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By Sue Dickens

Warkworth – The SPARK photo festival is coming to Warkworth, with seven area photographers and six ven-ues exhibiting their work during the month of April.

Christopher Thorpe, a lo-cal mixed media landscape artist, is among those be-ing featured and he defi-nitely has something to crow about. Thorpe’s work features soaring crows he paints on his stretched, large scale landscape pho-tographs.

“My (solo) exhibit at the Warkworth Golf Club for the 2015 festival resulted in many of my crows, painted on panoramic photographic landscapes, ending up in the homes of enthusiasts from far and wide,” he said.

His photographs will be at Camp Ho-Ba-Chee.

This is the fourth year for the festival, which is described by its organizer Robert Boudreau of Peter-borough, as “a celebration of photography and the art-ists, dreamers, innovators, storytellers, professionals and enthusiasts behind the camera lens.”

“SPARK is the only re-

gional photo festival in all of Canada. We have gov-ernment reports that state during the month of the fes-tival, we generate $1.2 mil-lion in the region,” he noted. The festival showcases art-ists at venues throughout Northumberland and Peter-borough Counties and the Kawartha Region.

There are 43 exhibits this year. Exhibitors range in age from 10 to 90 years young.

“We’re trying to promote everything about photog-raphy and photographers with a local focus. We feel photography is the most democratic of art forms, and everybody takes pictures,” said Boudreau.

Gary Mulcahey of Wark-worth, whose specialty is photographing people, will be exhibiting at his studio and gallery on Main Street. “Creativity is very impor-tant to mental and physical health as a creator or as wit-ness to the process or final piece. For those of us who create with light and cam-era, SPARK gives us all, enthusiast and pro, a chance to show our work,” he said.

Photographer Mary Wei-landt, whose work will be featured at Cheeky Bee Gal-

lery alongside that of Laura Berman of Castleton, said, “At the Spark Festival I will have photos, some I exhib-ited already, but many new ones I took recently.”

She has won many awards at local juried art shows.

Berman commented, “In my work, I explore the natu-ral world, both distantly and intimately, creating a con-vergence between photogra-phy and painting, a natural outgrowth of my early train-ing as painter and 20 years as a landscape designer.”

Tony Crocker, for whom photography was a boyhood passion, will be exhibiting at Eclectic Mix. “In this show, I am concentrating on local fauna, especially birds. While I have many photos from exotic places, we have wonderful birds and other animals close to home, so I’ve chosen to showcase some of them.”

The two remaining pho-tographers include Trevor Spot and Martin Rejzek.

An artists’ reception day will be held Sat., April 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at all venues.

Find SPARK on Facebook or go to: www.sparkphoto-festival.com.

SPARK photo festival coming to Warkworth in April

Christopher Thorpe, a local mixed media landscape artist, is among those being featured at the SPARK Photo Festival in Warkworth in April. His work features soaring crows he paints on his stretched, large scale landscape photographs and will be on exhibit at Camp Ho-Ba Chee on Main Street. Photo submitted

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By Sue Dickens

Campbellford – Good Friday in Trent Hills dawned with ice

covering the roads, sidewalks and power lines, and most folks stayed in their homes to wait out the big melt while the sand-

ing and salting by the municipal crews was being done.

Keith Harvey of Bay Meadows Road, however, didn’t pay much

Volunteer weatherman from Trent Hills gives the ice storm perspective

attention to the weather as he headed out to run some errands. He admitted it was not such a great idea, and kind of ironic since he is a volunteer weatherman.

This newspaper writer spotted him walking along Bridge Street West, and he agreed to talk about his drive into town with what turned out to be an acute sense of humour.

“So like a dufus I came out this morning to do a few chores, go to the grocery store, get a couple of lottery tickets and when I got here realized, oh crap, every-thing’s closed,” he said laughing.

The trip into town from his home, which is about five min-utes north of Campbellford, was not a problem, he noted.

“The roads were sanded so it was fine. The driveway was a bit icy though,” he admitted, stating he is glad he has a two-car ga-rage, which kept his Buick free of the freezing rain that coated cars parked in outdoor laneways.

“I haven’t seen many people out on the road,” he commented.

“Once I got here I realized it was Easter Friday and most places are closed,” he said, grin-ning again, noting there were not many pedestrians in town either.

“That should have been my first clue had I been awake,” he said with another chuckle.

For Harvey, the ice storm wasn’t a big deal.

“I’ve lived here 14 years and been through a lot of ice storms. This one, well it’s minor and considering my home is actually a weather station, I should have known better,” he said.

His weather station gathers

data for the Citizens Weather Observer Program. “Every two minutes 24/7 the readings are taken measuring everything from rainfall to barometric pres-sure, wind speed, wind direc-tion, humidity, anything you need to know about the weath-er,” he explained.

He has been reporting the weather for the past 13 years.

Another gentleman outside Easter Friday morning was found scraping the ice off of his

car’s windshield.John McGlade took time to

talk about the weather too. “I am getting ready to visit my wife Elizabeth who is at Burn-brae (Gardens),” he said with a strong Scottish brogue.

When asked if he thought the ice storm was particularly bad, he replied with the ease of a se-nior who has weathered many storms in his 20-plus years liv-ing here, “It could have been worse.”

Using his cane for balance, Keith Harvey, who drove into Campbellford from his home on Bay Meadows Road on the morning following an ice storm, is a volunteer weatherman. He laughed when interviewed about heading into town in the after-math of an ice storm without checking the weather first. Photo by Sue Dickens

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This by-law allows Off Road Vehicles usage of Trent Hills roadways between April 1to November 30 from dawn to dusk. ORVs must be fitted with the installed factorystock exhaust system that has not been changed, altered, or modified in any way.

The operation of Off Road Vehicles on municipal roadways shall be subject to theprovisions of By-law 2016-07 and in accordance with Ontario Regulation 316/03 ofthe Highway Traffic Act and the Off Road Vehicles Act, as amended.

Particular sections of County of Northumberland roads act as connecting links forthe Municipality of Trent Hills ATV road network.

For information regarding Off Road Vehicle use of County of Northumberlandroadways, please refer to County of Northumberland By-Law 2015-41.

Copies of both Trent Hills By-law 2016-07 and County of Northumberland By-law2015-41 are available at the Municipal Office located at 66 Front Street South,Campbellford or at Northumberland County Headquarters at 555, CourthouseRoad, Cobourg, Ontario.

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By Diane Sherman

Madoc Township - The first event of the year at O’Hara Mill Homestead and Conservation Area in Madoc Township is the 1850’s Sugar Bush Demonstra-tion Days.

March 19-20 volunteers stoked up fires under gi-ant iron caldrons like the O’Hara family would have used to boil down the first harvest of maple sap in the 1800s, a craft they would have learned from the First Nations fam-ilies who original-ly inhabited the area.

The first dem-onstration days started last spring with help from local syrup producers, Stephen and Heather Needham, of O’Hara Sugar Maples, who offered a collection of pioneers’ tools and sup-plied the maple syrup for a pancake breakfast all weekend long.

Visitors had a good day for din-ing outdoors with sunshine and fair weather. The trails were a little too “slick” for the horses to traverse, so wagon rides were cancelled for safety reasons, but everyone enjoyed petting Chris Budd‘s team of Canadian horses and children lined up for a carriage ride with the miniature horse, Pepper, in harness.

Volunteers were kept busy telling the history of the O‘Hara Mill settlement and explaining the true difficulties early settlers faced to bring in the sap each year. Maple syrup was a staple of survival for pioneers, often used as medicine.

A larger caldron was set up this year, close to the sap kettles, to demonstrate how settlers would make potash for soap and trade. The giant iron pot was the subject of much discussion. The shear size was surprising to most.

Walt Kincaid, a descendant of the original O‘Hara family, retold the sto-ry of making potash over and over for curious visitors.

With some foot stomping music by the Whistle Dogs on Saturday and the return of Wrought Iron Roots on Sunday, the weekend took on the flair of an Irish ceilidh, much like the old days, when the first birds of spring return and neighbours get out to visit.

Seasonal opening of the conserva-tion area is the long weekend in May, though one may meander the trails

Sweet syrup and sunshine at O’Hara Mills

O’Hara Mill volunteers Walt Kincaid and George Atkinson kept the fires stoked under iron cal-drons to demonstrate how early settlers boiled down their harvest of maple sap in the 1800s. Photos by Diane Sherman

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A replica of the original O’Hara Mill sugar shack is a new addition this year. Bruce Gordon demon-strated the final boil down process as it was done in pioneer days.

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Tweed – Council considered a full agenda of budgetary and technical issues at its March meeting. Acting CAO/Clerk Betty Gallagher presented an outline of the 2016 proposed bud-get in her report. As was the case last year, al-though the municipal tax rate actually decreased (by 1.5 per cent) compared to the previous two years, increases in assessed property values (by 4 per cent) resulted in an overall tax hike of 2.5 per cent. A home valued at $200,000 in 2015 will see a municipal tax increase of $33.24. There will be no changes to existing user fees for municipal services.

The tax increase will bring in an additional $91,000 to the municipality which Councillor DeGenova observed is not even enough to cover growing policing costs. Deputy-Mayor Treanor echoed concerns about OPP costs calling them “unsustainable”.

Capital project funding of just over $3 mil-

lion will include repairs and improvements to the municipal building, repairs to the Kiwanis Pavilion caused by 2014 flooding, acquisi-tion of a new tanker truck by the fire depart-ment ($275,000) and repairs/upgrading to the Crookston and Quin-Mo-Lac Roads and the Black Creek Bridge among other projects.

Council heard a delegation from village resi-dent and former councillor Justin Bray on an alternative to expanding the municipal lagoon system for waste water management. Citing communications from 2014 with Byron Keene, who at the time was an engineer with the Quinte Conservation Authority, Bray argued that by lowering the height of the Tweed dam by four to six feet, ground water levels and subsequent infiltration into sewage pipes could be reduced.

Suggesting this as a “plan B” if grants are not forthcoming for a new lagoon, which he com-pared to “putting a bigger bucket under a big leak,” Bray did not produce cost estimates for the project. The plan would require the munici-

pality to acquire the dam but he ven-tured that, “The costs are a lot cheaper than a lagoon.”

Fire Chief Derrick Little appeared before council to answer questions about changes to outdoor burning reg-ulations. Responding to a number of questions from Councillor DeMarsh, Little recommended that a $10 an-nual permit be instituted and that rec-reational fires be contained to an en-

By Sue Dickens

Campbellford – A mother of three young children, Samantha Brown of Warkworth, said the new Liberal government’s first budget could help her family.

“Based on what I see, if I get more money it’s going to help out with child care expenses,” she said as she talked about the new Canada Child Benefit (CCB).

The government stated in its budget that it will provide fami-lies with a maximum benefit of up to $6,400 per child under the age of 6, and up to $5,400 per child aged 6 through 17.

“With this CCB, over three million families will receive more benefits than before,” stated the government in its press release.

For the Brown family, that’s good news.

“Come July, my middle child will be six in June and my daughter will be nine in Sep-tember,” commented Brown, whose youngest is almost 18

months old.The new Canada Child Ben-

efit will result in new monthly tax-free payments starting July 1 replacing the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) which was brought forward by the former Conservative govern-ment from the old child-benefit system.

“I know the UCCB that they’re looking to replace is not tax-free,” commented Brown, who likes the idea of tax-free payments. “Our baby bonus is not taxed and that’s the one I get more from. The universal is taxed right now,” she added.

The new CCB begins to claw back for households with an income more than $30,000 and is eliminated entirely for those with an income more than $190,000.

Brown and her husband own a home and both work, but lay-offs have hurt the family’s bot-tom line.

“I am a stay-at-home mom and run a daycare because it was costing my husband to

send me to work. After child care and after all the other ex-penses, we lost money,” Brown said.

However she hasn’t worked all winter, “because all of the parents of the children got laid off and my husband was laid off over the winter too, but he is back at work now.”

For the Browns, every day is a challenge in terms of paying the bills and feeding and cloth-ing their children.

“We cheap out wherever we can and clothing is secondhand or hand-me-downs. The only time the kids get new is for holidays,” she said.

“We’re scared all the time of losing our home,” she stated with candor.

The Brown family is not alone in this situation. “I have lots of friends and we all help each other as best we can,” she said.

“If this is the way it’s sup-posed to be and we’re supposed to get more and I am not being taxed on it, that’s a good thing too. It will definitely help us.”

Warkworth mother views the tax-free Canada Child Benefit as a much needed budget item

Full agenda for March council meeting

Samantha Brown and her husband have three children and own their home in Wark-worth. They view the new Canada Child Ben-efit as something posi-tive that will help them with rising expenses. She was interviewed about the federal bud-get while at the On-tario Early Years Centre in Campbellford where she brings her young-est son Johnathan. On this day she also brought her friend’s youngster Eastyn Galt. Photo by Sue Dickens

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Belgium may be a bor-ing country, but it still seems extreme for a Belgian politician to say that the country is now living through its darkest days since the end of the Second World War. Can any country really be so lucky that the worst thing that has happened to it in the past 70 years is a couple of bombs that killed 34 people?

That may sound a bit uncharitable, but respect for the innocent people killed by terrorists does not require us to take leave of our senses. What is happening now is the media feeding frenzy that has become almost a statutory requirement after every terrorist attack in the West.

And people do let themselves get wound up by the media-generated panic. Last night at dinner, a young man staying with us overnight in Lon-don before taking a morning flight to the Unit-ed States, openly debated with himself about whether he should cancel his (non-refundable) ticket or not. It was a ticket from London to Chi-cago that went nowhere near mainland Europe at all.

The airlines are just as prone to panic, cancel-ling flights into Belgium as if the country had suddenly become a seriously dangerous place. This story will dominate the Belgian media for weeks, and the rest of the Western media for the remainder of this week. Even non-Western me-dia will play it for a day or two. Almost nothing new or useful will be said, and then the frenzy will die down –_until next time.

This is a very stupid way of behaving, but you will notice that I am a part of it. No matter what I say about the bombs in Brussels, the fact that I am writing at length about them in a column that appears all over the world, contributes to the delusion that they are not only a nasty event but also an important one.

It is the sheer volume of coverage that deter-mines an event’s perceived importance, not what is actually said about it. But if we in the media are compelled to write about an event like the Belgian bombs anyway, what can we truth-fully say about it that will not feed the panic?

The first thing, after every terrorist attack, is to stress that the media coverage of the attack is its primary purpose, indeed, almost its only pur-pose. It’s obvious and it’s trite, but if you don’t actually say it, people forget it. Like the health warning on cigarette packets, it should be part of every story on terrorism.

Secondly, we have to put the alleged “threat” of such terrorist attacks into perspective. Peo-ple rarely do this for themselves, because once events are beyond the range of their daily expe-rience, most people cannot distinguish between what is truly dangerous and what is only dra-matic and frightening.

It really does help to remind people that terror-ism is a statistically insignificant risk, that they are in much greater danger of dying from a fall in the bath than of dying in a terrorist attack, even if that approach conflicts with the journal-ists’ natural urge to emphasise the importance of whatever they are writing about.

And finally, a little dispassionate analysis quickly deflates the notion that terrorism is “an existential threat” (as British prime minister Da-vid Cameron once said). For example, the recent terrorist attacks in Europe have been largely confined to French-speaking countries.

Muslim immigrants in France and Belgium mostly come from Arab countries, and espe-cially from North Africa, where French is the second language. Radical Islamism is much weaker in the rest of the Muslim world, so Ger-many (whose Muslims are mostly Turkish) and Britain (where they are mostly of South Asian origin) generate fewer Islamist extremists than the francophone countries, and face fewer ter-rorist attacks.

France’s and Belgium’s Muslim citizens are also less integrated into the wider community. French housing policy has dumped most of the immigrants in high-rise, low-income develop-ments at the edge of the cities, often beyond the end of the metro lines. Unemployed, poorly ed-ucated and culturally isolated, their young men are more easily recruited into extremist groups.

The point of this sort of analysis is to cut the problem down to size. There is no terrorist army in Belgium, just a bunch of young men making it up as they go along. For example, the Brus-sels attacks happened four days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the gang who carried out the attacks on the Bataclan arena and the Stade de France in Paris last November.

Back in Brussels after failing to use his suicide vest in the Paris attack, Abdeslam was a psycho-logical wreck, and his Islamist colleagues un-doubtedly expected that once in police custody he would sing like a canary. So they decided to launch another attack and go to glory before the police kicked in their doors.

Prime Minister Charles Michel issued the usu-al ritual incantation about Belgians being “de-termined to defend our freedom,” but Belgium’s freedom is not at risk. Terrorists are not an exis-tential threat. They are a lethal nuisance, but no more than a nuisance.

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Pity the community that doesn’t have a hockey team to root for at this time of year.

Yes, Belleville, unfortunately that means you, this being the first full season without the be-loved OHL Bulls to cheer on.

But, it also means fans across a great swath of Prince Edward County, now that the Wellington Dukes have been unceremoniously swept from the OJHL playoffs by the red-hot Trenton Gold-en Hawks, are moping, as well.

True, not all of us cheer for or even watch hockey, but hockey is inarguably engrained in the culture of small-town rural Ontario and never so much is that evident as the buzz at play-off time.

Some of the local Quinte Red Devils teams made respectable runs at provincial titles this month, some taking titles in their respective div-ision.

This past season, the respected Red Devils or-ganization hosted two OMHA championships, won two OMHA silver medals, and all eight teams qualified for the OMHA playdowns with varying degrees of success.

The Minor Atom, Minor Peewee, and Midget teams all finished in first place in the ETA East division.

But, it’s the Trenton junior team that seems to have caught the eye of the local sporting com-munity. Even Belleville fans, now bereft of their beloved Bulls, no doubt will be pulling, either quietly or in the stands, for the Golden Hawks to give all of Quinte something to cheer about.

The club certainly has the talent, including goalie Daniel Urbani who was awarded the OJHL Top Goaltender Award after leading all goalies in the league with 34 victories, five shut-outs and an astounding 1.69 goals against aver-age.

Urbani, a 20-year-old native of British Clum-bia, has warmed to the Golden Hawks organiza-tion, the city of Quinte West and the fans of the region.

“Since the first day I got here, just the whole organization, from the ownership to teammates and especially the fans, it’s been great,” Urbani said.

Urbani said the tem players have a great rela-tionship, even crafting up t-shirts emblazoned with “The Brotherhood” on them.

“It really is like a family around here, I think if

you want to go far and really succeed in hockey, and really in life, you’ve got to have your family with you,” he said.

Trenton coach Jerome Dupont heaved a sigh of relief getting past the always-tough Dukes, but knows there’s a pot full of pluck behind the team in its fan base.

“It’s tough in games like this because there’s a lot of emotion,” Dupont said of the pressure-cooker 1-0 game that saw the Hawks oust the Dukes last week. “Getting used to playing in front of a full house is something relatively new to us so I think we’ll only get better at home.”

The G-Hawks will now face off against the Kingston Voyageurs in the North-East Confer-ence Championship series. This is the fourth time in five years that the G-Hawks and Voya-geurs have played against each other for the title, with Kingston winning the title after a tough ser-ies last year.

That’s the other cool thing about this rivalry. There’s no shortage of back stories – includ-ing the fact that Urbani played for the Kingston Vees last season – so there’s plenty to get excited about as the series gets under way this week.

As we mentioned, Belleville lost its franchise when the deep-pocketed out-of-town owner shopped the team off to Hamilton, where it has failed to draw flies, as they say, and missed the playoffs all together.

There’s little joy in Campbellford hockey cir-cles, too, as the storied Rebels Junior C organ-ization is in the throes of trying to regroup after a dismal season and a management shakeup.

So it is, then, that these former hockey-mad communities can only sit on the sidelines and look on with envy at the partisans sporting fan jerseys with the golden Sabre jet on the logo.

Sure, there are other small-town sports to cheer on – our budding stars in figure skating, the curl-ing rinks that always foster friendly competition between neighbours and visiting rinks and the non-team sports like running and equestrian pursuits.

But, at this time of year – and this year, in par-ticular when there is nary a Canadian NHL team in the hunt for the Stanley Cup – it’s all about the playoffs.

And that is down to one serious local contend-er, The Trenton Golden Hawks.

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Stirling - Things became heated during the Stirling-Rawdon Public Library Board meeting on Tues-day, March 22, when board

member Denyse Mouck asked for a discussion on changes made to the board’s structure without the board’s prior knowledge or consent.

It all began in December of 2014, when Mayor Rodney

Library board chair threatens to eject fellow member over comments

Cooney used an “order in council” to change the structure of the board from one member of council and six citizens, as required under the board‘s own bylaws, to two members of coun-cil and three citizens. Mouck, who was board chairman, was removed from that position but allowed to re-main on the board.

Responding to a letter from Mouck dated Jan. 10, 2016, councillor and board chair Dean Graff said this mat-ter already had been discussed.

“No, we didn‘t,” replied Mouck, but Graff insisted on not discussing it.

“We cannot go back over this time and time again,” he said.

“You‘re prohibiting a director [board member] from speaking,” Mouck said.

Mouck asked that the minutes show that she asked to discuss this issue and that Graff refused.

Things quieted down until library CEO Sue Winfield began going over the library bylaws.

“In accordance with the Public Li-brary Act, Stirling-Rawdon Public Li-brary shall be under the management and control of the Stirling-Rawdon Public Library Board, which is a cor-poration,” she said. “The board sets its own policies, not the council.”

“How does the municipality have the authority to change the board without the board knowing about it?” Mouck asked the chair.

“What do you mean, change the board?” Graff asked.

“The municipality came in and changed the board without any of us knowing it. There’s no paperwork, there‘s no paper trail, there‘s nothing.”

Graff suggested this not be discussed until a reply had been received from the Ontario Ombudsman, whom Mouck had contacted after the board was changed, or that she should talk to the mayor.

Mouck stated how the selection pro-cess for board members is supposed to work and that this was not adhered to

under the bylaws the CEO had just read.

“We‘re getting off the subject right now because we‘re talk-ing about our bylaws and our processes,” Graff responded. “We‘re continuing on with our library board meeting,” but Mouck continued to discuss the bylaw.

Mouck said the former Town-ship CAO Charles Croll told her that the only input council has, is to fund the library and select board members from a list of applicants provided by the library CEO.

The board approved and passed the bylaw concerning the statement of authority giv-ing the power to the library board.

The CEO then moved on to another bylaw which directly concerned what Mouck had been attempting to address, the composition of the board.

“The Public Library Act supersedes anything else,” Winfield said, noting that the board‘s policy states that it should consist of seven mem-bers, that members serve a four-year term and that applica-tions must be sent in six months prior to the municipal election.

“The board has traditionally had six public citizens as mem-bers and one council rep,” she said. “[Mouck] is correct in that the policy that the library board has had for decades was not fol-lowed in that the initial meeting with [Mayor] Rodney [Cooney] or at the January meeting in 2015 when the new board took over. That’s when we were in-formed as a board, that there was only going to be three citi-zens and two council reps.”

“There is no problem with that, at all,” Graff said.

When Mouck tried to pursue this, he said, “We‘re not going back over this. Let‘s move on.”

She then asked about where all the applications went, be-cause she knew there were many, yet Councillor Bob Mul-lin (who is on the library board, but was absent for this meeting) told her there were none.

“Nobody‘s seen applications, so how are people being cho-sen?” Mouck asked.

Again discussion was stopped by the chair, at which point

Graff said he would ask her to leave the meeting if she kept disrespecting the chair by continually raising this issue. Mouck said she was not leav-ing unless he called to police to take her out, and Graff went ahead with the next part of the meeting in which the bylaw outlining the composition of the board was passed.

There was no explanation re-garding why the board did not meet the numbers and composi-tion required in a long-standing bylaw that its members had just reaffirmed.

Library board chairman and Stirling-Rawdon Councillor Dean Graff listened as CEO Sue Winfield read out the board‘s bylaws for review during the board‘s March 22 meeting. Photo by Terry McName

closed fire pit “not to exceed 26 inches in diameter,” about the size of a pickup truck tire rim. He recommended that burning occur between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., except for farm-ers, who would be permitted to burn during the day. Council will vote on a new burning by-law next month.

Numerous new bylaws were adopted including three sever-ance applications, one for the construction of a new Home Hardware Building Centre store south of the village on Country-man Road. Other bylaws dealt with a re-zoning application,

adopting the 2016 budget, and authorizing an agreement with the Ontario Clean Water Agen-cy “for operations and mainte-nance of the municipal water and waste water treatment fa-cilities” among other issues.

Council agreed to the sale of a surplus sidewalk snow blower unit, and to approve the 2015 report of the Ontario Clean Wa-ter Agency. A statement of re-munerations and expenses for council members was received. Remuneration amounts ranged from $13,986 for Mayor Albert and $10,490 for Deputy-Mayor Treanor to $9,324 for each of the other councillors. Council-

lors DeMarsh and DeGenova incurred the highest expenses, at $10,551 and $8,139 respec-tively with the other mem-bers claiming amounts under $6,000.

Among many committee rec-ommendations presented to council were motions to hold an “Our Backyard Market” in Victoria Parkette on a trial basis, purchase a jaws extrication tool for the fire department, to ap-prove one livestock loss claim, and to declare June 12 as Jack Vance Day in the municipality, recognizing the “key role” of the late Lt. General in the Tweed community.

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Northumberland County – Ru-ral municipalities such as Trent Hills will benefit from the first budget tabled by the new Liberal government, according to Nor-thumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd.

“When I met with Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, our mes-sage was quite clear, that rural communities are different. I am excited he recognized that in the budget,” she said during an inter-view the day after the budget was released.

According to the government, infrastructure investments of $11.9 billion will start immedi-ately for the building of roads and bridges, to improve public transit, improve water and wastewater facilities, and refurbish affordable housing which, it states, will cre-ate tens of thousands of jobs and boost the economy.

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“One of the key messages of this budget is, we’re really helping municipalities bridge that infra-structure gap.”

Promoting the budget as “re-storing hope for the middle class,” the key talking points include a tax-free Canada Child Benefit, changes to Employ-ment Insurance to make it easier to qualify, an increase in student grants for low and middle-in-come families, $1.9 billion for arts and culture organizations over a five-year period, $8.4 bil-lion for Indigenous Peoples, the reopening of veterans’ service offices which were closed dur-ing the previous government’s administration, an increase in the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors and more.

“The Canada Child Benefit was a key plank in our campaign,” noted Rudd.

The budget creates a $29.4 bil-

lion deficit this year and $29 mil-lion the next with no surplus fore-cast before the next election.

Responding to critics on this point Rudd said, “The opposi-tion’s job and critic’s job is to oppose and criticize, so they are doing their job. We made this commitment to grow the econo-my, and that’s what we’re doing.”

When asked about the Leader of the Opposition Rona Ambrose’s comment that the budget is a “nightmare scenario” Rudd said, “With all due respect, as I look at the budget, I disagree with that. There is $2 billion over four years for rural infrastructure and this will impact places such as Brigh-ton and Keene. That’s jobs that are going to get done.

“Investment in high speed inter-net [more than $500 million over five years] will create jobs, not just put internet in.”

Rudd concluded, “This budget not only sets a new tone, but more importantly charts a new course for all Canadians as we work to-gether to share in a long-term plan for prosperity.”

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Campbellford – Reading the specifics of the new Lib-eral government budget the day after it was released, Trent Hills Deputy-Mayor Bob Crate responded to the document as a municipal politician with the comment, “I haven’t completely read it, but I do worry a little about the deficit. On the other hand if borrowing money, then bor-row when (interest is) at 0.5 per cent.”

He talked about the benefits the money announced in the budget could bring to Trent Hills.

“We are not in a recession, but we could use the stimu-lus.”

The budget has a forecast deficit of $29.4 billion the first year and another $29 billion the next year with a plan that the Minister of Finance Bill Morneau describes as offering “immediate help to those who need it most, and lays the groundwork for long-term economic growth. Most impor-tantly, it focuses squarely on people and the things that matter most to them, things like strengthening the middle class, creating jobs, and growing the economy.”

For Crate, the budget does present opportunities.“No doubt there’s lots of projects that will be put for-

ward, and hopefully it gets things going sooner than later, so they (federal government) can cut back on the forecast deficit,” com-mented Crate.

The budget includes infrastructure funding of $120 million over 10 years with a focus on public transit, wa-ter, waste management and housing, which it states will mean jobs too.

“We are trying to fix up Doxsee Street in Campbellford, and we applied for funding but didn’t get on the short list, so we’re hoping this funding means we get another chance,” noted Crate.

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Commenting on the need for job creation he said, “There is a need, but I think we have to temper that with the fact there is no use just giving money away. I don’t see this as we will create short-term jobs, and then they’re gone. We want jobs that are here five and 10 years from now. For us especially, we’re not an area

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He did comment on the over-all strategy that came out of the recent tourism campaign launch at the Hastings Field House hosted by the Trent Hills and District Chamber of Com-merce, as something “we have to be chasing. If we bring peo-ple here, we will create jobs.”

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Campbellford – Google social me-dia marketing on the Internet and you get 479,000,000 results, digital mar-keting 102,000 results, e-commerce marketing 122,000 results.

Cashing in on the Internet through social media can require some skill negotiating the various tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linke-dIn and Google.

To help with this, the Trent Hills and District Chamber of Commerce is hosting two spring workshops. The first session would be of interest to businesses and organizations that have been using social media on a regular basis. The second is for businesses and organizations that are interested in getting started on Facebook.

“Social media is about conversation and about making a connection with your customer, your visitor, or your

participant in your organization,” said Nancy Allanson, executive di-rector.

“When we first started with social media as a chamber we said let’s try this but when we developed a strategy and goals, that is when it went well,” she explained and so the chamber is bringing back an expert in this field, Sofie Andreou from Peterborough.

“Sofie has become a social media guru. She is a very dynamic speaker and knows what she is talking about. We’ve had her back a couple of times and now we’re having her help take businesses to the next level.”

“I do workshops for hundreds of businesses and business owners ev-ery month,” commented the owner of Sofie Andreou & Associates who has created “coffee break learning,” an online video tutorial system that pro-vides 15-minute episodes, “that will help you understand and really kick

butt with digital marketing.“I always stress people need to have

a strategy before they even start Face-book or Instagram. They need to do their strategy on an annual basis too because things change so quickly,” she explained.

During the workshop she involves participants in a nine-step process and talks about repurposing their market-ing material.

“If an existing business has been around for years and is used to print advertising or radio and TV they need to repurpose their material for social media and digital marketing. People need to understand how to leverage both traditional and digital and how to link the two,” said Andreou.

“You also need to be where you have time to manage it, whether it is on Facebook or Instagram. As well you need to be where your target market is. If not under 35 years of

Building a digital strategy the topic of chamber’s free workshop sessions

Sofie Andreou of Sofie Andreou & Associates from Peterborough will be hosting a free workshop, one of two sessions being offered by the Trent Hills and District Chamber of Commerce. Photo submitted.

age you should not be on Instagram. If CEOs are your target then you should be on LinkedIn and none of the others.”

Andreou that chambers of commerce and economic development offices are the ones setting the stage for mov-ing forward with digital marketing.

The spring workshops will be held after the chamber’s special general meeting on Thurs., March 31 which begins at 5 p.m. Workshop sessions

will run concurrently. The first called Building your own Digital Strategy (with Andreou) is from 6 – 8 p.m. and the second called Getting Started on Facebook is from 6 - 7 p.m.

The sessions are free thanks to spon-sorship by the Northumberland Busi-ness Advisory Centre, Eastlink and the Municipality of Trent Hills.

Those interested can RSVP to [email protected] or call 705-653-1551.

By Diane Sherman

Madoc - The Madoc and District Chamber of Commerce met at Burnside’s Casual Dining earlier this month for their annual meeting.

Fred Bendell withdrew from the presidency, stating volunteer work with O’Hara Mill Homestead and Trinity United Church has him taxed.

He said, “It is always good to ro-tate leadership anyway, and we did accomplish a fair amount this year.”

The group developed a new brochure, highlighting assets of the chamber and promoting the #WhyMadoc hashtag for Twit-ter users. Before Christmas, they hosted a “Shop Madoc” challenge,

then facilitated the Santa Claus pa-rade and set up the Christmas tree and decorations.

Guest speakers Mary Doyle, enterprise facilitator for Hastings County, and Terry Murphy, gen-eral manager of the Quinte Con-servation Authority, addressed the members.

Murphy focused on the impor-tance of the environment. “Pro-tecting natural locations,” he says, “contributes to tourist business.”

The conservation authority man-ages O’Hara Mill Homestead, serves 18 municipalities and has 30,000 acres of land in the region, all tourist destinations. He said, “Knowing what is in your area is an asset for local business.”

Mary Doyle explained her job is to meet with business owners to help them manage the needs of a small business. She has found owners know what they need, but do not have time or resources to do everything.

“This is where we come in, to find out what you need and link you to local resources to do those jobs at reasonable costs.”

Doyle said the definition of suc-cess is quite different for rural entrepreneurs than for city busi-nesses. Her job is to listen and link people together to enable indepen-dent businesses to meet their goals.

A workshop for small businesses to develop their own websites was held earlier in the fall, utilizing one

professional service to set up web-sites for all at an affordable price.

On March 21, the chamber host-ed a workshop on how to plan your exit strategy when it comes time to retire or sell your business.

Chamber co-ordinator Leigh Ann Lavender is at the office in the basement of the Madoc library, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. She is willing to hear your needs and direct you.

The chamber will carry on into 2016 with Charles Smith as vice-president, Ellen Wilson as secre-tary/treasurer, and Rob Price, Lau-rie Roy, Shawn Wood, Peter Nayler and Shawn Lavender as directors.

Contact the office at 613-473-1616 .

Madoc chamber makes changes at the top

Terry Murphy, general manager of Quinte Conservation Authority, spoke to the Madoc and District Chamber of Commerce on the importance of preserv-ing the natural habitat for economic growth and recreation. Photo by Diane Sherman

from the business indicating that a purchase has been made.

The entry deadline is May 17 at 5 p.m.

“Residents can help by talking to people about the contest, and about some of the purchases, products and

services that they do make and maybe share that through social media,” Al-lanson said. “We’re finding that [lo-cal] social media is active.”

For more information on the contest, visit the chamber’s contest website or call 705-653-1551.

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Hastings – There are some hundreds of dollars worth of prizes up for grabs during a “scavenger hunt-like” trivia contest designed to get peo-ple into Hastings businesses which have been hard hit by the temporary closure of the Lock 18 swing bridge.

“It’s an effort to get more people into stores (this month) through May 17,” says Trent Hills Chamber of Commerce Executive Di-rector Nancy Allanson.

The “Un4gettable Trivia Contest” takes its name from the chamber’s new “un4gettable Destination” tourism tagline and will

By Bill Freeman

Havelock – The federal gov-ernment’s budget “speaks to some of our needs right away,” says Havelock-Bel-mont-Methuen Mayor Ron Gerow, happy the voice of municipalities seems to have the ear of Justin Trudeau’s first cabinet.

“Overall, there’s a lot of pieces that speak to a lot of the questions municipalities have asked,” Gerow said of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget. “The infrastructure announce-ment will address some of the immediate issues I think we’ve talked about such as bridges.”

The government will in-vest $120 billion in infra-structure over the next 10 years, rolling it out in two phases starting immediately with $11.9 billion over the next five years to “modern-ize and rehabilitate” public transit, water and waste-water systems, affordable housing and “infrastructure climate resilience”.

Gerow, a former chair of the Eastern Ontario War-den‘s Caucus, says there’s some money for seniors housing “that looks very in-teresting” as well as target-ed funding for early learn-ing and childcare.

“That will help us at the city and county level with our joint services commit-tee. There’s been a lot of concern about that for the past four or five years,” said Gerow, a member of that important city-county com-mittee.

The budget committed $3.4 billion over five years to a social infrastructure fund that includes afford-able housing, early learning and childcare, recreational infrastructure and commu-

nity health centres on First Nations. There will be $1.5 billion over the next two years for affordable hous-ing.

Gerow pointed to the $200.7 million (over two years starting this year) the federal government is ear-marking for seniors afford-able housing, something that will not need to be “cross-matched” by provin-cial governments.

As well, the government says it will spend $500 mil-lion in 2017-18 to support a national framework on early learning and childcare and $168.2 million over two years will be invested in recreational and cultural infrastructure beginning this year.

“There’s some allocation for housing we hope speaks to the federal government rekindling interest, support and involvement in hous-ing,” said Gerow.

He’s awaiting more details on that but stressed that it’s a “very crucial time.”

The federal gas tax will continue, and the Trudeau government says it will fund up to 50 per cent of eligible waste and wastewater costs. It will continue to work with the provinces to “ac-celerate” Building Canada Fund and other existing pro-grams.

“The money allocated over the next 10 years, I know it gives some people concerns about the deficit ($29.4 billion); we hope that the economy will change over the next two years, and that they will be able to address those things,” Gerow added.

“We do need to see some things move forward. The infrastructure funding will help stimulate the economy and hopefully it will pay dividends.”

Federal budget ‘speaks to some of our needs right away,’ says HBM mayor

Trivia contest designed to give Hastings businesses a boostgive away 14 different prize packs, including two grand prizes worth $500 each; there’s also two, second prize packages valued at $250 each and 10 “bonus” packs worth $50 each.

The contest has received plenty of support from busi-nesses across Trent Hills with at least 32 establish-ments donating prizes.

“They want to help out businesses in trying times,” Allanson said.

Fourteen Hastings busi-nesses are participating in the trivia contest with bal-lots available at each of

these businesses or online at www.trenthillschamber.ca/contest; no purchase is necessary to play the game although there are “make-a-purchase” bonus entries available.

There is no charge for the businesses to participate.

The ballots each have 14 trivia questions with the answers available at the par-ticipating businesses. One entry for the contest will be considered for each correct-ly answered question. One bonus entry per location will be taken. There must be an authorized signature

Trent Hills Cham-ber of Commerce Board Chair Jeff Hamilton introduc-es the Un4gettable Trivia Contest which the cham-ber is running at 14 Hastings busi-nesses. Photo by Bill Freeman

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The budget promises to allot $11.9 billion for public transit, water and waste water systems, with prior-ity given to “shovel ready” projects. Albert notes the municipality has already applied to the province for funding for another waste water la-goon, and hopes that this would qual-ify. Many such projects are funded “one third, one third, one third” by each of the federal, provincial and municipal governments, she explains.

New funding for social housing is also welcome, but these projects are “all done through the county” says Albert. There are currently some housing projects coming along she notes.

“The county was given $207 million over two years for seniors’ housing.” Looking at the funding dedicated to seniors’ housing in the budget, she observes, “That’s only good news.” She points out “They’ve announced that matching funding will not be re-quired, but we won’t know until the province announces its plans. Any-thing that helps us with infrastructure and social housing is good news.”

As a former teacher, Albert is also happy with funding announcements

Mayor Albert’s initial response to federal budget

Mayor Jo-Anne Albert is pleased with a prelimi-nary look at the new federal budget. She ob-served, “Anything that helps us with infrastruc-ture and social housing is good news.”

for childcare and early learning. She points out that the budget calls for $500 million “to support a new na-tional framework on early learning and child care” as well as $168.2 mil-lion over two years for culture and recreation infrastructure.

“But again, we don’t know where that’s going to go.” Noting the role of Hastings Lennox and Addington MP Mike Bossio, Albert remarks, “Mike is chair of the rural caucus and he seems to be raising the needs of rural municipalities.”

Tweed has a large number of rural bridges, roads and culverts which are expensive to maintain. The fed-eral gas tax has been a key funding mechanism for this infrastructure and Albert is pleased “They’ve kept the gas tax, which is important for us. It will provide funding for roads and bridges.” Asked if she planned to meet with MP Bossio over the new budget’s implications, the mayor re-plied “not at this time” but noted that a Bossio meeting with the county warden was a possibility.

Dear EditorOn Monday March 14, 2016 Ayanle

Hassan Ali, a Muslim, walked into the Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre in North York and stabbed two military officers. The attacker stated “Allah told me to do this. Allah told me to come here and kill people.”

It’s reported the attack would have been far more serious if a group of six to eight trained soldiers had not taken the attacker down.

Multiple charges have been laid against Hassan Ali and an investigation is ongoing by RCMP and CSIS.

What I find disturbing about this at-tack is the lack of response and concern by our leaders. Both federally and pro-vincially.

Twenty four hours after a knife attack and stabbing of our soldiers at a mili-tary office in the largest city in Canada, the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister tweeted saying “Canadians and the Military would not be intimi-dated.” No public response, condemna-tion, or quick visit.

Officially this attack has been played down by our P.M. creating a double standard.

Arson at a Peterborough mosque in late 2015 brought outrage and a highly publicized visit from the new prime minister to the mosque.

The premier of the Province has yet to make a comment on this horrendous attack or to offer condolences to the soldiers, at least publicly.

When the Peterborough mosque was torched in 2015 Wynne expressed sad-ness for the violence.

She was also very quick to the CBC microphones to offer support to Mus-lims plus she traveled to an Ottawa Mosque to offer support. She appears to have become press shy re Monday’s attack on the soldiers whom she would look to for protection if needed.

Where is her sadness for the injured military personnel?

Recently, the prime minister and premier arrived at the Toronto Zoo to huge fanfare for the Panda’s de-but. Great photo ops plastered on the front pages of all main stream media. Yet our leaders appear to be too busy when it comes to supporting stabbed military personnel in what could prove to be a terrorist attack.

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Trent Hills – Golfers who find their putting off-putting and young people wanting to learn the game will welcome news of a mini-putt being put in Hastings.

Dianne Smith won support for her proposal from council March 15 after describing her plans for an 18-hole miniature

golf course at the end of Pond Street.

The land is currently being used as a parking lot while the swing bridge is being replaced.

Smith said the property’s owner, Tom Taylor, has agreed to rent her a small section of unused green space at “a cheap rate.”

The mini-putt will “provide extra services for residents

and tourists,” as there is only the Hastings Field House and a bowling area in the village available for recreation on de-mand.

It‘s “a fun means for young people to learn how to play golf” and an excellent way for regular golfers to shave their scores by practising their put-ting, which is “50 per cent of the game” and shave their

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Prices will range from $5 for chil-dren under five to $10 for adults; se-niors and young people between five and 15 will pay $8.50. A free game will be offered for every nine games purchased.

A trailer will be positioned at one end to hold a portable toilet and to store lawn chairs.

Council directed staff to prepare a temporary use bylaw to allow the pro-posal to go forward. Director of plan-ning Jim Peters said council members can see “how it works out” this sum-mer and “if there are any issues” they need to deal with should the applicant want to continue in future.

Traffic on Pond Street will have to be monitored as the mini-putt is “a generator that hasn‘t been there in the past,” he said.

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Barry Lapointe, of Madoc, is the latest local winner in an Ontario Lottery scratch game, raking in $100,000 with En-core in the March 7 Daily Keno draw. Lapointe matched six of seven winning numbers on his Encore selection.

“I bought a few extra Dai-ly Keno tickets after hav-ing won with ProLine – I wanted to keep the winning streak going,” he said at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto when claiming his winnings. “When I checked my tickets I noticed that some numbers

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Lapointe, a singer and painter, plans to use some of his winnings to turn a room of his home into an artist studio. “I also want to get a metal detector. It would be fun to explore and maybe find some buried treasure,” he laughed.

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By Bill Freeman

Northumberland – Things contin-ue to look up for red hot local band Cold Creek County.

After a sizzling tour with Tim Hicks and the release of their de-but album Till The Wheels Come Off, the band has been nominated for Best New Country Group at the Canadian Radio Music Awards that will be held in May at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto.

The festivities are part of Canadi-an Music Week May 2-8 in Toronto.

The band, founded by Brighton’s Brandon Scott and Hastings’ Doug Oliver with Josh and Justin Lester of Frankford and Stratford’s Trevor MacLeod, will also perform at the awards night along with The Strum-bellas, Coleman Hell, Scott Helman and Jocelyn Alice.

Nominees include artists who’ve hit the Canadian charts for the first time and who have achieved top air-play in different formats based on radio “spins” as recorded by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems in 2015.

Votes by program directors, music directors and on-air personalities determine the winners.

There is also a Fan’s Choice Award with radio listeners adding their voice at www.cmw.net.

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By Bill Freeman

Havelock – It’s hard to imagine what Havelock’s 116-year-old town hall would be like without the Mid Week Jammers.

The group of drop-in gui-tar pickers and fiddlers from around the region has pumped

over $20,000 into the town hall over the years, and they handed over another $8,990 to the municipality this week to have commercial plank floor-ing placed over the building’s original floor.

The group, with musicians from as far away as Brighton

and Omemee dropping in, has been using the town hall for almost six years after meet-ing and outgrowing a variety of venues since the first notes were played in 2003. An agree-ment with the municipality al-lows the Jammers to use the hall rent-free on a weekly basis

‘Grand old town hall’ helped out by jamming musicians

Shirley Patterson (centre left) and members of the Havelock Mid Week Jam-mers join Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Mayor Ron Gerow and members of township council to present a cheque for $8,990. The money will be used to install commercial plank flooring over the 116-year-old Havelock Town Hall’s original floor. Photo by Bill Freeman

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with any money raised going into a renovation fund.

The hall was built in 1900 and has gone through several engineering as-sessments which have provided stag-gering estimates of what it would cost to completely restore the hall, which was once also used as a gymnasium for the old Havelock High School across the street.

The Jammers have been responsible for painting the interior, installing hand rails on the balcony, rebuild-ing the custodian’s room and the ornamental brick work at the front entrance, making a storage rack for chairs and other equipment, building and installing two oval stained glass windows and purchasing a complete new sound system.

They also installed new valances and blinds.

“Our group really became concerned about the condition of the original hardwood floor which needed either sanding and refinishing or replace-ment,” said Shirley Patterson, the group’s liaison with the municipality.

“Since the old floor had become very thin, we decided to price refinishing and replacing it with commercial type flooring,” Patterson said.

The Jammers voted to replace the floor and took their proposal to coun-cil which approved the plan.

Patterson says the group still has a

“sizeable amount” of funds available and will discuss additional improvement projects.

“Whatever it is, it will be for the benefit and future life of this grand old hall,” she says.

The building, Patterson noted, was built by volun-teers just like them for the “unimaginable” price of

$8,000.“Their foresight gave us

this community hall as a gathering place. It was an awesome endeavour, and we intend to make it avail-able to future generations.”

It’s the “love of music and fellowship” that brings the Jammers together, Patterson says. “We love this old town hall.”

Cold Creek County has been nominated for a Best New Country Group award at the Canadian Radio Music Awards in Toronto. The awards gala will be held during Canadian Music Week.

26th annual festival.They‘re going head-to-head in the Best New Country

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It has been a meteoric rise for the band with the suc-cess of singles like “Our Town” and “Beer Weather” and their major label signing with Sony Music Cana-da. There has been lots of radio play, on-air interviews and an acoustic tour last summer that included a stop at the Calgary Stampede where Scott and Oliver real-ized how popular the band’s songs had become.

“We were actually quite shocked when we went out west at how well it was received out there,” Scott said.

Things are amping up for their song “Beer Weather”.“This is all new to us. It’s really taking off. It’s really

happening,” said Scott. “To see it come together is so great. We are grateful for everything that we get to do.”

Three years ago, Oliver and Scott were invited to play in the Havelock Jamboree’s beer tent; two years ago the full band had an early Friday afternoon spot on the Alan Jackson gig and in 2015 Cold Creek County shared the Thursday night stage with The Stampeders, Autumn Hill, Brett Kissel and Ambush.

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Madoc - The federal budget allots significant funds for water, sewer, housing and transit, but Tudor-Cashel, Madoc Township and Centre Hast-ings need funding for rural roads and bridges.

When asked if the budget would do anything to meet the needs of the three municipalities, responses were about the same.

Clerk Bill Lebow of Madoc Town-ship said there is some mention of

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on budget impactsroads and bridges in the budget “but, we will have to wait until we receive full details, before we can say we will benefit or not.”

Wanda Donaldson, reeve of Tudor and Cashel, said her constituency has no need for housing funding and little work in water and sewer to do. She too will wait to see what is available for roads and bridges.

How the funding will be decided is also a concern.

Mayor Tom Deline of Cen-tre Hastings said munici-palities needed a two-thirds funding allotment to make any real headway on rural infrastructure, but applica-tion requirements need to be changed so rural munici-palities can qualify.

Deline did say the govern-ment stuck to its promises in this area, though he had hoped for specific funding for rural roads, which isn’t there.

Some small business own-ers who spoke to the Central Hastings/Trent Hills News seemed not to be too inter-ested in the budget.

Jeff Brett, of Brettwood Machinery Works, says he relies on his accountant to keep him up to date on such things. “Running a busi-ness, I don’t have time to look into all this.”

Similarly, Brad Freeman of Hidden Goldmine Bak-ery said he hasn’t had time to look into the budget, and though Sherry Smith of Smith’s Napa Auto Parts had an opinion, she said she was too busy to comment.

The 10.5 per cent tax for small businesses was to be cut in this budget, but that did not happen and with a mandatory increase to Canada Pension Plan de-ductions, business owners will be paying more for em-ployee benefits.

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By Sue Dickens

Warkworth – A gala evening will celebrate the Miikaans/Percy Portage exhibit at the Ah! Arts and Heritage Centre, a display that includes his-toric maps and more about a route that many local folks still don’t know is a part of the history of this region.

Miikaans is the Ojibway word for trail or path.

The Percy Portage was an important route used for centuries by the Missis-saugas, Huron and Iroquois First Na-tions. It also formed the basis of the first major road in the region in the early 19th century for local settlers, and those heading north.

Des Conacher, one of the curators on the committee of four that volun-teered their time and expertise to put the exhibit together, said, “The his-toric maps are really the backbone of the exhibit.”

The committee includes Clive Rus-sell, co-founder and creative director of the Centre, his wife Sheree Ras-mussen and Stewart Richardson.

“Stewart has done an amazing job of collecting maps,” noted Conacher.

The Percy Portage was a shortcut for travel from Rice Lake to Lake On-tario, a route which bypassed water-falls and rapids between Hastings and Meyersburg, an overland route that allowed First Nations people to travel safely to Lake Ontario.

Remnants of the route exist to-day. “One part of it, the Richardson Road where it is curvy and bendy, is part of the original portage,” ex-plained Conacher.

“When the water was high in the

The gala reception for Miikaans/The Percy Portage exhibit at the Ah! Arts and Heritage Centre will be held April 2 at 7 p.m. Standing next to one of the many historic maps on display are a couple of the curators of the ex-hibit, Stewart Richardson and Sheree Rasmussen with Dorothy Caldwell, a director with the Ah! Centre board. Photo submitted

spring people would have followed Percy Creek and taken it down to Dartford and out to Meyersburg [or the mouth of Salt Creek at Percy Boom],” he added.

Conacher hopes local people will stop in to learn more about the history of this area.

The historic maps are mount-ed, and “there’s even a map of the portage on the floor,” said Conacher. As well, the Centre has on display a birch bark canoe on loan from the Canadian Canoe Musuem in Peterborough. A video of First Nations people making a birch bark canoe is also part of the exhibit.

“A lot of people don’t know about this route. I am just so happy that more and more local people are going to hear about this amazing route that was a really ma-jor highway in this neck of the woods for hundreds of years,” said Conacher.

The exhibit opened March 20 and will be available for viewing until May 22, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. “There will always be a knowledgeable person on hand to speak to visitors,” said Conacher.

The opening reception will be held at the Centre on Sat., April 2 at 7 p.m.

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Hastings – The Hastings swing bridge closure has not slowed down the de-livery of Community Care’s Meals on Wheels program.

“It’s gone very well, and everyone has been very understanding and happy to help during this time,” says Sarah McKeown, of Community Care Northumberland’s Hastings office.

With the bridge closed, the only di-rect route connecting the north and south sides of the village across Lock 18 is via a special pedestrian crossing which Meals on Wheels volunteers have used to transport meals from Banjo’s Grill to north side clients ev-ery Wednesday.

McKeown says there was no “ap-prehension” on the part of clients or volunteers when faced with the tem-porary closure.

“I think they just knew we’d figure out a good solution,” McKeown said at Banjo’s during a special occasion to mark the 14th annual “March for Meals.” She was joined by Meals on Wheels volunteers Doris Clysdale and Rosemarie McMeechan and com-munity “champion” and Trent Hills Deputy-Mayor Bob Crate.

Hastings Community Care serves 10 clients, a number McKeown would like to see grow, but they are still “very pleased” with the response the program generates in the village.

“It’s been a small program, but it’s growing nicely.”

There are meal delivery volunteers on either side of the bridge, so there has been no disruption in the program, McKeown says.

“We have had an excellent part-nership with Banjo’s,” she added. “We’re so happy to have them do

meals for us.”Hastings Community Care and Ban-

jo’s have worked together on Meals on Wheels for at least five years.

“We would like to expand a bit. We’d love to expand and encompass more days of the week,” McKeown said. “At this time, we’re very happy the program has grown.”

A Meals on Wheels-type program has existed in Hastings since the early 1980s, says Clysdale who helped out with the original initiative.

Hot meals are delivered weekly, but McKeown says the Frozen Meals pro-gram is available every day through any of Community Care Northum-berland’s offices. The Frozen Meals program offers a wide range of menu options including those that cater to those on specific diets.

“We’re always looking for new ways to promote our services,” she says.

With files from Sue Dickens

Northumberland - The Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus (EOWC) responded to the federal government’s tabling of its 2016 budget, welcoming the news, which it stated, “announced significant and much-needed investments for the municipal sec-tor in affordable housing, clean energy, and municipal infrastructure.”

In their press release, EOWC Chair Peter Emon stated, “Municipalities, and particu-larly those in small and rural areas with lim-ited property tax revenues, have long been advocating for much-needed funding to address the aging infrastructure in many of their communities.”

He added, “The EOWC recognizes the important investments for the municipal sector that were included in the federal gov-ernment’s 2016 budget, and looks forward to working together with its partners to grow our local economies and reduce costs to our communities.”

The EOWC noted it supports many of the budget’s objectives, including but not limit-ed to the announcement of more than $120

billion over 10 years in new infrastructure investment: “This funding will assist mu-nicipalities with affordable social housing, childcare spaces, and community centres, in addition to allowing for upgrades and repairs to essential municipal infrastructure such as water and wastewater plants, roads and bridges.”

According to the government’s new infra-structure plan, it will be investing $3.4 bil-lion over five years for social infrastructure, including affordable housing, child care, cultural and recreational infrastructure and community health care facilities on reserve.

The caucus, in its press release, referenced some of the key facts from the EOWC’s White Paper on Affordable Housing form June 2014, which noted that municipal government is responsible for $467 million in social housing assets.

“These assets now have a book value of $257 million, suggesting they have lost 45 per cent of their value, as amortization expenses have outstripped municipalities’ ability to reinvest to maintain them.”

It also pointed out there are approximate-ly 14,000 social housing units and more

Meals on Wheels takes bridge closure in stride

Community Care Hastings volunteers Rosemarie McMeechan and Doris Clysdale join Trent Hills Dep-uty-Mayor Bob Crate and Mike Metcalf of Banjo’s Grill in Hastings during a special Community Care Northumberland “March for Meals” event to celebrate the Meals on Wheels program in Hastings. Photo by Bill Freeman“We still hear from people that didn’t know of all of the services that we do deliver.”

Community Care Northumberland delivered 4,708 Meals on Wheels across Trent Hills this past year.

Wardens’ Caucus welcomes federal government’s 2016 budgetthan 9,000 municipal social housing units across Eastern Ontario, with another 3,000 to 5,000 being operated by other non-profit organizations or the private sector.

In Trent Hills, 24 affordable rental housing units were approved in 2012 and have since been built on King Street. This was the first project for Trent Hills under the Investment in Affordable Housing (IAH) Program.

There is a waiting list for this type of ac-commodation throughout the County.

The EOWC’s White Paper also pointed to the fact that municipalities faced a $71 mil-

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Chair Emon, who is also warden of the County of Renfrew, concluded that the EOWC will continue to work with the fed-eral government to address the equitable distribution of funding between urban and rural communities, as well as ensure that the much-needed improvements to the tele-communications and broadband networks in rural Eastern Ontario are considered in future budgets.

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In a press release from the hospital it stated that currently the THFHT phy-sicians have full practices and there is a waiting list of area residents requir-ing a primary care provider. Efforts to recruit an additional primary care phy-sician to the THFHT are underway.

Without an area walk-in clinic, pa-tients without a primary care physi-cian who are on the wait list have no alternative than to visit the hospital’s Emergency Department (ER) for their primary care.

“From June to December 2015 there were 1,775 ER visits from patients without access to primary care. Given the high percentage of seniors in our area, we anticipate that within that population, there are seniors and pa-tients with complex needs,” explained Brad Hilker, president & CEO, CMH.

Elderly and complex patients with multiple health concerns, including diabetes and respiratory issues, are particularly vulnerable to complica-tions. When chronic diseases are well managed, complications may be pre-vented and minimized. Until a new primary care physician is recruited,

CMH and THFHT are embarking on a trial project to match these complex care patients with a primary care pro-vider.

The two organizations are piloting a system to identify frequent users of ER and who don’t currently have a primary physician. Supported by Health Links Quality Improvement funding, CMH will identify high-use ER patients without a primary care physician to determine the scope of the problem.

A CCP will be created for each pa-tient. The CCP is a care coordination tool that records the patient’s care goals and the clinician’s plans to deliv-er care based on those goals. The CCP will be made available to all members of the patient’s health care team, in-cluding specialists, to allow clinicians to communicate more effectively and to ensure the patient receives the level of care they require from the appropri-ate health service provider.

“Across the Central East LHIN, pa-tients, caregivers, health care provid-ers and other partners are working together as Health Links networks to effectively identify every patient with complex health needs and improve their health outcomes. The LHIN is committed to supporting the evolution of these Health Links networks as it moves forward with advancing inte-grated systems of care to help Central East LHIN residents live healthier at home,” said Deborah Hammons, CEO, Central East LHIN.

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By Bill Freeman

Havelock – A proposal to stock the Rotary Park pond in Havelock with trout and organize a youth fishing derby has been praised by township councillors.

“I’ve had this idea for a couple of years now,” said Pascal Hill, outlining his vision for a stocking initiative so local youth could enjoy what he was able to do when he was younger.

“When I was a kid you go to Rotary Park and catch trout. It was very natu-ral; it was a natural habitat, but there doesn’t seem to be any in there any-more,” Hill said.

He envisages a scaled down version of the popular Greenwing Derby be-low the Peterborough Liftlock hosted by Ducks Unlimited.

It would be a “strictly put and take thing,” he said, and the trout would be likely fished out after a couple of weeks which “is a good thing anyway.”

“The water gets fairly warm and I have seen it dry up over the years.”

Hill says it would be “fairly afford-able” to purchase the fish and doesn’t foresee trouble in attracting donors. He’s done some preliminary research and talked to one fish farm which sug-gested 300 trout per acre at eight feet deep would be enough to supply a successful fishing derby and a couple of weeks of follow-up fishing.

“We put them in there for the kids, and limit it to the kids for the first week or whatever makes sense,” he

Campbellford hospital and local health team work together Links philosophy which is: better care for complex and senior patients, few patients accessing ERs for conditions best managed by primary care, fewer unnecessary hospital admissions and ultimately, better use of our health care dollars.

This new initiative builds on and complements an existing arrangement that has CMH providing the THFHT with daily alerts about patients who are discharged from the hospital.

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to book post hospital discharge ap-pointments with a family physician.

To date more than 178 patients have been contacted through the system and the approach is reducing the num-ber of repeat ED visits or hospital re-admissions.

Pond stocking plan wins applausesaid.

“I’ve mentioned it to a few people, and fundraising doesn’t seem like it’s an issue if that’s what we need to get it going. Other than that it’s a decision council would have to make.”

The window for stocking the pond for this season is quite limited, he said.

“Typically this next month is an ideal time for stocking because the spring water at the fish farm is the same tem-perature.”

If there’s an inclination to make it “more of a trout habitat” then cleaning and preparing the pond would need to be considered.

“It is a shame that it’s sitting over there not being used,” Deputy-Mayor Jim Martin said. “I think it’s great you’re taking it on.”

“I think it’s a marvelous idea,” added

Mayor Ron Gerow. “It’s something we talked about a long time ago.”

Something similar was done in the early 1980s and was very successful, Gerow said.

“It really doesn’t get used that much,” he said of the park.

Gerow said council would support an effort to organize a mini derby this summer.

“I’d be willing to look at what we could do in the short term, and I think from that you build excitement for next year. We still have a little bit of time.”

He encouraged Hill to put together a plan of “what’s achievable in the short term” and to get feedback from the MNR then return to council.

“Let’s get behind this, and let’s make something happen.”

The Campbellford Memo-rial Hospital Foundation received a generous do-nation of $5,000 from the Warkworth Community Service Club at their regu-lar monthly meeting. The funds, combined with a similar gift from the Ro-tary Club of Campbellford, will be used to purchase a new refrigerator for the hospital laboratory. The funds were raised through the club’s annual cash draw. Brad Hilker, CMH president and CEO, left,

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Havelock – Doug “Mugger” Hart has watched a couple of generations of hockey players make their way through the Havelock hockey system and has done his part to help sharpen their on-ice skills through clinics he’s run free of charge for at least 20 years.

Now, after 42 years of hockey and ti-tles assisting the Campbellford Rebels and the Norwood Vipers and retire-ment as HBM’s parks and recreation manager on the horizon, Hart says his days of leading clinics might be over but he’s sure others will step in and pick up the torch.

“That could be my last,” Hart said following a March Break clinic that drew kids of all ages and skill levels. The clinics, usually held on Saturdays, draw between 25 and 30 kids and Hart gets support from other hockey-play-ing adults in the community who want to help out.

“You’re out there for the kids, that’s the reason you come and they seem to love it,” he says.

Minor hockey in Havelock is enjoy-ing a bit of a renaissance after a slow rebuilding of its minor program and

Hart is bullish on the future, excited to see no fewer than three tyke teams wearing Hawks jerseys.

“That’s 33 kids seven and under. Havelock has never had three tyke teams so the future looks bright. The future of hockey in Havelock is good.”

There was also a midget team, the first in nearly a decade, he adds.

“It’s the best I’ve seen for the vol-ume of players coming,” Hart says. “It takes a bit of time getting par-ents to keep their kids here when rep hockey comes and they don’t want to play in the Leo (local) League and they’re gone to other centres. There’s nothing we can do about that but the ones that are playing here seem aw-fully happy.”

There are Havelock players play-ing rep hockey in Norwood, Camp-bellford and Centre Hastings and “AAA” and “AA” in Peterborough and Quinte. Hart has watched many of those kids at his clinics and he’s happy elite players are doing well in bigger centres.

“I’ve watched them grow up big time,” he says. “They learn how to play and once they learn how to play that keeps them going.”

‘Mugger’ Hart ponders stepping back from hockey clinics

Doug “Mugger” Hart joins kids for a photo following a hockey clinic at the Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Community Centre. Hart is considering pass-ing on the torch and stepping away from organizing the clinics which he’s run at the arena for the past 20 years. Photo by Bill Freeman

Hart admits that when he was a youth in Havelock, coaching was not always great; it was often just a par-ent with a kid on the team. What he and his helpers try to do is hone real skills and instill a love of the game which carries over into or-

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By Diane Sherman

Madoc - The Friends of the Library have lost their profits for a couple of months, after a break and enter March 23-24 at The Bookworm on the main street of Madoc. There was $150 in cash missing, and repairs to the front entrance will cost $850.

Thieves appear to have pried the lock and then boot-ed in the door, making away with a donation jar with about $40 in it for the Heart of Hastings Hospice. They then rummaged through the desk finding petty cash.

President of The Friends, Kevin Cutts, said it was hu-man error to begin with when the Wednesday worker forgot to put the jar out of sight.

“I guess the temptation was too much for the thieves. We found out about it Thursday morning from another volunteer,” he said.

The greatest cost, Cutts said, was to replace the front door and frame, which used up current assets intended for donation to the library.

“Our future is on hold. It will take at least a couple of months to replace the $850 for the door and repair, so library donations will have to wait.”

The Bookworm was going to remain closed Thurs-day due to the ice storm, but both Thursday and Friday were spent dealing with repercussions of the break in, and the store remained closed Saturday.

Funds raised at the second-hand bookstore support local non-profit agencies and continue to help the local library with improvements.

Anyone with information should contact Central Hastings OPP at 613-473-4234 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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The organization hosted two OMHA Champi-onships, won two OMHA silver medals, and all eight teams qualified for the OMHA playdowns.

The Minor Atom, Minor Peewee, and Midget teams all finished in first place in the ETA East division.

Award winners at the Quinte Red Devils ban-quet were: President’s Award (Excellence in Hockey, Academics, and Community Involve-

ment – Bantam and Midget) – Bailey Mathews.Tom and Janice Fleming Award (Excellence in

Hockey, Academics, and Community Involve-ment – Atom and Peewee) – Aiden Treverton.

Coach of the Year – Steve Bancroft.Star Trophy Award – (most improved team) –

Peewee (2003) – Coach: Russ Alexander.Red Devil Award – (team with the highest win-

ning %) – Minor Peewee (2004) – Coach: Chris Hunt.

Hammy Award – (in memory of Michael “Hammy” Hamilton) – Volunteer (s) of the Year – Larry Votary and Brian Thiifault.

Red Devils hand out hardware at annual awards banquet

Quinte Red Devils volunteers of the year Larry Votary, left, and Brian Thiffault - winners of the Hammy Award. Submitted photo

Brethour rink takes Maplefest title

Norwood Curling Club President Brian Radnor presents the Maplefest Sap Bucket Trophy to (left to right) skip Colin Brethour, vice Deb McEwen, sec-ond Glen Brethour and lead Judy Brethour. Photo submitted

Norwood - Colin Brethour’s rink topped 23 other teams to take the top prize at the Maplefest Mixed Bonspiel in Norwood.

The rink of Brethour, vice Deb McE-wen, second Glen Brethour and lead Judy Brethour edged by the Nick Nickson’s team of Marj Delorey, vice, co-seconds Mac Danford and Don De-lorey and lead Pauline Garden.

Placing third was Larry Sullivan’s rink with Lori Sullivan at vice, Terry Stephens second and Arlene Webster and Don Southward as co-leads.

The mixed spiel drew 24 teams to Norwood competing in three separate draws with each team playing three games over two days with the rink with the highest points total taking the coveted Sap Bucket Trophy.

Cash prizes were also awarded to the top teams in each of the draws.

The bonspiel is a success because of its sponsors and other supporters who fill up an impressive prize tables. Do-nating “special prizes” were Steve and Linda Harold, Don Richardson, CDR Aggregates, Curtis and Bonnie Town-

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fan, I would like to extend a hearty “high-five” salute to the 2015-16 Stirling Novice Blues rep team for an unde-niably successful season which concluded in epic fashion this past weekend.

The young stick-handling stars saved the best for last in the deciding game five of the best-of-five O.M.H.A. BB Championship Final series on Saturday, March 26 in front of a jam-packed crowd gathered at the Stirling Arena. Al-though the locals came out on the short-end of an exhila-rating 1-0 final score to the eventual winners from Midland on a last-second goal, the Novice Blues should definitely hold their heads high for an outstanding exhibition of well-played hockey.

I would like to submit to all that the exceptional display of skills was not only a compliment to the novice-aged skat-ers engaged in our national sport on this March afternoon, but one of the best games of hockey ever witnessed at the Stirling Rec Centre in it’s entire 40 year history …. peri-od!! The team’s success is a tribute to the adult off-ice staff of Gary Sage, Evan Osterhoudt, Kelly Sage McCracken, Brock Ellis and Yolanda Ellis who should be rightfully commended for the molding of a well-disciplined, ex-tremely motivated novice club.

I am positive that this group of minor hockey kids have a fine future ahead of them due to their dedication and effort.

For every competing member of the young 2015-16 Stirling Novice Blues I would like to quote my late father Cecil who always told me after a disappointing loss, “You have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win.”

“ROLL BLUES ROLL”!! Kevin Solmes

Stirling

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Solmer says: Way to go BluesThis year marked the 25th consecu-

tive year that the Skins Bonspiel has taken place in Stirling. Inter-national Truckload Service of Bel-leville, title sponsor of the event in this year’s Skin’s along with the 60 plus other sponsors helped to make the Skins in Stirling once again the premier men’s bonspiel of the year.

24 teams from across Ontario and New York State flocked to Stirling in search of the big prize being of-fered at this year’s ITS Skins Bon-spiel. Because of huge generosity from the community and surround-ing area, Stirling Curling Club was able to offer the largest cash purse in the area this season. The ITS Skins was able to provide its largest cash purse of $10,704.00 for the week-end. The lucky team that made it to the A Event final would be playing for $200.00 per end or skin.

The 24 team field began Friday evening using the skins format. Each team is on the offence at all times, defence is very rarely used. It is great to watch that many rocks in play and it always comes down to a team’s last rock of each end be-fore the skin can be decided. There is very rarely no shot to score. The team without last rock only needs to score a point, while the team with last rock must score two or more points to get the skin. If this does not happen then the end is carried over at which time the nerves can get quite stretched because each shot could decide the game. A three game qualifying round was held on Friday night and Saturday. After the dust settled the standings were as follows;

Don McCurdy GM (Jeff Clark–West Northumberland)-$173.00(3 game winner)

T.H. Logistics (Scott Shaw = Stir-ling Curling Club) - $163.00)(3 game winner)

Bellevue Fabricating (Ryan Rowe - Nappanee Curling Club) - $162.00(3 game winner)

Shoppers Drug Mart Quinte Mall - (Evan Sullivan - Quinte ) - $182.00

Shawn Lumley Royal LePage - (Ian Laver - Campbellford) - $182.00

Farquhar Cabinets (Mark Mc-Donald - Kingston) - $162.00

Jenny’s Country Lane (Jim Brownson - Campbellford) - $162.00

Thompson Plumbing (Jason Brien - Utica; N.Y) - $132.00

Sharon Leitch Law (Bryce Rowe - Quinte) - $132.00

Split Second Printing (Trevor Cal-vert - Scarbourgh) - $131.00

Dolphin Pools(Barry Brown - Campbellford) - $131.00

Pro One Stop (Dennis Murray – Quinte ) - $122.00

Jimmy`s Special Pizza (Rick Bar-nard – Stirling) - $122.00

Doxtator Sand & Gravel (Neil Harder – Trenton) - $111.00

Tweed Chiropractic (Les Martin - Land O’ Lakes) - $110.00

McKillop & Associates (Mike Beebe - Ottawa) - $101.00

Northstar Refrigeration (Doug Brewer - Brockville) - $92.00

Noleview Farms & Trucking (Vince Brennan - Trenton) - $92.00

Dairy Queen, Belleville (Jeff Pur-telle - Quinte ) - $91.00

Buc’s Construction (Andre Chap-man - Ottawa) - $90.00

Border Control Dogs (Ken Rich-ards - Stirling) - $81.00

Sullivan Auctioneers (Mark Reid – Whitby) - $80.00

Black Dog Restaurant(Glen Bru-bacher - Campbellford) - $71.00

Woodbeck Auto Parts (Paul (Cur-ley) Jenkins) - Trenton - $41.00

Because standings are determined by dollars won teams quite often end up tied with the same dollar amounts. To make it fair and to give the team some control of their own destiny in this bonspiel we use a shoot-out system to break ties. Each team member will throw one rock each, measuring its distance from the button in the center of the rings. The total distance accumu-lated is then used to break ties in dollar amounts between teams. To

make it a little bit more competitive the field was broken up into groups of four teams. Each group would then be competing for $100.00 and the overall winner would get an ad-ditional $100.00. This activity was generously sponsored by Leighton Electric of Trenton and BarrRidge of Stirling. The results of the were:

Split Second Printing (Trevor Cal-vert - Scarbourgh) - 280 cm

Pro One Stop (Dennis Murray – Quinte ) - 377 cm

Farquhar Cabinets (Mark Mc-Donald - Kingston) - 88.5 cm (Overall Winner)

Sullivan Auctioneers (Mark Reid – Whitby) - 356.5 cm

Bellevue Fabricating (Ryan Rowe - Nappanee Curling Club) - 172 cm

Noleview Farms & Trucking (Vince Brennan - Trenton) - $92.00

INTERNATIONAL TRUCK-LOAD SERVICE (ITS) “A” EVENT

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defeated Bellevue Fabricating $1,404 to $200.00

Shoppers Drug Mart Quinte Mall - (Sullivan) took home $1,790.00 for the weekend

STEWART GRAPHICS “B” EVENT

Semi FinalShawn Lumley Royal LePage

(Laver) defeated Thompson Plumb-ing (Brien) $144.00 to $140.00

Farquhar Cabinets (McDonald) defeated Jenny’s Country Lane (Brownson) $179.00 to $105.00

FinalFarquhar Cabinets (McDonald)

defeated Shawn Lumley Royal LePage (Laver) $904.00 to $480.00

Farquhar Cabinets (McDon-ald) took home $1,445.00 for the weekend

ACCUTECH MACHINE & TOOL “C” EVENT

Semi FinalPro One Stop (Murray) defeat-

ed Sharon Leitch Law (Rowe ) $244.00 to $0.00

Split Second Printing (Calvert) defeated Dolphin Pools (Brown) $244.00 to $0.00

FinalPro One Stop (Murray) defeated

Split Second Printing (Calvert) $704.00 to $420.00

Pro One Stop (Murray) took home $1,076.00 for the weekend

This was the most exciting final this year as the last two ends were carried over(tied). In this case each team will throw one rock each to the button, with the closest winning the final two skins and of course the event. The first attempt saw each team both cover the pin resulting in them doing it again. Former cham-pion Murray covered the pin for a second time with Calvert narrowly sliding past it.

STIRLING FOODLAND “D” EVENT

Jimmy`s Special Pizza (Barnard) defeated - McKillop & Associates (Beebe) $179.00 to $25.00

Doxtator Sand & Gravel (Harder) defeated Tweed Chiropractic (Mar-tin) $154.00 to $50.00

FinalDoxtator Sand & Gravel (Harder)

defeated Jimmy`s Special Pizza (Barnard) $724.00 to $240.00

March 20 just happened to be Harder’s birthday, little did he realize his birthday present from Barnard would be so lucrative. Thanks Barn.

A special event took place at this year’s bonspiel as on hand were the originators of the Skins in Stirling. Ray Finkle and Barry Mitchell be-gan the trophy presentation with remarks about the first year and the passion that still remains.

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By Ross Lees

Belleville’s Dr. Aruna Alexander per-haps articulated the legacy all Cana-dians should strive for at the Inter-national Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held at CFB Trenton.

In closing her impassioned and in-sightful talk on Canada’s history of cultural diversity, she said, “Let diver-sity in Canada construct the best his-tory the world has ever lived.”

Organized by the Defence Visible Minority Advisory Group (DVMAG) at 8 Wing/ CFB Trenton, the lunch and learn event at the Officers’ Mess featured three dynamic and interesting speakers - Capt. Isabel Courchesne, a physiotherapy officer with 24 Cana-dian Forces Health Services, Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary of Health, and Dr. Alexander, a recipient of Ontario’s 2014 Newcomer Cham-pion Award.

8 Wing Commander Col. Colin Keiv-er regretted that in Canada in 2016 we still had to hold International Days for Elimination of Racial Discrimination and Women’s Days, especially within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), whose first of three ethical principles is respect the dignity of all persons.

“It is at the end of the day all about dignity and respecting dignity and if we fail to do that, we end up having to talk about things like this,” he not-ed. “As members of the CAF, we go out in the world and we do our work, we are there representing Canadian values and there is no better value in my opinion than that value of inclu-siveness and diversity that is the hall-mark of Canada around the world. It

is through respect and dignity that we make that work.”

Alexander’s history lesson on Cana-dian diversity should be taught in all Canadian schools. She is a member of the Quinte Chapter of the United Nations Association in Canada, is involved in the Model UN school program and serves as a minister at Bridge Street United Church and oth-er congregations – and she has a better handle on Canadian history than most.

Her short, 20-minute talk on the cul-tural diversity and multiculturalism which is the foundation of Canada was well thought out and originated from an obviously proud Canadian who took her listeners back to their Canadian roots and brought them up-to-date in those fascinating 20 min-utes.

“In celebrating diversity in Canada, I begin with the fact that our aboriginal hoop dancers inform us that their use of hoops is a symbol of the circle of life and this circle was pregnant with diversity during the birth of the na-tion called Canada,” she began, add-ing that indigenous peoples helped the early immigrants settle into life in Canada.

“If the story of Canadian cultural diversity has been a tale of hardship, and denial, it is also an odyssey of hope and triumph and that is what this day is all about. Today we celebrate our Canadian aboriginal foundations as well as the efforts of early settlers and immigrants to establish them-selves and the cold, hard fact of their survival.”

Capt. Isabel Courchesne, a phys-iotherapy officer with 24 Canadian Forces Health Services, had an expe-

rience as a visible minority in an exer-cise to Mongolia in 2015.

Called Exercise CONQUEST, the goal of the cooperative effort was to provide humanitarian assistance and to share best practices as well as en-hance inter-operability within the multi-national health services team made up of members from Korea, In-dia, the United States, Mongolia and Canada.

Lodged at the Mongolian Armed Forces National Defence university compound where space, electricity and water were options, Courchesne advised her listeners to consider stay-ing at hotels if they ever visited Mon-golia.

Her first real feeling of all eyes on her was in the cafeteria for breakfast, she recalled, where officer cadets in the Mongolian military are treated considerably differently than Cana-dian officer cadets.

“The first time I entered that cafete-ria in the morning, all the eyes turned on me. It was not because I was dif-ferent, but because the recruits, the of-ficer cadets there are not use to seeing a woman in uniform. The other factor was I was eating completely different food than they were, so I think there was a little bit of envy there. We were eating great food and they were eating bread and some kind of soup all the time, like every meal,” she noted.

She told of an incident where people who would begin lining up to see a physiotherapist at 2 a.m. would refuse to see the Mongolian military physio-therapist so they could go to the Ca-nadian.

“I gained valuable training and ex- Capt. Isabel Courchesne, a physiotherapy officer with 24 Canadian Forces Health Services, had an experience as a visible minority in an exercise to Mongolia in 2015.Continued on page B15

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The Hastings County Community Safety and Well Being steering committee offi cially launched the Situation Table at the Belleville Fire Hall recently.

Every Wednesday, members from vital orga-nizations in Hastings County are meeting to work together on situations that require rapid interventions to support individuals and families who are in high-risk situations.

The purpose of the situational table, under the direction of the Hastings County Community Safety and Well Being Committee, is to improve individual lives and fi nd greater system effi cien-cies by applying a risk mitigation lens to human service delivery in the community.

“By having key agencies in the community meeting weekly to discuss situations that require immediate attention, we can leverage the per-spectives, information, talents and resources of multiple agencies at once” said Steve Gatward, Director of Social Services and member of the executive committee. “The development and execution of a community wide and multi-sector strategy will bring about greater effi ciency, ef-fectiveness, and improved service connections leading to more positive social outcomes for all human services in Hastings County,” he said.

Hastings County is not the fi rst to adopt this method. Situation Tables are being developed across the province and the country. The CSWB Executive Committee looked at several models in the province that have been operational for

over a year such as the Community Mobilization North Bay, Gateway Hub Model.

The release of the North Bay Gateway Hub Year 1 Report in December of 2015 indicated “a total of 200 situations were introduced by com-munity agencies with the large majority (82%) approved for further discussion and/or escala-tion.”

“Rather than recreating the concept, the idea was to review how areas developed their Situ-ation Tables and implement the model that we felt would be the best fi t for our own community with considerations of rural and urban areas in our catchment areas,” Gatward added. “Con-sistency and effi ciency at the table will ensure rapid interventions are taking place and will be key for the success of this model.”

In order for members of the Situation Table to complete mandatory training, funds were re-ceived through grants from the United Way of Quinte and the Human Services Justice Coordi-nating Committee.

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“We were grateful to receive the funding to fa-cilitate the training for participants to be fully engaged with the Situation Table model,” stated Marg Wagner, chair of the situation table.

Belleville - Police agencies are making inroads in rooting out child pornographers, a pair of cas-es in Belleville court showed last week.

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Men plead to child porn chargesTwo local men pleaded guilty to child pornog-

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Gary Gorr, 64, of Belleville, pleaded guilty to two charges, including mak-ing child porn available. Gorr was charged in 2015 after an investigation involving RCMP and York Regional Police, with co-operation of Belleville Police, and will be sentenced June 8.

As well, Darryll Slain, 52, of Madoc also pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography charges and a fi rearms possession charge after being arrested last year.

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By Jack Evans

If you had trouble finding a parking spot around the Sports and Wellness Centre Wednesday, blame it on the Quinte area’s growing seniors population.

The annual Qunite Seniors Fair, sprawled over an entire hockey rink in the complex, drew a steady crowd of many hundreds of people from a radius of about 50 kilo-metres in a day-long-stream, plus around 100 exhibitors and their staffs for the four-hour event. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Even before the exhibits officially opened, people were lined up dozens deep to register for a free grab bag and a ticket for a light lunch.

The exhibits said it all. Most were med-ically-oriented – special goods and servic-es, such as hearing, sight, diet and fitness.

There were handymen, new products for safety and comfort for the aged, finance, social activities, service clubs and cultural organizations. Some even provided some musical entertainment in the nearby gym-nasium where lunch was being served, es-pecially both male and female barbershop harmony groups , The Sweet Adelines and A Cappella Quinte. Quinte Symphony promoted its coming concerts. There were several workshops for fitness and other topics drawing considerable interest, pro-vincial agencies and politicians.

Mayor Taso Christopher was seen tour-ing the displays during the busy day, shown around by Wellness Centre staffer Karen Weichenthal, who organized the fair.

Director of Recreation and Culture Mark Fluher summed it up as “a huge success.”

By Jack Evans

Challenges just keep piling up for Quinte Health Care, as in-dicated at its board meeting at Prince Edward County Memo-rial Hospital in Picton.

But there were plenty of signs of achievements for the amal-gamated hospital corporation. One was announcement of a new elderly care unit as part of the Belleville hospital – 30 beds for acute care and alternative

long-term care for the elderly, set to open April 12. Along with that, a team of nurses spe-cializing in elder care has been assigned a special title to reflect the move – the first such title to be awarded in Canada. QHC officials see this as a sign that the corporation is now consid-ered a leader in elder care in the nation.

Still at BGH, improvements in the emergency department have been reported to have re-

duced both wait times for ad-mission and waiting periods to get medical attention signifi-cantly.

Overall, though, QHC still struggles to meet provincial requirements in some areas on standards, as well as on com-piling and filing special stud-ies and reports, including an “overall master plan.” This is required by the Ministry of Health before further approval of the proposed new hospital

QHC faces many challenges, hits milestonesat Picton. The plan must dem-onstrate the use of all four hos-pitals over a 20-year period to warrant the new construction and must be in place by June of this year.

Brad Harrington, director of finance, said QHC is on top of the requirement, about 50 per cent completed after an early start, and is hopeful the hospi-tal can justify its stand of four hospitals and four emergency rooms operating 24-7 for the next 20 years.

Meanwhile, the hospital’s heavily-used MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machinery is no longer able to keep up the pace, despite the department

having shown to have greatly reduced waiting times for pa-tients in non-emergent cases. An upgrade to the MRI equip-ment will cost an estimated $1 million. Harrington said the upgrade was approved after staff examined the unit and pro-claimed it could be upgraded rather than purchase a new one, at a saving of about $1 million.

Harrington added that the new provincial budget has given a small breather to hospitals by allowing an inflation increase of one per cent, the first such increase in four years. He called it, “encouraging.”

Staff reports also predicted a sharp increase for senior staff

on this year’s “sunshine list,” running as high as almost 50 per cent. It’s not big raises in pay, but rather a freak timing of leap year’s extra day creating an extra two-week pay period in 2016.

Meanwhile, Trenton Memori-al Hospital has been getting lots of attention by engineers and architects studying its space and construction toward creat-ing a new “health hub.” Their report to the LHIN is expected by May 1.

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The Good Earth: Some New Big Small TreesNewspeak has arrived in our subdi-visions. (Older folk will recognize the reference to Orwell’s 1984. You youngsters can take a moment to ei-ther Google it or ask an older person to look it up in their Funk & Wagnall’s for you.) A spacious yard has been redefi ned, read reduced, from suf-fi cient area to plant a veggie garden, have a BBQ pit, and a pitch for a bit of footie, down to space for the patio, a tin shed (with lawnmower, snow blower, 4-wheeler, and the front grill from a ’49 Fordor that will eventually become wall art in the man cave.) If veggies are present, they’re likely in a terra cotta pot on the deck. There is room for one large tree which will be planted in the geometric centre so that mature branches will neither encroach upon the neighbour’s air space nor block their share of the sun.

I recognise that a titch of cynicism has crept into my perspective; how-ever, the fact remains that our green growing space is shrinking. It doesn’t matter if it is Muskeg Meadows© subdivision on the north/east/south/edge of town- the one built on the old

swamp- or in the urban core where building footprints tickle the edge of the sidewalks. Fortunately, in the lat-ter location, green rooves are becom-ing more common, undergoing the transition from a scrubby sedum cov-ering to almost parkland as architects specify interactive living spaces on the tippy-tops of their high-rises.

Back in the subdivision, the proud new owners of 1234 Ramblingrose-briarpatch Lane are looking for alter-natives to a singular sentinel of either Crimson King maple or paper-bark rich clump.

Now’s the time to introduce some positivity into this column by show-casing a few modern alternatives. Here’s a brief introduction to a few “large” shade trees that will fi t com-fortably into the new paradigm.

Redpointe Maple (Acer rubrum ‘Red Frank Jr.’, PP 16769) is a good choice for sites with full sun, alkaline soils, and even a bit of standing water. Zone 5b, this chappy has a life span of al-most 80 years and will fi ll a space 45’ tall x 30’ wide. Classic native red maple leaves (meaning they are green)

turn a deep red in the fall. A desirable form which sports a strong central leader (so the tree grows straight up) with lower branches starting 6’ above the ground.

If this is still a titch large, consider a Ruby Sunset™Maple (Acer trunca-tum x A. platanoides ‘JFS-KW249’), a cosmopolitan cross between Chi-nese and Norway maples. Zone 4b hardiness broadens the range of this compact (25’ tall x 20’ wide) fellow with its dapper colouring of dark, glossy green summer raiment chang-ing over to a deep red in the fall.

For birch lovers, consider the Dako-ta Pinnacle Birch, Betula platyphylla ‘Fargo’. Attributes include wind re-sistance, drouth tolerance, accepting of heavy clay soils and sports a bark palette ranging from a young grey to a middle-aged orange-white fi nishing at a yellow-white mature colouring. Here’s an upright wind-breaker of 40’ x 12’.

Oaks can now be slipped into the new “spacious” yard if any of the fol-lowing are selected: Crimson Spire™ Oak (White x English) spreads out to

45’ x15 with fall leaf colour refl ect-ing its name; Skinny Genes™ Oak is a selection of Crimson Spire with 2 differences- it’s width is a meagre 10’ and the fall colour is yellow; and, per-haps the narrowest, Kindred Spirit® stretches up to 35’ yet stays inside a 6’ space. A cross between Swamp White and the famous English parent, the leaves have slightly silver undersides and persist during most of the winter. Like big brother, Regal Prince (45 x18), Kindred’s fall colour is an un-distinguished yellow-brown.

Of course, there are many other choices for a smaller space such as top-grafted trees, e.g. weeping mul-berry (Morus alba ‘Pendula”) and shrubs pruned into single stemmed standards, e.g. nannyberry (Viburnum lentago) but today’s column was to introduce the new, smaller versions of the big old standards. The economic downturn in the United States slowed down production and curtailed the normal advertising programmes. As a result, our local nurseries have quite a few “new” trees that will easily slip into our estates; be sure to ask the

folks about them when you’re out and about this spring.

In case you’re wondering, I didn’t miss the west of town when noting the location of Muskeg Meadows. The land fi ll is still in use so we’ll have to wait a few years.

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Health Promoter Rebecca Mathers-Phillips from the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health educates Quinte landlords on how to make their rental buildings smoke-free. Submitted photo

Quinte region landlords have joined the fight against smoking. Fed up with the damage caused by some tenants smoking in their units, members of the Quinte Landlord’s As-sociation invited an expert from the public health unit to a meeting to educate them on how to outlaw smoking in their buildings.

Health Promoter Rebecca Mathers-Phillips from the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health gave an hour-long seminar on how to ensure rental buildings are smoke-free.

Local landlords learned they have access to free signs, literature, and other resources to let tenants know smoking is not permitted. “Our members have had enough of irrespon-sible smokers causing significant damage to their rental units through smoking” said as-sociation president Robert Gentile.

Landlords are concerned that the smoke gets into the floors, carpets, appliances and it takes a lot of work to remove the grime from the walls and ceilings. Also, the clean up bill after a tenant moves out can add up to hundreds of dollars. Going after the tenant

in small claims court is an option, but not al-ways practical for the landlord, which means landlords risk paying out of pocket for tenant negligence.

“We’ve warned tenants before, but this time we’re getting serious and will have the smok-ing ban enforced if we have to,” says Gentile.

At the landlords’ request, the health unit has offered to send in uniformed enforcement of-ficers to clamp down on tenants who don’t respect the smoke-free designation. “Our members are prepared to have the officers in their buildings issuing tickets if that’s what it takes” warns Gentile.

Gentile says his members respect the rights of their tenants to smoke, just not when it causes damage to their buildings and upsets other tenants.

“All we ask is that tenants smoke outside away from doors and windows and clean up their butts,” he said.

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Belleville – If the Quinte area gains more immigrants, the region will broaden its population base and will likely see more entrepreneurs to create jobs and more skilled tradespeople to fill vacant jobs, local mayors and busi-ness leader say.

With that in mind, officials and elect-ed members from local municipali-ties gathered at Loyalist College on Wednesday, March 23 to celebrate the launch of a new immigration website to promote the Bay of Quinte region to the country’s newcomers.

The website is www.immigration.bayofquinte.ca .

It tells people what it’s like to “live, work, play and learn” in the area. It also contains videos of interviews with several new Canadians who’ve moved to and have come to love the region.

“Our goal with this project was to create an Immigration Portal that would share information about our re-gion but also help tell the unique and wonderful story of the Bay of Quinte region to new Canadians looking for a place to call home,” said Aaron Bell, a communications specialist hired to create the site. “We were able to capture several unique stories about

Aaron Bell, of Aaron Bell Creative Communications, speaks at a launch event for a new immigration portal, immigration.bay-ofquinte.ca . Bell created the site, working with Bay of Quinte Living. Photo by Stephen Petrick

Bay of Quinte communities hope website will help retain immigrants

people from across the world that have made our com-munity their new home and we are sharing those stories to encourage other people to see the wonderful opportunities that we have in our community.”

Bay of Quinte Living council was a partner in the project. Its president, Jon VanHuizen, was excited to be part of the launch, as he feels the portal will tell people that there are plenty of opportunities to grow businesses in the region.

“We have a region that’s a hidden gem,” he said to an audience in Alumni Hall that included Belleville Mayor Taso Christopher, Quinte West Mayor Jim Harrison and Prince Edward County Mayor Robert Quaiff. “I’m ex-tremely happy with this. It’s not only the best portal in the province, it’s our first.”

Bell explained that the goal was to create a site that was user-friendly and easy to navigate.

The main sections of the website were translated so pag-es also appear in French, Spanish, German, Mandarin and Korean.

Former President of the Bay of Quinte Tourism Council Ryan Williams also spoke at the event, and addressed one of the reasons it’s important to embrace immigration.

“We’re a nation of immigrants, a mosaic of different cul-tures,” he said.

He also said efforts to promote immigration are part of a greater business strategy for the region. By 2030, 100 per cent of the region’s population growth is expected to come from immigration, he said.

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As you probably already know, the Toronto Raptors are the only Cana-dian-based team in the NBA, and they’ve had a good year. They joined the league back in 1995, and they used to play their home games at the SkyDome before moving to the Air Canada Centre in 1999. Well, now that the Toronto Raptors will soon begin their playoff run, I thought that I’d write a piece this week about a recent trip I had to Toronto to watch this entertaining and exciting basket-ball team. And what made my visit ‘extra special’ this time was the fact that I had the good fortune to view the game from an executive suite. What a bonus!

My friend and curling teammate, Bob LaFrance, invited our mixed curling team (with our spouses) to the game, and since he’s the Vice President Commercial at BMO, we were able to enjoy the game from the BMO suite. It’s one of the many sec-ond level suites that go around much of the Air Canada Centre, and these corporate boxes certainly provide a special viewing platform. Each of these boxes comes with its own bal-cony area, too, so we could sit out and enjoy the game without being be-hind any window. We were told that we could take photos from our suite, but there was to be no flash photogra-phy during the game.

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We drove from Belleville to Whit-by, and then we took the GO-train to Union Station. This was a very re-laxing way to get to the game, and it avoided the hassle of the Don Valley Parkway and of then trying to find a parking spot near the Air Canada Centre. A round-trip adult ticket from Whitby is about $20.00, and it’s about ½ price for a senior. After the game, we simply hopped back on the GO-train and returned to our parked vehicle (free parking). Another even cheaper alternative would be to drive a little further, park next to the sub-way line, and then use this means of transportation to/from Union Station. I used to do this quite often by park-

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PhilliPs, Robert John, of Brighton, passed away at the Kingston General Hospital on Sunday evening March 20th, 2016 in his 73rd year. Dear son of the late Orlaph Phillips and the late Mary Phillips (Darbey). Will be missed by his brothers; David Orlaph Phillips (Helen) of Brighton and Paul Alfred Phillips (Beverly) of Brighton. Also lovingly remembered by his nieces and nephews; Elaine Phillips (Ashley Rafferty) of Brighton, Diane Phillips (Wayne Sutton) of Illinois, Robert Phillips (Courtney) of Windsor, Lacey Phillips (Brendan McIntosh) of Toronto, Kristen Phillips (Neil Nelson) of Brighton and Shannon Phillips (David Kusalik) of Kingston. Dear great uncle to; Katelin, James, Haley, Brodie, Tyson, Edmund and Woodrow (Woody). Predeceased by great nephew; Dakota. Cremation arrangements entrusted to Steele Funeral Home, Moira Street Chapel, 30 Moira Street West, Belleville (613-968-2273). A Celebration of Life will be held at the family farm at a later date to be announced. If desired, memorial donations to the Kingston General Hospital would be appreciated.

WOOD, Verden Joseph (Vern) - December 19, 1931 - March 26, 2016. Vern passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his wife, Christine, and his children; Elizabeth of Montreal (Steven), Laureen of Campbellford (John), John of Grafton, and Bob of Anchorage, Alaska (Danielle). He is also survived by his four grandchildren, Olivia and Tiana Mitchell, Saoirse Jordan-Wood, and Evan Wood. Vern farmed on the lakeshore, Colborne, and was a longtime retiree of Kraft, Cobourg. He helped fundraise for the original Colborne arena in 1967, and was one of the core team members of the ‘old timers’ hockey team. He coached and refereed all ages of minor hockey in local and all-star divisions. He was president of the local minor hockey league for a term, and established the “Mighty Mites”, ages 4, 5, & 6. Vern was an avid angler, golfer, and curler, spending most of his leisure time at his summer home near Bancroft, Ontario. Vern was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He will be dearly missed. Friends are invited to call at the MacCoubrey Funeral Home, 11 King St.,W., Colborne on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9. A funeral mass will be held in St. Mary’s Catholic Church Grafton on Thursday March 31st at 11 am. Interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery , Grafton. If desired donations may be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences received at www.MacCoubrey.com

SIMPSON, Steven James, suddenly in Brighton on Thursday, March 10th, 2016, age 55 years. Steve Simpson, son of Margaret Elizabeth Simpson (nee Post) of Brighton and the late Darwin James Simpson. Loving father of Candace Simpson and Keelan Simpson, both of Brighton. Dear brother of Timothy Simpson and his wife Mary of Bowmanville, Daniel Simpson and his wife Valarie of Brighton, and Rebecca and her husband Robert Cox of Brighton. Sadly missed by his nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at the Brighton Masonic Hall, Brighton on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 from 1 o’clock, a Celebration of Steve’s life will follow in the Masonic Hall at 3 o’clock. Cremation. As an expression of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements in care of the Brighton Funeral Home (613-475-2121). www.rushnellfamilyservices.com

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Excellent fridge and 30” electric range, modern pine corner cupboard with open front, 2 single beds like new, white dresser and desk, modern double bedroom suite with nearly new box & matt, modern table & chair set, occasional chairs, rocking chairs, antique rocker with caned seat & back, dressers & chests of drawers, sofa & love seat, nearly new electronic dehumidifier, small desk, large collection old records, most 3 1/2 LPs, some carpets, nice set coffee & end tables, qty small articles, qty garden & lawn tools, selection china, glass, some collectables, household articles, box lots brass pieces, pictures, prints, luggage, plus more. Please note we only have one sale this week, something for everyone.Terms: cash, cheque with I.D., Visa, M/C, Interac

AUCTION SALE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 AT 5:00 P.M. DOUG JARRELL SALES ARENA,

BELLEVILLEOak dining table/2 leaves & 4 chairs & matching hutch, antique maple sideboard, Kenmore under counter dishwasher, washer, chesterfield, Lazy boy recliner, sofa bed, 2 futons, coffee & end tables, double bed/box spring & mattress, Vilas 3 drawer chest, dresser/mirror, qty. of glass & china, 6 pieces of chalet glass, several small crocks, collector plates, jewelry, chest of flatware, small garden pieces, bicycles and numerous other pieces.

Watch the web site for detailed list & photos. DOUG JARRELL AUCTIONS

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Large Farm auction SaLeselling complete line of farm machinery, including 15 tractors, JD excavator, trailers, vehicles, recreational items, plus hay,

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Monday, April 4th •10:00amThe property of Allin Farms

363 Lindsay Rd., (Selwyn) Peterborough, ON Sale located just north west of Peterborough, on Lindsay Rd., between Chemong Rd & Hwy. 28. See Signs!TRACTORS: 2010 AGCO DT 250B diesel tractor w/air ride cab, 4x4, continuously variable transmission, 290 hp, front weights, 1000 rpm, 4 sets of rear remotes, 6 cylinder diesel, 3349 hrs. TW-35 Ford 4x4 cab diesel tractor w/rebuilt motor in 2013, 2 sets of rear remotes, 190 hp, 18.4x42 duals selling separate. 7740 Ford 4x4 diesel tractor with a/c cab plus 660 Quick att. loader w/Aloe hitch, 2 sets of rear remotes, good rubber, 8000 hrs., 86 hp. Attachments selling separate incl; 7’ material bucket, 7’ manure fork, 7’ HLA stone fork, plus single spear round bale fork. 7580 AC 4x4 articulating diesel cab tractor w/20.8x38 tandem duals, 1000 rpm, 3 sets - rear remotes, 185 hp, clutch slips/fuel leakage. 574 Int o/s diesel tractor, 15.4x38 rear tires, has single rear remote, 65 hp. 1980 7010 A,C, 2x4 diesel cab tractor 2 sets of rear remotes, 20.8x38 rear tires, 105 hp, has power shift. 7045 A.C. 2x4 diesel tractor with a/c cab, 145 hp, 20.8x38 rear tires, 2 sets of rear remotes. Ford TW-35 a/c diesel cab tractor, 18.38 rear tires, 8500 hrs, 2x4, pto does not shut off. 175 Allis Chalmers o/s diesel tractor w/new 16.9x30 rear tires, 55 hp. 185 A.C. 6 cylinder diesel tractor w/new 18.4x38 rear tires, 2 sets of rear remotes. 680 A.C. diesel tractor (no hood) had Allied front end loader w/material bucket, engine blown sold “as is”. 1370 White o/s 4x4 diesel tractor w/front end loader, 6 cylinder, single rear remote, good tires. WD Allis Chalmers 4 cylinder row crop gas tractor w/2 pth arms, 30 hp. Allis Chalmers CA gas tractor w/2 pth arms, 26 hp. & a 1938 Co-op gas tractor, running. ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT: 1976 Allis Chalmers 840 Industrial wheel loader w/1 1/2 yard bucket, plus pallet forks, engine overhauled in 2012 (new ring gears, plus new wheel cylinders, brakes & lines, fuel tank, shuttle transmission, 4 cylinder Perkins engine plus Turbo Charge!), L250 NH gas skid steer, 2 cylinder w/42” material bucket & manure fork att., 2012 Kubota zero turn diesel lawn tractor w/60” deck, only 103 hrs. FIELD & PLANTING EQUIPMENT: 6500 Case IH 11 shank Soil Saver, Morris 33’ ‘C’ tine cultivator w/wings plus finger harrows, JD ‘S’ tine 45’ cultivator w/wings plus Buster bar harrows, 271 White 25’ tandem disc w/wings, 5100 Int. 21 run double disc seed drill w/finger harrows (grain & seed boxes), White 5 ton tandem fertilizer spreader, 5100 White 8 row air corn planter (34” rows, dry & liquid fertilizer), Massey 4 row corn plate planter (“as is”), 3739 NI tandem manure spreader w/2 beaters plus end gate, 353 NI tandem manure spreader w/2 beaters plus end gate, Allis 7/18” on land trail plow w/auto reset, Morris Challenger 2 L225 cultivator, parts only, Case 8/18” furrow on land plow w/auto reset (“as is”), Hardy 300 gal. field sprayer w/30’ boom, 40’ field sprayer w/500 gal. tank. HAY & HARVEST EQUIPMENT: 2 - Gehl 2412 centre pivot discbines, 12’ cut, 1000 pto, 3 - Gehl 2580 round balers w/6’ pick up, monitors w/twine tie, 1022 NH ‘V’ style hay rake w/hydraulic fold, like new, Windemans pto driven hay conditioner, TL550 AX2 Tube-Line automatic bale wrapper w/remote control, (has 20 hp Honda gas engine), AC 6’ pto driven hay crimper, 303 AC square baler, 24’ Skeleton style hay elevator on wheels, 1034 NH automatic bale loading & unloading wagon (105 bale capacity), 7’ NH sickle mower, 2 - Tedden hay inverters, MF 10’ self propelled swather “as is”, 2 - JBM 30’ tandem mesh top bale wagons w/h.d. running gear, L2 A.C. Gleaner diesel 2x4 combine w/hydro static drive, 158 hp, has straw chopper, a/c & heated cab, Allis Chalmers 18’ grain head, Deutz AC 4/36” row corn head, 1060 Case gas combine w/12’ grain head (parts only), Horst grain header wagon w/4 way steer, 812 Hinson 400 bu grain buggy w/airplane tires, 2 - 250 bu grain gravity boxes w/running gear, 2 - 150 bu grain gravity boxes w/running gear, Allied 10” x 70’ grain auger on wheels, JD 250 bu Grain-o-vator, 2 - NH 770 forage harvesters w/2 row corn head, plus haylage head, 2 - 980 Gehl tandem forage wagons, 970 Gehl forage wagon, 2 - Badger #1050 forage wagons, Eastern forage wagon, all w/good running gears, 600 Case IH silage blower, MF silage blower “as is”, 72 Gehl crop chopper. MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT & ITEMS: Lakeland portable cattle processing system, incl.: cattle squeeze, chute, 8’ crowding tub, palpation cage, 15 galvanized panels 10’ long, plus swing gates, Valmetal TMR stationary mixer w/scale, Lucknow pto driven bale chopper, 2 - 20’ feeder wagons, 5 ton cattle hopper feeder, calf creep feeders, round bale feeders, cattle feeding troughs, Henke roller mill, Wic electric small bale chopper, 28’ x 10’ portable livestock shelter, Genco pto driven generator, 3 pth flail mower, 30’ x 85’ storage shelter (new), 5 boxes of Grand Harvest poly wrap (750mm x 1500mm), 10 bales of bale twine, 6 bags of barley seed, old fanning mill, TM 300 Lincoln Ideal arc welder, 5 hp DeVilbiss twin cylinder single phase industrial air compressor, Lincoln mig welder, Small tool boxes with tools, assorted equipment i.e. drill press, grinders, hydraulic press, air, hand & power tools, etc., fuel tank trailer & pump, large amount of scrap metal, plus some household items. VEHICLES & TAILERS: 2014 Grizzly 700 A.T.V. 4x4, 2012 Yamaha 550 FI A.T.V. 4x4, 2005 Ford F250 white 4x4 lariat crew cab, (6L, 300,000 kms), 2004 Ford F350 diesel dual wheeled crew cab truck (6L, 125,000 kms), 2009 Southland steel tri axle gooseneck livestock trailer w/2 dividers, new tires, 24’ x 8’, Certified, Featherlite 24’ gooseneck steel tandem float trailer, 1997 Smith 14’ steel tandem bumper hitch livestock trailer, 42’ Aluminum Wilson grain hopper tri axle trailer (“as is”), 1984 36’ Cobra tri axle dump trailer (“as is”), 1978 31’ tri axle dump trailer (“as is”), 2 - 53 Transport storage boxes on wheels, 20’ Storage box w/10 ton wagon running gear, 50’ Sea container, 38’ Storage trailer, Joe Dog dolly hitch w/Honda gas compressor. FEED & STRAW: 375 large round bales of hay (4x5 1st cut & 2nd cut stored in coverall), 175 large round bales of straw (4x5 stored inside Wheat & Oat straw), 600 small square bales of hay, 300 small square bales of straw, 950 round bales of wet hay (balage) 1st & 2nd cut, 3 silos w/silage part full. Note: Exact amounts TBA. AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: By Court Order, BDO Canada Limited has been appointed receiver over the assets of “Allin Farms” & have instructed Kevin Barker Auctions Ltd. to liquidate the above properties to the highest bidder. Plan to attend this huge offering!

Sale items subject to additions & deletions, all verbal announcements take precedence over any prior print advertising!

ALL ITEMS TO BE REMOVED NO LATER THAN APRIL 17, 2016Terms: Cash, Cheque with I.D., Visa, MasterCard & Interac!

LUNCH AVAILABLE - NO BUYER’S PREMIUM! - NO RESERVESale Managed & Sold by

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AUCTION SALE FORRON & SHIRLEY VELEY,

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ON SITEDirections: At Napanee take Hwy. 41 north of Roblin to Stonehedge Road. Turn west and follow to sale site at 342 Stonehedge Road. (Watch for signs).Household: Selling at 9:30 Oak dining table/leaf, 6 chairs & 2 piece hutch, harvest table/ 4 arrow back chairs, maple butcher block table, portable kitchen island server, 50’s era table & sideboard, wine rack, leather double reclining chesterfield & matching chair, loveseat & wing back chair, knick knack shelf, 2 piece corner sectional unit, double bed, dresser/mirror, matching hi boy and 2 night tables, book shelves, stools, antique small folding leg table, TV & stand, TV stand/electric fireplace, electric fireplace stove, old high chair, portable air conditioner, 2 dehumidifiers, microwave, water cooler, floor & table lamps, area rugs, small marble top table, framed mirrors, qty. of smalls including “Royal Heritage” dishes, flo-blue pitcher, old prints, old doll, box & floor fans, “Washburn” banjo, “Smoky Mountain” electric mandolin, several guitars, figurines, glass & china, silver plate tea service, stained glass wet saw & grinder, stained glass & accessories, wood carvings, stain glass lamps, 2 butlers, old bottles, panel doors, Adirondack chairs, patio furniture, patio swing, 2 patio benches, Coleman barbeque/ side warmer, camp stoves.Equipment: Selling at 1:00 p.m. Ford 3000 gas tractor, set of 14.9 x 28 tractor chains, Suzuki 300 Quad runner 4 x 4, Honda Big Red 3 wheeler, Walco 3 Pth 5 ft. rotary mower, SnowBear single axle utility trailer, garden trailer, Homemade heavy duty PTO driven woodsplitter, Wallenstein model BX42S 3 PTH chipper (new), Craftsman 24 OHV twin cylinder 46 inch cut riding mower, Murray 4 H.P. 22 inch push mower, lawn sweeper, Coleman Powermate 5000 generator on cart, Champion 1500 generator. Shop Equipment: Selling after household effects.Delta shopmaster mitre saw, Jet 16 speed floor model drill press, Makita chop saw, D-M Tools heavy duty band saw, Zenith floor model grinder, 2 large steel workbenches, 4 adjustable height steel work stands, Canox (miller) 225 AC-DC welder, welding accessories, portable air compressor, hand power tools, torch cart, Harris guages & torches, Stihl 044 chain saw, creeper jack, bottle jack, jackall, assorted wire, qty. of good chains, qty. of shop hardware, heavy duty booster cables, electric cords, garden tools, barrel cart, wheelbarrow, duck & goose decoys, hay bale blind, portable fish hut, “Big John” & “Walker” electric down riggers, large qty. of firewood, cedar rails & posts, small qty. of lumber & numerous other smalls. N.B. The majority of this sale will be sold in a tent.

Watch the web site for detailed list & photos. DOUG JARRELL AUCTIONS

613-969-1033 www.dougjarrellauctions.comTerms: Cash, Debit, Visa Mastercard or cheque/ID

Owners and/or auctioneer not responsible in case of accident

2522 County Road #64, Carrying PlaceSunday, April 3, 2016

Preview 9:30 a.m. Auction 11:00 a.m.Auction to include: Collection of Lladro Figures, Sterling Silver, Royal Doulton Figures, Inuit Carvings, Press Glass,

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The Canadian Hearing Society offers Walk In Wednesdays from 10 am-noon and 2-4pm. Speak to a Hearing Care Counsel-lor. No appointment necessary. Bayview Mall, 470 Dundas St. E BellevilleWork Bees Session, Thursday, April 7. Bibles for Missions thrift store, 315 Pinnacle St., 1-4 pm. Refreshments served.Yard, CrafT and Bake Sale, Trillium 2000 Seniors Club, Foster Ward Com-munity Centre, 75 St. Paul St., Belleville, April 9, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tables avail-able to members $5.00 and non-members $10.00. To reserve: Marg at 613-968-2526 or Shirley at 613-968-6145

kniTTeraTi kniTTing circle: April to May, every other Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:30pm starting April 5, Belleville Public Library. No registration required. Call 613-968-6731 ext. 2237 april 13, luncheon 12-2 pm, 290 Bridge St W featuring what’s happening at Glan-more House. $12.00. Guest Speaker and Soloist Mary Lynn Foulds. Please reserve with Darlene @ 613-961-0956 Free nursery.are You caring for someone with memory loss? Alzheimer Society Care-giver Support Groups, Bay View Mall, Belleville, 1st & 3rd Thursdays of month, 10am-12pm. Info: Kristel at 613-962-0892QuinTe region Crokinole Club,

every Tuesday, 7 p.m., Quinte Wellness Centre, Cannifton Rd., Belleville. Cost is $4.00. http://www.qrcc.ca . For info: Dave Brown at 613-967-7720 or Louis Gauthier at 613-849-0690.The Belleville Art Association members’ fine art show“Artists Choice” on display at the Belleville Art Association Gallery and Studio, 392 Front St., Belleville until April 9. Info: 613-968-8632 or visit our website at www.bellevilleart.caMusiCal gifTs “Dream a Little Dream”, April 8, John M. Parrott Art Gal-lery, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Info: 613-968-6731 x2240 or e-mail [email protected] spaCe supports families learn-

ing through play. Drop-in playrooms, 100 Station Street., Belleville. Open 6 days a week. Info: www.familyspace.ca or 613-966-9427.QuinTe QuilTer’s Guild first Wednes-day of each month, Christ Church Hall, Everett St., Belleville.QuinTe seniors Euchre Club meets at the Parkdale Community Centre every Mon. at 1 pm. Everyone 50 plus welcome. Cost $3.00 includes door prize, 50/50 draw and euchre score prizesneW MeMBers welcome, Quinte Living Centre Concert Band. Students to seniors, if you play any band instrument. Mondays 7-9 p.m., Quinte Living Centre, 370 Front

St, Belleville. Info: Marialice, [email protected] 613-962-2881, or Sally, [email protected] 613-243-1450happY harMonY Women’s Choir sings popular hits from across the decades, Thursdays 7-9 pm, Brittany Brant Music Centre (10 minutes east of Belleville Hos-pital along). Join us for a free trial. Phone 613-438-7664.volunTeer drivers required to provide long distance and local trans-portation for eligible clients to medical appointments. Mileage reimbursed. Info: Lee at 613-969-0130 ext. 5207

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BELLEVILLEMen’s Coffee Break, for men caring for their spouse or other loved one who has memory loss. Westminster United Church, 1199 Wallbridge Loyalist Rd, Belleville. 3rd Friday of the month, 9:30am. Free.st. Mark’s United Church 237 Can-nifton Rd. N., offers Foot Care Clinic - 4th Thursday of month. VON basic, Advanced and Diabetic Foot care. For appointment call VON at 1-888-279-4866 ex 5346

CAMPBELLFORDCaMpbellford kinette Bingo every Thursday at 7pm. Campbellford/Seymour Arena, 313 Front St. N. $1000 Jackpot in 54 numbers, consolation prize of $200. Wheelchair accessible.CaMpbellford & District Horticultural Society monthly meeting, followed by Joyce Higgs’ presentation on Seed Saving-Mostly Vegetables. Mon. Apr. 4, 7:30 p.m. Members & guests welcomed.Christ Church Anglican, Campbellford. http://www.gardenontario.org/site.php/campbellford & FacebookWednesday, april 6, 6:30 pm, Ev-erything you need to know about Hormones, a free lecture with Kathy Ryan, RHN. 65 Bridge St. E., Campbellford. www.hor-monehelp.comevery Monday, 7 p.m. Campbellford Citizen’s Choir meets at Senior Citizen’s Building. All welcomeCaMpbellford legion Branch 103, 34 Bridge St, Campbellford: Open 8-ball, Thursdays 7:30 pm. Open Mixed Darts, Fridays, 7:30 pm. Open Jam Session, Saturdays, 3-6 pm, no covervisit the Cat’s Cradle, 8 Bridge St. W., Campbellford, A New to You shop with monies raised going to spay/neuter feral cats and kittens. Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9-5. learn the Art of Taoist Tai Chi - classes available throughout the week, Community Resource Centre 65 Bridge St, Campbell-ford, Join at anytime. Info: 705 696 1841 or 705 243 5216.tuesdays, 1-3 p.m., Fun Darts. All Welcome. Campbellford Legion Branch 103, 34 Bridge St W 705-653-2450

COBOURGWoMen’s group, every Wednesday, 2 pm, Halcyon Place, 580 Courthouse Rd, Cobourg. To register: Community Care Northumberland: 905-372-7356.

COLBORNEfood addiCts Anonymous Meetings, Wednesdays, 11-noon, Prospect House, 1 Elgin Street (at King), Colborne, www.foodaddictsanonymous.orgsoup lunCh, Friday April 1, 11:30 AM-1 PM, Heritage United Church, 13875 County Rd 2, Colborne (Salem). Soup, Roll. Dessert, Coffee and Tea.play group, hosted by Northumber-land Cares for Children, Colborne Public School, 8 Alfred St. Colborne, Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon. Info: Cheryl McMurray 905-885-8137 ext.209.

Men’s soCial Group, Tuesdays at Com-munity Care Northumberland, 11 King St. E. Colborne, 10-11 a.m. Info: 905-355-2989.

CORDOVA MINESthe Cordova Mines United Church Pie Auction April 8, 7pm, Community Hall. $7/person, all the pie you can eat. Pie auction to follow, entertainment by “Old and in the Way”. Shirley 705-778-2893

FRANKFORDthe frankford Skating Club year-end skating show, 1pm, Saturday, April 2. Entrance fee by donation. Doors open at 12:15pm. free senior’s fitness classes, Mondays and Thursdays, 1 pm, Frankford Legion. To register: 1-888-279-4866 Ext 5350

HASTINGSfundraising CoMMittee mem-bers needed for Community Care South Hastings. Info: Deb at 613-969-0130 ext. 5214 or [email protected] friday, april 1, 9:00 am, The “Hast-ings Kitchen”. Share and learn cooking tips; Prepare healthy food. Registration: Brenda Kock at 705 696-1105. 6 Albert St. E., Hastingshastings legion Correction Notice: youth dance scheduled for April 8 has been changed to April 15 due to a conflicting date with the Norwood teen dance, sorry for any inconvenience .hastings & District Seniors Club, 6 Al-bert St. E Hastings, Civic Centre downstairs. Mon-Regular Euchre, 12:30pm Tues- Bid Euchre, 1pm. Tournaments every 4th Sat. of month, alternating bid euchre then reg euchre.CoMMunity diners, Thurs. Apr. 7 Trinity United Church, 3 Albert St. W., Hastings at 12p.m. Cost is $ 10. Info: Sarah at 705-696-3891

HAVELOCKthe first Sunday of the month, Bid Euchre at the Havelock Lions Club. Games start at 1 p.m. $5.00/person. For informa-tion, contact Glen Shearer 705-778-3169 or Glen Ellis 705-778-3039. haveloCk oddfelloWs Brunch, first Sunday of month, 8am-noon. Pancakes, sausage, eggs, bacon, home fries, coffee, tea, juice. Adults $6, Under 12 $3. Odd Fellow Hall, 8 Oak St, HavelockhaveloCk seniors Club Bid Euchre, first Saturday of the month, 1 pm.

IVANHOEWhite lake Bethesda Boutique (Corner of Springbrook Road & Hwy. 62), Saturday, April 2 9 - 12 Noon. Clothing items $2.00 each, Special Jewellery Display, Baked items availablesunday night Sing hosted by Ivanhoe Wesleyan Standard Church, 6:30 PM. Bring your instruments. Open mic. Refreshments to follow. First Sunday of each month.

MADOCfish fry, Friday April 8, 4:30-6:30 pm, St. John’s Anglican Church, 115 Durham

St. N. Madoc. Adults $13, Children under 12 yrs. $7, preschoolers free, Family rate with children under 12 yrs. $38. royal Canadian Legion Br 363 Madoc: Mixed Darts every Thursday 7 pm. Random draw for teams.badMinton every Tuesday and Thurs-day, 7-9:30 p.m., Centre Hastings Secondary School. Info: Terry at 613-473-5662 or http://www.centrehastingsbadminton.com/tops (take off pounds sensibly), ev-ery Wednesday, Trinity United Church in Madoc. Weigh-ins 5.30-6.p,m. Short meeting follows. Info: Lila 613-473-4668free seniors Exercise Classes – VON SMART classes. Gentle and progressive and can be done standing or seated. Info: 1-888-279-4866 ex 5350.

MARMORAneW finding Your Way clinics. Free ID kit to help those with memory loss and their loved ones be prepared and prevent a missing person event. Call for your one hour appointment: 613-395-5018euChre in Deloro Hall each Friday 7 p.m. sponsored by Marmora Crowe Val-ley Lions Club. Bring light lunch to share.st. andreW’s United Church New to You Shoppe’s Welcome to Spring Sale, Saturday April 2, 8:30 to noon. The Deloro UCW is having a coffee party and bake sale at the same time.open MiC, Friday April 1, 7 PM Marmora and Area Curling Club, 2 Crawford Dr. Join the great line-up of musicians or just enjoy the entertainment. No cover charge.

NORWOODnorWood legion: Wing Night Thurs-days, from 4:30pm. Meat Draws Fridays from 5 p.m.danCe to the Donegal Fiddlers Orches-tra, Saturday April 2, 7 to 10 pm, Norwood Town Hall, 2357 County Road 45 Norwood. Admission $5.00. Lunch is pot luck finger foods. Pattern dances, jigs, reels, 2 steps and square dance tunes. presChool drop-in, Westwood Public Library. Every Thursday, 10 am-noon. Enjoy play and creative areas. 705-696-2744 or www.anpl.org

P.E. COUNTYalbury friendship Group - Quilts for sale each Wed 10 am - 12 noon. Albury Church Rednersville Rd. Proceeds to local charities for women.april 7: Burr’s Cemetery annual plot-holder’s meeting will be held Thursday, April 7, at 8 p.m. at the home of Wayne and Carole Vincent, 492 Burr RoadMeals on Wheels, Picton: Daily noon time meal delivered to your door. Info: Prince Edward Community Care 613-476-7493.free seniors Exercise Classes – VON SMART classes. Gentle and progressive and can be done standing or seated. Info: 1-888-279-4866 ex 5350.piCton shout Sister Choir welcomes new members. Practices are Thursdays, 7-9 p.m., St Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St, Picton. www.shoutsisterchoir.ca

STIRLINGWeekly Monday Night Bingo, Upstairs of Stirling Arena. Cards on sale at 6:15pm. Starts at 6:50pm. Proceeds to support com-munity projects. Sponsored by Stirling & District Lions Club.stirling festival Theatre presents Leisa Way in Country Jukebox. Duets from the Grand Ole Opry to Today’s Rockin’ Country. Friday April 8, 2pm & 8pm. Roast beef pre show dinner available at 6pm. Info: 613-395-2100 or 1-877-312-1162 or www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.comfashion shoW presented by The Stirling & District Lions Club. Saturday, April 9, 2 PM, Lions Hall, Stirling. Tickets $10 at the door. Info 613-395-4199. Proceeds to the Stirling Food Bankthe Quinte Society For Chamber Music Presents The Art Of Song, Sat Apr 9, St. Paul’s United Church, Stirling. Tickets $15 from Home Hardware, Stirling or online QSCMUSIC.com/613-395-4127. Public Masterclass-Lecture Sun Apr 10 1pmstirling al-anon Family Group, every Friday, 8 p.m., St. Paul’s United Church, Stirling. 866.951-3711retired WoMen Teachers, Trenton & District, Thurs. April 7, 11:30 A.M., Grace Bible Chapel, Stirling. Resolutions & Budget followed by a Loonie Frenzy. Roast beef dinner-$12. All retired women teachers are welcome. Diane 613 398-0952

TRENTONovereaters anonyMous meet-ing every Tuesday and Friday, 9:15 a.m. Senior’s Centre, Bay St., Trenton. Contact 613-827-7421.handel’s Messiah – Sing-A-Long with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. Friday April 1, 7 pm, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 79 Byrne Ave., Trenton. https://www.facebook.com/events/173313076391791/trenton legion: Saturday April 2, 2 - 6 p.m. Cowboys Don’t Cry. 8-midnight Jeff MurrayQuinte West Youth Unlimited free spaghetti dinner, Ebenezer CR Church, 18 Fourth Ave., Trenton, Saturday, April 9,5:30-7:30pm to promote awareness of QWYU. Info: Mike at 613-827-7081 or [email protected] art Club. Calling all art-ists and would be artists. Painting every Friday afternoon, Smylie’s Independent Store (upstairs) Info: Connie 613-398-6525.3rd annual VON Trivia Challenge. Friday April 8, Trenton Legion. $25.00/person or $200/team of 8. Includes finger foods, cash bar, silent auction and prizes. Info: Paula Mason 613-392-4181 ext 5316.the trenton Memorial Hospital Aux-iliary is looking for new volunteers (18 years +). Give back, make new friends and learn important skills. Training provided. Call the volunteer office at 613 392 2540 ext. 5454trenton legion Branch 110--check out our website for our Entertainment Sched-ule: www.rcl110.caCold Creek Cloggers, Monday nights. Beginner class 6:30pm. Trenton Baptiste

Church 15 South St. First night free. For info call Debbie 613-920-9034

TWEEDtWeed & District Horticulture: Tuesday, April 5, 7:00 p.m., Tweed Library. Master Gardener, Doris Power: “Garden Pests”, Everyone welcome. Nonmembers $3.Jukebox saturday Night fundraiser, St. Edmund Parish, 161A St. Edmund’s Rd. Tweed, April 9, 7 P.M. Doors open at 6:45 P.M. Tickets $15.00 at the Tweed News and Bush’s Furniture Store, Tweed.vendors needed! Tweed and Area Annual Spring Sale and Active Living Expo, May 14 and May 15. To register: Bonnie 613-473-2151 or [email protected] blood Pressure Clinic: Wednes-day, Apr 6, 23 McCamon Ave, Seniors Building Common room. 8 AM to 12PM. Opened to seniors and adults with physical disabilities. Call Community Care for Central Hastings 1-800-554-1564 to pre-register if not already a member.neW finding Your Way clinics. Free ID kit to help those with memory loss and their loved ones be prepared and prevent a missing person event. Call for your one hour appointment: 613-395-5018tWeed legion: Bi-weekly Open Bingo in the Upstairs Hall, 7 pm. Euchre every other Saturday in the Clubroom, 1 pm. Info 613-478-1865gateWay ChC’s pole walking program starting April 2016. Every Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30-10 a.m. Meet in the park-ing lot by the Tweed pool and walk nearby trails. No experience necessary, poles are provided. Info: Dietitian at 613-478-1211.aCtinolite Country Jamboree, Open Mic with L.A. Country, 20 Bridge-water Rd. 1st Sunday of the month. Canteen available.bid euChre every Tuesday, 7 p.m., Actinolite Recreation Hall

TYENDINAGAdiner’s Club, 1st Wednesday, 12-2 pm. Deseronto Community Centre, $6/member. $7/non-member. Reservations required. Call 613-396-6591orange lodge dance, Apr. 2, Orange Hall on York Rd, Tyendinga Territory. Band is Jeff Code & Silver Wings Dancing from 8pm to midnight. Cost $12.00 each Dance,Lunch,Prizes Contact 613-396-6792

WARKWORTHWarkWorth legion hosts Moon-shot Euchre, 1:30 p.m. every Wednesday. Dart League, 7:30 p.m. every Thursday. Everyone welcomespark photo Festival: April is Pho-tography Month in Warkworth. Seven photographers will be showcasing their work at six different venues throughout Warkworth for the month of April. [email protected]

WOOLERsoup and Sandwich Monday April 4 at 11:30 am – 1 pm $7 per person Wooler United Church

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The 25,000 Syrian refugees Canada has taken in is a won-derful effort, Orlando Farro told the Kiwanis Club of Bel-leville, but he noted the project has involved some major er-rors.

Still, despite the flaws in the plan, the main beneficiary of the immigration plan is Cana-dian society as a whole, he con-tended. “Refugees are the fu-ture of Canada,” he proclaimed,

citing them as the answer to such problems as an aging population and even sagging membership in service clubs as an example.

As executive director of Quinte United Immigrant Ser-vices, which comprises an area from Colborne to Napanee and Bancroft to Picton, he said the several recent Syrian families to this area have all been pri-vately sponsored by individu-als and church groups and are doing well.

Placing the bulk of the new Syrian refugees in large urban centres, in fact, is one of the big mistakes the government made. He cited housing many families in Vancouver and To-ronto in hotels with no access to schools or social interaction with their new fellow citizens as “misspent funds.” The idea was that large cities would have more housing, but it is dramatically more expensive and there are no jobs for the newcomers.

Kiwanians learn value of immigrationThe Belleville area, with an

unemployment rate of just over five per cent, which compares favourably with many other cities, has seen local employ-ers enthusiastic about hiring the newcomers. There are also strong indications that at least one or two major new employ-ers will be arriving in the area who are also counting on new immigrants as a source of af-fordable labour.

Farro also outlined a scheme he is developing to promote co-op farms for the many new im-migrants who have agricultural backgrounds but no capital to buy farms.

So he sees the prospects for the several Syrian families housed and settled in small communities throughout the Quinte area as having excellent prospects for the future.

Asked about cultural divi-sions that might result, Farro said there are significant prob-lems associated with that, “but it will only last for the first generation,” he said. “The next generation will be like ordinary Canadians.”

Suggesting that service clubs and other organizations should “open up” to the new wave of

immigrants, he agreed that it would require some accommo-dation of the Islamic faith in or-ganizations which have strong Christian traditions, perhaps even enshrined in their bylaws.

Club members also got some good news from President Jeff Tureski, that the major char-coal produc-ing company, Royal Oak, would be do-nating all of their char-coal needs for their annual Chicken Bar-becue project on June 1 this year, saving the club a lot of money.

The club is also inviting the public to share in its ann iversa ry celebrations on Saturday, April 23 at 6 p.m. in The Banquet Cen-tre. Tickets are now avail-able at $40

per person for a special ban-quet which marks the 100th an-niversary of Kiwanis Interna-tional and the 93rd year of the Kiwanis Club of Belleville. To order tickets, contact Marjorie Buck, secretary, at (613) 478-3904 or email: [email protected].

Orlando Farro, executive director of Quinte United Immigrant Services, addresses the Kiwanis Club of Belleville. Photo by Jack Evans

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Three proud Canadians speak out perience executing the humanitar-ian assistance exercise,” she added. “Having the courage to get out of our comfort zone and having self-esteem is just going to help us when we go on those exercises. It’s just going to make us more professional and people will listen to us.”

Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secre-tary of Health and a first generation Canadian, thanked the CAF members for their service and sacrifices to keep the Canadian system strong and its citizens out of harm’s way.

“The goal of the International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination is to create awareness and to renew our commitment to equality and fair treatment for all of human kind,” she said. “This commitment calls for ac-tion internationally, nationally and at a local level, and in communities such as the Canadian Forces Base here in Trenton.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, she said, has been quoted many times say-ing, “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.”

“There’s always more that can be done to be more inclusive and to be more considerate to individuals of different cultures and religions in our military. The more inclusive we are, the stronger our military will be-come,” she added.

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Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary of Health and a first generation Ca-nadian, thanked the CAF members for their service and sacrifices to keep the Canadian system strong and its citizens out of harm’s way. Photo by Ross Lees

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Aboriginal issues occupied much of the March meeting for the Highland Shores Chil-dren’s Aid Society.

The agency’s coverage areas now takes in two major First Nations territories – Alder-ville north of Cobourg and Tyendinaga near Belleville - and the CAS has been developing closer relations with those two communities in recent years.

Valentines Day has now taken on a signifi-cant new meaning as the First Nations “Have a Heart Day” held on Feb. 10 uses Valentine themes, including paper hearts with messages of support for aboriginal children signed and sent to the prime minister’s office.

Nora Sawyer, of Aldlerville First Nation is appointee to the Highland Shores Board and also a member of the board’s Aboriginal Ad-visory Committee, speaking via Skype from Cobourg, related how successful the day was for that group. She also reported on other board members attending a simulated “smudge ses-sion” recently to acquire knowledge about na-tive customs, including how varied they can be between the Ojibway at Alderville and the Mohawks at Tyendinaga. Even the northern Ojibway customs are different from the south-ern Ojibway, she said. She encouraged more

board members and staff to get more involved with the native communities.

The Have a Heart Day at Tyendinaga re-ceived some news coverage, locally, with a photo and short story recently, the board noted.

Chairman Michael McLeod explained that Have a Heart Day “is meant to bring together caring Canadians to help ensure that First Na-tions children have access to the services they need to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy and be proud of who they are.”

The meeting also enthused over a report from its CAS Foundation noting a “record” amount in excess of $130,000, was raised at its recent annual gala on March 5. It was decided that most of the money would be ear-marked for the agency’s “Playing for Keeps” program, which encourages children in care in all aspects of development, including mu-sic and the arts, not just sports.

Another fundraiser coming up on May 26 is a golf benefit event at Black Bear Ridge.

The board’s next meeting will be held in Bancroft to allow all members to become more familiar with some special problems in the northern area and also to tour the new Bancroft Mineral Museum housed in the old train station.

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