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www.EMCQuinte.caTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

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By Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West The dust has still not settled over the proposed Orchard Lane subdivision.

Council debated the draft plan from the Planning Ad-visory Committee which called for a total of 225 sin-gle detached lots in Murray Ward.

Jim Alyea commented that the developer can only do 100 lots now because there are still concerns from residents about access roads.

Leslie Roseblade noted, Residents dont want emergency access through their homes.

Charlie Murphy, director of planning, said council has the authority to let the ap-proval lapse if it is not com-pleted in three years. He said they have made it clear the sewage system is only for 100 homes and they can rescind draft approval.

Jim Harrison said they have approved only 100 lots and if they increase that to 224 lots it would increase the density tre-mendously.

Gary Dyke suggested this be conditional to draft approval. Murphy said if they dont approve all 224 lots it will affect the layout of the subdivision. It would have to be rede-signed, he said.

Paul Kyte moved for de-ferral, asking for a detailed report from staff later. Gary Dyke said they can bring it back at the Decem-ber 17 council meeting.

By Ray YurkowskiEMC News - Brighton - At their regular meeting on Monday night, munici-pal council gave unanimous approval to another public meeting regarding the pro-posed Codrington gravel pit.

In response to a notice of motion filed by Councillors John Martinello and Mary Tadman on November 19, planning manager Ken Hurford presented a report in an effort to assist council in their deliberations.

We believe there is mer-it to holding another public meeting, he said. The deci-sion came after discussions between public works di-rector Andrew Drzewiecki,

Hurford, CAO Gayle Frost and municipal solicitor Wayne Fairbrother.

But the meeting will be about providing new infor-mation only.

In a letter, Fairbrother wrote, we support the council initiative of hold-ing a further public meet-ing in the near future but respectfully suggest the purpose should be to focus on the new information that should be coming shortly as opposed to simply providing another opportunity for the public to restate their views and questions, which have previously been presented and taken into account by council, its peer reviewers

and advisors in subsequent discussions with the propo-nent.

The solicitor is suggest-ing it would be appropriate to move to another public meeting and use that as an opportunity to lay out the progress that has been made in the last year, explained Hurford.

When council adopted the Official Plan amend-ment, there were a number of matters that staff and the solicitor were tasked with in working through with St. Marys-CBM, he said. Things like visual impact, a couple of additional wells and monitoring situations, monitoring programs for

groundwater, monitoring programs for surface water, protocols for problems and building all of those into a development agreement that would ultimately be brought back before council.

While its been virtually a year since the Official Plan amendment, it hasnt been an unproductive year. Weve had a number of meetings between staff, consultants and the solicitor for St. Marys-CBM and have made a great deal of headway in getting the site plans revised to make sure they address many of the issues as were identified both by the com-munity liaison group pro-

Denise McGregor made these two delightful gingerbread houses for the seniors show. Photo: Kate Everson

Seniors Club 105 holds crafts and bake sale with tea

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The horses are ready to pull away from the old town hall with a merry wave from Santa. Photo: Kate Everson

By Kate EversonEMC News - Trenton - Old-fashioned horse and wagon rides are part of the festive tradition in down-town Trenton. Blaine Way from Milford has been bringing his horses to the Old Town Hall 1861 on King Street for several years, de-lighting children and adults with a jaunt through town. Santa himself comes along for the ride!

The horses love it too! he says with a laugh, with a Giddyup and a hearty wave.

The Trenton DBIA opens its office for riders who want to wait inside if its cold out there. Rides contin-ue throughout the shopping season from Friday, Decem-ber 7, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, December 8, from 12 to 3 p.m. They start up on

Thursday, December 13, and Friday, December 14 from 6 to 8 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. The wagon rides take over the whole week from Mon-day, December 16, through Friday, December 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. and on the last weekend before Christmas, Saturday, December 22, and Sunday, December 23, from 12 to 3 p.m.

The downtown has been decorated with red ribbons and bows with window dis-plays. Fraser Park is ablaze with lights in the annual Christmas Fantasy of San-tas Workshop. The nativity celebration was held No-vember 28 with carollers and the lighting of the na-tivity display in Fraser Park, along with a Jingle Bell Walk through town.

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Children enjoy the view of downtown on the wagon ride. Photo: Kate Everson

rah in Fraser Park will take place on Saturday, December 8, at 5:45 p.m. with consid-eration for the Jewish faith which celebrates Hanukkah this time of year. Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights, an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. A dif-ferent candle is lit every day between December 8 and December 16.

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Public meeting re the Codrington pitcess and this council.

Myself and Councillor Tadman recommended this public meeting in response to a number of questions from the members of the public, particularly in Co-drington, said Martinello. There is a lot of uncertain-ty out there and its a good idea this meeting happens.

The approved motion: Upon receipt of the revised site plan and the executed de-velopment agreement from St. Marys-CBM, council hold a public meeting so the municipal solicitor and staff can report to council and the public on the status of the discussions and negotia-tions with St. Marys-CBM regarding the conditions set by council at the time of the adoption of the Offi cial Plan amendment number 26 and

the new and updated infor-mation that has been pre-pared to address these con-ditions. And that the public be given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments regarding such new and updated informa-tion prior to any determina-tion by council with respect to the position they will take on the zoning bylaw at the

upcoming OMB (Ontario Municipal Board) hearing.

We dont know when the OMB hearing is go-ing to be yet, said Frost. But once we get all of these details together, were hoping we can schedule a public meeting in January. We dont expect the OMB hearing to be until, at least, March.

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By Kate EversonEMC News - Quinte West Jean and John Thompson have a lot to roar about. Both are members of the Trenton Lions and Trenton Lioness Clubs.

John is the fi rst male Lion-ess in our club, said Lioness president Maureen Sills. He is a very valuable member. We count on him for help.

John has helped out at the Bingos and the bazaar, wher-ever he is needed. He was al-ready a member of the Tren-ton Lions Club.

I can do some things, but Im no good at knitting, he said smiling at his wife Jean.

Jean has been a Trenton Lioness for 35 years, now a charter member, having helped start the club. She was

their fi rst president. She de-cided to join the Trenton Li-ons Club so she could be with her husband when he partici-pated in their events and at-tended conferences.

I felt out of place with the Lions before I joined, she said. I wanted to feel com-fortable.

Jean said although they have moved to Belleville they still prefer to be members of the Trenton clubs.

The Trenton Lioness Club has 21 members (19 active), and the Trenton Lions Club has 31 (Diane Gardy as presi-dent).

John has been a Lion for 43 years, having started in Bel-leville, and is a past district governor. I like the Tren-ton club, he said. I always

wanted to be a Lioness.He is very knowledgable,

president Maureen Sills says. He is a real asset, an extra body. Its nice to have an extra voice.

She adds that the Trenton Lioness Club is eager to fi nd new members, male or female. They meet at the Lions Hall on the fi rst Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. They hold pot lucks and fun auctions,

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Trenton Lions and Lioness Club members John and Jean Thompson with Trenton Lioness president Maureen Sills. Photo: Kate Everson

have guest speakers and en-joy fun and fellowship. They support many projects in Quinte West by raising funds through catering dinners and special events, and their tea and sales. In the past 34 years the club has donated over $300,000 to the community including Adopt-a-Child, Big Brothers and Sisters, Trenton Memorial Hospital, Salvation Army, Kids Help Phone, the VON, Trenton Food Bank,

Special Olympics, Quinte Ac-cess and Community Living. They provide bursaries for four high schools and sponsor teams for minor hockey and soccer. The club also supports groups outside of Quinte West such as Camp Trillium and the Stephen Lewis Foun-dation.

Recently, a raffl e raised money to purchase Christ-mas presents for 15 residents of Trent Valley Lodge nursing

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The raffl e was organized by Mary Lynn Hiuser who also purchased the gifts for the seniors.

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EMC News - Brighton - Christmas is a special time for all Christians and Trinity St. Andrews United Church in Brighton will once again be celebrating the blessed event throughout the month of De-cember.

The celebrations started December 2 with the light-ing of the hope candle on the first Sunday of Advent. This will be followed in succeed-ing weeks with the joy, peace and love candles, culminating with the Christ candle.

By Kate EversonEMC News - Trenton - A window display with a huge gingerbread house, stackable

Cindy Ward accepts a $500 cheque from Bob Rowbotham and Jane Collett-MacDonald of the Trenton DBIA. Darlene Steward (r) made the winning window display. Photo: Kate Everson

Winner of window display helps New Beginningsdolls and Christmas trees won top prize in the Trenton DBIA window contest for New Beginnings.

The first prize is $500, said Jane Collett-MacDonald, office administrator for the DBIA.

Second place of $300 in free ads on Rock 107 went to Vivacious and third place of $100 was won by McDou-galls Insurance (decorated by Sarah Dunkley). There were 23 entries this year, with priz-es offered in partnership with the city of Quinte West and Rock 107.

Cindy Ward, team leader for the New Beginnings mental health support centre, said they will use the $500 anywhere it is needed. The organization helps people with mental health issues by

holding programs in recov-ery, anger management, de-pression and self esteem for people over the age of 16.

We also offer hot lunches for $1, said volunteer Dar-lene Stewart. We have won-derful cooks.

She designed the winning window with help from Her-man Luymes who built the house which she painted and decorated with candies. It was a lot of fun decorating, she said with a smile. She added a handmade quilt in the back-ground and some Christmas ornaments on loan from the Salvation Army Thrift Store and Bibles for Missions.

Corrie Vellekoop, support centre co-ordinator, said this time of year is especially hard for those needing help. There are eight sites in the southeast

area from Trenton to Prescott. She said Kingston has the worst problems with mental health issues but Trenton and Belleville are not far behind.

Our cornerstone is the eight-week program we offer called Wellness Recovery Ac-tion Plan, she said. It helps keep people well.

She said people can sign up for the two-hour week-ly program for free which helps them identify triggers that can set them off, help-ing them with early warning signs of depression or anger

issues. Then they can learn how to develop concrete plans to deal with it.

Its really helpful, she said. It identifies what keeps you well and what helps or hinders you.

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tial.We dont do clinical coun-

selling, Vellekoop said. This is for peer support.

She said it helps for some-body to talk to a person who has dealt with the same kinds of issues. If people dont want to share information, they dont have to. All the services are free.

Who doesnt struggle with mental health issues at some time? she asked.

For more information on services see on the web.

Christmas at Trinity St. AndrewsDecember 16 will be

White Gift Sunday to sup-port the Brighton Food Bank. Also, during this service, our first Christmas tree, decorat-ed with handicrafts provided by our members, will be lit. Everyone is invited for this special occasion and to stay for luncheon afterwards in the new community hall.

On December 23, the third Sunday in Advent will be celebrated at the 10:30 a.m. morning service. That same evening at 7:30 p.m. the se-nior choir, junior choir, chim-ers and a brass ensemble will again offer the traditional Nine Lessons and Carols, which has proven so popular in recent years.

On December 24, there will be two evening services, a family service at 7 p.m. and a candlelight service at 9 p.m. at which Communion will be of-fered. Unrelated to the church services but in a popular sea-sonal offering, local entertain-ers Ian Simpson and Stephanie Bird will again be combining their considerable talents to present Christmas Songs for a Winters Night. This event will take place at Trinity St. Andrews United Church on Saturday, December 22, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 each.

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Letters to the editorWyley says snu the teachers union

Dear Editor,In ancient times, (the

1960s and 1970s), the teach-ers union(s) had the ability to cross-ruff local school boards by playing them off against one another to win huge wage gains for all. More recently, Bob Rae in the 1980s, and Mike Harris in the 1990s, incurred teach-ers fury and were unable to accomplish any signifi cant concessions on either wages or the teachers sweet ben-efi ts. Even now, a teachers pet, Dalton McGuinty, has discovered that coddling begets continued expec-tations of more coddling. The cupboard is bare is just a nursery rhyme to the teachers union.

What to do? What to do? Wyley thinks the teachers are good at what they do, but their union represen-tatives are not too swift at recognizing a good thing.

What is that good thing? It is:

1. Much better than aver-age wages in a guaranteed, structured, seniority-rules environment, not subject to depressions or severe reces-sions.

2. Wonderful (civil ser-vice) benefi ts like defi ned benefi t pension plans, accu-mulated sick leave, (at least until now), and medical, eye-wear, hearing and dental assistance of which the great unwashed can only dream. (Dont look at their collec-tive bargaining agreement; it will make you crazy).

3. An incestuous admin-istrative hierarchy that themselves benefi t from the gains made by their unionized counterparts. Together, these goodies add up to one sweet deal. (If it wasnt, why are thousands of young accredited teach-ers waiting in the wings to

get in on this good thing? And why arent the retired teachers forced to actually retire and let the new kids take the available fi ll-in po-sitions?)

So the bad guys, (assum-ing you pay property and income and other taxes), are the union representa-tives who are forcing the teachers to drink the Kool-Aid of rebellion about their wage levels and the per-ceived new takeaways. Lets just see how demand-ing the teachers job really is. Start in September, get two weeks off at Christmas, another week in March, all the normal stat. holidays, and fi nish up in June. (No allowance being made for additional adjustments like professional develop-ment or sick days.) Wyley generously calculates 195 actual working days. Di-vided into an average gross

wage of $75,000, (the grid is $40,000 to $90,000), that works out to an average of $385 per day. One hundred and ninety-fi ve days, by the way, is just over one-half a year of work, 53.4 per cent to be precise. Oh wait!

You say you also get to retire in your mid-fi fties with a full indexed pen-sion? That, my son, is some good as they say in Newfoundland.

I know, I know. She can be a tough job teaching fi dgety little Johnny. But theres enough compensation there to choke a horse. Dont lis-ten to those union reps who themselves have created a pretty cushy empire. There is no more money! Period, exclamation mark. If they tell you to walk, and worse, try to develop some asinine undemocratic penalties if you dont conform, DONT GO ALONG. If you listen

to them and strike, your NEXT premier will make Mike Harris and/or Dalton McGuinty look like tooth fairies. The union feels threatened, (and rightly so for all the reasons men-tioned above), so they are doing what unions do: yell and vigorously rebel.

But the cookie jar is truly empty and the jig is up with parental hostage-taking. You still want to strike? Hosta la vista to $385 per day because that defi cit dictates rollbacks no matter what baby! Par-

ents will ask for compen-sation if teachers choose refrigeration. (Theres a rallying cry for parents and taxpayers!)

You teachers have been, and are presently, getting bad advice from your union. Dont drink the Kool-Aid but rather agree that you have been do-ing a good job for which you will continue to be very gen-erously compensated.

Yours truly, Wyley Canuck,

aka Ken Leavens, Stirling

Thoughts on a few di erent subjects

Dear Editor,The Nexen sale to China

should be an open book to Canadians. Canadians would not appreciate Chi-nese customs and human rights abuses. In the British colonial era, native Canadi-ans had no rights and were put on reservations with unjust treaties. The Cana-dian taxpayer is now paying to right this injustice. I wish the native Canadians every success.

Human rights denial is not new to the Brits. Brit-ains Gulag, a recent book tells the story of a non-democratic British Empire. Canadas Mackay condones Israel for defending their country but excludes Pales-tinians for defending their country. The three wise men, Mackay, Baird and

Harper, never travelled out-side North America. Pres-ently as politicians, they travel internationally at our expense, assuring us what is best for Canada!

I respect the remembrance of our veterans. There never should have been veterans past and future. The leaders in the world with their pea-sized brains lack the knowl-edge to avoid war although they can and do develop war material to destroy human-ity. History glamourizes these leaders. War for cor-porations is money, for poli-ticians, power and resources and for soldiers, death.

Women have the power to end the carnage no more children. Leaders would have to rely on robots.

H. Howarth,Tweed

Dear Editor,The worst among us hurt

the least among us.Parliament voted on Bill-

C398 this week. The bill would have saved millions of lives by simplifying the pro-cess to send generic drugs to developing nations.

We are highly disap-pointed with the result of to-nights vote. This Bill would have helped get lifesaving medicine to the worlds most vulnerable children without any additional costs to the government or Canadians. This is a missed opportunity and it is children who will suffer most, says UNICEF Canadas President and CEO David Morley.

Currently only 42 per cent of the estimated 1.5 million infants born world-wide to mothers with HIV receive the antiretroviral (ARV) treatments needed to

prevent transmission of the disease.

Rick Norlock and Dean Del Mastro voted against the bill. They should be ashamed of themselves. They represent our voice in Parliament and I dont like what I am hearing.

I researched this issue and I cannot fi nd a comment from their caucus with any valid reason why they voted against this bill. When you see these men out and about this holiday season, I en-courage you to respectfully ask them why they voted to not save the lives of the worlds neediest children? I certainly would like to know why.

For more information on this bill you can contact the Grandmothers Advocacy Network.

Tom Smeraldo,Warkworth

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EMC Editorial - In other parts of the world, separatist movements are usually violent (e.g. Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the various Kurdish re-volts) and they some-times succeed (South Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor). Whereas in the prosperous, democratic countries of the West,

they are generally peaceful, frivolous, and unsuccessful.

A case in point is the various separatist movements in the European Union. Scot-land will be holding a vote on independence from Britain in 2014, and both Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain have just elect-ed nationalist governments that promise to hold referendums on independence. But it will probably never happen.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but no-body else does. They are self-governing in most matters except defence and foreign af-fairs, they have their own budgets, and they maintain separate education systems and cultural institutions.

The Scots get more money back from the central government in London than they pay in taxes, while Catalonia and the Basque country (Euskara, in the Basque language), claim that they contribute more to Madrid than they receive. But the sums are relative-ly modest, and in any case it is not necessary to break up the country in order to renegoti-ate fi scal imbalances.

What really drives the separatism is emo-tion, which is why popular support for it is so soft. Rectifying the historic defeat of (insert name of centuries-old lost battle here) by declaring independence in the here-and-now has great emotional appeal, but most people put their economic interests fi rst. Nationalist leaders therefore always promise that inde-pendence will change nothing important on the economic front.

The way they do this in both Scotland and the separatist regions of Spain is by insist-ing that membership in the European Union would pass automatically to the successor state. The opponents of secession, however, argue that theres nothing automatic about it.

The arguments are not just directed at the home audience. Last month, when Scot-lands First Minister, Alex Salmond, agreed the terms for the 2014 referendum with the British government, Spanish Foreign Minis-ter Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo promptly declared that an independent Scotland would NOT automatically be an EU member, and that any one of the 27 EU member states (like Spain, for example) could veto it.

In the hypothetical case of indepen-dence, he said, Scotland would have to join the queue [for EU membership] and ask to be admitted, needing the unanimous approval

of all member states to obtain the status of a candidate country. The European Com-mission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, also said in September that an independent Scot-land would be seen as a new state and would have to apply to join.

This was furiously disputed by Alex Sal-mond, who knew his chances of winning the 2014 referendum were nil if the Scots believed they were voting to leave the EU. For months he insisted he had sought the opinion of his governments law offi cers, who had confi rmed that Scotland would inherit EU membership automatically, and would not even have to adopt the euro. Alas, he was lying.

Late last month, it became known that Sal-mond had not actually asked for the law of-fi cers opinion at all. Now he has been forced by public opinion to pop the questionand he may not like the answer.

An even bigger defeat for Salmond came in his negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he had to agree that the referendum would ask a simple yes-or-no question: in or out? This goes against the instincts of all separatist leaders, who prefer a fuzzy, feel-good question that doesnt men-tion the frightening word independence.

The most famous formulation of this question was in the 1995 Quebec referen-dum on secession from Canada: Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the fu-ture of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995? Not exactly clear, is it?

That referendum was very close, but in 2000 the Canadian federal government passed a law generally known as the Clarity Act. It said negotiations between the federal government and any province on secession should only follow a clear expression of the will of the population of a province that the province cease to be part of Canada.

This requirement would not be met, it added, if the referendum question merely focuses on a mandate to negotiate without soliciting a direct expression of the will of the population of that province on (indepen-dence), or if the question envisages other possibilities ..., such as economic or political arrangements with Canada, that obscure a direct expression of the will of the popula-tion on (secession).

This law drastically reduces the likelihood that the separatists could win any future referendum in Quebec, and its obviously what David Cameron had in mind in his negotiations with Salmond on the Scottish referendum. As for Catalonia and Euskara, the national parliament in Madrid must ap-prove of any referendum on separation, and the current Spanish government has made it abundantly clear that it has no intention of doing that.

So its mostly just hot air and hurt feel-ings, really.

Separatist Dreams

Dear Editor,The Liberals placed a moratorium on offshore/onshore

wind farms in February 2011. The reason given accord-ing to the press release was further study was needed re. the impact on health and the environment.

There is no indication when the studies might be com-pleted.

In April of 2010, Windstream Energy Inc. of Burling-ton, Ontario, was awarded a Feed-In-Tariff contract by the Ontario Power Authority to build a 100 turbine, 300 megawatt off-shore wind project west of Wolfe Island. They have recently fi led a $475-million lawsuit against the provincial government for damages. Businesses like Windstream invested millions in wind projects. The Windstream president says the company has been backed into a corner and has no option but litigation.

Since the Green Energy Act was brought into being, there has been strong public objections to wind projects in rural areas. McGuinty was aware of this its a gen-eral consensus in rural Ontario. The cancellation of the wind farms in 2011 was a vote getter a costly one.

Then there is the gas plant fi scal disaster. McGuinty felt he needed Oakvilles votes for a coveted majority in 2011 and Oakville didnt want the gas plant. Ooh la la

lets just cancel that. We will move this gas plant 210 ki-lometres east to the Bath area. No consultation of course. The public will pay. Latest dollar fi gures for those few votes are pegged upwards to $1.3 billion and the count is still on.

Fast track to November 21, 2012, and a press release by the now lame duck Minister of Energy Chris Bentley: Ontario is aiming to provide electricity consumers with greater access to information about their energy con-sumption and help save electricity costs. A plan to help us lowly taxpayers to conserve and save. An oxymoron in Liberal language.

I ask you, what is the incentive for consumers to con-serve and save when those at the wheel are blowing our billions on highly suspect outcomes or to further the Liberal party?

I really resent the implication that we who pay the bills are so gullible.

We need to follow Quebecs lead and have an inquiry into corruption in Ontario. The Liberal regime of the past nine years has created many areas to investigate.

Shelby J. Lawrence,Stirling

A corruption inquiry is in order

By Terry BushEMC Editorial - Poor Justin Trudeau. Make that poor, rich Justin Trudeau.

The guy just cant seem to catch a break nor should he. Its a good thing he got his mothers looks because he certainly didnt inherit his fathers brains or political savvy.

Trudeau once again fi nds himself scrambling this week to take his foot out of his mouth. This time hes angered his own party with comments about the gun registry and gun owner-ship.

While admitting that he supported the registry and voted for it, he considers it a failed public policy and has no intention of bringing it back if elected. This statement angered members of his party who continue to defend the registry and consider it part of the Liberals legacy, on par with the Charter of Rights and offi cial bilingualism. Funny, given the Liberals showing in the last election that they would consider one of their most divisive policies something they should restore if elected.

But thats the feeling of Martin Cauchon, a former Liberal justice minister who has gone so far as to say contenders need to show theyre on board with Liberal values and should stand up for the principles that defi ne the party. As you may have guessed, Cauchon is also considering a run at the partys lead-ership. If this is how the Liberals plan to renew their party, they might as well bring back Stephane Dion.

Cauchon also took exception to Trudeaus comments made in Hawksbury last week where he said that gun ownership was part of the culture of Canada. Perhaps Cauchon has never spent any time away from the big city because if he took two steps into the country, hed soon realize that gun ownership isnt limited to our friends south of the border. One would be hard-pressed to fi nd a farmer who doesnt own a gun and the farther you travel north, the more fi rearms youll fi nd.

Trudeau did manage to barely get his head above water when he said his comments about the gun registry didnt apply to Quebec, the only province to use the courts to keep its records from being destroyed by the Harper government. Trudeau didnt feel it was a divisive issue in that province.

Good thing Trudeau has a few more years to hone his politi-cal skills if the mantle of leadership is bestowed upon him by the Liberal Party. Hell certainly need to improve, given the fact that he only has the life experiences of the wealthy to draw from and hasnt even held a cabinet post yet aside from the shadow variety. Good hair and a recognizable name do not a Prime Minister make.

Poor Stephen Harper. He really needs to pick his friends more carefully.

Having stuck his (and unfortunately our) neck out at the United Nations last week during the vote to upgrade the UN status of the Palestinians, our PM has some splainin to do. With global powerhouses, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and couple of other U.S. beholding countries in his corner along with the Czech Republic, Israel and the States, Harper bucked world opinion once again and voted against the motion.

Harper feels, despite decades of failure, that the Palestinians and Israel should just sit down at a table and come to an agree-ment about boundaries for a Palestinian state. Nobody should be allowed to make a unilateral decision says Harper. Given that negotiations havent worked in the past and more and more of the West Bank has been swallowed up by Israel and its settlers from around the world, the Palestinians arent exactly on even footing when it comes to reaching an agreement. Who usually wins when one party is always dealing from a position of strength with a superpower in its corner?

The day after the vote to upgrade the Palestinians to an ob-server state, Israel unilaterally declared that it will be building more illegal settlements, this time in an area which will deal a death blow to any two-state agreement. The Palestinians broke off negotiations long ago stating they wont come to the table until Israel stops building settlements on their territory so a sit down wont be happening.

And because the Palestinians had the gall to go to the UN to request a vote so the whole world could have a say in the mat-ter, Netanyahu has unilaterally decided the Israelis will once again withhold millions of tax dollars collected on the Palestin-ians behalf making good on the threats of the U.S. and Israel before the vote. Harper is also considering stopping aid to the Palestinians for being so uppity.

While the U.S., Britain and France denounced Netanyahus promise of more illegal settlements, Stephen Harper relayed that Netanyahu had called him on the phone to thank him for his vote. No condemnation, no symbolic recall of ambassadors, nothing but a blurb on a web site saying Canada doesnt believe in unilateral decisions. Talk about being out of step with the rest of the world.

On Monday, the UN general assembly held a vote that basi-cally asked Israel to join most of the nuclear world in signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and opening up its nu-clear facilities to inspection. Canada was one of only six coun-tries to vote against the resolution. You can guess the rest.

There is plenty of blame to go around in this mess called the Middle East and pressure should be put on all sides. Apparently, double standards are just fi ne with the Harper government. And thats an embarrassment to all Canadians considering the whole world will suffer if things arent soon resolved.

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Blowing your dollars in the windLetter to the editorDear Editor,

One of my biggest beefs with the former McGuinty government is its fanatical desire to impose signi cantly higher energy costs on his fel-low Ontario citizens with the Green Energy Act.

Many of the people, includ-ing a lot of senior citizens on xed incomes, are being forced to pay those higher rates.

However, the Liberal government couldnt care less because Premier Dalton McGuinty sees green energy as a twisted way of establish-ing his legacy.

My problem with wind turbines and solar power was reinforced recently with a very astute editorial written by Norman Rogers, a senior poli-cy advisor of the Heartland In-stitute, a Chicago-based think tank. Rogers writes extensive-ly about global warming and green energy subjects.

What does he think about wind power? He describes the left wing experiment as a total joke. Rogers says government could create more jobs at far less cost by training dogs to walk on treadmills to gener-ate electricity. However, wind-

mills do underline the hypoc-risy of the liberal left who nev-er admit being wrong even if an overwhelming majority of the population disagrees with them.

That hypocrisy of envi-ronmentalists is astonishing. Previous to wind turbines, the killing of birds, particularly the eagle, was close to a crimi-nal offence as far as ecologists were concerned. In the post-wind power era all that has changed. Now the environ-mentalists are silent as wind-mills kill thousands of birds all over North American, includ-ing the iconic American eagle.

Solar and wind energy, when combined with storage, is eight to ten times more cost-ly to produce than traditional sources of energy such as coal, natural gas and nuclear.

As Rogers points out, wind power gets really expensive when you add electricity stor-age. If not for massive govern-ment subsidies, nobody would even think of building wind turbines.

Its amazing that suppos-edly educated politicians put two and two together on this issue and get three. Dont get me wrong. I believe alternative sources of energy are a good thing but only to augment the proven energy sources that would keep costs as low as possible for the consumer. That way innocent taxpayers wouldnt be paying for the mistakes of people we elect, supposedly to look after our interests.

Rolly Ethier,Campbellford


By Kate EversonEMC News - Trenton - Visitors to the Trenton Se-niors Club 105 Christmas Craft Show on Saturday were treated to an array of goodies to view with their tea.

Two mouthwatering homemade gingerbread houses were up for raffle at the door.

It took me thirty hours to make both of them, said Denise McGregor. Ive been making them my en-tire life. My mother made them when I was three.

The houses were made with chocolate, marzipan figures, sesame bread sticks, shredded wheat shingles, gum posts and ice cream cone trees, with plenty of goodies tucked inside.

Denise said she usually bakes them to be donated at local schools but this is the first time she brought them to the Club 105 for their programs.

My mother was a pro-fessional baker in the mili-tary, she said.

Her mother, Chris McGregor, just became a member of Club 105 in Oc-tober. She is retired from the military after 15 years.

Both kids learned the techniques when I baked, Chris said. It was a Christ-mas tradition.

Club president Betty Jenkins said the Christmas Craft Show is a fund raiser for the club and is also held in the spring. She brought her great-grandson Joseph Jenkins, nine months, to en-joy the show.

There were vendors as well as members of the club offering their crafts and products. Bea MacDon-ald had handmade knitted household items for sale and Pam Hodges just kept on knitting to keep busy. My father is in the club, Pam said as she knitted more socks.

Ev Mitchell and Linda Styles from Trenton joined with Mary Atkinson and Pat Miluck from Carrying Place with displays of jewellery, scarves, hats, ornaments and handmade cards.

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By Ray YurkowskiEMC News - Brighton A delegation, led by lo-cal resident David Green, made an impassioned case for the reinstatement of question period at munici-pal council meetings.

Appearing as a com-munity delegation, Green addressed council at their regular meeting on Mon-day night to discuss op-tions to receive comments and questions from citi-zens after question period was suspended on Novem-ber 19.

Ill use the words, tem-

porarily suspended, because I know that is what we all desire, he told council. It is possible to get input and information from the pub-lic so you can both fulfi ll your elected obligation and assist in the decision mak-ing for our municipality.

Weve had the opportu-nity to communicate with every member of council and weve heard two things: one, council agrees there is a need for public comment and public input; and two, the current form of process is not working.

Residents have not used

question period as it was intended, admitted Green. But, he said, both residents and council share the blame for its abuse.

Sadly, words such as argumentative, unproduc-tive and redundant have been used to describe what our question period has evolved into, he said. We would like to see a process that would give more lati-tude to the public but still retain a strong level of de-corum and process.

Green offered two op-tions. The fi rst would add a citizens comment forum

to the beginning of council meetings.

Citizens could speak on whatever topic they want but about an issue, he said. Its a concern, an idea, a comment, a pass-ing thought, an item on an agenda but what its not is about a person or a po-sition. This cannot be an attack on anyone, staff or council.

The second option would be a return of verbal ques-tions as well as adding the opportunity to submit written questions at the end of the meeting but

only by giving the public more direction.

The public needs to be reminded of the process, said Green. Weve al-ready got the framework for question period. We just need to tighten the spokes to make the wheel run truer.

What is important to us and the other members of the public is the reinsti-tution of public input other than as a delegation.

Many good points were made, said Councillor Mike Vandertoorn, after the presentation. Theres

a good opportunity here to reinvent what we lost and make it better and stronger than it ever was.

Theres a need to ad-dress this and work through it, added Mayor Mark Walas.

When the question was raised of when changes might be brought forward, Councillor Tom Rittwage said, Its pretty well un-derstood in the room that sooner is better.

Council received the in-formation and referred the issue to municipal staff for a report.

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By Michael J Brethour EMC News - Belleville - The Bulls now have a brand new pro shop.

Last Saturday evening just prior to Saturday nights game, the shop, just off the main concourse of the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, was offi -cially opened.

Gord Simmonds, owner of the Belleville Bulls, ad-

dressed a crowd of several hundred.

Tonights event ends a weeklong opening week celebration for our store. We are really proud of our association with the city of Belleville and really proud of having this out-let right dead centre of this great new facility, said Simmonds.

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Andrew Kerik, manager of retail operations, Mayor Neil Ellis, Bulls owner Gord Simmonds, and former Belleville Bulls player now NHLer PK Subban cuts the offi cial ribbon for the grand opening of the Bulls Pro Shop last Saturday evening just prior to the Bulls game against the Kingston Frontenacs. Photo: Michael J Brethour

of retail operations, was introduced by Simmonds as a man with 18 years ex-perience in the sports retail business.

Kerik said the look of the store was aimed at fi t-ting into the well polished and fi nished look of the QSWC. He said some of the features include a heat press machine right in the store.

Previously you would be waiting two to three weeks to have numbers put on a jersey, now that will take a only a couple of

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clude a spacious retail space, an online store at , pro-fessional skate sharpening and profi ling, swimming goggles and supplies, under arm training and other ap-parel that will cater to the needs of the public using the facility.

Mayor Neil Ellis hailed the pro shop as a great ven-ture.

With the store open the sales that they have had and the people that have come

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in and seen their profes-sionalism anyone can see its going to be a success, he said.

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shop to expand further in the future, something El-lis said he expected sooner rather than later based on the already overwhelming success of the shop.

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Novice in Nepal: Lessons Learned by a Canadian Nurse Volunteer, about her two and one-half years volunteering in Nepal, at Greenleys Book Store in downtown Belleville on Saturday, December 15, at 1 p.m.

McWhirters story about working as a vol-unteer in a developing country and her relation-ship with Laxmi, a poor village girl, details her recovery from her own personal loss while dis-covering a culture both rife with tragedy and rich with hope.

Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to-ward supporting other young girls who aspire to a life free of the poverty and subservience that has come to be the norm for women in Nepal.

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By Ray YurkowskiEMC Business - Brigh-ton - All the signs were there says Jackie Browne, who, along with husband Stuart and daughter Jes-sica Oppersma, opened the doors last week to Brigh-tons newest eatery, Flying Fish and Chips and Grill.

With little fanfare, the restaurant opened on No-vember 27.

Its been great, said Jackie. Theres been a steady flow of customers and the feedback, so far, is good.

It was meant to be, she said. After living in Whitby for almost 30 years, the Browne family moved to Brighton three years ago. It didnt take much convincing to trade a 100-kilometre commute from Brighton to Whitby, every day, for a five-ki-lometre round trip. Two weeks ago, daughter Jes-sica and her family moved to Colborne to be closer to the family owned and family run business.

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we can, she said. Weve lived in Brighton for awhile now and when youre travelling back and forth to Whitby, its hard to meet people. Now, we can meet whoever wants to come in and see us.

You cant get involved in the community when youre on the road for two hours every day. Theres

Its all in the family at Flying Fish and Chips and Grill in Brighton. From the left are Jessica Oppersma, Stuart and Jackie Browne. Photo: Ray Yurkowski

a reason we moved to a small town, we wanted the small town feel and we want to be part of it.

When the Whitby lease came up for renewal, the family started looking for a location closer to home. The search started in Belleville, but when the Prince Edward Street loca-tion became available, the decision was even easier.

The family built quite a reputation for their fare in Whitby, where Flying Fish and Chips won half a dozen local readers choice awards. The biggest acco-lades, though, came from their customers, who kept coming back again and again.

Even when new places opened up, curious cus-tomers would give them a try but, says Jackie, they always came back.

People would go try it, then theyd come back and say, Youre still the best, she said.

At the Brighton loca-tion, the word grill was added to the business name and, with that, more items on the menu.

Flying Fish and Chips and Grill is open seven days a week at 46 Prince Edward Street in Brigh-ton.

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I Pledge: My Head to clearer thinking, My Heart to greater loyalty, My Hands to larger service. My Health for better living, for my club, my community and my country.The Stirling-Wellmans Batter Up Club has been a very busy club. With 20 members and four leaders (with the help and many thanks to parents) we have ventured to making ice cream cakes, pumpkin logged cakes, an old banana cake recipe with very little instructions on the method and not even an oven temperature for baking, with these cakes we have made some cool icing. At other meetings we have made pumpkin patch biscuits, Angel Food cake (from scratch). Also we have made pastry, peeled apples and prepared a field berry filling for our pies.Members participated in a fun meeting of decorating their cupcakes using their talents by making their own chocolate garnishes, candies and icing. A very messy meeting but FUN!

Nineteen members have been getting to know their digital camera. At the first meetings we talked about

safety and photography. Sometimes people get so interested in taking pictures, they stop paying attention to where they are and what is going on around them.Four golden rules about Safety on the Net:Never post embarrassing photos of yourself and anyone else, you never know who might come across those pictures one day! The internet is forever. Think before you post. Do not attach any personal information to your photos (names, addresses, phone numbers, what school you

attend etc.) ALWAYS REMEMBER the person you are talking to in a chat room, may not be the person that they claim to be.When using social network groups like face book and MySpace set your on-line profile in private. Dont give your passwords to anyone but your parents or guardian.

Report any inappropriate comments or messages if they violate the terms of service for that site and tell your parents or guardian if anything happens on-line that makes you feel scared, or uncomfortable.Courtesies of Photography:It is important to show respect to people and their property, especially when you are taking pictures.Ask permission to go on another persons property.Ask permission to take another persons picture. Some individuals and groups have strict rules against having their picture taken.Think of how you would like to be treated before you share pictures of other people.NEVER PUBLISH A PERSONS PICTURE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.DO ONTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.Mr. Lauzon explained how the camera works and went over some of the features that all cameras have. We did a poll on how many members took their camera out of the box and never read the instructions. Most never read the instructions. We decided that we were not using our cameras to their fullest potential.Motto: Learn to do by doing.Happy Holidays and Best wishes for the New Year

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2012 Judoka of the YearEMC Sports - Michelle Currie will be heading off to Judo camp this summer, as she has been voted the Quinte Judo Clubs Judoka of the Year.

The award is given in memory of Sensei Jim Driscoll, who was an icon for Judo not only in the Quinte area, but was recognized by the Canadian government for his efforts in promoting the gentle way to youth. Jim Driscoll was a recipient of the Order of Canada.

The Judoka award was started 1988, approximately four years after his passing while the club was still in Belleville. Now known as the Quinte Judo Club, the Judoka award is presented to the club member who best exemplifi es enthusiasm, discipline and perseverance (under 16 years of age). The award is sponsored by Jim Driscolls daughter Roberta, giving the recipient an op-portunity to either train at a Judo summer camp with Olympians and their coach-es, or put the bursary toward education.

Michelle is not only a hard one to take down, but

to sit down as well. While she holds the rank of yel-low belt in Judo, this rather

active eight-year-old has been studying Karate under Sensei Kenzo Dozono for a

Michelle Currie tangles with Sensei Tony Walby. Photo: Submitted

few years and wears a green belt. Michelle is an eager up and coming competitor, be-ing on the podium at each event she has fought at and earned a gold medal at last weeks event in Oshawa. At school she is also a dedicated student, receiving a perfect score on a recent school proj-ect. This young girl has been recognized from her school with the Terrifi c Kid award twice, being a role model to her fellow students.

Presenting this years award was 2012 Paralym-pian Tony Walby from Ot-tawa. Sensei Walby fought in the plus 100 kilo division in London this past summer for the Visually Impaired. Prior being declared legally blind, he represented Cana-da for 16 years on the able bodied team. Needless to say, the Quinte Judo Club got quite the work out and a little more ammunition.

All ages are welcome at this club, as family environment is promoted with no sepa-rate classes for different age groups. For more informa-tion, check out the new web site or call 613-922-5192.

EMC Sports - The McIn-roy-Maines Minor Midgets played to a 0 - 0 tie with the North Central Predators in their fi rst game at the OMHA Minor Midget Showcase in Barrie. Cameron Parr earned the shutout, along with the player of the game award. In game two, the team came up a bit short against the ninth-ranked Barrie Colts with a

5 - 2 loss. Michael Parr and Hunter Baker scored for the Devils, and the lone assist went to Brody Butt. Parr re-ceived the player of the game award.

MidgetTwo members of the Fo-

ley Bus Lines Midget team, Riley Steeves and Mitchell Burke participated in the ETA Midget All-Star Game

which was part of the OMHA Minor Midget Showcase Weekend in Barrie. The East squad was victorious by a 2 - 1 margin, with Steeves scoring the winner, with an assist from teammate Burke. Steeves also won the fastest skater event which was part of the skills competition.

BantamAt RCAF on Saturday af-

ternoon, the Kwik Kopy Ban-tam Quinte Red Devils defeat-ed the Ajax-Pickering Raiders by a score of 2 - 0. Goal scor-ers were Ty Tebo and Greg Thomas, with assists going to Nick Salt and James Pero. Jack Moore posted the shutout for the win. With the victory, the team now sits in fourth place in the ETA East with a record of 10-10 overall.


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By Richard TurtleEMC News - Stirling - With the approval of a Long Range Plan (LRP) for the Crowe Valley Conservation Authority, which includes meeting Dam Survey Safe-ty Recommendations from 2005 and 2008, comes a sig-nificantly larger budget, and the money has to come from somewhere.

Barry Rand, chair of the authoritys LRP Committee, attended council this week to present the plan that would see a six per cent in-crease to the municipal levy. And that could potentially be an annual increase for as much as five years. But after 20 years of underfunding and a make-do culture, he says, improvements are re-quired to ensure the safety of the Belmont Dam and the workers there. While Stirling-Rawdon councillors concede the dollar amount is minimal as the municipality pays only a small portion of the overall Crowe Valley levy, a six per cent increase

is difficult to justify when other departments are being asked to hold the line.

Council did admit it was a concern worthy of fund-ing but, says Mayor Rodney Cooney, with millions of dollars in municipal bridge work required in the coming years, there are also other fi-nancial considerations.

It would be a great idea to have regular family skating on the mill pond, complete with lights and music, coun-cil says, but liability issues may make it prohibitive. Stirling and District Lions Club Fund-raising Chair Ruth Potts spoke as a del-egation to council Monday night asking about the pos-sibility of adding a skating element to the Hog Fest ac-tivities planned for later this winter.

She explained she was largely there to gather in-formation in order that the club might consider their options.

Mayor Cooney noted there would certainly be an

insurance fee payable by the event organizer and the mu-nicipality would provide any support it could. However, he says, where the matter of clearing the ice is concerned, event organizers have to be responsible for that as it is the ice clearing that creates any liability.

The Lions Club will be considering the idea in con-cern and thanked Rand for his presentation.

Thanking local historian Lewis Zandbergen and his wife Denise for their con-tributions over the years, council voiced some con-cerns about the possible disbanding of the Stirling-Rawdon Historical Society in the new year. The Zand-bergens notified council that they would be leaving the ssociety executive as of January 1, as the couple are moving out of the village. Questions also remain about what will become of the space previously used as a museum at the historic train station.

CVCA preparing for the future, increased costs

EMC Sports - Members of the Belleville Bearcats girls hockey club scoop up bears that showered the ice for the Belleville Firefighters Association Toy Drive after the first and only goal the Bulls scored last Saturday night. Photo: Michael J Brethour

Bulls toss bears

EMC News - During the December 1 SnoFest Board meeting, the organization received recognition from Daryl Kramps office for the awards of Event of the Year and Organization of the Year in Hastings County. The association was also recognized by MPP Todd Smith for the Ontario Trillium Grant. In the back row are: Elaine Jones and Laura Kelsh while Lynn Gapes, Zaid Mohammed, Richard Lowery, Vicki Best, Richard Langley, Maria Langley and Mike Pettler are in front. Photo: Submitted

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Belleville ORMTA hosts Canada Music Week Recital

EMC Entertainment - The Belleville branch of the Ontar-io Registered Music Teachers Association (ORMTA) hosted a music recital showcasing its junior musicians on Sunday, November 25, at Emmanuel United Church in Foxboro. Since the concert took place during Canada Music Week, the repertoire was largely Canadian and served as an introduction to our wonder-ful Canadian composers and their compositions.

Forty young students from beginner to Grade 4 Conser-vatory level presented piano solos, duets, and vocal selec-tions to a packed audience of family and friends. For many, this recital offered the first chance to perform in front of a crowd. The performances were enthusiastic and over-whelmingly well received by the audience. At the con-clusion, everyone enjoyed a well-deserved treat of sweets and beverages supplied by the teachers.

Five-year-old Marinda de Villiers performs a piano solo at the ORMTA Junior Music Recital held on Sunday, November 25, at Emmanuel United Church in Foxboro. Photo: Submitted

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EMC Entertainment - Members of the Quinte Ballet School of Canadas professional training program perform the Snowflakes from Act I of the Nutcracker during the matinee show of the Snowflake Serenade at the Empire Theatre on December 1. Photo: Michael J Brethour

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Empire Theatre panto opens Friday

Left to right, standing are Eric Craig (Mrs. Potter), Rachel Fischer (Diabolica), Ryan Allen (Peter Potter), Sarah Horsman (the heroine), and Graham Parkhurst (Diego.) Front kneeling are Rick Zimmerman (the wizard), Andre Morin (Chaichi), and Writer-director Caroline Smith, right. The cast here are showing off some of the bling associated with the coming production. Photo: Jack Evans

By Jack EvansEMC Entertainment - Bel-leville - Quick! How fast can you say Peter Potter panto four times over?

That is the title of this years holiday season panto-mime by the Quinte areas resident stage genius, Caro-line Smith.

Before you jump to con-clusions, it has nothing to do with Harry Potter

This fun romp involves completely different charac-ters and a plot centred on the

ancient Mayan calendar and its dooms day.

Most of the seven on-stage characters are repeats from previous pantos by Smiths Moonpath Productions, in-cluding Belleville-born Gra-ham Parkhurst and Ryan Al-len, he of the powerful voice.

Another familiar face with local audiences is Prince Ed-ward County performer Rick Zimmerman.

Eric Craig plays the tradi-tional cross-dresser, Mrs. Pot-ter, and Rachel Fischer adds a

touch of evil, playing Dia-bolica. Newcomer Sarah Horsman said she is particu-larly pleased with her role as the heroine.

Were all having fun, said Zimmerman, confirm-ing the usual ad-lib antics and strong audience interaction.

Smith gave a special ap-peal to parents to bring their children. There are some spooky bits, she admitted, just like in the Harry Pot-ter series, but it is all in good

fun, she said. This is an ex-cellent way to expose children to colourful, live theatre with music, fun and interaction.

Tickets are $28.50 for the naughty show; family show prices are $24 for adult, $12 for children, a family rate, two adults, two children of $60, plus HST and ticket service fee. Check the Empire Box Office or the web site for de-tails of family naughty shows and dates for the 2 p.m. mati-nee or 8 p.m. evening show.

Concert to thrill Norwood

Juno award winning band Leahy will be in Norwood for a special concert on May 4. Tickets are limited and will go quickly.

By Bill FreemanEMC Entertainment - Nor-wood - Shania Twain loved Leahy so much that she asked the band to open for her on the record setting and music-shifting Come Over Here tour and for 175 shows the eight-member Lakefield-based band thrilled interna-tional audiences and added to their reputation as one of the finest country-roots-Celtic bands in the world.

Local fans can get a taste of that brilliance May 4 when the band pulls into the Asphodel-Norwood Community Centre for a concert that is part of the Norwood IODEs 100th anni-versary celebrations.

The concert, with just 1,000 tickets available, is being pre-sented by the Norwood IODE and Norwood Lions Club.

Area music lovers have watched the group grow as performers as part of The Leahy Family which blazed a pioneering trail across the music world before morphing into Leahy in 1997 with the self-titled instrumental al-bum Leahy.

That album, which reached number four on the Billboard world music chart, helped the band claim two Juno awards in 1998, one for best new group and another for best instrumental artist. The fol-lowing year they won anoth-er Juno as best country group or duo and joined Twain for her mammoth tour.

The band is currently

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Trenton Golden Hawks win two at homeBy Ray YurkowskiEMC Sports - Trenton - The Trenton Golden Hawks tightened their grip on the lead in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) east division standings with a pair of hometown wins last weekend.

The fi rst came as more than 500 fans witnessed a 3 - 1 victory on November 30 against division rivals, the Wellington Dukes. But early on, there wasnt much to cheer about at the Dun-can McDonald Memorial Arena. After a scoreless fi rst period, the Dukes opened the tally about eight min-utes into the second. Less than four minutes later, the Hawks tied it up and didnt look back.

Mike Nedoszytko, Jor-dan Minello and Nick Mar-inac scored for the Trenton squad, with assists from Brady Wiffen, Michael Walker, Sammy Banga

(two), Dillon Walker and Nolan Martin.

Hawks goaltender Victor Adamo picked up the win in net and was named fi rst star of the game as he stopped 27 shots. After the weekend action, Adamo now leads the OJHL with a 1.89 goals against average.

Notably, the Trenton defence did not allow the Dukes to score on any of their fi ve power play chanc-es.

The next evening, the Hawks battled to a 4 - 3 win over the Stouffville Spirit.

From the opening faceoff, it was all Trenton as they posted a 4 - 0 lead through more than half the game. Shawn Hulshof (two), Alex Leader and Erlich Doerk-sen scored for the Hawks with assists from D. Walk-er, Krystian Yorke (two), Hulshof, Ryan Johnson, Ori Abramson, Marinac and Truman Landowski.

Golden Hawks Nick Marinac, on the left, tries to get to a loose puck in OJHL action last weekend against the Wellington Dukes. Photo: Ray Yurkowski

Golden Hawks defenceman Alex Leader, on the right, helps out goaltender Victor Adamo in OJHL action last weekend against the Wellington Dukes. Photo: Ray Yurkowski

Hawks goaltender Andrew Winsor recorded 23 saves for the win.

The Spirit made a game of it though, as they scored three goals through the fi -nal 26 minutes of play.

The pair of wins gives the Golden Hawkscurrently riding an eight-game win-ning streak, one shy of their own season tallya record of 22-6 for the season.

Of note, six players con-tributed to the seven goals scored over the weekend.

Some guys get hot while other guys get cold and, hopefully, it balances itself out, said Hawks coach Je-rome Dupont. But we do have depth of talent and we need to be able to score

both from the forward and back end.

The fi rst thing is being the best we can be, he add-ed. Its not always about winning but its defi nitely about improving day in and day out. If we do that with the group we have, well win most games.

Although, Dupont ad-mits the Hawks are looking for one more player to add to the roster, a complete player, ideally, a forward that will round out the group we have a player that can play on our top two lines and the power play.

Theyre not easy to come by, he said. We may not be successful, but were going to try.

The Hawks visit the Newmarket Hurricanes on December 6, face off at 7:30 p.m. on D

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