrology Centre • Cooperative Responses to Beavers by Conservation Authorities, Municipalities and Landowners by Rudy Dyck, Director of Watershed Stewardship Services, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority • Ontario’s Road Crews Defend Against Flooding Every Spring and Fall by Mike Richardson, Public Works Supervisor, Central Frontenac Township • Successful Beaver Management: Tools and Plans by Michel Leclair • Matching Wits with the Beavers: My Relationship with Beavers on 300 Acres of Mississippi Drainage by Don Cuddy, Regional Ecologist (in his past life!)

• Roles of Beavers in a Constructed Wetland by Cliff Maclean, Hastings landowner • Finding Beaver Dams Using Remote Imagery

by Jean Thie, Remote Sensing Specialist • Dam Builders: The Natural History of Beavers and their Ponds by Michael Runtz Beavers and Us takes place on Monday, April 22 from 9 am to 4 pm at Civitan Hall, 6787 County Road 43 (east of 3M plant) in Perth, Ontario. All day, plus lunch and coffee is yours for $10. You must ensure your lunch

by April 15 at aileenmerriam@gmail.com or 613-335-3589: More information is available there. Program details: www.specialplaces.ca/ beaverworkshop.

Cochlear Implant Support Group Monday April 8, 10 a.m.

Come meet, greet, and share information with individuals who have cochlear implants, as well as family members of those individuals.

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What Did You Read Today?

By Gayle Johnson

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ow many times have you asked, or been asked the question: What did you do today? We all have used that popular question to start a conversation with our children, our spouse or our friends. But what if we put a new spin on that old question?

The National Reading Campaign is asking us to do just that by taking the question: What did you read today? as their motto.

As a lifelong reader, and a librarian, I love this question! What did you read today? challenges us to examine all that we did read today, from the cereal box to the billboards, from the headlines to emails, and maybe, finally, even a good book before bed. Reading is such a critical part of my everyday life that it is hard to believe that there needs to be a National Campaign to champion the cause.

But as I look out at the students endlessly watching YouTube and Pinterest I concede that we definitely do need this campaign.

Images are everything and reading with deep comprehension and for pleasure has drastically decreased.

In January, I was lucky enough to attend a workshop where Patsy Aldana, former owner of the award-winning children’s book publishing company, Groundwood Books, and present Chair of the National Reading Campaign, spoke. Her tireless efforts to establish this National Campaign are staggering, her dedication to promote children’s love of reading is endless and her vision is awe inspiring. She began Groundwood Books in 1978 when she realized the vacuum that existed in Canada in publishing books for children and young adults. A true person of the world, Patsy grew up in Guatemala, was educated in the U.S., lives in Canada and France and travels the world in search of great children’s literature. It was on these travels that she realized that many other countries have National Reading Plans making reading a national priority and she believed that Canada should adopt this outlook as well.

It’s important to point out that this program is not about Literacy, but about

encouraging people to read for pleasure - an aspect of reading which research reveals is being killed by literacy testing! Ironically, as literacy test scores rise, enjoyment of reading decreases. As someone who has had to endure the seemingly endless preparation for the grade 10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) I am not surprised in the least.

The mission of the National Reading Program is: “To make reading a national priority,” and their vision is “To create, sustain, and grow a society in which each of us has an equal opportunity to become and remain a lifelong reader.” The easy-to-access and very informative website for the National Reading Campaign (www.nationalreadingcampaign. ca) contains information on their mandate as well as their initiatives which include the TD National Reading Summit, CanLit for New Canadians, as well as an Aboriginal Policy Initiative. Six underlying principles for the National Reading Campaign can be found on the website, which contains important principles such as: “Access to material in mother tongue, official, and Aboriginal languages” as well as “Promotion and access to Canadian-authored materials of all kinds.

This is essential to our self-knowledge, culture and democratic practices.”

This campaign encourages and allows readers to become critical thinkers who will have control and thoughtful input into the democratic process; Aldana sees this as critically important to our society. Shouldn’t we all be concerned that our country is maintaining and promoting everyone’s access and ability to read? Not only will this develop critical thinking skills, but empathy and understanding as well.

So take the time to read today - and ask your children, your spouse and your friends “What did you read today?”

For more information on the National Reading Campaign go to www.nationalreadingcampaign.ca.

Inspiration 101 Story and photo by Sue Wade

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e live in a pretty wonderful corner of the planet. It may not be Paris or Rome or New York or Vienna or any other world-renowned art community, but Stone Mills Township is home to many artists working with a host of different media. Our galleries, art shows and studio tours boast some pretty spectacular work created by talented local artists.

Artists have to start somewhere.

There is always a nugget of an idea that sets root and grows into a piece of art, something that inspires them to create.

Almost a thousand years ago, St. Francis of Assisi wrote that artists are people who work not only with their hands and heads, but also with their hearts - that they not only possess the tools and the knowledge to produce something, but they have the spirit and emotion to make that something art.

What draws an artist to sit with a cello, or write a play, or work wool around knitting needles, or pick up a pastel, paintbrush, hunk of clay or glasscutter? Where do they find the inspiration to create a piece of art?

The answer is as individual as the artist.

I find inspiration right outside my front door. We live on one of the many “middle of nowhere roads” that meanders through trees and rock cuts and Canadian sky in this part of the world. It is my habit to walk this road where I can be in Nature’s version of quiet - where I can spend time in my own head where I can immerse myself in the landscape and the earthy colours and smells and the freshness in spirit that walking brings me then take it all back with me to the studio. For some reason, a lot of my work features trees, rock cuts and Canadian sky. Imagine that!

Sometimes, inspiration finds me when I’m far away from my “middle of nowhere road” and this year I found some when we were in Florida. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is in a pretty classy part of the state, and even though it isn’t a very big museum, there’s a wonderful collection of glass art by Louis Comfort Tiffany which puts me in glass heaven every time I visit. I look and ponder, aching to touch it all till my soul is full. (Once, in my effort to drink it all in, I leaned too far over the rail that separates the viewer from a stunning piece and in doing so, I set off the alarm!) After visiting the gallery rooms, I was speechless, absolutely

Stained glass art by Sue. in awe of the work, but I walked away with a fresh perspective. I’d had an intimate glimpse of how Tiffany looked “outside the box” in designing and building his pieces. I now look forward to building a piece of plated glass in my own studio inspired by Tiffany’s artistry.

Creative inspiration ignites when experiences tingle our emotions. Sure, you can walk down the street and be struck by a creative lightning bolt out of the blue - the “ah ha!” moment, if you will - but I’d wager that often-times inspiration is subtler than that; it wiggles its way into our brains after taking in a film, or attending a concert, or listening to the tones of a conversation in another language, or seeing the colour of a Jamaican sky, or noticing a peculiarly shaped tree or remembering the swirly shape of the bottom of a wedding dress as the bride tossed her bouquet, or watching snatches of life happening outside the living room window, or visiting a hospital, smelling Spring, looking at people gesturing as they talk, realizing that Uncle Ivan is getting old, listening to owls, or watching a 2-year-old run down a hill or holding your grandchild for the very first time...

You may wonder about your own creative inspiration. Maybe good food enjoyed at a local restaurant inspires you to cook and present a gourmet meal. Perhaps finding green shoots springing up by the roadside inspires you to think about designing your own garden. Or does a piece of music inspire you to create your own unique dance?

There will be many events held this coming year featuring the work of our talented local artists. Give yourself a worthy outing and visit some of these events. May you find your own inspiration as you meet the exhibiting artists and peruse the work that came from their hands, their heads and their hearts.

Sue Wade is a stained glass artist happily breaking glass in Stone Mills Township.

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Jake’s Dilemma

Muddy and Together

By Jacob Murray

By Grace Smith

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was asked what I’d do if I won the lottery.

The answer came readily - I would continue living and working at Topsy Farms. I can’t imagine living anywhere else.

The land and animals, the very air I breathe, are as much a part of me as my skin and fingernails.

Every morning, I drive our ATV through the woods doing chores – it’s the best part of my day. The utter peace and stillness I find there is echoed within me. You can’t put a price on that. This type of life doesn’t fit into any neat box that any career counselor could understand. I get bored too easily by static routine; I am not built to sit in an office. Every day there has to be something different: Today I’m a mechanic, yesterday a vet The storm is getting closer, 60% chance of getting wet Jacob, discing. Photo credit: Topsy Farms.

Tomorrow its construction; repairing the old barn occasionally playing golf or going to a concert.

Everyday’s a little different, when you wake up I need not to feel that a dollar spent on myself on a farm is a dollar less for the animals.

I saw a Dodge commercial the other day that featured a Paul Harvey monologue. I dare you to watch that and not want to work the land - it’s a powerful piece. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GdR5TOhHJGM Farmers are always surrounded by the things they fixed the day before. That’s a potent hook: one reason why farmers keep getting up and digging out of snowstorms or rebuilding machines that others have discarded. As my apprenticeship continues, I get more independent, I pick my own tasks and timing. This freedom increases my ability to lose myself in a job.

There have been no hassles with the older generation, probably a tribute to them. I feel I am respected as a man now; and for skills learned elsewhere. The older farmers are surprised/ amused when I know how to do something they didn’t expect

It’s such a huge commitment. I won’t consider taking on the farm without my brother’s involvement and at the moment the farm can’t afford to pay us both. The decision to become a farmer feels sort of like joining a monastery: giving up most of my worldly possessions for the betterment of mankind.

Lots of days I don’t feel that generous.

And yet, I want to raise my boys the way I was raised; living the zen experience that in improving the land and the buildings and the animals and machinery, they in turn improve us.

pring has finally arrived and brought with it the best time of the year. We braved the cold winter and survived.

The snow, ice, and frigid temperatures that have kept us locked up inside disappear and we begin to venture out into the real world.

chance to enjoy soccer in the mud. As the snow melts and everything becomes wet, the soccer field is hit especially hard. Mud is everywhere. And while this makes it difficult for the groundskeeper, it’s always fun to get in a game of muddy soccer.

Fall and spring are similar seasons; the weather and temperature are fairly close, but spring has the upper hand. Spring lets us know that winter is finally over. And for me, spring alerts us to the beginning of the soccer season.

We gather up some friends and make our way to the field. If we really want to have a good time, we take our shoes off. Squishing mud beneath my toes is another spring time joy of mine. We play hard and mud flies.

Usually no one goes home clean, but at least we’re muddy together.

Easy-going running sessions begin in early spring. This is my first chance to get outside and start enjoying the milder weather. It is also an opportunity for me to break out of my winter slump. No matter how hard I try, as soon as there’s snow on the ground, the last thing I want to do is go running around in the cold slush. I try to make it to the gym, but nothing beats a jog in the crisp air of spring time. Spring should push everyone outside and into a jogging suit.

And spring is the perfect time to play soccer. The mild temperatures are just right; summer is just too overwhelmingly hot to be running around for 90 minutes. With spring, the green comes back. The trees start to blossom. Grass becomes visible again.

Everything is new with life. It provides the perfect weather and scenery for a fun game of soccer.

Perhaps the best joy of spring for me is the

And this bond occurs whether you’re playing a pick-up game with your friends, in a league just for fun, or competitively.

The sport brings people together and spring brings out the sport.

Spring time is the greatest part of the year.

It draws people out of their homes and outside. And it doesn’t have to be soccer, or even a sport, but everyone should find the activity that gets them out of the house and into the real world with everyone else.

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However, at times I’m overwhelmed by the idea of the constant struggle. The sheep farm will never make a decent return on labour. I know that there are many folks who struggle all the time, working 10 -12 hrs/day and never getting ahead financially. I need to seek a way to balance living and working; to find a better business model that isn’t just dependent on the number of sheep or blankets sold.

I want the mental freedom and the balance of

And that’s another positive aspect of playing soccer. It is a chance for me to see everyone again. Whether it’s a good friend that I get to spend even more time with or a teammate I only see during the season, soccer brings us all together. Because when you’re part of a team, you need to work together. It creates a special bond between a group of people. A bond that can last forever.

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Jake. Photo credit: Topsy Farms.

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Stand Up and Fight

Make Room for Silence

By Reba Pennell Grade 12 student from Napanee District Secondary School

By Sebastian Back Grade 12 student at Sydenham High School

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rnest Hemingway once said, “A person can be destroyed but not defeated.” I think that quote is true.

I believe that a person can be knocked down and beaten up so bad but can always find the strength to pull back and become strong again. Sometimes life can throw you curveballs and really screw up what you ever thought was true about life, and what can you do about that? Fall down and be defeated? No you stand up and fight.

You fight for yourself and you fight for the power within. It doesn’t matter if you feel as though there is nothing left in the world for you: no hope or joy. What matters is the willpower that you have; the strength and the dignity and the perseverance that you have to do something great... to be something great.

Some adults may not realize that teenagers don’t have it easy. Sure they were teenagers before but they aren’t teenagers now. The world is a different and much scarier place now. We have bullying, cyber bullying, peer pressure and so much more. There is the pressure to fit in, to get good grades and to live up to parental expectations or to what you think people expect from you.

Many parents believe their children are perfect but as teens, living up to those high expectations that we will all have a bright future actually lowers our self esteem; there’s too much pressure often resulting in poor performance.

Nowadays there’s strong pressure on students to get a job and make money, rather than worrying about their school

work and the future. Some teens think that school won’t help them later in life or even worse, they don’t see a point in going to school. The desire to learn has been destroyed and they feel defeated.

Some teens may be going through a tough period when they feel as though there is nothing left in their life; no direction or purpose – they just feel defeated.

But I believe that you can pick yourself back up. You can fight and fight to make sure that you are never defeated because the day you give up, the day you stop trying to do anything or to be anything in this world is truly the day that you are defeated. No matter how old you are, you can find the will and the strength to get back up and keep fighting for what you want.

eing alone is underrated. The idea of being alone for a little while for the sake of being alone tends to slip our minds on the steep social slope of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram or just being out with a group of people. We spend hours attempting to ensure our social success by continually checking that the world is thinking of us. If it isn’t, we make our presence known once again with a photo of ourselves - apparently the exact same as the previous hundred - or a post, expressing our opinion.

Now, maybe I’m just an old soul, but peace and quiet just seems like a wonderful thing to me. Here’s why: if you take the time to stop listening to everyone else’s voices and stop speaking yourself, then what are you doing? Well you’re spending time listening to your intuition, your thoughts, and your feelings in regards to your future, moral beliefs, fashion and the world around you. Your internal voices can be heard; they aren’t being drowned out by your proclamations on how you think you feel, or by other people telling

The fight may be something huge like defeating cancer or it may be little like getting an A on the next test. It really doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks; what’s important is what you care about. As Hemingway said, the key is to know that even though you may at times feel destroyed by life, you are not defeated until you Born Jan-Apr on test at Broekland Farms, Tweed tr uly g ive up.

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So, to reiterate, the positive or negative opinions/vibes given off by one’s peers impact strongly on a person who has not become an independent thinker and you can only gain a certain kind of independence by spending time alone.

You can figure out what you truly want in your life as opposed to what the world, and the people around you want. By spending hours networking or socialising you become dependent on what others think of you. Once you make room for silence and time to contemplate you are free to create your own person. It’s wise to reflect and make some personal decisions - even if that means declaring that you have no clue what you want - and then dive back into the social sea.

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• ¼ cup of olive oil (bacon fat is a tasty substitute) The Stone Mills Fire Department is holding a Blanket Drive. We enjoy! , Living n Ireland, Ir ish Box ty is known as the poor-house bread. Pronounced ‘bacstai or aran bocht ti’ it is a traditional potato pancake. I remember my grandmother singing to us while she was making them: “Boxty in the griddle and boxty in the pan, if you can’t make boxty you’ll never get a man.”

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are looking for blankets to use at emergency calls. If you have any blankets you would like to donate please drop them off at the Township of Stone Mills municipal office. Thank you, Stone Mills Fire Department

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SAW IT IN THE and BAKE SALE at the SCOOP” AND 362 Division Street, Kingston www.kingstonfencingclub.ca  Beaver effects on water tables 613-547-5580 Head Coach: Henk.Pardoel@sympatico.ca Tamworth Library Tuesday, THAT ADVER Landowner/CA management partnerships TISING WORKS. December 14 from a.m.  Natural history11:30 of beavers to 1:30 p.m.

A homemade lunch beavers  Baffling dams from satellites  Spotting will served withbeaver loving hands and there might even be some Monday April 22, 9-4 entertainment for your Civitan Hall, Perth enjoyment and pleasure.

6787 County Rd. 43 (east of 3M) Quality Second Hand Books www.tamworthbookshop.com So come on down bring Workshop, Lunch&aCoffee-$10 lunch by April 15 at aileenmerriam@gmail.com Bridge Street East at Peel, Tamworth friend toEnsure helpyour kick off this OR 613-335-3589 festive season.613-267-4200 X3403 613-477-1100 Enquiries: 613-335-3589 Judith Versavel

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County of Lennox & Addington Public Library Children’s Programs NAPANEE BRANCH

AMHERSTVIEW BRANCH

Storytime: Thursdays at 1:30 p.m.

Book Club 1: 1st Wednesday of every month Book Club 2: 3rd Tuesday of every month Writers’ Club: April 9 & 23, May 7 & 21

Poetry Contest for Seniors: Enter one or all categories: Humor, Life Experience, Spring is in the Air. Submit your poems at the Amherstview Branch Library. Entry deadline: Wednesday April 24. Awards to be presented at the Briargate Seniors Community by Revera, 4567 Bath Road on April 30 at 1:30 p.m. Contestants must be present to win.

Winning poems will be shared at The Poetry Presentation. All are welcome to attend, light refreshments will be provided. For more information contact Patricia at the Branch or call 613-389-6006.

CAMDEN EAST BRANCH Toddler Tales: Mondays 10:30-11:00 a.m.

Story, puppets, and flannel board stories.

TAMWORTH BRANCH Writing stories or poems: Wednesdays in April, 6:30-7:15 p.m.

Craft for Mother’s Day: Wednesday, May 8, 6:30-7:15 p.m.

YARKER BRANCH Bedtime Buddies: Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.

There will be Plenty of Pigs in the library so remember to wear your pyjamas and bring your bedtime friend.

Kids & PareNTs

Voyageur Day

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tudents at Tamworth Elementary School were entertained for the afternoon by a French Voyageur. Students came to school dressed in hats, furs, scarves and other items resembling those worn by the voyageurs. They were shown the tools that would have been used then, and were taught games and songs that voyageurs played in their limited free time. The presentation

leader taught the students hand wrestling and balance games. They learned about the hardships of that era and the important role voyageurs played in the development of trade in early Canada.

Laurel Cruise-Alkenbrack Principal Tamworth & Enterprise Public Schools

Also available: E-books, Teen Zone, Wii, Public Access Computers, Wireless, School Visits, Audio Books, CNIB Daisy Reader, Databases, Faxing & Copying.

Summer Reading Club: Program will begin after school lets out for the summer.

Not your typical summer camp (ages 13-18) – sail with us and be the best you can be.

One and two-week live-aboard sail training cruises on Lake Ontario, $805-$1495.

613-544-5175

Playgroup Do you want to:

Saturday October 15th Have fun with your child?

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Everyone Welcome!

toys, and as part of our playgroup time, we do crafts, circle and have a singing time. Anyone is welcome - we have Moms, Dads, Grandparents and Caregivers who bring children.

Where?

All parent Chat with Located in the multi-purpose room at the rear of Sheffield Camden Community Centrepackages Early Literacy (Arena), 713 Addington Street, Tamworth & resources Specialist will be Susan Ramsay When? available Monday mornings from 9.30 am to 12 pm

Cost? FREE

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Free Classifieds Free to private individuals or not-forprofit community groups. Ads are accepted by phone at 613-379-5369 or by email at stonemills.scoop@gmail. com.

WANTED: Do you have a generator tied into your electrical panel with an approved transfer switch? If so, I’d like to get a picture of it for a book I’m writing.

Phone Cam 613-539-2831

FREE: Electric IBM typewriter & all accessories. Phone 613-379-5244.

WANTED: We are looking for 2 sets of old stairs (to use outdoors). Phone Susan or Steven: 613-379-5958.

FOR SALE: Yellow fibreglass canoe, 16 ft, $400. Phone 613-539-2831 or email michelle@aztext.com for more details.

FOR SALE: Winter coat: brown borg fur, knee-length, size 16, new $40 - asking half price. Winter grey cloth coat: kneelength, size 16, $20. Phone 613-3795244.

FOR SALE: Electric 30” Moffat range, 3 years old, $50 - and everything works!

Large fridge $50 in beautiful shape.

Phone 613-378-6492.

WANTED: Studebaker memorabilia.

Items such as manuals, brochures, old dealer calendars, pens, pencils, lighters, watches, etc. Phone Norm 613-9684400.

Hazardous Waste Day Saturday April 27, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Stone Mills Township lot

Save up your toxins!

WANTED: Looking for any interested persons who would like to participate in creating a ukulele club in Tamworth.

A forum for playing and learning to play the ukulele. Phone 613-379-5583.

OFFERED: Exercise classes, Barrie township hall (Cloyne). Mondays and Thursdays at 6 pm. Everyone welcome!

Cost: $8 a class or $45 per month. Please phone for more info Shelley Lough 613478-6602 or Terri-Lynn Storms 612 478 4720.

Limestone Chapter

Field Day and AGM

OFFERED: 35 acres hay fields just north of Tamworth. Call 379-5783.

Sat. May 25 10 am – 1 pm

1414 Unity Road Glenburnie, ON

Invasive Species in our Forests

W&S ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES Approved by the Ministry of the Environment

• Grass cutting • Seniors receive 10% discount • Large items pickup • Garbage pickup & recyclables

Phone: 613-379-5872 Cell: 613-483-8441 sadie40039@hotmail.com

Dr. Dolf Harmsen, Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University, will lead an examination of his spruce plantation and its progress since an initial mechanical harvest. Learn of natural threats to our forests such as garlic mustard, wild parsnip, Asian longhorn beetle, emerald ash borer and beech bark disease.

Our annual general meeting follows

All are welcome at no charge; take advantage of this forestry expertise

Light refreshments provided; please bring your own lawn chair For info: Barry at 613-386-3737 or owalimestone@gmail.com

Join Us for a

Answers to the crossword on the Puzzle Page (page 25):

Chili Festival

& Divine Desserts too!

Saturday April 20, 2013 Lions Club, Perth Fairgrounds (50 Arthur St.) Doors open at 6:00 pm Dinner $20/person (veggie & meat chili options available)

The New Math on Climate Change

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With 2012 on the record books as a year of an epic drought, record-breaking heat, wildfires and a catastrophic Superstorm hitting New York City, could we finally be on the cusp of major action to deal with climate change? Scientists’ understanding of the critical targets for greenhouse gas emissions is now more certain than ever before. The course of action is clear..

Publisher, market gardener and sustainability advocate Cam Mather will look at just what these numbers are and how we can achieve them.

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Serving Pets & Farm Animals Mon, Tues, Thurs: 8:30am-5pm 211 McQuay St. off Cty. Rd. #6 Wed: 8:30am-7pm (between Colebrook & Moscow) Fri: 8:30am-4pm RR#3 Yarker, ON K0K 3N0 Sat: 10am-1pm Emergency Service By Appointment

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Enter the

and WIN $100

Writing Contest

TOPIC: Rural Life

Entry must focus on life in a rural environment in the countryside or village.

Last year’s Writing Contest winners: Isabel Wright and Alyce Gorter.

TIRED OF MAKING THE SAME OLD RECIPES? WANT TO EAT A HEALTHIER DIET? TRY A COOKING CLASS AND LEARN ABOUT NEW FOODS. In this friendly and tranquil setting, you will learn about new foods and create new dishes. Most classes are organized in cook-and-dine style, in which guests gather, prepare the meal, and sit down to eat the various courses created. While providing both food and education, at the same time the class provides an opportunity for guests to relax, enjoy the scenery, and socialize with others over shared interests.

Contest Rules: Two categories: Teens (13 – 18) or Adults (19 +) Submit a piece of ORIGINAL writing in any genre: fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction (essay or memoir) no more than 750 words in length.

Only one entry per person.

Contest open only to residents of Lennox & Addington, and Frontenac Counties.

Submissions must include a completed entry form and must follow one of two formats: a. Digital copy of the submission is to be emailed to: stonemills.scoop@gmail.com Format: Include a cover page with writer’s name, title of the piece and word count.

Submission is to be double-spaced for prose, single-spaced for poetry.

Please use Microsoft Word, Times Roman script, 12 pt. ** Do not put your name on the manuscript pages. b. Hard copy of the submission is to be mailed to: The Scoop Writing Contest, 482 Adair Road, Tamworth, ON, K0K 3G0.

Format: Send two typed copies of the entry, printed on 81/2 x 11 paper, one side only, double-spaced for prose, single-spaced for poetry.

Include a separate cover page with writer’s name and title of the piece. ** Do not put your name on the manuscript pages No hand-written copies will be accepted!

Gluten-Free, Sugar Free Baking – Saturday April 6 & Thursday April 11 Cooking with Quinoa – Saturday, April 13 Thai Dinner Cuisine – Saturday, April 20 Asian Vegetarian Dinner – Saturday, April 27 Mexican Cuisine Dinner II – Saturday, May 11 Sushi Class – Thursday, May, 16 Southwest Finger Foods – Thursday, May 23 & Saturday May 25 Loving Lentils – Thursday, June 6 & Saturday June 8 Indian Cuisine – Thursday, June 20 Fish on the Grill – Saturday June 22

Deadline for final submission is May 1, 2013 Late submissions, and submissions that are incomplete will not be accepted.

Prizes will be awarded on the basis of originality and quality of writing. There will be one winner in each category. Each winning writer will receive $100. The winning submissions will be published in the June-July issue of The Scoop and on The Scoop website at thescoop.ca. A photograph of the winners will be published in The Scoop as well.

Only the winners will be contacted before the publication of the June-July issue of The Scoop.

The SCOOP Writing Contest is Sponsored by the TECDC The Tamworth/Erinsville Economic Development Committee

Pat’s Kitchen is located in a log home on Hambly Lake in Hartington, Ontario - just 20 minutes north of Kingston.

Check our website for a full description of the classes.

ENTRY FORM

Please complete and attach to submission.

TO REGISTER: 613-374-1366 OR info@patskitchen.ca

www.patskitchen.ca

Category (select one): TEENS

 Age ___ / ADULTS  Age ___

Title of Submission _________________________________________

OPEN: Mon. - Fri. 8 - 7 Sat. 8 - 6 Sun. 11 - 5

Word Count ______________________________________________ Name ___________________________________________________ Mailing Address ___________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

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