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Friends, family and local dignitaries gathered at Curry Park to honour Terry Butler

by Hilary Thomson Friends, family and local dignitaries gathered in Curry Park on Saturday afternoon for the dedication of the Waterfront Trail to former municipal councillor, the late Terry Butler.

Terry Butler was a councillor in North Grenville for eleven years. During his tenure, he spearheaded a number of legacy projects

including Anniversary Park, the Giving Garden and the Waterfront Trail. Terry’s vision for the Waterfront Trail was to have it run along the South Branch from Riverside Park to Anniversary Park. Currently the 1.3km trail connects Old Town Kemptville to Clothier Street East passing through Curry Park.

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Although she did not know Terry well, she says he taught her the importance of persistence and patience.

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the idea in 2001 and called it the Kemptville Creek Boardwalk,” he says. “No matter what kind of setback he had, he would persist.”

Terry’s wife Josie Butler was at the dedication and had the honour of unveiling the Men’s &ear new Waterfront Trail sign in bies W a B Curry Park, which honours her husband. “Thank you Quality Women's Clothing & Accessories.. to municipal council and friends for coming out to COMMUNITY SQUARE this special event for my Kemptville husband,” she said.

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A new crosswalk signal has been installed on a busy student crossing near several schools on Concession Road, North Grenville. It consists of light flashes and will help pedestrians at the marked crosswalk cross safely when traffic is stopped. Officers from the Grenville County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have been ensuring drivers and pedestrians are following the proper procedures when they arrive at the crosswalk.

Failure to stop at a crossover in a Community Safety Zone will cost drivers $730 and 4 demerit points as per section 140(1)(a) of the Highway Traffic Act (HTA).

Pedestrians also need to be aware that they should not step out onto the crosswalk or move into the path of a vehicle that is so close that it is not possible for the driver to stop safely.

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A Business Improvement Area (BIA) is a “made-in-Ontario” innovation that allows local business people and commercial property owners and tenants to join together and, with the support of the municipality, to organize, finance, and carry out physical improvements and promote economic development in their district.

Local businesses, working collectively as a BIA, become catalysts for improving the local business environment and quality of life of the community. As a legal organization mandated by the Municipal Act 2001, BIAs are able to create and manage a budget and, through the municipality, collect a levy from businesses in the area to raise the necessary funds for that budget.

A BIA is run by a volunteer Board of Management elected from its members.

The Board is nominated at an Annual General Meeting and, once approved by municipal council, serves a four-year term concurrent with the term of Council.

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mothers in the Ottawa area. They currently have 14 active members who live in North Grenville and surrounding area.

Current chair MaryLouise Benedict has been leading the group for four years. She said she decided to get involved when she retired because she believes in helping those in Africa who are not as fortunate as we are in Canada.

“I believe that if you have the time and money, you should help people,” she says. “It doesn’t always have to be local.”

MaryLouise’s passion for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers grew after she had the opportunity to go to Uganda and Kenya in 2013 and learn more about what she had been working to support. One community-based initiative has helped provide grandmothers with proper

houses made of bricks instead of the shacks that many had become accustomed to making their home. Another program provided sewing machines to a group of grandmothers who have been able to help provide for their families by starting up a sewing business in their community. All the initiatives that Grandmothers to Grandmothers support are community-based programs that have been created for and with grandmothers to help transform lives and restore hope in their communities.

The Gorgeous Grannies and Friends supports Grandmothers to Grandmothers through three main fundraising events throughout the year. In the spring they hold a plant and bake sale, and in the fall they hold two craft sales. They also sell their handmade items at Country Creations in Osgoode year-round. MaryLouise says they are usually able to raise about $7000 a year for Grandmothers to Grandmothers through all their fundraising initiatives.

The fall fundraisers are coming up and both happen to fall on a weekend in mid-November.

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nies and Friends will have a few tables at the annual Tartan Bazaar at the Kars Presbyterian Church where they sell sewing, crafts and holiday plant arrangements. On Sunday, November 17, they will be taking part in the Ottawa regional Grandmothers to Grandmothers event, the GRAND Market, at Lansdowne Park, where they will also be selling a variety of sewing, crafts and home décor. MaryLouise says it will be a busy weekend, but she and the group are looking forward to raising as much money as they can for the cause.

Grandmothers to Grandmothers is always looking for new members. While there is always space in the local group, MaryLouise says she is happy to help people make the connection with a group in their area. To learn more about Grandmothers to Grandmothers you can contact MaryLouise through the Gorgeous Grannies and Friends Facebook page or visit the Grandmothers to Grandmothers website (http:// grandmotherscampaign. org/).

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Grandmothers helping grandmothers. That is the goal of an international campaign that has significant representation in the Ottawa area and an active local chapter.

The Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign is an initiative started by the Stephen Lewis Foundation in 2006. Its goal is to help support grandmothers in Africa who have become the permanent guardians of children orphaned by the AIDS crisis.

The local chapter of Grandmothers to Grandmothers calls themselves the Gorgeous Grannies and Friends. It was started by a group of neighbours in North Gower in 2010, and they are one of about 20 groups that support Grandmothers to Grand-

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A slap on the wrist

by Hilary Thomson We did it. We made it through another election.

We dealt with the plethora of lawn signs that dotted all the major routes in North Grenville and watched as both local candidates and party leaders duked it out in local and national debates.

Canadians have spoken.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal team has been chosen once again to lead the country, but on a tight leash. With the new minority government, the Liberals will have to work across party lines to get anything through the house. As election day drew nearer, and with the possibility of a minority government looking more and more likely, Conservative leader Andrew Sheer warned of the dangers of a Liberal/ NDP coalition, saying that it would see the federal debt skyrocket. It’s something we “can’t afford,” he said.

However, the idea of a coalition seems to be more of a scare tactic than any-

thing else. Global News asked party leaders during the election how they saw the possibility of working with a Liberal minority government. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh expressed his interest in working with the Liberals on a number of files where they seem to see eye to eye, including climate change, pharmacare, interest-free student loans, cell phone bills, affordable housing, as well as taxing the “ultra-rich.” That being said, he maintains that their “focus is not on a coalition.”

With the surge in Bloc Québécois MPs in Quebec, winning more seats in this election than the NDP, the Bloc is another party that the Liberals will have to look at working with over the next few years. The Party’s leader, Yves-François Blanchet, says he won’t officially prop up a Liberal minority; however, his party will support proposals that are good for Quebec.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May told Global News that her party is will-

ing to work across party lines on items like climate change, however they will not formally back a government that supports pipelines.

Given that Trudeau has announced that he is going ahead with the trans-mountain pipeline, it is unlikely that the Green’s three seats will swing his way.

Regardless of the fact that Monday night was celebratory for Justin Trudeau, it is clear that his significant missteps over the past few years have done some damage. They lost seats overall and have been completely shut out of Alberta and Saskatchewan. One of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers, Ralph Goodale, lost his seat to the conservative representative in his riding of ReginaWascana where he as been the MP since 1993. Trudeau made a point to address the country’s most conservative provinces in his victory speech, saying that he heard their frustrations and wants to be there to support them.

“Let us all work to bring our country together,” he said.

It would be remiss not to mention the election results in our own riding in a reflection about the election. Not surprisingly, Michael Barrett won his seat in LeedsGrenville-Thousand Island and Rideau Lakes, which has been a conservative riding since 2004. Even though the Liberals didn’t have a seat to lose in this riding, the results of the 2019 election as compared to 2015 clearly show a disenchantment with the Liberals. In 2015, the Liberals were almost neck and neck with the Conservatives in our riding, but last Monday’s results showed a much greater disparity in votes between the two parties. Interestingly, most of the Liberal’s lost support went to the Greens and NDP, both of which gained a significant number of votes in this riding.

It was clearly a good political move for the Liberals to backtrack on their 2015 promise of electoral reform, as they lost the popular vote to the Conservatives. Global news reported that it is ex-

tremely rare for a party to have lost the popular vote but still form the government, citing only one time (funnily enough in one of Pierre Trudeau’s minority governments) that this has happened in the past.

Perhaps Trudeau junior is following in his father’s footsteps after all.

The outcome of this election is not a surprise. There are clearly enough Canadians (under our current electoral system) that are willing to give Justin Trudeau and his government another chance. The next four years will be about action. Will he be progressive and deliberate in his policies to fight climate change? Will he really work towards improving the lives of the middle class?

Will he take action on the recommendations set out by his inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls?

Four years ago, Canadians put their confidence in Justin Trudeau, and even though he was green and inexperienced, they trusted

him to have free reign on leading our country. After behaving badly, the result of the 2019 election is a slap on the wrist for him and his government. An “Ok you can continue to be our leader, but you clearly need a babysitter.” Let’s hope Jagmeet has his babysitting certificate…

carbon dioxide emissions, sea level rises, the pollution of our oceans, the increase in plastic (plastic production has multiplied 20 times since the 1960s according to the World Economic Form), the rapid extinction of species, deforestation, industrialized farming and fishing, and urban development meant for those scientists that we have arrived at a new interval of Earth time.

So, modern life is, basically slowly killing the planet.

Small wonder that toxic societies can damage us too”.

Sincerely Kath Piché

wished to pursue an unorthodox line of thinking vis-a-vis the unsettled climate debate... the hammer of climate diktat would descend." Of course it's well documented that fossil industry money flows in vast amounts to the climate change denial community, while, in our case at least, researching global warming and environmental abuse has only led to the assessment that we're too independent-minded to be employable. It was in 1989, in reference to preventing the logging of old growth forests on Haida Gwaii, that we were first warned, in a letter to the Editor of the 'Queen Charlotte Observer,' that we were being lucratively paid to work for ecological integrity, but thirty years later none of this hypothetical money has yet shown up.

Jim then critiques our handout for the 27 Sept climate march in Bishops Mills, which was meant for discussion at the march, sent to the Times as background for

reporting on the march, and published on 9 October ("Historical Aspects of Global Warming," North Grenville Times 7(41):9) as worthy of public interest, without our having a chance to revise it for publication.

The first point we made in the handout was that the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide had been a settled matter of physical chemistry ever "Since the day that [Swedish scientist Svante August] Arrhenius first did the math" in 1909 (yes, I quoted from a song I wrote in 2015, which others wouldn't have heard - this was a handout for discussion in our kitchen). Jim discusses the tentative nature of scientific theories, (without mentioning the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide) in terms of Einstein's relativity having refined Newtonian gravitation, without mentioning that this was a refinement that didn't change the calculations of the interactions of matter and

light among everyday objects.

The "beauty and stability of the Newtonian system" was not "gone" - it was enhanced by a greater beauty and stability for high speed and exceptionally massive events.

It's certain that science progresses because, as "faith in doubt," it's always selfcorrecting, but the other side of this is that, because nobody can know everything, one trusts the conclusions of ones colleagues. It's not scientific scholarship to cherry-pick isolated facts while ignoring the tree they grew on. Climatologists struggled through the 1970s and 1980s to come back to the conclusion everyone had assumed before the lull in warming that was brought on by particulate pollution from 1945-1975. There was no funding from any establishment for coming to this conclusion, which would necessarily lead to at least

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This morning I had to stop along Highway 44 to allow a little group of kindergarten kids with their teacher and other helpers, to cross the road from Kemptville Public School to the Ferguson Forest, on a field trip.

Lucky kids, wise teacher.

As a former high school geography teacher and field trip organizer myself, I know well the immense value of such trips, as well as how much fun they are, exposing children at a young age to the beauty and intricacies of the natural world. How wonderful the teacher was taking advantage of the school’s proximity to the forest... a two-minute walk away. It’s vital for all kids to understand the environmental systems which govern the way we live, something which has been brought sharply into focus as we become aware of the urgency of the climate crisis. Congratulations to the teacher for providing this amazing experience to her

young students.

We’re so fortunate to have the forest on our doorstep. We must continue to cherish it as an educational resource, and local treasure.

Monica Wallace, Kemptville Dear Editor, It seems that almost every time one of your regular contributors disses climate change and thinks it’s mostly nonsense, I come across something very interesting when I’m reading.

In a book from our local library entitled “Notes on a Nervous Planet”, by author Matt Haig, he states on the environment: “In 2016, at the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, leading scientists said that we were leaving the Holocene epoch – one marked by 12,000 years of stable climate since last the Ice Age - and entering something else: the Anthropocene age, or “new age of man”.

The massive acceleration of

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Dear Editor, In the 16 October Times, under the heading of "Settled Science?" Jim Bertram affirms that "it is only those who are relatively independent financially, or retired like me, [who] are able to make the comments that I bring forward," and that "if a young PhD candidate...

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letters continued considerable turmoil in the established order of things.

We know that climate scientists working for oil companies came to this conclusion, which was suppressed by their employers.

Most of Jim's discussion was about our saying that "The 'Little Ice Age,' which culminated in the 'year without a summer' of 1816, is now regarded as being due to reduced carbon dioxide levels following the regrowth of Central and North American forests after introduced diseases killed tens of millions of native Americans."

He complains that the "Little Ice Age" wasn't really an Ice Age, but the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't really Maple leaves either. Locally, we need only think of the disappearance of the agricultural St-Lawrence Iroquoian settlements immediately after first European contact, and then the massive burning of the regrown forest

by Loyalist settlers, into potash for sale to England, to see both aspects of this scenario.

This new theory, which originated with thoughts about the regrowth of Central American forests after the collapse of the civilizations there by the Spanish, is based on the measured levels of carbon dioxide and the archeological understanding of the extent to which the agricultural civilizations in the interior of North America were decimated by disease. Because this is a new theory, explanations from older theories are still out there, and they likely played a part in the circumstances of the cooling. Our reference to "the year without a summer" was included to show that we understood that this coldest episode of the Little Ice Age was triggered by the explosive eruption of Mount Tambora.

Without commenting on our concern about positive feedback loops that might release huge amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, or that "evolutionary psychologists affirm that... there's always been selection for focusing on the present moment and discounting of the future," Jim veers into political classifications about the "hysterical and financial claims of the Left..." and urges the reader to "take a hard look at what the NDP, Greens, and Liberals are saying, and use your imagination.

It's not hard to see where their economic non-policies lead."

We suppose this is a commentary on our assertion that "If climate change is to be controlled, we'll need to Oct. 30, 2019

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change the whole tenor of society to think more globally... and, as energy sourcing is decarbonized, also to work towards the incorporation of what's now atmospheric carbon into living trees, agricultural soils, and wetlands."

This is the whole point: between the fossil & organic carbon released by the technology of the industrial revolution and the population explosion released by the germ theory of disease, actions directed by personal or national self-interest are now dangerously obsolete. Recognizing this obsolescence will be a big change, which may well upset "those who enjoy their current economic status." Humanity has, however, come to the point where we need to find ways to think and act as a species for the good of ourselves and the other species that make up the ecosystems we live in.

Fred Schueler Research Curator Dear Editor, I have lived in the Leeds/ Grenville riding since 2003.

Out in the country (Edwardsburg-Cardinal), we received very little but some printed election material. I moved into Kemptville the day the election was called. Here I

Friends and even family members will sometimes say to the dementia sufferer that they do not think they have dementia, because sometimes the patient can find ways to mask their memory issues or may be having a good day that day. The thing is that when you live with a person with dementia day in and day out, you notice even the little things and you know when they are having a good day and what a bad day is like.

The speaker was very knowledgeable and answered questions from the audience, but one of the attendees was an executive from a local hospital and he seemed to be there not to help or learn from the speaker, but to quiz the audience about their experiences. He was using the audience as a focus group for a project he is working on toward better help for caregivers. Although most of the audience would wish to support his efforts, he definitely moved the dialogue away from the intended topic to his area of interest. This was unfortunate in that it robbed the audience of the opportunity to discuss the advertised topic, and some of the folks had traveled an hour or more to discuss the issue they were living with only to have the

received nothing, only what your paper provided.

There were only a few signs to be seen (mainly Conservative, a few NDP, Liberal and Green). I wasn't sure of the names of the candidates!

Is this region so blue the other parties don't do much active campaigning?

Mary Sue Boyle Dear Editor, Last week, I went to the Words of Wisdom Learning seminar at the North Grenville Public Library.

The Topic was Ambiguous Loss and was directed to caregivers and those dealing with Dementia in a friend or family member. The speaker was Celia Carter MSW, RSW. The speaker started by defining what Ambiguous Loss meant. Most of the attendees were caregivers and were only too aware of the meaning and effects of ambiguous loss.

You see, when you are dealing with dementia, it is almost like watching a person walk away into a thick fog, because they are still there but they aren’t at the same time. As the dementia progresses, you still have the physical person there with you but, they are slowly fading into the fog of dementia. You are losing them but they are still there.

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A lot of effort goes into each party selecting individuals who well represent the riding, and it would mean that this effort wouldn't be wasted if candidates would continue to work together as a caucus.

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Some thoughts on Campaigns and Parliaments

by David Herman Well the election is over and regardless of your political preference, m I do not think very many Canadians are happy with the way the campaigns were run.

I think that too much time and effort was expended by most parties, the two mainstream parties for sure, in mudslinging and character assassination and presenting ideals usually about the other party as facts when they were not. Everyone seemed to buy into Catherine McKenna’s theory that if you say something often enough and loud enough it will become a fact and be believed. I heard from many people that they wished the parties would talk about

what they planned to do to improve life in Canada, instead of telling us the bad things that their opposition had planned for us if they formed the next government. The incumbent party had a record to defend, and it also was a target for their opponents to criticize.

Most voters know what has been going on over the past 4 years and have already decided if they approve of the actions or not.

So, this brings me back to the line of informing what you plan in the next four years if you receive the votes to form a government. That summarizes my thoughts on the campaign.

Now I want to briefly discuss our current situation with the Liberal party holding a strong Minority. They say that they have no plans

to try and set up a formal coalition with some or any of the other parties. I think this is good. Here is where I differ from the current thinking of most political parties, in that I feel that once a politician is elected, their main loyalty should be to the people of Canada and not their party. Their party platform that they ran on defines basically their philosophy of how they feel the country should move forward, and that should guide the electorate in choosing their representative. Now that they are elected, they should be guided by their conscience and support, or not, legislation that is good for the country. The role of opposition should entail opposing bills based on their merit and not on who authored the particu-

lar legislation. It does not serve the country to have members of the house being told how to vote on anything. This would, I think, be similar to the legislature in the Northern Territories.

This should lead to a productive parliament regardless of Minority or Majority government benches and should lead to better legislation, because none of the members are being forced to follow the autocratic lead of the PMO or party brass. I saw glimpses of this in the British parliament when even the ruling government voted against Boris Johnson when they did not agree with the course he was setting. With our new Minority Parliament, I am hoping we see all the members working for Canada and not just for their party.

members on the ruling side of the government. It means that for the next four years (if the government stays in power and maybe longer) that the West has no representation on major issues. This frustration will naturally grow during this government’s mandate.

I commend Justin Trudeau in that he did not follow his father in referring to the West as “Dirty Dogs,” for not voting for him, as his father did.

In that one act Pierre Trudeau engraved his name in the folklore of the West.

This time Western separation has to be taken seriously.

We have an adult generation whose predominant political lifelong view is one of frustration with the political process of dominance from Central Canada. The presence of the Bloc in parliament, speaking for the issues of Quebec, will only exacerbate the voice of the West. The repeated demise of the oil patch by first Pierre Trudeau, with his national energy program, and the repetitious demise under Justin with his value on jobs in Quebec, but no regard for the thousands of people put out of work in Alberta, has made this the time to act.

The rhetoric on saving jobs

during the SNC scandal had a very hollow ring in Western Canada. They could only conclude that a job in Quebec was somehow worth more than a job in Alberta. The reality is that we have a Prime Minister who is incapable of thinking for the West. Knowing his past track record and not having representation in government will only fast track separation. A recent poll stated that 71% of Albertans believe that the policies of the federal government have hurt Alberta.

Westerners will never comprehend why Central Canada prefers to purchase its petroleum from offshore sources such as Saudi Arabia, and pride ourselves in the export of coal to the far East.

We have the technology for cleaner development of these resources than the countries we support. For instance, when the petroleum sector was developed in the North Sea, they sent personnel to Alberta to learn how it could be done in the most environmentally friendly manner

possible. They recognized Alberta as having world leading technology. We not only hire personnel in other countries to produce our products at a higher rate of contamination, but we add the cost and contamination of shipping in both directions.

The present political scenario in Canada is quickly reverting to tribalism. I use that term having some personal experience of working with people who had a tribal background. Tribalism is fashioned by a sense of belonging (or not belonging), like being part of a gang. Tribalism instills fear.

It also initiates sudden and unchangeable actions. This is a time for elder statesmen (male and female) to have a moderating voice. We have too much at stake in Canada as we know it to simply allow it to be carved up into five or six tribal states. This is a time to extend grace. A time to listen as never before. A time to hear the frustration of Western Canada.

In my opinion The election and Western separatism

by Dan Driedgert, Kemptville resident The election of 2019 is now history. We are now left with a deeply divided country.

So much so, that the Western separatist movement grew by 170,000 members in less than 24 hours after the closing of the polls. Few people in central Canada have any comprehension of Western discontent. Westerners see themselves in an impossible scenario since the election.

Historically they have repeatedly been the sacrificial lamb as Ontario and Quebec have determined major policy issues. They legitimately feel that most issues are decided

by Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto while Alberta has carried the weight of a financial formula of equalization payments that remains in place even though the days of a prosperous oil patch are long gone.

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Counties-wide business survey report released

The largest regional business survey ever completed is out and includes the insight of 300 frontline owners and managers across all sectors.

Findings of the Counties-wide Business Retention + Expansion (BR+E) Report were presented to Counties Council by the Leeds Grenville Economic Development Office. One highlight is many business owners and senior officials interviewed predict an overall positive business climate in the next year.

Of the companies surveyed, 40% indicated expansion plans that will lead to 349 new jobs. Another 13% said they would be adding product lines, completing process improvements and looking at adding floor space. This translates to an increased need for qualified workers and employee training, the report states. Data was collected from all 10 member municipalities.

“It has been proven that 76-90% of new jobs come from the success of existing businesses,” said United Counties Warden Pat Sayeau. “It makes perfect sense to work with and support the businesses that are already heavily invested in our community and help them create more jobs in the future.”

The Warden said businesses provided a wealth of valuable information pertaining to doing business in Leeds Grenville.

“We thank our businesses for their participation,” he said. Over the past 18 months, a combination of 30 volunteers and staff completed the interviews.

“This information will allow the Counties and its municipalities, along with other business support organizations, to review their programs and priorities to ensure they are aligned with existing and future needs of businesses,” the Warden said.

The next step will see the Economic Development Office finalize its strategic areas of focus over five years along with its annual action plan to Counties Council. One of the actions going forward will be to follow-up with businesses who have requested resources and other supports, according to Ann Weir, Manager of the Economic Development Office.

“Working to support business sustainability and growth will continue to be a Counties Economic Development priority.

Some of the suggested actions in the BR+E report already have conversations and initiatives underway. A great example is the Pathways to Production program that is addressing entry-level workforce development support for many of our manufacturers throughout the region,” she said.

Businesses were asked over 100 questions that resulted in streams of qualitative and quantitative data. Once completed, the survey data was entered, reviewed and five emerging areas of focus were identified.

These trends include the need for workforce development; business collaborations and support, including business-tobusiness and municipality-to-business; external marketing; infrastructure improvements; as well as a diverse economy.

When employers were asked what positions or skills they have difficulty recruiting, the top answers were labourers, skilled trades, sales associates, drivers, administrative workers, technicians, cooks, equipment operators and managers/ supervisors.

The full Business Retention + Expansion Report can be found at www.investleedsgrenville.com/bre

FRAUD – FORGED DOCUMENT On October 16, 2019 around 9:00 p.m. officers from the Grenville County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of fraud on County Road 43, in the municipality of Kemptville. The investigation revealed that an individual attempted to obtain medication at a local pharmacy using a false prescription.

A woman, age 36 from Ottawa, Ontario was arrested and charged with: Utter forged documents contrary to section 368(1)(a) of the Criminal Code The accused was released and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brockville on November 22, 2019.

If you have any information on the above investigations or any other please contact Grenville OPP on 1-888-310-1122, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-(TIPS) 8477 or submit your tip on-line at www.tipsubmit.com.Crime Stoppers does not want your name, you don't go to court, and you could earn cash reward. www.ngtimes.ca

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Public Works - Who Pays?

by Councillor John Barclay with help from Public Works staff Some will argue that it all eventually comes out of our pockets one way or another, but I think it's instructive to know that not every dollar the Municipality receives for public works comes from your residential or business property tax. Of the $5.3M 2019 Public Works Capital Budget (including the Water/ Wastewater silo budget of $1.9M) $664K of funding came from water/wastewater user fees; $862K came from grants; $530K came from development charges and $1.1M came from reserves. Less than half ($2.2M) came from taxation.

I’ve chosen a few examples of projects in this brief article to illustrate how the cost of building and maintaining our key infrastructure can come from a variety of sources.

Sidewalks and Roads The recently completed Clothier Street West sidewalk (from Holy Cross School to Hurd Street) was 90% funded from development charges. Development charges are a one-time fee levied by municipalities on new residential and non-residential properties to help pay for a portion of growth-related capital infrastructure costs.

Currently underway, the paving of Townline Road (from Hess to Tompkins) has a budget of $142K, with $80K supplied by our Gas Tax transfer and another $34K coming from development charges, leaving $28K coming from general taxation. The Gas Tax is money the federal government grants to municipalities through the Association of Municipalities of Ontario twice a year to support local infrastructure.

Over the past four years, the Municipality has partnered with the City of Ottawa concerning shared roadways. During that time, the North Grenville road crew completed two culvert replacements, surface treatment and slurry seal on Boundary Road from Garbert Road to County Road 19. In the 2019 budget, the final project under this program was for North Grenville to manage the slurry seal. North Grenville will manage the $39K upgrade, with the City of Ottawa providing half the funding ($19.5K), plus granting North Grenville a 25%

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administration fee ($5K), resulting in a final cost to tax-payers of $14.5K. This partnership, allowing North Grenville to tender and manage multiple projects, has been a multi-year program saving the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars Waste Management How Municipalities handle blue box recycling is undergoing changes as the market shifts to producer responsibility for post-consumer plastic, glass metal and fibre packaging. Recent news items about recycled material ending up in landfills or in foreign countries illegally has created some skepticism about our efforts to handle these materials responsibly. Our 2019 blue bin recycling program is budgeted to cost the Municipality $562K annually, for which we will receive a total waste diversion grant of $160K from the Province, and approximately $93K from the sale of the recycled commodities from Cascade, a large producer of recycled paper products and handler of plastics, metals and glass. In the future, under the new producer responsibility program, municipalities may be out of the recycling business; we may not even manage the contract for collecting the material.

In the past eleven months as Council Liaison to Public Works, I've learned a great deal about what the Public Works department does, how it does it and where the funding comes from. I'm still learning and am looking forward to sharing more information with you as time goes by. You can contact me by phone (Direct: 613-322-8132 or 613-875-4012), by email (jbarclay@northgrenville.on.ca) or drop by one of my Talk To Me Tuesdays weekly meet and greet sessions at a local coffee shop (locations posted on Facebook.com/JB4NG).

Council to Host Pre-Budget Public Consultation Meetings in November As part of the Municipality of North Grenville’s upcoming budget process, Council is inviting members of the public to attend prebudget consultation meetings.

They will be held on Monday, November 4 at 6:30 pm and Thursday, November 14 at 2 pm at the Municipality of North Grenville (285 County Road 44, Kemptville).

“These meetings are an opportunity for residents and business leaders to informally discuss with Council their perspectives and priorities for 2020 and beyond as part of the pre-budget planning process,” said Mayor Nancy Peckford. “Sustainability will be key to our considerations,” Peckford added.

Further, for the first time in North Grenville’s history, Council will embark upon a 4-year budget process to better anticipate expenditures and revenues over a multiyear budget cycle.

“Multi-year budgeting, which is widely used in the private sector, will enable our community to identify and plan for important community investments, as well as appropriately forecast revenue projections as our community grows,” added Jim McManaman, Deputy Mayor.

Official Budget presentations will be scheduled in December. Dates will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

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North Grenville welcomes New Director of Corporate Services/ Clerk After serving as Director of Corporate Services/Clerk for the Municipality of North Grenville since its inception in 1998, Cahl Pominville is set to retire at the end of November.

Prior to amalgamation, Cahl served as Clerk for the Town of Kemptville and the Township of Oxford-on-Rideau. He also served as Councilor for the Town of Kemptville from 1988 to 1991.

Mr. Pominville will be succeeded by Kimberley Casselman, who has recently been hired as the new Director of Corporate Services/Clerk. Ms. Cassleman comes to the Municipality of North Grenville with 12 years of progressive municipal experience, including 7 years with the City of Ottawa. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Queen’s University and a B.A. from the University of Ottawa.

“On behalf of the Municipality of North Grenville, I wish to welcome Kimberley to our organization,” said CAO Brian Carre. “Her past experience and knowledge of local government represents a tremendous asset to not only the corporation but also the people we serve,” he added.

A formal public introduction will take place at the November 5, 2019 Committee of the Whole meeting in which local media will have the opportunity to speak with Kimberley following the meeting.

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Life or Death globulins from damaging nerves. Andy felt he was dying and when he received his first treatment, he felt reborn as he could do what he used to do. He is very appreciative that there is a supply of blood to help him. Andy stated: “Without the treatments, I would not be alive today.

I would have been dead eight years ago”.

Although a rare disease, there are others who have CIDP. This is where your blood donation is so important to keep people like Andy healthy and alive. Be part of Canada’s Lifeline. The next Blood Donor Event in Kemptville will be on Monday, November 4 at the W.B. George Centre on the Kemptville Campus from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm, and from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. Please donate. To book an appointment, go to blood.ca

Submitted by Paul Rochon Andy Csiffary lives in Kemptville and enjoys a comfortable life being retired; but Andy is also living with CIDP, known as Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.

Nine years ago, Andy started getting tired very quickly, he had balance problems and would fall, he was losing body strength, his legs were going numb, as well as his hands. It took over a month before he was diagnosed with CIDP. By this time, he was having problems breathing as his organs were being affected.

Causes of CIDP are unknown, but it is believed to be an autoimmune disorder where the body defense system attacks healthy tissue, being the myelin sheet that protects nerves. It is a rare disease with only 5-7 cases per 100,000.

CIDP can be controlled with intravenous immunoglobulin. These are the antibodies removed from blood plasma that helps prevent other immuno-

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Chamber of Commerce launches Digital Main Street The Merrickville & District Chamber of Commerce announced last week that it had received a $10,000 grant from Digital Main Street (DMS) to fund a Digital Service Squad to help downtown small businesses in Merrickville-Wolford improve their online capabilities.

The Chamber received the Digital Main Street grant from the Ontario government to establish a Digital Service Squad to help main street small businesses enhance their use of digital tools and techniques to better evolve and grow. The Squad will consist of a trained specialist who will visit small businesses in Merrickville-Wolford at no cost to help them set up a Google Business Profile, conduct a digital-readiness assessment and apply for a $2,500 Digital Transformation Grant.

“This investment in the latest digital know-how for our small businesses will reduce slow sales periods by increasing their online presence and generating more ecommerce sales, while at the same time exposing a wider audience to the amazing range of businesses and things to see and do in our Village. This will ultimately benefit the

local economy and enhance opportunities for all”, said Yves Grandmaitre, President, Merrickville-Wolford Chamber of Commerce.

A joint program funded

by Government of Ontario and delivered by the Ontario BIA Association, Digital Main Street helps improve how small businesses use digital tools and techniques to become more successful.

Today’s digital economy is vital to small businesses, and DMS will help them adopt new digital technologies from e-commerce and social media to back-office systems such as payroll and inventory.

“Our government is committed to helping small businesses improve their competitiveness, create jobs and attract investment,” said Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. “That’s why I’m so pleased that businesses in the Town of Merrickville will benefit from the expertise of a Digital Service Squad to help small businesses embrace digital technology. Our investment in the Digital Main Street program will help to ensure that Ontario is open for business and open for jobs.”

“The exposure and training that small businesses will

receive in digital technology will prove extremely helpful in gaining the knowledge necessary to compete in the digital age,” said Steve Clark, MPP for Leeds – Grenville – Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes. “Small businesses drive our local economy and this program is one more example of how our government is working to help them thrive in our rural communities.”

Digital Main Street offers two types of grants: Digital Transformation Grant: There are 2,000 grants of $2,500 each available to qualifying small “main street” businesses across Ontario to help them adopt new digital technologies.

Digital Service Squad Grant: There are 300 grants of $10,000 each available to qualifying municipal or business groups across Ontario to develop and implement local squads of digital vendors and experts to directly help small businesses.

“The Merrickville & District Chamber of Commerce is showing leadership by demonstrating how Digital Main Street will help keep their downtown cores vibrant and strong,” said Kay Matthews, Executive Director of the Ontario BIA Association. “Our

small main street businesses are a critical contributor to Ontario’s economic, social and cultural health, and it’s vital that we work together to ensure their success. Digital Main Street will help the main street small businesses of Merrickville-Wolford to compete in an increasingly digital world.”

Businesses will be introduced to the Digital Service Squad over the coming weeks. For further information email info@merrickvillechamber.ca.

In the last year, the Chamber’s small group of dedicated board and volunteers have focused much effort in executing its vision for a much improved online and visible presence for Merrickville-Wolford businesses and events. Already, a variety of ongoing promotional strategies and renewed partnerships with the Municipality, the Regional Tourism Organization, Leeds and Grenville Economic Development and other relevant groups have started to bear fruit and as the implementation gains in momentum, the impact on our local economy will be extraordinary!

Merrickville District Trails Society hosting talk on hiking in Peru

by Hilary Thomson The Merrickville District Trails Society (MDTS) is getting ready for their Fall Trails Talk featuring a presentation about hiking the Choquequirao Trail in Peru.

This Fall’s speaker is Merrickville resident Harry de Roo, an elementary school vice-principal in the Ottawa area. He has been a keen cyclist, runner and walker for many years and has travelled much of the world by these means.

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travel, including a trip to the lesser known Choquequirao Trail in the high Peruvian Andes. Along the trail is the Choquequirao archeological site which you can only reach on foot.

The MDTS facilitates these bi-yearly Trail Talks as part of their effort to bring people together and stimulate interest in walking trails as a means of enjoying life. It also provides the opportunity for newcomers to join in, as well as for old friends to renew and build connections. Topics usually have something to do with walking and are chosen to be interesting to the armchair traveller as

well as avid walkers. Past talks have been on hiking/ travelling in the Yukon, Patagonia, the Cotswolds UK, the St. James Way in France, London UK and the Pacific Crest Trail.

They have also had one introducing the pastime of geocaching. After Harry’s talk about hiking in Peru, they have presentations lined up on the Antarctic and Ireland.

MDTS President Tim Alllen says attendance for their Trails Talks have been steadily increasing, and they have outgrown their usual space in the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Up-

coming talks will be held at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church hall in Merrickville, who Tim says graciously makes their facilities available for community activities. “There is ample space and seating for everyone,” he says.

Tim says the goal of the MDTS is to promote walking and using the trails in Merrickville-Wolford as a healthy activity in the Municipality. The MDTS also facilitates two group walks a year (May and October), and works to maintain and improve Merrickville’s trails for the use of residents and visitors alike. They also work on special projects 10

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Bradley Drouin, a Senior Archaeologist at Golder Associates’ Ottawa Office, will demonstrate flint knapping, and offer hands-on experience. Mr. Drouin started working stone about 15 years ago.

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He has worked from offices in Ottawa, Edmonton, London, and Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Drouin has worked Pre-Contact Indigenous archaeological sites in a range of environments, including the Canadian Arctic and Subarctic, the Prairies, and Boreal and Great Lakes locations.

At the December 8 meeting, Nancy Binnie, Senior Conservation Scientist at the Canadian Conservation Institute, has a presentation on what appears to be the Avro delta test vehicle launched in 1954 for the Velvet Glove missile development program. When retrieved from Lake Ontario in 2017, the artifact was assumed to be related to the Avro Arrow.

like the creation of the Story Trail and a preliminary geocaching activity along the trails. “Walking is a social and physical activity that all can do without costly equipment or infrastructure, and ideally is a part of our daily lives,” Tim says. “Having accessible and easy to walk trails close

by to our homes makes it easier to use them regularly or on a daily basis.”

Harry’s Fall Trail Talk on hiking in Peru will be held on Saturday, November 9 starting at 10 am.

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Merrickville’s lost legacy, part 2

by David Shanahan Thomas Alexander Parnell was very much a churchman of his time. In the nineteenth century, the Anglican Church in Canada saw itself as the church of the Establishment, the leader in social and political mores and attitudes. Parnell, as the Minister for both Merrickville and Burritt’s Rapids, was a recognised figure of authority throughout the area served by his churches, and, through the agency of the Canadian Churchman newspaper, exerted an influence far beyond.

As it neared the end of its first year of publication, his newspaper had attracted subscribers throughout Canada West and agents for the paper were located as far away as Port Hope, Alderville and Morrisburg. The paper was even available in Quebec City. The pages of the Cana-

dian Churchman were filled with news and information, both secular and church related. Train schedules for both Brockville and Prescott lines appeared each week, alongside lengthy reports on diocesan matters, histories of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and general news items. There was coverage of the American Civil War, then in full flow, usually with a pronounced sympathy for the Confederate cause. This was the common stance of Canadians and the British Empire generally, leading to very strained relations with the United States Government.

Side by side with advertisements for Beeton’s Illuminated Family Bible, or the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, were promotions for Spalding’s Throat Confections and various insurance companies. But there was always a note of admonition about the articles Parnell

collection of around $65, and his usual stipend as a minister. That this was a normal part of church life is shown by the appearance of an article in the same issue reporting a similar Donation Visit made to the minister in Kemptville.

But, as the year progressed, some readers began to complain about the content of the paper. Parnell was forced to cease publishing his series on the History of English Literature, as he was informed that people weren’t reading it. Others were unhappy that much of the newspaper in the summer of 1863 was taken up by a comprehensive reprinting of the entire proceedings of the diocesan synod. But such content was an indication of how closely Parnell was involved in the wider affairs of the diocese.

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chose to publish. Some were critical of women in the congregation who, instead of listening attentively to his sermons on Sundays, cast jealous or dismissive glances at each other’s hats. Other articles complained about the lack of financial support provided by congregants to their minister, although there were also reports of very generous donations.

As mentioned in the last article, Donation Visits were a feature of parish life. In 1863, for example, as Parnell was about to leave for a few weeks’ vacation “for the benefit of his health”, a large gathering visited him at the parsonage for an evening of music and fellowship. They also brought along the usual donation of food and wood, accompanied by a generous gift of more than $50. This was in addition to a gift of $45 from the Burritt’s Rapids congregation, a Christmas

far beyond the boundaries of the village. And T. A. Parnell was gaining a reputation within the Anglican Church too. By the end of the second year of the newspaper, he had been promoted to Archdeacon and transferred to Kingston, seat of the Diocese, where he took on the role of Clerical Secretary to Synod. The Canadian Churchman moved with him, leaving Merrickville behind.

The Canadian Churchman passed under the control of others, but Thomas Alexander Parnell had not seen the last of this region. When the long-serving Rector in Kemptville, John Stannage, died in 1880, Parnell was sent to replace him, while Stannage’s curate, Albert Spencer, went to Kingston to take on Parnell’s role as Clerical Secretary and, apparently, control of the newspaper as well. In fact, the copies of the Canadian Churchman

used for these articles were originally owned by Albert Spencer. But Parnell did not stay long in Kemptville. In fact, at the very first Vestry meeting after his arrival, he announced that he intended to resign as soon as possible.

T. A. Parnell had been transferred to a diocese in New York State by the mid-1880's, and there he worked until he retired. He died in 1915.

The Canadian Churchman is now remembered in the Anglican Church as having been established in 1875, after Parnell had moved to Kingston and relinquished control of the paper. Today, it is known as the Anglican Journal; but we can now remember that Volume 1, Number 1 was published in the village of Merrickville in 1862, before moving out into the wider world.

An Evening of Remembrance

North Grenville welcomes visitors from Taiwan

On November 10, the North Grenville Historical Society and the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 212 Kemptville, will jointly present an evening of remembrance leading up to Remembrance Day. With a focus on the history of our local Cenotaph, the presentation by Dr. David Shanahan and Roy Brown will also cover the 12 Sites of Remembrance in North Grenville and the personal story of Sergeant Robert Percy Barr, DCM, the most highly decorated solider named on the Cenotaph. The meeting will be held at the Legion hall. See poster for more details. All welcome.

by Hilary Thomson North Grenville welcomed twelve special visitors from Taiwan last week as part of their tour around Ontario.

The visit was organized by Friendship Force, an international organization focused on promoting understanding, cultural education and citizen diplomacy through homestay journeys around the world. Local resident Anna Van Adrichem Rochon is part of the Friendship Force Ottawa and organized the tour of North Grenville for their Taiwanese visitors, most of whom where staying with hosts in Ottawa.

The tour began at 11 am at the North Grenville Municipal Centre as Anna told the guests a little bit about North Grenville and the Municipal Centre itself. They seemed particularly impressed by the scale of the Municipality’s two skating rinks and were thrilled to see a real adult hockey player getting ready for his noon-hour game.

After the short tour of the Municipal Centre, the visitors gathered in the lobby to meet Mayor Nancy Peckford, who was on hand to welcome them to the North Grenville. “On behalf of myself and my council colleagues, I want to say what a thrill it is to have you here,” she said.

“It’s great to have you as part of the community if only for a day.”

Eddie Lok, one of the visitors, gave Mayor Peckford’s daughter, Clara Peckford-DeRyk, a ball that he made out of recycled paper and plastic from a market in Taiwan. They both enjoyed a game of catch in the Municipal Centre foyer before the group left for the rest of their tour.

The visitors were treated to an exciting day in the North Grenville, with a visit to a local wood carver’s studio, scavenger hunt of sights around town, hands-on apple pie making, and meals at the Kemptville Christian Reformed Church.

The group’s visit to North Grenville culminated their tour of Eastern Ontario as they headed towards Hamilton the next day. A portion of the group were also excited to extend their visit to Canada and head to Yellowknife to see the Northern Lights.

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45. More wonderful or gorgeous 48. Benni 51. Pulp 52. Weave diagonal lines into 54. Adroit 55. Large-headed nails 59. Weight loss plans 62. Forearm bone 63. Skedaddles 65. Chocolate cookie 66. Misled 67. Mimeograph 68. Transmit 69. Fail to win 70. Faucets 71. Probabilities DOWN 1. Bristle 2. Stepped 3. Impossible to satisfy

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4. Answer 5. Aye 6. Circle fragments 7. Anger 8. Ends a sentence 9. Flow into something 10. Notion 11. Sleeveless garment 12. Being 15. Take exception to 21. Pipe 23. Component of urine 25. Male turkeys 27. Hindu princess 28. Corrosives 29. Be victorious 31. Sequestered 32. Sharpens 34. Atlantic food fish 36. Used to be 39. Sphere 40. Inanimate 43. A dais 44. Wood that is cut 46. Senile 47. A member of the Cosa Nostra 49. An unwholesome atmosphere 50. Bring out 53. Andean animal 55. Boring 56. Hodgepodge 57. 1 1 1 1 58. Stair 60. Care for 61. Mats of grass 64. Mayday

Nov 6 Monthly supper, Holy Cross Church, 505 Clothier St W. Full supper with desert, coffee and tea. Adults $8, Child $5. All are welcomed. Take out available.

Nov 9 Fall Trails Talk, Merrickville District Trails Society “Trekking the Choquequirao Trail, Peru”, presented by Harry de Roo. Holy Trinity Anglican Church hall, Merrickville. All welcome, 10 am to 11:30 am, light refreshments served.

Weekly and recurring events Mon 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, 2 pm. For info call Ellen Vibert-Miller at 613-258-7778.

Arts Guild, 2nd Mon/mth, 7pm at the Masonic Hall on Van Buren St. Newcomer Bridge-St John's United Church 12:15pm. Cost $5.00. All levels welcome.

Info 613-806-4495 or 613-795-7155.

Gremlins Square Dance Club, NG Municipal Centre, 7:30-9:30 pm. Sept-April.

Details at: www.grenvillegremlins09 or email : kemptvillesquaredance@gmail.com Tues Rotary Club meeting, Kemptville Legion, 6:30 pm.

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. 613-806-4495 to 613-795-7155.

The Branch Artisans Guild, NG Community Church, 2659 Concession St. every 3rd Tue/mth, 7pm. 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 pm, St. John's United Church.

Everyone welcome. $5.00. (No euchre July & August) Bingo- 1st & 3rd Wed/mth., Kemptville Legion, 1 pm. All welcome.

New Horizon Club, Burritt`s Rapids Community Hall. Adults 55 plus welcome.

For info re programs and membership, call Golida Tym 258-3894.

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.

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

Euchre, Rideau Glen Golf Course, 6:30 sharp, $5, share the wealth tickets sold, all proceeds go back to the players. May 1-Oct 9.

Thu Bridge - St. John’s United Church, 6:15- pm. Cost $5. All levels of bridge players welcome. For more info, call 613-806-4495 or 613-795-7155.

North Grenville Toastmasters - Meeting 1st & 3rd Thurs/mth., 7 pm at O’Farrell’s Financial Services, Cty Rd 44. Info, call 790 7665.

Fri Friendship Lunch, 11:30-1 pm, St. John’s United Church. Free, everyone welcome.

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

Euchre, Kemptville Legion, last Sat/mth. Noon-5 pm.

Sun 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.

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- On October 18, a Prescott resident provided their SIN number to a suspect who had identified themselves as an employee of CRA. The OPP would like to remind the public that this is a common scam and that the Canadian Revenue Agency will never contact you by phone, text message or e-mail requesting personal information on funds.

- On-line romance scams also appear to be on the rise. To avoid a romance scam, be wary of an acquaintance who:

The Grenville County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are reminding the public that on-line scams are being reported daily in our area. The scam artists can contact you by text messages, social media sites, and email or by phone. Be warry of any message that suggests that you are being awarded money, that you owe money, that you have an inheritance or that you have an account that has been compromised. Talk with someone before you "click". Some examples of recent scam reports include: - On October 7, 2019, an Augusta Township resident reported that a suspect had assumed the identity of a business associated through an e-mail account. The victim became suspicious when money was being demanded and spelling mistakes were noted. No money was lost in this incident.

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- On October 8, a North Grenville resident was contacted by a person identifying

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themselves as a Service Canada employee who was concerned that the victim had numerous suspicious accounts under their name. The victim provided their Social Insurance Number (SIN) and bank account information to the scammer.

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- On October 10, an Augusta Township resident received a phone call from a suspect who identified himself as a police officer. He requested that the victim provide the last 4 digits of his SIN number. The victim became suspicious and contacted the police directly.

- On October 12, a North Grenville resident reported that his e-mail had been hacked and a scammer was demanding payment through Bitcoin. The message threatened to "wipe out" his computer if payment not received. The victim contacted the police for advice and no money was exchanged.

asks for money or for cheques to be cashed asks for a small gift (this is sometimes a test to see if they are dealing with an ideal target) quickly leaves a dating site and asks to communicate in another way, usually by instant messages or email avoids talking on the phone and/or talks to you on a bad phone connection (this may be an attempt to disguise their voice) claims to have fallen in love with you after a very short period of time - often a couple of weeks - and without ever meeting in person tries to isolate you from family or friends, saying that others may not approve of the relationship and will try to break it up asks for provocative photos or asks you to perform suggestive acts on camera (the scammer may save this material and use it later on to extort money) constantly makes excuses about why they can't meet in person, or agrees to meet in person and then cancels at the last minutehas only a few photos of themselves and makes excuses about why they can't share more photos with you claims to be a member of the military (many romance scammers impersonate soldiers and other people in positions of trust) For further information on current scams, visit the Canadian Anti- Fraud Centre's website at www.antifraudcenter.ca.

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Kemptville 73's settle for two points

Comeback attempt....after Dylan Bond fed Yancy Whitaker to slam it at the net as Carter Vollett redirected over Jake Smith to make it 2 to zip in a losing effort during "Pink the Rink" Cancer game. Smiths Falls posted a 4 to 2 victory Wednesday evening benefit event. by the sportsguy The second place Kanata Lasers in the Robinson Division were in Kemptville 73's home barn to face them for Sunday's afternoon contest, only to be greeted with yet another colour blinded lopsided loss of 7 to 5.

Kemptville opened the first at 0:43 as Taylor combined with Declan House (1) blew it by Jean-Phillippe Tourigny to notch his first of the season and draw first blood. After a Kemptville infraction, Lasers Nocita with Larabie found Trevor Poeze in the slot to punch one by William Anderson to tie it at 3:12 for PPG. Dennison over to Broda, back to Gavin Wood (5) to hammer one top shelf to break the tie at 11:18. Kemptville

pounded 13 SOG to Kanata 4 SOG with both clubs 1 PP and Lasers counting one.

Kanata played aggressive after every whistle, without attention from the officials.

Kemptville needed to keep the pedal to the metal and avoid retaliation to put them on the slab.

Kemptville "D" failed to move Kanata attacker to outside as Poeze flipped to Markhauser behind the line to Luca Nocita on the doorstep to even it to open second at 0:39. Man advantage for Kanata the same play as previous with Poeze and Markhauser to Ryan Park PPG in the slot at 8:02 for tie of 2 even. Laser's Luca Nocita recorded his second of the game with set play from Poeze with

Larabie for the insurance at 12:49. Brazier with Dick back to "Super Fly" Makoda Suzuki (7) trailing through the middle to rifle it between the posts at 15:32 to move Kemptville within 1. Larsen caught Derek St. Louis when 73's flatfooted didn't clear from own zone and he flipped the rubber over stopper’s shoulder at 16:45. Kemptville answered back as Pawlikowski, gliding over the line to Jefferies, back to Evan Mitchell (2) pinching in to launch a missile from point at 17:55.

SOG was in favour of 73's by 12 to 11 with 2 PP without results and Lasers 3 PP with 1 goal. Missed calls or suspect calls created a onesided affair and put William Anderson out with an ag-

Storm Day for Womens’ Hockey

by Kathy Dickenson On Saturday, October 5, 2019, the Kemptville Storm celebrated its fifth annual Storm Day in celebration of World Girls’ Hockey Weekend, an initiative of the International Ice Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada.

Kemptville Storm has 13 teams and 185 registered female players, ranging from Oct.30, 2019

Initiation Program (age 4 and up) to Midget (up to age 18), at both house and competitive levels.

Again this year, the Storm hosted 13 visiting teams across all age groups for a series of games on both ice pads. With a digital photo booth--made possible in part by a vaping awareness grant

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bles, 50/50 tickets, vendors, and ice cream sundaes in support of the Adam Harlow Fellowship Fund, the rink was certainly the place to be on Storm Day! Thank you to our Storm families and all the visiting teams for helping us showcase female hockey in North Grenville.

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gressive head butt to close the second stanza.

Final twenty was met with #10 dive as Kemptville received 4 PIM in the sinbin and Kanata capitalized on a missed call at 12:20 as Riley McCabe was hand-cuffed when Larsen and St. Jean set up Julian Recine in the rocking chair. Kemptville pulled McCabe at 18:04 for extra attacker and at 18:42, Suzuki wheeling over the neutral zone, back to Wood as Chase Lammi (4) dumped one into the mesh. Kanata put one into the empty net when Derek St. Jean gained control at 19:15 to give Kanata Lasers 7 - 5 win.

"Pink the Rink" game for the Canadian Cancer Society on Wednesday night, Kemptville 73's hosted the Smiths Falls Bears which included a donation box, 50/50 draw and a silent auction for a pair of tickets for Ottawa Senators home game against Boston Bruins, donated by Urbandale.

The opening period was fast and furious end to end action with Smiths Falls gaining a man advantage from the draw at 0:04 as the Kemptville PK stymied the PP attempt. Taylor to Lammi in the slot and Hunter Brazier (4) loaded up to beat Jake Smith blocker side top shelf at 17:29. 73's out-shot the Bears by 11 to 9, with each having a PP effort without results. Both clubs exhibited extremely sloppy plays, but Kemptville, followed through with their hits, controlled the face-offs and half boards to keep them alive.

Second stanza Kemptville cleaned up their act and went into offence mode as a pass and go from Bond tape on tape to Whittaker to bang it at the net so Carter Vollett (5) could tip the rubber past the posts at 2:43.

With a two point lead, the 73's took their foot off the gas and went into a nozone format. Smiths Falls capitalized when the "D" failed to move the puck with PP from Kemptville end and McLean set up Stuart Martin (SHG) to slam one

by Riley McCabe to spoil his SO at 18:22. This was the comeback push from Smiths Falls to introduce what was yet to come. Both teams evened the SOG with 12 each, and two unsuccessful PP closing out the period with 73's ahead by 2 to 1.

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73's wheels fell off their wagon as Larivere found Tate Leeson at 2:03 for a tie. Continuous miscues cost the 73's as Ryan Richardson with helpers from Cothard and Simard give the Bears the go ahead at 15:09. Kemptville pulled Riley McCabe at 18:42 and Brendan Dempsey pumped it into open space for EN after assist from Simard with Lewis at 19:17 to stop the bleeding with 4 to 2 win.

Kemptville doubled up on Smiths Falls with 11 to 5 SOG with Bears with 2 PP attempts. But even though 73's had 3 PP attempts, Jake Smith shut-down abundant attacks to keep the standard afloat with yet another loss during a "Pink the Rink" battle.

The boys on a road trip to Hawkesbury to face the Hawks on Friday night needed to show their resilience after a tough loss on home ice on Wednesday night. 73's were pumped and ready as they clipped the Hawks' wings for 2 to 1 victory.

First twenty remained scoreless as each team played hard, waiting for opportunity to take advantage of each other’s mistakes.

Hawkesbury with 10 SOG to Kemptville 8 and each with 2 unsuccessful PP. Hawkesbury opened the second at 1:13 when Jeremie Payant with helpers from Quesnel and Camp rifled it by Riley McCabe.

Kemptville answered back at 8:08 with man advantage

from Talor to Makoda Suzuki (8) PPG past Mathieu Chenier to even the odds to end the period. Kemptville turned it on with 15 SOG to 12, with 2 PP each and 73's counting for one.

Final twenty turned nasty with numerous infractions for both squads posting 78 PIM without capitalizing. Kemptville capped it off when the combination of Vollett with Dennison to find Yancy Whitaker (1) in the slot to drive it home for tie breaker and his first puck at 4:32. Contest stayed tight with end to end action and at 18:35 Hawks added extra attacker after pulling their stopper to even it up without results. Hawks outgunned 73's 14 to 10.

As the head coach related after the game, "spectacular team effort, the kids came to play and won in a tough building without a loss... Riley McCabe in the nets answered to the call... the whole team stepped up big time after being down to four defence in last 10 minutes". "73's Digger Award" goes to Cole Dennison for his tenacity and work ethic during practice as well as on game day.

Sunday afternoon the boys will be in Nepean on the ice to meet with Nepean Raiders seeking revenge after the previous contest.

Hockey with edge... a cut above the rest... show you care... see you there.

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Local businesses and customers support KDHSI’s Seniors’ Community Services

L-R: Cathy Nesbitt, Judy and Jim Beveridge, KDHS Executive Director, Susan Smith and Finance & Office Administrator, Ann Miller Submitted by Susan Smith Three local businesses participated in Kemptville & District Home Support’s 2019 ‘Window Sticker Campaign’. B&H Your Community Grocer, Jonssons’ Your Independent Grocer, and Kemptville Canadian Tire all readily agreed to support this campaign to raise funds for KDHSI’s Seniors’ Community Services such as Meals on Wheels, Telephone Checks, Weekly Luncheons and Footcare.

Many thanks go to the staff of these stores and their loyal customers for raising a total of $3,074! B & H led the way by raising just over $2,400. Judy Beveridge summed up the importance of supporting Kemptville & District Home Support, by noting that, “Today’s seniors are the people who built this community, and it is important to support these services!”

If anyone is interested in finding out more about the services and volunteer opportunities at KDHSI, we would love to speak with you. Please feel free to stop by the Seniors’ Centre for a cup of coffee and a chat at 215 Sanders St., Suite 101 Kemptville, or call 613-258-3203.

L.-R.: Steve Jonsson with KDHS Susan Smith and Ann Miller

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Some Common Nutrition Myths (#3)

Marie Traynor RD, Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit Canada’s new Food Guide recommends increasing our plant based protein and fibre intake.

So it’s not surprising to hear about lectins found in foods like whole grains, and legumes such as kidney beans, chickpeas and lentils. Increasing we are hearing that lectins are bad for us.

Here is what we know.

Lectins are proteins that are found in most plants. Beans and whole grains typically have more than other plants. If you eat these kind of beans and legumes raw or undercooked the lectins will cause vomiting and diarrhea that can last for several hours. But you can easily avoid this by using rinsed, canned beans (which have already been cooked) or soaking and cooking dried beans and legumes or fermenting or sprouting beans and grains which deactivates the lectin protein.

For those who use a slow cooker or bake casseroles please note that the temperature may not get high enough to break down all the lectins in raw beans. To be safe, soak dry beans in water for at least five hours, pour off the water, and boil briskly in fresh water for at least 10 minutes. Then finish cooking them on the stove, in a casserole or in a slow cooker.

Grains are usually baked or cooked so that would deactivate the lectin. If you use wheat germ in recipes that do not call for cooking please check the label. Look for the words “grilled” or “toasted” to indicate that the wheat germ has been cooked.

Whole grains, beans and legumes if cooked properly are excellent for our health. They have been associated with lower LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation, average blood sugar levels over time and insulin resistance. Gradually increase the amount of kidney beans, peas and lentils that you eat. Drink lots of fluid.

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Muriel Milne (centre) enjoys the volunteer appreciation event with Cholly Boland, CEO and Ursula Lamoureux, Director of Nursing.

By Jane Adams Muriel Milne doesn’t like to sit still. After running a successful fabric store for 20 years, she turned to volunteering as a way to give back to her community. She does it all - from knitting toques for the snowsuit fund, to helping out at her church, to teaching adults to read and write. That’s when she’s not bowling or playing bridge or euchre of course! “I’ve been very fortunate to have had good health and I get much more out of it than I give,” says Muriel.

Muriel is also one of 65 volunteers at Dundas Manor who were recently recognized

Oct.30, 2019

at the annual Volunteer Appreciation event at the Old Town Hall. The event included presentations, refreshments and a fun trivia game. Volunteers received a gift card in recognition of their important work.

Muriel says she gets a lot of joy from volunteering at Dundas Manor. At least twice a week, she stops by around 11:30 to help take residents to the dining room and feed them. Her late husband called Dundas Manor home for more than two years. “The residents are getting wonderful care and I have a lot of respect for everyone who works there,” she says. “If I can make some-

one’s day, that’s great. I’m happy to sit and chat with a resident for a few minutes.”

“Our home is known for our creative and varied Activity/Recreation programs.

We couldn’t do what we do without the assistance of our dedicated volunteers. We are blessed. It is as simple as that,” notes Jennifer Hill, Activity Programs and Services Director.

Administrator Susan Poirier agrees. “Our volunteers are a big part of our “one family” at Dundas Manor.

We can’t thank them enough for their time, kindness and expertise.”

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