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by Cathy Raina Well, do not plan on being anywhere else but in the audience from May 10 to 13 at The Urbandale Arts Centre at the Municipal Centre in Kemptville. This drama by J.B Priestly is a classic play of our time - suspenseful, rivetting, and important. The play, written in 1945, was first performed in the Soviet Union and then in England in 1946. It showcases Priestley's socialist beliefs as it reveals the hypocrisy of Edwardian England. It is essen-

tially a critique of the morality and entitlement of the upper classes, of their superior and careless attitude toward the working class, and of male sexual exploitation. When a mysterious inspector knocks on the door of a middle- to upper-class home in England in 1912, the wealthy Birling family is thrown into chaos.

The inspector announces that a young girl has just committed suicide and he has come to question each family member.

The family’s attitude is contemptuous and self-righteous

for they don't know this girl… or do they? The inspector quietly and methodically destroys the family's complacency and cuts to the moral core of each of its members.

The family’s initial reaction of disbelief and accusations of others soon turns to fear and self-reproach. The tension rises and rises as the play is pushed toward its surprising and shocking ending.

Do not miss this play. The direction and ensemble acting are both impressive and do great justice to this wonder-

ful work of art. Play dates are May 10 - 13 at The Urbandale Arts Centre in Kemptville.

Curtain is at 7:30 pm for Thursday and Friday. Dinner theatre is at 6 pm on Saturday, but tickets are also available for just the show. On Sunday, the matinee is at 2:00 pm.

Tickets are $15.00 regular and $45.00 for the dinner theatre and are available at B&H Grocers, Business Strategies, the Municipal Centre, and at the door. Online tickets at www.kemptvilleplayers.ca.

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A great event put on by the dedicated and seasoned volunteers on CLNG’s Events Committee, and with the help of Anne Kotlarchuk

That’s a wrap! Community Living’s 8th Annual Comedy Night and Auction went off without a hitch!

Such a great turn out! David Merry, a comedian magician, who also headlined the organization’s very first comedy night in 2011, entertained the more than 200 people in attendance at the North Grenville Municipal Centre last Saturday, April 21. Again, an absolutely hilarious show that kept the audience laughing!

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Thank you goes to the Title Sponsor: Scotiabank, for matching ticket sales; Gold Sponsor: Jansen Law; and Bronze Sponsors: ARH & Associates, Tallman Truck Centre, and WGP Professional Corp.

A special thank you to the many supporters and live and silent auction donors, that without the generosity of these businesses wouldn’t have made this event possible; Freedom 55 Financial, Howell Electric, Lockwood Brothers, Macton Electrical Construction, Norcon, Patterson Hadden & Brown, Randy’s Performance Auto, Rideau Auction, RONA/ KBC, Thomas Byrne Lawyer, Abbott Road Suites, Anytime Fitness, Aphrodite Escape Spa, Array Hair Studio, Atel Air, ATOR Properties, Beking Egg Farm, Brigadoon Restaurant, Canadian Tire, CIBC, Curl Up & Dye Salon, Dr. Eamon Optometrist, Drummond’s Gas Station, eQuinelle Golf Club, Georgia Carpet, Get Cronk'd, Giant Tiger Kemptville, GNC Kemptville, Goose & Gridiron, Grahame’s Bakery, Grenville Mutual Insurance, HardStones Restaurant, Heavenly Hands Studio,

Home & Beyond, Jac’s Boutique, The Flower Shop— Kemptville, Kemptville Live, Kemptville Suites, Krown Kemptville, KW & K, Ladybug Baking, Laurier Optical, Lilly Bare, Linda Legree, Log House Cookies, Molson Coors, Mrs. McGarrigle’s, No Go Coffee, Pelee Island Winery, Pioneer Nursery, Rekman’s Automotive, Rideauview Construction, Rideau Roastery, Robin Blanchette, Royal Lepage-Anita Maloney, Saltastic, Sauve Heating Ltd., Shepherd’s Fashion, Sugold Jewellers, Tanda Shoes, Terrace Green Bed & Breakfast, The Heat Source, The Score, The Workshop Dance Studio, Tim Horton’s Kemptville, Tupperware by Julie, Yazdani Family Dentistry, and the Yellow Canoe Café.

Many thanks to the people and members of the community that supported the event.

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The KDH Auxiliary have started selling raffle tickets for the annual 50/50 Draw, which will be drawn on June 9, at 1 pm. Tickets are $2 each, or three for $5. Last year's winner of the 50/50 re-

by David Shanahan Yes, it’s that time of year again, and, for the 58th amazing time, the Kemptville District Hospital Auxiliary will be putting on Hey Day Giant Garage and Yard Sale at the North Grenville Curling Club. On Friday, June 8, from 6.30 to 9.30 pm, and on Saturday, June 9, 2

ceived almost $3,000. You’ll find the Auxiliary volunteers happy to sell you as many tickets as you like, at one of the tables being set up over the coming weeks at the three grocery stores in Kemptville.

Jolene Stover, Hey Day Coordinator for the Auxiliary, points out that: “Hey Day is the largest indoor garage sale in the region and the Auxiliaries largest fund raiser. All

of the money we raise at Hey Day goes directly to purchasing equipment for the hospital, specifically equipment that will enhance the patient experience. For example, previous purchases have been patient lifts, defibrillator & monitor, medical recliners as well as TV's and cable for the rooms”.

As Jolene says, “We are an extremely lucky community to have such an incredible facility accessible to our families. We need to continue to support the many fund raising efforts that go on throughout the year. There is no government funding available to the hospital to purchase what it needs to care for the patients”.

Admission to Hey Day is free to all. If you would like to donate, or volunteer, contact Jolene at 613.558.1761, or e-mail to jolene@swti.ca.

Jolene is looking for volunteers for all aspects of the event: “We need volunteers for the set up, tear down and everything between”.

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Kemptville resident publishes first book of poetry

by Hilary Thomson A newcomer to Kemptville has published her first book of poems and is donating the proceeds to the Ottawa Heart Institute Founda-

tion. Jagjeet Sharma is a local writer and journalist. She graduated from Carleton’s School of Journalism in 1979, and has had a lengthy career as a freelance journalist, both in Canada and overseas in Singapore and India. In 2000,

Donate for Dustin

by David Shanahan The next blood donor clinic in Kemptville is taking place on Monday, May 7, at the North Grenville Municipal Centre. This is a special event, as it marks Dustin Littau’s birthday and

Dustin’s family are asking that their friends and neighbours in North Grenville and surrounding area make a donation in his memory this year.

In April of last year, Dustin was diagnosed with MDS, myelodisplastic syndrome, a type of cancer in

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she started into radio broadcasting, hosting the weekly Asian Sounds radio show on CKCU 93.1 FM, a show she still hosts with her husband, Surinder Sharma.

Jagjeet has written poetry for many years, but it wasn’t until her husband fell ill and needed a heart valve replacement that she decided to publish a book. “I took a leave of absence from work to look after my husband,” Jagjeet says. “I would work on it when he was asleep or at night.”

The process of publishing her poems took months of back and forth with her publisher, Baico Publishing Inc., in Ottawa. The journey began in October, and the book, titled “Nature’s Subtle Seductions”, was launched at City Hall in Ottawa in April.

Several local politicians, including Mayor Jim Watson, were on hand to launch the

book.

In honour of her husband, Jagjeet is donating all the money she makes from the sale of the books to the Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation. At the book launch, she raised $400 and is continuing to sell books, which will hopefully be available soon on Amazon. She and her husband moved out to Kemptville less than a month ago, to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.

Jagjeet’s poems use simple language, but are extremely profound and relatable. The book is separated into five parts and are about everyday happenings in life.

Jagjeet writes about everything from the seasons and nature, to a new baby in the family, to the loss of a loved one. They are inspired by her keen observations made in her life and travels around the world.

which the bone marrow does not make enough healthy blood cells and there are abnormal cells in the blood and/or bone marrow. This meant that Dustin would need a stem cell transplant, and, in May, 2017, he was informed that a potential donor had been found. But when he arrived at the hospital, Dustin was admitted with a virus.

The virus reacted with the MDS and produced a serious disease that required major chemotherapy and blood transfusions.

Dustin fought hard against the disease, and received more than 150 blood transfusions, including 21 received on the day he succumbed to the disease, last

July. Dustin’s wife, Becky, and his parents, Ron and Judy Littau, decided that, in Dustin’s memory, to help build up a stem cell bank for future patients, and to thank the many who donated blood for those 150 transfusions, they would support Canadian Blood Services clinics in North Grenville.

So, on Monday, go to the Municipal Centre any time between 1.30 and 4 pm, or between 5 pm and 7.30 pm, and Donate for Dustin. You can give life to someone as a birthday present to Dustin and his family.

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by martial arts clubs and local dance groups. There was even a draw for a 55” TV from major sponsor Patterson Hadden and Brown at the end of the day.

During the morning part of the event, the place was bursting at the seams, despite the fact that it was being held in one of the arenas at the North Grenville Municipal Centre. The afternoon was a bit more relaxed, but still saw hundreds of people pass through. The Showcase was a major hit, no matter how you chose to measure it. In the words of one passerby, “I didn’t realize there was this much here”.

Great smiles from Lion Club members, Connie Beardshaw, Terry Restoule and Sharon Murray, this past weekend, at a very successful Shop Local Trade Show

by Deron Johnston take in all of the sights and best foot forward to show This year’s version of sounds of the event. There what they were all about and the Shop Local Showcase was a very diverse offering what they could offer. appeared to be another hit, of things to see and do, as There were a number of with both the participants and community organizations live demonstrations throughthe people who showed up to and small businesses put their out the day, including ones May 2, 2018

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A birthday party with style

by David Shanahan The Kemptville Lions Club celebrated sixty years of service in fine style last Saturday night. A full house in, naturally, the Lions Club community room at the North Grenville Municipal Centre, heard about some of the great work the Lions do in our community and abroad, leaving some of us both moved and amazed at how much the Kemptville Lions Club has contributed to their friends and neighbours over the past sixty years. It really is an impressive record of service.

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District Home Support, and Frank Vasillo, CEO of the Kemptville District Hospital, each paid tribute to the Lions for the role they have played, and continue to play, in both organisations. But, this being the Lions Club, time was taken to thank those who support the Lions, too: Jim and Judy Beveridge, of the B&H, for more than can be listed; and the First Christian Reformed Church in Kemptville for providing room for the Lions’ Vision Care Project.

Representatives from Lions Clubs across the province were there to join the celebrations, and to honour the three charter members who were present on the night. Ralph

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Glen Mooney’s presentation was on the role played

by Camp Quality in the lives of young people, and the vital support provided by the Kemptville Lions Club in this work. More will be written about these projects in upcoming issues of the Times, as we help to mark this 60th anniversary year.

Great uplift, great food (courtesy of the New Rideau Restaurant and Chef Pietro), and wonderful company made this birthday party a special and memorable event.

Much more to come from this great group of Lions in the coming decades.

Raina, Sam Gaw and Jack Higgins were there sixty years ago at the very first meeting of the Kemptville Lions Club in 1958.

The presentations by Rob Sentner and Glen Mooney brought home to everyone there the immense contribution the Lions have made outside of North Grenville.

Rob talked about the Vision Care Program, certainly one of the most extraordinary projects any service club has ever taken on. The fact that the equivalent of more than $5 million worth of time, expertise, equipment and eye glasses have been donated since 1998 speaks to the character of the Kemptville

Earlier this month, Ontario’s Local Planning Appeal Support Centre opened its doors to the public for the first time.

The centre’s role is to help people understand and navigate the land use planning and appeal process.

“People know that what gets built in their community affects their quality of life, but they often don’t know how to influence those decisions,” explains board chair, Anna Pace. “The Local Planning Appeal Support Centre can help bridge that gap.”

People with a question about the land use planning process or an appeal can get in touch with the centre using the contact information below. The centre is open from Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 5 pm.

The centre provides service to Ontarians province-wide and has planning expertise in urban, rural and Northern areas.

Chair Anna Pace has held senior roles at Metrolinx, the TTC and the City of Toronto. She is joined by board member, Mark Leach. Mary Lee is the centre’s executive director and Mark Christie is the manager-registrar. More information about Anna Pace and the rest of the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre’s leadership team is on the centre’s website. The centre is an independent agency of the Ontario government, accountable to a board of directors. It was created under the Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017.

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Meet & greet a huge success for Rideau Glen Ladies League anxious to see how she had withstood her intense winter renovation. No one was disappointed! The dear old lady of the 1950’s is spectacular in its new dress of pale grey that makes her look so spacious and bright. As you enter into the pro shop, right away the vast area with the registration counter, welcomes you with pride and dignity. Then, through to the main dining room, you stand in awe, admiring what has been done to adorn this “old lady”. She is beautiful! The spaciousness and new furniture gives her the appearance of inviting

Members of the Executive for the ladies league for 2018. Standing: L. to R. Barb Townson, social director; Linda Thomson, Treasurer; Pam Miller, President; Jean Potvin and Frankie Baird, co-Captains; Kneeling: L. Mary Garrett: Past President; Maureen Fournier, Vice President; Cecile Fortier, Club Reporter; Peggy MacPhail, Tournament Coordinator.

by Cécile Fortier After a hiatus for a long winter that seemed never to end, the ladies of Rideau Glen came out in droves to see their golfing buddies at the Meet & Greet. Whether they have come back from May 2, 2018

Texas, Arizona, Florida, or just around North Grenville, all come to their favourite club to exchange their winter stories and meet new members. It is amazing how, in spite of being miles apart for many months, they still

everyone to come and relax after a game of golf.

Under the new ownership of the Goss family - Anne, John and Daniel, Rideau Glen is ready for a new season of golf. Kudos to you for taking over Rideau Glen and hopefully under your guidance it will prosper and bring joy and good golfing to all who play at this oldest course in North Grenville. This year it will celebrate its 89th birthday!

The ladies were very anxious to register and visit amongst themselves. The hall was full of happy chatter and all are enthused to venture

out for a new season of golf.

On May 1, the ladies should have their first game of a brand new season, weather permitting. Phil Green and his crew have been getting the course ready for all to play. The ladies hope it will be a beautiful, sunny and dry season of fun golf. We have 92 ladies who have registered and there are more to come.

This is great for our club that has to compete with the new and longer courses in the Ottawa Valley. Well done Ladies!

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“All persons live in a state of dignity, share in all elements of living in the community and have the opportunity to participate effectively.”

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Long history of inclusion Founded in 1967 by local citizens and parents to begin the journey towards an inclusive society.

Operating through the governance of a local volunteer board of directors representative of families, self-advocates, and the broader community.

Community Living North Grenville suppor ts individuals with an intellectual disability, and their families, throughout the communities of North Grenville.

Over 12,000 members of Community Living Ontario are affiliated in 117 local Associations.

Funding is always a challenge Primarily funded from the Ministry of Community and Social Services; local fundraising, donations, memberships and volunteers are an important part of ensuring we can provide a variety of supports and services to individuals with an intellectual disability through an individualized planning process.

• Work experience & Employment • School to work transition • Leisure & Recreation • Supported Independent Living • Residential Housing • Out of home respite for both children and adults

Our values We believe in inclusive communities where all people are accepted in all aspects of Community Living. We put living fully in the community into action; supporting the full inclusion of people who are identified as having an intellectual disability in their right to a fully integrated life within North Grenville and beyond.

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Brave New Ontario

by Stephen Hammond Breaking news from the parallel universe.

The March 28 provincial budget has been retracted to make way for a revised and updated budget. The Ontario government is proud of the Ontario debt; but, after all the complaints about the budget and deficit, it was decided to make some new progressive changes.

The provincial government will eliminate the deficit and the entire $312 Billion (+/- $6 Billion) provincial debt in a new 5-point, 5-year plan. The people of Ontario should be pleased with the revised budget, and this will guarantee the continuation of this government’s policy priorities and allow the government to spend a lot more money on important things in the GTA. 1) No more wasteful elections: The premier has been inspired by the wisdom of China’s president Xi. Xi recently sacrificed his own selfish needs and has allowed himself to be declared president for life of China. Large sums of money will be saved by not having to go through any more election cycles. Just think of the trees and ink that will be saved by not having to print all those election signs.

2) Municipalities: From now on, municipalities outside the GTA are on their own. No more provincial transfers. And because the province will always need more revenue, municipalities will also be required to add a 206% provincial surtax to all property taxes. The extra 6% of the 206% surtax will be levied to give some relief to municipal road infrastructure by funding the new $64.8 Billion nuclear powered supersonic road grader that will be used henceforth to grade all rural roads in Ontario. The high speed of the single delta wing supersonic road grader will mean that, barring main-

tenance issues, all the roads will be graded at least once every 5 to 6 years.

3) Implementation of the “HEVYT 1.0” tax system and the new necessities procurement system (NPS): People have complained bitterly about the HST and income taxes. This revised budget will breathe new life into an outdated tax system and reduce complexity. The HST and income tax system will be replaced with the “Harmonized Everything Tax 1.0”. From now on, you will no longer have to calculate taxes on your income or your purchases. Instead, all your income will be remitted to the provincial government.

The government urges Ontarians to see the positive side of this arrangement, as the government will, in return, provide all the necessities of life to the hard working taxpayer-peasants. And, on the bright side, no Ontario resident will ever need to pay an accountant anymore.

The new provincial NPS (Necessities Procurement System) will encompass the basics. Food and healthcare are the top priority. The government of Ontario has negotiated a screaming deal on US Army surplus K-rations and MRE rations that were left over from previous wars. It is calculated that by the time the people of Ontario have used up the initial procurement of surplus rations, there will have been another war that will provide more opportunities for bargains on US Army surplus rations.

For rural areas, planners have come up with an air portable biodegradable and disposable collapsible hospital operating room (CHOR) complete with a scalpel and sharpening stone, 2 aspirin, gauze, bandaids, and mystery ointment. The new provincially designed rural area mental health in a bag (MHIAB) will include some

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All the above provincially decreed necessities of life will be delivered to the public in all the far off rural corners of Ontario outside of the GTA with the efficient and cost effective Hot Air Balloon Delivery Service (HABS). In cooperation with the Federal government, the free hot air in the rafters of the provincial legislature and the house of commons will be harvested to provide the buoyancy for the hot air balloons. It is hoped that weather patterns will cooperate in the timely arrival of the balloons at their intended destinations.

4) Baby Bonds: The provincial government will institute a new program called the Baby Bonds program (BABS). When a new baby is born, the government will transfer a $400,000 portion of the provincial debt into the name of the new baby.

The current birth rate of roughly 150,000 babies per year in Ontario will mean the retirement of $60 Billion of provincial debt per year, virtually wiping out the current provincial debt in 5 years.

5) Money Tree: The Central Bank of Canada can print as much money as it wants to. The Provincial government can’t. So, the Province has come up with a plan to help fund the future needs of the province.

Working covertly with the Experimental Farm and the Forestry Industry, the province has produced what is thought to be the first genetically engineered tree that can grow Canadian Dollars (MTC$). After this first success, the plan is to start a money tree plantation on the soil of Queen’s Park to have the money ready at hand.

by David Shanahan In all of the discussion and publicity surrounding the plans for the old Kemptville College lands, one group are feeling hard done by. The Kemptville College Alumni Association represents graduates of the College, and, over the many decades, the Association has gathered a large collection of memorabilia: photographs, correspondence, and other material detailing the history of the College and those who went to school there.

The collection was stored at the College and, after the University of Guelph withdrew from operating the institution, the memorabilia remained stored in the College under contract with the Alumni Association. A new building is being erected at the Lombardy Fairgrounds to house the collection, and to be the location of future Alumni

gatherings. The Association would like to regain possession of their memorabilia in order to complete plans for the new building.

However, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs [OMAFRA], who have possession of the collection, have not yet returned the material to the Association. According to Alumni Association President, Audrey Baker, and Past President, Ron Burgess, “From March 16, 2018 to the present date, OMAFRA will not respond to our lawyer’s request for a date to be set before April 30, 2018, to release the memorabilia. OMAFRA has now involved the Municipality of North Grenville and forwarded the information and documentation to them without our lawyer’s consent”.

The NG Times contacted the Municipality of North Grenville to see what their attitude will be towards the

Alumni collection, but we received no response before going to print.

There are differing views as to what should be done with the memorabilia. While the Alumni clearly wish to maintain ownership of the collection and store it in the proposed Lombardy building, there are others who believe that it should be kept locally, in North Grenville, where the College was located, and where the collection was originally gathered. Talks had taken place with the North Grenville Historical Society in an effort to keep the collection in the community, but they produced no agreement on the matter. However, until the legal issues between OMAFRA, the Municipality of North Grenville and the Kemptville College Alumni Association is clarified, no decision will be made about the permanent destination of the decades of memories contained in the collection.

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Provincial All-Candidates Meeting

by David Shanahan There will be an all-candidates meeting in the North Grenville Municipal Centre on Thursday, May 31, sponsored by the North Grenville Times. With the provincial election on June 7, the meeting will be an opportunity for residents of the area to hear from, and question, the candidates in the riding of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes.

As of this week, the declared candidates in the riding are incumbent PC Candidate Steve Clark, Liberal David Henderson, the current Mayor of Brockville, and Libertarian Candidate Bill Buckley. No Green Party candidate has been named as of yet, but one is expected to be announced soon.

The meeting on May 31 is open to everyone, and will run from 7.30 until 9 pm. Details of the format are being arranged with the candidates, and there will be further information published in the Times as these matters are finalised. It is hoped to hold a similar meeting before the municipal election on October 22.

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Good vibrations

by David Shanahan

Have you ever found yourself suddenly thrown back in time, in your mind, that is, not actually. Though that might be fun too. Imagine going back in time and visiting your younger self no, perhaps that would not be as much fun as I first thought!

Anyway, where was I? Right!

Thrown back in time. You see, I was driving along one day recently, when I heard on the radio that it was Record Store Day. So, I detoured to Merrickville to visit Vinyl Destination and was soon flipping through albums in the bins there. Now, this may only make sense to people in a certain age bracket, but the memory of many hours spent doing precisely the same thing in many records stores over many years came back to me in that moment.

It wasn’t just the records themselves, it was everything associated with them. A different time, more low-tech, more laid back and exciting,

somehow. The basic thrill of finding a bargain, or a new song, can’t be beaten. Those wonderful album sleeves, creative, colourful, controversial, works of art in themselves. The music might not be to your taste once it’s on the turntable, but the artwork could always get stuck up on your bedroom wall!

I’ve loved playing old 78's, no matter how fragile they were. When you played one too often, the hole in the centre became worn and bigger, so the entire disc was warped and the sound became really weird. But it was that tactile, almost visceral sensation of holding the vinyl, putting it on the turntable and setting the needle on the edge, and then the music came, with all its Rice Krispie effects (snaps, crackles and pops).

Something has been lost with the digital revolution, I think. Not just the highs and lows of the sound spectrum, but that immediacy, the physical connection with the

music, that technology has taken away. Holding a cd was not as good, but even that is being replaced by a completely divorced relationship as we start downloading and streaming music. The stereotypical (pun intended) image of the individual sitting in a darkened room, playing real music on real vinyl just doesn’t translate well to the digital age. But that could just be my age talking.

But the thing is, the same story is true about reading.

I used to love going to the library, or the second hand bookstores, and browsing through the shelves. If you couldn’t afford new books, and even if you could, there was something different about the second-hand books.

The same experience of flipping through books, picking one up and checking on the back to see what the story was, was all part of the reading experience. And then, when you decided on the books to buy, you could sit in a comfortable chair and

turn the pages, enjoying the physical contact with paper and the various pleasures of different fonts and layouts.

Today, people are reading on machines, or listening on audio books, and, once again, there is a distance between them and the book. If you’ve ever read a book under the bed covers, using a flashlight, when you’re supposed to be asleep, then you might understand what I mean. Now, I know that some people prefer not to get their hands dirty with ink and paper, and I understand that it’s a matter of what you may be used to, or how you first came to music or books. That’s fine. But I think there’s a whole level of experience that is being missed in our clean and tidy digital world.

On a deeper level, this increasing separation between us and the world around us, whether it’s in books, records, or social media, is having the effect of isolating us from each other and from the real world. People don’t have

to actually talk to other real people, when they can communicate with their “Friends” on-line. Perhaps, though, we are slowly becoming aware that this brave new digital world is not as safe and secure as we once thought, or as we were led to believe.

The very idea that someone, somewhere, unknown to me, can track every move I make on-line, know exactly where I am when I send an e-mail, or book a trip, or even read a newspaper on-line, makes me a little concerned.

There is a book (a real one) that talks about a time when “Big Brother is Watching You”. George Orwell would be quite entitled to point to our day and comment: “I told you so!”. But, aside from any unhealthy paranoia this might reflect on my part, I still prefer the days when I could hold a book, admire the cover of an L.P., listen to the far-off and static-filled sounds from Radio Luxemburg or Radio Caroline (some people will

know what I mean).

People think that print newspapers will go the way of vinyl and paperbacks: I don’t. Vinyl is back, folks, and there will always be those who want to hold a newspaper, or book, and turn the pages, licking their finger as they do. You know, when people see their picture in the paper, they ask us for copies for their family and friends.

They don’t want to send them a link to our website, they want actual, physical copies of the real thing. That is the reason I know that there is hope: that human beings will continue to want to know the tactile, sensation of being in touch with the real world, and not a digital reflection of it. I’m picking up good vibrations.

Wow! If he’s right, he deserves a Nobel Prize.

But of course he isn’t right. Despite his wishful thinking, the Earth is getting hotter and carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause.

Light from the Sun warms the Earth. More than half of that heat is reflected back up to space. Most of it escapes entirely, but a significant proportion is absorbed by carbon dioxide. And yes, the CO2 promptly emits heat — but it emits it IN ALL DIRECTIONS, so on average, half of the heat that would otherwise have escaped into space returns to Earth.

If it didn’t work that way, Earth would be like Mars, too cold for life. Atmospheric CO2 has kept Earth habitable for millions of years.

Mr. Greene should recall the expression, “too much of a good thing” A little CO2 is good for the planet, but too much is deadly. That’s where we’re heading.

There is now far more

CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in at least 800,000 years. As a result, more heat than ever is being reflected back to Earth, and global temperatures are rising at unprecedented speed.

If we don’t reduce emissions fast, our children and grandchildren will suffer the consequences: climate chaos on a disastrously overheated planet.

Ian Angus

provided by local individuals and businesses (your's included), for a first time unproven event is yet another example of the kind and trusting community that North Grenville is. This help enabled Jim Bertram, Donovan Arnaud, Deron Johnston and myself to put on a first class event, that I'm proud to say that I was part of.

The earliest supporter of the Summit was the Municipality and although you refer to their contribution as being given reluctantly, I saw something quite different.

As a tax payer I would expect a process, however I wasn't expecting one that was thorough and yet friendly at the same time. Sound reason was given when asking for information and clear, concise direction was provided when needed.

It was the seed that grew into the final event.

So thank you to all those involved, including the Municipality, for making Rural Summit 2018 a great start to

many more like it (why wait a year?).

Jim Beveridge Organizing Committee Rural Summit 2018

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Re: Equal Pay Day – With You in Her corner by Girls Inc As a former Human Resources professional, it is very disappointing to realize that the work we did in the early 1990’s to implement the Pay Equity Act of Ontario, which required that each public employer and private employer of ten or more people take steps to identify jobs in which the majority of incumbents were male or female and to compare those jobs on the basis of the level of skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions required to do the job, seems to have been for naught.

Few people realize that, in Ontario, equal pay for equal work has been the law for many more years than the Pay Equity legislation which first passed in 1988.

Equal pay for equal work simply meant that men and women working in identical jobs had to be paid the same rate of pay. Even then there

were pay gaps between men and women doing the same jobs, sometimes enabled with the use of different titles for those identical jobs.

If it is accurate that, in Ontario, women still make only 71 cents for every dollar a man makes, it would appear that companies are somehow avoiding compliance with the Pay Equity Act of Ontario.

Shirley Price Dear Editor, Amazing! In one short letter to the North GrenvilleTimes, Thomas Greene has disproven 150 years of basic physics. Tens of thousands of scientists say that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) warms the Earth, but Mr. Greene has revealed the truth!

He writes that carbon dioxide emissions aren’t warming the Earth, because “CO2 emits as strongly as it absorbs, and as it absorbs heat it immediately emits it.

Result — no heat trapped.”

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Dear Editor, I feel it necessary to correct some inaccuracies in the recent letter from one of your correspondent’s regarding climate change. To deal with his points in order: That Canada is the highest polluter per capita on this planet is not mitigated by the fact that we are in 9th. place overall as a country; we are still the worst polluters in the world. That we are 9th. is due mainly to population size. Also, while CO2 is necessary for the plant growth that sustains life on this planet, it is not producing places to live for us humans, as we mostly cut it down to produce houses, shopping centres, highways, etc., etc.

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Letters continued dioxide is a benign gas. In the right, balanced quantities, it is, and is vitally necessary to sustain life on earth, but because of its current overabundance, it becomes the main contributor to climate change, especially through the burning of fossil fuels.

Our fossil fuels come from carbon life forms that have been buried for millions of years, locking away their carbon in the earth. When we extract and burn this coal, oil and gas, we release all of that carbon back into the atmosphere all at once, instead of it being released over tens of millions of years, and that is where a majority of our current problem lies.

The two other greenhouse gases associated with human activity are methane and nitrous oxide. Methane is produced when vegetation is burned, digested or rotted without the presence of oxygen, and large amounts are released by cattle farming, waste dumps, rice farming, and the production of oil and gas. Nitrous oxide is released from chemical fertilizers, and the burning of fossil fuels, and is probably the most dangerous of the 3 gases, having a warming potential of 310 times that of CO2.

To put some balance into this discussion, let me quote from the Climate Institute; The strength of the greenhouse effect – how much extra energy that it directs towards the earth’s surface – depends on how many greenhouse gas molecules there are in the atmosphere. When greenhouse gas concentrations are high, they absorb a greater percentage of the earth’s infrared energy emissions. This means that more energy gets remitted back towards the earth’s surface, raising its average surface temperature.

The reverse is also true; taking CO2 out of the atmosphere would reduce the amount of infrared energy that it absorbs, and cause the earth to cool. Think of the atmosphere as a heat-trapping “net” surrounding the earth.

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the “ropes”, while nitrogen and oxygen are the open spaces between the “ropes”. When infrared energy hits an open space, it escapes into outer space, and dissipates; but when it hits a rope, the rope heats up and reradiates some portion of the energy back towards the planet, raising its overall temperature. The more CO2 molecules there are in the atmosphere, the May 2, 2018

more ropes there are in the net, shrinking the open spaces and making it harder for infrared energy to escape into space without hitting a rope.

The tighter the net, the more energy it absorbs, and the hotter the earth gets.

Your correspondent was correct about the CO2 absorption of heat, and left us to infer what happened to the heat when it was emitted, preferring to leave this somewhat vital piece of information out, presumably because it ran counter to his beliefs. You can find this sort of tactic all over the climatedeniers websites.

As to his third point that this is just a natural cycle, he is only partly correct. Earth has had hot and cold cycles, but they have occurred over millions of years. What we humans have done, we have done in what is a heartbeat in time. In antiquity, when the earth cooled or warmed, people just moved somewhere else. With a population approaching 9 billion, there are few places left to move to. What we are doing, Nature is not able to reverse, as we are overwhelming Nature's capacity to fix things. Relying on some magic solution to present itself at the 11th. hour is nothing more than wishful thinking. We are already at the 11th. hour. If we don’t stop the unbridled burning and extraction of fossil fuels, and building of pipelines, instead of transitioning to renewable energy, then we are done as a species.

It probably won’t happen in my lifetime, but I care about what my grandchildren are going to inherit. If that also concerns you, then maybe you might want to investigate what most of the world’s scientist are saying, that climate change is real. You only have to look around you to see that they are right.

Colin Creasey, Kemptville.

Dear Editor, In his letter to the editor (“Cool it”) Mr Greene is making statements as if they were facts, without any understanding or even a showing a willingness to try to understand.

Depending on the year, Canadians are between 4th worst and the worst on a per capital emissions basis. We are 9th worst in the world on total emissions, out of nearly 200 countries. We have a lot of room to improve.

The author has no concept of what a greenhouse gas (GHG) is. Contrary to his claims, nitrogen is

Dear Editor, I was pleased to see last week's letter to the Editor

by Mr. Colin Creasey. In it, he makes many worthwhile comments. The list of considerations and caveats he presents will be well noted by me, that is certain. And, I hope, others.

At the same time, his wise series of observations leaves an important question unanswered: Must we reward a corrupt, incompetent and infinitely unaccountable government by returning them to office once again? Must we, for fear of the opposition, retire in confusion and leave the field to a Liberal government which, for the sake of its own hold on power and its advantages, is tearing Ontario down?

Let's look at some alternatives. How about the NDP? Well, if you want more of the same free-spending unaccountable style government, they are a good choice. It is impossible to penetrate the NDP connection with unions and its assortment of fringe minority special interests to have one's interests heard. I have tried to represent Rural Ontario points of interest to both Liberals and NDP. To NO avail. Ever. Over 15 years.

Let's contrast that with the reception I have received from Conservative Party representatives. Our MPP, Steve Clark, has responded to EVERY e-mail concerning a variety of issues which I have sent to him over the last 15 years. Other Conservative instances have been equally responsive. Others of my acquaintance have had this experience as well. Steve has even represented two of my projects in the Legislature itself at Queen's Park, one of which dealt with my opposition to a local pit, the other with my vision for a local Rural Summit.

Basically, I suggest that, if you are a citizen who understands that YOUR job as a citizen doesn't end when you vote, Steve Clark is your man. And he's Conservative.

He listens. He acts. He has personal stature and influence. He will be responsive and carry your concerns to the highest level of his party.

And THAT is important. His e- mail is : info@steveclarkmpp.com.

Let him know your concerns.

I thank Mr. Creasey for his wise words. I hope you, my dear neighbours and fellow citizens, will read mine with favour as well.

Jim Bertram

not a greenhouse gas (good thing, it’s nearly 80% of our atmosphere) nor is oxygen.

Methane is a potent GHG, but it is dwarfed by the overall impact of CO2 at present.

Water (H2O) is a feedback GHG, not a force GHG like CO2. The only reason water is in the atmosphere is due to the planet’s temperature, and the hotter the planet gets the more water will be in vapour form contributing to further warming.

The author states CO2 is not the major contributor to the greenhouse effect. This is also false. CO2 absorbs infrared radiation that would otherwise be reflected into space and retains the heat in our atmosphere. As the most plentiful force GHG, the only possible outcome of increased CO2 levels is a warmer planet. The author’s assertion that CO2 can cool the planet is not supported by any scientific studies and, let’s be clear, if anybody could show that they’d earn a Nobel prize for showing the law of energy conservation doesn’t hold up.

The evidence that the earth’s climate has changed in the distant past shows that it took many millennia to see nearly 1 degree Celsius of warming, which we have now had in under 100 years. It is beyond reason to accept the evidence for one thing (past changes occurred) and reject the very same evidence when it shows this to be different for what we see today (much faster change) in his attempt to argue that this could be a natural phenomenon.

It is unreasonable and immoral to suggest that nature will rebound and save us.

Unreasonable because it isn’t keeping up with our current emission rates, and immoral because the suggestion is that nature should mop up our mess. How entitled have we become to suggest we need not be stewards of the earth and that the earth should be a steward of the human race?

We live in a time when people feel entitled to an opinion, and letters to the editor are a stage for those. The problem is that some things are not matters of opinion, they are matters of math and science. You can be of the opinion that gravity is a hoax, but if you step off of a tall building you’ll quickly realize that your opinion doesn’t matter.

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UPDATE UPDATE UPCOMING MEETINGS COUNCIL Monday, May 14 at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Centre.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Monday, May 7 at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Centre. For agenda information, please visit the Municipal website at www.northgrenville.ca.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS Library Board – Thursday, May 10 at 7:00 pm at the Public Library, 1 Water St

GARAGE SALES

Garage sales in North Grenville are regulated by By-Law 10-03.

No licence or fee is required, but there are regulations which you must follow. Signage is NOT permitted in traffic circles or attached to traffic signs. Please ensure signage is removed after your sale. Before having a garage sale, please obtain a copy of the by-law from www.northgrenville.ca/document-library.

2018 BURN PERMITS

In accordance with By-Law 33-12, a Burn Permit is required to conduct open burning on property located outside of the urban area. The entire application and renewal process is available online at www.northgrenville.ca. The online process also allows you to receive direct notification of special conditions such as fire bans and fire risk level. Burn permits are also still available at the Municipal Office or at the Fire Hall at 259 County Rd. 44 and the fee is $15. Please check conditions prior to burning by calling 613-706-1770.

SWIMMING POOL ENCLOSURES

Swimming pool enclosures in North Grenville are regulated by By-Law 32-98, as amended. This includes all above-ground and in-ground pools. Copies of this by-law are available from the Building Department or the Municipal website.

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North Grenville Council Meeting highlights, Monday, April 23 Emergency Preparedness Week: Council proclaimed May 6-12 as “Emergency Preparedness Week” in the Municipality. Emergency Preparedness Week is a nation-wide event that brings awareness to how individuals and families can be better prepared in case of emergencies. For more information and ideas about how to be prepared, visit www.northgrenville. ca during Emergency Preparedness Week.

Canada Day Festivities Planned by Big Brothers Big Sisters: Council retained Big Brothers Big Sisters to plan and implement the Canada Day festivities that will take place at Riverside Park. More details about the festivities will be available in the near future.

2018 Community Grants Awarded: Council approved Community Grants for 13 different organizations totaling over $10,000. The organizations being awarded grants include the Knights of Columbus, Kemptville Snowmobile Klub, Oxford Mills Community Association, Kemptville District Hospital Foundation, Kemptville Minor Football Club, Friends of the Ferguson Forest Centre, Burritts Rapids Community Association, 1st North Grenville Scouts Group – Valley Highlands, North Grenville Scouts – Kemptville 1st Troop, Canadian Cancer Society, Kemptville Farmers’ Market, North Grenville Historical Society and Girls Inc. Upcoming Planning/Public Meetings: Three public meetings will be held beginning at 7:00 p.m. on May 7 for Zoning By-Law Amendment Applications ZBA-3-18 (550 Jig St), ZBA-4-18 (665 County Rd. 18) and ZBA-5-18 (3909 Rideau River Rd).

Upcoming Meetings: Council on Monday, May 14; Committee of the Whole on Monday, May 7. All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at the Municipal Centre located at 285 County Rd 44, Kemptville. For more information contact Clerk Cahl Pominville at cpominville@ northgrenville.on.ca, or at 613-258-9569 ext. 110. www.ngtimes.ca

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Open Letter to the UCDSB community Dear Members of the Upper Canada District School Board Community: I have been asked to share with you that our Board’s Chair, Jeff McMillan, has announced he will not be seeking re-election for another term as a public school board trustee. Mr. McMillan will complete his current commitments as a local trustee for Ward 5 (City of Brockville & Augusta Township) and Chair of the Upper Canada District School Board on November 30, 2018.

Chair McMillan’s decision to transition from public office comes after more than 40 years of service to children and schools in the Upper Canada District School Board, beginning as a classroom teacher and educational consultant with the former Leeds & Grenville Board of Education in 1977, then with the Upper Canada District School Board in 1998. His contributions to the K to 12 education sector has been numerous and noteworthy. Apart from a long-term commitment to student learning and supporting children to see their potential, Mr. McMillan has served as the Canadian

College Supervisor affiliated with the School of Education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Potsdam, with responsibilities for supervising and evaluating teacher-candidates associated with that program. He has also published articles and two books on effective classroom practice. Mr. McMillan brought these experiences forward over the past eight years in his work as a school board trustee for Ward 5, and later, as the 1st Vice-Chair of the Board in 2011.

Trustee McMillan was elected Chair of the Upper Canada District School Board in 2014, leading the Board through some of its most critical moments, including: re-balancing its annual budget; hiring a new Director of Education / Chief Executive Officer, enhancing the reputation of the Board through open and on-going communication with neighbouring school districts and with the Ministry of Education, and; re-establishing a focus on strategic planning that would ensure that the Board channelled its energies on priorities which they determined to be essential to fulfilling our organization’s mission to prepare our students for a

successful life.

It has been my distinct pleasure to work with Chair McMillan during my tenure thus far as the Director of Education for our Board. I would like to thank him for his dedicated commitment to our school district as both a leader and as a community volunteer. I know that we can continue to count on Mr. McMillan to support ratepayers in Ward 5 until the end of his term of office and to lead the Board of Trustees as they remain focused on commitments for supporting students and our schools for the remainder of its mandate, ending on November 30, 2018. There remains a great deal of work to do in this regard, and all staff will continue to support the Board of Trustees in their efforts to set direction and allocate resources for us to implement their vision of carefully attending to the betterment of students and supporting the important work underway in our schools.

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by Hilary Thomson Refugees in North Grenville (RING) will be welcoming their second refugee family to North Grenville at the end of May. On May 29, a couple with three young children from the Democratic Republic of Congo will land at the Ottawa airport, to start their new life in Kemptville.

RING Vice-Chair, Ken Gehrels, says they have already made contact with the school the children will attend, as well as with the medical community in Kemptville. They are hopeful that the couple will be able to find employment in the area, as he is trained in food services and she is a nurse/midwife. They both also speak English and French.

In what Ken calls a miracle, a home for the family has also been secured. Until recently, this seemed like a futile search, as rental properties in Kemptville are scarce, at best. Ken says he found himself up at night, May 2, 2018

worrying about it and praying that they would find appropriate lodgings for the family in time. “I heard a voice saying that the answer would come at the right time,” Ken says.

“I also saw a woman with long blonde hair.”

A short time later, Ken learned about a woman who was wanting to rent her house. A spiritual woman herself, she was looking for her home to do good and be a positive influence in the community. “It wasn’t until later that I realized she had long blonde hair,” Ken says.

“It was divine providence at work.”

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Merrickville Car Show says thank you

Open letter to the Director of Public Works, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.

Very dangerous 4-way crossroads in Merrickville Dear Sir, Having been a resident for many years in Kemptville, and having cause to, quite frequently, use County Road 43 East-West along Main St E to the so called “crossroads” junction, through Merrickville, en route to Smiths Falls, I am appalled at the complete lack of road safety exercised in regulating the “through traffic”! Earlier this week, I had to use the more unfamiliar route for me, the South – North, St Lawrence St, route out of the town, to proceed over the bridge. Whilst stationary at the ”Stop” sign, waiting to proceed, and also keeping a sharp eye out for the cement truck that was also waiting at the “Stop” sign (Main St E), another car was just approaching the other Main St W “Stop”.

I was given the go-ahead by the cement truck driver to proceed, and was about to do so, and commenced to cross the white line, and had to “Jump on my brakes”, as did the driver who had just negotiated the canal bridge and was exercising his right to cross my path, by virtue of the “Green Light,” that he had in his favour! (I am not aware of any signage from any direction that gives one a hint of what the priorities are at this junction, or that a “Green light exists for one way only!!)

I’m not sure what speed he was doing, but we both politely acknowledged each other at our close call, which, legally, would have been my fault, had we met! Of course, I have used the same traffic

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by Hilary Thomson Harry McLean’s Pub at the Baldachin Inn was buzzing on Tuesday evening, at a celebration of the Merrickville Car Show’s 17-year run. The organizing committee held the event to thank all the businesses and individuals who have volunteered and sponsored the event over the years.

The show has brought thousands of people to the community, and played a role in getting Merrickville on the map. “Seventeen years ago, a few people had the idea to get together and have a little fun,” said Doug Struthers, a member of the organizing committee. “On a really good day, we had 1,500 cars and over 8,000 people [visiting the show]”.

Many people were recognized for their contribution to the event, including Bruce Stackhouse, the man credited with organizing the first car show in 2000. Mike and Vicky Ogilvie from Ogilvie’s Auto and Fleet Services in Kilmarnock where mentioned, as they have been title sponsors of the event since the beginning. “It’s been a quick 17 years,” Mike says.

Hugh Colton was also given an honourable mention as one of the event’s founding fathers.

Doug says there is no way the car show could have continued without its dedicated volunteers, who stuck with them through thick and thin. He estimates that local people have put 8,500 hours of volunteering into the show since its inception.

As a way of giving back, the organizing committee decided to donate the leftover money from the event back into the community, and handed out cheques to all the local charities who played a role in the car show over the years, including: the Merrickville Soccer Club, Rideau Search and Rescue, Merrickville Day Nursery, I am Alive, Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church, and the Merrickville Fire Department.

Merrickville celebrates its 225th anniversary

by Hilary Thomson This year is the 225th anniversary of the founding of Merrickville by William Merrick in 1793. An ad hoc committee has been working alongside community event planners to put together several events to commemorate this occasion, to coincide with Merrickville’s usual Spring and Summer festivities.

The official launch of the 225th anniversary celebrations will be a music festival at the Legion. They will be hosting a free afternoon of music on June 9, beginning at noon and running until 5 pm. The Blockhouse will continue the celebrations with their grand opening on June 23, complete with activities and historical displays in the Blockhouse Park.

Canada Day events will begin on July 1 at 10 am, with an outdoor ecumenical church service at Collar Hill Cemetery to honour William Merrick, followed by the parade, entertainment, a free lunch curtesy of the Lions Club and, of course, the fireworks at 10 pm.

Canalfest will be held from August 4-6, and will be a weekend full of festivities and events, along with villagers dressed in period costume. The 180th Merrickville Agricultural Fair and Steam Show, from August 10-12, will wrap up the Merrickville 225 festivities on the fairgrounds.

To enrich the heritage aspect of these events, a small working group, made up of Margo Heighton, Kevin Bridge and Dell Bower, have pulled together some photos of historical significance from the Merrickville and District Historical Society’s collection. These photos will be mounted on panels and be put on display at the five main events throughout the Summer. A special craft beer, called “Founders Ale”, has also been created by a local resident and will be available on tap at local restaurants to celebrate Merrickville 225. There are also two publications printed to commemorate Merrickville’s 225th anniversary. The Merrickville Spectator, published by Steve Hurndell, and the Merrickville 225 Commemorative Edition by W. Poapst and Patricia McAnish, will be available throughout the Village in May. They will both be single edition copies, designed to be collector items for villagers and visitors alike.

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light myself on my many return trips from the Smiths Falls direction and exercise very great caution, so that other unsuspecting drivers, already at one of the 3 “Stop” signs, do not do as I happened to do yesterday, i.e., end up in the path of a legally oncoming and turning vehicle, namely - me!!

This bizarre traffic management (?) system not only creates danger for drivers, but also for pedestrians. How many unwitting pedestrians have tried to negotiate Main St W-E and Prescott St N-S, in either direction, under what they think is the ”protective sanctity” of the “Stop signs”, only to find that a legally entitled vehicle, coming off the bridge, through the “green” light, is about to knock them down!

How many, collisions, or near- misses are there to be, before this stupid, yes stupid, situation is addressed and resolved? It is acknowledged that the road has to be closed, now and again, during the “boating season”, to allow the passage of boats through the lock. However, does the convenience of a relatively few members of society, out-weigh the safety of the majority, with this dangerous scenario in place? The following are a few suggestions to restore sanity to the road users, whilst respecting the rights of the boaters.

The 4 way “stop signed” junction should be restored to what everyone is used to and expects, no matter where they come from, (Town, Province, Country), and include pedestrian crossings!

With this in mind, so as to keep the canal bridge

clear, at all times, (Why is it necessary to have this system in place in the winter months anyway,- boating is a seasonal activity?) the traffic lights on the north side of the canal, should be regulated to allow only enough cars, or trucks through, as can be contained between the bridge and the 4-way junction itself. There must be sensors available in this day and age that could do this. Such a system is already in effect in Kemptville, at the traffic lights (CR 43-CR44), where the “flashing green” priority left hand turn light operates only if three or more cars are detected in the left hand turn lane. Couldn’t this system be adapted to detect the number of vehicles, which have crossed the bridge in a N-S direction, to trigger the operation of the traffic light on the North side of the bridge to keep it clear, when vehicles are now stopped at the 4th “Stop” sign, as expected by the other 3? Obviously, this would slow traffic down, but not too significantly, it is only supposed to be 40 KPH through here anyway, and the inbuilt safety factors should out-weigh the inconvenience and cost arguments, shouldn’t they?

I thank you for your kind attention, to my plea and consideration of my suggestions, and hope that there is a very positive response and outcome, which will ensure a much safer future for everyone using the roads and sidewalks in, into, and out of, Merrickville.

Yours sincerely, John Baldwin.

Municipality finalizes budget

by Hilary Thomson The Municipality of Merrickville-Wolford finally passed the budget on Monday, April 23.

With the operating budget coming to $3,763,809 and the capital budget coming to $2,441,700, the total budget for 2018 is $6,205, 509. Council also passed the water/wastewater budget with expenditures totalling $1,312,558.

Interim Treasurer, Richard Bennett, was on hand at the meeting to answer questions, as he has been the one working on finalizing the budget. He says the overall dollar levy is the same as last year, allowing for a 4% decrease in the resident’s tax bill. The county levy also stayed the same, and the school board levy decreased, allowing for a decrease overall.

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by Hilary Thomson The WW2 re-enactment, set to take place over the May long weekend, made its way into the council chambers again on April 23, in the form of many letters of protest from the public.

The decision as to whether to support the re-enactment of the Canadian liberation of Holland in the Village has divided the municipality.

Some think it is a valuable tool to educate the public about what wartime was like, while others feel that it is using war as entertainment, and will not paint a real picture of what war is really like. It is estimated that the event will draw thousands of visitors to the Village throughout the weekend, a positive thing for the local businesses and restaurants.

The initial request to have the event in Merrickville came to council at the meeting of March 26. Councillor Victor Suthren objected to the event from the beginning, stating that he could not support the militarization

of Merrickville, with men in Third Reich uniforms roaming the streets. Deputy Mayor Anne Barr appeared to be for the event, explaining that it was meant to celebrate the liberation of Holland, not to glorify war. “It would be the same as having military vehicles in our parade on Canada day,” she said at the meeting. Although divided, when it came down to a vote, council decided not to support the event, or offer any in-kind use of their facilities to the re-enactors.

Two weeks later, at the next council meeting on April 9, a last-minute delegation was added to the agenda from the organizers of the re-enactment, asking council to reconsider their decision.

Mike Calnan and Captain Terry Hunter gave a very detailed presentation about the day, as well as the Swords and Ploughshares Museum, which plays an important role in the re-enactment every year. Resident David Luxton also supported the initiative, saying that he had witnessed the tasteful way the group portrays history in the past.

council during the public question period.

Councilor Chuck MacInnis also brought up the fact that, when it came to the delegation, the procedural by-law was not followed.

This by-law states that a delegation must register to speak seven days prior to the meeting, have no more the two presenters, and be no more than ten minutes in length, none of which was observed.

Mayor David Nash made it clear at the meeting that he felt as though highlighting these discrepancies was splitting hairs. As per the procedural by-law, council was asked if they would reconsider their decision and 60% agreed to do so. “Council had the chance to ask questions and make comments, and need for public input was not raise by council,” David said. “To the best of my knowledge, all the right steps were followed.”

Deputy Mayor Ann Barr also brought up the fact that the only reason they were having the discussion about the re-enactment was because the group had asked

A motion was passed at the meeting to reconsider their decision of March 26 and, after no discussion on the matter, council decided to support the event and allow the group to use the Community Centre and Fair Grounds for free. It was surprising that Councillor Suthren had nothing to say at the meeting, seeing as he had previously been very vocal about opposing the event in Merrickville.

It came to light at the council meeting on April 23, that he may not have known exactly what was happening.

When it came to adopting the minutes of the previous meeting, he asked for clarification on what had happened on April 9. “A resolution to consider does not mean end of discussion,” he said at the meeting. “Are these correct or legal, or has something improper been done.” He also mentioned that, in his opinion, time for public consultation should have been allowed before making a final decision. “I am disappointed in the way the decision was reversed after just a pitch,” resident Martin Green told

Tensions run high surrounding CAO investigation

by Hilary Thomson To say that the atmosphere in Merrickville lately has been tense, is an understatement. At every council meeting there seems to be more and more residents coming out to ask about the investigation surrounding Merrickville-Wolford’s CAO, John Regan.

The CAO was put on paid administrative leave by council on January 19.

According to Interim CAO Arie Hoogenboom, the municipality has sought outside human resource and legal advice about how to deal with the situation. A workplace May 2, 2018

investigator was also hired by the municipality at the end of January.

It was a resident, Pat Watson, who first broke the silence at a council meeting on February 26. “This is my Village,” she told council.

“I’ve been around a long time and, at the present time, I am not very happy with the current situation here regarding municipal staff.” She asked several questions, including details about the inquiry, whether John is being paid his full salary, and if or when he will be returning to work.

Despite acknowledging the necessity for transparency, Arie said he could not answer any of her questions,

as they are specific to the individual in question. “Those are questions that I cannot answer, and should not be answered, while this process continues to unfold,” he said.

“I also believe in transparency in government, but I also understand that you can’t be transparent until you know all the facts.”

Since then, things have escalated in nature, with the rumour mill active and rampant throughout the community. Several residents say they have seen John with municipal councillors and staff in the Village, and some have been questioning whether this is appropriate, given the circumstances. Resident, Ivan Wood, brought this up at a council meeting on April 9, questioning whether this was a conflict of interest for the investigation. He was told that it is not, as the investigation is not being carried out by council or staff. In fact, council is being given little or no information about it at this time.

According to Arie, this is normal, as per the legal counsel they have received, and a full report will be presented to council when the investigation is over. John says that, as part of the community,

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he has many friends, and spending time with them has been completely personal and social. “I have, and continue to, respect the confidential nature of this process,” he says. “I have not had oneon-one meetings with staff or councillors.”

Beyond the council chambers, the community remains divided on the issue of the CAO, and reports of nasty words, and even threats, between interested parties have been heard through the grapevine. People are fed up about being left in the dark, and not knowing has created some animosity between those who support the CAO, and those who are not his biggest fans. Residents are concerned about how much this investigation is costing the tax-payers, with the legal fees, workplace investigator, and paying two CAOs. According to Arie, these numbers will be released, again, once the investigation has been completed.

At the last council meeting, Councillor Chuck MacInnis asked to revisit a decision council made on January 19 last. This did not happen, as it was a decision that had been made in-camera, and therefore needed to be carried

for in-kind services. “If that organization simply paid the fee and set up for the weekend, we wouldn’t be having this discussion at the council table,” she said. “We don’t do a background check, or place a value judgement, on organizations that rent our facilities.”

Since council passed the resolution to welcome the military re-enactment to Merrickville, letters have been pouring in from residents, asking them to reconsider.

Many agree with Councillor Suthren that such an event has no place in a peaceful village like Merrickville, where there are people who remember the horrific reality of war. “Having grown up

in England during the war, and having experienced the horrors of bombs dropping around us, to this day reenactments of this kind bring back terrifying memories,” wrote Eileen Watson in an email to Mayor Nash.

The Mayor responded to all the emails, including Eileen’s, saying that the decision had already been made and the event will go ahead for this year. “Council may be asked to consider making this an annual event, at which time consideration will certainly be given to your comments, which I will support.”

out in a private meeting of council. None of the council members, except Chuck, felt the need to tack on an in-camera session to the end of the meeting to discuss this matter. Although it wasn’t explicitly said in the meeting, it is possible that Chuck was hoping to discuss the decision to put John on administrative leave, which was made at the January 19 closed meeting.

It is unclear whether any information surrounding the CAO will ever be made public. John has said that he fully intends on coming back to work once the investigation is over. “Merrickville is a

great community, and I love the fact that people are interested in what we do at the municipal level,” he says. “I am looking forward to having this investigation all wrapped up and returning to my position, so we can focus on doing some more good work for our citizens.”

One can only hope that this issue can be resolved soon, rumours put to bed, and Merrickville-Wolford can return to the friendly little town it once was.

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welcome and part of the culture here. Although we did retain a good customer base from Prescott and surrounding areas, we lost some of our older customers who didn’t drive. That was the hardest part in saying good bye to a town that was our home for 22 years.

After moving the store to Kemptville, we added a state of the art engraving machine, and business has gotten busier! We offer engraving done onSugold has never been site, both on jewellery and a box store, nor a store trophies. Sugold Jewelthat would fit into a mall. lers also does corporate After purchasing the build- goods, such as Years of ing, and fixing both the in- Service Pins, bracelets, side and outside into what watches, etc., along with it is today, Sugold Jewel- soft goods, such as shirts, lers has never felt more coats, hats etc.. Anything at home. All of our new you want, we can do. If we customers from Kempt- don’t have the item you are ville and surrounding ar- looking for, Just Ask... we eas have made us feel can find it.

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Kent, Donald Edward Don Kent, age 57, passed away peacefully at home in rural Kemptville, surrounded by his family, on April 20, 2018. Don is predeceased by his father John D.B. Kent and his brother David Kent.

Don is survived by his loving wife Barb Calder-Kent, mother Sandra Kent, sisters, Cindy Koehler (Paul) and Kimberley Bermender (Dan), and sister-in-law Surinder Gill. After graduating from Algonquin College, Don pursued a successful career in electronics design that included working for Gandalf, Nokia, and Blade Networks.

Following early retirement, he and Barb enjoyed winters in Florida. With Don’s positive and extremely social personality, he made many close friends throughout his life. He enjoyed music, golf, tennis, and lounging by the pool. In accordance with Don’s wishes, there will be no funeral or memorial service. Arrangements entrusted to the Kemptville Chapel of Hulse, Playfair and McGarry.

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May 2 Youngsters of Yore, 1:30 pm, Library Program Room.

May Merrickville United Church Giant Book Sale. 20,000+ books for sale at bargain prices! Fri, May 4, 11, 18: 12-8 pm; Sat, May 5, 12, 19: 9-4 pm and Mon, May 21, 9-4 pm. Hard cover $2, Soft cover $1, Kids books .25 - $2, Bargain book benches: 5 books/$1.

May 7 Donate for Dustin: Blood Donor clinic, Municipal Centre, 1:30 – 4 pm and 5 – 7:30 pm.

May 12 Community Garage Sale, 8 – 12, throughout the Oxford Mills Hamlet. Prepare your saleable items for a one day blitz.

May 12 Gorgeous Grannies and Friends' Spring Plant and Bake Sale at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 6556 Prince of Wales Road, North Gower, 9 am until 12 noon.

"Proceeds are used to support The Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers 2 Grandmothers Campaign, supporting women in sub-Saharan Africa."

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Kemptville Quilters Guild, 2nd Mon./mth at the Kemptville Pentecostal Church, 1964 County Road 43, 7 pm. New members welcome.

Kemptville Cancer Support Group, 3rd Mon/mth, St. John’s United Church, Prescott St., 2 pm. All welcome. For info call Ellen Vibert-Miller at 613-258-7778.

Modern square dance club, Grenville Gremlins,7:30-10 pm, NG Municipal Centre.

Newcomer Bridge-St John's United Church 12:15pm. Cost $5.00. All levels welcome.

No partner needed. Info 613-915-1464 or 613-806-4495.

Tues BNI Networking Group Breakfast, Grenville Mutual Insurance Building, 380 Colonnade Dr, 7- 8:30 am. Info: 613-918-0430.

Bridge St. John’s United Church, 12:15 pm. Cost $5. All levels of bridge players welcome. Info, call 613-915-1464 or 613-806-4495.

The Branch Artisans Guild, North Grenville Community Church, 2659 Concession Street every 3rd Tue/mth, 7 pm. New members welcomed!

Wed NG Photography Club - 1st Wed./mth, 7-9 pm, at the Grenville Mutual Insurance, 380 Colonnade Drive. See ngphotoclub.ca for info.

Klub 67 Euchre every 2nd & 4th Wed/mth, 1:15 pm, St. John's United Church.

Everyone welcome $5.00.

Bingo- 1st & 3rd Wed/mth., Kemptville Legion, 1 pm. All welcome.

New Horizon Club, Burritt`s Rapids Community Hall.. All adults 55 plus welcome to join. For info re programs and membership, call Janet 613-269-2737.

Probus Club of North Grenville, 3rd Wed./mth. Everyone is welcome to join us at 9:30 am at St Paul's Presbyterian Church Hall for fellowship.

Holy Cross Church monthly suppers, 1st Wed/mth. Adults $8, Children $5. All are welcomed.

Thurs Bridge - St. John’s United Church, 6:15 pm. Cost $5. All levels of bridge players welcome. For more info, call 613-915-1464 or 613-896-4495.

North Grenville Toastmasters - Meeting 1st & 3rd Thurs/mth., 7 pm at O’Farrell’s Financial Services, Cty Rd 44. Info, call 258-7665.

NGPL Science and Technology Group meetings are held the 1st/Thurs/mth, 7-9 pm in the program room at the Library.

Friendship Lunch held at St. John's United Church. Lunch is served at 11:30, Fri donations accepted but not expected. Everyone welcome.

Twice The Fun Games (200 Sanders St. Unit 103) Game Night, 2nd and 4th Fri/mth, 6-10 pm. Bring your favourite game or borrow one from their library.

Sat Kemptville Legion breakfast, 8 - 10 am 3rd Sat/mth, 100 Reuben Crescent. Adults $. 6, Children under 12 $3. All welcome.

Euchre Tournament, 3rd Sat/mth. Registration 12-12:30 pm. Cost $10.00 Games start 12:30 pm at the Kemptville Legion, 100 Reuben Crescent, Refreshments available. Everyone Welcome.

Sun Twice The Fun Games (200 Sanders St. Unit 103) “Organized Play” and "Learn to Play" events, 1-4 pm . No experience needed.

Bingo, Kemptville Legion – Last Sun/mth, Doors open 6 pm, guaranteed $400 jackpot. Refreshments available.

M,W,F Kemptville and Area Walking Group meet at Municipal Centre at 8 am. All welcome.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY,

KDHA Hey Day 2018, June 7 – 9.

Contact Jolene 558-1761.

Students welcome.

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Spécialisation Santé humaine et terrestre

Human and Planetary Health Specialization

Programme spécialisé offert aux élèves dès la 7e année

Specialized program for students Grade 7 and up

• Développement de la citoyenneté civique et l’écoresponsabilité

• Develop a strong foundation in civic and environmental values

• Exploration de carrières en collaboration avec des partenaires communautaires

• Explore careers with community partners

• Implication écocitoyenne des élèves dans leur communauté

• Certificate of bilingualism

with a focus on climate change Are you keen on the environment, health and sustainable development?

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• Get involved in greening your community

• Certificat de bilinguisme

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant Register now inscription.ecolecatholique.ca kemptville.ecolecatholique.ca 613 258-7883

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Do you own a commercial building or manage a business in Downtown Kemptville?

by John Barclay, Executive Director Old Town Kemptville Business Improvement Area

Give MOM a TREAT on her Special Day! Happy Mother’s Day

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

If you do, you probably are a Member or Associate Member of the Old Town Kemptville Business Improvement Area and should plan to attend the BIA Expansion Information Meeting on May 24 at 6pm in the North Grenville Public Library.

The BIA is in the early stages of consulting with Kemptville businesses about expanding its borders to better serve the community. They've completed a Prospectus that lays out their rationale for expansion and provides details on how that might be achieved.

The BIA is actively seeking feedback on this proposal; there will be time for questions and answers after the presentation. The Prospectus can be downloaded from www.oldtownkemptville. com and hard copies will be available on the 24th. This meeting will be the first of several public meetings before the BIA finalizes plans and brings them to Council in 2019.

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BIA membership includes owners of commercial property and their business tenants within a defined area downtown (see the map of the BIA footprint). The BIA extended Associate Membership to commercial property owners within the Rideau-Sanders Triangle two years ago. While the meeting is open, both Members and Associate Members are encouraged to attend the meeting to find out more detail and to have their questions answered by the Expansion Committee.

The Old Town Kemptville BIA Expansion Committee is Chaired by Stephen Bent, BIA Treasurer and Manager of CIBC- Kemptville. Others members are Deb Wilson, BIA Chair and co-owner of Grahame's Bakery, and Andrew Beveridge, CPA. Join your business neighbours in the Program Room of the North Grenville Library at 6pm on May 24 for the BIA Expansion Information Meeting. Light refreshments will be served.

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April Is Chili Weather judges panel were the North Grenville Fire Service, the local OPP detachment, North Grenville Municipal Council, and the Kemptville Players Theatre Group.

The judges had a very difficult task, as all of the entries were superb. The capacity crowd at the event were able to vote electronically for their favourite and eventually a winner was chosen, with all of the voting being close. The judges made a choice, but the consensus on the judging panel was not necessarily the same Judges: John Okum, Fire Chief, Debbie MacGillivray, Kemptville Players, as the crowd’s choice of Frank Onasanya, Councillor, Constable Russ Beaton, OPP and Deron Johnson, NG Times reporter winner, which was the Five

by Deron Johnston A panel of five judges were a last-minute replacement Star Restaurant. But, in the This past Friday night, asked to judge the chili en- judge representing the North end, the real winners were the Anglican Church had tries, submitted by the lo- Grenville Times, as Maggie the people who will benefit their annual Chili Cook-off cal catering and restaurant Boyer wasn’t feeling well. from the money raised by at the Kemptville Legion. community. Yours truly was Also represented on the the church.

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Sell from your driveway!

OMCA will handle the advertising, send us your address. Community Yard Sale Addresses (so far): 1804 Bedell Road 22 Water Street 1255 Stone Road 477 Main Street 787 McFarlane Rd

Also join the OMCA at the United Church (42 Water Street) for our annual Plant and Bake Sale on the same day.

Sandwiches, soup and coffee for sale.

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Community Paramedic Program at KDH A new Community Paramedic Program launched by the Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service, in partnership with Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) and the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), is helping seniors and other people with complex health issues get the care they need.

Through the program, specially trained paramedics make scheduled house calls to people who have been identified as needing at-home checks following ER visits or hospitalization. They provide nonemergency care such as help with medications, wellness checks, and safe home assessments. Additionally, an important part of the program is connecting people to other community supports to bridge any gaps in services. People referred to the program include seniors, people with chronic illnesses, mental health concerns, and disabilities.

Community paramedic programs are proven to help people live independently longer, and reduce avoidable ER visits and hospital admissions. Deb Mitchell, KDH’s Team Lead for the ER, gave an example of how an at-home visit from a paramedic can be a gamechanger. “By observing the patient in his or her home, the paramedic may identify a tripping hazard or other mobility or medical issue that we couldn’t possibly be aware of in the ER. This could definitely prevent a trip to the hospital,” she said.

Funding for the program in partnership with KDH is provided by the Champlain LHIN. “The Community Paramedic Program builds on the Champlain LHIN’s goal of integrating health care by ensuring people experience a smooth transition from hospital to home, and receive more coordinated care in the community,”

said Champlain LHIN CEO Chantale LeClerc. “Across the system, we hope to see more and more partnerships and collaboration like this one.”

Community paramedic programs were first funded in Ontario in 2014, as part of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Patients First Action Plan. In 2016, the Ministry committed to extending the program and working with partners to develop a long-term plan for community paramedicine.

For KDH, community paramedicine is strongly aligned to the hospital’s strategic plan, which has an emphasis on building and facilitating partnerships with other providers and making care seamless for patients and their families. “We are grateful for the opportunity to work with the Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service to offer this program to the North Grenville community,” explained KDH’s CEO, Frank J. Vassallo. “Our common goal is to help people live independently in their homes as long as possible. This results in improved quality of life as well as potential cost savings for the health system as a whole.”

For the paramedics, the work is very rewarding, as it enables them to use skills outside their traditional roles as first responders. Jeff Carss, Deputy Chief of the Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service, described the paramedics as being, “the eyes and ears of the health system”. “They can see where there is need for additional support, and help connect patients to the services they need,” he added.

Jeff relayed that the Chief of the Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service, Chris Lloyd, received an email from Brian Campbell, a client of the community paramedic program, which spoke of its impact. In sending the email, Brian copied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier

Kathleen Wynne, LeedsGrenville MP Gord Brown, and MPP Steve Clark, North Grenville Mayor David Gordon, and KDH CEO Frank Vassallo.

In his message, he stated, “The community paramedic weekly visit to my home is a wonderful service, checking on me, all my vital signs, and my lungs, due to my breathing problems. The visits are reassuring and serve as indicators that I am doing the right things. I would like to commend you, your services and staff for the wonderful job you all are doing with this program,” he added. “I am not sure how the funding works for this program but it should be kept in place.

As a result, I am sending a copy of this to all political officials, letting them know of the excellent work your team is doing.”

Since the community paramedic program was launched at KDH in July 2017, patients from the North Grenville community have received regular visits from Leeds Grenville Community Paramedics. KDH and Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service are looking to expand the program. Currently patients are referred to the program

by KDH nursing management following an ER visit or hospital admission.

The Leeds Grenville Paramedic Service is responsible for providing prehospital, emergency medical care to all the residents of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It covers over 3,350 square kilometres and responds to more than 20,000 calls a year. The Service is a division within the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville that reports to the Joint Services Committee, which is comprised of representatives from the Counties Council, the City of Brockville, Town of Prescott and the Town of Gananoque.

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Join us at the Kemptville Blood Donor Clinic & help us celebrate Dustin's Birthday!

Monday, May 7th North Grenville Municipal Centre, 285 County Road 44 1:30 pm to 4 pm & 5 pm to 7:30 pm Dustin was diagnosed with MDS (myelodisplastic syndrome) in April 2017. In May we learned that he had found a match and would have a stem cell transplant in the coming weeks. At his consultation appointment he was admitted to the hospital with a virus. Little did we know the MDS and virus would stir a rare disease that would require hardcore chemo along with multiple blood transfusions. Dustin received well over 150 transfusions, 21 of which were received on his last day with us. Our goal, in Dustin's honour, is to replenish those 150 units (and then some) and to build the stem cell bank.

Innovative Parkinson’s program at KDH

Physiotherapist Tanya Collins leading the group at The Workshop Dance Studio in Kemptville.

As Parkinson’s Awareness Month is recognized across Canada, Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) is spreading the word about its unique program for people with the neurodegenerative illness.

For a number of years, KDH has been offering a weekly Parkinson’s Exercise and Movement Group that focuses on strengthening and balance exercises – last year KDH moved the program out of the Hospital and into a dance studio! The move was made possible by an innovative collaboration with The Workshop Dance Studio in Kemptville.

Parkinson’s affects the body’s movement; its most common symptoms are tremor, slowness and stiffness, impaired balance and rigidity of the muscles. Although the diagnosis of Parkinson’s may be life-changing, its symptoms can be successfully managed with medication, counselling and exercise.

Operating the KDH Parkinson’s exercise group at The Workshop Dance Studio means increased access to this important program: physiotherapist Tanya Collins reports that KDH has been able to eliminate its previous waiting list. And with The Workshop Dance Studio’s owner, Nancy Morgan, acting as an additional instructor, a broader scope of expertise can be offered to the participants as they perform the exercises and movements. In addition, with more room to move freely, the therapeutic benefits for specific Parkinson’s impairments are optimized, while the temperature-regulated space provides increased comfort for participants.

KDH’s Parkinson’s program is offered in partnership with Parkinson Society Ottawa. The Exercise and Movement Group meets every Wednesday at 1:00 pm at The Workshop Dance Studio in Kemptville. To join, call 613.258.6133, extension 136 to make an appointment for an initial assessment. A doctor’s referral is not required.

If you have been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you are not alone. Parkinson Canada has information and tools you need to lead a healthier, more independent life. Learn more at http://www.parkinson.ca.

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Students teach Hospital staff about recycling

Coming Up June 13th Rideau Glenn Golf Course To register Contact John Spero at 613 258 8820 or Ron Tracey at 613 258 6999 All proceeds go to Parkinsons.

Free Barbecue to follow event Auction during barbecue

Aeverie Lane and Chris Gibson to raise awareness about the importance of recycling.”

In honour of Earth Day, students from Grades 7 to 10 from Sainte-Marguerite Bourgeoys set up bristol board displays at the hospital about everything from how to recycle properly, to the effects of plastics and other types of garbage on wildlife.

A presentation by Grade 10 students, Aeverie Lane and Chris Gibson, explained that

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John Spiro and his wife moved here from Ottawa nine years ago, after their good friend Ron Tracey kept telling him this was the place to be. John was diagnosed with Parkinsons 18 years ago, but that never stopped him from doing the things he loved most. While living in Ottawa, he joined the Old Buzzards Hockey League, where the only requirement for participating is that you must have a medical condition.

After moving to North Grenville, John initiated an annual golf tournament to raise money for Parkinsons. It began with his teammates from Ottawa, but the numbers involved quickly grew to more than thirty men, many of whom come from the North Grenville area.

This year's event will be held June 13, at the Rideau Glen Golf Club. An auction will take place during the free BBQ after the golf.

The cost is $95 for the day and this includes an embroidered golf cap, a T Shirt, drinks, barbecue, prizes, trophies, golf cart and eighteen holes, plus a scramble format. To sign up for the event, please call John at 613.258.8820, or email barbandjohn2685@hotmail.com.

Students from École catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys took over the break room at Kemptville District Hospital last Monday to teach the staff about the benefits of recycling.

“We have a partnership with the hospital,” says Vice Principal, Angela Certosini, “We decided to organize an event

there is currently 270,000 tons of plastic floating in the ocean. “Sea turtles consume plastic bags because they think they are jellyfish,” Aeverie says. “We are hoping to bring out people’s feelings to motivate change.”

Lianna McCann, Grade 8, and Aaliyah Fleury, Grade 9, created a powerpoint presentation to share with the staff to talk about where our garbage ends up, and how they can

UCDSB Students Collaborate at iLead Day

school board acknowledges Indigenous students and that more people can come here and learn not to be ashamed of their culture.”

The UCDSB hosts iLead Days four times during each school year. All Indigenous students and their allies across the board are invited to attend. You can find more information about Indigenous studies across the UCDSB and iLead days on the board website.

United Counties begin a fire services study

Counties Council has approved the hiring of an independent consultant with strategic fire service expertise to initiate the investigation into a Counties-wide fire services study.

The consultants will work with the Leeds Grenville Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) at a workshop involving the area’s 10 member municipalities. The workshop’s outcome will be to prepare a scope of work for a Counties fire services study. This scope will be brought back to Council to consider.

The costs and requirements for municipal fire services have increased significantly over the past decade, including increased standards for fire equipment, firefighting, and dispatching. The goal of the review is to determine whether a Counties-wide fire service will provide efficiencies for greater value to lower-tier municipalities.

The Counties is currently responsible for fire communications. It owns and operates the fire communications infrastructure and has a five-year agreement with the City of Brockville for dispatch services. The United Counties makes an annual donation for Fire Mutual Aid training, fire prevention activities, and Mutual Aid Association membership.

In March, the provincial government announced it will be implementing two regulations requiring all fire services to provide the mandatory training and certification for their firefighters and that municipalities prepare fire risk assessments. For more information, contact Counties CAO, Andy Brown at 613-342-3840, ext. 2301.

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recycle more efficiently to make sure recyclable items don’t end up in the landfill.

“Recycling should always be an option,” Lianna said, while pointing out all the different recycling receptacles in the hospital on a map. The girls also addressed some of the many reasons hospital staff say they don’t recycle, giving tips and trying to remove barriers.

KDH staff was happy to share their breakroom with the students, who filled the space with youthful enthusiasm. “Encouraging recycling at work can be a real challenge in any organization, as there are always reasons why it can’t be done, such as ‘we’re too busy’, or ‘it’s inconvenient’,” said Tammy Buehlow, Manager of Building Services at KDH. “The students offer a fresh perspective on what sustainability means to their generation, and promote how just a little bit of effort on our part will make all the difference for their future. Their optimism is contagious!”

Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) students participated in the UCDSB Indigenous Leadership (iLead) Day on April 25, in Kemptville. Approximately 145 students attended the interactive workshop that focused on teaching Indigenous youth more about their culture and how to be knowledge sharers.

Students discussed the positive aspects about their schools in small groups, and formulated ways to improve opportunities and Indigenous learning within their schools through a variety of methods, such as creating clubs, bringing in elders to share knowledge, and visiting reservations.

Principal of Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Education, Shelly Corlyon, and Indigenous Lead Teacher, Bill Montgomery, encouraged students to take their ideas back to their schools and to work toward implementing them as leaders within their own schools.

“This is all about student voice,” Corlyon said. Dustin Brant, Indigenous Outreach Officer with Loyalist College, talked with students about post-secondary options available, the importance of thinking about what they want to do after high school early on, and choosing an institution that makes sense for them.

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Mongolia’s Altai mountain range, where the temperature, at times, dropped to -30 degrees. Louise said that it was an experience of a life time to have this honour. Her images were striking, and her sharing this story made it possible for someone like me, who will never experience anything like it, to have a glimpse of what life is like for these Kozak clans and their families.

Louise said that not much seems to have changed with this culture since the days of Genghis Khan, other than trucks are now being used, but that is still very rare.

There are other small changes, to be seen in their clothing, which has become more western. Another change is that the children have now started attending boarding schools for months at a time.

One of the most notable

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by Marguerite Boyer What a night. This past week, I was invited to the Rotary Club's Regional Rotary Dinner and Project Fair.

Five clubs attended from the surrounding area, and they shared their stories of projects in which they have been involved. Not only do they contribute to local charities, but international causes also get their attention. Each member representing the five Rotary Clubs attending shared their story of the initiatives in which they have been involved. It was quite impressive. Also attending the celebration were

representatives from two clubs from the United States, along with the next District Governor for Rotary.

The dinner was held at the First Christian Reformed Church, supplied and served

by Dial a Chef, and if you have not experienced his roast beef, I urge you to attend any event he may be serving at, here in our local community. He always manages to impress me. The dessert table was fabulous, a long table of never-ending sweets, all prepared by Cora Beking. I am not sure where she found the time to do all that baking. But thank you

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Eagle Hunter trip in Mongolia. She was invited to tour with 8 other photographers, travelling with a tribal family and their hundreds of cattle, horses, camels etc. through

Cora, I am sure, from all of us who attended.

The guest speaker for the evening was photographer, Louise Radmore, and she spoke about her one month

images for me, was of the young daughter of the Clan Chief holding an eagle on her arm. She called herself an eagle hunter, unheard of for girls in this predominantly Moslem society. It is my hope that Louise can come back in the near future to share her story more widely with this community. You can see many of her images by going to her facebook page at @louiseradmorepovphotos It was a great evening, and I thank the Rotary for all that they do, and for an evening out. Local businesses: please don’t forget to pick up your Duck Decoy; it’s not too late. For those interested in knowing more about the club and what they do, please visit www.kemptvillerotary. ca, or contact Cora Beking at corabeking54@gmail.com.

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KDH holds Volunteer Appreciation Tea

L -R: Bev Fry, Bea Francis, Lois Nichols and Auxiliary President Connie Parsons With some attendees decked out in hats and gloves, several dozen Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) volunteers gathered at Southgate Community Church on April 19, 2018 to be honoured at the hospital’s annual Volunteer Appreciation Tea. Frank J. Vassallo, KDH’s Chief Executive Officer, welcomed the volunteers and thanked them on behalf of all KDH staff, physicians, and the Board of Directors for their outstanding service to the hospital.

“Often your face is the first they see when patients and families come through our doors,” he noted. “Your smiles, kind words and gestures create a wonderful impression, and their visit starts off in an exemplary way”.

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ments, including sandwiches, scones, tarts and other desserts, all beautifully presented on cloth-covered tables, the current Kemptville District Hospital Auxiliary (KDHA) President, Connie Parsons, rose to speak.

She began by thanking all the volunteers for a great year serving as their President.

“I’ve gotten to know most of you personally during the year,” she said, “and it’s been a joy!” Connie continued with a recap of the volunteers’ efforts on behalf of the hospital in 2017, noting that the Auxiliary’s total number of members, including the Acton’s Corners unit and Hey Day volunteers, was 220 dedicated individuals.

Together they gave more than 12,000 hours of their time to KDH in 2017.

In addition to providing volunteers for every area of the hospital, the KDHA raises funds for essential medical equipment. A round of applause greeted Connie’s announcement that the organization had recently written a cheque to the hospital for $65,000 – for the fourth year in a row. Further, the Auxiliary’s total contribution since its founding in 1959 is in excess of $1.3 million!

Connie asked for a moment of silence to recognize volunteers who had passed away during the previous year: Judy Armstrong, Alice Ballerscheff, Steve Desjardins, and Joan Selleck. She then presented a number of awards to members who had achieved service milestones in 2017: Certificates of Appreciation for five years of service were presented to James Booth, Maretta Hay, Linda Purdy, and Anne Scott.

“V-Pins”, in recognition of either 10 consecutive years of volunteer service, 1,000 hours within five years, or four years on the Executive, were awarded to Linda Carnegie, Joan Gummeson, Barb Morris, Marlene Selleck, and Lois Watts-Sculthorpe. Jane Wolfe received an Outstanding Service Pin for completion of a two-year term as KDHA President. Special mention was made of the following volunteers in recognition of copious hours of service in 2017: Bev Fry with 500 hours; Marlene Selleck with 400 hours, and Betty Beach, Sylvia Johnston and Lois Watts-Sculthorpe, each with 300 hours.

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mended Jolene Stover, convener of the KDHA’s major annual fundraiser, Hey Day, for her tremendous effort, noting that the event will be held June 8 and 9 this year.

The tea was catered by Gypsy Rose Wedding and Event Services, and organized by Pamela Lalonde, KDH’s Volunteer Coordinator. Playing guitar and singing, Hunter Lalonde provided musical entertainment that was appreciated by all in attendance. The event concluded with Connie sharing that the Auxiliary is in need of more volunteers; she encouraged everyone present to help spread the word. For more information about becoming a volunteer at KDH, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@ kdh.on.ca.

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A rare warm Spring day inspired a photographic outing to Iroquios, Ontario. This row of boathouses are located on the appropriately named Boathouse Road. Photo by Dorothea Larson.

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