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afternoons from 1 pm to 2 pm. Participating students enjoyed “throwing rocks” and “sweeping” and also learned that having “the hammer” was a good thing. Volunteers were very impressed by the skill and enthusiasm of all

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Curling is a social sport for people of all ages. In addition to a variety of adult leagues, the North Grenville Curling Club offers “Little Rocks”, a curling program for children aged 8-12. Start-

ing in late fall and running through until spring, the program runs weekly. Club volunteers are encouraging the students who attended the clinics to consider giving it a try next season!

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End of an era: St. James Parish Hall to close

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After much deliberation, and great sadness, the parishioners of St. James have decided to close their Parish Hall. The hall is named for Robert Leslie (1803-1891) who was, for over 50 years, the Superintendent of St. James’ Sunday School.

Unlike St. James Memorial Church constructed with strong cut limestone some 28 years earlier, Leslie Hall was built not of stone, but of concrete blocks manufactured locally by The Dominion Concrete Company.

On October 8, 1907 the hall’s cornerstone was “well and truly laid”. Less than a year later the official opening of Leslie Hall was celebrated on Dominion Day

July 1, 1908. Leslie Hall's interior was finished with fine woodwork of polished oak. It was “to be used for Sunday School, church entertainment and business meetings”.

The long slow deterioration began with the fire of January 12, 1925. Although Leslie Hall was restored, the heat from the flames, water from the fire hoses and freezing January temperatures may have caused unseen damage to the concrete blocks.

In 2017, due to degradation, Leslie Hall is no longer sound. Water has infiltrated the basement walls. Climate has been an enemy to the exterior - rain has entered the hollow concrete blocks, sun, wind and the freeze/thaw of

winter has further eroded the core blocks. Parts of the building have already been cordoned off and soon it will be dangerous to walk near the buttresses for fear of falling capstones and concrete.

Professional estimates indicate that the money required to address structural issues on the exterior alone approaches one million dollars. These costs are prohibitive and the congregation anguished over the decision, but at the Annual Vestry on February 26, a majority voted to close and decommission their Parish Hall.

Leslie Hall has been a valued resource for the church and for the community for 109 years. Everyone who

Synod, Church Warden and, for more than fifty years, as Superintendent of the Sunday School.

The foundation stone for the new Leslie Hall was laid with great pomp and ceremony on October 8, 1907 by the Grand Master of the Masonic Order. Leslie himself had been instrumental in bringing the Masons to Kemptville, and both the Reeve, Albert Langstaff and the Vicar of St. James, W.P. Reeve, welcomed the Grand Master as “Your Worshipful Sir”, a strange address at a church ceremony.

Masonic rites were then carried out and the stone itself was sprinkled with corn, had wine poured over it, and was finally “anointed” with water.

The cornerstone was declared “well and truly laid”.

After a lunch in the old Parish Hall, the crowd adjourned to the Oddfellows Hall down the street where

speeches were made into the afternoon, including one by local politician G. Howard Ferguson, who remembered attending Sunday School under Robert Leslie. The day was crowned with a great concert at the Oddfellows Hall.

The Hall was built with concrete blocks made by the Dominion Concrete Company, who had a factory between Riverside Park and Prescott Street. Although the blocks were designed to complement the stone of the main church building, they were not nearly as resistant to weather, and the exterior of the Hall had to be repaired in the 1950's. The extent of the problem has now been made manifest.

The new Leslie Memorial Hall was originally intended strictly for church activities.

No secular events were to be permitted. However, this intention was soon amended,

in part because of the $6,000 mortgage on the building, quite a large sum in 1908.

Although the debt was made up of interest-free loans, and creditors had waited patiently and had, in most cases, forgiven part of the amount owed, the debt on the Hall, coupled with extensive renovations to the main Church building itself, was a serious drain on the parish finances for almost twenty years. Fundraising efforts included a lottery in which the prize was 100 acres of land in Carleton County.

By 1921, the debt had been halved, but the problem was solved through the very generous involvement of Albert Langstaff, who agreed to pay off much of the money owing to the Dominion Concrete Company. In 1924, with yet more pomp and even greater joy, the mortgage was paid off and the mortgage papers ceremoniously burned by the

has attended or held events in the hall have fond memories of concerts, plays, wedding receptions, teas, dinners, bazaars, Literary Follies, Friendship Lunches and the recent Community Christmas Dinner on December 25. Surprisingly, many are unaware they were guests in the St. James Parish Hall.

As part of the Outreach Mission of St. James Anglican Church, the hall has been made available to groups at reduced fees and, frequently, to charitable groups free of charge. In recent years, major groups have moved to newer venues. The fees received from those using Leslie Hall no longer cover the cost of keeping it open. Each week, a portion of the offering placed in the collection plates is used to service Leslie Hall.

Robert Porter, Minister at St. James, recently stated: “We know our church hall has been a blessing to our community, to the many groups that have used the hall over the years, and to our church.

However, we recognize it is time to give thanks for the past and move into the future God has for us.”

A service of thanksgiving and decommissioning will be held on Sunday, June 4, 2017, presided over by Bishop Michael Oulton. The people of North Grenville are invited to attend.

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by David Shanahan Leslie Hall has served the community for over one hundred and ten years, opening its doors to the most varied collection of activities one could imagine, from funerals and church services, to rock concerts and plays. It was, for many years, the main venue for such events in Kemptville, and for groups and gatherings of people from all over North Grenville. With the news of its imminent demolition, it’s time to look over that story.

The Anglican Church of St. James had been erected around 1828 on land donated by “Squire” William Bottom. In 1829, a petition to the Bishop from the leading members of the congregation asked him to officially dedicate the building. The petition noted that: “William H. Bottum Esquire has granted March 8, 2017

to Trueman Hurd, Lyman Clothier Esquire and Abram Beach Gentleman, Trustees for the purposes of erecting a church at the village of Kemptville in the Township of Oxford a piece of land near the said village containing three fourths of an acre more or less to serve as a site for a Church and also as a Burial ground for the inhabitants of the said Township for ever”.

The wood frame church served until 1879, when the present stone church was opened, and the older building was removed. A Hall and Sunday School building had operated in a frame building until it was decided, in April, 1907, to build a larger Hall on land purchased in 1904 from S. E. Walt, founder of the Kemptville Advance newspaper. It was to be named in honour of Robert Leslie, who had served as Lay Reader, lay delegate to the Diocesan

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Anglican Bishop. In a reference to the cornerstone ceremony, the Bishop declared the mortgage “well and truly burned”. In an awful coincidence, the very same night the Hall caught fire and was badly damaged.

It was a bad blow to the parishioners who had laboured so hard to pay off the original mortgage, but, over the coming years, the Hall was repaired and renovated. A steam heating system was installed in 1928. In the 1950's, Leslie Hall was attached to the water mains, washroom and a new electrical lighting system were installed. In 1978, for the centennial celebrations of St. James, Leslie Hall was the site of meetings and concerts.

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by Marguerite Boyer The 9th Annual Soupfest event took place on March 14 at the NG Municipal Centre, where a very large crowd turned up to enjoy an absolute cornucopia of soup treats prepared by local restaurants and chefs. Soupfest is a fundraising event by TLC Ministries, an outreach program for seniors, single moms and youth in the region. The soups came from as far away as Carp, and restaurants in Smith’s Falls, Morrisburg and Manotick. Local chefs came from Kemptville’s Crusty Baker, Brewed Awakenings, the

South Branch Bistro, Hard Stones Grill, and Nakhon Thai. Lock 17 were there from Burritt’s Rapids, the Yellow Canoe from Merrickville, and Castleview Fine Dining from across the Rideau River.

In addition to the soups, visitors could vote for the People’s Choice Award, and bid at an auction for decadent desserts. Julie Balloonie kept everyone entertained with balloon twisting exploits and the chefs enjoyed the opportunity to meet their customers in a new context.

Instead of being hidden away in their kitchens, they were out front, greeting their patrons and having a friendly competition

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The Peoples Choice Award went to: 1. Castleview Fine Dining’s Seafood Chowder; 2. Chuckles Jack’s Saffron&Curry Leaf Chicken Soup; and 3.

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by Neil Pringle I’ve been a resident of North Grenville since 1991.

I attended North Grenville District High School, and, in 2009, my brother and I founded Pringle Brothers Construction. We have built many houses here in North Grenville, as well as additions and renovations.

I married Kate Simpson, right here in North Grenville, and last year we purchased a house on Bedell Road, where we’re currently raising our 18-month old daughter Meryl.

I would like to address some trends which have become apparent to me.

The first is the idea that, somehow, all Kemptville and area needs to survive is big box stores to attract new residents. These residents would presumably live here, work in Ottawa/ Kanata, and be able to enjoy the conveniences of WalMart, et al. Council went ahead full-steam with this idea, and Colonnade Mall is a tribute to their success. So are all the empty stores in Old-Town Kemptville. The

problem is, big box stores, built away from what used to be the core of this community, means that nobody needs to actually enter Old Town Kemptville; and, unless you’re looking for a part-time minimum wage job, you can’t find a decent career here either. The mom-and-pop stores that used to thrive catering to this community’s needs cannot compete with box-stores, and so, in the last ten years, I’ve watched as nearly all the stores in “Old Town” Kemptville (which until the late 2000’s was just Kemptville) have gone under one by one.

The BIA and other organizations have fought hard to revitalize the downtown core of this community, sadly with less impact than I would hope for, due in part to some truly head-scratching decisions from our town council. I applaud their efforts, as I would like to see a thriving community here that values business owners who actually live here. A strong community is built on a solid foundation, just like a house, with all the components of the structure

supporting each other, and our council is there to be the main support for our community.

I have never liked the idea of offering front-loaded incentive deals to corporations to whom the Kemptville area amounts to less than 1% of overall sales, but it seems our council can never see past the short term, and why should they? There’s always the very real possibility that in four years, or less, they’ll be gone, and whatever mess was made will be someone else’s to deal with. So why not front-load deals so your books can look better? You can claim success in balancing a budget that you know full-well will be unbalanced again as soon as the short term gains have been exhausted.

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Brewed Awakenings, not half a kilometre from that site, and Geronimo’s, in the Old Town core, don’t we? The un-

derlying problem is that large corporations kill small businesses. Will either of these businesses survive for long after Starbucks opens, becoming two more casualties for council to add, notches on their much-notched belts?

Hand-in-hand with this news comes council’s denial of a request for $2,500 to run a pop-up store campaign in the many deserted former businesses of Old Town Kemptville. These pop-up stores are an effort by the BIA to bring desperately needed foot traffic to the Old Town core, and make some use of the empty storefronts, hopefully finding enough success for some of those storefronts to be filled again full-time.

This is a noble effort, but the price-tag is so high… wait, $2,500? Really? Oh, and by the way, those aren’t tax dollars, but money raised from the businesses in Kemptville.

Council has paid a lot

This line of thinking seems to be evident once again, as council has reportedly created a site plan for Hwy. 43 at River Rd. that includes a Starbucks. Just what we need, too, because we hate the people who run

of lip service to the idea of re-vitalizing the old town core of its community, and, indeed, a few years ago they tore up Prescott Street for a year to beautify it, which inadvertently crippled many of the businesses there. Yes, the street looks much better without the powerlines, and the tiny park on the corner of Prescott and Clothier is beautiful, but without real support for the people trying to compete with the corporations we begged to come in, these efforts are wasted.

There’s lots of talk about being a family-oriented, unique community that blends modern convenience and old-town charm, but when the chips are down, the support from council is conspicuously absent.

Shame on you, council.

Unfortunately, I can do nothing about the Starbucks, except vow to never, ever, ever spend $5 on a coffee there. I can do something to help the BIA, however, and so I put this challenge forward to you, my fellow residents and business owners in North Grenville. I will pledge $500 of my own hard-earned mon-

ey to this pop-up store initiative, and I challenge each of you to make a real effort to support the local businesses here, by attending the events that are held in Old Town, and shopping there regularly, even when there’s no event going on, even if it’s just for a cup of coffee, where the profits from the coffee don’t go to Seattle. You see, I’ve

made points about the lack of vision and leadership by town council, but the other half of the problem is us. It’s easy to point fingers or wish things were different, but if each of us doesn’t make an effort and support our local businesses, they will continue to disappear until there’s absolutely nothing unique about Kemptville, and it becomes another Kanata, Barrhaven, or any other faceless suburb.

I would like to thank you for taking your time to listen to my point of view, and I hope the points I’ve raised resonate with you.

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Your editorial “Believe it or Not,” February 22, 2017 was so interesting. You state that “Science is about studying and reporting on what can be observed and verified through repetition.” I am presently reading Imagine Heaven by John Burke. It is about “Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You.” I learned about this fascinating read while attending Southgate Church.

This book meets your definition of science through the similar reports of neardeath experiences (NDEs) by hundreds of people who were clinically dead and then resuscitated.

Pamela Gordon, Kemptville Dear Editor: Being a scientific person, I have to take exception to your comments about science, David, in your recent

column “Believe it or not”.

You sound too much like an old anti-science antievolution religious book I recently read: feeling the need to discredit science in order to justify religious beliefs.

I haven’t read Stephen Hawking’s book “The Grand Design”, but I don’t believe that he said that “the universe created itself out of nothing”. That’s not what the big bang theory says. The universe didn’t create itself, it happened in a scientifically-explainable event; and it didn’t come from nothing: it came from something that was there before.

You say that “a great deal of what is called science is simply suppositions and assumptions based on ideology”. This is just not true; science is based on observations, evidence, and the theories that come from those facts

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On the revenue side of the equation, our new central branch benefited greatly from the Building Canada Fund which supported a wide variety of infrastructure projects across the country. A key feature of the Fund was that the federal, provincial and municipal governments each invested a third of the money.

This meant that North Grenville’s share of the Norenberg Building, including the land, amounted to approximately $1.7 million.

That figure was then offset by a transfer from existing municipal reserves, accumulated development charges and the proceeds from the sale of the old Kemptville Library, the South Gower Branch and the Acton’s Corners Schoolhouse.

On top of that, members of the North Grenville community raised over $750,000 toward the project through the very successful Room to Read Campaign.

and data. Discrediting science the way you are doing leads to decisions based on ideology rather than evidence, which is the hallmark of bad governments.

Make your religious belief arguments if you wish, David, but please leave science out of it.

Stew Hamill Merrickville Dear Editor: As past-chair of the North Grenville Public Library Board, I need to correct some of the figures in the letter from Vito Carini that was published last week.

The Norenberg Building, on the corner of Prescott and Water Streets, opened its doors in May of 2010 and cost approximately $5 million. The vast majority of that sum stemmed from construction-related expenses, though $400,000 was spent to acquire the land.

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When all was said and done, the Municipality of North Grenville ended up borrowing $530,000 for a five-million-dollar modern library that is still the envy of Eastern Ontario.

In terms of payment, the loan is through the Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation (OILC) at an interest rate of 3.06% for a term of 25 years. North Grenville only pays $30,500 a year for this loan, of which $10,000 is taken from development charges and not residential taxes.

I’m not sure how Mr. Carini arrived at his eye-popping total but I can assure him and the readers of the North Grenville Times that even with 25 years-worth of compounding interest, the amount left owing on the Norenberg Building wouldn’t even reach $800,000 let alone $8 million.

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Counties to carry on with landfill project At a meeting held on February 23, Counties Council has voted down a motion asking it to terminate any discussions or negotiations with an existing or potential purchaser of the ED-19 designated regional landfill site owned by the United Counties.

Council member Pat Sayeau, Mayor of Edwardsburgh Cardinal Township where the site is located, brought the motion forward at a regular meeting of council. Nine of 10 council members voted against the motion, with the exception of Mayor Sayeau.

Two delegations were heard prior to the vote. Edwardsburgh Cardinal Councillor Michael Barrett pre-

sented a petition. He said residents are concerned if the land is sold to a private company there is a greater risk of the landfill expanding and bringing in waste from other jurisdictions.

Michael Walters, a senior manager with the Tomlinson Group, a company interested in purchasing the site, said the designation of ED-19 as a landfill was determined many years ago and was the result of “sound engineering.” He said the site would be limited to taking in 50,000 tonnes of waste per year, which could serve Leeds and Grenville for the next 28 years.

Following the vote, Warden Robin Jones asked Counties Chief Administrative Officer Andy Brown to complete

the meeting.

The designated property called ED-19 is located at the west end of Byers Road.

It is approximately 165 acres in size with about 35 acres designated for the landfill footprint. ED-19 was identified as the preferred landfill site in the 1990s as the result of a Waste Management Master Plan Study for the United Counties, Brockville and Prescott. ED-19 received Environmental Assessment approval and a Provisional Certificate of Approval from the Province of Ontario in 1998. For more information contact CAO Andy Brown at 613-342-3840, ext. 2301.

a timeline report on ED-19’s designation, how much public input there has been throughout the process and a communications strategy moving forward to improve public engagement. The report is to be presented at the next Committee of the Whole meeting on March 7.

The defeated motion follows a public meeting February 16 where Edwardsburgh Cardinal Township residents voiced concern over the sale and usage of the land without more public consultation. The motion noted residents clearly expressed their opposition to “any future development of the ED-19 waste disposal site or any other waste disposal site within the Township of Edwardsburgh Cardinal” at

Municipality seeking input on the accessibility of a new play structure

This spring, the Municipality will be replacing the play structure in South Gower Park with a more accessible structure.

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture has released a short survey to learn about the barriers faced by residents to help guide the design process. The survey is available online at www.northgrenville.ca and paper copies are available at the North Grenville Municipal Office and the North Grenville Public Library. All surveys must be submitted by March 17, 2017.

Once proposals have been received from suppliers and reviewed, the recommended design will be reviewed by the North Grenville Accessibility Advisory Committee for feedback. The public will also be invited to attend the meeting to provide input regarding the accessibility of the proposed play structure. Under Ontario’s Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, municipalities are required to consult with members of the public regarding the design of the new structure.

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by Deron Johnston There’s a storm brewing with one of the members of our Leeds and Grenville family just to the south of us. The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville approved a parcel of land in the Township of Edwardsburg Cardinal for use as a county landfill. Ottawa-based waste management company, Tomlinson, recently expressed interest in acquiring this land to create a landfill and “serve Leeds and Grenville for the next twenty eight years.” Local residents are strongly opposed to this and some of them have formed a group called ‘Citizens Against the Dump’ or CAD. The parcel of land, or ‘ED-19’ as it is called, is located at the west end of Byers Road. It is about 165 acres in size, with approximately 35 acres designated for the landfill footprint. It was identified as the preferred landfill site in the 1990s as the result of a Waste Management Master March 8, 2017

Plan Study for UCLG, including Brockville and Prescott. At the time, ED19 received Environmental Assessment approval and a Provisional Certificate of Approval was issued in 1998.

The environmental assessment of the land was done twenty years ago, so a representative from the provincial Ministry of the Environment stated, at a public meeting on February 16, that this is the first time that an assessment this old has ever been used.

The assessment actually pre-dates the opening of the final link of the 416 highway in September 1999, to put it in perspective. Though there is no expiry date on environmental assessments, CAD spokesperson, Kyle Johnston, is hoping that the Minister of the Environment will consider nullifying the assessment, as the Minister has that authority. Mr. Johnston says that the aged assessment doesn’t take into account current data collected since 1998 on factors like the status of local water tables, popu-

opposing the sale of the land to a private company because of the risk of the dump expanding and waste being brought in from other jurisdictions. With his recent change of heart in mind, Mayor Sayeau also brought a motion forward “to terminate any discussions or negotiations with an existing or potential purchaser of the ED-19 designated regional landfill site” which was defeated by nine votes to one, with North Grenville Mayor David Gordon voting against.

Part of the fear of local residents is, not only the creation of the current dump itself, but also Tomlinson’s apparent interest in purchasing a much larger parcel of land surrounding ED-19. This could result in a very large expansion of the proposed dump in the future into a possible ‘mega dump’ covering hundreds of acres. This mega dump could signal that Tomlinson would start bringing in garbage from all over Eastern Ontario and possibly even other parts of Ontario. Accord-

lation growth, wetlands, and species of wildlife and plant life at risk. This landfill will also have a significant impact on property values for local residents.

At a recent public meeting hosted by the UCLG, approximately 350 residents attended (the Township of Edwardsburg/Cardinal only has a population of 7,000). According to a witness, at one point during the meeting, a resident stood up to ask if anyone in the room supported the dump: no one stood up. At this meeting, both the Mayor of EC, Pat Sayeau, and the Warden of the UCLG, Robin Jones, stated that “we hear you”, understanding the clear opposition to the dump. This was a change of position for the Mayor, who previously voted in favour of the dump at EC Council and who had written an op-ed piece in the Prescott Journal in mid November in support of it.

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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Monday, March 20 at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Centre.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS Canada Day Committee – Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 pm at the Municipal Centre

2017 INTERIM TAX BILLS

All 2017 Interim Tax Bills have been mailed. If you have not received your bill, please contact the Administration Office. The installment due date is March 31, 2017. Final tax bills for all tax classes will be mailed in June.

DOG TAGS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

All dogs in North Grenville require an annual dog license.

If purchased before March 31st, the license is $15 and if purchased after March 31st, the cost is $30. The license can now be purchased or renewed and paid for online by visiting the Municipal website at www.northgrenville.ca and clicking on Online Services. For more information on dog or kennel licenses, please contact By-Law Services.

2017 BURN PERMITS AVAILABLE ONLINE

In accordance with By-Law 33-12, a Burn Permit is required to conduct open burning on property located outside of the urban area. New in 2017, 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 still $15. Please check conditions prior to burning by calling 613-706-1770.

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ing to Mr. Johnston, once a dump gets established, it is much easier to expand it than establish a new one.

You have to wonder why the UCLG wouldn’t agree to getting a new environmental assessment done. Are they afraid that the new assessment wouldn’t support their plans for a landfill? This might go a long way to relieving the anxieties of those opposed. Do members of the UCLG Council not care about the possible impact this could have on the health of residents

and wildlife; not to mention the negative financial impact this could have on local residents? It sounds like County Council heard residents, but didn’t listen.

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by Candace Sceviour-Hay 2017 is proving to be a fun and exciting time at Bayfield Manor. We had great success with our 2nd Annual "Take the Chill out of Winter" fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Local restaurants donated soup and, in turn, we sold it for a nominal fee to residents, staff and visitors. We would like to extend our appreciation and thanks to Hardstones Grill, Fast Eddie's, and Brewed

Awakenings for their delicious contributions. Also, a big thank you to B&H Grocer for donating the buns. Heart o' Grams were also sold for Valentine’s Day, with money raised going to the Heart and Stroke. Personal messages were written on each heart, which were cut out by the residents themselves. Thank you to Lilah Gilmer, President of our Residents Council, who sat in the lobby selling these hearts. They were delivered on Valentine’s Day by a big

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Faceless Dolls at the United Church

soft bear, who also ensured everyone received a hug.

These two activities were a huge success, surpassing our last year’s total of $250.00.

However, we do not have a final tally at this time. Thank you to all who helped to make these activities a huge success.

February also saw our first ever "Paint Night". Residents, family and staff had an opportunity to paint their very own masterpiece - some actually painting for the very first

time. Marguerite Boyer was our "Teacher" that night. She is an experienced artist who volunteers countless hours in our community. Thank you Maggie, for volunteering your time and providing an evening well spent. Judging by the positive remarks, another "Paint Night" is foreseen for the future. It is wonderful to see the support that our Seniors receive from people in our community. Thank you!

A special event is taking place at St. John’s United Church, 400 Prescott St. Kemptville, on March 11, between 11 am and 4 pm. The Native Women’s Association of Canada has been compiling what they call the Faceless Doll Project as a commemorative art project in honour and in memory of the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women of Canada.

The project was launched in 2012 and Canadians of all kinds, men, women, boys, girls, regardless of ethnicity, indigenous and non-indigenous, are invited to get together and hear the story of the Faceless Dolls. They then get to create their own, individual doll which reminds us that each doll represents a real person, faceless, but a mother, wife, sister, daughter who has been lost to us.

Everyone is invited to join in spending an afternoon creating their own Faceless Doll Project, an initiative of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Each doll represents a “known case” of a missing or murdered Aboriginal woman or girl from the NWAC database. Come and learn more about this commemorative art project. Guest speakers will be in attendance.

A light lunch will be offered. Fully accessible, we look forward to spending time with everyone. Please call Barbara at 613-258-4526 or email blrousseau@ cogeco.ca for more information and to confirm your participation.

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Kemptville Live Music Festival is pleased to announce that five time Juno award winner, Liona Boyd will join us on the CHEZ106.1 stage Sunday, July 23, 2017. ”The First Lady of the Classical Guitar", has enthralled millions with her romantic and unique brand of classical, folk and world music. She has performed solo and orchestral concerts around the world, had her own television specials, and recorded twentyseven albums, many of which have gone Gold and Platinum. Her total views on YouTube are over four million. A new album March 8, 2017

of original songs will be released later in 2017 by Universal Music.

Liona has played for dozens of world leaders including the British Royal Family and the US president. She has recorded with Sir Andrew Davis and the English Chamber Orchestra, Yo Yo Ma and Georges Zamfir, and breaking with classical tradition has toured with Gordon Lightfoot and Tracy Chapman as well as recorded with Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, and Roger Whittaker. Liona has been a special guest on dozens of American television shows

including The Tonight Show, Today Show, Boston Pops and Entertainment Tonight.

With her talents and role in Canadian culture, Liona has been given five Honorary Doctorates, The Order of Canada, The Order of Ontario and the Diamond Jubilee Medal.

She is a five-time winner of the Guitar Player Magazine poll for best classical guitar musician and has been inducted into their ‘Gallery of Greats’.

Liona has composed and arranged hundreds of pieces for the guitar and also written a best-selling autobiography, ‘In My Own Key... My Life in Love and Music’. She is currently working on a sequel to the book, and an audiobook, both to be released in 2017.

Kemptville Live Music Festival runs July 20-23, 2017. Tickets for the 2017 Kemptville Live Music Festival are available on line at www.kemptvillelivemusicfestival.com today!

Update - Convenience Store Robbery in Kemptville Grenville County Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a male in connection to a robbery at a convenience store in Kemptville, Ontario. At 2:15 a.m. on February 16, 2017, a masked male armed with a knife and wearing dark clothing entered the Quickie and Pioneer Gas Bar on Rideau Street and stole cigarettes, cash and lottery tickets. No one was injured.

On March 2, 2017, Grenvillle County OPP arrested and charged a male, aged 25, of Kemptville, Ontario with: Robbery with weapon; wearing a disguise with the intent to commit an indictable offence of robbery; possession property obtained by crime under $5,000. The accused is being held in custody for a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice, Brockville on the March 6, 2017.

Anyone with information on the above occurrence is asked to call Grenville County O.P.P. Communication Centre at 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.

Multi- Agency Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspections lead to charges On Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachments, OPP East Region Highway Safety Division (HSD), OPP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit (CMVEU) along with members of the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) and Ministry of Finance (MOF) conducted a daytime initiative in the East Region of Ontario focusing on inspections of Commercial Motor Vehicles and legislation enforcement.

The day's operations were part of the 2017 ongoing OPP Highway Safety Plan, to ensure the safety of all people using the Highways.

The operation consisted of multiple initiatives on East Region Highways and resulted in: 47 CMV inspections and 5 MOF inspections.

11 Vehicles were taken out of service.

12 Charges were laid by the MTO and MOF. 72 charges contrary to the Highway Traffic Act One Damage only Motor Vehicle Collision involving CMV. 19 other "moving violation" charges contrary to the Highway Traffic were laid against drivers of non-commercial vehicles.

The charges laid in this operation all relate to driving and vehicle equipment issues that pose a threat to the public's safe use of Ontario's Highways. OPP advise drivers to be mindful of their speed and the distance between their vehicles and others. Decreasing speed and increasing distances in changing environments and conditions increase your chances of responding to sudden hazards.

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Truth, lies, and opinions

by Roger Blockley The matter of Donald Trump’s continual lying has attracted much comment, including by the editor of NGT. While, at present, it appears to be a problem of the USA, I am afraid that the technique and objectives that underlie it have far broader implications, and the now-notorious phrase ‘alternative facts’ offers a clue.

I have lectured on Roman history for a long time. I have observed more recently (that is, the past eight or so years) that the students prefer lecture notes to be posted on-line, and when that is done, they memorize both facts and opinions (or interpretations) indiscriminately. Now history is an enquiry based upon facts, or reasonable extrapolations from facts, and it is the enquiry (not the facts) that define history. To treat opinions as facts negates history. Yet this is what many students do, if they acquire their

‘history’ on line.

What is happening in the USA is an analogue of this process. There is an amount of evidence that reading electronically, rather than on paper, is often done alongside other activities and is often more superficial: and opinions are often registered as facts. In this context, the internet, and especially Twitter, offers brief statements (or headlines) that stick. Furthermore, USAians, especially, are conditioned to negative headlines (look at the papers and magazines at supermarket checkouts). Notoriously, one of the flacks during an earlier presidential election campaign (I think it was a supporter of the elder Bush), made a blatantly false statement, and when forced to retract it did so willingly with the observation that for every person who believed the retraction, nine would believe the original lie.

The strategy then, is obvious: tell a lie, and then accuse your opponents

and the press of lying, after which a reasoned rebuttal will carry little force, especially with the true believers, whose outrage at the alleged liars will increase (remember Trump ran his campaign like a series of revivalist meetings). Moreover, over time, much of the media will move towards some kind of accommodation with the liars (Neil MacDonald thinks that this is already happening), and the Republicans (with the honourable exception of John McCain) will go along.

What is happening is not accidental, nor is it only a consequence of Trump’s obvious defects of character (though these play a role). Rather it is part of a carefully-contrived strategy. Parallels have been drawn with Nixon, but these ignore

the fact that Nixon was not backed up by a legion of true believers. Parallels have also been drawn with “1984" and “Brave New World”. But the closer parallel, in my view, is with “Animal Farm”.

If this were simply a USA-ian phenomenon, it might be merely amusing.

But one can see traces of this already in Canada.

Kelly Leitch is trying out this approach, and the on- line abuse of Justin Trudeau smacks of the same. One might hope, in these cases, that the good sense and moderation of Canadians will resist the hysteria and polarization that is so often characteristic of public discourse south of the border, and that the emergence of a Donald Trump (and his puppet master, Steve Bannon) will not happen here.

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Create a large file or section for each member of the family that you will be filing for. List basic information, including names, dates of birth and social insurance numbers.

In each family member's file, create a section for current and past documents.

In the Past section, place copies of old returns that have been filed, together with any supporting documents, Notices of Assessment, etc. Label them clearly with the tax year they apply to. If these are bulky, place each year in a separate file.

In the Current section, place any records relating to the current tax year, such as T-slips and related employment records, donation receipts, medical expenses and investment receipts.

If any family member is self-employed, create a separate file for their business records. File a copy of the business income statement in the Current section when it is complete.

As you receive documents such as tax receipts or T-slips through the year, place them in the Current file for the family member they apply to.

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As soon as possible after you receive your T-slips, take them and the other documents in the Current file to complete your tax return. The sooner you complete your return, the sooner you will get a refund of any money you have overpaid.

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Doors Exterior doors need to be strong, yet tasteful and play an important role as the portal to your home. We offer many styles from steel to fiberglass, plain to decorative, front doors, side doors or patio doors. Come visit our showroom to see examples.

Kitchens The heart of many homes is considered the kitchen, the place for family meals, entertaining or just having coffee with friends. We have a wide variety of cabinets/cupboard styles, colours and species of wood: maple, clear alder, walnut, cherry, oak and many more. Counter tops can bring new life to an older kitchen, why not come in and see some of the many products available from laminate to granite or quartz.

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73's missed the bounces for a win

Great moves....Matt Tugnutt just couldn't calm the bouncing rubber to make it count as they lost to Carleton Place 3 - 1 on Friday night. by sportsguy The first place Carleton Place Canadians, with a 14 streak win record, visiting the 73's barn, posted another win as they beat our boys 3-1.

Initial period opened

with opportunities at either end, if they could tame a bouncing puck and, with the close checking from each club, kept the contest scoreless. Both squads managed 9 SHG to close the first.

Second go-around: the Canadians capitalized on a

defender to pick up lose rubber to slip it into the mesh.

Kemptville out-shot the Canadians 14-13 and suffered a two-goal deficit.

Final twenty was end-toend action, with Kemptville having more advantages, but just could not find the net.

PP at 4:45, as Knoblauch, with Cullen over the line, with quick pass across to Andrew Dodson to direct it by Hodgins for a PPG. Then, again, at 2:35, when Hill moves it to Merkley who slaps it into the zone and Geoff Kitt flies by his

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With EA, Gaudet penetrates the line, chips over to Tugnutt on the side, to find Adam Alavi in the slot between the hash marks to spoil Leach's SO attempt. Canadians, with heavy fore-checking by Grant to Merkley, to chip it down to opposition end with icing waved off, and Brent Hill wrapped it around for EN at :25. Kemptville out-gunned Canadians 41 to 28 and received a lose.

Just a reminder: the 73's are on a push to play-offs and they would love to see you come out to support them on their way. Next home game is Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30, when Hawkesbury Hawkes swoop into town......see you there.

Come on out and experience "Hockey with Edge"..... support your community 73's.

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Seaway Surge AA Baseball Club Registration Now Open

by Dan Piche The Seaway Surge Baseball Club is now accepting registrations for the up-coming 2017 season. Players interested in trying out for the club are required to register online at www.seawaysurge.com.

A non-refundable fee of $40 is required.

This season the Surge are planning on fielding a club at each age level from Mosquito to Midget. Depending on the age group, tryouts will be held in March and April with sessions to be held both indoor and outdoor (weather permitting). Details on all tryouts will be updated on the Surge web site once the exact dates and times are available.

With a successful inaugural season behind them

and as interest in the Seaway Surge Baseball Club continues to grow throughout Eastern Ontario, the club is excited to get 2017 underway.

The Seaway Surge Baseball Club offers Elite “AA” and “A” Rep level baseball to skilled young men and women looking to develop their talent under the guidance of excellent coaching and in a highly competitive environment.

As a member of Baseball Ontario, the National Capital Ontario Baseball Association (NCOBA) and the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association (EOBA) our teams play regular season games against high level teams from throughout the National Capital Region and Eastern Ontario,

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Located in the municipality of North Grenville, Kemptville is a vibrant, fast-growing community.

Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) is a 40-bed health care facility serving residents in North Grenville and South Ottawa. KDH is accredited with national exemplary standing and offers an array of services, including 24-hour emergency care, advanced orthopaedic surgery, in-hospital care, state of the art diagnostic imaging, and a wide variety of medical and surgical specialists’ clinics.

The Board of Directors of KDH is seeking an innovative physician leader who will bring strong interpersonal skills and a consensus-building leadership style in his/her interaction with medical staff, the Board, and administration. The Chief of Staff will have strong organizational and administrative skills and will help to implement KDH’s strategic vision and mission. A systems thinker, the successful candidate will understand the importance of embracing partnership and collaboration opportunities at both regional and local levels.

The Chief of Staff is accountable to the Board of Directors of KDH for the leadership of the medical staff to ensure that the quality of the medical care given to patients of the Hospital is in accordance with policies established by the Board and with KDH’s vision, mission and values. To be successful, the Chief of Staff works closely with KDH’s Chief Executive Officer and senior management.

The ideal candidate will be able to build and maintain relationships based on trust, respect, and transparency, and be seen by his/her peers as an effective collaborator and a champion of quality, patient-centred care.

To be eligible, you must be currently registered and licensed (or eligible for licensure) with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Working experience in a rural community setting will serve you well in this leadership role. Additional education and/or leadership training is an asset. This position is part-time, based on an average of 15 to 20 hours per month or 180 to 240 hours annually. Applications, which will include a salary range expectation, will be received until the closing date of March 31, 2017.

For more information, or to submit your application in confidence, please contact: Lana LeClair, VP Corporate Affairs 613-258-6133 ext. 222 Email: lleclair@kdh.on.ca 2675 Concession Road, PO Box 2007, Kemptville, ON, K0G 1J0 | www.kdh.on.ca

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1st Annual Big Band Dance Saturday April 8, 2017

Let’s Connect…

7 pm until Midnight

North Grenville Municipal Centre

Dancing - Silent Auction - Cash bar Tickets $40, available at: Kemptville & District Home Support 613-258-3203 The Workshop Dance Studio, Kemptville 613-868-9062

by Susan Smith, Executive Director, Kemptville & District Home Support (KDHSI) The cold March winds were certainly blowing this past weekend. At KDHSI, it is always warm and ‘sunny’! It is such a pleasure to come to work, knowing that, throughout the day, I will be in contact with so many positive people.

Bev, Carol, and Jennifer are such a great team to work with, as are the amazing volunteers. The clients who come into the Centre, and those that call on the telephone, are also such a joy to talk with.

I’m certainly ‘living the life’!

It has also been such an amazing experience planning for our upcoming Big Band Dance, featuring ‘The Jivewires’, on April 8.

The businesses have been so supportive of this event. Grenville Mutual Insurance and Tallman Trucking are sponsoring the Band; and O’Farrell Financial is sponsoring the cold buffet prepared

by Erick LePors, Diala-Chef. Businesses have

also come forward as Table Sponsors and to donate to the silent auction. This is a fundraising event for KDHSI, with proceeds going toward the $55,000+ that we have to raise every year.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Berndt, leader of ‘The Jivewires’, last week.

Steve is looking forward to bringing his band to Kemptville for our Big Band Dance. Of interest, ‘The Jivewires’ will be playing at the 2017 Ottawa Bluesfest, and will be in a movie called "Prisoners Of Time", to be released in Canada this year. Two songs from their latest album, "Drive Me Sane", will be featured in the movie. To get a taste of ‘The Jivewires’ performing, just search them on YouTube and enjoy. We are certainly in for a treat on April 8!

If you are planning on coming to this event, please pick up your tickets soon, as they are starting to sell quickly.

The tickets are available at KDHSI, or The Workshop Dance Studio at 215 Sanders Street, Kemptville. I’m looking

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forward to this evening, and hope to see many of you there.

It is wonderful that the community understands the value of the programs and services offered at KDHSI, from the social activities at the Centre, to the services provided in the community. It is all of us working together to ensure that the seniors in our community continue to have access to these important services.

As in the words of Helen Keller: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

Thank you to all for your continued support.

Until next time, Susan.

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Neurofeedback: a brain wave?

by Hilary Thomson A type of psychological therapy that works with the brainwaves has come to Kemptville. Carol Williams has been practicing neurofeedback in Merrickville for five years. Neurofeedback is a process that uses EEG (electroencephalography) to record the waves of electrical activity happening in the brain, and broadcasts it onto a screen. The idea is that, if you have these waves shown to you through images or music, you can learn to exert some control over them.

“Our brains can get stuck on a particular wavelength,” Carol says. “This means we don’t have a lot of mental energy to make full use of other states. You want a nice even range between all the wavelengths so you can drop out of states easily.”

During a neurofeedback session, the participant sits in a chair with electrodes attached to their head. Their brainwaves are monitored by these electrodes, which broadcast the waves onto a screen. The participant watches the waves while listening to music, and, every so often, they will hear some static. “The interruptions in the music are triggered by interruptions in the brain,” Carol says. “It’s like driving down the 416 and hearing the rumble strips.”

Carol works mainly with youth who suffer with anxiety and depression, but also with people who have chronic pain. “I love seeing people change in such positive ways,” Carol says. “I’ve had parents tell me that they’ve seen more progress with this than anything else.”

While there is no conclusive research showing that

neurofeedback is the “miracle cure”, it certainly doesn’t seem to hurt. Merrickville native, Jacob Dunning, battled depression throughout high school. When he heard about neurofeedback, he was sceptical at first. “It seemed silly,” he says. When he tried it, he liked the fact that you could see the brainwaves on the screen and track the progress of the brain. “It was proof that it wasn’t doing nothing.”

While Jacob says that it is difficult to tell what was the key out of his depression, he believes the six neurofeedback sessions he had were a contributing factor.

“Neurofeedback can be a tool in tandem with things,” he says, “I would definitely recommend it to someone.”

Carol Williams also works in Kemptville, once a week, at the Kemptville Naturopathic Clinic.

Jazz festival calling artists

Merrickville’s Jazz Fest (MJF) will present its seventh season from Thursday, October 12 through Sunday, October 15, 2017. Performances take place in a variety of large and small venues in Merrickville’s downtown area including local pubs, restaurants, churches, the Baldachin Ballroom and other locations. Although our operating budget is much smaller than those

of larger, well-established festivals, we are proud to offer the most interesting programming possible and count on the support and collaboration of our generous sponsors, faithful audiences and fabulous artists as well as our wonderful team of volunteers to make it work.

If you are interested in performing at MJF 2017, please visit our website www.merrickvillesjazzfest. com to complete the online

Application Form. The application forms and support material are carefully reviewed by a Selection Committee (which includes some new members each year) and artists are chosen based on a variety of criteria with an aim to present the highest quality and most interesting balance of programming to the MJF audience.

Online application forms must be received by noon on May 24, 2017.

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Come paint with friends and raise funds for World Hope Canada at the Goose and Gridiron restaurant, St. Lawrence Street in Merrrickville, on Friday, March 10.

The Crazy Daisy Paint Night takes place from 7 - 9 p.m., and a local artist from Paint party Sisters will be on hand to help you, regardless of your experience (or lack thereof) to reproduce a colourful painting of a daisy.

Tickets are $40, and very limited, so get yours as soon as you can.

Funds from this event will go to Sierra Leone to build latrines. This is a basic, but very serious issue for young girls in that country who have no indoor latrines to use. Some even get bitten by snakes when they have to squat outdoors to go to the toilet. Even worse, perhaps, is that, according to World Hope’s reports: “the lack of a bathroom makes women and

girls a target for sexual assault as they go to the toilet in the open, late at night”.

Richinda Bates, Director of Marketing at World Hope’s headquarters in Kemptville, found it very difficult to take in that such a simple need existed, one that could be met with just $400 for each latrine built. It has been one of her aims to do something about this, and so the funds raised through the Paint Party will go to Sierra Leone to buy latrines for these girls.

The goal for 2017 is to build twenty latrines, and eight have already been funded. Just twelve to go, and the Paint Party will help make that happen.

World Hope is also providing clean and safe drinking water in Sierra Leone by building wells. They provided a well, in partnership with a local Wesleyan Church in 2015, which provides safe and clean water for an entire

community. This, again, has more than an immediate impact on a community. According to United Nations Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro: “Access to clean water and adequate sanitation are a prerequisite for lifting people out of poverty”.

Poor sanitation is one of the world’s biggest killers, and I in 5 children die before they reach the age of five as a result. The numbers are staggering: every day, 1,400 children under the age of five die of illnesses linked to unclean water and poor sanitation. That is more than half a million per year, or one every minute. 748 million people around the world lack access to clean, safe drinking water.

World Hope works in seven countries now, and even if you can’t make it to the Goose and Gridiron on March 10, you can help these children and women by supporting World Hope in any way you can. Call them at 613-482-1499, or email Richinda at richinda@ worldhope.ca. There will be another opportunity to support World Hope’s work in the Ukraine and have fun too, by signing up for their Ukrainian egg-decorating one-day course, which takes place at Southgate Community Church in Kemptville on Saturday, March 18, between 9 am and 3 pm.

Walk of the Cross coming back to Merrickville

On April 14, 2017, Good Friday, Parishioners of St. Ann Church, the United Church, the Holy Trinity Church and the Brethren Bible Chapel, will join in the 8th year of the Walk of the Cross. The Walk will start with prayer at St. Ann by Julius Nwagbara at 8 am, then a walk to the United Church for a prayer by Matt Gallinger and a blessing by Robert Humble. The Walk then moves on to the Holy Trinity Church for a prayer by Andrew Wilson. We will then return to St. Ann around 9.30 am, listen to a prayer by Ross Ayling and a closing prayer by Julius Nwagbara. We will be singing and praying all the way. People who cannot walk can meet us at their own Church. Youth and children are most welcome to take turns in carrying the Cross.

If you do not belong to any church, you may still join this Merrickville family gathering.

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

Modern square dance club, Grenville Gremlins,7:30-10 pm, Leslie Hall on Clothier St. Kemptville Cancer Support Group, 3rd Mon/mth. at St. John’s United Church, Prescott St., 2 pm. The aims and objectives of our group is to bring together friends who have just been diagnosed with cancer, going through treatments, survivor and needing others to reach out to. All welcome. For info, please call Ellen Vibert-Miller at 613-258-7778.

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 $4. All levels of bridge players welcome. Info, contact Sandra at 613-258-2691.

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

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

Klub 67 Euchre every 2nd & 4th Wed. beginning Sept. 14, 1:15 pm, St. John's United Church. Everyone welcome $5.00.

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

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Kemptville Legion cribbage night, 2nd and 4th Wed. Start time 7 pm. All welcome. Come and play for fun.

New Horizon Club, 2nd & 4th Wed. at the Burritt`s Rapids Community Hall. Meetings at 2 pm. 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 of the month, starting October 5. Adults $8, Children $5. All are welcomed.

Bridge - St. John’s United Church, 6:15 pm. Cost $5. All levels of bridge players welcome. For more info, contact Sandra at 613-258-2691.

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

Oxford Mills Community Association meeting- First Thurs. of each month at Maplewood Hall, 7 pm. All welcome. Info – call 613 258 3683 Twice The Fun Games (200 Sanders St. Unit 103) Game Night, 2nd and 4th Fri., 6-10 pm. Bring your favourite game or borrow one from their library. All ages welcome.

Friendship Lunch, Leslie Hall, hosted by local churches, 11:30 am.

Donations accepted but not expected, everyone welcome.

Kemptville Legion breakfast, 8 - 10 am 3rd Sat. of every month., 100 Reuben Crescent. Adults $5. Children under 12 $3. All welcome.

Kerith Debt Freedom Centre – Provides free and confidential coaching to help you get and stay out of debt, 2nd & 4th Sat. of each month. Call 613-258-4815 x 103 or www.kdfc.ca to request an appointment.

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Une nouvelle concentration Santé humaine et terrestre pour les élèves du pavillon secondaire de l’École catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys à Kemptville Dès la rentrée scolaire 2017, les élèves du pavillon secondaire de l’École catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys à Kemptville pourront s’inscrire au programme de préconcentration et de concentration en Santé humaine et terrestre avec un focus sur les changements climatiques. Ce programme spécialisé et inclusif sera accessible à l’ensemble des élèves de 7e à 10e année pour la rentrée scolaire 2017, et s’étendra à la 11e année en 2018 et à la 12e année en 2019. « L’offre de ce nouveau programme spécialisé au pavillon Kemptville est une excellente nouvelle pour les élèves puisqu’ils auront l’occasion de vivre une expérience immersive en Santé humaine et terrestre avec un focus sur les changements climatiques. Les élèves pourront ainsi développer leur pensée critique face à des défis importants de société dans des domaines tels que l’environnement, la santé et le développement durable. Ils seront par ailleurs amenés à développer, tout au long du programme, une attitude et un comportement écoresponsable » affirme Johanne Lacombe, présidente du Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE). Mme Lacombe tient par ailleurs à remercier les parents et le personnel qui ont siégé au comité ad hoc afin de valider les paramètres du nouveau programme.

La concentration Santé humaine et terrestre permettra aux élèves d’aborder des thèmes spécifiques selon leur niveau.

7e année : esprit sain, corps sain (analyser l’importance de l’alimentation, la santé mentale, l’équilibre travail-école sur la santé), valser avec la nature (évaluer les répercussions des phénomènes naturels et des changements climatiques) 8e année : intoxiqué par la santé, intoxiqué par la vie, ceinture de sécurité environnementale 9e année : simplicité volontaire (alimentation, construction) 10e année : l’empreinte de l’or noir (mon empreinte écologique, l’économie du pétrole) 11e année : chasser le naturel (les changements climatiques et le tourisme, la santé et les changements climatiques) 12e année : biotechnologie Le directeur de l’éducation du CECCE, Réjean Sirois, est emballé par le développement de ce nouveau programme dont le contenu s’inscrit définitivement dans l’orientation des écoles du 21e siècle. « Les impacts des changements climatiques sur l’environnement, la santé, le développement durable sont assurément des enjeux majeurs et préoccupants pour les générations à venir. L’intégration du programme Santé humaine et terrestre permettra en l'occurrence de sensibiliser les élèves à ces réalités et de leur offrir une formation académique axée sur le développement de la citoyenneté civique et écoresponsable afin de faire d’eux des citoyens engagés et éthiques. Par ailleurs, ce nouveau programme offert en collaboration avec divers partenaires communautaires permettra d’offrir aux élèves des activités d’exploration de carrières, des placements COOP ainsi que des formations et certifications. » L’offre de cette concentration par le CECCE découle d’une démarche de consultation publique entreprise auprès de la communauté de l’École catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys afin de connaître les besoins et intérêts des familles et des élèves. Durant les consultations, un engouement s’est rapidement dessiné en faveur d’un programme en lien avec divers aspects liés aux domaines de la santé et l’environnement.

Chef de file reconnu pour la transformation de l’expérience d’apprentissage, l’excellence et la bienveillance de ses écoles catholiques et sa synergie avec la communauté, le CECCE, avec plus de 22 600 élèves fréquentant 42 écoles élémentaires, 12 écoles secondaires et une école pour adultes, est le plus grand réseau canadien d’écoles de langue française à l’extérieur du Québec. Les élèves du CECCE obtiennent les meilleurs résultats en province, et 96 % d’entre eux obtiennent leur diplôme.

Record-breaking Treefrog on St-Lawrence Street in Bishops Mills Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad

When we heard a Treefrog calling on 18 April 2012, we thought it was a manifestation of global warming, expressed by that extraordinarily early spring. But, after an ominously warm January & February of this year, Fred Schueler went out on the first of March to look for caterpillars in his standard Bishops Mills road ecology protocol - and found March 8, 2017

Treefrogs 10 times in May, and twice in April, while from 2004-2016, there were 9 first dates in April, and 3 in May. This comparison doesn't correct for when or how much we were away from home, but when evaluated by "Fisher's Exact” test, the probability that the periods are the same is only 1%. This year's frog is a full 6.5 weeks earlier than the previous earliest record, and the species had been heard calling in a big female Treefrog heading February in Oxford County north on St-Lawrence Street. in southwestern Ontario.

We've recorded the dates we first found or heard Treefrogs in Grenville County since 1992, and it's clear that, in line with the idea of global warming, spring is indeed coming earlier. If the previous years are divided into two 12-year series, in 19922003 we first found or heard

Hyla versicolor, the Tetraploid Gray Treefrog, is a large tree-dwelling frog which can change from grey to green coloration, with big sticky disks on the toes, and a white spot in front of the eye. It's usually noticed when it's seen clinging to vertical walls and windows. It calls with a bray-

ing honking trill, similar to the cries of baby Raccoons.

There are loud choruses from breeding ponds in late spring, as well as sporadic calls from trees before the males go to the breeding ponds, and as they return to the trees after breeding. We also hear them calling sporadically through the summer, especially before rain. “Rain Frog” is a vernacular name, often used by those who don't know the species by sight. Genetically, this species is a “tetraploid", with twice the usual diploid number of chromosomes, compared with the very similar western and southern species Hyla chrysoscelis (which has a higher frequency call with faster trills at any temperature).

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reviving when they thaw. This freezing depends on releases of high levels of cryoprotectant (cold-protecting) chemicals into the blood. Their breeding season of the Tree Frog is a month or more after they emerge from hibernation. Freeze tolerance has only been studied at moderate temperatures below freezing, so we can't know how out wanderer would have fared in the -17ºC of the next few days if we hadn't taken her into our fridge.

The other freeze-tolerant frogs (Wood Frogs, Peepers, and Chorus Frogs) protect themselves from frost damage with super-diabetic levels of glucose, but the Treefrog’s cryoprotectant is glycerol (glycerine), which they're able to secrete whenever there are low temperatures at least through the

spring. Freeze tolerance has only been studied at moderate temperatures below freezing, so we can't know how our wanderer would have fared in the -17ºC of the next few days if we hadn't taken her into the sanctuary of our fridge.

Much of the research on freeze tolerance and its possible use in preserving human organs for transplant has been done by the lab of Ken & Janet Story at Carleton University - http://kenstoreylab. com/ - in large part using animals from Limerick Forest.

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Geocaching for Canada 150 in North Grenville

GeocacheNG is on the hunt for volunteers to create 150 new geocaches in North Grenville in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.

Working with volunteers, GeocacheNG would like to launch these new hides together in time for a large geocaching event to be held this spring.

Interested geocachers are asked to complete the registration form which can be found online at www. northgrenville.ca. After registering, volunteers will be contacted with further information by the GeocacheNG team.

Remember that placing a cache is a long term commit-

ment. It is your responsibility to maintain the cache and the area around it. You will need to return as often as you can to ensure that your cache is not impacting the area negatively and to check that the container is in good shape. To learn more about geocaching, visit www.geocaching.com.

GeocacheNG exists to engage the North Grenville community and its visitors with geocaching for fun, physical activity and education. The project continues to create opportunities to be more physically active by combining outdoor recreation and location-based gaming and treasure hunting. In 2016, the GeocacheNG project saw

the introduction of a geocaching resource and equipment loan program with handheld GPS units and resource books available to borrow through the North Grenville Public Library.

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture also has a class/club kit available for loan, including handheld GPS units and sample curriculum for engaging schools and local organizations in the activity. If you would like more information about the 150 for 150 geocaching project before signing up, please contact Tammy Hurlbert at thurlbert@northgrenville. on.ca.

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