Earlier this spring a Cobourg woman be-gan a letter writing campaign to Mayors across Canada asking them to plant 100 red poppies in community gardens. Ms. Teresa Glover felt the poppy-planting idea would help Canadians remember and commemorate the Great War which began 100 years ago on July 28, 1914. Last week, in response to Ms. Glover’s letter to Mayor Grossi, the Town of Geor-gina joined hundreds of other communities across the country and planted 100 poppies at the cenotaph in Sutton. “The 100 poppies campaign is just another small way, we as a community, can con-tinue to show our thanks to those who fought for the rights we take for granted every day,” said Mayor Grossi. Ms. Glover’s campaign not only urged the plantings as a way to pay homage to those who served, but to recognize the Canadian author of the ‘In Flanders Fields’ poem. “The poppy tradition came from WW1 and given that John McCrae, author of ‘In Flanders Fields’ was a Canadian, it would be a great tribute to him also,” said Ms. Glover. It is estimated that over 60,000 Canadian military personnel died during the four-year conflict and close to 150,000 were injured. It was to be the war that ended all wars.

Georgina marks centennial anniversary of WWI with 100 poppies

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Dr. Burrows celebrates 60 years as a physician He is one of Georgina’s most endearing icons and 60 years ago this month Dr. George Burrows began his illustrious ca-reer as a country family physician. And, not unlike those small-town doctors fic-tionalized in black and white Hollywood movies, Dr. Burrows was sometimes paid in potatoes and turkeys during the early days of his practice. These humble beginnings grew into a thriving medical practice on Dalton Rd. with nine full-time doctors and 20 staff at its peak. Today at 86, Dr. Burrows is one of a handful of Canadian doctors still practicing in their 80s. He is the consult-

ing physician for the Georgina Nurse Practitioner Clinic in Sutton and he con-tinues to provide medical care to his loyal patients. Dr. Burrows graduated with a medical degree in 1954 from the University of Toronto and turned down a surgical resi-dence at Wellesley Hospital to open a family practice in his hometown of Sutton. It would not be a stretch to suggest that there are thousands of Georgina residents who have been a patient of Dr. Burrows over the years and many families can boast of

Armed with 100 red poppy plants, Town of Georgina horticulture staff Rachelle Harder (left) and Eric Patenaude (right) begin planting the flowers at the Cenotaph Memorial on High Street in Sut-ton to commemorate the start of World War I on July 28, 1914.

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Readers react to bear sightings Hi Karen, Bears. Oh yes they are here. And as usual we will react once we have our first encounter with a kid or a jogger. And we do have several joggers who insist on running on our lonely country roads. How many are there? Good question. I took pictures a few a days ago from my backyard. Two adult bears. Two or three days earlier a young family in the tiny village of CedarBrea came to a screeching stop on the road to avoid a mother bear with her cub. That makes four bears in a radius of two miles. Just days apart. Are there others? We'll find out soon after that jogger is admitted to hospital or we attend a memorial for that little kid.

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Just a rant about bears... MNR has been singing the same old song about bears and how “they are afraid of people”. Tell that to the young woman who worked for Suncor in Al-berta and was killed by a black bear this spring. Or, the two guys out jogging last week who were “terrorized” by a black bear on the Matcheetawin Trail in Alberta until they were able to reach their vehicle. The au-thorities said the “bear was just curious”. Really? We started seeing bears on our property on July 16, 2008. We have seen bear tracks and dam-age to trees and shrubbery from bears--ant hills and old stumps dug out--rotting logs in the woodlot torn to pieces. I as-sume they were looking for insects. We have seen bears, or bear sign, every year since 2008 that we have recorded on film. Who knows how many went through that we didn’t see? A sow with two cubs appeared on the bea-ver dam behind our house, July

30, 2012. Seventeen recorded incidences so far since 2008. We have had them in the back yard, clearly looking for apples on July 14, 29, and August 10, 2013 and just wandering through on May 21 and June 1, 2014. The people that used to ride horses through our property have stopped and now use the road because of the bears. My big concern is children and older folks like my 97-year-old neighbour. Several years ago, I asked John Almond if we would be al-lowed to hunt bears in our area. The answer, "when there is a sustainable population". I found that rather incredible that any-one would want a sustainable population of bears in built-up Southern Ontario. Bears, they say are not nor-mally aggressive, but there is clear evidence that they do and will attack people for whatever reason.

Ivan Foster

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Udora to petition council for mosquito control program

Outdoor furnace issue gets resolved

After a community meeting at the Udora Hall on Monday, June 9, it was announced that a petition will go to council on June 25 to request Udora be included in the Bti mosquito control program. Rev. Jim Keenan will make a deputation and present the peti-tion signed by hundreds of Udora residents and supported by local resident associations. Bti, which is a biological lar-vicide that is toxic to mosquito larvae, has been applied to ap-proximately 2,000 acres in the Pefferlaw area for the past five years with success in reducing mosquito populations. Prior to that, both the Pefferlaw and Udora areas were being treated with Malathion, a con-troversial mosquito control program which was not sup-ported by the residents in

Udora and that community was dropped from the program at their request. Udora resident Margaret Bur-rows is supportive of her com-munity being brought into the Bti program and was instru-mental in organizing the June 9 meeting. “There was a show of hands and the vast majority were in favour of the mosquito Bti pro-gram,” Ms. Burrows said. “Most of the comments were that there was absolutely no reason why Udora should have been eliminated from Bti, that the Malathion was a very dif-ferent process.” The contract for the Bti pro-gram in Pefferlaw expired with the 2014 application and there is a request to have it extended although that request has not yet been put before council.

After a number of complaints were lodged from neighbours subjected to the negative envi-ronmental impact of outdoor furnaces, council approved a by-law to restrict them to rural areas and to regulate setbacks from property lines, chimney heights and approved materials for combustion. As a result, these outside appli-ances must be located at least 50 metres from property lines and will require a minimum of six feet of chimney. A list of materials not approved for com-bustion was also included. However, given that two exist-ing legal furnaces were built prior to the new by-law, a tran-sition clause was included to deal with those and lot line set-backs were approved at 25 me-tres. One previously constructed outdoor furnace located on Sun-kist Dr. in Virginia was only four metres from the neighbour-ing property line but when the

by-law attempted to make al-lowances for that furnace, deputations at council on May 28 by neighbours refused to accept the four-metre transition provision. Mr. Ted Rennie gave a deputa-tion telling council that his fam-ily is driven indoors by toxic fumes and smoke coming from his neighbour’s outdoor fur-nace. He said the new by-law was a useful tool for new instal-lations, but it failed to protect his family by allowing an exist-ing furnace to operate four me-tres from his property line. “This unit runs year round and has negatively impacted the enjoyment of our property,” Mr. Rennie said. Following the meeting staff met with the Sunkist Dr. furnace owner and reached an agree-ment that would see the furnace unit moved to meet the new 25 metre setback provision and an increased chimney height of six feet.

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Congratulations to Laura Alli-son who received her Masters of Applied Environmental Studies in Local Economic Development from the Univer-sity of Waterloo. She is the daughter of Debbie and Grant Allison and granddaughter of Ken and Lorraine Hacken-brook and Ruby Allison.

Congratulations to the Geor-gina Professional Fire Fighters Association upon raising $9,470 for Muscular Dystro-phy. Way to go!!!

Happy Belated birthday greet-ings to Arnie Hall (June 5), from his family. We would like to send our best wishes out to Jack Harrison who turns 84 on June 23. Cheers, Jack! It’s what happens when family and friends get together to help one another. $2,768 was raised at a euchre tournament in Pef-ferlaw to support Allora Fors-man—a little girl battling neuroblastoma. Good job guys. Happy Birthday to special little guy who is celebrating his first birthday on July 1. Declan Menezes can’t wait to dive into his first birthday cake with family and friends.

Truck traffic may be glimpse of future Increased truck traffic hauling fill to an abandoned gravel pit at 6017 Smith Blvd. are meet-ing an order from the Ministry of Natural Resources to reha-bilitate the aggregate pit to its former condition and is not within the jurisdiction of the Town of Georgina—nor does it have anything to do with Mr. Marvin Blanchard’s site altera-tion application for 6003 Smith Blvd. that is currently before council. That was the information re-ceived from the Town of Geor-gina when neighbouring prop-erty owner Elizabeth Ryder complained about the truck

traffic congestion, the noise and her concerns for public safety. Ms. Ryder said she counted at least 15 trucks in the space of 90 minutes and at one point, the trucks were lined up to make the turn into Mr. Blanch-ard’s aggregate pit. “This is just a sample of what we are in for if the site altera-tion application for 6003 Smith Blvd. is approved,” Ms. Ryder said. The site alteration application asking for 29,800 loads of fill to be dumped at 6003 Smith Blvd. is expected to be back on council’s agenda in July.

Council redirects funds to repair frost damage

Council has approved a staff recommen-dation to transfer $200,000 that had been set aside in the 2014 budget for road re-surfacing and use the monies to repair road damage caused by frost. “After the severe winter of 2013/2014, we had many surface-treated roads where frost heaving occurred,” a staff report stated. “The repairs to these roads should be undertaken prior to the con-tinuation of the regular surface treatment program.” Staff advised council that the areas dam-aged from frost would require the re-moval of frost-susceptible soil to stop the surface water from entering the road-base and causing future frost heaves. Although council approved the reassign-ment of the monies, Regional Councillor Danny Wheeler asked staff to investi-gate the possibility of completing both projects—the frost heave repair work and the resurfacing. “We are talking about gas tax funding here that was going to be used for sur-face treatment and you are talking about shifting it over to this special program as a result of last winter. However, our gas tax reserve fund is far from empty and I am wondering if you have the capability to do both this year,” Mr. Wheeler said. Staff responded by saying “timing” could be an issue as tenders would need to be released, but Councillor Wheeler recommended both be fit into the sched-ule if possible. Council traditionally earmarks approxi-mately $200,000 annually to rehabilitate town-owned roads. The areas that are being considered for frost-heaving repair include: ● Ravencrest Rd.—south end and north end ● Country Mile Lane—at the bend ● Bethal Rd.—at Kennedy Rd. ● Boyers Rd.—west of Warden Ave. ● Glenwoods Ave.—west of Carley ● Latimer Rd.—at east end ● Smith Road—east of Park Rd. ● Moore’s Beach—east and west ● Woodfield Dr.—south end ● Kay Ave.—midpoint ● Blue Jay Blvd.—bad heaves ● Sumach Dr.—north and south end

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Ashleigh Higgins (left) receives a ‘Thank You’ plaque from Gale Curl (right) and Sharon Fenlon (centre) for her contribution to Health and Wellness Day held at the Kes-wick Christian Church on June 7. Workshop participants discussed foods that heal and foods that harm with Karen Stewart, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist; they were given a presentation on naturo-pathy by Ashleigh Higgins; and participated in gentle exercise with fitness experts Jason and Kristina Williams. “This has been a wonderful day with a number of people attending. It has taken a lot of work but has been well worth it. It was great to see people taking such an interest in their health”, said Gale Curl one of the chief organiz-ers of this Keswick Christian Church event. Nearly sixty people attended and really enjoyed the seminars and ac-tivities.” Over two thousand dollars was raised in this Health and Wellness Seminar and silent auction. These funds will be set towards roof repairs and other church needs. Below, Kristina and Jason Williams (left) are recognized for their contributions to the event.

Photo Right: Vendors set up at the Learning Centre for Georgina’s community en-gagement event on June 21.

Above, Dorothy Shier was one of many yard sale vendors set up throughout the hamlet of Wilfrid on Saturday, June 21 during the Wilfrid Village Festival. The event helps to raise money for the Wilfrid Hall Board. Below, Edie and Dave Bond tend a BBQ and prepare a hot dog for a customer.

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Ivan Foster’s trail cameras on Morning Glory Rd. in Peffer-law were busy on June 20 when they snapped these two photos along a trail on Mr. Foster’s property. The cam-eras are located within 300 metres of each other and the photos were taken three hours apart.

And a good time was had by all...that was the spirit of those attend-ing the House Tour held on Saturday, June 21. Above, homeowner Denise Sheedy discusses with visitors the various flower varieties planted in her garden on Old Homestead Rd.

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It was a beautiful day for the Hike for Hospice at the ROC on Sunday, June 22. This group of eager hikers including Lionel, the Boston Pizza mascot led the way for 45 participants in total. Funds raised will go toward support for Georgina Hospice programming.

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Set among gorgeous blue skies and balmy temperatures, The Georgina Gathering had something for everyone—Highland and Irish Dancers, arts, crafts and vendor displays, demonstrations of dog obedience and model air-craft, a tug of war competition, food vendors and a beer tent. Photos: (Top Left) A competitor in the Highland Dance Competition shows off her stuff. (Bottom Left) Bill Lang with the Keswick Model Airplane Club holds up a Christen Eagle II model aircraft with a 1.25 cu. in. 4-stroke en-gine. This model can achieve airspeeds of 140 km/hr. (Top Right) Members of the Georgina Kennel and Obedience Club get set to demonstrate obedi-ence training for dogs. (Bottom Right) Two kids square off against each other in a bouncy battle version of “King of the Castle”.

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Members and guests of the Pefferlaw and District Lions Club and the Pef-ferlaw Lioness Club enjoyed dinner and witnessed the induction of a new executive for each club on Monday, June 16. “I am looking forward to leading various projects and continuing the Pefferlaw Lion’s Club commitment to serving the community,” said newly installed club president, Ted Rennie. Guests were also treated to the win-ning entry of the 2014 Lions Effec-tive Speaking Contest at Morning Glory Public School. Won by Kendra Buchner, her speech ad-dressed the need for a guidance counsellor at her school. Both the Lioness and Lions Clubs have worked tirelessly for years giv-ing back to the community. Proceeds from past fundraising events have gone toward the Purina Walk for Dog Guides, academic bursaries, Georgina Minor Baseball, Pefferlaw Scouting, Morning Glory Breakfast Club, the Terry Fox Run, Community Living and the Community Food Bank. Photos: (Lioness Top Photo L to R) Hilde Kasper (Tail Twister) Margaret Hamelin (Lioness Tamer), Anne Guy (Director), Jean Stephens (Secretary), Betty Petten (Past President), Gayle Middleton (President), Pat Peterson (Treasurer), Phoebe Peitsch (Director), Elaine Umphrey (Vice-President) (Lions Above photo L to R ) Brian Meredith (Vice-President), Albert Henderson (Lion Tamer/Membership Chair), Dave Harding (Past Presi-dent), Arnie Hall (1st Year Director), Cheryl Bahen (Secretary/Lioness Liaison), Ron Robinson (Bulletin Editor/IT Chair), Don Philp (Tail Twister), Ted Rennie (President). Photo Below: Kendra Buchner

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Ducks in training for big race

On Saturday, July 26, the Sut-ton Business Improvement As-sociation (BIA) will be hosting their second annual Festival on High in downtown Sutton. Building on the tremendous success of last year's inaugural event, this year's festival will feature something for everyone: ● Live bands and singers will be perform-ing through-out the day in Market Square, in-cluding the Connors Brothers, A Touch of Blue, Mac & Em, and The Daisy Dukes. ● Children's entertainer Magoo will enchant the kiddies in the Kid Zone at Mill Pond Park. Kid Zone will also feature a bouncy castle, a dress-up sta-tion, and face painting by Wig-gles and Giggles. ● For those who like to shop, the merchants of High Street will hold a sidewalk sale and Market Square will feature a variety of vendors. ● New this year will be a horse-drawn wagon that will transport

festival-goers around town in style. The highlight of the festival, of course, will be the annual Duck Race over the Black River dam. Hundreds of yellow plastic ducks will battle to be the first to cross the finish line at the bottom of the dam. Buy a ticket for the chance to win some

great prizes! This event has proven so popu-lar in years past that this year there will be two races and two opportunities to win! For more information about Festival On High, visit www.festivalonhigh.com, and for more information about the Sutton BIA, visit www.suttonbia.com

Got your ticket yet? You will have two chances to win the Duck Race over the dam in Sutton this year during the “Festival on High” on July 26.

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Still having fun and enjoying life as a physician Continued on page 11... Continued from page 1. multi-generational care. And in a medical world of computers, e-health and lasers, he still conducts house calls on a daily basis. But the accolades for Dr. Burrows (or Dr. B as he is affectionately known) are not heard just here in Georgina. Dr. Burrows was recognized as Physician of the Year by the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2006; through his church parish, he di-rected the adoption of two schools in Ja-maica; and he is credited with helping de-velop the Mid-Ontario Program for Rural Residents. Closer to home, he has been honoured for 50 years of dedicated service to South Lake Regional Health Centre (formerly York County Hospital) where he also worked part-time in the emergency department while managing his own practice. He is also noted for his professional commitment to the Northern Ontario aboriginal communities and he has been described as “legendary” for his life’s work supporting family medi-cine residents, medical students and nurse practitioners. Recently, the Town of Geor-gina named a street after him. Dr. Burrows says he has no idea how many babies he has brought into the world, but he does remember delivering 80 in one year. As a family physician, Dr. Burrows has handled all types of medical emergencies—he remembers breaking down a locked door once to attend to a patient who had called his office but couldn’t move. And he relates the story of a young child at Pickle Lake in Northern Ontario who suffered a severe gunshot to the stomach while playing with his father’s gun. “We went to the house and put him on an ironing board and started an IV on him be-cause the bullet had opened him up and he was bleeding a lot,” Dr. Burrows said. But due to the severity and location of the

wound, little could be done to stop the bleeding. “So we wrapped him in Saran Wrap and put a great big bandage around him and took him to the airport. Thank goodness we had him on the ironing board because we were able to fit him into this little aircraft. When we arrived in Thunder Bay he had lost two-thirds of his blood, but he survived.” Dr. Burrows says he has witnessed nu-merous changes among the medical pro-fession over the past six decades, not the least of which is the trend to involve the patient in his or her own care. “At one time, if a patient had cancer, you would never tell them,” he said. “But the big thing now is, the doctors realize that the patient has to be very involved in their care and it is a team effort and makes for a much better relationship.” Some of his patients have been with him for over 50 years and he says the goodwill and appreciation they heap upon him on a daily basis, keeps him motivated. “A lot of my patients are elderly and I’ve been looking after some of them for 50 years,” he said. “They are what keeps me going.” In fact, when one patient called for help without leaving his name, Dr. Burrows knew exactly where to go because he had recognized the voice. In another case, after not hearing from one of his 90 year-old patients for some time, he had a sense something might be wrong and ended up applying sutures in the livingroom for a nasty cut. “The older folks are a pleasure to deal with because they are so appreciative,” he says. In addition to his commitment to the medi-cal profession and his patients, Dr. Burrows wore the chain of office as the Mayor of Georgina for three terms. But “politics compared to medicine is really dull,” he says.

Dr. George Burrows is joined by two staff members at the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic where he works as the consulting physician.

Lake Simcoe Gardeners invite you to enjoy Frank Mazzotta on “Our Town—Our Trees” and their Flower Show on Monday, June 28 at 7:30 pm at Keswick United Church.

The Cannington Lawn Bowling Club is having a Silent Auction fundraiser at McLeod Park on July 1 from noon to 3:30 pm. Come out and learn about lawn bowl-ing.

The Pine Beach Association will be host-ing a Canada Day Celebration with a BBQ, fishing, swimming and a campfire. Public invited.

Hey Georgina! Come on out to the Geor-gina Pioneer Village and the ROC on Canada Day for some fun. 2:00 to 8:00 pm. Fireworks display starts at dusk!

The Sunkist Beach Association will host their Annual Yard and Bake Sale on Saturday, July 5 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Pancake breakfast, BBQ, silent auction and more. Vendor space available. Contact Corrie (705) 513-0311 or email corriev@rogers.com for information.

The Belvedere Cookhouse and Saloon is hosting a fundraising golf tournament to support the Allegro Dance Academy at the

Pines of Georgina Golf Club on July 7. The four-person scramble tees off at 11:00 am. $100 per person includes lunch, dinner and refreshments. Call (705) 437-1202.

The first of a new music series at the Georgina Arts Centre kicks off on Friday, July 11 at 7:00 pm with Bernadette Con-nors and Joseph Piilonen. Advance tickets $15.

St. Andrew’s United Church in Beaverton invites you to their 11th Annual Giant Yard Sale and Auction on July 12 at the Beaverton Curling Club. The sale and BBQ breakfast starts at 7:00 am and the auction begins at 9:00 am. And don’t for-get their weekly pie and bake sale at Thorah Central School every Friday at noon until August 29.

Want to find out what geocaching is? Go to the Pefferlaw Library on Tuesday July 15 at 7:00 and learn everything about real life treasure hunting. It’s free!

On Friday, July 16, the Keswick Library will host a free drop in for the NFB Film Club showing of My Prairie Home at 7:00 pm.

The Port Bolster Hall Board is holding a Community Yard Sale on Saturday, July

19 at 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. For table rentals call Barb at (705) 437-1821.

Quack, quack...get your entry for the duck race being held during the Festival on High event on Saturday, July 26.

The Georgina Historical Society is signing up participants for their Historical Bus Tour on July 27. Only $30 includes bus, lunch, tickets to Eildon Hall in the park and a great time. Call (905) 476-4301 and ask for Recreation.

Don’t know what a Rube Goldberg ma-chine is? Go to the Peter Gzowski Library in Sutton on Tuesday, July 28 and create one using household items!

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