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GARDEN OF HOPERiverside Park’s new garden

of hope will be a blooming suc-cess come next spring.

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SERIES FINALEThe three-part special feature

investigating suicide wraps up in this edition with some tips on where to go for help.

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STATION RENAMEDThe Brian J. Gallagher station

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LEADING THE PACK FOR AWARENESSAden Gilmour, 7, leads the way during the potato sack races at the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre Family Fun Day at Fulton’s Pancake House Sunday. The fun day, designed to raise awareness of the centre’s commitment to youth struggling with substance abuse, was celebrated with family activities, nature experiences and plenty of food.

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CARLETON PLACE – Louis Antonakos may have been feel-ing the love, but he certainly wasn’t feeling the passion last week.

“I am not hearing the pas-sion,” said Antonakos, a Car-leton Place town councillor and a member of the board of direc-tors of the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital, as he directly asked the four pro-vincial candidates in Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Add-ington if they would endorse the recently-started campaign to provide his town with a new hospital.

“I am disappointed … I real-ize that you cannot promise us a hospital.”

“When I stand up, you’ll hear the passion,” said incumbent Progressive Conservative Ran-

dy Hillier, during the debate at the Arklan Community Public School Sept. 21. Hillier said he had various tools at his disposal to attract attention to the issue that could move it forward. He pointed out a brain injury facil-ity had been promised in Napa-nee, in the far southwest corner of his riding, for the past 19 years.

“There are two things that prompt Liberals to action,” said Hillier. “Votes and embarrass-ment … (and) the Liberals are media shy.”

During one meeting about the brain injury clinic, Hillier invit-ed a reporter from the Toronto Star to sit in on the meeting, and a story was later published on the issue. “We got a decision from the LHIN, fi nally, but only after we embarrassed them,” said Hillier.

See ‘CANDIDATES’ PAGE 3

New hospital put in forefront at debate

Where is the passion?

Plenty of coverage to help voters be informedWith one week to go before

decision day for provincial can-didates, the Canadian Gazette provides plenty of pre-election coverage in this edition.

Included are profi les of Car-

leton-Mississippi Mills candi-dates, reports from two all-can-didates meetings in Carleton Place and a comparison of the main parties’ platforms. See it all on pages 4 and 12 to 17.

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Football kicks off in Lanark; Notre Dame plays fi rst ever senior game

Above and below photos by Katie Mulligan

Top, senior Carleton Place High School Bears players tackle Dischaine Thompson of the Smiths Falls and District Collegiate Institute Senior RedHawks during their evening game at Beckwith Park Sept. 22.

Below, Carleton Place High School Junior Bears player Jamie McNaughton passes the ball to Brendon McMunn during a game against the Smiths Falls and Collegiate Insti-tute RedHawks at Beckwith Park. Despite an improved second half for the Bears, the RedHawks came out on top, winning 42-8.

Teams from local high schools launched into their football season last Thursday – including Notre Dame’s senior team, for the very fi rst time.

Notre Dame’s seniors fell to Perth, 27-7 in their

historic opener, with the junior team also losing to Perth by a 18-0 score.

Carleton Place lost to Smiths Falls 38-0 in the se-nior division, and 42-8 in the junior division.

Almonte tied St. John’s

22-22 in the senior league, and lost to Arnprior 20-12 in the junior league.

Wes Mann of Almonte is leading the Carleton Place and Mississippi Mills area with points, with 12 on the record.

Above and below photos by Jason Marshall

Above, the Almonte Thunderbolts junior team took on Arnprior last Friday. Below, Notre Dame took the home fi eld for their fi rst ever game as a senior team.

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THE TOWNSHIP OF LANARK HIGHLANDS MUNICIPAL MATTERS

613-259-2398 or 1-800-239-4695 www.lanarkhighlands.caCouncil Council Meeting Schedule:Meeting Schedule:Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 2:30 p.m. Committee of the WholeTuesday, Oct. 25 at 2:30 p.m. Committee of the WholeThursday, Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m. Council

NOTICE OF FIRE BAN No open air burning is permitted in the Township of Lanark Highlands. The Fire ban will remain in effect due to dry conditions and low water levels. Fire permits will not be issued during a Fire Ban. The discharge of fi reworks is prohibited during a Fire Ban. Please consult the Townships website at www.lanarkhighlands.ca for updates or contact the municipal offi ce at 613-259-2398 ext 500 for a recorded message. Should you have any immediate concerns, please contact the municipal offi ce at 613-259-2398.

ALL LANARK HIGHLANDS WASTE DISPOSAL SITES

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effective Thursday, September 15, 2011.The full waste site schedule is printed in the Highland Voice. It is also available at www.lanarkhighlands.ca/Services/WasteManagement.php

LANARK & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE:

• The ice surface is available for daytime ice rentals weekdays from early October to the end of March. Possibilities include: Seniors Skating and Moms/Dads & Tots skating.• Public Skating at the Community Centre is on Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and on Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Skate sharpening available during hours of operation.

For more information, contact Terry Donaldson, Arena Manager at 613-259-3345 or 613-250-0730.

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Continued from front“Unfortunately, that’s how

this government is operating … They don’t care much about the Carleton Place Canadian, but they care about the Toronto Star.”

Representatives of the other parties, however, used the op-portunity to attack the record of previous P.C. governments.

“I really fi nd it diffi cult to ac-cept Randy’s position,” said Lib-eral candidate Bill MacDonald. “The Liberal party is a party that builds hospitals. The Tory party closes them … I will work as hard as I can on this issue.”

“Randy, you’re right,” said New Democratic Party candi-date David Parkhill. “The sys-tem is broken, and your party broke it.”

Two of Parkhill’s sons are au-tistic, and he told the audience that he has had to fi ght long and hard to get his children the care they need.

“I tell you for sure, and I be-lieve this, I have the mediation skills, and I can sit down with anyone,” said Parkhill. “I may not like you … but we can fi nd a way to make our interests meet.”

Green Party candidate Nancy Matte noted that it took her and her husband at least three years to build their home in Beckwith Township and that she did not know how long a hospital would take to build, but she did not doubt the need for one.

“We need this,” said Matte. “We need to have the health care close to home … I wouldn’t give up with my kids and I wouldn’t give up with this. We need to be little bulldogs (on this).”

One of Antonakos’ council-mates kept the questions to the candidates at the debate focused on the new hospital campaign. “It’s the number one communi-ty priority,” said Mayor Wendy LeBlanc, in a written question to the candidates. “We need, want, deserve a new hospital.”

Hillier noted he has met with the CPDMH board since he was fi rst elected in October 2007. “I recognize … there is a distinct and defi nite need for a hospital,” said Hillier. “I’ve encouraged the board to be more assertive … (and) make more public aware-

ness.” Hillier alleged Premier Dalton

McGuinty “changed the rules,” halfway through the process, so that proposals for new hospitals would no longer be dealt with through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, but rather

through Local Health Integra-tion Networks, which Hillier’s party has promised to scrap.

“They (Progressive Conserva-tives) closed 28 hospitals in On-tario,” said MacDonald. “They’re on record as saying they want to eliminate the LHINs and take de-cision making back to Toronto.”

MacDonald pointed out for-mer premier Mike Harris prom-ised not to cut health care or close hospitals in 1995, and then did just that once in offi ce.

“We have to keep the LHINs. You’re at the front of the pile,” said MacDonald. “You would have to go through the whole process again” to get a new hos-pital if the LHINs were elimi-nated.

MacDonald also charged Hill-ier voted against improvements to the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital’s Smiths Falls campus. Hillier denied this, but MacDonald said that by voting against the provincial budget,

he had done just that. “The LHINs are not responsive

to the community,” said Parkh-ill. “The government needs to man up.”

Matte agreed with Parkhill that the LHINs can be unrespon-sive.

“I tried to call the LHIN,” said Matte. “I found out that I can’t get much information from the LHIN.”

But Matte also commended Carleton Place for taking own-ership of their local health care fi ght. “I’ve never seen a commu-nity more involved in its health care,” she said.

The topic of the new hospital later spilled over into a discus-sion on taxes.

“Who here wants a new hos-pital?” asked Parkhill, raising his hand as many hands shot up into the air of the school gymna-sium.

“Who’s going to pay for it? Taxes.”

Candidates hear need for new CP hospital loud and clear

Photo by Desmond Devoy

Kathy Seguin of People First of Lanark County, right, accepts some ma-terial from Carleton Place Mayor Wendy LeBlanc on Sept. 21, promot-ing the reasons behind the town’s campaign for a new hospital.

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THE ISSUES

• Deliver the business risk management program to help farmers

• Implement a ‘buy Ontario’ food policy for schools and hospitals

RURAL AFFAIRS

• Fund planned expansion of the risk management program to include cattle, sheep, pork and veal, and horticulture

• Forgive student debt for doctors who practice in under-serviced communities

• Reward farmers for stewardship practices that provide benefi ts such as clean water, habitat preservation and carbon storage

• Improve income stabilization programs so they are accessible, cover more products and don’t penalize farmers who have a bad year

• Make the Eastern Ontario development fund permanent

• Provide a one-window approach for farmers in their dealings with the government

• Reform health care delivery to ensure access by re-prioritizing funding

• Improve care available to seniors: better home care options, transitional care, assisted living and long-term care and create case managers at the family clinic level

HEALTH CARE

• Cut emergency wait times in half, scrap the LHINs, reduce fees

• Invest more in frontline care by capping hospital CEO pay and reducing money spent on consultants

• Double the caregiver tax credit

• Scrap the LHINs

• Increase health spending by $6 billion during fi rst term in offi ce

• Expand long term care by adding 5,000 new beds

• Create a family caregiver leave program, allowing up to eight weeks of job-protected time away

• Double the children’s activity tax credit to $100 per child

• Doubling the length of bachelor of education programs

• Make the 30 per cent tuition grants available to lower income

students available to the middle class as well

EDUCATION

• Freeze tuition for 2012-2013 while maintaining university and college budgets; index tuition increases to rate of infl ation from 2013-2015

• Increase spending on K-12 by $2 billion by end of fi rst term, root out waste

• Create 200,000 apprenticeship spaces over four years

• Reduce school reliance on parent fees and fundraising by setting aside $20 million per year to be allocated to parent councils as a per capita grant

• Eliminate interest on the provincial portion of student loans

• Allow families to reduce taxable income through income sharing

• Lower income taxes by fi ve per cent on the fi rst $75,000 of taxable income

ECONOMY/TAXES

• Lower income taxes on families and local businesses

• Expand training, certifi cation programs in green building, biomedical technology, renewable energy and sustainable transportation sectors

• Remove HST from gasoline by one percentage point per year

• Will make the temporary input tax credit restrictions permanent,

meaning corporations won’t be allowed to write off taxes on expenses like entertainment and dining

• Eliminate the defi cit by 2017-2018 fi scal year

• Create incentives to help triple the number of successful start-up companies in the next fi ve years• Remove the HST from hydro,

home heating bills

• End mandatory time-of-use electricity pricing

ENERGY

• Reinstate and expand the home energy savings program

• Require local participation in energy projects, support small-scale and community based projects

• Remove the HST from electricity, home heating bills

• Offer rebates of up to $5,000 for energy effi cient home retrofi ts

• Replace all coal-fi red power plants with clean energy in three years

• Continue feed-in tariff program to increase amount of electricity generated by renewable sources

Green Party

Liberal Party

New Democratic Party

Progressive Conservative Party

How do each of the four major parties fi elding candidates inthe Oct. 6 election stack up on some of the big issues facing Ontario? Here’s a snapshot of what the Green, Liberal, New Democratic and Progressive Conservative platforms have to offer.

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Municipal MattersThursday, September 29, 2011

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Municipal Offi ce:3131 Old Perth Road, RR #2

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Phone 613-256-2064 Fax 613-256-4887

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Oct. 3 COW at 6:30 p.m.Oct. 3 Council at 7 p.m.Oct. 4 Recreation & Culture at 7 p.m.Oct. 6 Water & Sewer at 5 p.m. Meeting at Fire Hall, Station 1Oct. 6 Roads and Public Works at 6 p.m., Meeting at Fire Hall, Station 1

OCTOBER 1 TASTE OF THE ARTS

A cultural potluck hosted by the Arts and Cultural Advisory Committee and the Town of Mississippi Mills. From 6:30 to 10 p.m. Almonte Old Town Hall. For more information, contact Nicole at 613-256-1077.

OCTOBER 1OPEN HOUSE

Come and explore the Almonte Old Town Hall. Doors to this historic gem will be open to the public from 3 p.m to 6 p.m.

NOTICEWATER MAIN FLUSHING –

ALMONTE WARDOctober 3 – October 27, 2011

The Corporation of the Town of Mississippi Mills will be fl ushing the water mains in all areas of Almonte Ward beginning Monday, October 3, 2011 to Thursday, October 27, 2011, during the hours of 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. (excluding weekends). We appreciate your patience while this work is being completed and if you would like more information, please call the Roads & Public Works Department at 613-256-2064 and speak to Rod Cameron, ext. 232 or Cindy Hartwick ext. 258.

NOTICE The last day of operation on Wednesdays will be on October 26, 2011. The Landfi ll Site will continue to be open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Watch in the Spring for the re-opening of the Landfi ll Site on Wednesdays. If you have any questions please contact Cindy Hartwick at 613-256-2064 ext. 258

MUNICIPAL WATER TESTING

The Town and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) are conducting a door-to-door campaign to obtain water samples throughout the Almonte Ward for lead testing in the drinking water system. The lead sampling program is mandated to all water systems within the province under Ontario Regulation 170/03. OCWA and Town personnel will be canvassing select neighborhoods to obtain the pre-requisite number of random samples from September 26, 2011 to October 15, 2011. Please note that all sampling personnel from the Town and the Ontario Clean Water Agency will be clearly identifi ed with photo identifi cation. This program is completed at no cost to the homeowner and the results will be shared with all participants. If you should have any questions concerning the program, please contact

W. Troy Dunlop, Director of Roads and Public Works at 613-256-2064 Ext. 233.

HELP WANTED Bartender for community events at the Stewart Community Centre

in Pakenham (part-time) Resumes can be e-mailed to Calvin Murphy (Recreation Coordinator) at the following address [email protected] or submitted to the following mailing address on or before Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 4 p.m. to: Mississippi Mills Municipal Offi ce 3131 Old Perh Road, RR #2 Almonte, ON K0A 1A0

SENIOR SHUFFLEBOARD AND

CARPET BOWLING AT THE ALMONTE

COMMUNITY CENTRE The 2011-2012 Senior Shuffl eboard and Carpet Bowling season will be starting in early October. Interested participants for the Senior Shuffl eboard or Senior Carpet Bowling program should contact Marilyn Snedden at 613- 256-3130.

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OF THE CROP

Competitors vied for one of several spots to represent Almonte or Carleton Place in the My Town’s Got Talent com-petition, to be held at the Almonte and District High School at 7 p.m. on Sat-urday, Oct. 22, during auditions at the Carleton Place High School on Wednes-day, Sept. 21. The competition, spon-sored by the Valley Players of Almonte, is a fundraiser for the United Way of Lanark County.

Left, Joe Candy of Beckwith Township played the Simon and Garfunkel stan-dard, based on a traditional English folk song, ‘Scarborough Fair’.

Right, singer/musician Jessica Hogan of Carleton Place was one of three fi nal-ists chosen to represent her home town at the competition.

Photos by Desmond Devoy

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CARLETON PLACE – Get ready for a big burst of yellow next spring.

They’re just bulbs now, but thanks to the handiwork of doz-ens of volunteers, and more than 130 school children from Caldwell Street Public and St. Mary’s

Catholic Elementary schools in Carleton Place, a whole patch of Riverside Park will boast a big burst of yellow, as a way of re-membering those who fought, or are fi ghting, cancer, and those who love them.

“Can you imagine what this will look like next spring?” asked Carleton Place Mayor Wendy LeBlanc as she looked out over

the dug-up rows of earth in which legions of volunteers had spent the morning of Saturday, Sept. 24 placing daffodil bulbs. “You’re beautifying our community.”

LeBlanc noted that many of the people present had a personal stake in the fi ght against cancer.

“It is a sign of hope,” LeBlanc said of the daffodils. “We know that we put them in the ground, with the hope that they will come up perfect.”

LeBlanc thanked the Garden of Hope organizing committee chair Debbie Lytle for her hard work.

“You are a true inspiration to our community,” said LeBlanc. Lytle, in turn, thanked her com-mittee, without whom, she said, the garden would not have been possible. More than 2,000 bulbs were planted by the school chil-dren, and 2,000 by the adult vol-unteers.

“We are doing something spe-cial for the community,” said LeBlanc.

The sale of daffodil bulbs and fl owers ended up raising $2,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, which was music to the ears of Thora Pugh, president of the La-nark, Leeds and Grenville unit of

the society. “This is a very special initia-

tive,” said Pugh. “You people are to be commended for the effort. You do it to remember and hon-our those who have fought can-cer, or are fi ghting it now.”

Pugh noted the money raised from the initiative would stay in the community. Pugh noted the $30 million raised Canada-wide

last year for research goes to only the top minds in cancer re-search.

“We pick the very best research-ers to do the job,” said Pugh. She attended a cancer conference, and a doctor from Alabama was amazed at the process the cancer society goes through to vet re-searchers.

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Garden of Hope set to bloom to remember cancer fi ghtDaffodil sales raised more than $2,000 for Cancer Society

Photos by Desmond Devoy

Janan Steward and Landon Filion, both 10, help plant daffodil bulbs in Riverside Park.

It may be election season, but Carleton Place town Coun. Jerry Flynn gets busy with muck-raking of a good kind, covering up the daffodil bulbs with soil to begin the growing process.


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Carleton Place CanadiansWal-MartCCWG Livestock Supplies and EquestrianCenter Lee – Ann GurantOttawa SenatorsBennett ChevroletKott LumberMalborough PubDonna Hair DesignCP MarineThe Thirsty MooseApple Hill TowingAccountapotomousSteve’s Independent GrocerTunes by TimReal Wool GrowersHastie Mechanical Rivera Living – Darlene PerieraMcEwen’s Gas Bar – CP

Ian McNeelyStone Ridge ManorPenny Herns – Tim Horton’s StittsvilleTimothy’s Coff eeArbonne – Colleen MunroAll Purpose TowingMike Drummond Home RepairsCarleton Place Puck MenThe CP Civitan ClubOtis ElevatorsFairview ManorAlmonte General HospitalArklan Community Public SchoolThe Canadian Gazette

And Many More…Thanks from the bottom of our hearts,

The Devlins

The Benefi t Dance for Dylan Devlin and FamilySpecial thank-you to Kim Drummond, Cathy Lackey, Mary Ann Morrow, Johney Spinks, Jack Donovan, Arlene Quin, The Brad Scott Band, Chris Metcalf, Jamie McMunn, The Clayton Cedar Band and Andy Bowes.

We would also like to thank the following businesses for their generous donations:

Johney Spinks and Andy Bowes Stuart Vandervart, Canadian Tire. Winner of kayak Rick Shnaufer with

Tammy Devlin (Dylan’s mom)

A friend with wings, Kim Drummond with Tammy Devlin

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Continued from Page 6“We have nothing like this in

the U.S. to screen our research-ers,” the American doctor told Pugh.

While a cancer diagnosis can be scary, Pugh noted things are improving, as there is a sur-

vival rate of 83 per cent for chil-dren with cancer.

For dog walkers, children and others walking by this com-ing spring, the garden will be a beautiful reminder, she said.

“It will lift them, I know, but it will remind them that we are

striving to eliminate cancer,” said Pugh.

Pugh’s own family has had its own battles with cancer. One of her daughters died at age 39 of breast cancer, while her second daughter was diagnosed with it three years later.

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CARLETON PLACE – There is an old English saying that those who plant trees care about the generations that will come afterwards.

On National Tree Day last Wednesday, Sept. 21, a large group of forward-thinkers, better known as the Urban For-est/River Corridor Advisory Committee, got together to pay forward a gift to the next gen-eration by planting a pin oak near the baseball diamonds be-side the Carleton Place arena.

“It was formed as a response to the damage we received dur-ing the ice storm (of 1998),” said Carleton Place Mayor Wendy LeBlanc.

Dena Comley, who sits on the committee, as well as the Carleton Place environmen-tal advisory committee, noted the town serves as a green ex-ample to other communities, and environmental studies students from the University of Toronto too.

“They come to Carleton Place every year (to see) an example of what a small town can do (with its trees),” said Comley.

But she and her committee could not do it alone.

“It was the support of the town staff which is what made it happen,” said Comley. The tree itself was donated by the Carleton Place Nursery, at a cost of about $300.

“This town has a pretty

awesome program of replac-ing any tree that falls on town property,” added Comley.

Lisa Young, the town’s direc-tor of planning and develop-ment, noted keeping as many trees as possible on a property during development is a prior-ity for the town.

“When we look at develop-ment … those are thing we are looking at,” said Young.

For Comley though, the tim-ing synced up perfectly with a tree-planting need in the com-munity.

“This was a tree that needed to be replaced,” said Comley. “We thought National Tree Day was something that need-ed to be recognized. We got the full co-operation from council and staff.”

Home run for new baseball diamond tree


Carleton Place celebrated National Tree Day at the arena’s baseball dia-monds with the planting of a pin oak on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Celebrat-ing at the planting ceremony were, from left, Coun. Gary Strike, Joanne Henderson, Dena Comley, Abigale McIntyre, Gerry Andrews, Kate Col-lins, Deputy Mayor Ed Sonnenburg, Mayor Wendy LeBlanc, Lisa Young, Janet McGinnis, and Debbie Lytle.

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EDITORIAL

The Canadian Gazette welcomes letters to the editor. Senders must include their full name, complete address and a contact phone number. Addresses and phone numbers will not be published. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and content, both in print and online at www.yourottawaregion.com. To submit a letter to the editor, please email to [email protected] or [email protected], fax to 613-257-7373 or mail to The Canadian Ga-zette, 53 Bridge St., Carleton Place, ON, K7C 2V2.

Editorial Policy

Tight race clouds new hospital debate

COLUMN

To the Editor:The following comments were pre-

sented to the Chamber of Commerce for submission to the our Provincial Conservative candidate at the All-Can-didates meeting in Carleton Place, but were not presented, as the Chamber moderator felt that they were already discussed.

I disagree. While the topic did come up for discussion more than once, these questions were not addressed. Our health care administration is, and should be, our number one priority dur-ing this election.

The locally represented Champlain Integrated Health Network (LHIN) has some shortcomings, as I have noted in various letters to the Editor over the past years. However, dismantling this organization and moving it to Toronto is not the way to proceed.

I cannot understand why our local po-

litical representative feels that decisions being made in Toronto would serve this area better than decisions made in this region. We do have diffi culties in dealing with a regional board, but we would be further lost in the shuffl e dealing with a beauocracy allocating funds for all of Ontario.

What will happen to the employees of the LHINs spread all across Ontario?

Will they be absorbed into the pro-posed new outfi t in Toronto, or fi red?

If Ontario follows it previous pat-terns, there will be no layoffs, just shuf-fl es. Health care administration costs will go up again! More health care dol-lars spent, less services delivered.

What will be the cost of setting up the new health care administration organi-zation? If Ontario follows its previous patterns, we will be need a new

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Don’t centralize health care decisions in Toronto

Carleton Place needs, wants, deserves a new hospital.

Whether we’ll get it is another matter. The candidates at last week’s all-candidates de-

bate at the Arklan Community Public School in Carleton Place heard loud and clear last week that, with Carleton Place and Beckwith growing by leaps and bounds population and space wise, our depend-able old Memorial Hospital simply can’t keep up with our anticipated demand.

New Democratic Party candidate David Parkhill admitted as such when he said that Carleton Place appeared to be the only place in the riding that ap-peared to be booming.

It is encouraging that no candidate came out in opposition to the hospital. Progressive Conserva-tive Randy Hillier even donned one of the purple scarves being handed out to pro-hospitalites.

The Almonte General Hospital and Queensway-Carleton hospitals certainly may be jealous to see Carleton Place getting a new hospital. People living in Ottawa’s west end may wonder why people in a “small” town such as Carleton Place is entitled to two hospitals, when the AGH is a short drive away.

We are already lucky to have these two hospitals, as well as the hospitals in Perth and Arnprior, all under an hour’s drive away.

We also need to be mindful that if P.C. leader Tim Hudak becomes premier on Oct. 6 he may carry through on a promise he made in Perth this time last year to eliminate the Local Health Integration Networks. After Carleton Place’s proposal for a new hospital wormed its way through the labyrinth bureaucracy of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the rules were changed and our town was told that it would have to go through the Cham-plain LHIN instead. If the LHINs are dismantled, the decision will again be punted down Highway 401 to Toronto and the clock is re-set again.

While we appreciate the efforts of Coun. Louis Antonakos for bringing some much needed passion to this debate, and while we need to get this in front of all of the candidates in case there is a surprise come Oct. 6, we still need to be mindful that this will take a long time, and that we also need to see where the chips fall the morning after the election.

At least the campaign has started to undo the damage done by the rumour going around that the current Carleton Place hospital will be shut down. It will stay, and will instead have a sister.

Send a Looneyto Queen’s Park!

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I well remember the greatest MPP Ontario never had.

He goes by the name John Loo-ney, and had he won in Etobicoke-Lakeshore, back in ’03, I know he would have changed the face of politics in this province.

None of this partisan advertis-ing or mudslinging.

Just invite Dalton, Tim and An-drea down to the Galway Arms in Toronto’s west end over a pint.

In 2003, juggling both English assignments at York University and writing duties at the Toronto Irish News, I came across what I considered to be a wonderful idea.

Back then, there was an Irish-Canadian version of the Tea Par-ty – minus the radical right wing rhetoric and misspelled banners.

Guinness had a great advertis-ing campaign called the Guinness Party of Canada, which sought to make St. Patrick’s Day a national holiday. I was most certainly on board.

But as then-Premier Ernie Eves prepared to drop the writ for early October, I thought to my-self, why not take things one step further? If the big oil companies were bankrolling the Conserva-tives, and if Montreal’s Power Corporation was doing the same for the Liberals, and the unions with the NDP, why not actually have a corporation run as a po-litical party? Better yet, it was a brewing company, so what’s not to love?

One night at the Galway Arms on the Queensway, I looked across the bar at Mr. Looney, a proud na-tive of County Kerry and part two of my plan clicked into place. Why not run Mr. Looney as our Guinness Party candidate? And we’d have the perfect slogan – Send A Looney To Queen’s Park!

Sure, we’d use the Galway Arms as the campaign headquar-ters. Yes, he’d be a one-issue can-didate, but then one-issue candi-dates are elected in Ireland all the time – Save the Tyrone Hospital!

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Continued from page 8I asked my boss, Eamonn,

if he could see if Guinness wouldn’t mind footing the bill for some of the legal costs – registering, getting on the bal-lot, etc. – but I would take care of everything else. Sadly, the answer came back that, legally, the company could not indulge in such antics.

But I found out that Mr. Loo-ney was more than willing to put his name forward, had he been asked.

We still have a great laugh about it even now whenever I visit my old haunt, but with the 2011 race entering its last week, I remember the campaign that could have been as a great ex-ample of how politics can be,

by putting the party back in to party politics.

Or, as a Quebec New Demo-crat I once met in Vanier put it of his own party: “We need to put the social back into Social-ist.”

That was before the Orange Crush this past May – now he probably has plenty to cel-ebrate.

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the LHIN’s into anything existing.While what we have now is not

perfect, some hard work and po-litical pressure on the Champlain LHIN will serve us better than moving everything to Toronto.

If our MPP really wants to help, he needs to get together with the

other MPPs from the Champlain region, and make sure that we get the health care services that we deserve.

If health care services cannot be better served from a regional board, what chance do what have in Toronto?

Doug SmithCarleton Place

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Re: Four-way stop sign in Appleton, and Coun. Val Wilkinson’s disappointing handling of the matter.

Dear Mayor Levi and Members of Council:

Our Councillor Val Wilkinson attended a meeting that included a vote concerning the above-mentioned four-way stop. A few constituents were told by Wilkinson that she would inform them of the decision made at this meeting, but the residents

found out through the Ca-nadian Gazette.

In this article, (“Petition aims to eliminate four-way stop in Appleton,” Sept. 15), it was stated that that stop sign was requested by “one individual.”

That does not sit right with us. One individual requests a four-way stop and gets what they want, yet a petition with about 100 signatures, signed by honest Appleton residents who do not want this stop sign, gets nowhere with our councillor.

My husband, Aubrey Thompson, has been a transport driver for many years and in his travels across this country and the United States he has never

come across a stop sign at the end of a bridge.

People are not stopping for this stop sign and some-one will either be killed or badly hurt.

Irene Robertson-Thompson, Appleton

(Editor’s Note: The four-way stop in Appleton will be discussed at a meeting of Lanark County Coun-cil’s public works commit-tee in Perth on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. in the council chambers. Also, an information session on the four-way stop will be held at the North Lanark Re-gional Museum, 647 River Rd., Appleton, on Thurs-day, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.)

Appleton resident Lonny Lytle sent the follow-ing letter to Mississippi Mills Mayor John Levi and members of town council. A copy of this letter was made available to the Canadian Gazette for publication.

Dear Mayor Levi and members of Missis-sippi Mills Town Council:

It is with absolute and utter disgust that I write this letter to voice my complaint about Coun. Val Wilkinson’s disregard and disrespect for the democratic process.

She voted against Mississippi Mills’ own reso-lution in regard to the removal of the stop sign at the bridge in Appleton. It is unfortunate for her that the vote was 11 to 1, with Mayor Levi the only vote from our local council to support our resolution.

I think she should apologize or step down im-mediately.

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The current president of the Lanark chapter, Jeff Bogearts, asked a question on enshrining property rights in the consti-tution and argued that government should “get out of the job-making business.”

“You don’t know how to do it. Get out of my wallet and I will hire more people (at my business),” he said.

“I didn’t say that I didn’t approve of property rights,” said MacDonald. “(But) if you’re extending land rights in the con-

stitution, you are then extending those rights to large corporations … I am a land owner. (But) I recognize that we only own it (the land) for a generation.”

“They (corporations) are already pro-tected,” said Hillier. “It’s individuals who are not.

“It’s not government’s role to create jobs,” added Hillier. “Government doesn’t create money, it takes away money.”

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CARLETON PLACE – The past came back to haunt both the Liberal and Progressive Conservative (PC) candidates at last week’s all-candidates debate in Carleton Place.

Though neither man was a member of their respective parties’ governments at the time, PC candidate, and incumbent, Randy Hillier had to fend off hits to the record of the Mike Harris and Ernie Eves governments and Liberal Bill MacDonald had to defend Premier Dalton McGuinty’s record since 2003.

The forum at the Arklan Community Public School Sept. 21 was sponsored by the Carleton Place and District Chamber of Commerce. Hillier and MacDonald were joined on stage by New Democratic Party candidate David Parkhill and Green Party candidate Nancy Matte.

TAXES

MacDonald defended Liberal poli-cy on the HST, in response to a ques-tion from Wally Cook, by point-ing out it was a federal program. “Every Conservative MP voted in favour of it, including Scott Reid,” said MacDonald, adding the HST had resulted in a 12 per cent decrease in provincial income tax, and that tax child benefi ts had increased.

“We changed the whole tax system,” said MacDonald.

Ron Armstrong challenged MacDonald

on a new smart meter fee, which some are saying will be added to electricity bills come Jan. 1. “You have information available to you that I don’t have,” said MacDonald.

Hillier charged that the monthly fee would be “added to the long list of fees that you see on your hydro bill.”

MacDonald noted the McGuinty govern-ment has been putting more money into education and health since 2003.

“You cannot have services without tax-es,” MacDonald said.

In his opening remarks, Hillier instruct-ed voters to pick up a photocopy of the Ca-nadian Taxpayers’ Federation’s Taxpayer Protection Promise, signed by McGuinty on Sept. 11, 2003, in which he promised not to raise taxes or run a defi cit without the express consent of the people of Ontario.

“We all know what Dalton’s word is worth,” said Hillier, pointing to the health premium, the current budget defi cit and the HST.

“We are now a have-not economy in a have-not province … What good is a gov-ernment that lies to you?”

“He (McGuinty) didn’t have information that the Tory government withheld from him,” MacDonald.

PROPERTY RIGHTS

Before becoming MPP for Lanark, Fron-tenac, Lennox and Addington in October 2007, Hillier was the co-founder of the La-nark Landowners’ Association, which later grew into a province-wide movement.

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Southwell asked candidates for their opinion about the e-Health scandal, which cost Ontario tax-payers billions in wasted money.

“I know how hard you work for your money,” said MacDon-ald. “When it is wasted, we all suffer.”

Hillier took the opportunity to point out there were problems with patronage and mis-spent money not only with e-Health but also the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Niaga-ra Parks Commission, and other agencies.

“‘The bureaucracy will do what it has to do,’” said Hillier. “That’s the answer I always get when I talk to a Liberal cabinet minister. They take and they spend and they don’t care what-ever.”

“I care,” said Matte. “If you put all of your energy into what happened in the past, you aren’t putting your energy into the fu-ture.”

She added that, with all of the technology at hand, the Inter-net could go a long way towards making the health system more transparent.

“Have you ever tried to appeal a decision to a LHIN?” asked

Parkhill, picking up on Matte’s point. “You know what the ap-peal process is? There is no ap-peal process.”

“The (e-Health) program is now up and running,” said MacDonald. “If you talk to any health provider in the province of Ontario, it is the way to go … it is the way of the future.”

CLIMATE CHANGE

Hillier was taken to task by one questioner about comments he had made doubting the sci-ence behind climate change. “Is this science complete, full, is it beyond reproach? The model-ing and data may have had sub-stantial faults and fl aws,” said Hillier.

But he was quick to underline his commitment to keeping La-nark County beautiful.

“When I go outside, I see a lot of clean lakes and rivers. I see blue skies … I will continue to be a strong advocate for the en-vironment.”

Other candidates, however, underlined their belief in cli-mate change. “Climate change is real and we need to deal with it,” said Parkhill. “I don’t sup-pose you can come up with a so-lution to a problem if you can’t

recognize the problem.” When Matte steps outside, she

sees something different from Hillier. “When I walk outside … I can’t drink my water because I live in the plume,” she said

She noted that climate change affects everything from the weather to food and access to it.

“Climate change can be fought and we can stop doing the dam-age that we are doing to the en-vironment.”

DOWNLOADING

One of the campaign’s themes has involved whether parties would continue on the Liber-als’ policy of uploading certain costs currently covered by mu-nicipalities to the province.

“Municipal governments have been hammered (by provincial downloads),” said Parkhill.

“Most of the rural municipali-ties … have little or no industri-

al tax base to spread the load,” said MacDonald. “My own taxes doubled. There were services which should never have been downloaded,” he added, point-ing to ambulance services as one example.

MacDonald charged that Pro-gressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak has refused to com-mit to the continuation of up-loading. “We will meet the prom-ise of uploads by 2018,” said Matte of her party’s stance.

In an effort to “set the record straight” on the downloading of the Harris/Eves years, Hillier stressed that “things were up-loaded (too) … our public schools were uploaded to the province.”

Hillier also maintained the Liberals, while uploading some costs from municipalities, “are reducing grants,” available to local areas.

Hillier charged that the Mc-Guinty government’s Green En-ergy Act prevents communities from collecting property taxes on green developments like so-lar farms.

“We need to fi x the arbitration system, so that we don’t have to pay (provincial employees) the same rates as they do in down-town Toronto,” said Hillier of another cost for the province.

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CARLETON PLACE – Society’s most vulnerable are not being properly looked after in Ontario. That was the message three of the four Lanark-Frontenac-Len-nox and Addington would-be MPPs re-ceived during an all-candidates round table in Carleton Place Sept. 22.

Liberal Bill MacDonald, the NDP’s Da-vid Parkhill and Green Party candidate Nancy Matte attended the session, but Progressive Conservative Randy Hiller begged off, saying he was too busy. Top-ics such as poverty, unemployment, men-tal health, transportation, and child care were raised during animated discussions hosted by the Lanark County Planning Council for Children, Youth and Fami-lies. At one point it was suggested a new hospital for Carleton Place is the biggest issue in this area, but candidates were as-sured there are also other priorities.

POVERTY

Candidates were urged to support pro-grams that tackled poverty.

The province isn’t being developed properly when there are people living in poverty, said a representative from Interval House. “There has to be a shift in thinking … we need to address the re-

alities … and stop the revolving door of poverty, parent passing it on to their chil-dren. We need compassion.”

The province has the money, she main-tained. “It’s just a matter of getting it out of a few pockets.”

Parkhill said the government should be doing something about the root causes of poverty instead of spending all its en-ergy in trying to manage the problem. “It’s getting worse in the province … it’s totally unacceptable,” he said.

He said the NDP would eliminate school fees because they are inequitable. More should be done to help impover-ished seniors, he added, noting they de-serve more respect than to be ignored or called bed-blockers.

Matte said the grassroots must lead the way in the fi ght against poverty. “Passion and community involvement are the only ways to affect change,” she said.

MacDonald said the community needs to push together with its MPP on poverty issues. Despite the dominance of urban MPPs in the Legislature, a unifi ed com-munity and a strong message will get re-sults for rural areas, he said.

Candidates were urged to support an-other increase to the minimum wage.

MacDonald pointed out it was the Lib-erals who have boosted the wage several times, despite opposition from some busi-nesses, feeling the more money people

have to spend the better it is for every-one. Former Mississippi Mills councillor Brenda Hurrle suggested a guaranteed income system would be more effective and simpler to administer.

MENTAL HEALTH

Funding for mental health and non-structured recreation programs are lack-

ing in the rural areas, the candidates were told. It was suggested that three out of four rural youth needing services are not getting them.

Torrance asked the candidates to cham-pion an increase in spending on the local level for mental health programs.

“We need to empower the local commu-nity,” said Matte. “I can’t emphasize that enough.”

She said prevention should be empha-sized. “Health care is not just about hos-pitals, it’s about keeping people healthy.” Youth need a place where they can go for informal get-togethers and talk about is-sues they may have, she suggested.

MacDonald agreed programs that prevent future problems “are better for everyone.” For instance, new food guide-lines will encourage people to eat better, have a better quality of life and save in health care funding, he said.

He suggested there needs to be more discussion between local and provincial offi cials on what services are needed and more empathy shown in those talks.

“Sometimes there is a big disconnect … the government’s not always aware of the problem,” he said. “I’d like to see the relationship between our area and the provincial government stronger.”

Kathee Hutcheon suggested the prov-ince should put a value on volunteer hours and adjust funding to refl ect that community interest.

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Election 2011

Candidates urged to join fi ght against poverty

Liberal candidate Bill MacDonald answers a question at a table that included former Mississippi Mills councillor Brenda Hurrle, left, and Jamie-Lynn Shideler. MacDonald, the NDP’s David Parkhill and Nancy Matte of the Green Party rotated between three tables at the provincial election round ta-ble hosted by the Lanark County Planning Council for Children, Youth and Families Sept. 22 in Carleton Place.


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dinator Sarah Bingham said the government needs to better deal with the challenges facing unem-ployed rural people. Unemployed woman are especially badly off, she said, noting in this area “you can’t just jump on a bus (to go to a job interview or a job).”

“There is so little support for transition into the work force,” said Parkhill, noting if a person on Ontario Works has the oppor-tunity for part-time work they should be encouraged not penal-ized.

Jamie-Lynn Shideler said it is diffi cult being a rural mother looking for work without gas money or the chance to make enough to afford child care. “It’s easy for a young mom to be iso-lated because there’s no transpor-tation,” she said.

Planning council communi-ty co-ordinator Jane Torrance pointed out some parents of spe-cial needs children can’t afford to take a minimum wage job be-cause they lose benefi ts and end up worse off.

MacDonald said a mindset change is needed to refl ect chang-es in the work forces that see women qualify, and be paid prop-erly, for jobs formerly limited to men. The new ‘green’, knowledge-based economy will help provide more meaningful jobs, he added.

He said he saw fi rst hand the pride of people when they got jobs cleaning up after the ice storm.

CHILD CARE

Almonte Day Care director Karen Kane appealed to the can-didates to support changes in pol-icy and funding that would give parents more affordable choices when it comes to child care.

“The whole subsidy process needs to be looked at … it’s not equal,” she said, noting the fund-ing hasn’t changed in 15 to 20 years. “There haven’t even been cost-of-living increases, just high-er expenses and new regulations on a daily basis.”

Kane said the implementation of all-day kindergarten is adding to the problem, leaving daycares with the more expensive infants and toddlers. As a result, several are closing down, she said.

“If it works in Toronto it doesn’t mean it works in the rural areas,” said Torrance.

Matte agreed the system should be reviewed. For some daycares there are long waiting lists, but others have plenty of spaces, but parents can’t afford them, she said.

Part of the problem is that the decision-makers aren’t listening to the community and the agen-cies that know the local situation, she added. “That’s why I joined the Green Party because they take the issues back to the com-munity … not govern from the top down.”

Job help lacking, candidates told

Lanark County Planning Council for Children, Youth and Families pro-vincial election round table attracted about 35 people and three Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington

candidates to its offi ce Sept. 22 to dis-cuss issues.

Each candidate spent about 30 min-utes at each of three tables, where they were presented with four main

questions. Carleton-Mississippi Mills candidates had originally been invit-ed too, but it was agreed that it could be confusing to have two candidates speaking for one party.

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Your Carleton-Mississippi Mills candidates

DESMOND DEVOY

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A strong family means a strong Ontario.

That essentially sums up the platform of Mis-sissippi Mills resident Cynthia Bredfeldt, a well-known piano teach-er and Family Coalition candidate in the Car-leton-Mississippi Mills riding

As a teacher for 30 years, Bredfeldt noted that her party would provide money to bus kids to schools such as Montessori or Christian schools, and provide an education tax credit to homeschooled children.

“The Family Coali-tion does not advocate that the mother stays at home,” said Bredfeldt noting that the credit should allow one parent to be able to stay at home if they choose.

Another party plat-form plank that she is very excited about is their proposal to retrofi t

under-populated schools as seniors centres.

“Schools are closing,” she said. “Why bulldoze it down? There is going to be a tremendous need for that.”

With the name “fam-ily” in the title, there are several family-friendly initiatives that Bredfeldt will be stumping for in her fi rst ever-run for po-litical offi ce.

“Wouldn’t it be great if there was a tax incen-tive for families if they built on an addition to their house for a granny suite?” she asked. Such a move, she said, would keep seniors at home, and would reduce the burden on the social service and health care systems. Her party would also offer tax credits for married couples who wanted to undergo marriage coun-selling, or take part in family counselling.

“If they can decrease divorce by half, the bur-den on society would be cut through less depen-

dence on social service,” she explained.

On economic matters, her party would cap the feed-in tariff for “green energy” programs like solar energy, which is currently set at about 80 cents per kilowatt hour for a fi xed period.

“We can’t sustain that,” she said. Her party wants the Ontario Power Authority disbanded, and their duties farmed out to local power utilities.

Bredfeldt talks tax incentivesJESSICA CUNHA

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Megan Cornell is look-ing to revive Silicon Val-ley in Kanata North.

The Liberal Party can-didate in Carleton-Mis-sissippi Mills said things haven’t been the same since the downturn in the high-tech sector.

“We have this great history of Silicon Valley north but have experi-enced a slow down since the bubble burst in high-tech.

There’s not that same sense that we’re the place to be,” said the 37-year-old. “We used to be the most exciting place to come to work; that im-age is not really there. That is one of the things I really want to work on as MPP is bring together the right people…revive high-tech and our im-age.”

The business lawyer said she also wants to tackle the issue of over-crowding in area schools

and the need for another high school in Stittsville.

The Kanata Lakes resi-dent added she’d like to see Carleton-Mississippi Mills boast a health hub, similar to what is being offered in Orleans.

“I think it would really be a huge boost for our riding in terms of access to health care services,” said the married mother of two.

Cornell ran for offi ce in 2007, losing to Con-servative Norm Sterling, but said this time around she feels much more pre-pared.

“Between the four years I was very active in the community and vol-unteering my time,” she said.

“I’m much more known among community groups and associations. I’m much more aware of the local issues.”

The former president of the Kanata Chamber of Commerce said she wants to bring people to-gether within the riding.

“I am the candidate with the track record in the community on the is-sues most important to us,” she said.

“I am the candidate that will best represent all four corners of our riding, the urban and the rural.

I am also going to be the MPP best able to bring the community to-gether to create the kind of community we all want to live in.”

Cornell: revive high-tech sector

COURTNEY SYMONS

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When 22-year-old Liam Duff witnessed the wave of young NDP MPs elect-ed in this year’s federal election, it sealed the deal on his decision to run as Carleton-Missis-sippi Mill’s NDP candi-date.

“I was tired of hear-ing people say, ‘I want something different,’” Duff said. “So I decided I’m going to make that change.”

In his third year in communications at the University of Ottawa, Duff said his energy and young age will help him gain access to youth who have an historically low voter turnout.

“I’m proud to be part of the young generation that’s getting into poli-tics, that’s been inspired by people like Jack Lay-ton,” he said.

Duff said he’s also going door-to-door to fi nd out what his riding

needs.“I’m trying to run a

campaign based on talk-ing to people,” he said. “Being young, I don’t come across as intimi-dating and people are willing to talk to me.”

Duff has lived in Kana-ta for the past 11 years. His father is an artillery offi cer in the military, and his mother was a town councilor when they lived in New Bruns-wick.

For the past two sum-mers, Duff has worked for YMCA summer camps.

During his time as a political science student, he volunteered for the Association Internatio-nale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (AIESEC), the world’s largest stu-dent-run international organization. There, he helped facilitate business internships for students abroad and at home.

After graduation from the University of Ottawa,

Duff plans to attend law school and stay involved in politics.

“The tides are really shifting right now,” he said, “not just with the NDP but youth in gen-eral. I’m really hoping to stay at the forefront of that change. Change focused on policy, change based on what people are telling me at their doors.”

To learn more about Carleton-Mississippi Mills NDP candidate Liam Duff, visit www.li-amduff.ontariondp.ca.

NDP candidate inspired by LaytonBLAIR EDWARDS

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Ontario is in trouble, said Jack MacLaren, Pro-gressive Conservative candidate for Carleton-Mississippi Mills.

The province’s debt has doubled since the Liber-als took power eight years ago, and now sits at $250 billion, said MacLaren.

“We think we’re OK – we’re not OK,” said Ma-cLaren. “We do have a debt problem.

Ontario has become a have-not-province, with the province forced to take money from other provinces like Newfound-land to pay its bills.

Meanwhile taxes have gone up and Ontarians have seen their hydro-electricity costs rise by 150 per cent under the Lib-eral government’s watch, he said.

A Tory government will freeze taxes and maintain funding of health care and education, promised MacLaren.

“Everything else is on the table to scrutinize,” he said.

The Progressive Con-servatives would elimi-nate the province’s local integrated health care net-works and eliminate the Ontario Power Authority, created by the Liberals.

A Tory government would remove the prov-ince’s portion of the HST on hydro bills and elimi-nate debt retirement fees charged to rate payers.

It would cancel the Green Energy Act and pull out of deals with companies subsidized by the Ontario government to provide alternative en-ergy such as the multi-bil-lion dollar deal with Sam-sung.

One of MacLaren’s big-gest pet peeves is big-gov-ernment’s interference with small businesses accompanied by higher costs, taxes and red tape.

A Tory government will cut “the regulatory bur-den” at Queen’s Park by 30 per cent, he said.

MacLaren, a 62-year-old resident of MacLaren’s Landing and a farmer in West Carleton, holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Queen’s University.

MacLaren is a past president of the Ontario Landowners Association as well as a director of the region’s Federation of Ag-riculture.

He won the Tory nomi-nation for Carleton-Mis-sissippi Mills last spring, defeating Norm Sterling, a 34-year veteran at Queen’s Park.

Time for a change: MacLaren

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The Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital (CP-DMH) Foundation is pleased to announce that it has received a gift of $1000 from the 8th Annual Not-Too-Bawd Volleyball Tournament. The funds will be used to help purchase new equipment for the Emergency Department.

“The Not-2-Bawd Volleyball Tournament has been a part of our summer calendar for the last 8 years and we are so appreciative of the ongoing support we receive from the event,” stated Chantelle Troy, Man-ager/Community Relations Offi cer of the CPDMH Foundation. “I would like to thank Steph for once again including us in her planning and I wish her a lot of success with the 9th Annual Not-2-Bawd Vol-leyball Tournament.”

Since the start of the Not-Too-Bawd Volleyball Tour-nament, CPDMH has received over $12,000 from the event to help with medical equipment purchases. In addition to the gift to the Hospital, the tournament will once again able to give a bursary to a gradu-ating volleyball player of the Carleton Place High School. The bursary will be awarded to a student who exhibits fi nancial need and best exemplifi es team spirit, leadership and camaraderie. “I am so pleased that we have been able to maintain our support of both the Hospital and the bursary es-

tablished by the tournament last year,” stated Steph Scollan, Organiser of the 8th Annual Not-2-Bawd Volleyball Tournament. “We had another great day and I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the event and all the players who participated in the tourna-ment. We look forward to seeing you again next year!”

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Carleton-Mississippi Mills Green candidate Scott Simser has been deaf since birth, and his mother taught him to speak one word at a time.

Now, the 46-year-old husband, father and law-yer speaks eloquently and clearly, and owns his own law fi rm, Simser Consult-ing. He takes after his father, Graham (known as Ray), who was the fi rst practicing lawyer in Kanata in the 1960’s.

After running unsuc-cessfully for the federal Liberals twice, Simser opted to transition to the provincial Green Party, which he said is a better fi t.

“I like a party that is socially progressive, but fi scally conservative,” he said.

With a Bachelor of Commerce from the Uni-versity of Ottawa, plus

MBA and CMA certifi ca-tions from York Universi-ty, Simser joked, “Maybe I have too many degrees.”

He lives in Kanata with his wife Lori who is hard of hearing and works for the Capital Hearing Clin-ic, and their three sons: Matthew, 12; Graham, 8; and Oliver, 4.

Simser was the lead-ing lawyer in a 2006 legal victory requiring federal government to provide interpreters for deaf peo-ple free of charge.

“I have a perspective that’s important in this riding,” he said.

“I’ve owned a small business. I know how frustrating red tape and bureaucracy can be. I can cut through that red tape as an MPP.”

The Green Party came in third place last provin-cial election, and Simser said that proves people are taking the party seri-ously.

Having spent most of

his life living in Kanata, Simser said he knows the community well and could serve its people.

“I don’t want to be re-membered for anything grand,” he said, “I just want to serve this riding as MPP. I want to listen to them and help advocate for them. I hope they vote for the boy who grew up here.”

To learn more about Scott Simser, visit his blog at www.scotts.kevi-no.net.

Kanata lawyer goes Green

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Campaign enters last weekSTAFF

The last all-candidates debate for Car-leton-Mississippi Mills candidates will

be held today (Thursday) in Pakenham.The Canadian Gazette will be covering

the 7:30 p.m. debate, which will be held at the Stewart Community Centre and hosted by the Arnprior and Lanark Fed-erations of Agriculture.

While there will be coverage in next’s week’s newspaper, readers can read all about it online before election day next Thursday.

For coverage of the all-candidates de-bates and other news leading up to the election, visit www.yourottawaregion.com.

The website will also be regularly up-dated with results and reactions during election night, Oct. 6, so make sure to bookmark it.

RIPPED SIGNS REMAIN

The signs of destruction are still linger-ing along Highway 29 between Pakenham and Almonte.

Carleton-Mississippi Mills Liberal can-didate Megan Cornell has not replaced some of her damaged campaign signs, leaving them up to show they were van-dalized. Cornell and her campaign team did call the Lanark OPP following the at-tacks a couple of weeks ago, which saw many of her signs slashed in half.

Her signs along the back roads behind Pakenham remain intact.

VOTING

The last day for the advance polls will be this Friday, Sept. 30.

The polls are open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at various locations including Almonte United Church, Corkery Community Cen-tre and Five Arches Non-profi t Housing in Pakenham for Carleton-Mississippi Mills voters. In Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, the advance polls include the Carleton Place Community Centre and Brunton Community Hall.

There will be several polls open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. election day, Thursday, Oct. 6. Check your voter card to see where you vote.

If you didn’t receive a card, contact your returning offi ce at 600 Terry Fox Drive in Kanata (Carleton-Mississippi Mills) or 465 Advance Ave. in Napanee (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington). Or if that’s too far, you can call 1-888-668-8683 or visit the website elections.on.ca.

In the last Ontario election, the Lib-erals were elected with 52.1 per cent of electorate voting. The number of electors casting ballots has been steadily declin-ing since 1990, when it was 64.4 per cent.

The Progressive Conservative candi-dates won election in both Carleton-Mis-sippi Mills and Lanark-Frontenac-Len-nox & Addington.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 29Get W.I.T.H. It, free walking in the halls program at Almonte and District High School, 126 Martin St. North, on Tues-days and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and at Carleton Place High School, 215 Lake Ave. West, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wheelchair and stroller friendly facilities.

Mills Home Support Corpora-tion Golden Oldies lunch. Cost, $9, at 67 Industrial Dr., Almonte. Free transportation provided. Call 613-256-4700 to reserve.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 30 SchoolBOX Latin Fiesta, North Lanark Agricultural Society hall, Almonte Fairgrounds, 195 Water St., 7:30 p.m. Adults, $20, students, $10, un-der 13, free. Tickets available at the door, at Blackbird gift shop, 79 Mill St., Almonte, or Read’s Book Store, 1-130 Lans-downe Ave., Carleton Place. Please call Katie Cotnam at 613-256-2785 for details.

The Night Sky Conservation program runs Friday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. starting today, and running Oct. 14, 21, 28 and Nov. 4, at the Mill of Kintail Conservation Area’s gatehouse, 2854 Ramsay Concession 8. To register, call 613-256-3610, ext. 1 or email [email protected]. Suggest-ed donation is $20 per session, or as you are able.

SATURDAY, OCT. 1 Almonte Old Town Hall, open house and ribbon cutting, 3 to 5 p.m., 14 Bridge St.

Annual fall supper and euchre, St. James Anglican Church hall, 225 Edmund St., Carleton Place. Supper at 6

p.m. Tickets, $12 per person. Good food, good prizes. For tickets, please call 613-253-0356.

Oktoberfest fundraising barbecue, sponsored by the Beckwith Butcher, in support of the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1 Costello Dr., Carleton Place. The Carleton Place and District Community Band will provide Bavarian music from 11 a.m. to noon.

Taste of the Arts, 6:30 to 10 p.m., Almonte Old Town Hall, 14 Bridge St. A cultural potluck hosted by the arts and cultural advisory committee of the Town of Mississippi Mills. For more information, please contact Nicole Guthrie at 613-256-1077 or Ingrid Kadoke at 613-256-0577.

Turkey Supper, St. John’s An-glican Church, 110 Ferguson Falls Rd., 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Harvest Lantern Labyrinth Walk, 7 p.m., Carleton Place Community Labyrinth, be-hind the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum, 267 Edmund St. Rain or shine, bring you own lawn chair. Call Debby at 613-257-1014 for details.

Welcome Wagon Baby Shower, Carleton Place arena, 75 Neelin St., 1 to 4 p.m.

SUNDAY, OCT. 2 Ham n’ Bean Supper, Clayton Community Hall, 2 to 6 p.m., supper served at 5 p.m. All musicians welcome. Proceeds go to the Clayton Hall fund.

Valley Singles Lunch for Octo-ber, Buster’s Bar and Grill, 515

McNeely Ave., Carleton Place, 12:30 p.m. For information, please contact Fay at 613-256-8117 or Johanna at 613-432-7622.

inSPIRE Church of Carleton Place open house, today, Oct. 16 and 30, 2 to 4 p.m., Calvary Christian Academy, 9749 High-way 15, Franktown. Refresh-ments will be served.

Welcome Wagon baby shower at Carleton Place arena, 75 Neelin St.

TUESDAY, OCT. 4 Almonte Community Friend-ship Luncheon, noon, Al-monte United Church hall, 106 Elgin St. Soup, sandwiches, homemade dessert, $5. All seniors welcome. Call Donna at 613-256-1894 or Louise at 6130-256-7830 for details.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5Beckwith and District Friend-ship Club potluck supper, 6 p.m. Memberships are due. Please call 613-253-1433.

FRIDAY, OCT. 7 Harvest Dance, Stewart Com-munity Centre, 112 MacFar-lane St., Pakenham, 8 p.m. to midnight. Featuring Glen Silverson’s Band. Light lunch provided. Sponsored by the Pakenham Square Dance Club. Tickets, call 613-256-4126, 613-624-5209 or 613-257-3931.

SATURDAY, OCT. 8 Clowning Around for Sick Kids at RONA, 535 McNeely Ave., Carleton Place, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy face painting, balloon animals, barbecue and children’s games.

Today, tomorrow and Thanks-

giving Day, Crown and Pump-kin Studio Tour, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at studios in Blakeney, Clayton, Almonte and else-where in Mississippi Mills. Free admission. Call 613-256-3647.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 Fairview Manor Auxiliary an-nual meeting’s lunch, noon. Cost, $3. Please contact Sheila Lefebvre at 613-256-3113, ext. 2908.

FRIDAY, OCT. 14Celebrate the 33rd anniversary of Clayton Hall, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music by Forty Creek, starting at 9 p.m. For more details, please call Karen at 613-256-6190. Proceeds go to the Clayton Hall Well Fund.

Beckwith Youth Halloween Dance at Brunton Community Hall, 1702 9th Line Rd., 6 to 9 p.m. Admission, $3. Chance to win prizes.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15Land O’ Lakes Shriners Dinner and Dance at Carleton Place arena, 75 Neelin St.

Carleton Place Farmers Market Harvest Festival.

SUNDAY, OCT. 16 Dr. J.F. Dunn Council 5153 Knights of Columbus roast beef dinner, St. Mary’s Catho-lic Elementary School gym, 4 Hawthorne St., Carleton Place, 5:30 p.m. Adults, $12, kids under 12, $8, children under six free. For tickets please seem members of Council 5153 or contact Harry Boles, 613-257-7362, Barry Desarmia, 613-257-3363, John Kordos, 613-256-4355 or George Czer-nys at 613-256-7777.

TUESDAY, OCT. 18Lanark County Interval House annual general meeting, 6:30 p.m., Mississippi Mills fi re station No. 1, 478 Wolf Grove Rd., Almonte. Please RSVP to Brenda Hurrle, 613-257-3469, ext. 23 or email [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 Girl Guide Craft Fair, Carleton Place arena, 75 Neelin St.

FRIDAY, OCT. 21Mississippi Mudds youth per-formance of Macbeth, today and tomorrow at Carleton Place town hall.

85 Victoria Street - The entrance to the Carleton Place Chiropractic Centre is lined with lovely multi-coloured annu-als. Planted by Dr. Neil Hewitt, the public gets to enjoy his work which refl ects the message on the offi ce answering machine “to have a healthy day, naturally.” If you would like to nominate a front yard garden, please call Audrey at 613-253-2095.

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Your support will help AGH purchase equipment for patient care The Almonte General Hospital has more than $1.6 million worth of equipment on its 2011-12 capital request list. “We have a newly redeveloped Hospital and to re-main on the leading edge we need new equipment to re-place aging equipment and to ensure we stay up to date,” said Almonte General Hospital/Fairview Manor Founda-tion Executive Director Gerry Huddleston. “Thanks to the support of our generous donors we are making prog-ress, but we continue to raise funds for several patient care equipment items.”

Medical-Surgical Unit – The Hospital’s Medical-Surgical unit requires a cardiac defi brillator, which costs $18,000. It also requires PCA pumps, which cost $5,000. PCA pumps permit patients to control their own pain medication.

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Lab – The Lab requires a urinalysis reader, which costs $3,000 and a centrifuge machine worth $3,100.

X-ray – The X-ray Department requires a $17,000 ECG machine.

Physiotherapy – The Physiotherapy Department requires a patient standing frame, which costs $6,000. Service clubs, businesses or individuals wishing to support the Almonte General Hospital by purchasing patient care equipment should call Foundation Execu-tive Director Gerry Huddleston at 613-256-2514, exten-sion 2297, or send an email to [email protected].

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MISSISSIPPI MILLS - The Mississippi River Power Corp station has offi cially been named the Brian J. Gallagher Generating Station.

“We’re not likely to get a more special occasion than this,” said Gallagher. “This is a very hum-bling accolade, I didn’t know whether to cry or hide.”

In a ceremony at the Almonte Legion Monday night, attended by about 80 people, two plaques were unveiled – one for the station, and one for the river walk.

Scott Newton said he was asked three years ago to rename the station by Des Houston – who warned him, “if it got out, he’d either fi re me, or kill me.”

Mayor John Levi thanked Gallagher for all his service to the town over the years, including work with the BIA and Light Up the Night.

Gallagher told the town it should be proud of the state-of-the-art facility and the turbine, a fa-cility that he helped build with his own hands.

After 50 years of service that started in 1961 as a summer student, he’s made his mark at the generating station.

During the ‘hell-ish’ rebuild, Gallagher was a leader, and instrumental in keeping the hydro plant owned by the town – Mississippi Mills is the sole shareholder.

Though his co-workers did have one gripe – they often commented on his lack of wearing suits to meetings.

“They used to say, ‘What is it going to take to get you dressed up?’” he said at the ceremony, while wearing a suit and tie. “Here it is.”

Generating Station renamed for Brian J. Gallagher

Photo by Brier Dodge

Brian J. Gallagher and his family gathered at the Almonte Legion to share in the joy of the generating station re-naming.

“There is an impression that we are closed,” said Martin. “We are not. There is an impression that we

have long wait lists. We haven’t had a wait list that was over four months long in years.”

He did concede, however, that Open Doors’ satellite offi ce in Perth does have a wait list because of high demand for counseling and other services.

One of the latecomers to the addictions table is gambling, which Carole Cecchini TriCounty Ad-diction Services (TriCAS) deals with on a daily basis.

“Problem gamblers are very reluctant to talk,” said Cecchini. “We have a great deal of problems get-ting them to come forward.

We get end-stage people who are in crisis – they are in debt, they are losing their families.”

Even when they do come forward and admit that they have a problem, reten-tion is almost as diffi cult.

“Another problem we have is sticking with us,” said Cecchini. “They have a tendency to say ‘Okay, I’m done now.’”

She also noted that, more often than not, it is a fam-ily member who will come forward seeking help for a loved one, rather than the gambler him or herself.

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to speak out on violence against women, and issues like date rape.

“(On the web), everything is urban-centred,” said Sarah Bingham of Interval House. “There is nothing for them ru-rally. They can’t get on a bus to access services.”

The “My Webworld: Truth for Rural Youth,” web site at www.trylanarkcounty.com, is set to go live online on Thursday, Oct. 13.

“We are accepting submis-sions from youth,” said Bing-ham, including videos, poems, songs. “We’re giving them a safe place online to be anonymous. If you’re the football jock and don’t want people to know that you write poetry.”

Meanwhile, Steve Martin of Open Doors for Lanark County Families and Youth, was quick to point out that rumours of his agencies demise are highly ex-aggerated.

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BLACKS CORNERS – When you’re facing double trouble, now there is a safe place you can turn to.

People who suffer with mental health issues who also have to handle the added burden of addiction issues now have a new support group they can turn to so as they don’t have to fi ght both battles alone.

“It follows a 12-step program like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA),” said Susan, one of the founding members of the Lanark County chapter of “Double Trouble in Recovery,” which meets twice a month in Smiths Falls.

“From my personal experience … I would some-times drink or smoke pot or whatever. It got so that I didn’t want to take my medication.”

Susan was speaking at the Circle of Care meeting at the Brunton Community Hall in Beckwith Town-ship on Friday, Sept. 16, as part of the networking day for municipal drug strategy committees across the county, and related agencies. For Susan, the date was especially meaningful because, as of the day before, she had celebrated six sober months with AA.

While she appreciates the help she gets at AA, Su-san is also glad of the specifi c outlet offered to her by Double Trouble.

“Sometimes in AA, there would be talk about, ‘All you need to do is quit drinking. You need to be on your meds,’” said Susan. She appreciates that Dou-ble Trouble provides her with a safe place to talk in a non-hierarchical peer-supported environment.

“We all try to take turns,” Susan said of the lead-ership role. “We can all relate to each other. What you see and hear stays in the room.”

The program began at a city-run hospital in New York City in 1989 and has now expanded across the continent. The Smiths Falls group also deals with gambling issues.

The group began in July 2011 and has had some growing pains.

“We have had some trials and errors,” said Su-san. “Some weeks, nobody shows up. But we stayed and kept the door open in case anyone came up.”

The ‘Double Trouble in Recovery’ group meets Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m., every other week, at 88 Cornelia St. West in Smiths Falls. For informa-tion, you can call Jess at 613-269-3799 or Susan at 613-283-4898. It is hoped the group will be expanded to locations in Carleton Place and Perth.,

The strategy meeting heard from other partner agencies in a type of rapid “speed-dating” environ-ment where representatives could spread the word about what their groups were up to.

Interval House announced that it was working hard on creating a new web portal for young people

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A late Saturday-afternoon collision on Calabogie Road involving an ambulance has killed Beckwith’s Lynsey Cote and her boyfriend Mitch Albert.

The two Arnprior paramedics in the ambulance suffered minor injuries and at-tempted to help the two people in the other car until other paramedics arrived on the scene.

Albert, 25, was described in the 27-year-old Cote’s obituary as “her soul-mate and

best friend – the two were inseparable.” Cote’s funeral will be held at the Garden

Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes in Ne-pean at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1. The fam-ily has asked for donations to be made to the Constance Creek Wildlife Refuge in her memory.

Albert, of Ottawa, grew up in West Car-leton.

The paramedics involved in the collision were Wendell Croken, 65, and Kristy Smag-gus, 27, both of Arnprior. They suffered mi-nor injuries and were transported by am-bulance to Renfrew Victoria Hospital after

being treated by attending paramedics.The injured paramedics were not re-

sponding to a call, and did not have any pa-tients on board at the time of the collision.

The crash happened about 4:30 p.m. in the Springtown area between Burnstown and Calabogie.

The OPP’s investigation indicates a 1999 red Acura Integra travelling south on County Road 508 lost control on a curve and entered the path of the 2009 Ford am-bulance travelling north. Both Cote and Al-bert were pronounced dead at the scene by the responding paramedics.

The crash occurred on a deceptive curve on the hill near the Norway Lake road in-tersection. There have been several near collisions in that area, and County Road 508 was wet at the time of the accident.

Traffi c was rerouted for about 11 hours at Calabogie and Murphy roads, up to Ash-dad Road, along Brydges Road and back to Calabogie Road.

Const. Kerlous Tawdrous is leading the investigation, with assistance from OPP technical traffi c collision investigators. Charges are not expected.

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CARLETON PLACE – Lanark OPP have closed the missing person case after Patrick Lynch was found.

Last week, police asked for help locating the Car-leton Place man, who had been missing for several weeks.

The OPP received several calls from members of the public – and also a call from Lynch himself.

They have said there were no suspicious circum-stances surrounding his case.

Missing person found

Continued from Page 20Kerri Choffe of North Lanark Community Health

detailed some of the problems she is having in help-ing clients access care.

“One of the biggest barriers to our clients is try-ing to get treatment in Ottawa,” said Choffe, who is trying to organize a partnership between her group and the Royal Ottawa Hospital for psychiat-ric care.

For young people who are looking for their own Xbox system, and are handy with a camera, David Patterson, youth engagement advisor to the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, has an offer for you with his PhotoVoice competition.

The competition asks area youth to take photo-graphs of health issues, and then upload it, with an accompanying “blurb” to smokefreeeast.ca.

The photos will then be compiled and put on dis-play in a community gallery.

“(We want to) put them in the public eye so that people can see what youth are feeling,” said Patter-son. “We can provide disposable cameras to youth who do not have one.”

There will be a random draw for prizes. “It’s non-judgmental,” said Patterson. “It’s about

the issue.”

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CARLETON PLACE – The Unit-ed Way of Lanark County is aim-ing high in its new cross-county fundraising goal.

Not only have the stakes been raised, but to further up the ante, the United Way now has a new motto – change starts here.

“Change starts with you, the people of Lanark County,” said Fraser Scantlebury, a director with the United Way, during their kick-off celebrations at the Car-leton Place High School (CPHS) Saturday.

“The biggest thing for me about the United Way is that the money stays here in the community,” said Sharon Mousseau, the warden of Lanark County.

Her own Warden’s golf tourna-ment this past summer collected more than $3,500 for the United Way and its 16 partner agencies.

“Good luck on reaching your goal,” said Mousseau. “It is an am-bitious goal, but I’ve no doubt that you will reach that goal.”

If anyone is going to make sure that the total is reached, it’s the United Way’s executive director, Sarah Bridson.

“We’re going to work really hard this year to let people know

that change starts here,” said Bridson. “If you can’t give of your dollars, can you give of your time and expertise?”

She admitted $400,000 was “a big number,” but “we’re really opti-mistic about getting this raised.”

Carleton Place Mayor Wendy LeBlanc, meanwhile, pointed out the reasons why the United Way was so important, because of all of the worthy groups it supports.

“The United Way benefi ts all of us from youth to seniors,” said LeBlanc, who had spent some time that morning chatting with Don-na Strachan of the Youth Action Committee of Perth, who gave her a “quotable quote.”

“‘We couldn’t do what we do without the United way,’” LeB-lanc quoted Strachan as saying. “That’s what the United Way is all about.”

Scantlebury reminded the audi-ence that at-the-offi ce donations can go a long way, and even though they may result in a tax receipt, they are not taxing on the brain since, with automatic deductions, you can set-it-and-forget-it.

“One dollar a week, $52 a year, less than a Timmies,” said Scant-lebury. “It adds up, it makes a dif-ference.”

Another new initiative of the United Way is the part they are

playing in the new county-wide talent search, My Town’s Got Tal-ent.

Sponsored by the Valley Players of Almonte as a United Way fund-raiser, the really big show will take place Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Almonte and District High School at 7 p.m., with 40 young people from Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Almonte and region. Entry for the audience will be by dona-tion.

“We have so many different types of acts,” said director Jeff Gourgon, with performers rang-ing from singers, musicians and dancers to joint-popping contor-tionists. “It promises to be a great night.”

The three judges will choose the top fi ve acts out of the fi eld, but then it is up to the audience to pick the next star of the Valley.

Gourgon pointed out Carleton Place signing sensation Jordan McIntosh entered last year when the competition was simply Al-monte’s Got Talent. He placed second, but Gourgon reminded the audience the fi nal scores for the three fi nalists were extremely tight – 70, 69, 68 respectively.

The CPHS student has since gone on to win the Ottawa Ki-wanis Idol competition and audi-tioned for Canada’s Got Talent in

Montreal this past weekend. The competitors from across Lanark County are:

PERTH• Satinka Schilling• Emma Bornheimer • Kasha Lehovich SMITHS FALLS• Aira Sarmiento• Elizabeth Homes • Tanner Flinn and Derek Wil-

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Carleton Place Mayor Wendy LeBlanc and Lanark County Warden Sha-ron Mousseau, in black, accompanied by singer Jordan McIntosh, join the executive of the United Way of Lanark County on the stage of Carleton Place High School on Saturday, Sept. 24 to kick off the 2011 fundraising campaign, and to promote their goal of $400,000.


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When 17-year-old William Ross realized he couldn’t hold back from harming himself, he ran downstairs and asked

his mother to drive him to CHEO.Jesse Graham told six people he was

thinking about killing himself, says Shelly, Jesse’s mother, but he never spoke to a professional about his demons. The people Jesse told kept it to themselves.

Today, William is recovering. Jesse took his own life last summer.

It’s a cruel twist of fate that the stories of these two young men, who faced such similar inner struggles, ended so differ-ently.

As is the case for many teens strug-gling with mental health challenges, it often comes down to knowing how to access the resources they need.

William, who went through counsel-ling when he was 12, knew. Jesse didn’t.

That’s why the first point of contact for most suicidal teens is the hospital emer-gency room, or a visit from the police, says Dr. Kim Sogge, chief of psychology professional practice at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.

“It’s a real dilemma for families,” she says.

Sogge says mental health professionals and agencies in Ontario and Ottawa need to do a better job of educating families and making them aware of the resources available to them.

Ben Leikin of Ottawa Public Health couldn’t agree more.

He is one of the partners involved with the Community Suicide Prevention Network.

The network arose as a result of the growing awareness of suicide that fol-lowed the high-profile suicide of 14-year-old Ottawa resident Daron Richardson last fall. The aim is to co-ordinate re-sources by bringing together the execu-tive directors and decision makers from a range of service providers.

After several months of meetings and consultations, the network decided the most pressing issue facing the mental health field in Ottawa is ensuring people are aware of the resources available and how to access them.

Leikin pointed out there are a lot of big issues that need to be addressed, like decreasing the stigma that still sur-rounds these issues, and creating a media awareness campaign to get the message out. But “bigger than those things, or a

big important piece of that, is still how to navigate the system,” Leikin says. “So that’s going to be what we tackle.”

The network will be creating “naviga-tion maps” to guide both youth and par-ents through the mental-health system.

“It will go into a bit more detail of how to navigate yourself through the system. It will … provide information about how one could work through it to get the ap-propriate services,” Leikin says.

Sogge says although awareness about

mental health is improving, funding isn’t following suit.

But Ottawa Public Health is trying to do its part. The city added $300,000 into its budget starting in 2011 aimed at add-ing suicide-prevention programming for parents and to provide funding to allow the Youth Services Bureau’s downtown crisis drop-in centre to be open for an extra day each week (that announcement is coming next month).

It’s a big step that marks Ottawa Public Health’s entry into the mental health field, Leikin says.

“We’re new to this in the sense that we’ve just started to make these strong connections in the mental-health area,” he says. “Whereas before Ottawa Public Health was an expert and a leader on various health topics, now mental health is becoming one of them, which is really exciting for us.”

The focus for the programs, which could start as soon as January, will be on youth in grades 7 and 8 – the “transition years,” says Nicole Frappier, who is also with Ottawa Public Health.

But Ottawa Public Health wants to make suicide part of the dialog with par-ents starting right at pre-natal classes, Frappier says.

It’s an especially pressing issue in Ottawa, where eight per cent of youth have seriously considered trying to kill themselves. That is a significantly higher rate than the rest of Ontario, a city report notes.

It’s the type of programming that officials hope will make a difference to families like the Grahams.

Now with several courses under her belt, Shelly Graham is learning more about suicide so she does know what to do.

Education is key for everyone, includ-ing parents, she says. One day, when she’s ready, she hopes to share her knowl-edge in classrooms.

What’s most important, she has learned, is to reach out to people suffer-ing. Though it may be uncomfortable, making the effort to break through could save a person, and spare the web of people who love them.

“There’s a real shame that comes with suicide. We will not be ashamed,” says Shelly. “Jesse was an awesome guy and we are going to talk about him. He was loved. Shame is what immobilizes you and it’s what keeps people suffering in silence. “And there’s been enough suffer-ing in silence.”

Finding a way through the mental health system

BLAIR EDWARDS

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The biggest item on the wish list of Ted Charette, co-ordinator of Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa Mobile Crisis and Intake

Services, is Canada adopting a national suicide prevention strategy.

Canada is the only G-8 country without a national suicide prevention strategy.

The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention is working on preparing a national suicide prevention strategy.

“I think it’s starting to gain some weight and some support around the families,” says Charette.

“We’ve had a blueprint for many, many years,” says Rene Ouimet, a director of the Canadian Mental Health Association and a member of the Canadian Associa-tion of Suicide Prevention.

Canada needs a body to co-ordinate suicide prevention programs across the country, said Ouiment.

“We keep lobbying,” she said.The Canadian Association of Suicide

Prevention released a suicide prevention strategy in 2004.

The objectives of the strategy include:Promote awareness across the country that suicide and suicidal behaviour is everyone’s problem and is preventable.Increase the number of employ-ers and volunteer groups that have suicide prevention, intervention and post-intervention programs.Promote understanding that “break-ing the silence surrounding suicide increases realistic opportunities to save lives and to reduce suffering.Launch an anti-stigma campaign.Reduce the availability and lethal-

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“The only way we’re going to prevent suicide is to talk about it openly and directly,” said Ouimet.

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Part 3: Mental health professionals and agencies work together for better community awareness

OUT OF THE DARKNESS A series about youth suicide

WorkshopsThe Canadian Mental Health

Association offers a series of suicide prevention training workshops in Ottawa:

SafeTALK: a three-hour course for people over the age of 15 to help identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. The cost is $40 to $60 to take the course.Applied Suicide Interven-tion Skills Training (ASIST): a two-day program offered 20 times a year in Ottawa that teaches suicide first-aid skills to anyone who may come into contact with a person at risk, using the most widely-used suicide intervention model in the world. The cost is $180 to take the course. More than 1,000 people take the course every year.

For more information call 613-737-7791.

Ottawa school boards have their own ASIST trainers.

Connecting with resources

A new website, www.emen-talhealth.ca, is making it easier for people to connect with the mental-health services that are appropriate for them.

In addition to having a direc-tory, it is like a Google search for mental health services, said Ben Leikin, mental health project of-ficer for Ottawa Public Health.

“So if you want to search something like ‘psychologist for a 14-year-old,’ it will bring up private practise psychologists as well as some programs that ex-ists for free. It indicates right on it is there is a fee, if it’s bilingual and where it’s located,” Leikin said.

The search also brings up news articles and useful links.

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Immaculately maintained. Spacious. Beautiful park like lot. Quiet street. Large open concept living/dining.

Bright eat-in kitchen. 3 bedrooms. Gas heat. Single detached garage.

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JOAN BENNETT

The Carleton Place and Dis-trict Civitian Club recently elected its 2011-12 offi cers.

Newly elected offi cers were in-stalled in September. Ron Legge and Joan Bennett were elected co-president of the community

service organization to take over the helm from past president Da-vid Jamieson.

Other offi cers elected were Sue Baker (president-elect), Heather Legge (treasurer) and Linda Bickerton (secretary). Newly elected directors are Jean Fitz-patrick, Robin Soule, Kelly Reid

and Sonya Oleinikow. Civitan’s purpose is to pro-

vide members with personal professional development op-portunities while improving the community through community service.

Projects of the club include weekly Tuesday evening bingo

at the arena, barbecues at local schools, assisting with the Drag-on Boat Festival, spring and fall clean-up on McNeely Avenue, Seniors Night, Relay for Life, Friends of Sport Fishing, plant-ing fl ower boxes at Elizabeth Court, selling Claxton Cakes, collecting Money for Christmas

baskets and food for the food bank during the annual Santa Claus Parade, and assisting at Camp Quality.

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WATERFRONT

65 Mill Bay Lane, Bob’s Lake - $295,000 - Quiet bay on Bob’s Lake offers enjoyment all year long with walk-in beach and 40 ft. dock for summertime fun

and toboggan hill and skating rink in winter. 4 bdrm, 2 bath home with extra family rm, open concept kitchen/dining/living area overlooking the lake, downstairs rec room with stone fi replace, master with ensuite bath, laundry, large screened porch for bug free evenings. Perfect waterfront home or recreational property.Cathie McCabe, 613-284-6263 [email protected] Julia Scotland, 613-390-0401 [email protected]

WATERFRONT

$204,000 - Small but fully equipped, quality 2 bdrm home on the river por-tion of Pike Lake. Custom kitchen with open living/dining area. Main level 4 pc bath/laundry rm. Lower level has 2 bdrms, storage/rec room & large utility area. Large shed for outdoor storage is included. Nicely landscaped with great patio area. Dock in place & just a small boat ride out to the big water! MLS# 799441.

BOB FERGUSON • [email protected]

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INCOME PROPERTY

$299,000 - Great location on the main street in the downtown core of Perth. Retail business on street level has 1500 sq ft of show room/display, work area & storage plus a further 24x28 ft heated storage building at rear. 2nd & 3rd level is a 2000 sq. ft. three plus bdrm. Apart-ment with 2 baths. Separate side en-trance. Apartment is vacant so rent at what the market will bear or use as your own living space. MLS# 775922



115 CHRISTIE LAKE LANE 42 ROAD - WHAT A VIEW - Christie Lake at its best with gradual slope to the lake - 3 bed-room year round on 4 acres - clear, san-

dy, rocky frontage just 15 minutes from Perth - this 4 season has a beautiful view of the lake - sit on your deck and enjoy the view. $329,000. MLS®: 091191402055000.

CALL or EMAIL Cathie McCabe 613-284-6263 [email protected]/Julia Scotland 613-390-0401 [email protected].

WATERFRONT WATERFRONT

$214,900 - 100 ft of good shoreline, 15 minutes to Perth on beautiful Pike Lake. Rustic 3 bdrm viceroy cottage with pine fl rs to go with pine interior. Screened porch looks out over the lakeside deck with staircase into the water. Good swimming depth & some of the best fi shing to be had locally. Full septic system. Cottage comes furnished. MLS# 801039.



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OPEN HOUSE - OUT OF TOWN - RIVERDALE

Saturday, Oct. 1 • 1 - 2:30 p.m.Lovely 3+2 bedroom, 3 bathroom bungalow in Riverdale subdivision midway between Perth and Smiths Falls. Wonderful decor with hard-wood and ceramic fl ooring, cherry cabinetry in kitchen and living room with cathedral ceiling and stone fi replace surround, and beautifully fi n-ished lower level with walk-out. Pretty lot, quiet cul-de-sac, ~149 feet of river frontage on the Tay. $389,000.

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Saturday, Oct. 11 - 2:30 p.m.

Hobby Farm - Looking for the perfect spot to create your dream of the country life? Look no further. Beau-tiful 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom stone home on ~ 97 acres of wonderful land within 7

kms of Perth. Featuring a lovely kitchen with granite counters, bamboo fl oor, exposed stone wall, and pellet stove, romantic loft style master bedroom. Updated upstairs 4- pc bathroom with in-fl oor radiant heat, walk-up attic, newer shingles/vinyl windows/furnace. Barns with 7 box stalls, hydro, water, and tack room. Steel machine shed and detached double garage. $444,900.

Your local “A” Team, Christian Allan 613-207-0834 & Norene Allan 613-812-0407

OPEN HOUSE

HUNTINGDON GREEN CON-DOMINIUM ON THE TAY RIVER- Glorious setting, convenient location close to shops, golf, restaurants, etc. 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo - no waiting for eleva-tors - on the main level! Under-ground, heated parking, insuite laundry. Lovely. $359,900.

Call Barbara Shepherdcell: 613 326-1361

IN TOWN

P E R T H M O R E SUBDIVISION IN PERTH - Immac-ulate 2 bedroom bungalow with green space at the back for pri-vacy. Hardwood throughout with ceramic tile in bathrooms and

foyer - french doors lead to living area with beautiful bay win-dow and gas fi replace. Custom maple kitchen - breakfast bar island with extra storage. Master with 3 piece ensuite and walk-in closet. Come and see it! It is gorgeous! $259,900.

Call Barbara Shepherd cell – 613 326-1361

PERTH

$319,000 - 620 Anglican Church Rd. 50 Acres of peaceful living on this hobby farm with picturesque lane-way crossing creek, leading to large 4 bedroom home, uniquely mixing old and new. Evidence of stacked log adds rustic charm com-

bined with the large bright addtition that lets the sunshine in! A sepa-rate cottage/studio offers a perfect place to set up a home business, craft area or In-law suite. Become self suffi cient with chicken coop, 3 greenhouses. Propane and wood fi replace, auxiliary outdoor wood furnace with radiant hot water baseboards. Screened side porch overlooks pool and neighbouring hillside.Cathie McCabe, 613-284-6263 [email protected] Julia Scotland, 613-390-0401 [email protected]

OUT OF TOWNOUT OF TOWN

This bright Country home has so much to offer...situated in a spacious subdivision your 1.9 acre lot gives you breathing room and nature at your back door. Only minutes from Rideau Ferry, this 3 bedroom home is bright and open with vaulted ceilings, fi replace, gleaming oak fl oors, 1½ baths and main-fl oor family room. The newly fi nished room in the base-ment has 3 large windows to let the sun pour in. The marina is just down the road for the boating enthusiast. Have it all at 610 West Point!

Cathie McCabe, 613-284-6263 [email protected] Julia Scotland, 613-390-0401 [email protected]

PERTH

METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED 3 BEDROOM BUN-GALOW on a large, well treed lot. Large kitchen/din-ing area with “tons” of cupboards and loads of counter space. Multi-level

decks for entertaining and relaxing. Cozy up in the comfyfamily room on the lower level with the effi cient gas stove - privacy for your guests or for a teenager on the lower level with a large bedroom & 3 piece bath – lots new ! $241,900.

Call Barbara Shepherd cell – 613 326-1361

IN TOWN

1.5 storey three bedroom home in quiet residential area of Perth - gas heat & hot water, newer windows - separate dining room plus eat-in kitchen - main fl oor 2 piece bath with washer & dryer hookup - single detached garage, paved drive, huge lot 50x208 feet - excellent location, close to all amenities.$225,000. Call Joanne Bennell 613-812-0505

OPEN HOUSESATURDAY, OCT. 1 • 1 - 2 p.m.

88 North St., Perth - fully renovated 4-5 bedroom house with 3 baths, a block from centre of downtown perth and the golf course. New roof shingles, new fl ooring, new bathroom fi xtures. Lower level would make a great in-law suite with kitchenette, large living area with free-standing gas stove, bedroom & bath. Bright 2 bedroom, 4-pc. bath main

level with large living/dining room off kitchen with built-in appliances. Two smaller bedrooms and 2-pc. bath on second level. Immediate occupancy! $199,500. MLS# 807876.BOB FERGUSON • 613-812-8871 • [email protected] • www.bobsperthhomes.ca

NEW LISTING

$99,900 - This open concept one level home has deeded water access to the clyde river just across the road. Steel roof & newer septic system. Eat-in kitchen, 3 season sun rm could be converted 3rd bdrm. Propane furnace & woodstove. Enjoy almost 2 acres with decks, pond & fountain. Large laundry / storage room. Plenty of outbuildings, one with woodstove making a perfect workshop. MLS# 807985.



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SUNDAY, OCT. 2 • 12-1 p.m.6071 HWY. 43 (JUST 3 KM OUT) - $259,500 - Absolutely fantastic home for you & your family-extremely well main-tained & cared for by the cur-rent owners-4 bedroom home is ideal for an active family-features include a master bed-room with juliet balcony, built-in

cabinets & cupboards & a gorgeous ensuite bath-lovely hardwood fl oors & ceramic in many of the rooms-golden oak cabinets, newer counter top & an effi cient 5 foot island/breakfast counter in the spacious kitchen-newer bay window in the bright living room-separate formal dining room with terrace door to rear deck-pickwick pine & a lovely corner gas fi replace highlight the cozy lower level family room-separate den/offi ce, bright laundry & storage area plus a large utility/storage room-double attached garage is insulated & dry-walled-gorgeous inground pool has stairs & ladder & lovely concrete patio & wrought iron fencing. Effi cient gas heat & hot water, paved driveway with turn around. MLS# 091990801556350 Hostess: Sheri, 613-812-1215

OPEN HOUSE

SATURDAY, OCT. 112-1:30 p.m.

82 HARVEY ST. PERTH - $244,900 - central location & beautiful lot only adds to the appeal of this totally renovated & updated Vic-torian brick home-interior has been totally gutted & virtually done over-all in-terior walls, 2x6 walls for

insulation on all exterior walls, fl ooring, plumbing, bathrooms, kitchen, vinyl thermopane windows, wiring, stairways, drywall, light fi xtures, switches & plugs, oil furnace, central air, etc-nice high ceilings, pellet stove and hard-wood fl oors on the main level-front & rear decks were built, shed, new gravel on driveway and any brick work required was also done-this 3 bedroom home is in obvious move-in condition and well worth a look-privacy fencing & mature trees make the backyard your own little piece of paradise! MLS# 092101003512500 Hostess: Sheri, 613-812-1215

NEW LISTING109 CLARENCE STREET, LA-NARK - $179,000 - Majestic gem in quite village setting. Large lot with loads of privacy in beautiful treed back yard. Grand, old 2 sto-rey home complete with walk-up attic. Pine fl oors have been beauti-fully refi nished on both levels of this 4 bedroom home. Original woodwork, doors & ornate trim & fi nishing remain intact and in

excellent condition. Kitchen has been totally updated including counter tops, built-in dishwasher, appliances and ceramic tile fl ooring. 5-piece bath on up-per level and main fl oor laundry is handy. Lovely covered front verandah & side porch, newer vinyl siding. Exterior walls of basement & attic have been insulated. Most new Thermopane windows have been replaced. Oil hot water heating & a new WETT certifi ed woodstove is being installed. Great attached workshop/garage area & attached wood storage area as well. Plumbing & wir-ing updated. Immediate possession. Call today. MLS# 094093601526100

Sheri, 613-812-1215

$539,000 - A hidden gem on the banks of the Tay River nestled in the very heart of heritage Perth. This stunning piece of property carries with it the unique history of Haggarts Island. Watch the waterfall under rainbow bridge as you dine in your eat-in kitchen. French doors lead into a din-ning experience with original 1832 stone

wall as a back drop. Enjoy your coffee in the sunfi lled morning room. The panoramic view of the tay expands before you. The original stone fi replace is the focal

point for the cozy living room. The master bedroom features a spacious sunfi lled ensuit. Down the hall is the 2nd bedroom and 2nd of 3 bathrooms with laundry. Tastefully decorated in calm neutrals this is a perfect place to call home. The detached 2 car garage with workshop and vintage green-house puts the cap on the endless charm of this once in a life time property.

CALL or EMAIL Cathie McCabe 613-284-6263 [email protected]/Julia Scotland 613-390-0401 [email protected].

IN TOWN

BURGESSWOOD - Planned community with 200 acres of recreational land and 4000 feet of gorgeous waterfront on Otty Lake for residents of BurgessWood.

The neighbour said it is the “nic-est property” in BurgessWood - 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths (one with ja-cuzzi!) - pretty 2.81 acre lot only 10 minutes to Perth. Separate dining

room, wonderful light and bright open design with elevated ceilings, eat- in kitchen that is a great gathering place, cozy fi replace in living room, lower level family room with walkout. Many updates. MLS # 786557 $324,000

Call Barbara Shepherd • cell – 613 326-1361

Pretty as a picturehouse and property - tucked behind the trees for privacy. 2 or 3 bedrooms in total with den and fam-ily room. Walkout lower level - large windows, great light. Huge screened in

porch for summer relaxing. Detached double car garage and workshop for the handyman. $354,900.

Call Barbara Shepherd Cell - 613 326-1361www.124LakewoodRoadPerth.com

WATERFRONT

WATERFRONT

Excellent waterfront property on Pike Lake. Fire Route # 11 off of the Scotch Line - great boating, swim-ming & fi shing - house has been renovated over the last 8 years in-cluding new light fi xtures, fl ooring, windows, painting, kitchen, baths, decks much more - lovely rock gardens around the house - cute bunkie and garden shed. $319,000.

Call Joanne Bennell 613-813-0505.

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5’X14’ landscaping trailer, good condition, spare tire, $1,200. 4’x6’ heavy-duty trailer, like new, low profile tires, $1,000. 2000 Grand Prix, needs some work, as is,$800. Paul, 613-256-5588 or cell, 613-883-0142.

For sale in Almonte. Ex-ercise bike. About 10 years old. Never used much and good as new. Asking $100 or best offer. Pick-up re-quired. Phone 613-256-1501.

FREE 120-PAGE CATALOGUE from Halfords. Butcher sup-plies, leather and craft supplies and ani-mal-control products. 1-800-353-7864 or email: [email protected] or visit our web store: www.halfordsmailorder.com

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TOP DOLLAR we pay for used guitars, amplifi-ers, banjos, etc. No hassle - we even pick up! Call Mill Music, Renfrew, toll-free, 1-877-484-8275 or, lo-cal, 613-432-4381.

FIREWOOD

FIREWOOD FOR SALE, $80/cord for nibbins. Also 16” and 14” available. Bulk or-ders discounted. Call for details, 613-257-5095.

Gerry Blair & Son Fire-wood. All hardwood. Dried one year plus. Call Gerry, 613-259-2723.

PETS

BERNESE MOUNTAIN dog pups, born July 8. Vaccinated, de-wormed, ready. 613-223-0722.

OPENHOUSES

OPEN HOUSE, SUN-DAY, OCT. 2, 2-4 PM $449,900. 7440 Copeland Rd. 5 bedroom/2 baths. Eliza-beth Stokely, Sales Rep, Keller Williams Ottawa Realty, Bro-kerage, 613-236-5959, cell: 613-369-5764.

LOTS & LAND

580 acre wooded wonderland north of Hwy. 7. Waterfalls, large pond, creek. 4 bedroom home, large barn, and triple gar-age. Must be sold to settle estate. Gerry Hudson, Sales Rep, 1-613-449-1668, Ri-deau Town & Country Realty Ltd. Brokerage, 613-273-5000.

Unlimited cash paid for waterfront, land and small farm property. Free evaluation on re-quest. Gerry Hudson, Sales Rep., 1-613-449-1668, Rideau Town &Country Realty Ltd.Brokerage, 613-273-5000.

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Carleton Place: Great commercial space available, retail, office and industrial from 750 sq. ft. to 1,600 sq. ft. Gibson Properties, 613-267-5711.

HOUSESFOR RENT

51 - 55 CARP ROAD, 3 bedroom, 2 baths. Available November 1. 5 1/2 acres, 3-car garage. Call 613-839-1485.

Carleton Place: 3 bed-room house. Short-term rental, available now until March 15, 2012. $1,400/month plus utilities. 613-257-5711.

Carleton Place: Semi-detached home. Great area, garage, base-ment. Easy Ottawa ac-cess. $1,095/month plus utilities. Available Nov. 1. 613-229-0737.

COZY LAKEFRONT open-concept 2 bed-room log home. Short drive to Carleton Place with year-round access. Very private. Great shoreline and garden. Spectacular view. Non- smoking only. Yearly lease. AvailableDecember. $1,100monthly plus heat andutilities. 613-256-6026.

NEWLY RENOVATED SPLIT-LEVEL TOWN-HOME, downtown Carleton Place. 2 bed-room plus den, 5 appli-ances. $1,100/month plus utilities. No pets, no smoking. Applica-tion, references and first/last months’ rent re-quired. Available im-mediately. 613-253-3534.

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APARTMENTSFOR RENT

1 BEDROOM APART-MENT located on Rich-ardson Side Road (between Carp andStittsville). $635/month plus heat and hydro. Call Scott, 613-266-0021.

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MISSISSIPPI LAKE: Nicely furnished 1 bed-room apartment pluskitchenette. Ideal for working single or retir-ee. No smoking/pets. $800/month, utilities in-cluded. 613-257-0089.

APARTMENTSFOR RENT

CARLETON PLACE: Clean, bright, newly renovated 2 bedroom bungalow in quiet area. Garden, appli-ances, heating, garage included. Non-smoking only. $1,000/month. 613-257-5410.

DOWNTOWN ARN-PRIOR: 1 bedroom up-stairs apartment, small balcony, 2 paved park-ing spaces. $700 plus utilities. Available Oct. 1. 613-302-1669.

FRESHLY RENOVATED upper-level 2 bed-room plus den with bal-cony, in-unit laundry,parking, overlookingriver, in quiet adult building. $995/month plus utilities.Available Sept. 1.Jeff/Kelly, 613-257-7041.

Large 2 bedroom apartment, Carleton Place. Newly renovat-ed, centrally located. Private entrance, small balcony. No pets. Refer-ences. $750 plus utilities. Available imme-diately. 613-257-5173.

LARGE 2 bedroom. Free parking, securi-ty. 149 Church St., Al-monte. $830/month plus utilities. 613-769-6697.

NEWLY RENOVATED one-plus bedroom up-stairs apartment,downtown Arnprior.Washer/dryer in unit,secure building withintercom, parkingspot, heat and hydro extra, $725 month, first/last. 613-302-1669.

PAKENHAM: 2 bed-room, $800 + utilities. Available immediately. No pets, no smoking. Call 613-294-5611.

HUNTING

HUNTER SAFETY Ca-nadian Firearms Course. Courses and exams held throughout the year. Free course if you organize a group; exams available. Wen-da Cochran, 613-256-2409.

HUNTER SAFETY CA-NADIAN FIREARMS COURSE, CARP, Oct. 21, 22, 23. WendaCochran, 613-256-2409.

HUNTER SAFETY CA-NADIAN FIREARMS COURSE, Arnprior, Oct. 14, 15, 16. WendaCochran, 613-256-2409.

LOST & FOUND

FOUND: Keys with blue tag, Carpentry M&E on grass, on Coleman Street by the Subway, Carleton Place. Pick up at 53 Bridge St., Carleton Place.

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Great job, flexible hours. Mature, expe-rienced servers and drivers required. Bring résumé to 73 Bridge Street, Carle-ton Place.

H O M E W O R K E R S NEEDED!!! Full- and part-time positions areavailable - will train.Online data entry, typing work, e-mail reading, PC/clericalwork, assembling products. HURRY,SPOTS GO FAST! www.Ontar ioJobsAtHome.com

Labourer/mover for local moving compa-ny. Contact Kim, 613-253-2219.

Operat ion/dispatch position for residential foundation company. Candidate must have good knowledge of residential construction practices, and dispatch experience is consid-ered an asset. Must possess a valid driver’s licence. Candidate must be well orga-nized, be able to multi-task and possess excel-lent computer skills. Competitive salary based on experience with benefits. Please fax résumé to 613-256-3008 or email: k e v i n @ w e s t e n dforming.ca

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PART-TIME COOK needed for evenings. Please drop off résumés at Danny Mac’s, 51 John St. N., Arnprior.

Residential foundation company looking for a stone slinger operator. Valid DZ licence and a clean driver’s abstract a must. Experience an as-set. Competitive wage based on experience with benefits. Please fax résumé to 613-256-3008 or email: k e v i n @ w e s t e n dforming.ca

WELL -ESTABLISHED cleaning contractor has an opening available for a cleaner to work 1 day/week in a home in Almonte. Previous experience as a residential cleaner is essential. Interested candidates please call Alicja at 613-231-7140 or email: [email protected]. Positions also avail-able for cleaners towork for homes in Ot-tawa.

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Ezipin Canada is seeking an energetic, self-motivated technical support analyst with 1 to 2 years’ experience for their Ottawa office.Requisite skills in-clude: Knowledge of computer H/W and S/W systems (PC sys-tems, servers, Lan diag-nostic), computer operating systems (Windows, LINUX), Microsoft standard of-fice applications (Word, Excel, Power-Point, Outlook); ex-perience withproblem diagnostics, info analysis, training and development tech-niques and trouble-shooting computer system problems. Re-sponsibilities: H/W and S/W testing, moni-toring servers, provide support to corporate clients, level 2 custom-er support, local net-work and firewall support, PBX configura-tion and maintenance and product design and development. Requisite attrib-utes: Work well un-der pressure, orga-nized, resourceful, punctual, patient and the ability to think logi-cally and analyze complex problems. This is a permanent,full-time positionwith extensive benefits. Fluency in English is mandatory, French an asset.Please send résumés to [email protected] or fax to 613-831-6678.

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(nee Ennis)Peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 22, 2011 at Lanark Lodge, Perth in her 91st year. Beloved wife of the late John Edward. Loving mother to Marilyn “Marnie” (Pat Cairns), predeceased by her son Richard (Randi). Cherished Nan to Travis (Sharon) and Carl Cairns. Great-Grandma to Sydney and Jonathon Dickinson. Survived by her sisters Margaret (Carl) and Ethel. Doris will be missed by her special friend Pat Jeeves. Doris’s jokes and positive attitude will be remembered by her family and friends. The family would like to thank the staff and residents at Lanark Lodge for their care and support. Friends were invited to call at the Carleton Place Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 61 Lakes Avenue West, Carleton Place on Sunday, September 25, 2011 from 1-4 p.m. Funeral service was held at St. James Anglican Church, Carleton Place on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 11 a.m. Interment St. John Anglican Cemetery, Innisville. In lieu of flowers donations to St. John Anglican Cemetery or Elizabeth Court “coffee fund” would be appreciated. Condolences, tributes or donations may be made at www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com

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CLEMENTORVILLE ARTHUR(Veteran of WW II -

Royal Canadian Engineers)Peacefully in Almonte

Country Haven on Friday, September 23, 2011.

Orville Clementof Almonte, age 91 years.

Beloved husband of the late Doris Stanley and dear father of Dennis (Margaret Muldoon), Raymond (Gale Robillard), Robert and Donald. Loving grandfather of 8 and great grandfather of 13. Son of the late Perry & Eileen Clement. Survived by sisters; Vi Larose, Edna Clement and Th eresa Robillard. Predeceased by a brother; Francis and by his sisters, Della, Pat. Beatrice and Marie.

Resting in the C. R. GAMBLE

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Ontario. (613)256-3313for visiting on Sunday, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Holy Name of Mary Church, Almonte on Monday, Sept. 26 at 11 am. Interment with his beloved wife, Doris in Holy Name of Mary Parish Cemetery, Almonte.

For those who may wish to make a donation in memory of Orville, please

consider Holy Name of Mary Memorial Fund. A very special thank you to all the staff at Almonte Country Haven.

Legion members are invited to attend a memorial service in the Chapel on

Sunday at 6:45 pm. Th e Rosary will be prayed in the Chapel of the funeral home

on Sunday at 1:45 pm.Condolences & Tributes -

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GOURLEY: In loving memory of a very dear uncle and special friend, Michael, who passed away Oct. 3, 1992.Softly the leaves of memory fadeGently we gather and treasure them allA thought, a prayer are all we can giveThese you will have as long as we liveBeautiful memories si-lently keptOf the one we love and never forget.Loved and remem-bered every day,Jamie and Tracy Thompson

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Just inside the main entrance of the C.R. Gamble Funeral Home is a book of remembrance. Each day we turn a page in the book. The names of those we have served are inscribed on that date along with the year in which they passed away. It is our way of honouring and remembering a life that was lived. It is also our

way of saying “thank you” to the many families who have shown confi dence in us since we came to Almonte in 1973. Some families are unable to visit this book on the anniversary of the death of those they love. For this reason we are proud to publish these names weekly as our way of saying...“We Remember”.

29th1992 - Cavanagh, Horace Alvin1995 - Rubie, Barbara Alberta1995 - Clarke, Florence Isobel

30th1978 - Barker, Dorothy Myrtle1978 - Bowes, Evelyn Elizabeth1983 - Giles, Orville Willis1987 - Thornburg, Margaret Alma Helen1989 - Vaughan, John Leo1992 - Ostifi chuk, William Robert1993 - Hallarn, William John “Bill”1996 - Manarey, Stewart Russell

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2nd1988 - Corkery, Lillie Evelyn2004 - Lawrence, baby Chloe2008 - Hughes, Diana Grace

3rd1978 - McCann, Allen 2008 - Sutton, Elizabeth Jean

4th1983 - Julian, Tillie Elizabeth1987 - Gillan, Shane Biggs2002 - Graham, Marion Florence2003 - McLean, James William2004 - Uchman, Francis Paul2006 - Cane, Arthur Lawrence

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Jean Akers (October 30, 1927 - September 20, 2011)

AKERS, Jean (nee Bavington)

Peacefully at Carleton Place Hospital on Tuesday September 20, 2011 at the age of 83. Beloved wife for 61 years of Leslie Akers and loving mother of Nicolas (Janet) of Bedfordshire, England and James (Pat). Doting grandmother of Ellie (Nathan Billings), Bekki, Jenni, Sophie and Tim. Great Grandmother of Sennen. Sister of John.

The FuneralFriends were invited to join the family for a memorial service at the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Ave., Carleton Place, on Monday September 26, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of fl owers, a donation to Carleton Place Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

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Dunbar, Gordon

Peacefully at the Ottawa General Hospital, on September 14, 2011 at the age of 67 years. Gordon was born in Brockville, Ontario and lived most of his life at Ride-au Regional Center in Smiths Falls. Gordon later moved to Al-monte, Ontario.He will be sadly missed by friends from Rideau Regional Center and many caring support staff from the Mills Community Support Corporation. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Free Methodist Church in Smiths Falls on October 4, 2011, at 11am. Reception to follow.Funeral Arrangements entrusted to the care of

C. R. GAMBLEFUNERAL HOME & CHAPEL INC.

127 Church Street, Almonte,Ontario. (613)256-3313

Condolences & Tributes - www.crgamble.com

RetaElizabeth Traill

(December 8, 1916 - September 21, 2011)

Traill, Reta Elizabeth Suddenly but peacefully at her home in Perth. Dear sister of Vera Lidstone (Randy). Caring aunt of Jim Lidstone (Rhonda) and Debby Christie (Andrew). Predeceased by her parents William and Elizabeth Traill, and by her brother James E. Traill.

The FuneralAt Reta’s request there will be no visitation or service. A private graveside burial will take place in Lanark. For those who wish, a donation to St. Andrew’s Church, Lanark would be appreciated.

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Nancy Coreau

(December 19, 1949 - September 16, 2011)

Coreau, Nancy

Peacefully at Bonnechere Manor, Renfrew, on Friday September 16, 2011 at the age of 61. Loving mother of Chris (Lisa) and Rodney (Jaclyn). Cherished daughter of Cliff ord and Shirley Robillard. Survived by her brother Robert Robillard (Sherri). Loving aunt of Cheri, Crystal and Matthew. Nancy will be missed by her many cousins.

The FuneralFuneral arrangements private.

For those who wish, a donation to the Alzheimer’s Society would

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Almonte hypnotherapist has unique approachBRIER DODGE

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Quite often, Louise Goddard’s clients don’t believe her when she says their hour session is over. They have to double check their own personal clocks to make sure she’s telling the truth.

It’s a sign of success for God-dard, a hypnotherapist, who works out of her recently rented home in Almonte.

It means her client successfully was in a trance - “a fancy name for deep relaxation,” she said.

Goddard is certifi ed in both neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy, and has a unique way of delivering it.

While most NLP practitioners or hypnotherapists would have clients to their offi ce, Goddard’s offi ces are all over the world – in England, Australia and the Middle East.

She conducts sessions from her home offi ce through telephone and Skype, allowing her clients to sit back and relax where ever they are.

They regain consciousness more prepared to deal with a variety of things – obsessive compul-sive disorder, mild depression, quitting smoking, confi dence in public speaking – and even playing professional hockey.

It’s a unique approach in her profession, and not one that many others have taken.

After she appeared in wide-spread Canadian me-dia, she started to get calls from other hypnothera-pists who were interested.

Hypnotherapy isn’t just what you see in the movies, with a hypnotherapist ticking a pendulum

in front of a client’s face.Goddard has her own scripts she

uses to put her clients at ease, before moving into the dialogue.

“I don’t say ‘don’t eat chocolate cake,’” Goddard said, of a script for someone trying to kick a sugar habit. “You say ‘I want to eat whole, natural, healthy foods.”

Goddard isn’t a psychologist or psychotherapist, but someone who works on building new pathways in the brain.

“It’s changes they want to make,” she said.

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She started after a bad relation-ship left her wanting more control in her life.

“I realized I needed to learn to control my own state,” she said.

“I didn’t want to be on that roller coast-er.”

After a long training sessions and professional exams, Goddard eventually became certifi ed to practice hypno-therapy and NLP.

Her career, teaching IT and web design has slowly tak-en a back seat to her at-home career, with her sessions booking up weeks in advance.

She hopes her career will thrive as she enjoys the new community - the move brought her much closer to her family. She said there is a still a lot to be learned about hypnotism, both by experts, and the people that could benefi t from it.

And while the newly-Almonte based Goddard hopes to have local clients in the near future, her current base is wide-spread across the world.

But it doesn’t mean she’s going to change her tactics. “If it were me?” she said, of being hypnotized, “it

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ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCHANNUAL HARVEST SUPPER

Thursday, September 29, 2011From 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

CIVITAN HALLWOLF GROVE ROAD, ALMONTE

TURKEY, TRIMMINGS AND LOTS OF PIES!

Advance Tickets:Adults: $12.00 Children (under 12): $8.00

Contact the church offi ce at 613 256-1771Tickets also available at the door

70 Clyde St. Almonte Email: offi ce @stpaulsalmonte.ca

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On the evening of Saturday, Oct. 1, a parade of candlelit lanterns will illuminate the path of Car-leton Place’s newly built community labyrinth to celebrate a ‘Harvest Lantern Labyrinth Walk’.

The Labyrinth Committee invites the public to join its autumn celebration.

Festivities take place at 7 p.m. behind the Car-leton Place & Beckwith Heritage Museum at 267 Edmund St. in Carleton Place. “Thanks to sup-port from Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Town of Carleton Place, and individuals and businesses within our community, a permanent labyrinth now exists for people to use at any time,” says commit-tee chairperson Debby Lytle.

“For those who have attended one of our public events before, we invite you to bring out your lan-terns and join the evening walk. And, if you are new to the labyrinth experience, Oct. 1 is a perfect chance to visit the site and discover the serenity and simplicity of walking a labyrinth.”

The Harvest Lantern Labyrinth Walk is a popu-lar fall event, as families from across the region bring along their festive lanterns and enjoy an eve-ning walk.

Along with a candlelit path lit by hundreds of lu-minaries, expect to fi nd a roaring bonfi re, music, and refreshments – all chosen for the harvest theme. Bring along a chair and a lantern (or borrow one of the committee’s) and join members as they cel-ebrate harvest-time with a candlelit lantern walk along the path of the community labyrinth!

For more information, call Debby at 613-257-1014. The Labyrinth Committee is a sub-committee of Carleton Place in Bloom.

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inSPIRE ChurchCarleton Place

Please contact us formore information!

Phone: 613-552-1323Email: [email protected]: www.myinspirenetwork.com

Pastor: Scott Ridenour

St. Paul’sAnglican Church62 Clyde St. Almonte

Parish Offi ce 613 256-1771Incumbent: Rev. Pat Martin

SUNDAY WORSHIP8am - Quiet Traditional9:15 - Choir and Organ

11am Contemporary PraiseWe share a coff ee hour

between services at 10:30amCome and be welcome!www.stpaulsalmonte.ca

AlmontePresbyterian Church

111 Church St. [email protected]

Rev. Alison & Rev. Brian SharpeMr. George Stewart

Organist and Choir DirectorSunday 10:30am

Worship Service & Sunday SchoolNursery care Available

ALL WELCOME!Transportation is available by calling

Elford Giles 613.256.2460

Holy Name of MarySt. Mary’s ParishAlmonte 613.256.1034Father Lindsay Harrison

SATURDAY MASS 4:30 p.m.SUNDAY MASS 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.Children’s Litrugy, Youth Ministry, Bible Study, Prayer Circle (check website for

times and programs)www.holynameofmaryparish.com

St. Mary’s RomanCatholic Church

28 Hawthorne Ave., CPFr. Augustine Mendonça,

613-257-1284, 613-257-1630MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday 5pmSunday 9am & 10:30am

HANDICAP ACCESS

Ottawa ValleyVineyard Church

Loving God, Loving People,Having Fun

When: 10:30 a.m. SundayWhere: Carleton Place High School

613-257-6045www.ottawavalleyvineyard.ca

CornerstoneCommunity Church

A Free Methodist Congregation(Just east of Tim Horton’s)

613.256.4995www.cornerstone.almonte.ca

SUNDAY 10:00 a.m.Worship Service & Sunday School

FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. Youth Group

AlmonteBaptist Church

207 Reserve St. 613.256.5655Pastor: Paul Benson

www.almonte.baptistchurch.com11 a.m. - Sunday Morning Worship

Nursery Care andJunior Church Available

ReformedPresbyterian Church273 Almonte St., Almonte

Services:10 am. each Sunday

11:30 am. Sabbath School ClassesSecond services at:

2:00 pm. 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays.6:00 pm. 2nd & 4th Sundays

Weekly Bible StudiesFor Information-

613-256-2816 – [email protected] Matt Dyck

The Bridge Kanata(The Wesleyan Church)

285 Didsbury Rd., Kanata(Behind Canadian Tire)

613-592-7635www.bridgechurches.ca

Sunday Worship Services:9:00am & 11:00am

Bridge Kids (ages 3- Grade 5) at both services. Nursery Care availableSr. Pastor: Rev. S. Allan SummersPastor of Spritual Development:

Rev. Dave KornelsenPastor of Student Ministries:

Ben MargesonDirector of Children’s Ministries:

Lisa Summers

Grace Anglican ChurchAn Anglican Network in

Canada ChurchYou are invited to worship with us

Sunday Morning @ 9:30amClayton Community Hall

ClaytonLay Pastor: Trudy Hardy

613-256-2644www.graceanglicanchurch.ca

Calvary Pentecostal ChurchPhone: 613 257 3484

Email: [email protected]

Zion-MemorialUnited Church

37 Franklin Street • 613-257-213310:30 a.m. - Morning Worship

10:30 a.m. - Sunday School NurseryFULLY ACCESSIBLE

Minister:Rev. Peter W. Dahlin, B.A., M.Div.

Organist: Mr. Tony StuartWARM WELCOME TO ALL!

The United Churchof Canada

Ashton-Munster Pastoral ChargeAshton, Munster & ProspectSunday October 2nd, 2011

Ashton - 9:30amMunster - 11:00am

613-693-1849Rev. Matt GallingerEveryone Welcome

The Lighthouse355 Moff att St. 613-257-4255

Pastor: Doug AndersonW-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.cplighthouse.orgSunday Services

10am Celebration Service& Children’s Church

Contact us for more information.

Seventh DayAdventist Church

117 Victoria St. 613-257-5109www.carletonplaceadventists.org

Pastor: Adriaan van der Lingen613-979-1161

SATURDAY SERVICESSabbath School - 9:30 a.m.Divine Service - 11:00 a.m.

EVERYONE WELCOME

Carleton PlaceBaptist Church

299 Bridge St. Carleton Place613-257-1889

Pastor: Brian Affl eckSunday School 10am

Worship 11amChildren’s Church provided

Prayer & Bible StudyWednesday 7pm

All Welcome! Handicap accessAir Conditioned

Almonte United Church106 Elgin Street, Almonte

Tel: 256-1355Rev. Heather Kinkaid

Organist & Music Director: Neil Milnes10:30 am - Sunday Worship & Sunday

School • Child Care AvailableWebsite: www.almonteunited.comEmail: offi [email protected]

Offi ce Hours: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Mon-Fri.For Transportation call the offi ce.

St. JamesAnglican Church225 Edmund Street,

Carleton Place, Ontario • 613.257.3178Web site: stjamescarletonplace.org

Sunday,October 2nd, 201116th Sunday after Pentecost

8am Holy Eucharist10am Choral Eucharist

Church School Classes in Parish hallThursday October 6th, 2011

10am Holy EucharistRector The Rev. David Andrew

Assistant Curate The Rev. Carolyn SharpOrganist Mr. Ralph LangtryChoir Director Pat Grainger

Eternal HopeAnglican Church

Affi liated with the AnglicanNetwork in Canada

Come, worship with us!OCTOBER

Sunday Services & Sunday School10 am

Worshipping at117 Victoria St. Carleton PlaceInfo: Dave Kemp, Lay Pastor

613-257-5490www.eternalhopechurch.ca

Destiny HouseChurch Network

Speaking to your potential your pastdoes not determine your future

for more information call613-978-5723

St. Andrew’sPresbyterian Church

39 Bridge St. • Tel. 613-257-3133Minister Rev. Tony Boonstra

B.ED, B.TH., M.DIV.Organist and Choir Director

Susan HarronSunday Service at 10:30 a.m.

The porch lamp is lit.Nursery Available Every Sunday

Handicap Access

Parish of Franktown& Innisville

Anglican ChurchesSunday Services:

Rev. Laurette Glasgow613-257-1340

St. James, Franktown 8:30 a.m.St. John’s, Innisville 10:30 a.m.

All are welcome!

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LANDSCAPING

Nature/Pets

The third weekend of Sep-tember, in Leamington, On-tario, our southernmost part of the province provided a great place for the annual Ontario Field Ornithologists meeting.

Four outings and a banquet with a speaker gave us much to see and do. By Sunday, our group total of birds seen/heard reached 170. ‘Twas a great number of different spe-cies in two days time.

Lingering warblers in fall colours were often diffi cult to see, with trees in full leaf giving many places for them to hide.

We had excellent views of blackpoll and magnolia warblers, and a palm war-bler pumping its tail. American redstarts looked bright, and a Philadelphia vireo

sat in full view. A place to fi nd birders is the local

sewage lagoons, which provide good habitat for shorebirds and gulls.

The Blenheim Sewage Lagoons produced super looks of a single red-necked phalarope in winter plumage foraging there. Two pecto-ral sandpipers, with brown speck-led feathering, blended easily with dried weeds. Three spotted and one stilt sandpipers were tallied.

Among the many gulls, someone spotted a little gull. It is small (11”),

compared to the ring-billed gull (17”). Dark gray to black underwings made it stand out from the others.

Spotted and stilt sandpipers, plus a mixed fl ock of both greater and lesser yel-lowlegs, added to our total.

A fi eld in the Tilbury area gave us a

long-sighted view of another sandpiper and two plovers. The buff-breasted sand-piper was sitting down, with only the head showing above the grass. At last it stood up, for a good telescope sight.

In this fi eld were four black-bellied plo-vers and an American golden plover juve-nile. Overhead, a single purple martin and several barn swallows caught insects.

In Rondeau Provincial Park, we added fi ve woodpecker species. A pair of red-headed and one red-bellied woodpecker started us off.

Next, a yellow-bellied sapsucker sat at the top of a tree. Downy and hairy wood-peckers came into view, busy feeding.

Favourite bird seen was the red-necked phalarope. Local news next week.

Please call Lynda at 613-256-5013, or email [email protected] with bird re-ports.

Bird watchers fl ock to Leamington

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Buster is an amazing young fellow. From the picture he may not be much of a mouser, but he’s a gentle, loving cat that is urgently in need of a home before the colder weather sets in.

For more details, please call Pam from the Don’t Litter Spay/Neuter/Cat Rescue Program at 613-253-MEOW (6369).

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General Practice • Real EstateFamily Law • Criminal Law

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Arts and Culture

Photo by Chris Couper

EXCEPTIONAL MINDS ART SHOWGrade 12 Notre Dame student Geneviève Hoover has exhibited her art in the show for the past fi ve years. The Carleton Place artist shares a love of painting with her twin sister and said that this year’s painting is her favourite. Hoover was one of the artists on display at “Without Exception” Exceptional Art from Beautiful Minds exhibit at the Mill of Kintail Sept. 16.


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Whether you’re on the Perth Autumn Studio Tour,Whether you’re on the Perth Autumn Studio Tour, or just out looking at the leaves why not comeor just out looking at the leaves why not come downtown and try one of our 18 restaurants?downtown and try one of our 18 restaurants?

Enter to win $100 gift certifi cates at participating restaurants.

Check the Perth Chamber Website for more detail on the restaurants www.perthchamber.com

Perth Studio Theatre is proud to host the 2011 Eastern Ontario Drama League

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ANDREW SNOOK

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The Smiths Falls Jr. A Bears defeated the Carleton Place Jr. A Canadians 6-4 to pick up their fi rst win of the season on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Smiths Falls Memorial Community Centre.

The Bears had their most dominant performance of the season, heading into the fi nal nine minutes of play up 6-1.

Carleton Place forward Jay Llewelyn got his team fi red up by scoring with less than six minutes left in regulation.

The Canadians scored two more goals before the end of the game to make the score more respectable.

“We played well,” Smiths Falls’ Matt Robertson said. “We just stuck to our systems.”

Robertson scored the game-winning goal with two seconds left in the second period, after he stole the puck on a Car-leton Place rush, skated into the Cana-dians’ end and fi red a high wrist shot past goaltender Joe Yetman.

Yetman was pulled after the second period after allowing fi ve goals on 28 shots. He was replaced by Brodie Bar-rick who stopped eight of nine shots in the third period.

Smiths Falls head coach Mark Grady said was happy to pick up the fi rst win of the season, but didn’t like what he saw in the fi nal minutes of play.

Canadians defeated by Smiths Falls; crush Kemptville

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The Canadians had an easy time in dominating Kemptville Sunday, beating the 73s 7-0.

Shayne Morrissey kicked off the game by scoring the league’s fastest goal of the last decade only six seconds in.

Trent Durocher found the net early in the fi rst period as well,

with the team holding off Kemp-tville until Kyle Phillips scored in the second to pad their lead to 3-0.

Anthony McVeigh and Jay Llewelyn both scored second and third period goals to take the score up to 7-0.

Goalie Joe Yetman was named the third star for his shutout, let-ting in none of the 19 shots that came his way.

Photo by Andrew Snook

Elias Ghantous holds off a Smiths Falls forward for goalie Joe Yetman in the fi rst period of the Canadians game against the Bears.

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Carleton Place Canadians defenseman Michael Maciag takes his time down the left wing during a 7-0 blowout against the visit-ing Kemptville 73’s Sunday. The Canadians held the visitors to only 19 shots through three periods of play, earning their goal-tender Joe Yetman a shutout early in the season.

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Important 4- Party Telephone Lines do not display information in 9-1-1 system.

The EMERGENCY SERVICES will ask for: Address – Municipality, Street or Road Name, Property Identification Number (PIN) Description of the problem – Fire, Violent Act, Injuries to People. Telephone you are calling from. Your name

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MISSISSIPPI MUDDS

Fourteen young people from the Mississippi Mudds Youth Theatre are currently in rehears-als for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which they will be performing in the round at the Carleton Place Town Hall in October.

Why would a group of teenag-ers try to do something as chal-lenging as this particular play? Director Mark Piper, who is cur-rently taking his actors through their lines and their blocking at a church hall in Carleton Place, says the mystique of the Bard actually helped draw young ac-tors into the production.

“Yes, I have to say that the words ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Shake-speare’ were kind of a magnet to a lot of these young actors,” says Piper. “They wanted to test themselves against that sort of challenge.”

First, there was the chal-lenge of knowing what all those strange Shakespearian words meant.

“I had fun reading many of the witches’ lines to the actors during the early rehearsals, just to get their reactions – ‘Aroint thee witch, the rump-fed runion cries!’ was one of my favourites. You should have seen the looks on their faces,” he laughs.

But all the actors have done their homework by now. They

know what all the words – and speeches – mean. And now they’ve gotten used to perform-ing in the round, having an au-dience all around them, rather than standing on a stage, looking out. For many of them, it meant learning a new way of acting.

Piper explains: “I saw it fi rst with Hayley Fortier – who plays the Porter, the comic relief just after the murder of the king. She started to do her lines bit by bit, turning every so often in order to make sure she talked to someone on each side of the au-dience. Now, a third of the way through rehearsals, the entire

Photo by Kia Mennie

Members of the Macbeth cast re-hearse at St. Mary’s Church. From left are director Mark Piper and Hayley Fortier as Porter, Macbeth’s drunken ‘butler’, comic relief after the murder of the king.

Mudds youth learn to turn a phrase Shakespearian stylecast has become quite comfort-able being surrounded by their audience.”

These young actors gather to-gether to perform these scenes in rehearsal, learning from each other what each charac-ter’s needs and wants are. Jack Cruise (Macbeth) and Jessica Kinnari (Lady Macbeth) are working together to convey the sense of the couple’s malice, ambition, and fear on the night of the murder.

“It will really be intense to see them do it with all the stage blood on their hands, I think.”

He chuckles, and adds, “for me, especially, since I’ve got a cam-eo in the piece as the king that they kill!”

And the actors are also be-coming quick to turn a phrase, since Macbeth has some of the most quotable lines in theatre:

“Something wicked this way comes!

“Is this a dagger I see before me?

“Full of sound and fury, sig-nifying nothing.

“But who would have thought the old man would have so much blood in him?

“Yes, it’s great to hear them do those lines,” says Piper. “And it’s even better because, for some of them, it’s the fi rst time they’ve heard them – for me, sometimes, it’s like hearing Shakespeare for the fi rst time.”

Tickets are on sale at Arts Carleton Place, 132 Coleman St. for three performances at the Carleton Place Town Hall, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 22 at 2 and 7 p.m. Call 613-257-2031. For more information, visit mississip-pimudds.ca.

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CARLETON PLACE – Residents of Knox Street don’t want to beat around the bush.

The Town of Carleton Place and the developers of the proposed apartment building development at 400 Franktown Rd. are asking the row of bushes and trees at the back of the property be main-tained.

Many residents, however, feel this is not enough of a deterrent to trespass-ers. The current plan does not envision a fence at the back of the property, but instead foresees maintaining the current row of trees and hedges.

“The existing trees are being main-tained,” said Lisa Young, the town’s di-rector of planning and development at the community issues committee meet-ing Tuesday, Sept. 20. “It is a natural buf-fer between the building and the single family dwellings on Knox Street.”

In fact, Young noted there are plans for additional vegetation will be added.

Some Knox Street residents however want to see a fence.

“They (kids) are constantly running through my property to cut to the park,” said Knox Street resident Tracey Doherty. “I would like a fence built on the site.”

Doherty was not alone in her feelings. “This buffer zone is one of our biggest

concerns,” said Wayne Gorman. “We have to have a fence … (But) my biggest concern is our privacy. We must stop the people going through. We have a big, big problem now with people trespassing.”

The committee heard the privacy fence along Coleman Street is seven feet, while the fence along McNeely Avenue is eight feet tall, the tallest allowed by the town’s bylaws.

“It can’t be barbed-wire or electrical,” joked Young.

Developer John Gibson appeared to open the door towards considering a fence as the public meeting progressed.

“We can remove any trees that are in the way of a fence,” said Gibson.

The apartment building will be three storeys tall, with 27 units, six fewer than the apartment building to the south. There will be three bachelor units, six one-bedroom units, and 18 two-bedroom units.

“Why can’t the size of the building be reduced and parkland be added in,” won-dered resident Kevin Hogan. “Parkland is for the enjoyment of the entire com-munity.”

While a portion of the property will be developed for to accommodate the 41 parking spots (with seven visitor spots, four handicapped spots) with the about fi ve per cent of the current value of the property to be paid to the town in-lieu of parkland, Deputy Mayor Ed Sonnenburg agreed with the need for green space on the site.

“We would rather have the green space than the cash,” said Sonnenburg.

Some residents also expressed con-

cerns the parking would be situated at the back of the building.

“We want to make sure that parking is not out in front of the buildings,” said Young. But there would be a roadway to ensure cars still have access to Frank-town Road, a main arterial road.

Some residents also expressed con-cerns the lights from cars entering the parking lot would shine into their bed-rooms at night.

Hogan also expressed dismay at the lack of pedestrian access from the inter-section of Franktown Road and Findlay Avenue to Highway 7.

“We are looking at that issue right now,” said Mayor Wendy LeBlanc.

Sonnenburg also expressed concerns about the placement of a fi re hydrant on the property.

“The fact that the fi re hydrant is at the back concerns me,” said Sonnenburg. “It should be at the front of the building.”

“One of the reasons why we can’t put a fi re hydrant at the front of the building is because the (water) pipe is at the back,” said Coun. Gary Strike, of the pipe com-ing from Knox Street.

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CARLETON PLACE – The Lanark Live Poets Society (LiPS) has something to prove.

“We’re the only rural group that par-ticipates at the national level,” said Leigh Gibson, herself a poet, and part of the governing group that oversees LiPS. “All of the other teams that compete are ur-ban. Maybe we’re the only ones who have met the criteria.”

Gibson was speaking at a fundraiser Saturday at C.P. Cinemas, where the group was seeking to narrow the $450 gap left to provide for food and accommo-dation for those attending the national championships in Toronto. That does not include travel costs.

The evening also featured the very unique musical stylings of local band Professor LeStrange and His Band of Degenerates, featuring musicians Ja-son King (guitar, vocals), Derek Leonard (beats, keys) and lead vocalist Andrew

Michelin. “There’s very many different variet-

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to drive us, but we didn’t like to ask them to do it on a regular basis.” The mission of the Canadian Cancer So-ciety is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of those living with cancer. Since 2 in 5 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, this has a major effect on the future of our clients. Transportation can be a barrier to treatment.

In 2010, the Lanark, Leeds and Grenville unit of the Canadian Cancer Society helped 953 adults and 13 children with transpor-tation to cancer treatments, amounting to 404,701 kilometres by the local unit’s 400 volunteer drivers. An average of 24 new clients are regis-tered each month to use the transportation service. The average cost to transport a client to one treatment is $60, while the average for 7 weeks of treatment is $840. How can you help? We are asking you to support the Wheels of Hope program by sponsoring local patients today. If you would like to make a donation to Wheels of Hope, or fi nd out more about be-coming a volunteer driver, please call the La-nark, Leeds & Grenville unit of the Canadian Cancer Society at 613-267-1058. Ken fi nished his treatments about a month ago, giving him an abbreviated summer to work on his multi-year retirement project – a full-size wooden boat built from scratch. The Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society is pleased to part-ner with Lake 88.1 FM, Metroland Media and BrockNews as sponsors of Wheels of Hope.

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Magical, loaded with glowing memo-ries of beautiful weather, full moonlight glittering across mirror-like waters of Grand Lake, colourful sunsets and lasting comradeship.

All these describe the Mississippi Val-ley Field Naturalists’ very successful fourth annual canoe camp held Friday, Sept. 9 to Monda,y Sept. 12. The four-day camp took place at the Achray site on the eastern side of Algonquin Park and was deemed an unqualifi ed success by all 39 participants.

Occupying eight campsites, all in close proximity to each other, individual tents and a huge dining shelter were all erect-ed and canoes parked at the edge of the beautiful white-sand beach, ready for ac-tion. By Friday evening all was ready for the fi rst of three group dinners and cama-raderie.

After dishes were washed and food stowed away in vehicles, all gathered around the fi rst of three campfi res, for chatting, singing and lots of laughter.

The theme of this year’s camp was ‘Seeing Nature From the Water’s Edge’ and nature didn’t disappoint the group. Thirty species of birds and 14 different mammals and amphibians were logged,

most while out on the water during three different canoe treks. Many wildfl owers and insects also captured the group’s in-terest.

On the water, the group launched an impressive fl otilla of 16 canoes and seven kayaks. The fi rst trek followed the shores of Grand Lake into Carcajou Bay to a set of interesting rapids. There the paddlers beached their vessels, explored the area, swam and ate lunch.

Birds listed included loons, great blue herons, wood ducks, spotted sandpipers and kingfi shers. Out on Grand Lake on the return trip, many cormorants and a few herring gulls were spotted.

The second day brought the paddlers through a small portage into Stratton Lake. At the end of this long seven-kilo-metre lake, the quest was the famous High Falls. Here the group poured over the bro-ken rocky area between small pools and rushing water falls, enjoying lunch and a refreshing plunge down a smooth rock slide to the pool below.

Many exciting observations were re-corded, including a bald eagle, osprey, Cooper’s hawk, fl icker, pileated woodpeck-er, a fl otilla of common mergansers, pine and yellow-rumped warblers and a hum-mingbird. Also noted were river otters, a couple of painted turtles and a mink.

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Even a moose visits naturalists canoe camp This handsome

bull moose visit-ed the Mississip-pi Valley Field Naturalists’ ca-noe camp.

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Continued from Page 44Around the campsite we spotted

many blue jays, a robin, turkey vul-ture, ruffed and spruce grouse. A red-bellied snake was caught, photo-graphed and released.

The magic of fading light across the lake brought out a whip-poor-will, which could be heard from the op-posite shore. Loons heralded mourn-ful calls and bats began their swoops across the warm water searching for fl ying insects. A few fl ocks of Canada geese sailed into view.

Visitors were a feature of the camp. At Saturday evening’s campfi re, a resi-dent from Clayton area, Karen Lamb (along with her family and a visit-ing French exchange student) came from a neighbouring campsite and entertained the group with guitar and songs.

Sunday’s surprise was a couple from Germany on their very fi rst visit to Canada. They were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary and joined the naturalists for dinner and camp-fi re.

But, the most surprising visitor was a huge bull moose with an impressive seven-foot rack. Out came the cameras for this one.

In all, the participants in this year’s camp were appreciative of the organi-zational skills of the camp committee: Arne Snyder of the Ashton area who chaired the camp committee, Doug

Younger-Lewis of Almonte who was in charge of registrations and park com-munications, and Howard Robinson of Clayton, who organized the daily pro-gram. Cliff Bennett was in charge of site layout and camp safety.

MVFN president Joyce Clinton pre-sented each with a gift of appreciation at the Sunday campfi re. Other thanks go to Grahame Hunt, Ottawa, who con-ducted a canoe safety course on the fi rst night of camp, and Ron William-son, Almonte, who contributed much to the camp’s success, having been to this area 39 times with school groups.

The camp was struck early Monday morning and, on the way home, over half the paddlers enjoyed the best feature of all, a paddle up the Barron River through the Barron Canyon. Others enjoyed the hike on the Barron Canyon Trail.

Found during the paddle, was a small fl ock of gray jays, an Algonquin Park specialty.

The concluding thoughts of the group were that next year’s MVFN ca-noe camp should be at the same loca-tion.

The fi nal event of the MVFN 2011 ca-noeing program will be the annual Fall Colours Paddle Sunday, Oct. 2. This paddle will be organized by MVFN member Grahame Hunt and will be on Bennett Lake west of Fallbrook.

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Visitor, both wildlife and human, welcomed at camp

Photo by Doug Younger-Lewis

Attendance at the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists’ fourth annual canoe camp at Achray on the east side of Algonquin Park set a record of 39 participants.

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CARLETON PLACE – The Town of Carleton Place will en-force its property standards by-law for the downed fence along McNeely Avenue, but not before a night of bureaucratic wran-gling and re-votes at town coun-cil.

The issue of how to proceed with the fence along McNeely Avenue, which had been downed during a storm several months ago, was discussed at great length at council’s planning and protection committee meeting Sept. 6. Coun. Louis Antonakos, however, felt that some questions about the issue had not been an-swered to his satisfaction.

When it came time to vote on approved the committee meet-ing minutes and actions at the town council meeting on Sept. 13, Antonakos asked that the item as a whole proceed, but that the agenda item dealing with the McNeely Avenue fence be held.

The vote was defeated three to two.

“This is highly unusual,” said a stunned Antonakos. “I am simply asking that an item be pulled for further discussion … It allows us a sober second

thought.”“We’ve pulled items from the

agenda before at an appropriate time,” said Coun. Rob Probert. “We’ve spent about an hour on this subject in the last meet-ing.”

Town clerk, Duncan Rogers, in consultation with Mayor Wendy LeBlanc, decided to ask council the same question again.

“The council was unclear about what they were doing,” said Rogers.

On the second vote, council voted to approve the committee report, minus the section deal-ing with the McNeely Avenue fence, by a vote of three to two, with councillors Doug Black and Jerry Flynn opposed, and councillors Probert, Antonakos,

and Gary Strike in favour.“It’s important to have a town

clerk who is well versed in par-liamentary procedure,” said LeBlanc. “Council is the oppor-tunity for sober second thoughts. It was a lot of work to deal with one issue.”

During the debate on the fence, the town’s chief administrative offi cer, Paul Knowles, pointed out where the town stood on ask-ing homeowners to resurrect their portion of the fence on the street’s east side.

“The subdivision agreement is that there has to be a fence,” said Knowles. “You’re not free to do whatever type of fence you want. It has to look like your neighbours’ fence … At other locations it is not a condition, (but) it was embedded in the subdivision agreement.”

Antonakos, however, pressed as to how uniformity of texture, size and quality could be main-tained.

“We’re going to ask people to fi x their fence and it may not look like their neighbours’ fence?” Antonakos asked.

“It does not mean that en-forcement will be easy,” said Knowles.

“We’re not coming from a po-sition of strength on this,” said

Flynn of enforcing the bylaw. “We’ve been waiting for this for four months.”

“This is something we could have done some time ago,” ad-mitted Knowles.

Flynn noted there were public meetings for residents to come to some agreement on what should be done with the subdivision fence. But, after two meetings, no consensus emerged.

“It’s not because people were away, they just chose not to do that,” said Flynn.

LeBlanc agreed that, at the second public meeting, the two-thirds majority required were not in attendance.

“It lowers the standards and values of the property,” said Strike, of the image of seeing fencing still down along Mc-Neely.

“I don’t think we need to be apologetic about it in the least,” said Probert. “We presented a very generous deal to the com-munity.”

However, LeBlanc was ada-mant that “we can get it looking (like) a linear fence … without holes in it.”

“It’s a lousy looking fence, no matter what we do,” said Flynn. “If that’s our property stan-dards, then they’re very low.”

Ultimately, the McNeely Av-enue fence debate closed with only Antonakos voting against the decision. However, after An-tonakos’ and Black’s votes had been cast, Flynn interjected in the midst of voting to ask what the council’s other options were.

Later that evening, the town passed its long-awaited corpo-rate communications strategy, which included a discussion about use of social media, and allowing town council meetings to be televised.

“It shows how we handle things in a democratic fashion,” LeBlanc said about televised proceedings and how they would have appeared on a community cable access station.

“I have no problem with any members of the public seeing what transpired here,” said An-tonakos. “I do want it televised … The day we can’t communi-cate with each other and ask questions is a bad day.”

Council heard that a single, stationary camera covering the night’s proceedings would cost about $10,000 a year, while get-ting a TV station like Rogers or Cogeco, for example, to cover the meeting would cost about $50,000 a year.

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to the Director of Planning and Development. Requests may be forwarded by personal service, ordinary mail or facsimile and must include the name and address of the person or organization requesting the referral to Council as well as the reason(s) for the request.

Additional information in relation to the proposed development permit is available for inspection between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday and between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Friday in the offi ce of the Director of Planning and Development at the Town Hall, or by calling 613 257-6213.

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TAKE NOTICE that an application for a Class II Development Permit has been received. The Development Permit By-law of the Town of Carleton Place outlines that a Class II Development Permit request is subject to notice of said proposal and a period for the submis-sion of comments from the public.

Comments must be received by October 14, 2011

The subject land is legally described as Plan 276, Part Lot 26, 26R843, Part 2, Town of Carleton Place. The property is designated Central Business District. The applicant is proposing to construct an attached garage with living space on the second storey. There will be access to the rear yard from the garage. This will increase the number of parking spaces for the single family residence. The proposed side yard setback will be 1.2 metres which refl ects the residential requirements.

Any person may request that a Class II Development Permit application be referred to Council by means of written request to the Director of Planning and Development. Requests may be forwarded by personal service, ordinary mail or facsimile and must include the name and address of the person or organization requesting the referral to Council as well as the reason(s) for the request.

Additional information in relation to the proposed development permit is available for inspection between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday and between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Friday in the offi ce of the Director of Planning and Development at the Town Hall, or by calling 613-257-6213.

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Proposed Class II Development Permit ApplicationDP2-08-2011– 142 Franktown Rd.

TAKE NOTICE that an application for a Class II Development Permit has been received. The Development Permit By-law of the Town of Carleton Place outlines that a Class II Development Permit request is subject to notice of said proposal and a period for the submission of comments from the public.

Comments must be received by October 14, 2011

The subject land is legally described as Part of Park Lots 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, plan 230, Township of Beckwith, now Town of Carleton Place, County of Lanark. The property is designated Central Business District. It is proposed to demolish an existing accessory structure and to construct a 627 m2 pre-engineered accessory structure with an additional 84 m2 roof canopy area for storage. Landscaping will be included as an enhancement to the exterior of the building.

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Sunday October 2 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

*At Tania’s Dance Studio 55 Landsdowne Ave., Carleton Place

Mixed Martial Arts: Tuesday, October 4 Kids: 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Adults: 9 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.*At Tania’s Dance Studio

55 Landsdowne Ave., Carleton Place

Zumba with Tania’s Dance Studio:

Wednesday, October 5 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

*At Tania’s Dance Studio 55 Lansdowne Ave. Carleton Place

Tai Chi with Taoist Tai Chi:

Thursday, October 6 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

At the Carleton Place Arena, 75 Neelin St.

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