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The best way to experience our lakes is through your own power
GEOFF COLEMAN Writer-at-large
The self-propelled boater is fortunate to live in Kawartha Lakes. The opportunity to use a stand-up paddleboard, canoe or kayak to explore our diverse wetlands never disappoints. Home to birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and plants, the interface where land gives way to lake always has something on display, from splashy carp spawning in the spring to rafts of waterfowl in the fall.
The west shore of Sturgeon Lake stretches roughly 20 kilometres between Fenelon Falls and Lindsay, and provides numerous sheltered, morning-sun friendly spots to observe wildlife. The entire trip can be done in a day.
However, if you don’t have a full day to spare, these four segments will give you a good taste for what the full trip offers: the section from Fenelon Falls to the end of Raby’s Shore Road, the area at Long Beach, the Ken Reid Conservation Area zone, and north from Lindsay’s Rivera Park. The Fenelon Falls end is the most geographically diverse, while the Scugog River gets the nod for best birdwatching.
The photos that follow will give you a glimpse of what you might see when strike out alone or with a friend with nothing but a paddle and the gift of leisure time.
All photos: Geoff Coleman
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If Julia Taylor had her way, one of the best-loved stores in Fenelon Falls would simply be called “Jars.”
After all, getting so many people to give up their plastic habit in favour of reusable glass jars is one of her favourite accomplishments since she took over as owner of Country Cupboard in early 2018. But then, as she points out, “I knew if I changed the name everybody would still call it Country Cupboard.”
No wonder. The little store at 9 May Street has a long history, celebrating its 40th anniversary this month – and the words “country cupboard” were used from the beginning.
The original owner, Barb Torry, called it Country Cupboard Whole Foods ‘n’ Things. Her husband Fred joined her after retiring from Hydro One. They owned the store for 30 years. Then it became Val’s Country Cupboard, owned by Valerie Hunter, and then the more alliterative Carson’s Country Cupboard, when Carson Keeler took things over.
Keeler still works part time for Taylor, after passing the torch to her more than three years ago.
But did Country Cupboard always have the same business focus?
“It started off as a specialty food store with bulk foods, a deli counter, some supplements and natural products, as well as kitchen and wicker wares. Frozen yogurt started the second year, in 1982,” Keeler recalls.
It was in the last 10 years that the store “morphed more into a health food store with mostly supplements and bulk foods,” he tells the Advocate.
In fact, when Keeler bought it, he called it a health food store, let go of the non-organic products, increased the healthy bulk food products, and brought in new fridges and freezers that allowed him to carry a greater variety of foods.
“Of course, the frozen yogurt is still here and now has a plantbased option to serve our diverse customers better,” he says.
That’s one of Keeler’s favourite memories, serving frozen yogurt through four generations, “watching kids grow up year after year.”
Taylor had shopped at Country Cupboard weekly for years. When
Julia Taylor, owner of Country Cupboard in Fenelon Falls, with Carson Keeler, the former owner. Photo: Geoff Coleman.
Keeler mentioned that he wanted to sell, she was immediately interested.
“He thought I was a good fit and I started coming in weekly to transition the ownership,” she says.
Given that Keeler has almost 30 years experience in the health food industry, “Everything I know about supplements comes from him. He also taught me how to do almost every aspect of running Country Cupboard as I had no retail or ordering experience,” Taylor says.
The owner takes pride in the changes she has overseen at the store, including using up those last plastic bags, plastic spoons and Styrofoam cups and replacing them with paper bags, free jars, and compostable spoons and cups.
“I remember when a farmer brought in their old Player’s tobacco cans to fill up with oats. I really knew (then) I had done what I came to do — make an impact in our community’s overall waste.”
A couple of years ago, Taylor was second-guessing her decision to get the store online, wondering if it was worth all the effort. She spent a year inputting all of the products and data — and then came COVID-19.
“The pandemic hit and we were ready for online sales. That was a real grateful moment, and I knew that I could trust my big decisions,” says Taylor.
Another shift from previous owners is Taylor’s conscious decision to use her business’s voice to advocate for social and environmental change.
Country Cupboard was not involved with the local chamber of commerce or community events until Taylor took over. She is a board member on the chamber and the business participates in most community events and makes regular donations to the local food bank. It supports Kawartha Lakes Pride and other community groups. She is also an active member of the Fenelon Landfill Committee
Taylor approached the Fenelon Falls Rotary Club and successfully lobbied for a water bottle refill station at the new beach washrooms. She also bought two recycle bins for the beach and got Rotary to donate two more, all of which are managed with some volunteer help.
As for what comes next for the little store that seems to punch above its weight in the community, Taylor has her eye on setting up a commercial kitchen to create plant-based foods.
“This will continue to fulfill our role to serve the community healthy food options and reduce even more waste,” she says.
As for Jars, the hypothetical business name that will probably never be, Taylor points to Country Cupboard’s graphic which she redid when she took over.
“At least I snuck a jar into the logo.”
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Scott may earn less now, but MPP has more time in her riding
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Laurie Scott has now had some time to digest her demotion from the cabinet of Premier Doug Ford. The Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP and four other long-serving Tories found themselves on the outside looking in after a cabinet shuffle crafted by Premier Doug Ford to make his inner circle appear younger, diverse and more inclusive in preparation for an election in June of 2022.
Scott has taken a significant hit to her paycheque — and in her access to the premier — but with only a year left to a provincial election she will now have back the constituency time that some said was in short supply while she was serving as a minister.
Scott was earning almost $166,000 in 2020 as the minister of infrastructure, according to statistics provided by the government of Ontario. The ministerial job also came with an additional expense account that covered job-related expenses like travel, food and lodging. After a return to the backbenches, Scott is expected to earn closer to $116,000 a year as a member without portfolio.
As minister of infrastructure Scott was the public face for the government when it came to delivering money for things like roads, bridges and broadband expansion. In that position she had weekly access to the premier and other key policy-makers like Health Minister Christine Elliott and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy. Her privileged position at the cabinet table now belongs to Kinga Surma of Etobicoke, whom Doug Ford personally campaigned for in 2016 to ensure her nomination in a contested race to represent the riding. Surma, a 34-year-old Polish immigrant, is now the youngest woman in the cabinet and faces an uphill battle to retain her seat in a riding that has voted Liberal at the provincial level since 2007.
John Michael McGrath, a veteran Queen’s Park correspondent for TVO, reported that the five purged cabinet ministers, including Scott, had done nothing wrong, but had the fortune or misfortune “of representing ridings that have barely glanced at anyone other than a Tory for a generation.”
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Because their seats were deemed safe by Ford, it is reasonable to assume their very public cabinet positions were given to a collection of GTA-area Tories who are in tough for re-election, and on whose victory will hang another Ford majority government.
What Scott has gained back because of this demotion are hundreds of hours a year to be in her riding doing the little things that have made her the consummate constituency politician. Her father, long time federal Member of Parliament Bill Scott, was fond of telling reporters that there “were no voters in Ottawa” when questioned about his policy of being in the riding almost every weekend, provided parliamentary duties didn’t keep him in the capital. Both Scotts seldom missed an opportunity to be seen at any gathering of importance occurring in HaliburtonKawartha Lakes-Brock.
Scott has already confirmed she will be running again in 2022,. She has also been chosen by the riding association to carry the Tory banner regardless of her place within the party hierarchy. She will likely take full advantage of her reduced responsibilities in Toronto over the next 11 months to mend fences at home an to be seen more often, possibly aiding her re-election chances in 2022.
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