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WATERSHED S P R I N G
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Volume 18, Issue 68
L I F E I N N O R T H U M B E R L A N D, P R I N C E E D W A R D C O U N T Y A N D Q U I N T E
QUINTEVATION
spring
FINDING THE
SWEET SPOT IN MANUFACTURING BACKYARD
SUGARING
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F E AT U R E S REACHING OUT Increasingly, today’s children and youth are struggling to manage stress, anxiety and emotions – complex issues that require complicated solutions. Are health care professionals and programs across Quinte, Prince Edward and Northumberland equipped to handle the issues? by KELLY S. THOMPSON
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NEWS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR Is the recent expansion of Maplehurst Bakeries in Cobourg a bellwether of the health of our local manufacturing sector? While manufacturing across the region isn’t exactly booming, there are indications of an impressive turnaround. by TOM CRUICKSHANK
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contents D E PA RT M E N T S
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MAILBAG FENCE POSTS: Retreating from the Retreat by DAN NEEDLES
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MUST, MUST, MUST:
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BEYOND THE GARDEN GATE:
What’s New And What’s To Do
A Growing Community At Headwaters Farm by MEGHAN SHEFFIELD
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INNOVATION: QuinteVation by KELLY S. THOMPSON
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GEORGE’S POND: Aging Gratefully by GEORGE SMITH
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HABITAT: If The Trees Could Talk by NORM WAGENAAR
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FIELD NOTES: The Spring Migration by TERRY SPRAGUE
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FOOD & DRINK SCENE:
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CULTURAL CURRENTS:
by JEFF BRAY
Stewart Jones by CONRAD BEAUBIEN
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WATERSHEDDINGS: Seasonal Guide To Regional Events by INGRID NACHTRIEB
MEANDERINGS: The Maple Moon, Circa 1935
illustration by Jane Kessler
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FIRST WORDS |
RECENTLY THE CBC RAN A PROFILE OF AARON PECK, the Canadian dog sledder who aspires to be
the first Canadian to win the Iditarod, the 1,600 kilometre dog sled race across Alaska’s frozen tundra. In the profile, Aaron was referred to as “an Alberta man”. Aaron may well live in Alberta now, but he was raised in none other than the GGA (Greater Grafton Area). The way Aaron’s adventures were passed along – from television to social media – underscores the effectiveness of today’s communications. Aaron could be mushing his dogs across the ice halfway around the world but within hours, his accomplishments can be shared amongst friends and family back in his old neighbourhood. Watching Aaron’s TV interview took me back fifteen years to when there was a knock at my door. It was Aaron. I was so pleased that he stopped by. At one time, he’d been a fixture at our house – the blond, gangly teenager who watched endless episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Beverly Hills 90210 with my girls and who consumed countless cookies washed down with huge glasses of milk. I invited him in. He sat down on the couch as if he’d been there yesterday, smiled at me and said, “You know Mrs. Kelly, I spent some of the best days of my childhood eating cookies here.” Thinking about that visit made me realize that SnapChat, Facebook and Instagram are great tools that help us stay connected, but there’s nothing more meaningful than old-fashioned, one-on-one conversations with the people you care about.
contributors Watershed Magazine is proud to partner with community-based organizations that enrich the cultural, social, environmental and economic fabric of our region. Visit our website watershedmagazine.com to learn more about our partners.
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stephanie campbell Stephanie has a varied background in public relations, government relations and business writing, but much prefers working one-on-one with inspirational entrepreneurs and eccentric creative types. When not at work, Stephanie can be found discovering new hiking trails, skiing with her family or muddying her wellingtons at the local stable while her daughter hones her riding skills. Stephanie lives on a hidden hilltop outside of Cobourg with her husband, intrepid daughter, a 17-year-old cattle dog and two rescue cats.
terry sprague Terry Sprague is a naturalist who lives in Prince Edward County. His columns on nature have appeared in local newspapers since 1965. He has held positions at Glenora Fisheries Research and as an interpretive naturalist at both Sandbanks Provincial Park and Quinte Conservation. He is recipient of the 2002 Pioneer Conservationist Award from Conservation Ontario, the 2004 Richards Education Award from Ontario Nature, and the 2015 Gold Quill Award from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.
meg botha Meg Botha is Watershed’s Art Director and Curator of Lovely. Nearly two decades ago, Meg and her husband Albert decided to leave big city life for a quieter homestead in Grafton. They soon welcomed twins Matthew and Megan to their rural journey. Country life agreed with Meg who added various dogs, horses, sheep and even two calves, one named Stanley and one named Frank to their growing farm. It’s not unusual to see Meg welcoming the day with a hay bale in one hand and a coffee in the other before a day of design and inspiration.
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PUBLISHER/EDITOR JANE KELLY
ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR STEPHANIE CAMPBELL
ART DIRECTOR MEG BOTHA
DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING SALES - WEST JEANETTE CARTER jcarter@watershedmagazine.com
DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING SALES - EAST MARK BISHOP mbishop@watershedmagazine.com
CONTRIBUTORS Shelagh Armstrong Lorne Aronson Conrad Beaubien Matthew Botha David Bojarzin Jeff Bray John Corey Tom Cruickshank Orland French Tom Groot John Jeronimus Jane Kessler Johnny C.Y. Lam Paul LeBarr Brad Manning Ingrid Nachtrieb Dan Needles Lee Rapp Meghan Sheffield George Smith Terry Sprague Roger Thomas Kelly S Thompson Norm Wagenaar
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Mailbag
Letters to the Editor
“Dan Needles couldn’t describe George McCague, his personality and ethics more accurately. ” MARTIN C. PICK
ROY BONISTEEL’S CHRISTMAS STORY
your winter edition. On that note, my cup runneth
It was a wonderful surprise to see our dad’s Christ-
over: my daughter had an article in Walrus con-
mas story in your new issue! I appreciated the
cerning creativity in “old folks” using me as the
gracious message in First Words, as it captured
hook. The article won a $25,000 prize (speaking of
the depth in the story – Roy's own strongly held
running over cups). I am sending a copy of Water-
philosophy of the most important gifts and ways
shed to Michael Phillips, the Off The Wall author.
to understand loss.
Michael and I have been friends for 10 or so years.
Mandy Bonisteel
He was Canada’s ambassador to Sweden, then Ireland as well as Consul General in New York City
Just wanted to say thank you for your kind words
– very close to the best at work but very funny as a
and thoughts in your recent article. My dad was
retired ambassador. I’m pleased he was quoted
“Bert”. Our family loves that chapter in Roy’s book.
several times and that you found copies of his
Judy Wallace née Bonisteel
book. It should have been on the best seller list but never quite made it!
WHAT’S IN THE BOX
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I thank you again for the job you did on my work.
A note to express my thanks to Conrad Beaubien
Sincerely,
for the article and visuals on me and my work in
Tony Urquhart
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FENCE POSTS: THE CASE FOR CIVILITY I knew George McCague over a period of 5-8
HIGHWAY OF HEROES A LIVING TRIBUTE
years as a loyal customer. George bought the
Thank you so much for the
nursery sod operation that was established by the
beautifully written article about
late Bill Ruthven of Alliston, the first cultivated sod
our campaign. It is amazing.
farm in Ontario. I was connected to Mr. Ruthven on
Michael de Pencier wisely
a supplier/customer basis. One day I picked up the
acquired 100 copies which we
phone and George McCague introduced himself
have distributed with thought
and asked for a meeting. We met and from that
and care – much like the cre-
meeting forward, until he sold his enterprise, we
ative writing in the article.
enjoyed an amiable and mutually satisfactory re-
Sincerely,
lationship. George told me he always wanted to
Mark Cullen, Highway of Heroes
horizons she seeks out. After a winter in Kingston, she’s come back to
become an MPP, however the sitting member was
Northumberland where she’s renovating a house
unwilling to give up his seat to the younger aspirant.
DENNY MANCHEE
Eventually George won the nomination and went
It’s one thing to meet a new neighbour, but it’s
The Watershed gang can only hope that when
on to serve under Bill Davis and Mike Harris, holding
quite another when that new neighbour ends
she finally finishes the last chapter of her book,
four cabinet posts.
up being a colleague and a true friend. That’s
she’ll consider writing for us again so that we can
serendipity.
share her beautifully crafted stories with our readers.
Those years were eventful, as Ontario grew
and is in the midst of writing a book.
under good government, the landscaping industry
About five years ago, Denny Manchee bought
grew and with that the operations of our enter-
a farmhouse just over the hill from Watershed
prise, Pickseed, grew.
Hope springs eternal. Jane Kelly
Central. At first we played the Get-to-Know-You-
Dan Needles couldn't describe George McCague, his personality and ethics more accurately. Thank you for bringing this solid and honest
Dance but within months Denny was a vital part of the Watershed team. We soon discovered she was both a brilliant writer and editor. Sadly for Water-
Watershed looks forward to reading all your letters!
Canadian to the attention of your readers.
shed, Denny is in her words, “a restless soul”
Please forward your letters to: Watershed Magazine,
Martin C. Pick,
always on the lookout for new challenges. Her
160 Joice Road, Grafton, ON K0K 2G0
Cavan
list of accomplishments stretch out as far as the
or e-mail us at: info@watershedmagazine.com
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RETREATING FROM THE RETREAT True Confessions from the Ninth Concession BY DAN NEEDLES ILLUSTRATION BY SHELAGH ARMSTRONG
THIS LITTLE PLOT I LIVE ON USED TO BE A FARM. I still feed a few sheep and a couple of cows,
but at some point while I wasn’t paying attention the farm has slowly morphed into a retreat. So has the neighbourhood. All of the view properties on the hill above us are inhabited by urban folk who flee the smog every Friday night and curl up in front of their gas fireplaces to watch the sunset. The farmers, too, have mostly retreated to condos and nursing homes in town. Those few who do live permanently on the side road are busy finding some way to cash in on the community’s new role as a haven for the weary urbanite. The landscape is now dotted with craft breweries, cideries, spas, yoga studios, rock-climbing gyms, all offering diversion and comfort away from the sodium glare of the city. We might as well have our own Statue of Liberty on the way into town that says, “Give me your teeming huddled masses yearning to breathe free, destress, detoxify and declutter.” Our children now bring their friends here to find restfulness, reclaim mindfulness, explore different ways of being and, most of all, eat me out of house and home. I wish I had their talent for living in the moment, but I am too busy cooking and cleaning to find that moment. We grow a lot of food here at the farm. I have pastured beef, pastured hut chickens, pastured pork. My potatoes are chemical-free and my eggs are
omega-3. But increasingly there are no takers for any of it. Every second person who shows up at the dinner table is either vegan or has an allergy to eggs and dairy. There’s always someone going through a “cleanse” of some kind, whether it’s from sugar or gluten or oxidants. Spiritual cleansing is great and I’m happy to write out a list of negative things in my life and burn it ceremonially while someone bangs away on a hang drum. But these juice cleanses give me a sugar high and attract a lot of fruit flies. I checked with my doctor about it and he advises me that I come equipped with two of the most efficient cleansers on the planet: my liver and kidneys. No one has come up with a more efficient system than that. “We are what we eat, Dad,” says my eldest son. He has decided to become a kale plant. I always thought kale was more useful as a roofing material than a food, but I gave him his own raised bed in the garden and encouraged him to have at it. It turns out the soil in my garden is just perfect for kale. Soon he had a three-foot-high hedge of it and we were eating kale salads, roasted kale, barbecued kale, kale sandwiches and kale ice cream. I assumed it would eventually bolt like a lettuce and go to seed, but kale doesn’t do that. It keeps growing bigger and tougher and more bitter until the snow flies. When the leaves finally turned brown and died, I assumed we would then dig up the roots and boil them too.
But no, thankfully, it turns out the roots are poisonous. And so we are cleansed of kale until May. For most of the century before I arrived at Larkspur Farm, this old house hosted a parade of smoker-drinker-carnivores who poured Paris green arsenic on their potato plants and thought cleansing of any kind was weakening. Some of them died in bed, but a lot were killed by falling trees and kicking horses. They did not have the secret to eternal life either, but sometimes I think they had more fun. So the question remains: When you live in a place the rest of the world views as a retreat, where do you go yourself to retreat? We sometimes put the barn on self-feed for a couple of days, borrow an apartment in the city and drive south to soak up the smog. I mix a pitcher of martinis and order in Chinese with extra MSG. Then I run a hot bath and pour in a bag of oxidants, some gluten for the skin and a pinch of Roundup for overall health. After a couple of days of this I am re-toxified and ready to return to the fray. Editor’s note: Author and playwright Dan Needles is the recipient of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. His new book, True Confessions from the Ninth Concession (Douglas & McIntyre), a collection from 20 years of his columns for Watershed and other publications, was published in August.
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A SELECTION OF THINGS TO DO AND DISCOVER ACROSS OUR REGION
MUST LISTEN This April, Furby House Books presents a series of talks that bring together authors and interviewers “In Conversation”. Port Hope author Ian Montagnes delves into Katherine Ashenburg’s new novel, Sofie & Cecilia, former CBC documentary producer Karen Wells discusses Heather Chisvin’s A Fist Around the Heart and editor, journalist and author Roy MacSkimming probes the ideas of Robert Bothwell, author of Trudeau’s World. A Conversation with Katherine Ashenburg Tues. Apr. 10, 7:30 pm, Furby House Books 65 Walton St. Port Hope A Conversation with Heather Chisvin Sat. Apr. 14, 2pm, Port Hope Public Library 31 Queen St. Port Hope A Conversation with Robert Bothwell Fri. Apr. 27, 7:30 pm, Furby House Books 65 Walton St. Port Hope
MUST GET OUTSIDE Calling all kids under the age of 14. Grab some worms and your fishing line and hook into some family fishing at Ryken’s Pond. Schools of hungry rainbow trout are waiting for you to drop them a line. Bring along your own fishing rods and bait. The $5 entrance fee supports the Warkworth Community Service Club. Children’s Fishing Derby Apr. 28-29, 8am-4pm 217 Morganston Rd., Castleton www.warkworthcsc.ca 905-344-1095
MUST SHOUT OUT Promoting a community event? Watershed will do it for you and do it for free. Just go to our website and click on Area Events where you can submit your event. It will be published in the Watersheddings section of the magazine as well as on our new interactive Area Events calendar. From fairs and festivals to fishing and fundraising, it’s all online at www.watershedmagazine.com
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Back in 2009, the PEC Arts Council initiated a program that gives the gift of reading to children throughout Prince Edward County. It’s a simple program that works with community partners under the umbrella of County Kids Read. The goal is to ensure that “every child in the community not only has access to books, but ownership of them as well.” The program has built on its success to the point that County Kids Read now hands out over 600 books to children and libraries every month! www.countykidsread.ca
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On a hilltop north of Cobourg, two ex-urbanites with a background in television and education have built a farm where local food and big ideas flourish
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THE STUNNING HILLTOP VIEW FROM THE GATE OF HEADWATERS FARM AND EDUCATION CENTRE is an introduction to a little piece of para-
dise. The home and vision of city-slickers-turned-back-to-the-land-entrepreneurs Linda and Tony Armstrong, is a place where Earth meets sky in more ways than one. Here at the top of a high ridge just north of Cobourg – once the shoreline of the prehistoric glacial Lake Iroquois – the crooked path of Gages Creek winds through undulating ancient dunes downward toward the current shoreline of Lake Ontario some five kilometres south. The sky fills half the vista, stretching into the distance in every direction. From here, on a clear day, the horizon is a low black line: the northernmost frontier of New York state. It’s an eye-opening encounter, and appropriate to the blue-sky vision of this anything-butordinary farm. Local food is grown here, enough to feed both the Armstrongs’ farm family and a growing market clientele. But at Headwaters, the loftier fruits of ideas, conversations, relationships and experiences grow too, alongside the earthly harvest. The intertwining of terrestrial endeavours and celestial visions is the work of Linda and Tony Armstrong: they are farmers, dreamers, and doers. Eight years ago, Tony and Linda were living in Toronto with five growing children, working in the television industry, but the couple found themselves feeling a common sentiment among city-dwellers: a desire to break out of the rat race and to have a simpler, more rural lifestyle. After some exploring in cottage country, they decided that the distance from Toronto and harsh winters wouldn’t work for them. New possibilities opened up when they began looking at farmland. “Moving to the country is great, you know: wide-open spaces, fresh air, but we could
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also actually think a little bit more about the food going into our bodies,” Linda says. “We’d never grown our own food, we’d never looked after our own food, it was just we’d shop carefully. We always loved to cook fresh, and from scratch.” The couple soon found their interest in good food – and where it came from – was becoming a driving force in their search for a new home and a new lifestyle. The journey to growing their own food started with a trip of another kind: a year-long, family trip around the world, working as volunteers on farms across Europe, in Africa, and India, and completing a permaculture design certificate in Costa Rica. “We wanted an adventure, so what better adventure than to travel around the world?” Tony says.
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manual labour of running a farm. A garden, a farm, a forest, a field – all are complex systems. Permaculture uses ethics and design principles to understand and work within the systems of a landscape, to create the best outcome for all participants, from the local watershed to the human inhabitants to the dandelions making their own little lives. At Headwaters, Linda and Tony are tending more than crops and animals. There’s a human element that requires time and energy, and offers rewards of its own. The Armstrong family, the travelling volunteer WOOFers (short for Willing Workers on Organic Farms), farm members, friends, and customers stopping in create a constant buzz of activity in the otherwise placid rural setting.
There are the on-farm partners who share in the bounty of the land: beekeeper Randy Krahn who runs Randee’s Bees from the lower pasture, and Foragers Farms, a young family who live on the land, market gardening and foraging wild foods for Community Supported Agriculture and sale at the Cobourg Farmer’s Market. Day retreats for corporate groups and wellness seekers add to the collective energy too, as do seasonal events and workshops. There is a hive-like energy to the farm: the crosspollination of ideas, the way the experiences gained on this hilltop are carried out into the world. And like a hive, Headwaters Farm has become an integral part of the ecosystem around it. In this traditionally agricultural community, the city-slickersturned-farmers have established a vital centre that
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nourishes, as it is nourished by its surroundings. Urban and rural, farmers and foodies, local consumers and international adventurers, all are a part of Linda and Tony’s vision for a connected community that can inspire us all. It’s a vision as complex as the food web – and as simple as the rising and setting of the sun. Linda sums it up simply: “We want to live here for forty years, and see something new every day.” Visit www.headwatersfarm.ca
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REACHING OUT
BY KELLY S. THOMPSON
Increasingly, today’s children and youth are struggling to manage stress, anxiety, and emotions – complex issues that require complicated solutions. Are health care professionals and programs across Quinte, Prince Edward and Northumberland equipped to handle the rise in mental illness that is affecting the lives of our children?
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ATT* SITS WITH HIS HANDS KNOTTED AS HE SPEAKS. He’s articulate and careful with his
words, but also visibly nervous when he talks about the transition from Grade 12 and the foster care system into adulthood. Matt is a student at Applewood Academy, a private school in Belleville that combines clinical treatment and traditional education. At one time Matt chronically cut class because, as he put it, “I found it hard to focus and participate in large environments. I couldn’t deal with the crowds.” But at Applewood, Matt’s anxiety has a specialized treatment and education plan that have helped to set him up for a hopeful and bright future. The fact that Matt has options is a testament to the success of the program. His classmate, Brandon* who transferred to Applewood when he was eight, agrees. Like Matt, he’s been receiving a variety of mental health, educational and social supports that help him navigate his emotions. “I understand that I take a minute, breathe, and get through the work, and the end of the day comes eventually,” he says, looking into his lap, a slight smile on his face.
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Brandon and Matt aren’t alone. All over our region, children face unique and complex mental health issues, and with the need greater than ever, resources and services are stretched to the limit. CHILDREN IN DISTRESS
Mental health diagnoses amongst kids are on the rise. The question is why? It’s a simple question but the answer is complicated. Angela Hearns, Youth Outreach Case Worker at Rebound Child and Youth Services Northumberland, sees children and youth at risk every day. She believes that one reason behind the rise in mental health issues is that today’s youth aren’t receiving the skills they need to steer their lives through to adulthood. This concern is echoed by Marissa Norton, Principal at Applewood Academy. She notes that many of her students don’t know how to model adulthood because they’ve lacked mentors in their lives, and they haven’t received treatment for diagnosed mental health issues. The increase in diagnoses could also reflect the reality of today’s technology-based world in which children and youth are exposed to more stimuli, stress and higher expectations than ever. At a time when more and more kids seem to be permanently attached to a screen, medical professionals are raising the alarm. They recommend zero screen access for children under five, citing studies that show early exposure to screens slows development and results in a higher likelihood of behavioural issues.i Carol Beauchamp, Executive Director of Rebound, notices the correlation between social media usage and depression and anxiety in children. “You can only really put it down to the influence of social media,” she says adding, “The young people, they never have the opportunity to switch off these days.” Her comments reflect the fact that the pressure from social media on children and youth is relentless. It’s a platform of constant comparison and judgment, where kids learn to define themselves through “likes” on Instagram or Facebook. When the “like” button is isn’t clicked, their self-esteem suffers. “There’s that internal kind of “ickiness” that kids describe – that there’s something wrong – and it takes a toll on their whole physical and emotional well-being,” says Angela Hearns. “They hide it. They have to pretend to be tougher in their social groups.” On the flip side, social media can offer help and support people suffering from mental illness. New initiatives like #BellLetsTalk shine a light on depression and anxiety and encourage open discussion in the digital space. Awareness of the issues surrounding mental health and social media is growing – schools are launching anti-bullying programs and 30 | SPRING 2018
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While mental health services and support programs are available in the region, the reality is that demand for these services and programs that help kids cope with their problems and give them the care they need, far outweighs the supply. online support networks are popping up – and with knowledge comes understanding. BARRIERS TO CARE
By far the biggest problem in the region is the significant shortage of qualified mental health practitioners, with an even smaller pool of providers who specialize in children and youth. “The waiting lists for mental health programs are huge,” says Angela Hearns. Simply put, there isn’t enough supply for demand. Jeff Waplak, a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director of Stevenson, Waplak & Associates, concurs, but also highlights another problem. He believes that children with more complex requirements often see three to five therapists before their real needs, diagnosis and proper medications are pinpointed. “It can also lead to the most complex kids getting to multiple failures before the service level is right,” Waplak says. Northumberland, Hastings and Prince Edward Counties cover a broad geographical and socioeconomic landscape and as a result, there are challenges to accessing mental health care, especially for lower income families. Some mental health services aren’t covered under private insurance or provincial health care and the
lack of public transportation to and from appointments complicates the problem. Getting to an appointment can be a significant financial burden for lower income families, when you consider how spread out the services are. “Lack of public transportation…makes it hard [for lower income clients]…so the onus is on the service provider to get service to their area,” says Carol Beauchamp. And for small agencies, that’s a challenge. Rebound has been forced to get creative in order to reach more rural communities. They use recreation centres and libraries to bring the service to the community. But when it comes to accessing doctors and therapists as well as different forms of treatment, lack of public transportation in rural areas poses a problem. Studies also show that those who live in poverty may also have a higher risk of experiencing mental health issues due to stress, hopelessness, and despair,ii which means the people who need care the most are the least likely to receive it. All children feel household stress at some point but children living in poverty face unique pressures that isolate them from their peers. A further barrier to mental health services is that many kids don’t know how to voice their feelings of depression or anxiety and are unaware of how or
where to access help. Sadly, delaying treatment can create larger issues for both the practitioner and the patient. And since early intervention in mental health issues is the best possible medicine with the least impact on both child and the healthcare system, getting children into treatment quickly is vital. WHAT’S AVAILABLE LOCALLY?
What’s the first step to accessing mental health care in the area? Parents can start by taking children and youth to their general practitioners, who can provide medication and general support as well as referrals to other resources. The family doctor can also refer patients to specialized high-level care, like psychologists, psychiatrists and registered counsellors who can provide treatment. The downside is that often the patient is forced to wait for a long time to get an appointment with specialists. When necessary, hospitals are equipped to deliver psychiatric treatment, and local communities also have support groups, discussion forums, and peer support networks that can be especially comforting to children and kids who are confident working in a digital space. Barriers aside, the Watershed region has several unique mental health programs that are tailored to kids. Rebound is such a program, providing youth
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with the social and emotional skills to grow through activity-based learning that caters to specific age groups. “We help them find their internal strengths and then we promote them,” says Angela Hearns. Rebound’s programs, such as Choices (social skills and group discussion), or YOURS (one-on-one support from a youth outreach worker), develop not only tools to cope with mental health issues, but also offer support to clients while they wait for higher-level treatment. According to Carol Beauchamp, these types of programs give young people the opportunity to work in groups and to develop social skills through activities, building what she calls “their tool kit.” Best of all, clients can self-refer or be referred through doctors, teachers, and other caregivers. Demand for the Rebound programs has nearly doubled over the last year. As of Fall 2017, Northumberland opened their first walk-in counselling service. Currently, the service is geared more towards adults, but youth between the ages of 16-18 can visit Northumberland Hills Hospital twice a week for on-the-spot treatment when in crisis. Hastings County offers Open Line, Open Mind, a support line for adults and youth between 16-18, which can also refer patients to other services. The John Howard Society of Belleville is home to the Quantum program, designed for students who face challenges in high school. The goal of the program is to keep “at risk” youth in school and part of the community by providing individual students with wrap-around support – educational and developmental services coupled with a sustained relationship with a trained youth worker – throughout their high school years. As a nod to screen worship, HPE (Hastings and Prince Edward County) Children and Youth Services Network taps into technology with a digital Rolodex of handy contact cards that can be printed, downloaded or accessed online, helping youth and kids access and find the right resource to support their need, according to the region they live in. Belleville is also home to one of just a handful of children-specific residential treatment programs in Canada that treat clients from all over the world. Stevenson, Waplak & Associates provides clinical and social services for Quinte Children’s Homes, a residential-style program where the primary treatment is provided by Parent Therapists – a roster of foster parents trained by Stevenson, Waplak & Associates – who support children with complex mental health and development needs. Children in this care system also have access to doctors, specialists and treatment providers. When other options have been exhausted, Stevenson, Waplak & Associates also operate the private Applewood Academy Therapeutic Boarding School – home to Brandon and Matt – that offers counselling, therapy, assessments and a broad range of medical and mental health service providers for
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In 2004, it was business as usual with some 13,416 people employed in manufacturing in Belleville, Cobourg and Port Hope. Only six years later, that number took a nosedive to 10,156, a 23 percent decline. George Weston Ltd., the corporation that not only bakes a lot of Canadian bread but also owns two of our national retail icons: Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart. In an effort to break into the lucrative American market, it acquired Maplehurst and its network of factories in the 1990s, coincident with the inception of NAFTA. Today, more than 20 years later, what is Tennessee’s loss is Cobourg’s gain, as some of the capacity of the closed Nashville plant will be absorbed by Maplehurst’s local operation in Cobourg, which has quietly been churning out ready-to-bake cakes – mostly fruitcakes for the Christmas market – at the north end of town in the Northam Industrial Park since 1994. Now there’s a switch – a multi-national company closing an American plant in favour of one in Canada. Early last year, Maplehurst’s Cobourg plant began its expansion. It planned to add a new cake line and, according to the union that represents its employees, the United Food & Commercial Workers, some 40 to 50 new jobs would be created, with the potential for more at a later date. At a time when conventional wisdom has it that industry is deserting southern Ontario like rats on a sinking ship, this was definitely good news. As we all know, industry has taken a major hit since the post-war glory days when any kid who graduated from high school could find a good-paying job at the local factory. Analysis from RBC Economics notes that in the early 1950s, manufacturing accounted for almost one-third of Canada’s gross domestic product while today, it’s teetering around 10 percent. As late as 2007, almost one million people in Ontario were employed in the manufacturing sector, but thanks to automation, the 2008 financial collapse, the cost of labour, the flight of jobs offshore, the skyrocketing cost of electricity and other economic factors, the number of workers has dropped noticeably: currently, only about 770,000 people in our province earn their living from manufacturing jobs. Here in Watershed country, our economy has never been as reliant on industry as, say, the big city up the 401, but our statistics are a microcosm of the provincial trend. Sure enough, manufacturing in Cobourg and Port Hope, the two towns with the largest local industrial base, were hit hard by the 2008 downturn, when several major employers, including Cameco (the uranium refinery on the Port
Hope waterfront) and CpK (which makes automotive dashboards) restructured their personnel. Likewise, the 2009 bankruptcy of General Motors was cause for concern, considering how many GM employees called western Northumberland home. Farther east, Belleville, which also built up a sizable industrial base in the 1950s and ’60s, was spared the loss of a major employer, but one by one, several of its well-established factories reduced staff or fell by the wayside. Symbolically, however, the single biggest blow in our region was the closure of the Kraft (previously General Foods) factory in 2008: at its peak, it employed over 1,000 people in Cobourg. After a century, no longer would the aroma of freshly toasted breakfast cereal waft across William Street. Suddenly silent, the sprawling plant stood idle as politicians and townspeople contemplated the implications. In the years after Kraft left town, Cobourg certainly felt the impact. And Kraft wasn’t the only casualty. The town’s Economic Development office reported that, in all, some 11 local factories closed their doors for good and over 500 jobs evaporated. Meanwhile, Port Hope’s new industrial park, announced within weeks of the 2008 financial meltdown, sat idle beside the 401 with absolutely no takers. And things weren’t much better in Belleville: in 2013, Exxon-Mobil closed is chemical film plant – it made the crinkly material used for potatochip bags – in the east end of town, with the loss of 120 jobs. Numbers from the Workforce Development Board, a provincially funded non-profit that acts as a resource for business planning, sum it all up. In 2004, it was business as usual with some 13,416 people employed in manufacturing in Belleville, Cobourg and Port Hope. Only six years later, that number took a nosedive to 10,156, a 23 percent decline. In any jurisdiction, these would be discouraging figures, but in small towns, they pack a particularly severe punch. For a time, there seemed to be no end to the bad news. Things were so desperate that Port Hope even entertained construction of a notorious incinerator – which would have polluted the air for miles around – until cooler heads prevailed (see “A Burning Issue in Port Hope,” Watershed, Fall 2015). The best that local officials could say was that much of the loss in employment was absorbed by the service WATERSHED 37
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sector, albeit in jobs that didn’t pay as well. But just when it seemed inevitable that every local factory would close up shop and move to China, prospects started to look better. A Kellogg’s plant in Belleville expanded in 2015, picking up some of the slack when its aging parent in London, Ontario, stopped making corn flakes for good. Canada Pallet, a fixture on Division Street in Cobourg since the ’60s, recently hired new factory help. Around the block, so did Horizons Plastics. Cereal-maker Weetabix launched a new assembly line. When Interface, which made modular carpeting in Belleville, shut its doors, former employees launched a new venture called Belletile. Meanwhile, Port Hope’s moribund business park is now 75-percent occupied. And of course, Maplehurst is turning out more cakes than ever before. And that old Kraft plant? It’s been purchased by FV Pharma which is in the process of setting up a medical marijuana operation that could potentially bring 1,200 new jobs to Cobourg. Little by little, manufacturing seems to be turning a corner. Since the numbers bottomed out in 2010, Port Hope, Cobourg and Belleville have all reported increased employment in manufacturing. In 2017, it had rebounded to 11,545. That’s an impressive turnaround, quite in tune with trends across other parts of Ontario, but still about 2,000 jobs shy of the stats for the good old days of 2004. Although encouraged by what seems to be a recovery, pundits warn that this is no time to breathe a sigh of relief. And despite good economic times, the verdict is
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BY ORLAND FRENCH
BARNUM HOUSE BRAND™ Colonel Eliakim Barnum Esquire Dear Colonel Barnum: I wish to congratulate you on erecting an imposing and magnificent residence on the Kingston Road just west of Grafton. You may be interested in knowing that it still stands as a wonder to all who pass by, almost two hundred years since your carpenters drove the last nail. The structure has passed through a number of hands since you died in 1877. Your property of nearly 900 acres has shrunk to a couple of hectares, as it is measured today. The distillery, gristmill and barn are gone. The property remained in the Barnum family until 1917, when your grandson sold it to Harry Prentice. In 1932, in a rundown condition, the house was purchased by a private group that wished to restore it and place it on public display. That they did, eventually turning it over to public ownership where it now resides in the hands of a provincial agency called the Ontario Heritage Trust. It has also been designated a National Historic Site. You will also be pleased to learn, I am sure, that everybody who sees Barnum House, as it has become known, appreciates its beauty and wishes it could be used in greater service to the public. But the trouble is, Colonel Barnum, nobody knows what to do with it. And thereby begins my tale. ... ERIC ARTHUR MAY HAVE BEEN FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC when he purchased Barnum House in the 1930s. The professor of architecture at the University of Toronto made an expedition to take a look at the property, out of professional curiosity, and immediately fell in love with it. Furthermore, he discovered that the house, and 98 acres with a running stream and land on both sides of Highway 2, could be purchased for $4,500. Keep in mind, this was the Depression years of the 1930s.
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Arthur jumped at the opportunity and put $450 down on the property, knowing full well that his annual university salary amounted to only $2,900. The deal “put quite a strain on family resources,” he wrote later. Fortunately, he had friends and colleagues with similar interests and deeper pockets. They bailed him out. And that’s when the “what to do with Barnum House” trials began. “Now that we had an unpainted house and a ruinous barn on our hands,” he sighed, “it was obvious that something had to be done.” In 1932 he and his friends formed a committee which proposed the “organization of a Society for the Preservation of Early Architecture and Place of Natural Beauty in Ontario”. The committee expanded in 1933 into a council governing the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, with the stated intention of saving and preserving examples of unusual and original architecture. Barnum House became the ACO’s flagship property by default because it was the only one they had. They restored it and opened it to the public as Ontario’s first house museum (a worthy bit of history in itself). Of course, the price of the property didn’t stop at $4,500. Heating and plumbing systems had to be installed; there was the matter of decorating the house, and so on, until the cost nearly doubled to $9,000. “Error followed error until we felt obliged to give the estate away to an authority that might profit by our mistakes and have the resources to maintain the house,” Arthur wrote later in a history of how Barnum House came to be. “How fortunate we now are in the members of the Haldimand Township Council, the Barnum House Board and the Northumberland Historical Society, who have so admirably and loyally managed the property.” The ACO transferred the property to Haldimand Township in 1958. If there’s one thing that municipal councillors are loath to spend money on, it is heritage properties that don’t pay their way. The intrinsic qualities of history and heritage don’t help township accounting books meet the bottom line. It would not be many years before the Haldimand Township Council, the Barnum House Board and the Northumberland Historical Society were sighing with relief, “How fortunate we now are to have the Ontario Heritage Trust so admirably and loyally managing the property.” In 1958 Haldimand Township transferred the property to the Ontario Heritage Trust (OHT). Between 1989 and 1991, the OHT rebuilt the crumbling foundation and spent a fortune on a new cedar shingle roof, new windows and siding, and reproduced the original paint colours and wallpaper in the interior. A controversial two-storey wing was added to the back of the house to serve as a gallery and resource centre.
... BUT HERE’S THE THING. The OHT may be managing the property passably and loyally, but not
so admirably. The doors have been locked tight for several years, except for various Doors Open occasions. On those days, the House attracts more people than it did in a whole season of being open daily. The last time the OHT tried re-opening the house, half a dozen years ago, it hired three summer students reporting to a supervisor from Toronto. The cost was over $20,000, what with a supervisor’s salary and expenses, workers’ comp and minimum wages for students. And yet, there were many days when nobody called. And there’s the problem. Barnum House has curb appeal for historians and architecture enthusiasts, but little else going for it. Colonel Eliakim Barnum is hardly a household name in Grafton, let alone across Canada. He was an American who arrived in Upper Canada at age 24, taking advantage of opportunities in a new land. The showy nature of Barnum House suggests he did well in milling, distilling and trading in property. As a man of substance, he helped establish the first schoolhouse, acted as a local justice of the peace, helped found St. George’s Anglican Church and became Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Northumberland Battalion (militia). But he was no prime minister, captain of industry or any other Person of Interest to a broader audience. As for the house itself, the attraction lies in the detail, if you are interested by architecture. Stop and peruse the National Historic Site plaque in front of the house and you had better have your architectural thesaurus at the ready. The plaque reads: “…this timber-framed home is recognized as an outstanding example of Neoclassic domestic architecture in Canada. While retaining a Palladian composition of centre block and wings, the house expresses the Neoclassic mode in the temple façade of the principal building, the dominant pediment and the smooth wall surfaces relieved by blind arcading. The pedimented, pilastered door, the enriched cornices and the tympanum fan are Neoclassic decorative motifs executed here with a delicacy and linearity peculiar to wood.” All of that is no doubt true. But the novelty of Neoclassics won’t encourage the kids to tumble out of the car to gaze at pilastered doors. They’d rather go for pistachio ice cream, the sort of diversionary delight you can find at The Big Apple. The place needs something more. Back in the 1940s, when the fledgling ACO was promoting its acquisition of Barnum House, a grandiose plan emerged to turn the site into a Grafton Garden of Eden. Canadian Homes and Gardens published a major feature article in September 1940 describing work that had already been done to refurbish and refurnish Barnum House to an approximation of its appearance in the early 1800s. The ACO had obviously recruited help; the magazine listed contributions from the Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario, which had furnished the rooms, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects which was developing the grounds, and the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, which was
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Photograph of Barnum House in the 1930s; Hallway view of Barnum House from a 1940s issue of Canadian Homes and Gardens magazine
leasing the building for displaying and selling handmade articles. The landscaping plan was most impressive. At the time, the estate consisted of 98 acres, including a millpond across the highway and a large wooded hillside area behind the house. A published plan included a native flowers garden, a shrub garden, a vegetable garden and pathways wandering about the property. It also included a theatre and promenade on the hillside west of the house, now a conservation area. The site could well have been a very interesting oasis in which to spend a warm summer’s afternoon. Unfortunately, the handicraft business didn’t work out and the Guild retreated to less grand facilities. Today, the landscaping plan might give Barnum House a destination atmosphere. Having a groundskeeper or custodian living on site could make this proposal viable. And as big as Barnum House appears to be, the act of renovating for display purposes removed the living quarters. Restoration of a
manager’s apartment would be expensive. As for the rest of the house? It’s uninsulated and is extremely expensive to heat, even to a minimal level. The location is moderate good. In real estate, the mantra is location, location, location. When Eliakim Barnum built this house in 1820, it was in a prime location. Not only did it sit beside the only road between York (Toronto in 1834) and Kingston, it was on a creek with fastflowing water to power his gristmill and distillery operations. From that year until the 1960s, almost a century and a half, nearly every soul travelling by road from Toronto to Montreal drove right by his front door. When the Ontario government built the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, Highway 401, the traffic flow diminished. Old Highway 2 became the Apple Route, with visitors viewing apple blossoms in spring and buying bushels of apples in the fall. If the owner were living in the house, a newfound purpose for Barnum House smelling of apple
blossoms might pop into mind. But the house is owned by an absentee landlord. The key to Barnum House is, quite literally, in Toronto at the headquarters of the Ontario Heritage Trust. Wayne Kelly, acting director of OHT heritage programs and operations, says the Trust is looking for ways to reopen Barnum House to the public, possibly under a licensing agreement. But it would have to be active. The old days of a static display for casual viewing by passing tourists are gone. Jackie Tinson, vice-president of the Cobourg ACO, wonders, “What is the point of having the house if it is never opened?” And that is, if you’ll pardon the expression, a key question. At the same time, she concedes the house will probably never again be opened as a museum. “We can’t afford a curator; house museums are passé; even in the U.S. well-funded historic houses are having a tough go.” In the past, the house has been open for poetry readings, book launches, Christmas parties and other special events to justify keeping the place
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going. But those occasions relied on volunteer labour, and eventually the volunteers got tired, stayed home, or drifted off to the cemetery.
... THE IDEAL FIT FOR a heritage property would be
the marriage of its architectural and/or historical interest with an ongoing usage of the property within a modern context. Eric Arthur, who started all this public interest in Barnum House, had this in mind. But he found this was no easy job. His goal, he wrote, was “to create out of Barnum a lively and living property of the Conservancy.” The founders of the Conservancy fancied themselves a miniature colonial version of Britain’s National Trust, that venerable institution dedicated to saving the great houses of Britain. What they didn’t realize was that any building received by the National Trust, whether it be a cottage or mansion, must be lived in. As it was, Barnum House had no tenant, except maybe mice. To create a “living property” Arthur did his best to find a resident for the house. On one occasion he came down to Grafton by bus from Toronto, showed a prospective tenant the property and then sat down to make a deal. “He announced that he had a wife and five sons over sixteen, and all over six feet, and that he proposed growing pecan-nuts and breeding pheasants.” Arthur was not amused. “Even the National Trust, with experience going back to the 19th century, would pale at the prospect of five strapping lads attempting to eke out a living in pecans and pheasants on 98 barren and bushy acres.” They didn’t make a deal. Eighty years later, the suggestion box is still open for ideas. Recently, out of the mysterious blue, I received the following letter: Mr. Orland French Esquire Dear Mr. French: Thank you for your note about the continuing existence of Barnum House. I am not at all surprised. We used the finest timbers and the most exacting carpentry techniques. I can remember assuring my lads that the house would stand a hundred years. One of them said, “Maybe two hundred,” and we all laughed, but there it is. Funny that you can’t find something to do with it. I thought living in it was good enough, but apparently old houses of my day are not suitable for habitation any more. They have to be gloried up and shown off to the public, until the public gets bored and the place closes down for lack of interest. You know, I came to Upper Canada from Vermont in the early 1800s because I was looking for an opportunity. I had no money to speak of, but in Canada I found ways to pay my way and put a little aside. I guess I was a good entrepreneur, for when I discovered that lovely bit of land in Haldimand with a fast-flowing creek, I put it to
work. I built a mill and a distillery and I turned the power of running water into an estate of several hundred acres. I became quite the country squire, a man of affluence and influence, mainly by using my noodle. So today, you say, they don’t know what to do with Barnum House. It sits there closed up tighter than bark on a tree. But you know, all these ideas like using it for poetry readings and book launches and Sunday teas are only folderol and flapdoodle. They’re just excuses to keep pouring public money into an interesting old building until it falls down. You know, we on The Other Side can see what’s going on in your world. And I’m intrigued by your world’s concept of marketing. Oh, we had marketing in my day but nothing like the marketing means you have today. I love your current expression: “thinking outside the box”. Consider where Barnum House is. Smack in the centre of apple country. You think you can’t make money out of that? Cast an eye on the success of The Big Apple. If George Boycott had not built a 35-foot-high apple next to the highway, he might have had nothing but just another humble restaurant selling apple pie and coffee. The big apple drew tourists in from the highway like bumblebees to apple blossoms. The pies are good, but the marketing is terrific. Marketing, m’lad, that’s what it’s all about. There’s room in the local apple industry for another tourism centre, one that would also be a teaching and research centre for both growers and consumers of apples. An apple demonstration orchard. Gardens with varieties of native veggies. Seminars on orchard stewardship. A heritage seed program. And, of course, a coffee shop and gift store selling the soon-to-be-famous Barnum House brand of apples, flowers, jams, jellies and apple sauces. And yummy Barnum House apple spice ice cream. Pistachio, too. Barnum House could be the focus of the north shore apple country. Hah! Maybe call it the Apple Core. Of course, this would require co-operation among the Ontario Heritage Trust, AlnwickHaldimand Municipality, County of Northumberland, Orchard Growers, The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Master Gardeners of Ontario … oh, my word, lad, there are so many professional organizations and governments that could help out. I had none of these. My only contact with government was Zeke the tax collector, who always wanted to know how many gallons of spirits I had manufactured and was there a spare jug falling off the wagon? And look how I turned out! (If I didn’t have a “spare jug” he would assess me for road repairs.) The opportunity is there, lad. Take a big bite out of it. And sell, sell, sell. I think I lived 200 years too soon.
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When a German uncle of mine visited in the mid-70s, he was quick to procure two pieces of Canadian exotica: a pair of mukluks and a large bottle of pure maple syrup. While he cherished the mukluks, he revered the maple syrup. And on Saturday nights, he would park himself in front of the TV with a stack of pancakes dripping with maple syrup and melted butter, to pursue his burgeoning passion for yet another Canadian institution, Hockey Night in Canada. For particularly important games, he would even don his mukluks. With a nod of gratitude for his memory and to Native Canadians for sharing their craft with early settlers, here’s a step-by-step approach to the amber alchemy of backyard sugaring.
STEP 1. CHOOSING YOUR TREES
The first step in backyard sugaring is ensuring you have suitable trees. While you can use several species of maple to make maple syrup, the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), yields the best sap and is the one most commonly tapped. Tree size is another important consideration. A sugar maple should be at least 10� in diameter to be tapped. Tapping smaller trees could harm them. Generally speaking, the greater the diameter of a tree and the spread of its branches, the greater the sap production. Finally, choose trees that are healthy, easily accessible and have a southern exposure.
Maple syrup bubbling and boiling in the sugar shack is a sure sign that spring has arrived.
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STEP 2. GATHERING MATERIALS
In addition to suitable trees, you’ll need the following materials for backyard sugaring: • a drill with a 7/16” drill bit • a rubber hammer or mallet • spouts or spiles about 3” long (available at the local Co-op) • sap buckets • a large sap container (e.g. a large clean garbage can) • several concrete blocks • materials to build a chimney (small bricks or a length of stove pipe) • firewood • a thick metal roasting pan • thick tinfoil • long handled spoon • a sieve • candy thermometer • coffee filters • cheesecloth • mason jars Although the list may look a little daunting, you likely have most of the materials already and can improvise most of what you don’t. For example, instead of buying metal sap buckets, try attaching wire handles to metal coffee cans. The number of spiles and buckets you need depends on how much maple syrup you’re after. Roughly speaking, for each litre of syrup, you’ll need to drill one hole. So to make 10 litres of syrup, you’ll need 10 spiles and 10 buckets. Selecting a suitable pan is particularly important. Try to get one of restaurant-quality, around six-toeight inches deep with a lot of bottom surface, say 18”x 24”. STEP 3. SETTING UP
Now that you’ve chosen suitable trees and gathered your materials, it’s time to set up your boiling unit, or evaporator so you’ll be ready to go when the sap gets running. First, a note on location. The physics of do-ityourself sugaring dictate that you set up outside. Simply put, maple syrup equals sap minus water. Lots of water. Since sap from sugar maples is about 97 percent water, making maple syrup means a whole lot of boiling. In fact, you need to boil off 40 parts of water to end up with one part of maple syrup. This means producing one litre of syrup on your kitchen stove would pump 40 litres of water into the air in the form of steam, quickly turning your kitchen into a sticky, wallpaper-wilting sauna. While there are countless ways to build an outdoor evaporator, all share the same governing principle: reducing sap to syrup as quickly as possible. Here’s a simple, effective method. Feel free to improvise in the weeks and years ahead.
Begin by selecting a flat area on which to build a small cement block “firebox”. Be sure to choose an area where it is safe to burn a small fire for long periods. Next form the sides of your firebox by positioning your cement blocks lengthwise in two parallel lines. One course of cement blocks per side should suffice. Two levels of blocks works well. The distance between the sides depends on the dimensions of your roasting pan. The idea is to be able to rest the pan on the blocks very close to the flames while maximizing the amount of heating surface exposed to the flames. Once you’ve formed the sides of the firebox, fashion a chimney at one end to create a draught and draw the smoke away. You could use a length of stovepipe or stack some of the loose bricks. (This may take some ingenuity but it is worth the effort. To control the draught, improvise a damper at the top of the chimney and place a cement block at the front of the firebox. Keep in mind you’ll need to move the front block frequently to add wood. Finally, since flames tend to be drawn towards a draught, mound some sand or dirt at the chimney so the flames will be forced up and into contact with the pan.
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TIP: You’ll need plenty of firewood to keep the evaporator going, so be sure to stack it nearby. You’ll also want to place your sap container near the evaporator for easy access. STEP 4. TAPPING YOUR TREES
Generally speaking, tapping begins in late winter or early spring and carries on into April. It’s important to take your weather clues from Mother Nature, not the calendar. The best time to tap is when nighttime temperatures still dip below zero and day-time temperatures have begun climbing to 5˚C to 10˚C. Sudden cold snaps will stop the flow of sap, but it will start up again as soon as warmer temperatures return. Since it can be tricky to figure out the best time, try tapping a single tree and monitoring its progress. When the sap starts running well in this tree, it’s time to promptly tap the other trees that you’ve singled out. Drill a hole 1 1/2” to 2” deep into the tree trunk beyond the bark, at a slightly upward angle, two to five feet above the ground on the south or west side of the tree. Drilling on the south or west side helps maximize your sap yield since the sun begins warming this part of the tree early in the day. The hole needs to be slightly smaller than the diameter of the spile, so it’s important to choose the right drill bit. For commercially made spiles, you’ll need a 7/16” bit. After drilling the hole, gently tap in the spile with a rubber hammer or mallet, taking care not to damage the spile or split the bark. Once the spile is in WATERSHED 49
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place, immediately hang your bucket from it. As mentioned earlier, you can use just about anything in place of buckets to collect the sap. Just be sure your sap collectors will hang securely and accommodate a lid to keep out bugs and debris. With your bucket in place, simply wait for the sap to start flowing. It may start immediately or you may have to wait a day or so. Be patient. It will run! When the sap begins to flow, empty your buckets into a large, clean, covered container placed in a cool spot outside. Pour the sap into the container through a cheesecloth filter to remove any debris your lids didn’t keep out. Don’t worry if the sap freezes before you begin boiling, freezing has no effect on the syrup quality. Remove your spiles when you have enough sap,
when it stops flowing, or when it begins turning yellow. Yellow sap indicates the tree is about to bud. After you remove the spiles, the tree will heal naturally. TIPS: If you are tapping a previously tapped tree,
don’t drill in the same spot. Drill a new hole several inches to the side and about 10 inches above or below. If possible, place your spile directly above a large root or below a large branch. This is where a large quantity of sap will be flowing. Opinion varies about the number of taps that can be placed in a tree at the same time without damaging it. Some say no more than two, regardless of tree size, while others say as many as five can be placed in a very large tree. It’s probably better to err on the side of caution.
STEP 5. BOILING DOWN
Start boiling your sap as soon as you have enough to make a decent-sized batch of syrup. Sap can spoil so keep it as cool as possible beforehand, and try not to let it sit longer than a few days before boiling. Spoiled sap has an opaque, milky appearance. Begin by building a good, hot fire in your firebox. Then pour in your sap to about halfway up the sides. The sap should come to a boil fairly quickly, but the entire boiling down process can take up to eight hours. As the sap boils down, keep adding more. Boiling down sap develops a surface froth that contains niter, the mineral content of the sap. For most of the boil-down, your only jobs are to skim this froth with a sieve, stoke the fire as necessary and
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occasionally check the sap’s temperature using a candy thermometer. You’ll notice that it will take quite a few hours for the temperature to rise above the boiling point of water (100˚C). As the sap continues to boil, it gradually thickens and darkens in colour. You’ll know the sap is close to being syrup when bubbles begin to get smaller and its temperature begins rising more rapidly. When the temperature is just below 219˚F or 104˚C, test the sap’s consistency by lifting a spoonful straight up and slowly tipping the spoon. If the drops hold together and slip off in small sheets (known as aprons), you’ve got syrup! At this stage, there’s a danger the syrup will scorch or boil over, so be ready to quickly pour it into a temporary container.
TIPS: To avoid reducing the temperature of already boiling sap too much, warm any additional sap before adding it to the pan. To quickly halt an impending boil-over, touch the rising bubbles with some butter on a stick.
Traditional spiles and sap buckets do the same job as the networks of tubing used to gather sap in large commercial operations.
STEP 6. FILTERING AND PRESERVING
For this step, have several heated Mason jars at the ready. Begin by pouring your still hot syrup through a coffee filter or cheese cloth into a clean pot to remove any niter residue. Next, reheat the syrup to the near boiling point, pour into jars and seal tightly. TIP: Crystal formation at the bottom of a stored jar
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INNOVATION |
CREATE, INNOVATE
QUINTEVATION! RYAN WILLIAMS’ PASSION FOR GROWING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL HUB in the Quinte Region is
It’s a scene that plays out in a regional coffee house every month. A collection of entrepreneurs and innovators, ranging from keen college students, experienced business leaders and knowledgeable retirees, gather for Startup Bay of Quinte, a networking event facilitated by QuinteVation, a nongovernment organization that wants to reinstate the place they call home – and the heart of their businesses – as a rural innovation hub through grassroots strategies in marketing, growth and networking.
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infectious. His vision is ambitious: make Quinte the most dynamic rural innovation region in Canada by 2023. This rural growth blueprint is already well underway with the development and implementation of QuinteVation: an organization to facilitate and encourage business innovation by entrepreneurs and thereby accelerate the growth of industries/sectors in the Bay of Quinte Region. QuinteVation programming is funded through the Quinte Accommodations and Attractions Association as well as various levels of government. But unlike similar organizations, QuinteVation operates at arm’s length from the government for the sake of autonomy. “We found that while we want to partner with government, we don’t want to be led by government,” says Ryan Williams, the founder and Chair of the Board of QuinteVation. “We want the entrepreneurs to be in control.” The Williams family has been in the Quinte hotel business for more than 40 years. Despite his enthusiasm, he recognizes that Quinte, like many rural Canadian regions, is finding it increasingly difficult to attract, and retain, young families and innovative businesses to the area. Williams acted on his bold theory and founded QuinteVation to help local entrepreneurs succeed while drawing new innovators and sectors to the Quinte region. Once known as a manufacturing centre, the Quinte economic base has been forced to become more diversified. QuinteVation aims to showcase the success of these new business models, while at the same time promoting the region’s many assets – its cultural and recreational opportunities as well as its proximity to the 401 corridor and major Canadian cities. “As much as we’re concerned about economic development, creating more jobs and giving an opportunity for families to see what a great region it is, a big part of what we’re doing is marketing what’s already here,” said Rob Clute, the new Executive Director hired this past fall. With Ryan Williams’ entrepreneurial vision and Rob Clute’s get-it-done mandate, QuinteVation has established several progressive initiatives dedicated to generating business and population growth. There’s the Startup branch – part of a national organization which hosts networking events to help business leaders tap into one another’s knowledge.
And there’s the Slack channel – a social media tool that creates online communities by collecting conversations around similar industries and enables members to support one another and share resources. Slack also offers meet-ups and events that rotate in location as well as a central website that promotes local entrepreneurs through Maker Profiles. QuinteVation is unique in its focus on industry clusters – groups of related business sectors such as our region’s thriving craft beer, artisan agriculture and film industries. “We believe that collaboration among those businesses...creates synergies and actually reduces competition,” says Clute. QuinteVation unites these industries to help them leverage their strength in numbers by forming associations, like the craft beer association, which focuses on challenges and potentials for growth that are specific to Quinte. “We have clusters that work well here that won’t work in Toronto or other city centres,” says Williams. Local businesses that are looking for growth can apply for QuinteVation’s RevUp, a program that teams them up with entrepreneurs-in-residence. This program focuses on the revenue and sustainability associated with growth. And experience tells Williams that when revenue grows, companies become better anchors in the community and provide more jobs. The six-month program has already seen success with Clevr, a local tech company and new applications are being accepted for the next iteration of RevUp. With an eye to the future, QuinteVation is also hosting their Canadian Rural Innovation Summit in November 2018. It’s about “getting the dreamers, darers, thinkers and policy makers together,” says Williams, with entrepreneurs and business owners gathering to help make Quinte an innovation epicentre. The Quinte area is thriving, but QuinteVation knows that there’s still room for improvement, especially when it comes to building a platform for the next generation to grow, learn and develop. “We’re working with entrepreneurs because, selfishly, a number of us on the board have young children,” says Clute. “We want our kids to have a reason to come back here and stay here, not leave in 20 years...This region is full of people who want to make it better.” QuinteVation is proving that the power of entrepreneurs is the future of our community.
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Williams notes that over the last 50 years over 30 percent of the rural population of Ontario has been lured to city centres.
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GEORGE’S POND |
AGING GRATEFULLY
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THERE’S DANGER IN WRITING ABOUT AGING.
Do it too often and you might just find yourself pigeon-holed as a seniors’ specialist writing about nothing but swollen prostates and arthritic knees. But it’s often said that writers should write what they know and I do know a lot about aging. Experience is a great teacher. So, I’ll chance it this time. It’s just part of the human condition. Eventually, we must all come to the realization that the bloom of youth is starting to wilt. My earliest awareness of the ticking clock came sometime in my 30s when I first noticed those tiny lines at the outer corners of my eyes. Crow’s feet! Yikes! For a long time after that, I was able to turn a mostly blind eye to any new telltale signs until one day, while checking into an Ottawa hotel, the young fellow at the desk asked if I’d booked at a senior rate. I wasn’t even 50 at the time. Thanks. Right around that time, too, I was spending countless hours on the Northumberland Forest ski trails with my youngest lad - often slowing the pace to allow him to keep up. The coddling ended the day he turned on the afterburners without warning and left me standing there - mouth agape. Stunned, I was, nonetheless, thrilled to pass the torch. During my hobby-farm days, I could easily slug away at chores from dawn until dusk with a fivemile run squeezed in somewhere along the line. But “let’s call it a day” gradually started to come earlier and earlier. And there were the more visible reminders. The receding hair line, the slow greying of my few remaining tresses and that first pair of bifocals. Then one day a few years ago, Joy and I were riding the crowded Yonge Street subway. She had managed to get a seat, but I was standing. We didn’t have far to go so I was fine with that, but was gobsmacked when a young man offered me his seat. That was a first. Flustered and a little embarrassed, I thanked him profusely but declined. Afterwards, I thought what a jerk I was to reject this thoughtful gesture. Whether or not I really needed his seat was irrelevant. I had rebuffed a random act of kindness and vowed never to do anything like that again. In a similar vein, not long after that subway incident, Joy and I found ourselves running furiously one afternoon rush hour to catch a packed GO train at Union Station. Dishevelled, after our mad dash down Bay Street, Joy was promptly given a seat. Then, before the train had even started, a woman
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offered me her seat. Not again? I hesitated, but remained true to my earlier vow and accepted. En route, I snuck occasional glances in her direction and felt guilty to discover that she was, herself, no youngster and clearly no more capable of standing than I was. Since moving to town, I’ve also noticed that, during our frequent walks around the neighbourhood, cars will often stop to let us cross the road. I’d never seen that before. Unnecessary? Yes. A lovely gesture? Absolutely. I don’t mean to paint a grim picture here. We’re both still pretty active and not exactly falling apart. Joy does her various activities at the Cobourg Community Centre and Encore Club and I still curl and play tennis. We consider ourselves to be very lucky. But sooner or later, we have to come to terms with the cumulative body of evidence. That doesn’t mean it’s time for the slippers, the remote and the La-Z-Boy. We may slow down. But we don’t have to stop. Take my tennis and curling buddies as a case in point. They’re the youngest bunch of old guys you’ll ever meet. And when people occasionally show some little added kindness motivated by the years that are evident on our faces, we accept with a smile and a thank you. What purpose is served by rejecting a considerate gesture? So what if we’re a bit long in the tooth? That just means that we’ve had a chance to see and do things that many less fortunate folks never had the opportunity to experience. When I was a kid, I often wondered what it would feel like to be in my 20s or 30s – to be an adult. Where would I live? What would I do for a living? Who would I marry? When Joy and I got married, I wondered if we’d ever have kids and what they would look like. When they were toddlers, I thought about the kind of men they’d become and how they’d make their way in the world. Who would they marry? Would they give us grandchildren and what would their little ones be like? Those grandkids are still very young, but already we see their personalities forming and we wonder what life will be like for them as they mature and seize their independence. Of course, many of our questions will never be answered. Time will eventually run out, but we’ve lived long enough to see our progeny grow and become productive members of society and to watch their relationships mature, flourish and bear fruit. Age has brought many blessings. For that I am grateful. WATERSHED 55
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Is a walk in the forest a time for quiet contemplation or are the trees aware of your presence?
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HABITAT |
IF THE TREES
COULD TALK
As we learn more about our own surroundings, it is plausible that trees have honed their own intimate forms of interacting with their environment. BY NORM WAGENAAR
A blue jay squawks. High up a warming breeze clicks in the bare branches. You walk past a white cedar, pull off a branch end, curl it in your fingers, rub it under your nose. The fragrance is mentholated, almost medicinal. You are aware of these things and a hundred more, down to the soft padding of your boots on the duff and the rhythm of your own heartbeat. But how much of the woods is aware of you? Certainly that jay knows your presence. But what of the trees? What can they sense? Let’s say your walk is in Peter’s Woods – a 350hectare sanctuary of near old-growth forest just north of Centreton. You arrive by car and you are almost certainly wearing clothing made of synthetic materials. There’s probably a cellphone in your pocket and a digital camera hanging from your neck – all products of the technology that
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has built upon itself. Indeed, we benefit in countless ways from the ongoing technical revolution that began with philosophers such as the French-born René Descartes. They pioneered the scientific method, providing human inquiry with the objectivity required to understand and control the physical world. But this same objectivity may have contributed to a notion of human separation from nature. Descartes’ reasoning led him to believe animals have no souls and therefore could not suffer. If you believe trees are not sensate, but simply the sum of their parts – leaves to lignum – you can thank our culture’s grounding in Cartesian dualism. In modern times the idea that plants can feel was most famously argued by The Secret Life of Plants published in the hippy-heady early 70s. Authors Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird recounted the results of experiments using lie-detector technology they said proved plant consciousness and
even telepathy. Subsequent researchers failed to replicate the results, putting many of the book’s claims into the realm of crank science. Thinking on the question has a more solid foundation on work done by evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin who, in his later years, became fascinated with plants. He and his son Francis found that the roots of young plants could sense light, gravity, moisture, pressure and other factors to determine an optimal route for growth. States food and plant writer Michael Pollan, “Darwin was asking us to think of the plant as a kind of upsidedown animal, with its main sensory organs and ‘brain’ on the bottom, underground, and its sexual organs on top.” This notion of a plant ‘brain’ is the subject of some controversy in the botany community. Plants clearly do not have an identifiable brain in the same sense that animals such as humans, dogs and even earthworms do. But researchers in the newly-
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emerging field of plant neurobiology – a term coined just a decade ago – argue that plants possess electrical and chemical signaling systems that perform tasks similar to those done by animal nervous systems. There’s even a notion plants can cooperate in a manner akin to the ‘hive mind’ observed in bee colonies. Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, studies the relationships formed between trees through the interactions of their root systems and mycorrhizal fungi. “These symbioses occur between all tree species and thousands of soil fungal species worldwide, whereby the trees provide the fungi with photosynthetic carbon, and the fungi return the favour to the trees in the form of soil nutrients and water,” she writes in the online magazine SGI Quarterly. In the Douglas fir forests of western Canada, she found that seedlings were able to link into the mycorrhizal network of older trees, “allowing them to acquire sufficient resources to become successfully established.” Simard concludes, “The belowground networks are very busy, rapidly transmitting resources and biochemical signals back and forth between trees and plants, a process which appears essential for the self-organization of the ecosystem.” In fact, biologists have determined that plants have evolved more than 15 distinct senses, including some akin to smell, taste, sight, and touch. Writing in the New Yorker Michael Pollan recounts
experiments which concluded roots could seek out a buried pipe through which water was running, suggesting plants could somehow ‘hear’ the sound – something to think about next time a tree root ‘finds’ the waterline to your house. Biologists can be extremely wary of any language that endows animals – to say nothing of plants – with human characteristics, arguing that such anthropomorphism has no place in credible science, and instead belongs in the realm of mythology and children’s stories. But as we walk in Peter’s Woods, contemplating the notions of plant intelligence, sensation, and communication, we could – for fun and in the spirit of inquiry – turn our thinking on its head by contemplating the source of our own, human ability to think and be self-aware. Descartes famously concluded his thoughts on the subject with the dictum, “I think, therefore I am.” However, four centuries later, the scientific method he helped create is far from any solid conclusions about how we think and are conscious beings. The exploration remains a swirl of notions drawn from sources as diverse as religion, biology, chemistry and quantum mechanics. If, in fact, the basic underpinnings of our own human experience are still a mystery, how can we really say we know anything for sure about what goes on in the life of forest plants? Next time you’re in the woods, ask the trees about it. Perhaps they’ll give you some answers you weren’t expecting.
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FIELD NOTES |
THE
SPRING MIGRATION BY TERRY SPRAGUE PHOTOGRAPH BY DEREK DAFOE
Terry Sprague is no stranger to Watershed. We’ve called upon him many times – when questions arose about Presqu’ile Provincial Park or Ostrander’s Point, when we heard that bald eagles had been spotted in the Brighton area, when we needed more information about bird migrations or when we needed his authoritative voice in one of our Habitat articles. And in 2010, Terry was featured as one of our Hometown Heroes because of his contribution to the naturalist community. Imagine our delight when Terry has agreed to write a regular column about the topics near and dear to his heart. We’ll also be posting field notes from Terry on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Watershed-Magazine -592407064214908/ and encourage you to share your pictures and sightings with us. SPRING STARTS WITH THE FIRST WOOD FROG QUACKS FROM THE FLOODED WOODS, and the
arrival of killdeers and song sparrows. As days become warmer and longer, the tempo accelerates with the arrival of twittering woodcocks as males perform their nuptials, the complex musical phrases of brown thrashers and the flutelike notes of wood thrushes. March and April bring only the hardier species,
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those able to handle the weather vagaries of early spring, but it is May when the forest becomes alive with the call notes of feeding flycatchers and warblers and other insectivores. It is a spectacular wave of migrants, many of them on their way to the boreal forests to breed, that only begins to wane once June arrives and we are left with the local residents. While any walking trail or backyard will guarantee at least a few spring migrants during this passage, there are focal points where birds and watchers of birds are known to congregate. Legendary among these, of course, is Point Pelee. Others along the Lake Erie shoreline include Long Point and Rondeau Provincial Parks. These are points of land that jut out into the open lake and are the first that weary migrants see after crossing the open water. They are exhausted from the long journey from their tropical wintering grounds and they use these peninsulas to rest and feed before continuing on to their destination. However, birders along Lake Ontario are not without similar areas. Presqu’ile Provincial Park at Brighton is famous among these. Its 930-hectare oasis of mixed habitat has amassed a list of some 340 species of birds. Similarly, Prince Edward County, because of its location and larger size in
eastern Lake Ontario, has managed to document 354 confirmed species. Even within the County itself, there are special nooks and crannies and tiny peninsulas that have come into their own – West Point in Sandbanks Park, Salmon Point, Point Petre. In fact, the entire south shore of the County has been declared an Important Bird Area (IBA), attracting migrants by the thousands. Many of these migrants gorge their way along the shoreline until they reach Prince Edward Point, the tip of the South Shore IBA and of the county itself. Here they will “pile up” as they wait for favourable weather conditions before crossing the 10-kilometre expanse of Prince Edward Bay and continuing their journey north to their breeding grounds. Prince Edward Point is the County’s own Point Pelee and it has become an alternate destination to birders who would normally press onward to Point Pelee. A popular Birding Festival has taken place here since 1997, and spring and fall bird banding is carried out to document the importance of this point of land to migratory birds. Whether it is the excitement of these migration focal points, or the more leisurely pace of side roads and backyards, don`t let spring pass you by without taking note of the spring bird migration.
MORE THAN 100 KM OF TRAILS TO EXPLORE. THERE IS A TRAIL FOR EVERYONE
COLBORNE
43 King Street East, 905.355.2525
rodmackenzie@mackenzielegal.ca
www.mackenzielegal.ca
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FOOD & DRINK SCENE Welcome to the local food and drink scene, where Watershed shares its secrets and discoveries. Our region is blessed with creative chefs, restaurateurs, vintners, craft brewers and purveyors of fine food. Food & Drink Scene trumpets their accomplishments and celebrates their innovation. BY JEFF BRAY
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The Vader Family has been farming in the heart of
Prince Edward County since 1978. Over the last 10
years, they’ve focused on peas as their main crop.
You've probably seen Mill Creek Peas in the
grocery store. The peas are shipped from Toronto to Montreal, and when in season, they’re on the road
within 24 hours of being harvested. That's about as fresh as you're going to get in a major grocery! Mill Creek Farm 44 County Rd. 11, Picton millcreekfarm.ca
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The Bickle family is helping shape our region’s Taste of Place. The hops they harvest add the bitterness to beer that makes it so thirst quenching and balances the sweet malt to make it drinkable. Valley Hops grows only a few varieties including some that are native to our region. Truly unique flavours, some of which you can taste at William St. Beer Company. The Bickle Farm Valley Hops Port Hope, Ontario facebook.com/ValleyHops
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Who says you need an ocean to grow shrimp? Just outside of Campbellford, the Cocchio family has transformed an old barn into an eco-friendly shrimp farm that produces 300 pounds of fresh shrimp every week. You could drive out to the east coast for some fresh shrimp or pick some up in Campbellford. Call ahead because they’re servicing some of Toronto’s hottest restaurants and they sell out fast. First Ontario Shrimp 266 2nd Line East, Campbellford firstontarioshrimp.com
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Just outside of Codrington, Chris and Jenny McRae make cider from apples that are 100% sourced from the area. It is a perfect representation of Apple Country. They also partner with local farmers to create reimagined cider, using ingredients like local hops, blueberries, black currants, pumpkin, even maple. Empire Cider Sat. and Sun. 11am - 5pm 222 Old Wooler Rd., Codrington Empirecider.ca
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Often referred to as Red Gold, saffron conjures up images of Middle Eastern souks or steaming Spanish paellas. But saffron in Northumberland? Yes! And it’s deemed to be of the highest quality. The hot summers,
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a specialized nursery operator and a fungi culturist. Summergreen can get you started with a collection of fruiting
cold winters and hilltops of Northumberland
shrubs, cider apple and nut trees, as
are ideal for saffron production. Semi-sweet,
well as inoculation kits so you can grow
floral and fresh, add some to your breakfast
your own mushrooms at home. You can
omelette, fresh honey or paella and feel
also catch Derek at the Codrington
yourself whisked away to the streets of Spain.
Farmer’s Market on Sundays, as well as
True Saffron Warkworth truesaffron.ca
the Wellington Market on Saturdays starting in mid-May. Summergreen Farm 180 Greenly Rd., Warkworth summergreenfarm.com
County wines are in competition with some of the best in the world. The reason? The rich limestone bedrock and rocky soils that exist within the PEC microclimate are perfect for producing low yields with highly concentrated flavours. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes are making PEC famous, and Closson Chase is one of the best producers around. The future of wine grows right here in our own back yard! Closson Chase 629 Closson Rd., Hillier, PEC clossonchase.com
top right photograph courtesy Summergreen Farm
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Derek Greenly reconfigured the family farm a couple of years back. He’s now
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A N A D V E R T I S I N G F E AT U R E
A SHOWCASE OF FINE HOMES
WATERFRONT
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163 ONTARIO ST., COBOURG
106 STEWART RD., BRIGHTON
1007 DEYELL LINE, MILLBROOK
$2,800,000 MLS 511150522
$1,799,000 MLS 510910266
$959,000 MLS 511700125
$899,000 MLS 280170057
1007 CTY RD 25, CASTLETON
10 DURHAM ST., COLBORNE
334 PINEWOOD SCHOOL RD., CASTLETON
385 DURHAM ST., COLBORNE
$849,000 MLS 512380166
$749,000 MLS 511490417
$749,000 MLS 512350215
$699,900 MLS 511410114
SOLD 177 PIPELINE RD., SHELTER VALLEY
529 DUDLEY RD COLBORNE
26 KING ST W., COBOURG
964 PENRYN RD., CASTLETON
$699,000 MLS 511320458
$699,000 MLS 511400185
$699,000 MLS 510940392
$699,000 MLS 512370168
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FOR LEGENDARY RESULTS HIRE PULLA tony@pulla.ca . 905.373.1980 . www.pulla.ca *Based on MLS statistics of the Cobourg-Port Hope Real Estate Board/Northumberland Hills Association of Realtors® (1995-2017)
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A N A D V E R T I S I N G F E AT U R E
A SHOWCASE OF FINE HOMES
SOLD 80 APPLEWOOD DR., CAMPBELLFORD
461 4TH LINE, ROSENEATH
26 PARK ST., COLBORNE
1000 FREI ST., COBOURG
$699,000 MLS 511960004
$659,000 MLS 511210153
$599,000 MLS 511410172
$575,000 MLS 510840320
3142 HARWOOD RD., HAMILTON TWP
19B PARK ST. E., COLBORNE
106 MOUNT PLEASANT RD., CASTLETON
183 ELDER RD., ROSENEATH
$539,000 MLS 511110204
$519,000 MLS 511410493
$499,000 MLS 512340001
$469,900 MLS 511270081
20A DURHAM ST., COLBORNE
57 TORONTO RD., COLBORNE
13 &15 ROBERTSON ST., COLBORNE
WESTPARK PLAZA COBOURG
$459,000 MLS 172370
$449,000 MLS 511410439
$319,000 MLS 180074
FROM $25/SQ FT MLS 172435
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THE PULLA TEAM Northumbelrand County’s Leading Real Estate Sales Team for the past 23 years*
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Nikki Pulla
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Sales Representative
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rosamond@ pulla.ca
jill@ pulla.ca
pullaoffice@pulla.ca
1011 Elgin Street W., Cobourg . Direct Line 905.373.1980 . Office 905.373.7653 *Based on MLS statistics of the Cobourg-Port Hope Real Estate Board/Northumberland Hills Association of Realtors® (1995-2017)
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TRUST . KNOWLEDGE . DISCRETION
LEE CASWELL & DIANNE GRAHAM We Know Northumberland
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Fionna Barrington Sales Representative
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Lee Caswell Dianne Graham NESTLED AMONGST PORT HOPE’S FAMOUS RAVINES, the plush greenery makes for a stunning backdrop for this ca 1890 Victorian home. The home features a main floor bedroom, main floor laundry, open concept living & dining room. At the back of the house there is a large screened in room that faces the ravine and an outdoor viewing terrace with birds eye views! A must see within the historic old town of Port hope within steps to the downtown restaurants, the Ganaraska river & national historic site the Capitol Theatre.
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and pragmatism, of art and architecture. Home is where the heart is and it is a different choice for every homebuyer. Finding and making the right choice begins with the trust and confidence you have in a Chestnut Park Realtor.
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Experience with a fresh Approach
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Real Estate Limited, Brokerage
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A CHARMING HOME ON A GORGEOUS PROPERTY!
Paul Lang Coldwell Banker RMR
office 905.372.9323 cell 905.377.5443 1040 Division St Suite 8 Cobourg On L1A 5Y5 4363 MARSH RD. PORT HOPE – Imagine, horseback riding or quading over your own private 68 acres! Enjoy walking trails through softwood bush out to the meadow. Perhaps an evening fire with friends and family in the stone fire pit by the pond. You are sure to enjoy every inch of this beautiful property. This is a country retreat 2 minutes from shopping and less than 10 minutes to historic downtown Port Hope.
We never stop moving.
This property is a rare find! $1,489,000 MLS 510640874
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“I work closely with all my clients, ensuring that each and every home is showcased to sell. It’s my priority to achieve the best possible results for all my listings.”
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mobile: 289.251.2947 toll free fax: 877.281.1689
For more information visit www.dalebryant.ca
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LIVE WHERE YOU LOVE TO VISIT
109 PIERCE ROAD, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY What an amazing opportunity! 46.68 acres housing a workshop, salt-water pool, outdoor pizza oven, and lots of privacy! A prime location in Prince Edward County places this property only minutes from various wineries, restaurants, and farmers’ markets! The house itself is just as impressive as the location,
boasting an open concept it includes 3 bedrooms on tha main floor and 2 on the lower level. The master bedroom has a gorgeous ensuite and a large walk in closet. An all around great home for entertaining – spend summers by the pool and winters sipping wine beside the fireplace.
COME HOME TO THE COUNTY
25 KINGS ROAD, CHERRY VALLEY, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Country Estate with Sunsets over East Lake, minutes from Sandbanks beaches. Custom built with fine carpentry finishing. 6 BR, 4 BA; Suite over garage, LL walk out Suite, MBR en suite. Pristine woods & landscaped perennial gardens. Farmed for cash crop seeds; vineyard potential. $1,500,000 ID#QR550770058
Sandra Foreman Sales Representative
104 Main St., Picton Direct 613.403.1466 CountyHomes.ca
Member of Quinte & Toronto Real Estate Boards
$1,175,000 MLS®550500239
104 Main Street Picton T: 613.476.2700 | TF: 877.476.0096 pictonhomes.com Live Where You Love To Visit Trademarks owned or controlled by the Canadian Real Estate Association. Used under licence.
Elizabeth Crombie Suzanne White*
*Sales Representative and Licensed Assistant to Elizabeth Crombie, Sales Representative
2522 COUNTY ROAD 64, CARRYING PLACE, QUINTE WEST – 1864 church at the NW corner of Prince Edward County, high vaulted ceilings, great acoustics. Addition c. 1985 w 2 washrooms, large kitchen, now a successful Antique Shop and Auction Hall. CR Zoning allows “live where you work”.
co-listed with Lee Caswell Sales Representative, Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage
$398,000 ID#QR511720725
www.pictonhomes.com
EVERY HOME IS A MASTERPIECE!
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY & NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
Iris & Brian Andrews Brokers
LAKE ONTARIO CONDOS – CATCH THE WAVE Sought After Wellington in Prince Edward County. 30 Deluxe Condo Suites & 6 Towns by Royalcliff Homes. Coveted Location on the Shores of Lake Ontario!
ULTIMATE CONTEMPORARY ON THE BAY OF QUINTE Chic Architecture, Soaring Windows, Chef’s Kitchen, Premium Stainless Appliances, Stunning Sunsets, Finished on 2 Levels. Dream Pool, Spa & Lanscaping.
AWE INSPIRING GRAFTON ESTATE A Nod to Green Living, 6.9 Acres, Contemporary Design, Steel, Glass, Views, Ground Source Heat & Solar, Garage/Studio/Workshop, Trails, Pond,Brook & Forest.
www.twelvetreeswellington.ca
$2,290,000 MLS 550140537
$1,250,000 MLS 511300223
ROLLING 85 ACRE RURAL ESTATE – WARKWORTH Privacy & Outstanding Views Prevail! Savvy, Open Design on 2 Levels, Deluxe Kitchen & Baths, Stunning InGround Pool, Patios, Gardens, Woodland, Stream & Barn.
COUNTY ROAD… TAKE ME HOME Chic Renovated County Farmhouse, Exquisitely Appointed For Your Living Pleasure. Pastoral Views. Fabulous Stone Fireplace, Workshop/Studio/Guest Suite & Coverall Building
THE HILLIER HOUSE IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY State of the Art Studio/Gallery & Stunning Century Residence in the Hamlet of Hillier. Refurbished In A Known Destination Offering a Myriad of Opportunities. Live & Work Here!
$1,250,000 MLS 511890060
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$799,000 MLS 550250122
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613.969.2044 800.303.1044 info@andrewsproperties.ca
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A SHOWCASE OF FINE HOMES As interest in our region grows, Watershed grows along with it. The Showcase of Fine Homes provides a format for real estate agents to present properties and homes to a broad and sophisticated market, within the region and beyond. To find out more about Showcase of Fine Homes marketing opportunities, please contact:
JEANETTE CARTER DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING SALES (WEST)
jcarter@watershedmagazine.com cell 289.251.4777 MARK BISHOP DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING SALES (EAST)
mbishop@watershedmagazine.com 613.438.1760
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WATERSHEDDINGS YOUR REGIONAL EVENT GUIDE To submit your event listing visit Area Events on our website www.watershedmagazine.com
Art Galleries ANDREW CSAFORDI STUDIO GALLERY – 54 Wilson Rd. Bloomfield. Open daily Apr.-Oct. Call 613-3931572 or visit andrewcsafordi.com. APR. 28 & 29 – ENCAUSTIC PAINTING – Two-day workshop. ART EMPORIUM BY THE RIVER – 11 Mill St. N. Port Hope. Call 905-800-1448 or visit aebtr.ca. ART GALLERY OF NORTHUMBERLAND COBOURG – Victoria Hall, 3rd floor, 55 King St. W. Cobourg. Visit artgalleryofnorthumberland.com or call 905-3720333 for details. MAY 5 – JUNE 24 – JURIED EXHIBITION. ART GALLERY OF NORTHUMBERLAND PORT HOPE – 8 Queen St. Port Hope. Call 905-885-2115 or visit artgalleryofnorthumberland.com. FRANTIC FARMS CLAY & GLASS GALLERY – 2 Mill St. Warkworth. For details visit franticfarms.com or call 705-924-9173. GALERIE Q – 1521 Cty. Rd. 10 Cavan. Visit galerieq.com or call 705-944-8888. APR. 7 – 30 – INTO THE WOODS – Group exhibition. MAY 11 – 31 – SOUVENIRS DE JEUNESSE – Yvon Lemieux recollects his earliest memories of rural Quebec through paint.
GALLERY ONE-TWENTY-ONE – 48 Bridge St. E. Belleville. For more details call 613-962-4609 or visit gallery121artists.com.
SCUGOG COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS GALLERY – 181 Perry St. Port Perry. For more information call 905982-2121 or visit scugogarts.ca.
HEXAGON STUDIOS – 1179 Chemong Rd. Peterborough. Call 705-933-8726 or visit hexagonstudios.ca.
SIDESTREET GALLERY – 264 Main St. Wellington. Call 613-399-5550 or visit sidestreetgallery.com.
KAWARTHA ARTISTS’ GALLERY & STUDIO – 420 O’Connell Rd. Peterborough. Call 705-741-2817 or visit kawarthaartists.org. JUNE 2 – 17 – CANADIAN SHIELD – Through the Eyes of an Artist.
SMALL POND ARTS – 337 Clarke Rd. Picton. Call 613-471-1322 or visit smallpondarts.ca.
JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY – 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. Visit bellevillelibrary.com or call 613-9686731 ext. 2240. MAR. 29 – APR. 5 – LINGER – Secondary School art exhibition. MAY 3 – 31 – LIMINAL/SUBLIMINAL – Juried exhibition open to all Quinte area artists.
SPIRIT OF THE HILLS – Northumberland Hills Arts Association. Visit spiritofthehills.org for exhibit locations and details. UNTIL MAY 3 – THE FOUR SEASONS – Paintings by Jan Atkinson. Campbellford Branch Public Library, 98 Bridge St. E. Campbellford.
LOVE NEST STUDIO GALLERY – 54 Wilson Rd. Bloomfield. Open daily Apr.-Oct. Call 613-393-1572 or visit loveneststudios.com.
STIRLING LIBRARY ART GALLERY – 43 Front St. Stirling. Call 613-395-2837 or visit stirlinglibrary.com. APR. 11 – JUNE 2 – DIFFERENT STROKES 2018 – Featuring the artistic expressions of The Group of Eleven: a collective of artists working in mixed media, oil, watercolour, acrylics, pen & ink and encaustic. Opening reception Apr. 18. 5-7pm.
MAD DOG GALLERY – 525 Cty. Rd. 11 Picton. Call 613-476-7744 or visit maddoggallery.ca.
SYBIL FRANK GALLERY – 305 Main St. (at West St.) Wellington. Visit sybilfrankgallery.com.
META4 – Contemporary Craft Gallery. Port Perry location: 200 Queen St. 905-985-1534. Peterborough location: 164 Hunter St. W. 705-874-9444. For more information visit meta4gallery.ca.
THE COLBORNE ART GALLERY – 51 King St. E. Colborne. Visit thecolborneartgallery.ca or call 905-3551798. UNTIL APR. 15 – ANCIENT OBJECTS AND OTHER PAINTINGS.
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APR. 21 – JUNE 3 – JURIED EXHIBITION – Opening reception Apr. 21. 2-4pm. ZIMART’S RICE LAKE GALLERY – 855 Second Line, Bailieboro. Open daily June 1 to Thanksgiving. All other times by appointment. Call 705-939-6144 or visit zimart.ca.
Bikes, Boats, Cars & Trucks MAY 5 & 6 – STIRLING AUTOMOTIVE FLEA MARKET – Two big days loaded with antique cars, parts and automobilia. Stirling Fairgrounds, 437 West Front St. Stirling. Admission $5. Children under 12 free. 9am-5pm. For details visit stirlingfair.com or call 613395-1583. JUNE 2 – CANOE THE NONQUON – Canoe race down the Nonquon River and into Lake Scugog. Call 905-985-8698 ext. 103 or visit discoverportperry.ca . JUNE 2 – HEROES HIGHWAY RIDE AND RALLY – Ride and demonstration in support of those who serve, and have served, our country. Ride begins in
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Trenton and travels to Memorial Park in Port Hope. For information and updates visit heroeshighwayride.ca. JUNE 3 – SHOW & SHINE CAR SHOW – Custom, antique and classic cars. Presented by Belleville Lions Club. Zwick’s Park, Belleville. 8am-3pm. 50s & 60s music. Food and refreshments on site. Free admission and parking. Registration $10/car. Call 613-813-8170 for information. JUNE 9 – GANARASKA 250 – Vintage motorcycle reliability run. 8am-7pm. Town Park Recreation Centre, 62 McCaul St. Port Hope. For more information and to register visit ganaraska250.weebly.com.
Clubs, Meetings & Talks 100 WOMEN WHO CARE – Brighton chapter. Registration at 6:30pm. Meetings at 7pm. June 12, Sept. 18 and Nov. 13. Evangel Pentecostal Church, 30 Butler St. E. Brighton. For more information visit 100womenbrighton.com or call 613-661-5980. BELLEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION – Meets the last Mon. of each month. 12pm. 392 Front St. Belleville. Bring your lunch. Visit bellevilleart.ca. APR. 3 – 28 – SPRING HAS SPRUNG. BOOK CLUB – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. Belleville Public Library, 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. 23pm in the Board Room on the 2nd floor. Call 613968-6731 ext. 2037 for more information. BRIGHTON COMPUTER CLUB – Meets the 2nd and 4th Tues. of each month (Oct. through May). King Edward Community Centre, Elizabeth Street, Brighton. 9:30am. Refreshments provided. Bring your own cup. Visit brightoncomputerclub.org. CFUW BELLEVILLE – Meets the 3rd Thu. of each month. St. Thomas Church Hall, 201 Church St. Belleville. 7pm. Visit cfuwbelleville.com. CFUW NORTHUMBERLAND – Meets the 1st Mon.
MARMORA
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of each month. HTM Insurance Co., 1185 Elgin St. W. Cobourg. 7:30pm. Visit cfuw-northumberland.org. MAY 9 – SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON – Dalewood Golf Club, 7465 Dale Rd. Cobourg. Guest speaker Joy Kogawa, celebrated Canadian author. Tickets $65 in advance only at Victoria Hall box office or 905-3722210. COMPUTER COACH – Drop by for a free computer lesson to learn about Windows, internet, social media and more. Every other Wed. Apr. 4 – June 27. Belleville Public Library, 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. 1011am. For scheduled topics call 613-968-6731 ext. 2037 or visit bellevillelibrary.ca. GANARASKA CHORDSMEN – A cappella chorus welcomes the 96% who can carry a tune to its rehearsals. Every Tues. 7pm. HTM Insurance Co., 1185 Elgin St. W. Cobourg. Call ahead to Rick 289-8290901 or visit ganaraskachordsmen.ca for more information. HASTINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY – Maranatha Auditorium, 100 College St. W. Belleville. 7:30pm. Visit hastingshistory.ca. APR. 17 – THE FIRST SPIKE – A Look at the Early Railroads of Eastern Ontario. MAY 15 – 1837-38 REBELLION – The Aftermath and the Impact on International Relations. JOYFULL NOISE CHOIR – Meets every Mon. 7pm. Bridge Street United Church, Belleville. We sing music of the 50s, 60s & 70s. No auditions and no need to read music. For more information call 1-877-4334386 or visit joyfull-noise.com. KNITTERATI – Social knitting circle drop-in. Meets every other Tues. Apr. 3 – June 26. Belleville Public Library, 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. 5:30-7pm in the Reading Nook. Call 613-968-6731 ext. 2037. LAKESHORE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Thu. of each month. Cobourg Public Library. 6:30pm. Visit lakeshoregenealogicalsociety.ca.
LAKESHORE QUILTERS GUILD – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. 7pm. Sept. through May. Ruth Clarke Centre, 81 Mill St. Port Hope. Call 905-373-0829. NORTHUMBERLAND CHORUS – For details visit northumberland-chorus.com or call 905-372-6675. APR. 9 – MAY 28 – A-CAPPELLA BOOT CAMP – Exercise your voice and learn how to increase your performance skill level. Mondays. 6:30-8:30pm. Cost $25. Columbus Community Centre, 232 Spencer St. E. Cobourg. NORTHUMBERLAND LAND TRUST – nltrust.ca or 905-342-3851 or info@nltrust.ca. JUNE 13 – AGM – This is a free event that includes election of directors, approval of 2017 financial statements, selection of auditors for 2018 and a guest speaker. All are welcome to attend but only members may vote. Time and location TBD. NORTHUMBERLAND LEARNING CONNECTION – Visit northumberlandlearningconnection.ca or call\ 905-344-8319. APR. 5 – MAY 4 – RIVERS: CURRENTS OF CHANGE – A series of five talks, five discussions and five special events, featuring Canadian and international specialists on all aspects of rivers. Thursday talks 7:30pm. Columbus Community Centre, 232 Spencer St. E. Cobourg. Friday discussions 9am. Port Hope Public Library, 31 Queen St. Special events include a tour to the Canoe Museum in Peterborough and a guided walk up the Ganaraska River. NORTHUMBERLAND PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB – Meets the 1st Mon. of each month. 7pm. Scheduled outings from Toronto to Kingston. Salvation Army Church Gym, 59 Ballantine St. Cobourg. For more information visit northumberlandphoto.ca or email info_mail@northumberlandphoto.ca. PINE RIDGE HIKING CLUB – Enjoy exercise and recreation on the beautiful trails of Northumberland County. Visit pineridgehikingclub.ca for membership information and hiking schedule.
PROBUS CLUB OF COLBORNE – Retired or semi-retired singles and couples meet the 1st and 3rd Wed. of each month for social activities, fellowship, trips and tours, and entertaining speakers. Visit probusnorthumberland.com. Keeler Centre, 80 Division St. Colborne. Guests welcome. Call 905-355-2665. PROBUS CLUB OF PRESQU’ILE – Join us for food, fun and fellowship. Retired or semi-retired singles and couples meet the 3rd Wed. of each month. King Edward Park Community Centre, Brighton. 9:30am12pm. For more information call Jean 613-242-5387 or visit probusnorthumberland.com.
QUINTE WOOD CARVERS – Meets every Mon. 1pm and Thu. 7pm. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 516 Victoria Ave. Belleville. For details call 613-478-5442 or visit quintewoodcarvers.ca. APR. 14 – QUINTE WOOD CARVING SHOW – Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Rd. Belleville. 9:30am-4:30pm. ROSENEATH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 1st Wed. of each month. 7:30pm. Alnwick Civic Centre, Roseneath. Call 905-352-3778 for information. SHELTER VALLEY SHAPE-NOTE SINGERS – Meets the 2nd Sun. of each month. 7-9pm. Grafton Community Centre. All voices welcome. Call 905-3492042 or visit sheltervalleyshapenote.weebly.com. SHOUT SISTER CHOIR – All-inclusive women’s choirs. For more information and a list of chapters visit shoutsisterchoir.ca or email members@shoutsisterchoir.ca. BELLEVILLE – Every Wed. 7-9pm. St. Matthew’s United Church, Belleville.
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NORTHUMBERLAND – Every Wed. 7-9pm. Trinity United Church, Cobourg. PICTON – Every Thu. 7-9 pm. St. Mary Magdalene Church, Picton. TABLE TENNIS – Every Mon. 1-3pm and Thu. 9:3011:30am. All skill levels welcome. Cobourg Community Centre, 750 D’Arcy St. Call Gary at 289-252-1928. THE 55+ CLUB OF THE COLBORNE LEGION – Every Tues. 1pm for cards and social time. Call 905-3555479 or visit colbornelegion.org. WESTBEN FIRST-FRIDAY TICK TALKS – Clock Tower Cultural Centre, 36 Front St. S. Campbellford. Paywhat-you-can. Visit westben.ca or call 705-653-5508 for more information. APR. 6 – CHOPIN NOCTURNES – 12pm. MAY 4 – FOLLOW THE LIEDER – 12pm.
email volunteer@habitatnorthumberland.ca. APR. 14 – IN CONVERSATION – Book launch celebrating Heather Chisvin’s first work of fiction. Port Hope Public Library. 2-3pm. For more information visit furbyhousebooks.com or call 905-885-7296. APR. 14 – OFAH/GFC CONSERVATION DINNER – An evening of live and silent auctions, raffles, door prizes, great food and good company. In support of the Ganaraska Forest Centre outdoor education program. Cobourg Lion’s Centre, 157 Elgin St. E. 5:3010:30pm. Tickets $75 in advance only. Call 905-8858173 for tickets and information.
Community Events/Fundraisers APR. 5 – COBOURG’S GILDED AGE – Summer Colony and Grand Cottages 1874-1930. An illustrated talk by Rob Mikel, Cobourg’s premier historian. Tickets $20+s/c. General admission seating. Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, Cobourg. 7:30pm. Complimentary refreshments. Presented by Victoria Hall Volunteers. Visit victoriahallvolunteers.ca or call 905-342-2467 or 905-372-2210 for tickets and information. APR. 10 – IN CONVERSATION – Non-fiction author and journalist Katherine Ashenburg will discuss her recent switch to fiction. Furby House Books, 65 Walton St. Port Hope. 7pm. Visit furbyhousebooks.com or call 905-885-7296. APR. 12 – DESSERT BRIDGE – Presented by Quinte Grannies for Africa of Belleville. St. Thomas’ Church, corner of Bridge/Church Sts. Dessert served at 1pm. Bridge to follow. To reserve a table please call Kathy at 613-968-6566. Please have table made up prior to calling and bring your own cards. APR. 14 – FLOAT YOUR FANNY DOWN THE GANNY – An exciting 10km race down the Ganaraska River for canoes, kayaks and crazy craft. Race begins at 10am. Event Village at Barrett St. Bridge opens at 10am. Call 905-885-1721 or visit floatyourfanny.ca. APR. 14 – HOCKEY NIGHT IN NORTHUMBERLAND – Northumberland United Way and Habitat for Humanity Northumberland partner to bring the NHL Alumni Hockey Team to the Cobourg Community Centre. Proceeds will go to support local families in Northumberland County. Coached by Walter Gretzky, the NHL Alumni Team will play Northumberland's Hometown team made up of 12 local players who have paid for the opportunity to play. CCC doors open at 5pm with the puck drop at 6pm. For more information call 289-252-0999 ext. 29 or you can
APR. 15 – WRITERS & FRIENDS – An impressive panel of up-and-coming and nationally recognized writers will grace the stage at Memorial Hall, Kingston City Hall. 1pm. Visit horizons.ca or call 1-888-7299928 ext. 10. APR. 21 – TRASH BASH – A community-wide spring cleanup in Belleville, Quinte West/Batawa, Township of Tyendinaga and Prince Edward County. 9am to 1pm. Supplies and litter drop-off locations provided. Visit quintetrashbash.ca for details. APR. 23 – QUINTE FIELD NATURALISTS – Join us for a delicious meal followed by a presentation from nature writer and passionate environmentalist, Peri McQuay. Tickets $28. Fundraising event. 6pm. St. Mark’s United Church, 237 Cannifton Rd. N. Cannifton. Visit facebook.com/QuinteFieldNaturalists or call 613-477-3066. APRIL 26 – AN EVENING WITH JEANNE BEKER – The journalist, author, fashion maven and tv personality in conversation with Kat Kinch. 7pm. The Gathering Place, St. Paul’s United Church, 60 Main St. Warkworth. Tickets $15 include delicious dessert, coffee and tea. Fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Presented by Trent Hills Grannies for Africa. For more information please call Carole at 705-653-0164. APR. 26 – EMPTY BOWLS – Dinner, raffles, music and silent auction in support of The Help and Legal Centre of Northumberland. Tickets $50 include glass of wine, appetizers, soup, desserts and a handmade bowl of your choice from Northumberland Potters. Rosewood Estates, 255 Densmore Rd. Cobourg. 6pm. For tickets and information call 905-373-4464. APR. 27 – IN CONVERSATION – An entertaining
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evening for amateur political junkies of all kinds, featuring Port Hope resident Robert Bothwell, author of “Trudeau’s World”. Furby House Books, 65 Walton St. Port Hope. 7pm. Visit furbyhousebooks.com or call 905-885-7296. APR. 29 – MANDARIN MS WALK – 5km walk to raise funds to improve the quality of life for people affected by MS. In-house raffle, refreshments and fun. Registration at 8am. Walk starts at 10am. Cobourg Collegiate Institute, 335 King St. W. Cobourg. Visit mswalks.ca or call 705-748-4221 ext. 3512. MAY 4 – 6 – JANE’S WALK – A weekend of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by city planning activist Jane Jacobs. Meet your neighbours and explore your neighbourhoods. For locations and information visit janeswalk.org. MAY 5 – WALK & RUBBER DUCK RACE – A fun & friendly all-ages walk through beautiful Warkworth and along the Millennium Trail. 1km, 2.5km or 5km route. Fly solo or enter a team of 4 or more. No fee to walk. Please gather pledges to support The Bridge Hospice. $5/duck ticket. Start/finish at Warkworth Arena. 10:30am. Visit thebridgehospice.com or call 705-924-9222.
Park. 474 Cty. Rd. 8 Campbellford. 10am-4pm. Call 705-632-0894 or visit friendsofferris.ca. MAY 27 – ROTARY LILAC RIDE – Charity cycling event supporting PEC’s “Reaching for Rainbows”. Three marked courses (25km, 50km, 100km) will take riders on some of Prince Edward County’s most beautiful cycling routes including Big Island, Northport and Green Point. All routes start and finish at the Prince Edward Community Centre Rotary Hall. Visit pictonrotary.ca for details and registration. For more information email james.barkman@yahoo.ca. MAY 27 – WALK FOR DOG GUIDES – Fundraiser to help train dog guides for Canadians with visual, hearing, medical or physical disabilities. Organized by local volunteers with support from Lions Foundation of Canada. Visit walkfordogguides.com for location and more information. JUNE 2 – STRUT FOR STRAYS – Walkathon and Pet Festival. A day filled with pet activities to raise money to help the homeless and abandoned animals in our community. Free admission. West Zwick’s Island Park, Belleville. 10am-4pm. Visit fixedfurlife.com or email fixedfurlife@gmail.com for more information.
MAY 6 – RANNEY GORGE RUN – Fundraiser supporting Campbellford Memorial Hospital. Featuring officially timed 10.55km (half of a half marathon) and 5km run/walk routes through the roads of Ferris Provincial Park and over the breathtaking Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge. The day will also include a 1km Fun Run for kids. To register or for more information visit theranneygorgerun.itsyourrace.com or call 705-653-1140 ext. 2104. MAY 20 – OCT. 7 – ROSENEATH CAROUSEL – Every Sunday from Victoria Day to Thanksgiving ride the carousel featuring forty wooden horses and two boats. 1-3pm. Cost per ride $3. Roseneath Fairgrounds, 9109 Cty. Rd. 45. For more information visit roseneathcarousel.com. MAY 25 – PECMH “TAG DAY” – Donate to the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital by purchasing a tag at various locations in Picton, Bloomfield and Wellington. Look for Auxiliary Volunteers wearing red aprons. Starts at 10am. Call 613-476-2181 for more information. MAY 27 – COME FLY A KITE! – East Zwicks Park, Belleville. Kiwanis Family Fun Event. Free admission. Free kites for the first 100 children accompanied by an adult. 12-4pm. Visit kiwanisbelleville.ca or call 613969-8947. MAY 27 – KITE DAY – Bring your own kite or make and colour one of your own with materials provided by Friends of Ferris. Free admission. Fundraiser BBQ, refreshments and on-site parking. Ferris Provincial
JUNE 6 – KIWANIS CHICKEN BBQ – Quinte Curling Club, Belleville. 11am-6pm. Tickets $14 in advance/$17 at the door. Dinner includes half BBQ chicken, potato, roll and coleslaw. Call 613-9698947or visit kiwanisbelleville.ca. JUNE 9 – VIDEO DANCE PARTY – Fundraiser for the Roseneath Pro Rodeo scheduled for August 24 and 25. Big Barn, Roseneath Fairgrounds. 8:30pm. For more information visit roseneathrodeo.com. JUNE 12 – TEEING UP FORE HEALTH CARE – Golf Classic. Proceeds to support patient care at the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital. $100. Picton Golf and Country Club. Shotgun start 1pm. For more information and to register call Briar at 613-476-1008 ext. 4425, email briar@pecmhf.ca or visit pecmhf.ca.
Concerts BELLEVILLE CHORAL SOCIETY – For details visit bellevillechoralsociety.org or call 613-962-1232. APR. 29 – SPRING CONCERT – Broadway and show tunes. Bridge Street United Church, 60 Bridge St. Belleville. 3pm.
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CAMECO CAPITOL ARTS CENTRE – 20 Queen St. Port Hope. Visit capitoltheatre.com or call 905-8851071. APR. 27 – BEACH PARTY BOYS – Tribute concert. 8pm. MAY 10 – LUNCH AT ALLEN’S – 7:30pm. COMMAND PERFORMANCE CHOIR – For tickets and information visit commandperformancechoir.com. JUNE 3 – SPRING CONCERT – Performing "A Gershwin Portrait" as well as great tunes from the Swing Era by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and others. Conducted by Gregory Garrett and accompanied by Samantha Hirst along with a live jazz ensemble. Dancing in the aisles permitted. St. Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St. Picton. Tickets $20. 7:30pm. FRIENDS OF MUSIC – Call 905-797-2295 or visit friendsofmusicontario.ca for more information. APR. 15 – WESTON SILVER BAND – Music of the British Isles. Trinity United Church, Cobourg. 3pm. KAWARTHA YOUTH ORCHESTRA – Call 705-8685050 or visit thekyo.org. MAY 6 – SPRING CONCERT – Market Hall, Peterborough. 3pm. LA JEUNESSE CHOIRS – Trinity United Church, 284 Division St. Cobourg. For more information call 905375-9414 or visit lajeunessechoirs.ca. MAY 6 – SPRING CONCERT – 3pm. LA JEUNESSE YOUTH ORCHESTRA – Visit ljyo.ca for information. MAY 13 – SONIC BLOOM – Port Hope United Church. 3pm. LES AMIS CONCERTS – St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Cobourg. Visit lesamisconcerts.org. APR. 8 – JOYCE LAI & ERIKA CRINO – 3pm. MARKET HALL – 140 Charlotte St. Peterborough. Visit markethall.org or call 705-749-1146. APR. 15 – JAMES KEELAGHAN AND TONY McMANUS – Double-bill. 4pm. For more information visit folkundertheclock.ca. APR. 17 – STEPHEN FEARING – 8pm. APR. 19 – WHITEHORSE – 8pm. NORTHUMBERLAND ORCHESTRA & CHOIR – Call 905-376-3021 or visit northumberlandmusic.ca. MAY 5 – DARKNESS INTO LIGHT – Featuring music that will move you from the darkness of winter past into the light of spring with its eternal promise of renewal. Trinity United Church, 284 Division St. Cobourg. 7:30pm. OLD CHURCH THEATRE – 940 Bonisteel Rd. Trenton. Call 613-848-1411 or visit oldchurch.ca. APR. 13 – MICHAEL SCHATTE – 7:30pm. APR. 15 – TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN – 7:30pm. APR. 21 – TAYLOR ANGUS – 7:30pm. APR. 22 – PAT TEMPLE – 7:30pm. APR. 26 – RED DIRT SKINNERS – 7:30pm. APR. 28 – SUZIE VINNICK – 7:30pm. ORIANA SINGERS – Call 905-372-2210 or visit orianasingers.com for location and ticket information. MAY 26 – SHAKESPEARE: WORDS AND MUSIC – 7:30pm.
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PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Call 705-742-1992 or visit thepso.org. MAY 26 – TITAN – Emmanuel United Church East, Peterborough. 7:30pm. PORT HOPE UNITED CHURCH – 34 South St. Port Hope. For more information call 905-885-2421 or visit porthopeunitedchurch.com. JUNE 2 – HERE COMES THE SUN – A great variety of music for all ages. Advance tickets $20 available at Port Hope United Church office Tue-Fri 9am-12pm and 1-4pm. $25 at the door. Students (with card) $15. Children under 12 free. 7pm. ST. THOMAS’ ANGLICAN CHURCH – 201 Church St. Belleville. Visit stthomasbelleville.ca or call 613962-3636. APR. 15 – AN AFTERNOON WITH J.S. – Featuring Bach’s Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C minor. 4:30pm.
APR. 22 – TORONTO MALE WELSH CHOIR – 2pm. THE CONCERT HALL AT VICTORIA HALL – 55 King St. W. Cobourg. For more information call 905-3722210 or visit concerthallatvictoriahall.com. MAY 26 – WE WALK THE LINE – A tribute to Johnny Cash. 7:30pm. THE EMPIRE THEATRE – 321 Front St. Belleville. Call 613-969-0099 or visit theempiretheatre.com. APR. 12 – THE DRIFTERS – Featuring Rick Sheppard. 7:30pm. APR. 20 – THE LEGENDARY DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND – 8pm. MAY 11 – LUNCH AT ALLEN’S – 7:30pm. MAY 12 – WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NUTS – Comedian Derek Seguin. 7:30pm. THE LOFT – 201 Division St. Cobourg. For details visit cobourgloft.ca or email kenprue@gmail.com. APR. 15 – RICHARD HERRIOTT – Piano études & improvisations. 7pm. APR. 20 – PAT TEMPLE TRIO – Rockabilly, jump blues, gypsy jazz. 7pm. MAY 5 – HILLSBURN – Original folk, pop, rock. 2pm & 7pm. MAY 10 – SHARI ULRICH TRIO – 7pm. THE REGENT THEATRE – 224 Main St. Picton. Call 613-476-8416 or visit theregenttheatre.org. APR. 7 – JACK DE KEYZER – Blues Rock + Soul. 8pm. TOWN HALL 1873 – 302 Queen St. Port Perry. Call 905-985-8181 or visit townhall1873.ca. APR. 19 – 27 – ALL SHOOK UP! – The Music of Elvis Presley. 2pm & 8pm. MAY 5 – BILLY JOEL AND THE PIANO MEN – A celebration of the greatest piano artists of all time including Billy Joel, Elton John, Burton Cummings, Ray Charles, Liberace and more. 8pm. JUNE 1 – ONLY YESTERDAY – The Carpenters Story. 8pm. TWEED PAVILION – 137 Victoria St. Tweed. Visit tweedandcompany.com for tickets and information. MAY 12 – JAMES KING & THE MIDNIGHT HOURS – A five-piece classic rock trip, served up retro style. Don't miss this incredible mix of music, vocal athletics and theatricality. Tickets $15. WESTBEN ARTS FESTIVAL THEATRE – For tickets and informationisit westben.ca or call 705-653-5508 . JUNE 9 – 17 – JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT – The Barn, 6698 Cty. Rd. 30 Campbellford. Fri. 7pm. Sat./Sun. 2pm.
to 2015. This year’s themes are Age & Happiness and Art as Social Change. See Ai Weiwei’s Never Sorry; Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and Wim Wender’s Buena Vista Social Club. The Loft in Cobourg, 201 Division St. Visit vintagefilmfestival.ca/rearview for details and tickets. Seating is limited. APR. 28 – COUNTY POP – Community music festival with food trucks, local wine and beer and free children’s programming. Crystal Palace, Picton. For tickets and information visit countypop.com.
MAY 18 & 19 – FRANKFORD RIVERFEST – Frankford Tourist Park. Saturday features rides & games, cardboard boat races, petting zoo, live & interactive entertainment, antique car show, vendors and spectacular fireworks display. Visit quintewest.ca for updates and information. MAY 24 – 27 – ARTS EN PLEIN AIR – Artists from near and far capture the beauty of Belleville and the Quinte region ‘en plein air’. Downtown Belleville. Call 613-962-1232 or visit quinteartscouncil.org. MAY 25 – 27 – QUINTE ISLE’S BLUEGRASS CELEBRATION – A weekend of music, food, fun and jamming. Isle Camp Park, Cherry Valley. For details visit quintebluegrass.com or call 613-392-2412. MAY 26 – BARKS BY THE BAY – Canine festival and trade show featuring pet agility demonstrations, canine accessories, training aids and techniques, vendor village and more. Centennial Park, Trenton. Call 613392-2841 ext. 4487 or visit barksbythebay.ca. MAY 26 – FAMILY ARTFEST – Clay sculpting, t-shirt art, sand art, paper & nature crafts, music, chalk designs, face, balloon & bubble art. West Zwick’s Park, Belleville. 10am-3pm. Free admission and parking. For more information call 613-962-4597 ext. 3 or visit facebook.com/familyartfest. MAY 26 & 27 – APPLE BLOSSOM TYME FESTIVAL – Enjoy food samples, vintage cars and tractors, buskers, midway, spelling bee and pie eating contests, Rotary Poker Run, beer garden and more. Colborne Village, 80 Division St. and at the Keeler Centre. Visit appleblossomtyme.com or call 905-355-2451.
APR. 21 – HOPS ON THE WATER – Family-friendly outdoor entertainment with live music, buskers, food and samplings from craft breweries, wineries and cideries in the Bay of Quinte Region. 67 Front St. Quinte West. 11am-7pm. For more information visit hopsonthewater.ca or call 613-392-2841 ext. 4492. APR. 21 & 22 – REARVIEW VINTAGE DOC FESTIVAL – Topical and timeless documentaries from 1935
Farmers’ Markets BELLEVILLE – Tues.,Thu. & Sat. 7am-6pm. Year round. 182 Pinnacle St. Adjacent to City Hall. Call 613-476-1255. CAMPBELLFORD – Sat. & Wed. 8am-12pm. May through November. 66 Front St. S. Campbellford. Visit facebook.com/CampbellfordFarmersMarket or call 705-933-8007. COBOURG – Sat. 8am-1pm. May through December. Market Square behind Victoria Hall. For more information visit facebook.com/CobourgFarmersMarket or cobourgfarmersmarket.com. CODRINGTON – Sun. 10am-2pm. Mid-May through October. 2992 Cty. Rd. 30, Codrington. Visit the Artisans’ Market in Codrington Hall (beside the market) on the last Sunday of every month. Call 613-4754005 or visit facebook.com/Codrington-Farmers-Market-885816691461686. HASTINGS VILLAGE – Sat. 8am-1pm. At the traffic lights in the village of Hastings. From May until Thanksgiving. Vendors are welcome. Call 705-6962027. MILLBROOK – Fourth Sun. of each month. 10am1pm. Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St. For more information isit millbrookfarmersmarket.weebly.com or call 705-559-5293. PETERBOROUGH – Sat. 7am-1pm. Year round. Morrow Park. May-Oct. Morrow Bldg. parking lot. For more information visit peterboroughfarmersmarket.com or facebook.com/PeterboroughDowntownFarmersMarket.
APR. 1 – 30 – SPARK PHOTO FESTIVAL – A celebration of photography with numerous photographic exhibits and artists at locations throughout Northumberland, Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes. For locations and information visit sparkphotofestival.org or call 705-741-5210.
APR. 9 – 13 – NORTHUMBERLAND HILLS MUSIC FESTIVAL – Competition for music students of all ages. Port Hope United Church. Winners will perform at the final concert Apr. 21. Visit northumberlandhillsmusicfestival.com or call 905-797-1134 . APR. 9 – 13 – QUINTE ROTARY MUSIC FESTIVAL – For times and locations of performances visit quinterotarymusicfestival.com. Top festival musicians perform in a Concert of Stars.
JUNE 15 – 16 – SCOTTISH FESTIVAL AND HIGHLAND GAMES – Victoria Park, Cobourg. Friday evening Ceilidh 6-10pm includes live music and “Tug of the Tartans” Tug of War competition. Piping and drumming competitions, followed by highland dancing and heavy event competitions on Saturday. 8:30am-11pm. Admission $20. For more information visit facebook.com/cobourghighlandgames or email cobourghighlandgames.ca.
MAY 5 – CHURCH-KEY SPRING REVIVAL – Featuring musicians, locally produced food items and award winning ales. Free admission. 11am-7pm. 1678 Cty. Rd. 38 Campbellford. Call 705-653-9950 or visit churchkeybrewing.com.
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APR. 7 – QUINTE REGIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FAIR – Quinte area students compete for a chance to enter the May 2018 Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. Loyalist College, 376 Wallbridge-Loyalist Rd. Belleville. For more information visit qrstf.ca.
377-8024 or visit downtowncobourg.ca.
PORT HOPE – Sat. 8am-1pm. 56 Queen St. behind Town Hall. Wed. 12-5pm. Home Hardware parking lot, 177 Toronto Rd. May through October. Visit porthopefarmersmarket.ca or facebook.com/PHFarmersMarket. MAY 26 & 27 – WARKWORTH LILAC FESTIVAL – “For the Love of Lilacs”. Lilac festivities on Main Street and along the Millennium Trail in Warkworth include horticultural vendors, music, photo show, Victorian tea, lilac sales & design, children's activities and Jungle Cat World exhibit. 10am-4pm Sat. & Sun. Jazz in the Lilac Room Sat. 8pm. Town Hall Centre for the Arts. Admission $40. Visit warkworthlilacfestival.ca or call 705-924-2583. MAY 27 – COUNTRY MARKET AND NATURE FEST – Presented by The Friends of Wesleyville Village. 2082 Lakeshore Rd. 10km west of Port Hope. 10am4pm. Call 905-753-2196 or visit wesleyvillevillage.com for details.
PORT PERRY – Sat. 8am-1pm. June through mid-October. 121 Water St. on the waterfront. Visit portperryfarmersmarket.ca or facebook.com/portperrymarket. QUINTE WEST – Wed. & Sat. 8am-1pm. May through October. 67 Front St. across from the Trenton post office. For more information call 613-392-2841 ext. 4416 or visit quintewest.ca. WELLINGTON – Sat. 8am-1pm. Mid-May through early October. 243 Main St. next to the park. Visit facebook.com/WellingtonFarmersMarket or call 613393-3283.
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JUNE 2 – COUNTRY WILD – Music festival in Cobourg’s Victoria Park. 2-10:30pm. For details visit countrywild.ca or facebook.com/countrywildfest.
APRIL – RAINBOW TROUT – Watch migratory Rainbow Trout run up the Ganaraska River to the Port Hope Fish Ladder. Call 905-885-8173 or 1-888-767-8467.
JUNE 9 – BUSKER FESTIVAL – Downtown Cobourg hosts an exhibition of professional street performers from around the world. Experience three blocks of street vendors, stunts, magicians, acrobats, dancers, stilt walkers, fire shows, face painting, dog shows, kids’ activities and great food. 10am-5pm. Call 905-
APR. 28 & 29 – FISHING DERBY – Spend a day fishing for rainbow trout at Ryken’s Pond. Open to children 14 & under accompanied by an adult. Children are required to bring their own fishing gear and bait. $5/child. 8am-4pm. 217 Morganston Rd. Castleton. Call 905-344-1095 for details.
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MAY 4 – 6 – WALLEYE WORLD – Live Release Fishing Derby. Trenton Kiwanis Club fundraiser to support and encourage youth through sport, sciences, academics and more. Visit kiwaniswalleyeworld.com or call 613-403-3666 for details. MAY 12 – SEYMOUR FAMILY FISHING DAY – Rainbow trout fishing in the quarry at Seymour Conservation Area. A Kids, Cops and Canadian Tire sponsored event. Free admission. Donations accepted in support of habitat restoration. 5754 Cty. Rd. 30 S. Campbellford. 8am-12pm. Rain or shine. Call 613-394-4829 or visit ltc.on.ca for details.
email cramahehort@gmail.com. APR. 17 – TRUE NORTH DAYLILIES. MAY 15 – WINTER HARDY CACTI AND SUCCULENTS. MAY 26 – PLANT SALE – Victoria Square, Colborne. 9am-4pm. BELLEVILLE GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. 7pm. Moira Secondary School Library, 275 Farley Ave. Belleville. Find us on facebook or email yourbellevillegardenclub@gmail.com. MAY 12 – PLANT SALE – Montrose Inn, 1725 Old Hwy. 2, Belleville. 9am-1pm.
MAY 18 – HASTINGS MIDNIGHT MADNESS – Celebrate the opening of fishing season at the only bridge in Ontario where fishing is permitted. Hastings Bridge at Lock 18 at the mouth of Rice Lake. Fishing begins at midnight. Call 705-696-2990 or 1-888-6531556 for more information.
MAY 11 – LATIN WINE TASTING TOUR – Explore fine wines with savoury cheese pairings from Spain, Portugal, Chile and Argentina. Enjoy a lively flamenco guitar and dance performance by Miguel & Leli. 810:30pm. Concert Hall at Victoria Hall, Cobourg. Tickets $40+s/c. Visit concerthallatvictoriahall.com or call 905-372-2210. Presented by Victoria Hall Volunteers. MAY 12 – MOMS IN TIARAS – Mother’s Day wine tour in Prince Edward County. Private vehicle, wine tastings, lunch, lavender farm and cheesery. Prizes and fun to be had. Proceeds to Relay for Life. 10am-6pm. $95. For details call Helen 905-320-1495 or email hconlon468@gmail.com. JUNE 2 – COUNTY TERROIR – Join us at the historic Crystal Palace for a spring celebration of newly released wines from highly acclaimed wineries in Prince Edward County. Visit countyterroir.ca.
Garden Clubs/ Horticultural Societies AMELIASBURGH GARDEN CLUB – Meets the last Mon. of each month. 7pm. Ameliasburgh Town Hall, 13 Coleman St. For details call 613-967-8308 or visit ameliasburghgardenclub.com. APR. 30 – PAINTING FLOWERS. MAY 12 – PLANT SALE – 9am-3pm. APPLE COUNTRY GARDEN CLUB – (Formerly Cramahe Horticultural Society). Meets the 3rd Tues. of each month. 7pm. Keeler Centre, 80 Division St. Colborne. For more information visit cramahehort.ca or
KINGSTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Thu. of each month. 7:30pm. Ongwanada Resource Centre, 191 Portsmouth Ave. Annual garden tour and bus trip. Visit ikweb.com/khs or find us on facebook. MAY 26 – PLANT SALE – Frontenac Mall. 10am-2pm. LENNOX & ADDINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 3rd Wed. of each month. 7pm. Fire Hall, 66 Advance Ave. Napanee. For details email lennoxaddhs@gmail.com or call 613-840-5029. PETERBOROUGH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 4th Wed. of each month. 7pm. Lion’s Centre, 347 Burnham St. Visit peterboroughhort.com or call 705-652-6993.
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BRIGHTON GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. Jan.-June/Sept.-Nov. 7pm. King Edward Community Centre, 81 Elizabeth St. Brighton. Call 613-475-4009 or 613-475-9563. APR. 24 – DEALING WITH DROUGHT. MAY 8 – PLANT AUCTION – Featuring the Renegade Auctioneer. 6:30pm. MAY 22 – LET US INTRODUCE OURSELVES. JUNE 2 – FLOWER SHOW – Admission $3 includes afternoon tea and door prizes. 2-4pm. CAMPBELLFORD & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 1st Mon. of each month. 7:30pm. Christ Church Anglican (corner of Church/Kent Sts.). For more information visit gardenontario.org/site.php/Campbellford. APR. 2 – SEED SHARING. MAY 7 – GARDENING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. MAY 19 – PLANT SALE – Corner of Doxsee Ave./Bridge St. 8am. JUNE 4 – TRUE NORTH DAY LILIES AND HOSTA. COBOURG ECOLOGY GARDEN – Meets the 2nd Thu. of each month. 7pm. Legion Village’s Golden Rail Hall, 111 Hibernia St. Cobourg. New volunteers always welcome. Call 905-377-9066. COBOURG HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 1st Wed. of each month. Feb.-June/Sept.-Dec. 7pm. Columbus Centre, 232 Spencer St. E. Cobourg. For more information visit cobourggardenclub.ca or email cobourghort@gardenontario.org. MAY 19 – PLANT SALE – 9-11am. GRAFTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Tues. of each month. 7:30pm. Sept. through June. Everyone welcome. Please lug a mug. St. Andrew’s United Church, 137 Old Danforth Rd. For more information email grafton.hort@gmail.com or call
PORT HOPE GARDEN CLUB – Meets each month. Sept. through June. Meetings at 7pm. Ruth Clarke Centre, 81 Mill St. S. Port Hope. Call Carole 905-8850098. APR. 16 – CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS – Charlie Dobbin, landscape designer. Tickets $10. MAY 12 – PLANT SALE – Port Hope Agricultural Building. 8:30-10am. MAY 14 – HORTICULTURAL TRAVELS – Margaret Dailey-Plouffe, Heatherington & Associates. PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the last Wed. of each month. 7pm. Picton Town Hall. Visit pechorticultural.org or call 416554-2897. TRENTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY & GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 3rd Thu. of each month. 7pm. Trenton United Church, 85 Dundas St. E. Trenton. Visit trentonhortsociety.ca or call 613-849-5506. APR. 19 – HAWTHORNE HERBALS. MAY 17 – GARDENS PLUS NURSERY. MAY 19 – PLANT SALE – 290 Dundas St. E. 8am12pm.
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MACAULAY HERITAGE PARK – 35 Church St. Picton. Call 613-476-2148 or visit thecounty.ca/museums. MAY 19 & 20 – GETTING BACK TO OUR ROOTS – Experience what life was like for an early Victorian family. Prepare a vegetable garden for planting. Enjoy an old fashioned picnic lunch and top your meal off with Welsh Cakes baked on the open fire, and a glass of delicious rhubarb juice. Make a memento of your day at our arts and crafts station. All ages welcome. General museum admission applies. 10am-2pm. SCUGOG HERITAGE CENTRE & ARCHIVES – 1655 Reach St. Port Perry. For details call 905-985-8698 or visit scugog.ca. UNTIL – MAY 18 – EGYPT: GIFT OF THE NILE – Travelling exhibit created by the Royal Ontario Museum. SIFTON-COOK HERITAGE CENTRE – Corner of Durham/Orr Sts. Cobourg. Working model railway of Cobourg in the 1850s. Call 905-373-7222 or visit
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GANARASKA REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY – Call 905-885-8173 or visit grca.on.ca. JUNE 2 – INVASIVE SPECIES WALK – An informative and educational walk through the Millennium Conservation Area. Call to pre-register. 10am-12pm. Ganaraska Region Conservation Area, 2216 County Rd. 28, Port Hope.
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unteer to work toward the preservation of land, water and diverse life in the Northumberland area. Visit lonepinelandtrust.ca. APR. 21 – McCOLL PROPERTY – Nature walk. 450 Old Wooler Rd. Codrington. 9am. LOWER TRENT CONSERVATION – Call 613-3944829 or visit ltc.on.ca. JUNE 2 – RESTORE & BE RESTORED – See prairie and savannah habitats being brought back to life. Take a 1.9km hike and help plant rare wild lupine seedlings. 10am-12pm. Free event. Goodrich-Loomis Conservation, 1331 Pinewood School Rd. Castleton. NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA – Join the Conservation Volunteers to help protect Canada’s species and natural areas. Call 1-866-281-5331 or visit conservationvolunteers.ca. NORTHUMBERLAND LAND TRUST – Call 905-3423851 or email info@nltrust.ca. MAY 1 – 31 – WALLACE BIRDATHON – Join one of six expert birders in search of as many species as possible on NLT's six nature reserves. For times and locations in Northumberland County visit nltrust.ca. PRESQU’ILE PROVINCIAL PARK – 328 Presqu’ile Pkwy. Brighton. Park entrance fee. All events free. For more information call 613-475-4324 ext. 225 or visit friendsofpresquile.on.ca. MAY 19 & 20 – WARBLERS AND WHIMBRELS – View the elusive whimbrels and many colourful warblers as they migrate to their northern nesting grounds. Starting 6:30am. Enjoy guided nature walks, bird-banding and evening programs. BBQ lunch fundraiser begins at 11am. PRINCE EDWARD POINT BIRD OBSERVATORY – Research station that monitors migrating birds along the south shore of Prince Edward County. 6056 Long Point Rd. southeast of Picton. Visit peptbo.ca or email info@peptbo.ca. MAY 12 – 21 – BIRDING FESTIVAL – Guided walks, birding trips, presentations, banding demonstrations and more. Visit the website for details. WILLOW BEACH FIELD NATURALISTS – Visit willowbeachfieldnaturalists.org or call 905-885-2337. For hike information please contact Roger at 905-8859615 or ekrf@eagle.ca. APR. 22 – VICTORIA RAIL TRAIL – Nature hike south of Omemee. Meet at 8am at Cty. Rd. 28/Hwy. 401 commuter parking lot. APR. 27 – SACRED BIRDS – Meeting at Cobourg Public Library. 7:30pm. MAY 6 – MURRAY MARSH – Nature hike. Meet at 8am at Hwy. 45/401 car pool lot. MAY 13 – LECKIE PROPERTY – Nature hike. Meet at 8:15am at Hwy. 45/401 car pool lot. Email John at johngeale@yahoo.com. MAY 25 – PRESIDENT’S WALK – Willow Beach Marsh. 7am.
Shows & Sales APR. 13 – 15 – PETERBOROUGH GARDEN SHOW – Landscapers, gardeners, growers, teachers and designers, garden displays, demonstrations, speakers, an interactive children’s garden, the latest in garden tools and much more. Fri. 5-9pm. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 10am-4pm. Tickets $8 in advance. $9 online. $10 at the door. Weekend pass available. Evinrude Centre, 911 Monaghan Rd. Peterborough. For more inforamtion visit peterboroughgardenshow.com. APR. 14 – THE GATHERING – Annual gathering of spinners, weavers, rug hookers, knitters and crocheters. 10am-3pm. Admission $5 includes refreshments and prizes. Port Hope High School, 130 Highland Dr. Port Hope. Contact Carolyn at 905-377-3470 or cray@eagle.ca for information. Visit us on facebook. APR. 14 & 15 – HOME AND GARDEN SHOW – Get answers to your home décor, renovation and landscaping questions. Demonstrations, speakers, raffles and door prizes. 10am-4pm. Scugog Arena, 1655 Reach St. Port Perry. In lieu of admission, please bring a non-perishable item to help support Operation Scugog. Visit portperryhomeandgardenshow.ca or call 905-985-4971.
MAY 2 – TEA & FASHION SHOW – Bridge St. United Church, 60 Bridge St. E. Belleville. 2pm. For a minimum $10 donation you will enjoy fancy sandwiches, tea and a special dessert while you sit back, relax and enjoy a fashion show, courtesy of Kimberley's Deja Vu Boutique. For tickets call 613-962-9178. MAY 5 – GARAGE & BAKE SALE – Annual Wellington on the Lake event with 50/50 draw, raffles, home baked goods, furniture & lighting, clothing, jewellery & accessory boutique. 8am-12pm. 14 Empire Blvd. Wellington (Hwy. 33/Prince Edward Dr.). Call 613-399-3491. MAY 5 – HEALTHY LIVING EXPO – Hundreds of vendors will offer services, products and demonstrations. Fitness, meditation and wellness classes, expert health, food and wellness speakers. Half of the $2 admission goes to the Three Oaks Foundation. 9am4pm. Centennial Secondary School, 160 Palmer Rd. Belleville. Visit healthylivingnow.ca. MAY 5 – QUINTE CRAFT GUILD SHOW AND SALE – Over 30 vendors of fine hand made products. Knights of Columbus Hall, 57 Stella Cr. Trenton. $2 admission. 9am-4pm. For more information email c.morden48@gmail.com.
APR. 15 – COME FILL UP YOUR SENSES – Application deadline for Northumberland Hills Studio Tour taking place Sept. 8 & 9. Applications and information available at northumberlandstudiotour.ca. APR. 15 – COMIC CON – Find the best in comic books, toys, dvds and more. Cobourg Community Centre, 750 D’Arcy St. 10am-5pm. Admission $5. Children 10 and under free. For more information visit popculturecanada.ca. APR. 27 – 29 – BAY OF QUINTE HOME SHOW – Everything for your home and garden. Over 100 vendors will be available to help you plan your spring and summer projects. Trenton Community Gardens, 8 Couch Cres. Trenton. Adults $3. Children free. Fri. 58pm. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 10am-3pm. For details visit bayofquintehomeshow.com or call 613-392-7635. APR. 28 – SPRING BLOSSOM CRAFT SHOW – Unique handmade works of art. Prince Edward Community Centre, 375 Main St. Picton. 9:30am-4:30pm. Admission $2. Email hnleventplanner@yahoo.com. APR. 28 – SPRING CRAFT AND BAKE SALE – Local vendors and a room of Cobourg collectibles for sale. Bake tables with homemade pies, cakes and cookies. Sit and enjoy a muffin with coffee, tea or cappuccino. Soup and sandwich available 11:30am-1pm. Free admission. 10am-3pm. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 200 King St. W. Cobourg. For more information email tehunter@sympatico.ca.
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MAY 12 – PLANT & TREASURES SALE – Meet our gardeners and stock up on seedlings, annuals and perennial plants, or pick up a new treasure from the variety of yard sale items including small furniture, antiques, books, kitchen items, toys, clothing, local crafts and more. All proceeds to support the James J. Tracey Park Community Garden, 232 Spencer St. E. Cobourg. 9am-2pm. For details call 905-377-1713 or visit facebook.com/CobourgCommunityGardenGroup. MAY 15 – JUNE 15 – PINE RIDGE ART SHOW – Featuring new paintings in oils, watercolour, acrylic, mixed-media, watercolour and pen & ink. Free admission. Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen St. Port Hope. Call 905-885-5572 for more information. MAY 19 & 20 – PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ANTIQUE SHOW – Crystal Palace, 375 Main St. E. Picton. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 11am-4pm. Call 613-3935886 for more information.
MAY 5 – SIMPLE PLEASURES – Art show and sale. Veronica Derry and Barbara Buntin collaborate to showcase handmade note cards and small framed fibre, print and painted art works. Drop by for refreshments and conversation. Free admission. 10am-5pm. 215 Bagot St. Cobourg. Contact Barbara at 416-5769822 or barbarabuntin@sympatico.ca. MAY 6 – THE MOTHER OF ALL CRAFT SHOWS – A fun and lively day of arts, crafts and music along the banks of the Moira River. Enjoy a glass of wine on the patio and engage with the many talented artisans selling their work. Raffle prize draws to benefit Fixed Fur Life. Admission $5. Children under 12 free. 10am4pm. Henry’s Inn, 79 River Rd. S. Corbyville. For more information visit motherofallcraftshows.com. MAY 10 – ART SHOW AND SALE – Albert College, 160 Dundas St. W. Belleville. Tickets $15 include cocktails and cheese-themed appetizers. Some artwork will be available for sale by silent auction. For more information visit albertcollege.ca or email events@albertcollege.ca. MAY 11 – GIRLS NIGHT OUT – A night of shopping, sipping and socializing in downtown Cobourg. Be
MAY 19 – TRUNK SALE – The Friends of the Library and the Hastings Revitalization Association team up to provide residents and visitors with amazing deals and delicious pea-meal on a bun. Hastings Civic Centre, 6 Albert St. E. Hastings. 8am-2pm. Visit hastingsvillage.ca for more information. MAY 19 & 20 – WARKWORTH ART IN THE PARK – Outdoor art exhibition and sale featuring the works of established artists and innovative talent in the visual arts. Mill Creek Park, Warkworth. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 10am-4pm. Free admission. For more information visit warkworthartinthepark.ca. MAY 26 – NATIVE PLANT SALE – Choose from numerous varieties of native plants, shrubs, trees and groundcovers to create your perfect garden oasis. Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority, 2216 Cty. Rd. 28, Port Hope. 8am-12pm. Email info@grca.on.ca or call 905-885-8173 for more information. JUNE 8 – 10 – ART AT THE WATERFRONT – Twenty-five local artists display their original art at the Latcham Centre, 121 Queen St. Port Perry. Fri. 5-8pm. Sat./Sun. 10am-4pm. Free admission. Door prizes, painting demos and free refreshments. Visit ppaaart.blogspot.ca for more information.
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JUNE 9 – ART SHOW & SALE – 10am-5pm. Trent Port Marina, 15 Creswell Dr. Trenton. Call 613-3927635 or visit artsquintewest.ca. JUNE 9 & 10 – BEHIND THE SEAMS – Quilt show. See our colourful display of over 200 quilts. Purchase raffle tickets for our king size bed quilt and a large variety of gift baskets. Visit our Tea Room for a delicious lunch, Members Boutique and Merchants Mall. Brighton Community Centre, 75 Elizabeth St. Brighton. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 10am-4pm. Admission $6. Children under 12 free. Free parking. Visit trentvalleyquiltersguild.com for more information. JUNE 9 & 10 – SPRING ART FESTIVAL – Presented by the Port Perry Artists' Association. 10am-4pm. Free admission. The Scout Hall, 15585 Simcoe St. N, Port Perry. Visit ppaaart.blogspot.ca or call Delvea at 905259-9874. JUNE 10 – QUINTE TOY-CON – Shop hundreds of collectible tables filled with everything from Transformers to vintage comics, cards and old farm toys. Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Rd. Belleville. 10am-4pm. Admission $5. Children
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BELLEVILLE THEATRE GUILD – Pinnacle Playhouse, 256 Pinnacle St. Belleville. Call 613-967-1442 or visit bellevilletheatreguild.ca. APR. 5 – 21 THE CURIOUS SAVAGE – 2pm & 8pm. MAY 31 – JUNE 17 – ANNIE GET YOUR GUN – 2pm & 8pm.
JUNE 16 – DONNYBROOK AUCTION SALE – Northumberland’s largest reduce, reuse, recycle event. Ten auctioneers selling antiques, collectibles, furniture, household goods and more. Doors open 6:30pm. Auction at 7pm. Clothing, toys and books section, and $3 fill-a-box event open at 5pm in the Red Barn. Percy Arena and Community Centre, 24 East. St. Warkworth. Call 1-888-653-1556. JUNE 16 – THE COUNTY BLOOMS – Flower show and judged floral competition, plant sale, silent auction, Victorian tea room, children’s program and local vendors. Hosted by Prince Edward County Horticultural Society. Wellington Town Hall. 10am-4pm. Free admission. Visit pechorticultural.org.
372-2105 for reservations. MAY 4 – 12 – ROMEO AND JULIET – Firehall Theatre, Cobourg. For tickets call 905-372-2210 or visit concerthallatvictoriahall.com. 2pm & 7:30pm. STIRLING FESTIVAL THEATRE – 41 West Front St. Stirling. Visit stirlingfestivaltheatre.com or call 613395-2100. APR. 13 & 14 – LOVE STORIES: STIRLING – A musical with a local twist. 8pm.
BRIGHTON BARN THEATRE – 96 Young St. Brighton. Visit brightonbarntheatre.ca or call 613-475-2144. APR. 13 – 29 – FARCE OF HABIT – 2pm & 8pm.
VOS THEATRE – Concert Hall, Victoria Hall, 55 King St. Cobourg. Call 905-372-2210 or visit vostheatre.com for tickets and information. APR. 19 – 28 – GUYS AND DOLLS – 2pm & 8pm.
CAMECO CAPITOL ARTS CENTRE – 20 Queen St. Port Hope. Visit capitoltheatre.com or call 905-885-1071. APR. 10 – 22 – JONAS & BARRY IN THE HOME – 2pm & 8pm. APR. 29 – CENDRILLON – Met Opera Live. 1pm. MAY 29 – JUNE 24 – FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – 2pm & 8pm.
Tours & Open Houses MAY 26 & JUNE 9 – ADVENTURES IN LA LA LAND – Experience the beautiful geography and amazing villages and sites of Lennox & Addington County, traveling in a modern highway bus. Cost $70 includes lunch, handbook and resource guides. Organized by Hastings County Historical Society. For details and tickets visit hastingshistory.ca or call 613-961-7091.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLAYERS – For information visit northumberlandplayers.ca. APR. 20 – MAY 6 – A COMEDY OF TENORS – Dinner theatre at Cobourg’s Best Western Inn. Call 905-
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CULTURAL CURRENTS |
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MEANDERINGS |
THE MAPLE MOON CIRCA 1935
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VALUE ADDED Peeling, Slicing, Shredding, Dicing
PACKAGING Heat Sealing, Pasteurizing, Vacuum Packing
STORAGE Frozen, Cold, Dry
READY TO EAT We help create market-ready products, meet industry regulations, and connect with buyers.
DRINKS We help develop new beverages, explore packaging options, and even pasteurize your product.
ADDED VALUE We help create new products from traditional crops, help source locally and save money in processing costs.
We’re bringing food processing back to the community.
www.OAFVC.ca
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