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By Sue DickensEMC Lifestyles - Campbellford - It was a difficult task, choosing the recipi-ents of the civic awards this year hosted by Trent Hills, but the selection commit-tee made its decisions resulting in more than a dozen individuals and even more groups being honoured.

In some cases there were two award winners for the same category.

“So what we’re doing tonight is a mere token, a gesture of our apprecia-tion; it never seems like enough,” said Mayor Hector Macmillan.

This was the fourth annual civic awards night and it was held in conjunc-tion with the 12th volunteer apprecia-tion ceremonies.

“Our goal is to make you feel thanked and appreciated for all the work you do, motivate you, re-energize you, have a little bit of fun because we live in a real-ly serious world, work in a serious busi-ness and we take that responsibility but this is a night where we can have some fun,” said emcee Chief Administrative Office Mike Rutter, lightening the mood at the event.

The Agricultural Leadership Award was presented to David DeNure, owner/operator of the Community Livestock Exchange in Hoards Station.

The Outstanding Youth Award for the exceptional contributions made by a youth to their community and/or their school was presented to 11-year-old Sa-die Mees, who every year, for her birth-day, holds a food drive in lieu of gifts to support the local food bank.

A second recipient this year for the same award is The Youth Advi-sory Council made up of students from Campbellford District High School who provide the youth perspective to the Campbellford/Seymour Community Foundation.

The Heritage Awareness Civic Award was shared by the staff at MacLaren IDA Pharmacy, for providing a trip down memory lane with their storefront streetscape and The Hastings Historical Society for officially celebrating one of its own, Dit Clapper.

The Sport Excellence Civic Award was presented to Cole Mahoney who excels at many sports, from play-ing badminton, hockey, softball, and rugby to volunteering his time with Campbellford Minor Hockey and the

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Havelock - Ambulance calls to Havelock-Bel-mont-Methuen increased 16.9 per cent in 2012 but there has been an improvement in ambulance response times to the township.

In 2012, Peterborough Paramedics responded to 529 calls in HBM up from 453 in 2011. The average response time was 25 minutes and 44 seconds which Peterborough County Paramedics deputy-chief Chris Barry says is an improvement of one minute and 16 seconds.

Barry and chief Bob English spoke to council about call vol-umes, response times, offload improvements at Peterborough Regional Health Centre and the area’s aging population and the impact that has on emergency services.

Paramedic services are five times higher for people over 65, chief English noted.

“There has been an increase in total calls [in HBM] but not all

were emergency calls,” deputy-chief Barry said.Across the county, call volumes went up 13.2 per cent and for

the first time increases in the county eclipsed those in the city, chief English added.

There was a 12 per cent increase in Code 3 calls, two times the increase in 2011. Those “prompt calls” are “not quite on the level of a heart attack or car accident but are serious enough for an ambulance.”

The service’s average response time in 2012 was 16:22, an im-provement of 49 seconds and deputy-chief Barry says much of that has to do with how ambulances are deployed out of its five stations.

He was pleased with the HBM times.“We’re getting to see your residents a lot quicker,” he said.

“Compared to the county it’s still higher but you must understand

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings - It’s a bank account that hopefully is not needed but the Hastings Emergency Disaster Fund is there to bring some “peace of mind” to families faced with a sudden fi re ca-tastrophe, says Trent Hills Fire Chief Tim Blake.

The Hastings fund, offi cially launched last week, builds on major contributions from the Hastings Fire-fi ghters Association and the Hastings Waterfront Festival. The Firefi ghters Association donated the $2,063 raised during their annual Christmas Toonie draw while the Waterfront Festival added $1,000.

The Hastings Emergency Disas-ter Fund mirrors the well-established program started by the Campbellford-Seymour fi refi ghters and Chief Blake says the Warkworth fi refi ghters “are on board” with developing their own pro-gram and are currently looking for a fund-raising event that would kick-start their own fund.

“My goal is to have it called the Trent Hills Disaster Fund so that if something happens in Trent Hills everybody will get some access,” Blake told the North-west EMC.

Chief Blake noted that a mother and son were burned out of their home last week in Percy Boom and received as-sistance through the Campbellford fund providing two nights at the River Inn and necessities from Giant Tiger.

When Blake became Trent Hills Fire Chief in July he approached the Hast-ings Firefi ghters Association following two structure fi res that left families in need of help.

“There was no avenue there to look after those people. I approached them to see if they were interested in doing something to start a program up and I met with 100 per cent support.”

The money assists individuals and families for a couple of days while they have time to deal with their insurance companies, he explained.

“If they’ve just lost pretty much ev-erything in a house fi re it’s not some-thing they need to be worrying about. It puts their mind at ease a little bit. Yester-day when we did that it actually did put their mind at ease.”

Fire victims shouldn’t have to worry about where they are going to stay over-night or where they will get clothing, he said.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood - A 66-lot subdivision plan has new life after receiving approval for a rezoning request from township council.

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Sixty-six-lot subdivision will be rezonedisted,” explained Peterborough County manager of planning Iain Mudd as he discussed the application fi led by the prop-erty’s new owners Balterre Contracting.

“The proponents want to undertake a re-design to provide a more suitable layout for the subdivision rather than the pre-vious one so you’ve got a re-design of the subdivision and a re-zoning to refl ect that new layout,” Mudd said.

“This is phase one,” Mudd said noting that the previous developer had proposed two phases of subdivision develop-ment.

Mudd said the new developers “do have plans to pursue phase two at some date in the future but currently there is no proposal on the table for phase two.”

The subject property includes a centre block which will be designed as a park; on the east and west sides there are links to allow access directly from the street to the park.

Mudd said there is another open space to the south where a storm management pond will be designed to handle storm water from around the site. In the very north end of the sub-division Albine Street would be widened to bring it up to a 16-foot road allowance.

The subdivision can also be accessed from Helen Street to the southeast.

“The developer felt having a looped system for infrastruc-ture purposes and emergency access was better for the subdi-vision. We concur with that,” said Mudd.

“It is a better layout.”Mudd stressed there is no proposal to open up Charles

Street to the east of the subdivision.It would be council’s decision what to do with Charles

Street, he added. The municipality could stop it up and close it or it could continue to own the property.

“It’s an enclosed road allowance,” he said. “It’s your dis-cretion what to do with it.”

Councillor Mary Hay said she preferred to keep the park visible to homes in the subdivision.

“I wouldn’t want to see board fences or high hedges there,” said Hay. “People don’t like playgrounds that are totally en-closed.”

Mudd said council can “stipulate that sort of stuff; it is not a zoning issue.

“You do have the authority through a subdivision agree-ment to dictate what kind fencing [is used],” he said. “You also have the authority to dictate what the preferred access road would be into the subdivision.”

The municipality can also dictate what street would be used by construction vehicles, said Mudd.

The municipality will now prepare a bylaw to amend the zoning.

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Hastings fi refi ghter Roger Ferguson says this year’s toonie draw was more successful than in other years “because of what we were fund raising for.

“In the past it’s always been for equip-ment. This was just to get it started; to get it rolling.”

Ferguson isn’t sure all of next year’s draw proceeds will go to the emergency fund or whether it will be split with an-other cause.

“Our association will decide what amount.”

“The Waterfront Festival is all about Hastings and Trent Hills so we just wanted to give a donation to somewhere it would do some good,” added festival

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Roseneath - It was a monster ball, monster fun day in Roseneath Saturday for youth from around Nor-thumberland and Peterborough Counties.

The first ever multi-ball competition sponsored by St. James Anglican Church and Northumberland Youth

By Sue DickensEMC News - Trent Hills - Trent Hills is putting the brakes on the use of e-bikes on trails, parks and sidewalks that are owned by the municipality.

The matter came before council at a recent regular meeting in a staff report which noted that the Trent Hills Police Services Board (PSB) had discussed the issue last fall and asked staff to research what other municipalities were doing to regulate e-bikes.

Staff found examples of bylaws prohib-iting operation of e-bikes in certain situa-tions in places such as Oshawa, Brampton and Peterborough.

Councillor Rosemary Kelleher-Ma-cLennan, who also sits on the police ser-vices board, talked about the uses made of the Rotary Trail along the canal in Camp-bellford.

“We get e-bikes on there and you’ve got people walking, people with carriages pushing babies, people with wheelchairs going around there,” she commented.

“Our [municipal] trails are pedestrian trails,” said Mayor Hector Macmillan.

E-bikes are bicycles powered by elec-tronic motors and are capable of achieving speeds up to 32 kilometres an hour. There is no requirement to have a licence to op-erate or insurance.

“Since these bikes are very quiet, they often take walkers by surprise,” stated Jim Peters, director of planning, in his report to council.

The bylaw, which was approved by council, also requires that e-bikes be oper-ated in accordance with the classification set out in the Highway Traffic Act and in accordance with the provincial definition of an e-bike.

But the discussion of e-bikes led to talk about another problem—scooters.

“We have a problem with scooters too,”

Trent Hills council puts the brakes on e-bikessaid Mayor Macmillan.

“We want e-bikes to stay off the sidewalks but we’ve got to do something about getting the scooters off the roads because almost none of them are on the sidewalks and there’s going to be an accident whether they are a handicapped vehicle, an accessible cart etc. We’ve got to get those off the roads be-cause somebody is going to get injured or worse,” he said.

“We need to address that be-cause that is public issue num-ber one I am receiving com-ments about,” he added.

“It’s illegal for those ve-hicles [scooters] to be on the road, they don’t have lights, signal lights, or slow moving signs on them and they are on the roads all the time.”

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safety concerns and ways to educate the public.

“Perhaps we might look at more communication with our community and promote be-ing a destination where we do encourage people to use our roads for bicycles and e-bikes and other forms of transporta-tion to become more green as well,” said Councillor Kelle-her-MacLennan.

“Part of this report is asking for a communications plan, the [Trent Hills] Communicator, the web site and perhaps social media, so maybe we can talk about not only where we don’t want them but where people can be more active with them,” said Peters.

The information is slated to be posted on the municipal web site too.

Multi-ball, monster fun in Roseneathfor Christ took over the Alnwick Civic Centre and the Roseneath Fair-grounds with participants throwing, shooting and dodging balls in every direction.

Four teams participated in ball hockey, dodge ball, monster ball and obstacle course action throughout the afternoon during an event that is part of St. James’ 150th anniversary cel-ebrations.

There was also a family movie eve-ning featuring the film Courageous.

“We wanted to do something throughout the area and we wanted to do something for youth,” said orga-nizer Faith Osmond.

“We wanted to show young people that we support them and we want them to come and have a fun day,” Osmond told the Trent Hills Regional News.

Osmond said it was a true ecumeni-cal event with volunteers from all lo-cal churches on hand to help with the barbeque along with 20 to 25 volun-teers from Northumberland Youth for Christ.

“These are all people who are in-terested in youth today and who want to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” she said.

“I hope that it’s visible to the com-munity and we hope the community takes in the movie. We really worked hard to promote it.”

There were prizes but Osmond said they were really just the “icing on the cake.

“The whole day is about having fel-lowship and having fun [and] we’ve tried to cover all the age groups,” she said.

Osmond hopes it becomes an an-nual event.

“This is needed in this area; there are a lot of kids out there at loose ends and don’t know what to do with their time. Something like this is an event to look forward to throughout the year.”

“We’ve had tons of co-operation,” added Christine Moss, interim execu-tive director/Cobourg area director for Northumberland Youth for Christ.

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Ambulance calls to HBM increase but response times dropthat your response time will be much longer than those in the city which can be as low as ten minutes,” he said.

But compared to other townships HBM is “not the highest; kind of closest to the middle.”

In the county, Asphodel-Norwood has the quickest average response time at 14:48 and North Kawartha the longest at 30:28. The township of Trent Lakes had an average time of 29:35; Selwyn 19:09; Douro-Dummer, 20:20 and Ca-van-Monaghan, 20:26.

The Norwood paramedic station had 1,442 of the service’s 22,480 calls in 2012.

Ambulance crews responded to more calls in the 71 to 91 age bracket than any other in 2012 and chief English says de-mographic trends will only amplify that graph, especially in this area which has the highest number of seniors in On-tario.

“Our resources now are meeting that

Continued from page 1 number but we’re obviously going to have to look at service to match trends,” Chief English said.

“We’re trying to get much more with what we have now but we haven’t added a new ambulance or staff since 2008. We’re still getting good results in some areas but the wire is

getting stretched and is starting to get thin in some areas,” he said.

“You can only play the shell game so long be-fore you have to add another shell. We’re starting

to get to that … It’s easy to put more vehicles on the road but it’s costly.”

It costs $1.1 million to have an ambulance on the road 24 hours, chief English added.

EMC News - Warkworth - Celebrat-ing local arts and culture funding MP Northumberland-Quinte West Rick Norlock met with members of the Wark-worth Business Association (WBA) to announce federal funding toward the Art in the Park Festival.

The association received $7,600 to help present the festival, which will take place May 18 and 19.

“Warkworth’s Art in the Park has been growing each year, becoming more di-verse and attracting visitors well beyond the borders of Northumberland County. I am pleased to witness the success of this festival and to help grow Art in the Park even further,” said Norlock.

“By supporting this organization, our government is delivering on its com-mitment to strengthen our economy and support our arts, culture and heritage,” he added.

Ruth Wojtiuk, chair of the Wark-worth Art in the Park Committee said, “We are most grateful for the fi nancial assistance of the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage - Local Festi-vals grant that allows our event to grow beyond an incredible display of artistic works in the park, to an overall cultural experience throughout the village, with no admission fees.”

MP Northumberland-Quinte West Rick Norlock and chair Ruth Wojti-uk, pose with a large poster cutout of J.D. Kelly, a gifted painter and illustrator, who grew up in Percy Township. Photo: Submitted

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,Regarding Rolly Ethier’s letter en-

titled Mulcair loses loyalty in Washing-ton

Mr. Ethier questions the loyalty of NDP leader Thomas Mulcair on his visit to Washington to discuss the viability of the proposed pipeline which would transport Canadian oil sands crude across the country. I am very disap-pointed that within the letter there was not more substance and less denigration of the character of Mr. Mulcair. There was nothing cited, no specifi cs, as to why Mr. Ethier feels that Mr. Mulcair is betraying Canada and its interests. It appeared merely a string of insults but nothing of substance, and therefore,

nothing with which to debate intelli-gently. Unless, of course, one feels that engaging in a session of name-calling is constructive to anything of value.

From CBC News: “Moreover, Mul-cair insisted he said nothing to his vari-ous American audiences that he hasn’t been saying for months back home in Canada about the Tories’ lamentable en-vironmental record and the NDP’s pref-erence for sustainable development of natural resources, creating value-added refi nery jobs in Canada and building a pipeline to carry western oil to the east coast.” That doesn’t sound to me like the intentions of a “traitor.”

In light of the March 29, 2013, Mayfl ower, Arkansas, pipeline rupture

Insults replace debate for the far right

Conservative economics faulty

carrying Canadian crude, wherein the toxic substance has been fl owing down citizens’ streets into storm sewers and poisoning well water, not to mention the destruction to the local ecosystem and wildlife, it seems quite reasonable to question at least some of the proposed venture’s merit.

Canadian oil sands crude is well known to be quite abrasive. Travelling through a pipeline at high pressure un-doubtedly increases wear on a pipeline, increasing its vulnerability to corrosion and rupture.

It would make more sense to refi ne

the crude at its source, thereby remov-ing its abrasive constituents and reduc-ing the potential for future pipeline rup-tures, and thus create value-added jobs in Canada in the process.

No doubt, these and other consider-ations are what is being discussed at the talks.

Mr. Mulcair has never said he is against oil sands development. He has merely stated the sands should be devel-oped more responsibly than at present. I wholeheartedly agree.

Unless we relish the notion of toxic crude fl owing down our streets, into our

well water, down our streams, rivers and into our lakes, we should be applauding Thomas Mulcair’s efforts to protect Ca-nadians and Americans from any further disasters, of which the recent Mayfl ow-er, Arkansas, spill is but one of many.

On the contrary, the loyalty of Thom-as Mulcair to Canadians, our jobs, our collective wealth and our health and safety is unprecedented in the history of Canada and should be applauded, not scorned.

Rick Fairman,Wooler

Dear Editor,Like most other people in my riding, a flyer arrived

in the door recently paid for by our taxes, asking which tax would I prefer to have cut, (not can we afford any tax cuts, nor any clue as to what services would be cut to pay for them). The second question asked, do I think we should balance the budget (this also involves service cuts); in short the “Hot Button” issues which appeal to

the Conservative base of supporters. The irony to me is that these same stupid questions keep coming from a party, which claims to be the best at managing our tax dollars. At the federal level, we could help balance the budget by not buying billions of dollars worth of very shaky F35 fighter jets, (are they all still grounded in the USA?) or by not allowing our warship builders to double the cost in the estimates … and still counting.

The Conservatives came to power when Canada had a healthy $10-billion surplus, so they very quickly gave it away to their corporate cronies in tax cuts. Now we are deep in the hole and their bizarre solution is more tax cuts, and selling off public assets.

We could stop subsidizing big oil companies with bil-lions in tax money, most of whom are busy trashing a large chunk of Alberta.

We could go after the big time tax cheats with off-shore accounts in dozens of tax havens around the globe. The unfolding list of hundreds of Canadian millionaires evading taxes may go some way in improving tax rev-enues. That is if our government acts on this.

Here’s the rub. The investigation, which led to the out-ing of high roller tax cheats, was carried out by “investi-gative journalists,” not by the RCMP, FBI, or any official branch of government.

Take Mr. Black; rumours have it that after serving his jail time in the U.S. he is now being considered for a seat in the senate. He is not even a Canadian citizen. Most released prisoners have a hard time finding employment, but then likely none of them once wore a Lord’s robe.

Rich fraudsters are treated differently than Joe aver-age, always have been, always will be. If you steal bil-lions you may still receive your multi-million year-end bonus, or possibly have to move on with a golden hand-shake. Steal a few hundred and do serious jail time.

The UK appears to have 157,000 offshore directors who can rest a little easier after the UK minister assured the public not to expect any speedy action on prosecuting them. This came after a bold speech by the prime min-ister at the G20 on bringing an end to tax havens. Many of the rich in countries around the globe have joined this tax scam resulting in a shortage of revenues for public services, which is what the Conservatives here would like to cut further.

Paul Whittaker,Gilmour

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By Terry BushEMC Editorial - So who’s doing okay in our global economy? You could search the Internet or tune into the nightly news to find out. Or you could just travel to some distant land and see who else shows up.

On our recent trip to New Zealand and Australia, we soon discovered that Germans seem to be making money … a lot of money. German travellers are spread so far and wide throughout both countries it makes one wonder who’s actually still at home keeping the economic engine running. It seems to be a rite of passage for German youth to travel around the globe, much like youth from Ontario head “out west” in their late teens and early 20s. So many Germans head down under that many of the croc warning signs are in German as well as English.

Further down the straw poll are the British who, while obviously having the money to travel, also feel a natural affinity with both Aussies and Kiwis. Australians, Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans round out the top of the list in New Zealand with a few Dutchies and Canucks thrown in for good measure. Surprisingly, Israelis were also regu-larly found wandering the mountain tops and glaciers.

When asked where all the Americans were, we were told few travel to NZ and most head to Australia. I thought that made sense.

Like most Canadians I assumed that Australians and Americans had some kind of kinship considering the Aussies had followed the Yanks into Iraq and Afghanistan. This assumption couldn’t be farther from the truth. As one gentleman explained, “When we hear your accent, we always ask where you’re from to be on the safe side. We know Ca-nadians hate anyone to think they’re American and we understand why.”

This gentleman put it as succinctly as anyone could. “We’re not fond of Americans because they seem to be under the impression that the whole world wants to be like them. They come here and tell us we should do things the way they do. We’re Australian and do things the Australian way. Canadians and Europeans visit and they don’t want to change us. They accept us and enjoy us just the way we are.”

Funny where you might find an anti-American tirade. When looking for a didgeridoo at a shop in Cairns, we were assailed by a string of expletives directed at the USA by the proprietor. As he put it, rhyming off Vietnam and Malaysia as examples, Americans are great at starting wars, but in his part of the world, Aussies always die cleaning up the mess the Yanks make long after the Americans go home. The strange part of all this was it was conservative Australians who seemed most fed up with the USA. Many we talked to hated their current Labor government for agreeing to host an American armed forces base as part of their Asian pivot. Because of their involvement as allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Australians are now worried about blowback from Malaysia and Indonesia, two nearby Muslim countries with not much use for Australia anymore. On the flipside, Australia loves Ellen. The talk show star made the Aussie news every night during her recent visit.

But best of all, Australia loves Canadians. “It’s a love-love relationship,” said one ho-tel manager. You’re like us with different accents and the same crazy sense of humour.”

And that woman’s characterization was pretty much bang on. The parallels are end-less.

They are a large country with a small population, less than 23 million. Much of the country is uninhabited. They’re resource rich. The evening news features stories every night with Australian president Julia Gillard apologizing to the Aborigines for the way they were treated in the past. A big deal is being made at the moment about the lost gen-eration of Aborigines, children who were taken from their parents and placed in residen-tial schools run by the church where they were abused. Others were adopted out to white families and have lost their sense of identity. And like some Canadians, many Australians complain that the government is throwing too much money at natives and only the elders are benefiting while the rest are living in poverty.

At the forefront of any discussion is the Australian government’s decision to allow Chinese companies to buy their mines and bring Chinese workers in, ship the raw mate-rial out of the country, process it and then sell the finished products back to Australians. Sound familiar?

The only difference is, once again conservative Australians are complaining about the Labor Party instead of the reverse. “Labor is selling off our resources left and right to fund social programs,” complained one self-professed conservative in an art gallery. “We should be processing our raw materials ourselves and not destroying our country so others can make money.”

Not that Australians are hard done by. With a minimum wage of $18/hour, even the poorest are somewhat better off than most. Funny the things you learn when you’re away.

Best quote of the trip went to an Israeli we met near Mount Cook in New Zealand. When told we were Canadians he remarked, that he and his friends had travelled with a couple of Quebecois for a few days and they seemed to want to separate from the rest of the country. I told him many Quebeckers never seem to be satisfied despite the money they receive from the rest of Canada.

He responded with a smile on his face, “Well, if they have nothing better to fight about than that, send them to the Middle East. There’s plenty of fighting there for everyone.”

Who has the bucks?

Dear Editor,It is obvious that Darren Moore is a staunch supporter

of Thomas Mulcair. Attempts to build a refinery in Can-ada would meet with so much resistance that by the time it was actually built years would have gone by. As you stated, sending it south would be cheaper, Canada would realize return on our investments at once. Building the refinery itself would create jobs but not permanent ones and the amount of jobs that would be required to maintain it would not be on any grand scale.

To use Quebec as an example of keeping their raw materials and manufacturing finished product is not a good example considering Quebec gets the most federal government subsidies. Bob Rae and the NDP found out in Ontario that there was an end to the money as they almost bankrupted Ontario during their reign in Ontario during the 1980s. Oh yes and what about the hydro elec-tric power that is going south from QC? I put that into the category of raw material, how about you Mr. Moore?

Gene Hamelin, Hastings

EMC Editorial - Fourteen years ago, scientists developed a genetically engineered ver-sion of rice that would promote the production of vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in develop-ing countries. In a few months, the Philippines will become the first country to start giving “golden rice” out to its farmers. Bangladesh and Indonesia will follow suit soon, and India is seriously considering it.

Good, but 14 years is rather a long time, isn’t it? The number of children in developing countries who went blind from vitamin A deficiency dur-ing that time (half of whom died within twelve months of losing their sight) runs into the low millions. (The World Health Organisation estimates that between a quarter-million and a half-million children a year go blind from vitamin A-deficiency.)

“Golden rice” contains beta-carotene, an orange-coloured pigment that is a key precursor chemical used by the body to make vitamin A. Sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach and butternut squash are naturally rich in beta-carotene, but ordinary white rice contains almost none. And rice is the most important food in the diet of about half the world’s people.

So what caused such a delay in getting it out to the farmers? It was created by Peter Beyer, professor for cell biology at Freiburg University in Germany, and Ingo Potrykus of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Switzerland in the late 1990s, and was ready for field trials by 2000. But the first field trials were delayed for seven years by protests from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, and crossing various regulatory hurdles took an-other six.

Both the protests and the regulatory hurdles were based on the notion that genetically engineered plants are “unnatural.” Which automatically raises the ques-tion: which human food crops are actually “natural,” in the sense that you will find them growing wild in nature. Answer: none.

That’s why ecologist Stewart Brand has proposed the phrase “genetically engineered” (GE) in lieu of the more common “genetically modified” (GM) on the grounds that ALL domesticated plants have been genetically mod-ified, by cross-breeding or by blasting seeds with radia-tion. None of them would survive in the wild.

Gene-splicing is just a more efficient and neater way of achieving the same goals. Much of the early opposition to GE was no more than a superstitious fear of the un-known, and there was also genuine concern that it might

pose health risks to consumers.The way GE crops were first introduced was bound to

arouse opposition. In 1996 Monsanto, the world’s leading biotech company, began to market GE versions of corn, soybean, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa that had been engineered to tolerate glyphosate, a very effective herbicide the company had been selling with great suc-cess as “Roundup” since 1974.

The patent on “Roundup” was expiring in 2000, al-lowing glyphosate to be made by rival companies. But in practice Monsanto’s patents on the new GE seeds ex-tended its monopoly for decades more: farmers could buy glyphosate wherever they wanted, but to use it to best ef-fect they had to buy Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant seeds (called, of course, “Roundup Ready”).

Then Monsanto used relentless lobbying to get its GE seeds through the approval process and out onto the market. It succeeded in North America and most other major grain-growing areas, but not in Europe—and its strong-arm tactics created deep resentment and suspicion in many quarters. A decade and a half later, that still lin-gers.

But it’s now clear that GE crops pose no health risk. North Americans have been eating them for 15 years, whereas Europeans scarcely eat them at all, but there is no significant difference in disease and death rates that can be linked to GE food.

Meanwhile crop yields have risen dramatically, herbi-cide and pesticide use has declined, and no-till farming that cuts carbon dioxide emissions caused by ploughing has become far more common. The opposition to GE crops never came from farmers, and it’s now in steep de-cline in the general public as well.

There are seven billion of us now, and there will be at least eight-and-a-half billion before the human popu-lation of this planet stops growing. Moreover, as living standards rise in most formerly poor countries, diet is changing too and much more meat is consumed. To meet that demand, even more grain is needed.

We are using 40 per cent of the land surface of the planet to grow our food. That is already too much, be-cause replacing the complex natural ecology with our monocrop agriculture removes vital elements from the chemical and biological cycles that keep our climate sta-ble. As environmentalist Jim Lovelock, the author of the Gaia hypothesis, put it: “We cannot have both our crops and a steady comfortable climate.”

But perhaps we could have it both ways if we cut back to, say, 30 per cent of the planet’s land surface devoted to agriculture. Or 25 per cent. The point is that we must reduce the area we are farming, not increase it. The only way to do that is to raise crop yields dramatically. Geneti-cally engineered crops may be able to meet that demand. There are no other proposed solutions on the table.

Genetic Engineering: Golden rice

A refinery in Canada would be met with resistance

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Civic awards celebration honours volunteersContinued from page 1Campbellford Minor Hockey and the Rebels Hockey Camp for kids.

A second recipient Stewart Battman was described as, “a multi-talented young man, but it is for his exceptional performance in softball that he is being celebrated this evening.”

The Community Betterment Civic Award was presented to the Warkworth Community Service Club active in the community since 1947.

A second recipient was Sonny Len-non, who received multiple nomina-tions. The list of his commitments and contributions to community initiatives and projects are long and well known.

The Cultural Award of Merit went to Artworth, a Trent Hills’ children’s art camp. The group “has a vision of active-ly encouraging young people to fall in love with art and to be the future stew-

ards of this cultural environment.”The Architectural Conservation Civic

Award went to Gary Hoag for the excep-tional restoration work he has done on his 143-year-old farmhouse in Wark-worth, which he calls Savanna Park.

The Recreation and Sport Award went to Carol Dunk and Darlene Nicholas for the extra energy and time they have giv-en as dedicated supporters of events and activities for more than 30 years at the Campbellford Arena.

The Accessibility Award went to Apollo’s Restaurant, which has support-ed the quest of implementing accessibil-ity, social connection, and inclusivity in the community by making their restau-rant accessible and barrier-free.

A long list of groups and organiza-tions were also honoured for their com-mitment to the communities of Trent Hills

The Heritage Awareness Civic Award was presented to two organizations, joined by Mayor Hector Mac-millan, extreme right and went to the staff at MacLaren IDA Pharmacy, (front row) for providing a trip down memory lane with the storefront streetscape and The Hastings Historical Society (representatives in back row) that decided it was time for the community to officially celebrate one of our own, declaring Dit Clapper Day in August of last year and memorializing him with the renaming of Water Street to Dit Clapper Drive.

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Second recipient of the Outstanding Youth Award was The Youth Advisory Council which is made up of students from Campbellford District High School: from left, Hazel McMillan, Caroline Curle and Hannah Curle.

The Sport Excellence Civ-ic Award was awarded to Cole Mahoney, right, who excels at many sports in many ways, from play-ing badminton, hockey, softball, and rugby to volunteering his time with Campbellford Minor Hockey and the Rebels Hockey Camp for kids. The award also went to Stewart Battman, left, a member of the Campbell-ford Cougars which won Ontario Championships in 2007, 2008, and 2010.

The Agricultural Leadership Award was presented to David DeNure, owner/operator of the Community Livestock Exchange in Hoards Sta-tion, frequented by farmers and tourists from Kingston to Lindsay and beyond since 1949.

The Architectural Conservation Civic Award went to Gary Hoag for the exceptional res-toration work he has done on his 143-year-old farmhouse in Warkworth, which he calls Savanna Park.

The cultural Award of Merit went to Artworth, a Trent Hills children’s art camp based in Warkworth: from left, Trish York, Sara Jane Shakura and Monica Johnson.

The Recreation and Sport Award went to these two ladies for the countless extra energy and time they give as dedicated supporters of events and activities for more than 30 years at the Campbellford Arena: from left, Darlene Nicholas and Carol Dunk.

The Outstanding Youth Award for the exceptional contributions made by a youth to their community and/or their school was presented to 11-year-old Sadie Mees, who every year for her birthday holds a food drive in lieu of gifts to support the local food bank.

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Luke Benjamin was both per-former and MC at Javafest. The cool night of music and perfor-mance marked the return of a full-fledged Javafest and was welcome by students and com-munity members who packed the lecture hall. Luke covered Dr. Hook’s Carry me Carrie.

Brittany Stewart sang Christina Aguilera’s Beauti-ful at the jam-packed Norwood District High School Javafest last week.

EMC Entertainment - Megan Wilson showed the standing-room-only audience at the Norwood Dis-trict High School Javafest why she won the 2012 Kawartha Idol competition. Megan dazzled the au-dience with her take on Adele’s Turn the Tables. The brilliant night of entertainment featured 11 acts and marked the return of a full-fledged Javafest jam.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood - There will be more literary sizzle in Norwood April 13 when a trio of acclaimed writers bring their distinctive work to the inti-mate stage at the Cat Sass Coffeehouse.

Peterborough-based author Michelle Berry will be joined by Judy Fong Bates and Natalee Caple as part of an ongo-ing Canada Council for the Arts reading series at the funky and popular Highway 7 venue.

Berry is the author of three books of short stories as well as four novels. Her most recent collection of stories, I Still Don’t Even Know You, won the 2011 Scorer Award for the best book published by a Manitoba publisher and was also shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award.

Her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was also longlisted for a ReLit Award. Berry and Caple are co-editors of The Notebook: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers.

She is a frequent book reviewer for The Globe and Mail and has taught creative writing at Ryerson University, Humber College and Trent University and was on the board of PEN Canada, served as vice chair of the Writer’s Union and was also on the board of the author’s committee of the Writer’s Trust. Berry is currently teaching at the

University of Toronto/New York Times and is a mentor at Humber.

Fong Bates is the author of the criti-cally acclaimed short story collection China Dog and Other Stories; her novel Midnight at the Dragon Café has been se-lected as the “one book” for Toronto, Hal-ton Hills, Orillia and Portland, Oregon.

The Year of Finding Memory, a per-sonal and family memoir, was a Globe 100 Best Book.

Fong Bates arrived in Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns. She and

her husband live on a farm outside Toronto where they en-joy gardening and hiking

Caple’s short story collection The Heart is its Own Rea-son has been optioned for a movie and received strong re-views from The New York Times. Her poetry collection, A More Tender Ocean, is nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award.

The Toronto-based writer’s newest novel In Calamity’s Wake is set in the badlands of the North American west and tells the story of orphaned Miette’s search for her notorious mother Calamity Jane.

In all, Caple has published four works of fi ction and two poetry collections.

The free Cat Sass reading runs from 5 to 7 p.m.

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“It’s just a good thing to give back something”

Sheila Crowell was volunteering in Hastings at Todd’s Valu Mart for this year’s Canadian Cancer Society Da� odil Days fund raiser. Photo: Bill Freeman

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings - Sheila Crowell lost her father to cancer nine years ago so her desire to help local Cancer Soci-ety fund-raising efforts during last week’s Daffodil Days was personal and poignant.

“Cancer has touched just about every family,” Crowell told the Northwest EMC while volunteering at the local Daffodil Days table at Todd’s Valu Mart in Hastings.

“It touches everyone and it is something that we should all be involved in in some way to try and combat it or make the suffering easier,” Crowell said.

“It’s a good thing just to give back something.”Crowell is a newcomer to Hastings and to Canada, moving

to this country three years and to the Hub of the Trent two-and-a-half-years ago.

Volunteering to assist worthy local causes is a way to get to know a new community, she says.

“To anybody moving to a smaller community I would say, ‘Be involved in your local community as much as you can.’ There are so many voluntary things you can get involved in. I love this sort of community and am very happy to be here.”

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By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - There was a strong Norwood District High School Knights contingent at this week’s Kawartha high school badminton cham-pionships in Campbellford and Halibur-ton.

The senior Knights had 14 athletes on the floor in Campbellford Tuesday while eight juniors travelled to Haliburton for the April 11 showdown.

The seniors qualified for the finals at Cobourg East last week while the ju-niors made their mark at Holy Cross.

On the senior side Jordan Burtt and Jenna Baptie teamed up to take the mixed doubles gold at the Kawartha qualifier while Travis Bennett and Van-essa Crowley placed fourth.

Alana Reed and Emma Smith came home with gold in the women’s doubles while Kate Oliver and Courtney Wright came in fourth.

In the men’s doubles, Dan and Jared Widdis earned silver with Travis Ben-nett and Sam Gerow finishing fourth.

Hannah Angermann took bronze in the women’s singles with Ashley Baird placing fourth.

At the junior qualifier at Holy Cross Mike Burtt and Kelen McIvor took gold in the mixed doubles with the team of Braden Thompson and Shannon Bel-lamy placing fourth.

In the men’s doubles Jacob Bennett and Brent Smith earned silver while the Grade 9 team of Hayden Leeper and Kyle McGriskin came in fourth.

Strong Knights team at Kawartha badminton finals

Nickson rink takes Spring Fling title

Doris Nickson’s rink from the Peterborough Curling Club placed first overall at the annual Ladies Spring Fling bonspiel at the Norwood Curling Club. Mem-bers of the rink also included Jane Moore, Janet Schmidt and Wendy Stamplecoske. Photo: Submitted

By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Doris Nickson’s rink captured the overall La-dies Spring Fling bonspiel title outduelling 15 other teams for

the championship trophy. Nickson vice skipped the Peterborough Curling Club rink along with Jane Moore at skip, Janet Schmidt second and lead Wendy Stamplecoske posting a score of 152 to capture the “B” draw lead and overall points.

Finishing second was the Joy Reid’s “A” draw winning rink out of Marmora with 145 points which also included Wendy McCoy, vice, Jean Croskery second and Tracey Nicol-son at lead.

Earning runner-up honours in the “A” draw was Carolyn Quakenbush’s team out of Omemee which finished with 125 points.

Sharon Scott’s Norwood rink placed third in the draw with 90 points.

Placing second in the “B” draw was Linda Parcel’s Lakefield rink with 136 points. Mar-je Lunn from Norwood placed third with 89 points.

Other “A” draw winners included Nancy McDonald who claimed the 50-50 prize and

the closest to the button award. Ellen Demsey won the Foodland grocery basket and Darlene Brown, a member of the Demsey rink, won the flower arrangement from Fieldstone Flowers.

On the “B” side Angela Hook and Eleanor Price shared the 50-50 draw while Fran Fulford won the closest to the button. The Foodland grocery basket was won by Donna Anderson.

Sixteen teams from Marmora, Keene, Pe-terborough, Omemee, Lakefield, Brighton and Norwood participated in the annual bonspiel.

James Gang goalie eager to play

Norwood James Gang goalie Craig Robertson will share net minding duties with Cole Murray and Angus Dineley. The team’s home opener is May 11 against Owen Sound. It will be a special kids evening with prizes for every child and a chance to win a free lacrosse stick. Photo: Bill Freeman

By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - Norwood James Gang goalie Cole Murray has had a full year to shake off the disappoint-ment of an early play-off exit last season at the hands of their arch rivals from Brooklin.

“We’re getting that little itch to play again,” Murray told the Trent Hills Regional News. “We got beat by three goals; that’s not very much in lacrosse.”

The Merchants beat Norwood 10 - 9 and 9 - 7 to advance in the OLA Senior B play-offs where they extended even-tual league champion St. Catharines a full five games in their semi-final match-up.

The 2012 season was electric with three points separat-ing the top five teams which meant every game had play-off implications.

“Every team was right there, every team was on a level playing field,” Murray, a 2004 National Lacrosse League draft pick and former Senior B MVP, said.

Murray, Craig Robertson and Angus Dineley formed the league’s top goaltending platoon last season and Murray says there’s a friendly level of competitiveness among the trio that keeps them sharp.

“There is competitiveness between us but we still enjoy each other’s company and we’re all good friends. We each bring something different.”

Dineley, the top goalie this winter in the Canadian La-crosse League with the Toronto Shooting Stars and MVP candidate, is “fast, quick and reactive” while Robertson and Murray “like to cut the angles down.”

All three get involved in the transition offence, often a de-cisive factor in such a tightly bunched league.

Murray says fans appreciate the high level of play the Se-nior B league offers.

“Now it’s almost a feeder system for the NLL and Major Series. Every team probably has two or three NLL players who just don’t want the competitiveness of Senior A. They want to enjoy their summer with less lacrosse; but they’re still there and they’re still the best guys on their team.”

Murray is glad Six Nations are back in the league.

The Six Nations Rivermen join the league and should be a strong addition.

“They bring some creativity to the game and heart. It’s good to see them back. They could probably put together three senior B teams. Everybody plays lacrosse down there.”

The Rivermen are in Norwood June 1.

Murray says the Junior A players who suit up for Norwood “fit right in.

“It’s pretty hard to make the Lakers right out of Junior even if you were one of the top scorers. Those guys [the Lak-ers] are NLL all-stars,” he says.

There are adjustments to be made jumping from junior to senior and Mur-ray says James Gang veterans help out the younger players.

“It’s a lot stronger. It’s a man’s game, especially for a defensive player. Every-body adjusts [but] it takes a good half season to get there.”

Leadership in the dressing room is something the James Gang pride them-selves on.

“We have a good core; we’ve devel-oped good bonds and we bring that to the floor as a team,” Murray said.

The James Gang start their season May 4 in Sarnia and are at home May 11 against Owen Sound.

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By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - If the demand is there there will be youth ball hockey at the Asphodel-Nor-wood Community Centre this summer.

“A number of parents have asked me (if there is go-ing to be ball hockey,” Community Centre Operations manager Greg Hartwick explained to council while asking for approval to spend $200 from the youth ball hockey reserve to restart the program.

“I hadn’t planned on it in my budget,” Hartwick admitted.

But with a “small reserve” available, Hartwick said he would like to advertise registration for the league.

“Youth ball hockey was run for four years at the Community Centre by staff [but] numbers had de-clined to the point that it was diffi cult to run in 2011,” he said.

The program was not offered last summer, he add-ed.

“It barely broke even that’s why we didn’t run it in 2012,” Hartwick said.

“A number of parents expressed interest in ball hockey again for their children to the point that the numbers warrant offering the program again.”

“These parents were very enthusiastic,” he added.The ball hockey program is for kids six to 12 and

runs for eight weeks. It wraps up near the end of June.The $200 will cover the cost of advertising the pro-

gram; the $45 registration fee meets all other costs and will produce a small surplus that will be channelled back into the reserve fund.

Hartwick says the concession booth will see an in-crease in business with the addition of the program.

Novice curlers wrap it upEMC Sports - The Norwood Curl-ing Club’s Novice league wrapped up play last week with a special fun day and awards ceremony. Win-ning the overall title this season was the rink of (l-r) Jack Wilson, Sarah Wilson, Austin Murray and Avery Page. All curlers received a free gift certi� cate from Wrap it Up-N-Go. Registration for next sea-son will be during the � rst week in December. Photo: Bill Freeman

EMC Sports - Abby Partington received the most improved curl-er award during the Norwood Curling Club’s novice league wrap-up awards day last week. She is joined in the photo by instructor and program supervisor Sherry Wilson. Photo: Bill Freeman

EMC Sports - Norwood Curling Club president Brian Rad-nor presented the outstanding girl and boy awards during the novice league curling wrap-up party last week. Taking top honours among the girls was Sarah Wilson while Ste-ven Wilson and Hayden Baptie shared the top boy honour. Photo: Bill Freeman

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By Sue DickensEMC Lifestyles - Campbellford - It was a difficult task, choosing the recipi-ents of the civic awards this year hosted by Trent Hills, but the selection commit-tee made its decisions resulting in more than a dozen individuals and even more groups being honoured.

In some cases there were two award winners for the same category.

“So what we’re doing tonight is a mere token, a gesture of our apprecia-tion; it never seems like enough,” said Mayor Hector Macmillan.

This was the fourth annual civic awards night and it was held in conjunc-tion with the 12th volunteer apprecia-tion ceremonies.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Havelock - Ambulance calls to Havelock-Bel-mont-Methuen increased 16.9 per cent in 2012 but there has been an improvement in ambulance response times to the township.

In 2012, Peterborough Paramedics responded to 529 calls in HBM up from 453 in 2011. The average response time was 25 minutes and 44 seconds which Peterborough County Paramedics deputy-chief Chris Barry says is an improvement of one minute and 16 seconds.

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He was pleased with the HBM times.“We’re getting to see your residents a lot quicker,” he said.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings - It’s a bank account that hopefully is not needed but the Hastings Emergency Disaster Fund is there to bring some “peace of mind” to families faced with a sudden fi re ca-tastrophe, says Trent Hills Fire Chief Tim Blake.

The Hastings fund, offi cially launched last week, builds on major contributions from the Hastings Fire-fi ghters Association and the Hastings Waterfront Festival. The Firefi ghters Association donated the $2,063 raised during their annual Christmas Toonie draw while the Waterfront Festival added $1,000.

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When Blake became Trent Hills Fire Chief in July he approached the Hast-ings Firefi ghters Association following two structure fi res that left families in need of help.

“There was no avenue there to look after those people. I approached them to see if they were interested in doing something to start a program up and I met with 100 per cent support.”

The money assists individuals and families for a couple of days while they have time to deal with their insurance companies, he explained.

“If they’ve just lost pretty much ev-erything in a house fi re it’s not some-thing they need to be worrying about. It puts their mind at ease a little bit. Yester-day when we did that it actually did put their mind at ease.”

Fire victims shouldn’t have to worry about where they are going to stay over-night or where they will get clothing, he said.

“I personally feel we’re helping. I’m

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood - A 66-lot subdivision plan has new life after receiving approval for a rezoning request from township council.

The subdivision was “never developed but always ex-

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Sixty-six-lot subdivision will be rezonedisted,” explained Peterborough County manager of planning Iain Mudd as he discussed the application fi led by the prop-erty’s new owners Balterre Contracting.

“The proponents want to undertake a re-design to provide a more suitable layout for the subdivision rather than the pre-vious one so you’ve got a re-design of the subdivision and a re-zoning to refl ect that new layout,” Mudd said.

“This is phase one,” Mudd said noting that the previous developer had proposed two phases of subdivision develop-ment.

Mudd said the new developers “do have plans to pursue phase two at some date in the future but currently there is no proposal on the table for phase two.”

The subject property includes a centre block which will be designed as a park; on the east and west sides there are links to allow access directly from the street to the park.

Mudd said there is another open space to the south where a storm management pond will be designed to handle storm water from around the site. In the very north end of the sub-division Albine Street would be widened to bring it up to a 16-foot road allowance.

The subdivision can also be accessed from Helen Street to the southeast.

“The developer felt having a looped system for infrastruc-ture purposes and emergency access was better for the subdi-vision. We concur with that,” said Mudd.

“It is a better layout.”Mudd stressed there is no proposal to open up Charles

Street to the east of the subdivision.It would be council’s decision what to do with Charles

Street, he added. The municipality could stop it up and close it or it could continue to own the property.

“It’s an enclosed road allowance,” he said. “It’s your dis-cretion what to do with it.”

Councillor Mary Hay said she preferred to keep the park visible to homes in the subdivision.

“I wouldn’t want to see board fences or high hedges there,” said Hay. “People don’t like playgrounds that are totally en-closed.”

Mudd said council can “stipulate that sort of stuff; it is not a zoning issue.

“You do have the authority through a subdivision agree-ment to dictate what kind fencing [is used],” he said. “You also have the authority to dictate what the preferred access road would be into the subdivision.”

The municipality can also dictate what street would be used by construction vehicles, said Mudd.

The municipality will now prepare a bylaw to amend the zoning.

very happy; I’m very proud of the guys. The stuff that the Trent Hills Fire De-partment do [in the community]; they put in a lot of work. They are very com-mitted and Trent Hills is lucky to have them.”

Hastings fi refi ghter Roger Ferguson says this year’s toonie draw was more successful than in other years “because of what we were fund raising for.

“In the past it’s always been for equip-ment. This was just to get it started; to get it rolling.”

Ferguson isn’t sure all of next year’s draw proceeds will go to the emergency fund or whether it will be split with an-other cause.

“Our association will decide what amount.”

“The Waterfront Festival is all about Hastings and Trent Hills so we just wanted to give a donation to somewhere it would do some good,” added festival

On hand for the cheque presentation were (l-r) Trent Hills Deputy Fire Chief John Austin; Trent Hills clerk Marg Montgomery; Erin Farley, Wa-terfront Festival chair; Trent Hills Fire Chief Tim Blake; Hastings � re-� ghter Roger Ferguson and Dennis Savery. Photo: Bill Freeman

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The first ever multi-ball competition sponsored by St. James Anglican Church and Northumberland Youth

By Sue DickensEMC News - Trent Hills - Trent Hills is putting the brakes on the use of e-bikes on trails, parks and sidewalks that are owned by the municipality.

The matter came before council at a recent regular meeting in a staff report which noted that the Trent Hills Police Services Board (PSB) had discussed the issue last fall and asked staff to research what other municipalities were doing to regulate e-bikes.

Staff found examples of bylaws prohib-iting operation of e-bikes in certain situa-tions in places such as Oshawa, Brampton and Peterborough.

Councillor Rosemary Kelleher-Ma-cLennan, who also sits on the police ser-vices board, talked about the uses made of the Rotary Trail along the canal in Camp-bellford.

“We get e-bikes on there and you’ve got people walking, people with carriages pushing babies, people with wheelchairs going around there,” she commented.

“Our [municipal] trails are pedestrian trails,” said Mayor Hector Macmillan.

E-bikes are bicycles powered by elec-tronic motors and are capable of achieving speeds up to 32 kilometres an hour. There is no requirement to have a licence to op-erate or insurance.

“Since these bikes are very quiet, they often take walkers by surprise,” stated Jim Peters, director of planning, in his report to council.

The bylaw, which was approved by council, also requires that e-bikes be oper-ated in accordance with the classification set out in the Highway Traffic Act and in accordance with the provincial definition of an e-bike.

But the discussion of e-bikes led to talk about another problem—scooters.

“We have a problem with scooters too,”

Trent Hills council puts the brakes on e-bikessaid Mayor Macmillan.

“We want e-bikes to stay off the sidewalks but we’ve got to do something about getting the scooters off the roads because almost none of them are on the sidewalks and there’s going to be an accident whether they are a handicapped vehicle, an accessible cart etc. We’ve got to get those off the roads be-cause somebody is going to get injured or worse,” he said.

“We need to address that be-cause that is public issue num-ber one I am receiving com-ments about,” he added.

“It’s illegal for those ve-hicles [scooters] to be on the road, they don’t have lights, signal lights, or slow moving signs on them and they are on the roads all the time.”

The discussion included

safety concerns and ways to educate the public.

“Perhaps we might look at more communication with our community and promote be-ing a destination where we do encourage people to use our roads for bicycles and e-bikes and other forms of transporta-tion to become more green as well,” said Councillor Kelle-her-MacLennan.

“Part of this report is asking for a communications plan, the [Trent Hills] Communicator, the web site and perhaps social media, so maybe we can talk about not only where we don’t want them but where people can be more active with them,” said Peters.

The information is slated to be posted on the municipal web site too.

Multi-ball, monster fun in Roseneathfor Christ took over the Alnwick Civic Centre and the Roseneath Fair-grounds with participants throwing, shooting and dodging balls in every direction.

Four teams participated in ball hockey, dodge ball, monster ball and obstacle course action throughout the afternoon during an event that is part of St. James’ 150th anniversary cel-ebrations.

There was also a family movie eve-ning featuring the film Courageous.

“We wanted to do something throughout the area and we wanted to do something for youth,” said orga-nizer Faith Osmond.

“We wanted to show young people that we support them and we want them to come and have a fun day,” Osmond told the Trent Hills Regional News.

Osmond said it was a true ecumeni-cal event with volunteers from all lo-cal churches on hand to help with the barbeque along with 20 to 25 volun-teers from Northumberland Youth for Christ.

“These are all people who are in-terested in youth today and who want to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” she said.

“I hope that it’s visible to the com-munity and we hope the community takes in the movie. We really worked hard to promote it.”

There were prizes but Osmond said they were really just the “icing on the cake.

“The whole day is about having fel-lowship and having fun [and] we’ve tried to cover all the age groups,” she said.

Osmond hopes it becomes an an-nual event.

“This is needed in this area; there are a lot of kids out there at loose ends and don’t know what to do with their time. Something like this is an event to look forward to throughout the year.”

“We’ve had tons of co-operation,” added Christine Moss, interim execu-tive director/Cobourg area director for Northumberland Youth for Christ.

“It’s neat the way the volunteers have come together from our area and Faith’s church.”

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Three months into the launch of the STEMI (ST segment eleva-tion myocardial infarction) bypass program, patients outcomes have confi rmed what the experts already

EMC News - Look at what I can do says four-year-old Jesse Spencer of Campbellford. She is one of about a dozen children enjoying the games, crafts and snacks during the Play and Learn morning held recently at the Ontario Early Years Centre here. The activities help the children socialize so they are more prepared for the day they start school. Photo: Sue Dickens

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know, their chances of survival have increased expo-nentially.

Code STEMI-EMS bypass is a regional catheteriza-tion program that was started January 8.

Chief of Emergency Medical Services Tarmo Uukki-vi spoke with Trent Hills Regional News about the new program and the benefi ts he has witnessed as a result.

When asked outright if the STEMI program is mak-

ing a difference, he replied, “The short answer is yes, it’s working and there’s a positive impact and out-come on these patients.”

To date there have been two cases here and in both, “the outcomes are so remarkable that it makes you very optimistic for the future.”

When a person suffers a heart at-tack, a STEMI, the coronary artery is completely blocked off by a blood clot and virtually all heart muscle starts to die. The sooner the patient arrives for care at the cath lab the better the outcome.

“The medical evidence and stud-ies out there related to heart attacks show defi nitive treatment for heart attacks is cardiac catheterization with angioplasty,” said Uukkivi.

“Balloon angioplasty with or without a stent placement, that’s the gold standard,” he added.

“Time is muscle. The sooner we can get to the balloon angioplasty the better. If we go to the local hos-pital they are obligated by law to as-sess the patient.”

That means more time passes while they are suffering from a heart attack.

“Prior to Peterborough having the STEMI program in place we would have to take patients to Kingston or Toronto,” said Uukkivi.

“Our paramedics are trained to read an ECG. It is a diagnostic tool that gives a lot of information about the heart,” he explained.

Taking them to PRHC is a new opportunity that gets these patients to a cath lab faster.

“Another important message to get out to the public is that when having chest pains call EMS—do not drive yourself. It’s a safety ele-ment,” he said with conviction.

Northumberland County’s EMS has seven ambulances covering 2,000 square kilometres with 48 full-time and 46 part-time paramed-ics who respond to an average of 20,000 calls annually.

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But compared to other townships HBM is “not the highest; kind of closest to the middle.”

In the county, Asphodel-Norwood has the quickest average response time at 14:48 and North Kawartha the longest at 30:28. The township of Trent Lakes had an average time of 29:35; Selwyn 19:09; Douro-Dummer, 20:20 and Ca-van-Monaghan, 20:26.

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Continued from page 1 number but we’re obviously going to have to look at service to match trends,” Chief English said.

“We’re trying to get much more with what we have now but we haven’t added a new ambulance or staff since 2008. We’re still getting good results in some areas but the wire is

getting stretched and is starting to get thin in some areas,” he said.

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The association received $7,600 to help present the festival, which will take place May 18 and 19.

“Warkworth’s Art in the Park has been growing each year, becoming more di-verse and attracting visitors well beyond the borders of Northumberland County. I am pleased to witness the success of this festival and to help grow Art in the Park even further,” said Norlock.

“By supporting this organization, our government is delivering on its com-mitment to strengthen our economy and support our arts, culture and heritage,” he added.

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Dear Editor,Regarding Rolly Ethier’s letter en-

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Mr. Ethier questions the loyalty of NDP leader Thomas Mulcair on his visit to Washington to discuss the viability of the proposed pipeline which would transport Canadian oil sands crude across the country. I am very disap-pointed that within the letter there was not more substance and less denigration of the character of Mr. Mulcair. There was nothing cited, no specifi cs, as to why Mr. Ethier feels that Mr. Mulcair is betraying Canada and its interests. It appeared merely a string of insults but nothing of substance, and therefore,

nothing with which to debate intelli-gently. Unless, of course, one feels that engaging in a session of name-calling is constructive to anything of value.

From CBC News: “Moreover, Mul-cair insisted he said nothing to his vari-ous American audiences that he hasn’t been saying for months back home in Canada about the Tories’ lamentable en-vironmental record and the NDP’s pref-erence for sustainable development of natural resources, creating value-added refi nery jobs in Canada and building a pipeline to carry western oil to the east coast.” That doesn’t sound to me like the intentions of a “traitor.”

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carrying Canadian crude, wherein the toxic substance has been fl owing down citizens’ streets into storm sewers and poisoning well water, not to mention the destruction to the local ecosystem and wildlife, it seems quite reasonable to question at least some of the proposed venture’s merit.

Canadian oil sands crude is well known to be quite abrasive. Travelling through a pipeline at high pressure un-doubtedly increases wear on a pipeline, increasing its vulnerability to corrosion and rupture.

It would make more sense to refi ne

the crude at its source, thereby remov-ing its abrasive constituents and reduc-ing the potential for future pipeline rup-tures, and thus create value-added jobs in Canada in the process.

No doubt, these and other consider-ations are what is being discussed at the talks.

Mr. Mulcair has never said he is against oil sands development. He has merely stated the sands should be devel-oped more responsibly than at present. I wholeheartedly agree.

Unless we relish the notion of toxic crude fl owing down our streets, into our

well water, down our streams, rivers and into our lakes, we should be applauding Thomas Mulcair’s efforts to protect Ca-nadians and Americans from any further disasters, of which the recent Mayfl ow-er, Arkansas, spill is but one of many.

On the contrary, the loyalty of Thom-as Mulcair to Canadians, our jobs, our collective wealth and our health and safety is unprecedented in the history of Canada and should be applauded, not scorned.

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Dear Editor,Like most other people in my riding, a flyer arrived

in the door recently paid for by our taxes, asking which tax would I prefer to have cut, (not can we afford any tax cuts, nor any clue as to what services would be cut to pay for them). The second question asked, do I think we should balance the budget (this also involves service cuts); in short the “Hot Button” issues which appeal to

the Conservative base of supporters. The irony to me is that these same stupid questions keep coming from a party, which claims to be the best at managing our tax dollars. At the federal level, we could help balance the budget by not buying billions of dollars worth of very shaky F35 fighter jets, (are they all still grounded in the USA?) or by not allowing our warship builders to double the cost in the estimates … and still counting.

The Conservatives came to power when Canada had a healthy $10-billion surplus, so they very quickly gave it away to their corporate cronies in tax cuts. Now we are deep in the hole and their bizarre solution is more tax cuts, and selling off public assets.

We could stop subsidizing big oil companies with bil-lions in tax money, most of whom are busy trashing a large chunk of Alberta.

We could go after the big time tax cheats with off-shore accounts in dozens of tax havens around the globe. The unfolding list of hundreds of Canadian millionaires evading taxes may go some way in improving tax rev-enues. That is if our government acts on this.

Here’s the rub. The investigation, which led to the out-ing of high roller tax cheats, was carried out by “investi-gative journalists,” not by the RCMP, FBI, or any official branch of government.

Take Mr. Black; rumours have it that after serving his jail time in the U.S. he is now being considered for a seat in the senate. He is not even a Canadian citizen. Most released prisoners have a hard time finding employment, but then likely none of them once wore a Lord’s robe.

Rich fraudsters are treated differently than Joe aver-age, always have been, always will be. If you steal bil-lions you may still receive your multi-million year-end bonus, or possibly have to move on with a golden hand-shake. Steal a few hundred and do serious jail time.

The UK appears to have 157,000 offshore directors who can rest a little easier after the UK minister assured the public not to expect any speedy action on prosecuting them. This came after a bold speech by the prime min-ister at the G20 on bringing an end to tax havens. Many of the rich in countries around the globe have joined this tax scam resulting in a shortage of revenues for public services, which is what the Conservatives here would like to cut further.

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By Terry BushEMC Editorial - So who’s doing okay in our global economy? You could search the Internet or tune into the nightly news to find out. Or you could just travel to some distant land and see who else shows up.

On our recent trip to New Zealand and Australia, we soon discovered that Germans seem to be making money … a lot of money. German travellers are spread so far and wide throughout both countries it makes one wonder who’s actually still at home keeping the economic engine running. It seems to be a rite of passage for German youth to travel around the globe, much like youth from Ontario head “out west” in their late teens and early 20s. So many Germans head down under that many of the croc warning signs are in German as well as English.

Further down the straw poll are the British who, while obviously having the money to travel, also feel a natural affinity with both Aussies and Kiwis. Australians, Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans round out the top of the list in New Zealand with a few Dutchies and Canucks thrown in for good measure. Surprisingly, Israelis were also regu-larly found wandering the mountain tops and glaciers.

When asked where all the Americans were, we were told few travel to NZ and most head to Australia. I thought that made sense.

Like most Canadians I assumed that Australians and Americans had some kind of kinship considering the Aussies had followed the Yanks into Iraq and Afghanistan. This assumption couldn’t be farther from the truth. As one gentleman explained, “When we hear your accent, we always ask where you’re from to be on the safe side. We know Ca-nadians hate anyone to think they’re American and we understand why.”

This gentleman put it as succinctly as anyone could. “We’re not fond of Americans because they seem to be under the impression that the whole world wants to be like them. They come here and tell us we should do things the way they do. We’re Australian and do things the Australian way. Canadians and Europeans visit and they don’t want to change us. They accept us and enjoy us just the way we are.”

Funny where you might find an anti-American tirade. When looking for a didgeridoo at a shop in Cairns, we were assailed by a string of expletives directed at the USA by the proprietor. As he put it, rhyming off Vietnam and Malaysia as examples, Americans are great at starting wars, but in his part of the world, Aussies always die cleaning up the mess the Yanks make long after the Americans go home. The strange part of all this was it was conservative Australians who seemed most fed up with the USA. Many we talked to hated their current Labor government for agreeing to host an American armed forces base as part of their Asian pivot. Because of their involvement as allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Australians are now worried about blowback from Malaysia and Indonesia, two nearby Muslim countries with not much use for Australia anymore. On the flipside, Australia loves Ellen. The talk show star made the Aussie news every night during her recent visit.

But best of all, Australia loves Canadians. “It’s a love-love relationship,” said one ho-tel manager. You’re like us with different accents and the same crazy sense of humour.”

And that woman’s characterization was pretty much bang on. The parallels are end-less.

They are a large country with a small population, less than 23 million. Much of the country is uninhabited. They’re resource rich. The evening news features stories every night with Australian president Julia Gillard apologizing to the Aborigines for the way they were treated in the past. A big deal is being made at the moment about the lost gen-eration of Aborigines, children who were taken from their parents and placed in residen-tial schools run by the church where they were abused. Others were adopted out to white families and have lost their sense of identity. And like some Canadians, many Australians complain that the government is throwing too much money at natives and only the elders are benefiting while the rest are living in poverty.

At the forefront of any discussion is the Australian government’s decision to allow Chinese companies to buy their mines and bring Chinese workers in, ship the raw mate-rial out of the country, process it and then sell the finished products back to Australians. Sound familiar?

The only difference is, once again conservative Australians are complaining about the Labor Party instead of the reverse. “Labor is selling off our resources left and right to fund social programs,” complained one self-professed conservative in an art gallery. “We should be processing our raw materials ourselves and not destroying our country so others can make money.”

Not that Australians are hard done by. With a minimum wage of $18/hour, even the poorest are somewhat better off than most. Funny the things you learn when you’re away.

Best quote of the trip went to an Israeli we met near Mount Cook in New Zealand. When told we were Canadians he remarked, that he and his friends had travelled with a couple of Quebecois for a few days and they seemed to want to separate from the rest of the country. I told him many Quebeckers never seem to be satisfied despite the money they receive from the rest of Canada.

He responded with a smile on his face, “Well, if they have nothing better to fight about than that, send them to the Middle East. There’s plenty of fighting there for everyone.”

Who has the bucks?

Dear Editor,It is obvious that Darren Moore is a staunch supporter

of Thomas Mulcair. Attempts to build a refinery in Can-ada would meet with so much resistance that by the time it was actually built years would have gone by. As you stated, sending it south would be cheaper, Canada would realize return on our investments at once. Building the refinery itself would create jobs but not permanent ones and the amount of jobs that would be required to maintain it would not be on any grand scale.

To use Quebec as an example of keeping their raw materials and manufacturing finished product is not a good example considering Quebec gets the most federal government subsidies. Bob Rae and the NDP found out in Ontario that there was an end to the money as they almost bankrupted Ontario during their reign in Ontario during the 1980s. Oh yes and what about the hydro elec-tric power that is going south from QC? I put that into the category of raw material, how about you Mr. Moore?

Gene Hamelin, Hastings

EMC Editorial - Fourteen years ago, scientists developed a genetically engineered ver-sion of rice that would promote the production of vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in develop-ing countries. In a few months, the Philippines will become the first country to start giving “golden rice” out to its farmers. Bangladesh and Indonesia will follow suit soon, and India is seriously considering it.

Good, but 14 years is rather a long time, isn’t it? The number of children in developing countries who went blind from vitamin A deficiency dur-ing that time (half of whom died within twelve months of losing their sight) runs into the low millions. (The World Health Organisation estimates that between a quarter-million and a half-million children a year go blind from vitamin A-deficiency.)

“Golden rice” contains beta-carotene, an orange-coloured pigment that is a key precursor chemical used by the body to make vitamin A. Sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach and butternut squash are naturally rich in beta-carotene, but ordinary white rice contains almost none. And rice is the most important food in the diet of about half the world’s people.

So what caused such a delay in getting it out to the farmers? It was created by Peter Beyer, professor for cell biology at Freiburg University in Germany, and Ingo Potrykus of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Switzerland in the late 1990s, and was ready for field trials by 2000. But the first field trials were delayed for seven years by protests from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, and crossing various regulatory hurdles took an-other six.

Both the protests and the regulatory hurdles were based on the notion that genetically engineered plants are “unnatural.” Which automatically raises the ques-tion: which human food crops are actually “natural,” in the sense that you will find them growing wild in nature. Answer: none.

That’s why ecologist Stewart Brand has proposed the phrase “genetically engineered” (GE) in lieu of the more common “genetically modified” (GM) on the grounds that ALL domesticated plants have been genetically mod-ified, by cross-breeding or by blasting seeds with radia-tion. None of them would survive in the wild.

Gene-splicing is just a more efficient and neater way of achieving the same goals. Much of the early opposition to GE was no more than a superstitious fear of the un-known, and there was also genuine concern that it might

pose health risks to consumers.The way GE crops were first introduced was bound to

arouse opposition. In 1996 Monsanto, the world’s leading biotech company, began to market GE versions of corn, soybean, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa that had been engineered to tolerate glyphosate, a very effective herbicide the company had been selling with great suc-cess as “Roundup” since 1974.

The patent on “Roundup” was expiring in 2000, al-lowing glyphosate to be made by rival companies. But in practice Monsanto’s patents on the new GE seeds ex-tended its monopoly for decades more: farmers could buy glyphosate wherever they wanted, but to use it to best ef-fect they had to buy Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant seeds (called, of course, “Roundup Ready”).

Then Monsanto used relentless lobbying to get its GE seeds through the approval process and out onto the market. It succeeded in North America and most other major grain-growing areas, but not in Europe—and its strong-arm tactics created deep resentment and suspicion in many quarters. A decade and a half later, that still lin-gers.

But it’s now clear that GE crops pose no health risk. North Americans have been eating them for 15 years, whereas Europeans scarcely eat them at all, but there is no significant difference in disease and death rates that can be linked to GE food.

Meanwhile crop yields have risen dramatically, herbi-cide and pesticide use has declined, and no-till farming that cuts carbon dioxide emissions caused by ploughing has become far more common. The opposition to GE crops never came from farmers, and it’s now in steep de-cline in the general public as well.

There are seven billion of us now, and there will be at least eight-and-a-half billion before the human popu-lation of this planet stops growing. Moreover, as living standards rise in most formerly poor countries, diet is changing too and much more meat is consumed. To meet that demand, even more grain is needed.

We are using 40 per cent of the land surface of the planet to grow our food. That is already too much, be-cause replacing the complex natural ecology with our monocrop agriculture removes vital elements from the chemical and biological cycles that keep our climate sta-ble. As environmentalist Jim Lovelock, the author of the Gaia hypothesis, put it: “We cannot have both our crops and a steady comfortable climate.”

But perhaps we could have it both ways if we cut back to, say, 30 per cent of the planet’s land surface devoted to agriculture. Or 25 per cent. The point is that we must reduce the area we are farming, not increase it. The only way to do that is to raise crop yields dramatically. Geneti-cally engineered crops may be able to meet that demand. There are no other proposed solutions on the table.

Genetic Engineering: Golden rice

A refinery in Canada would be met with resistance

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Civic awards celebration honours volunteersContinued from page 1Campbellford Minor Hockey and the Rebels Hockey Camp for kids.

A second recipient Stewart Battman was described as, “a multi-talented young man, but it is for his exceptional performance in softball that he is being celebrated this evening.”

The Community Betterment Civic Award was presented to the Warkworth Community Service Club active in the community since 1947.

A second recipient was Sonny Len-non, who received multiple nomina-tions. The list of his commitments and contributions to community initiatives and projects are long and well known.

The Cultural Award of Merit went to Artworth, a Trent Hills’ children’s art camp. The group “has a vision of active-ly encouraging young people to fall in love with art and to be the future stew-

ards of this cultural environment.”The Architectural Conservation Civic

Award went to Gary Hoag for the excep-tional restoration work he has done on his 143-year-old farmhouse in Wark-worth, which he calls Savanna Park.

The Recreation and Sport Award went to Carol Dunk and Darlene Nicholas for the extra energy and time they have giv-en as dedicated supporters of events and activities for more than 30 years at the Campbellford Arena.

The Accessibility Award went to Apollo’s Restaurant, which has support-ed the quest of implementing accessibil-ity, social connection, and inclusivity in the community by making their restau-rant accessible and barrier-free.

A long list of groups and organiza-tions were also honoured for their com-mitment to the communities of Trent Hills

The Heritage Awareness Civic Award was presented to two organizations, joined by Mayor Hector Mac-millan, extreme right and went to the staff at MacLaren IDA Pharmacy, (front row) for providing a trip down memory lane with the storefront streetscape and The Hastings Historical Society (representatives in back row) that decided it was time for the community to officially celebrate one of our own, declaring Dit Clapper Day in August of last year and memorializing him with the renaming of Water Street to Dit Clapper Drive.

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Second recipient of the Outstanding Youth Award was The Youth Advisory Council which is made up of students from Campbellford District High School: from left, Hazel McMillan, Caroline Curle and Hannah Curle.

The Sport Excellence Civ-ic Award was awarded to Cole Mahoney, right, who excels at many sports in many ways, from play-ing badminton, hockey, softball, and rugby to volunteering his time with Campbellford Minor Hockey and the Rebels Hockey Camp for kids. The award also went to Stewart Battman, left, a member of the Campbell-ford Cougars which won Ontario Championships in 2007, 2008, and 2010.

The Agricultural Leadership Award was presented to David DeNure, owner/operator of the Community Livestock Exchange in Hoards Sta-tion, frequented by farmers and tourists from Kingston to Lindsay and beyond since 1949.

The Architectural Conservation Civic Award went to Gary Hoag for the exceptional res-toration work he has done on his 143-year-old farmhouse in Warkworth, which he calls Savanna Park.

The cultural Award of Merit went to Artworth, a Trent Hills children’s art camp based in Warkworth: from left, Trish York, Sara Jane Shakura and Monica Johnson.

The Recreation and Sport Award went to these two ladies for the countless extra energy and time they give as dedicated supporters of events and activities for more than 30 years at the Campbellford Arena: from left, Darlene Nicholas and Carol Dunk.

The Outstanding Youth Award for the exceptional contributions made by a youth to their community and/or their school was presented to 11-year-old Sadie Mees, who every year for her birthday holds a food drive in lieu of gifts to support the local food bank.

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Luke Benjamin was both per-former and MC at Javafest. The cool night of music and perfor-mance marked the return of a full-fledged Javafest and was welcome by students and com-munity members who packed the lecture hall. Luke covered Dr. Hook’s Carry me Carrie.

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Author Judy Fong Bates will join writers Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple at the latest Canada Council for the Arts reading series at the Cat Sass Co� eehouse in Norwood April 13. Photo: Submitted

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood - There will be more literary sizzle in Norwood April 13 when a trio of acclaimed writers bring their distinctive work to the inti-mate stage at the Cat Sass Coffeehouse.

Peterborough-based author Michelle Berry will be joined by Judy Fong Bates and Natalee Caple as part of an ongo-ing Canada Council for the Arts reading series at the funky and popular Highway 7 venue.

Berry is the author of three books of short stories as well as four novels. Her most recent collection of stories, I Still Don’t Even Know You, won the 2011 Scorer Award for the best book published by a Manitoba publisher and was also shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award.

Her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was also longlisted for a ReLit Award. Berry and Caple are co-editors of The Notebook: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers.

She is a frequent book reviewer for The Globe and Mail and has taught creative writing at Ryerson University, Humber College and Trent University and was on the board of PEN Canada, served as vice chair of the Writer’s Union and was also on the board of the author’s committee of the Writer’s Trust. Berry is currently teaching at the

University of Toronto/New York Times and is a mentor at Humber.

Fong Bates is the author of the criti-cally acclaimed short story collection China Dog and Other Stories; her novel Midnight at the Dragon Café has been se-lected as the “one book” for Toronto, Hal-ton Hills, Orillia and Portland, Oregon.

The Year of Finding Memory, a per-sonal and family memoir, was a Globe 100 Best Book.

Fong Bates arrived in Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns. She and

her husband live on a farm outside Toronto where they en-joy gardening and hiking

Caple’s short story collection The Heart is its Own Rea-son has been optioned for a movie and received strong re-views from The New York Times. Her poetry collection, A More Tender Ocean, is nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award.

The Toronto-based writer’s newest novel In Calamity’s Wake is set in the badlands of the North American west and tells the story of orphaned Miette’s search for her notorious mother Calamity Jane.

In all, Caple has published four works of fi ction and two poetry collections.

The free Cat Sass reading runs from 5 to 7 p.m.

More literary sizzle at author’s night

“It’s just a good thing to give back something”

Sheila Crowell was volunteering in Hastings at Todd’s Valu Mart for this year’s Canadian Cancer Society Da� odil Days fund raiser. Photo: Bill Freeman

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings - Sheila Crowell lost her father to cancer nine years ago so her desire to help local Cancer Soci-ety fund-raising efforts during last week’s Daffodil Days was personal and poignant.

“Cancer has touched just about every family,” Crowell told the Northwest EMC while volunteering at the local Daffodil Days table at Todd’s Valu Mart in Hastings.

“It touches everyone and it is something that we should all be involved in in some way to try and combat it or make the suffering easier,” Crowell said.

“It’s a good thing just to give back something.”Crowell is a newcomer to Hastings and to Canada, moving

to this country three years and to the Hub of the Trent two-and-a-half-years ago.

Volunteering to assist worthy local causes is a way to get to know a new community, she says.

“To anybody moving to a smaller community I would say, ‘Be involved in your local community as much as you can.’ There are so many voluntary things you can get involved in. I love this sort of community and am very happy to be here.”

Crowell says she had conversations with some Daffodil Days donors who have been personally affected by cancer.

“Some are very quiet. It obviously brings back a memory

of someone in their family or a close friend,” she said.Daffodil Days is “well supported,” Crowell adds. “It goes

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By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - There was a strong Norwood District High School Knights contingent at this week’s Kawartha high school badminton cham-pionships in Campbellford and Halibur-ton.

The senior Knights had 14 athletes on the floor in Campbellford Tuesday while eight juniors travelled to Haliburton for the April 11 showdown.

The seniors qualified for the finals at Cobourg East last week while the ju-niors made their mark at Holy Cross.

On the senior side Jordan Burtt and Jenna Baptie teamed up to take the mixed doubles gold at the Kawartha qualifier while Travis Bennett and Van-essa Crowley placed fourth.

Alana Reed and Emma Smith came home with gold in the women’s doubles while Kate Oliver and Courtney Wright came in fourth.

In the men’s doubles, Dan and Jared Widdis earned silver with Travis Ben-nett and Sam Gerow finishing fourth.

Hannah Angermann took bronze in the women’s singles with Ashley Baird placing fourth.

At the junior qualifier at Holy Cross Mike Burtt and Kelen McIvor took gold in the mixed doubles with the team of Braden Thompson and Shannon Bel-lamy placing fourth.

In the men’s doubles Jacob Bennett and Brent Smith earned silver while the Grade 9 team of Hayden Leeper and Kyle McGriskin came in fourth.

Strong Knights team at Kawartha badminton finals

Nickson rink takes Spring Fling title

Doris Nickson’s rink from the Peterborough Curling Club placed first overall at the annual Ladies Spring Fling bonspiel at the Norwood Curling Club. Mem-bers of the rink also included Jane Moore, Janet Schmidt and Wendy Stamplecoske. Photo: Submitted

By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Doris Nickson’s rink captured the overall La-dies Spring Fling bonspiel title outduelling 15 other teams for

the championship trophy. Nickson vice skipped the Peterborough Curling Club rink along with Jane Moore at skip, Janet Schmidt second and lead Wendy Stamplecoske posting a score of 152 to capture the “B” draw lead and overall points.

Finishing second was the Joy Reid’s “A” draw winning rink out of Marmora with 145 points which also included Wendy McCoy, vice, Jean Croskery second and Tracey Nicol-son at lead.

Earning runner-up honours in the “A” draw was Carolyn Quakenbush’s team out of Omemee which finished with 125 points.

Sharon Scott’s Norwood rink placed third in the draw with 90 points.

Placing second in the “B” draw was Linda Parcel’s Lakefield rink with 136 points. Mar-je Lunn from Norwood placed third with 89 points.

Other “A” draw winners included Nancy McDonald who claimed the 50-50 prize and

the closest to the button award. Ellen Demsey won the Foodland grocery basket and Darlene Brown, a member of the Demsey rink, won the flower arrangement from Fieldstone Flowers.

On the “B” side Angela Hook and Eleanor Price shared the 50-50 draw while Fran Fulford won the closest to the button. The Foodland grocery basket was won by Donna Anderson.

Sixteen teams from Marmora, Keene, Pe-terborough, Omemee, Lakefield, Brighton and Norwood participated in the annual bonspiel.

James Gang goalie eager to play

Norwood James Gang goalie Craig Robertson will share net minding duties with Cole Murray and Angus Dineley. The team’s home opener is May 11 against Owen Sound. It will be a special kids evening with prizes for every child and a chance to win a free lacrosse stick. Photo: Bill Freeman

By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - Norwood James Gang goalie Cole Murray has had a full year to shake off the disappoint-ment of an early play-off exit last season at the hands of their arch rivals from Brooklin.

“We’re getting that little itch to play again,” Murray told the Trent Hills Regional News. “We got beat by three goals; that’s not very much in lacrosse.”

The Merchants beat Norwood 10 - 9 and 9 - 7 to advance in the OLA Senior B play-offs where they extended even-tual league champion St. Catharines a full five games in their semi-final match-up.

The 2012 season was electric with three points separat-ing the top five teams which meant every game had play-off implications.

“Every team was right there, every team was on a level playing field,” Murray, a 2004 National Lacrosse League draft pick and former Senior B MVP, said.

Murray, Craig Robertson and Angus Dineley formed the league’s top goaltending platoon last season and Murray says there’s a friendly level of competitiveness among the trio that keeps them sharp.

“There is competitiveness between us but we still enjoy each other’s company and we’re all good friends. We each bring something different.”

Dineley, the top goalie this winter in the Canadian La-crosse League with the Toronto Shooting Stars and MVP candidate, is “fast, quick and reactive” while Robertson and Murray “like to cut the angles down.”

All three get involved in the transition offence, often a de-cisive factor in such a tightly bunched league.

Murray says fans appreciate the high level of play the Se-nior B league offers.

“Now it’s almost a feeder system for the NLL and Major Series. Every team probably has two or three NLL players who just don’t want the competitiveness of Senior A. They want to enjoy their summer with less lacrosse; but they’re still there and they’re still the best guys on their team.”

Murray is glad Six Nations are back in the league.

The Six Nations Rivermen join the league and should be a strong addition.

“They bring some creativity to the game and heart. It’s good to see them back. They could probably put together three senior B teams. Everybody plays lacrosse down there.”

The Rivermen are in Norwood June 1.

Murray says the Junior A players who suit up for Norwood “fit right in.

“It’s pretty hard to make the Lakers right out of Junior even if you were one of the top scorers. Those guys [the Lak-ers] are NLL all-stars,” he says.

There are adjustments to be made jumping from junior to senior and Mur-ray says James Gang veterans help out the younger players.

“It’s a lot stronger. It’s a man’s game, especially for a defensive player. Every-body adjusts [but] it takes a good half season to get there.”

Leadership in the dressing room is something the James Gang pride them-selves on.

“We have a good core; we’ve devel-oped good bonds and we bring that to the floor as a team,” Murray said.

The James Gang start their season May 4 in Sarnia and are at home May 11 against Owen Sound.

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By Bill FreemanEMC Sports - Norwood - If the demand is there there will be youth ball hockey at the Asphodel-Nor-wood Community Centre this summer.

“A number of parents have asked me (if there is go-ing to be ball hockey,” Community Centre Operations manager Greg Hartwick explained to council while asking for approval to spend $200 from the youth ball hockey reserve to restart the program.

“I hadn’t planned on it in my budget,” Hartwick admitted.

But with a “small reserve” available, Hartwick said he would like to advertise registration for the league.

“Youth ball hockey was run for four years at the Community Centre by staff [but] numbers had de-clined to the point that it was diffi cult to run in 2011,” he said.

The program was not offered last summer, he add-ed.

“It barely broke even that’s why we didn’t run it in 2012,” Hartwick said.

“A number of parents expressed interest in ball hockey again for their children to the point that the numbers warrant offering the program again.”

“These parents were very enthusiastic,” he added.The ball hockey program is for kids six to 12 and

runs for eight weeks. It wraps up near the end of June.The $200 will cover the cost of advertising the pro-

gram; the $45 registration fee meets all other costs and will produce a small surplus that will be channelled back into the reserve fund.

Hartwick says the concession booth will see an in-crease in business with the addition of the program.

Novice curlers wrap it upEMC Sports - The Norwood Curl-ing Club’s Novice league wrapped up play last week with a special fun day and awards ceremony. Win-ning the overall title this season was the rink of (l-r) Jack Wilson, Sarah Wilson, Austin Murray and Avery Page. All curlers received a free gift certi� cate from Wrap it Up-N-Go. Registration for next sea-son will be during the � rst week in December. Photo: Bill Freeman

EMC Sports - Abby Partington received the most improved curl-er award during the Norwood Curling Club’s novice league wrap-up awards day last week. She is joined in the photo by instructor and program supervisor Sherry Wilson. Photo: Bill Freeman

EMC Sports - Norwood Curling Club president Brian Rad-nor presented the outstanding girl and boy awards during the novice league curling wrap-up party last week. Taking top honours among the girls was Sarah Wilson while Ste-ven Wilson and Hayden Baptie shared the top boy honour. Photo: Bill Freeman

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