SCOOPING UP A WORLD RECORD - Chefs Bryan Henry, Dave Bell and Marco Cassano dole out portions of what may be the world’s biggest buttertart. The 16’pie, created at Annina’s Bakeshop in Goodwood on Saturday, didn’t cook according to plan, but the edges were done enough to hand out for tasting (for a donation to theChildren’s Wish Foundation). The attempt has been submitted to Guinness World Records to see if qualifies for the World’s Largest title. Photo by Nicholas Stamatopoulos

Uxbridge HistoricalCentre to host1,000 tulips

by Roger Varley

Regional Councillor Jack Ballinger told councilon Monday that Durham Region is looking atinstalling more roundabouts in the region, in-cluding the possibility of putting one at Cop-pins Corners.

His comment came as council consideredthree letters from members of the UxbridgeEnergy Conservation Committee seeking feed-back on the committee's presentation to coun-cil in June; specifically their requests that thetownship erect "No Idling" signs at townshipentrances, replace as many "Stop" signs as pos-sible with "Yield" signs and reduce speed lim-its.

Mr. Ballinger agreed the township should lookat installing more "Yield" signs, but said reduc-ing speed limits would cost too much moneybecause all the speed signs would have to be re-placed.

He said recycling efforts in the region are at55 per cent, adding that the number could gohigher and the region is looking for more buy-ers for recycled waste.Council decided the bylaw department should

take a close look at Whitby's anti-idling bylawand all other matters were referred to staff forfollow-up.

Also at Monday’s meeting, treasurer DonnaCondon presented council with a list of datesfor the upcoming year-end budget discussions.

Ms. Condon has scheduled four dates early inDecember, with three more in January ifneeded. However, before any discussions areheld, council will hold a budget open house onNovember 28 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. to allowthe public to talk to members of council anddepartment heads.The first department to present its budget re-

quests in December will be Public Works. It ispossible the Public Works budget could givecouncil headaches, given a report by directorBen Kester on Monday. Reporting on a tenderfor the purchase of winter sand from VicDomSand and Gravel for $170,000, Mr. Kester said

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The Uxbridge Historical Centre has beenchosen to be the site of a 150th Celebra-tion Garden - one of only 150 acrossCanada. The Historical Centre was chosen by the

Canada Garden Council in collaborationwith Vesey’s Bulbs of PEI to be part of acelebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial in2017. The Celebration Garden will con-tain 1,000 red and white tulips, whichhave been donated by Vesey’s Bulbs.Staff at the Historical Centre are “thrilled”

to have received one of these gardens as theCanada Garden Council received morethan 400 applications from across thecountry.

The Celebration Garden will be plantedon Saturday, October 15, from 10 a.m. to12 noon on the grounds of Uxbridge His-torical Centre in a new garden bed. Moredetails about this event will be announcedshortly. Everyone, from seniors to schoolchildren and the public, is invited to attendthe planting ceremony and take part in theplanting, as the Uxbridge communitymakes preparations to celebrate Canada’s150th birthday next year. A Bloom Cele-bration will be held in the spring of 2017when the tulips bloom.

The Historical Centre’s garden, and theother 149 gardens planted across thecounty, will be symbolically linked to aFlagship 150th Celebration Garden Prom-enade, consisting of 25,000 tulips also do-nated by Vesey’s, to be planted this fall andbloom next spring adjacent to NiagaraFalls, one of the great natural wonders ofthe world, and one of Canada’s largest gate-ways for visitors to our country.

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Salt and sand, from page 1

extra funds will be needed in the2017 budget. He noted the pricepaid for winter sand was 28 per-centhigher than in 2015.

Finally, a sidewalk of sorts is going

to be be installed on the west side ofThird Avenue North. Mr. Kester toldcouncil that a deep ditch at thesouthwest corner of Third Ave. N.and Dominion Street would hamperthe installation of a concrete sidewalkthe length of the street. He recom-mended running a concrete sidewalk

to where the ditch starts and thenputting an asphalt strip the rest of theway to Dominion Street.However, council decided instead to

have an asphalt strip run along theentire length of the road, separatedfrom the main road by a painted line.

by Shelagh Damus

Most of us can whip up something

for dinner that tastes fine, but whysettle for fine when you can have di-vine? On Saturday, October 1, from

3 to 6 p.m., Canadian celebrity ChefMichael Smith will be in Uxbridge tolaunch his newest cookbook RealFood, Real Good at an outdoor On-tario food and beverage festival beingjointly presented by Blue HeronBooks and Urban Pantry Restaurant.Lisa Hutchinson, owner of e Pas-sionate Cook’s Essentials, will inter-view the bestselling author and TVhost in an intimate and interactiveon-stage exchange. e event willtake place outdoors at the UrbanPantry restaurant on Toronto St.North in Uxbridge.e food component will highlight

canapés made from Ontario produceby Urban Pantry from the pages ofChef Michael’s new book. Beveragepossibilities include beer fromUxbridge’s e Second Wedge Brew-ing Co., wine from three Ontariowineries: Tawse Winery, Redstone

Winery and Palatine Hills EstateWinery, and the water will be pro-vided and sponsored by Tabl’eau Fil-tered Water Inc.Tickets are $85 and include an au-

tographed copy of Chef Michael’snew book, a passport to five food sta-tions and the aforementioned filteredwater. Beer and wine is extra.

Real Food, Real Good features sim-ple, good-for-you food. Blue HeronBooks owner (and self-describedfoodie) Shelley Macbeth had a sneakpeak at the book and made one thingout of it, “and it was to die for. It thatis indicative of the rest of the book,we are all in for a treat.”With cookbook in hand, the home

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Children’s laughter tumbles throughthe open window from street outsidemy residence. e children ridebikes, kick soccer balls and climbtrees, just like the kids at home. ehouses here are well-maintained withcars in the garage, flowering shrubsand paved streets. However, thearmed guards at the gate speak vol-umes about the nature of this neigh-bourhood in Nairobi, the largest cityin Kenya.

Walk south-west for 10 minutesand we are in Kibera, Africa’s secondlargest slum, covering about 2.5square kilometers and home to about1 million people. It is a very differentworld. e wide paved streets narrowto a single lane as the sidewalks dis-appear. e pavement ends in therich, red African soil. Open sewers

run beside the track we walk: firstthey’re on the left, then the right, andfinally we must straddle it. Moundsof dirt act as stepping stones for ourfeet.

We pass a huge pile of garbage,skirting the edge on the lowest level,dogs and crows roaming the heaps,birds circling overhead, the smelloverwhelming. Ten more minuteswalking down narrower and nar-rower rough paths brings us to our

destination, the reason we have trav-elled to this part of Africa: New Be-ginnings School. It’s a place for localchildren with special needs to receivea rudimentary education. One room,three desks, several blue plastic stack-ing chairs, nine students and oneteacher.

We are volunteers: over two dozenyoung people, working with Net-works for Volunteer Services in Kib-era, in placements at several differentagencies: schools, orphanages, andwomen’s centres teaching basic skills,sports, music and, for my group,these students with special needs. I’molder than everyone in my volunteerlodging, old enough to be theirmother (or even grandmother tosome)! ey’ve come from Canada,USA, China, Colombia, Malawi,England, Ireland, and a host of othercountries, full of hope and energy,

here to make a difference. We’re escorted to and from our

placements until we are sure we cannavigate independently. We’ve had athorough orientation to our respon-sibilities, and reviewed expectations,both the agencies’ and our own. Weknow that our time here will notchange the lives of our charges, butin small ways we WILL make a dif-ference, if only for a short while.

e children’s faces light up when

What should be no man’s land is Kibera, the second largest slum in Africa, located minutes outsideof Nairobi, Kenya. Above, a snapshot of the dwellings and their inhabitants; below, a pile ofgarbage that lines oulines the town. Photos by Nancy Melcher

we arrive. “Hi. How are you?” is acommon greeting. English is the sec-ond official language here and mostpeople understand us. We’ve alsolearned key Swahili phrases to makenavigation, work, and life in general,much smoother. Each interactionbrings us closer to our goal. Everysmile, giggle or touch brings both of

us much joy. At the end of the day we return to

our temporary home tired, but fullof hope that tomorrow will bringmore interactions, more chances tomake a small difference. I feel greathope for our future, working withthese young volunteers, and seeingthe world through their eyes.

Africa: one smile at a time

Thursday, September 22, 20164The Uxbridge Cosmos

Many thanks to the person whofound my truck keys and left themon my windshield at the DurhamForest parking lot on September 16.Saved me a long walk home andmakes me feel good about humannature.

Jim ReiveUxbridge

It is that time of year again when Sal-vation Army will be holding theironly fundraiser – The Kettle – andwe need volunteers to assist us.

Zehrs has kindly allowed us to setup in the store again this year so wecan raise funds to assist those who areless fortunate with clothing, food,services, camp, the backpack pro-gram, free snow removal for seniors,Christmas hampers, and every dayliving.Our Salvation Army Unit is run by

volunteers with no paid staff at all.Please give us a call to book a spot

to assist those in need - 905-640-3966 or send an email to bnorth-east@powergate.ca Thank you to Zehrs for their gener-ous offer of a location and to thosewho every year give of their time onour Kettle.

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Uxbridge Unit

Roger thank you for taking the timeto come out and meet my garden andspend a few moments with myselfand my son. However, as you no-ticed one gardener’s untidy is anotherqueen bee’s delight! Leaving whatsome call debris on the ground en-courages bees and other beneficial in-sects to nest, to take cover ,and allowsnutrients to go back into the ground.Also, leaves, etc., provide wind pro-tection and allow moisture to stay inthe dirt to carry the plants through ahot summer and the cold winter.Watering is not required except in

the driest of spring and summers. Yes, I do have several types of

prickly thistles including ornamentalthistles and, as you mentioned, colts-foot. Coltsfoot when it first comesout in a sweet yellow flower is thefirst food for bees, and thistles arearound the second group of plantsthat carry over late into fall. I see onmy walks that both coltsfoot, thistlesand other beneficial plants are allover township property and all arehaving a glorious time of it.The quick and dirty definition of a

weed is a plant that is out of placeand I have no plants out of place. Iknow where each one is and I sayhello to each one every morning andso does my son.Also, thank you for mentioning that

my yard is a prescribed occupationaltherapy garden for my son and my-self, for which I am grateful. It hasbeen a huge benefit in assisting myson, and hopefully will continue tobe in the future. He is very proud ofhis pepper collecting and already hasplans for a larger pepper plantingnext spring.

With regards to my home, it isenough to say - how could a 1953wartime house not fit into the neigh-bourhood? My house has stronghardy bones built by strong hardymen and it is where my family livesand takes afternoon naps. I, like mostother Canadians, operate with theexpectation of not being woken upby a by-law officer looking in one’sback windows and taking pictures inhopes of fulfilling a quota of by-lawinfractions.

I did make a deputation to counselon September 12, which was metwith cognitive dissonance and, in mypoint of view, a dying-to-be-rightcounsel. Except in this case it is theplanet that is dying from environ-mental abuse and a total disregard forthe over 89 organizations and manymore agencies worldwide working to

save the bees, the planet and manymore creatures, including humans.As I pointed out in my deputation,without bees there will be no humanssooner than most people think. Ar-tificial pollination does not work andthe bees, etc., are not hanging out onthe farms - they are hanging out andnesting in urban areas that cater tothem with diversity. Larger grocerystores are already seeing a shortage ofdomestic and imported foods. Not,however, from countries which havemore progressive thinking towardsthe future of our food system thanUxbridge. Uxbridge council,whether is likes it or not, is part ofthe “one world”. The more we canget together and change the way wetake care of Uxbridge the town’s en-vironment, the more we benefit thewhole planet.

The property standards committeeand the property standards by-lawsare a violation of the Charter ofRights and Freedoms, and, as experi-enced this past week with two addi-tional incidents with my neighbours,allows neighbours to violate the char-ter and cause harm to the environ-ment. Councillor Ballinger himselfpointed out that by-law enforcementis a complaint driven system. Notone councillor mentioned the ex-pense to the taxpayers, of whom I amone, as well many others, future res-idents of Uxbridge and the planet. The planet, the environment and all

creatures on it should remain free forall inclusively, diversely. It is not tobe violated by a small-minded, brain-lessly trusted committee of short-sighted individuals and neighbourswho would destroy the environmentto further political and economic ca-reers.

Karen KnightUxbridge

Letters to the Editor

We’re watching the developing interaction between a certain property ownerin town and the Township with interest. By-law seems to be going after thehomeowner to “clean up” the property and get rid of what appears to passerbyas overgrown weeds and other detrius, while the home owner maintains thatshe is leaving the property and its plant life intact because it is a haven forbees and butterflies (see Letter to the Editor, this page), and she’s doing herbit to help the planet. We’re really sitting on the proverbial fence on this one, as it is so easy to see

both sides of the story, and agree wholeheartedly with each side. In the home-owner’s defense, creating a place where insects and “wildlife” can thrive in anurban area is crucial these days. It isn’t reasonable to expect that bees andother insects will only perform their necessary duties out on farms and thelike in the countryside. If a deer can become so disoriented by urban sprawland so far removed from its normal habitat that it ends up crashing througha Tim Hortons window in Kitchener (yes, this happened on Monday after-noon), then you can be certain that bees and the like are most certainly notgoing to stick to the RRs. Pollination is just as important in towns and citiesas it is anywhere else, and a few gardens dedicated to their well-being is bothlovely and necessary.On the other hand, no one wants to live next to a property that is going to

the dogs. Many people spend long, hard hours working on making theirhomes and lawns look nice, and let’s face it, curb appeal, whether you’re sell-ing your house or not, is important when an urban centre is working on cre-ating an inviting, welcoming, tidy image for itself. The place doesn’t need tolook like Pleasantville, but when a whole neighbourhood of people is tryingits darndest to make things look nice - and nice doesn’t mean perfect, it justmeans, well, nice - then an odd house out is jarring, and can make propertyowners feel like their hard work is for naught. And if someone IS trying tosell their house in that neighbourhood, and their property value is affectedby the seeming unseemingliness next door, it really can prickly.

If all parties involved keep digging their heels into the dirt, overgrown ornot, it will just lead to perpetual grief on all sides. Neighbours will keep com-plaining, the Township will keep wasting precious time responding to thosecomplaints (because that’s the absurd way it works), and one property ownerwho’s different from everyone else will exert energy that could be used else-where asserting her conviction that she has a right to maintain the propertythat she bought and paid for any way she wants to. Nothing will change, thecycle will continue, and it will just be a big fat waste of time for all involved.

When we talk about treating the planet properly and not paving paradise,we need to think about how we treat one another as well. We hate to use aworn cliché, but we need to learn to live and let live. Trying to force a man-icured lawn onto another’s wilderness isn’t fair. Trying to impose a serious en-vironmentalist nature onto another isn’t fair. Passing and enforcing certainby-laws that tell us what to do with our own little parcels of land isn’t fair.Compromise is a word that isn’t getting much play these days, and it’s timeit did. It’s possible to stop and smell the roses and the coltsfoot all at the same time.

Our two centsColtsfoot and compromise

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Thursday, September 22, 20165The Uxbridge Cosmos

There are times in life when things all fallinto place and other times when they all fallapart. You never really know until you are init whether it is the best of times or the worstof times. On the other side, there are alwayslessons learned and a better understanding ofthe human condition. I have generally beengrateful for the life lessons wrought of hardtimes. It is, of course, easier to accept thegood with its requisite joy and harmony.

In memoir writing there is a saying thateverybody has a story. Lately, I have beenprivy to some stories from friends and rela-tions that illustrate the strength of humanspirit, its innate ability to press through thehorrible, the heinous, the heartache andcome out the other side either stronger or atleast empowered in some way. I am in awe ofsome of the people I have come in contactand amazed at the complexity of their storiesand their success in navigating to higherground.

My daughter is in Africa at the moment.She is in Kenya volunteering in the Kiberaslum in Nairobi. Kibera is the second largestslum in the world. I googled an image of theslum and was shocked by the sheer size ofthis societal scab. It is far more extensive thanI could have imagined. Millions of peoplethere live in mud huts with corrugated metalroofs. There is a lack of clean water and rawsewage flows in the streets. There is crime,prostitution, and substance abuse. Some ofthe pictures I have seen show my daughternavigating her way through the detritus ofslum life to her volunteer placement.

Her interested in working with the differ-ently abled is what drew my daughter to thisexperience. Her time volunteering in a thirdworld special needs classroom is an educationin and of itself, but I think she is really get-ting schooled in what it is to live with littlemore than nothing. I think it is safe to say,in the West, we could all do with living withless, but this is taking to the extreme. It ismore than I think she expected. More than Ithought she would bear witness to on thisadventure.

When I was in my twenties I spent fivemonths in Asia. I was backpacking so mystays were short lived in any one place and ifaccommodations/food/company proved un-satisfactory I was able to move on and make

a change. Even so, I was shocked by much ofwhat I saw in in the way of poverty. Moststriking was the contrast I found upon visit-ing the Taj Mahal. The beauty of this mau-soleum is well known and is a bucket listitem for many a traveler. The image of thewhite Taj with its inlay mosaics is clear in theminds of most people. The mausoleum ishoused within a walled fortress of sorts, andwhat I found shocking was the shanty villageof cardboard houses and other makeshiftlean-tos that lined the outside perimeter ofthe Taj Mahal’s outer wall. It was the heightof opulence butted up against abject poverty.It is an image that haunts me to this day.There are others. The view from the comfortof my second class seat on a train travellingthrough Rajasthan province of 60 or 80 menlined up a hundred feet from the railwaytrack for their morning constitutional. Orthe morning I opened my window inJaisalmer to see three barefoot and filthy chil-dren peeing in the gutter.

Once when I was in Indonesia, far off thebeaten track, I found myself desperate for abathroom. The town was not accustomed totourists. When my request for the nearest fa-cilities was understood -- there are ways ofmaking some things understood in any lan-guage – there was great discussion among thelocals. Finally, I was led to a young man on amoped who motioned for me to get on theback and hold on. Due to the state of mybladder I did not hesitate. I was drivenaround and around and up a great hill towhat I came to realize was the fanciest housein town. My driver knocked on the door,spoke and motioned to me. I was then of-fered entrance to the home and shown to aclean bathroom that housed a standardsquatting toilet. It was the best they couldoffer to the stranger in their midst.

These events informed my life going for-ward, and I am most interested in hearingmy daughter’s take on the sight and smells ofher time in Kibera. And when life for herheads into the worst of times territory, I hopeshe will take solace in her concrete knowl-edge that there are always people who areworse off than her or are dealing with biggerand more challenging issues. It is somethingI have held onto myself, after all these years.

He wore a baseball cap that had no team em-blem and a T-shirt with no sign of his number81 on it. He smiled for several of the privatephotographs taken that day; and that was a bitout of the ordinary. Otherwise his visit toToronto’s Hospital for Sick Children went un-noticed, even when he opened up a case andrevealed – for the children and staff at the hos-pital only – the Stanley Cup, the one he andhis fellow Pittsburgh Penguins had won lastspring. And his visit would have gone unno-ticed, but for a hospital staffer who tweeted:“SickKids was buzzing with #StanleyCup fevertoday! Thx for visiting our patients & families@PKessel81 #NHL.”If the translation escapes you, former Toronto

Maple Leaf pro hockey player Phil Kesseltraded a year ago to the Penguins, fulfilled apromise and brought the Stanley Cup (duringthe customary two-day privilege to take theCup personally wherever each of the winningplayers choose) to Sick Kids Hospital. But ifthe tweet hadn’t given it away, Kessel’s visitwould have been completely missed by themedia. And that’s exactly the way Kessel in-tended it. He gave his time and celebrity to acause that meant the world the kids, but whichthe world didn’t need to know about.

That’s the kind of celebrity I admire. Not, Ihasten to point out, the kind of celebrity wesaw during the Toronto International Film Fes-tival nor that which accompanies most fanfeeding frenzies around the visits of movie stars,music headliners, sports heroes or royalty. Asfar as I’m concerned, having a reporter standon a red carpet just to see who’s arriving andwho’s leaving a movie theatre is little betterthan dead air. Neither is filling media space andtime – such as on TMZ – of any redeemingvalue. It’s following celebrities for celebrity’ssake. Much ado about nothing.

I do, as my first anecdote suggests, admirethose who use their celebrity to a valuable end.I can think of such prominent examples asmovie stars Audrey Hepburn, Peter Ustinovand Liv Ullman using their fame and reputa-tions to support global assistance for childrenthrough UNICEF. And, while they were front-and-centre in such charitable events, Bono andBryan Adams eagerly supported such causes asAmnesty International, Band Aid and Live Aid,while Neil Young did the same for rural NorthAmerica with Farm Aid. But I think my great-est admiration goes to the likes of Paul Robe-son, the African-American athlete, actor,baritone singer and advocate.Born in 1898, in New Jersey, Robeson won a

four-year scholarship to Rutgers University, and

– despite racism from some of his teammates –won 15 varsity letters and was twice named anAll-American in the 1920s. He turned to lawfor his first profession, but abandoned that ca-reer when a white secretary refused to take dic-tation from a Black man. As a stage performer,his leading role in Othello earned him interna-tional fame. In his show-stopping performanceof the song “Old Man River” in the musicalShowboat, he changed the lines to make apoint. “I’m tired of livin’ and ‘feared of dyin’”became, “I must keep fightin’ until I’m dyin’.”

But Robeson didn’t hide behind the freedomof stage performance. He promoted Black spir-ituals when they weren’t popular. He sangabout justice in more than 20 different lan-guages. He called himself a citizen of the world,befriending other outspoken celebrities of theday, such as anarchist Emma Goldman, and au-thors James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. In1933, a published biography pointed out thatRobeson donated proceeds of his release “AllGod’s Chillun” to Jewish refugees fleeingHitler’s Germany. And in 1937 he openly sup-ported the Republican government against thefascists in the Spanish Civil War.“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or

for slavery,” Robeson said. “I have made mychoice. I had no alternative.”For his support of Blacks and labour in Amer-

ica, the House Un-American Activities Com-mittee labelled him a Communist. Theaccusations ended his singing career because noone would hire him and his passport was re-voked. He died nearly broke and broken in1976 at age 77.“As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I

will always speak for peace, and no one can si-lence me in this,” he said.

This week, half a century after Robeson, an-other singer from another era used his celebrityto make an equally powerful statement. Tragi-cally Hip’s frontman Gord Downie announcedSept. 20 that he’ll perform two concerts in Ot-tawa and Toronto in support of the Secret Pathproject. His shows will honour Chanie Wen-jack, an Ojibway boy who died of hunger andexposure attempting to flee a residential school50 years ago.

“Chanie haunts me,” Downie told CBCNews. “His story is Canada’s story.” And given that Downie has told us he has ter-

minal brain cancer, these shows are clearly notabout Gord. They’re about a gift, a cause andcelebrity worth applauding.

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Autumn is in the air, and so are the sights,sounds, tastes and textures of culture inUxbridge. e 31st Celebration of the Arts iswell underway and runs through October 15.ere’s still time to enjoy all that is on offer.

is Saturday, September 24, localsingers/songwriters Leah Daniels and Ben Hud-son will perform at the Uxbridge Music Hall. Leah released her debut album, “What it Feels

Like” last year and had a top-20 single, “GoBack.” She was chosen Country Artist of theYear at the Toronto Independent MusicAwards, and Rising Star by the Country Music

Associa-tion ofOntario. i sy e a r ,Leah ist h e2 0 1 6CMAOf e m a l eartist ofthe year,and shealso re-ceived aC a n a -d i a nR a d i oM u s i cA w a r df o rF A C -T O RB r e a k -

through Artist of the Year. She’s come quite farfrom the little girl who was introduced to coun-try music by her grandfather. Leah continues tofloor audiences with her beauty and talent. atsaid, there must be something in the water.Ben Hudson grew up on his father’s farm inUxbridge, started piano lessons at five and gui-tar at 14. He has a single and music video outfor “Wear and Tear,” and he was featured byCMT Canada as the “Fresh Face Artist” for themonth of January. Doors for this incredibleshow will open at 7 p.m., and the show willbegin at 7:30 p.m.

Also coming up - mark Saturday, October 1on the calendar for a spectacularly madcap per-formance. “e Uxbridges of Madison County”is the brainchild of the improv comedy troupee Broken Hipsters. is wacky comedy quar-tet consists of Neil Crone, Kevin Frank, PatrickMcKenna and Randy Vancourt. Doors open at7 p.m.; show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Wrapping it all up on Saturday, October 15,e Next Generation Leahy will be back torock this town to the core. Doug Leahy, his wifeand their six children will go on stage at 7:30p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.), and if you recallthe hit the Leahys have been in the past, you’llwant to get your tickets early.

e Juried Art Show and the Childrens ArtShow run through to Sunday at the MunicipalOffices, and the Roxy eatres will feature aYouth Film Festival on September 28, and aShort Film Festival on October 5.

For full details, visit celebrationofthearts.ca,see Leah Daniels/Ben Hudson concert informa-tion below, or see ad on page 3.

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By the time you read this, it will officiallybe Fall 2016. Many are feeling relief fromthe very warm summer and dry condi-tions. e rainfall we received on Saturdaywas welcome!e Udora-Leaskdale Lions' Club is hav-

ing their first Spaghetti Dinner of the sea-son on Friday, September 30, beginning at5:30 p.m., at the Udora Community Cen-tre. Adults are $12, and everyone is wel-come to come and enjoy.We are sorry to

hear of the re-cent passing ofMike Cum-mings. eC u m m i n g sFamily were, atone time, resi-dents inL e a s k d a l e .Friends gath-ered at theRoyal CanadianLegion inUxbridge onSeptember 10to celebrate hislife. Our sympa-thy goes to hisfamily.

Congratula-tions to all thosewho won prizes

at Uxbridge Fair on the second weekendof September.Our thoughts are with Phil Whitney, who

is having hip replacement surgery thisweek. His associates are helping withGriefShare sessions in his absence. Get wellsoon, Phil.Several of our local folks are attending the

International Ploughing Match near Har-riston, Ontario, this week. Good luck toall the participants!

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THIS WEEKENDThurs., Sept. 22: Lunch n’ Learn -Fraud Prevention, Recognizing theDanger. PC Kristy Frech will speak onhow to recognize and protect yourselffrom fraud. 12 - 2 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can lunch catered by North House, fol-lowed by PC Frech's presentation and aQuestion & Answer session. Please notethe change of date to the 4th Thursdayfor September only. Register by phoning905-852-7016.Thurs., Sept. 22: ‘Every Trail Has

a Story’ 7 p.m. Join local author, out-door adventurist and educator Bob Hen-derson for a talk about followinghistorical trails, heritage travel, and sto-ries about travelling across Canada.Uxbridge Historical Centre. Admission bydonation at the door.Thurs., Sept. 22: Beef Dinner withall the fixings! Goodwood CommunityHall, prepared by the Goodwood UnitedChurch. $20, beginning 4:30 p.m.Thurs., Sept. 22: Monitoring Blackand Polar Bears in Ontario (notechange of date). Join North Durham

Nature for a presenta-tion given by Ericafrom Trent University.Erica is a wildlife re-search biologist whohas studied manyspecies, includingcaribou, coyotes,Blanding’s Turtles andbears. She will discusshow Ontario’s bearspecies are studied,including how re-searchers find bears,monitor their move-ments, and estimatepopulation size. In ad-dition she will discussher own research onthe survival of blackbears in Algonquin

Park. 7 p.m., Uxbridge Senior’s Centre.A $5 donation is appreciated from non-members. For more information, pleasecontact James.Kamstra@aecom.com orvisit our website.Fri., Sept. 23: Fall HomecomingFestival at Uxbridge Free MethodistChurch, 81 Reach St., 5 p.m. Enjoy freefood, games and activities for the wholefamily. Outdoor family movie at dusk.Sat., Sept. 24: Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike. 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1hr., 4 km moderate pace loop hike withsome hills. No dogs please. Meet atroad side parking on the west side ofConc. 6, 1.5 km south of Durham Rd.21. Contact: Russ Burton 905 830 2862Sat., Sept. 24: Canadian Friends’(Quaker) Historical Association(CFHA) Annual General Meeting,Bus Tour and Dinner with keynotepresentation by historian and authorAllan McGillivray. Uxbridge HistoricalCentre. The public is invited to attend theafternoon bus tour of local Quaker sites($15, advance ticket required) and thedinner with keynote presentation ($45,advance ticket required). For more infor-mation and to register, go towww.cfha.info or phone 647-995-5459Sun., Sept. 25: 5th Line ChurchHarvest Service, Uxbridge HistoricalCentre, 1 p.m. Refreshments will followthe Church Service. Rev. Bill Fritz leadsthe service, Karen Ritchie, pianist. Every-one welcome.Sun., Sept. 25: Euchre FundraiserTournament, proceeds to benefit Josh'sPenny House/Habitat for Humanity. Playis 12 rounds=96 Euchre hands.$15,

Uxbridge Legion Branch #170. CallCharlena Davis for more info - 905-852-5748.

NEXT WEEKMon. Sept. 26: Pineridge ChorusSingers Guest Night. 7:15 p.m.,Uxbridge Music Hall. For more informa-tion, see ad on page 2, call 905-852-6327, or visitpineridgechorusuxbridge.ca. PineridgeChorus is a Sweet Adelines Chapter.Fri., Sept. 30: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 9:30 a.m. WalkerWoods West. This is a fast, 2 hr, 10 km,loop hike with hills. Meet at parking loton east side of Uxbridge Conc. 6, 2 kmsouth of Durham Rd. 21 at Albright Rd.Contact: Joan Taylor 905 477 2161

UPCOMINGSat., Oct. 1: Udora United ChurchFall Bazaar. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., UdoraUnited Church. Shabby Chic furniture,antiques, tea, decor, mittens, candles,clothing, jewelry and more. A great op-portunity to get a start on Christmas shop-ping, purchase some yummy bakedgoods and support our Heritage church.The Regional Municipality of Durham,Works Department invites the public tolearn more about waste management atan upcoming Waste Fair...Sun., Oct. 2: Music Fest atReachview Village. 10 - 11:15 a.m.This is our 23rd year! We welcomedancers, singers, story-tellers. For moreinfo, please call jo at 905-852-6487Sun., Oct. 2: St Paul's AnglicanChurch’s annual Blessing of theAnimals, 3 p.m. Bring in your pet or apicture of your pet to be blessed duringthis special service. Our celebration &thanksgiving will be followed by refresh-ments for all, including dogs and cats.On lawn. (Inside in case of inclementweather.) Donations for the new animalshelter for Uxbridge-Scugog accepted. Tovolunteer to assist, contact Rev. Dana,905-852-7016, www.stpauls-uxbridge.ca and on FacebookSun., Oct. 2: Pine Grove Church

Harvest Home Service, 3 p.m. Every-one welcome! Rev. Sean Astop from St.Andrew’s Chalmers Presbyterian Churchis guest speaker, and Jane Plewman, vio-linist, will provide the music.Mon., Oct. 3: Shuffleboard beginsat Uxbridge Seniors’ Center, Mondaysand Wednesdays, 9 a.m.Sat., Oct. 15: Greenbank FolkMusic Society kicks off 2016-17 sea-son with Maritime singer/songwriterSteve Poltz. 8 p.m., Greenbank Centen-nial Hall. Tickets are $25 each, availableat Blue Heron Books, 62 Brock St West,905-852-4282, or phone 905-985-8351 for reserved tickets & information.Sun., Oct. 23: Zephyr UnitedChurch 129th Anniversary Serv-ice, 11 a.m. Please join us to hear themessage, musical tributes, see old friends& make new at our Anniversary Home-coming Service. Refreshments to follow.

ONGOINGThe North Durham PhotographyAssociation "ARTifacts" photo ex-hibit, Uxbridge Historical Centre. Fea-turing views of our heritage from anartistic viewpoint as well as a mini exhibitof pre-digital film cameras from the past100 years. Exhibit open during museumhours Wed. to Sun., July to Sept. 30. Formore information contact: stuartblower@sbvisualmedia.caGriefShare: Wednesdays, 2 - 4 p.m.,Uxbridge Baptist Church. To register orfind out more about GriefShare, call JudyAtkins at 905-852-5921 or emailj.atkins@saintpauls.ca. You can also lookunder the COMMUNITY tab atwww.stpaulsleaskdale.com. Uxbridge Legion Branch #170. Eu-chre every Friday evening at 7p.m.

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It wasn't pretty, but the UxbridgeBruins opened their 2016-17 sea-son with two wins on the road, de-feating the Georgina Ice 6-4 lastFriday and then edging the NorthKawartha Knights 3-1 on Saturday.e Bruins and the other six teams

from the old Central Division nowplay in the Provincial JuniorHockey League's East conference,Orr division.e wins were a good way to start

off the newly named division and agood way to start off the Bruins'40th anniversary year.Playing against Georgina, the Bru-

ins, hosting a rash of fresh faces,opened the scoring in the first pe-riod when Justin Aikins capped offa nice little passing play with JackSchalzner and Ryan Miehm. Giventhat it was the first game for bothteams, the action was tentative, al-though most of the play was inGeorgina's end.

With the Bruins enjoying a 36-second two-man advantage early inthe second, Patrick Bolahoodscored a power-play maker, assistedby Adam Bartholomew and BradyBaker. Less than two minutes later,Damien Heinle made it 3-0, as-sisted by Kyle Spataro. But then theBruins allowed the Ice, who haven'tfinished higher than sixth place inthe last five seasons, to come backand tie the score, including pottingtwo power-play goals. e first goalcame when Georgina's Justin Wainwas allowed to be all alone in frontof Bruins' goalie Jake Joosten withample time to choose where hewanted to shoot the puck. Anotherdefensive mistake led to the firstpower-play marker when the de-fence, with lots of room to spare,failed to clear the puck down theice. e second power-play goalcame with less than two minutesleft in the period.Derek Dolan put the Bruins ahead

again early in the third while the Icewere a man down. Aiden Reilly wasgiven the assist. However, the Iceweren't done yet, with Tyler Stew-art skating in unmolested to tie thescore again. Finally, Liam Timewellscored what proved to be the win-ning goal, assisted by Dolan, whothen went on to notch an empty-netter, assisted by Bolahood, with38 seconds remaining.In Apsley the following night, the

Bruins and the Knights were evenlymatched during the first period,with the only goal going to Bola-hood, assisted by Heinle.

e Knights dominated the sec-ond period, with the Bruins' of-fence limited to a few quickincursions but no sustained attackson the North Kawartha goal. Nearthe midway mark, Justin ain tied

the score when a long pass put himand Andrew Ryan behind the Bru-ins defence, leaving Joosten nochance on the next passing play.e Knights came close to takingthe lead later in the period whenthey had the whole side of the netopen, but Joosten made anOlympic-style dive across the net todeflect the shot onto the post.

Midway through the first period,Coby Gardner scored the game-winner, with the assist credited toSchalzner, but it was a long passfrom Bartholomew that put Gard-ner in the clear. In the final fiveminutes of the game, Joosten cameup with a number of good saves tomaintain the lead until Bolahoodskated the length of the ice to scorean empty-netter. Baker was giventhe assist.

After the North Kawartha game,coach Tim Evans was asked aboutthe Bruins' continu-ing proclivity forpenalties. e teamwas by far the mostpenalized team inthe division last sea-son and in their firsttwo games drew 24minutes againstGeorgina and 28minutes against theKnights .

"ese guys aregoing to get a realitycheck on Tuesday,Evans said, referringto the team's weeklypractice session."ey're going topay the penalty, let's

put it that way."Noting that it was only the first

two games of the season and thatthere are several new players on theteam, Evans said there were no con-cerns or surprises. But he was fullof praise for the performance ofJoosten in goal."He kept us in the game," he said.e Bruins are back in action to-

morrow night, hosting the PortPerry MoJacks for their homeopener at the arena at 7:45 p.m.However, to mark the anniversary,the Bruins will hold a "tailgate"party with hot dogs, drinks and en-tertainment in the parking lot start-ing at 5:30 p.m.

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a Civil War sniper (Ethan Hawke)and his friend, a Chinese knife ex-pert, (Lee Byung-hun); a Mexican as-sassin (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo); anative warrior (Martin Sensmeiser);and a Grizzly Adams-like trapper(Vincent D’Onofrio). Together theymake up the seven, pool their collec-tive courage and go to war againstBogue for the townsfolk.When the fight finally comes it goes

on for more than 45 minutes, andthough beautifully shot and edited,45 minutes is a long time for gunfire,explosions and deaths. It ends as weexpect it to end. en there is a woe-ful piece of narration that nearly un-does everything we have just seen.By now Denzel Washington can playthis sort of part in his sleep, a confi-dent bad ass doing the right thing be-cause it is the right thing to do.ough it is fun to watch and theactor is having a great time, it’s toobad that this gifted actor is not doingmore challenging work. e onlyactor with any sort of a role is EthanHawke as a Civil War sharp shooterhaunted by the death he has beensurrounded with throughout his life.e rest do work that serves the film,nothing more.

Vincent D’Onofrio is best knownfor his work on television in Law andOrder. Here he is dreadful, overdoing the performance throughout,speaking in a high reedy voice with atwang making him sound like a badkaraoke country singer.

e film is entertaining, the kind ofmovie where you place your brain inthe fridge before entering the cinemaand grab it on the way out. But at thevery end when the shooting hasstopped and bodies are piled high,

there is a ridiculous piece of narrationthat ruins the film and stops it frombeing anything close to...magnifi-cent.

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Every so often Hollywood comes outwith a western and audiences are re-minded how much they enjoy thegenre. e new century has seenwesterns such as Kevin Costner’s out-standing Open Range (2003), RonHoward’s dark e Missing (2005),Brokeback Mountain (2006), the re-markable e Assassination of JesseJames (2007), and the superb TrueGrit (2010). When it was announceda remake of the classic e Magnifi-cent Seven (1960) was in the works,I admit to groaning because we reallydid not need another, the first is stillwith us and just fine.But under the direction of Antoine

Fuqua, the film becomes a study ofdiversity, a new western with manyraces represented as being part of theold west. Makes for a pretty enter-taining film, just not a great one.

With strains of the original score,one of the most iconic in movie his-tory pulsing on the sound track likea heartbeat, never quite over takingthe scenes, the film moves with briskspeed to its conclusion.

In a small mining town, the localowner of the mine is a nasty piece ofwork, Bogue (Peter Saargard) a rep-tilian sort of bad guy who guns downinnocents just because he can. Whenhe begins bullying people at the localchurch, he offers them $20 for theirproperty, more or less stealing fromthem so he can mine them out.When they resist, he starts shooting,and burns down their church.

Terrified of what Bogue might donext, the wife of one of the murderedmen finds Sam Chisum (DenzelWashington), a tough as nails bountyhunter who tells her he is too expen-sive for her. When she offers all theyhave, he becomes interested, espe-cially when he hears the nameBogue. Chisum goes about assem-bling a group of men to fight againstBogue, beginning with a hotshotcard player/gun fighter who likes toplay with explosives, portrayed withwild energy and great big, fat moviestar appeal by Chris Pratt. eremight not be anyone who pulls off a

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