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By Ray YurkowskiEMC News - Brighton At their regular meeting Monday night, Brighton council defeated a proposal from Councillors Mary Tad-man and John Martinello demanding a report from municipal staff detailing the cost, method and location for sludge removal, storage and disposal at the wastewa-ter treatment plant.

The plant has been a topic of concern of late in light of a provincial officers order from the Ministry of Envi-ronment. The order, deliv-ered in early December, was to ensure the municipality is following an action plan designed to reduce ammo-nia levels in the effluent from the facultative lagoon. A contractor will be hired in the spring to finish the job of removing sewage sludge at the site, estimated to be a minimum of 18,931 cubic metres. More than 2,800 cubic metres were removed from the waste stabilization pond between mid-August and mid-September 2012.

At their meeting on Janu-ary 7, council approved an application to the provincial Municipal Infrastructure Investment Initiative Capi-tal Program in the hope of funding two-thirds of the cost of the project. The re-mainder will come from de-velopment charges and ex-isting finances in the waste-water reserve fund.

Im not sure why were going down this road, said Councillor Tom Rittwage. We had a plan that was outlined to us by our staff which we did endorse as a council and I believe our staff has explained to us, exactly, the situation sur-rounding the sludge that was removed in the sum-mertime.

Im also aware staff has laid before us a plan to deal with the order that was

By Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West A new five-year contract with Matrec Inc. will make a few significant changes in the way waste management is offered in this city.

Set to begin in August 1, 2013, the new service is expected to save money by diverting organics from the landfill and change the use of the Frankford landfill site to leaf and yard waste only.

The end of the current

waste management contract with Waste Management of Canada Corporation on July 31, 2013 ends more than at least two decades of excel-lent service, notes Chris Angelo, director of Public Works and Environmental Services.

In Frankford, the landfill site has a life expectancy of 23 years, but because of the small tonnages received at this site, the cost to operate

the landfill is more expen-sive than the cost for an out-side agency to collect, haul and dispose of the waste.

Council must also keep in mind that the Frankford landfill is not approved to process organics, noted Angelo. The analysis has also not included the cost of a future new garbage truck in the next five to seven years.

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Frankford site could be sus-pended or discontinued for five years or an indefinite period of time, utilized only for leaf and yard waste for the entire municipality. The cost to operate this landfill would then be shared by all wards instead of area rated. The cost to operate the site now is $181,000 a year which would be reduced to $80,000. With the new con-

Quinte West Midget Hawks captain Andy Paul fights off a Napanee Stars defender to get to a loose puck in the opening game of the OMHA playoffs last weekend at Trenton. The Hawks won the game 5 - 1. Photo: Ray Yurkowski

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by Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West The Great Wa-terway is looking for Blog contributors for their new website content promot-ing Quinte West attrac-tions and culinary experi-ences with a tourism per-spective.

If anyone is interested or knows someone who may be interested, please contact me said the citys tourism coordinator Jen-nifer Rushlow. Blog con-tent will help to increase Quinte Wests and the Bay of Quintes profile within The Great Waterway.

Funding has been pro-vided by the Ontario gov-ernment with the purpose of building on existing tourism products and in-troducing new ones. A Partnership Fund has been developed with Regional Tourism Organization #9 and The Great Waterway.

Funds are also available to update signage or put up new signage along The Great Waterway, start-ing on April 1, 2013, with projects to be completed by March 31, 2014. The dead-line for submitting entries is February 15, 2013.

The Bay of Quinte Tourist Council met in December with mayors and economic develop-ment managers to launch the new bayofquinte.ca brand which brings to-gether the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council, Quinte Economic Development Commission and a new group, Bay of Quinte Liv-ing, as partners. The new Bay of Quinte Quint-essential website was launched on January 22. It features an interactive map with culinary and fishing sites as well as in-formation about other at-tractions, accommodation and tourism services.

All businesses will have to claim their Google places in order to take advantage of this opportunity, Rushlow noted. With the new web-site, the Bay of Quinte Tourist Council market-ing coordinator is looking for editorial blog contri-butions regarding boating and sailing on the Bay of Quinte.

The Bay of Quinte Tourist Council plans on making a deputation to the Quinte West council on February 4 to present highlights from 2012 and plans for 2013 as well as showcasing its new part-nership with the Bay of Quinte Living Council.

Coming events in the community include Frost-fest on Saturday, February 2 at Batawa Community Centre. This event is a one-day fun, family event filled with childrens games, entertainment and crafts, Rushlow said. The event is free to at-tend.

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Most individuals divide their estate amongst their immediate family, but what people may not consider are the possible tax consequences to this decision.

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New waste management contracttract, garbage collection in Frankford would be collected only on Thursdays on both sides of the river instead of divided up over two days.

The city is also consider-ing eliminating all garbage area rating costs and consol-idating them into one fee for the whole city. There would be a small one time increase in Trenton, Sidney and Mur-ray and a decrease in Frank-ford for this change.

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shifting that took place in the past with policing costs only on a smaller scale, Angelo noted.

Matric collects organics and waste in one vehicle. The new organics program is expected to yield a 30 per cent diversion of waste from landfill.

A large and bulky gar-bage pickup service will be added to the deal, similar to the one in Belleville. A tag would be purchased for each

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Sludge report request defeatedplaced upon us by the Min-istry of Environment. Im also aware, through our budget discussions, that our water and wastewater treat-ment facilities are user pay and we have some generous surpluses in both accounts.

I get questions from an awful lot of people about whats going on here, said Tadman. I would like to have the facts in front of me and I dont think Im asking a lot in asking for a report.

The report has been tabled at a previous council

meeting as has the applica-tion to the Ministry, said Rittwage. Its there already for us to access. We dont have to force a motion on a staff person to provide some-thing shes already provided. In my opinion, thats silly.

If the report answers these questions, Im quite happy to receive that report, said Tadman.

Through the work you have done and subsequently will be doing, is or will this information be available? Mayor Mark Walas asked

municipal environmental services manager Catherine Chisholm.

If my understanding of the motion is correct, in re-gard to the biosolids we plan to remove this year, the an-swers will come out as part of the request for proposal process and the response to the Ministry of Environ-ment order, she replied.

In a recorded vote, only Martinello voted to approve the request. Councillor Mike Vandertoorn was absent from the meeting.


By Kate EversonQuinte West Final ap-proval has been given by the Planning Advisory Committee for the draft plan for Stone Crest Estates on Old Highway 2.

The proposed subdivi-sion has a history of con-flict with residents who did not want a road access near their property on Burns Avenue. Comments were quickly stopped this time by an announcement from the mayor after conferring with planning department heads.

The proposal to run the road off in a different di-rection on the north side is

acceptable to the residents and the developer, Mayor John Williams said. The project will move ahead. It makes sense on both sides.

Charlie Murphy, Direc-tor of Planning, said the development will move for-ward now.

Resident Simon Berthi-aume who had prepared a delegation for the meeting replied, We can work it out.

On October 18 public representation was made by Simon Berthiaume and Allan Johansen opposed to the internal road alignment of the subdivision to access the northern portion of the

development which would impose severe restrictions on the property owners at 163, 172 and 183 Burns Av-enue. Both parties had also stated that previous explo-ration of the potential to re-align the road access to the west warranted further re-view with the school board and Lower Trent Conser-vation. A site meeting was held on December 13 at-tended by the school board, developer Andy Geertsma, LTC staff and planning committee members and staff. Neither the school board nor the conservation authority supported the en-croachments.

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Dear Editor,I generally agree with

your column but I disagree with your Its not for the Kids.

You, like many other people seem to have a pre-conceived notion and are just as misinformed as oth-ers outside the teaching profession. The ones in the best position to fi ght for the children are not the parents as they too have an ulterior motive for wanting teachers

back to work. Are you willing to work

for no pay? As a columnist, if the newspaper asked you to produce four columns of type but decide to only pay you for two columns what would you do? Would you voluntarily submit four columns or to prove your point would you just submit two columns because that is what you are being paid to do?

Instead of believing the

propaganda, you need to get the facts from both sides of this dispute. You appear to have forgotten this was not about negotiating a future contract. This situation was created by the Ontario Gov-ernment removing benefi ts already earned by the teach-ers. As an example, remov-ing sick day credits accumu-lated over their tenure. Does anyone care that a teacher who comes to work faith-fully every school day for

ten years is diagnosed with cancer and needs time off for treatment and recovery? Teachers dont get paid for extra-curricular activities. It is strictly a volunteer posi-tion so like a volunteer who quits volunteering for mi-nor sports, teachers are enti-tled to quit volunteering for extra-curricular activities.

I dont see any parents volunteering to take over the extra-curricular activi-ties. No matter what the

purpose, every organization is having diffi culty getting volunteers so the public needs to appreciate the peo-ple who do volunteer more.

I didnt see anything about the Ontario govern-ment taking back the $5 million dollars it doled out to compensate defeated and retiring politicians in the last election? How many tax dollars were used to bring the legislature back two weeks early to hammer

out Bill 115? Now that it has served its purpose they want to repeal it? If this government truly wished to address its defi cit issues, it would target everyone not just the teachers. It is the taxpayers dollars that are being used in the propa-ganda being spouted by the Ontario government and it appears to be working per-fectly on John Q Public.

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By Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West A presentation by President of Quinte Health Care Mary Clare Egberts on cutbacks in hospital fund-ing did not go over well with council Monday night. The proposal is to cut fi ve beds at Trenton Memorial Hospital, eliminate outpa-tient physiotherapy, move out the laboratory, divert emergency room patients to Belleville and fi nd another place to put long-term care

and palliative care patients.Quinte Health Cares

expenses were higher than revenues, Egberts ex-plained. We are planning for a signifi cant funding re-duction for the 2013/14 fi s-cal year which could be as high as $10 million or $15 million in total. She noted that Belleville and Picton are also losing beds and services, as part of Quinte Health Care (QHC). She said the hospital hopes to divert more patients to

Hospital cutbacks not popular with councillorscare at home in partnership with Community Care Ac-cess Centre. She noted the whole province is undergo-ing a signifi cant transfor-mation, not just QHC.

Ron Hamilton asked how people are expected to look after people in their homes. He noted that Hastings Manor has 268 people on the waiting list to get in. He also asked why emergency patients should be taken directly to Belleville when there are so many heart pa-tients that would never live to get there. He added, Are you ready for them? The emergency room is usu-ally full. He said the city has invested money into Trenton hospital and dont want to see it go down the road.

Paul Kyte said there are problems with the provin-cial system and the LHIN (Local Health Integration Network) policies. They have an agenda, to save money for their budget, he said, adding he does not support any reduction of services in Trenton hospital. Fred Kuypers asked if doc-tors are prepared to make house calls. Egberts said yes they would. Kuypers said they are going backwards. Bob Wannamaker had problems with emergency vehicles bypassing Tren-ton for Belleville hospitals. He also complained about the $11 parking fees with machines that people cant even fi gure out.

Sally Freeman said an increase in four per cent for Community Care Ac-cess Centre services would not do anything. She said people are begging for care now and cant get it. They are so under-staffed and under-trained, she added. Do you want PSWs look-ing after your loved one? Its nonsense.

She asked how they can kick fi ve people out of the hospital and tell them to go home. They are there because there is nowhere

else to go, she said. Jim Alyea said every three or four years this same topic raises its ugly head. All of a sudden they have to cut services. It stirs up the community. Were all ag-ing, we have baby boomers until they die off, then we start again, he said.

Don Kuntze said it doesnt make sense that this is hit-ting hospitals across On-tario. Leslie Roseblade said she hates to see services de-crease. Doug Whitney asked why they would take the lab out of Trenton and do it in Belleville. Egberts said it would save money because of the volume. Keith Reid said the city gave money to the hospital a year ago and now they are cutting back. Im not impressed, he said. Terry Cassidy made a

plug for prevention, keep-ing people out of hospi-tals by maintaining good health. Maybe the loss of a facility is not the end of the world, he said. Work-ing with more providers is a bigger part of the answer.

Mayor John Williams said it is unfair for the mu-nicipality to be put in this position. He said he called MPP Rob Milligan who contacted executive direc-tor Paul Huras of the LHIN to get some answers. He was told by Huras they dont have any information on other hospitals having cutbacks. Williams said he spoke to other areas like Brockville which is not hav-ing to go through this, the same with central Ontario.

Why here? he asked. Why QHC?

He said it is not fair to Egberts or the board or the community for the LHIN to come down that heavy. He said people who work in the labs are afraid of losing their jobs.

Were not going down that road again, he said. Weve been there.

People have had enough. Tell the LHIN to have a nice day. This community has had enough. Its not fair. Egberts said there is a change in the healthcare system and it has to be more sustainable for the future. Its the right thing to do, she said. People have to stop thinking of the hospital as a place to go for health care. We need to keep well so we dont get that acutely ill. The status quo is not possible.

Mary Clare Egberts, president of Quinte Health Care, addresses council about cutbacks in hospitals. Photo: Kate Everson

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By Terry BushEMC Editorial - Now thats more like it. Enough of the balmy Vancouver weather, theres nothing like a -22 chill to warm a Canadians heart. If it feels like summer in the winter, whats to look forward to?

For some reason, every time I hear about a cold snap coming, I dont think about the dwindling woodpile, I al-ways start reminiscing about cold days past, and usually fondly because, despite my Irish background, Im built for the north. I sweat when I say the word summer out loud.

I can remember cutting wood at my buddys place about fi ve years ago when it was around -25 out. He wanted to call the day off because it was so cold. I reasoned, as I always do, that its a lot easier to bundle up in the winter than cut wood in the heat of summer so I politely declined.

When I arrived, he was just in the process of getting dressed. There he was in his $60 Mountain Equipment Coop Merino wool underwear...thats only the bottoms, its another $60 for the top. He began layering high tech gear upon high tech gear until he fi nally topped it all of with some heavy duty coveralls. I had a coat, sweater and a pair of cutters pants on with steel-toed rubber boots. Away we went, after spending our fi rst hour trying to get his tractor started.

He decided to fi re up his backhoe as well to help pull elms out of the fence rows but it was plugged in at least. We travelled through some three-foot drifts to our fi rst cutting site and started to drop trees. He and I dropped them and blocked them up and another buddy piled the blocks on the wagon. They were freezing and I was work-ing with my coat half open by that point. It was the two of them who had the last laugh though and fi ve years later, I still hear about it.

When I arrived back at the house for lunch and at-tempted to take off my loggers helmet, it wouldnt come off. I pulled and pulled thinking one of the ear protectors must have been hooked on something but upon closer in-spection discovered that the darn helmet had frozen to my head. I was perspiring so much out there in the -30 degree heat that my sweaty hair had solidly attached itself to the inside of my plastic helmet and the only way it was coming off was to thaw out my frozen coiffure. Damn those crazy curls. As there were no women in residence at the time, I had no problem retorting to their barbs with somewhat colourful language.

Another time in my younger stupider years, my girlfriend and I decided to visit a friend in Wallbridge (at least that was our offi cial story when we struck out to fi nd some privacy.) I remember the evening quite clearly. I was wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt that Im sure showed off my biceps, otherwise why wouldnt I have dressed for the -28 degree night that awaited us? That was topped off with a loose, unlined leather hockey jacket. The perfect combo I thought.

We sat in the middle of nowhere on one of those glo-rious concession roads devoid of traffi c or houses down Wallbridge way. It was so cold, we had to keep the car run-ning, but being a green kind of guy, I eventually cranked the heat way up and then turned the car off. We chatted for another 20 minutes and decided to go. Unfortunately, the car had other ideas.

Nothing, not even the sound of a dead battery, when I tried the ignition. The alternator wasnt alternating. So, miles from anywhere, we started walking towards Wall-bridge. The farther we walked, the slower we walked. By the time we saw the lights of the hamlet off in the distance, I could barely put one foot in front of the other. So, thats what hypothermia feels like.

Instead of going to my buddys house, we, meaning my more practically-dressed girlfriend, decided to stop at the fi rst house we came to. By that point, I couldnt even speak I was so cold so she called my dad to come and pick us up. Wells Ford towed the car to the shop in the morning and replaced the alternator. Stupid, yes. Worth almost collaps-ing in a snow bank? A 19-year-old guy would probably say yes.

But its not all about me. The one other thing that comes to mind when thinking about bitterly, cold days is the cat we adopted by default. A neighbour, whom we rarely saw, had a young cat. The neighbour was never home it seemed, so his cat always ended up at our place looking for a friend-ly face. We did everything youre not supposed to do with a stray cat like feed it, so it kept coming back. We needed another feline like a hole in the head but when the tem-perature dropped to -30 in December, we built it a home in the woodshed. It wasnt even a year old so what would a little kindness hurt? Before long, this luxury apartment was all decked out with a heating pad and all the fi xings because the little bugger refused to come in the house be-cause of the others. When it all got too silly, we moved him in, hissing and screaming. Everyone eventually got along and Louis lived out his life with us.

Good things sometimes come from freezing cold tem-peratures.

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ting from point A to point B here in Ontario, were driving in the dark ages. Business has become faster. Globally the world has become faster, but the Ontario government has not kept up the highway transportation network to reflect our changing world. Our slow, outdated provincial highway speed limits are just another example of our provincial governments inability to allow us to compete globally. If anything, the government has made our transportation system even slower over the past decades by lowering the provincial highway speed limit from 112 km/h to 100 km/h. Gridlock con-tinues to haunt us more

each and every day.Ontario has the slow-

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Highway speeds dont re ect a changing worldlimits to allow people to get from point A to point B. The speed limits re-ferred to in this article are for cars, light trucks and motorcycles only.

I ask the Minister for the Ministry of Trans-portation of Ontario...do we want 130 to 140 km/h provincial highway speed limits the same as most industrialized nations for cars, light trucks and mo-torcycles...or do we want

120 km/h provincial high-way speed limits the same as many developing coun-tries such as Pakistan?

A strong, high speed, efficient and safe provin-cial highway transpor-tation system builds a strong industrial corner-stone that all Ontarians can be proud of and count on.

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EMC Editorial - If North Koreas new leader, Kim Jong-Un, wanted to end the brutal and destructive tyranny that his father and grand-father imposed on the country, he would need support from abroad. The military and Com-munist Party elites

who control and benefi t from that sys-tem would have to be brought round or bought off, and that would require lots of foreign aid and a global amnesty for their crimes. So how would he get the foreign-ers to help?

Well, hed have to show them that he was willing to reform but he couldnt be too obvious about it at fi rst, or those elites would just get rid of him. Hed drop a hint here, make a gesture there, and hope that the foreigners would trust him and help him to change the country. Rather like the Burmese generals did when they began to dismantle their own half-century-old dic-tatorship two years ago.

Unfortunately, Kim Jong-un would drop the same hints and make the same gestures if his only wish was to sucker the outside world into propping up the bankrupt system in North Korea with more big shipments of free food and fuel. Theres no way to read his mind, so how should the foreigners respond?

This is not a theoretical question, for he is sending out those signals. Never mind the cosmetic stuff like being seen in public with a new wife who dresses in fashionable Western clothes. In his tele-vised New Years message to the Korean people, he spoke of the need to remove confrontation between the North and the South, and called for dramatic improve-ments in the national economy.

Its the fi rst time the regime has ever celebrated the Western New Year (includ-ing fi reworks in Pyongyang). Its nineteen years since the countrys leader last spoke to the people directly. He may be trying to tell them and the rest of the world that he is starting down the road of reform, or he may be bluffi ng. What to do?

Unfortunately, since hes not mak-ing any political or economic reforms at home at the moment, thats what he MIGHT do if he had foreign help, we cant conclude anything about his inten-tions from his domestic policies. And his foreign policy is hardly encouraging ei-ther.

North Korea doesnt have much by way of a foreign policy. The only consis-tent thread is its obsession with military power (it has one of the worlds biggest armies, though it has about the popula-tion of Australia), and latterly with bal-listic missiles and nuclear weapons.

Both of Pyongyangs nuclear weapons tests, in 2006 and 2012, were conducted when Kim Jong-il was still alive and in power, but Kim Jong-un has not repudi-ated them. Moreover, he has continued to test ballistic missiles, including the launch last month of a rocket that his regime says could hit the United States. (It was ostensibly used to launch a satel-lite, which it did, but the technology for satellite launchers and ICBMs is almost identical.)

On the other hand, here is a man whose only claim to power is heredity, in a country that does not have a formally recognised monarchy. To consolidate his power, he must persuade the military and party elites that he is a reliable successor who will perpetuate the system that keeps them fat and happy, so his current aggres-sive posture in foreign policy is really no guide to his real intentions either.

In fact, at this point there is really no way of telling what he means to do. The rest of the world, and in particular the United States and North Koreas neigh-bours, South Korea, China and Japan, are going to have to make their decisions blind. What can they do that would help Kim Jong-un to bring the country out of its cave and start loosening the domestic tyranny, without actually making mat-ters worse if he is not a secret reformer?

The safest course would be to encour-age dialogue between North and South Korea (which has just elected a new pres-ident, Park Geun-hye, who has declared her presidency ready to initiate uncondi-tional talks with the North). It would also be sensible to ease back on the embargoes and other restrictions on North Korean imports for a while, since they are obvi-ously achieving nothing in terms of stop-ping its weapons projects anyway.

And what if Kim-Jong-un dares not or simply does not want to respond to these gestures with more promising moves himself? Then you just give up and go back to the policy of containment that has had so little success over the years. North Korea is really a very small threat (except for its own people, of course), and its safe to take a little risk in the hope that the new ruler will respond.

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By Kate EversonQuinte West An amaz-ing idea for helping school-age children learn to read better is about to start at Quinte West library. A St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog named Grace will sit quietly with a child who has difficulty reading to help them relax.

Even if they only get through ten words, it will help, said childrens li-brarian Rosemary Kirby. It will help take away their anxiety.

Grace, a Bernese Moun-tain Dog, nine years old, is child-tested to make sure she gets along well with children. She is al-ready used as a Therapy Dog with Crown Ridge residents. They love her, said owner Gail Conrick from Trenton. The pro-gram, to start Monday, January 28 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. is for any-one who wants to sign up their child, aged six to 12, for about ten minutes at a time with the dog. It is free but people need to register on a first-come first-served basis.

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Grace is eager to listen to Eamon Crook, six, with encouragement from her owner Gail Conrick and the mayor. Photo: Kate Everson

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Plan presentedBy Kate EversonQuinte West Economic Development staff has been identifying key projects to be completed this year and into 2014. Linda Lisle presented a work plan to the Economic Development and Revitaliza-tion Committee. This work plan identifies specific proj-ects, she said. Chair Paul Whitley suggested the com-mittee read the plan carefully and look beyond 2013. What is our next set of priorities? he asked. What next?

The Work Plan included reaching out to the industrial sector and new businesses, supporting local food produc-ers and purchasers, creating a communications campaign to promote the city, and develop-ing a five year tourism strat-egy. It also talked about down-town revitalization, working with the Quinte Economic Development Commission, attending trade shows and continuing events at the Front Street Farmers Market.

We want to attract new industry as well as supporting existing business and indus-try to grow more competitive and flexible, Lisle noted.

Stewart Hood commented, There is a lot of new stuff, but we have forgotten the town that was there before. He urged the city to step back, take a time out and get things cleaned up, noting there are a lot of empty storefronts in the downtown core.

Paul Whitley admitted there are a lot of problem areas that are privately held, such as the old town hall which is currently under Power of Sale. Others are un-der the same property owner.

Its a house of cards, he said. Whitley said some busi-nesses are under another set of property owners who are very elderly. These stores are up for sale and eventually something will happen.

Theres not a lot we can do, Whitley said. Some are out of town, some dont re-ally care. Its hard to have a conversation. There are some eyesores down there. Hood said some have been empty for over eight years. He urged the city to work with its part-ners, or the province, to get something done. Whitley said the city can do something only if it has to do with health and safety or if its a fire haz-ard. Hood suggested they put the challenge out about how to do something.

Doug Whitney noted that when the Jeffreys Valu-Mart closed they couldnt do anything to clean up the site

without the owners permis-sion. Linda Lisle said they are in constant communication with the realtors but prices wont budge. There is a lot of work to be done, she agreed. We have encouraged them to work with the CIP program, but have had no results.

Whitley said they have to increase the pressure for the owners to do some mainte-nance. Suzanne Andrews, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, added, It takes the right investor. Whitley said they also need the right price. They want too much money, he said. It takes a lot to bring them up to stan-dard. Dave Shoniker said the committee has been doing its best, being pro-active in the downtown. Whitley noted the city looked at the old town hall, but it didnt make sense to invest money in it..

Jamie Fellows said Bel-leville has put up murals on old buildings. Lynn Doyle said they need to encourage owners to do anything to improve the aesthetics of the buildings to create a better downtown. Whitley said they might be able to work with the Tripps but not with the other person. He has $1 mil-lion of real estate but wont answer the phone, he said. Its a difficult case.

Chris Rose said there are similar cases in Frankford. There are four or five in downtown Frankford, he said. These buildings are un-der utilized. Some have been vacant for a long time. The owners make no effort to oc-cupy the storefront. Its been like that for years.

Whitley said they can have a conversation with local people, but if the owners live out of town they cant. Fred Kuypers commented from the audience that there are three stores downtown that cant even break even. They need to rebuild or rent them out. Its a tough market, he said. Fifty per cent of the downtown businesses work on a shoestring.

Stephen Andrews said from a business perspective things are getting done and the marina will also help. Ten years from now, the city will grow and investors will come, he said. People will look and say Wow! Dave Shoniker said they can also look back ten years and see what has been done and how the city has changed. Lynn Doyle agreed, We are mov-ing forward, but we need to identify quick fixes to keep moving forward.

a maximum of six children for one session, says Kir-by. If we need more, we will ask for another dog.

Coordinator Joyce Fowler with the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog program said this idea has gone well in other librar-ies. Grace was a perfect choice to start here, having already had 40 adult visits and gets along well with children. She also has her own grandchildren, she

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free program designed to help and encourage chil-dren to read, Kirby says. Dogs can be ideal read-ing buddies for struggling readers. They listen atten-tively, allow children to read at their own pace, and never criticize or laugh.

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An offi cial opening of the pedestrian plaza will take place in the spring, said Linda Lisle, manager of economic development. Were very excited to get that going in the nice weather.

There had been some problems with the con-crete for the kiosk being installed incorrectly, but has been moved to a better place away from the fl ow-ers.

Stewart Hood presented a stainless steel RiverFront Square prototype sign, which has been revised to a larger 30 x 30 size. At-tractive lighting and fur-nishings are all part of the plan of the redevelopment. Landscaping will be de-ferred until spring and an access gate will allow de-livery trucks to enter the area which has bollards in place to keep vehicles out.

A fee for public use of the stage has been set at $53 based on the same fee the city uses for Fraser Park. The downtown revi-talization committee also discussed a second project of extending the River-Front Square walkway un-der the bridge to connect to the marina, including fl oating docks and a fl oat-ing walkway. The status of

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By Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West Two rooftop solar panel proj-ects have been approved for 372 Hamilton Road and 293 Dundas Street East, Trenton Ward.

The FIT program includes revised rules for applications and a revised fee schedule, advised Charlie Murphy, di-rector of planning at the Plan-ning Advisory Committee.

FIT stands for Feed-In Tar-iff which is set by the Ontario Power Authority for renew-able energy projects. The FIT program applies to projects over 10 kilowatts (KW) and the microFIT program is for projects less than 10 KW for homeowners and small busi-nesses.

Renewable energy is part of the Green Energy Act which came into effect in 2009 and applies to wind, waterpower, biomass, biogas, landfill gas, solar photovoltaic and geo-thermal. In 2011 the Ontario Ministry of Energy did a review of the FIT program, including feedback from municipalities about lack of municipal authority over re-newable energy projects. The revised FIT program was ap-proved in August, 2012.

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been reduced to reflect de-creased equipment costs. FIT applications will now be ac-cepted during specific appli-cation windows, rather than on an ongoing basis. Applica-tions will be prioritized with points awarded based on proj-ect type, municipal support, Aboriginal support, project readiness and electricity sys-tem benefit.

Applications with greater than 50 per cent equity par-ticipation from Aboriginal or community participants will be prioritized above all other applications.

Solar rooftop projects must reach commercial operation within 18 months of receiv-ing a contract, compared with three years previously. All ap-plicants must submit applica-tion security.

Ground-mounted solar projects may not be located on residential property or abutting residential property, unless it is on agricultural land. Solar projects will not be allowed on specific types of organic soil, based on soil studies.

FIT prices will be reviewed annually, with prices pub-lished in November to take effect in January.

By Ray YurkowskiBrighton The local Down-town Business Improvement Association (DBIA) hopes, next month, to fill the place. The event: the DBIA annual general meeting, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on February 12, at Vitos Restaurant on Prince Edward Street.

Current DBIA president Helen Dyson is hoping downtown business owners and their staff will attend the meeting to have their say.

This is your opportunity to have your voices heard on the future of Brightons downtown, she said, in an interview last week. After four years at the helm of the local business organization, and with the closing of the Brighton Deli at the end of December, shell be stepping down but her commitment wont end there.

Im not going to abandon the ship, she said. I dont have a voice as a downtown business owner but, as past president, I will be involved.

I still want to give back to Brighton. In any com-munity Ive lived in, Ive al-ways been active because its something I believe in.

Invitations have gone out to downtown business owners and anyone who confirms their attendance by February 1 will receive a complimentary glass of wine at the annual meeting event.

The DBIA needs input from every business owner as well as their staff says Dyson.

Thats why were trying to get people to come out and voice their concerns, she said. Theres no sense just grouching, let us know so we can do something

Brighton business people encouraged to have their sayabout it.

Dyson points to a down-town beautification project completed last year, with a tiny bit of money and lots of help.

If youre in the down-town area, youre a mem-ber anyway, so why not try to get things improved and offer your input? she said. Part of our mandate is to provide visitors to town with an experience and make Brighton a destination.

We have enough in town for people to stay all day. We have nice cafes and restau-rants, wonderful boutiques and were also the gateway to Prince Edward County.

Downtown entrepreneur, Anna Thomson, owner of The Blue House on Main Street, sums up the impor-tance of belonging to the as-sociation.

All downtown businesses should have a vested inter-est in the DBIA, she said. The DBIA brings down-town business merchants together so we can come up with ideas on how to make downtown Brighton better.

The more ideas we have, the better it is going for-ward. We all love Brighton and want to make it a better place. Its in everybodys best interest to let your voice be heard.

At their last meeting, held on January 9, DBIA execu-tive decided on a few chang-es to their keynote summer event, this year under the banner Summer Sizzler. There will more focus on

sidewalk sales and less on entertainment.

That way, everyone can participate, along Prince Ed-ward Street, down Elizabeth Street, or wherever, said Dyson.

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By Richard TurtleEMC News - Stirling - Canvassers for the Heart and Stroke Foundation are preparing for a month-long door-to-door campaign through the month of Feb-ruary and information ses-sions have been held for the volunteers throughout the region.

Most of the sessions were held in the past week, including one at the Royal Canadian Legion in Stirling Monday night, attended by about a dozen canvassers while several others famil-iar with the routine picked up their kits for the cam-paign.

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EMC News - Hastings/Prince Edward Counties - Canadians know how much fun ice skating can be. Skat-ing can also play an impor-tant role in motivating chil-dren to be physically active during the winter months. But many people are un-aware that it poses risks.

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Bayside Secondary School students Kana Hirose (left) and Flora Li volunteered to help Heart and Stroke Foundation Canvassers prepare for the February door-to-door fund raising campaign.

tion Area Manager Maureen Corrigan says its a busy time of the year for orga-nizers and the nearly 1,200 volunteers who will be ask-ing for donations in Trenton, Brighton, Belleville, Tweed, Marmora, Madoc, Stirling, Bancroft and Picton. Volun-teers are divided into teams, with a captain appointed for each, so areas and homes arent duplicated. And with more than 1,000 people to coordinate, there is a bit of travel for the orientation team too.

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The fire department has developed a protocol for these projects requiring applicants to complete a Fire Safety Plan. The committee support-ed the applications submitted by Fritz Construction for 372 Hamilton Road and by Fresh from the Sun Energy for 293

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By Ray YurkowskiEMC News - Brighton As second draft budget de-liberations ended last week, municipal council, sitting as committee of the whole, unanimously agreed to send this years $5.9 mil-lion budget to council for approval. Taxpayers have another say though, at a public meeting scheduled

for 7 p.m. on February 6. Then, final approval is slat-ed for February 19.

How does it stand now, after an all-day meeting to mull over the second draft? The municipal tax rate will increase 4.58 per cent. But the good news is the blend-ed rate, which includes municipal, county and edu-cation, coming in at 2.18

per cent. That means an increase of $63.59 for the average Brighton property assessment of $251,000.

And where does that av-erage $2,986 tax bill go? More than 70 per cent to Northumberland County ($1,176), education ($532), police ($399), external agencies ($22) and the Lower Trent Conservation

Council likes the budget but taxpayers dontAuthority ($17). The rest pays for local roads and winter control, administra-tion, parks and recreation, fire and protective services, libraries, planning, eco-nomic and community de-velopment, council, health services and the cemetery.

For municipal council, it was a struggle right from the start, thanks to the waning support from other levels of government. Re-ductions in the payment in lieu of taxes for federal and provincial properties and the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) found the municipal-ity scrambling to find more than $145,000.

Meeting chairperson, Deputy-Mayor Craig Kerr, wondered if there might be a way out of PRMPA (Pine Ridge Municipal Planning Agency) and the attached price tag of more than $22,500. The public agency provides ongoing planning services to some munici-

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The county is work-ing toward an official plan, ultimately taking over the upper tier planning, which doesnt exist, he said.

We do not have the mandate to voluntarily drop out, explained mu-nicipal planner Ken Hur-ford. It requires provincial approval.

But things got creative when the topic turned to sidewalks.

The dollars allocated to sidewalks seems to be either stagnant or decreasing, said Mayor Mark Walas. I wonder what appetite there is from members of council to further address both ac-cessibility and sidewalks.

Councillor Mary Tad-man pointed out how, last year, only about $11,000 was spent on sidewalks.

I think there was a com-mitment from council to spend $40,000, she said. And this year, it looks like only $25,000. Are we fall-ing that far behind?

Weve got a lot of catch-ing up to do, added Mar-tinello. There have been a lot of years in the past where we came nowhere near the allocated budget.

Beyond accessibility, good sidewalks make Brighton a better place to live for ev-erybody.

A plan to refurbish Hil-ton Hall was scrapped and the money earmarked for the project was transferred to the sidewalk budget. As well, the health services recruitment budget was stripped of $70,000 with fu-ture funding coming from the sale of surplus munici-pal land and Winterfest was all but given the axe, a sav-ing of $3,500.

The juggling act freed up enough for $75,000 worth of sidewalk work in 2013, eliminating the 10 per cent proposed cut to grants for committees and agencies as well as $13,000 for mem-bership in the Bay of Quinte Region, a branding effort to boost tourism, population and business growth in the area.

For me, the highlight of the budget process is that we managed to get unani-mous approval on a draft budget that provides a mod-est tax increase while pro-tecting all of the essential infrastructure and program spending that staff brought to our attention, said Kerr, after the meeting.

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By Bill FreemanEMC Entertainment - Pe-terborough Its been a busy five months for Have-lock Country Showdown champ Cory Marquardt.

The former junior hock-ey player turned rising country star has rocked out across northern Ontario and in Nashville where hes working with producer Rob Crosby (Garth Brooks, Mar-tina McBride, Lady Antebel-lum) and some ace musi-cians while soaking up their knowledge in honky tonk central.

Marquardt and his pow-erful band headlined The Venue in Peterborough Saturday to help kick off

the first Jambo Jukebox, a monthly video dance part-nership between the Have-lock Country Jamboree and the big George Street club which recently hosted rare club shows by Three Days Grace, one of North Ameri-cas biggest selling bands.

Its nice to get out and see some new faces and new venues, Marquardt told the Northwest EMC. He and his band are a hot ticket in the north and are looking to ex-pand their musical brand to the south.

It is nice to reach out to more people, he said.

It has been a whirlwind of success since the Show-down title in August and an

appearance on the Havelock Country Jamboree stage the morning after opening for Marty Stuart at the Kipawa Countryfest.

The trips to Nashville to work on a studio demo have yielded new musical friend-ships and helped Marquardt hone his own singing and songwriting talents.

Its been such a great thing to write with such ex-perienced people, he says. Those guys have been writing for years and have number one hits. It makes you a better songwriter for sure working with these guys. Its a true honour to be with them. Its quite the experience to be in the room

By Ray YurkowskiEMC Entertainment - Brighton The Brighton Arts Council (BAC) is tak-ing their show on the road.

The exhibit, entitled BAC is Beautiful, is the first show at the John M. Parrott Art Gallery in Bellev

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