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Year 30, Issue 46
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November 18, 2010 | 32 Pages
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Cold War ‘kid’ is back Author of Rex Hero series reads from future book NEVIL HUNT nevil.hunt@metroland.com
FINAL BUZZER Former Sens forward and Carp resident Sean Donovan retires to spend more time with family. 5
A NOV. 11 GUEST Students at St. Michael Catholic school in Fitzroy Harbour hold a remembrance ceremony including troops. 20
Remembrance Day is about honouring our fallen, our veterans and Canadians who serve in uniform today. It’s also a time worth thinking about the Cold War; the war that never happened. To the people who lived through the very real threat of nuclear war, explaining what it was like is challenging. Canada’s Cold War Museum – the Diefenbunker, in Carp – is a great place to start, with its warrens of hallways deep below ground. But what does it mean to a youngster? Enter Rex Zero. Perth author Tim Wynne-Jones created the character for a book that has spawned two sequels. Rex is now due for a fourth volume: Rex Zero In Deep. Wynne-Jones spent a few hours of his Remembrance Day inside the Diefenbunker, in the small room that’s dedicated to the fictional boy Rex. He shared the first public reading of a chapter from the next book, due out in 2012. The event took place in a room the Diefenbunker has dressed up as Rex’s bedroom and school classroom, circa 1960. The permanent display opened last year and since then has been visited by more than 1,000 schoolchildren during tours. “This is fabulous,� Wynne-Jones joked before his reading. “I’m not even dead and I’m in a museum.� The bedroom side of the room comes complete with his bed, sci-fi posters and Hardy Boys books. The classroom area is frozen in 1960 too: it has desks, cans of powdered milk, a 16-mm projector, portraits of the Queen and Diefenbaker, as well as a roll-down map. See ‘YOU KNEW’ Page 2
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No one was hurt but a dog died at this house fire on West Carleton’s border with Arnprior. Fire crews managed to contain the blaze to the basement.
Dog lost to house fire Owner upset with fire response protocol DEREK DUNN derek.dunn@metroland.com
That’s when employee Susan Biard ran across the parking lot, opened the back door and a German shepherd raced out. She climbed down the stairs and heard barking inside, but the door was too hot to touch. Another family pet, locked in a dog crate, died soon after. “She’s a hero,� McAllister said of Biard, as the anxious shepherd barked incessantly in a nearby field.
One dog was saved but another died while trapped a in a house with smoke billowing from every window last Friday morning. Firefighters from Ottawa and the Town of Arnprior descended on the blaze at 5368 Madawaska Blvd., just inside West Carleton’s border with Arnprior, at about CAUSE A MYSTERY 10:15 a.m. Located next to McAllister Ford, the No cause has been determined, though brick bungalow is rented by three nowdisplaced people who weren’t at the scene. firefighters on the scene said it originated However, homeowner Bill McAllister was in the basement. Damage to the building is estimated at at work next door when a customer left then ran back into the showroom to say $100,000; to the contents $50,000. smoke was coming from the house. See ‘TAKES’ Page 3
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