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The Queen Elizabeth School held an afternoon and an evening Christmas concert on Monday, Dec. 18, to the delight of many parents, family and friends in the audience. Here, Harper Coutts waves hello to family in the audience before the start of the concert.

The Table Community Food Centre is the charity of choice for the annual Perth Royal Canadian Legion’s Polar Plunge on Jan. 1, as they strive to break Lanark County Interval House’s 2017 record for plungers and donations.

Plungers recognize that no matter how good a cause, jumping into the icy waters of the Tay is not for everyone. There are however, people of all ages who will be jumping and who are starting to get excited for the big day.

One of the most excited is Gerrie Baker, an avid participant, volunteer and supporter of The Table. She often comes to The Table’s Community Meals with her daughter and grandchildren. Baker describes herself as a happy senior citizen. Before she got involved with The Table, Baker was an organic farmer outside of Westport. For many years she tended the soil, growing an appreciation for real food and its positive effects on the community. When Baker was no

longer able to farm, she was happy to forge a new connection with food and the community by participating in activities at The Table.

“I love to volunteer with my friends and continue to share my passion for accessible healthy food.

I feel the people at The Table are an extension of my family,” she said.

Baker is jumping in the Perth Polar Bear Plunge with her family and friends to support the amazing work at The Table.

“I am not stopping until I have eight pledge sheets filled out, line by line. I believe that if I can jump into ice cold water on New Year’s Day, then anyone can!”

Breakfast at the Perth Royal Canadian Legion begins at 8 a.m. and plunging will start soon after the safety meeting at 10 a.m. It’s $25 minimum pledges to take part.

Awards will be presented at 11 a.m.

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The Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust (MMLT) is delighted that donations received by the Big Creek campaign to mid-December represent approximately 80 per cent of the $48,500 needed for the acquisition and future stewardship of the Byrne Big Creek Nature Preserve.

This exceptional property was bequeathed to the MMLT by the late Joel Byrne who was a strong supporter of the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) and the Macnamara Field Naturalists Club.

Longtime friend of Joel Byrne, MVFN member Cliff Bennett spoke for many when he said that the generous response from donors is testimony to the high regard in which Joel was held.

“The campaign also offers an opportunity for many new residents in the area to learn about the important work done by the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust to secure ecologically significant lands for the enjoyment of future generations. So in a way, Joel continues to donate and to educate,”

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Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust’s Big Creek campaign for the acquisition and future stewardship of the Byrne Creek Nature Preserve is at nearly 80 per cent of its goal of $48,500. Above, a shot of Big Creek looking downstream. said Bennett.

“The Byrne Big Creek Nature Preserve is an ecologically significant property,” said Cathy Keddy, a noted ecologist and chair of MMLT’s ecological stewardship committee.

“Just a brief survey revealed that it provides habitat for 19 plant species of significance in Lanark County and likely many more. The floating wetland, hardwood forest and soft maple swamp are a few of the property’s highlights. Joel’s great gift to the land trust ensures that this biodiverse prop-

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The Mississippi Square Dance Club is preparing for its 29th annual Halfway Dance Saturday, Jan. 13 at Notre Dame Catholic High School in Carleton Place. Participants come from across the region, including Carleton Place, Almonte, Perth, Smiths Falls and Lanark.

Above, dancers take over the school’s gymnasium during last year’s dance.

Mississippi Squares prepare for Halfway Dance Jan. 13 Mississippi Squares Dance Club is a registered nonprofit, volunteer-run organization that was formed in 1986.

The 100-plus members come from a large area surrounding Carleton Place, including

Almonte, Arnprior, Lanark, Perth, Smiths Falls, Richmond, Stittsville and all communities in between. The club has one of the best callers and teachers in eastern Ontario — Brian Crawford.

The annual Halfway Dance has been held in early January for the past 29 years. This year’s event is set for Saturday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at See DANCE page 5

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Several ways to ‘tree-cycle’ your used Christmas tree While your discarded Christmas tree may look sad and bare without the lights and ornaments lying on the snowbank, it is getting ready for its next tree-cycling act. Christmas trees are 100 per cent biodegradable and there are many ways to give your tree a second life this post-holiday season.

Most municipalities in Ontario have curbside pickups or dropoff depots for your used tree.

Each year, the 100,000 Christmas trees collected in Toronto are chipped into 3,700 tonnes of mulch used as compost in city parks. When it comes time to recycling your tree, bring it to the curb, and keep your stand, ornaments, tinsel and lights so they can be reused next year.

In some places like the Royal Botanical Gardens near Hamilton, discarded trees are placed streamside to armour the banks against erosion of waterways and creeks, and provide habitat for fish and wildlife. The Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington last year picked up more than 3,000 trees which were mulched for local naturalization projects.

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Attendance during the past few years has been in the mid300s. Dancers come from the 33 dance clubs members of the Eastern Ontario Square and Round Dance Association and from clubs in upstate New York.

The title, halfway, is due to the fact that new dancers who began dancing in September will be halfway through learning the 52 steps in the basic program. The club callers co-ordinate among themselves to insure that all new dancers are at the same level the objective being that everyone has a memorable experience. This will be the first time that they will have an opportunity to attend a large, multi-club event.

The venue for the halfway dance will include a separate hall for dancers who have completed the basic program as well as oth-

er dancers. Two other halls will be dedicated to dancers who are at higher levels, basically mainstream, plus and rounds. The evening ends with buffet where the more than 300 attendees are treated to wide verity sandwiches, savories, deserts and refreshments, all provided by club members. This is a very efficiently run feast to behold.

Modern square dancing provides people of all ages an opportunity to have fun, forget their troubles, make new friends, get exercise and feel good about mastering something new in the company of helpful, friendly people who just want to dance.

Dancing is set to modern music and the caller weaves directions for the dancers into the music.

These easy-to-follow calls are repeated in each dance, so a dancer soon learns to respond in a synchronized way with the other dancers in a square. According to a Mayo Clinic study, dancing can burn as many calories as walk-

ing, swimming or riding a bicycle. Square dancing, in particular, is a low-impact activity requiring constant movement and quick directional changes, which help keep the body in shape — heart rate increases, muscles strengthen, balance improves and mindbody coordination sharpens. In fact, research studies show that dancing is also good for the brain.

No previous dance experience is necessary. Both couples and single people easily join in.

Angels (experienced dancers) are always available to get singles up on the dance floor. The dance season is in two semesters: September to December and then January to April.

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he Ministry of Health and Long Term Care recently announced that the lifesaving drug naloxone will be made available to police and fire services through the Ontario naloxone program.

New Ontario data is showing a continued increase in opioid related deaths.

There were 336 opioid-related deaths in Ontario from May to July 2017, compared with 201 during the same time period in 2016, representing a 68 per cent increase.

From January to November 2017 in the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark area there have been 436 emergency room visits related to opioids compared to 390 in 2016.

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The Leeds Grenville Lanark District Health Unit will continue to provide training and start to distribute naloxone to eligible fire and police services as requested.

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elebrating on New Year’s Eve that year was out.

The year before, Mother’s efforts to bring in the new year with a family party turned into a complete disaster, with Father standing in the stairwell ordering us all to bed long before the clock struck midnight, or there would be hell to pay!

That evening, the year before, started out well enough, but when someone suggested ‘musical chairs’ and the brothers broke the leg off a kitchen chair in the race for a seat, and the roars could be heard in Renfrew. Mother wasn’t taking any chances on a repeat performance.

No, that year there would be no party. But we would welcome in the new year by sitting around the kitchen table, each with a piece of foolscap in front of us. Mother

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decided it was a good idea if we all wrote out our New Year’s resolutions. I have no idea why she bothered, because the ones we wrote out the day after the party fiasco were forgotten almost before the ink was dry on the paper. But Mother was determined we would do something to mark the ending of one year, and the beginning of another.

My sister Audrey said Mother figured not much could go wrong with just sitting around the kitchen table. We were to number our resolutions, and put the most important one first. Since I had yet to learn to write, it took me forever to print what behaviour I planned on changing in the year ahead.

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School. She was the bane of my existence, and I doubted the resolution would last long unless bad Marguirite herself was planning on changing. But I printed it out anyway.

I would also try to eat everything Mother put on the table, and that included blood pudding, head cheese and liver. I gagged just thinking about it, and was pretty sure that was one resolution that wouldn’t last long.

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shared a bed, and she hated when I put my cold feet on her legs, and vowed she was going to go downstairs and sleep on the couch in the kitchen if I didn’t stop, I figured she would be pleased when she heard what I had printed on my paper. I would, ever after, refrain from the habit.

I was running out of ideas. And then it came to me. I never did get much out of the church service.

I had no idea what the minister was talking about. The little room where we had Sunday School was full of pictures of Jesus, and every one had Him looking sad or mad, and whoever decided to teach on Sunday was usually someone my sister Audrey’s age, who didn’t know much more about the bible than I did. I would force myself to pay attention to her and to the min-

ister, and give up looking out the window, or counting the boards in the wainscotting down the wall beside our pew. And I would really concentrate when it came prayer time.

And then it hit me. Every Sunday I would take a penny out of my knotted hanky and put it on the collection plate. I finished printing the last word ... I couldn’t spell collection, so I just printed ‘plate’. I looked over my list, and then I reread the last sentence … ‘a penny on the plate’. I thought of all I could buy from the candy counter at Briscoes’ General Store for a penny, and scratched it out. I was glad Mother said our lists would be private ... we didn’t have to show them to anyone. For that I was grateful, because I was pretty sure my scratching out my last entry

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Sole Sisters deliver $9,000 for patients and research Sole Sisters, Sheila Coutts and France Murdoch, made stops in Perth this month to deliver some special funds raised by participants of their annual walk and run for cancer research.

The pair delivered a cheque for $5,000 to the Perth Great War Memorial Hospital Foundation (GWMHF) and one for $4,000 to the Perth office of the Canadian Cancer Society.

The funds come from the efforts of the hundreds of runners and walkers who took part in the organization’s annual run this past October.

Their first stop was the Perth site of the Perth and Smiths Falls Memorial Hospital where a donation of $5,000 was made to the GWMHF to be used for the hospital’s new Chemotherapy Clinic.

Margot Halam, GWMHF executive director said, “We’re thrilled, because without this funding we’re not able to bring and continue with the services and the support that we can for this unit. It’s really needed and we’ve seen how much their support in the past has helped us out and we look forward to working with them in the future.”

The pair then made their way to the Canadian Cancer Society’s office where they presented the cheque for $4,000 to Toby James. In the past the

cancer society has said that it is efforts like those of the Sole Sisters that allow them to continue the fight against the disease. The money donated will go to research.

After the presentations, Murdoch said, “We would like to send our deepest gratitude to all the participants, volunteers, organizers, and of course our sponsors, without whom none of this would be possible.

Together we can make a difference and change the lives of people affected by cancer.

We are deeply touched by the generosity of our communities and look forward to having our participants join us again next year.”

Coutts was equally grateful. “What happens when people put on their sneakers, band together, go for a walk or run followed by breakfast on a chilly third Sunday morning in October?” she asked. “Friendships strengthen, smiles and laughter, tears and memories, faith, hope, and healing of hearts. We thank all who supported the Sole Sisters event this year.

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Margot Halam (GWM Hospital) Sheila Coutts and France Murdoch (Sole Sisters) and PSFDH Chemotherapy Unit Nurse Michelle Wells were on hand for a $5,000 cheque presentation from the October event in Smiths Falls.

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Perth town council has given its approval for a plan to bring a mental health nurse to the OPP detachment on Highway 7.

Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, Dec. 19, to approve the plan, put forward by Coun. Jim Graff, chair of the town’s police services board, for the PSB to apply for a proceeds of crime grant to bring a mental health nurse to work out of the Lanark County OPP detachment headquarters in Perth.

Graff promised council that the costs would be “negligible” to the town. He added that a mental health nurse would be used in situations “where a police officer isn’t necessarily trained to deal with a mental health issue … (the way) a mental health nurse is.” With a nurse in the building, “you don’t have to have a strongarmed officer dealing with an issue,” Graff said. A mental health nurse could be helpful in “stabilizing certain situations. It’s more of a front-line defusing the situation,” he said.

The nurse would not be an OPP employee, but would fall under the auspices of Lanark County Mental Health.

“This is a great, great endeavour,” said Mayor John Fenik. When mental health cases are not dealt with properly, they tie up police and health care time and resources, he said. By providing people with the mental health care that they need, when police are called, “we are saving a whole lot of manpower,” so that the police can hand the case over to a professional right away, Fenik said.

Coun. Jim Boldt said that he wanted to ask the question that “begs to be asked,” in that the OPP is “well suit-

ed to handle anything that comes along,” from drunk driving to marine units to canine units. With that in mind, “Why does the OPP not have mental health specialists in the field already? ... I’m surprised they don’t.”

“It’s the expense,” in part, explained Graff. The OPP is “trying to operate within a tight budget.”

“This is an evolution.

It’s the start of something good,” said Fenik.

Coun. Judy Brown said that she supported the idea, but was frustrated that “it’s deplorable how few mental health resources there are in this part of the country."

Fenik said that it was up to Lanark County OPP detachment commander Insp.

Derek Needham to work with the nurse as to how best to deploy him or her.

“Let’s get the money and then figure out the best way (forward),” said Fenik.

Under the wire The grant application was due on Friday, Dec. 22.

The Perth police services board passed the motion approving the grant application unanimously on the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 20.

Details obtained by The Perth Courier reveal that the application is for two years worth of funding, to the tune of about $100,000 per year.

“The total request from the ministry is $197,700,” according to the report presented within the meeting minutes. “The total project budget is $259,608.14.

The balance is in cash and in-kind contributions from partners.”

The project will be called the “Lanark County Enhanced Crisis Response,” pilot project, and is “a collaboration between Lanark County OPP, Lanark County Mental Health, and the Lanark County Situation Table.”

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Applicants are invited to submit covering letters and resumes no later than Thursday January 4, 2018 at 12:00 noon to the attention of Pierce Olynyk, Payroll Administrator, Corporation of the Town of Perth, 80 Gore Street East, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1H9, or via e-mail payroll@perth.ca, or may submit an application at www.perth.ca/townhall/employment

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Past haunts us still: Author discusses past decisions shaping today’s Canada

BY DESMOND DEVOY

desmond.devoy@metroland.com

The past is still with us.

Even in works of “dramatized history” we can still see the decisions of yesterday shaping the country we live in today; how Canada deals with the First Nations peoples, why Ottawa is our capital, and even why the Rideau Canal runs through the communities it does.

David Mulholland is author of the new book Chaudiere Falls: A Novel of Dramatized History and has similar titles to his name — McNab and Duel — described as “a dramatization of the duel between Robert Lyon and John Wilson (in) Perth, Upper Canada, June 13, 1833.”

Mulholland was the guest speaker at the Probus Club of Perth’s monthly meeting at the Royal Canadian Legion hall in Perth on Wednesday, Dec. 6.

Mulholland came to novel writing a little later in life. Born in Arnprior, he later moved to Ottawa and became a copy writer. He also worked for CBC Radio and television, before moving in to the Ottawa Citizen as a music critic and reporter. In 1978, he struck out on his own to become a freelance writer, as well as standup comedian, at the Ottawa Yuk Yuks branch.

In 2001, he began publishing his dramatized historical novels.

“My research is quite out front … with key dates” used in the storyline, he explained, though there are fictional characters whose lives intertwine with real events. One of the fictional characters in the book is Jedediah Jensen, around the time of the settlement of Bytown, later Ottawa, starting in 1800. Many were Unit-

ed Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, who were rewarded for their loyalty to the Crown with land in what remained of British North America.

With memories of the upheaval in the former 13 colonies still fresh in their minds — and later, the War of 1812 even more to the forefront — the decision was made to build the Rideau Canal, to provide “a safe supply route from Montreal to Kingston,” said Mulholland, because of the belief that “it was only a matter of time before the Americans attacked again.”

Some of the workers who built the canal were Irish navvies who had helped build the Erie Canal in Pennsylvania along with French-Canadian workers and other European builders; their language was, shall we say, a little rough.

“In order to write a realistic story,” he said, some of the dialogue in his novel was, admittedly, a little salty, but “that’s how people talked.

“I don’t want to offend,” he said, so, “I brought my own bleeper!” he said, holding up a red horn.

Col. John By probably had reason to swear a bit himself, when he was recalled to London to account for cost overruns on the canal project.

It was not the first time a new government would have problems with a costly infrastructure project proposed by the previous administration — and would not be the last. In this instance, the Whig party had swept to power, replacing the Conservatives who had given the green light to the canal project in the first place.

“The Brits paid for this whole thing (the canal),” said Mulholland. “There was no provincial government money that went into this,” and the Whigs were opposed to this level of expen-

Author David Mulholland, seen here before his speech at the Probus Club of Perth’s monthly meeting at the Royal Canadian Legion on Wednesday, Dec. 6, has a new historical fiction novel based in and around the Chaudiere Falls in Ottawa.

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diture. There were “irregularities,” because the work was done in the depths of the Canadian wilderness, and the stress of having to defend his work on the canal likely contributed to his death. By had a major stroke in January of 1836, and by Feb. 1, he had died.

Capital fight Meanwhile, back in Upper Canada, some of the scenes in his novel set in the modern-day Lowertown/ByWard Market area “made the American west seem tame. I was amazed.” After the completion of the canal, there was suddenly a large contingent of unemployed labourers in

Bytown.

“They wreaked havoc in downtown,” said Mulholland. Many of the workers “had never seen the inside of a classroom,” he said. There were frequent brawls which spilled out into the street, and Mulholland promised readers that, after reading his based-on-real-life scenes from the bars, “you’ll never look at Rideau Street the same way again.”

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the Irish “this slight, like all slights to the Irish, will not be forgot,” Mulholland wrote.

“I have an imagination. It’s not that good,” he admitted. But, “I didn’t make this scene up.”

While there were dust-ups in the sawdust-strewn taverns, in the halls of government, things could be just as tense. The Governor General of British North America from 1843-45, Baron Charles Metcalfe, “pretty much ran the show. This caused a lot of issues.” Unlike today’s more ceremonial governor generals, Metcalfe “quarrelled” with his executive council.

“He was not a figurehead,” he said

of Metcalfe.

One of the big debates at the time was where the new capital was to be, with Bytown seldom topping the list and Montreal and Kingston being the top choices.

“The politics in this thing is dramatic, as dramatic as any politics today,” he said.

During the political unrest of the late 1840s, the parliament buildings in Montreal were burned down.

“Had the parliament buildings not been burned down, it’s quite likely (that) today, Montreal would be the capital,” of Canada, he said. The debate raged on, with one compromise suggesting that the capital alternate,

every four years, between Quebec City and Toronto.

“You can imagine what a bureaucratic nightmare that would be,” he said.

In time, by Dec. 18, 1854, Lord Elgin granted assent that Bytown should become Canada’s capital, even though, in some rounds of voting, Quebec City topped the polls — and Bytown was at the bottom of the list.

But it was Queen Victoria using “the royal prerogative,” that saw Bytown become the capital.

“But that wasn’t the end of it,” said Mulholland. “The history is not really past. It is what brought us here today.”

First Nations land

One example of this are relations between European settlers and First Nations peoples. In his book, one scene takes place on March 8, 1800, as the two sides sit down to discuss land rights. And both sides, in a way, are still talking today, about the same subject.

“For anyone who thinks history is irrelevant, we are still dealing with this issue today,” said Mulholland.

Even down at the Chaudiere Falls itself, condo developers are in a bit of a standoff with the Algonquin First Nation about using lands in that area.

“Whatever ones position on this, we are still dealing with this today,” he said.

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Author David Mulholland.

The book took him eight years to compile, which included writing, editing and researching, “but I love doing it. It’s not a burden. It’s a labour of love.”

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Stewarts receive Christmas miracle for young son who suffers from SMA

BY LAURIE WEIR

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Eddie and Jenna Stewart were hoping for a Christmas miracle … and they got one.

On Monday, Dec. 18, after battling back and forth with their insurance company for months, they received word that their son, Mason, now eight years old, has qualified for a previously-denied drug, Spinraza.

Mason has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and the family has been fighting for his life since he was diagnosed with Type 3 SMA in 2011. Spinraza could help slow, if not stop the disease in its tracks.

The Lanark County family, who operate Little Rock Farm just outside Smiths Falls, has hosted events for SMA throughout Mason’s young life. Jenna is also on the Cure SMA Canada board of directors. They have a younger son, Casey, just under a year of age. He was tested and does not have SMA. “Mason is desperate for Spinraza,” Jenna said in a heartbreaking Facebook post earlier this week.

If you have been following this family’s journey, Mason’s story may be familiar to you.

“We have been in a big struggle with our insurance company … There is an advocate group called SMA 360

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Mason visits with Santa.

and they have been helping us fight this battle along with Mason’s neurologist (Dr. Hugh McMillan, who is absolutely amazing),” Jenna wrote.

Her insurance company doesn’t think they should cover this drug for Mason if it’s administered via a government funded facility (like a hospital where it would be the safest for Mason) because then it should be OHIP’s bill to pay, she wrote.

“They told us if we found a private clinic to do it where our neurologist would go and administer this drug they would ‘reconsider’ Mason’s application. Well, our neurologist worked his butt off and actually found a clinic that would host Mason and let him come in and administer the drug!”

The Stewarts resubmitted their

claim and on Monday, they received word that the drug would be covered.

Before this “Christmas miracle” was realized, an acquaintance of Jenna’s, Kaitlin Watson from Perth, also took to Facebook and reached out to the insurance company, which generated some interest on the part of the company.

Watson started with a plea to read her post.

“I just read a very heartbreaking story that involves your company.

I am not saying this as an attack on the company, but simply with pure disappointment. Up until this point, I had heard good things about this company, being familiar with your mission statement, you are known for taking the utmost pride in customer care. However, as to recently, you have left hearts broken, leaving a child in a state of suffering,” she wrote.

Watson explained Mason’s situation and his daily struggles while living with SMA and having a treatment available that the insurance company denied.

“This sweet, young boy has been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a very rare and serious (neuromuscular) disorder. This boy has faced more struggles than any child should ever be troubled with. Now, he has been faced with a denial of treatment from representatives from your company.

Somehow, this child has fallen through the cracks of our health care system.”

Watson asked the insurance company to open their eyes and heart and be the difference.

When contacted by this newspaper, the Stewarts’ insurance provider, SunLife Financial, said that due to privacy issues, they couldn’t comment directly on Mason’s claim.

“Thanks again for reaching out on this,” wrote Kim Armstrong, manager with media and public relations with SunLife Financial’s Toronto office in an email to this newspaper. “We are aware of Mason's case and we sympathize with the Stewart family. Although we can't discuss the details of any specific client for privacy reasons, our Client Care team has reached out to the Stewart family to discuss the circumstances of their claim.”

Mason’s story Mason has Type 3 SMA. There are different types of this disease, and everyone is affected differently. Mason is ambulatory but SMA will soon rob him of that, his mom explained.

“Mason is very limited to his mobility. He has a scooter and a manual wheelchair for long distances or for when his legs are just tired. Mason loves sports and speaks frequently about playing them when he grows up,” Jenna said.

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Currently there is no cure for SMA. Created by a drug company called Biogen, Spinraza is a drug that can’t fix the dead neurons Mason has, but it can give strength to the weak ones, and perhaps make them stronger. “It could stop SMA in its tracks,” Jenna said. “It was a very big deal when we got this news (in June this year).

Jenna said they applied to their insurance company soon after realizing the drug was available. They were denied in August.

When she got the news today, Jenna was at a loss for words. “We honestly think it’s all because of you ... every person who took the time to like, share or comment on our post,” she wrote on her Cure SMA at Little Rock Farm Facebook page. “Social media can be a horrible thing but it can also be wonderful and bring people together. Words are not enough right now.”

Jenna did thank SunLife Financial for their support, and Mason’s neurologist.

“Makes me feel so much better,” she said in a Facebook messenger exchange Monday night. “They are going to let Mason get the drug at CHEO.” The drug costs $125,000 per injection. All but $900 per year will be covered by their insurance company.

Jenna said they are still working on dates to get Mason started on this new treatment.

OPINION

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The Revolutions of 2018

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ell, here we are on the cusp of a new year. With that comes the annual Making of the Revolutions, which most of the time aren’t really very revolutionary at all.

Still. We must try. And we over here very much like making lists and setting goals, and then remaking the lists and adjusting the goals, and etc.

I actually was, for the most part, quite fond of 2017. A lot of that is because I really like the number 17. Seventeen is the age when I felt that the world was at my doorstep and I was invincible and I was ready to go and conquer it. Or something.

The year I was 17 (1987) was the year U2 released The Joshua Tree, which has been an enduring soundtrack for me and many of my peeps.

Back then, all my parts were in good functioning order. Those were happy times.

In 2017, I got to see my favourite band in concert as part of the special Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour. I knew all the words.

I wore ear plugs to that concert for the first time to protect my hearing because 2017 marks the year I became officially half deaf. I got my first hearing aid.

I also had my first knee surgery. It’s not likely to be the last.

Yes, I’m 47, not 97.

This year I earned my orange belt in karate. As I carefully observe the activities of the senior belts, I wonder if my body will continue to let me play long enough to become one.

I flew far away with my daughter to the Excited States of America and watched her compete in an international gymnastics competition.

My son surpassed me in height, and I am not short. I continue to marvel at the young man he is becoming.

And I continued to have the privilege of working with some incredible people who do great things for the community.

At the start of 2017, I pledged to do four things: 1. Continue to work at things and to play with people who make my heart sing.

2. Work on fixing the broken body parts and stay healthy so I can do those aforementioned things.

3. Breathe.

4. Be kind.

Throughout the year, I moaned and

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griped about my various afflictions. I provided progress reports in this space on all the wonderful self-improvement things I was trying to do to keep myself well and fit, but I fell off that wagon a lot. I drank tea to help me breathe.

It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the negative in this world. Heck knows there’s enough to go around. There are a lot of battles out there to be fought, if you choose to think of everything as a battle. Sometimes you have to stand back, take a breath, look at the bigger picture and decide whether it is better to engage or walk away.

More than anything this year I think I have learned the importance of breathing and accepting. I’m still not terribly good at it, but if I’m going to navigate this planet and keep my head from popping off my shoulders, it’s going to need to be a focus. That’s important because my body is proving to be increasingly unreliable and it’s not outside of the realm of possibility that my head might actually pop off.

So, we persevere. We do our best to do our best. Take a deep breath before diving, but try not to be afraid to dive.

There are many things we can all do – in big ways and small – to make the world a better, kinder place, but don’t let the battles wear you down.

I think for 2018 I’ll keep working on the resolutions from 2017, but I’ll change the order a bit.

Breathe goes first. It’s just like the instructions you get in the airplanes – if things go awry, get your own oxygen in place so you have the capacity to help others.

Then comes kindness. When you take a breath and look around before you speak or act, it makes kindness easier.

Then come the heart singing and part fixing resolutions, which should all be easier to do when one is in the right frame of mind.

I’ve also learned it’s important to keep lists of resolutions small, especially if you insist on continually writing about them in the newspaper.

Happy New Year, everyone!

40 years in the making

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Brownlee’s Metro in Perth are joyfully distributing 48 baskets this year to celebrate 40 years in business.

The Brownlee’s Metro family basket program was started 40 years ago by Ron Brownlee and Pat Loftus and has grown each year since. Pat Loftus, Arlene Nagle, Lisa Beamish, Brent and Avis Brownlee are instrumental in putting this all together. They thank customers, staff, suppliers and friends for their help and generosity. Brent Brownlee and Avis Brownlee wish to thank their great community and faithful customers for 40 years.

‘Taking the light from the door’ at Christmas

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don’t remember the song – but I’ll never forget who sang it.

Whenever someone asks me what my favourite Christmas memory is my mind shoots right back to Christmas morning, 1983.

Yes, it was the Christmas, if I remember correctly, that I received my Winnie the Pooh train set, but that’s actually secondary.

I woke up to the sound of my mother singing. I can remember waking up in my room, peering out into the hallway. All I could hear was her sweet voice coming from somewhere in the house.

Whenever I’m feeling sad, I just remember her singing.

If you were to sing the song again to me, I probably couldn’t identify it. But I will always remember how my late mother filled any house, any room, with her presence – usually for the best.

Yes, she could be a commanding presence. As a teenager, I was trying

DESMOND DEVOY Des Says to have a chat with my younger sister Dympna. Nothing major, but neither was it inconsequential either. We were in the living room, and then, from the other side of the house, my mother began talking to my brother Kieran.

And my talk had to end. Her voice filled the room. We had to take our conversation elsewhere.

Other times, she could surprise us.

Even though her adopted mother was a servant in a more upscale mansion in south County Dublin, and her father was a bus driver, she had a more upper middle class upbringing than my father.

We were watching Roberto Benigni’s 1997 movie Life is Beautiful. During

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the scene at the opera house, I thought the sound system had suddenly kicked into stereo – then I turned around and saw my mother singing along to the song on the screen, “Barcarolle,” from Jacques Offenbach’s opera, The Tales of Hoffmann.

It’s at Christmastime that I miss my mother the most. I see my daughters rushing for their presents in the morning, and wish that she could be there to share in the moment. She would have “doted” on them.

They say you can never come home again – but boy, could my mother put on a homecoming. My father took me on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Prague, Czechoslovakia in January of 1992. The details of that trip are a column for another day, but it was a perfect time to go, historically. The Soviet hammer and sickle were still on the sides of the subway cars, and the country was still united, and Soviet

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Jesus is the reason for ... everything!

Last week I participated in an inspiring Advent Liturgy of prayer, video clips and lively Christian music with the students and staff of St. John Catholic High School in Perth.

In his homily Fr. Jan Kusyk highlighted the fact that, although it is true that “Jesus is the reason for the season,” it is also vitally important to realize Jesus is the reason - full stop for everything!

St. Paul expresses this truth beautifully in his Letter to the Colossians: “Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creatures.

In him everything in heaven and on earth was created, things visible and invisible. All were created through him. All were created for him. He is before all else that is. In him everything continues in being (1:15-17).

During these 12 Days of Christmas and far beyond, we Christians rejoice that, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. The

Religion Today FATHER BRIAN McNALLY St. John Catholic Church

word became flesh and lived among us. We have seen his glory, the glory as of the Father›s only son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:1-3,14) St. John then speaks to those who yearn to know God, sometimes so subtly that they themselves don’t even realize it: “No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father›s heart, who has made him known.” (John 1:18) Jesus entered a world darkened by sin, Satan and death. As Son of God and Son of Mary he “makes known” the Father in a very personal, lifechanging way through his birth, life, suffering, death, resurrection and enduring presence in our midst. In reflecting on this truth, the beloved

Pope Saint John Paul II (1920-2005) proclaimed with conviction: “The Word who found a dwelling in Mary’s womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity at Christmas.»

I am praying for each reader of this brief meditation that, as we prepare to enter the Year of the Lord 2018, you will hear the gentle knock of Jesus on your own heart (see Revelation 3:20) and invite him into your heart, home and life. It is my experience that Jesus longs to fill everyone, without exception, with the abundant joy, hope, peace and courage that flow from his loving presence and action in the church and world.

In the midst of a world so often bent on derailing all that is good, loving and holy, I am grateful that Jesus patiently fills, and refills, the hearts and lives of so many with his overflowing grace. Through the Holy Spirit he enables us to renew daily our love, joy and hope, and makes fruitful our efforts to draw others to him, the Saviour of the world and the “reason for everything.”

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Reader appreciates sincerity of Perthites DEAR EDITOR,

Christmastime seems a very appropriate time to pass out some kudos.

Some two weeks ago one of our alarms started beeping. We are still not completely at ease with natural gas, so my husband called 911.

Within minutes two volunteers, Dave Thompson and Shane Rutherford arrived, assured us that it was it was only the battery that died. A little later Jon Wilson, fire prevention officer,

arrived, and installed three fire/carbon monoxide alarms, latest model, guaranteed for 10 years and installed them for us. He was more than gracious.

Then, perhaps a week later, another alarm sounded. We were really surprised, my husband touched one of the new alarms and a voice came on telling us to get out of the house and sit in the car. We placed a call again and a little while later a hazmat truck and then a fire truck arrived. The men

could not at first locate the source — then we found another old alarm in a short and narrow hall leading to the master bedroom, which we did not even know was there. This time my husband bought a new one and managed to install it himself.

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troops had only left a few years earlier.

One night, we were returning to our rented apartment. I was dragging my feet and walking slowly through the darkened streets of Prague.

“What’s the matter son?” my father asked.

“I miss Mammy,” I said. I was to turn 12 later that month, but I wasn’t above admitting it.

Growing up, my mother loved the squeaky-clean British singer Cliff Richard. She had a fan photo of him in her room. She showed me an LP of his 1980 album I’m No Hero.

“Quick, who does this look like?” she asked. I drew a blank.

A little put out, she said, “Your father, of course.”

On one of our last days in Prague, we were in a record shop. With the Berlin Wall having fallen, western music had suddenly flooded into eastern Europe.

And there was a compilation of Cliff’s greatest hits – with lyrics printed on the back in Czech.

My father brought it home to Canada in triumph.

Upon our return, my mother had candles lit throughout the house, as classical music played on the turntable.

She knew of Prague’s connection to classical music, through the associations of Beethoven, Mozart, and Dvorak. A welcome home I’ll never forget, the flickering candle light welcoming me home in the winter darkness, my mother waiting at the door.

Many years later, I came home to Brampton to visit my family. I

remember it being the last time I ever really came home for Christmas – there were my mother and father in her condo’s kitchen, with Irish dance hall music on the CD (it was the song “The Hucklebuck,” I believe, by the Irish show band, The Royal Show Band, and its lead singer, Brendan Bowyer.)

My parents had separated, but there they were in the kitchen, working on dinner together. There were Christmas decorations up. The warm smells of my mother’s cooking – she was a chef during her working life – filled the condo, and I always love the sight of steam rising off of potatoes for the Christmas dinner, especially if the nearby window is open. Few sights give me as much joy.

A few days ago, I was reading a story about Christmas traditions around the world, from a treasury given to us by a friend of my wife’s who died at the end of November.

When I got to the Irish traditions, I choked up. I paused for a minute as I prepared to read that Irish houses always light a candle in the window on Christmas Eve, to light the way for the Holy Family. Even the Irish White House, in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, home of the republic’s president, always has a candle in the window, legend has it, to welcome Ireland’s dispersed sons and daughters home.

My mother said she loved having us children around. In her words, “you take the light from the door.” Her light has gone out here. But I can’t wait to see her at the door in the next life, a light in the window, and a cup of tea ready and waiting.

Merry Christmas, Mammy.

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New stop signs for Victoria Street, despite ‘low volume’ traffic numbers

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Get ready to make a full and complete stop at the intersection of Victoria and Boulton Streets.

Perth town council’s committee of the whole voted on Tuesday, Dec. 5 to install stop signs at the busy intersection in front of Perth and District Collegiate Institute.

“Essentially, we’re trying to slow traffic down,” said Coun. Jim Boldt.

In a report to council, environmental services director Grant Machan wrote that “two … of the sites were identified in the 2017 Traffic Master Plan (TMP),” but that the “third site that was reviewed may not meet industry warrants for the installation of stop signs, however, due to the intersection being located in a school zone, (PDCI), it is recommended, as a precautionary measure.”

“Even though the traffic warrants do not support the installation of a three-way stop, it is recommended that we err on the side of cau-

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tion and install a three-way stop at these intersections as a precautionary measure.” Environmental Services Director Grant Machan Coun. Jim Graff also applauded the addition of new stop signs near the public high school, but reminded council that “Drummond and Craig Street has been a recurring hot spot,” he said, during the meeting.

The Perth police services board, which Graff chairs, has indeed made recommendations for investigating the above mentioned intersection, as well as Drummond and North Street and the Boulton and Victoria intersection.

Machan’s report admits that Victoria Street “is a low volume area with the primary users being attributed to operations at the high school,” he wrote. Machan looked at three criteria such as vehicle volume exceeding 500 vehicles per hour “per hour for each of any eight hours of the day” (no, as there are often less than 500 vehicles), or volume exceeding more than 200 units per hour for each of the same eight hours (again, no), as well as other criteria which was

A minivan drives through the intersection of Victoria and Boulton streets early in the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 6.

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But the report did find that “people tend to use Victoria Street as a shortcut to avoid using Drummond Street as the proper collector route,” and that with schoolchildren being dropped off by buses and parents, the street presented a unique safety challenge.

“Even though the traffic warrants do not support the installation of a three-way stop, it is recommended that we err on the side of caution and install a three-way stop at these intersections as a precautionary measure,” wrote Machan.

Drummond bedevils The Traffic Master Plan listed the Drummond intersections as “clear deliverables,” with the Drummond/Craig intersection cited as being a concern because of “drivers (who are) ignoring the existing stop sign and the vertical curve of the intersection, which impairs sight lines for drivers leaving Drummond Street and entering Craig,” wrote Machan. Several steps were taken to deal with these problems including: • Installing a “ladder style” crosswalk on Drummond Street; • Installing an extended centre line on Craig Street approaches; • Installing two larger stop signs on Drummond Street; • Installing wider stop bars at the intersection.

As for the Drummond and North Street in-

Connected to Your Community - P10 - Thursday, December 28, 2017

tersection, “the nature of the incidents at this intersection are attributed to (a) failure to stop on North Street at Drummond in both directions,” wrote Machan.

Along with the intersection already having pedestrian crossings painted onto the street, a four-way stop, and even “advanced flasher of ‘Stop Sign Ahead,’” staff went one step further and installed “painted ladder bars on four legs of the intersection,” wrote Machan. He added that the intersection “does not meet the warrant for a signalized intersection.”

Wilson Street woes Coun. Judy Brown asked about the two lanes of traffic heading south on Wilson Street, from roughly north of North Street to Foster Street.

Brown reiterated concerns about through traffic keeping right — only to have trouble merging back into the left-turn lane by traffic which keeps in that lane before the North Street turn, anticipating a turn at Foster. (The right hand lane becomes a “right lane must exit” lane, turning left onto Foster, between North and Foster, further confusing matters.) Machan said that those lanes had been evaluated during the Wilson Street redevelopment in 2010, but no changes were deemed necessary, since “it does reach the standard.”

However, Machan did state that when Wilson is covered with snow, “drivers cannot tell which lane they need to be in.”

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The Notre Dame Warriors defeated St. John Catholic High School Senior Spartans in Perth on Thursday, Dec. 21, by a score of 50-47 in a thrilling, end-of-year game.

Photo submitted by Sierra Toupin

Photo submitted by Sierra Toupin

Tough loss for Spartans to close out 2017

The Notre Dame Warriors look down at the hardwood, while St. John Spartans look down the court during the Dec. 21 Lanark County senior game.

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Please note that this year since the Monday garbage days fall on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, all garbage and recycling for the Township will be picked up on Tuesday, December 26th 2017 and Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018. Please also note that Tuesday garbage pick-up for those weeks proceeds a usual.

The Beckwith Township Office will be closed Friday, December 22nd, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. and will re-open Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.

The Council of the Township of Beckwith cordially invite you to join us celebrate the New Year

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Connected to Your Community - P11 - Thursday, December 28, 2017

Fin, Fur & Feathers open for business in Perth

Breakfast with Santa

The Stewart School held a breakfast with Santa as a treat for students on the morning of Thursday, Dec. 21. Here, Amy Van Der Spank pours pancake batter on the skillet in the school’s kitchen area.

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After many months of hard work we’re pleased to announce that Fin, Fir & Feathers has opened for business.

For those of us who love pets, it has been inconvenient to drive to Ottawa, Brockville or Kingston to purchase a budgie, finch, goldfish, hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig.

These are a few of the birds and animals available at our pet store. We also carry cages and food for our “clients”. With the excellent pet food supply stores in Perth, we are not carrying dog or cat supplies. However, if you’d like to see a large, hairy tarantula up close, look into the eyes of a boa constrictor or perhaps stroke her soft scales, drop in, we’d love to show our exotics to you. Piranhas are on order, curly tail lizards, geckos, and bunnies will soon be here.

Right now our zebra finches are proudly announcing that they are in the maternity ward with eggs to sing about. Our breeding pair of budgies are about to join them for their own population increase. We have both short-haired and teddy bear hamsters, cute black mice, friendly hooded rats, and happy guinea pigs. Our frisky gerbils are always up for a game and love to chew on paper rolls or take a dust bath. Our entire wall of aquariums with live plants and gorgeous tropical fish will enchant all ages. Orange and calico goldfish swim with ryukin and shubunkin, for added variety. Our tetras

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Fin, Fur and Feathers has opened for business just outside Perth. Drop into 2850 Rideau Ferry Road Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or call 613-326-1795 for more information. glow with colour and the betta dance with their tail fins. Busy bronze and pepper catfish zig zag across the gravel. Swordtails flash with bright orange and black and the shy African cichlids dash out of their cave for quick peeps. Who is watching whom? Many thanks to the staff at Home Hardware, Dodds & Erwin, Dwayne White Carpentry, Lazer Elec-

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Family traditions a very important part of Christmas My first column this month was about how little children help make Christmas extra special and how my wife and I are looking forward to having our two young grandchildren with us this holiday season.

Obviously family and friends are particularly important at this wonderful time of year. So too are Christmas traditions. Most families we know have their own traditions which are an integral part of the holiday experience. Gift giving and traditional foods play a central role for many. They certainly do in our house.

Kathleen and I are very fortunate. We come from solid family backgrounds with loving parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins who helped shape our lives.

We continue to lean on each other during good times and bad. Having family and friends who are always there for you is a special

privilege. I lament the fact many people are not as fortunate.

We will spend this Christmas mainly with family including a Christmas Eve get-together at the home of my sister Linda Parisien and her husband Allan in Stittsville. They have four young grand-daughters and with our two grandchildren also in the mix it promises to be a busy – and loud – family Christmas party.

My brother Randy and his wife Mary Lynne will drop in on the way to spend time with her parents in Ottawa. The fourth and youngest sibling in our family, our sister Susan, is spending Christmas with her husband Steve Kroll and their teenage son Alex at their home in Edmonton. We will miss them of course!

As Christmas approaches something that has become a challenge for me is gift buying. And I only have one person to buy for,

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BY JEFF MAGUIRE

Kathleen. My brother and I talked about this subject a couple of weeks ago. At the time neither of us had started our holiday shopping and neither of us had a reliable list to work from.

It’s not that we have everything.

But we feel like we have all that we need. Still, there is the annual expectation of finding something with our name on it under the Christmas tree. So gift shopping can’t be taken lightly! Randy and I compared notes, exchanged ideas and still came up empty. Yes, our wives are a challenge to buy for.

But I now have things under control fortunately!

One thing that is set in stone for us is holiday traditions. Some things are mandatory in our family at Christmas.

On the second Thursday of November my brother and I went to Linda and Al’s home to make sure a very important family tradition is maintained. We pooled our resources, our time and our labour to make and bake Christmas puddings and dark fruitcake, both of which are Christmas food favourites for us.

The pudding recipe in particular is precious. It’s a family recipe, on our mother’s side, which was brought to Canada from England by her grandmother Ellen Hardy when the family, including my grandmother Beatrice Watson (nee Hardy), immigrated in 1913.

They sailed to Canada on the ill-fated Empress of Ireland, al-

though that’s another story.

Old recipe My great-grandmother was born in the British capital, London and the pudding recipe was handed down through her family.

How far back it goes we aren’t sure? However if you like Christmas pudding you would love this recipe. It is chock full of currents, cherries and candied fruit of all sorts. There is just enough flour to stick everything together along with a liberal amount of butter and a generous measure of sherry.

It’s a sweet treat for the ages and it is the staple dessert at all of our tables following traditional turkey dinners on Christmas night. Topped off with hard sauce (the chief ingredient being brown sugar) and a healthy dollop of real whipped cream (no canned stuff at See MAGUIRE page 16

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Madison Montessori Academy, 2965 County Rd #43.

Diabetes Education Programme, at the Kemptville Hospital Diabetes Clinic, the first Wednesday and Thursday of the month. You must register by calling 613-258-6133 ext 400.

Info: www.kdh.on.ca Men’s Competitive Darts. Every Monday, Kemptville Legion. Registration 7:007:25 PM. Play starts at 7:30 PM. Info: phil. wiseman@xplornet.ca or scottmcl88@hotmail.com The North Grenville Photography Club meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Grenville Mutual Insurance, 380 Colon50+ Fitness. Classes Tuesday & Thursdays nade Dr. Information: ngphotoclub.ca 10 am; Canoe Club. Enquiries: 613-256-8339.

Connections, Good Food for a Healthy PAKENHAM Baby, every Thursday, 1-3 p.m. Lanark Community Programs. 30 Bennett Street. Info: 613257-2779 ext 3106.

Aerobic Classes every Monday and WednesCribbage, every Tuesday afternoon 1 p.m. 4 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 177 George St. day @ 10 am, Stewart Community Centre Hall, Enquiries: 613-256-8339.

Everyone welcome New Years Eve Party- Dec. 31st, 7:30pm2am. Entertainment: The Barking Spiders, MidPERTH night Lunch provided, Casual Attire. Advance Tickets Only. Everyone Welcome. Carleton Place Legion, 177 George St. Info: 613-257Community Home Support Lanark 1727.

County Bereavement Support Group meets Royal Canadian Legion, Br 192, New Years the 2nd Tuesday of each month 1-3pm at 40 Eve with the Barking Spiders, Dec 31, 7:30pmSunset Blvd, Info: 613-267-6400 2am. 613-257-1727 Tickets available at branch.

Community Home Support- Lanark CounTOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets ty monthly Parkinson Support Group, last Monevery Thursday morning, 9:00 a.m. in the day of each month. At the Community Home Zion United Church across from the library on Support office, 40 Sunset Blvd, Suite 100. InforFranklin Street. Info: 613-253-8677. mation, Melissa 613-267-6400 ext 25.

Connections, Good Food for a Healthy Baby, every Thursdays, 10-12 p.m. St. James Almonte Community Friendship Luncheon, at noon on January 9th 2018, United Church social hall. Soup, sandwiches and home made dessert sponsored by churches in Almonte. Donna 613-256-1894 or Louise Owens 613-256-7830.

Mills’ Seniors Services, Almonte, Parkinson’s Support Group. Mills’ office, 67 Industrial Drive. Call Seniors Services 613-256-4700 to register. Meetings take place the last Monday of the month.

Church (Beckwith St. entrance), Info: 613257-2779 ext 3106.

Duplicate Bridge, Thursday evenings at 7 p.m, Civitan Hall. Contact Linda Selig Epiphany Sunday (transferred), Eucharist Choir. Sunday Dec 31, 8 & 10am.

GENERAL MEETING- January 4th 7pm. Royal Canadian Legion, Perth 26 Beckwith St.E. Perth Civitan Bingo, every Wednesday.

Opens at 6 p.m. Bingo starts at 7 p.m.

ROBBIE BURNS- Evening of January 22nd 2018. Tickets available at the Perth Legion Bar. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Family Blessing Service: Fri., Dec. 29: 6:30 pm. Feast of the Holy Family : Sat., Dec. 30: 5:15pm & Sun., Dec. 31: 9 & 11 am; Feast of Mary, the Holy Mother of God : Sun., Dec. 31: 5 pm; Mon., Jan. 1: 10 am. 38 Wilson St. E., stjohnperthontario.com 613-267-1043 Stroke survivor and caregiver support group, meets the 4th Wednesday of every month between 1:30-3:30 p.m. Legion, 26 Beckwith St E. Info: (613)549-6666 x6867.

Support Group for people with Parkinson’s & their care partners, last Monday of each mnth, 1pm Community Home Support Lanark County, 40 Sunset Blvd, Ste D. 613-722-9238, 1-800-565-3000 email: Margaux.Wolfe@parkinson.ca

RURAL Archives Lanark, open first & third Friday and the second & fourth Saturday, 10-3 pm, 1920 Con.7, Drummond (former Drummond Township Office near Drummond Center.)

Info:.) Info: 613-267-3178 or 613-256-3130.

Bid Euchre, Every second Monday night, 7:00p.m. Tatlock Community Hall. 613-2562786 Dance at Toledo Legion Sunday January 7 featuring Harry Adrain. Doors open at 1 and

dancing is from 2-5 followed by a hot supper.

Family Karaoke Night, every Wednesday 6:30-9pm, Newboro Community Hall.

Horseshoes, Toledo Legion, every Tuesday, 7 p.m. sharp. All welcome.

Next Cribbage Wed., Jan 3, 10 am Royal Canadian Legion Upper Rideau Branch #542, Westport Darts Sunday,. Resumes Sun., Jan 7th 12:45 Royal Canadian Legion Upper Rideau Branch #542, Westport Portland Community Luncheon, FRIDAY, December 29 at 12 noon, Portland United Church. Come and enjoy Soup, tourtiere, salad and dessert. Everyone welcome.

RCL Upper Rideau Branch #542 is hosting their Annual New Years Day Party. 2-6pm light luncheon, Picket Fences playing.

Shopping bus trip. Every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Leaving Portland Community Hall, 9 a.m. Info./location 613-272-2676.

Snow Road Snowmobile Club Breakfast January 6, 8 - 11 AM at Clubhouse, 1106 Gemmills Road, Snow Road Station.

SMITHS FALLS 4 hand bid euchre, every Wednesday and Friday at 1:30 p.m. Senior’s Activity Building, 61 Cornelia St. Parking behind arena. Sponsor: Harmony Club 162. Info: (613)283-4684.

4 hand euchre, 7 p.m. 1st. Monday every month at Seniors Activity Building, 61 Cornelia St. Parking behind arena. Sponsor Harmony Club 162. Info: 613-283-4684.

4 hand euchre, 7 p.m. every Thursday, at Seniors Activity Building, 61 Cornelia St. Parking behind arena. Sponsor Harmony Club 162.

Info: 613-283-4684.

40 Plus Singles Dinner & Dance, Civitan Club, #12468 Hwy 15, Smiths Falls, Saturday Jan 6, Dinner at 7 pm. Dance to follow with DJ. 613-285-8557 40plussinglesdance@gmail.com Bagpipe band practice, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.,

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Masonic Hall, 46 Russell St. W. New members welcome. Info: Wayne 283-9792, cell 284-7038 or www.gordonpipeband.com Better than a Doctor, Better than a Lawyer, Better than a Psychiatrist, His name is Jesus. For prayer, anytime call U ME- PRAY (613)8637729 local call or (613)283-3465.

Bid Euchre 1st and 3rd Sunday every month. 1:30 p.m. Seniors Activity Building, 61 Cornelia St., parking behind arena. Sponsored

by Harmony Club 162. Info 613-283-4684.

Carpet bowling every Thursday, 12:45 p.m.

Seniors Activity Building, 61 Cornelia St. Parking behind arena. Sponsor: Harmony Club 162.

Info: (613)283-4684.

Connections, Good Food for a Healthy Baby, every Tuesday, 1-3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 73 Beckwith St. N. Info: 613-257-2779 ext 3106.

Family Fun Bingo, Sunday Jan 7, 1-4pm, RCAFA Hall, 44 Abbott St. N. Carol 613-2840305 Floor Shuffle Board. 10 a.m. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. Seniors Activity Building. Parking behind arena. Beginners welcome.

Sponsor: Harmony Club 162. (613)283-4684.

Harmony Club 162, 61 Cornelia St. Darts every Thursday. 1:30 p.m. Info: 613-283-4684.

Lanark County Brain Injury Survivors Group, meeting. Every Tuesday, 10 a.m.-noon.

Tricas, 88 Cornelia St. W. Mental Health Support for family members, 2nd Tuesday of the mnth 7-9pm, 88 Cornelia St. West at The Link. Contact mentalhealthfamilies@gmail.com “Music For A Winter Afternoon” - featuring Rosedale Singers and Rideau Mellowdears in Concert - at S.F. First Baptist Church, Saturday, January 6th, 2pm. Tickets Now Available.

613-284-1184, 613-267-6211, 613-283-1579 “Music For A Winter Afternoon” - featuring Rosedale Singers and Rideau Mellowdears in Concert - at S.F. First Baptist Church, Saturday, January 6th, 2pm. Tickets Now Available.

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Elmer passed away tragically on December 17th, 2017 at the age of 80 years. He was the loved husband of B a r b a r a “Barbie” (McWilliams) Abercrombie for 58 years and cherished father of Ken (Sandra), Dave (Jay) and Shirley Abercrombie and Rosemarie (Ray) Porter. Elmer was the adored grandfather of Travis (Alexis), Julia (Andre), Kendra (Joel), Josh, Patrick (Alanna), Cole (Sara), Tricia and Spencer and stepgrandfather of James (Caleidgh), Cody and Houston.

Elmer was the proud great grandfather of Ashton, Lilly, Parker, Eva, Isla, Alex Aleah and step great grandfather of Joe, Stephen and Seamus. He was predeceased by his parents George and Ada (Munroe) Abercrombie. Elmer will be sadly missed by his sister Ona (late Eddie) Closs, brother-inlaw Cliff (Bonnie) McWilliams, all his family and friends. Friends may pay their respects at the Blair and Son Funeral Home, 15 Gore St., West, Perth on Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Funeral service will be held in the Chapel Thursday at 10:30 A.M. Interment St. Stephens Cemetery, Brooke. In remembrance of Elmer, contributions to Alzheimers Society of Lanark County would be appreciated.

CURRAN, Mary Johnalee Elaine Peacefully at Perth Community Care Centre on Friday, November 3, 2017 in her 76th year. Devoted daughter of the late Emma and William Curran. Dear sister of Ken Curran and the late Donelda Collins.

Treasured Aunt, Cousin and Friends to many.

Friends were invited to visit with the family at the Lannin Funeral Home, Smiths Falls on Thursday, November 9, 2017 from 11:00am until time of memorial service in the chapel at 1:00pm. Interment followed at Hillcrest Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the MS Society would be greatly appreciated. Online condolences available at www.lannin.ca DEATH NOTICE

With heavy hearts we announce that Wally Jocque of Sand Point passed away peacefully at the Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital while surrounded by loved ones on Monday evening, December 18th, 2017. He was 69.

Beloved husband for over 42 years of Joanne (nee Bourque). Dearly loved father of Jeff (Teena Belland) and Daryl. Cherished “Grampa Wally” of Ashton. Predeceased by his parents Donald and Bea (nee Cotie) Jocque as well as his only sister, Judy. Dear brother-in-law of Jane Martin (Terry) and Brenda Bourque (late Paul). Uncle of Mark Arbic, Amy Trahan, Troy and Tim Bourque and Chad Martin. Nephew of Michael Cotie and John Cotie (Adele). Friends were invited to join Wally’s family during visitation at the Pilon Family Funeral Home and Chapel Ltd., 50 John Street North, Arnprior on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and again on Friday morning from 10 to 10:45 a.m. A Tribute to Wally followed in the Pilon Family Chapel on Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Interment Malloch Road Cemetery, Arnprior. In memory of Wally, please consider a donation to the Arnprior Regional Health Foundation.

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Taylor, Iris W.

Iris passed away at Hilltop Manor in Merrickville on Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at the age of 90 years. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Gordon William Taylor and daughter Karen Taylor.

Iris is the loved mother of Paul (Kathleen) Taylor and cherished grandmother of Troy and Trevor Taylor. Iris was formerly of Ottawa, retired manager from Ogilvie’s Department Store. The family wishes to thank the staff at Hilltop Manor for their compassionate care given to Iris.

In remembrance of Iris, contributions to the Lanark Animal Welfare Society would be appreciated. Arrangements are in private for the family, in the care of Blair & Son Funeral Directors, 15 Gore St., West, Perth.

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CHAN, PAMELA (NEE FARRIS)

Peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer, on Monday, December 18, 2017 at Northumberland Hills Hospital, Cobourg, at the age of 54 years. Pamela, of Cobourg, formerly from the Perth and Smith Falls area.

Beloved wife of Bryon Mitchener of Cobourg.

Loving mother of Ryan of Kingston.

Cherished daughter of Allan and Heather Farris of Perth. Dear sister of Glenn (Joanne) Farris of Ottawa and the late David (Sheila) Farris. Pamela will be sadly missed by her step-son David Chan and her family in Calgary. A celebration of Pamela’s life will be held in the spring. Donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family.

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SNYDER, EDNA

We are saddened to announce the passing of our dear mother, Edna. She is survived by her children Joyce and Doug Murray and Marilyn and Don Erskine all of Arnprior; Hal and Jane of Australia; Jim and Eithne, Jackie and Rob Depper, Russ and Kelly and Lori Stiles, and Gail Snyder, all of Calgary. Much loved grandmother of Kent, Kelly, Kris, Jamie, Erika, Joanne, Karen, David, Jacqui, Victoria, Jonathan, Siobhan, David, Caitlyn, Gary, Ryan, Ritchie, Greg, Hunter and Jordan and GreatGrandmother of 16. Edna was predeceased by her husband Dave; son, Billy; grandson Michael; parents, Robert and Florence (McLennan) Pruden; 8 brothers and sisters.

Survived by 2 sisters: Kay and Rose and a brother, Fred. We were fortunate to have had a huge family reunion celebrating her 90th birthday in April of this year. Friends are invited to join the family for a service of remembrance to be celebrated in Emmanuel Anglican Church, 287 Harrington Street, Arnprior on Friday morning, December 29th at 11 o’clock. A reception will follow in the Carlton Reid Memorial Hall. Inurnment in the Albert Street Columbarium. In memory of Edna, please consider a donation to the Arnprior Regional Hospital Foundation.

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JUNE BEVERLY LOVESEY (nee Dent) (June 25,1930November 24,2017) “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good she was very very good. And when she was bad she was horrid!”.

(Author unknown but much appreciated). Junie took her last breath gently and peacefully at St. Joseph’s Villa in Sudbury with her two daughters holding her hand. The last chapter now written and the last page now turned of the marvellous adventure book, “Life of Junie”. The chapters spanned some 87 years most of which were set in Ottawa and her beloved Valley. Junie was predeceased by: caring husbands Herb Lovesey and Winton Roberts, wonderful parents George and Beulah Dent, loving siblings Mildred (Jim Hutchins), John (Laurette), much loved nephews Jim Hutchins(Barbara), Ted Hutchins and cousins Jerry, Harris, Wallace and Kenny Brading. Junie will live on in the hearts and memories of her daughters, Leah Lovesey Lepage (Rob Lepage) of Sudbury, Ontario and Sandra Lovesey (Mark Holden) of Dallas, Texas. She is also survived by five adoring grandchildren: Rory, Rebecca, Patrick, Kelly and Danny. Also mourned by her lifelong BFF (Best Friend Forever) Connie Menzies and dear sister-in-law Norma Miller, nieces Marlyn Hutchins, Betty Pinsent (Andy) as well as many good friends, neighbours and cousins scattered throughout the Ottawa Valley.

Our Junie was many things throughout her life: A true child of the Depression - a stockpiler of supplies and treasures.

Small but mighty insisting life unfold always on her terms.

Spicy, not too sweet. Shirley Temple cute then Audrey Hepburn glam. A ballerina, gymnast, skier, paddler. A hitchhiker on train cabooses to school. A rebel - because school could not hold her - she would skip class to do something more exciting! Life was calling. A fashion buyer for Devlins and Morgans Department stores then an interior decorator then a sheep farmer’s wife then a provider of comfort and much joy to many seniors then came retirement, a community volunteer, church worker, political activist and world traveller, an amazing listener, a keeper of secrets and a great friend to many, a wonderful daughter, sister, wife, mother, gramma, a remarkable woman and to the end, a powerful force of nature.

Our heartfelt thanks go out to the staff at St Joseph’s Villa, Gardenway wing in Sudbury for their exceptional professionalism and compassion in Mom’s last difficult years; the staff at Carolina Suites in Perth for the wonderful care; and a very special thanks to Dr. Jane Cox who stepped in at several timely junctures in Mom’s life to dispense her excellent medical care and kindness. So long Junie Prunie. Farewell to the Princess of Palmerston. Goodbye Gummy… We all hope that God has taken his multi-vitamins! A celebration of Junie’s exceptional life will take place on Saturday May 12, 2018 at 1:00 pm at her home in Ompah on the shores of her beautiful lake followed by a gathering at the Ompah firehall. All of Junie’s people are welcome for some music, memories and honouring a life well lived. If you’re interested in making a donation in June’s memory, please consider St. Joseph’s Villa in Sudbury or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Blair & Son Funeral Home, Perth (613) 267-3765 to send your condolences or for further information visit www.blairandson.com

IN MEMORIAM COE, Sherri Lynn December 28 2002 To us you were so special, What more is there to say, Except to wish with all our hearts, That you were here today.

They say that time heals everything, But we know it isn’t so, We miss you just as much today, As we did 11 years ago.

Love Ron, Tammy, Mallory, Jamie Emmett and Charlie

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HALLADAY, Lyman In loving memory of a dear Father and Grandfather who passed away He left so quietly His thoughts unknown But he left a memory We are proud to own.

So treasure him Lord In your Garden of Rest Because here on earth He was one of the best.

Forever loved and missed Daughter BillieJo, Donald, Granddaughters Brianna and Jaden

COE, Sherri-lynn In loving memory of the dear daughter of Charles and Donna, and also Mom of Hailey-Dawn; who passed away December 28, 2002.

Remembering you is easy, We do it every day.

Missing you is a heartache, That never goes away.

You had a smile for everyone, You had a heart of gold.

You left the sweetest memories, The world could ever hold.

To us you were someone special, What more is there to say, Except to wish with all our hearts, That you were here today.

Sweeney, Clarence Edward Passed away on December 16, 2017 in the Perth Community Care Centre.

Clarence At the age of 75.

Dearly loved brother of Ervin (Anne), Bryon (Glenda), Donna Lowry (Allan).

Special uncle to many nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his parents Earl Sweeney and Lillian (nee Giles), also his sister Muriel Fisher and infant brother William.

Survived by brother-in-law Glenn Fisher. Special friend to all who knew him at Community Support Services and especially Chris Lambert. We are deeply grateful to Perth Community Care Centre for their compassion and excellent care. Visitation - 12.00 to 1.00 on Dec. 30 2017.

Memorial Service at 1.00 with Reception to follow. At Boyds United Church, 450 Boyds Rd. Carleton Place.

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I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.

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In loving memory of a dear Mother and Grandmother Cora, who passed away January 2, 2012, Father and Grnadfather Fred, who passed away January 24, 2010.

In our hearts a memory is kept, of ones we loved and will never forget.

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In life we loved you dearly, In death we love you still.

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In the process we think we did our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents proud. After all it was Mum and Dad who made the puddings and cakes for many years, following in the footsteps of Grandma Watson and Great Grandmother Hardy.

Our parents passed away seven months apart. Dad in November 2014 and Mum on June 4, 2015.

I mention the exact date of my mother’s death because she, her mother and her grandmother all died on the same day. More than mere coincidence we think!

We miss them all but continue to feel a strong connection, especially at this important time of year.

Family traditions spark many wonderful memories of Christmases past. For that reason alone it is important to maintain them.

Jeff Maguire is a career journalist who lives in Carleton Place, Ontario. He has been writing for community and daily newspapers in Ontario since 1971.

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Notice re Limited Liability Partnership Effective as of January 1, 2018, the firm of “Howard Kelford & Dixon” has become a limited liability partnership, as permitted by the Partnerships Act and the Law Society Act. The firm is now known as “Howard Kelford & DuBois LLP”. The purpose of this notice is to make sure that the firm’s clients are aware that although the partners are no longer personally liable for the negligent acts of another partner, the partnership itself continues to be liable for the negligence of its partners, associates and employees and that there is no reduction or limitation on the liability of the whole partnership.

Clients will not notice any difference in their relationship with the firm or the protection which they enjoy. All that has been changed is the internal liability within the partnership and the relation between partners to each other. This Notice is published pursuant to the requirements of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Howard Kelford & DuBois LLP looks forward to continuing the firm’s history of providing quality legal services to our clients from our offices at 2 Main Street East, Smiths Falls and 40E Bennett Street, Carleton Place. For any enquiries, please contact Shane Kelford at 613-283-6772 or at skelford@smithsfallslaw.ca.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS & OTHERS ALL CLAIMS against the Estate of BESSIE ETHEL LOWE (nee SMITH), late of the Town of Smiths Falls, in the County of Lanark, who died on or about the 18th day of October, 2017, must be filed with the hereinafter stated Solicitor for the undersigned personal representative on or before the 5th day of February, 2018; thereafter, the undersigned will distribute the assets of the said Estate, having regard only to claims then filed.

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A look back at 2017 in the auto world Well, every other columnist does it, so why shouldn’t I? We all like things in nice retrospective packages this time of year and when it comes to the wild ride of automotive technology advancements, the more sense we can make of things, the better. So here’s a brief, biased, hopefully informative review of the vehicle world’s highlights from 2017.

Electric vehicles. Almost every automaker around the world continued to spend a great deal of their resources on EV development and manufacture. While North American sales of pure EVs wouldn’t necessarily justify these expenses (predictions are for a spike in sales in 2018 to around four per cent), increasingly tough emissions standards from governments around the globe are pushing things forward. Elon Musk took the wraps off of a futurist commercial highway semi with great promises of incredible range, quick recharging, and an almost luxury-sedanlike ride and handling. Some may scoff, as they believe Elon will not get this to production, but several international and well-respected food and beverage companies have plunked down some serious cash to hold orders for their eventual deliveries.

On the passenger EV front, Nissan released their newest version of their all-electric Leaf to rave reviews with the promise of a 240-kilometre range. Thousands still await their Tesla Model 3s with only a dribble of the preorders having been completed to date. As I recently covered, researchers at the University of Waterloo have been experimenting with new EV drive batteries that can push the 600-km range threshold. As these and other carmakers continue to increase their small market-shares with EVs a unique problem with U.S. government rebates and incentives has arisen. The current U.S. federal regulations reduce the amount of these paybacks once a 200,000 units-sold mark is reached and they eventually phase out altogether. There’s not much likelihood that the present U.S. administration will change this, meaning automakers will have to lower manufacturing costs to adjust nonrebate pricing or lose ground to the competition.

Diesel emissions. The VW emission-cheating scandal is still working its way through courts and a multitude of government environmental departments around the globe. Affected vehicles are being See COUNSELLOR page 19

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bought back and some have received approval for repairs. Mercedes Benz announced they won’t be selling any more diesel-powered vehicles in North America due to decreasing demand and increased resources required to meet current regulatory body demands. Other automakers such as GM and FCA for example, are still offering updated and advanced designs of diesel power plants in their vehicles and have announced no plans to change.

Recalls, recalls, recalls. Government ordered and voluntary recalls still were hitting record numbers in

both the U.S. and Canada. Honda recently took unprecedented steps by actually sending their employees to customers’ homes in the U.S. to knock on doors to arrange recall appointments for defective airbags.

These safety devices are still injuring and killing motorists and all carmakers are making repeated attempts to get affected vehicles in for repairs. Checking to see if your vehicle is subject to a recall is as easy as logging onto Transport Canada’s website at www.tc.gc.ca. Many carmakers offer the same service on their own commercial websites and of course any authorized dealership can provide this information through

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Autonomous vehicles. Self-driving autos were still strong in the 2017 news with more and more companies promising fleets of robotic transports within a few years. Almost every state in the union and province in our country have licensed prototypes for

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public-road testing. No one has even hinted at production model pricing.

While some may offer skepticism that our Canadian winters will impede the function and usefulness of these rides, one of the biggest risks is seldom mentioned: autonomous vehicle interaction with human-piloted chariots. So far these autos’ electronic brains have been programmed to obey all traffic laws and regulations to the letter, leaving their collision statistics on a per-kilometer driven basis fairly unattractive due mainly to the fact that the overwhelming majority of flesh and blood operators break dozens of these laws every day and they have to share the same

roads. This may be prevented with some skilled reprogramming but I’m not holding my breath.

If you have any questions, opinions, or stories on anything automotive, please drop me a line (by email to bjoeturner@hotmail.com listing “Question for the Car Counsellor” on the subject line or by post to Record News Communications, 65 Lorne St., P.O. Box 158, Smiths Falls, Ont., K7A 4T1). When using regular mail, please supply a phone number if you seek direct contact (due to volume I can’t always promise replies).

Yours in service Brian Turner

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1. Put within 6. Learned person 12. Resistance 16. Female title 17. Logical basis for a belief 18. Of I 19. Indicates position 20. Article 21. Insignificant organizational member 22. __ route 23. Expression of disapproval 24. Microelectromechanical systems 26. Ponds 28. Satisfy 30. Dad 31. Spanish soldier “El __” 32. Pouch-like structure 34. Obscure unit of measurement 35. Okinawa prefecture capital

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Expressing yourself authentically is proving difficult, Aries. But this will pass shortly. Eventually, your persistence will pay off, and others will see that your intentions are genuine.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 It may be challenging to separate your fantasies from reality right now, Leo. Even though things are vivid in your mind, others may help clarify things for you.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, it may seem like your time in the spotlight has come and gone, but that isn’t the case. You have plenty of time to show what you can accomplish.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 If your dreams are within reason, there is no reason why they can’t come to fruition, Taurus. You just may need a few friends in your corner to help make things happen.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Surprising news leaves you a little bit frazzled, Virgo. However, once you work your way through the surprise, you’ll see that this news bodes well for you.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, your vision of the future may be set right now, but there is always room for some modifications.

Embrace some of the uncertainty that can lead to greatness.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, don’t obsess about a specific approach to working through a problem. Seek feedback from a number of people and explore all of your options.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, others feel like you have everything figured out this week and are as sensible as can be. But there’s a fun side of you that is just waiting to pop out.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, no career goal is out of reach right now. Therefore, if you’ve been thinking of a career move, now is a great time to put those plans in motion.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, it may take an intense effort to concentrate on your work this week because your thoughts keep drifting elsewhere. You must rein in your wandering mind.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Something in your life is causing you undue stress, Scorpio. Find a way to let it all go by focusing on thoughts and things that bring you happiness.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 The search for the truth could lead you on a bit of a wild adventure, Pisces. Eventually, you can get to the bottom of the situation.

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37. Platforms 39. Jazz singer Irene 40. Benefits 41. Hellenistic governors 43. Brownish-green fruit 44. Needed to see 45. Political action committee 47. Fast plane 48. Bahrain dinar 50. Urgent request 52. Raccoon genus 54. Millisecond 56. Atlanta rapper 57. Rural delivery 59. Intrauterine device 60. The Wolverine State 61. Free agent 62. For instance 63. Reduces 66. Lincoln’s state 67. Quit 70. Midsections 71. Bullfighting maneuvers

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It’s possible for all foods to fit into a healthy eating pattern

BY DANIELLE LABONTE AND DANA HAWTHORNE

All foods can fit in a healthy eating pattern, provided you don’t have a health condition that affects what you eat. They key to “all food fitting” is moderation. Think of foods in terms of “everyday” foods and “sometimes” foods. “Everyday” foods include colourful vegetables and fruit, whole grains, lean meat and meat alternatives, and lower fat milk and fortified milk alternatives. “Sometimes” foods are those that are higher in salt, sugar and fat, like candies, pastries, chips, chocolate, etc. Focus on including “everyday” foods each day and saving “sometimes” foods for an occasional treat.

Avoid referring to foods as “good” or “bad.” This can link emotions to food and may create guilty feelings for eating certain foods. It also goes against the concept that all foods fit by implying that bad foods shouldn’t be eaten.

It’s important to be aware of how we refer to foods around children.

We want to make sure children aren’t eating certain foods to be “good” or to avoid being “bad.”

So, instead, we refer to foods as “everyday” and “sometimes.”

Around the holidays, we might have many opportunities for “sometimes” foods. If you can, try to make sure there are “everyday” foods to go along with the “sometimes” foods. This gives everyone a variety of foods to choose from.

Have a treat if you want to have a treat, be mindful of portion size and enjoy your food. Then, focus on eating healthy the rest of the time.

Restrictive and fad diets Through friends, family, at work, or in the media, we hear about different diets that may restrict entire food groups or suggest that eating in a different way will benefit our health. These types of diets that, for example, recommend eating high-protein, low-carbohydrate or only raw foods are often promoted by celebrities or others who are not nutrition experts.

Nutrition Tips The term “diet” is simply a word used to describe the foods we choose to eat. When looking at any diet, consider where your information is coming from. Is it from a regulated health professional like a registered dietitian (RD), or a credible website such as EatRight Ontario or Dietitians of Canada?

If not, consider speaking with an RD for accurate information.

A healthy diet will never exclude entire food groups, unless you have a food allergy or a specific health condition that requires you to avoid certain foods. Enjoy a variety of colourful fruit and vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, fish and plant-based proteins, and lower fat milk and fortified alternatives every day. Drink water when you’re thirsty. At mealtime, fill half your plate with vegetables, a quarter with whole grains and a quarter with a protein like a lean meat, fish or meat alternative. A healthy diet

also includes enjoying “sometimes foods,” like pastries, cookies, chips, etc., in moderation. Focus on overall health; this means being physically active on a regular basis, getting enough sleep, managing stress levels and enjoying eating balanced meals with others.

Mindful eating Mindful eating involves not only being aware of eating habits, but also listening to and respecting the hunger and fullness cues that our bodies send us throughout the day.

Mindful eating includes chewing our food completely before swallowing, and taking the time to sit down and really savour and enjoy the aroma and taste of each bite. A pleasurable eating environment is also an important part of mindful eating. For example, play relaxing music, decorate your eating area in a way that appeals to you and enjoy sharing food with family and friends.

You can eat mindfully, even during holiday celebrations. One tip

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for mindful eating is to listen to your body by eating until you are feeling satisfied, instead of stuffed.

If a large holiday dinner is in your plans, avoid arriving feeling very hungry, which can lead to overeating and feeling uncomfortable.

Instead, eat your regular meals throughout the day. You might want to add in a snack or two as well; try yogurt with berries, cheese cubes and apple slices, hummus and cut-up bell peppers or nut butter spread on whole grain crackers.

Chances are, your body will tell you you’re hungry long before dinner time.

Enjoy those special holiday treats, and your family’s traditional foods, and get everyone out for some fun activity in the fresh air.

For more information, visit www.healthunit.org or call 1-800660-5853.

Danielle Labonte and Dana Hawthorne are registered dietitians and public health nutritionists with the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit

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