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Students in grades six to eight at Hastings Public School have started to raise money for their end-of-year trip to Toronto. They kicked off fundraising with a holiday bottle drive and will be planning other events over the next several months to help defray the cost of a trip to the new Ripley’s Aquarium and other downtown points of interest and Canada’s Wonderland. Urging local residents to help their cause were (left to right) grade six student Jocelyn Barraball, Connie Morrow, in grade eight and parent Janice Porter. Photo: Bill Freeman

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News – Havelock-Belmont-Methuen – Lamenting the fact they have been forced to “waste� a grant application on a project to repair a small section of Hwy. 7 running through the village of Havelock, council has given the okay to an application for funding to help upgrade a .325 kilometre piece of the so-called “connecting link.�

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stretch of road that is in fact part of the TransCanada Highway and the provincial government’s road network.

The preliminary estimates peg the cost of repairs at $408,079 and the application to the Small Rural and Northern Municipal Infrastructure Fund (SRNMIF) is for 90 per cent of the project cost, or $367,271. The $40,808 balance would be funded through the municipality’s 2014 budget.

Council approves budget with slight tax hike

By Bill Freeman

News – Havelock-Belmont-Methuen – A greater than expected growth in residential assessment has helped lower HavelockBelmont-Methuen’s 2014 municipal levy requirement resulting in a tax rate increase Please see “Funds� on page 2 of just 0.52 per cent.

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Relay for Life fund-raiser nominated

News – Campbellford – “It’s really sad but you never forget the person that died,” said 11-year-old Nicole Slain.

She was talking about her cousin Jessica Francis Carter who died of brain cancer in 2012.

Nominated for the 2013 Junior Citizen of the Year Award, she raises money for the Trent Hills Relay for Life as a tribute to her cousin.

Coordinated by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association (OCNA), the Junior Citizen of the Year Awards are presented annually to young stars who are making a difference.

Nicole’s team called Jessie’s Jewels is

made up of family and friends.

She has, singlehandedly, raised more than $4,000 since she started participating in the Relay for life three years ago.

Last year she raised $2,416 and was recognized as the top youth fund-raiser.

“I raised the money by going door to door,” she said.

“Every other night pretty much, we went to a different neighbourhood,” she explained.

She and her mom Cindy Slain canvassed together.

“I also lost my grandfather, (her dad’s father), to cancer and my nana, (her mom’s mother), has survived cancer twice,” said Nicole, quietly.

Nicole’s grandfather, (her mom’s father) was just diagnosed with cancer, had surgery and is fine.

So Nicole knows how important the Relay for Life is as a fundraiser for cancer research.

Darlene Brown, co-chair of the Relay for Life, is one of two people who nominated Nicole for the Junior Citizen of the Year Award.

“Nicole is such an asset to our Relay for Life with her enthusiasm and energy to fundraise. She personifies volunteerism and is such an inspiration to our youth,” she stated.

“As a co-chair for the Relay for Life I am very grateful to Nicole for all her work.

As a neighbour, Nicole is always a pleasure

to talk to and is always busy. So great to see a young person without a cell phone in their hand who is willing to get involved in community work.”

Nicole’s grandmother Diane Francis wrote in her nomination form: “Nicole was very diligent raising money for Relay for Life. Although she isn’t that old, for the last couple of years she has been the top Junior fundraiser. She goes out of her way to help any way she can.”

Everyone nominated receives a certificate of congratulations.

“I think the award is a good idea because it gives kids a chance to do stuff to help out and to be recognized,” said Nicole.

She has received a certificate and a donation from MPP Rob Milligan acknowl-

edging her fund raising efforts “dedication and commitment to a worthy cause.”

The OCNA program strives not only to recognize the dozen or so outstanding people who will be the recipients of awards, but also to give deserving recognition in their own communities to hundreds of others.

“The kids at school know I’ve been nominated. I told them about this interview and they wished me luck and they are really supportive,” said Nicole.

“I would like to thank my parents, my nana Diane and also Darlene for nominating me. I would also like to thank everybody who sponsored me,” Nicole concluded.

Her goal for the 2014 Relay for Life is $2,500.

Waterway needs ‘complete overhaul’: Norlock

By John Campbell

News - Trent Hills – NorthumberlandQuinte West MP Rick Norlock sees merit in a proposal to put a new operating model in place to run the money-losing Trent-Severn Waterway and make it self-sufficient.

The solution put forward by the TrentSevern Waterway Working Group includes increasing on-demand services for boaters passing through the system as well as extending the daily hours of operations “to align” with all land- and water-based users.

Parks Canada was heavily criticized last year by boaters encountering delays as a result of shortened workdays and the use of Eleven-year-old Nicole Slain of Campbellford has been nominated to receive one of the Ontario Com- flying crews who travelled between locks munity Newspapers Association (OCNA), 2013 Junior Citizen of the Year Awards. She will receive a to open the gates according to a schedule.

The working group, whose members incertificate for being nominated and finalists will be announced later this month. Photo: Sue Dickens clude Quinte West Mayor John Williams, Peterborough County council, and cruise boat companies, also advocates short-term investments and a new governing structure that engages users and other levels of government, “involving them by giving a say in governance.”

It said a long-term plan was needed to solve capital and water management issues, environmental sustainability, and tourism and historical preservation. Analogous models include the St. Lawrence Seaway and airport trusts.

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The cutbacks in staff and operating costs was “precipitated” by the deficit reduction action plan which demanded every department “show some savings,” Norlock said.

The MPs believe more savings could be achieved with the waterway than have been implemented but they “would take more time to do,” and the prime minister has made clear he wants the deficit erased by 2016, he said.

The waterway has seen “a significant decrease in boating traffic” over the past 20 years while the cost of operating the system has gone up substantially.

One potential area is “we should be charging more money for power production” that currently exists along the waterway, and developing new sites for generation.

“How much will they pay for use of that water to create power?” he asked.

Norlock also sees the need to work with the province to see how the two levels of government “can work together to make the Crown jewel of a tourist (attraction) be more responsive to the needs of both governments and ... the people who use the system and make a living from it.”

Norlock said he and his colleagues will meet with Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq “very early in the new year to find out what’s going to happen.”

Trent Hills Mayor Hector Macmillan said he “can’t believe the federal government is doing this to us” by shortchanging the waterway which is “a huge economic driver.” He suggested abolishing the Senate and selling the building, which would free up “a whole whack of money” for the waterway.

The institution is archaic and populated by “a pack of thieves,” he said. “It’s obvious we don’t need it.”

The working group in its report, “Unlocking the Trent Severn’s Potential,” said

cuts to the waterway’s operations have “caused real and material negative economic impact to the canal community and exasperated outstanding capital issues.”

The “decline in water management system maintenance is a significant threat to water safety,” 40 dams “are in need in urgent care,” and it will take “hundreds of millions of dollars” over the next 15 to 20 years to provide essential maintenance and undertake capital improvements.

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“It is a shame that we have to waste this application on the linked highway because the province cut the connecting link funding. It is really unfortunate,” said Mayor Ron Gerow.

Council is already upset that the municipality faces a $22,000 bill for winter maintenance on the link after the Ministry of Transportation established a new “Area Maintenance Contract” with Carillion Canada. The fee represents a 16.71 per cent increase over last year.

HBM has joined other municipalities in protesting the loss of connecting link funding.

Queen’s Park has told municipalities they must now apply to a special capital fund for money to pay for maintenance or repair projects on their connecting links.

Using that funding for connecting link projects poses an additional concern, council has said, because it jeopardizes other necessary capital projects that depend on those dollars.

“They have arbitrarily walked away from any responsibility there and we as taxpayers are responsible for a level for service on a Trans-Canada Highway,” Gerow said.

“We’re working diligently to try to get some funding,” he said. “If we have to use money in the budget there is a (township) road somewhere that is going to suffer,” he said.

“We are going to take the hit on Hwy. 7 if we don’t get funding for it,” Deputy Mayor Andy Sharpe said at an earlier council meeting on the same subject.

Everything that council and staff work on in terms of long-term growth planning would be “eroded to no end” if they had to pay for Hwy. 7 projects through its roads budget, Gerow says.

“We’d have no money for other projects if we were left with provincial responsibilities,” he said “To take $250,000 or $300,000 in one fell swoop to deal with issues on the connecting link (would severely undermine) the roads budget. The burden is going to be great.”

The SRNMIF application is not a guarantee of approval of the money, notes treasurer Val Nesbitt.

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draft budget, which also included a conservative assumption of a two per cent change in residential assessment; the actual change came in at 3.08 per cent which represents a boost of $144,353.

The $24,365 balance between the levy increase and residential assessment change translates into a tax rate hike of 0.52 per cent.

As was proposed in the draft budget, there will be no change in monthly sewer and water rates with the residential water rate remaining at $55 per month and the commercial rate holding at $65. The monthly residential flat rate for sewer services stays at $57 and the commercial rate will remain at $76.

With the 2014 general municipal levy change a house assessed at $150,000 will see a slight increase of $3.20.

In the village ward, which also has an area rate budget for things like sidewalks, streetlights and curbside garbage collection there will actually be a slight decrease with a house assessed at $150,000 seeing a drop of $4.37, or 1.95 per cent, in its municipal taxes.

It was not an easy budget for council or staff and looming reductions in the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund and expected eye-catching increases in policing costs present some challenging future hurdles.

The 2014 OPP police contract of $916,300 is actually less than treasurer Val Nesbitt had estimated in her draft budget.

The 2014 contract figure arrived after the draft budget was tabled in November.

“Although (there) is a decrease of

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Nesbitt and Chief Administrative Officer Linda Reed have given council a strategic plan that balances the phasing out of the OMPF contribution (that phase out will total $50,000 from 2014 to 2017), a draw-down from reserves and municipal taxation.

“We bring this in in a manage way over four years,” said Reed. “We have tried to find a balance of tax rate and drawing down of reserves so it brings it to a tax rate slowly over time.”

Reed says they have established a policing reserve and its

“primary function is to provide a cushion should there be a major incident but also allows us some flexibility to slow down the impact on the tax rate.”

“It’s important that you feel comfortable with our approach,” Reed said. “That’s a fairly significant discussion for council, I hope we have interpreted what you want(ed).”

To cut out the $96,000 OMPF grant at one time would boost the tax rate by over two per cent, Reed noted.

“I think that proposal is in line with what we’re asking for,” Mayor Ron Gerow said.

“As much as we all don’t like to pay more, based on the stuff that’s been dumped on us and all the things we’re trying to deal with, I think this is an extremely good budget.”

Nomination Forms are available at: • www.trenthills.ca (on the homepage) • the municipal office on Front Street South in Campbellford • Campbellford, Hastings, and Warkworth Libraries Please take a moment to review the award categories below and nominate your fellow residents and organizations! The nomination deadline is January 27th, 2014.

Civic Award Categories: • Agricultural Leadership • Cultural Award of Merit • Outstanding Youth Award • Sporting Excellence Award • Recreation & Sport Award • Community Betterment Award • Heritage Awareness Award • Architectural Conservation Award • Accessibility Award

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An open house was held at the Campbellford Legion, Branch 103, on January 1, and the executive was there to celebrate with members and guests, posing for a photo beforehand by the fireplace in the Vimy Lounge: standing from left, Eric Lavigne, 2nd Vice President/Ways & Means; Sharon Hay, President/Human Resources; Reg Gordon, 1st Vice President/Poppy Chairman; Gail Cleary, Secretary/Sick & Cheer; sitting from left, Bob Murphy, Honours and Awards/Youth Education; Ray Cousineau, Entertainment; Dave Mixon, Service Officer; Ivan Gamache, Property. Absent when photo was taken: Sean Clair Training & Development/ Public Relations; Jim Antrobus, Sergeant At Arms; John Jepsen, Bar/Nevada Chariman; Shirley Preston, Membership/Sports. Photo: Sue Dickens

In order to once again recognize the exceptional contributions and achievements of individuals and organizations in our community, the Municipality is currently preparing for the 5th annual Civic Awards event which will be held at the Hastings Civic Centre on March 28th 2014. We are now accepting nominations for the Awards and encourage residents to take this opportunity to recognize a deserving individual or group for their outstanding contributions to Trent Hills. The participation of community groups in the nomination process is integral to the success of the Civic Awards as well.

For more information on the awards or on submitting nominations, please feel free to contact Community Development Officer Vaughn Finch at vaughn.finch@trenthills.ca or 653-1900 ext. 239.

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“We’re looking forward to a good year,” Hastings Legion president says

By Bill Freeman News – Hastings – With the Winter Classic hockey game on the big screen television and a bustling game of billiards filling a side room, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 106 in Hastings was a bustling New Year’s Day gathering place.

The Branch’s traditional New Year’s Day levee is always a social affair and a chance to finally put the previous year to rest.

“I think we’re looking forward to a good year,” Branch 106 president Bob Crate said. “We’ll have some projects to do but it’s looking to me like we’ll have a good year.”

Crate says the Branch is considering grant possibilities for work that needs to be done on the venerable building’s roof and “a few other things.” The Branch has already done “quite a bit of work” downstairs, including the addition of a shuffleboard, something they’ve never had before, and a second pool table courtesy of the Bancroft Legion.

The new billiard table has “turned

out to be a big success (and) has really done us a lot of good,” Crate says.

“We’ve had a pretty good fall and our sports programs are going well.”

With around 400 members, with a “core” of between 150 and 200, Branch 106 is healthier than a lot of small Legion Branches, says Crate.

“We’re lucky, we have no debt and a little money in the bank which we’re probably going to spend to do some repairs,” he said. “The Branch is in good shape.”

“It’s a work in progress all the time but we’re much better off than a lot of small branches. We’re not getting ahead a lot because it takes a lot to keep the place going. We’ve got a core of people who are involved in looking after it and it’s working.”

The Hastings Legion is also fortunate in that it has a number of summer residents who are also members of the Branch.

“We’re lucky that we have that base, that really helps us out,” Crate says.

Along with roof repairs, the Branch

members are also considering “some ideas” about work they could do behind the building to make their popular waterside patio a little larger.

“It gets so much use in the summer we’re looking at ways to improve that,” said Crate.

The Branch is buoyed by the number of new members it has welcomed, 30 to 40 in the last four or five months, says Crate.

He recalls a former membership chair telling him that the Branch needed to bring in between 40 and 45 new members each year to sustain its strength.

“We’ve done that. We’ve had quite an influx in the last little while.”

Membership growth is another reason to be optimistic, Crate says.

“We are the social hub of the village. In order to do that we have to keep the membership up. We’re looking at ways to do more, to get some more things going to bring people out,” he said pointing to the new Sun- Hastings Legion Branch 106 president Bob Crate (left) greets former president Bill Jaques during the day snooker which now draws 20 peo- Branch’s annual New Year’s Day levee which gave local Toronto Maple Leaf fans a chance to watch the ple each week.

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Havelock Legionnaire “overwhelmed” by honour

By Bill Freeman

News – Havelock-Belmont-Methuen – It was an emotional moment for Marc Aalbers as he accepted the Legionnaire of the Year Award on New Year’s Day during the Havelock Legion Branch 389 honours and awards ceremony. The Havelock Legion carried on its long tradition of combining an honours and awards celebration with its annual New Year’s Day levee.

For Aalbers, the Branch 389 sergeant-at-arms who stepped in as acting president for a time during the past year, the Legionnaire of the Year Award was an honour he wanted to share with his fellow branch members. He especially wanted to share it with those who stepped Sergeant-at-arms Marc Aalbers (far right) was presented with the Legionnaire of the Year Award up and assisted him when a kitchen fire during the Havelock Legion Branch 389 honours and awards ceremony that was part of the Branch’s caused major damage and “crippled” the traditional New Year’s Day levee. He is joined by honours and awards chair Bob Anderson and acting Branch 389 Ladies Auxiliary’s means of generating revenue. branch president Marg Savoie. Photo: Bill Freeman “I am a little overwhelmed,” he said after receiving the award from acting president Marg Savoie.

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Legionnaire of the Year: Marc Aalbers.

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days. The big centres are attracting the young kids.”

Most of all Aalbers and the Branch 389 executive want Branch 389 members to bring their ideas forward.

“If there are good ideas out there floating about we want to hear it.”

Acting president Savoie “feels good” about Branch 389 heading into 2014.

“As long as we continue getting the support and people keep coming in I feel good going into the New Year,” she said. “We’ve got sports going six days a week.”

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Aalbers, she said, spent “major hours” overseeing the day-to-day operation of the branch as well as attending meetings at both the branch and zone.

Through it all Savoie said Aalbers never lost his “cheerful disposition” and demonstrated time and again his “dedication and love for the Legion.”

“Sometimes you just have to step up to the plate when it’s required. You don’t do it for service to self; you do it for service to others. That’s what my dad taught me and that’s the way I try to live,” Aalbers said.

“It’s a branch award,” he added.

“It’s more than just me at work in this branch.”

Aalbers says the team that helped restore the kitchen to functionality and get the Branch back on its feet are resilient role models.

“They’ve got your back. They’re always there.” To make sure things get done you can always count on them to come out and help.”

Aalbers hopes Branch 389 can attract some new young members in 2014.

“I’d love to have a few more young members. The unfortunate fact is they’re not moving to Havelock these

J. Ward, 45 years; Don Kelloway, Janet O’Hara, 35 years; Marjorie Royer, 25 years; Robert Scully, five years.

Associate members: Phillip Hill, R.R. Hill, Jim Hornsby, Bob Munro, Stuart Scott, 40 years; Boyd Hill, John Marten, Sandy Peters, last year’s 40 years; Joan Bannister, D.M. Hill, Larry Moore, 35 years; Nancy Bauer, G. Duvall, Barb McGruder, Fred O’Hara, 30 years; Denise Corner, Val Johnson, Merlyn Slack, Doug Warren, 25 years; Wayne Bauer, June Cooper, Blair Emery, Don Martin, Dan McArthur, 20 years; Elizabeth Little, Patrick McGeein, Wayne Montgomery, Marg Morley, David Shore, 15 years; Kim Kemp, Margaret Kemp, Shirley Terrell, Brianne Watkinson, ten years; Dianne Doherty, Debra Levere, five years.

Affiliate members: Elwood Hamilton, 15 years; Marlaine Vanelslander, ten years.

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get to do here (to benefit the community),” he said.

High on his list of special 2013 moments was the presentation of a rare and prestigious Bomber Command service bar on November 11 to 90-year-old Branch 300 member David Porter, a 427 Lion Squadron Handley Page tailgunner who survived an astonishing 37 missions over Europe during the Second World War. The average Bomber Command crew didn’t make it past 15 missions.

“It was a great honour to be able to give it to him, just to see the look on his face, the reaction was great,” said Calder.

The fact that Branch 300 was able to make the Bomber Command presentation on Remembrance Day added poignancy to the occasion and Calder says that the large crowds that now consistently attend the service at the

Norwood Cenotaph are heartening to the Legion and its members, especially veterans.

“It’s awesome to see that many people out, young kids, everybody is out to participate in the day. It’s good to see the kids coming out to support it.”

Canada’s direct involvement in Afghanistan and the loss of Canadian lives in the conflict have borne home the importance of Remembrance, says Calder, himself an active member of the armed forces who’s served in Afghanistan and Haiti.

The presence of troops from CFB Trenton in the Norwood ceremony adds even greater meaning to the day.

Seventy-five years of Legion presence in Norwood is a “big milestone,” Calder agrees. “It is good to be successful here at the Legion so we can celebrate it properly.”

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“Transportation is one of the largest services we provide,” says Small.

The New to You store remains a signature fundraising concern and attracts people of all ages with clothing and apparel for infants to adults.

Small says she would like to find a couple of people who would like to help out with the store.

The New to You store has been run and organized for years by longtime volunteer Doreen Clarke and Small says Clarke could use some help to lighten the workload.

“It might be nice to have a few extra hands to help out in that as well,” she says.

The office is still “trying to grow” its frozen meals program and

News – Havelock-BelmontMethuen – The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 389 in Havelock shone the spotlight on one of its favourite guests from Campbellford during its traditional New Year’s Day honours and awards ceremony.

Branch 389 presented a special certificate of appreciation to Helen Glenn, a “tireless” member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Branch 103 in

Campbellford but now also a very strong supporter of Branch 389 in Havelock.

During the 2013 poppy campaign Glenn canvassed thirteenand-one-half-hours over four days for Branch 389 in addition to regular canvassing for Branch 103 in Campbellford.

“This woman is truly amazing,” says Branch 389 acting president Marg Savoie.

Glenn also volunteers with

Community Care’s Meals on Wheels program as well as the Campbellford Memorial Hospital gift shop.

“Her sense of duty does not stop there,” Savoie said noting Glenn’s visits to hospital patients and to nursing homes to “brighten the days of those who reside there.”

Since joining the Havelock Legion’s Thursday night dart league Glenn has “thrown her heart and soul” into volunteering at Branch

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“would like to talk to more people about that.”

The monthly Diner’s lunches are “going strong.”

The Friendly Visitors program could use some additional help, Small notes.

It is a program that provides direct contact with people who might be isolated at home. Small says the Norwood office has some new clients who would benefit from the Friendly Visitors program.

389, says Savoie.

“She volunteers her time to our Ladies Auxiliary each and every time she is called upon to do so,” she said.

Many of those volunteer shifts can start at 11 a.m. and Glenn might stay on until midnight until all the work has been completed.”

Savoie said it was with “great pleasure” that the Havelock Legion honoured Glenn with an appreciation certificate.

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News – Asphodel-Norwood – It was a “challenging year in many ways,” says Norwood Community Care program assistant Kelly Small of fundraising efforts in 2013 but the vibrant and vital organization is ready to plunge into the New Year with vigour and resolve.

“We rely so heavily on fundraising (and) each year it gets harder and harder. We face competition from others in the community so everybody’s vying for fundraising dollars from the same people,” Small says.

She wonders if in the future there might be a way “for more of us to come together and maybe share in the fundraising efforts and proceeds.”

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able option “especially being a small community and having so many organizations vying for these (same) dollars.”

Nevertheless, the Norwood Community Care office remains a strong part of the countywide organization and plays a significant role in helping seniors remain independent and in their own homes as well as giving volunteer-minded township residents a chance to shine in so many different ways.

“Volunteers and volunteering is at the heart of what we do, they’re what make everything happen in the office day to day,” says Small.

Remarkably, she adds, many of those people volunteer for multiple organizations.

The office is always in need of

classes and the Branch has prepared curriculum resources for teachers.

The museum will certainly have a role to play in the Branch’s seventy-fifth anniversary, says Calder.

“I am looking forward to 2014 and to see what it brings.”

The Branch is always asking itself: “What it can provide to the community,” says Calder.

“It’s not just a bar, we’re here for everything in the community. I think that message is getting out there.”

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Topping the list will be this summer’s diamond anniversary celebration, which will include a colourful Drumhead service and gala dinner.

“There will be a whole week of events to celebrate,” says Calder, well into his second term as president and thrilled and honoured to help guide the Branch down a positive pathway.

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News – Asphodel-Norwood – Township Mayor Doug Pearcy says he’ll stand for office again in 2014.

The former reeve of the village of Norwood and head of Asphodel-Norwood council (like other municipalities the township replaced the reeve and deputyreeve titles with the more urban mayor designation only recently) since Norwood and township of Asphodel amalgamated in 1998, Pearcy made the announcement during a wide-ranging year-end interview with The Independent.

One of the key reasons for deciding to run again, Pearcy says, is his belief that during the next term of council there could be “significant change possibly in the structure of municipalities and how we do business.”

“I would really like to be part of that. We’ll see where it goes,” he said.

“I think the township is in pretty good shape. It’s not easy, municipal government has become very complicated and every year there are shifts in programs.”

“The future is a concern,” said Pearcy, noting with some apprehension the provincial government’s ongoing cutback of the

important Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) which was pared back to $550 million in 2013 and will drop to $500 million in 2014.

Pearcy says there are “rumours” it will be completely gone by 2018.

Asphodel-Norwood will see its 2014 OMPF grant cut by $39,900 but will still receive almost $700,000 in OMPF money.

“That’s about 25 per cent of our operating money,” said Pearcy.

A future without that grant is not a pleasant one to imagine, he says.

“If we have to go back to the taxpayers for that money it’s going to mean some significant tax increases,” said Pearcy. “I just don’t know what would happen if they cut out the OMPF. It’s going to be unreal to try and run a small municipality like this. I can see perhaps in the future there will have to be some changes in government structures.”

Pearcy says there has been “no discussions whatsoever” in Peterborough County about structural changes but notes that in neighbouring Northumberland there has been lots of talk about single tiered government and “different

combinations.”

He expects those kind of discussions could occur in Peterborough County as well.

“There is going to have to be discussions of the next few years about the number of municipalities, the size of municipalities.”

Pearcy says that when Peterborough County was restructured in 1998 it was a “knee-jerk reaction” to the provincial government’s insistence that something be done.

Asphodel-Norwood was left a “little wee place with no assessment and very little population. It’s been very difficult for us. I think we’re doing good. Not everybody would agree with that but when you consider what we’re faced with and the limited resources I think we’re doing okay.” “(But) I do know there is going to come a time when we’re not going to be okay and all municipalities will have to look at different ways of doing business, whether it means different types of government or single tier at the county, there is going to be change in the future. Some people will say we didn’t go far enough in 1998; some would like to go back to the way it was. It can’t go back.”

Health unit confirms one death of local individual from the flu News – Trent Hills – The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has confirmed the death of an area resident who had the flu.

The individual, who was an adult under the age of 65 years, did not have any underlying medical conditions and was not immunized against the flu this year. The individual was hospitalized with the flu, but later died in hospital.

“We can sometimes become complacent about influenza, but the truth is that people still die every year from the flu,” stated Anne Marie Holt, Manager, Communicable Disease Control with the (HKPR) District Health Unit.

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younger people as well.

Children under five years of age already face a high risk of becoming ill from influenza, but may be even more vulnerable to the H1N1 strain as they were not exposed to this flu strain that first circulated during the 2009/2010 flu season.

As of January 3, the Health Unit has received lab-confirmed reports of 16 influenza cases, in individuals ranging in age from four years to 87 years.

Of those 16 cases, 11 individuals are under the age of 50 years.

While the immunization history of all the cases is not known, Holt confirms that at least six of the individuals have not been immunized against the flu.

The Health Unit is offering two special clinics, on in Lindsay on January 9 and the other in Port Hope on January 14, specifically geared to families with children

between the ages of six months and five years of age.

Appointments are necessary and will be provided first to families with young children.

There are still plenty of other opportunities for area residents to be immunized against the flu.

Anyone over five years of age can get the flu shot at any pharmacy offering the flu shot and a full list of participating pharmacies can be found on the Health Unit’s website at www.hkpr. on.ca. Residents can also contact their health care provider for the flu shot.

“This year, there is an excellent match between the flu vaccine and the H1N1 strain of influenza now circulating, so it is even more important to get a flu shot,” Holt stated.

For more information on the flu, visit the Health Unit’s website at www.hkpr.on.ca

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Supervolcanoes: Another thing to worry about

Editorial - The good thing about volcanoes is that you know where they are.

If you don’t want to get hurt, just stay away from them. The bad thing about supervolcanoes is that you may know where they are, but there’s no getting away from them. They only blow up very rarely, but when they do, the whole world is affected. They can cover an entire continent with ash, and lower temperatures sharply worldwide for years.

Gwynne Dyer “This is something that, as a species, we will eventually have to deal with. It will happen in future,” said Dr. Wim Malfait of ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal institute of Technology) , lead author of a recent paper in “Nature Geoscience” that says supervolcano eruptions don’t even need an earthquake as a trigger. “You could compare it to an asteroid impact,” he says. “The risk at any given time is small, but when it happens the consequences will be catastrophic.”

I know you already have enough to worry about, what with climate change and asteroid strikes and the like, but I’m afraid there’s more.

Volcanoes and supervolcanoes both involve magma (molten rock deep underground) that breaks through to the surface, but in practice they are quite different. Volcanoes gradually build themselves into mountains by repeated, relatively modest eruptions of lava. Supervolcanoes are a single massive explosion of magma rising to the surface over a huge area, and blasting at least a thousand cubic km. of ash into the atmosphere.

How massive? The largest recent volcanic eruption was Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, which blew about ten cubic km. of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere in 1991. The result was a 0.4 degree C drop in average global temperature for a year or so. But the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano 640,000 years ago was a hundred times as big.

It covered the entire North American continent with ash –

and just like an asteroid strike, it threw massive amounts of dust and ash into the stratosphere, where it stayed for years, blocking out much of the sunlight. (It doesn’t rain in the stratosphere, so the debris stays there for a long time.) As a result the average global temperature fell by as much as 10 degrees C for a number of years.

It was temporary, but while it lasted there was a steep fall in the amount of plant material growing on the planet, and a corresponding collapse in animal populations as well. Not mass extinctions, so far as we can tell, and fairly soon the plant and animal species repopulated their former habitats, but it certainly spoiled the party for the equivalent of several human generations.

How many people would die if such a catastrophe happened now? It is unlikely that even half of the world’s seven billion people would survive two or three years of severe hunger, and civilization itself would take a terrible beating.

Nor is there anything useful you can do to prepare for such a catastrophe, unless you are able to stockpile two or three years’ worth of food for the entire world.

At the moment, our global food reserve will feed the population for only three or four months, so that is not likely to happen. If it does not, then we just have to hope that the calamity doesn’t happen – knowing that we probably will not have much warning if it does.

What Dr. Malfait’s team discovered is that the detonation of a supervolcano is entirely dependent on the temperature of the liquid rock in the underground chamber. As it gets hotter, it gets less dense than the solid rock around it. At this point, it will behave just like an air-filled balloon or football that is held underwater, trying to pop up to the surface.

Eventually, the magma forces its way to the surface over an area of hundreds of square kilometres, expands and explodes.

On average, such an explosion only happens once every hundred thousand years, but in practice it could happen at any time, with as little as a few weeks warning. Just thought you’d like to know. Sleep well.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I’m glad the holidays are over Dear Editor, Finally the holiday season is over and we can get on with our lives. I’m tired of charity television commercials giving me a guilt complex, our hockey teams getting their butts kicked in world tournaments, and political end of the year interviews.

I’m tired of Mike Holmes making me feel small because two young boys in Africa don’t have parents to take care of them, of athletes begging me for $20 to pay for a brick to build a school in Kenya, or the goat with the voice of a Shakespearian actor wanting me to donate $75 to buy other goats.

I think the majority of us have charities that we support at this time of year and we don’t need organizations like the Christian Children’s Fund giving us a guilt complex by beaming pictures of sad looking African children into our living rooms. All the money those charities are paying for prime time advertising would probably pay for the good works that they are begging us to do.

I’m tired of watching our hockey players getting their butts waxed because, as Don Cherry says, we are sending politically correct teams to these tournaments and not necessarily our

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best players. Surely our Olympic experience over the years has taught us that we have to send our very best if we want to win. If we can’t send our very best then why even go?

Most of all, I’m tired of the year-end interviews with politicians trying to convince me that they want to make things better for Canada and the world and how they have something to contribute and pay back their fellow Canadians. I watched the Sunday morning political programs this morning before writing this column. Like most of the party leaders, Harper didn’t have the moral fortitude to face the nation and sat there and mouthed a lot of promises to the electorate. What they didn’t say is what they really meant; just give me the power I’m entitled to and want.

So I’m really glad the holiday season has come and gone. I just hope that someday soon we get back to celebrating what, in my view, is the real reason for the season . . . to take care of our own, to do what’s right for all, and to beat the stuffing out of international hockey teams.

Bob Laroque, Brighton

Resolutions are for other people

By Terry Bush Editorial - Did I make any New Year’s resolutions this year? Well they never seem to work out anyway so what’s the point of going out on a limb and making a bunch, one or any at all. Most of us still have resolutions kicking around from 15 years ago we haven’t gotten around to fulfilling, let alone thinking about new ones. I’d have to live to 105 like Stirling’s bon vivant Alice Heasman just to finish up my current resolution list let alone my bucket list.

So with the pressure off myself, I’m more than willing to help out others by telling them what they should do in 2014.

Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberals ... where does one start? Stop being ridiculous! When people show up in BMWs to collect free grocery cards available after the ice storm, there’s a problem with the administration of your program. And to make matters worse, you made yourself look like an ass going door-to-door handing out cards.

Kathleen, we all know what the term “photo op” means and yours was pretty blatant. Maybe you should just stick to running. I hear you enjoy that.

Better yet, get yourself and members of your party some hamster wheels, and generate some free green energy for us to make up for your nutty, pay producers way more than the market rate, green energy programs. This might also deflect some of the obvious ill will your party generated cancelling natural gas plants to get elected.

Tim Hudak and the Ontario Conservative Party ... are you taking lessons from the federal Liberals by running figureheads who don’t appeal to the public? Why on earth do you still have the same leader that lost the last election with another one looming in the spring.

I hear Michael Ignatieff is looking for work. Well, I didn’t really hear that or anything else regarding the former Liberal candidate but if Jean Charest can go from federal Tory to provincial Liberal, why can’t Mike go from federal Liberal to provincial Conservative? Then again, he didn’t do too well either last time out, did he?

Andrea Horwath and the NDP ... we still remember. Might be an idea to give it a rest until the older generation rides off into the sunset. We may be getting a little forgetful in our old age but not that forgetful.

Stephen Harper, if your goal was to reach Brian Mulroney’s status, you’ve succeeded. Time to call it a day after a good run and pass the leadership reins to someone else for the next election. Someone else does not mean John Baird.

We’ve all seen way too many photos of the man, red-faced and screaming.

Time for a kinder, gentler Conservative leader who’s, well, Conservative. Is there any chance good old Bob Stanfield can be cloned in time for the next election?

Justin Trudeau ... why did you go and cut all your hair off? Your hair and the pledge to legalize weed were pretty much the whole Liberal platform to date and now that only one plank remains, it must be quite the balancing act. Better stay away from the barber for awhile to regain those Samson locks that appeal to women voters because as much as many people would vote to end of the war on soft drugs, many of those same people won’t get around to voting on election day. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow, man.

Thomas Mulcair, you’re an entertaining guy in the House of Commons and more than a match for Stephen Harper but you ain’t Ed. In fact, even Ed ain’t Ed no more so maybe concentrate on uniting the left. Chances are you won’t do quite as well in La Belle Province this time round so don’t get your hopes up about forming the next government. Maybe you can be the power behind the throne of the united New Liberal Party of Canada if that ever happens.

To Barack Obama and the US. You were given a Nobel Peace Prize not a Nobel Blow Everything to Pieces Prize. Enough with the wedding party drone attacks. You can’t win the hearts and minds of a country when the hearts and minds are spread all over the ground.

Take the billions of dollars you give away to Egypt and Israel to play nice and play nice with your own citizens. People are losing their homes; people are working two jobs to get by and your citizens are more than fed up with the wars your federal government keeps getting involved in on behalf of countries with powerful lobby groups.

Give your country some affordable universal health care with the money you’ll save and don’t spend it on military bases around the world. Nobody likes a bully. If you do all this and still have a few bucks to spare, help feed some other countries. A full stomach is a great way to win hearts and minds.

And to the Toronto Maple Leafs … what can you say that hasn’t already been said. Get some seat warmers in those platinums so it looks like someone actually wants to watch a Leafs game. And then get yourself a team that will make the playoffs.

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One possibility is to remove the public works yard on Alma Street as well, and combine the two at the town’s business park, using power rights money, Macmillan said.

“Those are just my ideas,” he said. “It would be a council decision.”

Macmillan is “looking forward to seeing an end” to the debate of where a second major riving crossing should be built in Campbellford – either beside the existing structure or between Alma and Second streets to the south of it.

The issue has been investigated at length for several years and the steering committee currently overseeing the environmental assessment process is expected to make its recommendation sometime this month.

County council will ultimately decide which location will be chosen.

“This is going to affect the entire future of not only Campbellford but the whole area ... for generations to come, and if we make the wrong decision, it will be costly,” Macmillan said.

He reiterated his concern with twinning the existing bridge because it doesn’t provide for redundancy, when the new three-lane structure reaches the end of its life span and needs to be replaced, and it also doesn’t ensure unimpeded passage over the river for emergency vehicles, he said.

“I’m not convinced yet of either location but I’ve certainly got my concerns about what’s being proposed for the existing location because it will put us at greater risk than we’ve got today,” Macmillan said.

“We will actually be losing safety.”

Another major issue that emerged at the end of 2013 was the county’s decision to include single tier government as an option in trying to reduce Northumberland’s operational costs as well as those of the seven member municipalities. The matter was placed in the hands of the CAO committee to come up with a report.

“I fully expect the CAO committee to come back and say ‘We don’t do that, hire a consultant,’” Macmillan said.

Five of the municipalities made it clear they didn’t want single tier government considered as an option but the county “went ahead anyway,” he said.

That disregard of what the majority wanted is “the prime example of why we should not have single tier government here ... It shouldn’t even be on the table.”

Macmillan said he was “embarrassed” county council voted to place it there while he was warden.

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News - Trent Hills – In a year-end interview, Mayor Hector Macmillan again expressed dismay and anger over the projected 42 per cent increase in hydro rates over a five-year period, and said he’s signed an online petition asking the province’s auditor-general and ombudsman to investigate.

“Moving the costs of electricity in Ontario to what appears to be a total cost recovery program is insane,” he said.

Ontarians, he said, “can’t afford” the full cost of electricity.

“Why anyone would even think to do this is just absolutely beyond me. One thing for sure ... it’s going to cost them (the Liberals) their jobs. This is going to be the last straw.”

The projected rise in the price of electricity, on top of a 50 per cent increase over the past decade, is “going to put people out of their homes, ... put businesses out of business, (and) it’s going to absolutely destroy our economy.”

Macmillan said the rising cost of energy could topple the provincial government. If it pushes forward with it as part of a long-term energy plan, “they’re about to lose a budget,” he said.

The mayor has challenged his council, Northumberland County and the Eastern Ontario Warden’s Caucus to take a stand on the issue.

“Our residents expect us to help advocate on their behalf and I have every intention of doing that.”

The 55-year-old mayor, who was first elected in 2003 and plans to run again in October, said he’s looking forward to settling the outstanding power rights bill with Parks Canada in 2014.

“The federal government needs to pay what it owes us, and I’m going to insist on our legal costs being paid, and the interest,” he said. “The next step will be to buy out our agreement.”

The deal reached decades ago was that the federal government would provide the municipality 350 horsepower of free electricity in perpetuity; the benefit is worth about $150,000 a year in today’s dollars.

Should the municipality receive what Macmillan said would end the wrangling once and for all, more than $10 million in total, the money could be used in different areas.

“We will eventually need a new fire hall in Campbellford,” he said. The water filtration plant that sits next to the hall on Saskatoon Avenue “is likely going to need an expansion and the only place to expand is into the bay area of the fire hall.”

The municipality is also looking to build a recreation and wellness centre at the Campbellford fairgrounds sometime

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Teams challenged to prepare meal for five for ten bucks

7 Hills Community Pantry chair Gail Covert and fellow volunteer Liz Law are preparing for the third annual Definitely Not a Black Tie Lunch fundraiser that will take place January 18 at St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s United Church. Photo: John Campbell

Pat Stuckless, a public health food worker with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit, will be on hand to critique the meals based on their nutritional value and presentation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be sort of a ranking (but) we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to make it too competitive because we appreciate that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just giving their time,â&#x20AC;? 7 Hills chair Gail Covert said.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about making the cheapest meal, Law said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about (preparing) a good meal for ten dollars that a family could eat that is nutritious.â&#x20AC;?

The challenge is limited to ďŹ ve teams, of varying number, who will prepare and

By Sue Dickens

Lifestyles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Campbellford Lions President Eric Holmden recently welcomed two new Lions into the Campbellford Lions Club. They are Carol Lee and Shirley Simpson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both new Lions have a rich history of volunteerism in the Campbellford community,â&#x20AC;? he told the Trent Hills Independent.

Their commitment to the service club epitomizes their commitment to their community and is demonstrated by their active participation in any number of projects.

Both have been active in the Campbellford Lioness club for years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About ďŹ ve or six years ago Lions International no longer recognized Lioness clubs . . . so we decided we wanted to join

cook their meals in the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen.

The meals will then laid out on a table in the Gathering Place Room to be auctioned off.

The highest bid last year was $125 and the event raised slightly more than $1,000 in total for the pantry which provides food for 25 families â&#x20AC;&#x201C; close to 70 people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a month on average.

The teams will also have access to the fruits and vegetables that make up the $15 Good Food boxes sold monthly, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be allowed to use salt, pepper, eggs, milk, three slices of bread, margarine, a cup of ďŹ&#x201A;our, and half a cup

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the Lions Club,â&#x20AC;? said Lee. She was active with the Campbellford Lioness Club for 16 years and held a number of executive positions including president, vice-president and treasurer.

She chaired many projects such as Lioness grocery draws, yard sales, apple pie sales as well as the Melodies at the Mill committee, a Lions and Lioness project.

She served on several Lioness committees including Lunch and Learn and health seminars.

Lee has volunteered at several events including teas/bazaars, yard sales, Chrome on the Canal, as well as the Lions Vision & Hearing Screen Program.

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But her passion is to continue to be part of an organization that gives back to its community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Campbellford Lions Club is a group of men and women from diversiďŹ ed backgrounds and interests. Their goal is to give freely of time, energy, attention and commitment to the Campbellford community and at the same time enjoy friendships and support one another,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Campbellford Lions Club is a strong, thriving, active organization with a proud history of accomplishment.

Passionate about volunteerism these two womAny organization that has celen, Carol Lee, left, and Shirley Simpson, right, are ebrated 60 years of service has the newest members of the Campbellford Lions proven its worth,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Club. They are very involved with club projects such as selling tickets for this recent grocery draw. Both have been active in the local Lioness club for years, holding executive positions.

The women agree that volunteering has many rewards as does giving back to their community. Photo: Sue Dickens

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served with Communities in Bloom, The Hell with the Bell (Retired Teachers of Ontario); the Retired Women Teachers of Ontario (RWTO) program committee and is a member of the Probus Club here.

A businesswoman who at one time ran a shoe shop in town she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that I have retired I like to spend time on activities and volunteer. I joined just to help the community out,â&#x20AC;? she explained.

She is a three-time past president of the local Lioness Club and has held executive positions with the Bemersyde Chapter IODE, including president and treasurer.

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7 Hills is open every Friday but the third one of the month, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

It used to be open one Tuesday night a month as well but the volunteer group stopped doing that in December because the response wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t great.

Arrangements can be made to use the service if there is an urgent need by calling 705-924-2077, Law said.

of sugar without it counting against their total cost.

Contents from a Good Food box will be used to make the soup thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s included in the $7 admission, which also pays for a sandwich, cookie, tea or coffee and two tickets for a door prize draw.

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Not much more â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their budget has been increased to $10, up two dollars from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amount.

Still not a lot to feed ďŹ ve people but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what makes the challenge so interesting.

Entrants will also be limited to using only those ingredients available at the 7 Hills Community Bank, the organization hosting the two-hour event January 18 at St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s United Church in the Gathering Place Room. The doors open at noon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do is make it more pertinent to the people who use the food bank,â&#x20AC;? said Liz Law, a 7 Hills volunteer whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in charge of the group organizing the fundraiser.

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Motorized shopping cart makes Sharpe’s fully accessible

By Sue Dickens

News – Campbellford – While the Ontario government works to ensure the province is fully accessible by 2025, the folks at Sharpe’s Food Market have already taken steps to make that happen.

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cart sits inside at the front of the store, free for use by customers.

“It’s battery operated, moves slowly and is quite maneuverable. It provides mobility to our customers that need it,” said Steve Sharpe, owner of the grocery store in

Campbellford.

The motorized cart has been available for the past several weeks and is being used on a regular basis, he noted.

This idea was in our suggestion box where we pose the questions: what do you like?, what don’t you like?, we’d like to know,” he explained.

“At the beginning of every department head meeting we read what is in our suggestion box so we take the suggestions very seriously because that’s feedback that we really, really like,” he added.

“If somebody takes the time to write, there’s probably 30 people that didn’t take the time to write . . . so we know it’s important.”

The scooter itself is easy to use.

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Customers who have used it really enjoy it,” said Sharpe.

He told a story of how the cart has helped a couple who shop in his store.

“I had some feedback the other day. A gentleman thanked me. His wife has mobility problems. He had to come in and shop while she had to wait in the car. Now she can come in with him to shop. It made life easier for him and she got a chance to get what she really wanted,” he said.

“Shopping is very visceral and each person has their own preferences,” he added.

The cart, which costs, “under $2,000” is just one of the steps the owner has taken to make Sharpe’s Food Market more accessible.

“The other suggestion that has come up in our suggestion box was to add to our handicapped parking spots, so we doubled the number in the parking lot. We’ve gone from two to four,” Sharpe explained.

Sharon Wood, the store’s customer service manager, agreed that the changes to provide more accessibility have made a difference.

“Some of our customers who are older or injured, they like to be able to shop and look around so they suggested if we got a little cart that would help,” said Wood.

“It’s always better to have a customer in the store and let them make their own choices. Staff is here to help if they can’t reach anything.”

Having recently won the bronze award for top independent grocer of

the year which included store team performance and customer service among the criteria, Sharpe’s takes its customer service seriously.

In fact Sharpe’s takes its service so seriously it has an Accessible Customer Service Plan.

Training is provided to staff so they know what to do and how to properly assist shoppers.

For more information on Sharpe’s customer service plan go to: http://www.sharpesfoodmarket. ca/accessible.html The province’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requires that the province will be fully accessible for people with disabilities by 2025.

Sharpe’s Food Market is ready.

“Customer service is our priority,” said Sharpe.

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Sharon Wood, customer service manager at Sharpe’s Food Market in Campbellford, demonstrated just how easy it is to use the new motorized shopping cart now available for customers. The cart was made available just before the Christmas season. It’s one more step in the store’s move to make sure the food market is fully accessible. And best of all it’s free.

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News - Northumberland-Quinte West – Will there be a spring election in Ontario after a budget is brought down?

“That’s the billion dollar question,” says Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Rob Milligan, but “there are certain signs” it will happen.

Premier Kathleen Wynne, who assumed the job when she won a Liberal party leadership race after her predecessor Dalton McGuinty resigned, appears willing to go to the polls to get a mandate from the people directly, Milligan said.

“She’s feeling some of the pressure (to do) that.”

Also, “the NDP have signalled they are not going to prop up the Liberals any longer (after having) already done that twice.”

But, he added, “One thing I’ve learned so far (in politics) is that just when you

think that you figured something out, the winds change so there could be a deal struck between the Liberals and the NDP. It wouldn’t surprise me.”

Wynne, with “some of the things she’s proposing ... (is) even more left wing that even (NDP leader) Andrea Horvath.”

Should an election be held, however, Milligan and the Progressive Conservatives will be ready to do battle, having put together 15 white papers setting out their positions on a number of issues, including energy, health care, education, job creation, welfare, labour, and more.

The soaring cost of electricity and the $1.1 billion that was squandered in the cancellation of two gas-fire powered plants are sure to be major election issues, Milligan said.

Governments make mistakes but “the most disturbing part was the fact they tried to cover up” what took place,

Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Rob Milligan and his Progressive Conservative party are fully prepared for a spring election. Photo: John Campbell

which led to an OPP investigation being launched, he said.

People are “frustrated” with “scandal after scandal of the misuse and misappropriation of their monies, their tax dollars” in connection with the power plants, E-health, ORNGE – “the list goes on and on.”

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TRAVEL

Pampered in Paradisis

By John M. Smith

Lifestyles - One of the perks of my ‘job’ is that, from time to time, I get to participate in a ‘press trip’ with a group of fellow travel writers, and my latest such excursion took me and four other Canadian travel writers to Cancun and the Mayan Riviera, where we were guests at the Paradisus Cancun and Paradisus Playa del Carmen. Both 5-star properties proved to be exceptional and we were treated ‘royally’ (literally), for we resided in the adults-only section of the resorts, with their all-inclusive luxury and Paradisus signature ‘Royal Service’. This meant that we had the assistance of a personal butler/concierge during our stay that would, if we wished, help with such chores as unpacking/packing our luggage, reserving specialty restaurants and spa services, booking excursions, ironing clothes, shoe shining, and even drawing a bath. It also meant that our in-room minibar was restocked daily and we had a separate checkin/out lounge, personalized turn-down service, complimentary Internet access, a choice of aromatic pillows, and our own private pool, bar and restaurant. We were even given cell phones with which to call our personal butler/concierge at any time.

This ‘Royal Service’ treatment is available to any adult guest, of course (at an additional cost), but if you really want to relax and be pampered, then this is the answer. Both resorts also offer a similar treatment for families, in a separate area, and includes the assistance of a Family Concierge, a Paradisus Kids Beach Kit, a Kids Zone (with supervised children’s activities), special children’s in-suite ameni-

(Above) A view of our beach area at Playa del Carmen.

Photos: John M. Smith (Right) A view of Paradisus Cancun from a boat.

Carlos presents a tequila tasting class at Paradisus Cancun.

ties (including robes, slippers, and a kit containing such items as a mini toothbrush, insect repellant, sunblock, and shower gel), and a nightly turn-down service that includes milk and cookies.

Both resorts also offer “Life Enrichment Experiences” as part of their all-inclusive package, including such activities as yoga, pilates, massage lessons, wine, tequila, and sushi tastings, tango and salsa classes, and belly and pole dancing lessons (apparently this latter one is the most popular). I partook in a tequila tasting enrichment, which I did with Carlos, who told me that “tequila ALL-INCLUSIVE PACKAGE INCLUDES: ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE FROM TORONTO TO FORT LAUDERDALE, TRANSFERS, PRE-PAID GRATUITIES AND CLASSIC BEVERAGE PACKAGE** Why book on the internet?

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He confided that good tequila should actually be consumed straight and slowly to “experience and savour the smooth, full flavour.”

Both resorts also offer one a la carte restaurant that costs extra, and we tried these, too to simply check them out for you, of course. Expect to spend two to three hours here, luxuriating, with the serving of several exquisite courses, each embellished by an enticing mixture of intriguing flavours, some contrasting and some complementing, that will awaken all your taste buds, and each course accompanied by delectable wine pairings. I discovered that these marathon specialty tastings were definitely an important part of the pampering at Paradisus!

If even further pampering is necessary, both resorts have a YHI SPA, where you’re instructed to “invigorate your senses”. In my quest to ‘sample it all’, I, too, tried the 50 minute Relaxation Body Massage just so that I could report that it was, indeed, relaxing and worthwhile!

The Paradisus Cancun is arguably the most spectacular looking of these resorts, for it consists of five easily recognizable pyramids and it’s located a mere 15 minutes from the airport, so it’s close to the action. Its 668 suites include 136 Royal Service Deluxe Suites and 183 Family Concierge Junior Suites and the resort also has a tennis court, a 9-hole par 3 golf course, four pools, and a wide selection of bars and restaurants (including several a la carte choices, with varying dress codes).

A short walk took me from this resort to the new Cancun Maya Museum, which is well worth a visit.

It contains many archaeological artifacts from Ma-

yan excavations, so I learned a lot about this ancient civilization while there. I also checked out the San Miguelito archaeological site, located next to this museum, and walked among its ruins and I was joined on this tour by some local iguanas.

Another worthwhile attraction is right across the street from the Paradisus Cancun. Aquaworld, Cancun’s largest marina, offers swimming with dolphins, snorkeling, scuba diving, and parasailing opportunities and day trips to the nearby island of Isla Mujeres.

It also offers an opportunity (which we took) to take a jet boat out to see English artist Jason Decaires Taylor’s 400 underwater life-sized sculptures that form an artificial reef.

The Paradisus Playa del Carmen, the other awesome resort I visited, is located about 45 minutes south of Cancun, right on the Mayan Riviera, and it’s an even larger property, with over 900 suites, including 120 Royal Service Luxury Junior Suites (with a Jacuzzi on each balcony), and more than 100 swim-up suites. It’s located close to Playa del Carmen’s main street, 5th Avenue, which I could reach by simply strolling along the beach for about 25 minutes. I also discovered that it’s less than an hour boat ride to the island of Cozumel.

In addition to the pampering you’ll receive at Playa del Carmen, I’d also recommend taking the resort’s informative mangrove tour, to learn more about the importance of preserving this delicate eco-system. I’d also take time to experience swimming in a nearby cenote (an exposed groundwater pool/natural sinkhole). Furthermore, I’d suggest adding a day trip to the nearby Mayan archaeological sites at Tulum, Coba, and/or Chichen Itza and these trips can be arranged right at the resort itself.

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LIFESTYLES

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Beware of the vacuum

Lifestyles - December 20 was a pivotal day in my life, though I didn’t know it at the time. I drank my last Diet Pepsi. I’ve been trying to give up the wonderful drink, off and on, for about five years now. Only after I had finished that last can did I finally decide that I had had enough, thanks to some prodding from my pesky oldest daughter who mentioned things like “it can cause cancer” and “you’re killing yourself.”

When a Christmas guest left a Diet Coke in the fridge, she poured it down the sink. I am officially cut off.

Old age dementia runs in my family, and I figure aspartame can’t be that nice a thing for your brain.

So, after ten years of it being a daily habit, I’m done.

Many of us are quitting things this time of year. 2014 is upon us, and we want to start right. We’re going to cut out sugar. We’re going to cut out wheat. We’re going to cut out aspartame, preservatives, and anything resembling flavour. We’re going to beat our bodies into submission.

Yet one thing I’ve found with my decision to forsake Diet Pepsi is that vacuums aren’t pretty. When you quit something you rely on, whether it’s a drink or a cigarette or a daily Facebook fix, you’re disrupting your normal habits. That forms a vacuum. Whenever there is a vacuum, things rush in to fill it, usually bad things. That’s why it’s so hard to finally quit, because that vacuum reminds you, every second of every day, wouldn’t that nice cold fizz taste good right about now?

Lifestyles - There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to growing things. From the discovery of fertilisers (probably when nomads noticed that the grass grew greener where the herds slept last year), to the use of pesticides (would you believe 4500 years ago the Sumerians were using sulphur) and up to the evolution in mechanical harvesting, everything has been variations on a theme.

One underlying theme has been “back to the garden.” It doesn’t matter if we call it Eden, Jannah, the Garden of Empowering Liberation, Sacred Ways Grove (more than one faith group uses this term) or plain old “Back To The Land”, there seems to be something within us that has an elemental pull as old as the land itself.

Sometimes grass roots trends will be captured by the global community and be translocated worldwide; fair trade being one good example.

Sometimes, the practice will stay localized.

It is true that not all of us are fortunate enough to have a garden but it is equally true that all of us are nourished by food grown in a “garden.”

This is where our personal grass roots movement could start, with the food we eat. We have the amazing good fortune to live in an active, diverse agriculturally rich part of the entire planet. Everything that we need can be purchased from local producers either in the supermarkets, at farmers’ markets or at the farm gate. Can each of us afford to do that?

I don’t think so but certainly we can start.

If you can drive to the grocery store or take public transit, then you can make it to the farmers’ market. You can talk the actual grower of the food and learn exactly what went into the tomato that you are holding in MP Rick Norlock is holding your hand. Compare the taste of a Waupoos tomato to one shipped in from California. a Passport Clinic Now, think of the difference of giving the Saturday, January 11, 9 a.m. – noon farmer a dollar as opposed to spending it in a supermarket. All of the costs and taxes at the Campbellford Library that accrued to the tomato during harvesting, processing, packaging, shipping and 98 Bridge St. E. handling and marketing in a conventional retail outlet are added up in the latter. That Please visit Passport Canada at dollar gets splits up with a goodly chunk www.ppt.gc.ca to find out which going to the government of day; doesn’t documents and signatures matter if it is a GST, a VAT, or HST, the are required to complete your government will get its “share.” The farmer’s dollar is required to split off some for application PRIOR to attending the Passport Clinic. the same government but the major portion A photographer will be is in the farmer’s hands. That dollar stays available at the clinic for in the community and is spent in the community; we feed ourselves, support our passport photos for a fee. farmers, and keep the money in our com- Please note that the turnaround munity... time for completed passports is I stated earlier that we can get everyabout 4-6 weeks.

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If you’re going to give something up, then, you must replace it with something and it’s best to have that plan before you give that thing up.

Too often we think, “I’ll just develop self-control and I’ll be fine.” If selfcontrol were that easy, we wouldn’t have rehab or Cheetos in giant bags or websites dedicated to the People of Wal-Mart. Taking pride in oneself and treating oneself well isn’t just about self-control; it’s about developing new habits. And it’s not easy.

That’s what I’m really struggling with right now. My cousin, who has never ingested anything bad into her body in her life, suggested that I replace my Diet Pepsi with lemon and Perrier. I wonder if she has ever actually tasted Perrier. But I’ve stocked up anyway, along with a new water cooler and some juices, because I need something.

These habits that we hate are only there because they serve some purpose in our lives. Food comforts us. Alcohol helps us relax. Diet Pepsi dances on your tongue, especially when you take that first sip after the ice is added (I really need to reach for that Perrier again). Or perhaps it’s something even more intransigent: that go-nowhere relationship helps you feel not so alone, even if he’s never going to marry you, even if she’s never going to stop flirting with other guys, even if he still chooses porn over you. At least you have someone, right?

Maybe this year it’s time to say that the bad things that are holding you back have to go and find something to replace them. If you eat for pleasure, find something else that will give you pleasure. If you go for three days without taking more than a small dessert at a time, let yourself buy a new lipstick. Trying to give up cigarettes? Start a new hobby that will keep you busy. Tossing out that boyfriend who constantly berates you? Start volunteering and find a wider circle of friends.

Don’t just say good-bye to something; say hello to something else.

Misery thrives in a vacuum, so this new year fill up that vacuum with things that help you, not hurt you. That’s the route to a truly happy new year.

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Collector has more than 1,000 dolls to keep her company Lifestyles – Trent Hills – Rapunzel, Howdy Doody, Abbott and Costello, Dennis the Menace and Barbie all live with Earline Armstrong.

They are just some of the 1,004 dolls she has in a collection she began in 1979 when her daughter Brenda left home to start her own life, leaving two dolls behind.

“If I can find the space I’m not done yet,” said this spry 71-yearold, diminutive woman, who at four feet three inches tall and 94 pounds, loves to wander through her house where upstairs three of the six rooms are filled with her collection. That’s not including the downstairs dolls.

Each doll is displayed, sitting, standing, or on a wall or in a baby’s crib, or on the beds.

“I’ve always liked babies and I still do. I just think babies are adorable.

And some of the dolls you can wrap in a blanket and cuddle,” she said as she pointed to her favourite doll, one made entirely of porcelain.

“I found her six years ago . . . now they put stuffing in the stomachs of porcelain dolls . . . this one is all porcelain,” she commented.

“Here’s one that goes back to the 1930s. She has red braided hair. I don’t know what she is called but she has very soft hair,” she said as she continued to point out dolls in

her collection.

“This doll belonged to my grandmother back in the 1920s. They gave them out at fairs,” she said holding up one of the smallest dolls in her collection.

Armstrong’s passion for doll collecting means she can be found at yard sales and auctions looking for the doll she doesn’t have yet.

“I have paid as little as $1 or $2 and as much as $50,” she said.

When she finds a doll she likes she has to stop and think about buying it though.

“My mind has to work to think whether I’ve got that one at home.

If I think I don’t then I buy it,” she said with a grin.

Some of her dolls dance, some talk and some cry. Some are from other people’s collections.

“Evelyn Isaac of Campbellford had a huge collection, a whole barn full of them. I did buy some of her dolls,” she said.

Downsizing was the reason for the sale and is something Armstrong isn’t even considering.

“I told my daughter when she gets this house she can have the dolls. She can do what she wants with them,” she said pragmatically.

With six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, many of the dolls may find themselves remain-

ing with the family, something Armstrong would like to see happen.

“These dolls are part of my family,” she said.

“I like them but Bill, my husband, doesn’t,” she added with a shy grin.

The couple has been married 53 years.

Armstrong enjoys sharing her collection with friends who drop by for a visit.

Recently she gathered up more than two dozen of the dolls and took them to showcase at Island Park Retirement Community.

“The residents enjoyed them very much,” she said.

Armstrong also collects 78-rpm records, salt-and-pepper shakers Collecting dolls since 1979, Earline Armstrong now has 1,004 in her home. She is always on the lookand glass bottles.

When not adding to her collec- out for more and can be found at yard sales and auctions. “If I can find the space I’m not done yet,” said this spry 71-year-old who treasurers each and every one of her dolls. Photo: Sue Dickens tions, Armstrong keeps busy as an active member of the Order of Eastern Star, the Warkworth Continued from page 15 Community SerFor those of us old enough to remember, many we can adopt according to our resources. Let’s get vice Club, Seyhomes had root cellars and cold storage rooms. We to preserving and storing food as much as we can. mour East Womstored root crops such as potatoes, carrots, parsnips Think of a nice winter meal such as mashed potaen’s Institute and and turnips. We waxed and hung cabbages. We also toes, turnips or squash, a coleslaw with carrots and the Warkworth made preserves from fresh produce when it was in cabbage, a meat or fish of your choice (purchased chapter of the season. We could have strawberry jam in February. locally, cut , wrapped and frozen in your freezer) Canadian Cancer It is easy to go the market in August and buy lo- with a bit of fruit cobbler for dessert. We can make Society. cally grown corn on the cob. It is easy to buy straw- the 100 mile diet, the reduced carbon footprint, and berries in June, tomatoes in August, and squash in the back-to-the-land movement trend a year round October. Here’s a grass roots idea I am suggesting affair.

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Milligan said the high cost of elec- gram that poured money into the horse racing industry. tricity is “a major concern” among It has forced “quite a few people” to sell their farms and manufacturers in his riding, because of get rid of their horses, and the negative spinoff effects have fluctuating bills tied to the purchase of been huge, he said. expensive green energy produced by wind turbines and solar panels, and the sale of surplus electricity at a loss to other jurisdictions.

Residential rates are projected to go up by more than 40 per cent in the next few years.

The Conservatives, if elected, wouldn’t be able to stop that from happening, because “the ball’s already rollNo More Travelling to Bigger Cities ing,” but they would set out a different path for energy production over the next and Now Much More Affordable ten to 30 years, he said, which would include honouring existing contracts Decompression Therapy is the but ending the feed-in tariff program Non Surgical Treatment of Choice for that pays high prices for wind and solar Disc Related Spinal Problems energy.

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Bottle drive helps out CDHS D-Day anniversary trip

By Bill Freeman

News – Hastings – It was only fitting that Campbellford District High School students used the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 106 in Hastings as its base of operations for a fundraising bottle drive to help with their trip to Europe to participate in 70th anniversary ceremonies for D-Day in Normandy and Italy.

The CDHS contingent is joining up with East Northumberland Secondary School in Brighton in a journey of lifetime that will

take them to Juno Beach in Normandy, France and Monte Cassino where the “all-seeing” sixth century monastery and nearby village loomed as the great defensive bulwark of Hitler’s Gustav Line.

Seventieth anniversary commemorations will take place at both sites where Canadian troops suffered tremendous casualties in what would be the start of the onthe-ground liberation of Europe.

“It is a real honour to go,” CDHS co-operative teacher Gary

Chappell says. “It (will be) a real eye-opener for the kids and will have a huge impact.”

Chappell was part of the CDHS group that travelled to Vimy Ridge and its haunting memorial two years ago to mark the 95th anniversary of the First World War battle. The memory is vivid and lasting, he says.

“Even for me it was almost overwhelming (being) at the Vimy Ridge ceremony. As you were walking up the hill to Vimy there were people lining the road

up there with Canadian flags. It’s pretty overwhelming.”

“We just think it’s a great opportunity for students. It is very significant,” said Chappell of the trip that will include over 30 CDHS students and parents.

The ceremonies marking the landing at Juno by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade and those at Monte Cassino will be the last major ten-year anniversaries to include veterans and Chappell is pleased CDHS students will be witness to the historic events.

“It’s still very much alive there, the impact that Canada had and our participation in the wars.”

They were pleased to use the Hastings Legion as a gathering place on Saturday.

“We have received lots of support from local Legions in Hastings, Warkworth and Campbellford and also service clubs,” says Chappell. Hastings students at CDHS will be among the students travelling overseas.

They are still talking about other fundraisers over the next few months.

“It’s going very well. It’s kind of a school effort; everybody’s behind it.”

He expects that when they return from Europe, some students will want to speak to the groups and organizations that supported their venture.

“We have had kids go around in the past and speak to some of the groups.”

Fourteen-thousand of the 135,000 allies that landed or parachuted into Normandy during the D-Day invasion were Canadian.

During the ten-week campaign 5,500 Canadians would be killed.

On June 6, 359 Canadians were killed, 574 were injured and 47 were taken prisoner. The Canadians pushed further inland after landing at Juno than any of the allied contingents storming the five beaches.

Seventy-five-thousand Canadians took part in the Italian campaign. Of the 4,500 Commonwealth graves at the Cassino War Cemetery 835 are Canadian.

Campbellford District High students held a bottle drive in Hastings Saturday to help raise funds for a trip to Europe to participate in the seventieth anniversaries of the June 6 Canadian D-Day invasion at Juno Beach and Canadian participation in the five-month-long campaign to seize Monte Cassino and its redoubtable monastery. From left to right are, Ernie Burrows, Blake Chappell, Brian Cunningham, Emeline Cobble-Dick, Nick Crate, Bronte Walker-Moore and Akayla Howson. Photo: Bill Freeman

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Williams, Shirley Louise Eleanor Passed away peacefully with family by her side at the Trenton Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 in her 82nd year. Beloved daughter of William and Isabell Lucas. Wife of the late Ray Williams. Dear mother of Edward (Catherine) Williams, Deborah (Chris) Wood, and Donna Matthews. Survived by sisters Gloria Hull and Dolly McLean.

Predeceased by son Paul Williams. Always loved never forgotten; proud grandmother of Amy, Kristy, Marly, Paige, Sarah and Erin and great grandchildren Lyla, Cooper, Matthew, Alex and Dylan. Shirley and Ray were involved with the Barbershop Harmony Society for many years and the last couple of years Shirley was involved with the Brighton York Road Women’s Institute. At Shirley’s request cremation has taken place. Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Donations to the Cancer Society or charity of your choice CL494649 would be appreciated.

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At the Dundas Manor Nursing Home in Winchester on Saturday, January 4, 2014, Enid Dalrymple (nee Grimmon), formerly of Williamsburg, in her 100th year. Beloved wife of the late John A. Dalrymple (former viceprincipal at Kemptville College). Loving mother of John (Barbara) of Kemptville and Jim (Donnalene) of Brighton.

Enid will be fondly remembered by grandchildren Kevin Dalrymple (Val) of Johnstown, Kim Blauer (Jason) of Stittsville, Karen Dalrymple of Stittsville, Kristen Dalrymple of Toronto and greatgrandchildren Andy, Warren, Abigail and Emma. She was predeceased by her infant daughter Jane, her brother Jim Grimmon and her sisters Freda Huff and Miriam Colliver. She is also survived by nieces and nephews. There will be no visitation or funeral service. A graveside service will be held at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in the spring. Donations to Dundas Manor would be gratefully acknowledged by the family.

Arrangements entrusted to the Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home in Williamsburg. Online condolences may be made at marsdenmclaughlin.com.

The family would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the staff of Dundas Manor for the excellent care they provided to Enid.

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HENNESSEY (Ross), Cherrie Frances...Passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends at the Bowmanville Hospital on December 25th, 2013. Beloved mother of Cheryl Virtue & her husband Barry, Lois Kemp & her husband Brian and Margaret Beaumaster & her husband Mark.

Proud Grandmother of Michelle Hennessey, Nicole Virtue, Matthew Virtue, Ryan Beaumaster, Christopher Beaumaster & his wife Myla, Lisa Virtue-Griffin & her husband Paul, Nathan Virtue & his wife Sarah and Great Grandmother of Danica and Stella. Loving sister-in-law to Freda Ross.

Predeceased by her brother Jim Ross and sister Jean Quinn. She worked at CIBC in Brighton for over 30 years and enjoyed her many co-workers and life-long friends made there. Cherrie loved the simple things in life; music, reading, living at the farm (her family home), spending time with friends and family, she loved animals and reminiscing about her childhood in Codrington.

Her pride for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins was apparent to anyone who knew her. As per Cherrie’s wishes she will be cremated and a celebration of her wonderful life will be held at the Codrington Community Hall in the Spring of 2014. If desired donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

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The family of the late Reta Pitts would like to thank friends and relatives for their acts of kindness, cards, food and their many donations to the Tri-Area Medical Centre in her memory. Thank you to the staff of Moira Place who made such a great home away from home for Mother, to the McConnell family for their professional yet compassionate assistance to us, to Rev. Bill Perry for his visit to meet us and for his comforting words, and to the ladies of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church for their visits to see Mom in Tweed and the lunch that they served after the service. Finally, thanks to her “special daughter” Carolyn Reid for her many years of friendship and caring.

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IBBOTSON, KATHLEEN AGNES At the Belleville General Hospital on Saturday, December 28th, 2013, age 85 years. Kathleen Ibbotson of RR#3, Frankford, beloved wife of the late George Henry Ibbotson. Loving mother of Ralph Ibbotson and his wife Lynn of Bowmanville, Dianne and her husband Terry Letch of Frankford, and Terry Ibbotson and his wife Kim of Foxboro. Predeceased by her sisters Luella, Violet and her brother Ernest. Sadly missed by her ten grandchildren and her many great grandchildren. Also sadly missed by her many nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at the Brighton Funeral Home, 130 Main Street, Brighton on Friday, January 3rd, 2014 from 12 o’clock noon.

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Born in Hastings, at a whopping 12 pounds, Archie was the youngest of 12 children of Bill and Mary Lousia West. That many children meant lots of stories to tell, NONE of which Archie was EVER the troublemaker. If you believe that…you didn’t know Archie.

He started his love affair with Luella Lee, daughter of Wesley and Vi Lee, at Christmas with a Life Saver storybook. Their story carried on for over 60 years.

Lots of love, laughter, and teasing. His three girls; Lynne (Dennis McColl), Karen (Hugh Mitchell), Tracy (Len Rance), learned to dish it right back and he’d laugh. 1949 All Ontario Midget Hockey Champion.

He loved his hockey. As a goaltender, he would lean his elbow on the cross bar and wait until the action hit the blue line before getting ready for the puck.

Lou was glad when helmets and facemasks came out because Archie had broken his nose so often that he could flatten it across his cheek. He’d do that to gross out the grandchildren. He was still playing in his 70’s. At games, his grandchildren didn’t stand a chance. Playing cards he won, especially euchre, he could make it on a 9 and take the hand. Crokinole, the kids fingers were bruised …he won. Archie was a dad, an awesome grampa to Karen Cork (Kirk), DJ McColl (Rachelle), Tara Watters (Derek), Heather McColl (Chris Knox), Dax Mitchell, Drew Mitchell, Zac Rance (Kate Macoun), and Miranda Rance, great grampa to Robbie Cork, Camden and Nathan McColl, William and Samantha Knox, a brother to; Jim, Rita, Thelma, Myrtle, Mildred, Laura, Hazel, Don, Billy,(all predeceased), Bob, Tiny (Edith), a friend to many, an uncle to even more, and especially a loving husband to Lou. Friends may send condolences to Archie’s family by contacting THE HENDREN FUNERAL HOMES, NORWOOD CHAPEL at www. hendrenfuneralhome.com.

He will be missed and remembered by all.

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Request for Proposal The Township of Stirling-Rawdon is inviting proposals for the sale of dog tags door to door in the municipality. Proposals should be forwarded in a sealed envelope clearly marked ‘sale of dog tags’ to the undersigned not later than January 22, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.

Charles Croll, Clerk-Administrator Box 40, 14 Demorest Road, Stirling, ON K0K 3E0

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(613) 475-1044

Passed away at her residence surrounded by her family on January 4th, 2014 at the age of 41 years.

Beloved wife of Shawn of Wooler. Loving mother of April, Josh and Keegan. Survived by her siblings Jamie (Nancy) Topping of Lynn, Sarah (Darren) Kirkland of Mallorytown.

Beloved daughter of James and Carol Topping also of Mallorytown. Fondly remembered by all her aunts & uncles, nieces & nephews. Cremation has taken place. Memorial Celebration will be held at the Weaver Family Funeral Home West Chapel, 170 Dundas Street, Trenton on Saturday, January 11th at 1 pm with a time of visiting and reception to follow until 4 pm. Special thanks to everyone that has been apart of Tammy's care over the last many months. She was a beautiful girl with an infectious smile and laugh that will always be treasured and remembered. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Keegan Whalen Trust Fund (cheque's only) or University Hospitals Kingston Foundation would be appreciated by the family. Online guestbook & condolences at www.weaverfuneralhomes.com

GOSPEL SING Jan.18 6:30 pm Chapel of The Good Shepherd 513 Ashley St. Foxboro Everyone Welcome Come Join Us.

WANTED

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BRIGHTON LEGION BR 100

Whalen, Tammy Sue

COMING EVENTS

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DEATH NOTICE

For receptions, weddings, etc.

Catering & bar facilities available.

Wheelchair accessible.

DEATH NOTICE

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We have the key to unlock locked-in pension funds. Free consultation. To relieve financial stress, call 613-779-8008.

AIR COND. HALL

DEATH NOTICE

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Debt Relief Allen Madigan Certified Credit cousellor. Solving financial problems for over 15 years. Renew hope seniors respected. Free confidential consultation.

613-779-8008

COMING EVENTS

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Note: not necessarily will any proposal be accepted.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

FARM

COMMERCIAL RENT

COMMERCIAL RENT

Compare your next insurance renewal with our rates. We could surprise you! We put service first.

Eady Insurance.

613-432-8543, 1-888-275-3239 www.eadyinsurance.ca

Beautiful dark wood low profile tv stand. Holds large 55”+ TV. EUC 2 wood/ 2 glass doors $350 obo. FREE OLDER MODEL TV. Can email pictures.

705-653-0596

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best Price, Best Quality.

All Shapes & Colors Available.

Call 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper

NEW SUBARU SGX3500 watt generators with 3 year warranty and wheel kit included $950. Also many inverter models in stock starting at $1250 with a 5 year warranty.

Call Belmont Engine Repair today 705-778-3838.

Don’t be left in the dark.

Airless spray painting, roofs & sides, steel roofs repairs. 5 & 6” seamless eavestrough, soffit, facia, gutterguard installed or delivered. Free estimates.

1(877)490-9914.

DOWNTOWN BRIGHTON office space for lease.

Multiple sizes and configurations possible.

Plenty of parking. Call 613-813-2774.

Merrickville, across from Canal locks, park and Blockhouse. 2 storey building with patio, parking, large lot.

613-292-8930.

SMITTY’S APPLIANCES LTD. 1-613-969-0287

FRANKFORD, ON 613.398.1611 BANCROFT, ON 613.332.1613

WANTED Standing timber, hard maple, soft maple, red and white oak, etc. Quality workmanship guaranteed.

705-957-7087.

Wanted: Standing timber, mature hard/softwood.

Also wanted, natural stone, cubicle or flat, any size. 613-968-5182.

Janome Baby Lock Elna Bernina Sewing Machine Tune-ups from New Machines from

(Since 1985)

Property Management

613-392-2601

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WINTER INCENTIVE PRINCE WILLIAM APARTMENTS

p r a d a

45 $ 22900

Metroland Media Classifieds

Buy 1 wetek ge 1 free !

1-888-967-3237

FINANCIAL / INCOME TAX FINANCIAL / INCOME TAX

better water. pure and simple.™

•MORTGAGES• L O Craig Blower A Marbelle N Financial Services Inc. $ DEBT CONSOLIDATION PURCHASE FINANCING & CONSTRUCTION LOANS

LARGEST SERVICE DEPARTMENT MOST EXPERIENCE IN PROBLEM WATER BEST TRAINED SALES TEAM BEST FINANCIAL OPTIONS Call Andy!

COMING EVENTS

Off: 613-966-6568 • Res: 613-391-4074 199 Front St., Century Place, Belleville craig_marbelle@lks.net Each office independently owned and operated.

MORTGAGES

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MORTGAGE BROKER Lic. #10343

613-920-0672 613-813-7771

MORTGAGES

METRO CITY MORTGAGES

• Renewals • Mortgages & Loans • Leasing - 1st, 2nd & Private Mortgages/Loans • Free Down Payment Program OAC • • Bank turn downs, self employed welcomed

Certification Training

200 Dundas Street E, Suite 305 Belleville, ON K8N 1E3 Office: 613-968-5151 Toll Free: 1-888-216-7770 ext 306 Email: andrea005@sympatico.ca Web:

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613-391-7198

CREDIT PROBLEMS? I HAVE SOLUTIONS! Andrea Johnston A.M.P

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Train in the emerging field of Reflexology 4 Day Course/70 Hours Practical Course offered January 24-25-31 and February 1 To register www.reflexologytrainingacademy.ca For further information

165 Herchimer Ave. Fantastic 1 & 2 bdrm suites! Outdoor pool, sauna, exercise rm, social rm w/events, 24/7 on-site mgmt.

DrOp in tODAy! Don’t miss out!

1-866-906-3032

c o u r t

www.realstar.ca

Featuring 2 bedroom apartments with all amenities including: fridge, stove, air conditioning and wheelchair access.

The apartments are attractive and the buildings are secure.

Ideal for Seniors or retired couples CALL

95

62 Bridge Street East Campbellford (705) 653-5642 51 B King St. E. Bowmanville (905) 623-2404 182 George St. N. Peterborough (705) 742-3337

COMING EVENTS

1-888-478-7169

ApArtments

FOR SALE

$

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Brighton

Residential items only

COMING EVENTS

334 Dundas St. E. Come see our GREAT Renovations! Fantastic 1 & 2 bdrm suites. NUMEROUS Amenities! Indoor pool, gym, social rm w/events.

MOVE IN INCENTIVE! Drop in today.

DAILY OPEN HOUSES.

3 bedroom brick bungalow with 2 car garage. 3 pc + 2 pc baths, includes central air and 6 appliances. Partially finished basement with laundry room and rec room with pool table. $1,100/mth + utilities.

NOW IN THREE LOCATIONS

www.thegoodwatercompany.com

Bay Terrace Apartments

FOR RENT

Kenmau Ltd.

www.mortgagesbyandrea.com

WINTER INCENTIVE!

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WOOD HEAT SOLUTIONS www.chesher.ca

613-398-1036 or 613-922-6798

BRIGHTON

Attractive 2 bdrm with new fridge & stove, water and balcony. New window coverings & flooring, freshly painted.

Building has security entrance & laundry facilities. $750/mth plus heat & hydro.

Kenmau Ltd.

1-800-706-4459 613-475-3793 9am - 5pm

BELLEVILLE

613-392-2601

Brighton Downtown

(Front St.) 1 bedroom apt with den. Includes fridge, stove, blinds and new hardwood floors throughout. $695/mth + utilities

STIRLING

1 bedroom with fridge, stove and heat included, $650/mth + hydro. 613-967-8654

Call Kenmau Ltd.

Property Management (Since 1985)

613-392-2601

All claims against the estate of Kenneth Earl Armstong, late of Madoc, in the Municipality of Centre Hastings, County of Hastings, who died on or about 01 December 2013, must be filed with the undersigned estate solicitor on or before 17th January 2014, after which date the estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the Estate Trustee then shall have notice. DATED at Stirling this 23rd day of December 2013. by the Estate Solicitor, Brad Comeau BRAD COMEAU PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, LAW OFFICE, 33 Mill Street, P.O. Box 569, Stirling, ON K0K 3E0 Ph: 613-395-3397, Fx: 613-395-3398

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS In the Estate of WILLIAM DONALD CAVERLY, late of the Municipality of Centre Hastings, in the County of Hastings, deceased.

All persons having claims against the Estate of the above-named deceased, who died at Madoc, Ontario, on or about the 9th day of November, 2013, are hereby notified to file particulars and proof of the same with the undersigned Estate Trustees on or before the 14th day of February, 2014; after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the undersigned shall then have notice, and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of whose claim they shall not then have notice.

DATED at Belleville, this 16th day of December, 2013.

BRENNEN DEVOLIN and FLINDA DEVOLIN, Estate Trustees By their Solicitors, FOLLWELL & FOLLWELL 24 Catharine Street P.O. Box 115 Belleville, Ontario K8N 4Z9 Telephone: (613-)968-3471

(Since 1985)

(William Street) Attractive 2 bedroom apt with fridge, stove, heat & water included. $775 / mth + Hydro.

(Lingham Street) Bachelor Apartment with fridge, stove and utilities included. $625/mth.

(Cannifton Road) 2nd level, 1 bedroom with private entrance, fridge & stove. $625 /mth + utilities.

(Albert Street) Main level, 2 bedroom with wood floors, fridge, stove, heat & hydro included. $910/mth.

TRENTON

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Property Management

www.pradacourt.com

Kenmau Ltd.

NOTICES

1 & 2 Bedrooms with fridge & stove $525-$675 plus utilities

Kenmau Ltd. since 1985

Property Management 613-392-2601

BELLEVILLE (Pringle Drive)

2 level, 2 bedroom apartment with private entrance, fridge, stove & water included. $750/mth plus heat & hydro.

Kenmau Ltd. (Since 1985)

Property Management

613-392-2601

Ready to Take the Real Estate Plunge?

Find your answer in the Metroland Classifieds.

In print and online! Go to www.InsideBelleville.com

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS IN THE ESTATE OF EUNICE MARION MAEERS, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the Estate of Eunice Marion Maeers, late of the Village of Madoc, County of Hastings, who died on or about the 2nd day of February, 2013, are hereby notified to send particulars, in writing, of the same to the undersigned on or before January 15th, 2014 after which date the Estate will be distributed with regard only to the claims of which the undersigned shall then have notice and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of whose claim they shall not then have notice.

DATED at Oshawa, Ontario this 18th day of December, 2013.

Maurice Wicks, Estate Trustee Estate of Eunice Marion Maeers, 20 Firner Street, Hampton, Ontario. L0B 1J0

CL439716

We Sell Gas Refrigerators!

Dog Grooming by Bernadette. Professional services with TLC. New clients welcome. 550 TrentonFrankford Rd, 1 minute north of 401.

(613)243-8245.

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CL430782

For good used appliances in working order or not, but no junk, please. VISA & MASTERCARD accepted. We have our own financing also. Shop at our competitors and then come see for yourself, quality at low prices. Open evenings 7 days a week.

WE DELIVER.

PETS

YOGA in Norwood at WAVELENGTHS. All ages and levels. Heated floors.

Join anytime.

See w w w. w a v e l e n g t h s y o ga.com for information

Call for more information Your local DEALER

NOW AVAILABLE IN FRANKFORD Seniors residence, 65 years or older.

1 bedroom, downstairs, unfurnished apt.

Heat and Hydro included. Non-smoking building. $630.00 a month Please contact Bill or Carol Gibson

SHARED ACCOMMODATIONS BRIGHTON, 312 Raglan Street. Private home, furnished bedroom, cable, telephone, heat, hydro included, use of home. $475 month. No pets. Call 613-475-3841.

CL439772

PAYS CASH $$$

2014 WINTER REBATE SAVE UP TO $700 ON SELCTED MODELS

APARTMENT FOR RENT

Campbellford Beautiful 1 BR Apartment. Waterfront, Non-Smoker $895/month Incl. Heat & Hydro, Appliances.

Available Feb. 1, 2014 Doug 705-653-1081

CL430000

At the lowest prices in the area.

Trade-ins accepted on new appliances.

Big selection to choose from.

New Miracle Weight Loss product. Guaranteed to work for you. I’ve lost 200 pounds and I’ll be your personal weight loss coach. Free info pack: 613-200-1523 email: Wow4YouNow@gmail.com

OUTDOOR FURNACES

FOR RENT

CL439254

NEW APPLIANCES

CENTRAL BOILER

FOR RENT

CL4555702

Stoves, washers, dryers, freezers, 3 months old & up.

Sold with written guarantee. Fridges $100. and up.

Bedding & Feed: Shavings for $4.75/each, bedding pellets for $4.00/each, Tiz Whiz grain for $15/each and Triple Crown grain for $25/each. plus HST. shavings@live.com or 613-847-5457.

CL455938

USED REFRIGERATORS

FOR SALE

Call us 613-966-2034

LIVESTOCK

CL455562

NEW & USED APPLIANCES

Stove Pellets, 40 lbs bags, $4.75 per bag plus FITNESS & HST. Low Ash/moisture, HEALTH high BTU. shavings@live.com or Diabetic, need toe nails 613-847-5457 trimmed by a professional, ingrown or fungus problems? RN with over 20 yrs FOR SALE experience will come to you; $25/person.

613-475-3621.

CL439262

FOR SALE

Flooring deals, berber carpet 99 cents sq. ft.; 12 mm laminate $1.49/sq. ft.; modern cut/loop carpet 1.49/sq. ft.; Free shop at home service. Saillian Carpets 1-800-578-0497, (905)373-2260.

NOTICES

FOR RENT

CL455511

FOR SALE

CL439717

FOR SALE

FOR SALE BY OWNE

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STARTER HOME, 2bedroom ranch. Great location . Just reduced. Call Wend y 555-3210.

FSCO Lic# M08002475 Broker# 10202 Independently Owned and Operated

The Trent Hills Independent - Thursday, January 9, 2014

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Fantastic Scenery, Fresh Air & Friendly Faces

Located an hour east of Toronto, the thriving Southeastern Ontario community of Northumberland County has a rich history of agricultural production, world-class manufacturing, and economic viability. As the upper tier of municipal government, we weave together seven diverse yet complementary municipalities.

Paramedic Deputy Chief, Operations

Reporting to the Northumberland Paramedics Director/Chief, this position fills an existing vacancy.

Through positive and progressive leadership, with an emphasis on team atmosphere and employee engagement, and with inclusion from all levels, the Deputy Chief of Operations is directly responsible for the direction of supervisors and paramedics, and will oversee all aspects of the day-to-day functioning of the Paramedic department. This individual will ensure the efficient, cost-effective, and safe delivery of ambulance services by the County, with significant budgetary accountability.

The Deputy Chief of Operations is also responsible for major incident/disaster management and response oversight, public relations, departmental purchasing, and accounts payable approvals, as well as ensuring all preventative maintenance on vehicles and equipment.

The successful candidate will have a degree in business or health care administration, a paramedic diploma from an accredited community college program or equivalent, and a minimum of ten years of experience as a certified paramedic, along with five years of experience at a supervisory level or higher.

This individual’s demonstrated continued learning and development with a focus on leadership is supported by proficiency with Microsoft Office and a high degree of judgment and strategic decision-making.

Please submit a resume and cover letter, by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 17, 2014, to:

The successful candidate will be required to submit a satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Search and acceptable Driver’s Abstract prior to the commencement of employment. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Please note that accommodations are available, upon request, to support prospective applicants with disabilities when applying for jobs and during the interview and assessment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Please e-mail your request to accessibility@northumberlandcounty.ca or call 905-372-3329 ext. 2327.

Alternative formats of this job posting are available upon request.

www.northumberlandcounty.ca NOTICES

Mortgage Solutions Purchases, Consolidations, Construction.

Lower than bank posted rates (OAC) On-Site Private Funds for credit issues, discharged bankrupts and BFS without proven income.

Chase Financial 1-613-384-1301 Chase Financial o/b 835289 Ontario Inc. Brokerage License #10876

COMMERCIAL RENT Warkworth Main St., 546 sq. ft. store with parking and water included, rent is $550/month plus utilities and HST. Call 705-927-8409.

FOR RENT 2 Bedroom apartment in quiet, spacious senior’s residential building, Downtown Trenton (across from Metro). All inclusive, $895/mth. Senior-discount, non-smoking, no pets.

Call 613-922-5528 3 bdrm lake view, Brighton, upper level, separate entrance, available anytime this month. Incl. parking, yard, shed. 613-475-1445.

Human Resources County of Northumberland 555 Courthouse Road Cobourg, ON K9A 5J6 e-mail: hr@northumberlandcounty.ca fax: 905-372-3046

NOTICES

MORTGAGES

NOTICES

NOTICES

Frankford- 2 bedroom quiet adult building. Laundry, parking, heat and hydro included. First and last required. $795/month.

613-473-2885.

Kaladar; Three bedroom apt., fridge and stove, utilities extra, $550 per month, first and last required. Call 613-336-9429.

NOTICES

FOR RENT

FOR RENT

Hastings, 2 bedroom, back deck, heat and hydro included. Very quiet. Pensioners or seniors preferred. $800/month, available January 15. Also available apartment to share, call for details.

705-922-2014. References required.

Marmora- 1 bedroom apartment. Quiet, modern, mature building. Laundry, fridge, stove, dishwasher.

Great location. Mail delivery. Balcony and parking. $ 7 0 0 + / m t h (613)472-2667.

KALADAR - One bdrm apt.

Fridge/stove $375/mth.

Utilities extra, first and last required. Available immediately. Call 613-336-9429

BUSINESS SERVICES

FOR RENT

REAL ESTATE

Townhouse for rent, $850 plus hydro. 3 bedrooms.

Newly painted. Northbrook area. 613-336-8378.

Gravel Pit, Class A Licence and hunter/fisherman’s dream, $425,000 negotiable. Total property approximately 290 acres comprised of gravel pit and lake frontage. Location Arden, Ontario. Approximately 8 km to Hwy 7 on Clark Road. Total licenced pit area approx 105 acres. Clean sand and river stone. No annual extraction limit. Site plan filed with MNR, MTO quality gravel, gravel analysis on request. Private access to Kellar Lake, includes 3,400’ of shoreline.

Contact gclark2798@gmail.com

TRAVEL/VACAT/COTTG

Trenton room for rent, $120/week. Cable and utilities included. Suitable for working person only.

First and last weeks. Sidney St. (613)965-5731.

Kirklands Travelonly contact us for all your travel needs or visit our website kirklands.travelonly.com Tico#43160771 613-473-2832 or 1-866-433-0113.

BUSINESS SERVICES

BUSINESS SERVICES

BUSINESS SERVICES

REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES OF TRACTORS

SUNSTRUM’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS

• Light welding & Hydraulic • Hose Repaired on site!

Steve Elsey • 613-395-3149 Cell: 613-848-0873 Fax: 613-395-6023 email: stevessandr42@yahoo.com RR#1 Stirling

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a full time medium duty technician, 40 hours per week – Mondays to Fridays. Hourly wage with a benefit package.

AUTOMOTIVE LUBE SPECIALIST

NOTICES

Invites applications for a Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Operator II The City of Quinte West Public Works and Environmental Services Department is currently inviting applications for the position of Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Operator II.

www.careeredge.on.ca

JOB FAIR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRENTON COLD STORAGE Trenton Cold Storage is hiring for Warehouse Operator Positions.

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 from 10am-12pm and Thursday, January 16 from 2 - 4pm, representatives from TCS will be at Career Edge in Trenton offering information on hiring practices and will be accepting resumes. Positions are full time, rotating shifts, including weekends, offer a competitive rate plus shift premiums, excellent benefits; provide freezer wear, safety boot allowance and training on a variety of Material Handling equipment.

This Employment Ontario program is funded in part by the Government of Canada.

WEGMANN automotive Canada Inc.

is seeking a

Warehouse Supervisor Lead Hand

22 The Trent Hills Independent - Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Warehouse Supervisor/Lead Hand will direct, assist and supervise associates performing various tasks involving packaging, stocking, material handling, order picking, shipping and receiving of a warehouse distribution operation.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Supervise and assist in activities of hourly associates.

2. Organize and coordinate daily order flow.

3. Advise customer service and assist with customer requirements.

4. Responsible for ordering materials and supplies for packaging, shipping, and material handling.

5. Responsible for plant maintenance and security.

6. Assist in coordinating freight traffic.

7. Assist in general administration of personnel policies and warehouse rules.

8. Perform other tasks and duties as assigned Education and Experience: 1. High school diploma 2. Three (3) years’ experience in warehouse/distribution operations 3. Supervisory course study 4. Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.

5. Able to effectively and confidently communicate with all levels within the organization.

Please email your resume to emile.lajoie@wegmann-automotive.com

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Qualified applicants are invited to submit a resume clearly marked: “Application: Water Distribution & Supply and Wastewater Collection Operator II” by 4:30p.m. Wednesday January 22, 2014 to the undersigned:

Visit us online www.InsideBelleville.com

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Bring your resume and be prepared to interview.

For Information call Career Edge: 81 Dundas St. W., Trenton at 613-392-9157

Remuneration: 2013-2014 CUPE Salary Grid $25.99/hr. (40 hrs. /wk.) The City offers an attractive benefits package.

We thank all applicants for their interest and advise that only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and is used to determine eligibility for potential employment. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the City of Quinte West is pleased to accommodate individual needs of applicants with disabilities within the recruitment process. Please call 613-392-2841 (4437) or email the above if you require an accommodation to ensure your participation in the recruitment and selection process.

HELP WANTED

Voortman Cookies

has an opening for an independent route sales person based in the Kingston, Belleville, Trenton area. Candidates must be energetic and driven to grow sales in this established, protected territory. Investment is required. Please submit resume to mycareer@ voortman.com

FULL TIME & PART TIME

Contract Drivers & Dispatcher needed for Belleville/ Trenton Courier Service.

Must have own vehicle.

Call Tues. To Fri. 8 am - 2 pm.

613-392-5585 or 613-967-5941

HELP WANTED

Reporting to the Water and Wastewater Superintendent, the Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Operator II is responsible for completing various tasks and operating equipment as assigned to ensure that the municipal water/wastewater infrastructure and related municipal properties are maintained in a safe and reliable manner. The position will be required to operate a backhoe, dump truck and hydro excavation equipment on a regular basis, with the requirement of maintaining and servicing the equipment as required. You will be required to operate, maintain and undertake minor construction within a water distribution system and wastewater collection system which includes but is not necessarily limited to, mains, hydrants, valves, services, manholes etc. The operation of equipment pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the utility such as hydraulic pipe cutters, tapping machines, cut-off saws, chainsaws, valve turners, leak detection and pipe thawing equipment is required on a regular basis. The position is responsible for assembling, installing and repairing piping of various compositions. You may also be required to perform necessary clean-up and restoration such as placing cold mix, sweeping, spreading top soil and sodding or seeding as required. You will be required to use process interpretation and trouble shooting skills to repair and maintain equipment and systems as required. You will also be expected to ensure that the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act are followed, be available for on-call service as directed by the Superintendent of Water and Wastewater Services, be available for after-hour and weekend work as required and be courteous to the public and show respect for equipment etc. Valid Class G and D Driver’s Licence with a Z endorsement and safe driving record are required. Valid Class II water distribution and wastewater collection certificates are required.

Tim Osborne, CMM III HR Professional Manager Human Resources City of Quinte West P.O. Box 490 Trenton, ON K8V 5R6 Email: timo@quintewest.ca Website Address: www.quintewest.ca

Dennis 905-269-6295 Sharon 905-925-4081

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CITY OF QUINTE WEST Public Works and Environmental Services Department

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We are seeking a full time automotive lube specialist, 40 hours per week – Mondays to Fridays.

Hourly wage with a benefit package.

Apply to: Quinte West 494 Bigford Rd, Quinte West, ON K0K 1H0 Telephone: 613-475-3579 Email: mworkman@oktirequintewest.com

Electrical. Plumbing.

Carpentry. Painting.

Flooring. Cleanup

Brighton, ON

MEDIUM DUTY TECHNICIAN Apply to: Quinte West 494 Bigford Rd, Quinte West, ON K0K 1H0 Telephone: 613-475-3579 Email: mworkman@oktirequintewest.com

General Home Repair & Remodeling

905-355-1357

HELP WANTED

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Carriers wanted. Make extra money, get exercise.

Deliver Sears catalogues.

Near your home once or twice per month in Belleville. 613-966-7836.

Production Artist -A career opportunity –we’re looking for an experienced production artist to become a Nunatsiaq News layout artist in a stable and successful group of companies. Our companies publish Nunatsiaq News, serving 40 communities across the Arctic in print and on the web, and operate Ayaya Marketing and Communications, a prominent northern advertising agency. This position is in Ottawa.

Experience in newspaper and advertising layout experience a must.

Experience preparing financial quotations for newspaper and web advertisers an asset. Competitive compensation, benefits, flexible hours and profit-sharing. Our websites are at www.nunatsiaqonline.ca and www.ayaya.ca. Send resume to David Roberts, davidr@nortext.com.

Stock Clerk (Part-Time) Receive and stock merchandise and inventory at the location. Will assist customers with carry in and carry out of merchandise. Clean the store at opening and closing. Team player with excellent customer service skills. Must be able to multi-task. Earn $500/weekly. Resumes to customershopperevaluator@live.com

BUSINESS SERVICES

County Water TreatmentSofteners, U.V. Lights, R.O. systems, chemical free iron and sulphur filters. Sales, installation, service and repair. Steven Menna. (613)967-7143.

Hardwood Floor Installation and resurfacing. Ceramics. Light renovations and upgrades. Over 30 years experience. Please call for free estimate 613-394-1908.

Ken Chard Construction.

Renovations, decks, siding, sidewalks, fences, ceramic, windows, painting etc. Free estimates. Call: 613-398-7439.

Steve Collins, InsulationBlown cellulose, attics, walls, floors. Save money -live comfortably. Warm in winter, cool in summer.

Quality work since 1974.

Free estimates.

Call (613)847-6791.

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

AUCTION SALE WED, JANUARY 15, 2014 AT 5:00 P.M. DOUG JARRELL SALES ARENA, BELLEVILLE

BUSINESS SERVICES

Whirlpool washer & dryer, Apt. size chest freezer, GE portable dishwasher, oak single pedestal kitchen table/2 leaves & 6 arrow back chairs, chrome style kitchen table & chairs, chesterfield, loveseat, assorted chairs, coffee & end tables, arrow back rocker, double bed/ box spring & mattress, triple dresser & night table, single bed, chests of drawers, small tables, qty. glass & china including cranberry, milk glass, cups & saucers, plates , figurines etc., linens & bedding, old prints, small shop & garden tools & numerous other pieces. All nice clean items.

See my web site for detailed list & photos.

AUCTIONEERS: DOUG JARRELL & BEN TREVERTON 613-969-1033 www.dougjarrellauctions.com

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Northumberland Paramedics Director/Chief, this position fills an existing vacancy. Serving as the primary point of contact for the Paramedic department, you will be responsible for performing general administrative duties, including ambulance call report administration, departmental uniform management, purchase order entry and inventory management, scheduling meetings, incident report administration, and new hire orientation.

Your college diploma in business administration is combined with previous experience in a related field. Certification and training in accounts payable and accounts receivable, an AMCTO diploma in Municipal Administration and previous experience in inventory management are considered assets.

Please submit a resume and cover letter, by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 24, 2014, to: Human Resources County of Northumberland 555 Courthouse Road Cobourg, ON K9A 5J6 e-mail: hr@northumberlandcounty.ca fax: 905-372-3046 The successful candidate will be required to submit a satisfactory Criminal Reference Check or Vulnerable Sector search prior to the commencement of employment. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Please note that accommodations are available, upon request, to support prospective applicants with disabilities when applying for jobs and during the interview and assessment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

Please e-mail your request to accessibility@northumberlandcounty.ca or call 905-372-3329 ext. 2327.

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ANTIQUE AUCTION SALE SAT, JANUARY 11, 2014 AT 10:00 A.M. DOUG JARRELL SALES ARENA, BELLEVILLE Antique roll top desk, set of press back chairs, press back rocker, wicker fernery/ tray, display cabinet, balloon back chairs, art deco wicker desk, old post cards, few old marbles, large qty. of antique glass including cranberry ,depression & carnival, Royal Bayreuth, Fenton, crystal, “Hornby” wind up toy locomotive, child’s toy steam tractor, old crocks, Gingerbread clock, mantle clock, hanging lamp, Beswick cat, linens, old framed prints, cheese & butter boxes, old fish tackle & reels, old traps, early farm tools, oars & numerous other pieces coming in daily.

See my web site for detailed list & photos.

AUCTIONEERS: DOUG JARRELL & BEN TREVERTON 613-969-1033 www.dougjarrellauctions.com

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTOR’S AUCTION Saturday January 11th

Preview @ 9:30 a.m. Auction starting at 11:00 a.m.

Sterling Silver, Silver-Plate, Shelley Dinner Service, Royal Doulton Figures, Nippon Porcelain, Crystal, Art Glass, Folk Art, Pine Armoire, Walnut Dining Set, Upholstered Furniture, Cabinets, Tables, Chairs, Chests of Drawers, Mirrors & Lighting.

SPECIALTY ART AUCTION Sunday January 12th

Preview @ 9:30 a.m. Auction starting at 11:00 a.m.

Over 250 Antique & Decorative Oils, Watercolours & Prints

Giant Indoor Yard Sale: To Include 100’s of Fresh Items Plus Books & CD’s Watch the Website for Updates & Photos.

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BROWSE OUR HOME FURNISHINGS CONSIGNMENT STORE QUALITY ITEMS AT A FRACTION OF RETAIL PRICES. Tel: 905.373.0501 Toll Free: 1.855.503.2963 Fax: 905.373.1467 Email: pn@waddingtons.ca 9 Elgin St. E., Unit 6, Cobourg ON K9A 0A1

AUCTION THURSDAY JANUARY 9TH @ 6:00PM

Warner’s Auction Hall, 12927 Hwy 2, Just West of Colborne.

Excellent auction from a Trenton estate. This sale also includes selection of nice hand knotted Persian carpets various sizes & colours. Some nice antique pieces and modern home furnishings, Victorian pieces etc. Partial list only. Black leather sofa, early chest of drawers, Victorian rocker & matching arm chair with carved arms, Lazy Boy reclining love seat in new condition, good double bed with nearly new matt & box, good dressers & chests, walnut tea wagon, set of early side chairs, nice selection small tables, nice selection lamps, 6.5 h.p.

Toro self propelled lawn mower with electric key start in new condition, also Troy Built never used gas powered ogger, 5.5 h.p. Mastercraft lawn mower, excellent gas powered weed eater, child’s old wooden wagon, plus much more. Smalls include selection artwork, collection Hummel figures, collection cranberry including Mary Gregory, Iladro figures, collection fancy glass & china, collection soap stone figures & carvings, set nice old wood working chisels, other hand tools, pair of nice old lanterns, and still unpacking smalls.

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Watch next weeks sale, an estate with a home full of antique & collectable furnishings all original condition.

Terms: Cash, Cheque with ID, Visa, M/C, Interac.

Gary Warner Auctioneer • 905-355-2106 www.warnersauction.com CELEBRATING 26 YEARS IN BUSINESS.

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BELLEVILLE

Belleville Chapter Shout Sister Choir practices Tuesdays 7-9 p.m.

We do not audition and learn our music by ear. All levels of singers welcome.

Eastminster United Church, 432 Bridge St. E, Belleville.

FootCare Clinic- Tuesday Mornings at 7th Day Adventist Church- VON offers Basic, Advanced and Diabetic Foot Care (Fee for Service). To book your appointment call the VON at 1-888-2794866 ex 5346 Quinte Seniors Euchre Club meets at the Parkdale Community Centre every Mon. at 1:30 pm. Everyone 50 plus welcome. Cost $3.00 includes door prize, 50/50 draw and euchre score prizes The Ontario Early Years Centre at Family Space supports families learning through play. Drop-in playrooms, 301 MacDonald Ave., Belleville. Open 6 days a week. Info: www.familyspace.ca or 613-966-9427.

Diners Club Belleville: Every Tuesday from 12noon until 2:00pm, Parkdale Community Centre, 119 Birch St. Belleville.

Info: 613-969-0130 Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., St. Columba Presbyterian Church, 520 Bridge St E, Belleville for those suffering from overeating, food obsession, under-eating, or bulimia.

No dues or fees for members. Info: Susan at 613-471-0228 or Hilly at 613-354-6036 or visit foodaddicts.org.

Trillium 2000 Seniors Club at 75 St. Paul St., Belleville. Tuesday: cribbage; Wednesday: euchre; Thursday: carpet bowling and shuffleboard; Friday: darts.

Cribbage 3rd Sunday of month. All start at 1 p.m. Open to all seniors 50 and over.

Overeaters Anonymous meeting every Friday, 10 a.m. Calvary Temple, corner of Wallbridge Loyalist and Hwy 2 West. Contact Dianne 613-392-0081.

Rhythm, Rhyme & Melody: Music education opportunity for children ages 5 – 8 and 9 - 12. Tuesday evenings, Bridge St. United Church, January 21 - May 7.

They will sing, play instruments, learn basic music theory and experience performance opportunities. Fee: $75.00. Subsidies available, contact: Terry Head (Dir. of Music) 613.962.9178 ext. 74.

Tai Chi Open House, Mon. Jan 13,10-12 noon, Christ Church Anglican, 39 Everett St., Belleville and Sat. Jan 18, 10-12 noon, CORE Arts & Culture Centre, 223 Pinnacle St., Belleville. Demonstrations, and info about introductory courses. www.taoist. org/kingston, 613-399-5725 The Quinte Amateur Radio Club monthly meeting, Wed. Jan. 15, 7:30pm, at Loyalist College, Wallbridge-Loyalist Road, Pioneer Building, Room P24. For more info see www.qarc.on.ca The ANAF Unit 201 Pipes and Drums is recruiting members. Free lessons and Band practices are at the ANAF Unit 201 (upper Floor) 187 Front St, Belleville, Tuesday nights from 630-830pm. All are welcome. For info: www.anaf201.ca Open Door Café - Every Wednesday from 11:30am to 1:00pm at Eastminster United Church, 432 Bridge St. E, Belleville. There is no cost for this hot meal however donations are gratefully accepted.

For more info: 613 969-5212.

Quinte Quilters Guild Executive Meeting, Thursday, January 9, 6:30 p.m. at the Old Fireside restaurant, Front St, BRIGHTON Belleville.

TOPS Brighton Take off pounds

sensibly weight loss support group. Meets every Wednesday at the Brighton Legion, 25 Park St. at 4:30 p.m.

Gerry and Fay and friends, Open Mic and Dance, first and third Wednesday of every month, 7pm - close, Masonic Lodge, 157 Main St., Brighton. For info: 613-475-8847.

Brighton Drum Circle, January 9 and 23, 7-9 p.m. Enjoy the energy and fun of exploring rhythm with others. For address and information, email twelvedrummers@gmail.com.

Brighton Clothing Depot Is Closed until Jan. 14 for renovations. Please stop dropping goods to the Clothing Depot until Jan. 14 as there is no room inside.

Brighton T’ai Chi Club Evening Classes, Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm, St. Pauls Anglican Church Hall Brighton, commencing January 6. All welcome, no experience necessary. Info: 613-475-8873.

Every Wednesday: “Supper’s Ready” at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church. Warm food, warm welcome, free to all. From 5:00 to 6:30 pm.

Attention quilt lovers and quiltmakers, Trenton Valley Quilters’ Guild Meeting every 3rd Tuesday of the month, 1 pm, King Street United Church, Trenton.

All are welcome.

Alzheimer Society, Brighton caregiver support group meets the third Monday of every month, Applefest Lodge 2-4 P.M. For family and friends of someone with a dementia. Info: Sharon 613-394-5410 Callanetics Class: Stretch of Yoga, strength of ballet. Fridays, 10 a.m. at Trinity-St. Andrews United Church, 56 Prince Edward St. Brighton. Call Gail to register 613-967-4447.

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CORDOVA MINES Cordova Mines Free Methodist Church “Belated Christmas Service”, January 12. The Kids’ Club presents songs and a skit; and “True Vine Generations” presents Christmas messages in music.

Info: Pastor Marion (705) 632-0883.

FRANKFORD

Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Weekly Meetings, Wednesday Evenings, 7-8 p.m. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 60 North Trent St. Frankford. For more information call Fern 613-3952345 Sunday Worship Service and Sunday School at Frankford United Church 10:30 am. All are Welcome!

Frankford Lions Hall, Moonshot Euchre, Wednesdays 1p.m. Bingo has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

Alcoholics Anonymous Keep It Simple Group, 8 pm every Thursday at Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, 60 CODRINGTON Trent St. N. (rear), Frankford. Info: www.

Codrington Community Centre, quintewestaa.org or 1-866-951-3711 3rd Wednesday of month, Codrington Seniors’ Group Pot Luck lunch at noon. GRAFTON

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Community Care Northumberland, 11 King St. E. Colborne, 10-11 a.m. Info: 905-355-2989.

Colborne Library Storytime program for children 2-5 years. Thursdays at 11:00am This free program introduces the world of books to your children. To register call 905 357-3722 or drop by (library hours: Mon. 3-8, Tues. & Thurs. 11-8, Fri. & Sat. 11-4).

Grafton Horticultural Society, Jan 14, St. Andrew’s United Church, Food Addicts Anonymous Meetings, Grafton. 6:00 p.m. Chilli Dinner (just $5) Wednesdays, 11-noon, Prospect House, 1 and Silent Auction. Refreshments provided.

Elgin Street (at King), Colborne, www. Guest Speaker Marian Jean – Dahlias. foodaddictsanonymous.org CAMPBELLFORD Everyone Welcome.

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Citizen’s Choir meets at Senior Citizen’s Building. All welcome Toddler Talk, Tuesdays in January at 10:30am. Discuss the joys and challenges of raising toddlers and learn some strategies to effectively manage behavior.

Call 705-632-1144 to register. YMCA Northumberland Ontario Early Years.

FootCare Clinic- 1st Fri, 2nd &3rd Thurs Each Month Royal Canadian Legion- VON offers Basic, Advanced and Diabetic Foot Care (Fee for Service). To book your appointment call the VON at 1-888-279-4866 ex 5346 Men’s Group, Friday Jan. 10 & 24, 2 p.m. Community Care Northumberland Campbellford Office, 174 Oliver Rd. Unit 15 Campbellford. Info: Sarah at 705-6963891 or Linda Ryan at 705-653-1411 Learn the Art of Taoist Tai Chi classes available throughout the week, Community Resource Centre 65 Bridge St, Campbellford, Join at anytime. Info: 705 696 1841 or 705 243 5216.

Walking and Exercise Program, Tuesdays and Fridays 10 am. St. John’s United Church, 50 Bridge St. W., Campbellford.

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HAVELOCK HAVELOCK’S WELLNESS Program at the Town Hall, 8 Mathison St. in Havelock, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm every Tuesday and Thursday. 10-11 exercise and 11-12 various activities.

Call (705)778-7831 HAVELOCK LEGION: Mondays, LA Bingo. Doors open 5:30 pm, Early Bird 7 pm. Fun Darts start 1 pm. Saturdays, Meat Roll start 3 pm. All Welcome FREE PUBLIC Skating, Havelock Arena. Every Sunday 2:00 - 3:45 pm and Wednesday 1:00 - 3:00 pm HAVELOCK SENIORS Club weekly events: Cribbage Mondays 1 pm. Euchre Wednesdays 7 pm and Fridays 1 pm.

Bid Euchre Thursdays 1 pm.

MADOC CAREGIVER OF Family member with Memory Loss Group meets every 3rd Wed. of month at Madoc Arts Centre at 9:30am. Contact 613-395-5018 for more information.

BLOOD PRESSURE Clinic: Wednesday, Jan 15, 47 Wellington St, Seniors Building Common Rm, 9-11:30 am.

Open to seniors and adults with physical disabilities.

DINERS: MONDAY, Jan 13, St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 115 Durham St N. Lunch at 12 noon. Please bring your own plate, cup, and cutlery. Open to seniors and adults with physical disabilities.

MARMORA DROP-IN MEMORY Loss Information sessions meets every 3rd Thurs. of month at Marmora Caressant Care Retirement Home at 1pm. Contact 613395-5018 BLOOD PRESSURE Clinic: Tuesday, Jan 14, Caressant Care Common Rm, 58 Bursthall St, 9:30 -11:00 am. Open

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are Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St, Picton. www. shoutsisterchoir.ca

PORT HOPE THE NORTHUMBERLAND Hills Music Festival, March 31 to April 4, 2014, at Port Hope United Church. Competitive and non-competitive performance opportunities in primary, secondary and senior grade divisions, for music students in piano and strings.

Applications accepted between January 6 to February 15. Info: www.northumberlandhillsmusicfestival.com

ROSENEATH FOOTCARE CLINIC, 2nd Fri every other Month, Alnwick Civic Centre. VON offers Basic, Advanced and Diabetic Foot Care (Fee for Service). For appointment call the VON at 1-888-279-4866 ex 5346

NAPANEE PHOTO Club Meeting, Tuesday, January 14, 7:30 p.m. New members with an interest in photography welcome. This month presentation

by Peter Law on HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. County Memorial Building, 41 Dundas St W, Napanee. ROSLIN Enter via Robert St. entrance. http:// FOOTCARE CLINIC- RosNapanee_Photo_Club.tripod.com lin Trinity Church- December 16th, 2013 VON offers Basic, NORWOOD Advanced and Diabetic Foot FREE FAMILY Spaghetti Dinner, Care (Fee for Service). To Wed Jan 15 at 6:30pm, Norwood Pen- book your appointment call tecostal Church. 705 639-2187 for more the VON at 1-888-279-4866 details ex 5346

P.E. COUNTY EVERY THURSDAY night, Mixed Fun Darts Consecon Legion, 7 pm.

Everyone welcome CINEFEST PICTON and the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists present Watermark – A Film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. Monday January 13,Regent Theatre, 224 Main St, Picton. 7:00 pm. $10.00 admission.

Funds go to the Save Ostrander Point Appeal Fund.

MULTIPLE AWARD winning Director Jennifer Baichwal will introduce the film on a live Skype feed.

ALBURY FRIENDSHIP Group - Quilts for sale each Wed 10 am - 12 noon. Albury Church Rednersville Rd. Proceeds to local charities for women.

PICTON AFTERNOON Shout Sister Choir welcomes new members. Practices

STIRLING WEEKLY MONDAY Night Bingo, Upstairs of Stirling Arena. Cards on sale at 6:15pm.

Starts at 6:50pm. Proceeds to support community projects.

Sponsored by Stirling & District Lions Club.

JAN 11. Stirling Club 55 and Over bid euchre at Springbrook Hall 1:00. Refreshments available, everyone welcome.

THE 3RD Annual Stirling Wellness Fair, Saturday, January 11th from 11 am to 4 pm, Upper Hall at the Stirling

Theatre. A variety of health services and products being presented. Free admission.

STIRLING AND District Horticultural Society is looking for new Members!

Informative monthly meetings, guest speakers, social connections and shared interests. Meetings 3rd Monday of the month, 7pm, Presbyterian Church, Mill St, Stirling.

Annual membership $12.00.

Barbara 613-395 9165, Sue 613-398-0220.

EARLY STAGE Memory Loss support group meets every 3rd Wed. of month at Stirling Rotary Train Station at 2pm. Contact 613-395-5018 for more information.

TRENTON FRIENDS OF the Quinte West Library Book Sale, every Tues and Thurs and the last Sat of month, 10 am-1 pm. Accepting book donations as well. 25 cents to $1.50. Quinte West Public Library.

KNIGHTS OF ColumbusJan 9, Roast Beef Dinner with all fixings, dessert, tea & coffee, Knights of Columbus Hall 57 Stella Cres. Trenton.

5pm-7pm, Cost $10.00. Take out available.

VON DINERS Club, Wednesday, January 15, Trenton Lions Hall. Call 613-392-4181 ext 5326 to book a spot. Meal costs $7 QUINTE BAY Cloggers, every Friday, 6:30-9:00 pm, hall at the Salvation Army, Dundas St, Trenton. All ages welcome, no experience necessary. First two nights are free. Info: Eve or Ozz at 613966-7026 TRENTON LIONS Club 77 Campbell Street hosts a weekly Thursday Night Bingo.

Cards on sale at 6pm regular program starts at 7pm. Every-

one welcome.

JOIN QUINTE West’s Kente Kiwanis. Meetings held every Thursday morning. Everyone welcome. Call Secretary John Eden at 613-394-0316 for more info.

Bingo, January 9, 7 pm in the upstairs room of the Tweed Legion. Everyone is welcome and the Bingo is held every two weeks.

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DINERS CLUB Melrose Held once a month on the TWEED TWEED PUBLIC Library 3rd Thursday at Tyendinaga weekly events: Tuesdays: Play Township Community Hall 12 Bridge or Euchre, 12 - 3 pm. pm. Info: 613-396-6591 Beginners welcome. Pixel Hobby, 12-3 pm, Wednes- WARKWORTH days: Play chess, 5:30-6:45. WARKWORTH LEGION Beginner, intermediate and hosts bid euchre at 2 p.m. every advanced. Fridays: Learn Wednesday and a dart league how to make knitted teddy at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday. bears, 2:45-4:45 pm. Info: Everyone welcome 613-478-1066.

TWEED LEGION, Saturday, Want to advertise your Jan 11, 1 p.m.: Euchre games non-profit event? re-start for 2014. Sessions evEmail djohnston@theemc.ca ery two weeks in the clubroom.

Deadline is Mondays at 3 p.m.

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TOPS (TAKE Off Pounds Sensibly) meetings Wednesdays at the Trinity United Church, Hastings. Weigh-in 5:15-6:15pm and meeting 6:30-7:30 pm. Join anytime. For info Kathy (705) 696-3359 YMCA NORTHUMBERLAND Ontario Early Years Centre, 6 Albert St E, Hastings. Open 5 days a week. Info: www.ymcanorthumberland.com or 705696-1353

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MARMORA SOCIAL: Thursday, Jan 15, 43 Mathew Pl. Seating from 11:30am Lunch at 12 noon. Open to seniors and adults with physical disabilities. Call 1-800-554-1564 to pre-register if not already a member of the Marmora Social program.

THE MARMORA Crowe Valley Lions Club Open Jam Session, The Marmora Community Centre, Victoria St., Jan.12, 1-4.30 pm. Admission $5.00.

Entertainers free. Bring your talent & instruments, Door prizes, 50/50 draw , coffee, sandwiches, donuts & LCBO. All proceeds for Community service work, Info: 613-472-2377.

EUCHRE FRIDAYS, 7 p.m., Deloro Hall. Please bring light lunch. (Organized

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SPORTS

Vipers hope for better luck in 2014

Norwood J.J. Stewart Vipers goalie Ryan Aschaber had a strong game in the team’s 4-2 loss to the Dundas Real McCoys in Allan Cup Hockey Senior AAA action. The second place Real McCoys will host the Allan Cup Senior Canadian championship at the J.L. Grightmire By Bill Freeman Market Street Arena this April.

Photo: Bill Freeman

Sports – Asphodel-Norwood – The Norwood J.J. Stewart Vipers hope fortune smiles better on them in 2014 as they return to Allan Cup Hockey Senior AAA action Sunday at the Asphodel-Norwood Community Centre.

The Vipers (2-11-0) ended 2013 with a hard 9-4 loss to the third place Whitby Dunlops (9-4-0) after a narrow 4-2 loss to second place Dundas (102-0) in one of their best efforts of the season that included a valiant third period rally that cut the Real McCoy’s 4-0 lead in half.

The comeback fizzled in a flurry of fights that saw three of their key players, Joe Curry, Murray Free and Will Jones tossed from the game leaving the already-short-staffed Vipers with ten skaters for the final 3:40 of the game. Curry was ejected at the 13:29 mark after a battle with former Calgary Flame Ryan Christie; Free headed to the dressing room 37 seconds later after a tussle with Detroit Red Wings draft pick Adam Deleeuw. Jones and Jordan Foreman, a former London Knight and Niagara Ice Dog, fought at the 16:09 mark.

Norwood trailed 3-0 after the first period and 4-0 after two frames but jumped back into the game on an early third period goal by Curry, with assists to Colby Andrews and captain Steve Thomas. Free added a second goal 5:22 later from Thomas and Mike Madgett.

Scoring the opening goal for Brantford was Calgary Flames draft choice Blair Stayzer who played four years with the Windsor Spitfires and was a teammate of Vipers goalie Ryan Aschaber and former Norwood power forward Ryan Courtney.

The Vipers outshot the home side 33-32 with Aschaber, a Boston Bruins draft pick himself, coming up strong in a losing cause.

In their 2013-ending tilt with the Dunlops, the Vipers held things even at 1-1 through the first period. Whitby’s Mike Baxter made it 2-1 at the two minute mark of the second but former Campbellford Rebel sniper Levi George knotted the score 49 seconds later then the wheels fell off with the Dunnies striking for five straight goals, including two on the powerplay, to surge in front 7-2.

George’s second goal of the night from Mike Hanna gave Norwood a little life at the 15:08 mark but Whitby fired in two more goals to start the third period before ACH scoring leader Darren Doherty gave Norwood its fourth goal of the night on an unassisted effort.

Vipers buzz: Norwood has a tough ground to make up trailing Stoney Creek (6-7-1-1) and Welland (2-8-21) in the ACH standings. They host both those teams to start 2014 taking on the Generals January 12 and the Whalers January 19 before heading to Whitby January 25…Over the weekend Whitby edged Stoney Creek 5-2 with Brantford blanking Welland 5-0 and crushing the Generals 10-3.

Stoney Creek ended the weekend with a 5-2 win over Welland. Norwood’s all-star centre Darren Doherty (10-1525) has a one point lead over Stoney Creek’s Kyle McQuade (14-10) in the ACH scoring standings.

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Campbellford team takes B side win at the Ontario Curling Association bonspiel Sports – Campbellford – Eleven teams took to the ice heating things up at the Campbellford Curling Club to compete in the annual Ontario Curling Association Bonspiel.

Campbellford teams did their best and two ended the two-day event with a “B” side win.

The Katherine Nicholas team from Campbellford took the “B” side win for the women’s curling.

Nicholas was skip and her team included vice Tess Brown, second Rachel Whitton and lead Stephanie Barre.

The Jeremy Gale team from Campbellford took

the “B” side win for the men’s curling.

Gale was skip and his team included vice Fred Veldhuyzen; second Dan Weatherup and lead Matthew Wilkes.

“A” side winners included the Laura Reavie team from Land O’Lakes for the women and the Brian Lewis team from Cataraqui for the men.

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This Campbellford team won the women’s B side in the Ontario Curling Association bonspiel held last weekend at the Campbellford Curling Club; from left, Katherine Nicholas, skip; Tess Brown, vice; Rachel Whitton, second; and Stephanie Barre, lead. Photo: Sue Dickens

Bantam Hornets add two more wins

By Bill Freeman

Sports – Asphodel-Norwood – The Norwood Centennial Pharmacy-Home Hardware-H.K. Landscaping Bantam A Hornets tuned up for the playoffs with a solid 9-0 win over the Douro Dukes, a tight 1-1 draw with the Campbellford Colts and a narrow 3-2 loss to the Loyalist Township Jets.

Isaac Dart earned the shutout over the Dukes with Eric Sicker firing in the hat trick and adding a pair of assists. Mitchell Rogers and Hayden Baptie each had two goals with single markers to Gavin Woodburn and Nicolas Buchanan. Picking up two assists each were Woodburn, Sicker and Nolan Beamish with Buchanan and Rogers chipping in with single assists.

Against the Colts, Baptie opened the scoring for Norwood at the 9:14 mark of the first period from Woodburn. The two teams played a scoreless second period with Campbellford’s Foster Ilcio evening the score early in the third period.

Cameron Gorton earned the assist. Only one minor penalty was called during the entire game.

Nolan Beamish scored both Hornet goals against the Jets. Norwood fell behind 2-0 and had to play catch-up the rest of the way. The team thought it had the tying goal but the buzzer had sounded to end the game. Picking up two assists was Baptie with a single helper to Buchanan.

The Hornets (13-3-6) will now wait until the OMHA Bantam C playoff

schedules are worked out but will likely start in a pool that will feature the Mariposa (Little Britain-Oakwood) Lightning (13-5-1), the Kawartha (Emily-Omemee-Ops) Coyotes (2-12-5), the Sturgeon Lake (Bobcaygeon-Fenelon Falls) Thunder (1-12-3) and the Orono Leafs (7-6-3).

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Five men’s teams and two women’s teams from Campbellford participated, an increase from previous years. There was a total of seven men’s and four women’s teams competing.

All the teams were guaranteed two eight-end games in the double knockout elimination event.

“It was an excellent weekend,” said Eunice Stapley, manager of the Campbellford club.

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