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By Susan Moore

Spring is new growth and the smell of fresh earth. Why not commemorate spring by creating your own

vegetable garden? You get to be out in the fresh air and sunshine, full of anticipation for your own food. All you need is a few square feet of the great outdoors, a water source (try a rain barrel), and a little time. Your grandparents did it, and so can you.

Consider your health. Vegetables sold in Canadian supermarkets today contain far fewer nutrients than they did 50 years ago. The family’s diet from a garden is more diverse, and packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. The food you grow in your own yard is defi nitely the tastiest and the healthiest. Best of all, you can grow it free of chemical pesticides.

Consider the outdoor classroom. Backyard gardens teach children about the origin of food and the connection to their dinner plate. Kids can help plant, water, weed, and harvest – a great opportunity to play in the dirt and get the chores done. Also, the little gardeners are more apt to eat the fruits of their labour than vegetables that show up in a grocery bag. Think about it. When you toss a homegrown salad or serve up a stir-fried medley of vegetables, you gain a real appreciation of the path from your backyard to your plate.

Consider the choices of diff erent plant varieties. A tomato grower who supplies a large market needs to grow varieties that ripen all at once and are tough enough to survive shipping, whereas a home gardener can select tomatoes for fl avour, colour, and harvest time. The older varieties are far more nutritious than commercial types. Ripening tomatoes on the vine is a lot more appealing than the commercial practice of gassing them to redness.

When looking for garden plants and seeds, support your neighbourhood organizations. Many local garden clubs host sales in May or early June. You can take advantage of locally grown plants and seed lovingly saved by hand, and the prices are reasonable.

If you absolutely can’t have a garden, rent a plot in a community garden or invest in someone else’s, called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). You pay a market gardener a one-time fee (per share) before the start of the growing season and, in return, you receive weekly food boxes. Everyone wins. Local family farms don’t have to take out expensive bank loans to provide you with fresh, nutritious produce. Waste is reduced because market gardeners can grow the amount needed for their customers, a known quantity.

Most CSAs grow organic food and provide a diversity of vegetables and herbs in season. Some also off er berries, eggs, or meat, either with the CSA share or purchased separately. For more information and a list of local suppliers, visit the Ontario CSA Farm Directory at csafarms.ca.

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More favourite reads of 2015 By Catherine Coles

Looking for some good reads? Here is part two of a two-part series laying out the books that staff of the

County of Lennox & Addington Libraries enjoyed reading the most in 2015.

Erin, Napanee Branch Assistant

Burying Water by K.A. Tucker: This book got my attention when a few of my co-workers recommended it. It is a good suspenseful mystery with a love story intertwined.

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid: This book intrigued me because it follows the main character in two story lines. Each story line is diff erent based on her decisions and where they take her. It was an easy and interesting read until the end.

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella: This YA novel follows Audrey, a young 14-year-old girl who has some mental illness issues that arose when she was bullied in school. This book is a light-hearted story about a family dealing with everyday troubles.

Somebody I Used to Know by David Bell: I was hooked to this book from the start. It is a story that starts with the main character believing he sees his old girlfriend in the store; the only thing is that she died in a fi re twenty years ago.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: This is a story about a middle-aged bookshop owner who would have been perfectly happy living a lonely existence until some exciting things happen.

Jennifer, Yarker Branch Coordinator

Enclave by Ann Aguirre: A young woman survives in a post-apocalypse world as a Huntress living in New York tunnels, fi ghting Freaks (human mutants), questioning enclave rules (underground community), and getting to know a newcomer (love interest) as she forges her way.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaff er: A short, charming novel set in a small English island under German occupation in the late 1940’s, written as a series of letters between villagers who form a book club, and the main character, a budding writer.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo: A helpful step-by-step guide to organizing household belongings based on the method of well-known Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo.

Rabbit Ears by Maggie DeVries: An adopted, multiracial, sex abuse survivor runs away in a search for acceptance. Victimized further by the corrosive eff ects of addiction and sex work, she survives on the streets. Based on a true story.

Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss: A young boy’s journey across various kooky landscapes which uncannily resemble psychological states experienced in coming to terms with real life challenges.

Caitlyn, Student PageConfess by Coleen Hoover: This was an extremely emotional and gut-wrenching book about life, death, second chances, and fate. It had well-rounded, likable characters with great dialogue and sported a very appealing writing style.

Take Me On by Katie McGarry: I love Katie’s writing style. She has a great handle on her characters and the plot, making this book funny, sad, angering, and completely loveable.

Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross: The baseball and the romance kept me entertained throughout the entire book! This is a light, fl uff y read that still deals with the problems that arise in our lives.

Bigg est Flirts (Superlatives #1) by Jennifer Echols: This book had me grinning from page one. Characters Will and Tia are both enormously entertaining and relatable. This is one happy ending you don’t want to miss.

The Activist (Theodore Boone #4) by John Grisham: I particularly enjoyed the view of law from a middle schooler’s eyes as he fought for what was right. It was a very interesting and understandable story with characters that you couldn’t help but love.

Karen, Bath & South Fredericksburgh Branch Coordinator

What I Remember Most by Cathy Lamb: After a fall from grace leaves her destitute, Grenadine sets out to reinvent her life. Despite the serious subject matter, this story manages to be humorous and uplifting.

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley: Latest in the Flavia De Luce series, this book sees Flavia leaving her beloved family home to attend the girls’ school in Canada that her mother went to. It’s best to read the series in order, so I suggest starting with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

Second Star to the Right by Mary Alice Monroe: Faye and her

two children move to London and rent an apartment in an old Victorian house, where the elderly woman upstairs claims to be the original Wendy from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.

Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown: When Emma’s mother dies, she is left some letters and a key to a house in Valencia that has been vacant and crumbling since 1936. Leaving her job as London’s leading perfumer, she goes to Spain to restore the house and in doing so, gradually learns her family’s history.

Last One Home by Debbie Macomber: This sympathetic, warm-hearted book about second chances and reconciliation between three sisters shows how even strong families can fracture, and how they can heal.

Amy, Amherstview Branch Coordinator

Wildfl ower Hill by Kimberley Freeman: Forced to take her life in a new direction when an injury ends her ballet career, Emma returns to her home in Australia and learns that she has inherited an isolated sheep station from a late grandmother who would impart key lessons about love and motherhood.

First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen: In the

small town of Bascom, N.C., the Waverley women are known for their unusual gifts. When a strange, elderly man comes to town and threatens to disrupt the peaceful Waverley existence, the family must pull together and rely on each woman’s unique talents.

Delicious by Ruth Reichl: In her bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defi nes us, and never more so than in her dazzling fi ction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must fi nally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts.

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes: A love story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, what do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

Come Away with Me by Karma Brown: One minute, Tegan has everything she could hope for: an adoring husband and a baby on the way. The next, a patch of black ice causes a devastating accident that will change her life in ways she could never have imagined.

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Celebration of Life for Terry Duthie

Stories from Sheffi eld S.S. 13:Starting school in 1938By Jerry Ackerman, Bert Wagar, and Madeline Marlin Snider

Jerry Ackerman:

I really wanted to go to school. But I couldn’t. My brothers were born in June and July while my buddy Bert

and I were December babies. We had to wait eight months to be old enough. Bert’s sister Gwen was in school, and he had two younger brothers to play with. I didn’t. I wanted to learn what my brothers were talking about.

Although I didn’t know it then, our house, two ramshackle logger houses pushed together with clapboard on a sandy hill, was special. Besides a family Bible, we had BOOKS. Also magazines and novels my aunt sent to Mum. One of the books really interested me, 33 Lessons in Flying. This was something I could dream about learning. Then maybe my brothers would want to hear that I knew something they didn’t. And maybe… someday I could fl y, just like a bird. Let’s see what I’d need: Good Eyes (yes, I had that) and Lots of Education (not yet, but I was more than willing.) So, I learned to read.

I learned something else, too, and that was how to think about numbers. Sure, I could count – how many cows to round up, and with my dog’s help, bring them home for milking, and how many times my uncle would let me win at checkers before wiping me off the board (three). But when he opened that huge book that came in the mail from Eaton’s, and pointed to two diff erent items and asked “Jerry, if we send for two of these and one of those, how much money do we have to send ?”, I would have to fi gure it out myself. We couldn’t aff ord to send for even one item, but I did learn that numbers have meaning. That’s been useful every day of my life.

At school, I was disappointed to see there weren’t any books, just readers that were passed down from grade to grade. However, I saw a very big advantage – I could listen to what the next grade was learning. I managed to fi nish Grades 4

and 5 in one year, and Grades 6 and 7 a year later.

Looking back, I have to credit my aunt for what she sent to Mum, and my uncle for letting me challenge him at checkers, and that Eaton’s catalogue before we sent it to the privy.

Bert Wagar:

Jerry and I were the same age and he had a few things over me, but one thing I had over him was walking to school. Sheffi eld S.S. 13, (King’s School) was located at Fifth Depot Lake and was twice as far for him. Quite a long way in winter.

The little white schoolhouse was set back about 50 feet from the California Road and gave us a fi ne playground and baseball diamond. Beside the school was a mountain of bedrock where the children scratched their arms and legs and sometimes broke some bones. There was a swamp on the left side, where Jerry and I would “squirrel our way” toward home, seeing how far we could travel before touching the ground. The school had a shed at the back where wood was stored and the bats spent their daylight hours. Those bats did not want us disturbing them. Further back were the outhouses – girls on the right, boys on the left. An obstacle course in winter, but in the springtime you could hear the bullfrogs croaking.

There were two rows of desks facing the teacher, who stood in front of the blackboard behind the teacher’s desk. We didn’t know exactly what the drawer in the desk contained (until it was too late). When Jerry, my brother Floyd, and I stopped to pick some apples on our way home, Eff y Clark told Mr. Ferguson we were stealing, but we had been told it was okay. From that desk drawer came a long hard strap. We were each whacked three times on each hand. Because we considered ourselves innocent, and that an injustice had occurred, we stole the strap and chopped it into three pieces.

A funny thing happened in school with our next teacher Miss Marlin. Just a few minutes before classes ended, she said, “Now, I want you each to write a poem.” What? Write a poem? How? “It’s easy,” she said. “Just like this: I knew a boy, his name was Bert, and every day he changed his shirt.” Everyone broke out laughing. We knew that none of us had more than one shirt.

Madeline Marlin Snider:

I taught from 1942-1944 at Sheffi eld S.S. 13, and remember all the details that Bert wrote, and confi rm that it’s indeed true that Jerry was the youngest student I ever passed from Grade 8. When I went to teach there, I was 17, scared and worried, but I took a summer class in Toronto and was 18 by September 1942. I found the kids and parents were wonderful, so I took summer classes the next three years.

I stayed with the Sniders and went back to Croydon on weekends. Mary Snider (my future mother-in-law) was a wonderful cook. Her husband Emerson worked away on construction and his health was not well enough to work the farm. Their son Ken had taken responsibility since Grade 8. They also had a younger daughter, Irene.

I always had a lot of work to prepare at nights. Even though there were only 10-12 students, usually all eight grades were represented. I walked a mile each way every day except when snow or rain. Then Ken drove me.

The School Board consisted of Wilbert Clark, Emerson Snider, and Elliot Wagar. Ken used to go with them to the meetings at the school.

At the end of three years, Ken decided he had enough farming, and we had become engaged. We were both 20, got married in Enterprise, with the reception at my parents home (Murney and Verlie) near Croydon.

We moved to Brantford and have spent the last 70 years here. After three

children, I went back to supply teaching and got my Honors Degree in English from McMaster. The last 20 years I taught a gifted class of children.

Ken retired from Massey Ferguson and we live in a retirement home here in Brantford. Last August we celebrated our 70th anniversary with three children, their spouses, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

And it all started at that schoolhouse at 5th Lake!

Sheffi eld S.S. #13 class photo from 1950. Tallest in centre is Rita King. In front of her is Doug King. In front of Doug is Ronnie Higley. On her right are Marguerite

King, and Fern King in front, alongside Tom Higley. On her left are Jacqueline Higley, Mary King, and Gerry Higley. Bob Wagar is missing – as usual!

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Comfort Food for Human and Canine AlikeBeverly Frazer and Dalton CowperBy Linda Selkirk

What does a Bakery and a Dog Boarding Kennel have in common? Food,

certainly but that’s not all. Two of our neighbours are managing to combine the two seemingly dispa-rate businesses quite well. The food industry is highly competitive. New restaurants and bakeries continue to open up pro-viding a variety of food while many long established eateries continue to serve patrons in our local townships, but The River Bakery on Concession St. in Tamworth not only lives up to its hard-earned reputation of serv-ing slow cooked, fresh food without preservatives as well as tasty baked goods but it continues to grow and expand especially now under their new owners: Dalton Cowper and Beverly Frazer. As a team they work long hours but it is quickly evident that they are doing what they love. Many of us still recall the original owners Poppy Harrison and David Greenland who opened their doors boasting that “they made the best bagels in Eastern Ontario.” Over the years the Bakery changed owners but the quality of the food and the baked items only got bet-ter. Now Bev and Dalton, with the aid of David, who still does the bulk of the baking, have expanded the menu and offer a greater variety of take-out items. Bev always has a warm smile to greet everyone who enters The Bakery and many of her recipes are now in demand. Annette Wilson, along with Anita Wilson, welcome the patrons and provide first class service. Customers pop by to pick up a bagels, bread, muf-fins, pies and a wide variety of other baked goods or they can sit down and have a delicious lunch from the expanding menu. The old favou-rites, such as the much-loved lemon tarts are still available but look for what’s new. A big hit has been the slow-cooked ribs that are offered Friday nights as part of a prix fixe menu with five delicious courses. Dalton, well known for his year-round boarding kennel for dogs called the Regal Beagle on Hwy. 41, had already brought the same level of attention to detail and a love for quality organic pet foods with little or no preservatives to their kennel. I share Dalton’s love of dogs and can appreciate the attention he pays to keeping both his and his cli-ents’ dogs on a nutritionally sound diet which gives the lucky pooches wonderful immune systems and su-perior health. So it’s not a surprise that Dalton and Bev wanted the very best for the customers that visit The Bakery. The Regal Beagle was envi-

sioned as the culmination of a five year plan when they first moved to Kingston. While working at a full-time position, Dalton managed to fit in several years of part-time work learning more about dog training with boarding experts in Kingston. Dalton believes that when dogs are boarded, they are embarking on their own holiday from home. They join the Cowper dogs who live there (all seven of them) for the duration of their stay; they become a part of the dog pack. Dalton’s love of dogs was evident when he rhymed off his own dogs names: Dabney, Saxon (the newbie), Porter, Kilty, Cooper, Lacy and Louis Target (yes, he is so special he has his own last name). There are two Labs, three Beagles, a Bloodhound and a Coonhound; all of them serving as excellent hosts welcoming the other dogs into the kennel. Some dogs may never have experienced this before, but dogs love to socialize with other dogs. Since they are free to mingle and roam in a safe environment, they learn to enjoy the comfort of a rou-tine that includes a nap and, yes, a weekly campfire night on Saturdays when humans and all the dogs are quite literally “happy campers”. Dalton was pleased to learn that the burn ban has been lifted for now so the dogs won’t have to miss this spe-cial campfire night. Returning “cli-entele” recognize their holiday spot and jump out of the cars looking forward to another visit. For own-

ers, this is a huge relief knowing that their pets are in good hands. Even as a youngster, Dalton was drawn to dogs, caring for his own family’s dogs and for those he walked as a part-time job while growing up. Bev also loves dogs and Labrador Re-trievers have a special place in her heart as she always had a loving Lab growing up. The kennel has many home comforts including air conditioning, homemade and branded organic treats and CBC radio for their listen-ing pleasure. Some visitors of the canine kind stay for a month or 6 weeks at a time. There is a feeling of comfort and safety communicated by the resident dogs to newcomers and plenty of time to enjoy human

companionship as well. Each dog then finds his niche in the pack for the duration of the stay. Helping out at the kennel is Cody Kew, a Tamworth native who has already contributed to the suc-cess of the kennel for four years and is a valued and trusted asset. Stu-dent Sean Bodzasy, like other stu-dents in the past, was able to com-plete his volunteer hours there and is now another assistant Dalton can rely on. One way I can enjoy both their businesses is when I go to pur-chase fresh bread, smoked almonds or specialty cheese, I bring one of my dogs, sit on the patio and talk “dogs” with Dalton. Sounds like a new show: Dogs with Dalton… nev-er a dog’s breakfast! The website for the Re-gal Beagle www.regalbeagleun-leashed.com offers a wealth of in-formation for dog lovers. The website for the Bakery is in progress: www.riverbakery.com

Top photo: Dalton and Bev. Bottom: Dalton, Anita, and Bev.Photo credits: Barry Lovegrove.

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Why we gardenBy Mary Jo Field

Gardeners garden for all sorts of reasons. It may be for the beauty of trees and flowers, or because we

want to grow and eat our own food, or simply to be out in the fresh air. Whichever aspects we most enjoy, spring weather lures us outside to dig in the dirt. We are happy again.

The Tamworth/Erinsville GrassRoots Growers will hold their seventh annual plant sale on Saturday, May 28, starting at 10:00 a.m. at the Lions’ Park in Erinsville. Because all the plants are donated by GRG supporters we can never be sure what will show up. Usually, the perennials outnumber annuals; sometimes the basil plants are snapped up quickly; always there are divisions of unusual ornamentals or seedling varieties one may not find at commercial nurseries. Come early to select from an interesting variety of vegetables, herbs, annuals, and perennials – not too early, though. The 10:00 am start time is strictly adhered to, out of respect for those who wait patiently in line.

GrassRoots Growers is happy to receive labeled donations of plants and seedlings for the plant sale. Funds raised go towards engaging speakers for our admission-free events, as well as other projects. Visit our website below to learn where donations of plants may be dropped off.

Because I start hundreds of tomato plants from seed, most of which go to the GRG plant sale, I can tell you a little about tomato varieties. Of course, I am not the only tomato seed starter, so there will be many varieties, but I hope to promote some enthusiasm for growing delicious and beautiful heirloom tomatoes by describing some of their attributes.

First, a few words of definition.

What is an heirloom (or heritage) tomato? It is a variety that is open-pollinated (OP) and has been around for more than a few years. Unlike antiques, it does not take 100 years to qualify, but let’s say for the sake of consistency, the variety needs to have been around since before 1950 when the process of modern hybridization of tomatoes began in earnest.

What does open-pollinated mean? It means the variety has stable genetic material and will come true every generation. Tomatoes are self-pollinating; they do not require pollination by bees or other insects. Each flower has both male and female parts, and each plant produces fruit genetically identical to the parent plant. Seeds saved from these fruits will produce the same variety of plant next year. Unless there is a rare random mutation or a stray bee carries pollen from one plant to the flower of a different variety, the fruit produced will be the same every year.

Hybrid tomatoes, on the other hand, grow from seed produced by “crossing,” usually with human intervention. Pollen from one OP variety is applied to the pistil on the flower of another OP variety. Fruit produced from this process will contain seeds known as F1 hybrids, and these seeds will produce plants and fruit

that show the dominant characteristics of each parent. The seeds from the next generation, however, are unpredictable, and may be quite dissimilar to the parent. To obtain the same plant, one has to start with the “crossing” again. So you can see why hybrid seed is more expensive to produce, and why most home gardeners don’t save seed from hybrid tomatoes.

Red is the colour most people associate with tomatoes, however, the spectrum of colours is broad. The flesh can be pink to red, pale to dark yellow, orange and white, or green. Skin will be clear or yellow. Clear skin over red flesh will appear as pink while yellow skin over red flesh will result in a scarlet red tomato. Purple or brown tomatoes have red flesh with some green chlorophyll remaining in the gel. Skin colour changes the outer appearance of all hues of tomato flesh, resulting in a veritable rainbow on your plate. Then there are the multicoloured, striped, or swirled tomatoes. But I am running out of space in this article.

Beauty on the plate is one thing, but it’s really all

about the taste, isn’t it? If all you’ve had

the opportunity to taste is the red,

commercially grown tomato of our youth, you can be forgiven for thinking they are all the

same. A sample tasting

of different tomatoes will

open your mind to an amazing

diversity of flavours – tart to sweet, fruity to

earthy, intense to mild. Texture and juiciness also come into

play, along with the thickness of the skin or ratio of seeds and cavity to flesh. As with wine, Scotch, or beer, taste is on the tongue of the individual. Only trying them will let you find your favourite.

Some of my favourite tomatoes that will be available at the GRG plant sale in May are:

• Kellogg’s Breakfast – huge orange fruit, rich flavour, a wonderful balance of sweet and intense

• Pantano Romanesco – Italian heirloom, large, bright red fruit, nice tomato flavour

• Matt’s Wild Cherry – small, very sweet snacking tomato

• Jaune Flamme – French heirloom, tangerine colour, 2-inch fruit with intense fruity taste

• Black Plum – good for fresh eating and sauces

Nothing says summer more than a plate of multicoloured sliced tomatoes with a bit of basil. Maybe a bacon and tomato sandwich comes close. That’s why I garden.

Tamworth/Erinsville GrassRoots Growers is a community-based group. Our mission is to encourage interest in local and organic gardening for both the home garden and the market garden; to raise awareness of issues surrounding food production; to improve our practical knowledge of all aspects of plant life; and to provide networking opportunities for gardeners. We welcome new members. Visit our website at te-grassrootsgrowers.weebly.com.

Lessons learnedBy Blair McDonald

Social media is one of those terms that seem to pop

up everywhere. If we are not on social media either sharing, posting, responding, or tweeting, we are talking about it: “Can you believe so-and-so posted that?” Or, “Did you see what so-and-so wrote? Why does this person take so many photos of their meals?” The conversations are endless.

This past winter I have been teaching a course on social media at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC that examines its role and function in today’s world. After all, there isn’t a thing that the internet hasn’t transformed in our daily lives. We cover such topics as its effects on the news industry, education, entertainment, politics, marketing, communication, and even our sense of self.

From a social standpoint, one of the big questions is whether social media is making us more insular as humans. In other words, is the internet making us less aware of the outside world and only more aware of the things that matter to us? Hence, more selfish and paradoxically, less connected.

Concerned critics of social media, while praising its speed for sharing information across the world, suggest that our common sense of the world is eroding through these networking sites because they function as what New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls an “echo chamber” of like-mindedness.

Similarly, UBC journalism professor and former BBC journalist Alfred Hermida claims in his book #Tell Everyone: Why

We Share and Why it Matters that in today’s media-centred world users tend “to choose media that meet and reinforce their preconceptions and prejudices and avoid ideas that challenge them.” After all, if the proverb “like attracts like” were true, why wouldn’t this kind of behaviour show up online as well?

Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein agrees with these concerns, but takes the argument even further. For him, the insular world of social media may be leading us into a future where we can simply block out anything that doesn’t conform with our worldview (most of us, I’m sure, have already discovered that function for an annoying friend on Facebook).

Our social media bubbles tell us a lot about the people we know and care for, but it remains to be seen whether those endless updates, posts and YouTube links are developing us, and more importantly, connecting us with the things that really matter.

For Sunstein and others, the fear is that a more fragmented and intolerant society is just around the corner. A nation of distracted media users is disastrous for the health of its citizens. Furthermore, a nation that is only listening to what it already believes might even be worse.

Ode to a Farm GirlShe was only a trapper’s daughterBut all the horsemen knew herNow she seems to have caught the farming bugAnd nothing I know of can cure her. So I says to her one day, “What’s new?”“Herd of cows,” she fast replied.

“Of course I’ve heard of cows,” I saidI’m not THAT citified!”

“No, no, says she, a cow herdDo you understand me now?

“I don’t care if a cow heard,I’ve no secrets from a cow!”

I really wanted to heifer knowThat I thought she was being rude

But I didn’t want to horn in on herAs I saw she was in a moo-ed

I wanted to warn her of farming woesAnd bring her to her senses;

In case she was getting in past’er’eyesBut that might have built some fences.

So, I never uddered another wordOr steered her. And if she’s successfulI’ll always be nice and give her adviceAnd I promise I won’t shoot the bull!

By Jerry Ackerman


In case you wondered what happened to himBy Alyce Gorter

Through the years, many lost and abandoned animals have, in one way or another, found their way to

my door. Numerous cats and kittens unable to sustain themselves and fearfully turning to humans for help – not quite trusting a race that had betrayed them in the past; a nanny goat accompanied by a German Shepherd dog; horses that had found a gap in pasture fences; a batch of rabbits dumped confused and bewildered in the middle of the road; an emu; a pot-bellied pig; dogs of all breeds and sizes from a deerfly-crazed Jack Russell, to Huskies, Hounds of various descriptions and Ben.

Ben was a medium-sized “farm dog” – no distinguishable breed with a double coat of long, black hair and a plume of a tail that nearly always wagged gently over his back. Although each animal’s story is unique, Ben’s may top them all. In a hurry to reach an appointment one afternoon and not wanting to be slowed down by a strange, possibly smelly (or drooling) dog in my truck, I waffled about stopping when I spotted it by the side of the road. I pulled up beside him and opened the door wide enough for him to see me but not enough for him to jump in. “It’s like this,” I said, “I’m on my way to an appointment and won’t be back for a few hours. If you really do need a home, be here when I get back.” I drove off and forgot about him.

Hours later, I headed for home. The dog was waiting exactly where I had last seen him! Now, a realist would tell me that he was expecting whoever dropped him off to return for him and that is why he remained in that spot. Believe that if you like, but Ben chose to come home with me.

My brother-in-law loved him immediately so Ben moved to suburbia, with leashed walks, a large fenced-in backyard, and once in a while a “spa” day to relieve him of some of that hair. But his favourite experience was coming back to the country whenever his “family” went on vacation. There was much to capture a dog’s interest, lots of room to walk, no neighbours and no fences. It was obvious that he preferred the country setting, so in his senior years, Ben came home to be my brother’s beloved companion.

Ben was not a dog to wander so it came as a surprise when on a dark, cold March night he could not be found by 8:00 p.m. My brother reported that he had heard him barking from the direction of the back woods but, as my brother is blind, he could do nothing to follow the sound. Ben was also not a dog that very often barked. He was obviously in trouble – but of what nature?

My husband headed for the four-wheeler, my brother sticking close behind. I grabbed a flashlight, making a beeline through the woods to the large pond beyond the trees. There, the beam of the flashlight caught the reflection of

Ben’s eyes from a large open area of water 27 feet out from shore (I carefully measured it later). He had one paw up on the ice and at that point all he could do was whimper. He was failing fast. I snatched a long branch from the shoreline, laid down across it, and started inching out across the ice. At that point, my two miniature schnauzers, their legs and bellies clumped with snow and ice, decided to join the rescue. They were definitely not going to see me or their friend Ben either (a) have fun without them or (b) get hurt while they stood idly by. Their added weight on the ice only caused further stress to that fragile surface as it groaned and creaked around us.

When I could finally reach Ben’s paw, he could do nothing to help me try to drag him out of the water. I clutched him by the scruff of the neck, but the weight of his waterlogged body was pulling me closer to the hole. Where does strength come from at those times to help you do the

impossible? Using every ounce of power in me, I slowly rolled over, hauling Ben gradually out of his icy trap. Fortunately for all of us, the ice did not give way. Too heavy to lift and unable to move a paw or open his jaws, we dragged him frozen and stiff to the four wheeler. As he laid on the kitchen floor unresponsive, we employed the hair dryer and polar fleece blankets, murmuring encouragement, trying to save what appeared to be a lost cause.

Two days later, Ben was back on top of his world, black tail waving proudly over his back as he sauntered around taking care of business once again. Although he died in December 2009, his memory lives on. He was a good dog.

Ben, before (above) and after (left) a “spa” day. Photo by Mike Smith.

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Do You Remember: Washday on Monday?By Glen R. Goodhand

Life in “the good old days” was not simple—but it was simplistic. Although the pace was diff erent

from that of the modern world, although it was not frantic, it was busy. Every hour during the day, which often began at 6 a.m. and ended at 8 p.m., was fi lled with activity.

Schedules were essential because there were few labour-saving devices to abbreviate tasks. No place was that more obvious than in the domain of what an old song calls “the everyday housewife”. It was more truth than a mere quip that “A man doth work from dawn ‘til sun, but women’s work is never done!” That is why she had to have every task strategically pegged to keep up with the demands upon her time.

So. The rule of thumb was “Washday on Monday, Ironing on Tuesday, Mending on Wednesday, Marketing on Thursday, Cleaning on Friday, Baking on Saturday, and Rest on Sunday.”

Part of that agenda was tradition. But Monday as washday was also practical. It gave the rest of the week for clothes to pass inspection for Saturday night—and even more so for Sunday—which, in the majority of homes was the day to attend church. And the expression “Sunday-go-to-meeting” clothes was almost law for the fi rst half of the 20th century.

There were times when the normal process of drying washed apparel was postponed because of rain—and a poor substitute venue, such as in the porch, became “plan B”—thus derailing the

regimen. And with both ironing and mending to follow in sequence, the earliest start possible in the week was ideal.

Whether the actual method of getting rid of the dirt involved a washboard, or a tub with a gyrator, the process was

pretty much the same. Because hot water from a tap was a rarity—certainly in rural areas—a suffi cient amount had to be heated on a wood stove in a copper “boiler.” If an old scrub board was used, the water was transferred to a galvanized tub where the operation took place. Even if the undertaking was by means of mechanization, another container was essential for rinsing the soap from the pulverized material. No lady of the house who was saddled with the former primitive method ever had to take a Charles Atlas course, or resort to aerobics. The forceful twisting of the soaked material built muscles more embarrassing to display than to crave.

In that era, the word “dryer” was used only as a comparative of “wet.” The faithful clothesline was the normal destination following the former two steps. These more archaic designs never heard the squeak of a pulley. Three were often strung parallel to one another from wooden “T”’s planted in the ground.

Certain unwritten rules—a washerwoman’s “code”—governed some basic procedures relating to this part of the procedure:

1. Hang socks by the toes—not the tops2. Hang trousers by the cuff s—not the

waistband3. Hang shirts by the tail—not the

shoulders4. Hang clothes in order—whites with

whites—and hang them fi rst5. (Now the reason for triple lines): hang

sheets so they cover “unmentionables”

Washing clothes was a long and tedious job, often taking the better part of a day. An adaptation of an old adage declares “Better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week!” But there was one thing worse. That was when the clothesline broke, dumping those spanking clean items on the ground (in the mud even), and the whole operation had to start over again. Such an experience can hardly be considered amusing; but Alan Robert Brown composed a light-hearted poem about this conundrum, which helps take the sting out of it.

I hung my washing on the line, It then began to pour. Which I couldn’t understand, Since it was sunny a moment before.

So I unpegg ed it all quicklyAnd took it back inside.But would you believe it? The moment I was insideThe sun began to shine.

So I hung the washing out again; I think I did it slow. But as soon as I put in the last peg I began right then to snow.

I took the washing back inside,It was beginning to be a pain.My mind was under pressure,And I was really feeling the strain.

I took my washing out again To have another try. But as soon as I’d turned my back, The wind began to fl y.

It blew my washing down the street,And down the roadside drain.Now I have to take it home,And wash it all again!

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Community saves café from closingBy Sally Bowen

A community-organized diner will be opened on Amherst Island in May, growing from the roots of the

former Stella’s Café. The people were determined to keep their meeting and eating place open.

Owners Anthony Giff ord and Judy Bierma (daughter of an Island cheesemaker) created an environment with lots of welcome, Island history, lending library, music and food, but would now like to be customers, not workers. Labour and bills were challenging. They said “the dream of creating a small community within the larger one, to have a place for people to come together and visit; to be of service to Islanders and also to provide welcome to visitors is vital to us.” They invited the community to take over the operations.

A “Job Fair” was held in the middle of the winter for people to volunteer for a choice of demanding tasks and 45 fl ooded the school gymnasium – a great sign of enthusiasm. Sub-committees have been working since

then on management, menus, maintenance, marketing, staffi ng, and training.

The plan is to hire a maximum of four students, hopefully with grant support, with a rotating roster of volunteers supporting each aspect of the work. Everyone will be trained to meet safe food handling guidelines. Renamed The Back Kitchen by public poll, the diner will be open for extended weekends in May and June, and then will be open an ambitious 7 days/week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner in July and August. The intent is to continue the popular Friday evening music events and singalongs.

Terry McGinn is from one of the long time Island families, and a market gardener. Terry says “it is essential in a small community to have places to go to just sit and chat. I am pleased that the menu will include ‘seasonal salads’ and just-picked vegetables from my garden.”

Bonnie Caughey belongs to another traditional multi-generation family. She is working on the menu committee. They plan to keep the food simple, and to have fl exibility in what they off er: on the same day, chicken might be in a salad, on a bun, or in a grilled sandwich. They’ll have traditional burgers and fries, but with an

unusual range and quality of toppings available. There will be healthy food, with local sourcing and a seasonal emphasis. There will be a generous range of treats as well, all prepared on-site or in approved kitchens.

Bruce Sudds is a newcomer to the Island, with old Island connections, who helped with legal registration and now with marketing. He is pleased with the wide spectrum of people and skills who are investing time in the planning and operation. “It is sure to be a success when the people who are building the organization will also be its customers.”

He is confi dent that the not-for-profi t diner will be a boost to the local economy too, buying and hiring locally as much as possible.

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Art-E-Facts: Stories told through museum objectsBy Andrew Minigan and JoAnne Himmelman, Curatorial Staff, L&A County Museum & Archives, Napanee

The L&A County Museum collection continues to grow and each artifact tells an intriguing story that

connects to the County’s past. This is the theme of a new exhibit that can be viewed in the reception area of the museum. The new exhibit, Art-E-Facts, showcases artifacts from the museum collection and reveals their stories through the idea that history is a never-ending stage play with each piece playing its part to tell the story of Lennox and Addington and the people who owned and used them. This exhibit features six cases and new stories will be revealed every couple of months.

On centre stage is a 1934 Shirley Temple doll, made in the likeness of the Depression-era child star, complete with doll versions of costumes from her famous films. Early Shirley dolls are made of a substance called “composition” which combined a secret mixture of wood fibres and various types of adhesives and fillers. Used in the days before the mass production of plastics was possible, composition dolls tended to “decompose” when they were well loved by children. Dolls surviving in excellent condition were likely not frequently played with. The original Shirley doll came in four sizes. She had hazel eyes and curly, strawberry-blonde hair. The first doll was dressed in a polka-dot dress like the one the real Shirley Temple wore in the film Stand up and Cheer.

A 1909 crazy patch quilt, with its whimsical array of colourful fabric, is from the Newburgh home of Bessie and Almore Hyland. In early days, crazy patch quilts were made as a way of using every last scrap of useful material. This quilt evokes an afternoon of women coming together to turn scraps of material into useful keepsakes, perhaps to give to a young bride or new mother.

Along with the colourful quilt is an oil lamp [c1885] from the parlour of Martha

(McKim) and Edmund Switzer, who were married in June 1873, and settled in Switzerville. The ornate lamp with painted shade and reservoir is popularly known as a Gone with the Wind lamp, as this style of lamp was featured in the epic 1939 film. However, something to note is that this lamp style is incongruous to the period of the film. This particular style of lamp was not seen until the 1870s, coming into vogue by 1890.

Act Two of our play showcases a well-loved violin, played by local fiddler, Irvine Thompson of Sharp’s Corners. You can almost hear the music that Thompson bowed at local Saturday night barn dances. Thompson was also a keen horseman and established a rodeo with his horse Duke when he moved to Rochester, New York in 1928 to work for Eastman Kodak. This violin carries the mark of Rembert Wurlitzer, at the time the world’s leading expert on antique violins, from his appraisal and restoration shop in New York City. The talents of Irish-born hand-weaver Richard Coulter are demonstrated in a splendid and unique quilted blanket. Wool check weavings have been pieced to create a blanket, and then two blankets have been positioned back to back, quilted and edged with diaper twill binding. The result was a rather heavy blanket that would keep one warm on those cold winter nights.

The tradition of the local hand-weaver almost disappeared during the Irish Famine, but survived in parts of Donegal, Mayo and Galway, Ireland. As Irish families arrived in waves to Canada in the mid-nineteenth century, they brought with them their craftsmanship and incorporated it into their new homes and communities. Richard Coulter, born in 1803, Donegal, Ireland, was a weaver by trade. By 1851, Richard Coulter with his wife, Eleanor, and two sons, Andrew and John, had emigrated from Ireland.

The family lived in Roslin, Ontario for a short while, before settling on a farm east of Tamworth in 1858.

Our play of artifacts comes to a close with the story of Robinson & Company of Napanee. Constructed in 1863, on the corner of Dundas and Centre streets, the three-storey brick and stone

building was leased to partners Robert Downey and Robert Rennie who established Napanee’s first commercial “dry goods” store. It was operated as the Robert Downey Company until 1887 and then, J.W. Robinson purchased the business from Downey and changed the name to Robinson & Company. At its height, the Robinson Company employed 35 people. The store consisted of three floors, specializing in millinery and other fashion accessories, sewing notions, ready-to-wear clothing, personal sundries, and home furnishings. It operated as The Robinson Company Limited until 1927.

The Robinson & Company story features a bowler hat (c1910). The bowler hat was made for the store by Buckley and Sons of London, England. This style of hat was invented by the Bowler brothers of London, who were commissioned to create a new design of hat for the Earl of Leicester’s gamekeepers. The new hat was designed to be worn outdoors, during hunting and similar activities, where the round, low crown and narrow brim helped to avoid snagging on brush and branches. The hat became very popular with all walks of life. It was so popular in America that it was called “the hat that won the West.”

Also featured is a gold silk and chiffon evening gown (c1912) with beaded bodice and apron skirt. This gown beckons you into the days leading to the Titanic voyage and beyond to World War 1. During this time, fashion bids adieu to the Edwardian Era of very soft, feminine fashions with flowing trained skirts, ruffles and lace and the unnatural “S” bend corseted silhouette. By 1910, the silhouette of ladies dresses had simplified and became columnar, and hair was fashionably piled on the head in wavy curls.

Other objects displayed in Art-E-Facts include – WW1 Saddler’s Kit, vintage toys (1960-1970), hand-crafted teddy bears, and a Robinson & Company souvenir spoon (1915).

We invite you to come explore Art-E-Facts at the County Museum where the objects’ secrets are revealed in greater detail. The County Museum also features a variety of fun and lively monthly programs that engage both an adult and family audience.

Please check out our program listing at www.countymuseum.ca.

Evening Gown c1912

Shirley Temple Doll 1934 Parlour Lamp c1885

Crazy Patch Quilt 1909

Bowler c1910

Blankets c1870 The Robinson Company c1912

Violin c1785

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A Natural ViewSlide Lake Loop, not for the faint of heart By Terry Sprague

I have aspirations of hiking the Slide Lake Loop at Frontenac Provincial Park this year, just to show my new

artifi cial hip who’s boss. Okay – maybe next year. It will be my third time, the most recent being in May just a couple years ago. Fond memories of a diffi cult, but memorable trek over some gorgeous and rugged habitat.

The view from the top of the 150-foot high granite mountain on this trail is spectacular. Below, Slide Lake shimmers in the light breeze, sunlight casting blackened shadows of trees and surrounding boulders eerily upon its surface. Through binoculars, one can make out the miniature forms of painted turtles as they bask in the rays of the sun. It is wild country at its best and so remote that the chance of bumping into another hiker is unlikely.

My fi rst hike along this trail at Frontenac was in 2003 when I was 58 years old. I found the hike challenging, even then. Strange, how the climb over this rocky terrain, considered the most rugged in the entire 14,000-acre park, got so much more diffi cult in just a decade! Park literature describes the nine-kilometre hike as “extremely diffi cult.” There is no reason for me to dispute this after crab-walking and bum-rocking our way to the fi nish line, a hike that took us seven hours. We were not in a hurry, though. We stopped often to take in the phantasmagoria. Hikes at Frontenac are not meant to be marathons; they are meant to be savoured.

In Frontenac Park speak, nine kilometres is considered a stroll. Most of the trails are 12 or 15 km in length – nice, pleasant walks that can be completed in fi ve or six hours. The trail we were on is only a small inner loop of the much longer 21-kilometre Slide Lake Loop, on the Park’s eastern side, off Old Perth Road. Call this inner loop an entry level or a junior walk, if you want, but despite its shorter length, it is no less challenging.

Completing the hike is only one of the day’s challenges. Reaching the trail is another. Like so many other trails in the Park, access is from another nearby trail, which means one has to walk several kilometres before even beginning the hike! The Slide Lake Loop is accessible from a couple of other trails both “a fur piece” from the start of the trail. Thirteen years ago, we opted for the water access and canoed for an hour and a half on Buck Lake from a tiny boat launch along Old Perth Road to reach the trail. On our most recent eff ort, we parked our car along Old Perth Road, followed a two-kilometre section of the Rideau Trail, and commenced our hike in lowland – once farmland between 1853 and 1940, we learned from literature. It all started coming back to me, even the red trilliums, right where I remembered seeing them in bloom ten years earlier.

It was a great way to warm up before the trail got really down and serious. It was near perfect weather – scattered clouds to keep temperatures tolerable, and a slight breeze to keep any black fl ies at bay. The lack of appreciable wind

allowed us to savour the wavering trill of toads, and the unmistakable songs from migrant pine, Nashville, and black-and-white warblers. The haunting fl ute-like notes from an invisible hermit thrush wafted in on the slight breeze from an adjacent wooded area.

Despite a precipitous climb, and slopes so steep it was necessary to lower ourselves in reverse, there was wildlife. We found two lime-colored smooth green snakes, one of which was cooperative enough for a close-up photo. A young water snake also crossed our path, as did a garter snake. What we didn’t see, we saw evidence of their passage. Deer, incredibly, walk these steep inclines, only scant inches from a sheer drop of a hundred feet or so. Squirrels, chipmunks – all were present in this unforgiving terrain, created more than a billion years ago on what is known as the Frontenac Arch. There were fl owers, too – both trillium species, spring beauties, and one of the earliest still blooming, the dandelion-like coltsfoot.

Slide Lake is neatly tucked in behind a narrow ridge of granite that separates it from the much larger Buck Lake. In earlier days, pioneers logged on this side of the Park, fl oating the logs across Slide Lake where they were shifted across the 25-metre rocky ridge. To get the logs into Buck Lake, Slide Lake had to be raised to fl oat the logs closer to the ridge where wooden rollers anchored securely into

the rock were used to coax the logs over the edge; hence, the name of Slide Lake. Some didn’t make it and these inadequately tethered logs sank where they remain to this day. Once in Buck Lake, the logs were boomed and fl oated to a sawmill on Mississauga Creek to be sawn.

In sharp contrast, the terrain where we came in from Perth Road and, subsequently concluded our hike, was once farmland, relatively fl at. After all these years, it had refused Nature’s attempts to naturalize it into forest. Meadow grasses still grow where ploughs once turned over the sod for crops as recently as 1940. In that time, an almost one-kilometre long lake, large enough to show up on Google Earth, was a farmer’s fi eld until abandoned in 1940, after which natural succession had taken over and produced a small forest. Beavers moved in about twenty years ago and fl ooded it to become the now treeless lake that it is today.

If planning to do this hike, take lots of water (we ran out with another three kilometres to go), good hiking boots, a walking stick or walking poles, and pack some Ibuprofen. You’ll likely need it!

For more information on birding and nature, check out the NatureStuff website at www.naturestuff .net. Terry Sprague lives in Prince Edward County and is self-employed as a professional interpretive naturalist.

Some easy terrain before the trail really gets rugged. Photo by Terry Sprague.

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The Earth needs YOU every day!By Joanne McAlpine, Yarker Colebrook and District Community Association

I am writing this article on a very cold day in February. I am home sick with a cold/fl u and it’s – 40 with the wind

chill I’m told, so what better thing to do than fantasize about spring. When I think about spring, I think about opening the windows, airing the house out, spring-cleaning, new life, and Earth Day.

This year in the Yarker-Colebrook area, the local Community Association (www.facebook.com/yarkercommunityassociation) has chosen Saturday, April 30 from 9:00 am – 12 noon as our Earth Day clean up.

Last year, a group of twelve volunteers did an amazing job, fi lling thirty-two large Township bags of garbage from alongside County Road 6 and the village streets. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to fi nish as far as Colebrook by noon. It was a very hot day and related afternoon activities had been planned.

As proud as we were of the great job we did, we all felt equally upset and discouraged about the amount of garbage

and debris thrown out of cars and along the roadside in our small community with seemingly little consideration for the impact. There were Tim Horton cups, beer bottles, plastic bags of dog poo, broken glass, Styrofoam containers, newsprint, and many unidentifi able things.

Imagine how many more bags we might have fi lled with more volunteers!

If you live in the Yarker-Colebrook area and would like to join in on the clean up, please contact me at [email protected] or just show up at 8:45 a.m. on April 30 at the Fire Station parking lot in the center of Yarker.

Can’t volunteer on April 30? That’s okay…more important that you support eff orts to keep the roads and streets clean of garbage and recyclable material all year round.

Simply keep a plastic bag or box in your car at all times and put your garbage and recyclables in that. Once fi lled, add it to

your weekly or regular drop off at your local landfi ll. The one I like the best is Camden Landfi ll located off County Rd. 4, between Camden East and Centreville. The workers there are so cheerful (even in lousy weather), funny, and helpful. They pitch right in, often assisting people in dumping their

garbage and recycling. It’s strange to say, but going to the dump is always a pleasant experience with them on hand to help.

Hope to see you on April 30, but if not, the Association expects, at the very least, a lot less garbage in future strewn about our community. Please use the landfi ll – that’s why it exists.

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Spring rescue By Lena Koch

Garfield, our orange cat, is napping in the sun. His eyes, however, are not completely closed, and he

blinks just slightly whenever something moves. He is getting into a hunting mood, watching for small critters like chipmunks and mice.

He is patient and has a lot of time. He is also lazy, because he has eaten too much all winter. Fat keeps you warm, and he has always eaten more than he should. But now, he is lured by the sun and his hunting instinct reappears.

A little head comes up from a nearby hole in the ground. Small beady eyes look eagerly back and forth to inspect the surroundings. A tiny chipmunk, no bigger than a field mouse, has left his mother and siblings to see what goes on in the big world above ground. He is still a baby and mama hasn’t yet noticed that her little one has run away. Curious it looks around. He recklessly jumps out of the hole, and begins to run playfully among the tree roots. He suddenly realizes that he has ventured too far from his protective home.

Panic overcomes the little creature and he calls for his mother with a soft chip-chip voice. Mama must probably still be busy feeding his siblings. So the little chipmunk freezes, helpless in an alien world.

His movements have not escaped the orange cat’s eyes. Garfield rises gently,

and with slow, graceful steps, he creeps towards our young chipmunk. A small jumping squirrel has been watching our cat too, and now witnesses the big orange beast approaching his baby cousin. The chipmunk, in his fear, scrambles up a tree. But our cat can climb trees too.

Mama has now noticed that one of her babies is missing. She sticks her head out of the hole and sees him up in the tree, with the cat coming closer. She seems to be debating on how to distract Garfield to bring her baby back to safety.

Our brave jumping squirrel decides that it is time to help. Half the size of his larger cousin, and only double the size of a chipmunk, he can jump with great leaps from tree to tree, further than his bigger cousins and faster too.

He jumps down his tree and runs right into the path of the cat, in the hope that Garfield will follow him. It works. The cat is distracted and tries to race after the squirrel. But the squirrel is much faster than the cat. Garfield’s winter fat slows him down.

The little runaway chipmunk sees his chance, and quickly gets back down to the safety of his hole where mama is waiting for him. I hope that he has learned his lesson and will first learn survival skills before his next adventure out in the world.

Take a deep breathBy Jordan Balson

For university and college students, exams are coming up. I know the topic of exams has been

approached repeatedly—do your best, don’t cram, get sleep, and all that jazz. But I think the real trick is to know what you’re capable of. Personally, I know that I can write an exam on very little sleep as long as I study enough; some people are the exact opposite.

You also need to know what to expect from yourself, and be reasonable there. You can’t get 100% in everything, no matter how hard you try— when I expect that, I know that I’m just being stubborn. Not everything will always be your best subject, and that’s okay, as long as you’re learning something that you’re interested in, and learning about yourself.

That being said, you also need to know when to get help, something I’m really bad at. I have a habit of being stubborn and assuming I can do everything by myself, including lots of extracurricular activities, and then I get lost and confused and I’m not sure what to do. If you reach out to those around you – whether it’s your supervisors, friends, family, or teachers – and ask for help, in whatever way they can provide it, you’ll find that everything becomes a lot easier.

Not all help will be directly academic; maybe it will just be letting you take a shift off to study, or maybe it will be listening to you when you’re upset; all of that can lead to an easier experience. You also need to help yourself, and know when you need to take a break to just get some “me time” or sleep, or just take a moment to destress—you’ll thank yourself later.

Finally (and this I think is the most important), you need to remember that one little bump in the road isn’t the end of the world. One bad mark, missed opportunity, or awful interview isn’t going to be the end of the road, there is still a long path to travel and your dreams are still very much in reach. But who knows, maybe you won’t stay on that road, and you’ll end up somewhere completely different. No matter where you end up, if you do what you’re passionate about, you’ll love it, maybe even more than your original plans.

So, as exam season approaches, don’t fret: just take a deep breath in and trust yourself.

Sunday driverBy John Sherbino

You’re sixteen or so and most likely male but maybe not. It’s any early morning winter weekend between

1960 and 1975. The air is cold, crisp, fresh and the newly fallen snow beckons.

Somehow you wangle the use of the family car – a manual rear-wheel drive of some description with three on the tree, probably with four doors or maybe – a station wagon, and with any luck, no snows. On your drive, you may pick up some friends or better yet ‘your date’ – it’s time to impress! And then you’re there; a beautiful and seemingly endless expanse of snow covered shopping mall parking lot.

These are the halcyon days before Sunday shopping and the litter of alphabetized light standards. There’s no need for the lot to be plowed so the gods have left it for you.

Driving slowly to a far corner you stop in neutral with the engine idling, roll down the window (no electrics here) and turn off the radio. You savour the chill, slowly engage the clutch – you don’t want tire slip – and carefully accelerate. At 30 mph – no metrics either – you crank the wheel over and take your foot off the gas. The rear tires break loose and you’re off!

The spin is slow at first but mass in motion can’t be denied and the world whips by; a kaleidoscope of buildings, clouds, distant trees, your laughing passenger and the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of air and tires. At sixteen, there is nothing like it!

And then as friction takes over, you ease the wheel back, straighten things out, slowly accelerate, hang an elbow out the window and bask in your passenger’s approval...

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Memories forged in FlintonBy Glenn Davison

I spent a lot of time with my grandfather Jack Davison at his garage in Flinton when I was knee high to a

grasshopper. My grandfather owned the blacksmith shop, which had been Alexander York’s garage and a blacksmith shop too. He worked as a blacksmith and mechanic, and I have fond memories of helping him in his shop. I would stand on a wooden box and crank the hand crank forge. He would heat up the steel and then he would use a hammer, the forge, and an anvil. He made horseshoes, his own nails, and many of the tools that he actually used. He showed me how to temper metal out of forged steel and how to weld before they had mig, tig, acetylene, stick welders and everything else. If you look very closely at an old wagon wheel today, you might see how it was welded by a blacksmith.

It seems hard to imagine how blacksmiths long ago were actually able to weld without all of today’s fancy technology and tools, but really, it was quite simple. My grandfather would take a piece of steel, put it in the coal-heated forge, crank it, and when the steel came out, it would be white hot, not red hot, white hot with sparks flying off it. Then he would hammer that piece until it was pencil thin, take the other piece and do

the same, sprinkle white boroxide powder on them, put the pieces back again on the anvil and pound them – and they would never come apart.

My grandfather’s anvil weighed about a hundred and fifty pounds and was made by a company in Toronto that made anvils and the forges that matched. Every part of an anvil has a purpose and my grandfather taught me what they are and showed me how to use them. The base of the anvil is totally different from its other parts. It’s the hardest part, and the end of the anvil is called the horn. That’s where he shaped all the horseshoes, rings, whippletrees and whatnot for horses. Then there is what you call the cutting table. The cutting table drops down from the face and is a little bit softer, and that’s where he would cut metal. All the hammering was done on the face, which is the hardest part of the anvil. There are two holes in an anvil. One hole is square and is called the Hardy hole. He would heat a little square piece until it was red hot, white-hot, put it on the Hardy hole, hit it with a hammer, cut it, and it would make a perfect cut. The other hole is called the pintel hole and was used for bending steel.

My father Earl joined my grandfather

when he was old enough to go to the garage. My grandfather taught him how to forge steel, in other words, how to temper and harden it. All of the steel that drilled the rock cut going off Highway 41 onto Highway 7 at Kaladar was forged and hardened by my father for hand drilling. There’s a special way to do it. He would put coal in a great big pot until it got red hot. This steel had a hollow centre so that the chipped stone would come up the hollow centre. He would sharpen the steel and temper it and in tempering, it showed all different colours. He taught me, so I can temper metal too. He would then pound and twist, pound and twist, and finally drill the holes for the dynamite that blew out the rock cut near where Arnold York’s store used to be, years and years ago.

The unbeatable price of freeBy Barbara Roch

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”

So nutrient dense, they leave others in the dust, “weeds” are often overlooked and even despised.

Vitamin for vitamin, mineral for mineral, native plants are often superior foods to the vegetables we may grow, simply because they are uniquely suited to their soil and environment. Transplants from elsewhere, seeds, saplings or shoots are, well alien, often requiring fertilizer. Sometimes, in other countries, our weeds are their prized, cultivated delectables.

Learn to identify edible weeds from reliable sources (guides, books, decent online info). When you go to weed your vegetables or flower beds, you can eat the edible ones on the spot, cook ‘em up, preserve in various ways, or freeze for winter use. Here’s a new line of work for enterprising folks – whether single or in groups: approach the farmer or market gardener before herbicidal application,

do the weeding, and eat, process, or sell the “goods” at farmers markets or to chefs. Profitable, healthy, and altruistic (consider the herbicidal impacts). Farmers: put up a sign: FREE WEEDS – U Pick ‘Em.

How less labour intensive it is simply to forage, in woods, hedges, fields, by quiet unsprayed roadsides, and clean streams. Imagine the thrill of the treasure hunt whether solo or with family or friends, while getting exercise, oxygenating, and relieving stress out in nature. Observe closely and watch plants growing throughout the year (most easily identifiable when flowering or in seed), to know which to harvest young in spring – and their roots. This is true 100 mile eating, no dependence on fuel for transportation. It’s also a way of dealing with invasive plants – if you can’t beat them, eat them. Be 110% sure. When trying any new food, try a tiny amount first and wait in case of an allergic reaction; also take into account any medical conditions and medications. Be safe and sustainable (take only a little or

none where sparse). Eating from nature is enjoyable, popular, and provides nutrient, color, and interest. Chefs everywhere are experimenting and so can you.

My interest has been lifelong, beginning with my European background. Giving foraging tours and “wild” gourmet meals brings me pleasure in sharing the wealth and fun with you. There’s one inside “foraging study group and soup by the fire” scheduled for April 9. Outdoor tours in the region start soon, meals as well, and an “Edible Flower” event takes place on Mother’s Day (a family affair?) Space is limited: please call me at 613.354.7503 or email [email protected] Happy spring!

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Cloyne District Historical Society

Coming EvEnts

Monday, April 18 at 1 p.m. Barrie Hall in Cloyne

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Saturday, May 21 at 9 a.m. mammoth garage sale

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Monday, May 23 at 1 p.m. Barrie Hall, norm Ruttan brings

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Saturday June 18, at 11 a.m. Cloyne Pioneer museum opens for the season with a BBQ and Pickled Chicken stringed band(bring lawn

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Superhero strengthBy Grace Smith

Here we go again, on the cusp of a year packed full of superhero movies. We’ve already seen

Deadpool’s merc with a mouth hit theatres in February to enormous success and there are plenty more to come.

Superhero fl icks have always moved me. The idea of one person or group of people risking themselves to help others has always caught my attention. I just can’t help but be romantic about it.

And we have some big guns hitting theatres this year. In March, we saw Superman and Batman battle it out. Superman has always stood for justice and he has the super juice to carry out those ideals. Batman also fi ghts for justice but has the use of his tech and billionaire bucks.

We’ll also see a large portion of Marvel’s cinematic heroes appear in Captain America: Civil War. Among those featured will be the war hero himself, as well as Iron Man, Black Widow, Ant Man, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, and Spiderman. Again, these heroes will be duking it out, each fi ghting for what they believe is right.

May will also bring X-Men: Apocalypse, the last in the new prequel trilogy. In it, we’ll see the team of hero mutants face off against their greatest enemy yet.

Later this year, DC’s darkest superhero band will hit the big screen in Suicide Squad and Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the title role in Doctor Strange.

Superhero movies have always been

blockbusters. People of all types fl ock to theatres to take in the extraordinary acts of these sometimes apparently ordinary people. Some might argue that it’s because of our desire to see good triumph, to watch justice prevail, or to witness some kindness in the world. But it just might be more than that.

It’s about being strong anyway you know how. We see heroes of all shapes and sizes realize the ways in which they can do good. Whether it’s Thor’s hammer, Captain America’s sense of justice, Black Widow’s physical abilities, we all have strength within us. And it’s about using that strength to stand up for what we believe in.

In a world where we may not like what we see, this is an especially important lesson to learn. We need to know that we can always stand up for our beliefs and that, most importantly, we have the strength to do so.

If we see a wrong in this world, we need to do something about it. We need to channel our inner superheroes and face the issues head on. Whether it’s climate change, racism, women’s rights, or any other injustices occurring in this world, we need to stand strong.

And maybe for once the superheroes will take a page out of our books.

L&A County Library programs & eventsAprilAmherstviewTech Talks – Monday – Thursday by appt.PuppyTales – Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m.The Learning Circle – Fridays @ 10:30 a.m.Maker Club – Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m.Book Club – April 21 @ 2:00 p.m.

BathMaker Club – Wednesdays @ 6:30 p.m.

Camden EastStorytime – Mondays @ 10:30 a.m.

NapaneeTech Talks – Monday – Thursday by appt.PuppyTales – Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m.The Learning Circle – Thursdays @ 10:30 a.m.Maker Club – Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m.Book Club –April 18 @ 2 p.m.

South FredericksburghMaker Club – Thursdays @ 6:30 p.m.

YarkerMaker Club – Tuesdays @ 6:30 p.m.Book Club – April 18 @ 6:30 p.m.

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Memoir Monday: Join us on Monday, April 25 @ 7:00 p.m. at our Amherstview Branch Library for a presentation by Millie Morton, author of Grace: A teacher’s life, one-room schools, and a century of change in Ontario. The author, a sociologist raised in Stirling, Ontario, chronicles the life of her remarkable schoolteacher mother.

MayAmherstviewTech Talks – Monday – Thursday by appt.PuppyTales – Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m.The Learning Circle – Fridays @ 10:30 a.m.Maker Club – Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m.Book Club – May 19 @ 2:00 p.m.

BathMaker Club – Wednesdays @ 6:30 p.m.

Camden EastStorytime – Mondays @ 10 a.m.

NapaneeTech Talks – Monday – Thursday by appt.Computer Classes – Mondays @ 10:30 a.m. registration is required at 613.354.2525PuppyTales – Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m.The Learning Circle – Thursdays @ 10:30 a.m.Maker Club – Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m.Book Club – May 16 @ 2:00 p.m.

South FredericksburghMaker Club – Thursdays @ 6:30 p.m.

YarkerMaker Club – Tuesdays @ 6:30 p.m.Book Club – May 18 @ 2:00 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Craft Works (A Maker Club for Adults): This program will include an Altered Book Craft, Lego Creations and Colouring, and will take place May 24 @ 10:30 a.m. Amherstview Branch, May 24 @ 6:30 p.m. Napanee Branch, and May 26 @ 1:00 p.m. Tamworth Branch. Registration is required 1 week prior to the event: phone Patricia at 613.354.4883 ext.3510 or email [email protected]

2nd Annual Local Author Showcase and Big Book Sale: Saturday May 28, 9 a.m. to noon at the Napanee Branch. All are welcome.

Check out www.countylibrary.ca for more information and additional programs.

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