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As part of the Dandelion Festival, the North Gren-ville Historical Society put on a display of documents, photographs and artefacts they have gathered in the Pioneer Schools Project that will result in a book later this year. For more details, see Beth Nicol’s article on page 11. In the picture above are Doug MacDonald, who is su-pervising the project, and Amanda Gould, the new Director of Archives at the NGHS. Amanda is a local resident who works as a conservator for the Cana-

Back to School - Fifty Years Later

dian Museum of History, and she heads the Society’s Archives Committee which is partnering with the Mu-seum on developing our local archives and museum in North Grenville. The So-ciety has also been blessed with the services of a sum-mer student, Michelle Car-ré, who is a History student at Carleton University. She has been a tremendous help in the Archives already, and was responsible, with Doug, for preparing the Dandelion Festival Exhibit.

The Kemptville Fire Service very kindly loaned

the NGHS a memorial plaque in honour of James Ault, who died while fight-ing the fire which destroyed the old High School in Kemptville in 1936. It took pride of place in the sec-tion dealing with the High School which James Ault had attended as a student. To add further to the oc-casion, outside the Court House was parked the 1914 Fire Truck which actually attended at the High School fire in 1936, along with James Ault. This, too, was provided for the event by Chief Paul Hutt, to whom

the NGHS is very grateful indeed, and to Bill Kin-near, of the Fire Service, who delivered the truck and brought it safely home again.

The Society put on an-other event at the Festival, when Dr. David Shanahan, the Society’s Historian, gave a talk on the history of old Downtown Kemptville from the stage outside the Library to a large group of local residents. All in all, the North Grenville Histori-cal Society certainly helped visitors to the Festival to Discover Our Roots.

Doug MacDonald and Amanda Gould

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The May flowers have come! What a beautiful time of year when every-thing is so fresh and new. It is late Friday afternoon and I was just thinking that it will be fun garden-ing this weekend with the anticipation of beautiful flowers and delicious fresh vegetables right out of the garden.

What a surprise - I just glanced out the window and discovered it is raining out! Mark Twain was so right when he wrote, “In the Spring, I have count-ed 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” However, the rain will be great for all of the

crops and gardens, with bountiful harvests provid-ing food for humans and animals!

Speaking of food, one of the services that we offer is Meals on Wheels. We order the Frozen Meals from Apetito, a company based in Brampton. We have four freezers that ac-commodate soups, entrées, and desserts, all of which are ordered individually. We can also accommodate special diets including pu-réed and minced.

Volunteers call the cli-ents for their orders, heat (if necessary), pack and deliver the meals. Hot meals are available daily from Monday to Friday in Kemptville. Frozen

meals are delivered weekly throughout North Gren-ville. The “Frozen Meals” are also available to be purchased here at the Cen-tre. It is important to note that there is no minimum amount of meals that need to be purchased, or an on-going commitment.

I was excited to have a tour of the Apetito plant in April. It was fun having my daughter Tracy along as well. I picked her up in Toronto and we headed to Brampton. Apetito pre-arranged for someone to take us on a tour. We were warmly greeted when we arrived at the front offices; and then our guide, Lucy, took us down a hall to the start of the plant. At that point we had the most fashionable hair coverings, suits and booties to put on. What a photo that would have been!

I was so impressed with the quality control at the plant. Lucy mentioned to us that the Health In-spector is on site every day! Apetito is so strict in preventing cross-contam-ination from one area to another. In order to track who ‘belongs’ in which area, the staff wear co-

loured smocks specific to the area they are working in. It would be very easy to spot someone with a different coloured smock.

Each of the batches of meals being prepared has a specific recipe. As an ex-ample, if it was Shepherd’s Pie, the person responsible for getting the seasonings would go to the “herbs and spices” room and measure out of each individual con-tainer exactly what was needed for that one batch. Each of the steps was pre-cise from the preparation of the meal, to the pack-aging of the meal, to the packing in small cases of 12 entrées and then to the freezers where they are ‘flash’ frozen.

One of the steps that really impressed me was after the meals were sealed in their individual con-tainers, they went on the conveyor belt through a metal detector. This is to ensure that if, by chance, any minute piece of metal off the equipment such as a mixer had gotten into the food, it would be pulled immediately.

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The 1st Grenville Militia certainly made their presence known at the Dandelion Festival. They set up camp next to the South Branch, conducted demonstrations, and paraded the length of Prescott Street, armed and in uniform. They proved to be a popular feature with the younger set. Impres-sive Volleys marked the opening and closing of the Festival. Pictured above are: (left to right) Corporal Cam Stevenson, Private Doug LeHaise, Private Ken Picard and Private Two Bears un-der the command of Captain John Zaluska. Ab-sent from the photo was Private John Barclay.

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Remember to eat well, and enjoy the weather. Until next timeSusan Smith, Executive Director, Kemptville and District Home Support Inc.

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Dandelion Festival, 2014

Local musician, George Buys, entertaining the crowds

in charge at the store, Jarlaith Connaughton and Pat Slevin, both good Dubliners, invited the Irish Ambassador to Canada, Ray Bassett, to

join Mayor David Gordon in cutting the ribbon and slicing the birthday cake. There was a definite Irish air to the proceedings, as Irishman Kevin Dooley

played “The Foggy Dew” (a traditional Dublin tune) on the tin whistle as the ribbon was being cut, and Irish accents could be heard throughout the store. Pat Kelly, owner of the Heart and Crown in Ottawa’s Byward Market, was on hand, as was Mike Maguire who is running for Mayor in Ottawa this October. Jarlaith and Pat invite all residents of North Grenville to drop by and say hello whenever they’re at the Mall.

Pat's: "Oh Really!" Talking to yourself What's with the use of myself, yourself, himself, herself. Do the schools not teach good grammar. Certainly the Brits, who feel they have the monopoly on that, ain't learned much gooder. They love using the reflexive pronoun the wrong way. Which is right? Door 1: "This letter is in response to the meeting with your s taf f and myself." Or Door 2: "This letter is in response to the meeting with your staff and me." The test: drop "...your staff and..." It must have been a lonely meeting with yourself - that is, meeting with Iself. What are you speaking?



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Another Dandelion Fes-tival over and another weekend of fun for all the family. It is too early to say for sure, but it certainly seemed that numbers were up over last year, and the return to the streets worked out very well indeed. As the reviews of the event begin, it will be time to assess what worked, what didn’t, and what might come next for the Dande-lion Festival. One of the major issues that needs to be addressed is the ul-timate direction the Fes-tival wants to take. The original organisers had in mind a local celebration of arts and culture in North Grenville, concentrating entirely on local involve-ment. Over the past few years, that focus has been replaced by a desire to put on a regional festival, drawing in people from the Ottawa area, as well as locals. It is obviously a complete departure from

Dear KKFM organizers:How wonderful it is to

have the market open again this year! I was pleased to visit you at your new location on Sanders Street today.

I do have two complaints however, and am hoping that you will receive the following as well-meaning, constructive criticism.

Would the KKFM orga-nizers and/or Mr. Beveridge please consider 1) sweeping the corner of the parking lot where the market is held, free of the winter's sand and gravel, and 2) painting or barricading the parking lot so as to create a clear, convenient pedestrian path for those wishing to patron-ize both the market and the B&H. The former would be appreciated by those using walkers, strollers or wagons and would, frankly, make the location appear tidier and more welcoming. The latter will perhaps help to prevent any unfortunate automobile-pedestrian interactions. In addition, I don't think it can

Dear editorThere is a young family of

geese who nested right beside the road on Whitney Rd East-bound, a little over halfway to South Gower Rd. They're always right on the shoulder and sometimes the babies are on the road. I hope to spread the word so no one hits them. Thanks in advance!

Jessica Nightingale

hurt to help those visiting the market to make a visual connection between the stalls and the B&H. One more step towards a local food hub, yes? I think that both relatively small efforts would greatly contribute to making the new location more welcoming and user-friendly.

With best wishes for a successful season,

Amanda GouldOld Town Kemptvillep.s. Should your thoughts

have turned to how easy it is for one to criticize, I would respond by saying that I'm very willing to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. If beautification of the location of the farmer's market can only be achieved through volunteer effort, then sign me up.

Mellow Yellowthe past, and it needs to be addressed: is that the way forward?

The increased size and attendance figures would seem to favour the re-gional approach; but we don’t know yet how many people attending this year came from outside North Grenville. Money was spent on 10,000 brochures for the Festival, at least half of which were to be distributed in the Ottawa area. Was that a good in-vestment of limited funds? The attendance breakdown may tell the organising committee that. But two things need to noted: one is that the previous Chair, who organised a few Festi-vals, recommended against such brochures as a waste of money. Secondly, if you’re going to distribute brochures in Ottawa, they should at least mention where the Festival is tak-ing place. Having the name “North Grenville”on the brochure would be helpful. Having the name “Kemp-tville” on them would be

even better. This is not a matter of

personal pique. My own event was advertised in the brochure, and there was a very good attendance. The event was well organised, and the stage manager, Rob, was helpful and on top of the job. I was very happy with how the activ-ity was handled and I hope the group were not too affected by the heat and the sun. Did the brochure help? Perhaps. (It made a great sunshade for some in the audience!). But the NG Historical Society also had a very successful event at the Festival, with numbers up on last year. That event, however, was not in the brochure, and the barriers at Water Street meant the event was outside the fes-tival footprint. Since this was one of the very, very few events at the Festival that remotely reflected the official motto: “Discover our Roots”, it seemed odd that it received so little notice from the organisers.

There were very suc-

cessful events throughout the weekend, and Sunday was particularly successful in comparison with some other years. The organis-ers finally succeeded in finding a way to get people beyond Asa Street and on to the old High School location: something that had been found almost im-possible in previous years. The staging on Clothier Street was well done, and fitted so well into the park-ing lot between the Branch and Moonlight Restau-rants. But, to be honest, I missed some of the local dancers, the kids and the music. George Buys did well on Prescott Street, but he should be on the main stage so everyone can enjoy him. There are many others I would say the same about.

The security on the bar-riers was a little intimidat-ing. It wasn’t nice to see such paramilitary style uniforms at a family event. Was that a legal require-ment for insurance purpos-es, or were there no local

volunteers, as were used in other years for that job? How much did that add to the budget? The public had been asked for donations to help pay for the barri-ers, but I don’t think they thought it would go to pay for the uniforms. On that area: did the municipality not have enough barriers supplied to the festival? Why the added funds for them? When the commit-tee discovered extra funds available, they hired more musical acts, or were going to. Was the donated money returned as unnecessary?

It all comes down to vision. Many of the people who had experience of put-ting on the Festival were disappointed and a little hurt that they were not asked for their input this year. They have a lot to of-fer. But if that experience is with a North Grenville community festival, and not a regional one that hap-pens to take place in North Grenville, then perhaps leaving them out made sense. In any case, on the

It may not be common knowledge among residents of North Grenville, but we in the municipality have an extensive trail and biking system that is being continu-ally improved and augmented. There is a Trails Advisory Committee which arranges funding applications, trail development projects and generally supervises the de-velopment of the trails system.

One of the major projects being undertaken is the Water-front Trail, which is designed to allow pedestrian and bike connection between the Ride-au and downtown Kemptville. The municipality has sent out tenders for design work on the Trail, using $50,000 that was made available for the project. It is hoped that a final design will be ready before the end of this year. This is not a straightforward issue, as there needs to be close li-aison with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, who

had supervisory jurisdiction of the river front land. In ad-dition, there are four private homes that will be affected by the Trail, and easements will have be acquired over those properties.

The Settlers Trail will be opened for part of its length this year, and new signs have been made to direct people to that section. This is a ma-jor undertaking, with about $130,000 available through the municipal budget and a possible further amount of $25,000 that is being applied for through the Hydro One Power Play Grant. This is a special funding initiative by Hydro One designed to en-hance recreation facilities in Ontario communities.

The Ferguson Forest Cen-tre has miles of trails to ex-plore throughout the year, and walkers, cyclists, horseback riders and runners have been discovering the joys of having such a large green space right on their doorstep. Outside the Kemptville core, there is a Tip-to-Tip Trail in Burritt’s

Rapids that is the perfect length for a leisurely stroll in the spring and summer months. The trail is an easy walk with a round trip length of four kilometres, taking about one hour to complete. Numbered trail markers along the path highlight features along the trail that were either influenced by or important in the construction of the Rideau Canal.

The Explore North Gren-ville web site contains a wealth of information, maps and walking tours that are the perfect complement to the Trails System. There is a series of historic Walking Tours available through this and the municipality web site that cover the hamlets, and a series of four that describe the history of Kemptville. Down-load the maps and tours and take them with you when you head out. They can be found at http://www.explorenorth-grenville.ca

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weekend, the people of North Grenville certainly appreciated the fact that the Dandelion Festival came around again. There will always be good and bad, successes and fail-ures, sun and rain, and you can’t please everyone. The committee put a lot of time and energy into making the Dandelion Festival of 2014 happen, and they succeeded. Last weekend in Kemptville it was mel-low yellow.

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In our Strategic Plan adopted by Council, there is a section that deals with Arts, Culture and Heritage and their importance and value to our community. Mapping, creating an in-ventory of these assets, is an important next step when council begins to implement the key sections of this community plan.

Following the suc-cess of another Dandelion Festival, the relevance and value of arts, culture and heritage is evident. It drives the economy. In Canada, the "arts" are a

Cultural Mapping

23 billion dollar industry. It provides a sense of be-longing and enjoyment to a community, but is often missed as a key ingredient to the economy.

Most recently, some of our neighbouring com-munities have started the process in building the grid that can connect communi-ties and help build part-nerships among cultural organizations. It helps with council policy when such an inventory is available.

A cultural mapping process for North Gren-ville should involve the same process we used to build the Strategic Plan.

Public meetings that in-volve the communities are how to document and map this inventory. The heritage, cultural, and arts components need to dis-cussed in every area of the municipality.

Our cultural resources go beyond broad catego-ries and a true mapping would include many cat-egories. The following could frame the commu-nity discussion: Cultural Buildings/Facilities such as our galleries, librar-ies; Cultural Heritage, which could include lo-cal cemeteries or local ceremonies such as the Civic and Sports Hall of Fame awards; Festivals/Events could bring in the Dandelion Festival or the-atre productions; Creative Industries could encom-pass antique shops and local crafters and working artists; Natural Heritage could identify the Trails and Rideau Heritage Wa-terway.

This valuable list of North Grenville assets would allow the commu-nity to have a breakdown of the many areas of cul-tural attachment we have achieved in the communi-ty. This resource could be used as a key resource for development and promo-tion of our community, but also provide a document

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that would track our heri-tage and help create new connections with commu-nities of like mindness and resources .

Our Strategic Plan also looks at creating an Arts/Cultural Council that could develop initiatives and connect groups that have similar goals and needs for their arts based organiza-tion. They could provide leadership and updates to Council on our community arts and heritage scene. The plan also refers to the Open Doors initiatives that are very popular as a tourist draw or important for local community folks to have a look at what is current and happening behind the doors of intu-itions, galleries or business in North Grenville. It can be very revealing to visit somewhere you have never been or revisit someplace after many years.

Attracting, preserving, and most importantly iden-

tifying for the community their cultural heritage, and revealing to visitors what we have to showcase, is an important relevant way to highlight all North Gren-ville has to offer. Moving forward into the future of the Strategic Plan's goals set by the community and implementing the adopted ideas is a relevant next step. A cultural map is an essential tool that has sig-nificance for North Gren-ville as we continue to grow as a community.

As a part of St. Michael's commitment to the Ogooma Uganda Children's Home, the cast and crew of the play "BULLY" donated $1,000 from the play's proceeds to this cause at an assembly informing students of the many worthwhile programs the school is helping to support. Seen above are Chaplain Sheri Richer-Camillone ac-cepting the donation from lead actress Sydney Taylor, author and assistant director Elizabeth Friend, and teacher Michael Blouin. "What a great thing to know that this play has helped not only people here locally but people on the other side of the world as well. The Arts really do help to make the world a better place," said graduating student Elizabeth Friend

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The timing was perfect. Held mid-afternoon on Sun-day, the Seniors’ Tea was a welcome break from the downtown hustle and bustle.

Seniors welcomed to Tea at Leslie Hall

Warm scones, homemade jam, tea in china cups poured from a silver tea pot. Tum-bling notes from a piano, quiet chitchat, plates piled with cookies and squares. A true refuge.

The tea has become a popular festival event. Origi-nally hosted by the Friends of the Library, this year Robert Porter and the members of St. James Anglican Church welcomed seniors into Leslie

Hall as their guests. Over 30 volunteers and contributors worked under the guidance of Peter and Helen Bunn to guar-antee its success. The team in the kitchen kept warm scones in supply and cookie plates full. Servers were attentive and gracious.

Additional features in-cluded the piano stylings of local musician, Don Reid, and a display from the Pioneer Schools project undertaken by the North Grenville His-torical Society.

The Dandelion Festival Committee provided seed money for the event and all of the baking was donated. Any/all proceeds from the donations jar will go towards providing a placement for a local child at Camp Hyanto in Lyndhurst.

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This past year was very exciting as we received our second consecutive three-year accreditation from CARF Canada. CARF recognized our Personal Empowerment Group as an innovative prac-tice. Congratulations to all of you who play a significant role in this process through the great work you do day after day: Employees, Vol-unteers, Board members, Families and Persons Served alike. This is an accomplish-ment you can all be proud of. Your ongoing commitment to quality improvement is criti-cal to our future.

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A Farewell from Ted Shuh, Executive Director of Community Living North Grenville

Grenville and their families since its humble beginnings. I have watched Community Living grow into a very well respected organization across the province and our local community. To be given the opportunity to be a part of this incredible organization is humbling. Together, a lot of work and progress has been made at Community Living. The groundwork has been laid for the next several years through our Strategic Plan, Community Supports, Residential Services review and ongoing commitment to CARF Accreditation and Core competency training for our very competent em-ployees. Community Living North Grenville is strong, determined and passionate about providing the best pos-sible quality of life for per-sons served. Your focus on the vision, mission and values of

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In 1872, Kemptville was a bustling village of almost a thousand people. The downtown core of Prescott Street was filled with grocery stores, hotels, drug stores and photography studios. But in the early hours of May 13, a fire broke out in a foundry owned by Ambrose Clothier located on the street named after his father, Asa. The foundry was near the cor-ner of Prescott, just behind Selleck’s hotel, a prosperous business on the corner where the old Scotiabank stands today. Within hours, the fire had spread and destroyed all of the buildings on both sides of Prescott street, between Asa and Water streets, then known as “the most pros-perous and flourishing part of the town”. There was no local newspaper in the area at that time, but the Ottawa Free Press reported on the destruc-tion in dramatic words:

“Terrible conflagration this Morning - The whole Village laid in Ruins - List of the Losses. A dreadful calamity visited this place this morning. At an early hour, from some unexplained cause, a fire broke out in Mr. Ambrose Clothier’s foundry, and gaining headway before being observed, communi-

The North Grenville Historical Society marked its participation in the Dandelion Festival by welcoming the public to the Court House to view its One Room Schools project, various memorabilia and a display of Historical Society publications.

The Pioneer Schools project, which began as a collaboration between Larry Loke (North Grenville Photography) and Doug MacDonald (North Grenville Historical Society), was first displayed at Geronimo’s earlier this year. It features 13 panels highlighting North Grenville Schools from 1808 to 1964, as well as mementos, memorabilia and memories which have been donated or are on loan from former students or their families. Data was also gathered from the archival collection of the NGHS and the Archives of Ontario.

It proved to be a popular attraction, with a record number of visitors dropping by to share stories and chat with NGHS members. Equal portions of memories and refreshments were served up much to the enjoyment of all.

If you have memories of a time in a local one room school house that you would be will-ing to share, please contact Doug MacDonald or David Shanahan by June 1. This project will result in the publication of a book which will hopefully be available to the public in the fall.

cated itself to other buildings until a general destruction seemed to threaten the whole village...Fortunately no lives are lost, though several per-sons were seriously injured during the conflagration...The total loss will not be less than $75,000...The fire was first discovered about half past one this morning, and burned with incredible rapid-ity devouring everything in its course. Its progress was checked about half past four o’clock from spreading any further. It is as yet exceed-ingly difficult to ascertain the amount of losses to either the sufferers or to the insur-ance companies, but the loss will be heavy, as hardly any property was saved, many persons barely escaping with their lives.”

The truly strange thing about the fire was that, when it destroyed the hotel, it trav-elled down Prescott Street and reached the corner with Water Street, where Mr. Mozarella is today. At that point it actually took a 90 degree turn and crossed Pre-cott Street, starting back up the way it had come, instead of jumping Water Street and pressing on to the river on that side. When it reached the corner of Asa Street, instead of moving on up that side of the street, it re-crossed

Prescott and burned down the building on the corner opposite the hotel. It had returned almost to where it had started!

For years, I had read and spoke about the fire simply as a major event in the his-tory of Kemptville, and as a great disaster for the vil-lage, from which it made a triumphant return from the ashes, phoenix-like in its recovery. But, recently, I began to realise that there was something very odd about the whole thing. It seemed strange to me that a fire would make four right-angle turns in the course of its journey, cross Prescott Street twice, as well as cross-ing Reuben Street, and end up back where it started. So I decided to seek an ex-pert’s opinion and brought the story to Fire Chief Paul Hutt. He was quite sure that, had this fire taken place today, it would certainly be considered suspicious. There was no indication of heavy winds that night, and, even had there been, how would the fire turn back on itself in that strange manner, crossing streets and destroying only the commercial centre of the village?

I noticed two interesting comments in the newspaper accounts quoted above. The

History Page

first stated that the fire arose “from some unexplained cause”. Then there was the reference to the losses that were incurred by the insur-ance companies. What are the facts here? A fire started at 1:30 in the morning on May 13, 1872 “from some unexplained cause”. It fol-lowed a very specific and inexplicable course though Prescott Street, leading to the complete destruction of every building it touched. Wooden frame buildings across Water Street remained untouched, but the fire jumped, at right angles across Prescott and carried on its course back up the street, jumping Reuben Street, but not harming any wooden buildings in that street. At a certain point along its course, it stopped and crossed the street again, leaving buildings further up Prescott Street untouched. Then it was finally controlled and extinguished, or sim-ply burned out. Twenty-six buildings, as well as store houses, sheds, etc., had been destroyed.

Within two years, in-surance had paid for the complete transformation of the street. The Ottawa Free Press, in its issue of Febru-ary 28, 1874, reported on the area’s amazing recovery. “Today it may be said that

by David Shanahan

Under the Red Sky

Pioneer School project displayed at Court House By Beth Nicol

Photo by Micheal Pacitto

the old business aspect of the town has been fully resumed; the only difference being that the face is somewhat changed, and for the better. Where there was nothing but temporary frame buildings, now stands massive stone and brick structures”. The population of the village had increased in two years from 900 to 1,300, and everything was bigger and better than ever. It almost seems that

the Great Fire of 1872 was a blessing in disguise for the business owners of down-town Kemptville.

Perhaps, in time, more evidence for what really happened that night will be found in archives some-where. But whatever is re-vealed in future, I will never be able to read about the Great Fire of 1872 the same way again.

Doug MacDonald shows Steve Clark, M.P.P., around the exhibit, watched by NGHS President Bill Adams



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On May 15th 2014, 114 golfers enjoyed a great day of golf at the 23rd an-nual 3M Big Brothers Big Sisters Golf For Kids Sake Tournament at Smugglers Glen Golf Course.

The day began with a barbeque and a shotgun start at 1 pm. A variety of contests with great prizes helped to contribute to the fun, including: a putting contest, two hole-in-one challenges, a longest drive challenge, and two closest to the pin challenges.

Following the tourna-ment, everyone enjoyed a delicious steak and chicken dinner. This year’s event raised $19,000, which will help to support all of the mentoring programs and activities that Big Broth-ers Big Sisters offers to the children in our community.

Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Leeds and Grenville would like to thank all of the golfers who joined us for this event and all of the sponsors who made this event possible. A special thank you goes out the 3M Canada Brockville for their continued support and sponsorship.

Joanne Edgley, Execu-tive Administrative As-sistant

Lots of fun and sun!

Jumpstart BBQ

The local Chapter will be having

another BBQ at the Kemptville Canadian Tire

Store from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm,

May 31. Sponsored by Owner Frank

Hoffman, Mayor Dave Gordon

will be the first to flip a burger

followed by many others.

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Full size Connelly Pool table with accessories. Excellent condition, $1800; buyer must move. Call 613-258-7049.

Firewood, cut, split and deliv-ered $100/cord. Call Peter at 258-5504

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Weekly and recurring events

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

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

see ngphotoclub.ca.

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

start at 1 pm. All welcome. Refreshments available.

Klub 67 Euchre closed for the summer season....will resume euchre on

Wednesday, September 10.

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

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

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

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

and enjoy great speakers and fellowship. New members welcome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brown at 613-223-3979.

Fri Kemptville Cruise Night, Hwy 43 Car Club, May 2 to Sept. 26 at Food

Basics – 6 - 9 pm. Rod Rafter, 613-258-7567 or www.Hwy43CarClub.com for

more information.

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

Children under 12 $3.00. All welcome.

Sun Kemptville Kinsman Farmers' Market, 200 Sanders St. (the B&H parking

lot) 12-4pm, rain or shine. Come and meet your local producers and checkout

our FREE Kid Zone".

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

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

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

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

May 29 Youngsters of Yore, Kemptville Public Library, 1:30 pm. Guest speaker: Cal

Pominville-Trip to Japan.

June 1 Kemptville Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast, B&H parking lot, 11:30 - 2 pm.

Visit Farmers Market venue after you have had your full.

June 1 RC Sea Cadet Corps Defiant Annual Parade, St. Michael’s H.S. Gym, 1

pm.

June 6 CSE Consulting Car Wash for the Salvation Army Food Bank, 11-3 pm,

B&H parking lot. All donations welcome.

June 7 34th annual Masons fish fry, NG Municipal Centre, 5-10 pm. All you can

eat ocean perch, fries, salads, secret sauce , bar, live entertainment. Tickets are

$15, children under 12 - $8 and may be purchased at Kemptville Home

Hardware, T’s Country Pawn Shop, Jim Perry Motor Sales, Pirate Cove

Marina, or from the members of Mount Zion Lodge.

June 7 Car wash 9 am, Bake/plant sale 10:30 am, Salad & cold meat buffet 11 -

1 pm, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prescott St., Kemptville.

June 8 Kemptville Kinsmen Farmers' Market. Celebrate local foods week. In the

Kid Zone, come and plant your own veggie seed to take home. We will also be

holding a colouring contest, winner to be announced at the end of the day!

June 13-14 54th Year! Kemptville District Hospital Auxiliary HEYDAY! Giant Garage

& Yard Sale, North Grenville Curling Club, 200 Reuben Cr., Fri. 7-10 pm,

Sat. 9-1 pm. All Raffle Draws at 1 pm Saturday. FREE ADMISSION.

June 13-15 Big Brothers Big Sisters Kemptville RibFest, North Grenville Municipal

Centre. Free fun-filled family food festival! kemptvilleribfest.weebly.com

June 15 Father’s Day Bike & Burger Ride, Maplewood Park, 10-2 pm. For

information and registration, contact the Oxford Mill’s Community Association

at 258-6485.

June 15 5th Annual Father's Day Show 'n' Shine. Riverside Park, Kemptville. 9 to

3 pm. Admission – Canned goods or non-perishable items in support of the

Kemptville Salvation Army Food Bank. Dash Plaques (first 200), Raffle Table,

50/50 Draw, Automotive Vendors, Food Vendors, Breakfast served by the

Kemptville Canadian Legion and open for lunch, our famous Burnout Contest

with both a Men and Woman’s Category. Live Music by Cadillac Rumble, a

fun filled day for the whole family.

Multi Family Garage Sale, Jean Marc Dr, Oxford Mills, Sat. May 31.

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Recently, some personal experiences pointed out the glaring deficiencies in our school system. I was working with a new employee – a high school graduate –and asked him to simply compose an email. He said he never used email and offered to do a text from his phone. I said, no that isn’t very business-like, so I set him up on an account. But then he had no idea how to compose a message. His first try to email a customer had no salutation and no signature. So the recipient would have no idea who the message was for or whom it was from. How did this guy get all the way through high school, I wondered to myself? Another new employee – a high school graduate –was asked to ad-dress and stamp a letter. He didn’t know how. He was an

Rob’s Money RantOntario Scholar (greater than 80% average).

When you dig deeper it gets uglier. Our children are given twelve years of educa-tion at the cost to Ontario taxpayers of $31 Billion per year (more than 1/3 of a Tril-lion dollars over the 12 years), and when they graduate they cannot even perform basic business tasks. They also have no training in handling money or in interpersonal commu-nication or conflict manage-ment. The Ontario education system has evolved into a glorified baby-sitting service. It prepares the students for no job, except the most menial and lowest paying ones – jobs where you need no education. Yes, it is certain that they get an education of some sort, they learn to read fiction and write book reports. They learn math-ematics and maybe biology and physics and other things they may never need again. But what they learn prepares them for nothing, except more education…if they can afford it. There is a better way.

At one time, a high school education prepared you to go out into the workforce and make a living. Huge amounts of our tax money and twelve years of hard work now pre-

pares them for nothing. To get anywhere in life, our chil-dren are forced to spend their own money (or that of their parents) or go in debt to get the education that a couple of generations ago was provided by the province.

Here are two important things I observed in my fifty odd years of living:

First is Andrew Ho Tung. I met Andrew in my first year at Carleton University in 1978. He was sitting beside me in a class. I was 18 and he was 16. I asked him how he got through high school so fast. He said he was from Jamaica and in the school he went to they get the equivalent of our grade 12 in 10 years. So it was true! You can do 12 years in 10. In fact you can probably do it in 9. You can do this by cutting out the overly specific courses. (For instance, my son took Biology in grade 11 and it had a focus on cell biology. Does he really need to know all about the function of en-doplasmic reticulum when he is going into business? Wouldn’t a more general sci-ence curriculum be suitable to the great mass of students who will never enter the sciences?)

Second, I noticed over the years that having training in

Wasted Time, Wasted Moneysomething, anything, is better than just high school. There are countless examples, but the fact remains that once you are trained, an employer will be much more likely to hire you. Who wants to hire an unskilled worker? Who wants to train the new person with no skills?

This leads to an obvious conclusion. Compress the 12 years of high school into 10 and use the last two years to teach college skills and trades. (Most High Schools already teach a few College

and University level courses.) This would have an enormous effect on the economy and would make higher education available to everyone at no extra cost to the tax payer. It would give graduating young men and women of all social brackets the necessary skills to enter the workforce and make a living right away. It would also provide the proud and motivating side benefit of let-ting secondary school teachers educate a workforce instead of babysitting teens until they reach the age of majority.

It would give governments more tax revenue from a larger mass of taxpayers entering the workforce at an earlier age and staying in the workforce longer. If a student later wants more education, they can pursue an advanced diploma or degree at the university of their choice.

Soon there will be an elec-tion in Ontario. Which party will step up and add this pro-posal to their platform? If you agree, send a letter to the edi-tor of this paper. If you don’t agree tell us why.

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by Craig Pollard, A Fitter Me

Hello again team! I hope the last month has been a healthy one for you.

Just so we are all on the same page, let’s do a quick recap: we’re eating 5-6 times a day (your meal sizes should be based on the amount of activity you’ll be undertak-ing); drinking 1-2 litres of water throughout day; and making sure you’re getting good protein with each meal. Now we are going to move into the most misunderstood of our food friends – the car-bohydrate.

Carbohydrates are used to provide energy for many functions such as powering working muscles, fuel for the central nervous system, enabling the metabolism of fat and, most importantly, preventing protein from being used as energy. Carbohydrates are your muscles’ preferred energy source and that is why it’s good to have a good fill of carbohydrates before a workout for energy and after your workout to replenish and to transport protein to

Carbohydrates: Our misunderstood friends

damaged muscles to do their repair work.

But not all carbohydrates are equal…Simple carbohydrates

Okay… some science stuff. Simple carbohydrates are made up of one or two sugars, that means they can be processed by your body rapidly. Simple carbohydrates are found in foods like table sugar, products with white flour, honey, milk, yoghurt, candy, chocolate, fruit, fruit juice, cake, jam, biscuits, soda, and packaged cereals. As you can see, some of these foods have good nutritional value and are good for you… so no, not all simple carbohydrates are bad for you.Complex carbohydrates

Complex carbohydrates are made up of three or more sugars. This more complex structure means they take your body longer to digest. This also means that, with the slower digestion, your blood sugar levels don’t rise as fast as when you consume simple carbohydrates. Complex car-bohydrates also tend to be rich in fibre and micronutrients and they are the main source of en-ergy for our bodies. Complex carbohydrates are founds in vegetables like spinach, broc-coli, sweat potatoes, whole grains, lentils and many other foods.

So, now that we under-stand that there are two kinds

of carbohydrates, we should eat more complex carbs than simple, and the simple ones we do eat will be from natural sources, not processed foods.

But it’s also important to understand what carbs do to you when you eat them.

When you eat carbs, they are turned into base sugars in your stomach and small intestine. These sugars (such as fructose or galactose) enter the liver and are processed into glucose which is transported by the bloodstream through your body to the muscle tissue, organs, and brain… wherever it is needed. Each muscle has a storage tank for the glucose to be stored and the liver will also store an overflow that can be called upon when the body needs it. This stored glucose is called glycogen.

When we are physically active or working out, we can use all the glucose that is in the bloodstream, then we start to use the energy that is in storage. Once it’s all gone, you need to replenish these reserves. This is why when working out you should pre-load your body for the demands that you are going to place on it, and then fill it up after your workout to get your body back to its normal state as soon as you can.

Carbs are your body’s “go to” place for energy and, if you don’t have enough, your body will start to look for

energy wherever it can and that usually means that it will turn to your protein intake and muscles. These are the next easiest ways to fuel the body, but this is an issue because you are now taking away fuel that was intended to repair and grow muscles.

It’s like a symphony… all the things you eat working together. Proteins for growth, fats for immune system, heat regulation and many other functions, and carbs for fiber, starch, and micronutrients.

Remember, consuming too many carbs cause the extra

intake to be stored as fat so, just like protein, consume appropriate amounts of carbs throughout the day and the amounts will depend on your energy requirements over the next 3-4 hours.

Craig is a Certified Per-sonal Trainer and is certified in Nutrition for Sport and Performance. Craig operates AFitter.Me, a small, indepen-dent gym in Kemptville.

Photo courtesy of Brian MacGillivray from the North Grenville Photography Club



This coming weekend, you can take a very leisurely drive from Kemptville to Cardinal and stop off at nine different venues to enjoy and appreciate local art, photography, pottery, jewelry, and hand crafted furniture. The Art Kruze is an initiative that includes four different stops in North Grenville: Rideau Woodland Ramble, Geraldine's Gallery, Alpaca Tracks T(h)read Lightly and the Brigadoon Restaurant. It’s a sure sign of summer when day trips like this begin to become available, although the Art Kruze, which runs on May 31 and June 1, between 11 and 4 pm, is something that you can do rain or shine. North Grenville has always been a hot house of artistic talent and creativity and these locations deserve and reward investigation. Time to hit the road for a nice Kruze.

Geraldine’s Gallery features contemporary and classical Canadian art for sale in a unique heritage setting. Custom framing is now available, offered at the gallery by Country Ways Framing.

Alpaca Tracks T(h)read Lightly has recently opened a Boutique & Studio on the second floor at the Brigadoon Restaurant. Fine alpaca products plus one of a kind hand-crafted alpaca ware are some of the featured items. They also showcase jewelry designed by Of Stone & Metal. The alpacas will be there to greet you when you arrive! You can then enjoy lunch amidst a historic ambiance at the Brigadoon Restaurant.

Rideau Woodland Ramble in Burritt’s Rapids offers rare and unusual plants in their Garden Centre and Display Gardens. Wildlife Art by Dave Dunn, many based on the gardens and woodlands at Rideau Woodland Ramble, will be showcased.

In Spencerville, and heading south to Cardinal, there is lots more to see. Aubin Farm offers organic vegetables, meat and preserves and guest artist, Baskets by Gwyn. The Dutch Hill Gallery and Paverpol has more than 20 artists in a 150 year old renovated barn. Hubbard & Co offers furnishings and accessories for your fine home and garden. Cedar Lane Studio features paintings in Oils by Tom

Lillico, & Acrylics by Mary Moore, as well as rustic furniture hand crafted by Tom. Stop by the Art & Mart featuring pottery and Steampunk Art in the old horse barn. ArtScene Spencerville and Galop Gallery in Cardinal features fine art and gifts by many local artists.

Visit all 9 stops, many in unique, must see settings, for a chance to win a $100 gift voucher.

Duck race, 2014

Photo courtesy Vanessa McCutcheon

Dandelion Festival, 2014

Photo courtesy of Jancy Watkins from the NG Photography Club

Photo courtesy of Brian MacGillivray

Local Business included on the 416 Art Kruze

Photo courtesy Vanessa McCutcheon

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