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September 12, 2013 | 80 pages
OPP hires from within for county commander
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By DESMOND DEVOY
Events – The annual Terry Fox Run will take place Sunday, Sept. 15 at Conlon Farm in Perth. Registration kicks off at 8:45 a.m. and runs to 10:15 a.m. with children’s activities, a barbecue, door prizes and a silent auction. There will be a bicycle, rollerblade and wheelchair accessible route of 5km and 10km distances around Perth. The event officially starts at 10:30 a.m. Email Susan Whyte swhyte@ finneganinsurance.ca
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Quilt of many colours provides plenty of green Events – An Aug. 11 raffle for a donated quilt raised more than $3,000 for Community Living Lanark County. Standing outside of their Gore Street East location, showing off the beautiful quilt on Thursday, Sept. 5 are, from left, Tania Burns, facilitator with Community Living, client Jackie Barr, quilt winner Anne Munroe, and Anna Cornel, outreach coordinator for the Lanark County Quilter’s Guild. About 40 people worked on the quilt in total, and Munroe had a chance to try out the quilt the night before, when the temperature dipped down to the single digits overnight.
Middleville Fair welcomes visitors for one-day agricultural adventure
The Perth Jr. B Blue Wings are hosting their home opener on Friday night. — Page P15
By LAURIE WEIR ljweir@metroland.com
Events – If you’re looking for something to do on Saturday, check out the Middleville Fair. One of the longest-running agricultural fairs in Lanark County, the gates open at 10 a.m. on Sept. 14 and welcomes hundreds of visitors through to about 8 p.m. “We have some new and exciting things this year,” says Audrey Kostaszek, the secretary-treasurer, who has been with the fair board for five years now. Prior to this, she spent 18 years with the Almonte Fair, a three-day event. “This (Middleville Fair) is a lot of fun, and even though there are no rides, we do have a lot of children’s activities like games and crafts,” she says. “It’s a total agricultural experience.” This year’s pumpkin theme is encouraged to be adapted to entries in the home crafter’s exhibits. Kids are also going to have fun with pumpkin races, adds Kostaszek. “We have a new event this year called the veggie races and we encourage kids to put wheels on a pumpkin and race it down a ramp,” she explains. “It should be a lot of fun.” About 10 vendors will be on site so visitors can help support local farmers by purchasing produce
and crafts. Demonstrations of rope making will be taking place, as will sheep shearing, blacksmithing, and a farrier demo. “We will have a gentleman on site doing horseshoe demonstrations, which is new this year. I think that’s much more interesting than watching a horse running in circles around a track,” she says with a laugh. The popular children’s scavenger hunt will take place again this year with cash and prizes for the top three finishers. A kids’ teddy bear picnic is another popular attraction. A pet show will be on tap at 11 a.m. along with judging of cattle, pigs, chickens and sheep. The hall will be open to check out the exhibitors. Musical entertainment will be performed by Barry and Jude with special guest, Ray Adams. And what fair is complete without some good eats? The always-popular ham and bean luncheon will be on tap at 11 a.m. and a turkey dinner will begin at 4:30 p.m. “It’s a great little one-day fair,” says Kostaszek. “You can learn a lot, see a lot and see your friends.” For a detailed events’ listing, visit www.middlevillefair.ca
News – Just as everything changed on 9/11, so too did everything change quickly for Derek Needham, the new detachment commander for the Lanark County OPP, just last week. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the then Staff Sergeant sat before an interviewing committee as one of the candidates to replace outgoing Insp. Gerry Salisbury, who had been the detachment commander for 16 years before announcing his retirement. By the next day, an OPP press release went out announcing that Needham was to be Salisbury’s replacement. Needham was still on vacation, and would take up his position on Monday, Sept. 9. And you thought you had a lot of work waiting for you when you got back to the office after vacation. “I was thrilled to have the confidence and support of the staff,” said Needham of the decision. As one enters Needham’s office, the first imposing image that meets one’s eyes is a blown up, mounted image of the front page of the 9/11 edition of The Record from Bergen, New Jersey, of three emergency workers raising the red, white, and blue at Ground Zero on the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. “It’s a reminder of the reasons why we do some of the things we do,” said Needham, settling down in a seat beside the iconic image of that terrible day 12 years ago this week. “It represents a turning point in a lot of ways, to law enforcement, to how we do business.” Needham had only been on the job as an OPP officer for a few years at that point, and the memories of that day still stick with officers who were on the job that day. A native of Kanata, he first served in Morrisburg for a year, before moving to Arnprior for five years, then a five-year posting as a sergeant in Kirkland Lake, before moving to Perth in May of 2009. Looking back over his elementary school records now, he
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Derek Needham, new Lanark OPP detachment commander. admits that it was not surprising that he chose policing as his career. “I was about five,” when he knew, he said during an interview this past Monday. “‘Policeman’ was (written) there quite often,” as his career of choice, even after other boys and girls had abandoned the notion. But, unlike others for whom policing is their life’s dream, he did not act on the idea until he was in his 20s. “I wasn’t 20 or 19 coming out of high school,” said Needham. Instead of taking police foundations, he went to Carleton University where he studied economics, before applying to the OPP and taking up police training. Once he graduated, “Dad was pretty proud,” even more so since no other family members had sought out a career with the police. While never taking anything for granted, Needham admitted that Salisbury had succession planning on his mind for some years before his retirement. “You have to make sure that when you walk out the door that there was someone competent to take over,” said Needham, who would often accompany Salisbury to police service board meetings across the county, or even act in his stead when Salisbury was away. See OPP page P4
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