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With arguably the big-gest band in the festival’s his-tory, more entertainment, more vendors, and the introduction of a day dedicated to local tal-ent and organizations will give Riverfest a new look this year. “Brockville spoke after last year’s festival and we listened”, said Riverfest co-chair Chris Paul. “The public poured in with suggestions and we tried to implement as much as we could into this year’s programming.”

Two of the biggest additions for this year’s line-up include INXS on Sunday, July 3rd, and Brockville Day on Saturday, July 2nd.

INXS has sold over 30 mil-lion records over the past 20 years and has recently sold out a number of shows in Europe and North America. “We’re very excited to have a band of INXS’s caliber,” said Paul, adding that the Brockville stop for INXS kicks off their Canadian tour, with all the dates selling out fast.

Brockville Day on Saturday of the festival has drawn sev-eral local acts including two of Brockville’s biggest up and com-ing bands, Colfax and Braves-tation, who will play the main stage at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm respectively.

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Eric Langevin flies through the air during Saturday’s Grand Prix heats at the 1000 Islands International Regatta on the St. Lawrence River at Centeen Park. Langevin was taken to hospital for a large contusion on his leg, a black eye and several cuts and bruises.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HYDROPLANEQUEBEC AND ROSS MCCRACKEN

Hot on the heels of Feb-ruary’s immensely suc-cessful Chinese New Year Gala, the Canada-China Cultural Development Association (CCCDA) has invited yet another world-renowned song and dance troupe to bring their incomparable music and dance style to Brock-ville. The show, entitled ‘Beautiful Sichuan’, will be performed by the award-winning Le Shan Song and Dance Troupe, at the Brockville Arts Centre on July 23rd at 2 and 8p.m. This unique show will feature combination of dazzling ethnic and clas-sical dances and music nurtured by the rich land of Sichuan.

The addition of this show to the Arts Cen-

tre’s jam-packed summer schedule, which includes the 1000 Islands Jazz Festi-val and the Pricedex Sum-mer Series, is one of the CCDA’s latest in a string of endeavours geared to-wards promoting cultural exchange and friendship between Canada and China.

“The Chinese-Style Carnival show we re-ceived here in February was a true success in every sense of the word,” noted Program Manager of the Leeds and Grenville Im-migration Partnership, and newly elected CCCDA Board member, Matthew Raby.

“For our Chinese friends both visiting and living in the region, it was a proud moment to share

the amazing traditions and arts of their ances-tors. In continuing to bring in these types of shows, we hope to continue to foster intercultural understand-ing and promote a more cohesive society built on diversity.”

Tickets for July 23rd ‘Beautiful Sichuan’ show are on sale now at the Brockville Arts Centre box office. To order tick-ets call (613) 342-7122 or visit www.brockvillearts-centre.com. Show times are 2:00 pm & 8:00 p.m.

Award-winning Chinese song and dance troupe coming to Brockville

Brockville Day will be filled with new attrac-tions and several old favorites. The day kicks off with the Rotary Park breakfast at 7a.m. and the Canada Day road races at 7:30a.m. Steve Clark’s tricycle race, the Strong-man competition, and lo-cal band Fairview start at 1p.m. A salute to our ‘Lo-cal Heroes’ will recognize the Police, Fire Depart-ment and local Military at 2p.m. “The most com-mon suggestion from the public was for more en-tertainment, and more lo-cal content,” said Paul. “I think we’ve brought both to Riverfest this year.”

Riverfest has provided free booth space for all non-profit organizations during Brockville Day. Blissfest, a yoga demon-stration will be raising funds for Loaves and Fish-es, MyForces.ca raising awareness for Canadian Military Forces along with the Shakespeare Festival, Fulford Place, MayCourt, Safe Communities Coali-tion, the Brockville Com-munity Foundation, and the Brockville, Thousand Islands and Early-Act clubs of Rotary will all have displays on July 2nd.

Aside from more acts throughout the three-days, several favorites returning include: The

Dock Dogs, Buskers, and the Canada Day fireworks. There are a number of kids attractions sched-uled each day including: Zubatomic, face painting, the Search for Perch, Kob-bler Jay, Tim Holland, and the Pony Express Petting

Zoo and Pony Rides. Other main stage acts

during the three-day event include: Julian Aus-tin and Catalina, another up and coming local band on (July 1st), A Bigger Hammer and Frankie and the Knuckleheads (July

2nd), Bleeker Ridge and INXS on July 3rd.

For a full list of enter-tainment and activities visit www.brockvilleriver-fest.ca

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Local bands highlight this year’s festival. Clockwise from above, Catalina will perform at 7:30 on July 1st, Colfax at 2:00 on July 2nd and Bravestation at 4:00 on July 2nd.

Blissfest yoga in the park is the second of three fundraisers or-ganized by Daniel de Luis, and Whitnee Den-ard-Paul to help raise $10,000 for Loaves and Fishes, a local non-profit organization that aims to feed those who may not otherwise be able to afford to feed themselves. Blissfest will have a booth on Saturday to take dona-tions and give out in-

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The festivities will begin at City Hall at 11:30 a.m. and proceed down to the Green for the 11:45 ceremony. The celebration will kick off with the singing of our national anthem, followed by an address from Captain Peter Hamilton, who has recently returned to Canada, and a presentation from the Brockville Rifle Association.

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From left to right; Joanne Systma, representing Operation Harvest Sharing in Brockville, Bonnie Pidgeon Gommert, representing Food For All Food Bank in Prescott, as well as several satellite locations around Leeds and Grenville, Board members Ron David, Angela Molson Legere, Kimberly Seguin, Michelle Fournier and Jeffery Weir, Shirley Mainse, repre-senting Athens Food Bank, and Lois Perreault, representing Perth and District Food Bank. Missing from photo; board members, Jacalyn Feenstra-Grimes, and Rob Garvin.

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Managing your MoneyThe three bucket approach

Debbie McAllister– Division Director, Consultant

We all know someone for whom over-spending is too easy. Credit is there for their taking, and depending on how much they pay attention to advertising or peer pressure, the desire to “have it all” can lead to some indulgent – and costly – habits.

Many Canadians head into spring still paying for their Christmas purchases. The average Canadian debt load is at an all-time high of $96,000, according to the Vanier Institute of Family Studies. And a 2010 report from the Canadian Payroll Association indicates that six in 10 Can-adians would be in financial trouble if their pay was a week late.

“There’s a delicate balance of living life to the fullest while keeping an eye on a fu-ture with financial security,” says Jane Ol-shewski, Manager of Financial Life Plan-ning at Investors Group. “It’s about taking a holistic view of your financial life.”

Taking charge of your personal fi-nances doesn’t necessarily mean dramat-ically altering your lifestyle, says Olshew-ski, but it may require a shift in attitude.

Because, in the end, there are only two things people need to do to increase their wealth: pay off their debt and put as much as they can toward their future.

Something as simple as a “bucket budget” can help facilitate a new attitude toward cash flow. The bucket budget is a simplified kind of budgeting where money is put into a few “buckets,” each of which is designated for a specific group of expenses. Olshewski recommends divid-ing a pay cheque between three buckets: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. In the Yesterday bucket are things that are com-mitted in the past to pay into the future,

like a mortgage or rent and any loans. Also included in this bucket are utilities and other costs that are part of main-taining a household.

In the Today bucket are the day-to-day expenses such as food (both groceries and eating out), transportation, clothing, entertainment and hobbies.

Things one will need to pay for in the future, like children’s education or retire-ment, go in the Tomorrow bucket. This bucket can also include big ticket items that need to be saved for, like Christmas presents, a vacation, or a new vehicle.

This approach can help stop over-spending because it helps people to think of the true cost of what they are tempted to buy. “What’s the real price of a luxury item if you need to go into debt to pay for it?” asks Olshewski. “You are adding to the amount owing in your Yesterday bucket.”

And, if someone has a specific goal for the money in their Tomorrow bucket, they will be less likely to borrow from it to satisfy a short-term desire. Olshewski recommends making those future goals as detailed as possible so they can really believe in them and be less likely to dip into it to fund something else.

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Do you have a motto? And if you do what is it?

Greatness is not given it is earned

What book are you currently reading or what book do you recommend?

“Playing with Fire” by Theo Fleury

What characteristics do you most admire in others?

Courage, strength, strong work ethic and dedication

What characteristic do you most deplore in others?

Laziness and stupidity

Who do you most admire, living or dead?I admire a lot of people including my par-

ents, Fire Chief Jim Donovan, my brother and generally anyone that serves our communities

to protect and keep us safe.What do you do in your free time?Spend time with friends/family, volunteer-

ing with both Riverfest and the Elizabethtown Kitley Fire Department, spending time on the river and home renovations.

If you could change one thing about your-self, what would it be?

I am proud of who I am and would not change anything other than the size of my bank account lol

What talent would you most like to have?Love to be able to fly…wouldn’t everyone?

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?Superman

What is your most treasured possession? My house and my health

Ten Questions with Chris Paul(Riverfest Co-Chairman/Master of Ceremonies

& SLC Athletic Director)

Going into his eighth year as co-chair of Riverfest, Chris Paul has been a strong member of the community through his job as Athletic Director at St. Lawrence College as well as volunteering for the Elizabethtown-Kitley Fire Department. With the 29th annual River-fest kicking off this weekend, the Master of Ceremonies takes time to answer Ten Ques-tions for the Observer.

Official Plan - Two Years and Counting….

I remember reading about a trend in legal services a few years back, to use plain English in documents. The idea was to strip away the formal, complicated, formal English, par-tial Latin, gobblygook that ensures the job security of the world’s second oldest profession for eternity. Since then I have yet to see a legal document where the idea has caught on.

To give lawyers their due, the English language can be complicated and subtle interpretations can make big dif-ference years after the writing – thus the need to really nail down what is being said.

And thus, since the City’s Official Plan Document is a legal document of sorts, although drawn up by Planners, it is filled with long sentences and complicated wording. Many, many pages of such wording in fact.

This has been one of the on-going complaints about the OP, the complicated wording. In some cases the complaints are about the ambiguity of the wording as opposed to the specificity of the wording (how is that for big words) What really seems to be the problem is in understanding the role of the Official Plan, as a tool in guiding decisions over the next 20 years. It uses the community’s feedback, council’s feedback, the existing conditions and the historic patterns to guide the decision making process moving forward and provide more clarity to those decisions

After 2 years of work it is a pretty good document. Kudos to the consulting group MMM lead by Chris Tyrell. They have displayed great patience in educating the public, Council, and staff, in reiterating points and issues, and legislation. There still remains much to do as the process moves through the zoning phase so maybe I shouldn’t count my chickens just yet.

It would be nice though, if the movement for plain Eng-lish, would move through the planning sectors in the prov-ince as well as the legal sector. The further away the lan-guage gets from you and I , the less involved we are in the process and understanding, the less interested we are in investing the time to figure out just what it says.

At the end of the day we’ll have a great official plan, there just won’t be many people that will ever actually read it.

Dave HendersonBrockville Mayor

Automotion donates to Loaves and Fishes Automotion presented a $350 cheque to Irene Selkirk of Loaves and Fishes on Tuesday evening. Pictured above from left to right are, Janice, Robin, Steve, Bob, Murray with Kevin Smith and Irene. “We really appreciate the help from Automotion”, said Selkirk. “This was a lovely surprise. We rely entirely on donations and the support from community organizations.”

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Few places in Brockville have faced as much evolv-ing change as Blockhouse Island. In the early history of our city, it was indeed an island, and like all others in the St. Lawrence, belonged to England. It was destined to become ‘Hospital Is-land’ in June of 1832, when a series of events occurred, beginning with the ship ‘The Carrick’, arriving at the port of Quebec from Ireland. The ship carried immigrants from Ireland. A few of these people

were feverish, and three days later cholera mor-bus struck, spreading like wildfire up to Montreal, and then into Upper Can-ada. Several quarantine hospital sites were erected, such as one on Grosse Ile, Quebec, which stood to screen immigrants to Can-ada more than a century.

Here in Brockville, ‘Refugee Island’ as it was then known, was set up in June of 1832 to quar-antine immigrants wish-ing to land at Brockville. City Council appointed a Board of Health, and a special police force to as-sist in enforcing regula-tion. Thanks to the quick reaction by Council, and the procedures used to house and treat patients, only a handful of people died. By the end of 1832, 9,000 people in this coun-

try had died of the disease, more than half of which resided in Lower Canada.

Later, ‘Grant’s Island’ as it was then known, was called into service in 1838

by the military in response to the growing threat of American invasion. Block-house Island was never really involved in any fighting, although militia-

men from Brockville did see action in that year east of Prescott at the ‘Battle of the Windmill’. As the threats of invasion cooled


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This week, as a change of pace, we’re going to take a look into the world of beer, specifically a couple of very tasty craft beers from Ontario. There is an unfortunate attitude amongst a large number of wine drinkers that beer is an inferior product. The likely source of this is ex-posure to the North Amer-ican mass-produced beers that have always domin-ated the marketplace. This has tainted attitudes to beer and produced an “us versus them” view of the world’s two most popular alcoholic beverages.

Beer easily matches wine in offering an amaz-ing range of different styles of products with wonder-fully diverse flavour pro-files. Both have long hist-ories and have developed entire cultures around their production and consumption. Both are excellent partners when

matched with the various cuisines of the world.

As North American de-mand for wine increased in the early 1980’s it was mirrored by a less no-ticeable, but nonethe-less vigorous, interest in quality beer. In Ontario a number of micro or craft breweries began oper-ations to satisfy the needs of the discerning palates of beer lovers. There are a number of criteria that a brewery has to meet to be considered a micro or craft brewery, but the only one we’re concerned with here is that their focus is on making quality prod-ucts rather than products with mass appeal.

The first to appear was The Brick Brewing Com-

pany in Waterloo, Ontario. To this day they remain wholly Canadian owned and a vibrant force in the industry. They also just happen to make Ontario’s most popular dark lager, Waterloo Dark (CSPC# 86439, $2.20).

Most people think of lager as a light, pale coloured beverage, but here we have a ster-ling example of dark lager. For the beer aficionados amongst us it falls stylistically somewhere between a Schwarz bier and a Dunkel. For everyone else it suffices to say it is delicious!

Waterloo Dark has an inviting reddish brown colour, some-what lighter than other dark lagers. The complex nose features layers of chocolate, cocoa, coffee and light caramel aromas intertwined with

lightly toasted malt and a modicum of smoki-

ness. The palate, which lives up to the com-plexity prom-ised on the

nose, is rich and creamy with a myriad of won-derfully deep flavours.

The chocolate, cocoa, mocha and caramel from the nose will be the most recognizable flavours to the average wine drinker less familiar with beer. In addition you will find roasted malt, licorice,

molasses and a distinct nuttiness. The finish is lingering and flavour-ful.

Many people ex-

pect dark ale to be heavy and bitter and in actuality that is the flavour profile of most. Waterloo drinks lighter than most dark lagers,

without losing all the lovely qualities inherent in the style.

The next question

most people ask is “At what temperature should I drink Waterloo Dark?”. The quick answer is at whatever temperature you like. However, simi-lar to wine, the colder you serve a beer the less the flavour shows through. This is a universal truth. To enjoy the maximum taste experience I would advise readers new to

beer to slightly chill it. Say somewhere around 10 or 15 minutes in the fridge. Otherwise enjoy it at room temperature.

Sip on its own or as a food match with all man-ner of grilled red meats or chicken, chili and shep-herds pie. Enjoy!

Waterloo Dark: a great introduction to dark ale

THEFINE PRINT

by Dennis Stein

OFF THE VINE

by Russ Disotell

Brockville’s changing waterfront reflects the city’s history

Beer easily matches wine in offering an amazing range of

different styles of products with wonderfully diverse flavour profiles.

BBQ’s are heating up all over the country side and if your friends are anything like mine, at these BBQ parties or pot luck dinners the guests are asked to bring a side dish, usually a salad. A lot of macaroni and po-tato salad is eaten over the summer. Everyone has their own secret recipe for making either of those salads, and of course that is great.

Not all, but many, use mayonnaise as the base for the dressing. In Maca-roni salad, tuna and green onion are also main in-gredients. Green onion also makes it’s way into potato salad as do radish-es, all good and more then adequate.

But let’s take another look at how can we “WOW” the people at your next backyard party.

For the macaroni salad, substitute shrimp or lob-ster for the tuna. Or how about crab meat? For your heart, and that of your guests, use light mayon-naise or, even better, zero percent fat Greek yogurt, a little lemon juice and I promise people will be go-ing back for more. If you decide to stay traditional, add a little yellow mus-tard to the mayonnaise, it will give a little zing to the salad and just make it that much different. With all of these additions, I suggest a small taster done first so you can play with the ingredients to make sure they work to your taste. Rule of thumb: you can always add more, hard to take it out once it is in!

As for the potato salad, add the green onions and radishes if you like, but try dicing up some apples

(both red and green) and toss them into the works. Switch out the mayon-naise and use some red wine vinegar and some ol-ive oil. Try new or red skin potatoes, and instead of boiling the potatoes, roast them skin on. Some crisp bacon bits sprinkled in the salad is always yum-my. In pasta salads use a different noodle, coloured rotini is always nice, and if you go with a more oil and vinegar type dress-ing toss in some grape tomatoes and cucumber. Like always, once I get started the ideas begin to flow and I have run out of room. Maybe next week we will go with ideas for Taco salad or Greek salad.

With any of these sal-ads, season to taste. Note about salt: if you can taste salt you have used too much. Salt should make all the other flavours pop and not be the main taste.

The main thing is to enjoy the summer, your friends, and of course al-ways enjoy the food and “Make it Your Own”

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the following year, the Is-land remained a military installation, still isolated from the mainland for the following two decades.

During the late 1850’s and early 60’s, the Island evolved once again, this time, into hub of transporting goods and people alike on the Brock-ville and Ottawa Rail-way. With the com-pletion of the railway tunnel down to the waterfront, a stretch of land between the mouth of the tunnel and the island was filled with rock and soil, and the island now became part of the railway’s terminal, complete with a round-house, warehouses, and lumber yards. Blockhouse

Island was then used for many years to transfer goods from the railway to waiting ships.

Recently, Blockhouse Island has become a tour-

ist location, its wooden blockhouse and railway yards all but gone. As a popular spot for visitors

to our city, it continues to evolve. A short distance away, Tall Ship’s Landing is now under construc-tion, along with the Mari-time Discovery Centre of

the 1000 Islands, a $20 million dollar attraction to show-case wildlife and the environment of our world class tourist hotspot. Both facilities will change the Brock-ville waterfront yet again.

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about the MDC, vis-it 1000discovery.ca, and for historical information about

Blockhouse Island, visit lo-cal historian Doug Grant’s website, at http://dmgrant.wordpress.com


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Sometimes I feel as though I am living in my car as traveling to and from work, not to mention out-of-town meetings, have me spending a lot of time on the 401. During this time I have noticed an increased police pres-ence. Even in and around Brockville, I see police everywhere. That’s good right?

The desired effect is making me think that “Big Brother” is everywhere, watching, and waiting for me to do something il-legal, like not fasten my seatbelt, or drive through an amber light as it turns to red. It scares me to think of a potential confronta-tion with an officer in uniform because of what I have seen, and read lately. As I was coming off the 401 into Brockville a couple of weeks ago, I wit-nessed a police check on the opposite ramp while I waited for a really long light at Stewart Blvd. They were stopping vehicles as they were getting on the 401.

I noticed that two po-lice vehicles had stopped a passenger van. One po-lice officer was leading the driver away from the van, which I assumed, at first, was to obtain his informa-tion, then I realized that this is usually done while the driver remains in his vehicle.

Then I witnessed a weird kind of dance, as the officer was trying, awkwardly, to reposition himself so that the driver’s back was facing his van. As I checked to see if my light had changed so that I could drive on, I thought it seemed odd that the driv-er didn’t seem to be taking his license out of his pock-et, and then a flurry of ac-

tivity caught my eye back at the van. The two offi-cers back at the check stop begin pilfering through the van, quickly opening doors and re-arranging things on the seats, lift-ing and looking for some-thing. I asked myself if this was legitimate police work and if so, why was it being

done so deliberately out of the sight of the driver of the van. I didn’t know if police were allowed to do that or not, or if this was the start of another drug bust in the busy 401 cor-ridor that starts as another routine traffic stop.

My light had changed so it was time to be moving on but later, when coming across Stewart Blvd, the same scenario was being played out with a different van and driver. I wanted to ask the officers if they were allowed to do that, but re-considered, after remem-bering Stacey Bonds asked a similar questions and it took her down a street that she never expected.

Her restraint and search, well described as assault and humiliation at the hands of the Ottawa Police force, was replayed continuously over the air-waves with no positive outcomes for her or us as a community. This comes on the heels of a new video showing a man be-ing assaulted and kicked

while passively sitting on a bench while waiting to be interviewed by police, an investigation conclud-ing into the G20 debacle and new revelations of an alleged affair between a witness and an officer which could jeopardize the Surrey 6 murder inves-tigation. And another dis-closure of masked Ottawa police officers, one with a documented history of ag-gressive behavior without a warrant, rough-housing a man for asking for a search warrant which was

never produced. Now that is why I

am scared to think of confrontation with an officer in uniform. I have an inquiring mind. I ask questions and look where that

could lead.Is it reasonable to ex-

pect abuse for asking a question? Based on recent patterns I would say yes and if you complain, what happens. There doesn’t seem to be too many com-plaints that result in action to the offending officers. So at the risk of asking a question, when will the police departments real-ize that not all complaints are unfounded. There are some weak links in the armour and some police officers are abusing their power with no account-ability.

Complaints are feed-back indicating an oppor-tunity for improvement or identifying training gaps. Because little becomes of a complaint, I expect they will become less frequent and situational abuse of power will increase. Who will complain or ask a question?

If you do you get pun-ished. If you write about it do you get punished? I will let you know.

Sometimes you have to askANOTHER

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Karen MacDonald-Hurley

How important is food to you?

Sounds like a silly question, doesn’t it? But according to the Health Unit, 8.2 per cent of the population of Leeds and Grenville reported food insecurity (hunger) last year. That’s almost 6000 hungry local households.

For those of us with enough to eat, these statistics may seem shocking. We can’t tell by passing someone on the street whether they’ve eaten anything nutritious recently. But ask any school teacher about the need for ‘breakfast clubs’, lunch stashes, and cafeteria vouchers, and you’ll realize that there are hungry children in this city. And where the children hunger, so do the adults.

This past week, the Health Unit gathered par-ticipants from their fall ‘Food Matters’ Campaign to discuss their experi-ence of living off charity food for a week. Many of our civic leaders spent a week living off a three day supply of food from

their local food bank and whatever meals they could find from Churches and community kitchens (like the Pier Church’s

meal program or Loaves and Fishes).

All participants, who should be heartily com-mended for this act of solidarity, spoke of the hardship of dealing with the lack of fresh vege-tables and fruits, the blandness of the pack-aged food, and the diffi-culty of making the food stretch. They reported trouble focusing, and a sense of gratitude that it was only a one week experiment. None of course experienced the

issues that poor families often have with no trans-portation (how do you get the food home?), lack of cookware, or figuring out how to make a non-existent budget stretch to shelter, clothing, or children’s needs. Or the hopelessness of seeing no end in sight.

D i s c u s s i o n s afterwards focused on better ways to feed our commun-ity. I was impressed by the many creative ideas, the dedication of those present, and the leadership by the Health Unit.

Food banks are im-portant, as are commun-ity gardens, low income restaurants and Church dinners. One partici-pant pointed out that the dinners in particular provide a social outlet for people who may hunger for more than food. The volunteers who run Food Banks and community meals deserve our deep-est gratitude. But these are instances of char-ity, and charity is not enough.

Fighting hunger at homeSOULSIDE

by Catherine Cavanagh

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Is it reasonable to expect abuse for

asking a question?

One participant pointed out that the dinners in

particular provide a social outlet for people

who may hunger for more than food.

Audit: The firm of Brent J. Burns, Chartered Ac-countant presented the results of their audit of the Health Unit for 2010. The auditors were satisfied with the accounting pro-cesses of the Health Unit. They did recommend that the Health Unit form an internal Audit Commit-tee to provide the Board with further assurance on a quarterly basis that poli-cies and procedures were being followed, and that the Board develop an in-vestment policy for the Re-serve Fund.

Board Reserve Invest-ment Policy: The funds in the Board of Health Re-

serve Fund have come from the initial disposal of the former Health Unit office on Charles Street, annual surpluses in the municipal contribution to the budget, and the reim-bursement from the prov-ince for municipal funds used to conduct the H1N1 mass immunization cam-paign. To avoid requesting additional levies from mu-nicipalities, the Reserve Fund will be used to cover the municipal share of the following Health Unit costs:

1. One time capital ex-penditures relating to the maintenance of Health Unit owned buildings and

grounds, 2. Programs identified

as priority in our com-munities where there is no other funding source,

3. Priority one-time ad-ministrative expenses, and

4. Projected municipal deficit i.e. municipal liabil-ity of operating costs that exceed the current year levy.

The Board approved an investment policy and a three year agreement between C.F.G. Heward Investment Management Ltd. and the Leeds, Gren-ville and Lanark District Health Unit to manage the Reserve Fund according to the investment policy.

Strategic Plan and Or-ganizational Review: The Steering Committee for the Strategic Plan will meet on June 30, 2011 for the first time. There is strong Board, management, staff and community members

participating in the com-mittee. The consultants for the Organizational Review, which is part of the Stra-tegic Plan, have complet-ed all the key informant interviews with manage-ment and external part-

ners. They will be coming to the Health Unit on June 22, 23 to hold focus groups with staff, meet with inter-ested board members, and present their findings of the issues we need to ad-

Health unit board meeting summary shows 2011 plan

Ear candling is the process of placing a hol-low lighted candle in the ear canal that generates heat, that melts down the hard and solid ear wax. It creates a vacuum, which draws out the melted ear wax, into the candle. It is one of the most import-ant benefits is to help you get rid of ear wax, which improves hearing and alleviates different ear problems like tinnitus and temporary loss of hearing due to accumula-tion of excess ear wax and debris.

Ear candling is now being chosen to address mild illnesses that involve the respiratory system, the sinuses, and the ears. Ear Candling Practition-ers also feel the reason the method creates the following benefits is that all of the openings in the head are inter-connect-ed, in a maze–like con-

figuration, which allows the vacuum created by the candle to drain the entire system by osmosis through the membrane of the ear. It is believed that the gentle osmotic pressure caused by Ear Candling is enough to ef-fect a correction within the structures which lay in close proximity of the ear drum, thus the reason clients feel so great fol-lowing a treatment.

There are many bene-fits from this simple meth-od which include:

• Improved sense of smell • Relief of “swimmer’s ear” • Reduced ear pain • Improved sense of taste • Balanced emotional state • Reduced ringing in ears • Relief of dizziness • Reduced pain of a tear in the eardrum • Improved color percep- tion • Equalized pressure in the ear • Reduced stress and ten sion • Clearer thinking • Improved lymphatic flu

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The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit will once again begin weekly water sampling of the area’s public bath-ing beaches. The beaches will be monitored weekly throughout the summer season, July 1st to Sept 2, 2011.

This year the follow-ing public swimming areas will be monitored: In Lanark County: Almonte Beach, Dalhousie Lake, Centennial Beach, River-side Beach, Lanark Beach, Pakenham Beach, Rideau

Ferry Yacht Club, Robert-son Lake Beach, Smiths Falls Sr.

In Leeds and Gren-ville: St. Lawrence Park, Lyn Valley Conservation Area, South Crosby Beach, Portland Campbell Street Beach, Foley Mountain Beach, Camp Hyanto, Joel Stone Beach, Kendrick’s Park, Lower Beverley Town-ship Park, Bellamy Park, Kelly’s Beach, Merrickville, Westport Sand Lake

Every week a total of five water samples will be collected from each

beach. The results will then be analyzed for the presence of E. coli (Esche-richia coli) bacteria. If the results exceed the bath-

ing water standard of 100 E. coli, the beach will be posted with a “WARNING: Unsafe for Bathing” sign indicating that the level of bacteria in the water may pose a risk to your health if you choose to swim. This information and will ap-pear on our website and in radio reports. Research has shown that where swimming beaches have a high E. coli level there is a direct relationship with an increase in ear, eye, nose and throat infections in swimmers. The bathing

beach will remain posted until test results indicate that the water quality meets the bathing beach water standard. To help you better understand “Why Beaches are Post-ed” the Health Unit has developed an informa-tion card that is available at any health unit office, township office that has a bathing beach and on our web site.

Other variables, which are assessed and evalu-ated, are the presence of a blue green algae bloom,

accidental spills that may pollute the water and any safety issue that could have an impact on the health of bathers. At any time if these variables are believed to have an impact on the beach’s safety, the beach will be posted as “Unsafe for Bathing”.

Posting information is available on the Health Unit website www.health-u n i t . o r g / w a t e r / t e s t /beach_results.htm, or by calling the Health Action Line at 1-800-660-5853 or 613-345-5685.

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It’s time for our polit-icians to really ask them-selves the question of how they will resolve the issue of poverty. It’s not okay that you have to be a math-ematical genius to budget on our social assistance programs, or that so many working families are one crisis away from hunger. It’s not okay that hungry people must hope that the Churches and citizens of their town are feeling gen-erous if they want to eat. And by the way, it’s no sur-

prise to me that people of faith and Churches do so much to combat poverty. The kingdom of God is not accessed through a state-ment of creed, but rather through the living Word, action on behalf of the poor and marginalized. “Whatsoever you do to the least of my own, you do to me.” (Matt 25:40)

We can do better. We must. We need to figure out how to include the $100 healthy food supple-ment for people on assist-

ance. We need to fund community gardens for all. We need public trans-portation that allows ac-cess to jobs, banks, clinics, and food. We need incen-tives for businesses to hire full-time workers with benefits, not a succession of low-paid casuals. And more than anything else, we need creative compas-sionate political leader-ship at all levels of gov-ernment that will make ending poverty their first priority.

HEALTH UNIT continues from page 9

dress at the Think Tank, the 30 or so staff and management who will reflect on the findings, options and recommen-dation for the plan.

Food Security: In con-tinuation of the Novem-ber 2010 “Do the Math, Eat the Math” event to raise awareness about food security, the Health Unit is holding a “Work on the Math” event on June 24, 2011 from

9:30am- 12:00pm. This event is to recognize that many of the previous “Do the Math, Eat the Math” participants who lived off a food bank hamper for a week have been actively involved in food secur-ity initiatives since the campaign. This event will allow them to share their remarkable stories.

Other community partners who have made strides on food secur-

ity related initiatives have also been invited to participate in the discussion. Our event partner, the Food Mat-ters Coalition will be hosting a movie screen-ing of a documentary - “Poor no more” from 12:05pm – 1:05pm. This movie explores the roots of poverty in Canada and examines promising international poverty re-duction measures.

The 1000 Islands Re-gatta and festival had some poor luck on Sat-urday, with windy con-ditions limiting only a handful of heats during the first day of racing. On Sunday, the conditions improved, but the luck of local riders did not.

Bert Henderson had

some poor luck in the 5.0L and Gran Prix events, receiving a penalty that dropped him to last place after winning the 5.0L final, and breaking down during the second to final lap in the Grand Prix race after catching up to the leader. “It was a dis-appointing day for me,” said Henderson, adding that at least the Regatta re-ceived some luck with bet-

ter conditions on Sunday. Bert’s brother Kent

Henderson also ran into bad luck, spinning out on the final turn during the second from final lap of the 2.5L finals. Kent had been leading the race since the second lap.

Steve Armstrong fin-ished in 3rd place of the 2.5L and Paul Hewitt fin-ished in 2nd place in the 5.0L finals.

Great day Sunday for organizersBy Austin de LuisObserver Editor

Bert Henderson during the Grand Prix final.

Kent Henderson moves into first in the 2.5-Litre final.

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Brockville native Jen Grattan a.k.a. Portia Perez was featured during the Great North Wrestling event last Thursday evening at the Youth Arena. The 23-year old Grattan was one of 5 matches on the card, winning in front of the home crowd. “It was really rewarding to get to come back after five years,” said Grat-tan. “Wrestling in front of my family and friends was really exciting for me, and the amount of support I have received in my hometown is very encouraging.”

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Brockville’s Sierra Culver poses with Cassie Campbell and Bobby Orr during the Chevro-let Safe & Fun Hockey Festival in Waterloo. Campbell, captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics, led her team to a gold medal. In 2006 she again took on the role of captain in the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, leading her team to the Gold Medal over Sweden .

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her partner won three and lost one match dur-ing the weeklong event, winning 6-0, 6-4 in the bronze medal match.

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Road-runners Canada Day RacesRick Swift, Gerry Tutecky-McDougall, Anne Hodson, Ilona Thomas, Tony Dunbar and Merv Hodson are get-ting ready for the 23rd an-nual Canada Day 5km race. This year’s event has added door prizes and a walker category to accommodate as many participants as pos-sible. The races begin at 8 a.m. with the kids run, start-ing from Blockhouse Island. The Brockville Roadrunners are still looking for volun-teers. Anyone interested can email Race Director Rick Swift: [email protected]


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Ben Hogan once coined the phrase “The secret to lower scores is in the dirt”, meaning practice, practice, practice. Local and award winning Club maker, Garry Dunn, tells his customers “Proper instruction plus proper equipment will make the average golfer play better golf.”

You can’t accomplish better golf with just one of those key principles. You need them both. It’s amazing how many golf-ers out there will run to their local golf outlet store to buy the new, latest and greatest driver on the mar-ket. Only to find after the novelty wears off they are back where they started.

There is a lot of validity to what Garry says here, it makes perfect sense. Good players get their equipment properly fitted and would have had and still have, access to proper instruction geared to their golf swing.

The instruction part will start when you make that commitment to tak-ing Lessons with a certified and credible golf instruct-or. Followed by practicing what you were taught, how many of you out there ac-tually do that? Not many.

Believe me, there’s not a lot of golfers out there will-ing to take that step. They feel they have the know-ledge to do it on their own. Maybe that will explain why the average handicap is still around 20, as it has been for the last 30 years.

Sounds absurd espe-cially when you consider the advent of the Golf Channel, golf instruc-tion that’s all over the In-ternet, and oh yes better equipment is now avail-

able too. Could you keep doing something for 30 years or so, not see any improvement and still say you enjoy it? Not this guy, I’d make the choice and commitment to becoming a better golfer. But then again not everyone was driven like I was.

So getting back to the Hogan statement, “The secret to lower scores is in the dirt”, rings true once you have properly fitted clubs and proper instruc-

tion. Then and only then will you have a definite purpose to practice. You can do this by hitting balls on the driving range, but to really drop those scores fast, practice your chip-ping and putting on a practice green.

To summarize, both statements made in the opening paragraph ring true, you just have to put them into practice.

Each and every golfer out there has the potential to become a better golfer, but you aren’t going to get there on your own. I don’t care how much you think you know about the game. If this Formula is good enough for the Tour-ing Pros, it should be good enough for you average golfers out there.

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The Brockville air comes alive with the sound of music when 2011 “Sun-day in the Park” summer concert series kicks off at Hardy Park on July 10th with a performance by popular local group, “The Riverside Singers”.

The popular event, now in its tenth year (ap-proximately), will feature a “high caliber of diverse performers”, that organ-izer Chris Coyea says will offer something for every musical taste.

“I like to say we’ve got something for every-one,” said Coyea, adding that all concerts are free, though donations are ac-cepted and will be divided amongst local charities.

“I think people will be really impressed with this line-up, there’s a lot of tal-ent in Brockville. We’ve got everything from Gospel, to Big Band, to Broadway, and even a dance performance by Sam Crosby and her students from Bread of Life Dance Theatre (BOLDT), on August 21st.”

At the series second concert, on July 17th, audi-

ences will be treated to an evening of swing and big band with “Alexander’s Big Time Band”, followed by what is sure to be a stirring performance from musical director Lance Besharah and The Brockville Concert Band who will share their signature brand of “magic-al and uplifting” arrange-ments on July 24th.

On July 31st, the stu-dents of St. Lawrence College’s Music Theatre Performance program, will give the audience a taste of Broadway with their musical tribute, “An Evening of Broadway”. Proceeds from this con-cert will be donated to the College’s music theatre

bursary fund.On August 14th, Coyea,

who also heads the music component of the St. Law-rence College Music The-atre Performance Program, will join singers Anne Lan-don and Margaret Whis-selle, as well as his fellow St. Lawrence staff members, Alex Fleuriau Chateau and pianist Christopher Cen-non, in performing your favorite Gospel and spirit-ual classics, when they present, “A Gospel Hour”, on August 14th. The series ends on August 28th, with a toe-tapping evening of bluegrass, country, and gospel music performed by popular local group, “County Road 5”.

Sunday in the Park concert series returns to waterfrontBy Erin ChristieObserver Staff Writer

Sunday’s in the Park Summer Concert Series line-up

All concerts begin at 7 p.m., don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs and blankets.

Sunday, July 10 ............ The Riverside Singers

Sunday, July 17 ............ Alexander’s Big Time Band

Sunday, July 24 ............ The Brockville Concert Band

Sunday, July 31 ............ St. Lawrence College Music Theatre Performance Program

Sunday, August 14 ...... A Gospel Hour

Sunday, August 21 ...... Sam Crosby and The Bread of Life Dance Theatre(Boldt)

Sunday, August 28 ...... County Road 5



HAVE YOU HEARD OF LEEDS & GRENVILLE’S BEST KEPT SECRET?

1000 Islands & Sea-way Cruises of Brock-ville has announced the newest addition to its fleet, the State-of-the-Art, high-speed Catamaran WildCat.

According to com-pany president, An-drew Neeteson, “the boat represents a new and exciting product, not previously avail-able in the 1000 Islands and a clear alterna-tive to the traditional

Islands sightseeing ex-perience”.

Designed and built in Australia, the Wild-Cat can propel 54 pas-sengers at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour through the scenic 1000 Islands and along the St. Lawrence Seaway. The vessel’s primary service will be a two-hour “Castle Prowler Adrenisland Cruise” departing from Brock-ville’s waterfront and

covering 40 miles of the St. Lawrence River and 1000 Islands. De-spite the vessel’s speed capabilities, the speed is primarily desired to shorten the crossing of open expanses of water that divide the Island groups. As Captain Neeteson is quick to point out “it’s not only a comfortable and safe thrill ride but has true sightseeing credentials, including three historic

lighthouses and ships on the Seaway on the only regularly sched-uled Canadian depar-ture to include a view of both Boldt and Sing-er Castles.”

“After seventeen seasons in the ‘City of the 1000 Islands’, we have been looking for something new and exciting to add to the region” explains Neete-son, who recently ac-quired the vessel from

a Whale-watching tour operator in Victoria, British Columbia. The boat arrived late May after a 3,600 kilometre trek across the Coun-try on a flat bed trailer at a boatyard on the St. Lawrence where it is currently being spruced up before its anticipated start date of July1st.

In addition to Sight-seeing Cruises, Captain Neeteson believes the

unique design of his high-speed catama-ran will prove popular for Charter events and “because of its speed we can service groups in communities all the along the 1000 Islands and St. Lawrence Sea-way corridors.

For more informa-tion, contact Andrew Neeteson at 613-341-1859 or email at [email protected].

New high speed adventure cruises of the 1000 Islands

City Councillor and Railway tunnel committee chair, David LeSueur explains the importance of the tunnel’s significance in Brockville to local media and committee members during yes-terday’s tour. “It’s not just a big tunnel,” said LeSueur. “There are a lot of stories behind it.”

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It’s full steam ahead for the City’s newly re-instated railway tunnel committee as they con-tinue with their ongoing mission to turn Brock-ville’s historic railway tunnel into a tourist at-traction. The committee, lead by city councillor, David LeSueur, is plan-ning to conduct feas-

ibility studies later this summer, in order to es-timate the costs of mak-ing the tunnel safe for the public. LeSueur says the committee hopes to have quotes from “four or five” geological engin-eers who could conduct the study, in time for their nest meeting at the end of July.

“We’d like to get this going as quickly as pos-sible,” said LeSueur after

guiding fellow commit-tee members and local press through the tunnel yesterday afternoon.

“The first step ob-viously, is safety, after that we’d like to be able to start taking people through and eventually have a dining cart and a historic tour lead by professional guides. Not only is this Canada’s first railway tunnel, it’s a part of Brockville’s history. ”

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By Erin ChristieObserver Staff Writer


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• Island Breakfast on Refugee Island. Tuesday, June 28 - Thursday June 30, St Lawrence Park, Brockville. The Island Breakfast is the first Riverfest event and considered a highlight by past participants. Rain or shine, the shuttles will travel between St. Lawrence Park and Refugee Island roughly every 15 minutes between 7:30-9:45 am

• Canada Day Celebrations - St. Lawrence Islands National Park. Friday, July 1, 12 pm. Mallorytown Landing. All Day. Celebrate Canada Day at St. Lawrence Islands National Park. Enjoy cake, games, face painting and films showcasing Ontario’s national parks.

• Canada Day Celebrations! Fort Wellington Activities 10 am-4pm. Discover and celebrate why you are Canadian at Fort Wellington - traditional cannon firing and loads of family fun. Join in children’s activities, historic demonstrations and refreshments. BBQ and Strawberry Social, hamburgers, hot dogs, strawberries & ice cream, cold drinks 11am to 2 pm. Admission to all events is free.

• July 1 - July 3 - Brockville Riverfest is a great festival featuring 3 days of entertainment and fun for the whole family!! Headlining this year’s festival is INXS on July 3rd!! Ticket info at www.brockvilleriverfest.ca

• Brockville & District Hospice Palliative Care Service Monthly Grief Support Meeting. Garden St. site (boardroom). Wednesday, July 6th. Topic: “What Loss Can Teach Us About Life”

• Olde Tyme Hymn Sing. Sunday, July 10, 6:45 pm. Hanson Memorial Church, Charleston Lake. Featuring Celebration Singers.

• Self-Employment Benefits Orientation Session. Tuesday, July 12th at 10 am, Prescott. To register for the mandatory orientation please call 613-925-4275 ext. 24 or email [email protected].

• Brockville Off-Leash Dog Park welcomes everyone, with their dogs, to their third anniversary barbecue. Saturday, July 16th, 11 am-2 pm. Dogs will demonstrate their skill with Frisbees. There will be dog contests. Come & enjoy the day with us.

• Brockville Farmers’ Market - Market Street West Brockville. The market hosts an amazing collection of traditional and organic produce, herbs, meats, honey, maple syrup, preserves and baked goods. From May to October there is an ever changing selection of hand-crafted jewellery, furniture, textile products, quality cut flowers, perennials and annuals. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, May - October 7 am -1 pm

• Birthday Parties at the Brockville and Area YMCA. This 2-hour party includes a specially decorated room, fun activities, meal of choice and one hour of pool or gym time. Available Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Call 613-342-7961.

• Bottles for Babies - Bring your pop cans, liquor, wine & beer bottles and cans to Food For All Food Bank in Prescott. Proceeds will be used to purchase baby formula for mothers in need. 136 Henry St. W. Prescott 613-925-2444.

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The Rotary Club of Brockville from left to right: Secretary, Bruce Leslie, Director, David Vaughan, Director, Ken Holliday, Past President, Janet Eaton, President, Tom Harrington, Director, Ian Stephenson, Treasurer, Mary Ellen Morris and Director, Jack Henderson.

Rotary welcomes newexecutive boards

Members of the Rotary Clubs of Brockville and the 1000 Islands welcomed their new executive board members in a brief ceremony conducted during

annual Changeover meeting, held last Monday evening in Rockport.

Drowning Death ReviewIn light of recent

tragedy, the Safe Com-munities Coalition of Leeds and Grenville, along with Brockville City Police, have re-leased information from a report issued by the chief coroner’s office in hopes of pre-venting similar traged-ies.

Highlights of the re-port include:

There was a 260% increase in drowning deaths in children less than 5 years of age. 13 of the 89 (15%) deaths in this review were in children less than 5 years of age.

Drowning is largely a male-related phenom-enon. 76 of 89 (85%) deaths were male.

71 of 89 (80%) of the deaths occurred in persons aged less than 5 and between 15-64 years of age.

55 of 66 (83%) of the deaths related to swim-ming occurred when the air temperature was higher than 21 de-grees Celsius.

22 of 23 (96%) of those operating power boats and unpowered boats that drowned were not wearing life jackets or personal flo-tation devices.

Alcohol was a con-tributing factor in 39 of 58 (67%) of the drown-ing deaths between 15-64 years of age. Overall, 39 of 89 (44%) of drowning deaths were alcohol related. In 2010, for those in whom the swimming status was known, 24 of 60 (40%) were non-swimmers.

20 of 59 (34%) of the drowning victims for whom their heritage was known were not born in Canada.

The Rotary Club of the 1000 Islands from left to right: Director of Membership, Bob Barbour, President Elect, Bob Cassel, Treasurer, God McCrady, Past President, Larry Journal, President, Laura Good, RI Chair, Rene Melchers and Brent Glatt.

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Habitat for Humanity Thousand Islands is having a

Silent Auction for the Prescott build.

July 2nd thru to July 9th. At the ReStore , 3037 County Road 29,Brockville.

Visit: www.1000islandsrestore.comSports memorabilia, furniture, gift items and more.

Shhhhh!Keep itQuiet!

The Leeds-Grenville Green Party will hold their 2011 Annual Gen-eral Meeting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 9th at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Hall, located at 374 Stewart Blvd. During the meet-ing the Association will

elect a new Federal exec-utive team, discuss the new campaign, vote on constitutional matters,

and discuss the upcom-ing provincial election. There is no cost to at-tend, all attendees will

have to opportunity to purchase memberships at the door should they wish to do so.

For more information contact membership chair, Matthew Cassel-man at [email protected].

BCI alumni receives honorary degree

Former Brockville resident and BCI alumni, Cyril M. Leed-er receives an honorary diploma from Algonquin College president, Robert Gillett, during the college’s recent con-vocation ceremony, held at the new Ottawa Convention Centre last week. Leeder, who is the current President of Senators Sports and Entertainment, was recognized by the school for the success he has achieved throughout his remarkable career and his strong commitment to his community displayed through his inspirational charity work. “Ottawa has been my home for 30 years now,” Leeder told the audience of nearly 400 new business school graduates. “It’s an honor to be given this award and to have the op-portunity to share my passion for sport, and business, with these graduating business students. They are our future, and being able to serve as their keynote speaker and share my experiences and life lessons is both hum-bling, and rewarding.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHEL CHEVALIER

The Brockville General Volunteer Association re-cently donated $20,000 to the Brockville Cardiovascu-lar Program (BCP) based at BGH. This donation brings the total funds donated to the BCP by the Association to $80,000 over the past few years. The rehabilitation program has celebrated its second successful year, with over 235 former cardiac and vascular patients re-ceiving information, support and guided exercise pro-grams while transitioning into their post-treatment lives. The program is locally created and supported, receiving no government funding.

Habitat for Humanity Thousands Islands is planning a silent auction and raffle to raise money for their fall build in Prescott.

The build of a semi-detached unit in Prescott, which will provide home ownership for two lo-cal families, is slated to begin in September with completion expected early in the new year.

In order to raise money for the Prescott build Ron Stembridge, the HFH Executive Director, an-nounced that the local affiliate is running a silent auction from July 1st to July 9th. While items for the auction are still being finalized the they will include sports memorabilia such as signed ball caps from the Ottawa Senators, a signed Johnny Bower hockey Jersey, as well as golf packages and dinner certificates for courses and restaurants in the area. Prospective bidders can view Items for the auction at the ReStore, 3037 County Road 29,

Brockville . Bids can be placed at the same loca-tion.

During the same time period the Habitat Thousand Islands ReStore is also selling raffle tickets for a bedroom suite from Country Time Furniture and Décor valued at over $2800. Ken Hunter the ReStore manager will be selling tick-ets at the ReStore for only $5.00 or three for $10.00 and the suite can be viewed at the Country Time store next door in the Maggio Plaza. Hunter added “Jenny Andrews, the Country Time manager, has been incredibly supportive of the work of Habitat for Humanity.”

Plans are also underway for a sod turning cere-mony at the Prescott build site for the end of June. The Board of Habitat for Humanity Thousand Islands will be issuing details on the ceremony and the build shortly.

BGVA Donates $20,000 to Brockville

Cardiovascular Program

Maureen Overy, President of the Volunteer Association presents the cheque to BGH internist and one of the unit’s found-ers, Dr. Jay Bhatt. Bhatt and Overy are joined by members of the Association’s Board of Directors, front row, from left to right; Marla Gilliland, Carole Crump, Bea Slack, Priscilla Walter, (back row, left – right) Lynda Cavanagh, Carole Lyman, Marg Alexander, Ann Carter, and Dave Bessant. Missing from photo are, Ian Combe and Gail Parslow.

SUBMITTED PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGGIE WHEELER

Habitat for Humanity Thousand Islands Fundraising for Fall Build

Leeds-Grenville Green AGM set for July 9th

Out-patient services not available for Canada Day holidayMost out-patient services will not be available at

Brockville General Hospital on Friday, July 1st, for the Canada Day Holiday

The Emergency Department will remain open 24 hours as usual, and in-patient services will not be af-fected. Regular weekend operations will apply for Sat-

urday and Sunday.Out-patient services not available on Canada Day

will include: Laboratory Services, Diagnostic Imaging Services, and all clinics and community programs.

All hospital departments will resume regular hours on Monday, July 4th.

Knowing that trust doesn’t happen at a dis-tance, O’Farrell Finan-cial Services Inc. held its Grand Opening in Brock-ville on Friday June 17. The financial and estate planning firm has experi-enced significant growth in the Brockville com-munity and is commit-ted to being a part of the communities in which it serves. To support that growth, they have opened a new office in Downtown Brockville.

The O’Farrell Financial

team will be actively work-ing through our Brockville office as we continue to provide financial and es-tate planning services. The team is thrilled to be here and look forward to continuing to honour the relationships they have, while making new friends in the community as well.

“I am very proud of our team and what we have achieved in the Kempt-ville area,” stated Dermid O’Farrell. “All of us at O’Farrell Financial are ex-cited to be in Brockville

and to make our footprint in the community.”

The Open House event brought in many people from the community who were able to see the of-fice and get a feel for the O’Farrell Financial ex-perience. Among those in attendance were Mayor David Henderson, MPP Steve Clark and North Grenville Councillor Tim Sutton, each of whom provided kind words of welcome to the commun-ity.

With the opening

of the new office, the O Farrell Financial team will be spending time at the Brockville location, but Keeley Mouré, who is well known in the com-munity, will be based out of Brockville.

“I am thrilled to be based out of the Brock-ville branch and to have the opportunity to work in the community in which I live,” said Mouré.

The new office is locat-ed at 56 King Street East in Downtown Brockville.

O’Farrell Financial Brockville office opens

In the wake of the devastating loss of his younger sister, Chantal, who took her own life at the age of 18, local pro-ducer/film-maker, James Thomas says he felt com-pelled to find out why. In doing so, he embarked on a painful and ultim-

ately, life-changing path to self-discovery that propelled him to edu-cate others, in hopes that his sister’s story might prevent similar traged-ies. The result of his six year journey is a stark and heartfelt documen-tary “The Truth about Teenage Suicide”, which makes its debut next Fri-day night at the Brock-

ville Arts Centre. The event, which is

being hosted by Thom-as himself, will feature live music by Ottawa acoustic performer Theda Phoenix and Ot-tawa/Brockville indie rock band Loon Choir,

and will introduce the “Foundation for To-day” organization, who will discuss their first project, the Chantal Thomas Collabora-tion for Youth, which is geared towards improving awareness

about mental health promotion and suicide prevention in schools.

“The Truth about Teenage Suicide: a night of healing and cele-bration of life for the community” pre-miere’s at the Brockville

Arts Centre on Friday, July 8th at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets for the event are $10.00 (+tax) and are available at the Brock-ville Arts Centre.

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Cameron Diaz stars as the proverbial Bad Teach-er. Her character Eliza-beth Halsey is a first year teacher who cares nothing about educating young minds. All she wants is an easy life, supplied by a rich husband who will treat her like royalty until the day she dies. When we first meet Elizabeth, it is the last day of school and she is saying farewell to her fellow teachers. She has snagged the wealthy husband and will never need to work again. It isn’t long before said fiancé and his mom reject her for the gold-digger she is, cancel the marriage and send her back into the world of middle-school education.

Next, with summer over, she is back at her teaching job, dejected, depressed and completely unmotivated. All she does in class, from the second she introduces herself to her students, is show vid-eos of movies about teach-ers. She ignores her stu-dents, and hiding behind a pair of black sunglasses, sleeps off debauched nights, drinks booze at her desk, and rejects everyone who tries to befriend her.

Jason Segel (Forget-ting Sarah Marshall) plays Russell Gettis, gym teach-er. He is a likable laid back

guy, who despite the fact he can see right through Elizabeth’s shtick, would like to date her. He is genuinely funny and ac-tually comes off well as the only bastion of sanity in Bad Teacher’s wacky staff.

Another teacher we are introduced to is Amy Squirrel. She is played with frightening perki-ness by the incredible Lucy Punch (Dinner for Schmucks). She is all superficial smiles and rah-rah enthusiasm. Her con-stant desperate need to please and always so over-ly excited behavior makes her come off like a real nut-case. She is a wacky parody of every teacher ever to grace the silver screen. Amy tries hard to be the Good Teacher, but she has some unspecified history which holds her back and all is obviously not rosy in the mental health department. Her desperate attempts at be-ing good, play well against Diaz’s being bad. The fact that they seem to live in different worlds simultan-eously makes for interest-ing comedy.

Just when it looks like Diaz’s Elizabeth has sunk to an all-time low, she meets Scott Delacorte, a new substitute teacher played with nerdy aban-don by Justin Timberlake.

One look at his expen-sive Delacorte watch and Elizabeth knows there is more to this guy than meets the eye. He is the heir of the watch mak-ing Delacorte family for-tune, and has just broken up with his girlfriend. When Scott shows Eliza-beth a photo of his ex, he says she has a big heart. All Diaz sees is her large breasts. Believing she is underdeveloped in this

area, she decides the only way to win this guy is to purchase a new larger set. The only problem is she is broke. So, for the rest of the film the comedy plays out as she plots schemes and hatches crazy plans to raise the money any way she can.

Director Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) does a decent job. The movie is well paced and though the story arc is predictable, he takes us through some pretty comedic and often over-the-top situations. Bad Teacher’s comedy is not as hard edged as that of the Hangover movies,

but Diaz plays raunchy well and never once falls out of character.

Bad Teacher is a com-edy that relies on shock value for a lot of its humor. Obnox-ious charac-ters seem to be all the rage in comedies lately. Thanks to Diaz’s solid perform-ance Bad Teach-er works, but it doesn’t have the comic edge that would make it an instant clas-sic. However, if you are looking

for a few great laughs and a few hours of fun, then this might be for you. Check it out.

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