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UPCOMING EVENTS – all events are free, everyone is invited. EXHIBITS: A photographic history of Pitt Street. Cornwall and the War of 1812.

BOOKS FOR SALE:

The History of Kyte’s by Joan Levy Earle Cornwall and the War of 1812.

LOOK TO THE “SEEKER” THIS JUNE to learn about the return of FENCING To Cornwall, at the Cornwall Community Museum.

Waiter there is too much Pepper in my movie! Just when I thought I knew the superhero genre and all it has to offer up, along comes Iron Man 3. Thank you writer/director Shane Black for serving up another helping of punch in the throat non-stop action. Wait a second there’s a whole lot of stopping…. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to “normal” life after his alien encounter in New York City as part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Avengers, and finds he has trouble fitting in. He’s withdrawn and shut-in his beautiful Malibu home. He’s alienating his sexy, intelligent, CEO girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. He can’t sleep or purchase a heartfelt gift for her. He experiences panic attacks. It’s very sad. So you’ll have a hard time feeling very sorry for Tony, however I found the approach made this superhero/billionaire/genius/playboy just a little more human. (I did say a little) I think Black hit it out of the park with IM3. The introduction of the Mandarin (Sir Ben Kingsley) as a maniacal radical terrorist leader is not exactly what you would expect. It truly was brilliant.

While Tony’s world is crumbling (literally into the ocean) and his tech is falling to pieces, we see the human side of Iron Man. The man in love. The man in pain. The man who will do anything to protect those he loves; including Happy (Jon Favreau) who is now head of Stark Industries security, and takes it upon himself to follow the sinister looking Stark Industries guests and uncover the plot of the film. He ends up in a coma. Don Cheadle reprises his role as Colonel James Rhodes and suits up as “Iron Patriot”, the rebranded War Machine, and plays a fairly important role in the film, as does Pepper Potts, who also finds herself in an Iron Man suit. Come to think of it there are 5 or 6 people in this movie who do. The icing on the cake for me was Guy Pearce. I am a huge Guy fan and he is on fire in this movie. No literally, on fire. He breathes fire in it! He’s a great villain, who goes through quite the transformation in 20 years. Of course my favorite scene of the whole movie happens when the terrorists blow a hole in Airforce One and 13 people free fall and Tony tries to save them all before they plummet to the water and die. There are actually scientists who already reviewed the physics (now if they only put their knowledge and speed to good use) and for the most part, the movie fall scene is plausible. Of course Iron Man and Jarvis, Iron Man’s artificial intelligence, save the day by creating a daisy chain which at the end Iron Man gently flings into the ocean. Watch the scene and then look it up online – It’s well worth the read. For a third installation of a series, IM3 is 12/10. For an action adventure comic film it’s like reading a really good backstory/flashback - this is what life was like before I become a hero. I really enjoyed Robert Downey Jr. in this film. I would gladly recommend it to anyone. Unless of course you have an issue with a lot of the movie being about Pepper. Atchou! See you at Star Trek!

THE SEEKER (May 10- pg. 16)

KNOW YOUR PLACE by Alyssa Blais

REEL FISH STORIES By John Earle

The Cornwall Community Museum is now open Wed. to Sun. 11 am to 4 pm. Admission is free, info. 613 936-0842. School tours welcome.

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” — Eleanor Roosevelt One week a year, Food Banks Canada dedicates national awareness on the issue of hunger. If we really think about it, hunger occurs 365 days a year for many people in Canada. Not just a dozen, we are talking millions and just that fact alone, you would think that hunger deserves much more considerable amount of attention than the measly week it receives. You would also think that educating Canadians on an issue that is very real, brutal and life altering to families and children would have a large impact on our actions, legislations and hunger policies. Does it?

I thought so but with the subject like hunger, I am starting to have my doubts. In my childhood in the 1970’s, I did not see much hunger and poverty having grown up in the suburbs of Montreal. It was only when I moved to downtown Montreal, in-between Place St. Henri and Westmount, I noticed tar-paper shacks sitting in a backdrop of gargantuan homes did I realize that we had some problems here. I remember walking through dead, quiet spaces with single lonely strands of grass, leaving the wrong side of the tracks (I lived by the train tracks literally) to sumptuous lush green bushes, flowers and giant oak trees in the space of one kilometer. Off and on over those years, I saw poverty in pockets across Canada, and had no real comprehension as to why did we have hunger in Canada. Asking the obvious questions, I would come across much resistance towards the topic or adverse reactions like “they should just get a job” or “this isn’t Africa, a country with real problems”. What I found is that we tend to punish, ignore or fear those who live in hopeless despair. It shocked me back then, and still shocks me today. I think to allow our “consciences grow so tender” as Eleanor Roosevelt once said, we ought to stop the judgements and just listen. Learn about lives without heat, electricity, a phone, bus money or adequate food to eat. Wonder what it must be like for children to live with that, having their childhood rest on a fragile thread of painful hunger pangs and dreariness. To feel like a “have-not” in society and to know when you grow up you will nod in silent acknowledgment that they were one of “those people”. How does the fate of the hungry get addressed when individuals struggle with the very word and cannot understand the day-to-day fight to survive with next-to-nothing when they are worried whether their Smartphone has been charged? Hunger in Canada is an unsolved tragedy of our time. We can observe hunger in our own backyard and shouldn’t we be asking ourselves if it matters? Yes! Yes it does matter. So, let’s wake up, seize this opportunity to face one of the worst human conditions and envision possible solutions!

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