The Lindsay Advocate - June 2019

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Letters to the Editor UpFront Benns’ Belief: Our Loss of Social Memory Contaminated Brownfields Seniors’ Services Section Seniors Step Up with Community Involvement Dry Stone Wall Experiment Carden Alvar Nature Photography Beyond our Borders Pollinator Week in Kawartha Lakes City Notes Local Heirloom Recipes Friends & Neighbours with Jamie Morris Just in Time with Ian McKechnie Trevor’s Take: We Need Ideas

ABOUT US Even when life circumstances pulled me to other places, there was a greater part of me that always wanted to be home – in Kawartha Lakes. I’ve come back to try and make a positive difference in my community, this time with my family. My wife and I created The Lindsay Advocate to be media with a social purpose, to advocate for people over corporations, to push for a fair society where all citizens can reach their full potential. We know our institutions, non-profit sector, and small businesses are critical community partners. We thank them for their support and pledge to work together for a healthier, more prosperous Kawartha Lakes. ~ Roderick and Joli

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Environment Plan a great first step; we need more sustainable living When we discuss how to solve the climate crisis, the usual responses include: tax corporations, invest in renewable energy, build more public transit, implement the “Green New Deal,”etc… Though these are absolutely necessary policies to avoid catastrophic damage, it has to be noted that these are top-down approaches and should only constitute 50 per cent of the work that is required. Instead of relying on governments to impose its goals and approaches, the other 50 per cent that’s needed must be through a bottom-up approach where our community determines our own initiatives and objectives. The City of Kawartha Lakes’ Healthy Environment Plan is an excellent step forward, and can be complimented further by reversing the ban on backyard chickens in order to encourage and invest in sustainable living and reduce our market dependence. Community development practices cannot be lost in the political discourse because remember: building more electric vehicles is fantastic, but when our city has only three public charging stations, it makes buying one less practical. - Zac Miller, Pontypool

Everyone wants highly trained, talented and motivated teachers in our classrooms. However, like all modern enterprises, a combination of new methods and technologies can be applied to achieve desired results while reducing operating costs. Ford is simply applying this knowledge to public education with the confidence that it has worked for thousands of business enterprises and it can work in the education sector too. I’d say that Ford is doing exactly “for the people” what he was mandated to do in the last election. - Gene Balfour, Fenelon Falls Doug Ford’s family owned an established business and then his first real job was handed to him, as soon as he dropped out of college after two months. His success is due to family inheritance and privilege.

Library Cuts in the Ford Gov’t In MPP Laurie Scott’s mail-outs, a photo of her with a large book on her desk was noticed. Has Scott missed the irony, in her being part of a government that shamefully slashes at library services? Another Ford attempt to cut at libraries, in Toronto, failed. So now they go whole province instead. If this government is concerned about economic or social difficulty, it is precisely to assist with economic and social

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Ford is simply taking a ‘business’ approach to education In Benns’ Belief in the May issue of the Lindsay Advocate, Roderick Benns expressed his suspicion of “millionaire leaders like Doug Ford who see fit to wear the cloak of ‘the people’ while making cuts to public education.” This is one point of view. Here is another. Doug Ford has had a career as a businessman who never had the luxury of a guaranteed revenue stream from taxation that public education enjoys. To succeed in business, he had to make hundreds of decisions to balance operating costs with revenues so that his business would survive and thrive. Of course, reducing positions in education will never be popular with the public sector labour unions because union leaders are corporate executives who are mandated to increase revenues by adding new memberships.

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mending that public facilities and services, such as libraries and interlibrary lending, should be not cut but rather built up. Libraries are repositories of information sharing. Thus it’s not unexpected that a Ford-led government would be keen to slash at them. The more stuff one can find out, the likelier certain private projects, sponsored by those of their political ilk, are apt to be sensibly interfered with. I guess we don’t get to borrow and read Scott’s book. - Daryl Vernon, Head Lake

Will MPP Laure Scott defend public education? Two weeks prior I attended a workshop on Human Trafficking hosted by you, MPP Scott. You introduced us to the guest speaker, identifying her as the bravest person in the room, and asked us to listen to her compelling story of having been trafficked and called us to act to protect the vulnerable children and youth who are the victims of this horrendous crime. I commend you, Laurie for your efforts in this cause. I was deeply moved by the presentation. When asked what we could do to help protect youth and young adults we were told vulnerability begins in grade school. We were specifically told we should do our part to stop the education cuts. Laurie, I was outside the Dunsford Community Centre (on April 25) ready to share what I had learned from your presentation; I was earnest in my desire to defend safe, supportive schools and the special student-teacher relationship critical to the health of our young people. Your guests displayed a great unwillingness to listen and some even drove across the lawns in anxiousness to avoid us. I hope that you will take the time to speak publicly about safe schools and support of teachers, to speak of the dangers of education cuts that erode the student-teacher relationship and the danger of youth spending more time in isolation and on-line. I hope that you will continue to share the concern and message of the young woman of whom you asked us to listen. You described her as the bravest person in the room. I hope that she can inspire you, as she has me, to a similar courage and to act at her request and speak against the education cuts. - Paul Reed, Norland

Neither the time nor the place Over the years, I’ve had two friends that have been killed or seriously injured in workplace accidents. It was with their memories in mind that I decided to attend the Lindsay and District Labour Council’s National Day of Mourning Service in Victoria Park in Lindsay. Imagine my surprise, when the agenda, which had scheduled remarks by dignitaries, was completely abandoned and replaced by a raging political offensive by the Executive VP of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Ahmad Gaied. Rather than a Memorial Service, I found myself attending an anti-government political rally. None of the dignitaries attending were invited to speak and, of all of the Memorial Services held across Ontario on April 28, the Lindsay and District Labour Council’s was the only one attended by Ontario Minister of Labour Laurie Scott. There is a time and a place for everything -- and this was neither the time nor the place for such a disrespectful display by the OFL. Regardless of political stripes, this was to be a National Day of Mourning Service for deceased workers. My expectation was for a Remembrance Day type of service -- not a government bashing tirade. I found the whole event extremely disrespectful to all. A formal apology is due to all in attendance from both the Lindsay and District Labour Council and the Ontario Federation of Labour. - Fred Reaburn, Fenelon Falls

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BENNS’ BELIEF

RODERICK BENNS, PUBLISHER

The Wisdom of Social Memory

A stinging, light rain is in the air in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland. A white fishing trawler edges up to the dock and immediately there is a bustle of activity. One man is below deck organizing the day’s catch while another man, above, eases up a basket of cod from the belly of the boat, out onto the dock. There it is swiftly dragged a few feet to an outbuilding, where the fish are set up for filleting and preparing. Two other men are on the dock, swapping stories. I’m there, too, out of place and taking some photos at their invitation. Here in one of the oldest communities in all of North America, just four miles away from Cape Spear, I am in awe of this traditional way of life. Ron is 63 and it’s clear the northeastern Atlantic winds have shaped every line in his face. Pete is 49, sporting a caterpillar mustache and prescription sunglasses. A cigarette hangs out of his mouth and he laughs easily. “The Ontario supermarkets don’t sell them fresh like this, b’y,” Ron says with a laugh. Life in the fisheries on our east coast is still a genuine way of life, socially and economically, albeit for less people. They haven’t forgotten how to survive in their traditional ways. What about us, here in rural Ontario? How many of us in Kawartha Lakes still have the skill or inclination to grow a vegetable garden? How many of us still have the social memory, passed down generation after generation, to learn how to preserve food over the long winters? For Ron and Pete in Petty Harbour it was corporations that nearly put them under. Great multinational fish companies, working every day of the year, dragging unforgiving nets through the ocean and enveloping every living creature along with it. Corporations play a role here, too, in a different way. They have taught us that our food comes from Aisle 3 or 7 and that our vast supply chains, connected by millions of trucks, will bring it conveniently to us. While that is reality for the vast majority of us, it’s great to see more community gardens here. Perhaps our inclination to be more in touch with our roots, literally, will manifest again for more of us. Perhaps one day we will slow down once again and remember how food is created. The last basket of cod is off the boat now and I suggest to Ron and Pete it must be great to know the food they’re eating was just caught that morning. Pete nods vigorously and drags hard on his cigarette. “It’s the only thing safe to eat as far I’m concerned — what we can catch out there,” he says, nodding into the deep Atlantic. “I eat this cod every day of my God-damned life. Had it yesterday for lunch and dinner and I’ll do the same today.”

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Contaminated brownfields:

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We have all driven or walked past them -- the empty lots, both big and small, that have sat undeveloped and seemingly abandoned or forgotten, in some cases for decades. Whether it’s a former gas station on the city’s busiest street, the site of a former brake pad factory or a long empty First World War munitions plant cum rubber processor, these sites, referred to commonly as ‘brownfields’, lie dormant; they are victims of an earlier time. We used to do things a lot differently in the past. Be it from a leaky gas station tank or the unsafe handling and disposal of chemicals used in manufacturing, we have been left with a sobering, expensive – and ugly – brownfields legacy. It is estimated that there are over 30,000 brownfield sites in Canadians cities and there are several throughout the City of Kawartha Lakes. A Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) registry lists 28 properties throughout the city where owners started the process of environmental inspection for possible development since 2004. Some of these sites have since

been redeveloped but this number does not include known ‘legacy brownfields’ where development has never been proposed. But beyond the devil’s brew of chemicals and petrochemicals that may lurk unseen in the ground below these sites there lies something equally as hard to see for some: opportunity. The Canadian Real Estate Association sums up the opportunity nicely: “Well-located brownfield sites often have a lot of development potential. Besides being closer to the city core than any new development could possibly be, these sites are usually already served by infrastructure such as utilities and roads – saving the need to build these from scratch. In fact, it’s estimated that every brownfield redevelopment saves an area four-and-a-half times larger from being developed in an outlying region.” Successful brownfield remediation requires several components: public policy coordination, a stringent environmental process and of course, money. Brownfields are mentioned in seven different sections in the City of Kawartha Lakes Official Plan (many of

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which is under appeal at the Land Planning Appeal Tribunal.) They are also mentioned in the City’s new Community Improvement Plan (CIP). “The City is committed to providing leadership and working with developers and entrepreneurs to find new opportunities and partnerships in addressing the redevelopment of brownfields. In order to ensure that there will be no adverse effects from any proposed development, prior to development occurring on known or potentially contaminated sites, environmental site assessments and remediation of contaminated lands are required by the Province through the Environmental Protection Act and its regulations, and other legislation,” says Leah Barrie, policy planning supervisor at the City of Kawartha Lakes. It may sound like bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, but having a CIP in place is important: As Barrie explains, it allows “for the provision of municipal tax assistance under the Municipal Act within a CIP framework. Now that the CIP is in place, Council can choose to activate a tax assistance program at its discretion. Such programs are used to stimulate the cleanup of contaminated properties by offsetting the costs of remediation through the freezing or cancellation of the municipal portion of property taxes and, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, the provincial portion of property taxes may be included.” Bill Leedham is a licensed geo-scientist and the president and founder of Down 2 Earth Environmental Services. The former Fleming student is a MERP-registered ‘Qualified Person’ who also trains and mentors the next generation of geo-scientists. As Leedham explains, the environmental process of remediating a brownfield can be a long, arduous and expensive process. There are two phases in the environmental assessment process required to remediate land for reuse. Phase 1 is a ‘desktop’ review: the site is visually examined, the historical records studied and knowledgeable people on the site interviewed. A Phase 2 assessment can involve drilling bore holes, test wells, the installation of monitoring wells to investigate groundwater and the analysis of soil and water samples against published standards. And this is all before a cleanup of the site can even start -- a process that might involve removal of contaminated material or clean-up onsite. When there is no contamination found, the process can take several months. “That’s kind of rare. Where there is contamination, the process of remediation can take anywhere from two to five years, even up to 10 years,” says Leedham. CONT’D ON PAGE 10

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Mark Wilson is owner of MVW Construction that developed and owns the Railway Lands in Lindsay -- a great local example of successful brownfield remediation on the site of the old Lindsay railway yards. Wilson estimates that it took ‘about a year’ to go from the required environmental studies to filing a record of site condition. But even the most arduous studies won’t always prepare a developer for what lies ahead when shovels go into the ground.

Mark Wilson is owner of MVW Construction that developed and owns the Railway Lands in Lindsay -- a great local example of successful brownfield remediation. “The difficulty with site remediation costs is that they are difficult to determine. Although detailed studies are required to determine the type and level of contamination, you really don’t know what you are going to get into until you are doing the work,” say Wilson. In the Greater Toronto Area, the incredible land values can be an economic driver and justify the remediation. But as Leedham explains, this process can “run into the millions of dollars.” “The cost is a real impediment to brownfield remediation outside the GTA because there would be no return on investment for the developer.” And there’s the rub for municipalities like ours: We have prime sites on serviced land within town borders but

in many cases the economics just don’t work out for redevelopment. The risk and expense of remediation can make a project unfeasible. Literally digging into the past -- a past bereft of the environmental regulations we have today -- is just downright expensive and risky.The City may now be able to help a developer through tax relief but that support will often not be enough to make redevelopment possible. And while the City might be officially committed to ‘providing leadership” that leadership just does not include money. There are currently no line items in the city budget to help developers with remediation or to account for future tax relief. There is funding available through The Federation of Canadian Municipalities for brownfield remediation through their Green Municipal Fund. In the recent past there was a provincial Brownfield Remediation Fund under the Dalton McGuinty Liberal government, but that funding was cancelled under the Kathleen Wynne Liberal government. Mike Schreiner, MPP for Guelph and the leader of the Ontario Green Party, thinks that fund should be reinstated. Schreiner was the only party leader that advocated for brownfield remediation to be a part of the most recent provincial budget. Schreiner sees brownfield remediation as a way to solve two problems: the sites themselves and the affordable housing crisis, stating “redeveloping brownfield sites would allow us to address the housing crisis without paving over our food security and drinking water” His argument is a persuasive one that appeals to people across the political spectrum. Rather than expand outward and pave farmland for future growth, we should be developing properties that are often on prime, municipally serviced land within the established boundaries of our towns. There are strong economic reasons for taking this approach. When a brownfield is remediated, the site goes from a dormant eyesore to something perpetually earning tax revenue. That improvement gets reflected in higher property values for neighbouring properties and the resultant tax in increases that brings. As Schreiner told The Advocate, “I would like to see the province reinstitute that [brownfield remediation] fund. It would eventually pay for itself. It will ultimately provide positive fiscal returns to the province and the municipality.” Beyond the possible positive economic benefits of remediation, getting rid of brownfields makes for

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PHOTO: ERIN SMITH Coping with the death of a loved one can be stressful. Emotions are strained and judgment can be clouded. Sparing survivors the discomfort of making decisions is probably the best reason for pre-need planning, but not the only one. There are strong economic reasons also. Pre-paying, as well as pre-need planning, can result in substantial savings. People will prepay for their plots, make funeral arrangements and more. But often a monument is overlooked, and survivors are left with the task of deciding on its design and more importantly what it says. Monuments are a personal thing. After all they are an eternal remembrance of the deceased. Making this purchase ahead of time allows you to think about what you want it to convey to future generations. Sanderson Monument can guide you through this process.

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Seniors step up when it comes to community involvement

While the best outcome for any community is to have the perfect balance of younger, middle-aged, and older folks, there’s no denying how important the senior demographic has become to the Kawartha Lakes area. In fact, according to the 2016 census data more than 34 per cent of our City’s population is over the age of 60, much greater than the provincial median. Rebecca Mustard is manager of economic development for the City. She says seniors “are incredibly important to communities.” “From an economic standpoint, they contribute in many ways including purchasing goods and services from the community,” Mustard says.

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Of course, it’s not all about buying power. According to the Action for Seniors Report from the Government of Canada in 2014, 80 per cent of seniors participate frequently (at least monthly) in at least one social activity, 36 per cent perform volunteer work, while 13 percent participate in the work force. That volunteer aspect is critical, given how much our society relies on the charitable giving of time by others. Service clubs, for example, have always been important to communities. Simon Wickens is president of the Omemee and District Lions Club, which has been around since 1957. He says half the club members are 70 and older – something that comes with both positives and negatives. CONT’D ON PAGE 18

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“It’s great, because they’re willing to put in the time (on club initiatives), but “physically they can’t do as much,” Wickens says. “The majority of people who get involved are seniors, in both the Lions Club and the Legion,” he says of the experience in Omemee. Wickens points out that they have managed to recruit some young people but others are put off by the time commitment because they’re raising families and working hard, “but they’re not necessarily well paid,” he points out. Today’s economy is nothing like it was decades ago and many working age people now have to work harder than ever just to make ends meet, Wickens points out. “It’s important we get new members though, to do the good work in the community that we do.”

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According to the Action for Seniors Report, a large percentage of seniors want to be active and engaged in their community, and it does often come through volunteering. Thirty-six percent of seniors perform volunteer work, with volunteers over 65 contributing about 223 hours a year, compared to the national average of 156 hours. In fact, in 2012, baby boomers and senior adults contributed more than one billion volunteer hours. Mustard says that meeting the unique needs of seniors was identified as an “economic opportunity” for Kawartha Lakes communities. “The Age-Friendly Business Guide and Planning Tool is a great tool created recently to help businesses think about how to serve their older customers well,” she says. “Having said that, it’s not just seniors that benefit from businesses who create welcoming and accessible spaces. People with disabilities, parents with children in strollers and others with limitations all appreciate the ability to access stores easily.” In the City of Kawartha Lakes’ Age Age-Friendly Project Assessment by the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit, older adults living in CKL consider their respective communities as wonderful places to live. “CKL villages were also described as very tight-knit communities. When asked to elaborate, residents quickly pointed to good friends, neighbours, seniors clubs, churches, and plenty of social activities geared toward older adults. With so many long-time residents of CKL responding to our survey, many said they enjoyed the familiarity of their community. Where services are available, they are generally easy to find, according to participants.” The report also pointed out how socially active older people were in the City. “Older people sit on local committees, enjoy regular leisure and recreational activities and participate in numerous social and political events.” That wouldn’t surprise Simon Wickens of the Lions Club. “The club wouldn’t be much of anything without the participation of our seniors.”

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The dry stone wall experience in Kawartha Lakes MARGARET CUNNINGHAM

If dry stone walls could tell stories, they would have In the 1870s, George Laidlaw, owner of 4,000 acres on many to share. the shores of Balsam Lake, brought over stone masons Since the 1600s, these wisely built dry stone walls have from Scotland to construct the walls to fence in his been a major feature of the rural British Isles landscape. Highland cattle and sheep and define the borders of Protecting their herds, cattlemen cleared the land stones his property. The raw material, mostly limestone and for better grazing and crop growing. The stones were granite left by the receding of glaciers was sourced piled up around the property boundaries to contain the locally and moved about with horse-drawn stone boats. livestock. Their wall building involved no cement and was Today Fort Cottage, the family homestead is a living much more than the simple piling of time capsule of the Laidlaw and selected stones in a line. Through a Corby dynasty set on the south feat of amazing engineering with shore of Balsam Lake. the construction assistance of To learn more about the whole teams of professional wall Laidlaw legacy, take part in The builders, a more solid construction Dry Stone Wall Experience and a weighty two-layer design and which includes an introduction functionality endures. to the history and the ‘art’ of Dry stone walls are found around dry stone walls, a story-walk the world and span a variety of along the Balsam Lake Dry civilizations. From Iceland to Norway, Stone Walls and a hands-on from France to Zimbabwe where exploration of Fort Cottage, the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe with original furnishings, tools was predominantly made from dry and household artifacts that stone, from Australia to Peru, where are still in working order – and the Incas built Machu Picchu in dry try out generation old games stone construction, this method of and activities. As part of the construction has withstood the test experience, enjoy instruction, PHOTO: JAMIE MORRIS of time. Multiple uses from bridges, demonstration and practice in barriers to enclosures, dry stone has the art of dry stone wall building been very popular in high winds and with John Shaw Rimmington, John Shaw-Rimmington, who trained with earthquake regions due to the walls’ a master in this ancient art master dry stone masons in Scotland flexibility. When the wind blows and and story-teller, sample local and Yorkshire. the ground shakes, the stones move food exquisitely prepared by inwards towards each other and do not collapse. Quaker Oaks Farm and a traditional sheep herding Closer to home in Kawartha Lakes, a spectacular demonstration on site. example of a Scottish dry stone wall stretches for over a To inquire and book, contact TravelPlus, Lindsay at kilometre along both sides of Balsam Lake Drive. Despite janet.brock@travelplus.ca or call 705-324-9181. need for occasional repair, the wall still stands intact today.

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As the City of Kawartha Lakes defines it, experiential tourism is a form of travel in which the visitor goes beyond the usual mass tourism draws and participates in activities that enable them to experience a place by directly connecting to its history, people and culture. Visitors can learn new skills, participate in local projects, or work with local masters to create their own masterpiece. By engaging with the locals, visitors experience the authentic hands-on dimensions of a place and its people through storytelling, delicious food and sights that turn to memories to last a lifetime.

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Just like the dry stone wall experience (see page 20), another kind of experiential tourism, Carden Alvar, is a unique Kawartha Lakes’ destination. Located northwest of Lindsay, this is a flat limestone landscape called the Carden Plain. On this vast plain are alvars which occur only on limestone bedrock with little or no soil. The many native grasses and wildflowers (as well as invertebrate species) found on alvars are very rare. As the Couchiching Conservancy notes, given it is one of the partners protecting this area, “these habitats are globally imperiled, occurring only in the south of Sweden and scattered around the Great Lakes Basin.” The various kinds of alvar may include cedar trees, juniper shrubs, grasses and forbs, or just open, flat, lichen and mossy rocks, as well as forests and wetlands.They are similar to areas of the Canadian prairies, an ideal habitat for many bird species. Laurie McCarthy, economic development officer – tourism, for the City, says experiential tourism “is a rising trend.” She says more tourists are looking for authentic experiences that connect them to the “history, people, culture, food and environment of the place they are visiting,” such as the Carden Alvar nature photography experience, and others. In this experience participants learn how to “capture the rare birds, wildflowers, and unique landscape of the Carden Alvar and its crucial habitat for the survival of globally rare birds,” according to the City’s website. This is an opportunity for “expert photographic instruction” with award-winning

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photographer Arni Stinnissen. Aspiring photographers will hone their photography skills through formal instruction and one-on-one direction in the field. “Experiential tourism is key to the sustainable growth of the tourism sector here in Kawartha Lakes,” McCarthy tells the Advocate. She notes that building opportunities for visitors “to create meaning through direct experience” strengthens and connects our communities and increases the economic impact of tourism spending. “The continued development of experiential offerings allows us to introduce visitors to the stories and hidden gems in Kawartha Lakes that they may otherwise never experience.”

“Experiential tourism is key to the sustainable growth of the tourism sector here in Kawartha Lakes”. In the case of simply visiting Carden Alvar Plain, without a guided activity, public access is available via two hiking trails along the bordering fence lines. There is parking and washroom facilities at the trail head but hikers are asked to stay on the marked trails for the good of the area. Carden Alvar is a part of the Kawartha Lakes Arts & Heritage Trail, which was formally launched in 2017 to enhance visitor awareness of the rich heritage and wide variety of museums, historic sites, artist’s studios, and galleries located in Kawartha Lakes. To access locations and information about Arts & Heritage Trail locations go to artsandheritagetrail.com or explorekawarthalakes.com. For more information contact the Economic Development Officer of Arts, Culture and Heritage at EconomicDevelopment@kawarthalakes.ca or 1-888-822-2225.

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Snapping turtles have been around millions of years and are believed to survive 70-100 years in the wild, taking 10-20 years to reach maturity. They can survive weeks without food, and bleed very slowly due to their slow metabolism. The female can hang onto sperm for several seasons and the sex of the hatchlings is determined by the incubation temperature of the eggs. Snapping turtles are a species at risk and are a common sight during nesting time on roads in City of Kawartha Lakes. Many are unfortunately killed.

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Bee City Kawartha Lakes celebrates pollinator week SUSAN BLAYNEY

Pollinator Week, June 17-23, is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what we are doing to protect them. Twelve years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week”marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. We Canadians have adopted this practice and Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles.

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Kawartha Lakes became the seventh Bee City in Canada. That is when the Bee City Resolution was passed by Council committing our municipality to create and conserve habitat to support native pollinators. The Pollinator Action Committee was formed as a subgroup of the Environmental Advisory Committee. Over the last two years 10 very dedicated community volunteers have been working to build partnerships, provide education to our residents and to annually celebrate the contribution these beneficial insects make to all living

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things. Our Bee City, now one of 23 across Canada, includes 1 Bee School -- Langton Public, a Bee Campus -- Fleming College and a Bee Business -- Settlers Village in Bobcaygeon. The Pollinator Action Committee has created partnerships with KL Waste Management to create a habitat at the Fenelon Landfill, with Kawartha Conservation to plant pollinator patches at Windy Ridge Conservation Area, with Fleming College to plant native plants in their greenhouse for planting in the Lindsay Parks and also with the new Ed Binney Community Garden to make sure native pollinators are invited in. The key messages PAC is trumpeting are: plant native plants in our gardens and open spaces, reduce lawn size and eliminate pesticide use as much as possible. Native pollinators have evolved to pollinate native plants. Growing them will increase biodiversity in the environment. If you are already doing this on your property, get on the map. We have a mapping project to track pollinator habitat. Register your garden, big or small on the Pollinator Pathway by going to our web page: kawarthalakes.ca/beecity. We now have 57 gardens on our Google map along with many public spaces in our communities such as parks, community gardens and schools. Celebrating our accomp-lishments is an important aspect of ‘bee’ing a Bee City. To this end we are kicking off Pollinator Week with an official ceremony in Lindsay Memorial Park on June 17 at 12:30 pm. We have invited Mayor Andy Letham to officially open the Bee City Logo garden and we will present a printed copy of our Pollinator Pathway map to the City. There will be students from St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School celebrating their pollinator garden and music provided by Shannon Rozzell. We are also inviting everyone to take our self-guided Pollinator Pathway Garden Tour on June 22 from 10 am to 4 pm. This will be a great opportunity to see what a pollinator garden looks like and how to grow one. It will feature 12 properties and seven public spaces stretching over our City. It is free.You only need to sign up and get your map at the nearest Municipal Service Centre. To get your tour map you only need to go to your nearest Municipal Service Center or register online on our web page at kawarthalakes.ca/beecity

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3 OUTDOOR SPORTS Tennis nets are up at the public courts. Wilson Field courts have line markings for outdoor pickleball (apparently the fastest growing sport in North America). Optimist soccer for kids ages 5 to 16 kicked off in early May and runs to late-ish June at Wilson and Optimist fields.

4 SOME SATURDAY SPECIAL EVENTS June 8: Unlock the Summer at Lock 32 in Bobcaygeon from 11 am to 11 pm. Includes a band and a showing of the movie Moana. June 22: Kawartha Lakes Pollinator Pathway Garden Tour from 10 am to 4 pm. June 29: Summerama Quarter Horse Show at the Lindsay Exhibition Fairgrounds from 8 am to 8 pm.

5 REGISTERING KIDS FOR SUMMER PROGRAMS Registration is underway for the Kawartha Lakes Summer Day Camp. There are eight weeks of camps for children aged four through 12. Lots of options: Little Explorers for children aged four and five; Junior Explorers; Sports Camp; and specialty camps (Aquatic Stew, Swim Lesson Camp, Junior Lifeguard Camp, and Golf and Hockey Camp).

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better communities. Remediation “increases the liveability and vibrancy of our communities,” adds Schreiner Leedham, for one, agrees with Schreiner. Leedham sees brownfield remediation as an exercise in community building stating, “It is an investmen in our community. It is an investment in our overall environmental health.” To be sure, the idea of giving private developers public money is going to rankle people across the political divide. People on the left might decry the government helping developers. Some on the right might balk at the up-front costs that some of this remediation requires. Leedham describes helping developers with the costs of remediation as a win-win, saying “we all benefit when it is done properly. Communities that have done it well (like Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Kingston) have realized the overall benefit to their community. It’s not just the cost, it’s the benefit.” As for possible future brownfield sites, we can take some consolation that overall, we do things a little better than in the past. Unlike over 100 years ago at the munitions factory or later commercial manufacturing, we now have regulations and mechanisms in place. Leedham adds that we also have comprehensive source water protection plans and the province can issue regulatory clean-up orders. Still though Leedham thinks we should be doing more to prevent future brownfield sites, citing that “pollution prevention is a lot cheaper than cleanup. Spill prevention is cheaper than spill clean-up. Every $1 spent on prevention can prevent $10 or a $100 or even a $1,000 dollars in clean-up down the road.” It’s a matter of convincing governments that pollution prevention is cheaper in the long run according to Leeham, who advocates for more public awareness on this issue. He also thinks that current industrial owners should be incentivized to improve their prevention plans for the betterment of us all. “We have to learn from our mistakes in the past and clean” those legacy sites up declares Leeham. Failing to do so is tantamount to burdening a future generation with a problem that we have the ability to solve. We already have the technology and the social benefits can be transformative to our communities. All we need is the political will to invest in our future by incentivizing developers to transform old problems into new solutions.

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FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS

Tall order:

}} A Place Called Home’s Dave Tilley always on lookout for shelter funding

“Stay where you’re to ‘till I comes to where you’re at.” That’s what I told Dave Tilley, A Place Called Home’s manager of fund development and operations when I dropped in to meet with him. It’s a Maritime expression he’s familiar with: after all, he grew up in Conception Bay South, met his wife when both were students at Memorial University, and each summer delivers their two kids to Newfoundland to spend summer vacation with the grandparents. He’s been steeped in Newfoundlandese. Dave has a diverse set of responsibilities. When I dropped in, he could have been in any of a number of locations. That morning’s checklist included everything from a health and safety meeting and looking into a used truck purchase to installation of some paper towel dispensers. When the front desk located him, he ‘stayed where he was to.’ I came ‘to where he was at,’ down a flight of stairs and along a corridor, to what looked like an oversized broom closet, into which were crammed a desk and Dave (who’s 6’ 5”). Dave, who’d been preparing a grant application for additional outreach program funding, greeted me with a grin and a firm handshake and led me to a larger meeting room. I identified three areas I was curious about: his role, how his Newfoundland background played into that, and -- since registration has already opened and it’s APCH’s biggest fundraiser -- the August 24 Kawartha Classic Cycling Tour. (That last word, by the way, is pronounced “too-er” if you’re me; “tore” if you’re Dave).

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adults, couples and families who have found themselves with no safe place to go at the end of their day. A vital service, particularly given the local shortage of affordable housing: In January the occupancy rate was 94%; the month before it was 103%. And it’s a staffintensive service: there are 21 staff, nine of them full time. “We are,” says Dave, “in the people business.” Dave’s role is supportive: he makes sure the facility is maintained, and that clients have what any home has to have, including a kitchen that turns out three meals a day, and laundry facilities. The other part of his job is ensuring adequate funding. Roughly 70% of the operating budget comes indirectly from the province (the City acts as “Service Manager” for housing and homelessness). The balance the agency must generate.

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A Place Called Home is, of course -- as its website explains -- a “charitable, non-profit organization that has been providing shelter and 24/7 support services to the homeless — and those at risk of becoming homeless — since 1995.” It operates a 19-bed shelter for youth,

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Grants are part of the life-blood. In December, for example, CHEST Fund money enabled major renovation of the emergency kitchen (which serves not only 19 residents but up to 20 outreach clients daily). The biggest capital project -- and what Dave terms “his baby”-- came with the purchase of the property next door. A grant of $203,257 from Federal Homeless Partnering Strategy money made the purchase possible. With grants from the Home Depot Foundation, CHEST fund and elsewhere, the building is being gutted and renovated, under Dave’s direction, to provide some badlyneeded “second-stage housing.” Then there are the fundraising events. The Cycling Tour each year raises $35,000 to $40,000. There’s also the annual “Mark-a-thon,” a 5 and 10 km walk that raises about $10,000.

A Newfoundland Perspective

Another fundraiser, and one that puts Dave’s background front and centre, is the biennial Newfoundland Night. Last year’s included a traditional Jigg’s dinner, screech, and fiddle music. But where the Newfoundlander perspective shines through most might be in his empathy. Coming from a province that’s seen its share of hardships, he understands that anyone can be down on their luck -- that an illness, loss of a job, other unforeseen circumstances can render anyone homeless, particularly if there aren’t family supports. As a Newfoundlander he appreciates the way our community supports the shelter. (He mentions how mayor and council have stepped up (Councillors Pat Dunn and Doug Elmslie, in particular), the hard work of Hope Lee, the City’s Manager of Housing, and the response whenever a call goes out to the community. He’s impressed, too by the “help-your-neighbour” attitude of the clients. “All have struggled here and people support one another,” he says.

The Kawartha Classic Cycling Tour

For APCH, it’s a significant fundraiser. For our community, it’s a boon to the economy. Roughly 60% of the riders are (in Maritime parlance) come-from-aways. They stay in local hotels, eat in local restaurants. For you, reader, it’s an opportunity. Dave explains: “This is a chance to experience the Kawarthas very intimately.” There are quiet backroad routes from 25 to 160 km, mapped out by Kawartha Cycling Club’s Dermott Doyle, regular rest-stops (with, for energy, cookies contributed by an Amish bakery), and support for any rider who runs into difficulty. This year there’s been a big effort to make the event more family-friendly. There’s a special family rate and 13 and 25 km local trail routes. Dave’s quick to credit the Kawartha Cycling Club. “They’re the reason the event is the success it is,” he says. But it’s also been a source of to-do items for Dave. Currently he’s developing a press release, mailing posters to regional cycle clubs, designing a card for tourism venues, and looking for additional sponsors. So, our interview drawing to a close, Dave could cross off ‘interview’ from his list, and move on. As we part we wished each other well. In Newfoundlandese? That would be “Long may yer big jib draw!”

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JUST IN TIME

Cherry Tree Lodge:

}} A Special Place at Sturgeon Point Last month, members of the City of Kawartha Lakes’ Economic Development Department, senior City staff, and a City councillor paid a visit to Cherry Tree Lodge, a diminutive nineteenth century cottage located at 19 Third Street in Sturgeon Point. A few years prior, the Honourable Maryam Monsef, MP, paid a visit to the Olde Gaol Museum in Lindsay, where she spent some time admiring the beautiful paintings and drawings credited to the builder of Cherry Tree Lodge, William Alfred Goodwin (1840-1940). Why has this tiny cottage and the unassuming artist who built it captured the attention of people over the past five years? It may be that both W.A. Goodwin’s art and his summer home speak to the experience[s] of so many residents and visitors alike, who have flocked to this region for over 125 years to enjoy the many recreational opportunities afforded by the surrounding lakes and forests. Whether it be boating, camping, cottaging, fishing, or hunting, the activities Goodwin documented in his art continue to be a major part of the local, tourismdriven economy. Paintings like “Bald Lake, Looking Towards Bobcaygeon” and “Our Camp On Crab River” – not to mention reams of drawings depicting rustic campsites throughout Victoria and Haliburton Counties – speak not only to Goodwin’s talent as an amateur artist, but also to the importance he placed on how we use, and engage with, the land around us. It is unlikely that the English-born Goodwin received anything in the way of formal artistic training as a young man. He was, first and foremost, a painter and decorator; his Lindsay-based art store and framing shop a forerunner of businesses like Scott’s Decorating and Galaxy Picture Frames. Enchanted by the Kawartha Lakes region from the time he first arrived around 1860, Goodwin would remain a lifelong advocate for the

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health benefits of the great outdoors. For him, a healthy and active lifestyle was the answer to recovering from serious health problems he encountered while in his twenties. “I have refused any medical treatment for a contagious cold,” he wrote in 1927, “the best remedy I have for [the] same is to fast 2 or 3 days and drink water, [and eat] plain fruit…with no meat or eggs. At 87 people are surprised to see me at the work bench framing pictures. 6 or 7 a day is no load for me – ‘Health for all is the best for all.’” This focus on the restorative benefits of nature led Goodwin, as well as plenty of other citizens, to Sturgeon Point, which was quickly gaining a reputation as “Lindsay’s Summer Playground.” By the mid-1880s, land was acquired by the Goodwin family on which Cherry Tree Lodge would be built in 1887. According to Jane Still, Goodwin’s greatgranddaughter, the cottage was built to resemble the large tents in which he and his extended family and friends enjoyed so many camping trips in the years prior to its construction. (Ironically, Goodwin himself never owned the lot on which the cottage is situated; the deed of land was passed down through the female members of his extended family.)

This focus on the restorative benefits of nature led Goodwin, as well as plenty of other citizens, to Sturgeon Point, which was quickly gaining a reputation as “Lindsay’s Summer Playground.” For almost half a century thereafter, Cherry Tree Lodge became W.A. Goodwin’s summer retreat. Many cottagers, says Julia Harrison, a professor emeritus from Trent University who has studied Ontario’s cottage experience,

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see their cottage as their “spiritual home,” perhaps more so than their yearround residence. For W.A. Goodwin, the cottage was indeed a sacred space, one immune from the artificiality of modern living. “All to bed before Nine o’clock, up at 5.30 well refreshed and ready for ‘more of the same Sort,’ Goodwin wrote in 1910. “The peacefulness of the woods and the music of the birds surpasses the artificial pleasures of the town, ten times over.” Starting in 1909 and continuing for almost 30 years, Goodwin recorded the day-to-day milieu of cottage life in his Cherry Tree Lodge Journal. No detail escaped his attention, from the annual Sturgeon Point sailing regatta to what the family ate for supper. Countless card games, croquet games, canoe rides, and hikes through the woods are documented – not to mention quiet time he spent in front of a canvas or sketchpad. For many years, a group of Lindsay young people calling themselves the “Wingtie Golly-Gosh Go-Longay Club” flocked to Cherry Tree Lodge for masquerade parties and square dances. It was truly the place to be during the summer nights of long ago.

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W.A. Goodwin returned to Cherry Tree Lodge every summer well into his nineties. “It is a great pleasure to me…and my daughter[s] May and Tillie to visit this old playground of Sturgeon Point,” he wrote in 1937. “We hope to set good examples of living and to help make others appreciate the same.” Less than three years later he was dead, a few months short of his one hundredth birthday. In 2015, Goodwin’s great-granddaughter sold Cherry Tree Lodge to Meri Newton and Sherry McNaulty, of Toronto. It is now a treasured part of the Kawartha Lakes Arts & Heritage Trail, welcoming visitors and inspiring artists in the tradition of its builder. “When we purchased Cherry Tree Lodge, we fell in love with it far before we even went inside,” says Newton. “I am positive WA. Goodwin hammered love into each nail.”

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TREVOR’S TAKE

TREVOR HUTCHINSON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Problems are solved by ideas, not memes

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield once quipped “The way my luck is going, if I were a politician I would be honest.” Dangerfield was following a long tradition of commentators using humour or satire or even political theatre to challenge the ruling class, a tradition that goes back past Plato, who said “one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” We are supposed to doubt, challenge and question our politicians. It’s part of our democratic DNA, every bit as essential as a vibrant free press and open access to the information that the state uses to rule us. We are often wise to be cynical of the powers that be. But cynicism is only healthy if it is balanced with facts, with passion, with an understanding of the nuances of policy. Being against something is fine. But we excel when we are for something. The current provincial government sometimes refers to its mandate to justify sweeping cuts and changes -- ideas that were never articulated in any election platform. Enough of us were so against the Wynne government that we voted for a party with no published economic policy. For a government to claim a clear mandate for sweeping unarticulated policies because only 3.3 million people voted against the 3 million who voted for the current government is pure hubris. My cat could have defeated Wynne at the ballot box in our first-past-the-post system. And my cat is an idiot. With a federal election looming in the fall, we face the prospect of history repeating itself. The Conservatives under Andrew Scheer have yet to announce a climate change plan.Their economic plan remains equally shrouded in mystery. Open town halls -- that all the other leaders of all the parties do -- are eschewed in place of stage-managed partisan theatre. A good friend of mine is a hardcore, small ‘c’ conservative. He is excited for the coming fall election because he will vote for the People’s Party of Canada. We often don’t agree on certain things, but we do agree that facts are important. I respect the fact that he wants to support a party that has transparent policies that he believes in. Not some branding exercise backed up with a meme. Because here’s the thing: no meme, riffing on the public’s dislike of someone, is going to solve any of our problems. What solves problems are ideas, backed up by facts, shaped into policy. It’s not sexy and rarely easy. But the Scheer memes, and those of his proxies, will continue this summer in an organized assault on our political intelligence. Hopefully some of us will miss them because we are too busy reading.

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