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Heartbreaking struggle to care for aging spouses, parentsBY LISA QUEEN
As her 90-year-old husband, Lasz-lo, lies dying in a nearby bedroom, Emma Perlaky’s heart breaks.
“The emotion of him being sick and the realization there is no way out… When we had to realize there was no recovery from here on, that was really hard, really hard,” she said as tears welled up in her eyes.
“We used to think, ‘What will we do in the summer?’ Now, there is no tomorrow any more.”
Married for 45 years, 73-year-old Perlaky meets virtually all of Laszlo’s needs in their Thornhill home, from providing personal hygiene and cook-ing meals to monitoring his vital signs and getting him to medical appoint-ments.
She has been offered help with things such as bathing assistance for Laszlo many times by the Cen-tral Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), which connects residents in most of York Region and south Sim-coe County with the care they need at home and in the community.
But Perlaky wants to care for her husband herself, with occasional help from their grown sons, although she admits she may require more pro-fessional assistance as Laszlo rapidly deteriorates.
She looks surprised when asked why she does it.
“You’re doing it for love. I don’t know any other reason,” she said.
Perlaky was nominated for a Heroes in the Home award by CCAC rapid response nurse Katrina Corpus-Roque.
“I meet caregivers daily in my line of work and I have never met such an outstanding caregiver. Mrs. Perlaky has dedicated her life to her husband, going to great lengths to provide her husband the best care possible and keep him healthy,” she said in her nomination earlier this year.
“I believe that it is the likes of Mrs. Perlaky that would prevent patients
with manageable chronic condi-tions like heart failure from going back to hospital. And for this, I think the community and I are thankful for her excellent care.”
Laszlo was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, but responded well to four doses of radiation.
In January, he suffered a heart attack and was in hospital for five days. Just days after he returned home, he was re-admitted to hos-pital with pneumonia.
After being discharged a second time, a nurse came to the home to check his lungs.
Once Laszlo’s lungs were clear, Perlaky took over the nursing duties. She has a blood pressure monitor and a unit to check her husband’s blood oxygen level at home and she keeps meticulous records of his medical condition.
By April, Laszlo had congestive heart failure and a rapid response nurse and a dietitian visited. A physiotherapist has also been treat-ing him.
But there is not much more that can be done for Laszlo any more.
Although Perlaky insists she is physically strong, she lost her left breast to cancer five years ago. She also suffers from heart problems and diabetes.
It’s her “nerves” that bother her most as she deals with the emo-tional toll of watching her husband die.
She rarely leaves the house any more. But listening to music, doing artwork and gardening help.
Perlaky said she doesn’t resent dedicating all her time to her hus-band’s care.
“Why would I? He doesn’t want more than what he really needs. Taking care of him, I don’t think about it, I just do it. That’s my job right now. Much harder to take care of myself. Obviously, I am some-what second, but I know I have to take care of myself, so I can take care of him,” she said.
“I do it happily. All of my sadness basically is coming from when I’m not with him.”
While many would commend Perlaky for the loving care she gives her husband, another York family has struggled tremendously finding care for a much-loved elderly father, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and also suffers from the debilitat-ing effects of gout.
“This side of the story needs to be told, too,” said Michelle, who did not want her full name published.
When her father was admitted
to hospital in February with gout, a complex form of arthritis, the family learned that Michelle’s father had legally granted power of attorney to Michelle rather than to her mother, with whom he has had a difficult marriage for almost 60 years.
While Michelle’s brothers accept-ed the situation when they realized she wasn’t looking to take advantage of their father, her mother and sister were very upset.
Michelle has also argued with her mother and sister because she insists her ailing and demanding father, who has taken to physically lashing out at caregivers, needs to be admitted to a long-term care facility, while they want him at home.
However, they may be changing their minds after attempts at week-end visits home have not gone well.
Since February, Michelle has struggled to cope with overseeing her father’s finances and health care amid long-standing troubling family dynamics.
“The personal issues make the situation so much harder,” she said.
“Alzheimer’s and dementia is a horrible disease for everybody. There are good days and bad days. There are good days (when her father is more lucid) and you have somebody in hospital and all they say is they want to go home and they’re crying and you know in your heart that you can’t let that person go because of safety reasons.”
Her father falls repeatedly, is sometimes incontinent and insists he is capable of driving even though he has lost his driver’s licence.
Navigating the system has been difficult for Michelle, who said she adores her father but has often found herself frustrated and over-whelmed.
Although professionals have been kind, she was suddenly plunged into a world filled with terms and poli-cies with which she is unfamiliar.
Michelle also soon came to real-ize the under-funded system has a shortage of available provincial nursing home beds.
Although the government is focused on an aging-at-home strat-egy, home care supports are lacking. For example, clients can only rely on a limited number of hours provided
Emma Perlaky, caregiver for Laszlo Perlaky, shares a tender moment with her husband of 45 years in their Thornhill home. She was nomi-nated by a nurse for a Heroes in the Home Award, and says she nurses her husband out of love.
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by a personal care worker or limited financial help with medical equip-ment, she said.
The challenges will only increase with the aging population, Michelle said.
“This is going to be an epidemic, in my mind,” she said.
Michelle has felt intense pres-sure from the hospital to take her father home or find a facility for him to free up his hospital bed.
She was also repeatedly asked by hospital staff and a CCAC casework-er assigned to her father what plan the family had agreed on to address his long-term care needs.
Michelle had to admit her family had never talked about it, although it’s a discussion she plans to have with her own family about her future care.
Because no bed in a provincial long-term care facility was avail-able, Michelle scrambled to find her father a bed in a private seniors’ home.
Although the home said it was able to care for seniors with some special needs, Michelle was soon told her father, who was assigned a second CCAC worker while in the home, could not be accommodated due to his behavioural problems.
His bill for 17 days in the facility came to $7,500.
Although Michelle was again told her father should be cared for at home, she insisted he be taken back to hospital, where he was assigned a third CCAC case worker.
Michelle is now trying to get her father placed in a provincial long-term care home, where his Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits will cover the expenses of a bed in a ward room.
The journey of getting her father care has left Michelle drained.
“For myself, the guilt is tremen-dous. Myself, I’m angry because I feel I have done a lot of this on my own,” she said.
“The system is there for you, but you have to figure it out and you have to listen and you have to read. There is lots of help but it can be overwhelming.”
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Rosie MacLennan successfully defended her gold medal in women’s trampoline at the 2015 Pan American Games after execut-ing a solid performance in the final routine segment at the Toronto Coliseum Sunday night.
The 26-year-old King City resident and defending Olympic gold medallist did not get off to the best of starts after finishing sixth in Saturday’s qualifier, which in large part was due to a miscue when she fell off the trampoline during her performance.
But with Saturday’s slate wiped clean for the final, MacLennan executed two triples and master doubles, a routine she had planned and cited was a little lower in diffi-culty than she would have preferred but was simple in nature.
In doing so, MacLennan recorded the highest scores in difficulty at 15.00 and time of flight at 16.060.
Combined with a score of 22.500 in execution, MacLennan finished with a final score of 53.560 to lead all competitors.
Reflecting on her dramatic turnaround, MacLennan was quick to point out she was far better prepared Sunday. What also helped, she added, was that the final took place just one day later.
She did not have a long wait for redemp-tion.
“Flubbed it,” she conceded in reference to her subpar performance Saturday. “I didn’t quite have the preparation I wanted coming into the Games. The energy is some-thing we are not quite used to, so a little bit of that and a little bit of nerves [meant it] just didn’t quite go the way I wanted it to.”
Performing before a largely enthusiastic Canadian audience, MacLennan said the hometown crowd also gave her some added incentive.
“I mean the crowd is absolutely incred-ible. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to compete in front of the home crowd like this,” she said. “Yesterday (Satur-day), obviously, it didn’t go the way I wanted to.”
While happy with her performance, MacLennan was also elated to see her long-time Skywriters Trampoline Club teammate and Stouffville resident Karen Cockburn join her on the medal podium after she claimed the bronze with a final score of 51.560.
“Today, I couldn’t be happier that Karen (Cockburn) and I are on the podium. It’s a
dream come true,” MacLennan said of her close friend.
A three-time Olympic medallist who came off a broken ankle incurred last November prior to participating in the world championships in Florida, the 34-year-old Cockburn finished first in Saturday’s quali-fier.
While that effort did not factor into Sun-day’s final, Cockburn delivered scores of 13.300 in difficulty, 22.800 in execution and 15.460 in flight to finish third.
It was a vast improvement from the 2011 Pan American Games which saw Cockburn forced to withdraw prior to the final because of an illness.
Citing she receives plenty of inspira-tion from her daughter Emilie whenever she takes to the trampoline, Cockburn was pleased to claim the bronze considering she just had her cast off in February.
“She (Emilie) is sitting right above the judges so I get to see her little face watch-ing me. I’m going to cry. And it just means everything.
“I’m so happy to be here and now to get a medal is just awesome,” an elated Cockburn said.
In going forward, Cockburn feels the medal earned at the Games is a positive step in her comeback and hopes to compete at the upcoming world championships.
“I’ll be able to step it up and hopefully qualify for a spot for Rio (2016 Olympics) since I have until November,” she said. “I have a lot of time to get some work done in the gym now.”
Dafne Navarro Loza of Mexico took the silver medal with a score of 52.000.
In the men’s trampoline final, Nobleton resident Jason Burnett just missed out on reaching the medal podium after finishing fourth.
Finishing fourth during Saturday’s quali-fication, the 28-year-old Burnett appeared to be in contention for a medal after record-ing scores of 16.200 for difficulty, 22.500 for execution and 16.390 for time of flight for a final tally of 55.090.
But with Burnett’s teammate Keegan Soehn of Red Deer, Alta. being the final competitor, he claimed the gold medal with a score of 56.405.
That bumped Burnett off the medal podium.
Steven Glickstein of the United States took the silver (55.595) and Angel Hernan-dez of Colombia, bronze (55.190).
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Gold medallist Rosie MacLennan during the final rounds of Pan Am trampoline at the Toronto Coliseum Sunday.
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We need true partnershipI was born into a family of colonizers
from British stock. My family was nice, as colonizers go.
They chose this part of the world, spe-cifically, because of its British institutions and customs. This influence was pervasive and stubborn. My education and growth were decidedly Euro-centric. I never really took the time nor expended the effort to truly appreciate the origins of Canada beyond the traditional European world view of “discovery and settlement.”
Many millions who arrived in Can-ada share this perspective. Native stuff was not my stuff. But this perspective has changed, in part, because of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation committee and the Idle No More movement. The outcomes have focused us all on the need to recreate Canada in a way that respects and cherishes, as never before, the pres-ence and well-being of the indigenous populations with whom we share this part
of North America. Realignment is never an easy task. Our
journey is, as yet, unknown. Doubtless, the horizon will alter. What we do know for sure, however, is that it will bring with it profound change and, for some, dif-ficulty.
Ultimately, we will forge a new Canada; a better Canada; one which we will be prouder to hand over to future genera-tions and to present to the world.
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Let’s hope bylaw stays on back burnereorgina council sent a proposed bylaw that would allow town officials to sue mem-bers of the public for defamation back to
the drawing board last week. Let’s hope it stays there.
Effectively, such a bylaw would permit members of council, local board members and municipal staff to sue citizens with tax dol-lars if they felt their reputations had been impugned. Critics of the concept quite rightly questioned this notion, its contradiction of democratic principles and its potential chilling effects on public discourse.
One could easily see how such a bylaw, no matter how well-in-tentioned, could lead to a series of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) especially if someone on the town payroll was particularly sensitive to even legitimate criticisms of his or her performance. Such a situation would cost defendant and plaintiff alike and, either way, the taxpayer would come out the loser.
Certainly, Georgina residents remember when then-mayor Rob Grossi attempted to sue for-mer leisure services director John McLean over critical comments levelled against the municipality’s chief magistrate over the ROC in a pair of letters to the editor. The suit was eventually dropped.
And while a review of the matter by municipal law expert George Rust-D’Eye failed to find wrongdoing on Grossi’s part, it was still a fiasco and the now for-mer mayor was harshly criticized. Grossi went on to lose the 2014 election.
Aurora has also gone down this road before. On the eve of the 2010 municipal election, then-mayor Phyllis Morris launched a town-backed $6-million defama-tion suit against three residents over critical comments made on a local blog. Although initially start-ed with public funds, town sup-port for the action was terminated shortly after the election, which Morris lost, although, by then, it had already cost about $55,000.
Just more than two years after it began, Morris discontinued her lawsuit without stating a reason.
In its decision to award costs to the defendants, the court found that Morris’ intention was to muz-zle critics and described her action as a SLAPP.
The idea of public officials suing taxpayers with their own money is by no means a phenomenon unique to York Region. The 2006 ruling in the case of Halton Hills v. Kerouac, where a defamation suit was launched against a citi-zen over comments made about a municipal employee, stated while public servants have the right to take such action to protect their reputations, a government does not. An excerpt of the proposed bylaw even contains wording sim-ilar to that found in the decision.
“It is in the public interest that the town be able to attract and retain competent persons of good repute as public servants,” the report said. “It is not likely to be able to do so if these persons may be subject to false, personal attacks without recourse.”
We don’t disagree with that sentiment. We’re not advocating a free-for-all assault on the reputa-tions of our municipal officials. Public servants should be free to carry out their duties without being unfairly maligned, but, by the same token, a bylaw that per-mits municipal officials to take legal action against the public with the inexhaustible resources of the corporation behind them at the sole discretion of the CAO goes too far and runs too much risk of being abused. What’s more, pre-vious cases show heavy-handed tactics, such as town-funded defa-mation actions against taxpayers, do more harm to the reputation of the municipality and its employ-ees than any letter or blog post ever could.
A municipality has many better ways of countering what it sees as unfair criticisms.
A town-backed defamation suit should only be launched against a member of the public in the most extraordinary, clear-cut cases of libel and/or slander with council’s permission and as a last resort after all other options have been explored. It should not be a simple proposition with the (hopefully) unintended potential to suppress legitimate public debate.
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The Snail that Transformed the Law
PERSONALINJURY LAW
Keenan Sprague LLBKeenan is a lawyer withBoland Howe LLP, TrialLawyers for the Injured,and can be reached at905.841.5717www.bolandhowe.com
Canadian LawyerMagazine hasrecognized BolandHoweas one of the Top 10Personal Injury lawfirms in Canada.
One August eveningin 1932, May
Donoghue, a 30-year-oldmother of four who livedjust outside of Glasgow,went to a café with herfriend.
May was treated to a“Scotsman ice creamfloat,”which is a mixture of icecream and ginger beer.After May drank someof her float, she noticeda decomposed snail hadpoured out of the gingerbeer bottle. She became illand was later diagnosedwith gastroenteritis,attributed to the snail.She sued the companythat produced the beer andclaimed £500 in damages.The law, as it stood, wasagainst her.
The beer company’s
lawyers relied on a well-established legal defense:May had no right to suethe beer company becauseshe did not buy the bottleof beer directly from themanufacturer and thereforehad no contract. They evenhad a case with similarfacts to support them.The court had recentlyheld that the beer companywas not responsible whena dead mouse was foundin its beer bottle. To quoteMr. Bumble in CharlesDickens’ Oliver Twist,“If the law supposes that,then the law is an ass,an idiot!”
Undeterred,May’s lawyerstook her case all the wayto the highest court, theHouse of Lords, arguingwhat is now unquestioned:a company should be heldlegally responsible if,through its negligence,its product causes harmto any consumer, not justthose with contracts.
After two days ofargument, the House ofLords agreed that Mayhad a right to sue the beercompany for negligence,with or without a contract.The court stated “the rulethat you are to love yourneighbour becomes in law,you must not injure yourneighbour”. Who is yourneighbour? Anyone youreasonably expect thatmay be injured by yournegligence.
As intuitive as this outcomeseems in retrospect, at thetime itwas groundbreaking.Before Donoghue, aperson’s ability to sue
for personal injuries washampered by a rigid setof archaic legal rulesthat conspired to preventinjured people fromreceiving compensation.Donoghue created a newgeneral right for injuredpeople to seek justice,and the case continues toserve as a foundationalprecedent in the field ofpersonal injury law.
Donoghue alsodemonstrates how lawyerswho are prepared to takedifficult cases to trial canmake a positive differencefor society as a whole.May was fortunate to havefound a group of principledlawyers like that.After all,May could not afford topay legal fees, and evenswore an affidavit stating,“I am very poor. I am notworth five pounds in allthe world.”
At Boland Howe, weare most proud of ourtrial decisions that havechanged the law for thebetter, such as:•making Ontario wintermotorists safer, by causingwinter road patrollingregulations to be improved(Thornhill v. Shadid);•expanding access tocompensation for goodSamaritans (Pelletier v.O.P.P.);•ensuring that landlordscannot contract out of theirmaintenance obligationswith residential tenants(Taylor v. Allen);•forcing municipalitiesto pay more attention topoorly designed roadways(Roycroft v. Kyte).
The advice offered in this column is intended for informational purposes only. Use of this column is not intended toreplace or substitute any professional, financial, medical, legal, or other professional advice.
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16686 Yonge St., Newmarket (905) 895-4084Across from Mandarin Buffet Restaurant
ust like to take a couple of minutes to sing the praises of King City’s own Rosa-nnagh (and what a wonderful name that is) MacLennan.
If you’re a betting man or woman, you couldn’t have had much surer odds of a gold medal than our own Rosie going into these Pan Am Games.
And sure enough, the “human spring”, as sports scientists refer to her for her ability to transfer muscular energy into bouncing power on the trampoline, came through Sunday.
MacLennan, defending 2011 Pan Am Games tramp champ, won gold again, put-ting an exclamation point on her gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and, once again, doing King City and all of Canada proud.
What’s little known is the bouncing dynamo had a serious injury, suffering a concussion while training only eight weeks ago and was in a life-or-death struggle just to compete on home soil.
However, long used to competition over-seas, she wasn’t going to let an injury stop her from going for gold in front of friends, family and thousands of adoring fans here at home, just minutes away from where she lives and trains.
It’s a very rare, once-in-a-lifetime oppor-tunity, not to be missed.
And lucky for us, there she was, wowing the crowd and besting all competitors by a
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considerable margin. She’s going to be the one to beat just over a year from now at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Let’s not forget Stouffville’s Karen Cockburn, herself a remarkable story. The 34-year-old nailed down a bronze medal after coming back from a horrible injury eight months ago when she missed the trampoline and shattered her ankle. She’d been returning from giving birth to daughter Emilie, now 2, who was in the stands Sunday to see mom earn her medal.
And while we’re at it, a tip of hat to King City’s Jason Burnett, who just missed a medal in men’s trampoline as he finished fourth. Keegan Soehn of Red Deer, Alta., won the gold, so there’s some solace in Burnett’s fourth-place finish.
All in all, a fine job on the trampoline by our York Region athletes and a promising look ahead to Rio next year.
King’s MacLennan comes through yet again with gold-worthy performance
By NaNcy HopkiNsoNSpecial to The Connection
On Sunday, July 26, it is picnic time at Kim and Jack Campbell’s. There will be a short service at 11 a.m., and we eat at 11:30 a.m. The barbecue food will be supplied. Everyone is invited to bring a potluck salad or dessert, a swimming costume as they have a pool and walking shoes as they have a number of forest trails behind their house. For directions, please contact Jack at 905-939-2992. Schomberg United and Nobleton United join together for this and would wel-come other members of our communities.
The second Wednesday barbecue is on July 29 at Nobleton United, especially for our cottagers who are not available during summer weekends. We have a short service at 6 p.m. and a barbecue at 6:30 p.m. Potluck salads and desserts. All are welcome even if you do not have a cottage! The following two Wednesdays will be at our sister church, Schomberg United.
Once we are in August, we Nobleton people have to get up earlier for church as it will be at Schomberg United at 9:30 a.m. for the first four Sundays of August. Schomberg will be hosting two Wednesday barbecues similar to the ones in Nobleton. Service is at 6 p.m., followed by the meal at 6:30 p.m. Potluck salads and desserts. Everyone is welcome. Schomberg United is on Church Street in Schomberg.
Messy Church is always the second Tues-
day of the month at Nobleton United. The next one is Tuesday, Aug. 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. This time the theme is Joshua and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. This is an intergenerational event with lots of choices of activities. Come and join us for fun, faith, food and fellowship. You will have a smile on your face! Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult (parents, grandparents, babysitter).
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COMING EVENTS
TO SEPT. 4 — SUMMER CAMP
There is still time to sign up your child for one of King Township’s local sum-mer day camp. While reg-istration for these camps began on March 1, staff say that, space permitting, parents can still sign up children aged 3 to 15 for camp. Camps kicked off July 6 and run each week up until Friday, Sept. 4. For more information, visit the Township of King Sum-mer Camp Parent Guide at www.king.ca. To find out more about registering your child, call Kenzie Van Wagner at 905-833-5321, ext. 5237 or email [email protected].
TO AUG. 31 — SUMMER PROGRAMS
The Township of King offers summer programs for children and adults beginning July 6, and run-ning all the way until, Aug. 31. Some of the programs included are Climbing For Kids, Learn to Skate, Cooking for Kids, Soccer Tots and Beach Volleyball. There are also summer workshops like Sports on the Lake, and Bird Feeder Building. Register online at www.king.ca or in person at the Nobleton Arena or Trisan Centre. You can contact Colleen Beswick at [email protected] or at 905-833-5321, ext. 5238 for more information.
TO AUG. 31 — SUMMER PROGRAMS
Cold Creek Summer Pro-grams run at Cold Creek Conservation Area, 14125 11th Concession, Noble-ton, from July 6 until Aug.
31. There are three new programs for children and adults: Climbing for Kids, Climber Bootcamp for Adults, and Drop-in Climbing. Register online at www.king.ca or in person at the Nobleton Arena, 15 Old King Rd., Nobleton, or the Trisan Centre, 25 Dillane Dr., Schomberg. Contact Magda Potoczna at [email protected].
TO SEPT. 4 — PUbliC SwiMS
Nobleton Lions Outdoor Public Swims run until Sept. 4. The Nobleton Lions Outdoor Pool, 15 Old King Rd., Nobleton, has public swims from 2-4:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. Weekend public swims take place Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Public swimming from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekend days may be cancelled due to private rentals. Children under 10 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian 12 or older to be admitted.
TO AUG. 29 — AqUAfiT
Aquafit (Saturdays until Aug. 29) takes place from 9 to 10 a.m. and is recom-mended for those 18 and older. Register for the nine-week program at www.king.ca or drop in for $10 per class. The program is an introduction to basic aqua fitness moves, pos-tures and balance and is great for all ages and abil-ity levels.
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A King Township horsewoman dressed up in a uniform from two centuries ago to show off the skills required in dressage Sunday.
It was part of a Pan Am event ceremony at a local stable before an appreciative crowd.
Lt.-Col. (Ret.) Susan Beharriell, on her mount Catrina, took part in a classical dres-sage gala at Grelo Farms at Olde Base Line and Kennedy Road in Caledon.
Beharriell’s uniform, borrowed from a re-enactor, was a reproduction of the 19th Light Dragoons, the only British Cavalry Regiment that fought mounted during the War of 1812. Beharriell said the regiment was formed
in 1781 in India, so it sports a picture of an elephant on the saddle cover. Beharriell said the jacket was made of heavy wool and the helmet was made of leather with a “tube” of black bear fur.
Beharriell rides with the reins in her left hand so that her right hand is free to use her sword. The idea in dressage is to direct and control the horse using the seat and legs rather than two hands on the reins.
“We had great fun (and) It was a great honour to have such a solo,” she said.
In the Pan Am dressage, Canada won team silver (Christopher Von Martels, Belinda Trus-sell, Brittany Fraser, and Megan Lane) and Von Martels won individual bronze.
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A King Township councillor, who is also a farmer, has been appointed chairperson of a GTA committee that discusses issues such as land use, regulations and food systems.
Avia Eek is chairperson of the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee, which is comprised of members from the federations of agriculture for York, Halton, Durham, Peel and Niagara, with municipal members from the five regions and two cities of Toronto and Hamilton, along with industry and environmental leaders.
Eek has been a member of the commit-tee for several years starting as a York Region appointee (alternate), then representing the Holland Marsh as one of two vice-chairs.
GTA AAC is one of the few committees con-necting urban and rural groups regarding food and farming in Ontario.
Formed in 2005, the committee has worked with a number of food, farming and government organizations to create the Food and Farming Action Plan 2021.
“I am delighted to be able to continue to work with our executive director, Janet Horner, and the rest of our executive to con-tinue to build the relationship amongst agri-culture in the Golden Horseshoe, consumers and other levels of government,” Eek said, adding the group will meet next month to draft its plan for the next two years.
For more information, visit foodandfarming.ca.
Eek agricultural action committee’s new chair
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King resident Lt.-Col (Ret.) Susan Beharriell, shown here in uniform atop horse Catrina, took part in a classical dressage gala Sunday.
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nyone looking for vol-unteers never had to look further than the raised hand of M. Paul Millard.
When his sons, Jim and Mark, were boys, he was cubmaster with the 2nd Newmarket Cubs and later volunteered with the 1st Newmar-ket Scouts under the leadership of Jim Nuttall, who was named Ontario Senior of the Year in 2012 for his six decades of community service.
Nothing unusual about that, parents often get involved with their kids’ activities.
But Millard’s community spirit didn’t end there.
In addition to being an active member of the Upper Canada Chordsmen a cappella chorus, he volunteered on the Elman W. Campbell Museum board, the Friends of the Museum, the New-market Historical Society and Heri-tage Newmarket.
“He was always taking on jobs. So, when he was with the Chords-men, he wasn’t just there, he was the money guy, he was the trea-surer,” Jim said, adding his father was honoured with awards from the town and the province for his volunteerism.
Millard, who died at the age of 85 on Sept. 4, 2012, came by his interest in history honestly, having belonged to one of Newmarket’s most renowned families.
His great-great-great-great grandfather was Timothy Millard, who moved to Newmarket in 1792,
M. Paul Millard was always willing to lend a helping hand to community causes.
Millard’s son Jim said.“He was not a (United) Empire
Loyalist because by the time he got here, he’s a Quaker. He was forcibly emigrated from Pennsylvania,” he said.
“He came and got his 200 acres (granted by the government to Loyalists) for services rendered during the American Revolution. There is some indication he prob-ably fought on both sides, which really wasn’t that unusual.”
‘He had some interesting hobbies.
He was a rock hound. He would go digging for
rocks.’
Several streets in Newmarket’s core are named after the Millard family, including Millard Avenue, which was originally the lane lead-ing from Yonge Street to the family farm, Timothy Street and John Street.
Jim and his brother grew up in a home at 100 Roxborough Rd., which had served as bachelor offi-cers’ quarters during the Second World War.
Millard himself grew up on a family farm in the Cooksville area of Mississauga.
He married his wife, Joyce, in 1951 and a few years later, the cou-ple headed off on an adventure.
“They were ahead of the curve in a lot of respects,” Jim said of his parents.
“They liked travelling. They both quit their jobs and they went
hitchhiking across Europe for six months in 1954 or something like that.”
The couple settled in Winnipeg before moving to Newmarket in 1963 when Millard was hired as the credit manager of the Office Specialty Manufacturing Com-pany.
After he was laid off in the mid-1970s, Millard joined his wife as a real estate agent for about five years before becoming a profes-sional baker, first running a fran-chise called Bakerman and later opening his own bakery called the Breadman in the Quaker Hill Plaza at Yonge and William Roe Boulevard.
“We did breads and pies. A lot of what we did, like butter tarts and that, was the family recipes,” Jim said.
Millard retired and the bakery closed in 1990.
In addition to volunteering, he liked to keep busy with other pursuits.
“He had some interesting hobbies. He was a rock hound. He would go digging for rocks. It could be like semi-precious stones or whatever,” Jim said.
“We would go up north and we camped. That is what we did when my parents went on holi-days. We went camping and for the two weeks or whatever, we collected rocks.”
Millard was also casted and painted model soldiers and liked cooking.
What does Jim miss most about his dad?
“Probably the stories. He told
an awful lot of stories. The histori-cal stuff, which I’m interested in. He was always there when you needed him,” he said.
“He was the guy, if you needed help, he would help you. He wasn’t doing it to get ahead or
anything, he was just doing it to help people out.”
In addition to his wife of 61 years, Joyce, and sons Jim and Mark, Millard was survived by grandchildren Megan, Morgan and Christine.
“Adored by children, universally respected and an inspiration to her peers, Mrs. McCluskey was a tireless volunteer, quick to defl ect the praise heaped on her.”
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nyone looking for vol-unteers never had to look further than the raised hand of M. Paul Millard.
When his sons, Jim and Mark, were boys, he was cubmaster with the 2nd Newmarket Cubs and later volunteered with the 1st Newmar-ket Scouts under the leadership of Jim Nuttall, who was named Ontario Senior of the Year in 2012 for his six decades of community service.
Nothing unusual about that, parents often get involved with their kids’ activities.
But Millard’s community spirit didn’t end there.
In addition to being an active member of the Upper Canada Chordsmen a cappella chorus, he volunteered on the Elman W. Campbell Museum board, the Friends of the Museum, the New-market Historical Society and Heri-tage Newmarket.
“He was always taking on jobs. So, when he was with the Chords-men, he wasn’t just there, he was the money guy, he was the trea-surer,” Jim said, adding his father was honoured with awards from the town and the province for his volunteerism.
Millard, who died at the age of 85 on Sept. 4, 2012, came by his interest in history honestly, having belonged to one of Newmarket’s most renowned families.
His great-great-great-great grandfather was Timothy Millard, who moved to Newmarket in 1792,
M. Paul Millard was always willing to lend a helping hand to community causes.
Millard’s son Jim said.“He was not a (United) Empire
Loyalist because by the time he got here, he’s a Quaker. He was forcibly emigrated from Pennsylvania,” he said.
“He came and got his 200 acres (granted by the government to Loyalists) for services rendered during the American Revolution. There is some indication he prob-ably fought on both sides, which really wasn’t that unusual.”
‘He had some interesting hobbies.
He was a rock hound. He would go digging for
rocks.’
Several streets in Newmarket’s core are named after the Millard family, including Millard Avenue, which was originally the lane lead-ing from Yonge Street to the family farm, Timothy Street and John Street.
Jim and his brother grew up in a home at 100 Roxborough Rd., which had served as bachelor offi-cers’ quarters during the Second World War.
Millard himself grew up on a family farm in the Cooksville area of Mississauga.
He married his wife, Joyce, in 1951 and a few years later, the cou-ple headed off on an adventure.
“They were ahead of the curve in a lot of respects,” Jim said of his parents.
“They liked travelling. They both quit their jobs and they went
hitchhiking across Europe for six months in 1954 or something like that.”
The couple settled in Winnipeg before moving to Newmarket in 1963 when Millard was hired as the credit manager of the Office Specialty Manufacturing Com-pany.
After he was laid off in the mid-1970s, Millard joined his wife as a real estate agent for about five years before becoming a profes-sional baker, first running a fran-chise called Bakerman and later opening his own bakery called the Breadman in the Quaker Hill Plaza at Yonge and William Roe Boulevard.
“We did breads and pies. A lot of what we did, like butter tarts and that, was the family recipes,” Jim said.
Millard retired and the bakery closed in 1990.
In addition to volunteering, he liked to keep busy with other pursuits.
“He had some interesting hobbies. He was a rock hound. He would go digging for rocks. It could be like semi-precious stones or whatever,” Jim said.
“We would go up north and we camped. That is what we did when my parents went on holi-days. We went camping and for the two weeks or whatever, we collected rocks.”
Millard was also casted and painted model soldiers and liked cooking.
What does Jim miss most about his dad?
“Probably the stories. He told
an awful lot of stories. The histori-cal stuff, which I’m interested in. He was always there when you needed him,” he said.
“He was the guy, if you needed help, he would help you. He wasn’t doing it to get ahead or
anything, he was just doing it to help people out.”
In addition to his wife of 61 years, Joyce, and sons Jim and Mark, Millard was survived by grandchildren Megan, Morgan and Christine.
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