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Saturday morning we all woke up to more snow. Looking out the window was just so discouraging. Isn’t this spring? Or will winter just keep hanging on like a bad hangover? It didn’t look good for the day’s activities at the Me-dieval Festival. Who would brave the weather for a day’s entertainment? Well I did. I set out despite all the snow coming down. If you drove carefully it was okay.

On arriving at the fes-tival, I noticed most of the seats were empty. Not a good sign. All the prepara-tions, all the hard work that

went into this event, was to be squashed by mother nature. The place was full of people in costume. Knights and their ladies, entertainers and booths, all waiting for crowds to entertain.

I sat down beside two young children who had caught my eye. Darcy and Gracie Tackman. They were all dressed up in costume, thrilled to be there with their father. Mike Tackman moved here permanently with his family last August. He did his research before buying a home and decided that North Grenville was the place he wanted to raise his family. I asked him why?

He wanted to have a sense

of community, where his kids could grow up. He is impressed with all that goes on here. He mentioned the Dandelion Festival, and I am sure I remember face painting his daughter’s face there. It was a cold day last year and I remember it well. He went on to mention just how fabulous the Pirates Day festivities were, and admired the volunteers and the work that went into the day. He loves the market days on Sundays during the summer. He can bring the kids to the playground near by, let them run their course, then browse through all the vendors while listening to the music played by some local talent.

How lucky I had been to have sat down beside this family. It’s people like them that make it all worthwhile. To hear so much about my community through someone else’s eyes gave me perspec-tive on why I also live here. By the time I left, I glanced up and most of the place was now full. I hadn’t even no-ticed, I was so engrossed with this family and the medieval dancers in the arena.

I stayed for a little while longer to watch some of the jousting. As I walked out the door, there was a stream of people coming through. Mother Nature had decided to cease the flurries and give us safe passage to the event.

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Gracie and Darcy with dad Mike Tackman

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Nik’s Place, our Community Connections Centre, located at 113 Prescott in old town Kemptville, is open and ready to connect with Kemptville area residents. True to its policy of ‘no one turned away’, the Centre offers programs for minimal fees on a sliding pay scale depending on family finances. Some subsidies are also available. ABC Program for Children 8-12:

Starting Monday, April 7, the Arts Based Childrens after school program (the ABC Program) runs from 3:30 to 5:15 pm Monday to Friday, at the cost of $15 a day. Information packages will go home with some area elementary schools this week. Trained volunteers will walk children from Holy Cross, Kemptville Public School, and South Branch Public School daily, and a healthy snack will be offered before the fun begins!Check out the calendar for the ABC program:Monday Interactive Arts with Meredith LuceTuesday Pictures with Heather Sansom Wednesday Amazing Art Activities Thursday Moving and Music with Lisa PoushinskyFriday Moving and Music with Lisa PoushinskyTutoring:

Tutoring will also be offered at the Centre. All tutors are experienced instructors and members of the Ontario College of Teachers. Elementary School Children to College level students are tutored between the hours of noon and 8:30 pm. Tutoring Sessions are rated at $20 per half hour and scheduling times are flexible. Adult Arts Programming:

Have you ever dreamed of letting your creative side go wild?? The Adult Arts program at Nik’s Place will begin the

Every three minutes an-other Canadian will hear the words “You have cancer” for the first time which pro-foundly alters lives and the Canadian Cancer Society urges Canadians to join with them during to change cancer forever.

Throughout April, volun-teers across Lanark, Leeds & Grenville will be working together to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Money raised during Daf-fodil Month helps the Cana-dian Cancer Society fund excellent cancer re-search, provide information and deliver programs and services to prevent cancer and to support people living with cancer and their families and caregivers right here in Lanark, Leeds & Grenville; advocate on behalf of Cana-dians on important health and cancer issues.

“Last year we were able to fill more than 3,560 re-quests for rides, says Kelly Ross, Transportation Coordi-nator. “Our volunteer drivers drove more than 299,518 km to take 339 local clients to

their cancer related appoint-ments.”

Throughout Daffodil Month the Lanark, Leeds & Grenville community office will be knocking on doors and selling daffodil pins to raise vital funds to prevent cancer, fund research, inform and support people living with cancer, and to advocate for policies to improve the health of Canadians.

To donate online or to find out where you can buy a daffodil pin visit cancer.ca or contact the Lanark, Leeds & Grenville community of-fice at (613) 267-1058 or 1 800-367-2913. The pins are also available throughout Lanark, Leeds & Grenville at a variety of businesses. Funds raised support the Society’s work here in Lanark, Leeds & Grenville and across Canada.

It is only with the support of our donors and volunteers that the Society will continue to save lives and support people living with cancer right now. By supporting the Canadian Cancer Soci-ety during Daffodil Month, Canadians will be joining a

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week of April 7. Mondays, Meredith Luce, a local multi-talented artist, will be teaching Interactive Arts. Wednesdays adults are invited to move with Myrna Milligan, a theatre dance instructor who believes in having a vital and healthy life. Thursdays, Lisa Poushinsky, a local musician, will lead any and all in singing and voice instruction. On Fridays, Lisa will be offering group instrument instruction. These Adult Arts Programs are offered from 1p.m. to 3 p.m. at a cost of just $20 a class.Registration:

Registration packages for the ABC children’s program and the tutoring program will go home with many area students this week. In addition, Nik’s Place will be open on Saturday, April 5 between 12 and 2 pm. Curious parents and their chil-dren can tour the centre, meet the instructors, and register for programs. Curious adults are welcome too! Adult Program arts facilitators will be on hand to answer any questions. If you register for a program on or before the 5th, you will be eligible for a discount of between $5 and $50, depending on program selection. Volunteers Needed!

Student and adult volunteers are needed to help make these programs a success. We are seeking high school students to assist the ABC instructors, and adult volunteers to assist with the Adult Programs as well. We are also looking for adult or student volunteers to walk children from Holy Cross, South Branch and Kemptville Public School to Nik’s Place, at 3:30 when the children are dismissed from school. If you are avail-able any week day between 3:20 and 4:00, we need your help!

Please address any and all enquiries to [email protected] or call Michelle at Nik’s Place - 613 258 5678.

team that works hard to fight cancer in Canada. Your dona-tion will help the Society:prevent cancerfund research to outsmart cancerempower, inform and sup-port Canadians living with canceradvocate for public policies to improve the health of Canadians

During Daffodil Month, you can support Canadians living with cancer in many different ways:

Buy and wear a daffodil pin throughout April. Do-nate online at cancer.ca. Buy daffodils. Donate when a volunteer canvasser knocks on your door. Participate in a Society fundraising event in your community.

Sign up to participate in a Relay For Life event in your community or sponsor a Relay participant.

Visit cancer.ca or con-tact the Lanark, Leeds & Grenville community office at (613) 267-1058 to make a donation and to find out what is going on across Lanark, Leeds & Grenville.

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Letters to the editor

Kemptville College - a Way into the Future

Much has been said re-cently about the intention of the University of Guelph to terminate its relationship with the Kemptville Col-lege and close the College down. The impact of this decision is shocking to our lo-cal economy, as well as to the community image so many of us form when we think about our municipality.

While one's first reaction may be to wish to save this institution “as is”, that will certainly not happen. Changes in recent years have been at-tempted at the College in or-der to take a variety of social, economic and demographic changes into account, with some success. But not enough success it would seem, or so the University seems to believe.

It is reassuring to see such a positive reaction from municipal Council in estab-lishing some leadership on this economic issue. That is not always the case in these matters and such leadership will be important if enough imagination is shown at the local government level. Sug-gestions for carrying on into the future include establishing an affiliation with Algonquin College in the “public sec-

tor”, although I have heard and read little of the possi-bility for relationships with private educational partners or private technology firms. Hopefully, the net will be cast wide and all good ideas will be considered seriously.

One idea which may be of interest is an idea which I floated to Mayor Gordon and North Grenville CAO, Brian Carré, last summer. The particular idea which I have in mind is the establishment of a learning /teaching center for a manufacturing tech-nology which is now in its beginning stages of practical application and promises to radically alter the economic and social landscape of North America: The Digital Fab-rication Revolution or 3-D manufacturing.

The current disruptive change at Kemptville College could be an occurrence which delivers opportunity into the hands of this community in a big way. The ability to con-vert digital data into “stuff” that people need covers the gamut form big ticket items to the biological sphere in-cluding the creation of human organs. Special applications in the agricultural domain are more than just possible in future; other jurisdictions are getting involved in this

field now. Along with suggestions

ranging from partnerships with other organisations, renting facilities to private schools and reworking course offerings, a 3D teaching/production facility would put Kemptville on the map in an area of technology which will revolutionize small-town Canada. It will no longer be necessary to send to China for low cost items. They will be made HERE or not far away. And federal government funds may be made available to launch this new program.

And so – yes, it would be great to look at all options. Maybe a business college would like to rent facilities. Perhaps a private ESL school for international students is a possibility for part of the campus, or a private French Immersion Academy for students from grades nine to 12. And maybe Al-gonquin or Saint Lawrence College will come into the picture. Perhaps the answer is a combination of the above organisations renting parts of the current facilities.

I believe, however, that the time has come for that much-vaunted but little-seen quality – VISION – to be brought into the picture in a big, yet practical, way. The

foregoing possibilities, if they work, would be useful and perhaps significant. But imagine how useful it would be if Kemptville College students were to get in on the ground floor of a new and vital production process with applications not only in agriculture, but in every productive phase of North America's economy. If there are questions about this vi-sion for Kemptville College's future, contact Jim Bertram at [email protected] . I would be pleased to work with those seeking to revive our College's prospects as a committee member or a workshop presenter. Let's make it work!

Jim Bertram

Dear Editor:In “Dark Side of the

Moon” (Jan. 22, 2014), you shed light on some of the forgotten casualties of the so-called Great Recession. The fact that the demand on social services in North Grenville has greatly in-creased in the past two years comes as no great surprise, but for some reason, it's something we're reluctant to talk about, at least publicly. I began to wonder why?

I believe that many more people than we realize are

trying to put on a brave face in these austere times. When pressed they'll say, stoically, “yah, times are tough”, but privately you come to un-derstand that their situation is really a desperate one. They're facing rising costs, declining incomes, extended or exhausted credit, and at a loss of what to do. Being on the “dark side of the moon”, they're left to feel like they're the only ones really struggling. However, we know that while every-one respects your privacy in North Grenville, they know your business at the same time and, as you pointed out, they do care.

That we live in a caring community is evidenced by the huge response to this year's local Salvation Army Kettle Campaign you wrote about. We're still very much a rural community too, as highlighted by Heather San-som's excellent article in last week's paper (“How Impor-tant is our Future”, March 19, 2014). Our rural base is characterized, she states, by “the active involvement of our local business commu-nity and faith communities in community well-being”. Our “strong values for com-passion and community” are the basis of our economic

and social resilience. How-ever, you only have to look at the recent local headlines to know that our agricultural base is being threatened and that we need to regain local control of our assets, oth-erwise we'll lose that rural character.

I'd like to believe Ms Sansom that these rural qualities, “less and less available in the cities”, are the reason people are mov-ing to North Grenville, not “just because it is close to Ottawa and less expensive”. I hope, that as a Doctoral Candidate in Rural Studies, her evidence is more than just anecdotal because I'd like to advance that idea my-self. The notion that new-comers to North Grenville will not erode the qualities we value in this commu-nity but will get involved and help maintain them is worth fostering. I'd also like to think that these new community members will help us overcome some of our rural reticence to shed light on our problems and will help us work towards solutions. We need all the help we can get.

John BarclayOxford Mills

Strange days indeed. Did it feel like this is the last cen-tury of the Roman Empire? Were they aware of old cer-tainties being undermined, as a growing ethical and moral breach opened up in political circles? We see the climate change, and not for the better. We see many municipalities around Ontario slide toward bankruptcy and possibly a new round of amalgamations coming up in a bid to survive in the face of financial cut-backs by the Province. Crime is decreasing, apparently, but policing costs continue to rise. The housing market, which has been a major plank in Canada’s economic foun-dation, is rumoured to be on

the verge of a collapse similar to that experienced in other countries. Now we seem to be on the brink of a renewed Cold War with the Russian Federation over Crimea, and our Great Leader is out there encouraging the Ukraini-ans to rearm and get ready for war. Meanwhile, here at home, he is cutting research funding to First Nations by 60% immediately, claiming that land claims are almost all settled, so there’s no need to continue funding. This is a complete lie: this government has indulged in some of the most deceitful, cynical and disgraceful manipulation of policies and processes that any Canadian administration has attempted.

Free trade deals with Eu-rope and Asian countries will have a negative effect on

Canadian employment levels, but cater very nicely to the ones Harper needs to fund his next election. Maybe it is the extra long winter, but I don’t think there has been such a pessimistic atmosphere in the country for many years. In Ontario at least, there seems to be a lack of hope for the future. We have become a have-not Province in many ways, and a growing air of gloom filters through in so many areas.

What can we do to dispel the gloom, to bring back a sense of community, shared identity, and hope for the fu-ture? In fact, things have been much worse in the past. The Great Depression brought conditions that we would find hard to live with today. We have become used to a relatively easy life, with easy access to leisure activities, disposable income, unbeliev-able choices when it comes to food, and what were once

termed “luxury items”, now considered basics. But how would we survive without electricity, for example? I can pay someone to plough the driveway after heavy snow-falls, allowing me to get the car out and go shopping for supplies. But what if I didn’t have that extra cash, and was too old or ill to shovel snow myself? What if I couldn’t get out to get necessary supplies?

I spent the last week im-mersed in a different culture. The First Nations have had to deal with many of these is-sues for a long time. The only ethnic group in Canada to be governed by a specific Act of Parliament, having their traditional ways and treaty rights ignored or denied, they have learned to apply different ways of looking at these issues to their com-munities. As the wider Cana-dian society looked more and more to governments to fund services and as local com-

munities turned increasingly inward and lost much of the neighbourliness and mutual support systems that charac-terised them in the past, the First Nations maintained their strong belief in sharing. Re-cently, there have been moves away from the bureaucratic way of dealing with problems and issues that is prevalent in our society, and a belief in traditional methods of com-munity building.

For instance, Nipissing First Nation is developing a wholistic approach to com-munity services and service delivery, one which rejects the concept of “clients” and the separation of areas such as health, education, etc. In-stead there is a co-ordination of information and support across the spectrum, with an interrelationship of in-dividuals working in these fields, to ensure a complete package of services to meet all needs at the same time.

We Can Work It OutThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

by David Shanahan

Sometimes, it’s not enough to provide help in one area: lack of money to pay for heating also produces mental health concerns. Lack of work and lack of education often go together, and can also lead to physical and mental health problems. These have to be treated together, or underly-ing issues can go undiag-nosed.

In North Grenville, as in so many other rural areas in Canada, we have to re-think our procedures. We need to get back to more traditional concepts, such as barter and sharing. We have many fine organisations and societ-ies trying to help the com-munity, but too often these same organisations are in competition, or fail to co-operate where co-operation would be more beneficial and efficient. Maybe it is time to think about these things and discuss possibilities while we still have time.

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Municipality Matters

by Barb Tobin

The Kemptville College Renewal Task Force has been established by the Kempt-ville College Foundation, including a number of key stakeholders, to coordinate efforts and work toward a local and sustainable solu-tion to keep the College in operation. North Grenville’s Chief Administrative Officer Brian Carré is representing the Municipality on this committee, which gathered Thursday evening to estab-lish a mandate and a plan to move forward.

Carré expressed the Task Force’s commitment to ex-ploring alternatives in order to find a viable, long-term solution. “The Kemptville College Renewal Task Force acknowledges and accepts the invitation by Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is also the Minister of Agriculture and Food, and the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Brad Duguid, to meet and consider a sustain-able local solution which will keep the Kemptville College in operation and continue its century-long tradition of providing specialized and high-quality programs to generations of agricultural students in Eastern Ontario.”

North Grenville Mayor David Gordon is not sur-prised by the overwhelming reaction to the University of

The Trails Advisory Committee, like most of North Grenville, is happy to see spring arrive so that the projects we are working on can continue. There have been dollars allocated for two major areas this year that will continue to enhance the trail commitment Coun-cil has made to our 150 km trail system.

The Settlers Grant Trail link behind the subdivi-sion to County Rd #44 was

Spring movement on our 150KM of Trails cleared last year, and final preparation for use this year is on target . This will be the biggest expenditure for the year ahead. When the weather cooperates, we will be looking to lay the surface to create a walking /bicy-cling trail that will take up most of the budget dollars.

This is a key link to the FFC Forestry Trails and a good link into OldTown Kemptville. The Ferguson Forestry Centre have been great partners as we worked through this next phase of the system.

One of the concerns the committee had was the sig-nage for trails and the variety of signage. As a part of last year’s budget, and along with FFC, we have been able to produce some clear, mod-ern signage that is ready for posting and that we believe will be very user friendly. The signs will be installed as the weather permits. The committee will have a booth at the Sustainable Fair in April to continue to get our

message out. The new sig-nage will be on display and the booth will be overseen by committee members. They would be very happy to have you stop by to share your ideas and view our pamphlets and new signage.

An important next step in our trails plan has seen dollars allocated this year to get the drawn design prepared for a trail that will link Rotary Park along the west side of the Rideau to the bridge on Hwy 43. Hav-ing the completed design prepared and approved will allow for this section of the trail to proceed when dollars are available. This particular trail area has been on the table since the 150th Anni-versary Celebrations. It was agreed by the committee it will be an excellent enhance-ment to that particular area of the community.

The committee feels we are making progress in the community and are now even seeing theengagement of our partnerships as one of

the areas of strength we have in place to help promote us-ing our trail connectors. We heard a presentation from the Safe Travel to School Orga-nization. This group is al-ready piloting projects with the Upper Canada District School Board and they are hoping to do one in our com-munity soon. This initiative is encouraging, something many of us remember, walk-ing and biking to school. Their program and data high-lighted for our committee the important work having a trail system that links to major areas like our schools is. They are encouraging less vehicle transportation and promoting self-propelled means for young people. The focus is somewhat environ-mental, which is a bonus, but leans heavily on the healthy lifestyle approach we hope that people using our trails will benefit from. Our com-mittee will continue to be interested, and assist where possible, this project as it develops. Interesting to note

was that their statistics read that an extra hour a week in a vehicle translates into an extra 5% rise in obesity rates over an extended period of a year. Healthy active living is, and will continue to be, what our committee wants to encourage and support.

We had a presentation from Geoff McVey from Limerick Forest. He re-minded us of the great rec-reational trails and facilities available to our community. They host walking, biking, cross country skiing, horse-back riding, motocross trails, and tobogganing activities in Limerick. They also have active logging in the forest. He detailed the many part-nerships they have that are an integral part of managing this asset. This is a very key component that our staff and committee & council hope we can move toward with our trails. The partners mentioned here along with our staff and new partners will be key to keeping our trails system vibrant and a

real network within our com-munity. He reinforced our need to continue seeking and ensuring active partnerships, which gives the community active ownership of our trails structure. This is a compo-nent that will be integral to our committee, staff, and council as we move forward on the trails.

Our trail structure is unique to North Grenville. The 150-kilometer desig-nation is not just wooded trails and pathways but links through our large commu-nity with sidewalks and roadways. It speaks very clearly to the rural urban make up of North Grenville. As the weather continues to improve, we will continue to work toward the enhance-ment of the trails, with a focus on communicating the trails system. The committee also hopes to encourage the importance of a healthy ac-tive lifestyle. Here is to the next seasons of getting out and active in our community.

Kemptville College Renewal Task Force seeks local solutionNorth Grenville Emergency and Protective Services

Promotes Service Excellence

NORTH GRENVILLE FIRE SERVICE PRESENTS

Help a Senior DayYour North Grenville Firefighters will be roaming the

Community on Saturday April 26th helping our treasured seniors with various projects around their home.

Checking Smoke and Carbon Monoxide AlarmsAssisting with Potential Fire Safety Hazards

Window Cleaning

Basic Yard Work (weather permitting)Eaves Trough Cleaning

Removing Christmas LightsRelocating or Moving Heavy Objects

Organize a small work areaIf our fire service can be of assistance, please contact the Fire Hall at 613-258-2438 ext 4

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Guelph’s decision to close the campus. “The future success of the Task Force, and more importantly the College, will undoubtedly be strengthened by the outpouring of support from the region. From the thousands who have signed MPP Steve Clark’s petition, to the hundreds who have come forward to assist our community in search of a local solution, there is no denying the will of East-ern Ontario is to maintain the Kemptville College as a centre for excellence and innovation in agriculture and trades.”

For more information: Brian J. Carré, Chief Ad-ministrative Officer, Mu-nicipality of North Gren-ville, 613-258-9569 ext. 155 [email protected]

Here I go, ranting again...I know there are many

problems in the world...cer-tainly bigger and worse than my concern this week. None-theless, my gripe strikes at the heart of a very personal issue for me...accessible parking in North Grenville.

To set up my concern, I must note that too many busi-nesses in North Grenville do NOT have visible signs that indicate their accessible parking spots. There might be symbols painted on the pavement, but this is use-less in the winter months, for obvious reasons. I re-ally don't understand why these signs can't be posted. Shoppers Drug Mart and the Independent are examples of businesses that post them. Do the signs cost? I"m sure they do...regardless, why offer a spot for vehicles bearing the disabled and elderly, such as my 92 and 94 year old par-ents, if the spot is taken by drivers who either disregard the pavement symbol, or, in winter, can't see the symbol?!

And that was only the setup - now for the gripe...During a recent stop at Shop-pers Drug Mart, I noticed a young man parking in one of the disabled parking spots in front of the store - as he seemed to be young and agile, I politely questioned him as he entered the store in front of me. His response - he

was entitled because he had an accessible parking pass. I pressed the issue - he didn't care that he might be taking the spot from someone who needed it. He speedily walked around the store (away from me, I assume!).

There are hundreds of conditions that qualify people for parking permits, and not all are visible to the eye---these drivers and passengers deserve to use these spots --- and there are drivers, like me, who transport those to whom the permits belong. I, for one, wouldn't, for a minute, think of parking in one of these spots if I was not using it for one of my parents.

All I'm asking is for com-monsense, courtesy and re-spect - whether you have a permit or not in the car, please remember that the permits and parking spots are there for those who CAN"T walk the distance you and I can.

Be thankful that you CAN walk that distance - my par-ents would give anything to be as able as the rest of us.

D. Jones, Kemptville

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Cut Calories, not Taste

(NC) This year, plan an exercise routine that is exactly right for you.Many of us use the New Year as the starting point on our journey to a healthier and more active

lifestyle. However, this new found commitment can result in disappointment, if not equipped with the right approach.

For over 34 years, David Patchell-Evans, the founder and CEO of GoodLife Fitness – or Patch as he prefers to be called – has helped millions of Canadians achieve their health and fitness goals.

“The majority of us who are not achieving the recommended amount of exercise, see people in magazines or on television doing aggressive, high intensity workouts and it intimidates them,” says Patch. “The reality is that simple moderate exercise 2-3 times a week is all you need for a healthier, happier life.”

When asked what tips for success he'd give those looking to live healthier in 2014, Patch provided the following three tips with an overarching theme: Keep it simple.

Set one goal at a time and make a plan to achieve it. By being focused, you'll discover that the benefits of exercise reach far beyond your initial goal. When you succeed, take time to celebrate and then set another goal!

Walk before you run literally and figuratively. Starting with a proper foundation is so important. Trying new exercises when your joints and muscles have weaknesses or imbalances can cause injury and stop you from getting into a regular routine.

Make sure to have fun. Go for a walk with friends, hop on the treadmill, or attend a group exercise class, whatever makes you smile and brings you enjoyment is going to help you stick with it.

Additional ideas on setting and achieving your fitness goals can be found online at www.blog.goodlifefitness.com. www.newscanada.com

(NC) Every parent’s dream is a healthy child. Battle childhood obesity with lighter family favou-rites like blended burgers, blended spaghetti, blended pizza and blended tacos by replacing a portion of the ground meat with mushrooms. The technique is easy; blend finely-chopped, umami-rich mushrooms with a portion of ground meat in classic family meals.

Mushroom blendability helps to bring another serving of vegetables to the plate, add volume to meals and extend portions. Finely chopped mushrooms look similar and blend seamlessly with ground meat, so classics can be healthier without los-ing taste or satisfying texture.

This method gives each meal a better nutritional profile too. Mush-rooms add important nutrients like vitamin D, potassium, B vitamins and the antioxidants selenium and

ergothioneine. Using a blended mush-room mixture decreases the calories in the meal and lowers saturated fat and cholesterol content.

Blendability works in any ratio- for a meatier dish, a 50/50 blend satisfies, or for lighter fare with hearty texture, try 80 percent mushrooms and 20 per-cent ground meat. You may also choose to sauté mushrooms beforehand when making a recipe like burgers or meat-balls where you want to hold a shape. When cooking with dryer meats, fresh, chopped mushrooms bring moisture to the dish.

Try Mushroom Blendability at home. Start with a simple recipe like a blended Beefy Burrito or a classic Sloppy Joe. With mushrooms, the possibilities are endless no matter how you dice 'em.

Blend & Extend with more deli-cious Mushroom Blendability recipes, available online at www.mushrooms.ca.

Simplicity helps to achieve your fitness goals

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(NC) For me, living a healthy lifestyle is about balance and practicing healthy habits in all areas of your life. Small changes can have a big impact in overall body health. Here are five tips for leading a balanced, healthy life:• Reduce your refined sugar intake. Whether it's in our morn-ing coffee or sandwich bread at lunchtime, sugar is hiding in many of our favorite foods. I always advise people to enjoy the natural sweetness of fruits and cut out as much simple sugar as possible – like in pop. • Do some neurobics. Stimulate your mind and enhance your brain's performance by changing up your regular routine. Tie your shoes with your eyes closed, take up a new hobby, or hone a new skill. • Visit your doctor once a year (if advised) and your dentist twice a year for routine checkups; regular checkups with your doctor and dentist can help uncover issues earlier when they are easier to treat. • Pay attention to your teeth and gums! Oral health is an im-portant part of your overall health, so it's important to practice a daily oral care routine which includes flossing, brushing for two full minutes twice a day, and rinsing. Only 44 per cent of Canadian adults claim to follow this oral care routine regu-larly*, and not surprisingly, more than half of Canadians suffer from gingivitis. I recommend using Crest Pro-Health Clinical Gum Protection Toothpaste, which is clinically proven to help prevent and reverse gingivitis. • Catch some zzz's. Try to get seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Establish a routine and get in sync with your body's rhythm. Here's a good test - if you're getting up without an alarm in the morning you're most likely getting enough sleep and have good sleep hygiene.

Dr. Travis Stork is a practicing board-certified emergency medicine physician and an Emmy-nominated national televi-sion host.

March is Nutrition Month. The theme of “Back to the Kitchen with Cooking Basics” is focused on helping people beat the common hurdles to making meals at home. For kids, learning to cook helps them to make healthy food choices and cook for themselves as they grow up. Not only that, having kids involved in making meals at home helps them to be less picky when it comes to eating, and can be helpful to get meals made faster.

Do the kids need your attention when you are trying to cook? Having kids help you in the kitchen, even the young ones, can teach them food skills that set the pattern for healthy eating. When children are involved in preparing food, they are more likely to eat the foods they have helped with. Give them simple tasks like stirring, washing vegetables, counting carrots, or reading the recipe to you.

Use cooking to help them build life skills. Cooking with your child helps them build confidence and be creative. They feel more independent and trusted to help with the family tasks. Give them specific things to do to help get the meal prepared, in the same way you give them other household chores. Invite kids to watch while you cook. Making them feel welcome in the kitchen is the first step to them being interested in helping out.

Dianne Oickle, MSc, RD, Registered Dietitian/Public Health NutritionistLeeds, Grenville, Lanark District Health Unit

Meet the challenge of cooking with kids

Simplicity helps to achieve your fitness goals

Set goals for involving your kids in meal prep. Start by cooking with your child at least once a week. Let them help with simple tasks and build up to using simple kitchen tools and then making part of or a full meal on their own.

Tasks for toddlers: 2-3 years oldWash fruits or vegetables in the sink and learn the names of the foods being washedAdd items that are already chopped to the casserole or sauceHelp find certain items in the pantry or fridgePut paper cups in muffin tinsTalk about the color or smell of the food being preparedPreschoolers play a part: 3-6 years oldRemove shells from hard-boiled eggsPour from a measuring cupTake a certain number of carrots from the bagMash cooked vegetablesMix foods (e.g., make their own trail mix)Stir ingredients togetherSteps for school-age: 6-8 years old Make tortilla wraps with different fillingsToss salad ingredients together with dressingPick ingredients for a smoothiePick out recipes from a cookbookPut together simple meals and snacks (e.g., yogurt + fruit, cereal + milk, peanut butter +

bread)Your kitchen provides the perfect classroom at home to teach life skills and reinforce what

they learn at school. Reading a recipe for literacy, measuring ingredients for math, and mixing and cooking for science are great hands-on ways to do “homework”.

For free resources or to speak to a Registered Dietitian at no cost call EatRight Ontario toll free at 1-877-510-5102. You can also contact the Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark District Health Unit’s Health Action Line at 1-800-660-5853 (613-345-5685) or visit our website at www.healthunit.org/nutrition.

Adapted from Dietitians of Canada Nutrition Month 2014 background document “Simply Cook and Enjoy” and Dairy Farmers of Canada www.familykitchen.ca.

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A pivotal event in the history of both Jews and Christians (and, I think, the whole world) came thousands of years ago, when Abraham was told to sacrifice his son, Isaac. The incident is referred to as God testing Abraham, but when God “tests”people, he is not trying to find out something about them. He al-ready knows everything there is to know. But testing comes so that we can learn some-thing about ourselves, some-thing of which we would otherwise be ignorant. For Abraham, it was the fact that his whole focus in life had become centred on the son God had given him when it was impossible for him and Sarah to even have a child. There was a promise attached to this gift: that through him, God would make Abraham into a great nation. Now it ap-peared that everything whic had been promised would be taken away if Abraham sacrificed his son.

It seemed that God was really emphasising the com-ing loss when he instructed the old man. “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” [Genesis 22.2] Imagine the scene as Abraham takes his son to the mountain in the region of Moriah. What was he thinking, and what did he feel? “On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance...Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” [v. 4-8]

Of course, God did not allow the sacrifice, sup-plying an animal in Isaac’s place. “So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide”. [v. 14] What had this meant to Abraham? We are told in the Letter to the Hebrews that Abraham had come to the conclusion that God could not break his promise, and would therefore raise Isaac from the dead. He trusted God that much. This was a moment in his life he would never forget, and he would never be the same man again. He knew something about himself now, some-thing that a later friend of God would express like this: “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him”. [Job 13.15].

There is so much in this story for us as well. Not just the spiritual lessons, and the insight into faith and trust. The journey to the region of Moriah took place about 2,000 B.C. In the centuries after, Moriah itself would become the location for the Temple that Solomon built, where the glory of God rested in the Holy of Holies. But we are told that Abraham was sent, not to Moriah, but to the area around Moriah, to a specific place God showed him. There is a hill near Moriah where, two thousand years after Abraham, another Father laid wood for the sac-rifice on his Son’s shoulders, his one and only Son, whom he loved. He went up the hill carrying the wood and was then bound for sacrifice. But this time there was no last-minute substitution. He was the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world [John 1.29], and on that hill, the Lord did indeed provide.

No-one can claim that this was deliberately done to make it look like fulfilled prophesy. But two thousand years before Calvary, God wrote in the life of Abraham and the life of Isaac a prom-ise, a foretelling of what he had already planned to do. Even the details are fascinat-ing. Isaac is referred to in Genesis as Abraham’s “one

and only son”; but Abraham had another son, Ishmael. But Isaac was the son of the promise, the one through whom the blessing would come, the one who was a gift to Abraham and Sarah. Ish-mael had been their attempt to bring about the promise on their own. Isaac was the “one and only son whom you love” in that way. And so we read that “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that who-ever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. [John 3.16]

Abraham went through the trial of understanding God’s will for him, and fi-nally decided that God would raise Isaac from the dead. And, in a way, he was indeed restored from death to his father. We are also told that this took place “on the third day” [Genesis 22.4]. The Bible is “God-breathed”, as Paul told Timothy [2 Timo-thy 3.16] and a thread runs through it from beginning to end. It is the promise God made to Adam and Eve: that the Fall was not the end, that there would be someone sent to restore what had been lost then. More than that, that something greater would be given in its place, something not even they had known. Like Abraham, we can easily lose sight of that promise, or get caught up in the second-ary things, the unimportant things, that take the focus of our trust and hope away from its proper place. What we learn today from the events of almost 4,000 years ago is this: God keeps his promises. His Word can be trusted.

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The North Grenville Sports Hall of Fame, which is committed to honouring the history of sport in our community, is looking for your help in identifying individuals, teams and organizations who have achieved athletic success and made significant contributions to sport.

Nomination forms are available at the Municipal centre or at NGsportlegacy.ca. The selection committee is currently accepting completed nomination forms until Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The induction ceremony is slated for Thursday, September 25, 2014 followed by the annual Fundraising Golf Tournament on Friday, September 26, 2014. Inquiries about the golfing should be directed to Doug Rigby at [email protected]. The committee also welcomes the financial support of sponsors at a variety of levels. For further sponsorship information or to commit to a level, please contact Treasurer Bill Forbes at [email protected].

Funds raised will be used in two different areas. The committee hopes to purchase two Interactive Kiosks that would feature our inductees as well as our local war heroes. The funds also will be used for the Hall of Fame Bursary Program, which had been set up to provide financial support to our deserving young athletes, teams and sports organizations. Bursary applications forms are available at NGsportlegacy.ca.

Clearly, the mandate of our small committee has grown by leaps and bounds. To this end, we are hoping that skilled members of the community will volunteer to join us. Specifically, the committee needs a Webmaster, Marketing Chairperson and Advertising Chairperson. If you are able to help us in these key areas, please contact Barb Tobin a [email protected].

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It is a rather cold spring day and all is relatively quiet on the curling front, so I de-cided to write about a unique opportunity for citizens in our community to help out the curling club and perhaps remember a friend, relative or pet through the adopt-a-rock program at the North Grenville Curling Club.

The NGCC refurbished its curling rocks last year with new rock inserts and refurbished hitting bands to make the curling experience for both club and non-club members more enjoyable. In order for this to happen, the club had to take out a loan with the Ottawa Valley Curling Association. To help pay for the cost of refur-bishing the rocks, the club established an adopt-a-rock program. To date over 50 of the club’s 80 rocks have been adopted.

Each adopted rock has its own story to tell, and I am going to tell you the story of one of the rocks. It

From Germany to Jamaica to North Grenville Curling Club – Adopt-A-Rock Programis the number 8 blue rock on sheet one adopted by Jim and Rose Dolan. The rock handle is inscribed as follows, the Groskopfs of Seaford Town, Jamaica. It is in memory of Rose’s father Beresford Groskopf, who spent his early life in Seaford Town, and his great-grandfather, Heinrich Groskopf, who was one of the earliest inhabitants of the town.

The Jamaicans may nev-er win a Bobsled medal at the Olympics, but this curl-ing stone has been thrown by Great Britain’s Eve Muirhead, the 2013 World Women’s Champion and 2014 Olympic Bronze med-alist, by Ottawa’s Rachel Homan, the 2013 and 2014 Canadian Ladies Curling Champion, and by numer-ous provincial champions, including PEI’s Suzanne Birt, the current Royal LeP-age OVCA Women’s Fall Classic Champion, a World Curling Tour event that is held every Fall at the club.

This curling stone is more than just 40 pounds of granite; it represents adven-ture, hope and promise. It represents disappointment, hardship, love and life. It represents one family of many who left their Ger-man homeland between 1834 and 1836 in search of a better life in Jamaica. The

Germans came by sea, many enticed by the promise of a house, rations and money to help them get established in their new land. All came dreaming for a new and bet-ter life in a tropical paradise surrounded by beautiful blue waters and blessed with year round warm weather.

They came alone, they came married, and they came with family. They included carpenters, shoe-makers, teachers, millers, bricklayers, masons, weav-ers, tailors, blacksmiths, butchers, and even musi-cians.

Some 250 settled on 500 acres of land located 25 miles (40 kilometres) south of Montego Bay, in the rugged hill country of Westmoreland. The land was acquired by the Island Legislature from Lord Sea-ford to establish a German community in the hill coun-try. With the emancipation of slavery in the early 1830s, the plantation owners feared that the black slaves would leave and move into the mountainous regions of Jamaica. The story has it that in order to deny them that choice and keep the ex-slaves close to the sugar lands, the plantation owners set forth a scheme to beat the ex-slaves to the mountain-ous regions by importing Europeans to establish com-

munities in the islands hilly interior. One such commu-nity and perhaps the most famous is Seaford Town; a town that would eventu-ally become affectionately known by the islanders as “German Town”.

Seaford Town was defi-nitely no tropical paradise. Many of the Germans had to walk much of the way to the town. Their dreams for a better life dwindled with each footstep that took them farther away from their homeland. Their dreams were completely shattered, when they arrived to find only 16 half-finished cot-tages, the promised small weekly wages nonexistent and the rations to feed their families more meagre than expected.

Not surprisingly, many of the original German settlers died from tropical diseases and from over-work. A few most likely died from despair. By the end of 1838, the popula-tion had been reduced to 156. That number included Heinrich Groskopf, a tailor, his wife Catherine and their two boys, William and Carl, who arrived in 1837 from a plantation in Jamaica. The remaining Germans proved to be survivors and the com-munity became close knit. They built the town by their own labour and learned to

plant bananas, ginger, co-coa, coffee, and plantains to provide food and income for their families. By 1870, the population of Seaford Town had soared to 500.

Today there are fewer than 100 residents of Sea-ford Town who are direct descendants of German families. After the First World War, many Germans, like the brothers and sisters of Rosemary’s father, left Jamaica, placing their hopes of a better life in the United States and Canada. When they could afford it, the older Groskopf kids sent for other members, includ-ing young Beresford and his mother. Beresford first spent time in the United States, but preferred a more rural life than that offered by New York City and eventu-ally came to Kemptville. He worked at the Kemptville Agricultural College, mar-ried the beautiful Helen

Burnie from Spencerville and raised five children, John, Frances, Jeanette, Edith and Rosemary.

If you are interested in adopting a rock, please contact the North Gren-ville Curling Club for ad-ditional information. The cost is $200. The name inscribed on a rock handle will remain on the rock for a period of five years, upon which you will be given the opportunity to extend your adoption. It is a great way to recognize a relative, friend, pet or your business while helping the North Grenville Curling Club. If you decide to adopt a rock and would like to share your rock story with the club, the story will be put in a binder at the club for members and visitors to read. The next order of in-scribed rock handles will be placed during the summer.

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CSE Consulting will be pro-viding outreach services, by appointment, on Wednesdays at the:

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9:00 AM—12:00 PM In the Boardroom

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 31 (March) Summer Job Ser-vice Info Ses-sion 3:00—4:00

1 Information and Decision Making 1:00—2:30

2 CSE Job Finding Club, 9:00—1:00

3 Resume and Cover Letters 9:30—11:00

4 Labour Market Information 9:30—11:00

7 Specialty Workshop Working from Home 9:30—11:00



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24 Interview, Types Tips and Techniques 9:30—11:00

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CSE Job Finding Club, 9:00—1:00

1 (May) Resume and Cover Letters 9:30—11:00

2 (May) Labour Market Information 9:30—11:00

Resume Rescue Clinic 10:00—2:00

Service Canada 9:00-3:00 (Lunch from 12-1)

Summer Job Service Information Session

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The North Grenville Photography Club

Photographer Dave Percy got exercise and some memorable photos on an enjoyable walk, earlier in this very long winter season. Taken with his trusty Canon 6D and 17-40 mm lens.

A f e w y e a r s a g o , ArtScene was only a dream, held fondly in the imagina-tion of a group of artists in and around Spencerville. Their vision was to have a place to display their art on a continuing basis, and also to increase awareness of this historic village. They ultimately combined both talent and tremendous effort and the Gallery opened in 2009. The years since have seen a steady stream of visi-tors pass through the gallery from this region and beyond - some from as far away as Bermuda and the United Kingdom. The dream has

ArtScene Gallery Grand Re-Opening: Newly renovated and ready to delight again

become a reality.ArtScene was created as

a cooperative partnership and continues to operate as such today. The Gallery invites submissions from area artists, giving a warm welcome to new members upon juried approval of work. The annual calendar regularly features member artists - April and May fea-ture respectively the fabric art of Colleen Morris-Wil-son and the photographic art of Christoper Fawcett, in a show titled “Wonders of the Orient”, and the amazing mixed media art of Jaffa Tubel-Jaquier titled “Mater-

nity”. Other member artists will be featured throughout the year, and additional up-coming events will include the work of various guest artists, and a juried pho-tography show, providing incentive to make the trip to Spencerville again and again.

ArtScene is located in the historic Spencerville hotel, an ideal setting to showcase the various ar-tistic genres including pot-tery, jewellery, painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. Visitors de-light in the unspoiled village as well as the excellent cali-

bre of the art found in this quiet corner of the province.

Ar tScene has been closed for two months and undergone extensive reno-vations. The Grand Re-Opening takes place April 5 at 11:00 and the public is invited to drop by, meet the artists and enjoy both the art and the refreshments. They are also invited to participate in a Silent Auc-tion that includes something for everyone - a two hour group photo session, a les-son on felting, and a per-sonal image consultation

are examples of items to be won. Proceeds from the auction will be used to meet the ongoing expenses of the Gallery.

ArtScene has been reno-vated, has reopened and is ready to delight visitors once again - take the drive and experience a city calibre gallery in the tranquility of a country village.

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1 Month free rent! Brand new 2 & 3 bedroom ter-race home condos. With stain-less steel appliances, washer & dr yer, ceramic tile, ceramic

backsplashAnd much more in desirable neighbourhood across from the hospital.$ 1250 To $1400 a month. Water, condo fees and 1 parking spot included.Heat & hydro ex tra. Move in today.For more information call mike (613) 325- 0754 or (613)36 6 -2007.

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Weekly and recurring events

Wed The North Grenville Photography Club - Meeting first Wednesday of every

month at the Auditorium at the Municipal Centre on Hwy 44. For more info

see ngphotoclub.ca.

Bingo- First and third Wednesday of the month, Kemptville Legion. Games

start at 1 pm. All welcome. Refreshments available.

Klub 67 Euchre every 2 & 4 Wednesday of the month starting at 1:15 pm,nd th

St. John's United Church downstairs. Everyone welcome - $5. Vivian Howe

613-258-2540.

The Branch Artisans Guild, North Grenville Community Church,, 2659

Concession Street every 3 Tuesday, 7 pm. New members welcomed!rd

Probus Club of North Grenville meet third Wednesday of every month, St.

Paul's Presbyterian Church---9:30 am gathering Time, 10 am meeting. Come

and enjoy great speakers and fellowship. New members welcome.

Thurs Bridge - St. John’s United Church, 6:45 pm. Cost $5, partner preferred but

not necessary. For more info, contact Sandra at 613-258-2691.

North Grenville Toastmasters - Meeting 1 & 3 Thurs. of the month, 7 pmst rd

at O’Farrell’s Financial Services, Cty Rd 44. Info, call 258-7665.

Tues BNI Networking Group Breakfast- Alumni Building, University of Guelph,

7-8:30am. Call 613-258-0553 for more information.

Bridge- St. John’s United Church, 12:15 pm. Cost $3, partner preferred but

not necessary. Info, contact Sandra at 613-258-2691.

Mothers of Preschoolers Support Group-St.John’s United Church, 6:30-8 pm.

Whether you’re a townie, rural, stay-at-home, working, teen, adoptive, special-

needs, single or married, MOPS is for you! For more information, call Angie

Brown at 613-223-3979.

Sat Kemptville Legion Breakfast the third Saturday of the month. Adults $5.00,

Children under 12 $3.00. All welcome

Mon Modern Square Dancing in Kemptville. Every Monday at NGDH- 7 to 7:45

is free to all beginners. Casual attire. Singles Welcome! Info

[email protected] or Shelley (613) 258-0016.

Cancer Support Group, 3 Monday of every month, ,St. John's Unitedrd

Church at 2 pm. Welcome to anyone requiring support and encouragement.

M,W,F Kemptville and Area Walking Group, Municipal Centre - Early birds: 8 am,

others 8:30 am. Contact: Eva 258-4487.

Mar 27 Youngsters of Yore, Kemptville Public Library, 1:30 pm -Guest speaker:

Harold Hellam--Opera

Mar 27 The French Connexion: le quatrième jeudi du mois, le groupe communautaire

francophone se rencontre pour partager un repas d'amitié. Nous vous invitons

à nous joindre à 18h30 au Comfort by AJs. Veuillez noter le changement

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Mar 29 The Kinsmen are proud to present An Evening with Elvis, with classic rock

favourites Age of Wisdom at Leslie Hall, doors open at 7pm. Advance tickets

$15 from Chris Drozda 613-223-6625. Come on out and enjoy a Las Vegas

style show with all the trimmings! It will be a licensed event

Mar 29 Spaghetti Supper: The First Oxford Mills Girl Guides invite you to a

fundraiser in support for upcoming trip to Rally 2014 in Toronto, at Bishop

Mills United Church Hall from 5 to 7:30 pm. Children 2 and under eat free,

children 3 and over $5.00 and adults $10.00 each. A Silent Auction, Craft Sale,

Quilt Raffle and Girl Guide Cookies will also be available.

Mar 29 Bishop's Mills Annual Fundraising Concert, 7:30 pm at the Bishop's Mills

Community Hall. Enjoy some exceptionally talented musicians as well as the

best homemade refreshments following the concert! Tickets are $12 each and

are available from Catherine Johnson at 613-866-1961 or Linda Desroches at

613-258-2115.

Mar 29 Lasagna Dinner, 6 pm at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prescott St.,

Kemptville.

Apr 2 Kemptville Snowmobile Klub Annual General M eeting, Election, and

Volunteer Appreciation at the clubhouse, 1505 O’Neil Road, Oxford Mills.

A potluck supper will be held at 6:30 pm with AGM and election starting at 8

pm. All permit purchasers and social members are invited to attend.

Apr 5 Spaghetti Dinner and Social Night 6 pm at North Grenville Community

Church, 2659 Concession Rd, Kemptville. Cost $25 for families, $10 for

adults, $5 for kids aged 6-12, and free for kids under 6. For more

information and tickets please call 613-258-4815. Proceeds to support the

Church.

Apr 6 Country Seven Fundraiser Dance benefiting the Alzheimers Society, 1-5 pm,

North Grenville Municipal Centre. Limited Tickets.

Apr 25-26 Kemptville Campus Eco-Home Show , 6-9 pm (Apr 25) and 9-3pm (Apr. 26),

WB George Centre. Free Admission, free seminars, green initiatives and

sustainable services. Opportunity to win several prizes.

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ACROSS1. Rectum5. Affirm9. A crumbling earthy deposit13. Gave temporarily14. Not domesticated16. Dogfish17. Fabricated18. Quaver19. Decorate with gold leaf20. Mixes22. Tardily24. Essence26. A tart fruit27. A painkiller30. Kind of sauce33. Pupils35. Bog hemp37. Paraphernalia

38. A yellowish brown color41. Hit on the head42. Talk45. Belittle48. Trim51. Diplomacy52. French farewell54. Stars55. Asserting59. Not fresh62. Shower63. A chemical compound65. Bright thought66. Chooses67. Rhinoceros68. Not a win69. Where a bird lives70. Away from the wind71. At one time (archaic)

DOWN1. Charity2. Tidy3. Unchallenged4. A type of hormone5. Astern6. "Action word"7. Bay window8. Billfold9. Deep purplish red10. Among11. Small brook12. Gentlewoman15. Andean animal 21. Certain23. Unit of pressure25. Connection27. Demands28. Anagram of "Spite"29. Greatest possible31. A diplomat of the highest rank32. Violent disturbances34. Unhappy36. Type of sword39. Hemp40. Colored part of an eye43. Opposed 44. Children46. Burden47. Non-Jew49. Fertilizer ingredient50. Japanese hostess53. Up to55. Press56. Back of the neck57. Seats oneself58. Heredity unit60. Not more61. Where the sun rises64. Caviar

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Maggie from NG Times to discuss my advertising. As always we started chatting about life, and how things were going. The conversation inevitably got to the topic of health and healthy living.

I am a personal trainer, and have been involved in sports the majority of my life. There was a time, however, where I got so sidetracked that my weight shot up to more than 270 pounds. So I am not only talking to you from the perspective of a trainer, but also as someone that had to figure it out as I went along. I managed to drop 95 pounds of fat and added 20 pounds of lean muscle in five months, simply working out three days a week and eating the way I’m going to train you to eat.

After working in my own business of training people, both in the gym and with nutritional choices, I have found a few common threads among many, and here they are:

1. Understanding what food is;2. Why we eat it; 3. When to eat what. When my clients understand food, they make better choices. Media and marketing are

pointing us to the most profitable food, not the right food. Diets and dieting: Hey, lets be honest, we all know someone who has made it on these diets, but the people that don’t succeed far outnumber the ones that do. I think the reason is simple: the companies want you to keep coming back and buying their product or service. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think each and every one of these diet programs have merit, but when you leave or stop with the “diet” then what? This is the thing, now you’re done, what do you do now …you go back to your “regular eating” habits. You need to think about changing the way you eat and think about food. It’s not “what do I want” it’s more “what do I NEED.” Knowledge is your best weapon: I’m only offering knowledge here. I’m not suggesting anyone will change their eating habits but at least you may know what (and when) you are making bad choices. Today’s Message: What do we need and how often?

When we eat food, it is available for energy for about three to four hours, and the amount you need to eat is based on the activity level you are going to have for those hours. Moving and working hard---eat a bit more; sitting at your desk---yup, a bit less.

Many conversations are had about the amount of these things but there is no discussion on whether they are needed or not. Proteins, carbs, and fats, everything we eat falls into these hoppers. In the following weeks, try to eat 5 to 6 times a day, starting as soon as you get up, eating something from the three groups (Carbs, Proteins and Fats). Also, let’s not forget one very important part of good health, hydration: Try to drink about 1.5 to 2 L of water each day.

Next issue we will discuss sources of Carbs, Proteins and Fats.

A conversation on healthy living

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Kurt works with Interlock to design creative entrances, walkways and patios. Retaining walls, fire pits and raised garden beds can be installed, taking advantage of the natural beauty of Armour Stone. To make an appointment to discuss your landscape ideas, call or use the website. This spring is fully booked. New projects won’t begin until summer, how-ever the time to plan is now.

For larger landscape undertakings, there can be a need for specialty equipment. Moex has a full line of equipment (operator included) which is available for rent by the hour or the day: Stump Grinders, Wood Chippers and a Tractor with

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The Moex Property Maintenance Inc website has a wealth of information. A portfolio offers a sampling of completed projects; an array of photos highlights available services. The “Bulletin Board” provides information on a variety of topics; links are provided for those seeking additional information.

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Landscape Design and Construction gives the Moex team an opportunity to work with cli-ents to transform their visions into reality. Patios and walkways, raised beds and retaining walls, grading, seeding or sodding, fences and garden structures; finishing touches to extend and en-hance your outdoor living space. They can assist with tree, shrub and garden plant selection and planting. Moex has experience building ponds and water features as well.

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The much anticipated evening of Irish reflections on the history, music, literature, images and wit of Ireland, an-cient and modern, was finally held at the Court House on Wednesday March 19, 2014 following a one-week post-ponement due to the storm that hit this area on March 12.

Although our Archivist, Dr. David Shanahan, could not attend as he was at a conference/symposium, he had organized a slide and video presentation prior to his departure. Jarlath Con-naughton provided the narra-tive for the slide presentation, aided by Patrick Slevin who was on hand to confirm any

If there was a particular point in time when Rickey Waugh’s fortunes can be said to have turned, it was the spring of 1862. It seemed as if Nature itself had turned against him. In October of 1861, the first small signs had appeared: Waugh was unable to operate the grist mill because of insufficient water in the South Branch. No water meant no flour, and no flour meant no income. But Waugh had reinsured his mills and other property that same month, and the lack of water was seen as a temporary problem. Indeed, so it proved, because by the spring of 1862, there had been so much rain and flooding that almost all the bridges in Grenville County had been carried off by the raging waters. March and April were so bad that, as Waugh explained to his clients in Montreal, “the state of the roads prevented us from getting anything to market. In fact we have got neither sleighing nor wagoning in this part of the county for the past two months”.

The flooding affected the farmers Waugh depended on for business. Because of the weather, their harvests were bad and they were unable to pay his invoices, usually carried over from the pre-vious winter. Even worse, the flooding damaged the mill itself, and Waugh was forced to make repairs to the

The Long Way Down: the Fall of Rickey Waugh

machinery at a cost of more than $2,000. It seems the new insurance policy which he had been negotiating the previous autumn had not been finalised, and Waugh had to meet this expense himself. He was reduced to suing some of the local farmers who owed him money, but that proved to be a useless endeavour. “We tried suing but could make nothing out of it except we could make some money out of horses and cows, which is not practicable”. He could take animals in part-payment, but who would buy them from him? The rest of 1862 was spent trying to keep his own creditors happy in the hope that business would improve again. It seems the mill was damaged again in July that year, and Waugh reported in November that it was still not finished, and no flour was be-ing milled.

In all of his letters of apol-ogy to his creditors, Waugh was not exaggerating the situ-ation in the Township. Things continued to be difficult for everyone, and in early 1864 the Municipality were forced to buy seed grain for the local farmers. This was a significant event. In the mid-nineteenth century, it was considered extremely bad economics to have governments subsidise business in this way. But the Municipality of Oxford Township, of which Waugh was still Reeve, interfered in the market to the extent of buying 1,050 bushels of seed wheat for distribution to the

inhabitants, who did not even have enough fodder for their animals. The situation was, indeed, serious and such a crisis meant it was almost im-possible for Waugh to recover from the impact on his milling business.

To add insult to injury, the months following the purchase of the seed for the farmers saw a drought hit the area. After the flooding, the drought added even more dif-ficulties to Waugh’s dilemma, and he was unable to keep his mill operating in late 1863 owing to a lack of water. It was an unbelievable series of misfortunes that fatally un-dermined Waugh’s finances. By May, 1864, Waugh was negotiating to sell the store to Charles Jones for $2,000. He had to turn to Charles Church, another rich landowner in the area, to help finance his busi-ness activities. He tried taking another local to court to clear title to a piece of property in Oxford Mills so he could sell it and raise funds. He negoti-ated settlements of debts with his various creditors, still hoping that he could recover his previous position, but the sale of the store to Jones, and his one-time partner Murdoch Gair, went through anyway. It should be noted here that Jones and Gair went bankrupt in turn.

Waugh continued to oper-ate the mill for the next few years, but in 1870 he sold most of his remaining prop-erty in and around Oxford Mills. The following year he sold the mill and his cheese factory to Lyman Beach, and his house across from the store to John Gilmer. In 1871, Rickey Waugh and his family

left Oxford Mills for good and moved to MacNab Township. For the next ten years, Waugh lived in Arnprior, working as a book-keeper, a sad decline from his days of wealth and power in Oxford Township. Some time in 1881 he and the family moved again, this time to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he died at the age of only 60. It was a sad end for the young Irish immigrant who had made such a good life for himself in Oxford, only to see it washed away on the flood waters of the South Branch.

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details that might require a second opinion. It was an informative, entertaining and uplifting event, especially for members and guests with an historical connection to Ireland. Thank you, Da-vid, Jarlath, Patrick and Ken Mews (our technical advisor and Master of Ceremonies)!

Ann Newton’s three-panel display on the literary and musical contributions of the Irish and on historical landmarks, plus a collec-tion of green hats, scarves, shamrocks, plaques and one wee leprechaun, transformed the Court House into a little piece of Ireland.

At the conclusion of the presentation, guests were encouraged to sample the sweets and to stay for coffee

and conversation. In keeping with the theme of the night, the sweets, prepared by Jill Dolan and Ann Newton, were green.

It was a grand evening and in the words of our Presi-dent, Bill Adams, those in attendance “came away with a much greater understanding of Ireland and its history”.

We hope that you will join us at 7:30 pm on Wednesday April 9 at 15 Water Street, Kemptville for a presentation by Dr. Emma Anderson on her latest book which is entitled The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs. Dr. Anderson is an Associate Professor of North Ameri-can Religious History at the University of Ottawa.

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How important is our future? Part Two: Planning the Future

by Heather Sansom

By viewing the task of managing our small town resources as a task of urban-ization, I am worried that leaders will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. In their haste to jingle the change created by increased tax-payers per square kilo-metre, they will make the gross mistake made in recent decades by areas closer to Ottawa and Toronto. They will allow development which does not make sense for future generations, but only for immediate gain. They will allow the assets that bring people here in the first place to be swal-lowed up: trees and green space to be swallowed by concrete and houses too close together, community engagement to be swallowed by population mushrooming too quickly for newcomers to become part of things, lo-cal businesses to be crowded out by businesses with deep-er pockets and larger capital investment. If we permit this kind of development in our area, it will become another

Bell’s Corners in no time. It will have nothing to offer that is unique, and it will not be a place where young people are raised to understand com-munity connection.

Development is a fact. Stewarding it for the wellbe-ing of the people who live here, rather than the pockets of outsiders, or the career success of people who don’t live here and don’t have to live with the consequences, is something that we really have to think about. It’s im-portant to be aware of current debates in rural economic development rather than be stuck in outdated ideas that lead to coreless economic dependence on nearby ur-ban economies and soul-less suburban sprawl instead of community.

Our town and our munici-pality have tremendous assets in our greenspaces. Some of those spaces are public or accessible but under-utilised, like Riverside Park, Ferguson Forest, access to the creek, potential for more bike-paths. I’m quite shocked that the development plans for High-way #43 do not include cre-ating a safe way for mothers

and children in Kemptville’s highest density housing area (Maley Street townhouses) to safely cross to the Forest Centre. There is so much research showing the links between lack of access to nature and unstructured play-time, and ADHD in urban ar-eas. There is also significant literature showing that family excursions and active outings are the biggest contributor to kids growing up to have ac-tive lifestyles (not organized sports, believe it or not). So I am constantly puzzled as to why the planning com-mittee would structurally force a stay-at-home mom to not enjoy the forest, or else have to bundle kids into a car and drive there…when we have, according to Health Canada, a serious population obesity problem, particularly for children. And, we’ve had environment education for decades. We all know that we should be reducing car emissions whenever we can, not forcing people to drive somewhere they could walk to if there were a cross-walk or intersection.

We also have tremendous assets in our local entrepre-

neurial culture and what our entrepreneurs have to teach young people working for them about entrepreneurship. In the changing economy, entrepreneurial skills and examples are one of the best skill sets youth can learn. Dependence on a big em-ployer is no longer the sure thing for the next generation. Opportunities to get low-paid jobs at big box retailers are better than nothing, but large scale loss of entrepreneurship for such job opportunities replaces economic resilience with dependency and under-employment. As I men-tioned, current thinking on how to get rural economies to thrive favours developing entrepreneurial capacity, not dependence.

When you think about all of the assets this com-munity has: from community spirit, ways for people to be involved and active agents of building a great place to live, to the green environment around us, it is important for us to think creatively about how to share those assets with newcomers, and how we can provide them with the environment they came look-

ing for out of the city. We should be careful not to fall prey to intellectual laziness and copy-cat eagerness to assume that what people want is a replica of places we know have lost their economic cen-tre and their community core. We have a great thing going that is worth sharing.

Let’s not make the mis-take of being greedy and selling the land to developers that then have to build only expensive houses, or houses too close together to make the math work. It is sad that it is now almost impossible for a family with a single income, a single person or the average Canadian household income of $60,000 to even buy a house here any more. I’m working on my third Uni-versity degree and have had a successful career. If I sold my current house, I could not afford to buy in Kemptville any more. That is sad. Let’s not be greedy to maximize the property taxes per house or per acre, to the detriment of community well-being.

My dream for North Grenville? I came here eight years ago. My dream is that other newcomers will find

and learn how to be part of a community, just like I did, and that they will be able to enjoy the green spaces you and I have. I chose Kemptville because I grew up in a small town that was once like this, until it got swallowed by thoughtless subdivision development. Just like most people in the counter-urbanization trend, I came here because it’s NOT Barrhaven or Stittsville- not because I hoped it would be.

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