The Lindsay Advocate - May 2018

MARCH | ISSUE NO. 21 MAY 20182018 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE

SERVING KAWARTHA LAKES

THE KAWARTHA LAKES APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY ON LITTLE BRITAIN AREA FARM

HAVE YOU TAKEN THE TRAIL?

THE ARTS & HERITAGE TRAIL

YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH: CHALLENGE AND CHANGE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING HURDLE

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Kawartha Lakes’ Affordable Housing Hurdle Kawartha Lakes Apple Blossom Festival

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Have you Taken the Trail?

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Let’s Go Fishing

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Show the Love

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Are the Kids Alright?

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Basic Income Sign-Ups Complete

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New Police Chief Mark Mitchell on Social Conditions

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What’s in a Name? Kawartha Lakes vs. The Kawarthas

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Friends and Neighbours

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Kawartha Kate

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Kawatha Lakes Country Living Show

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Just in Time

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Kawartha Lakes Vignette - Michelle Scott

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THE ARTS & HERITAGE TRAIL

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Volume 1, Issue 2 • Publisher: Fireside Publishing House, a proudly Canadian company The Lindsay Advocate is published monthly and distributed to a wide variety of businesses and locations within Kawartha Lakes and North Durham Region.

We are a proud member of the Lindsay and District Chamber of Commerce. Printed by Maracle Inc. For advertising information call 905-666-1249.

Cover photo: Pauline Kiely with Monty. Photo by Fred Thornhill Photography Publisher and Writer-at-Large: Roderick Benns Contributing Editor and Writer-at-Large: Trevor Hutchinson • Contributing Writers: Ian McKechnie, Jamie Morris Research: Joli Scheidler-Benns Advertising Sales: Judith Stoltz, James Craig, Jennifer Bain • Graphic Design: Robyn Barton of Barton Creative Co. Twitter: The Lindsay Advocate @lindsayontario, Roderick Benns @roderickbenns • Facebook: /The Lindsay Advocate The Lindsay Advocate is independently owned and operated. The opinions expressed herein are the views of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of this magazine. Photos, text, and art work contained in The Lindsay Advocate are copyrighted and may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the express permission of the Publisher. Liability for incorrectly displayed advertising is limited to publishing corrections or advertising credit for subsequent issues. The Publisher reserves the right to reject, revise, cancel, omit, discontinue or even decline to print advertising without reason or liability, and without notice. The Publisher has made every effort to ensure information contained herein was accurate at press time. The Publisher does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any party for damage, loss, or disruption caused by errors or omissions.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor I just read your new magazine tonight, cover to cover, and thought it was great. The articles were relevant and well thought out. I look forward to reading the next issue.

- Jeannine M. Ignatz

Thank you so much for creating this magazine. It is a breath of fresh air in our community! Your perspective on these important issues is so appreciated.

- G. Smith

We do not live in Lindsay or in the City of Kawartha Lakes area but took this magazine home with us, after we had visited family up there. This was a tremendous read and it was quite unexpected to find this quality in a small town. Congratulations on a solid first issue.

- Frank Thurston Just wanted to pass on a note to congratulate you on the first issue of The Lindsay Advocate. I love my hometown: it’s why I chose to move back after living away for several years. Your (I say this to each person on the team!) positive spirit and hopefulness shone through in each article. I look forward to reading the next issue.

- Miya Bradburn

Re: ‘The Depression Era’ by Ian McKechnie. For me, personally, and for many other citizens, the Depression Era in Lindsay extended well beyond the date of 1931 at which the author ended his article. My purpose in writing to you is to welcome your new insights about my hometown, to point out that the Great Depression continued well beyond 1931, and to show that it extended to Lindsay in 1936 with far greater hurt to the citizens than in 1931. To illustrate this I use the family of Edmund Gregory, my grandfather and well-known druggist in the mid-1890s. His family of six comprised one older daughter and five boys, my father being the youngest.

All the family seemed to have attracted the attention of newspaper reporters except their mother, the former Mary Wright and her youngest son. Such reports on members of my family in various Lindsay newspapers were accompanied by news of Lindsay, nearby towns, often the Province and Canada, and occasionally foreign countries. The first edition of your Advocate aroused my intense interest as I was born in the ‘Old Ross’ in March 1926, graduated from LCI in 1944 and came back to live here in July, 2017. My own Gregory family was much afflicted by the Great Depression, but we were restored with the help of Leslie Frost (then an MP). He also enabled my attendance at the University of Toronto. Because of my long absence from Lindsay and my moves beyond Canada, I didn’t know about the Basic Income Policy and the role of Lindsay in it, but I sure enjoyed reading about it!

- Alan F. Gregory (This letter was edited for length. For more information and stories about the Gregory family, see Mr. Gregory’s booklets which were self-published and deposited in the Ontario and Canadian Archives, and in the Kawartha Lakes Public Library in Lindsay.)

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Simply email them to thelindsayadvocate@gmail.com.

Please keep your letters to 200 words or less.

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upfront KAWARTHA CONSERVATION LAUNCHES FOREST BATHING PROGRAM TO BOOST HEALTH

Kawartha Conservation is launching a new Forest Bathing program this spring to help connect people across the watershed to nature and improve their physical and mental health.

Beginning April 28, Kristie Virgoe, director of stewardship and conservation lands, and a certified forest therapy guide, will be leading a new ‘Forest Bathing’ program at four local conservation areas. Forest Bathing is a practice based on mindfully connecting to the natural world. It is based on the Japanese practice of “shinrin-Yoku.

There will be seven forest bathing sessions running from April 28 at Durham East Cross Forest (Devitts Road entrance), and concluding on Oct. 20, also at Durham East Cross Forest (Boundary Road entrance). Other sessions will be held at Ken Reid Conservation Area, May 26, July 31 and Sept. 8, Windy Ridge Conservation Area on June 23, Pigeon River Conservation Area Aug. 18.

Walks are slow paced (1- 1.5km over 3 hours) and accessible to most fitness abilities. Cost: $20 per person. For more information visit www.kawarthaconservation.com/conservation-areas or contact Virgoe at 705-328-2271 Ext 214 or at kvirgoe@kawarthaconservation.com

A new splash pad will open in Fenelon Falls this year at Garnet Graham Park, adding another attraction for local residents and the many out-of-town visitors who come each year. Spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls, over $220,000 was raised from service clubs, private companies, public donations, the City of Kawartha Lakes and economic development grants.

“It’s another example of the community coming together to make Fenelon better for residents and visitors alike,” says James Sackston, the lead on this initiative on behalf of Rotary. “It’s a great step forward for Fenelon Falls,” adds Ward 6 Councilor Doug Elmslie.

“Often times the beach is ‘posted’ due to E-Coli from Canada geese,” he says, noting the water feature will “attract visitors and tourists which is good for our businesses and the downtown.” The city normally activates splash pads in the third week of June.

NEW SPLASH PAD IN FENELON FALLS

BENNS’ BELIEF Are we all like starfish?

RODERICK BENNS, PUBLISHER

One day, a man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. He came upon a young boy who was throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.

Puzzled, the man asked the boy what he was doing. Without looking up, the boy simply replied, “I’m saving these starfish, Sir.”

The man chuckled. “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.” The boy bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

This old parable came back to me last summer as I watched my daughter do the same thing on the east coast of Prince Edward Island, where we were travelling. The parable speaks on many levels — to our perceptions of personal power, and to our feelings of usefulness in the world. It also forces us to ask if we really must change the world, or perhaps just some small part that we have control over?

Hank Weston is something of a starfish who I met in Charlottetown. He was thin-faced and grey as he begged quietly on the steps of an RBC. Hank was raised on the northern shore of P.E.I., like his hero Stompin’ Tom Connors.

He also had the same beliefs – that the corporations were in it for themselves, and that the “little guy” was getting shafted in the process.

Now 64, Hank was clearly washed up on the shores of life’s circumstances. After his wife died, he not only became depressed he also found himself in financial dire straits. He’s just one year away from his Guaranteed Income Supplement now, but these last few years of deep poverty had taken their toll on his well-being. While we both agreed we live in a beautiful country, I realized that for him he was only talking about the land. There was a world of divergence otherwise.

I wondered what we were doing to Hank, and people like him. Are we not all like starfish, at the mercy of life’s tides? And if we believe this, then why do we construct a world where five people now own half the world’s wealth?

Why do we allow poverty in Canada, when our GDP has never been higher and we allow millions of dollars in tax breaks for corporations? These are policy choices – and we continue to make them.

It doesn’t need to be this way. A basic income, like we’re piloting here in Lindsay, in tandem with other progressive measures, could ensure that Hank and anyone like him won’t be left behind.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING HURDLE: Can City reverse the trend?

RODERICK BENNS

Tyler Jones and his wife have been looking for a place to live in the Fenelon Falls or Bobcaygeon area for five months now. He’s got three daughters and another baby on the way, but has had no luck in finding an affordable place to live.

With a family this size he needs a fourbedroom home – but he can’t go over the $1,100$1,700 range, even with both of them working.

“It has been very hard looking for a home in Kawartha Lakes that would suit a family of five for a fair price,” he admits, “unless you can spend $2,000 a month or more, plus heat, hydro and water.”

The challenges aren’t easy and it has been a stressful time. “The wife and I fight over it, and it causes more money issues. It just causes a really uneasy time,” he says.

Hope Lee is the manager of housing for the City of Kawartha Lakes and the chief executive officer of the Kawartha Lakes-Haliburton Housing Corporation. She agrees the City is in great need of more affordable housing and says the statistics back this up.

Rental costs have been increasing steadily.

Even from just 2015-16 there was a 5.2 per cent increase in the average rental unit’s cost. Now, $996 is the latest average cost per month, which is calculated using an average of a range of housing sizes from bachelor apartments to three-plus bedrooms.

Between 2006 and 2016, there were only 91 units built for the purpose of renting, compared to all of the ownership units built at the same time.

“The focus (for builders) has been on the single, family-owned home,” Lee says.

That begins to explain Kawartha Lake’s shocking vacancy rate – just .8 per cent in 2017. A healthy vacancy rate is more like three per cent.

“New units are not keeping up to the increase in demand,” says Lee, “and that really pushes rent costs higher.”

Mike Barkwell is a RE/MAX realtor in Fenelon Falls and an advocate for more rental units to be built. He says the vacancy rate in Fenelon is “really, really low.”

RE/MAX in Fenelon Falls doesn’t do rentals, Barkwell says, because as realtors “we’d have such a long list we’d never get through it.”

The realtor says they have been working with developers to encourage them to do some more rental housing. While at a municipal level the aspirational goal for builders is to do 25 per cent rental housing, Barkwell says that will MIKE BARKWELL, RE/MAX REALTOR

never happen. “A more realistic goal would be five to 10 per cent, and even that would be a big help.”

Hope Lee points out this tightening of the rental market is not confined to Kawartha Lakes. In 2017, Ontario reached its fewest

vacancies available since the year 2,000.

There is just a 1.6 per cent vacancy rate across the province.

But how did we get here in the first place?

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In a background paper by David Hulchanski, University of Toronto, called Housing Affordability in Ontario: Anatomy of a Crisis, he notes the private sector stopped building many rental units in the 1980s. The federal and Ontario government followed suit in the 1990s. This all started, Hulchanski writes, back in the 1970s when market conditions changed, making it unprofitable for the private sector to build unsubsidized rental apartments. Since renter apartment developers had to now compete for building sites with condominium developers who were building for a higher-income group of homeowners, who could always afford to pay more for the land, builders were reluctant to create rental apartment buildings, Hulchanski writes.

“Given that the gap between rich and poor, and homeowners and renters, continued to widen, why build for a group of consumers (renters) who could not afford the rent levels in new apartment buildings?” he asks in his paper.

It was another example of the shocking cost of inequality to society as a whole. As the 1990s unfolded, the deterioration of jobs continued at breakneck pace. Incomes were not rising but what was rising was the amount of precarious work available – jobs that were part-time, contract, lower waged, and without benefits. Simultaneously, in an astonishing ideologically-driven move, social assistance payments in Ontario were dramatically cut.

As for Kawartha Lakes itself, Hope Lee says rental rates here are just “slightly more expensive in Lindsay,” for example, when compared to Peterborough, something that has happened over the past 10 years.

She points out that landlords are able to able to charge higher rents here because there’s so much interest. In between one tenant leaving and another starting, rent prices can be jacked up.

“It might be the same unit being charged a dramatically different price,” in between the shift from one tenant to the next.

Lee says that in 2017, 51.6 per cent of Kawartha Lakes renters were facing affordability

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challenges, which means they were paying 30 per cent or more on housing.

Kawartha Lakes-Haliburton Housing Corporation manages a centralized waiting list for financially assisted units. “It has increased 155 per cent since 2012. And we have 13 households on a waiting list…and it will be three to five years they will wait for something to become available,” Lee says.

While Lee says there are few incentives and tools available to the City, a number of things have converged so that improvements are just around the corner.

After years of both HOPE LEE, MANAGER OF HOUSING provincial and federal FOR THE CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES neglect, now the Province has started to zero in on this challenge with a multi-pronged approach with its ‘Fair Housing Plan.’ The Fair Housing Plan aims to increase the housing supply, expand rent controls to protect against dramatic rent increases, and expand tenant protections, among other goals.

Then there’s the City’s ‘Affordable Housing Framework’ that came into effect last December. It sets out a number of actions for more rental development, providing more tools and incentives, Lee says.

This includes identifying land to ensure it’s zoned correctly. If it’s municipal land, the City can look at providing it to developers more easily and more cheaply so it’s more attractive to developers who may want to build rental units.

Then there’s the so-called “secondary suite market.” This is where the City offers zerointerest loans of up to $10,000 for a homeowner to help create a rental unit.

The City also wants to see the rehabilitation of downtown stores, where units above could be created to rent but which might not exist now. There is an interest-free, forgivable loan program for this, with grants of up to $20,000 available to create such a new unit.

Another big piece for the City is to encourage growth by increasing the capacity to accommodate future development within a

local sanitary service area, such as the new pumping station being built in Rivera Park in Lindsay.

There were also three major projects in 2017 launched in Lindsay to address affordable housing issues. This includes the 24 onebedroom apartments being created on Lindsay Street North, and 12 three-bedroom townhouse units being built on Bond Street East. As well, there are an additional 16 units being built on an existing building on St. Paul Street.

The City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton County Council also made a commitment as part of the 20,000 Homes Campaign to house 24 of the most vulnerable homeless in the area

by July 1, 2018. To date, 52 individuals (of the 136 identified as homeless) have been housed in the community and are no longer experiencing homelessness.

As for Tyler Jones and his growing family, the clock is ticking on finding a new house before the baby arrives.

“I have until September. But you know I’d rather be comfortable and have everything done before the baby’s home -- you know what I mean?”

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There’s no reason to venture outside of Kawartha Lakes this May long weekend with an incredible new Apple Blossom Festival in full swing for the whole family.

Set on a beautiful old Irish farm called Dromoland (named after a castle in Ireland) in the Valentia-Little Britain area, Dromoland is “our own little castle,” according to owners Pauline Kiely and Michael Bryant.

With the help of arborist students from Fleming College, Kiely and Bryant have revived a heritage organic apple orchard.

“When these majestic trees bloom it is a pleasant, natural experience to just sit and drink in the harmony of nature, especially while the bees and pollinators are working away,” says Kiely.

The property borders a mature cedar forest where they have created “an enchanting fairy forest trail.”

“For the past four seasons, Michael and I have witnessed our 150 year old trees and land come to life on the May long weekend,” Kiely says.

They have been working on building the venue for these past four years, and now feel

prepared to share it with the public May 19-21, the Victoria Day long weekend.

Mature gentle horses and ponies offer entry-level trail rides, and the public response, especially from children, has been overwhelmingly positive, says Kiely.

“We’ve witnessed miracles in children with special needs as they really respond to the animals and positive energy here,” she says.

Dromoland and its apple blossom festival “isn’t just for children with special needs though, because we feel all children are special, and they are all dealing with something,” Kiely says.

She describes Dromoland as “an oasis, a break from electronics, where everything is alive and real. It’s like soul food.”

The simple acts of feeding chickens, listening to the birds, blowing bubbles, riding, petting or feeding a horse, are proving very positive and healing.

“This healthy, safe environment seems to be what people are craving these days as we are humbled by the wonderful responses we are having and the growth we’ve experienced,” Kiely says.

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The Apple Blossom Festival is a casual community event where all ages are welcome. “It is simply about bringing people together to enjoy, embrace, welcome, and celebrate spring,” says Kiely.

Entry is just $5 per adult and children are free. Hours are 9 am to 9 pm on Saturday and 10 am to 4 pm on Sunday and Monday. Vendor tables are by donation.

The Apple Blossom Festival is held at Dromoland Orchard and Stables, located at 598 Elm Tree Road, Little Britain, ON, K0M 2C0.

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HAVE YOU TAKEN THE TRAIL? Clayworks Pottery Clayworks Pottery grew from the rugged shores of Georgian Bay just north of the proprietor, Jodie’s, home town of Parry Sound. In 2012, Jodie and her family moved to Bethany, with a whole new landscape to draw from. Address: 112 Weston Road, Bethany ON L0A 1A0. Hours: Open year round by chance or appointment. Phone: 705-774-1095. Website: clayworkspottery.ca

Williams Design Studio Paul and Beverley Williams started Williams Design Studio in 1974 and moved to downtown Bethany to build their art/craft studio in an Early Ontario General Store. In their workshop and display area you can see them working on sculptural leather masks, belts, and purses as well as designing and building brass and copper fountains and garden art. Address: 1470 Highway 7A, Bethany, Ontario, L0A 1A0. Hours: Tues–Sat. 10–5, year round, or by appointment. If planning to visit from out of town please call ahead. Phone: 705-277-2666. Website: williamsdesignstudio. net

Doube’s Trestle Bridge Doube’s Trestle Bridge was originally constructed to link the rail line running between Peterborough and Omemee. During the summer of 1885, 500 Italian immigrants completed the construction of the 700 foot long and 40 foot high trestle, using only hand shovels, ropes and pulleys and muscle. The rail line was discontinued in 1989 and was formally incorporated as part of the Trans Canada in 2008. The spectacular views offered from this trestle bridge continue to be enjoyed by outdoor enthusiasts from around the world. Address: Doube’s Trestle Bridge is located about 1.1 kilometers west of the Trail access point on Orange Corners Road and 2.8 kilometers east the Trail access point on County Road 10. Open year round.

Olde Gaol Museum Built in 1863, the Olde Gaol Museum served as a correctional facility for 140 years, closing its doors in 2003. In 2011, the Victoria County Historical Society opened its fourth museum facility in the former jail. It is now home to a

OLDE GAOL MUSEUM, LINDSAY

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LINDSAY ADVOCATE - ARTS & HERITAGE range of interesting exhibits depicting the unique cultural heritage of Lindsay and the surrounding area. Address: 50 Victoria Ave N Lindsay. Hours: May–October, Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm, October–May, Thursday 10 am to 3 pm and Sunday Noon-3 pm. Phone: 705-324-3404. Website: oldegaolmuseum.ca.

Kawartha Art Gallery The Kawartha Art Gallery has been providing a venue to foster and promote the interests of citizens in the City of the Kawartha Lakes for over 40 years. The Gallery is fortunate to be the stewards of a permanent collection of over 200 extraordinary pieces of artwork that belong to the citizens of the Kawartha Lakes. The Gallery offers art programming to schools, youth and adults as well as a schedule of special events for the community.

Admission is free. Address: 190 Kent St. W. Lindsay, 2nd flr. Hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. Phone: 705-3241780. Website: www.kawarthagallery.com Art on Kent Kawartha Arts Network is a not-for-profit artists’ cooperative made up of practicing artists with a community vision. Provides opportunities for established and budding artists of all ages to exhibit, develop, and network. Address: 2 Lindsay Street South, Lindsay ON K9V 2L6. Hours: Visitors may view exhibitions during any performance at the Academy Theatre. Website: kawarthaarts.ca.

The Academy Theatre When the theatre doors opened in 1893, it was billed as the most technically perfect theatre in Canada. The Academy Theatre for Performing Arts, as it is known today, is a busy cultural centre, operated as a non-profit organization. Still presenting incredible concerts, community productions and providing a venue for local schools and organizations, the Academy relies upon rental income and is strongly supported by the generosity of donations from the public. The Academy welcomes over 25,000 visitors a year. Address: 2 Lindsay St. S Lindsay. Hours: Box Office – Tuesday– Friday 10 am to 4 pm. Saturday and concerts as scheduled. See website. Phone: 705-324-7742. Website: academytheatre.ca.

Lindsay’s Old Mill In 1827, the Purdy family built a dam on the banks of the Scugog River – giving birth to the current Town of Lindsay, then called Purdy’s Mills. The next year, in 1828, the Purdys built a saw mill to provide vital services to a town under construction, and in 1830 a grist mill was finally constructed. The mill was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1869. The existing structure once contained a

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LINDSAY ADVOCATE - ARTS & HERITAGE stone flour mill and a lumber mill. A tramway was built across the river to the railway tracks.

Destroyed by fire in 1978, the remaining structure has been incorporated into a park – remnants of a bygone age of rugged industry and dogged determination. Address: 14 Kent St E; Lindsay. Hours: The Old Mill can be viewed year round.

Your Dreams in Wood Whatever your dreams, James Lukow can design and build them in wood. As an artisan woodworker, he builds heirloom quality custom wood goods that are created from quality domestic species and sheet goods using traditional techniques and joinery. Address: 10 St. Peter Street, Lindsay ON K9V 1P4. Hours of Operation: By appointment year-round; May to October, open the third Saturday of the month from 10am to 5pm. Phone: 705-8792012. Website: yourdreamsinwood.ca.

Lindsay Little Theatre Established in the early 1960s with regular performances at the Academy Theatre, Lindsay Little Theatre purchased the old Com Cable building in 2002 as its permanent home.

Lindsay Little Theatre is accessible for all.

Address: 55 George Street West, Lindsay ON K9V 4V6. Hours: See website for performance schedule and tickets. Phone: 705-880-2445.

Website: lindsaylittletheatre.com.

Dudley’s Watercolour Art Studio Paintings are inspired by photographs taken locally and during travels through Europe and Canada. Favourite topics: local landscapes, old buildings, wildlife, waterscapes and florals.

Address: 1884 Pigeon Lake Rd., Bobcaygeon.

Hours: Open weekends year round. Phone: 705340-9991. Website: dudleyswatercolourstudio. ca.

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LINDSAY ADVOCATE - ARTS & HERITAGE Gamiing Nature Centre Gamiing Nature Centre is a charitable organization working towards sustainable ecosystems and the stewardship of our natural resources and heritage for future generations.

Address: 1884 Pigeon Lake Rd., Bobcaygeon.

Hours: The Nature Centre is open 24/7 year round. The Hayloft is open from June 18 to September 11. Phone: 705-928-0263. Website: www.gamiing.org.

Globus Theatre (Lakeview Arts Barn) Globus Theatre @ the LAB is professional summer theatre. Since 2003 we have made it our mission to provide innovative, entertaining & thought-provoking theatre. Address: 2300 Pigeon Lake Rd., Bobcaygeon. Hours: See specific performance times on website. Phone: 705-738-2037. Website: lakeviewartsbarn. com.

The Boyd Heritage Museum Located in the original Boyd Lumber Office built in 1889, this community museum explores the fascinating history of one of the area’s founding families. Address: 21 Canal St Bobcaygeon.

Hours of Operation: July & August - Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 4 pm, May & June & September Saturday 11 am to 3 pm, Sunday 1-3 pm. Phone: 705-738-9482. Website: theboydmuseum.com.

Kawartha Settlers’ Village Located in Bobcaygeon on land that was once a thriving family farm, Kawartha Settlers’ Village is now a delightful re-creation of a historic village where you can experience what life was like for pioneers in the Kawartha’s.

Stroll leisurely through the Village and discover artifacts from 1830 – 1935. Address: 85 Dunn Street Bobcaygeon. Hours: Seasonal. May 1 to September 30, open 10 am to 4 pm daily including holidays. Phone: 705-738-6163.

Website: settlersvillage.org.

KAWARTHA SETTLERS’ VILLAGE, BOBCAYGEON Kawartha Wilds Studio Pottery dinnerware, urns, sculptures, shawl pins and buttons are available, all hand-built, in stoneware, primitive fire, and Raku. Address: 340 Oakridge Rd, Bobcaygeon. Hours: Friday 10 am to 5 pm or by appointment or chance, year round. Cash or cheques only. Phone: 705657-7484. Website: kawarthawildspottery. etsy.com.

KAWARTHA WILDS STUDIO, TRENT LAKES Nichol’s Cove Studio A studio in the wilderness, surrounded by beaver ponds on three sides, sprung up from the rock gathered from the Canadian Shield on which it sits. Carol Nichol displays

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Comedy that works above the neck, not below the belt

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soft watercolours, some mixed media and sculptures created in cement, winterstone, rock, paper, etc. Address: Bobcaygeon.

Hours: Open Sat. 10-5 June to Sept (incl). Contact to visit during off hours. Phone: 705 738-3338. Website: carolnicholsart.weebly. com.

Perfect for: • AGMs • Conferences • Banquets • Fundraisers

Miskwaa Art Gallery & Studio The Miskwaa Art Studio & Gallery is owned and operated by artist Daniel Marlatt. Marlatt is inspired by the landscape of the Canadian Shield, and using rock from the river and handselected wood panels, he allows the natural features of both to emerge and guide his process. Address: 250 Edwina Dr. Trent Lakes. Hours: Contact ahead of time. Phone: 416-889-0096 Website: danielmarlatt.com.

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Austin Sawmill Kinmount Railway Station

The SawmillPeterborough was recently reconstructed and brought back to Rotary Club life with static displays that illustrate the milling processes that were utilized within the original mill. These are now visible from a sheltered viewing platform. Address: 5 Station Rd, Kinmount.

Hours: Open year round. Phone: 705-488-2635. Website: kinmount.ca. The railway station is located in the centre of the village near the banks of the Burnt River, just as it was in the 1800s and now operates as a tourist information centre and is also home to the Kinmount Model Railway Society and the Kinmount Icelandic Monument. Address: 5 Station Rd, Kinmount. Hours: Open: May–October, Thursday–Tuesday, 10 am to 4 pm. Phone: 705-488-2635. Website: kinmount.ca.

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Carden Alvar - Birding and Photography The Carden Alvar has been designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by Birdlife International. It is nationally significant as one of the last strongholds of the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike in Canada and also has large populations of scrubland and grassland birds including Upland Sandpipers, American Kestrels, Common Nighthawks, Eastern Whip-poor-wills, Eastern Bluebirds, and more. Address: Wylie Rd. Kirkfield. Hours of Operation: open year round. Phone: 705-326-1620. Website: http://www.ofo.ca/site/ page/view/articles.cardenalvar.

LINDSAY ADVOCATE - ARTS & HERITAGE Kirkfield Lift Lock The historic Kirkfield Lift Lock is the second highest hydraulic lift lock in the world with a lift of 15 metres (49 ft). The lock is situated at the highest point along the Waterway at 256.20 meters (840.5 ft) above sea level. It was constructed between 1900 and 1907, and was originally intended for commercial traffic. Address: 2023 KIRKFIELD RD 6. Hours: See website. Phone: 705-438-3126.

Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/ on/trentsevern/visit/visit6/lock36.aspx Maryboro Lodge Originally the 1837 estate of James Wallis, proprietor of Fenelon Falls, Maryboro Lodge now brings the region’s history to life. The museum features exhibits on archaeology, local Ojibwas, settlement, the Trent-Severn Waterway, railways, domestic life, agriculture, logging, schools, education, fashion, communications, military and environmental history. Address: 50 Oak St., Fenelon Falls. Hours of Operation: Seasonal. June 18 to September 15 open daily from 11 am to 5 pm, May 21 to June 12 and Sept 10 to October 10 open Saturday, Sunday and Holidays from 1-5 pm. Phone: 705-887-1044. Website: maryboro. ca.

MARYBORO LODGE, FENELON FALLS

The Book Lady The Book Lady in Fenelon Falls is a small independent bookshop offering new and used books, as well as a cafe for handcrafted coffee and tea beverages and home baked goods.

Address: 24 Market Street, Fenelon Falls ON K0M 1N0. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. Phone: 705-886-2665. Website: danathebooklady.ca.

Bobcaygeon Music Council The Bobcaygeon Music Council provides professional music programs for Bobcaygeon residents and visitors, including the Music Alive Concert Series (October-May), the Concerts in the Park Series (July, August) a Summer Music Camp in July, music workshops at local schools, and bursaries to local music students.

Address: Lock 32 Gazebo, Bobcaygeon. Hours: See Bobcaygeon Music Council’s Program schedule on their website. Phone: 705-7317497. Website: bobcaygeonmusic.com.

Sturgeon Point Union Church Sturgeon Point Union Church is an important part of the village and has provided a place of worship for residents and visitors alike for over 100 years. The church has a seating capacity of 350, a choir loft and a minister’s vestry. The church has remained independent, welcoming worshippers of all creeds and services at the church are conducted on Sundays at 10:30 am during the summer months. Address: 119-121 Irene Ave, Fenelon Falls, ON K0M 1N0.

Kinmount Artisans Marketplace The Kinmount Artisans Marketplace, located in the lower level of the Kinmount Community Centre, offers a variety of local arts and handcrafts including paintings, photography, ceramics, woodcraft, fibre/textile items and stained glass alongside collectables, local authors’ books and souvenirs. Address: 4995 Monck Rd., Kinmount. Phone: 705-488-1414.

Website: kinmountartisans.ca.

- with files from Kawartha Lakes Tourism.

KINMOUNT ARTISANS MARKETPLACE, KINMOUNT

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LET’S GO FISHING CELEBRATIONS REVIVES A CLASSIC SPRING TRADITION FOR FAMILIES RODERICK BENNS

Lindsay is known as a great thoroughfare to the lakes and rivers of Kawartha Lakes for top-notch fishing, whether by boat or from the shore. Fishing is also a great way to enjoy the company of young and old. As a pastime, or sport fishing, it is another way to experience our great outdoors and see Lindsay from a different vantage point.

Now, as co-owner of Celebrations (the old Queen Street United Church) which sits at the corner of Queen and Lindsay Street South, Linden Mackey wants to see the river one again celebrated on May 26, the start of fishing season in the Scugog River. His vision is that from Noon to 11 pm, families will once again converge at the river.

Ray Marshall, who is the Rentals and Special Contracts contact at Celebrations, says people are welcome to fish near Celebrations and anywhere along the river in the downtown area. There will also be tackle displays, homemade lures, casting technique demonstrations and how to take fish off hooks safely, among other things.

As well, there’s going to be an open house between 5-7 pm in the building itself for the public to see how the old church has been both renovated for private use and yet aspects of it preserved, too, such as the incredible stained glass windows.

Celebrations will turn one third of the parking lot into booth and display areas related to fishing and food, with two thirds of the lot still left over for parking. There will be two or three bands or singers – one for a matinee, one over dinner and another after dinner. A bar will open after 5 pm.

“The world is going so fast,” says Marshall, “that it would be great if parents can gather up the kids and spend a few hours doing something family-oriented like this.”

Kids under 15 don’t even require a fishing licence – and it’s an easy process for adults and teens over 15 to get one online at ontario. ca/page/fishing-licence-canadian-residents.

The Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls thanks all those who contributed to the Splash Pad Project and looks forward to your participation in the planned Washroom/Change Room project.

Don’t forget to get your ticket on the upcoming classic car draw July 1st for the 1969 Dodge Dart GTS Sport!

Tickets are available at the Kawartha Store in Fenelon Falls for $5.00 each or 5 for $20.00 or purchase online at rotarycardraw.com.

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SHOW THE LOVE

What do you love about Kawartha Lakes?

I grew up in Bobcaygeon, but moved a few provinces away a few years ago. I always look forward to my trips home, especially to touring through the lock system with my family and fiends on the beautiful lakes. I feel very lucky to call Kawartha Lakes my hometown.

- Jessica Ward

Driving ‘up north’ is fun. It’s great to be on the road and to only see 3 or 4 cars on the way into town.

No congestion. No honking. No line ups. It makes the drive enjoyable. Chatting to anyone you see.

Joking with the person behind you at the hardware checkout. Seeing neighbours at the post office.

Meeting friends at Timmy’s. It is the camaraderie of the community that brings me happiness.

- Mike Barkwell

Lindsay is one of the nicest small towns in Ontario. It is a perfect place to raise a family. Lindsay has a fantastic historic downtown, with a large selection of unique specialty stores to shop in with free parking.

When I came here I really knew nothing about the area and have joked that Kawartha Lakes “grows on you!” From a personal and professional perspective I love that there is virtually zero crime, and when there is it is solved, often because people step up as witnesses. I believe that we genuinely care and look out for each other. I love that I have been embraced by the community and have been able to contribute to its well-being. That’s what I love.

- Amy Nesbitt

- Police Chief John Hagarty

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ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT? FIRST IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

TREVOR HUTCHINSON

You are driving past a school play yard and you see 30 kids playing on the school field at recess. According to widely-accepted figures, at least six of those kids you see – all sons, daughters, grandkids, cousins, neighbours, members of our community – will suffer or are suffering from some sort of mental health issue, be it anxiety, trauma, a mood disorder, or an emotional, social and behavioural issue.

Of those six kids, only one will get access to services in a timely fashion. The other five will have to wait, if they get the help they need at all. In the City of Kawartha Lakes that’s 2,770 young people who will experience a mental health issue. Or put another way, that’s over 32 school buses filled to legal capacity of students who will not get the timely help they need. You don’t have to be a child psychologist to know that waiting to fix a problem can be painful, expensive and overwhelming. That’s a sobering concept when thinking about a roof.

It’s downright terrifying when thinking about our kids. And you know something else, too...if a government down in the polls makes youth mental health an election issue, then there

actually is a crisis in youth mental health in Ontario -- and Kawartha Lakes is not immune.

Provincial figures show a dramatic increase in visits to doctors’ offices and emergency departments over the last 10 years.

Bruce Scott, who has worked at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes for 25 years, agrees noting: “My experience has led me to believe that there has been a significant increase in anxiety and depression amongst children and youth we serve at the club. Access to youth mental health services can be difficult with long waiting lists.”

Lynda Nydham is from the Children’s

70% OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS HAVE THEIR ONSET DURING CHILDHOOD OR ADOLESCENCE.

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Service Council, a transfer payment agency within Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton that provides intensive service coordination for children and youth with complex special needs.

She agrees with Scott: “Within our agency, we have noted an increase in crisis-related referrals over the past few years. We feel that there is a linkage similar to the one identified by children’s mental health agencies, in that long waitlists mean that people aren’t always getting the support they need in a timely manner.”

Rob Hunter, the executive director of CHIMO (the largest provider of youth mental health services in Kawartha Lakes) notes another area of concern – the age of the child or youth presenting with these issues.

“We have seen a reduction in the ages of children and youth presenting for service.

We are seeing a large number of clients at a younger age presenting with anxiety that at times includes suicidal ideation.”

The very nature of our ‘City’ poses other

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28% OF STUDENTS REPORT NOT KNOWING WHERE TO TURN WHEN THEY WANTED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. challenges for youth mental health. Notes Mr. Scott, given “the large geographic size of our City, transportation can be a challenge to families wanting to access services.”

And let’s face it, we aren’t the richest area of the province. “Poverty is an additional issue,” says Hunter, “limiting mobility to attend services.”

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limits the time available for direct service as they use time to travel.”

The relatively small population of our city also means that we have limited access to medical specialists like psychiatry, psychologists and pediatricians. In 2014, Ontario’s per capita spending on healthcare (per person) was $1,361 compared to $16.45 on mental health. All the local agencies contacted by The Advocate confirm Nydam’s assessment that our local system is “maxed out,” noting that more resources are needed to “expand treatment services and case management, decrease waitlists, and retain quality staff.”

Given that research shows improving a child’s mental health from moderate to high can save $140,000 in health care costs per child, increasing resources in this area not only meets an urgent need, it may actually save us health care expenses in the future.

So the bad news is that our system is drastically underfunded. Our local agencies have to deliver services in a large geographic area with no public transportation outside of Lindsay, and poverty further strains available resources. The good news is that our local agencies are doing some amazing programming with the resources they have and perhaps just as importantly innovating to meet the local challenges. Both school boards (TLDSB and PVNCCDSB) devote significant resources to improving the overall well-being of their students through systemic programs that are based on the idea that a healthy student will perform better.

Perhaps just as importantly, the agencies are concentrating on co-operation as a way of improving youth mental health.

The public school board for example has signed over 50 different memoranda of understanding with outside groups and agencies in the field of youth mental health.

The recent transfer of some youth mental health programs from Ross Memorial Hospital to Chimo (which is located in the same building as CHIMO, thus creating a local ‘hub’

for youth mental health.) Service providers meet regularly to better integrate programs and serve the community.

“At the centre of our discussions is the principle of a “no wrong door” model of service, where children, youth and families can get the help they need regardless of what door they knock on,” explains Nydam.

The goal of all this work is that no kid falls through the cracks. In a complicated, underfunded system with many moving parts, involving several agencies that are all reliant on provincial funding, that is no easy task. And just as certain is that are few goals so crucial.

First in a series of articles on Youth Mental Health in the City of Kawartha Lakes. Follow us online for PT. 2: Making Healthy Students, Pt. 3: Programs and Services and Pt. 4: Youth Mental Health: A guide for families.

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BASIC INCOME SIGN UPS COMPLETE

ABOUT 10 PER CENT OF LINDSAY ON NEW PROGRAM RODERICK BENNS

By the time you read this, about 2,000 Lindsay residents will be receiving money under the Ontario Basic Income Pilot program.

That’s about 10 per cent of its population.

Government spokesperson, George Mason, says that about 4,000 participants will be receiving basic income in total across the three Ontario pilot locations, with an approximate breakdown of 1,000 participants in the Hamilton, Brantford and Brant County location; 1,000 in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area; and 2,000 in Lindsay.

“There will also be a ‘comparison group’ of 1,000 people in the Hamilton, Brantford, and Brant County location, and another 1,000 people in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area,” he adds, also known as a ‘control group.’ This control group is given a modest financial incentive to do paperwork and report regularly to the data collectors, but are not actually getting the basic income. The control group was chosen randomly.

Lindsay is the only place in Ontario that will not have a control group. Almost anyone who was eligible and needed basic income was to get it, if they applied, and people could apply up until April 16, 2018.

“We are on well on our way to reaching full enrollment of participants as we approach the first anniversary of the pilot,” says Mason.

He adds they have the measures in place to “ensure this study is conducted with the utmost integrity, rigour, and ethical standards.”

This includes the involvement of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton, as well as a thirdparty evaluator called Blueprint. Blueprint, according to their website, is a non-profit, mission-driven research organization

dedicated to improving the social and economic well-being of Canadians.

Potential basic income recipients must live in Lindsay and have been living there for at least the past 12 months. As well, they must be: 18 to 64 years old (for the entire duration of the three-year study) living on a low income (under $34,000 per year if you’re single or under $48,000 per year if you’re a couple)

Basic Income Pilot The government pilot wants to test how a basic income might help people living on low incomes better meet their basic needs, while hoping to see improvements in: • food security • stress and anxiety • mental health • health and healthcare usage • housing stability • education and training • employment and labour market participation

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New Police Chief Mark Mitchell says ‘social conditions’ important to consider in policing

As Inspector Mark Mitchell gets set to become Kawartha Lakes Police Service’s newest chief, he says it’s important to consider the broad factors of community wellness when it comes to policing.

The Kawartha Lakes Police Services Board just announced that Mitchell will succeed current Chief John Hagarty in August, who is set to retire then.

“We have to have a broad look at the causes of crime,” Mitchell tells The Lindsay Advocate. “The social conditions that people experience are an important factor to consider.”

In choosing Mitchell, the board has hired from within the police service for the first time in 60 years.

Mitchell began his policing career with the Peel Regional Police in 1988 and joined

Kawartha Lakes Police Service in 1990.

“I’ve been here almost my entire career,” he says. “I’m very connected with this community and I have an intimate knowledge of our (own) people” within the police ranks, he adds. There are 43 ‘sworn members’ from the officers’ ranks in Kawartha Lakes Police Service.

Mitchell has had a distinguished career working his way through the ranks, including the last 10 years as an inspector. In 2009-2010, he was seconded to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, International Peace Operations Branch, and was assigned to Kandahar, Afghanistan for a year.

“That was a transformative experience for me,” he says, and it was then he knew he wanted to work hard to one day become police chief in his community to try and make a difference.

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This includes using innovative new software called Health IM. It’s based on a lengthy questionnaire used for many years by health care professionals. The program was modified for police use and uses data entered by the officer to determine which of three risk categories a person in crisis could be — a threat to themselves, a threat to others or if they can take care of themselves.

“Mental health is an area where police have made great strides,” says Mitchell.

What’s In A Name?

KAWARTHA LAKES THE KAWARTHAS IAN MCKECHNIE

Several weeks ago, I attended a meeting about the promotion of cultural heritage in this municipality. Towards the end of the meeting, one of the participants pointed out that too many call this area “the Kawarthas,” when in fact it is called “Kawartha Lakes.” Add in to this mix the municipality’s official name “The City of Kawartha Lakes” - a name which seems rather misleading, given our [mostly] rural appearances - and the confusion continues.

So, what’s in a name? Are we simply “the Kawarthas” or are we “the Kawartha Lakes?”

What is the difference between “The City of Kawartha Lakes” and “Victoria County” (a name fondly remembered by many of our citizens)?

To answer this question accurately requires us to become better acquainted with the history and development of the word “Kawartha,” which itself is a linguistic misnomer.

The original Anishinaabeg word is Ka-watha, derived from “Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug,” or Gaa-waategamaag, which means “land of reflections.” By 1900, however, it had been anglicized to Kawartha, supposedly at the behest of those who were eagerly looking for a catchy slogan that would attract tourists to the area by both rail and water.

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For those late-Victorian writers of tourist propaganda, “The Kawartha Lakes” referred specifically to the lakes. Here at the museum we have an ancient brochure promoting “Kawartha Lakes.” This brochure is helpful in giving us a (118 year-old) definition of that term:

The Kawartha Lakes extend from Lakefield to Coboconk, a distance of Seventy-miles, covered with a good Boat service, and tapped by rail at Lakefield, Lindsay, Fenelon Falls, and Coboconk…For Cruising Campers a trip over the Lakes makes a delightful holiday. They possess a beauty of their own, a wildness, a variety, and a surprise...Take the water at Coboconk, and go through to Lakefield. No need for a ton of of supplies, they can be obtained at Coboconk, Fenelon Falls, Sturgeon Pt., Buckhorn, Burleigh, Juniper Island in Stony Lake, Young’s Point.

Easy portages.”

At this point, the keen student of geography will pipe up “But aren’t Burleigh and Lakefield in Peterborough County? Isn’t Buckhorn in what is now the Municipality of Trent Lakes? Isn’t Stony Lake closer to Peterborough? Why are they included in a brochure promoting The Kawartha Lakes?”

Once again, we need to remind ourselves that “The Kawartha Lakes,” at least in our earliest sources, refers to a specific geographical feature, not merely a political region, which from 1861 until amalgamation in 2001, was broadly known as “Victoria County.”

Nonetheless, the old Anishinnabeg-inspired word “Kawartha” continued to be used concurrently (if not somewhat casually) to describe not just lakes, but also the region as a whole: its physical geography as well as its culture. “The Kawarthas,” a term used quite liberally by the economic development and tourism departments in Peterborough, attempts to capture the essential character of the place and its people: “Discover a place where the people are down-to-earth, the beauty is breathtaking, and the activities are endless,” we read on the website of “Peterborough & The Kawarthas.”

Of course, the same descriptor could be justly applied to The City of Kawartha Lakes. In fact, “The City’s” website rightly boasts that “Kawartha Lakes is home to more than 75,000 permanent and 30,000 seasonal residents. Nearly 1.4 million people visit us each year seeking the cottage lifestyle made possible by our 250 lakes and rivers.”

Nonetheless, the qualifier, “The City,” in “The City of Kawartha Lakes,” opens up a whole other can of worms. It implies urban sprawl, congested highways, various levels of bureaucracy and other characteristics far removed from the “down-to-earth,” romanticized language most people then and now use to describe this region. Though governed as a single-tier city, I would hazard a guess that most of us continue to identify ourselves with the small towns, villages, and hamlets in which we live.

What’s in our name? I’ll let Lindsay Advocate readers decide for themselves.

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Kerry Curtis

LCVI TEACHER AND TIRELESS TRAVELLER FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS WITH JAMIE MORRIS

When I first interviewed tireless traveller Kerry Curtis, almost seven years ago, I was left with the impression he’d ticked off a lifetime of bucket list items. Not even close.

Here are a few things Kerry Curtis has done that nobody else I’ve met has done—or is likely to do: • hiked the full 780 km of the Camino Frances through northern Spain, through 11 consecutive days of rain followed by a day of snow; • tossed his pilgrim’s conch shell into the Atlantic at Finisterre, thought by the Romans to be the western edge of the world; • found late-night shelter in Athens in a $10-a-night roof-top utility hut, waking at dawn to an unobstructed picture postcard view of the Acropolis; • slept in a treehouse with a night view of the flames from sulphurous mountainside fires on the Turkish coast; • boarded the wrong bus in Damascus and been set aright by some Bedouin tribesmen; stood on the spot on the Scottish heath where Shakespeare had Macbeth encountering the witches; • listened to the sound of bagpipes in a setting of cool mist, intense green and thatched roofs we might associate with Ireland -- in a Spanish village in the province of Galicia; • washed down boiled cow tongue with ayran, a yogurt-water-salt mixture, in Bulgaria.

Job Fair. His time at LCVI has been punctuated by extended stays and travels abroad.

There have been some constants in his travel: He has always immersed himself in the cultures he has encountered, and has approached each with respect. Always he has kept eyes and mind open and been open to new experiences.

Kerry remembers arriving in Sofia speaking not a word of Bulgarian. The economy had collapsed and because gas was scarce there were few cars. The only pools of light along city streets at night came from cafes.

“I realized that every light was a friendly place,” he says. “There was very little crime.”

During long weekends and summers he would take cheap flights within Europe and the Middle East.

When his two-year contract ended, he signed up for a third year and only then returned to Canada and took a new job, at LCVI.

Kerry has been a teacher at LCVI for the past 18 years. But his career started in Bulgaria; he was recruited by the American School of Sofia at the Queens University International

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After a few years in Lindsay he decided to return to the Bulgarian school, taking a leave and knowing that he would be able to return to the Trillium Lakelands District School Board (though he wasn’t guaranteed a position at LCVI).

This time, rather than using Sofia as a base for quick trips to other countries, he decided to travel within Bulgaria — to really get to know the country.

“You never really see a country just by going to the capital,” he tells me. Travelling the countryside was like stepping back in time. People got around in horse and buggy.

He travelled with a friend who was fluent in Bulgarian and could help smooth the way.

There was lots of hiking and mountaineering, starting out from small villages.

Since then there have been many travels. The next year he was back in Bulgaria to see some friends and former students; the following summer, in Wales, he hiked a newlyestablished trail. In 2010 it was the Camino Frances.

He returned to Spain in 2013 to complete the rugged Camino del Norte, sleeping on pallets in refugios for pilgrims (often churches) or in very slightly posher albergues that offered showers and drying rooms for clothes. As he traced the Bay of Biscay he would occasionally, as part of the official route, take small ferries that took pilgrims from peninsula to peninsula, cutting out some distances.

Scotland has drawn him again and again since then. He’s hiked the West and the newly-established East Highland Way, the Great Glen Way, the Speyside Way and the Rob Roy Trail. Each time he’s carried what he needed with him.

So, what have these travel experiences taught this teacher?

“I learned there’s more than one way to live a happy life,” he says. “So many people I’ve met have been so content with so little.”

He decided there’s a lot to be said for lives lived at a slower pace, cultures in which people gather ingredients from the market

each day, make do with less technology, and perhaps have more time than some of us do for family and friends.

When stepping out and experiencing another culture, it makes one a little vulnerable. He says he was often humbled by the kindness and generosity of strangers.

When he was a “peregrino” (hiking the route of the pilgrims) and came into villages, if he stood for a few minutes, someone would ask if he was lost, or needed food or assistance.

When he was hiking back-roads in Romania, drivers of horse-and-wagons would insist he and his friend climb in and accept a lift.

Kerry takes those travel experiences into the Lindsay classroom with him, and that’s another benefit. “It’s made me a more patient teacher, I think. I realize there are so many different perspectives, and each student has had a unique set of experiences; if students are acting out, I understand it’s not personal”.

Another lesson, learned from travel that he’d like to pass along to students is the importance of persevering. On those long hikes, the first hour, muscles sore and the terrain tough, might be hard, but get past that and the traveller falls into a rhythm and is ready for those new experiences.

By the time you read this, Kerry will be into his next adventure. In late March he flies to Madrid. After a few days there it’s off to Salamanca, where he’s registered for two weeks of Spanish language classes at the University of Salamanca (which is celebrating its 800th year in existence). After that he will tackle another pilgrim’s route, this time the 1007 km Ruta de la Plata, from Seville north to Santiago, then the Bay of Biscay. His pack (recently repaired at a Lindsay shoe repair) will weigh 12 kilos and hold only the essentials: a compass, a second pair of hiking shoes and set of clothes. No cellphone or other electronics.

So, what are the chances he’ll hang up his hiking boots after the Ruta de la Norta? Two clues. The poetry anthology he’s made room for in his pack includes his favourite poem “Ulysses,” by Tennyson (“Come my friends,/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world”). And if there are personal heroes, they would include the senior citizens he encountered along the East Highland Way -- slowed a bit, but each day finding their way to the next refuge.

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KAWARTHA KATE GREAT ADVICE, ANONYMOUSLY. This month The Advocate introduces Kawartha Kate, a general advice column written by a Registered Professional Counsellor and Social Worker. Feel free to email Kawartha Kate at thelindsayadvocate@gmail.com with your anonymous questions about family, relationships, and life overall. Your name and location will be changed to protect your identity. Readers can also let the Advocate know how you think Kate did with her advice.

Dear Kawartha Kate,

I am 27 and still living with my parents. My job isn’t great but it pays for my car and insurance. I pay my parents for groceries too but I could never afford rent the way things are right now. I feel embarrassed to tell new people I still live at home. My parents expect me to be home every night and to check in just like when I was in high school. I would never want to bring a romantic interest home anyway but I know there would be big trouble if I did or even suggested it. How can I get them to lighten up and treat me like an adult?

Ben from Bobcaygeon Dear Ben,

Things are very difficult right now for people your age economically. Jobs are often ‘not great’ and rents are truly outrageous. You are not alone in depending on family to make ends meet. Feeling embarrassed about this problem tells me you expected you would be independent, and you feel responsible for this situation. As you didn’t mention paying rent to your parents maybe they understand the bind you are in, or maybe they aren’t anxious for you to leave?

But the biggest issue for you is the restrictions your parents have on you. My instincts tell me this is a two way issue. Your priority as you described it is your car payment, and you have traded that security for the freedom you want as a 27-year-old. Your parents don’t sound like they ask for much from you (rent, chores, etc) and like to have the predictable comfort of your presence. Maybe neither of you were ready for you to launch until now. Let yourself imagine how you would manage if suddenly they couldn’t help you, or needed the rent for the space you occupy? How can you cut your own costs? Second hand car? Room-mates?

You didn’t say if you had any training or skills, but you may want to investigate college or an apprenticeship to increase your earning power.

Make a plan for yourself to move to independence within 12 months.

Go talk to VCCS, the employment centre (careerservices.org) and find out what your options are. When you have this worked out in your own mind, NISBETT’S CLOTHIERS sit down with your parents and share your plan. Talk about how being at home has been good...almost too good, and ask if they have any worries Commitment to quality, service about you leaving. Once you have begun to exercise your adult self with more excellence, and unforgettable style. confidence you may find that they relax their surveillance or that you don’t care knowing you have only a few months to go until you are in charge of 93 Kent St W, Lindsay your own life.

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GREAT LOCAL BUSINESSES UNDER ONE ROOF AT KAWARTHA LAKES COUNTRY LIVING SHOW

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The Kawartha Lakes Country Living Show in Fenelon Falls can be credited with providing a great time for a lot of people, but it can also apparently cure ophidiophobia – that would be a fear of snakes. Well, at least it worked out that way for Shannon Bain, manager of the Fenelon Falls and District Chamber of Commerce.

Bain has been involved with the Kawartha Lakes Country Living Show in some way each year since moving up from Toronto six years ago. The first year that she was there, it was with her real estate brokerage.

“I was squirmy every time I passed by the busy petting zoo they had that year,” she remembers. She had been afraid of snakes ever since she stepped on one as a kid.

“I must have been talking about this at the booth because my broker just shot up and declared it was time I touched the snake – and I did,” she says. “I wore that super docile snake around my neck and felt like a new person.”

So that’s how Bain credits the Country Living Show with curing her fear of snakes.

The local Chamber, located at the top of Lock 34, started and organized this event 34 years ago. Proceeds from the show form an important part of the Chamber’s operating budget.

“Many of our tourism initiatives directly benefit from the success of the show.”

Events like this help to promote, expose and showcase the incredible companies that are available in Fenelon Falls and Kawartha Lakes, she says. “We aren’t a community of mega,

international companies. Most of the business marketing around here is done through networking, by referral and reputation.”

Bain would describe the Country Living Show as a small business conference in a way, where businesses can test their products and consumers can compare services and offerings. This year, it’s being held Friday, April 27 through to Sunday, April 29. It’s held at the Fenelon Falls Community Centre on 27 Veterans Way. Admission is free.

Tim Wisener is committee chair for the Kawartha Lakes Country Living Show. He’s also a business owner, with his Fenelon Falls-based business known as Home by Tim and Chris. It’s a full service design build firm, going right from home concept all the way through to the building and then decorating stages.

He says what he loves most about the Country Living Show is “the sheer variety of vendors.”

“We have everything you could need for your home or cottage, like builders, designers, HVAC, plumbers, electricians, appliances, and so on but we also have the things you wouldn’t expect like the curling club, the flag guy, the sock lady, the golf course, a group of fine artists, a sailing club and the Barn and Bunkie artisans showing their wares.”

This year, Wisener says the show will be bigger than ever, with new vendors showing model cottages, a restaurant you can sit and enjoy lunch at, free experiences and giveaways and maybe even some free food.

“Everyone is welcome and we encourage the whole family to come out and enjoy the show.”

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justIN TIME

with IAN MCKECHNIE

Lindsay’s attractions: Then and now, let us ‘count our blessings’

Earlier this year, a story appeared in the pages of the local press revealing that the City of Kawartha Lakes ranked eighty-fourth on a list of “2018 millennial hotspots” compiled by a real estate think tank based in Saskatchewan.

Many residents were bemused by this story, with the municipality’s acting Director of Economic Development quoted in Kawartha Lakes This Week as asking “what on Earth are we doing on this list?”

As a millennial (a term I have never particularly liked), and as one who has endured good-natured ribbing from siblings and relatives about just why I have chosen to remain in Lindsay rather than move to some major metropolis, I too was intrigued by what our region’s ranking on this list says - or rather, doesn’t say - about our community, its character, and why smaller towns like Lindsay still have much to offer.

The temptation to evaluate Lindsay solely by what it doesn’t have or doesn’t offer isn’t a new phenomenon, as the following story reveals. Dating to the first decade or so of the 20th Century, when Lindsay was a very different community than it is now, this article from our past has much to teach us:

LINDSAY’S ATTRACTIONS Ten Leaders but there are others - Points all should tell about

As compared with Peterboro, Lindsay attracts very few large gatherings or conventions or excursions, even, and the question naturally arises, “Who is to blame, the citizens or the town?” We claim the citizens are to blame. The town itself has plenty of inducements to offer in the way of attracting such assemblages. Following are the fundamentals: 1. Lindsay is prettily situated.

2. Lindsay has lovely water trips, with most convenient connections to pleasure resorts.

3. Lindsay has a good opera house and town hall to meet in.

4.Lindsay has abundant up-to-date accommodation for visitors.

5. Lindsay has the best of railroad connections Grand Trunk and C.P.R. 6. Lindsay has a special brand of hospitality for visitors.

7. Lindsay is a budding city, with bright prospects.

8. Lindsay has the finest main street in Ontario and the widest.

9. Lindsay has a number of prosperous manufacturing establishments.

10. Lindsay has the greatest mileage of granolithic walks of any town of its size in Canada Let our citizens and Board of Trade get busy and boom Lindsay, as one of the best towns in Canada, with mighty few in the same class.

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Though we no longer enjoy “the best of railroad connections,” the other eight or nine attractions continue to define our community.

We continue to be “prettily situated.” The TrentSevern Waterway continues to offer “lovely water trips.” Our “opera house” is second-tonone (as those of us who took in the Academy Theatre’s recent 125th anniversary celebrations can attest). We enjoy fine restaurants, and the new Days Inn on Angeline Street carries forward Lindsay’s “special brand of hospitality for visitors.”

While the “prosperous manufacturing establishments” which brought a great deal of business to Lindsay in its first 100 years have by and large disappeared, new establishments are making their presence felt, establishments which are utilizing modern technology to its fullest potential.

One thinks here of Bruce and Sharon Vandenberg’s Mariposa Dairy and Ryan Oliver’s Pinnguaq, for instance. As these businesses grow and develop, they will no doubt attract skilled individuals representing a variety of demographics to the community.

With this growth (“a budding city with bright prospects”), the question of balancenaturally arises. How do we balance growth and development with the small-town ambiance that attracts so many visitors and potential citizens to our community in the first place? How do we balance the beautiful and fertile agrarian landscape which has long defined us with the necessities of highway widening and housing development?

These questions are not for me to answer, but they do spur us on to think about what of the above-mentioned attractions might be irreplaceably lost if that balance isn’t achieved.

Lindsay is very fortunate in that it hasn’t demolished its historic downtown core and attempted to start all over again.

Other communities throughout southern Ontario have not been nearly as lucky, with many a business block, heritage home, and industrial complex obliterated from the landscape between the the 1950s and 1990s in the name of “progress” and “urban renewal.” Much of this credit goes to the late Leonard Shea, who for many years chaired the Lindsay Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee.

Most of the landmarks which our ancestors knew - the castle-like tower gracing St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, the Lindsay Fire Hall, the Academy Theatre, the brick business blocks on either side of “the finest main street in Ontario” - continue to define our community.

Where older buildings have become derelict or unattractive, clever entrepreneurs have sought to revitalize them. The soon-tobe-opened Pie Eyed Monk Brewery, in the 150 year-old C.L. Baker building on Cambridge Street, is an excellent example. A community which repurposes its heritage buildings for new and creative uses (e.g. craft beer), rather than wiping them clean from the slate, will entice people to stay awhile.

Some of our best attractions, though (and ones that have certainly kept this writer here) have nothing to do with downtown revitalization. These include quiet rural roads over which I have enjoyed many a summer evening bike ride, passing through pastoral landscapes en route and finishing up in Victoria Park, with a refreshing milkshake from Kawartha Dairy, as I listen to the sound the little waterfall beautifying the middle of that historic green space.

Such attractions are a far cry from the dazzling financial and entertainment districts of Toronto and New York, or the hip environs of Victoria and Guelph, but they are ones which make our community unique.

And so, dear reader, I invite you - in the words of that old Sunday school song - to “count your blessings, name them one by one” and add your own favourites to that centuryold list of attractions with which our town is richly blessed.

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Kawartha Lakes Vignette MICHELLE SCOTT

PHOTO BY ERIN SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY

There’s a novel inside Michelle Scott.

It’s been there for 12 years, in fact. There’s attempted murder, kidnapping, drama, and lots of twists and turns. It may not have a title yet, but it’s a book that is coming out – by pen, no less – in between customers.

Scott is the owner of Kawartha Caribbean Hut on Queen Street in Lindsay, a take-out only spot for Curry Chicken, Curry Goat, Caribbean Beef Stew, Jerk Chicken, Jerk Meatballs, Potato Roti, and more. If you’ve seen her building (formerly Ward’s Hairstyling for Men, back in the day) then you know why she’s using a pen – there’s no room for a computer.

You can usually find her in there, chipping away at her psychological thriller.

She lets me in on a secret, though.

“Everybody’s going to be saved in the end.” She laughs diabolically, even though it’s

good news for her characters.

She’s hoping to have the book ready by next summer and will look for a publisher then. In the meantime, she’s also busy cooking Jamaican dishes for a steady and growing dedicated fan base in the Lindsay area.

Open since May of last year, Michelle and her partner originally came to Kawartha Lakes from Toronto because she knew there wasn’t much in the way of Caribbean food in the area.

With a niece and nephew who were born and raised in Lindsay, they would often travel to Toronto and let her know about the culinary void in the area.

“We always wanted to do this here. We’ve got people coming in who don’t know anything about Jamaican food and I get a chance to educate them – I just love it,” she says - Roderick Benns.

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