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Going the distanceSarah Ridout hits up the Madawaska Valley District High School’s new fitness centre on Feb. 7, starting her day off with a healthy kick. Sarah Hyatt Barry’s Bay This Week

Future of hospice in the MV looking brighter

Community members in and around the Mad-awaska Valley continue to dedicate themselves to providing the best palliative and end of life care possible.

On Feb. 7 and 8, a first time, two-day special course called the Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End-of-Life Care (LEAP) was offered in Barry’s Bay at the Opeongo Seniors Cen-tre.

About 24 community members dedicated their time to learn how they can help others diagnosed with incurable diseases.

Since 2002, Pallium Canada has, with a network of academic health leaders and skilled commu-nity-practitioners offered the LEAP course.

However, only recently has the LEAP course been revamped to offer knowledge based around a standardized approach to enhancing palliative care in Canada, with tailored modules for pallia-tive care specialties.

The Madawaska Valley is one of the first com-munities to have the taken part in the new course and for good reason, José Luis Pereira, professor and head for the palliative care division for the University of Ottawa/medical chief of palliative medicine for the Bruyere Contining Care and the

Ottawa Hospital, as well this weekend’s co-facilita-tor said.

“This region and the Madawaska Valley are tak-ing unique approaches and steps to training and to offer hospice services,” Pereira explained.

Pereira went on to say he was astounded at the level of community dedication and support wit-nessed at the recent LEAP course on Feb. 7 and 8.

“There were doctors, nurses, pharmacists, so many people from so many walks of life who came out to participate,” he said. “This community can certainly rest assured it has the most dedicated healthcare professionals and community mem-bers working towards enhancing their skill sets to help others in need of palliative care.”

Ultimately, this is precisely what the two-day, new course aimed to offer.

“It’s about improving end of life care,” Pereira said. “And improving and learning new skills which will be helpful to those diagnosed with incurable diseases.”

One of the main messages Pereira stressed throughout the two days, was that palliative care is all too often thought of as care for the last few days of a person’s life.

“This is a myth that has to be demolished,” Pereira insists.

Successful palliative care on the contrary, the faciltor stressed is to begin as soon as a person is diagnosed with an incurable disease.

This way there are ways, methods and treat-ments which can help control diseases such as cancer, for example, Pereira explained.

“This increases chances of a prolonged life and quality life for what a person has left,” he added.

In addition, when care is offered earlier on this offers people more time – those who are ill and family members, time to think, discuss and dis-cover what is most important to them, Pereira con-tinued.

“More time to tackle that elephant in the room,” the facilitator summaraized.

End of life or palliative care is not just restricted to healthcare professionals such as doctors or nurses either – this was another myth the two-day course aimed to address.

It takes many people, a team of people to offer quality palliative care, throughout the perid in which one is ill, Pereira said.

Studies show, Pereira went on to explain, for those who have a team equipped with all the spe-cific skills, when care begins early – it gives people hope.

Often they live longer, much more comfortably, they are less depressed and anixious, too, the facil-itor explained.

On Feb. 7 and 8, these were a few of the topics and issues addressed in regards to palliative and end of life care.

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Dream fitness centre comes to life at MVDHS

It’s official, the fitness centre at Mada-waska Valley District High School (MVDHS) is finally complete and up and running as of last week.

The project which has been in the works for some time now, offers students the chance to embrace a healthy lifestyle and 33 workout stations, plus a floor exercise space for options.

“We’re very fortunate to have had this all come together the way it has,” Dave Bishop, the high school’s principal explained. “The benefits will be many for students and staff, and hopefully the community soon too.”

Treadmills, spin bikes and an array of weight lifting workout equipment are some of the new fitness room’s highlights and most popular pieces. It’s hoped the large floor exercise space as well will offer indi-viduals many options in the near future too.

“We’re still looking at the different pro-grams we can offer people,” Bishop said.

Normally, the construction of a fitness centre such as the one which has come to life at MVDHS would be immensely costly. And typically would be out of the question for a rural high school.

However, it was with the alignment of several great and unexpected offers, this fitness centre was made possible, Bishop explained.

Most of the equipment now featured at the high school was not purchased new; the principal went on to say. Instead, it has actually found its way to the high school from Carleton University in Ottawa.

Bishop also added there was fortunately some money left over in the budget to help with costs and the board offered a small grant to help contribute as well.

And while the majority of equipment is technically used, Bishop says it’s all in very good shape.

“We had a maintenance guy come from Ottawa to check everything out and abso-lutely everything is in tip-top shape, it’s great quality equipment. We really lucked out,” Bishop said.

What’s more, the equipment is still fairly new, the principal added.

“This is a huge advantage for us,” he explained. “This means we are still able, if something does happen to break down, purchase parts versus replacing the whole piece. This will hopefully help us with main-taining costs.”

The treadmills, however, the principal suspects and is finding out may prove to be costly expenses.

In the meantime though, students and staff are getting good use of the new facility.

“It’s certainly being well used,” Bishop said.

Physical education classes are incorpo-rating routines and workout time for stu-dents since the centre started up, and life skills classes are getting in on the fun too, Bishop elaborated.

The high school is also looking at doing some experimenting with learning and improving attendance in class, combined with workout times.

Bishop explained, there have been reports and studies that suggest when something like fitness and math are com-bined; many students excel more in the classroom.

So if students have 25 minutes of physi-cal activity before entering a math lesson, students may be more attentive during

Principal hopes to extend invitation to community soon

class and more settled down, for example, Bishop continued.

In addition, students are embracing a healthier lifestyle.

“We’re excited to see what we can do with learning and fitness,” Bishop added.

It’s also hoped that the fitness centre sometime in the near future will be open to the public.

Currently, staff are hard at work with the Township of Madawaska Valley’s recreation and community development co-ordinator, trying to find a way to invite the commu-nity to be able to use the fitness centre, but also a way to reduce the maintenance costs more users of the equipment would cause, Bishop explained. Liability concerns also have to be cared for.

The duo is hoping they can achieve some sort of feasible arrangement before next winter. But there are no guarantees at this point, the principal added.

“We’re hopeful though,” Bishop said. “This is a huge benefit for us and it should be for the community as well. High schools are meant to be like a central part of the community. We just have to make sure it’s sustainable, first.”

Most likely, a small annual membership fee will be introduced and asked of commu-nity members to help offset maintenance costs.

However, Bishop suspects it will be much cheaper in comparison to what other gyms require.

“It will be to ensure that we can maintain

the fitness room, that’s it...and so everyone can benefit,” he summarized.

This is a huge benefit for us and it should be for the community as well.

— Dave Bishop Principal of MVDHS


Above: front to back: Grade 10 girls, Karley Coulas, Melanie Coulas, Camille McLean and Alina Bittner are all smiles, hitting up the high school’s new fitness centre on Friday morning.

Front to back: Shannon Lorbetskie, Sabrina Prince, Megan Kaufman and Jesse-Lea Weichenthal pump some iron on Feb. 7.

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Education was a key issue at the regular Killaloe-Hagarty-Richards (KHR) council meeting on Feb. 4.

Philip Godon and Sue Rupert of the Training & Learn-ing Centre (TLC) of Renfrew County gave council a spe-cial presentation.

Godon reported to council that nearly one-third of the population in Renfrew County have not completed high school and said currently “17 per cent of kids who start high school are not going to finish.”

He also pointed out that what compounds the prob-lem are the parents “who do not have a good foundation in the basic skills,” themselves, which causes a problem since they are not as well-equipped to help their children get through school.

Sue Rupert then took the floor, explaining that the Training and Learning Centre of Renfrew County focuses on helping adults fill the “gaps in their skills.”

These skills may include computer literacy or brushing up on math and reading skills, especially for those that have been out of school for a long time.

Rupert pointed out that they are not a high school or college, but rather a service that helps people prepare for the next step in their life and “help them on their way.”

Currently there are two TLC locations in Renfrew County, one in Eganville and one in Barry’s Bay.

And while they have been serving the area for nearly 20 years, Rupert says that not enough people are taking advantage of their services, despite the fact it is free.

She went on to speculate that part of the problem may simply be that people don’t have the means to travel to these locations.

The solution? Godon and Rupert say that a mobile learning centre that travels to different communities throughout Renfrew County just might help to solve this problem.

It was for this reason that Godon and Rupert came to talk to council.

Before getting a mobile learning centre up and run-ning, they want to conduct a feasibility study to see how effective a service like this would actually be.

One of the first steps is to organize different focus groups across the Southern end of Renfrew County, in as many communities as possible.

This way they can put together a report and figure out just how much a program like this is needed and how much it will cost. Godon said he hopes to have the mobile unit running by July or August, if all goes well.

During the question period that followed their presen-tation, councillor Isabel O’Reilly inquired where Godon got his statistics from, saying that she thought the drop-out rate seemed too high.

But Godon confirmed that he got the statistics from a study by Queen’s University and that they were accurate at the time of the 2008 Renfrew County Economic Devel-opment study.

“I think it is our job as leaders to help the feasibility study,” said Mayor Janice Visneskie-Moore.

“Without reading you can’t do anything,” added O’Reilly, “Good luck with your program because there is a need for it.”

Also in regards to education, Visneskie-Moore reported to council that she had been granted a meeting with the minister of education.

She said that the purpose of the meeting is to address the closing of small schools in Renfrew County and to speak in favour of keeping them open.

Council also heard a delegation from local residents Louise Chenier and Lynne Cyr who live at 868 Lakeview Drive, in Round Lake Centre.

They came to council regarding a concern about their neighbour’s outdoor wood furnace.

It stands only 125 feet from their house and Chenier told council that “when the wind turns, [carbon monox-ide] comes into our house and we can’t open our win-dows.” The smoke even turned the side of their house black.

When Chenier and Cyr asked their neighbour to close the furnace he complied, but now that he has sold the property they are concerned that the new neighbour won’t be as agreeable.

And Cyr pointed out that they are especially concerned because of the potential health risks it could cause, ques-tioning whether it could even be one of the underlying factors responsible for her cancer.

Chenier and Cyr were hoping that council would pass a bylaw that would prevent the neighbour from using this

Putting education in focus

outdoor furnace since it is so close to their property. “I would like you to have some compassion,” said Chenier.

“Honestly we do have compassion,” replied Visneskie-Moore, “[But] we don’t have a bylaw...we have to make sure we have authority.”

Councillor Kathy Marion questioned whether or not this would be a Ministry of the Environment issue, but Cyr said that she already called them. Apparently they told her that they have gotten many complaints, but the government has not yet passed a law.

Visneskie-Moore said that she would look into it and get back to them once she has more information.

Works superintendent Clifford Yantha reported to council that he is still on the hunt for a new grader.

He brought a variety of prices and specifications to council, but no official decision was made. In the mean-time he said he has a 2014 John Deere demonstration scheduled.

Part of the demonstration allows them to keep the grader for three or four days in order to test it out. “All we have to do is wash it when we are finished,” he said.

In other matters, Councillor Stanley Pecoskie relayed to council that the Snow Fun Loggers’ Competition was a big hit, maybe even the best ever.

Nearly $12,000 in donations came in, which in turn was given out as prizes to the loggers.

“You really are Stan the Man,” said Visneskie-Moore, “I think we owe you a round of applause.” And that is just what everybody did.

Emily McPheeSpecial to This Week

Emily McPhee Special to This WeekPhilip Godon, left and Sue Rupert of the Training & Learning Centre (TLC) of Renfrew County give a presentation at the regular KHR council meeting on Feb. 4.


More specifically, Pereira alongside co-facilitators Amanda Burcher, pallaitive care nurse practicioner for the Champlain Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), Madawaska Valley staff physician Jason Malinowksi and hospice co-ordinator Karen Wagner, aimed to get all caregivers on the same page when it comes to hospice care.

“So how to treat pain and symptoms best, how to make the right decisions with and for someone with a progressive dis-ease and at the end of life, all of these things were tackled,” Pereira elaborated. “We really need to work together as a team, as a family to offer the best possible palliative and end of life care.”

All too often, people have this perception that pallative care includes one being heavily sedated constantly, that’s not the case at all, Pereira went on to say.

For Wagner, she added it was inspirational to see everyone come together to learn and take charge. Representatives from the Valley Manor, the CCAC, local pharmacies and the Rain-bow Valley Community Health Centre, to name a few, Wagner explained all made the time to take part in the course.

“Essentially, each organization which deals with people in need of pallaitive care were present for the LEAP course,” she said.

And now, most importantly, everyone will have the same information, Wagner added.

“We’re all on the same page, we have a common under-standing as to the best practices for end of life care,” she said. “We’re excited for the future of hospice care in the Madawaska Valley.”

Wagner and Malinowksi added they were both happy to help and learn as well throughout the two-day course.

To be setting a precedent for other rural municipalities is an

honour, too, they agreed. “We’re excited to be at the forefront of rural programming

for hospice and palliative care services,” Malinowksi said.

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We’re excited to be at the forefront of rural programming for hospice and palliative care services.

— Jason Malinowski Staff physician

Sarah Hyatt Barry’s Bay This WeekLeft to right: MV hospice co-ordinator Karen Wagner, palliative care expert José Luis Pereira from the University of Ottawa/Ottawa Hospital/Bruyere Continuing Care, Champlain CCAC pallaitive care nurse practicioner Amanda Burcher and staff physician for the SFMH Jason Malinowski helped facilitate a first time, new two-day course on palliative and end of life care on Feb. 7 and 8 at the Barry’s Bay Opeongo Seniors Centre.

End-of-life training eye-opening

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The Sacred heart League will be hosting a Pancake Supper on Sunday Feb. 23, 2014 from 3pm-6pm on the Parish hall. Serving baked beans, batter and potato pancakes, syrup, sausage, assorted desserts tea & coffee. Adults $8.00 Children 3 to 10 $5.00 Under 3 Free. Take out available.

Valley Animal Rescue will be hosting a night of comedy at the Best Western Renfrew on March 1st. Raise The Woof features three comedians, a silent auction and cash bar. The doors open at 6:00pm. Tickets are $20.00 and are available at; Pet Valu Renfrew helping hands Thrift Shop Renfrew house of Crafts Pembroke Rick’s Pets Arnprior [email protected]

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INFoRMATIoN MEETINg on Monday, March3, 7:30 p.m. at the Barr Line Community Centre sponsored by the Renfrew County National Farmers Union on Climate Change, Weather Patterns and Its Affect on Water. Duncan Noble will be speaking on behalf of the Climate Reality Project. Everyone Welcome! Free Admission.

ThE SoUND oF MUSICThis coming February bring your family and friends to enjoy an evening of music as oLSWA’s Don Bosco Drama Club presents the classic Rodgers & hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. Performances will be held at Madawaska Valley District high School in Barry’s Bay.

Dates of performance: Friday Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m.Saturday March 1, 7:00 p.m., Sunday March 2, 2:00 p.m.

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The future of minor hockey in Barry’s Bay still in limbo

Talk about helping the Barry’s Bay and Area Minor Hockey Association came to the table again, at the latest Recreation, Heritage and Community Economic Development Com-mittee meeting on Feb. 5.

And after much discussion, it’s looking as though the future of minor hockey in Barry’s Bay is not looking bright.

Back in November of 2013, the minor hockey association came to the township looking for help. It was explained increasing ice rental costs at about $157 were not feasible for the association – and that the group would need to know whether or not this fee could be lowered to ensure minor hockey had a future in Barry’s Bay for the 2014 year.

Originally, the township had hoped to receive some help from neighbouring munic-ipalities, such as the Killaloe-Hagarty-Rich-ards (KHR) Township.

However, recently it was announced KHR would not help with costs.

Based on this result, recreation and com-munity development co-ordinator Paul explained in order to achieve the goal of a $110 ice rental fee; the township would have to reinstate the non-resident user fee at the

Paul J. Yakabuski Community Centre (PJYCC). In Nopper’s analysis, he also stated to

achieve the magic number of $110, the minor sport rebate given to the Township of Mada-waska Valley (TMV) residents would have to be eliminated and it will be necessary to secure an additional 14 hours of ice rentals per week.

Nopper suggested the non-resident user fee of $100 be implemented. And in other words, it would be necessary for the township to subsidize about $5,900.

But not all committee members were on board with Nopper’s suggestions.

Committee member Sylvie Yantha was looking towards the future, he said. And a $100 user fee for out of town players just isn’t going to cut it, he insisted on Feb. 5.

Eventually, the rink will need repairs and fixes, he explained.

“What happens when the roof needs to be replaced?” he asked. “That $100 fee won’t be enough.” The township also has to look at capital costs and preparing for the future, Yantha said. Therefore, the committee mem-ber said the non-resident user fee needs to be higher and as mentioned before, some sort of agreement has to be reached with a neigh-bouring municipality.

Otherwise, the end result will be the arena closes in 10 or 15 years, Yantha added.

Residents already pay extra for fees corre-lated with the arena through their taxes, com-mittee collectively agreed.

Chairman for the committee Carl Brom-wich acknowledged it’s a tricky situation.

“We’re either going to price ourselves out of minor hockey or eventually become like Eganville with a $2.6 million roof that needs to be repaired...I don’t want to see minor hockey come to an end, but it’s looking like it’s com-ing to this point,” the chairman said.

Inevitably, costs are too high and it’s caus-ing a backlash of problems, Bromwich sum-marized.

Committee member Bob Kulas added operational costs this winter alone, have increased anywhere from 12-14 per cent at the arena.

“$100 isn’t going to touch that even,” he said.

Hydro and electricity costs only continue to increase, he noted.

“So what do we do? Shut down the arena? I hate to see it come to that,” an emotional Bro-mwich said. Committee member Linda Neu-man suggested perhaps more fundraising on behalf of the association might be the answer to help offset costs, if the township just cannot achieve the $110 per hour goal for ice rental fees.

“I can see how for the association if they

continue at this rate in two-three years time they’ll owe so much money – I can see it’s not feasible, but I think there are other options for us to look at,” she explained.

The onus may have to be on parents to get more involved fundraising, Neuman went on to say.

Ultimately, Yantha said committee and council were not elected to oversee costs associated with minor hockey, but to look after taxpayers.

“I think we’re putting too much empha-sis on minor hockey,” Yantha said. “I sup-port minor hockey and would give them a cash donation any day...but if minor hockey is going to fold, let it fold.”

Yantha went on to say he didn’t have a problem with the $110 rate, but the continu-ing of subsidizing for neighbouring munici-palities players’.

But for Bromwich, he says he just can’t stand the thought of “youth being thrown into the ditch like this.”

In the end, Bromwich suggested committee invite representatives from the minor hockey association back to the table to discuss what type of figure they might be able to live with and when ultimately a decision needs to be made by.

Bromwich said a special meeting will be called in hopefully a week or two.


‘No’ to Wilno rink, but ‘yes’ to relay, kids’ programIn other recreation news, committee has

said yay and nay to several donation requests. Committee decided on Feb. 5 to not donate

$10,000 to the Wilno Rink Corporation. But that they would support the Canadian

Cancer Society and donate the rental of the arena and the ball fields for the annual Relay for Life event.

Committee also decided to help the Com-munity Resource Centre of Renfrew County recently and will donate the rental fee for the front lobby of the Paul J. Yakabuski Commu-nity Centre (PJYCC) to be used to host a new 1-2-3 Go Program.

The program focuses on physical activity in the preschool years and offers young chil-dren, through an array of activities the chance to develop various skills.

Committee also announced the oil tank at the Combermere Community Hall will finally be replaced in the near future.

On Jan. 20, Etmanskie Heating Services conducted an annual cleaning and inspection of the furnace system and upon completion, informed staff that the oil tank feeding the furnace undoubtedly was in need of replace-ment. The underside of the oil tank had mul-tiple rust areas, some more rusted through the tank than others, although the tank is not leaking. With such concerns, the township was provided with notice to change the tank and if it’s not changed within 90 days, the dis-tributor of fuel oil to the community hall will no longer fill the tank.

Recreation and community development co-ordinator Paul Nopper informed commit-tee this would most likely cost anywhere from $4-$5,000. But also suggested that the com-mittee compared costs associated with heat-ing for both oil and propane, before a final decision was made.

Elaine Schweig appeared before commit-tee on Feb. 5 to talk plans for the future for the Combermere Recreation Committee as well.

She, on behalf of the dedicated group of Combermere volunteers provided committee with a plan outlining yearly activities and rec-reation options, the group wishes to offer the community.

What she proposed is that twice a month the group provided free recreation options – ranging from walking clubs, art classes, jew-elry making, board games, storytelling, crafts, music etc.

“We want to optimize well-being for our residents,” she said.

In total, the committee would like to run 27 events in 2014. On behalf of the Combermere group, Schweig asked for the township’s sup-port.

Committee member Linda Neuman insisted however, that some sort of plan needs to be put in place to assess the benefits ver-sus costs of offering such activities. As finance chair she says it’s important to know exactly what expenses will come to life as a result of the activities and to evaluate the whole pro-ject.

Sarah Hyatt Barry’s Bay This WeekLeft to right: Executive director for the St. Francis Memorial Hospital Foundation Toni Lavigne-Conway and Kelsey Bimm from Barry’s Bay This Week celebrate $435 raised from this year’s hockey pool to go towards the hospital campaign.

In about two, three months time Neuman suggested the committee and council sit down and look at costs incurred.

Lastly, the township will not pursue a refrigeration service agreement with CIMCO in regards to the PJYCC, after Mike Walker

also appeared as a delegation on Feb. 5. Ulti-mately, committee decided they did not see any true savings to the agreement and that they would pursue energy savings plans another way.


Opinion

New fitness centre: a definite bonus for MV

To the Editor,

Well actually it was Feb. 5 and I was at the Madawaska Valley Recreation, Heritage and Community Economic Development Commit-tee Meeting. Oh septage! The battery in my recorder was done. How am I going to write accurately about the activities of our coun-cil if I didn’t have proof? I know I can’t trust my memory given my underlying bias towards our local politicians. Then the light went on. I remembered what our mayor said back in the fall. Give positive a try. What could I high-light from the meeting that could be seen as a positive? My inspiration came the next morning. I could write about the progress our council has made with transparency and more specifically with their handling of ‘in camera’ (closed) meetings.

Here was a great example of the progress we’ve made. The last item on the agenda was an ‘in camera’ item to discuss an email from a lawyer about the Wilno Rink. A motion was made, seconded and a vote taken to kick the audience out. Out we went like good little sheep. Shortly thereafter we were summoned back to council chambers at which point the chair apologized for not following proper pro-cedure. He then read out the exception to the rules that permits council to have a closed

meeting, which he admitted should have been done prior to the vote. The chair then explained that council had agreed there was really no reason to have gone into a closed meeting to discuss this particular issue.

At the end of the meeting one councillor even offered to share his copy of the confi-dential agenda (printed on the famous green paper). What an honor and privilege to be officially included into the secret world of our local politics.

This council would never have considered such a bold move a year ago. That’s amazing when you recall that some councillors wanted members of the public to pay for the closed meeting investigation earlier this year, an investigation that found council was not fol-lowing the rules. Now if we can get our coun-cil to take the next gigantic step not to go into closed meetings unless it is absolutely neces-sary then maybe we can consider it real prog-ress.

There is a saying that ‘change is painful’ and what we have seen in the past year seems to support it; painfully slow, like molasses in January.

Mike HagartyMadawaska Valley

Photo QuizHere is this week’s photo quiz entry. If you think you know where this picture was taken, you can submit your guess either via email ([email protected]), by phone (613-756-2944), or in person (41 Bay Street, Barry’s Bay) by Monday at noon.

Congratulations to last week’s correct guessers! Dennis Chapeksie, Esther Yantha, Tammy Belanger, Theresa Trader, William Cunliffe, Colette Szalay, Sarah Cybulski, Mike Hall and Tina Rock Chenier. Each identified the photo of the bench at the corner of Cemetery Lane and Mask Island Drive, in Barry’s Bay.

Like molasses in January

IT’S UNDENIABLE, EXERCISE is important. It’s widely known and statistically proven for an

array of reasons. No matter our age or shape,

exercise on a daily basis is to sup-pose to be on our “to-do” lists. And not just so we can fit into our favourite jeans, of course.

Exercise tones a person’s body, strengthens muscles, keeps bones strong and improves skin even.

Increased relaxation, better sleep and mood, stronger immune functions and more, are the perks for people who dedicate them-selves to regular exercise.

Yet, as time has progressed we constantly hear about how youth today, across Canada and North America do not exercise as much as they need too.

Child obesity is a growing concern, and sickness and death related to such issues continue to increase as well.

Some studies suggest nearly half of youth aged 12-21 are not vigor-ously active on a regular basis.

About 14 per cent of young peo-ple report no recent physical activ-ity at all. And the kicker, partici-pation in all types of physical activity strikingly declines as age increases.

In some studies, it was found only 19 per cent of all high school students were physically active for roughly 20 minutes, five days a week in physical education classes.

What’s more, enrolment in phys-ical activity classes has steadily dropped since 1991.

According to the experts, teens are to get 60 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day.

Why? Well, we all know our teenage years can be, umm, diffi-cult at times.

Exercising benefits every part of the body, including the mind. While throughout the teenage years there is much rewiring of the brain taking place, exercis-ing especially can help teenagers to feel better, more peaceful and

happy. For some teenagers who have

anxiety or sleeping issues, mild depression or low self-esteem, exercise also helps, causing the body to produce those happy chemicals called endorphins.

Often, it can help to give people a real sense of accomplishment and pride as well, having achieved a certain goal, liking beating an old time in 100-metre dash, for instance.

Long-term, regular exercise can help people who are especially susceptible or vulnerable to spe-cific diseases such as type 2 diabe-tes or high blood pressure.

Such diseases which used to be most commonly found in adults are becoming more common in teens.

For women, regu-lar exercise is said to be of the utmost importance. Exercise can help people age well, it’s no secret.

But women are highly prone to a condition called osteoporosis – a weakening of the bones condi-tion, as they age. Studies show that weight-bearing exercises such as jumping, brisk walking or running can help girls to keep their bones strong.

Meanwhile, here in the Mada-waska Valley news has recently came out: the high school has a new fitness centre. It’s being well used and it’s also hoped that sometime this year, the fitness room will be open to the public.

Certainly, this will prove to be a valuable addition within the town-ship for students, families and individuals.

And hopefully the new fitness room will help to encourage many, maybe even save a few lives, who knows!

Kudos – Madawaska Valley Dis-trict High School (MVDHS) staff and students for putting a push on the need for physical activity and for striving to try new things. Offering to incorporate classes and learning, with physical activity cer-tainly won’t hurt anyone! In fact, it will most likely help.

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I WAS ICE FISHING the other day with my friend Mike, who is relatively new to rural life. As always, certain cul-

tural differences immediately emerged. For instance, where he’s from they view road kill sandwiches with more than a bit of disdain.

Oh, and, apparently in the big city, they have a completely different take on Valentine’s Day too.

We were on the ice when Mike told me about his culture. And, frankly, I was shocked.

“Interesting,” I said, “so for you guys it’s all about gifts, cards, dinner, romance and flowers, huh?”

“That’s the general idea,” he said. “How do you guys celebrate it here?”

I stopped drilling yet another hole with my hand auger and gave it some serious thought.

“First off,” I said, “I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone use the term ‘cele-brate.’ I do know we prefer it to be more of a spontaneous event. That’s why most of us make it a habit to only remember it the evening before.”

“Really?” he said. “Then what do you do?”

Aside from panic, I had no really good answer for him. So I did what most out-doorsman do at times like this – I started

making things up. I find that if you do this long enough, sometimes a golden nugget of truth will eventually emerge.

And so it did.When I was finished, my friend

responded.“Honestly?” he began.

“The first thing you do on Valentine’s morning is tell her there are 70 days till turkey season?”

“Yes,” I replied. “This gives her an idea of why we – quote-unquote – celebrate Valentine’s Day. It kind of puts it all into perspective too.”

“OK,” he answered. “I get that. That makes good sense if turkey sea-son is as big around here as you say it is. But I’m still not sure that buying her a power auger is such a good idea. Guys do that huh?”

I stopped drilling yet another hole with my hand auger, wiped off my brow and gave him a dirty look.

Like many outdoorsmen, Mike is not exactly the romantic type. So I sat him down and explained all the good rea-sons why he should buy the love of his life a power auger.

“A power auger?” he repeated. “Really”

“Look Mike,” I replied. “I know what you are thinking, but buying her a hand auger or a nice spud and skimmer sim-

ply won’t do. Ask anyone. Most women would not con-sider this a good Valentine’s Day gift.”

“That’s not what...”“Sure, a hand auger seems

to make sense in a prac-tical sort of way,” I inter-rupted. “After all, a hand auger says you care enough to get her something a little lighter to carry. And there’s no doubt it does provide a vigorous workout. But, in my vast experience, women

want to be pampered on Valentine’s Day – which is why you go for the power auger!”

“But…”“Yes,” I smiled, “it’s a little more

expensive. But she’ll see that and appre-ciate the fact that you thought she was worth the extra money. And believe me, she’ll tell all of her friends all about it. I’m still hearing about the one my old fishing buddy Rick got his ex…”

“But my wife doesn’t even like ice

fishing...” he sputtered.“Don’t be ridiculous!” I snapped.

“Everyone loves ice fishing. It’s just that no self-respecting woman wants to throw herself at the sport. It looks des-perate. Trust me. She’s looking for an invitation from you. She needs to know you want her there. And the simple act of giving her a power auger says that.”

“Invitation?” he muttered. “Really? You actually think she’s looking for an invitation?”

“Yes, and nothing says you’re wel-come to join us more than a brand new power auger – preferably, one with a 38cc, overhead valve 4-stroke engine and an 8-inch cutting diameter.”

“But what if you are wrong? I hear those things have razor sharp blades!” he yelped.

“Sometimes love requires a person to take risks,” I muttered. Then I drilled another hole with my old hand auger through the 30 inches of ice, while he considered the matter more fully.

As I write this, I’m not sure if Mike has followed my sage advice. But I do know, if he does, he and I will probably be spending a whole lot more time on the ice.

If not, at least I’ll know where to bor-row a good power auger.

WHEN IT COMES to the Olym-pic Games there are three types of people: those that

love them, those that feel they are a waste of resources, and those that fol-low them casually.

The first group finds the Games a noble ideal, an opportunity to bring the world together in the spirit of friendly competition. They appreciate how this massive stage never fails to reveal incredible stories; some dramatic, some tragic, some that make your heart glow. This group understands the high cost to run the Games, but they feel the benefit of creating a shared global experience is well worth that price.

On the other side of court is the sec-ond group.

The folks believe the Olympic ideal is certainly noble, but the cost to put on the Games is unjustifiable. Why are nations pouring millions into their Olympic programs for the sake of a few moments of glory, when those resources would be best spent in improving the everyday lives of its cit-izens? Glory is fleeting, good health care shouldn’t be. This group also feels the Games have been exploited by cor-porate interests and no longer repre-sent the true Olympic ideals on which

they Games were founded.The third group isn’t passionate

about the Games one way or another. It’s a big spectacle that rolls in every couple years and rolls out again. This group will take in the opening and closing cer-emonies, if they are on at a reasonable time and maybe the odd sport where a countryman is favoured to win. This group isn’t overly wor-ried about the costs of the Games because they’ve seen governments waste a lot more money on less productive things.

I’ve found myself waf-fling between all three groups the past few years. There are times when I’ve cheered for an athlete, Canadian or otherwise, after hearing the incredible journey that person has been on to make it to the Olympics. Some overcome what seem insurmountable odds, coming from countries where there are few resources. Others have come back from horrific injuries or faced brutal dis-crimination. To witness these champi-ons, regardless of where they finish in

a race, is fist-pumping inspirational. On such days I feel the Olympic Games are worth all the gold they use in those medals.

However, other times I see the lar-gesse that is dis-played at the Games. I read of the dis-placement of peo-ple or wildlife so we may be ‘entertained.’ Critical resources are diverted away from necessary things to pay for the luxury of spectacle. With any monolithic organi-zation there is ter-rible waste, cor-ruption and greed. The IOC is not

immune to these symptoms. For every lion-hearted athlete, there is a fat cat bureaucrat living off IOC dimes. How many people’s lives could be improved with the money spent on jetting already wealthy officials around the world for meetings and events?

I’ve also found myself, more so of late, falling in with the third group. I’ll watch the opening and closing cere-monies, not so much for the grand the-

atrics, but to see how the host coun-try’s culture is self-expressed. I do find that fascinating. Sadly, the 2010 clos-ing ceremonies in Vancouver are, in my opinion, the worst closing ceremonies I’ve ever seen. They were horribly self-indulgent, an inside Canadian joke the rest of the world couldn’t appreciate. It was a Wayne And Schuster special on a Las Vegas budget.

I don’t follow the individual sports too faithfully. The Winter Games I tend to get more interested in, yes because of hockey and curling. The Summer Games have a few sports I enjoy, but when I see table tennis or beach vol-leyball come on it’s time to get outside myself.

I’ve recently read about a Tongan athlete at Sochi who was recruited as a marketing stunt by a German under-wear maker. The kid legally changed his name to match one of their prod-ucts. The IOC has frowned on the stunt but there’s nothing they can do about it. I realize that for this Tongan it’s a chance of a lifetime so bartering his heritage is not surprising.

But if that’s where the Olympic ideal is headed I might find myself pitching tent with group #2.

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To the Editor,

It is with exasperation that one sits through any meeting of our council and the Feb. 5, 2014 “Recreation, Heritage and Com-munity Economic Development Commit-tee” meeting was no exception.

It is the responsibility of the township to provide recreation for its residents. Our township has been very lax in doing so. Any activities available, are organized and promoted by volunteers who in reality are doing council’s work for them. That is a sweet deal for council. One would think then, that our council would do everything they can to make it as easy as possible for the volunteers to provide this service. Not

so. The “Combermere Recreation Commit-tee,” appeared before the “Council Recre-ation, Heritage and Community Economic Development Committee” in order to out-line the multitude of activities they intend to organize for the people of our Township in 2014. These activities will take place at the Combermere Hall and the “Combermere Recreation Committee” is expecting to use the hall at no cost. Rather than extend con-gratulations and thanks for the efforts of the “Combermere Recreation Committee” the volunteers were interrogated. Questions not unlike: “YOUR activities are all during the day. Why do YOU not have anything orga-nized in the evenings” “Are YOU sure peo-ple will come? What if YOUR participants

are few and we (the township) has to pay for the use of the Combermere Hall (for no good reason (implied)). Will the numbers be worth it?”

Contrast this with the “donation” request from both the Relay for Life and the 1-2-3 Go program, for Moms and tots. Both requested the free use of the PJY arena for their activities and both requests were agreed to without hesitation or question. Few would object to the use of our arena for these purposes, however why are our volun-teers given a difficult time by council in their intentions to raise the spirit and improve the ambiance of our community, and out-side groups, who are not necessarily directly invested in our community, are giving with-

out question free use of our facilities? This is a puzzle and speaks to a really inconsistent donation policy.

We are a shrinking community and it is urgent that action is initiated to turn this deterioration around. There are a number of steps that can be taken to attempt this and one is certainly to promote a vibrant and active community with an array of activi-ties to beguile future residents to settle here. The present scoffing and negative attitude of this council towards volunteers and their ‘free’ use of the facilities will not assist in this endeavor.

M-R Dawes Township of Madawaska Valley

Inconsistent donation policy

A “good neighbour” is a person or group of people who come to the aid of their friends when needed, without hav-ing to set boundaries or obligations for that much needed assistance.

Take the Wilno Rink “situation,” where one of our township’s privately own rec-reation facility was “out of service” for almost two years. And then along came a group of volunteers who “stepped up to the plate” and organized a committee to revive the outdoor rink in Wilno for the children to use and play on.

The new Wilno Recreation Corporation was formed as a “ non-for-profit organi-

zation” made up of Constance and Rob Bersan, Jennifer Kuiack, Amanda Kutch-koskie, Sylvia Hinrichsen and Joanne Plebon of which the majority live in the neighbouring township. Hats off to these community leaders.

This group of volunteers identified the much needed financial aid which was required to make this happen and that’s where the following “ good neighbours” came in.

Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Town-ship under the leadership of Janice Vis-neskie-Moore and her progressive council graciously invested $10,000 to the cause,

which of course would not only bene-fit the children of Wilno, but also neigh-bouring township’s children and also our Madawaska Valley residents for a safe and friendly place to play. We all thank you for your caring efforts.

A good neighbour does not see prop-erty lines, fences or political boundaries, but they see an opportunity to build on what is valuable for the whole community at large and keep what we have alive so we can all benefit. An active community is a healthy community.

In addition, a local resident Robert Howe of Howe Robert B Barr & Solicitor

donated his valuable time and expertise for all the legal services he performed to legitimize this organization. We thank you for your kindness.

This rink will again allow children to learn how to skate, play hockey and cre-ate memories for a lifetime and will now prepare them for what lies ahead as they dream of playing organized hockey at the Paul J. Yakabuski Community Centre, through the Barry’s Bay and Area Minor Hockey System which is so successful in our beautiful Madawaska’s.

Submitted by Mayor Dave Shulist

What makes a good neighbour?

The treatment of soldiers and veter-ans has been receiving some additional attention lately. I am pleased to correct the record when it comes to the decision to expand the services provided to veter-ans by merging eight under-used veter-an’s affairs offices with Service Canada and its 650 points of service across Can-ada.

There will be no local change of ser-vice. Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke will continue to be served by offices in Pem-broke and Petawawa, in addition to any Service Canada locations. I also encour-age any soldier or veteran to contact my office if they need help in any way.

We are going from approximately 50 points of service across the country to 650 Points of service. In the eight dis-trict offices that are merging with Ser-vice Canada, that Service Canada Office will have an experienced Veterans Affairs officer who will work alongside a trained Service Canada employee.

Across Canada, of the eight offices being merged, five are in the same build-ing, two are within one kilometre, and one is 4 km away. Some of the district offices being merged were seeing three clients a day. For seriously injured vet-erans who are unable to drive, we will send a registered nurse or case manager to their home along with cutting grass, removing snow, cleaning their homes.

Significant investment has been made by the Canadian Armed Forces to ensure that our military members receive the highest standard of mental health care possible.

Since 2006, the Canadian Ar med Forc e s hea l th ca re investment has increased, bringing our expenses in health care close to $420 million each year. There are no budget cuts when it comes to caring for our military.

In 2012, the government announced an additional $11.4 million investment, to

enhance the armed forces mental health care system specifically. This brings the total amount of annual mental health investment for military members to $50 million. These investments translate to approximately 400 mental health profes-sionals dedicated to our men and women in uniform, and we are currently working on bringing in additional qualified appli-cants to fill the spaces available.

One of the challenges of having a mili-tary base in rural Ontario is the shortage of health care professionals for the entire population. Even though the federal Con-servative government has struggled to find mental health care professionals for Base Petawawa, we have successfully staffed five doctors for a base population of 6,000 soldiers; compare that to one psychiatrist for a local civilian population of 100,000 people. We have five doctors for the military population of 6,000 and one for the remaining 100,000 people in the civilian population. Is there a health care crisis in Renfrew County? Yes. Is the federal government trying to deal with the provincial shortage? Yes.

As your Federal Member of Parliament, I am pleased to represent you on a vari-ety of issues. Whether that issue is elim-inating the long gun registry, promoting agriculture, international trade, Cana-dian Unity, AECL, the military or jobs in the working forest, I am here to serve you! As always, if you have any concerns of a federal nature, or just want to share your views with me, please do not hesitate to contact my office.

Office contact Information: Constitu-ency Office of Cheryl Gallant, MP, 84 Isa-bella St., Pembroke On. K8A 5S5 or call 732-4404. There is no postage required when you write your Federal Member of Parliament.

For more information contact Cheryl Gallant, M.P. – 613-732-4404.

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TIMBERFEST 2014 Friday, February 14, 2014 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Chicks with Sticks Hockey

9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club at the Paul J. Yakabuski Community Centre. Tickets are $20.00

Featuring: Jeff McEnery, Nick Beaton and Shannon Laverty This is an age of majority event. Tickets are available at the Township of Madawaska Valley Office and the Barry’s Bay Railway Station. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

Beaver Tail Truck

Fire Fighter Demonstration

Themed Snowman Making Competition

Live Music from Ken Ramsden

Balloon Making by Twisting Terry of Balloons Beyond Belief

Decorate the Ice Wall

Log Demonstration by John Foreman

Local Logging Trivia

Hot Chocolate and Cookies

Logging Themed Stories, Games, Crafts

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Stanley Cup Hockey Game at the PJYCC. Toronto vs. Montreal

$5.00 Admission per person at the door $15.00 for a family of 4. Kids under 5 Free.

9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. Lumberjack and Jill Dance at the PJY Lounge Featuring Sidewinder. This is an age of majority event. $10.00 Admission at the door.

Sunday, February 15, 2014 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Combermere Community Centre and Area Ice Castle Building at Dennison Park, Hwy 60 in

Combermere. Everyone bring a few 2 litre cardboard containers and “Build Our Community!”

Outdoor Rink - Snow Creature Building and Painting

Mini Hill Sledding

All Day and Evening Outdoor Skating (Canteen on Site)

Tug O’ War Games

Dinner and Dance: $12.00 Adults, $5.00 Kids 2-8 Years, Under 2 Years Free

Dinner Alone: $8.00 Adults, $4.00 Kids 2-8 Years, Under 2Years Free

Dance: $5.00 Adults, $2.00 Kids 2-8 Years, Under 2 Years Free

Large Family Rates Available

Saturday, February 15, 2014 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Barry’s Bay Railway Station and Madawaska Valley Public Library

4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Spaghetti Dinner at the Combermere Community Centre

7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Community Family Dance Featuring “Appellation Celtic”.

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Winter fun was in full force this past weekend as the tra-ditional Palmer Rapids Winter Carnival brought commu-nities together with several events. The annual daylong broomball tournament was one of those events and helped kick off the festivities on Feb. 8.

Youngsters hit the ice as early as 8 a.m. this Saturday to compete in the just for fun tournament.

Several games were played. And while scores were kept, primarily it’s just for fun – to bring communities and people together, one parent explained.

It’s always an exciting and fun event for kids and teens to get excited about, he said.

Kids from all over including Palmer Rapids, Quadeville and Combermere, for instance took part again this year in the traditional tournament.

Into the afternoon, local teens also took on the broomball challenge. Again, several games were played.

And while there was some stiff competition, in the end everyone proudly shook hands and was happy to have enjoyed a little action on the ice and to have shared a few victorious goals and chuckles.

Kids and teens light up the ice in Palmer Rapids


Winter carnival fun spreads cheer and offers kids the chance to enjoy friendly competition

Sarah Hyatt StaffToward the end of the game, Quadeville dominated over the Palmer Rapids team. Here, this youngster goes all the way, makes the breakaway and scores on the Palmer Rapids goalie.

In the end though, the Quadeville team’s numerous breakaways left Palmer chasing after their opponents and the Quadeville team taking home the win 8-0.

Above, on Feb. 8, Palmer Rapids’ Winter Carnival festivities kicked off with a heart breakfast and the traditional broomball tournament, just for fun. Here, the Palmer Rapids (yellow) and Quadeveille (green) youngsters fight for the victory. The game got intense, but everyone had a great time.


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Eli Coish (face down, in the blue) makes a huge leap and makes the save for the Palmer Rapids team.

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This year’s Palmer Rapids Winter Car-nival, as it has in previous years provided attendees of all ages with many reasons to smile.

People from abroad came out to enjoy the festivities, as there was a little some-thing for everyone. From adult and chil-dren’s games, to tasty treats and meals, cooking contests, bingo and the traditional cribbage and broomball tournaments – families and kids were all smiles from ear to ear for the five-day carnival, which started on Feb. 5.

Several attendees agreed, it’s all about bringing people together and having a good time.

Both this year’s classic and new events attracted quite the crowds, too, after much hard work by the recreation committee, the hosts for the carnival.

Some of the carnival’s highlights and most popular events this year included, the traditional Lions Club Bingo, a hearty breakfast offered on both Saturday and Sunday, classic children’s games such as the bed races for the second year in a row, the adult’s dance and free costume skate.

Traditionally, the winter fun festivi-ties kicked off with the one of a kind Snow Queen competition.

After two nights of judging and much hard work by contestants, the royal family was announced at the Friday evening open-ing ceremony.

This year’s royal family includes, First Prince Curtis Seafield, First Princess Emma Michaelis, Second Princess Tori Juhasz, Second Prince Eli Coish, Snow Queen Haley Gogolin, Snow King Ryan Somes and Little Miss Karley Gogolin.

Alike the carnival itself, it’s about having fun, organizer Gwen Coish said. But that is not the entire premise of the competition, she notes.

“Everyone has a talent,” she explained. “The kids here have a lot of talent.”

The traditional competition gives chil-dren the chance to explore and showcase those talents, Coish went on to say. The event also aims to help build self-esteem amongst youth and confidence, the organ-izer added.

It’s quite the process youth are required to go through. From sharing their life sto-ries, writing essays, answering an array of questions and getting up on stage to share their talents – it’s a lot, Coish admits.

It takes a certain type of courage. Year after year, kids continue to grow as they take on the challenge and find the cour-age to get up on stage and share their tal-ents and stories with communities. It ena-bles them to do anything and to be confi-dent, Coish said.

“And that’s what we’re primarily trying to teach them, that they are all winners,” the organizer summarized. We want them to know they can reach for the stars and achieve success. After all, all of our kids are stars themselves.”

This year’s Snow Queen competition and annual winter carnival were a success, without a doubt many agreed.

Monies raised from the carnival will again help the recreation committee with costs for the community centre itself, as well as to provide recreational opportu-nities for children and families within the community.

Palmer Rapids Winter Carnival spreads cheer and positive messages to youthSarah HyattBarry’s Bay This Week

Clockwise from top left, Haley Gogolin is the 2014 Snow Queen. It was announced on Friday evening at the opening ceremony for the Palmer Rapids Winter Carnival.

Ryan Somes is this year’s Snow King and he is overjoyed when he finds out. Gwen Coish, organizer for the event places the king’s crown on top of his head.

Last year’s Little Miss, Addison Thompson is all smiles as she reflects on her experience at the Palmer Rapids Winter Carnival Snow Queen Competition and she prepares to crown this year’s Little Miss. Thompson says the competition is an experience all kids should have.

Emma Michaelis is this year’s First Princess.

Tori Juhasz is this year’s Second Princess.Sarah Hyatt Barry’s Bay This Week


A different side of the art world was revealed at the Pulp & Paper Arts exhibition on Feb. 8 at South of 60 in Barry’s Bay.

Artists of all sorts displayed their own creations, dazzling viewers with all the wonders of pulp and paper.

As one might imagine, there was a fine display of book art – pop-up books, stamp books, flag books and more. But there were also sculptures, collages, cut-outs, puppets, furniture and many other art forms that moved beyond the conventional realms of paper.

Local artist Emma Manchester was one of these artists.

Her exquisite puppet The Dyemaker was a strong presence in the downstairs gallery, with its weathered face and eyes seeming to hold a dark wisdom, drawing the viewer in for a closer look.

Manchester has been making puppets for more than 10 years and has clearly developed a strong and effective skill set.

While The Dyemaker is made predomi-nantly of papier mache, she explained that she first builds the form out of clay because “you can capture a lot of detail” this way. After sculpting the character to her liking, she then puts layers of papier mache on top of the clay and due to the delicate nature of the paper, it picks up most of the details carved in the clay. Once it is dry she paints the features and removes the clay, leaving a lightweight puppet that can be easily ani-mated with strings.

Manchester says The Dyemaker was made “for a play which has not yet been written,” that explores the theme of how “human beings interact with the environ-ment.”

This particular character lives in a cave and has spent her life honing the skill of making pigments out of natural materi-als and wants to pass these skills on to the next generation. Manchester says this is symbolic of the “beautiful skills that peo-ple have developed over centuries that are being lost.”

Perhaps this notion was similarly inspir-ing for book artist Nancy Trottier, from Deep River.

On display was her limited edition book titled “The Abecedarium for the Makers of Artists Books,” which beautifully explains the ABC’s of bookmaking, with examples of terms and techniques in alphabetical order.

Kingston book artist Hugh Barclay has

been honing his craft for more than 40 years and uses many of the techniques Trottier sampled in her book. He is self-taught and specializes in letterpress – a printing technique that creates an impres-sion on the paper, giving it texture and depth. While he is a writer himself, on dis-play were different texts from other writers that he finds inspiring. He chooses a story or poem that moves him, and then creates a book using this text, often adding painted

embellishments to augment the feeling created by the prose. This was his first time exhibiting at South of 60 and Barclay says the experience has been “great.”

Just as the theme Pulp & Paper Arts has drawn a diverse range of work, it has also drawn a diverse group of people who have come from as far as North Bay and King-ston to take part in the exhibition, sug-gesting that this kind of theme may not be explored in the art world as often as it

should. Acting curator Danielle Paul says she has

always been interested in book arts and this love is what brought the show into fruition.

“It is a type of creative arts that I haven’t seen a whole lot of,” she said. “I just thought if we could have something like this, it would show people a different way of expressing themselves.”

The exhibition runs until March 22 in the downstairs gallery.

Narratives unfold at new exhibitionEmily McPheeSpecial to Barry’s Bay This Week

Emily McPhee Special To This WeekThe Dyemaker is a papier mache puppet made by local artist Emma Manchester and is just one of the many works on display at the Pulp & Paper Arts exhibition at South of 60 in Barry’s Bay. On either side of The Dyemaker are Manchester’s Bear and Canada Goose finger puppets.

Combermere Craft Cabin aims to help

On Feb. 10. the Combermere Craft Cabin steering committee made a special appearance at St. Francis Memorial Hospital to donate $600 to the hospital campaign. Pictured here, left to right, Pattie Knight, stocking manager, Kelly MacLeod, chairwoman, Carol Burnett, treasurer, and executive director for the St. Francis Memorial Hospital Foundation Toni Lavigne-Conway celebrate the $600 donation. Missing from the photo is communications director for committee Barb Schaefer.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!Dan and I first met eight years ago, when I was still in high school. The first time met was when my mom sent me over to deliver something to his mom, as the two are close friends. Dan opened the door and I froze. All I could think was, “Why didn’t Mom tell me HE lived here?” I thought he was the most handsome man I had ever seen (and still do). When I returned, I told Mom about Dan (she knew about him, just failed to inform me). I’m sure I didn’t stop pestering her about him for most of the night.

At that time, we were doing renovations on our house and Dan was completing his carpentry certi-fications, so Mom hired him to do some work for us – probably more to torture me than anything. Anyways, Dan showed up to fix some stairs and railings for us and I declared myself as his “helper.” I brought him drinks and chatted with him, well, more like at him as he didn’t talk back to me much. I was so busy flirting that at one point, I took a step backwards and forgot there was a missing stair. Down I went, backwards right on my butt, laughing and embarrassed. Dan checked to make sure I was alright, then said with a big grin, “I thought you told me you played soccer?” I was mortified. Needless to say, we didn’t date at that point as my ego was too bruised (and he thought I was too young, minor detail).

Five years later, however, Dan began talking and flirting with me after Mom and I brought him a coffee table for his new place. I needed a date for my best friend’s wedding so Mom said I should ask Dan because at least my date would be handsome. I hesitated and told Mom if she found his number for me, I’d ask. Five minutes later, I was on the phone asking if he’d like to go with me. I was so surprised when he said yes!

My friend’s wedding ended up being our first date. We danced and talked and laughed all night. Little did I know that this would be the first of many dates; actually, little did I know that I’d end up marrying Dan a few years later, but here I am, a newlywed sharing the story of how we first met!

Dan & SarahTen years ago I was in a really great place in life. Single for 4 years (was out of an 18yr relationship) and finally reaching the point where I didn’t concern myself with ‘finding a boyfriend’, because I was just enjoying my life. So, one of my best friends at the time (we had been friends for 20 years) who was my hairdresser, asked me to come in a little later for my appt. and that she wanted me to meet someone. Ok, I thought, I’m in. But this time I wasn’t going to worry about it. I didn’t fuss with hair, makeup, clothes or get nervous. At the end of my appt (ok, so my hair did look great!) she introduced my to her friend (who she had also known for 20 years) Mark. A tall, good looking man with a lovely, kind smile. We talked for a long time. Turns out we went to the same school for 7 YEARS! Two years in junior high and 4 in high school! He remembered me (mostly because I was a bit saucy in school) I, sadly, didn’t remember him till I looked in my yearbook. Anyway within a week we were pretty madly in love. Having both been married before and into our late 30’s we were pretty aware of what we wanted and didn’t want in our lives...we were on the same page. Since then we have gotten married, had a beautiful son and moved 4 hours away from the home we grew up in to make a new place our home and to own and operate a business together. It really is a fairy tale and a testament to the fact that with faith in yourself, patience and confidence in staying true to yourself things will always turn out as they should. We are both very grateful we found each other.

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Liam & Ksenia Last winter, I asked my girlfriend, Ksenia, to take a walk out onto the ice with me here in Barry’s Bay. It was a brightly sunny day and the snow was dazzling, so we both donned pairs of my sunglasses, bundled up warmly, and headed off. There were a few inches of light snow atop the ice which made it easy to walk on, but it was not so thick that we could not run and slide on our boots for several yards at a time in the perfect powder. Ksenia had also brought a phone for music, so after we had walked as far from the shore as we cared to go, we turned on the music to dance, sing, and laugh our way back. Our excursion onto the ice remains one of my favourite winter memories; we get a great deal of winter in the Madawaska Valley and it’s wonderful to be able to enjoy the season in such a lovely way with such a beautiful person.

James & Stacey James and I both moved to the area for work, him from Kemptville, Ontario and myself from Sarnia, Ontario, and found our paths crossing here and there…as many find with living in a small town. First, a friendly wave and nod as our paths crossed at work in the wee hours of the night. Second, we found ourselves chatting at half field instead of hustling for our separate teams during a soccer game in the Barry’s Bay adult soccer league in Killaloe. Thirdly, as it always seems to be a charm, at work, where a special client of his and a patient of mine will never be forgotten. He took the time and assisted me in lifting my patient in able for me to do my job during his job, teamwork…the basis of any solid relationship. Our first date was spent over a drink at the Wilno Tavern, and although we have had some ups and downs, we are now stronger than ever. We continue to discover the area together; whether it is snowshoeing, running, or exploring trails with our puppy Charlie. As a team, with unconditional love and support, we are slowly putting our roots down in Barry’s Bay, and couldn’t be happier about it.


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As the snow thaws and the day’s get longer, it’s the per-fect time to freshen up your home and to get a head start on spring maintenance.

Dave Walton, the director of home ideas at Direct Energy, recommends that we tackle the following tasks first:

Change batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors – In addition to testing batteries regularly, you should change these twice a year without fail. Carbon monoxide detectors are especially important if you have fuel-burning appliances.

Replace furnace filters every three months – Clogged filters mean your air conditioner works harder, so be sure to replace them regularly to allow the central air condi-tioning system (and furnace) to run more efficiently.

Clean your air ducts – This reduces harmful allergens and lowers your heating and cooling costs. Clean air ducts will reduce furnace maintenance costs, will increase the lifespan of your furnace and air conditioning units, and you won’t have to dust as often. Be sure the duct cleaning is performed by a professional. Get your air conditioner inspected –spring is the right time for an AC inspection so

you can be confident that it’s in good working order before you need to turn it on.

Clean and rotate your ceiling fans – Make sure all the fans in your home are working properly and are dust-free. In the summer, the blades should operate in a counter-clockwise direction to move the air downwards and maxi-mize air circulation so your air conditioner doesn’t have to work as hard.

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(NC) The New Year means creating resolutions for a fresh start to the year ahead. Going green is a popular reso-lution as it’s a great way to save money and help the envi-ronment by reducing waste. It can be accomplished rela-tively quickly with immediate results that will last for years. Remember that going green doesn’t need to put you in the red.

An important and easy first-step is researching simple tips and solutions around the house that match your needs and budget. Some simple tips include:

• Insulation and Windows: Insulate your pipes for the cold winter months to conserve energy and reduce heat loss to help save money. Also insulate drafty windows using window insulation film and rubber weather sealing to prevent heat loss and cold air coming into your home. Even having heavier curtains is an effective way to keep cold air out.

• Reduce water consumption: Taking shorter showers is the best way to reduce wasteful water consumption. Also consider washing your clothes in cold water, and running full loads when doing laundry. Similarly, run your dish-washer dishes using full loads and use a lower water tem-perature if rinsing dishes beforehand.

• Opening and closing your blinds: For the colder months, open your blinds or shades to heat up your home naturally, and use an automatic thermostat to reduce the temperature of your home when you aren’t there. In the summer, close your blinds during the day to keep your home cool.

For those who are looking for premium upgrades around the home, purchasing green appliances such as an energy efficient washer and dryer or fridge can help offset excess energy consumption.

If renting a water heater, EnerCare Inc., a leading pro-

vider of energy efficient products, including water heater rentals, reminds consumers to take time to review the ben-efits of new products, and never sign anything at the door when approached by a door-to-door water heater salesper-son.

“Promises of savings and efficiency made by door-to-door water heater salespeople can be misleading, but con-sumers can protect themselves by being better aware of high pressure sales tactics used by salespeople. Remember to take the time to review a water heater contract before signing, and that you are never obliged to sign anything at the door,” said John MacDonald, CEO of EnerCare Inc.

Regardless of the steps you take, if taking the right pre-cautions and choosing the right solutions for your home, going green in 2014 has never been easier, effective or affordable.

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The retired Ontario firefighter who lost his niece, her hus-band and their two children in a horrific carbon monoxide accident is pledging to once again take his safety crusade on the road.

John Gignac, who co-founded the Hawkins-Gignac Foun-dation for CO Education in 2009 to honour the memory of his family members, cites achievements in 2013 as having re-energized his desire to spread the word.

“Last year both the Yukon and Ontario governments passed laws to make CO alarms mandatory in homes with gas-fired appliances, wood and gas fireplaces, as well as

attached garages and carports,” says Gignac. “That’s a fantas-tic step forward in preventing carbon monoxide deaths and injuries. But laws or no laws, it is education and awareness that are required in every city and town in every province. And so I will be doing my best to warn all Canadians about this silent killer.”

Carbon monoxide is called the silent killer because humans cannot smell, taste or see it. It can come from every-day heating systems and appliances that use gas as a source of fuel and if devices are not working properly, or venting is cracked or blocked, CO can seep back into a home with dev-

astating results.“My niece and her family did not have a CO alarm when

carbon monoxide from their gas fireplace came back into their house because of a blocked chimney vent,” Gignac tells us. “So my message to others is: Have your systems checked each year by a licensed technician; Make yourself aware of the sources and symptoms of CO poisoning; and Above all else, install a CSA-approved CO alarm outside your bedrooms.”

More information about this topic is available at www.endthesilence.ca.

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Few people might think of potential safety hazards when planning to paint the interiors of their homes. Though every home improvement project can lead to injury if safety meas-ures are not taken seriously, painting is widely considered a project where do-it-yourselfers are at minimal risk of injury. But in addition to the injury risks associated with climbing up and down ladders to paint ceilings or out-of-reach corners, there are some health and safety concerns that painters must con-sider before beginning their projects.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the majority of paints contain chemicals that evaporate in the air, and these chemicals can adversely affect human health. Prob-lems associated with chemicals found in some paints include eye and throat or lung irritation, headaches, dizziness, and vision trouble. Professional painters exposed to paint vapors over long periods of time can develop problems with their nervous systems, liver and kidneys, and some chemicals found in paint have been linked to elevated cancer risk.

Though painting is often an enjoyable home improvement project, painters still must take the following precautions to ensure their safety when painting the interior of their homes.

* Read product labels carefully. Paints vary considerably with regard to how hazardous they can potentially be, so it’s best to read paint can labels thoroughly regardless of how experienced you are at painting. Labels provide safety instructions spe-cific to that particular paint, including suggestions to reduce hazards and advice on what to do should users develop any adverse health effects.

It also helps to reread labels once the painting project has been completed. Labels often include instructions on how to clean or discard products and tools after use, as well as sugges-tions on where to store paints or other products used during the project that may be flammable.

* Paint during the right time of year. Exposure to chemicals found in paint can be reduced considerably if you paint dur-ing the right time of year. Spring and fall make ideal seasons to paint, as the weather outside during these seasons is typically pleasant, allowing painters to open all of the windows without making conditions inside the home unfavorable.

* Open all of the windows and doors. While it’s especially important to open all of the windows and the door in the room where you will be painting, it’s even better to open as many

windows and doors throughout the home, making sure to push curtains and blinds back to let the fresh air pour in. Keeping all windows and doors (use screen doors if you are worried about animals or insects entering the home) open promotes ventila-tion throughout the home, allowing for constant airflow that will usher any potentially harmful chemicals out of your home. If necessary, place a box fan within a window frame to promote cross-ventilation. Never turn on the air conditioner as a substi-tute for fans and open windows, as that will not be pushing any air out of the home.

* Seal paint cans tightly once the project has been com-pleted. At the end of the project, you may or may not have lefto-ver paint. If you have a small amount of paint leftover that you do not intend to keep, contact your local government to deter-mine the best way to dispose of the paint. You also can do this if you have empty paint cans but are uncertain if they can be discarded with normal household trash and recycling. If you have a substantial amount of paint left, be sure the lid is closed as tightly as possible, as vapors can leak through poorly sealed containers, putting the health of residents at risk. Once again, read the label to determine the best place to store leftover paint.

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awarded with the Helen Keller Fellowship Award by past president Tom Smith. The award is for a fellow Lion, who is outstanding for their contributions to

their community through service to others. From left to right: Lion Greg Kelly, President Joe Gautheir, past district A4 governor, Lion Don Isbistor, one-year

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Lions welcome new memberBelow right, on Jan. 14, the Madawaska Valley Lions Club inducted their newest member, Mike Hagarty. Region 22 chair, Lion Shelley Gautheir installed Hagarty

at the Lions Den meeting and Lion Jim Haskins sponsored Hagarty. From left to right: Zone chair 22 west, Lion Ralph Martin, Lion Jim Haskins,

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