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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | Volume 32, Issue 32 | 38,985 Copies Serving Cornwall & area since 1985 | www.cornwallseawaynews.com
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Kinsmen Music Festival
CORNWALL, Ontario – Cornwall Kinsmen Music Festival was in its 64th year this year. Schools and music students from across the region came to Cornwall last week to perform and get the chance to learn f ro m p ro fe s s i o n a l adjudicators. Jane McLaren has
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Olivia Baillie reads to Nukka Ayotte at the Cornwall Public Library during the Paws’N Books program. Photo by Andrzej Terrence.
Paws’N Books Andrzej Terrence, Special to TC Media CORNWALL, Ontario - Saturday, April 7 marks the first weekend in 2018 that the Cornwall Library hosts their Paws’N Books program with the purpose of helping children practice their reading skills. The Paws’N Books program is designed to help children who have difficulty reading by practicing to a therapy dog. For the dog, it is basically getting an hour of attention. “The purpose of having a dog listen to a child read is that dogs are not judgemental; they are not going to stop the child or tell them they are doing it wrong,” said Leslie Corbay the manager of the Youth Services at the library. Paws’N Books is made possible by the volunteers and the therapy dogs of the St. John Ambulance and Compassion Canines. This weekend, Monique Ayotte with the St. John Ambulance
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CORNWALL, Ontario - The Glenwalter Fire Association held their 34 annual pancake breakfast on April 8, 2018, at Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School. “It’s a great day to meet the FULL STORY - PAGE 3
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brought Nukka, a therapy husky to be read to. “It’s interesting! It’s fun, I find it helps the kids open up and read to the dog,” said Monique. This isn’t Nukka’s show as she has been read to by children CORNWALL, Ontario – Last for the last 3 years and had performed exceptionally month local kickboxer well during this weekend’s program. Emily Vallance won In previous years, the free program has gold at the Ontario brought in a maximum of 40 children with some Winter Games, Saturdays bringing less than 10 depending on now she is gearthe other events the library has to offer. ing up for a new for daily news updates “It’s super great! The kids absolutely love it fight in Oakville and the dogs are appropriately aloof during the on Saturday, April entire process,” explained Leslie Corbay. 14, 2018. Paws’N Books program will continue to run To prepare for her every Saturday until June of this year. fight, Vallance says that she The program attracts attention from the whole Library as it trains five nights a week, is not every day that a dog is read to by a child.
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