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EMC Events – Much of Frontenac County woke up to a blizzard last Thursday, but for Jordyn Payne and Grace Meier the weather was just perfect to dig out the sleighs they each got last Christmas and hit the hill at McMullen Park in Verona.

By Janet GutowskiCentral Frontenac Mayor Frontenac County Warden

EMC News - If I were to describe the year 2012 at Fron-tenac County using weather terms I would characterize it as “stormy with brief periods of sunshine.”

From my observations it seems that the ice storm which delayed the January meet-ing set the tone for the en-tire year. Budget discussions were a cloudy and unsettled time with some members still struggling to understand pro-vincially mandated budget items such as the accessibility committee.

Then when it looked like spring would thaw relations between the County and North Frontenac, the pro-posed joint ambulance/fire

hall project fell apart leaving both councils with challenges which are still unresolved. In late spring, when we were more than ready for some sunshine, the MTO proposed converting the Howe Island Ferry from diesel to recharge-able electric batteries. This proposal, which looked like an environmental win at first blush, also fell apart under closer scrutiny.

So when did the sun shine? It was shining full force when Wolfe Island celebrated the completion of the renovations to the ambulance base which is vital to ensuring emergency care for the islanders. We also had sunshine at the K&P Trail opening in Harrowsmith. There was a good turnout and representation from a variety of user groups who were on hand to join in the long await-

ed event. The sun was also on hand at Canada Day and nu-merous other local events that took place this past summer. In fact there was so much sun that it kept fire departments busy across much of Eastern Ontario and it has left many farmers in despair. Lets every-one keep those farmers and other stewards of our land in mind and in our prayers as we make plans for the new year.

As for 2013...I do not ex-pect it to be an easy year. There is no doubt that some of my colleagues are upset that I dared to challenge to status quo and others are concerned that council will refuse to work with me because of it.

For those of you who know me however, you know that I am not known for taking the path of least resistance. I firmly believe that our citi-

zens expect more than the sta-tus quo and it was the citizens who put me in office, not the politicians.

I believe we cannot con-tinue to do business the same way year after year and expect different results. I believe we can and are making a dif-ference to those who live in our communities by making strategic investments like the Community Improvement plans.

I believe we can and must find more ways to work to-gether for the benefit of all our citizens. That is the path which I have chosen to fol-low.

When it comes right down to it I suspect my colleagues and I have more in common than some would have you believe. I believe I am work-ing with people who want to

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City finalizes 2013 budget with 2.5% property tax increaseBy Bill HutchinsReporter

EMC News – This may come as little consolation to some homeowners, but property taxes in Kingston are going up the equivalent price of a cup of coffee each week.

At their final meeting of the year on December 18, councillors finalized the necessary bylaws to imple-ment a $309 million mu-nicipal operating budget for 2013, along with a 2.5 per-cent property tax increase. That works out to an extra $85 a year for the average-sized house.

“It’s the lowest tax rate increase since amalgama-tion,” said mayor Mark Ger-retsen, who noted that one-percent of the increase is dedicated to infrastructure improvements.

“So really, the tax in-crease to run the city amounts to just 1.5 per-cent,” he added.

While councillors and staff praised each other for setting and achieving a “rea-sonable” tax increase, coun-cillors were also warned the

2.5 percent increase may not be sustainable in future budgets without service cuts or new revenue sources.

The mayor also cautioned against plunging taxes too low, like what happened in the 1990s.

“And look what hap-pened? Future councils put up taxes nearly 11 percent one year to make up lost revenues. We don’t want to see those fluctuations.”

Birthday Cash The city will spend up

to $20,000 to help celebrate the birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald this month.

A series of public events are planned at Sir John A’s statue in City Park and the Grand Theatre between Jan-uary 9 and 13 to coincide with the 198th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister.

Arthur Milnes, honoura-ry commissioner of the Sir John A. Bicentennial Com-mission, promises a “big announcement” will also be made on January 11.

“It’s not my announce-ment so I can’t tell you what it is,” he informed council.

The city is gearing up for a much bigger celebration, the 2015 bicentennial of the Old Chieftan’s birth, by working with the Sir John A. Commission. “This is so darn important for the com-munity, we are going to do it right,” Milnes added.

Coincidentally, at the same meeting, councillors moved ahead with plans to designate the entire Cat-araqui Cemetery as a prop-erty of heritage value under the Ontario Heritage Act. The cemetery, established in 1850, has 43,000 interments and is the final resting place of several prominent Cana-dians including Sir John A. Macdonald.

The provincial heritage designation was five years in the making, and it comes one year after the federal government declared the cemetery a National His-toric Site. The dual desig-nations not only cement the cemetery’s importance as a heritage asset, but will like-ly limit the visual impact on the sprawling property from high-rise development that is proposed along its eastern border.

Busy year in 2012, review of services slated for 2013By Gary DavisonSouth Frontenac Mayor

EMC News - The last meeting of South Frontenac Council for 2012 is over…what a year it has been. To-gether, the nine members of Council with advice and support from a dedicated staff, have been busy work-ing on your behalf. Council met 40 times over the course of the year; sometimes with only a reporter in the audi-ence and others with a room full of concerned citizens. Regardless of the audience, our primary focus has been on making things better for the residents of South Fron-tenac. I encourage you to make it your New Year’s resolution to become aware of how your local govern-ment is making a differ-ence.

There were many high-lights and accomplishments in 2012. The Township has once again experienced growth with subdivision approvals, new commercial space under construction, new businesses and the cre-ation of more residential lots. The Community Im-provement Plan (CIP) for Verona has seen 20 proj-ects underway and grant money is still available. In

Sydenham, the lights went up and the high school has begun its expansion. 2013 promises more with seniors housing being explored and additional demands from future subdivisions.

Solid waste has been a hot item and it has received a lot of attention. Public meetings saw a large turn-

out of concerned residents and generated lots of ideas. These sessions have result-ed in changes to the initial plans and we will be go-ing back to the community to present the plan early in 2013. The Portland waste site has been a focus and the Ministry has responded fa-

vourably to the Townships plans.

Council has given seri-ous consideration to the op-eration of cemeteries and is making changes to provide better service and reduce the burden on the property tax bill. In an effort to be con-sistent, a process of routine tax sales has begun to collect long past due property taxes. A new financial system will provide the tools for greater accountability and reporting. The 2013 budget process has been completed even in the face of significant cuts in funding from the Provincial government and tackled the serious challenges the mu-nicipality faces between ser-vice delivery and fair taxa-tion. I could go on, but will pause here…suffice it to say, everyone has been busy.

What does 2013 hold?Council has committed

to reviewing the services that are delivered and in es-tablishing priorities for the years to come. This process will assist us in facing the future and the financial chal-lenges that come with it.

One thing is certain and can be summed up perfect-ly with the newly adopted Township motto… “Our Strength is Our Commu-nity.”

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Kingston’s movie-going experience just got bigger with IMAXBy Bill HutchinsReporter

EMC News – The movie-going mantra – bigger is bet-ter – has led to the demise of downtown Kingston’s Capi-tol 7 theatre and the opening of a new 1,762-seat, mega-screen theatre in the city’s north end.

Nova Scotia-based Em-pire Theatres opened its 10-screen cinema on Dalton Avenue, near Division Street, featuring the region’s only IMAX screen, exactly one week before Christmas.

“Yes, with the help of the construction team we were able to open a few days ear-lier than planned. We wanted to take advantage of The Hobbit’s popularity,” ex-plained Dean Leland, Empire Theatres’ vice president of studio relations & media.

The giant IMAX screen has played The Hobbit to near sold-out shows daily since it opened December 18.

“The geometry in the theatre is specific to IMAX. The film is different than you would see in a regular the-atre. You feel you’re part of the movie,” said Bob Rapo-so, vice president of theatre development and sales for IMAX.

The Mississauga-based IMAX has partnered with Empire to install its custom-made big screen, big sound

technology in seven of the chain’s 52 theatres, including Kingston.

The wall-to-wall IMAX screen is about 40 percent larger than most regular silver screens, along with a thundering digital sound system and crystal clear im-ages, while audience seating is much closer to the screen to fill your peripheral view, which has the option to play 3D films; all aiming to give viewers the feeling like they are in the movie, Raposo ex-plained during a pre-opening media tour of the new facil-ity.

The projection room for the IMAX and nine other screens is virtually automat-ed. Gone are the days when giant spools of film flickered 35 mm print images that re-quired constant monitoring. Instead, the digital technol-ogy for each movie can fit into the palm of your hand, wrapped in a small metal container, and is plugged into a projection machine that re-sembles the size of a house-hold furnace.

Leland would not disclose the price of each projection unit, nor the overall cost to construct the theatre in the King’s Crossing mall.

“We are opening about two of these theatres every year,” he said of Empire’s ex-pansion to compete with the long-established Cineplex

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obvious choice for the IMAX screen because nothing like it exists in southeastern On-tario. The nearest IMAX is in Whitby.

The theatre will screen different films in the IMAX format depending on what film is playing and the pop-ularity of it. Tickets to an IMAX film will cost about $5 more than average admis-sion prices.

Raposo, who oversees IMAX screens throughout The Americas, says the Ca-nadian-developed technol-ogy that once focused on screening documentaries and educational-style produc-tions decided to branch into showing Hollywood movies a decade ago.

Empire may have the re-gion’s only IMAX screen but it still has some catching up to do. Even though each of the theatre seats is num-bered, movie goers can’t yet pre-book the exact seat of their choice.

“That’s not a feature we have right now, but we are moving in that direction,” Leland explained.

But the seating, sound and visual experience appears to be on par with the competi-tion. Each screening room ranges from 150 to 300 seats. It’s something Empire’s downtown theatre couldn’t

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EMC News – For any soon-to-be-bride, it’s the event of the year.

The 32nd annual FLY FM Bridal Festival takes place Jan. 13, and this year’s edition will be the largest one yet.

“It just keeps growing and growing,” says Deborah Mitch-ell, one of the organizers of the event.

In fact, the event has grown so much that it will be held at the K-Rock Centre this year for the first time. The venue will pro-vide ample room for the approx-imately 80 exhibitors to show off their goods and services.

“There’s a lot of buzz, there’s a lot of excitement, and you get to meet people who want to try to make your day the way you envision it to be,” says Mitchell.

For those planning a wed-

ding in or around the Kingston area, the event will feature ev-erything from jewelers and flo-rists to DJs and photographers. There’s also information about local venues, gift registries and honeymoon locations.

Longtime exhibitors at the festival include Bridal Cre-ations, A Party Centre, Pam’s Flower Garden, The Harbour Restaurant and Luce Hair Stu-dio.

Exhibitors include not only local merchants, but also those from the surrounding area, in-cluding Belleville and Ottawa.

And the event isn’t just for people who are getting married in the near future.

“Generally, it’s people who have an engagement ring on their finger or think they will soon,” says Mitchell. “And the girls come out and they bring their moms and their brides-maids...and there are things to entice the guys to come out

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Twenty-Three Years on Wolfe Island and CountingBy Margaret Knott Correspondent

EMC News - Another year is drawing quickly to a close and, as it does my thoughts turn not just to incidents of the last year but to my childhood, growing up years, marriage, children, grandchildren…. And of course I recall the many places where we, (Walter and I), have lived until we finally settled on Wolfe Island. And it is here we have lived the longest, moving here on a wet November day in 1989.

Walter had not yet retired and lived in Ottawa during the week for a number of years, coming home weekends. So I was on my own, learning about sump pumps and wells and roofs and mice, cutting grass and what the pre-vious owner and builder of our home new had done before us.

Much of that first winter was an experience for me, meeting neighbours, driving into Marys-ville, picking up the mail, go-ing to church, getting used to the ferry, searching out a doctor in the city, trying to meet people and find something I could be involved in.

The wonder of a small com-munity I was soon to discover is that if you are willing to step out the community will welcome you. Caring neighbours, church suppers, school council, church choir, CWL, island events, cof-fee at Ernie’s and a chat at Far-go’s, kept one up on the news. If you had a question, you had only to ask. And as for the his-tory and stories of the island…

they were there for the taking.. Every one is a neighbour on the island. Everyone is there to help when needed. (e.g.. Ice storm. ) And because the community is small every accident, illness or death is felt with sadness and ev-ery wedding, birth, occasion and event is noted with joy.

But perhaps it was at the Town Hall and at council meet-ings I began to understand what island living really is all about,as one study after another happened with regard to ferry service. There was the long haul over amalgamation, the download of Roads #95 & 96, and the win-ter dock road with not enough money to maintain them, the big issues around wind towers, Big Sandy Bay, the Land Fill site, the bridge debate, the casino debate, the fares on the ferry debate, a larger ferry, two ferries, official plans, sustainability, etc. etc. And of course there is the ongoing challenge of the new skating rink and how to roof it….

The water has been too high, too low,. Its has been too dry, too wet, not enough snow. Tourism, cyclists, new businesses be-come more and more important to island. All the while more houses are being built on the is-land, which means traffic on the ferry is heavier and heavier…

What I have learned over the time, and it has been my privilege to write about it, is that maintain-ing roads and community servic-es and issues around the MTO ferry service (the same one and no bigger) and water levels, are among the island’s greatest is-

sues. Coming up not necessarily in 3rd or 4th place, is how to pro-vide medical services and senior facilities for people so that they remain on the island, maybe not necessarily alone in their homes but within Marysville, where they can walk, be near friends and the services that are there. A lot to think about in 2013.

Happy New Year and Good Health, to Family, Friends and Neighbours…… Thanks to you All… Walter & Margaret Knott

Around Town: The Bath Road Rangers association of the Church Athletic League will be hosting the Bath Road Rangers Winter Classic at 1pm on Jan. 6, 2013 at Wolfe Island’s NHL size outdoor rink. Four Ranger teams will compete against in-vited house league hockey op-ponents. Opponents include: Kamha Worriors (novice); Loy-alist Twp (Atom); KAMHA Public Health (PeeWee); North Frontenac Bantam (Bantam). The games are planned to be-gin at 1PM sharp with the last game to conclude at 5PM on that date. Bleachers (baseball-type) will be set up alongside the rink. However there is no cover around the bleachers, so dress warmly. It is important to remember that the ferry lands at the winter dock on Wolfe Island when coming from Kingston. *CONTACT PERSON:* Jim Sutherland [email protected] 613-634-3348 (hm) 613-545-5309 (cell) For Fur-ther information: www.wol-feisland.com

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EMC Editorial - I’ve always been awed by how working par-ents manage it all so effectively. Since having my own child eight-and-a-half months ago, that awe has increased signifi-cantly, and is gradually trans-forming into an overwhelming sense of “holy moly that’ll be me” as my return-to-work date fast approaches.

“Oh you must be just dread-ing it,” most people say when the subject comes up.

“I have a lot of mixed emo-tions,” I answer, and that’s the truth.

What I usually leave out is

that the foremost emotion in the mix is guilt. Namely, guilt at how much I’m genuinely look-ing forward to going back to work. Lacking the words to ar-ticulate why it is, exactly, that a large part of me prefers report-ing to baby care and not sound like a horrible, selfish mother, I’ve tended to shy away from the topic.

Then a couple of weeks ago, I read an essay called “Joy” by the brilliant Zadie Smith, and came face-to-face with a per-fectly-worded explanation of why I’m feeling this way. After breaking down the difference between pleasure and joy, and how the former relates to things more immediately and sensu-ally enjoyable and the latter to things that are beautiful and awe-inspiring but also hard and overwhelming, Smith says of her daughter:

“Occasionally the child, too, is a pleasure, though mostly she is a joy, which means in fact she gives us not much pleasure at all, but rather that strange ad-

mixture of terror, pain, and de-light that I have come to recog-nize as joy, and now must find some way to live with daily.”

I couldn’t agree more.Put bluntly, I’m looking

forward to returning to work because I’m lucky enough to enjoy my job; thus I know I will experience more daily pleasure than I do on maternity leave. For me, writing is the exact op-posite of how Smith describes a child: occasionally a joy, mostly a pleasure. Meeting and interviewing the lovely people of Kingston and area is always a pleasure, and now that I no longer feel shy about taking pictures of (mostly somewhat reluctant) people multiple times a day, so is photography.

That says nothing of the smaller pleasures my return will bring, such as being alone in my car when an amazing song comes on the radio, and being able to sit down and take 10 minutes to mindfully enjoy a sandwich.

Still, as I write this column,

with one eye on Summer play-ing with the TV remote control on the floor in front of me, I am also aware that something will be lost on Feb. 11, when I am no longer able to be with her 24/7: a sense of certainly that she is well and safe, perhaps, mingled with anxiety that I might be missing a milestone, or even a particularly cute gig-gle. Indeed, the extent to which Summer currently needs me around at all times is terrify-ing in the most joyful of ways, and the knowledge that she will need my immediate pres-ence less and less in another way entirely.

But the question remains: how will I manage it all? How can I possibly be both a mom and a reporter – each a full-time job in its own right? How will I find time to read and run and dry my hair? How will I cope with all the joy, and all the pleasure, in my life si-multaneously? Truth be told, I have no idea. But I’ll figure it out.


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EMC Editorial – It’s that time of year again: gyms are packed, savings plans are made, and people are committing themselves to new goals, or recommitting themselves to old ones.

New Year’s resolutions are a great reason to try to better ourselves in some way. The New Year is a time of renewal, and what better way to do that than to make changes we’ve been wanting to make for some time.

According to Huffington Post Canada, “more than 51 per cent of Canadians make New Year’s resolutions,” but more than half of those who do can’t stick to them for more than a month, according to a survey conducted late in 2011.

That survey, administered by Virgin Mobile Canada, found that the top resolutions for Canadians included: “stay in touch with friends and family, fall in love, quit smoking, get better grades or a promotion at work, and drink less alcohol.”

So why do we have so much trouble sticking to our resolutions? In large part, it’s because we set unrealistic goals.

Take falling in love, for instance. That’s hardly the kind of thing that one can do on a prescribed timeline. We could be more open to love, put ourselves out there, or commit to finding ways to meet new people, but re-solving to fall in love is like resolving to win the lot-tery.

When we set unrealistic goals, we also set ourselves up for disappointment. Rather than feeling good be-cause we’ve made positive changes, we feel guilty be-cause we didn’t do what we set out to do. That’s why it’s important to set attainable goals.

Say, for example, you want to lose 100 pounds. A good resolution might be to lose 25 in one year. If you exceed your target that’s a bonus, and you’re far less likely to disappoint yourself by failing to lose all 100 pounds in just 12 months.

Many of the resolutions we make are things that take time, commitment and energy. Few people can quit smoking cold turkey; even fewer can lose weight with-out hitting the gym. The passing of a day doesn’t sud-denly enable us to be able to do these things. Rather, it can be the motivation that we need to be successful.

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EMC Editorial — “Another year over, and a new one just begun.”

When all else fails, quote John Lennon, eh?

But essentially, that’s really all that New Year’s Eve/Day is — one year over and a new one begun.

And the Ukrainian side of me keeps reminding me that New Year’s Day won’t be un-til Jan. 14 this year (or Jan. 7 to some, but in our family, that was Christmas).

In China, it won’t be the New Year until Feb. 10 (2013 is the Year of the Snake, specifi-

cally Water Snake, for those so inclined).

Similarly, around the world, the beginning of a new year varies — from country to coun-try, and even within most coun-tries.

In short, there’s no real con-sensus as to when a new year should begin.

Officially here in Canada, New Year’s Day is Jan. 1, 2013. That’s dictated by the use of the Gregorian calendar, with the date being chosen as that of the circumcision of Jesus (on the eighth day from His birth).

Other than that, there’s no real justification for the date. It’s not like it’s an equinox, or a solstice. And while, yes, we do base our year on how long it takes the Earth to make one orbit of the Sun, it’s not like there’s any great celestial rea-son for saying the trip begins Jan. 1. It could just have eas-ily been April 26 when the Earth formed and started re-volving around the Sun for all we know.

But, by the same token, there isn’t any real good reason for changing it either. While it might be nice to begin a new year the day after the longest day of the year (or the shortest, which we’re at least close to with Jan. 1) or something like that, changing the date would cause more problems that it solved.

For one thing, all those calendar-making templates on computer systems everywhere would have to be changed.

For another thing, govern-ment bureaucracies live for cal-endar years and changing the way government bureaucracies do things has historically prov-en to be a Herculean task.

But, it’s often interesting to speculate.

For instance, moving the New Year holiday might make the end of the year less stressful for some, as Christ-mas followed by New Year’s can be incredibly hectic as we rush around to get everything done “in time.”

Granted, it’s not an over-whelmingly compelling reason to change the date, but humans have done more for lesser rea-sons.

If we were to change the date, I’d like to nominate some time near the begin-ning of March. The big-gest reason for this is that there are no long-weekend holidays in March (St. Pat-rick’s Day notwithstanding in some circles), and after a long winter we could prob-ably use one then. April is probably more the end of winter and the beginning of spring-like weather but Good Friday/Easter Sunday happen in April and if we got too close to them, we’d hardly solve the Christmas-New Year’s stress period we were seeking to avoid.

All in all, New Year’s will probably just stay where it is and continue to be nothing more than an excuse to party and finish up the Christmas turkey.

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Overcomer’s Assembly Prayer Room, 1187 Princess St. Kingston will have their church open for personal prayer times Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone welcome.

Frontenac County Childcare Centre.L.C.V.I. Preschool Program, 153 Van Order Dr. Kingston, Ont., K1M 1B9. Full-time and part-time spaces available. Spaces available for this school year, 2013. Spaces available for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. For Further Information Contact Edie at 613-545-1759.

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Hearing Care Clinic at the Kingston CHS office in the Frontenac Mall Jan. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. People can come to our office, talk to one of our counsellors about clean-ing hearing aids, buying batteries, hearing screens, hearing health care, and general counselling. Questions about hearing health are welcomed and encouraged. We are currently accepting registration for our Winter American Sign Language courses, offered to students 16 years of age and over from Janu-ary to March 2013. American Sign Language is a beautiful, expressive language with unique grammar and a rich cultural history. Students learn to use facial expression and spatial cues to communicate with one another in a fun and inclusive environment. If you’re interested in taking a course or want to find out more, please call 544-1927 or email us at [email protected]. You can also visit The Canadian Hearing Society in the Frontenac Mall, 1300 Bath Rd. Registration deadline is Jan. 11. Seats are limited so sign up soon!

Darts are starting up again at the R.C.L. Branch 623 on County Rd 4 in Millhaven Thursday, Jan. 3 & every Thursday after. Starting @ 7 p.m. For Information: call the branch @ 613-352-7772. Everyone Welcome.

The Baha’i Community of Kingston welcomes everyone to a devotional gathering on the theme of New Be-ginnings. Saturday, Jan. 12 at 2:30 p.m. at 99 York St. Further info: [email protected] 613-634-0767.

39 Club of Kingston Dance Friday. Jan. 4. Music by Red Rose Ex-press. 8-11:30 p.m. at Collins Bay Royal Canadian Legion 631, 4034 Bath Rd. Singles and Couples wel-come. Dress Code in effect.

Kingston Business & Professional Women’s Club Monthly Dinner/Speaker Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 9 at Smitty’s Restaurant, 2376 Princess St., Kingston (Chapters Plaza). 5:30 p.m. - Networking. 6 p.m. - Order from the menu. 7:20 p.m. - Speaker: Chris Jones, a sales Representative from Kings-ton Homes Realty Inc. & founder of the group called ‘BuyingSolo’. BuyingSolo is comprised of dif-ferent professionals with a variety of backgrounds, who have come together to help guide independent women towards homeownership and financial security. Ladies, please join us. All welcome. Contact Mary (613) 384-0076, [email protected].

The Napanee Chapter of the Busi-ness Men’s Fellowship in Canada will host a banquet on Jan. 11, at Selby Community Hall at 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker and musician is Mr. Glen Kelsy. Reservations must be in by Jan. 8. Men, ladies and youth are welcome. For tickets call Andre @ 613-377-6710, Rev. John Hilliard @ 613-352-5691 or Garfield @ 613-354-9235.

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Bereaved Families of Ontario - Kingston Region Mothers’ Night: An evening for mothers to share the loss of a child of any age, due to any circumstances, with other mothers in a warm and confidential environment. Held Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Tompkins Funeral Home, 435 Davis Dr. (Downstairs in the Lounge – Please Park in the Left-Side Lot and Use the Right-Side Main Entrance). Spousal/Partner Night: A support evening for those who have suffered the loss of their spouse or partner to death. Held Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 6:30 p.m, Same location.

Kings Town Trekkers Walk Sunday, Jan. 13 from the Holiday Inn. Regis-tration in Fitness Centre at 1:30 p.m. Walk starts at 2 p.m.

Quill Lecture Series at Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Goodes Hall, 143 Union St. Adversity, Resilience and Masculinity: Why Men Die Young and What We Can Do About It. Dr. Susan Phillips, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University. For more info call 613-549-1910.

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Friday night karaoke Jan. 4 hosted by Showman’s Karaoke from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the lounge of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560, 734 Montreal St. All welcome. Small cover charge for non-members. Seniors Walk to the Beat Plus Stretch & Strength classes are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the Kingston’s west. Introducing beginers Line Dancing. Also offer-ing seniors, affordable gentle pain free treatments for Arthritis and all related conditions. For location and additional info: call Dee [Deanna] 613-389-6540. Introduction to Line Dancing and Zumba moves for se-niors Tuesday and Thursday morn-ings in Kingston’s west end. For location and additional info please call Dee at 613-389-6540

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Gathering ice blocks always sent chills down Mary’s spine

EMC Lifestyle – For reasons which escape me today, I was always home from school on the day Father went to the Bon-nechere to bring ice in from the ice house.

I think now, it was be-cause Mother knew how very anxious I was when Father went to the river, and in my childish mind, I was sure I could save him from any disaster if I too was on the Bonnechere.

Father had been watch-ing the river for weeks. And then one day he went down with the auger and burrowed a hole to see how thick the ice was in the very centre of the river where the water was the deepest.

It was ready. It was time to bring in the blocks of ice for the ice house.

Through necessity, the ice house was always built on the north side of

the barn. This protected it from the sun. It was a small, black building, not much bigger than the smoke house, with no win-dows, only a narrow door just wide enough to allow one body inside with the big iron ice-tongs.

Now the day had ar-rived when Father would go to the river with the flat bottom sleigh and the team of horses, and the tools he needed for cutting out the ice. I was filled with both dread and admiration. I lived in fear that Father would slip into one of the holes from which he had taken a block of ice, and be lost forever. And at the same time, I marveled at how this single day would provide us with ice for the rest of the winter, and if we were lucky, until this same exercise was repeat-ed the next year.

If I was with him, I fig-ured I could look after him and make sure he was safe. What I could do, I had no idea. But just being with him, I knew would keep him safe.

I was bundled up like a mummy, and Father wore a second pair of bib overalls over his winter

clothes. His big cowhide mitts covered two pairs of wool mitts, a fur hat with the ear lugs down was tied securely under his chin, his pipe, as always hung loosely from his mouth, and we were ready for the trip across the back field, down the other side of the West Hill to the Bon-nechere.

The ice on the river cracked and snapped un-der the sleigh. I fervently prayed the horses, sleigh and Father and I wouldn’t end up on the bottom of the river.

We came to the very centre of the Bonnechere. And then the long pro-cess began. Father, using the auger, burrowed four holes, forming a square into the ice. Then, with the needle-nosed saw, he cut a swath from one hole to the other three. This was when I was filled with dread, because I knew what was coming. Once the square was freed from the water, the block instantly flew from the water, sometimes rising above the very ice we stood on, splashing great gushes of water all around. Most of it landed right on Father.

Now the block was ready to be hauled out and put on the sleigh. This step was repeated until the sleigh was covered with blocks and they were piled three deep.

Here, I took on a new fear. What if the sleigh was so weighted down, the horses, the sleigh, the cut blocks of ice, and I went to the bottom of the Bon-nechere?

By the time the last block was heaved onto the top row of ice, Father’s overalls were slick with frozen water. It was all he could do to climb onto the front of the sleigh and head the horses back to the ice house.

As soon as we were on firm ground, I said my si-lent prayer of thanks that we had been saved from a freezing death in the bot-tom of the Bonnechere. But Father’s work was far from over. Once back at the ice house, he had to unload the blocks, one at a time, each probably weigh-ing in at 100 pounds, and place them in rows inside. Father could hardly walk upright with the weight of his frozen overalls. But he was not ready to change

into dryer clothes yet. The horses had to be put in the barn, fed and bedded. Only then did he head for the house and the warmth of the kitchen.

Mother had to strip him of the frozen outer layer, and the overalls were draped over the wood-box to melt and dry.

The brothers would be pressed into service on Saturday, as they headed to the sawmill, to bring back load after load of sawdust and cover the blocks in the ice house. The sawdust was free, the owner of the mill glad to be rid of it.

And so, for another winter, and hopefully well over the summer, we would have ice for the ice box in the kitchen of that old log house. We consid-ered ourselves very privi-leged indeed to have the big oak Barnett bought by grandfather who couldn’t understand how anyone could survive without an ice box.

After that day on the Bonnechere, and after his supper, Father, completely spent of every ounce of energy, would go to his usual spot in the kitchen. He would settle into the

rocking chair in front of the Findlay Oval, lift his stockinged feet onto a cushion on the oven door, and promptly fall asleep. The Ottawa Farm Journal, or the Family Herald and Weekly Star would have gradually slipped from his gnarled hands. I would watch his gentle breathing and I would be filled with such caring.

And again I would say my prayers of grate-ful thanks that Father had survived another day of bringing in the ice from the Bonnechere.

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Stirling is sterling

EMC Lifestyle - The village of Stirling, north of Belleville, has all the essentials.

The United Empire Loyal-ist descendants who settled and developed the village may have envisioned a covered bridge. But they probably never foresaw a main street with a chocolate shop, a performing arts theatre and a trendy book store. The vil-lage shares its name with a town in Scotland.

The first thing you’ll see when you arrive is the lovely covered bridge. It looks like it’s been there for a century or two. The bridge was completed and dedicated to the town by the Rotary Club in 1980. The bridge sets the tone for a pleasant visit. You can park right beside it and have fun walking through the wooden structure.

The town’s got something for all ages.

Shops along West Front Street and Mill Street offer everything from chocolate to antiques. The

town’s shopkeepers are pleasant and have time to chat. They’ll rec-ommend locations to find what you’re looking for around town.

Joan Wilkinson owns The Vil-lage Chocolatier at 30 West Front St. She opened the store in 2004 after becoming bored with re-tirement. She loves the setting of Stirling and explained that choco-late is a feel good food.

“Every day is a fun day,” she said. “If people come in sad, they go out happy. It’s a really happy business to be in.”

Everything in the shop is hand-made and has no additives. The chocolate is made from Belgian Callebaut. The fudge, jams and herbs are all regional products.

“Stirling is a beautiful place to come to and spend a day,” said Wilkinson. “There’s lots to do and see. You can poke around and find all kinds of wonderful things.”

A few doors away at 14 West Front St. you’ll find West Wings Espresso Bar, Books and Cloth-ing. Tracy West, Scheona West and Analese Meek (nee West) converted a former hardware store into an eclectic book shop, café and general meeting place in downtown Stirling.

Unlike Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the West sisters of Stirling lead anything but a drab life. West Wing’s has a kind spirit.

The West sisters are family and environmentally conscien-tious. Their coffee and tea prod-

ucts are all fair trade and organic. The clothing they sell comes from Canadian and international inde-pendent designers.

The sisters combined their past work skills from an interna-tional coffee specialty franchise, a national book chain and their ethi-cal framework for life and work and ended up with their shop.

West Wings is well-stocked and the book selection is broad and will appeal to adults and chil-dren of many tastes.

The children’s section actu-ally looks like it’s for children rather than being a perfunctory corporate cutout design. There are many well-known titles as well as some lesser known gems.

The light is bright enough to make reading easy, yet didn’t have the blaze of fluorescents that one finds in corporate chains. I some-times wonder if we should put sun screen on our children before en-tering those establishments.

Several customers came in during my visit.

Many of them approached the café counter with cheery banter. When customers treat the staff like sisters, the staff must be do-ing something right.

“We are all parents,” said Tracy. “We know how hard it can be to afford things with kids. Our goal is to keep prices fair for ev-eryone. I hope everyone enjoys West Wings as much as we do.

Life’s too short to do things that make you feel bad.”

A fascinating fixture along Stirling’s main drag is the Stirling Festival Theatre at 51 West Front St. It was built in 1927 for com-munity service purposes. It was a central spot where locals could come together for many social activities, including the Women’s Institute and ballet lessons. From the 1930s to the late 1950s the building’s auditorium housed the village movie theatre.

The building later housed public works, a police station and a jail. In the early 1980s there were plans to demolish the building. Locals had the wisdom to understand that a modern and shiny building would not replace the old structure at the heart of this community.

They reacted quickly. The Stirling Performing Arts Commit-

tee formed and garnered support and gathered petition signatures to stop the destruction of this important landmark. They raised funds to refurbish the building. They cleaned and maintained the 436-seat theatre themselves. They made changes and ad-ditions: air conditioning, new washrooms, excavation of the orchestra pit, sound baffling, and re-wiring. The community raised funds to buy a beautiful Bosen-dorfer grand piano. It’s now the only such instrument between Toronto and Ottawa.

While larger city councils fight political battles for years regarding building new enter-tainment and performing arts locations at exorbitant costs and decades of debt, this small vil-lage pulled it off quickly and effi-ciently. They soon started to offer professional entertainment, fea-

turing such Canadians as Dave Broadfoot and Don Harron.

By 1996, the theatre offered its first summer festival of pro-fessional entertainment. Today, more than 45,000 people attend the Stirling Festival every year.

There’s something about small-town sensibility that makes the air easier to breathe.

Directions: From 401, take exit 62 north at Belleville. From there, it’s 30 km to Stirling. Turn left at Hwy 49, Stirling Road. That will take you directly to the main street of Stirling. For a more leisurely day, you could travel home via Hwy 62 through Belleville to Hwy 33 onto the Isle of Quinte. You can take Hwy 33 all the way back into Kingston, with a ferry ride at Glenora on the way.

For more information: www.stirling-rawdon.com

In 1980, the Rotary Club dedicated this covered bridge in Stirling.

The Stirling Theatre is housed in a building that has a varied history with many past uses, including a community services centre, public works headquarters, po-lice station, jail and movie theatre. When the town council planned to demolish it in 1980s, locals reacted quickly and turned it into a performing arts centre and home to the successful Stirling Festival, which attracts 45,000 visitors each year.

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Blue Canoe Productions opens 2013 season with The Drowsy ChaperoneBy Kristen [email protected]

EMC Entertainment – This Jan. 10-26, Kingston residents are invited to attend the apartment of a musical theatre fan for an evening they won’t soon forget.

For 16 days, Blue Ca-noe Productions will stage its 2013 season opener The Drowsy Chaperone.

“We’re doing it in the Baby Grand Theatre and I’m excited to use the space because we’re going to try and create the entire space as his apartment. From the second you walk in it will be like you’re in someone’s apartment building,” said Director Kelsey Jacobson.

The apartment belongs to Man in Chair, a lonely musical theatre fan. As he listens to the record of his favourite 1928 produc-tion, The Drowsy Chaper-one, the musical literally comes to life in his living room, telling the tale of oil tycoon Robert Martin and Broadway star Janet Van De Graaff and the cra-ziness that takes place on the day of their wedding.

“It’s this 1920s Golden

Age sort of musical with all of its lame gimmicks and awkward lines and stuff that comes alive in his apartment,” Jacobson said. As the story unfolds the Man in Chair provides running commentary.

Jacobson explained that she first saw the musical in 2006. She said it’s a piece that allows its cast to show off its comedic talents. The Blue Canoe Production will feature a varied cast, with repre-sentation from area high schools, university and colleges and the Kingston community.

“It’s a nice mix of peo-ple and it’s a really strong cast,” she said.

Among the cast is Se-bastien Darcel-Sinclair who plays the role of Al-dolpho, a Latin Lover who is enlisted to seduce Janet in the hopes of ruining her relationship with Robert and keeping her in show business.

“Of course he sleeps with the wrong person and craziness ensues,” Darcel-Sinclair revealed.

He said it has been a fun character to play, with his ridiculous accent, red-lined cape and cane.

“What was hardest for me was getting the accent down because again it’s a random accent…I’m lit-erally from everywhere,” Darcel-Sinclair laughed.

A week before breaking for winter vacation how-ever, he said he was set-tling into his role.

“I haven’t actually played many very come-dic roles so it’s something that is so new for me, but I love it. My character is just so over the top and ri-diculous that it’s so much fun to be able to do it.”

Also among the cast is Adrienne Miller, who plays the character of Mrs. Tottendale. Mrs. Tot-tendale is the aging host-ess of Robert and Janet’s wedding.

“She’s this very sweet older lady who is very for-getful and doesn’t really have a sense of what is happening, so it provides a lot of comic relief in the show,” Miller explained. “The whole play is about a wedding but she never remembers that a wedding is going on, but it’s taking place at her house.”

Miller noted that she first saw The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway

for her 13th birthday. To have the musical re-emerge in her life years later in university has been a fun experience.

“ I’ve never played anyone like Mrs. Totten-dale before…It’s definite-ly taken some work be-cause she’s old and she’s also just very eccentric, but it has been a lot of fun because I’ve played a lot with my voice and with my physicality of her.”

After a month-long winter break, the cast and crew are now hoping pick up where they left off, with very little time to tweak things before open-

ing night next Thursday.“It’s always a bit of a

challenge with the Janu-ary time slot because we do take a month off…The biggest thing is to just get all our rehearsals in and get the show to a re-ally good point before we leave because we come back and we jump right back into tech week,” Ja-cobson said.

Some long days and nights are no doubt in store, but Jacobson is excited for the opportu-nity to bring The Drowsy Chaperone to Kingston audiences.

“It’s hilarious; it’s the

funniest show I’ve ever seen. There are tons of jokes for people who love theatre and for people who don’t love theatre quite so much.”

Tickets for The Drowsy Chaperone can be pur-chased at Tricolour Outlet in the JDUC at Queen’s University, or at the Grant Theatre Box Office. Tick-ets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, and $10 for children. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. for all performances. For additional information, visit bluecanoeproduc-tions.yolasite.com, or kingstongrand.ca/event/drowsy-chaperone.

Blue Canoe Productions presents The Drowsy Chaperone Jan. 10-26 at the Baby Grand Theatre.

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The Year in Review: the good, the bad and the ugly in film for 2012

EMC Entertainment - As I look back on the year in film there have been a lot of superheroes, quite a few spies, some vampires, some zombies, and even an alien or two. There’s been spectacle, there have been explosions and even been a bit of history. And as always there have been good films and some not so good.

Ted was not my favou-rite film. I know it has its fans, but just because it’s a talking teddy bear telling them, it still doesn’t make used ‘Family Guy’ jokes funny. Dark Shadows, 21 Jump Street and Battleship were all colossal wastes of time. Yet as bad as they were they weren’t as bad as Red Dawn. It was by far the worst film of the year that went beyond just be-ing bad, and right into in-sulting the audience.

Then there were the films that were bad but still

fun to watch. These are those unique films that de-spite being awful are still entertaining. They’re our guilty plea-sures and there were a few. Films like Lock Out, Goon, Dredd, and Un-derworld 3 all fit the bill. However the best of the worst had to be Ghost Rid-er Spirit of Vengeance. Whether it was inten-tional or not this sequel was hysteri-cal.

This brings us to the best of the year. In narrowing down my list I found it difficult to say one film was bet-ter than another. You just can’t compare some films to each other because they

are completely different animals. With that said what follows are the five

must-see films of the year.

Pitch Perfect was with-out question or hesitation

the funniest film I saw this year. It had a quick witted and talented cast, great

songs,

and wicked one liners and jokes. It was clever, it was

smart, and above all it was hysterical.

For a film that is es-sentially about waiting for

some-thing to happen Argo was thrilling. It was exciting to watch, and I knew how it was go-ing to end before I even sat down in my seat. It’s a bril-liant piece of storytell-ing.

It was the first film of the year, but it still stands out as one of the best. I called The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

a work of genius then, and I stand by it now. It was one of the most interesting and compelling films of the year.

On spectacle alone,

I’d have to include The Avengers on this list. It was one of the biggest blockbusters of the year but The Avengers wasn’t just spectacle. It was one of those rare films where story, cast, effects, and di-rection all come together in perfect harmony.

In terms of sheer dra-matic power Lincoln was a masterpiece of film-making. Its cast was re-markable, and the story unfolded with passion and intensity while bear-ing the immense weight of history. It was insight-ful, it was powerful, it was an extraordinarily moving film.

So ends another year. Here’s to another one filled with spectacle, drama, and hopefully substance. Hap-py New Year.

Mark Haskins’ column is a regular feature of the EMC.

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1937 Buick 4-door convertible from Nova Scotia

EMC Lifestyle - A hand-written letter arrived from Ray Ferguson of Smiths

Falls, Ontario:“Hi Bill, I am 82 years

old and a long-time sub-

scriber to Old Autos news-paper. Since reading your article about the 1937 Buick 4-door convertible in the Oct. 1 edition, I felt I just had to write to you. That car is identical to one I saw in Toronto many years ago.

“I used to live in Car-leton Place (near Ottawa) and during the years 1958

to 1962, I made quite a few trips to Toronto with a friend who ran a used car lot in Carleton Place. He used to buy cars up in Toronto for resale. I didn’t know my way around Toronto very well but I believe we used to drive in on #2 Highway onto Danforth Ave., where there were many dealers.

“We used to gas up when we got to Toronto. I remem-ber one morning we pulled into this small service sta-tion, possibly on the north side of Danforth, and there was a 1937 Buick 4-door convertible sitting out front with a for sale sign on it. I have thought about that car many times since. It was a dull grey or sand colour. The top was up and the car was in rather rough shape.

“At that time, I already owned two Buick four-door sedans, a 1937 and a 1939 and I didn’t really care for the slant back on the one in Toronto, although I realized later that perhaps I should have bought it.

“I believe the asking price was $650, which I thought was steep enough considering the condition it was in. It looked like it had been driven hard and ne-glected. I distinctly recall the car had Nova Scotia licence plates on it. It had obviously been driven up from Nova Scotia a short time before.

“Wouldn’t it be great to know if that was the same car as the one featured in your article! It would be interesting to know if any-one had seen a pair of Nova Scotia licence plates in the building where the car had been stored.”

Maybe we will hear from the person who brought that

1937 Buick 4-door convert-ible from Nova Scotia to Toronto over 50 years ago, probably hoping to get a better price. We might also hear from the person who bought that car from the gas station in Toronto. And it might turn out to be the same car you see pictured here. Stay tuned!

I’m always looking for

more stories. Email [email protected] or write Bill Sherk, 25 John St., P.O. Box 255, Leam-ington, ON N8H 3W2. Ev-eryone whose story is pub-lished in this column will receive a free autographed copy of my latest book: “OLD CAR DETECTIVE FAVOURITE STORIES, 1925 to 1965.”

This 1937 Buick Century 4-door convertible emerges from 40 years of storage near Milton, Ontario, in 2008. This could be the same car seen by Smiths Falls resident Ray Ferguson in Toronto around 1960.

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JanuaryThe New Year brought

some new priorities at Kings-ton City Hall, including a $4.5 million project by Parks and Recreation to revitalize Lake Ontario Park, a $12-million expansion and modernization of Artillery Park Aquatic Cen-tre, an $11-million re-vamp of the J.K. Tett Centre, and the widening of John Counter Boulevard for $17.4-million.

Sustainable Kingston in-vited citizens to check out the latest in “green” at the first annual community forum. Representatives from local businesses and organizations that have partnered with Sus-tainable Kingston shared their projects and programs on Jan. 28 at the Four Points by Sheraton. Former mayor of Toronto, David Miller, was the keynote speaker.

Kingston Soccer fans will now have a new place to get their kicks – and it will be sheltered. The city announced it is moving ahead with their plans to install a $900,000 artificial turf field at John Machin Park, off Highway 15 in the east end. The Royal Military College is also plan-ning to construct an inflatable dome at the bottom of Barrie-field hill, but it would be used almost exclusively by military students.

Kingston had a slow start to winter which saved Kingston Public Works a few hundred thousand dollars from their 2011 road clearing budget. “This is probably the mildest of the past three winter sea-sons,” said public works direc-tor Damon Wells. While the relatively tame winter season was bad news for private con-tractors that get paid for each snowfall event, it added up to savings for the city in ma-terials, fuel and overtime. By the end of January Kingston did have some snowfall, but it didn’t last before the mild temperatures and rain washed it all away once again.

The City of Kingston hosted a meeting on Jan. 18 to gather public input on the best way to salute our hometown rockers, The Tragically Hip. The debate: should one block of Barrack Street be renamed in honour of The Tragically Hip. Ken Noakes, general manager of K-Rock Centre said, “I can see hundreds or thousands of people standing in front of the street sign get-ting their picture taken.” Sup-port for renaming also came in from businessman John Wright and actor Dan Ayk-royd.

FebruaryKingston’s own Cataraqui

Cemetery was recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada. The cemetery was

recognized as one of the best examples of a medium-sized rural or garden cemetery fea-turing a number of noteworthy monuments and sculptures as well as being the resting place of many prominent Canadians such as the most famous resi-dent Sir John A. MacDonald.

After two years stuck in neutral, Kingston is restarting discussions to expand patient parking around Hotel Dieu Hospital. The city and the hospital will begin new talks to look for ways to increase the parking supply and to en-hance pedestrian safety around the busy hospital. Hotel Dieu is in the midst of a multi-mil-lion dollar expansion to take almost all out-patient clini-cal care duties from Kingston General Hospital. The clinical expansion will be completed this fall and will result in an extra 50,000 new patient visits annually. Council has agreed to spend up to $50,000 on parking-related studies, though the actual solutions could cost millions. Results of the city-hospital parking talks should be known in four to six months.

A total of 38 roads will have lower posted speed lim-its starting this spring. Among the roads facing speed reduc-tions to 70 kph: Brewer’s Mills Road, McAdoo’s Lane, Orser Road, Woodburn Road and Highway 15 (Innovation Drive to 401). Speed limits dropping to 60 kph include: Westbrook Road, Middle Road, Latimer Road, Aragon Road and Highway 15 (Gore Road to Innovation Drive). Among the roads facing a new 50 kph speed limit; Sta-tion Road, Shannon Road, Spooner Road West and Pine Grove Road. The biggest drop in speed, from 80 to 40 kph, will occur on roads such as Brewer’s Mills Road, Coun-try Side Crescent, Leo Lake Road, Loughborough Drive, Perradice Road and Washburn Road.

Easter Seals of Southeast-ern Ontario kicked off its 29th annual telethon campaign. Rotarian Doug Radford an-nounced that the goal for 2012 would be $312,000. This year’s telethon takes place April 1.

The Frontenac Secondary School swimming team, the Falcons, was named the over-all champion at the EOSSAA for the fourth consecutive year.

Empire Theatres on Prin-cess Street was showered with love Valentine’s Day af-ternoon, as community mem-bers of all ages came out to decorate its doors with pink and red hearts containing messages of affection such as “we need you”, “we love you”, “please don’t break up with us” and “u rock”. The event was held in response to the recent announcement that

Empire Theatres will close the downtown establishment later this year, and replace it with a 10-screen megaplex at the King’s Crossing mall at Division Street and Dalton Avenue.

MarchThe City of Kingston will

study a request by the area’s chief medical officer to limit smoking in outdoor public spaces. Dr. Ian Gemmill out-lined specific recommenda-tions to council March 6 to ban smoking in municipal parks, playgrounds, sports and playing fields, seating areas of stadiums, beaches, splash pads and outdoor com-munity meeting areas. In ad-dition, the KFL&A board of

health wants to keep smok-ers at least nine metres away from any entrance or exit of municipally-owned or oper-ated buildings, and three me-tres away from any doorway at workplaces and publicly accessible places.

Kingston city council vot-ed 7-6 in favour of renaming one block of Barrack Street, between King and Ontario streets, “The Tragically Hip Way”. The proposal gener-ated controversy, especially among military historians who argued the 200-year-old Barrack Street name should not be removed, even for only one block. The original name refers to the street that Brit-ish soldiers once marched on between Royal Artillery Park and For Frontenac. However, 67 per cent of citizens at a public meeting were in favour of the renaming.

Ernestown Secondary School came out on top in the KASSAA senior boys’ bas-ketball championship against Holy Cross Catholic Second-ary School. The Eagles de-feated the Crusaders 58-56 to take the championship title.

The City opens contract renewal talks with its flag-

ship arena’s manager, SMG Canada, to determine whether its current contract for the K-Rock Centre should be re-newed. SMG’s current five-year contract is set to expire in February, 2013. The 5,000 seat arena was initially sup-posed to generate $1.1 mil-lion in annual profits to help pay down its $47 million construction debt. Instead, profits have generated about half the target. Later in the month it was revealed that despite industry accolades, Kingston’s flagship sports and entertainment venue failed to meet its profit targets for the fourth year in a row. The 5,000-seat facility was sup-posed to earn $700,000 in net income in 2011. Instead, un-audited figures show a profit of $318,000. The $382,000 difference will have to be

covered by a tax-replenished reserve fund. This year, the city’s flagship sports and en-tertainment venue is once again projecting $700,000 in net operating income.

A fact finding study on the 3rd bridge crossing nears completion. According to the results of a detailed envi-ronmental assessment (EA) by J.L. Richards the City of Kingston can manage the risks of building a bridge over the Cataraqui River, despite the cultural, environmental and engineering challenges. The second and final phase of EA is still open for public comments before the report is formally presented to city council for a final decision on whether to proceed with the bridge.

Supporters say a new east-west bridge is badly needed to ease traffic congestion on the La Salle Causeway which handles about 22,000 ve-hicles a day. Opponents say the two existing crossings – causeway and Highway 401 – are enough to handle future growth and the bridge cost is too high. The proposed cost of a two-lane bridge connect-

ing John Counter Boulevard on the river’s western shore to Gore Road on the eastern side is at least $120 million.

A Sunday-only farmer’s market at the Kingston Memo-rial Centre is set to open this spring. Council voted 11-2 to seek out a private operator for the Memorial Centre mar-ket. It will cost an estimated $60,000 to upgrade the floors, electrical systems and signage of the Bennett barn to open a Sunday market from April to November.

April The Federal Govern-

ment announces the closure of Kingston Penitentiary by 2015. The closure is expected to save millions of dollars. Correctional Services Canada is the third largest employer in the Kingston area with over 4,000 employees. Deputy Commissioner Lori MacDon-ald was told CSC was confi-dent the effect on employees will be minimized as a result of a number of expansions happening at other institu-tions with the Kingston area.

The City of Kingston is pursuing the reinstatement of photo radar, despite a luke-warm reception from its own police services board. Rural councillor Jeff Scott says photo radar could be a useful tool to control speeding vehi-cles in his rural district, north of Highway 401, where there are few sidewalks and not enough traffic enforcement along country roads. Council agreed to endorse a resolu-tion that was initially drafted by the police board in Not-tawasaga, a community near Barrie, asking the province to reinstitute photo radar for provincially-regulated police boards to “manage and use at their discretion.” Kingston’s own police board was asked to weigh-in on the debate be-fore councillors voted on the motion. The civilian board said it prefers traditional traf-fic enforcement measures where officers with radar guns can stop speeding mo-torists on the spot, issue fines and demerit points.

Hugh Johnston, a music teacher at Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic High School, is this year’s recipient of the Canadian Music Teacher of the Year Award, presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) at the recent Juno Awards in Ottawa.

Six years of patience and hard work was celebrated last week, as students, staff, city officials and members of the broader community celebrat-ed the opening of the Kingston Community Outdoor Athletic Park at the Invista Centre. The new track and field facil-ity, the result of a partnership between the Limestone and

Algonquin and Lakeshore District school boards, fea-tures an eight-lane, 400-me-tre rubberized track, artificial multi-use sports field, sports lights, accessible washrooms and bleachers.

Businesses in the old Sen-try Plaza on Princess Street completed their relocation into a new and larger build-ing about 30 feet away, The Queensbury. The sprawling four storey building features apartments on the upper floors and ground level com-mercial space. Peter Splinter Family Holdings is the west end plaza’s owner.

Kingston’s hockey mu-seum will have to come up with a new game plan in or-der to finance the move into downtown digs. City coun-cillors agreed to provide a $200,000 conditional grant to the Original Hockey Hall of Fame to help it relocate into the refurbished Smith and Robinson building at Ontario and Princess Streets this fall. However, the move may still be in jeopardy because mu-seum keepers were counting on $400,000 in municipal tax support – one-third of the $1.2 million relocation costs. The museum must now find one million dollars from oth-er government sources and a public fundraising campaign.

MayThe $1.1 million restora-

tion of Kingston’s iconic lo-comotive is right on track for a fall completion. ‘The Spirit of Sir John A’ locomotive, cab and tender box were split up last summer for badly needed repairs to the century-old machine. The rusty 10-wheel locomotive remains at Con-federation Park for on-site refurbishment work that will be “substantially completed” in September, while the cab, tender box and cow catcher were moved indoors for a painstaking restoration. The locomotive’s targeted unveil-ing is October 14-20 to coin-cide with Local Government Week in Kingston.

A mild winter, increased transit ridership, more blue box recycling sales and sev-eral unfilled staff positions added up to big savings for Kingston city hall last year.

The city reported a $3.8 million surplus from its 2011 budget. But don’t expect a tax rebate cheque in your mailbox. Instead, council is expected to funnel the sav-ings into a variety of reserve accounts to help cover future expenses. Finance officials say the surplus is a sign of good fiscal management, and not a case of gouging taxpay-ers for money the city doesn’t need.

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EMC Sports - The popular annual Beat Beethoven Run took place Sunday morning from Confederation Basin. Hundreds of runners were attempting to complete the 8km run or the 4km walk/fun run

within the fifty minutes it took the Kingston Symphony Orchestra to complete the selections composed by Beethoven.

By Bill HutchinsReporter

EMC News – Kingston’s drive to become Canada’s most sustainable city must include lowering the property tax rate as well, say councillors.

“Is a 3.5 percent tax increase really sustainable? I think the answer is no,” said Coun. Bryan Paterson.

Faced with mounting com-plaints from homeowners, councillors have asked staff to come up with options to reduce the annual tax increase from 3.5 percent to 2.5 percent. The one percent difference equals about $1.5 million in lost revenues for city hall.

“Absolutely, it all comes down to numbers. Either it’s services we forego, decrease spending or find new user fees,” said mayor Mark Gerretsen, who supports the drive to lower taxes.

He believes there are many opportunities to find the savings in city hall’s $300 million oper-ating budget.

The tax issue was front and centre during last week’s stra-tegic priority session, which is becoming an annual event to allow councillors to discuss and refine civic priorities as their term evolves.

During a similar priority workshop in 2011, most coun-cillors were content to set a 3.5 percent tax target for 2011 and 2012 – a figure that factored in a 2 percent inflation rate, 1 per-cent for infrastructure repairs, plus another 0.5 percent to cover service improvements to cultural services and public transit.

However, some councillors now say the 3.5 percent target is too high for many homeowners to afford year after year. The rate adds nearly $100 to the average residential tax bill.

“Right now in the current

economic climate, nobody is getting increases over inflation. Our feeling is that the city needs to respond to that,” said Pater-son.

Coun. Dorothy Hector says many homeowners in her west end district are seniors living on fixed incomes and their Old Age Security and pensions don’t increase by 3.5 percent to match the annual tax rate. She says a rate increase around 3 percent may be more palatable, noting that the city must continue to raise money for road and sewer repairs. “So we have to figure out where we are going to find alternate revenue or cost sav-ings.”

While councillors won’t fi-nalize the 2013 tax rate until No-vember, they want staff to pro-vide an advance list of munici-pal programs, services or jobs that could be affected if the rate is reduced to 2.5 percent. Added user fees for portable billboard

signs, movie tickets, building a solar panel farm at Belle Park golf course and leaving staff po-sitions unfilled are just some of the money-making and money saving measures that councillors have publicly discussed.

“The mayor suggested the city is funding a (Belle Park) golf club that has only 30 mem-bers. That’s a good example of a service we could change,” explained Paterson of the solar farm idea.

However, civic leaders will wait for a staff briefing in the next few weeks on what revenue and spending reduction options are realistic. They also made it clear that any move to a lower tax rate must not come at the ex-pense of current priorities, such as improvements to roads, parks, transit and affordable housing.

Coun. Brian Reitzel says focusing on the tax issue now will give senior managers time to look for more savings in the

2013 budget. “It’s something to really work hard and get at, rather than just say 3.5 percent is good.”

Coun. Rick Downes signaled caution in the drive to reduce taxes. “As soon as you get knee-jerk reactions to huge increases or huge cuts, you see it impact the city in a very negative way.”

Mayor Gerretsen admits there is growing pressure to lower the civic tax rate, but he points out it’s not as high as it used to be. “This council has ap-proved the lowest tax rates since amalgamation.”

He also warns against plung-ing tax rates too low, like what happened two decades ago when successive councils ap-proved zero-percent tax rates and the city’s infrastructure be-gan to crumble.

Added Gerretsen: “We can’t do it in the same way as the 1990s. It has to be done in a re-sponsible and sustainable way.”

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EMC News – One block of Barrack Street should be re-named in honour of The Trag-ically Hip, according to most people who spoke at a public meeting on the subject.The City of Kingston host-ed the January 18 meeting to gather public input on the best way to salute the hometown rockers. “Let’s create some mod-ern history here and get tour-ism moving again,” said Bill Swan, a local tourism opera-tor.

“It’s an easy and honour-able way to honour the Hip,” agreed local resident Peter Kingston.About 80 people attended the meeting to provide ideas to celebrate the band’s artistic and philanthropic achieve-ments over the past three decades. Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Paul Langlois, Johnny Fay and Gord Sinclair formed The Tragically Hip in 1983.

They’ve had 20 number one hits, won 14 Junos, received the Order of Canada and hon-ourary degrees, and raised over one million dollars through local benefi t concerts.How can the city recognize such achievements?Most of the comments centred on whether to rename the lower block of Barrack Street in front the city’s fl ag-ship arena, between King and Ontario Streets, as ‘The Tragi-cally Hip Way.’ The idea was fi rst put forward to city coun-cil late last year.Citizens who commented on the renaming proposal en-dorsed it by a roughly two-to-one margin. But not everyone was on the same side of the street. Others urged the city not to tamper with part of its military history.“It’s nibbling away at our heritage,” said heritage activ-ist Helen Finley, who joined with others to support a statue or plaque in the vicinity to honour the Hip’s achieve-ments.

“Enhance rather than erad-icate,” echoed retired archae-ologist Sue Bazley.They pointed out that Bar-rack Street got its name from the British in the 1800s as the route soldiers would take be-tween the Royal Horse Artil-lery and Fort Frontenac. They said Barrack is one of the few remaining street names that mark the city’s military past, and it should not be altered in any way, even for one block.“This is part of our culture. Barrack is not generic,” said architectural historian and au-thor Jennifer McKendry.Others pointed out there are many other prominent Kingstonians – past and pres-ent - who deserve similar rec-ognition, such as Peter Millik-en, Robertson Davies, the two Macdonalds (Flora and Sir John A.) and Dan Aykroyd.The debate over lower Bar-rack Street appeared to draw battle lines over heritage ver-sus tourism. A large number of tourism operators spoke in favour of the renaming as a

catalyst to draw more visitors to the downtown. “I can see hundreds or thousands of people standing in front of the street sign get-ting their picture taken,”said Ken Noakes, general manager of K-Rock CentreThey said celebrating The Tragically Hip with their own street would boost Kingston’s international profi le and help build a new entertainment dis-trict in the North Block with future plans to start a Kings-ton Walk of Fame honouring other artists, politicians and prominent Kingstonians near the K-Rock Centre.“If we can do this one block we can get something started,” said Nick Waterfi eld.Businessman John Wright, one of those spearheading the street renaming effort, said the downtown’s vibrancy was enhanced with the arena’s construction and the Grand Theatre’s restoration. “You can’t stop it. You’ve got to build on it.”Wright also read enthusi-

astic letters of support from actor Dan Aykroyd, who said “the opening night dedication concert alone will be worth the effort,” and from Peter Soumalias, president of Cana-da’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, who noted “celebrity sells.”Mayor Mark Gerretsen, who chaired the public meet-ing, was joined by several councillors who listened to more than 35 speakers, from Queen’s University profes-sors and tour boat operators to a young boy, a diverse background list worthy of a Hip song itself.About 30 others showed up for the meeting, but left disappointed. The ardent Hip fans expected to get au-tographs and pictures with members of the band, none of whom attended the meet-ing.City offi cials will col-lect public comments from the meeting and online and make a recommendation on the street renaming proposal to city council in February.

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A look back at the stories that made the headlines of 2012

JanuaryA mild winter has meant

fewer accidents and less mileage on snow-remov-al equipment; however, Central Frontenac Pub-lic Works Manager Mike Richardson told council not to expect any financial windfalls. “There are some potential savings, but not much,” he said.

Habitat for Human-ity Kingston is looking to expand its builds into Frontenac County. Habi-tat CEO John Alkenbrack approached Central Fron-tenac Council about the possibility of the township helping to foster a build in its community through a donation of land and some development fee rebate considerations. “I don’t think there’s going to be anyone not supportive of at least looking at this,” said Mayor Janet Gutowski.

It’s back to the drawing board for South Fronte-nac’s policy makers when it comes to regulating out-door furnaces following a discussion at a Committee of the Whole meeting in Sydenham. The amending bylaw proposed the fol-lowing regulations: out-door furnaces only be per-mitted in an Agricultural or Rural Zone; a 50-metre (164 foot) setback from any abutting lot whose permitted use is residen-tial; a 30-metre (98.4 foot) setback from any other lot line; a building permit be required for such building/structure; and operation of outdoor furnaces be pro-hibited between May 1 and Oct. 1.

FebruaryCentral Frontenac start-

ed out looking at a 19 per cent increase in taxes; they’ve since got it down to just under seven per cent. When all is said and done, it looks as though the 2012 budget will come in with a three per cent increase. In a year where revenue has decreased by $200,00 (mainly due to a cut in transfer payments from the McGuinty Gov-ernment), policing costs have risen by $60,000 and operational expenses have increased 1.9%, the only places left to cut seemed to be transfers to reserves and cuts to the capital bud-get. “Are we cutting our own throats?” said Mayor Janet Gutowski. “We cut ours or cut our taxpayer’s throats,” responded Coun. Francis Smith.

As South Frontenac Township tweaks its Of-ficial Plan, one area Plan-ner/Deputy Clerk Lindsay Mills would like to see

strengthened concerns setbacks for waterfront properties. Mills’ propos-als for the OP include 90 metre setbacks in Environ-mentally Sensitive Areas such as significant wild-life habitat, fish habitat, significant areas of natu-ral and scientific interest, significant woodlands and valleylands. For water-front not in Environmen-tally Sensitive Areas, the setback will remain at 30 metres.

South Frontenac Town-ship voted to join the City of Kingston by lowering speed limits on sections of four roads that they share jurisdiction for at its regu-lar meeting last week in Sydenham. The roads af-fected are Spooner Road East (to Perth Road East-erly), 60 kph; Spooner Road (Dover Road) (to Latimer Road Easterly), 50 kph; Horning Road (to Sydenham Road West-erly), 60 kph; and Orser Road (Sydenham Road to 3.8 kilometres west of Sydenham Road), 70 kph. As per the Munici-pal Act, if a highway is under the joint jurisdic-tion of two or more mu-nicipalities, then a bylaw in respect of the highway must be passed by all of the municipalities hav-ing jurisdiction over the highway.

MarchThe Sydenham senior

girls’ volleyball team fi-nally managed to break the winning streak of their venerable oppo-nents, the Regiopolis- Notre Dame Panthers, in the KASSAA champion-ship game, held Feb. 20 at the Queen’s ARC. The Golden Eagles, who were themselves undefeated during regular season play but for a single loss against the Panthers, took the game in four sets with a score of 25-21, 14-25, 25-19, 25-23.

A proposed multi-use fa-cility for Sharbot Lake en-ters the preliminary design phase after the Multi-Use Cultural Centre Steering Committee receives grants of $15,000 each from Frontenac County and the Frontenac Community Fu-tures Development Corpo-ration. The committee has chosen Basterfield and As-sociates of Peterborough to produce conceptual drawings and supporting materials for construction of a trails-oriented centre which will provide year-round public washrooms, a public multi-use area for displays and gatherings and a commercial area that will cater to year-round trail users and community visitors.

Central Frontenac Council passes its new municipal waste bylaw, and the most controversial aspect of it seemed to be what to do about all the old garbage bag tags still in circulation. As of April 1, tags and non-Township-issued bags will no longer be accepted at the two land-fill sites. Only clear bags purchased from the Town-ship will be acceptable and dump attendants will ask residents and businesses to remove any recyclables before accepting the bags. Many residents still have bag tags, so council decid-ed on a plan to exchange tags for bags.

A lot more people showed up for the inaugu-ral Community Improve-ment Program in Sharbot Lake than organizers had expected. Suggestions ranged from more signage, both along Highway 7 and within the hamlet; seniors housing projects, both to create living spaces and provide employment op-portunities for young health care professionals; funding business start-ups should be given lower pri-ority than “fixing up what we have”; washroom fa-cilities and trash recep-tacles; a hamlet website; expanding the boundar-ies of the hamlet to the south; helping businesses comply with accessibility requirements; fish stock-ing programs for Sharbot and adjacent lakes; and more parking, benches and flowers.

AprilWhen the dust all

cleared in the Frontenac County boardroom in the first week of April, not

only had its 2012 bud-get passed, it actually re-duced the tax levy by 1.40 per cent. Last year taxes were raised and it was not spent. Some of that money, $200,000, was moved into revenues.

Bill Young is introduced to Central Frontenac Coun-cil as the Township’s new Fire Chief last. Young is a veteran of the force, most recently serving as Depu-ty Chief/Operations. Art Cowdy continues as Dep-uty Chief. Former Chief Mark MacDonald resigned the position last month to become a Deputy Chief on the Belleville Fire Depart-ment.

A review of Central Frontenac’s cemeteries suggests plots will be gone in five to seven years. Of the 11 cemeteries that the Township is responsible for, only four have plots available for purchase, said a report presented by Clerk/CAO Shawn Trepanier. “There are about 500 plots available for purchase and we’re selling from five to 10 plots a month,” Trepanier said. “Unless something is done, we’ll be sold out within five to seven years.” Council directed staff to prepare more plots at the Oconto Cemetery. The price of plots also came in for considerable scrutiny. The Township only charges about $200 a plot, while in Kingston the price ranges around $3,000. Trepanier said staff is working on a master plot list and cost analysis.

South Frontenac Coun-cillor Larry York announc-es that the township is now in a position to accept bale wrap and shrink wrap (from boats) for recycling

at the Keeley Road site. This was something York began working on when he was elected to his first term almost six years ago. Bale and shrink wrap can now be dropped off at the Keeley Road site every Thursday from 3 to 8 p.m.

Frontenac County may consider implementing new roles for its paramed-ics after a presentation on community paramedicine from Michael Nolan, chief of the Renfrew Paramedic Service and president of the Emergency Medical Services Chiefs of Cana-da. Nolan explained that “community Paramedi-cine” is a model of care whereby paramedics apply

their training and skills in “non-traditional” community-based envi-ronments, often outside the usual emergency response and trans-portation model. He said that by expanding the role of paramed-ics, and working col-laboratively with other community agencies, paramedics can man-age patients who do not require transportation to an emergency de-partment.

MayCouncil got an ear-

ful from delegations on garbage. In April South Frontenac decided to go with clear plastic garbage bags and waste site attendants were in-structed to reject bags containing recyclable material. This had del-egates question the township on the prac-

tice of inspecting garbage bags, suggesting it contra-venes Canada’s search and seizure laws outlined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mayor Janet Gutowski said, “It’s early days yet and we will con-tinue to make changes”.

Central Frontenac Council decides to form a Central Recreation Com-mittee to look at potential uses for Hinchinbrooke Public School and per-haps Sharbot Lake Public School. The two schools are scheduled for clo-sure in the fall of 2013. A work plan submitted by the steering committee in-cludes looking at purchas-ing the school(s) when they become available, providing project manage-ment for renovations and ongoing operational man-agement. By forming the Central Recreation Com-mittee, the Township can apply for a grant from the Frontenac Community Fu-tures Development Corpo-ration to complete a feasi-bility study and business plan.

Road work season got underway in Central Fron-tenac, with work started on Arden Road and Crow Lake Road. The good news was the cost to pave the Arden Road came in a lit-tle cheaper than anticipat-ed so paving was extended to three kilometers instead of the original plan of 2.5 km.

At a regular Central Frontenac Council meeting in Mountain Grove, CAO/Clerk Shawn Trepanier presented his cemeter-ies report, and the verdict is that $150 per plot plus $150 for ‘perpetual care’ (a total of $300 per plot) isn’t enough to finance the Township’s commit-ment. He said the plan is to raise prices by $25 per year until the price per plot reaches $500. He said there are two reasons for the change: according to the new Cemeteries Act, electronic records and sur-veys are required for each plot, which will cost about $40,000; and maintenance costs, including headstone replacement.

JuneCouncillor Ron Vande-

wal makes his 125th blood donation at the Kingston headquarters of Canadian Blood Services. Vandewal has been six times a year for the past 20 years. “This is just my quiet personal thing,” he said. “I come ev-ery 56 days.”

It’s official. E-waste in South Frontenac Township will be collected at the Kee-ley Road site only, follow-ing passage of a bylaw at a regular Council meeting in Sydenham. The Township estimates it will save about $30,000 a year having just the one site.

South Frontenac honours its 2012 Volunteers of the year. They include Margery Smith, Bob Harding, Norm Roberts and Les Moore. “The little things the volun-teers do are so important to the fiber of this community, said Mayor Gary Davison.

Central Frontenac hon-oured its Seniors of the Year. This year’s recipi-ents were Marg DesRoche (District 3), Verna Cowdy (District 2) Herbert Clow (District 4) and Leigh Scott (District 1)

Twenty seven teams par-ticipated in the annual Relay for Life, by walking around the track in Parham for an entire night. Proceeds from the night went to Canadian Cancer Society. Online pledges alone were $8,400.

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EMC News — Once again, Lynn and Leslie Cronk invited the public to their Eastern Cowboy ranch just off Wagarville Road for a worthy cause. And once again, the recipi-ent of the day was Sheba’s Haven Rescue, a place for dogs that require palliative or special needs care.

This was the third time the Cronks have opened their ranch to raise funds for animal causes.

“My wife collects res-

cued dogs and I collect horses, so we make a deal,” said Lynn. “This is her day.”

“I don’t know why I do it, it just gives me joy,” said Leslie. “I even have one dog from Romania that was (barely) living in a park.

“I guess the way I look at it is, I made a difference in one dog’s life.”

And while there are sev-eral dogs running around greeting people (an mooch-ing a bit of hot dog), it’s not only dogs. Recently, a pair of oxen, Duke and Leroy,

and two donkeys a mother and daughter named Lilly and Ginny, were added to the fold.

“When you’re married to Lynn Cronk, everything has to have a purpose,” Leslie said, laughing. “He’s hitched up the oxen and has them pulling logs and he’ll be showing them at fairs.”

The donkeys are a slightly different story.

“Donkeys are excellent guards for sheep and other animals but we don’t real-ly have anything for them to guard,” she said. “But

maybe they don’t do much but the mother was sched-uled to be sold for meat and when our daughter Jes-se heard that, she brought them here and what could Dad say?”

For Catherine Pokrywa, who operates Sheba’s Ha-ven, the Eastern Cowboy fundraiser is a Godsend.

“We’re so busy with 13 dogs,” she said. “We’re re-ally only set up for 10 and I keep saying I can’t take any more dogs but what can you do.

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EMC News — The an-nual budget dance has begun in Central Fronte-nac Township with staff suggesting a 9.8 per cent increase to the Township Residential rate for 2012.However, municipal staff’s always ask for more than they think they’ll get and then it becomes Council’s job to whittle that down to a figure they think the ratepayers can live with.Coun. Frances Smith was the first on Council to

serve notice that a 9.8 per cent increase wouldn’t fly this year.“There’s no way we can increase taxes by 10 per cent,” Smith said. “If we did, we wouldn’t have any people living here to pay it.

“I think staff needs to sharpen their pencils.”Smith also took excep-tion to the proposal to fi-nalize a 2012 budget be-fore the 2011 actuals are known.“I don’t know how we can come up with a bud-get by the end of January when we won’t know the

final 2011 numbers until Feb. 13,” she said.A few details are known, however. First, there is no increase in the education portion of the municipal tax bills for 2012 and as-sessment (the value placed by MPAC on all properties in the Township) is up by 10.1 per cent.And although Fronte-nac County has yet to fi-nalize its budget for 2012, it’s looking like there will be a modest increase com-ing from the County por-tion.Even so, the prelimi-nary numbers have Cen-

tral Frontenac coming up about $1,031,000 or 19.12 per cent short of what staff believes is needed.Last year, the Town-ship spent $5.39 million. This year it wants to spend $6.43 million.Some of the increase would be due to factors the Township has very lit-tle control over, Trepanier said. For example, provin-cial transfer payments for infrastructure are project-ed to be down by $128,000 and policing costs are ex-pected to be up by about $60,000. Staff would also like

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K-Rock Centre’s operator, SMG Canada, has to re-apply for its job. Council voted 7-6 not to extend its contract with SMG Canada by another five years, but instead to seek com-petitive bids on a future arena management contract. Council members say they owe it to taxpayers to launch a transpar-ent process to see if another operator can do a better job of running the 5,200-seat arena. The city owns the $47 million sports and entertainment ven-ue, but it has been managed by SMG since it opened in 2008. The current contract with SMG will expire November 30th, 2012. C

The city announced its plans for an $11 million facelift at The Artillery Park Aquatic and Fitness Centre. The centre is expected to be closed for 18 months starting this summer. Users of the downtown recre-ation centre’s pool, gymnasium and cardio equipment will be relocated to an alternative facil-ity by the city.

The RND senior girls’ soc-cer team captured its fourth consecutive KASSAA title at St. Lawrence College, defeat-ing the Frontenac Falcons 5-2.

JuneKingston’s drive to become

Canada’s most sustainable city must include lowering the prop-erty tax rate as well, say coun-cillors. Faced with mounting complaints from homeowners, councillors have asked staff to come up with options to reduce the annual tax increase from 3.5 percent to 2.5 percent. The one percent difference equals about $1.5 million in lost revenues for city hall. While councillors won’t finalize the 2013 tax rate until November, they want staff to provide an advance list of municipal programs, services or jobs that could be affected if the rate is reduced to 2.5 per-cent.

The Kingston Humane So-ciety and City of Kingston have been locked in a war of words since earlier in the year over how much tax money should be provided to care for injured, stray or unwanted cats and dogs. The Society currently receives $109,000 a year, but is looking for a 400 per cent increase from the city, or $578,000.

The military’s new $4 mil-lion sports dome was inflated at the bottom of Barriefield Hill earlier this month. The dome has been a source of controver-sy among some residents who say it detracts from the gateway heritage view of downtown Kingston. “I suspect once we get our landscaping plans in place, once they (residents) re-alize this means extra physical fitness facilities for 7,000 mili-tary people in the bad winter days, plus the special activi-ties like Special Olympics and Paralympics that we support, I think they will realize this dome is going to be a huge ben-efit,” Col. Steve Cadden told reporters.

It was known as “the great debate” around backyard chick-en coops. It took several weeks for city council to finally agree, 10-3, in May 2011 to amend its animal-control bylaw allowing residents to have up to six hens in their backyard. After all the hoopla, the city has, as of June 7, issued 11 licenses. That’s less than one a month.

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* Wear protective head gear. Protective headgear can help sportsmen avoid colds and head injuries. When venturing outdoors in the winter, always wear a protective wool ski cap. Most body heat is lost through the head, but wool caps help your body retain warmth on cold days and nights. In addition, sports-men should always wear protective headgear when

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* Skate with the crowd and never skate alone. Skating alone might give you all the room in the world to perform a figure eight, but skating alone leaves you with no back-up should the ice break and you fall in or if you injure yourself in a fall. When skating, never skate against the crowd.

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* Be especially cau-tious when entering or ex-iting the ski lift. Ski lifts pose a significant injury risk, so skiers and snow-boarders should always be attentive when entering or exiting the lift.

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With the first major winter storm of the sea-son behind us, more than a few drivers may have been disappointed at the snow-defeating performance of their AWD or 4WD ve-hicles, and many of these sport-ute and crossover fans were surprised by various warning lights ap-pearing on their instrument panels during the worst of the challenges they faced getting out of their drive-ways and down unplowed roads and streets. But first things first…

All Wheel Drive (AWD) is the term usually reserved for the drive sys-tems on vehicles that use their front wheels as the

main method of propulsion and automatically activate the rear wheels when trac-tion is poor due to road and weather conditions. Depending on the make and model, there may be manual override switches to permanently engage the rear wheels, but of-ten no driver interaction is required. Four Wheel Drive (4WD) is most of-ten used to describe truck-based SUV drivelines where a separate transfer case is used to provide power to the front wheels when needed and the rear wheels do the driving the rest of the time. Most of these systems have con-trol switches or levers and many have a dual range transfer case which can be helpful during off-road adventures when con-trolled traction, not speed is required.

No matter which system your vehicle uses and no matter what type of tires it has, Mother Nature can mix up a recipe of snow, freezing rain, winds, and temperatures that can de-feat the best designed,

engineered, and built sys-tems leaving us literally spinning our wheels.

AWD and 4WD sys-tems both have their ben-efits and downfalls, but when navigating through thick wet heavy snow, it’s the AWD that can frus-trate more drivers. The key to most AWD systems is a unit called a viscous coupler. This device is located on the driveshaft going to the rear axle, or built onto the transmis-sion, or on the rear axle itself on a primarily front-wheel drive vehicle and as its name suggests it con-nects or couples the front and rear axles so that in very poor traction condi-tions they both power the wheels. On dry roads with good traction the coupler is disengaged providing no traction to the rear wheels, but when the going gets slippery, the shaft leading into the coupler from the vehicle’s transmission will spin relatively faster than the wheels. This will heat up a special liquid inside the coupler causing it to expand and lock the unit’s

internal clutches together transferring power to the rear wheels. With late model vehicles that use this system, an on-board computer will constantly monitor the AWD system and if any preset thresh-old relating to the risk of overheating or otherwise damaging the system is exceeded, the AWD will be shut down and a warn-ing light will appear on the instrument panel. For vehicles without AWD but with any type of traction control, a similar failsafe system exists that has a similar effect to temporar-ily shut down the system to give it a chance to cool off so to speak.

The key to avoid AWD system shut-downs and possibly a trip to your local service provider to check out your dash warning light(s) is speed (or rather the lack of it). When faced with a foot or two of thick white stuff covering your driveway or residential street, take it easy. Plowing through that slop at breakneck speed may seem like fun,

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The other common re-sult of a sudden onslaught of heavy wet snow is windshield wiper failure. Sometimes caused by driv-ers who flip on the wipers without first clearing the windshield with a brush (or checking to ensure the wiper blades aren’t frozen to the glass) but more of-ten caused by those who neglect to clear the snow off the roof of their ve-hicle and then at the first stop sign of the day 50 lbs or more of slushy snow and ice come sliding off down the windshield to twist and bend the wiper arms beyond recognition and damage their drive linkage if the wipers hap-pen to be turned on at the time.

Replacement wiper-arms can range in price from $50-$150 each and the linkage system can often exceed $400 (not to mention labour or tax-es). A few minutes with a

snow-brush can save a lot of grief.

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Masquerade targets next generation of United Way supportersBy Kristyn WallaceEMC Correspondent

EMC News – A new gen-eration of philanthropists is raising awareness and funds for the United Way.

Next Gen provides young professionals with opportuni-ties to become engaged in the community. The group was created for individuals be-tween the ages of 25 and 40.

The Kingston Next Gen cabinet was formed just over a year ago, and since then the group has organized or par-ticipated in several successful events benefitting the United Way.

Shawn Whalen is the chair of the six-person Next Gen cabinet.

“The idea is really very simple,” says Whalen, “It’s to get the next generation of community stakehold-ers involved and engaged in the United Way and what it does.”

Next Gen will host its first event of 2013 on Saturday, Feb. 9. Masquerade: A Black and White Affair is a semi-formal event that will feature black and white dress, op-tional masks, music, dancing, cocktails and appetizers.

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get dressed up,” says Whalen. “The idea is that you come out for a fantastic night of dancing and cocktails, and it’s happen-ing in the middle of February, which is otherwise kind of a cold and dreary month, and we plan on injecting some fun into it.”

Masquerade takes place at the Renaissance Event Venue in downtown Kingston, and will also feature a live jazz band and a DJ. Prizes total-ing $1,000 will also be up for grabs.

“We really want the pur-pose of people coming out to be to have a great time, and the fact that it also happens to help out people who are in need of assistance through the United Way is a fantastic bo-nus,” says Whalen.

Previous Next Gen events have been very successful, in-cluding Hopscotch, a beer and whiskey festival, and Score 4 United Way, a Kingston Fron-tenacs game event that raised $4,620.

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And the enthusiastic group is already thinking of new

ideas for the new year. “Looking ahead to 2013,

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workplaces that are already engaged in the United Way’s annual campaign,” he says. “As time moves forward, those young people become older people that are still in-

volved in the United Way, and it’s this constant cycle of mov-ers and shakers in Kingston that are engaged in the United Way and making an impact.”

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EMC Lifestyle - There’s a rhythmic pounding in the room, like a tribal drumming. It marks the beat for young dancers performing flamenco on stage at the Domino The-atre. It’s part of the Kingston School of Dance Let It Snow performance.

The flowing arms and fin-gers and the gentle swoosh-ing of the dresses contrast the staccato beat. The danc-ers twirl, then gracefully but forcefully open fans. It’s ex-otic and earthy in the same moment.

Their teacher, Anthea Mor-gan, appreciates their hard work and understands that to become a dancer a lifestyle of discipline is required.

“It takes years and years of work when everyone else is watching TV,” she said. “It never lets go of you. My parents gave up so much for me.”

Morgan grew up dancing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“I grew up on Botafogo Bay in Rio, during the mili-tary dictatorship,” she said. “My mom and I danced on the beach along the water. I used to go for sleepovers in the favelas and we danced, samba.”

She explained that the movie, City of God, took place in the same time period in different favelas (shanty towns).

“Similar worries,” she said. “The ocean, the sun, and dance − I think kept us all whole during that time, re-minded us of the goodness in life and of being together.”

Now living in Kingston, she said she loves the lime-stone and the lake.

“One can always look to nature to inspire.”

But what is flamenco? Anthea explains it with a story.

“In Cordoba, Spain, just outside the Mezquita at one of the archways at night, a man started to sing, flamenco, as he got to one of the arch-ways. When he finished, he turned to those around and said, ‘This gate always makes the song come out of me.’ He then walked off with his partner and disappeared into the night. Flamenco....the song comes out of one….not one sings. That is flamenco. One learns the language, then when one is deeply touched by something eternal there is a way of sharing that moment with others.

“Flamenco encompasses so much,” she said. “The controlled passion, mystery and honesty are unique to flamenco. It’s about shar-ing, expressing feelings. It’s not showing off. When you dance flamenco, it’s OK to be sad, to dance like you’re sad. Moments of comedy and joy come together. It’s about shar-ing feelings we’re not always

comfortable with.”She said she loves fla-

menco and Spanish culture because of the respect for the human body.

“With flamenco, you get to dance as you. Flamenco al-lows you to love your body as it is.”

In 2010, the United Na-tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized fla-menco as a World Heritage Treasure. Morgan said that will help flamenco survive and grow.

“There are more elements of ballet in flamenco now,” she said. “It is changing. Years ago, you would never see a man do a triple attitude turn and come out into flamenco. It is evolving.”

Anthea Morgan has lived the life of a dancer since child-hood. The former National Ballet of Canada and Royal Ballet dancer teaches ballet and repertoire at the Kingston School of Dance. At her own studio, 1000 Islands Flamenco Spanish Dance Company & School, she teaches flamenco, Spanish classical, Sevillanas and Spanish folkloric dance. Sevillanas are social dances that don’t require a partner. They can be danced solo, in pairs or in groups.

Prior to retiring from her dancing career, along the way she shared the stage with Ru-dolph Nureyev, Mikhail Bary-shnikov and Karen Kain.

At the age of 16, Morgan left Brazil after landing a role with the Royal Ballet in Lon-don, England.

When she was 18, her fam-ily moved to Canada. Morgan wanted to be closer to them.

“My teachers said, ‘If you really don’t want to stay in Europe, audition for the Na-tional Ballet [of Canada].”

Morgan spent a week au-ditioning with the Canadian company. She landed a con-tract and danced with them for seven years.

“It was a great time to be in the company,” Morgan said. “Karen [Kain] was in her prime. We travelled and toured a lot.”

With the National Ballet, Morgan danced in front of thousands of people, night af-ter night.

“It’s a wonderful feeling to dance for 3,000 people and up-lift them, to give them some-thing,” Morgan explained. “For three hours you’ve taken them away from somewhere,

on a journey, and they came back feeling better.”

To her, this is the artistic ideal.

“Art should be redemptive and uplifting.”

She explained that flamen-co training is difficult.

“There’s an intricate rhythm to learn,” she said. “It’s like jazz, a structured im-prov. Not everyone wants to spend that much time learning the rules.”

The specific form known as flamenco is the music, song and dance of Andalusia in southern Spain, rooted in gypsy music.

“Flamenco is like Canada. It’s a culture of many cul-tures,” she said. “It has its origins in India, then travelled across the Middle East to Eu-rope.”

The region of Andalusia in southern Spain provided creative ground for flamenco music and dance to develop. Catholic, Judaic and Islamic Moorish cultures came to-gether to influence gypsy dance form, which is rich in embellishment and improvi-sation.

“They’ve found peace there. It’s created something beautiful,” said Morgan. “Flamenco doesn’t have a vast repertoire of steps, so the beauty, and challenge, is to invent new ways of using a few basic steps. They are steps that come easily to us, so it is organic and accessi-ble. At the Alhambra (in An-dalusia), one sees that a few simple materials, an infinite amount of creativity and hard work create something time-less. My goal as I get closer to 50 is to make my flamen-co like the Alhambra: a few steps to create something beautiful.”

She’s been teaching dance in many forms − ballet, fla-menco, Spanish, folk dance, and others—since retiring from the National Ballet.

She’s willing to visit schools to talk about healthy ballerina and dance culture with young children. She in-spires them to dance. She says Kingston is fortunate to have people like Ebon Gage at the Kingston School of Dance, who inspires boys to become involved.

She understands that art, design, costuming, lighting, music and theatre are inter-twined. She hopes to see di-verse arts come together in Kingston.

“The arts need to inter-sect,” she said. ”We need to get back to dancing in the open market squares. We need more collaboration in the arts. Cantabile, Kings-ton School of Dance, 1000 Islands Flamenco, dance and theatre all need to work to-gether when there is limited audience capacity and per-forming opportunity. Dance and theatre need to be more visible in places where the tourists are, outdoors, like one sees in Europe. The cul-ture in the markets in Spain was high quality, entertain-ing and respectful of the many needs of the market area.”

Her attitude toward dance has evolved. She’s inspired to pass on the skills of dance. Her own mentor and teacher, Irine Fokine, died in Decem-ber 2010.

“I feel a greater respon-sibility to carry on the tradi-tion,” said Morgan “Irine was the last of the Fokine’s. Her mother trained Robert Joffery. Her uncle choreographed bal-lets that are still danced by the world’s great ballet compa-nies. Her godparent was the legendary Anna Pavlova. One feels a greater responsibility to pass on that lineage as one gets older and as my teacher’s generation passes away. We thank our teachers by sharing their legacy and we hope to inspire future artists and audi-ences.”

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Former National Ballet of Canada dancer Anthea Morgan demonstrates flamenco. She also teaches at the Kingston School of Dance and 1000 Islands Flamenco Spanish Dance Company and School.

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EMC Lifestyle - We all know how hard it can be to hang our pictures. Pictures and drawings can fundamen-tally affect the way in which we perceive a room.

Knowing how to hang pictures can make your room complete. A large painting on a wall will attract attention, a group of misaligned prints will irritate and distract.

Like any other element in the decorative vocabulary, pictures can be used as fore-ground or background ele-ments. Hanging your pictures at eye level encourages you to study them, and is more com-fortable for viewing. If pic-tures are placed too high, or low, you can’t capture the true beauty of the pictures.

Anchoring a room with a handsomely framed mirror or an outstanding painting will augment the room’s classical proportions.

People tend to get compla-cent about their displays. Any picture that hangs for too long will get taken for granted. Ro-tating artwork from one room

to another revitalizes a room, celebrates the quality of a piece and invites you to see it with a fresh eye.

As a contrast, lean favou-rite items against the wall or bookshelves. Side-by-side, artwork and books speak vol-umes about your range of in-terests.

If you are hesitant about drilling holes in your wall, you can run picture rails above a mantel or along a blank wall, add a ledge, or use a traditional picture molding and hang your drawings from picture hooks.

In a bland space it pays to be decisive and organize focal point. You can design your own by mixing differ-ent shapes, sizes and styles of artwork. The conventional approach arranges pictures with symmetry as a guide; the unconventional alternative forgoes linear logic and aims for whimsy. Settle on what ar-rangement pleases your eye. Plan out your arrangement on the floor first so you are not committed to holes drilled in the wall.

Things you love should be hung—they are expressions of your taste. Things you love usually complement each oth-er as well, so they will look great together.

Themed groupings arrest the eye as well. For example, a collection of botanical prints of the same vegetable or flow-er will transform any room

into an 18th century print room. Pedigree isn’t impor-tant—mood is.

What not to do is pick art-work based on you décor, such as choosing a green painting for a green room. Whether you have one painting or a collection, let the room grow around it.

Though buying art can be an investment, it should be bought for pleasure. A great place to buy wonderful paint-ings is estate auctions. My husband and I enjoy going to auction houses and buying antique oil paintings. They are usually sold for a great price. Just remember to study the paintings before the auction starts to look for any damage or repair to the painting itself, or the frame. Buy the painting because you love it; it doesn’t have to be a well know artist. Even if the painting is won-derful but you are not crazy about the frame, you can al-ways change out the frame.

If a picture is worth a thou-sand words, it is worth show-ing off to its best advantage. This not only means choos-ing the best place to hang it, but selecting an appropriate frame. Medium and large frames help expand spaces by lending a sense of proportion and depth. Small frames focus the eye on detail. It is impor-tant to match the style of the frame to what it displays. It’s worth spending the money to have something you enjoy.

There is such a wide variety of frames out there. Make sure your frame suits your picture. A frame can dramati-cally change your image.

Be sure to check out the work of local artists. There are so many wonderful paint-ers, photographers, and sculp-tors in this area. The Lenadco Community Center in Nap-

anee is soon showcasing the work of these local artists in their common areas. It will be on a rotating basis where new artists will proudly show their work, and offer some for sale. If you are interested in show-ing your work there, you can reach me at merolatahamtan-deisgns@live ca.

Pictures are a great way

to express yourself as well as add the finishing touches to your unique room.

Merola Tahamtan is an Interior Stylist in Home & Business Design, Home Staging, Painting and Win-dow Draperies. You can reach her at 613-561-0244 [email protected]


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Preparation Time: 10 min-utes plus one hour marinating time

Cooking Time: 20 minutes Servings: two

Ingredients· 1/2 cup (125 mL) so-

dium reduced chicken broth· 3 tbsp (45 mL) rice

wine, mirin or white wine· 3 tbsp (45 mL) sodium

reduced soy sauce· 2 tbsp (25 mL) sea-

soned rice vinegar· 1 tbsp (25 mL) minced

ginger· 2 fresh cloves garlic,

minced· 1 fresh Ontario duck

breast· 2 tbsp (25 mL) canola

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Score duck breast skin crosswise, then lengthwise to form a cross-hatch. Place duck breast in shallow bowl and turn to coat. Cover and re-frigerate for at least one hour

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EMC Lifestyle – The food cooked during the holidays is often enough to feed an army. Too often, hosts and hostesses prepare and serve much too much food, only to find them-selves left with a refrigerator full of leftovers when guests don’t eat as much as hosts had suspected.

In order to avoid wasting food, many people attempt to create new meals from their excess holiday ingredients. Putting leftovers to good use can take a little ingenuity to disguise the reality that you’re eating turkey or ham for the third consecutive night. All it may take is a little inspiration to create delicious meals with repurposed holiday foods.

The first thing to keep in mind when using leftovers is food safety. Any food remain-ing after the holiday meal should be packed into storage containers and refrigerated or frozen no more than 2 hours after the meal has ended. This ensures that bacteria are not able to proliferate in the food and cause foodborne illnesses.

Choose shallow containers, which will enable the food to chill more uniformly and not create warmer spots that take longer to reach a safe storage temperature. Do not save any foods that have remained at room temperature for too long or seem questionable, especial-ly dairy products. It is advise-able to discard leftovers (even if refrigerated) after 4 days. Use it or lose it!

Now that leftovers are properly stored, you can think up some creative menu ideas for using them in the next few days.

* Turn stuffing into cro-quettes or burgers by mixing chopped turkey with stuffing or adding a new meat to the equa-tion, like sausage.

* Dice ham and potatoes and add to the morning help-ing of eggs for a country-style omelette.

* Promptly boil the turkey carcass to make homemade stock for soups and stews.

* Turn leftover mashed pota-toes into a creamy potato soup, with the addition of cream, ba-

con and scallions.* Use cranberry sauce in

place of butter on bagels or toast.

* Mash up leftover sweet potatoes and bake into a moist and delicious sweet potato loaf bread.

* Create open-faced sand-wiches for lunch by layering ham or turkey, stuffing, cran-berry sauce and gravy on top of a thick slice of bread.

* Diced meats, vegetables and onion can be added to a bat-ter of pancake mix and turned into an easy quiche.

* Host Mexican night and use leftover turkey meat to make spicy fajitas, complete with sour cream and salsa.

* Use stale bread to make homemade croutons for salad or use in a bread pudding rec-ipe.

* Add cranberry sauce to boxed muffin mixes for a tart treat.

* Turn leftover holiday meats into an Asian stir-fry with the addition of water chestnuts, bean sprouts, soy sauce, and mixed vegetables.

* Grind meats to make a hearty meat loaf.

* Make leftover potatoes into hash browns.

* Cube leftover cake and serve on skewers and fruit for dipping into chocolate fondue.

* Use pie crust and small ramekins to turn turkey or ham into savory pot pies.

There are so many ideas for using leftover holiday foods this season. Experiment with flavors your family will enjoy.


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Healthy resolutions for the year ahead EMC Lifestyle – As the calen-

dar turns to a new year, the focus of men and women often shifts as well. After the hectic holiday season has come and gone, many people re-dedicate themselves to their personal health and well-being. That renewed dedication might be thanks to all those big holiday meals or it might just be a result of the new calendar year being symbolic of a fresh start.

Regardless of the reasons behind this renewed vigor, the opportunities to make the next 12 months a healthier 12 months abound. While losing weight might the most popular resolu-tion, there are a host of other health-related resolutions indi-viduals can make to improve their lives over the next 365 days.

Resolve to reduce stressStress is a major part of most

adults’ lives, and that’s especially so after the hectic holiday season when men and women are pulled in so many different directions. Work is a common cause of stress, but family and personal finances, especially nowadays, are big sources of stress as well. This year, resolve to reduce stress in all aspects of life. At the office, analyze ways in which you can manage time more effectively, including how to best prioritize work projects so you don’t al-ways feel as if you’re up against a wall. Outside the office, recog-nize the importance of maintain-ing a personal life and its relation to reducing stress. Spending time with friends and family can relax

you and provide a welcome re-spite from the stress of the office.

Resolve to eat betterLosing weight and adopting a

healthier diet are not necessarily the same thing. While a healthier diet might help you lose weight, the goal of adopting a healthier diet is to improve overall health. A healthy diet can strengthen the body’s immune system, making it easier to fight cold, flu and other ailments. A healthy diet can also help in the battle against any pre-existing conditions. For example, replacing salt with healthier and flavorful herbs can help reduce high blood pressure, and many people cannot even taste the dif-ference once they start eating.

Resolve to exercise moreMuch like changing a diet,

exercising more is often seen as a means to weight loss. While that’s a positive side effect of daily exercise, the goal should not be to lose weight. Instead, the goal of daily exercise is to get healthier. According to the Amer-ican College of Sports Medicine, exercise helps lower the risk of heart disease and hypertension by 40 percent while lowering the risk of depression by 30 percent. In addition, men and women with a family history of diabetes should know that regular exer-cise lowers their risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 60 percent. So while exercise is a great means to losing weight, it’s even better at helping reduce the risk for seri-ous disease.

When incorporating exercise into a daily routine, start slowly and gradually work your way up to more vigorous exercise regi-mens. Going full speed from the outset is a great way to increase risk of injury, which could actu-ally restrict your ability to exer-cise for some time.

Resolve to quit smokingTo nonsmokers, keep up the

good work. For smokers, perhaps

some statistics are enough to get you on the path toward quitting smoking:

* More than 150,000 Ameri-cans were projected to succumb to lung cancer in 2011, accord-ing to the National Cancer Insti-tute.

* The Canadian Cancer So-ciety estimated that 20,000 Ca-nadians would lose their lives to lung cancer in 2011.

* More than 6 percent of all

deaths in the United Kingdom in 2011 were related to lung cancer, according to Cancer Re-search UK.

If those statistics aren’t enough to get men and women serious about quitting smok-ing, consider the negative effect secondhand smoke has on your loved ones. The American Can-cer Society notes that roughly 3,000 nonsmoking adults experi-ence lung cancer caused by sec-

ondhand smoke in the U.S. each year. When making a resolution this year, smokers’ top priority should be to quit smoking.

When making resolutions at the start of a new year, men and women often focus on healthy resolutions. But healthy resolu-tions go beyond losing a few extra pounds, and many involve dedication throughout the year to improve overall health this year and for years to come.

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Dig deeper; City service and program fees increase in New YearBy Bill HutchinsReporter

EMC News – The cost to get married or buried is going up in Kingston.

In one of their final deci-sions of 2012, councillors approved a raft of user rate increases that reach into doz-ens of services provided by the municipality. Many of fee hikes are tied to the national inflation rate, though some are higher than the projected 2013 inflation rate of two percent.

“These fee adjustments were considered part of the funding for various programs when preparing the 2013 rec-ommended operating budget,” said a report to council by treasurer Desiree Kennedy.

The cost of getting a mar-riage licence at city hall jumps nearly $4 from last year to $132.10, while a burial per-mit increases from $31.50 to $32.45.

Residents will be spared increases in several core ser-vices; rates for public transit, on-street parking meters and parking ticket fines will re-main unchanged in the New Year. The single adult cash fare for Kingston Transit remains at $2.50 while the monthly adult pass is $68.25, the same as last year.

However, other commut-ers will feel the pinch of high-er rates. The first-hour-free parking in the Hanson and Chown municipal garages has come to an end, while park-ing permit fees have gone up by an average of two to three dollars a month as of January

1. Monthly permits now range from $52.75 in the Anglin and Doug Fluhrer parking lots to as high as $112.10 in the Sheraton Hotel’s municipal parking stalls.

Kingston’s 2013 ‘fees and charges’ bylaw also includes modest rate hikes for a host of recreational programs. The increase will affect; seasonal passes to the Outdoor Aquatic Centre, swimming lessons, farmers market leases, confer-ence and meeting rooms, Belle Park golf course, rink rentals, marina mooring, baseball diamonds and soccer fields, development applications and permits, and airport parking, terminal and landing fees.

Annual business licences are also on the rise for pri-vate operations ranging from restaurants, pet stores and gas stations to pool halls and adult dancers.

City officials say user fees are one way to keep property taxes down, and they note many of the recreational and service fees are already subsi-dized from the municipal tax base.

“If fees are not adjusted appropriately, the result will be increased pressure on tax increases to subsidize costs of providing the service,” Ken-nedy noted.

Some new recreation fees are also being implemented for the first time, such as Mar-ket Square ice skate rentals and, if you want a spring in your step, there’s a new charge to rent the pole vault and high jump facilities at Caraco track & field of $28.97 an hour.

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