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Bling your bra
All monies raised to benefi t local charity
THIS WEEK STAFF
Ladies of Smiths Falls, get ready to break out your bras for a good cause.
Vickie’s Specialty Shop, located at 14 Main St. W., will be hosting its Bling Your Bra Charity Auction on Saturday, Jan. 29. People enter the contest by decorating a bra and dropping it off at Vickie’s any time from now until 3 p.m., on Jan. 29.
Vickie Dickson, the shop’s own-er, said she got the idea for the fundraiser from a friend who ran a similar contest in Victoria, B.C.
“We’ve got some moms and daughters doing them together,” she said. “My daughter is on the (Smiths Falls and District Colle-giate Institute) volleyball team. The whole volleyball team is doing one. We suggest that businesses create one that represents their business.”
The entry fee is $10, and all entry fees will be donated to the Rideau Survivorship Foundation, a local charity that offers support, infor-mation and resources to residents in the Smiths Falls area that are diagnosed with cancer and other chronic illnesses. There will be ce-lebrity judging and all bras will be on the auction block.
THIS WEEK STAFF
The Abbott Street Swing Bridge will be closed for re-pairs for approximately three months, starting on Jan. 19.
Parks Canada will be per-forming structural steel re-pairs, complete replacement of the grating, sandblasting and
repainting the steel, as well as repairs to the approaches.
Detour signs will be erect-ed to guide drivers to alter-nate routes, while a portable bridge will be installed over the lock station to provide ac-cess to pedestrians and snow-mobilers.
Parks Canada has requested
the public to stay clear of the construction site and respect the construction signs.
The project’s funding was made possible through Cana-da’s Economic Action Plan.
For more information about this project, you are asked to email: [email protected]
Abbott Street bridge to close for three months
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REDHAWKSFLYING HIGH
LOOKING GOOD, BABY!Photo by Ryan Holland
Eight-month-old Kale McGuire is one happy camper surrounded by the dozens of women who attended the Hanley Hall Bridal Show on Sunday, Jan. 16. Katherine, Kale’s mother, was just one of the women in the audience to see the many different dresses, cakes, fl orists, caterers and hairstylists at the show.
NEW GALLERYA new art gallery is poised to
open in Smiths Falls. Composi-tions will be located on Main Street and the doors open to the public on Feb. 6. 3
BREAKING SILENCELocal group feels the subject
of suicide has been kept quiet for too long, and people need to talk about it to prevent it from happening again. 2
BEAR SIGHTINGSIt was a busy week for the Jr.
A Bears with regular season games, a prospect game and an all-star game. Get caught up with your team. 7
KASSINA RYDER
Over 200 professionals and community members from across Lanark Coun-ty attended a working day at Farrell Hall in Perth on Jan. 12 to talk about sui-cide.
“I’m guessing that some of us, if not all of us, have
been affected by suicide,” Nicki Collins, executive director of Open Doors for Lanark Children and Youth, told the crowd. “That’s just how the num-bers go.”
After six youth in and around Lanark County took their own lives last year, Susan Edwards, su-perintendent of student engagement for the Upper Canada District School Board, and others, be-gan developing the idea of holding a countywide working day to talk about the issue.
“This is a fi rst step to-night,” Collins said. “It’s time to break that taboo.”
The Lanark County Community Working Day, part of the Our Communi-ties Care Project launched by the school board, is the fi rst of its kind in the area, Edwards said. One of the goals of the meeting was to get people openly talk-ing about suicide.
‘BREAK THE SILENCE’
“Their deaths had a huge impact,” she said. “Let’s break the silence and open the dialogue.”
Danka Brewer, an elder with the Shabot Obaadji-wan First Nation, started the meeting off with a prayer.
Brewer, who also serves as an elder with the Lanark County Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Advisory Committee, said First Nations traditional medicine deals with the whole person, a message she wanted to convey at the meeting.
She said suicide pre-vention is something the whole community needs to work together to achieve.
“This is not a culturally specifi c thing,” she said. “It affects everyone.”
The meeting also in-cluded a presentation by Dr. Darcy Santor. Santor is a senior research scientist with the Centre for Excel-lence for child and youth mental health at CHEO and a psychology profes-sor at the University of Ottawa.
He said the fi rst step to-ward preventing suicide involves identifying where to concentrate resourc-es. Because there can be many contributing factors that lead people to commit suicide, Santor said the key is to identify the most prevalent factor, which is mental illness.
“There is no single risk factor to explain who is go-ing to commit suicide,” he said.
“What do you focus on?”
While not all people with a mental illness will necessarily commit sui-cide, Santor said 91 per cent of people who com-mit suicide had a mental illness at the time of their deaths.
“These data suggest we focus on mental illness,” he said.
Community members were given the opportu-nity to voice concerns and ask questions at the end of the evening.
The impact of drugs and alcohol on mental health is a subject that needs more attention in the county, said Perth’s Dr. Manuela Joannou.
“I don’t think young peo-ple realize how drugs can contribute to poor mental health,” she said. “I think it’s a huge issue.”
Joannou said substance abuse, including smoking marijuana, can greatly af-fect an individual’s ability to make clear judgments about their mental state.
“They don’t understand that it really does inter-fere with their perception of the world,” she said.
Mike Poulin, executive director of Lanark County Mental Health, and Steve Martin, manager of pro-grams for Open Doors, also presented during the workshop.
MORE FUNDING NEEDED
Martin said one of the barriers to providing people with mental health resources is a lack of fund-ing.
“There is a political real-ity to the world we live in,” he said. “We have to work harder in that domain.”
Collins agreed.Since Open Doors’ in-
ception in 1996, referrals have increased by 39 per cent, while base fund-ing has only increased by eight per cent. Open Doors is primarily funded by the Ontario ministry of chil-dren and youth services, Collins said.
The increase in refer-rals means stigma around mental illness is declin-ing and more people are seeking help, but funding hasn’t increased to keep up with the demand, Col-lins said.
“I think there’s a lot more awareness, but more awareness means more people are looking for help,” she said.
In the past three years, the organization has had to eliminate four full-time positions, including a
counselor who specialized in sexual abuse for chil-dren less than 12 years of age, and another who spe-cialized in children over 12.
The full-time psycho-logical associate position was also eliminated. Now, a psychologist visits one day a week instead of be-ing on site every day.
“We actually have less capacity,” she said. “The demands go up and we have less people that can respond.”
RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Santor and his team have developed a web-site for high school youth called yoomagazine.com. The magazine features re-sources for students strug-gling with suicide or who have friends struggling with suicide. Questions can be posted anonymous-ly and are answered by ex-perts. It also contains in-formation for educators.
Collins said the infor-mation gathered from the working day will be pub-lished on the Our Commu-nities Care Project web-site, www.lcoccp.com. The website will also feature a research paper. All of the information will be put toward Lanark County’s fi rst suicide prevention strategy.
“It’s ambitious, but it’s our goal,” Collins said.
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Lanark County talks about suicideFirst step toward
countywide prevention
strategy
Photo by Kassina Ryder
Nicki Collins, executive director of Open Doors for La-nark Children and Youth, speaks to the crowd at the fi rstLanark County Community Working Day about suicide at Farrell Hall in Perth on Jan. 12.
ANDREW SNOOK
Smiths Falls residents Leah Hicks and Louis Tremblay be-lieve in showcasing the talents of local artists, and hope that their new art gallery, Compositions, will do just that.
The gallery will be located at 47 Main St. E. Its resident artist, Leah Hicks, is excited to have the project near completion.
“It’s pretty awesome,” Hicks said. “It’s kind of surreal.”
Hicks started focusing on the arts after she was involved in a serious car accident. She said her rehabilitation team urged her to get into painting, and seven years ago she began paint-ing on mirrors. Now she creates strictly canvas art, and travels to various art exhibitions and sells her pieces. She will be travelling to Florence, Italy to showcase her
talents at an exhibition next De-cember.
“I got a lot of support,” she said. “It’s an awesome accom-plishment.”
Tremblay, chair of the arts and culture task force for Smiths Falls, said they purchased the home at 47 Main St. E. six months ago, and were always playing around with the idea of a gallery.
“We decided to jump with both feet in,” he said. “For Leah, it’s her passion. She really discov-ered her abstract art two years ago. I knew that was something she wanted to. Everything just made sense and it was meant to be.”
Tremblay said Hicks will be the resident artist, but they will be showcasing other local artists as well.
“We believe this is a great way to help people out,” he said. “The gallery is going to be a platform
for new artists. We really want to concentrate on new artists and emerging artists. Hopefully we’ll get bigger and bigger and get more people involved.”
He said he hopes to see the arts become a major tourist draw in the Ottawa Valley.
“I would like to see the whole area be seen as an art centre, have people from Toronto come down and visit all the towns in the valley.”
In addition to showcasing local artists, Hicks plans on teaching daytime art classes for a variety of ages.
The grand opening celebration for Compositions will take place on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. There will be live music, art, photography, jew-ellers and a silent auction.
For more information on the grand opening, or applying to put artwork on exhibit, visit www.compositionsartgallery.com
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Coffee Culture has successfullyCoffee Culture has successfully completed it’s first full year of operation andcompleted it’s fi rst full year of operation and sends out a huge thank you to the communitysends out a huge thank you to the community
for all the support and help in 2010.for all the support and help in 2010. Tony would like to send out a bigTony would like to send out a big
THANK YOUTHANK YOUto his team for doing such a great job in making Coffee Culture a warm,to his team for doing such a great job in making Coffee Culture a warm,
inviting, friendly place and contributing to the successful first year.inviting, friendly place and contributing to the successful fi rst year.
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Tony would also like to take this opportunity to announce the promotion of Tressa White to Location Manager. “Tressa, has been with us from the
start and has set an example to all of us, with regards to customer service and how to maintain and improve the operation. Tressa has the ability to be a very strong manager and I am so glad we have been able to grow to enable this.”
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New art gallery coming to Smiths Falls on Feb. 6
Photo by Andrew Snook
Louis Tremblay, chair of the arts and culture task force in Smiths Falls and artist Leah Hicks show off one of Hicks’ paintings on Dec. 16, at the site of their upcoming art gallery, Compositions, set to open on Feb. 6. The opening night celebrations will begin at 7 p.m., and will consist of live music, art, photography, jewelers, silent auctions, and more.
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THIS WEEK STAFF
People of Smiths Falls: get ready to hit the books for the books, in preparation for the 14th annual Friends of the Smiths Falls Public Library Trivia Chal-lenge on Feb. 13, at 1:30 p.m., at the Smiths Falls Royal Canadian Legion Branch 95 (7 Main St. E.).
Teams will have a chance to battle for trivia supremacy as they answer questions from fi ve different categories: Canadian politics, the written word, pot-pourri, modern advertising and wellness (health, nutrition and fi tness).
Each team can include a maxi-mum of 10 players.
The entry fee is $125 per team, with all proceeds going towards children’s programs, equipment and material for the Smiths Falls Public Library.
There will be prizes for the win-ning team.
For more information, contact the library at 613-283-2911 or Tom Foulkes at 613-283-2706.
Trivia challenge fundraiser for library Feb. 13
Lombardy Ag Society set to race into 2011
ANDREW SNOOK
Last year could be described as the year of the go-cart, at least for the Lombardy Agricul-tural Society.
Lombardy Karting and the Lombardy Fair were the hot top-ics at the LAS’ annual general meeting on Jan. 11.
Louise Blair, president of the LAS, said the schedule for this year’s go-cart races has been set, with the fi rst race taking place on May 1 at 9 a.m.
“We’ve got 11 races,” Blair said. “The schedule is now up on our website. Saturdays are practice days. There’s no admis-sion fee to enter the grounds, but we’re always look for good will donations.”
Lombardy Karting will host its league nights every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Blair said Lombardy Kart-
ing’s fi rst year was very promis-ing.
“For our fi rst full year of rac-ing, it went really, really well,” Blair said. “Like anything new, there are little tweaks that you have to do. This is our baby; we’re really trying to promote it and let people know. We’re still trying to explain to people you don’t just rent a cart and drive it, it’s a team event.”
Lombardy FairThe 2011 Lombardy Fair will
take place from July 29 to Aug. 1.
Blair said last year’s Lom-bardy Fair did well enough fi nancially to break even, and the LAS is already brainstorming new ways to attract more visi-tors to the event.
“It’s a tough go for any o r -
ganization,” she said. “There’s so much available
to the public over the summer, you’re competing with every-thing. There are a lot of chal-lenges with fairs around the area with the economic situa-tion; we’re always looking for something new.”
Blair said the more popular events, such as the demolition derby and the horse pull, will run again this year. There will
also be a Sunday night Go-Kart race again this year. She hopes there will be increased in-terest in the
truck pull this year.
The fair will also have its
reg-
ular park entertainment and will include livestock, home crafts, sheep sheering and an egg culture pavilion. Maple the fi berglass milking cow will also make a return appearance.
“We just want to make the fair to be a success and family-ori-ented,” she said.
Special guestThe AGM hosted guest speak-
er, Master Cpl. Ryan Moss, a member of the Brockville rifl es, a primary reserve infantry regi-ment of the Canadian Forces. Moss spoke about his experi-ence with his tour over in Af-ghanistan.
“It was an eye opener for a lot of the public to see,” Blair said.
Future eventsThe LAS will be hosting its
fundraising community yard sale at the agricultural building in June. Tables will be available to rent for a fee of $10 each.
For more information on vol-unteer or sponsorship opportu-
nities at the Lombardy Fair, or renting a table at the yard sale, visit www.lasfair.ca
For more information about Lombardy Karting, visit www.lombardykarting.
com
11-race season for go-carts
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From front pageThe proceeds from the auction will also be donated to the Rideau
Survivorship Foundation.“I would love to see at least $500 raised,” Dickson said. “$1,000
would be great.”For every bra entered, contestants will be given a $10 off coupon
for a professionally fi tted bra at Vickie’s. The store will also be host-ing a bra-fi tting clinic on Jan. 29.
The grand prize is a free, professionally-fi tted bra.Turn to A-Channel at 7:40 a.m., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, to watch
Dickson be interviewed about her Bling Your Bra contest.For more information on the contest, visit www.vickies.ca or call
613-283-8142.
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DIGNITY HOUSE HOSPICE
Lanark County’s own British Inva-sion, Beatlejuice, will be headlining a fundraiser later this month with its authentic, renditions of the Beatles’ greatest hits.
The dinner-dance at the Civitan Club of Perth on Saturday, Jan. 29, starting at 6 p.m., is organized by Dig-nity House Hospice to raise money for its residential hospice program.
While the cause is serious, the event
itself will be a light-hearted evening of great food, desirable prizes, a silent auction, and lively dancing.
The $50 tickets, which come with a $25 tax receipt, can be purchased at Jo’s Clothes in Perth, Pauline Aunger Royal Lepage offi ce in Smiths Falls, Bayshore Home Health offi ce in Smiths Falls, and at any Commu-nity Home Support offi ce in Lanark County.
Or contact Dignity House Hospice at 613-430-421 or dignityhouseperth@
gmail.com.Dignity House thanks the event’s
top sponsors for making the dinner-dance possible, especially our Gold Event Sponsors: Civitan Club of Perth, Bayshore Home Health, Met-roland Media Group (Smiths Falls This Week), O’Dacre Family Funeral Home, and Lannin Funeral Home and Chapel.
Don’t miss Beatlejuice – the coun-ty’s top Beatles cover band – at the Ci-vitan Club of Perth on Jan. 29.
Bling your bra, ladies
THIS WEEK STAFF
Members of council for the Town of Smiths Falls were ap-pointed to represent the follow-ing committees for the 2010-14 term of council:
Coun. Lorraine Allen: Smiths Falls Public Library board, Smiths Falls/Lanark County housing authority, child development centre advisory committee, Heritage House Mu-seum advisory board, municipal heritage committee, railway mu-seum advisory board and physi-cian recruitment task force.
Coun. Jay Brennan: Com-mittee of adjustment, Heritage House Museum advisory board, Smiths Falls and District Club for Youth, Smiths Falls & District Chamber of Commerce, and phy-sician recruitment task force.
Coun. Chris Cummings: Russ Beach-Smiths Falls/Mon-tague Airport commission, police services board, YMCA steering committee, municipal cultural planning partnership, economic development advisory board, municipal heritage com-mittee, and railway museum ad-visory board.
Coun. Ken Graham: Russ Beach-Smiths F a l l s / M o n -tague Airport commission, child develop-ment centre advisory com-mittee, Leeds Grenville and Lanark District
Health Unit, Lanark County cor-porate services committee, Ride-au Valley Conservation Author-ity, Lanark County community services committee, and Rideau Environmental Action League.
Coun. Shawn Pankow: Downtown Business Associa-tion, YMCA steering committee, economic development advisory board, Smiths Falls and District Club for Youth, Smiths Falls Community Food Bank, Rideau Environmental Action League and physician recruitment task force.
Coun. Dawn Quinn: Down-town Business Association, YMCA steering committee, Rideau Canal Museum advisory board.
Mayor Dennis Staples’ voting status was also confi rmed for the following committees: Russ Beach-Smiths Falls/Montague Airport commission, Lanark County corporate services com-mittee, Lanark County commu-nity services committee, Perth/Smiths Falls hospital board, po-lice services board, Rideau Canal Museum advisory board, Smiths Falls and District Chamber of Commerce.
Local Beatles cover band headlines hospice fundraiser
Smiths Falls council appointmentsThe following are briefs from
the Town of Smiths Falls’ Jan. 17 committee-of-the-whole and regularly scheduled council meetings. Coun. Jay Brennan was absent from both meetings.
CHEETHAM HEADS TO FRANCE
The manager of economic development for the Town of Smiths Falls will be packing his bags and heading to Europe to represent the town at an inter-national trade show in Bonne,
France, from March 8 to 11.Cheetham said the trade show
is the largest real estate invest-ment show in the world, and it would provide the town with a large number of contacts and potential investors. The trip is expected to cost $10,000, and the funding will come from previ-ously allocated funds, not addi-tional investment by the town. Cheetham told council he offset the costs of the trip by not go-ing to other events.
“I would simply say to we have an opportunity here,” he told council. “If we did the show on our own it would cost us $80,000 or $90,000.”
Smiths Falls will be joining several other towns and cities including Toronto, London and Sault St. Marie.
Cheetham told council the trade show will put the town on an international stage for its waterfront development and other large properties including the former Hershey plant and the Rideau Regional Centre.
He said the show has 1,700 exhibitioners and thousands of investors and attendees from around the world looking for all kinds of development.
The motion to approve Cheetham’s trip was passed unanimously by council.
PHYSICIAN UPDATE
Staples said he is optimis-tic about fi nding short and long-term solutions to the doc-tor shortage in Smiths Falls. He told council he has met
with representatives from the Smiths Falls site of the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hos-pital, the mobile health unit in Brockville, Smiths Falls Com-munity Health Care and sev-eral other organizations to fi nd an immediate solution to the current shortage, including the possibility of a turn-key opera-tion. He said he has meetings scheduled throughout the week with various members of the medical community to try and fi nd a solution as quickly as possible.
CARNIVAL PLANS UNDERWAY
Mayor Dennis Staples told council that planning has begun for the 2011 Smiths Falls Winter Carnival that will be held from Feb. 11 to 13. Staples said sug-gestions for this year’s festivi-ties are appreciated from both members of council and the public. He asked that residents with ideas for the carnival con-tact Margo Loughren at 613-283-4124, ext. 1122. Staples said that the trivia challenge, chili cook-off and pancake breakfast have already been schedueled.
ALZHEIMER’S AWARENESS DAY
Staples proclaimed Feb. 5, 2011, Alzheimer’s Awareness Day in the Town of Smiths Falls, and let council know that a walk for Alzheimer’s will be held at County Fair Mall on Feb. 5 at 10:30 a.m. For more information, contact Bobbi-Jo Jarvis at 613-551-1991.
Town council briefs
RATE HIKEParking meter rates in Smiths Falls have recently increased from 25 cents to 50 cents. Chief administrative offi cer Wayne Brown said the additionalrevenue will go towards the replacement and repair of old meters and hopefully towards the funding of additional off-street parking.
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OPINIONEDITORIAL
Editorial Policy
Seriousness of doctor shortage devastating
Straight talk about dog deaths
Dear Editor,I would like to respond to the rhet-
oric that has been published con-cerning the two tragic events involv-ing dogs having been killed in traps in the Smiths Falls area.
The statement by Bill Davies, president of the Canadian National Trapper’s Alliance, in which he com-pares a dog off-leash being killed in a baited trap, to one of his dog being killed by a car when it ran onto the road, is at best self serving. I agree that both are tragic, however, most dog owners are aware of the dangers posed be cars on roadways and do take precautions to keep their dogs under control.
There is a tremendous difference be-tween the obvious dangers of the road compared to the unknown, disguised and baited dangers of a kill trap. We understand the dangers posed from cars. It is not too hard to see where the road is, however, it is a totally dif-ferent situation to know where the danger lies with a hidden trap. A dog killed by a car was not enticed onto the road by the smell of bait.
Both Davies and Jolanta Kowal-ski, a media relations spokesperson for the MNR, suggested that posting warning signs is not a good idea. How in the world do they come to that conclusion? That’s like saying what you don’t know won’t hurt you. Let’s not post a sign saying that there is a serious danger in the road ahead, just go ahead and fi nd out for yourself.
Such an attitude just doesn’t make any sense. That’s like saying it’s the victim’s fault, not the individual re-sponsible for the tragedy.
As a fi nal observation, why in the world does the golf course need to have traps, designed to kill coyotes, wolves and foxes, set out in the fi rst place? Those animals are no threat whatsoever, to a golf course. Only skunks and raccoons pose any threat of damage to the course and the only in the spring. Last time I checked, both of those animals were in hi-bernation at this time of year and the easy solution to address their threats is the use of a live trap.
What if a child were to fall victim to a kill trap on the golf course? I bet that would change the picture.
Ian Ross Smiths Falls
Dear Editor,This letter is in reference to the “phy-
sician shortage” in the town of Smiths Falls. In my opinion, I feel the town has known about this crisis for years and has dragged their feet until now when over 4,000 individuals have no family doctor.
The seriousness of this is devastat-ing and I feel it’s going to take a lot more than patience and optimism to get through this, as Mayor Staples sug-gested (Smiths Falls This Week, front page, Jan. 13). Especially when our town is made up of so many heavy smokers, overweight, chronically dis-eased individuals as Linda Bisonette, VP patient care, Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital representative, so quickly labeled our sick population on a CTV news broadcast.
Perhaps the reason for this level of health is partly due to lack of doctors, nurses and community health teach-ing. There seems to be a lot of meet-ings, sessions and action plans these past four years and still more in the
near future in regards to this problem, but still no doctors – nor even a tempo-rary solution.
Why is it other communities can come together and adopt the so-called “turn-key operation” with much suc-cess and we have been in the works for over four years just trying to get it to the table? Is it maybe we have nothing to offer individuals, no industry, no jobs and, tragically no doctors?
It was also stated on the news broad-cast that Smiths Falls was behind the times. It must be quite evident when outsiders notice.
The issue of “physician recruit-ment” was the major part of the 2010 platform election topic. Big talk!
We need new blood, people, and it starts at the top. Unfortunately, it is go-ing to be another four long years, prob-ably about the same time it takes for most of us to fi nd a new doctor.
Sincerely,Tom MartinSmiths Falls
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Spirit of vounteering isn’t dead
Canadians are often known for their gen-erosity, but it might be a reputation that’s slowly sliding.
According to National Survey of Giving, Volun-teering and Participating, between 1997 and 2000 the number of adult Canadians volunteering fell from 31 per cent to 27 per cent.
Youth, meanwhile, are putting in their required hours, if for no other reason than to earn their high school diploma. And a quick glance at any volun-teer-run organization will show that a lot of retired people have found something altruistic to do with their time.
But that missing demographic in the middle is raising a red fl ag locally. That’s why volunteer or-ganizations are looking for new ways to get people over 25 years old back to volunteering. Those new ways include teaching youth about the importance of lending a hand and instilling in them a sense of community.
Those are important lessons, but that alone won’t swell the ranks of volunteers from that middle de-mographic. This isn’t about the spirit of volunteer-ism dying.
People understand the importance of helping. The problem is probably one of timing.
That missing demographic is struggling with juggling the demands of their career, ferrying chil-dren to and from a myriad of activities, all while often caring for aging parents.
The postmodern world is a bit of a pressure cooker when it comes to time management. With so many competing priorities, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s a gap, at least in formal volunteering. After all, we cannot forget those little extras parents do that might go unnoticed. Those numerous walk-a-thons around the city are packed with families, for example, but it’s hard to measure that kind of informal participation. And then there are those who choose to donate money because they can’t give of their time. The United Way certainly isn’t raising millions from youth and seniors alone.
People want to help, and many do, just in varying ways.
As for instilling a sense of community in youth, that’s a laudable goal everyone – parents, teachers and associations – should work toward. It’s that legacy that will see these youth help where they can during their working years, and then return to volunteer when the kids get a little older.
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Bears lose pair of weekend games, slip to seventhANDREW SNOOK
The Smiths Falls Jr. A Bears lost twice over the weekend against two of the league’s top teams. The Bears fell to the Pem-broke Lumber Kings 2-1 on Fri-day, Jan. 14, at the Smiths Falls Memorial Community Centre, then travelled to Brockville and lost 5-1 to the Braves.
Smiths Falls (21-22-3-2) cur-rently sits in seventh place over-all in the CHL Tier 1 standings, is struggling to hold on to a play-off spot, with both the Kanata Stallions (19-21-3-2) and Ottawa Jr. Senators (18-20-2-4) only a few points behind.
BROCKVILLE 5 SF 1
Brockville jumped out to a quick lead with two goals from forward Kenny Matheson less than six minutes into regula-tion, to give Brockville a 2-0 ad-vantage.
Bears forward Connor McLar-en cut the lead to 2-1 with just over a minute left in the fi rst period, scoring his ninth goal of the season on the power play.
That was as close as Smiths Falls would come to tying the game, despite outshooting their opponents 34-22.
Brockville’s Maxime Dumond, Tyson Wilson and David Roy also scored in the Braves victory.
The Bears’ newest acquisi-tion, goaltender Alex Chretien, picked up the loss. He was pulled after allowing three goals on 10 shots. Bears goaltender Mack-enzie Sawyer stopped 10 of 12 shots.
Chretien was picked up at the trade deadline from the Glouces-ter Rangers in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2011 CHL Tier 1 entry draft.
The Bears traded goaltender Matt Jenkins to the Cornwall Colts for future considerations.
PEMBROKE 2 SF 1
The Bears newest goaltender Chretien had an impressive de-but against the Pembroke Lum-ber Kings on Jan. 14, turning away 31 of 33 shots in a losing effort.
The goaltenders, Chretien and Francis Dupuis, held the game to a scoreless draw until Bears forward Ryan Van Stralen scored just over the four-minute mark of the third period, to give Smiths Falls a 1-0 lead.
Pembroke forward Stefan Sali-turo tied the game 1-1 just past the 11-minute mark of the third period, and forward Kyle Just
scored with less than three-and-a-half minutes left in regulation to take the lead 2-1.
Dupuis stopped 23 of 24 shots to pick up the win for Pem-broke.
Four Bears at prospects gameBears players Connor McLar-
en, Brett duPuy, Warren Steele and Tyler Akeson represented the Robinson Division at the CHL Tier 1 Prospects Game, held on Jan. 15 in Hawkesbury. Unfortunately, the Yzerman Di-vision defeated the Robinson Di-vision by a score of 10-3.
NEXT HOME GAME
The Bears next home game will be against the Cumberland Grads on Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Smiths Falls Memorial Com-munity Centre.
Pembroke Lumber King Jona-than Milley gets stood up by Smiths Falls Bears defenceman Dustin Darou during third periodaction at the Smiths Falls Memo-rial Arena on Friday night. The Lumber Kings came out on top on the score sheet, defeating the Bears by a score of 2-1 over three periods of physical action.
Photo by Ryan Holland
Photo by Ryan Holland
Above, Smiths Falls Bears Brett duPuy, TylerAkeson, Warren Steele and Connor McLaren suited up for the Robinson Division in the CHL Prospects Game played in Hawkesbury on Saturday. The Yzerman Division came out on top 10-3.
At right, Ryan Van Stralen of the SF Bears, reaches for a loose puck during the Central Junior League’s annual all-star game in Kanata last week. Van Stralen and his Robin-son Division teammates beat the squad from the Yzerman Division by a score of 3-2 thanks to a goal by Kemptville’s Alex Brenton with 48 seconds to play. Brenton notched all three Robinson goals.
Photo by Katie Mulligan
ANDREW SNOOK
The Smiths Falls and District Collegiate Institute senior boys basketball team surprised 51 other teams, when they won the annual Jaguar Classic tourna-ment, held at St. Joseph Catho-lic High School in Nepean. The RedHawks went undefeated, winning seven straight games, to be proclaimed the champions of the 52-team tournament.
After qualifying as the sev-enth seed in the tournament’s playoffs, SFDCI defeated the No. 2 seed Hillcrest and No. 1 seed Louis Riel, before beating the St. Matthew Tigers 61-51 in the fi nals.
“I think people didn’t know who we are,” said RedHawks
coach Todd Spencer. “It’s a marathon of games. We got to the quarter-fi nals last year, our team goal was to match that or improve on that.”
Spencer said he received a great deal of compliments from coaches and players from other teams after the tournament. He said coaches were impressed with the RedHawks’ team play, discipline and willingness to play tough defence.
“Defence is our number one thing,” said RedHawks player Dischaine Thompson.
Thompson said his team’s strong bench was a major factor in winning the championship.
“That’s why our defence is so good,” he said. “Our whole team can come in at any time. You can play your heart out and there’s always someone there to take your place.”
RedHawks player Vince Dufort was named the tournament’s MVP, while teammate Brendan Judd was named a tournament all-star, and teammate Cal Hen-derson was named player of the game in the fi nals against the St. Matthew Tigers.
Henderson hit three straight three-point baskets, to get his team back in the game, after they fell behind 21-7. Spencer said Henderson drained the bas-kets in under a minute. Hender-son was a little more modest.
“It was more like two-and-a-half minutes,” he said smiling.
The next goal for the Red-Hawks is to repeat its perfor-mance last year, and win the
LCIAA championship; however, Thompson said they’re not try-ing to get ahead of themselves.
“We always take it one game at a time,” he said. “We don’t take any team lightly.”
LCIAA ACTION
In league action, both the ju-nior and senior boys’ basketball teams remained undefeated last week, picking up wins against St. John Catholic High School and Notre Dame Catholic High School.
NEXT GAME
The RedHawks will try and continue its unbeaten streak when they host Carleton Place High School on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m., at SFDCI.
VOLLEYBALL ACTION
In volleyball action last week, the senior girls volleyball team defeated NDCHS in four sets (25-19, 25-21, 19-25, 25-21) and SJCHS in four sets (25-19, 25-21, 18-25, 25-19).
The junior girls volleyball team also won both its games, de-feating NDCHS in three straight sets (25-18, 25-7, 25-17) and SJCHS in fi ve sets (25-18, 22-25, 19-25, 25-19, 15-12).
NEXT GAMES
The RedHawks next games will take place against CPHS, at 2 p.m., at CPHS.
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RedHawks net perfection
Photo by Andrew Snook
RedHawks player Rianne Doyle attempts to block a shot from Spartan Taylor Freeman during a game held on Thursday, Jan. 13, at Smiths Falls and District Collegiate Institute. SFDCI defeated St. John Catholic High School in four sets (25-19, 25-21, 18-25, 25-19).
Photo by Andrew Snook
Curtis Onion of the RedHawks powers past a Notre Dame Catholic High School opponent during a recent senior boys basketball game in Smiths Falls.
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Bantam B Cubs take bite out of Sharks tournament
SHELLEY NADEAU
The Smiths Falls Girls Bantam B Cubs travelled to Scarborough on the weekend and won their division by defeating the Bancroft Jets 2-0 in the fi -nals.
On Friday, Jan. 7, the Cubs opened their games against the Sarnia Sting and won by a score of 2-0. It was a close game; the girls were still fi nding their legs from Christ-mas vacation and the long drive.
The drive was challeng-ing enough itself, with Toronto getting hit with a snowstorm.
Goaltender Brooke Hen-derson earned the shutout and Reba Cassell scored both goals for the Cubs, the second being an emp-ty-netter.
On Saturday, Jan. 8, the Cubs were up early to face Bancroft.
This was a much better
game, with end-to-end ac-tion and lots of scoring chances. Bancroft won the game with a goal off a nice rush.
The fi nal round robin game had the Cubs facing the Durham West Light-ning. The Cubs scored ear-ly but the Lightning were able to even it up, to end the game in a tie. The tie was just enough to set up a rematch with Bancroft in the fi nals.
SHUTOUT WINS
The Jets won all three games in the round robin, and did not allow a single goal.
The fi rst two periods were a close, with most of the scoring chances com-ing from far away.
The Cubs got into a bit of penalty trouble, but the defensive work of Megan Millotte, Shawna Merk-ley, Madison MacGillvray and Katie Archambault
prevented any power-play goals by Bancroft. Special note should go to a Cas-sidy Nadeau, who dove to prevent a shot at the open net, after Henderson had made the initial save.
Finally, in the third pe-riod, Hannah Knott made a good rush up the ice and cut to the net. Bancroft defenders put a good hook on Knott, and a penalty was about to be called, but Knott shot from an almost impossible angle and the puck dribbled through the fi ve hole of the Jets goaltender and trickled in over the line. The Cubs had the lead!
The Cubs played excel-lent team defence for the balance of the third pe-riod, until Katie Archam-bault fi red a long, curling shot into the open net to seal the 2-0 victory.
An excellent result and second tournament win of the season for the Ban-tam B Cubs.
THIS WEEK STAFF
It’s time to sharpen your skates and glide across Big Rideau Lake in the sev-enth annual International Big Rideau Lake speed skating marathon that will be held on Jan. 29, in Portland.
This year’s event will include two 5-ki-lometere races, one for children and one competitive, a 10-km race, a 5x1-km relay race and a 25-km race.
There will be prizes awarded to the best dressed relay team.
Marco Smits, presi-dent of Portland Out-doors, said anyone can participate, even if they do not own speed skates.
“Locals can partici-pate in any of the races,” he said.
Smits said skaters from across the conti-nent are expected to at-tend, with the majority of the skaters coming from Ontario, Quebec and New York State.
“We’ll have skaters from all across North America compete in this race be-cause it’s so unique,” he said.
People have travelled as far as the Neth-erlands, Australia, Mexico and Sweden to
participate in the event.There will be no cash prizes handed
out this year, due to budget constraints. Smits said he does not expect it to affect participation.
2,000 FANS
There have been as many as 300 peo-ple participating at previous races, and
2,000 spectators in atten-dance.
Portland Outdoors opted to keep the an-nual fi reworks display instead of offering prize money.
“Fireworks cost a lot of money,” Smits said. “We decided to leave that in and take the prize money out.”
Smits said this year’s races will help deter-mine the future of the competition.
“We feel like we’re really relearning the
event,” he said. “We’re trying to make sure this is here for a long time.”
For more information on the event, on to sing up online, visit www.portlandout-doors.com/speedskating
With fi les from Kassina Ryder
Get ready to Skate the Lake, Jan. 29
We’ll have skaters from all across North America compete in this race because it’s so unique.
• Marco Smits
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Big Brothers Big Sisters welcomes new case workerANDREW SNOOK
Rhonda Low knows the importance of social programs.
The 38-year-old, single-mother of two teenaged boys has had to rely on these services to make ends meet from time to time, so as a new case worker for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lanark County, she brings a unique perspec-tive to the position.
“I’m very excited,” Low said. “I had no idea how excited I would be, cer-tainly the momentum is growing by the day.”
Low is no stranger to Lanark Coun-ty. She grew up in Smiths Falls, lived in Fallbrook for six years, worked at Herbal Magic in Perth for seven years, and until recently, worked at the Car-leton Place and District Youth Centre (CPDYC).
“I’d say I’m pretty well connected to the surrounding communities in Smiths Falls,” Low said. “I’ve defi nite-ly made a lot of connections within Lanark County, both professionally and personally. It’s a great place to live.
It also gives me insight to the types of services our communities need.”
Low graduated from Algonquin Col-lege’s social service worker program, taught at the Perth campus, in 2008.
“I got hired (at the CPDYC) right after I graduated and held a few posi-tions there,” she said. “I fi nished up as the program director, I was extremely fortunate to have such a good position right out of college.”
HELPING THOSE IN NEED
Jennifer Miller, executive director of BBBS, said Low will spend every Wednesday working out of the BBBS Perth offi ce at Jewel’s Gently Used Clothes, overseeing the in-school men-toring program and the recruitment of new big brothers and sisters.
“She’s a great lady,” Miller said.Low said she always saw herself in
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Senators on TVJan. 21: vs. Montreal,
7:30 p.m. (Sportsnet East)Jan. 25: vs. Buffalo,
7:30 p.m. (Sportsnet East)Feb. 1: at New Jersey, 7 p.m. (Sportsnet East)
Feb. 2: vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. (TSN)
Feb. 5: at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. (CBC)
Buffalo SabresTuesday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., Sportsnet EastOne year after topping the Northeast Division, the Sabres fi nd themselves battling to land a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The loss of centre Derek Roy to injury was a big blow for the Buffalo offence, which must now rely even more heavily and goal-scoring leaders Thomas Vanek and Drew Stafford. Jason Pominville, Tim Connolly and rookie Tyler Ennis are also key contributors to the Sabres attack. On the back end, Jordan Leopold and second-year blueliner Tyler Myers help add some scoring punch. Buffalo’s biggest ace in the hole remains goaltender Ryan Miller, who has rebounded nicely after a slow start to the season.
By Rob BrodieOttawaSenators.com
Brian Elliott’s draft position might suggest he was the longest of shots to earn full-time employment in the National Hockey League.
But seven years after the Sen-ators made him the second-last pick (ninth round, 291st overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, the 25-year-old native of Newmarket, Ont., has established himself in a major way between the pipes in Ot-tawa. Earlier this season, he played his 100th NHL game for the Sen-ators.
Before joining the Senators, El-liott honed his craft during four
years at the University of Wiscon-sin, backstopping the Badgers to an NCAA Frozen Four championship in 2006 with a 2-1 victory over Boston College.
Elliott took some time out to talk about some of his hockey experi-ences — and a certain pre-game ritual that he wouldn’t do without.
Q: You played your 100th NHL game earlier this season. How big a milestone was that for you?
A: Defi nitely, you think back (to when you started) and you just try to play one game and then the next game. That’s what has been hap-pening and now it’s all the way to 100. It just makes you want to
reach that next milestone. It doesn’t feel like you’ve proved anything yet, playing 100 games. You just always want to stay on your toes.
Q: You were a ninth-round draft pick in 2003. What do you remem-ber about that day?
A: I was teaching at hockey clin-ic at Seneca College in Toron-to. I came home and my dad said I got drafted. I didn’t really know anything and I didn’t really know what it meant. But what everybody says holds true — it doesn’t real-ly matter where you get drafted. A team shows interest in you and they (use) a pick on you. It means a lot and they want you to succeed. It’s not like they’re waiting for you to fail.
Q: How much did going to Wis-consin help your development?
A: It was the fi rst time I moved away from home and it’s a pret-ty far trek away from home at that. Right away, it makes you grow up a little bit. You take classes and play hockey — it’s two jobs in one and it’s pretty tough. It just makes you mature a lot faster and man-age your time. You don’t play as many games, but you prepare for every game like it means so much and it did.
Q: What sticks out the most about the Frozen Four experience?
A: I remember not bringing my pass to the fi nal game. I left it in my hotel room and I had to run back to the hotel just so I could get in the door. It’s a tough tournament. You lose one and you’re done. Just winning it … I think there’s a pic-ture of my dad and my brother on the other side of the glass, and just banging on the glass in front of them meant a lot. It was one of my best hockey experiences.
Q: How many tennis balls can you juggle?
A: I’m working on four, but it’s tough. I tried this summer to get four and it’s coming along. I haven’t practised in a while. Joe Pavelski from Sharks (a former college teammate) juggled a lot and coach (Mike) Eaves at Wisconsin juggled. I just wanted to learn it a little bit.
Q: Does it help you relax before games?
A: I don’t know if it helps me re-lax. I think just doing your routine helps you relax and not get ner-vous. It just gets your hands and eyes going at the same time and I think it defi nitely helps.
Elliott proving to be net gain for Senators
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Smiths Falls reps part of delegation at food show in CaliforniaSPECIAL TO THIS WEEK
The Ontario East Food Sector Marketing Team will once again be exhibiting at the Winter Fan-cy Food Show in San Francisco. The effort is aimed at raising the profi le of eastern Ontario to food company executives from around the world who will be at-tending this major show.
2011 marks the third consecu-tive year Ontario East has par-ticipated in the show, and the Town of Smiths Falls is part of
that delegation.The Winter Fancy Food Show
took place at the Moscone Cen-ter in San Francisco, Calif. from Jan. 16-18. The Fancy Food Show was expected to attract 25,000 attendees from specialty food, wine, gift and department stores, supermarkets, restaurants, mail-order and other related businesses. These attendees come to see more than a thou-sand exhibitors from around the world, presenting more than 180,000 specialty foods.
Business booms at these trade-only shows, as an impressive 87% of all attendees either au-thorize or recommend purchas-ing decisions.
The decision to participate was precipitated by an invitation from the Canadian Food Export-ers Association, in cooperation with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Con-sulate General in San Francisco. Ontario East will be joining sev-eral Canadian manufacturers and food processors to make up
the popular Canada Pavilion at the Show.
The Food team is attempting to leverage existing activity in the food sector in eastern Ontario to attract new investment. Ontario has some competitive advantag-es when it comes to the food in-dustry and of course, proximity to consumers (Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal) is a key factor as well. These advantages are out-lined in brochures that were dis-tributed at the show.
The Ontario East Food Sector
Marketing Team is funded in part by the Eastern Ontario De-velopment Fund and the Eastern Ontario Development Program. Additional funding comes from the sector municipal partners.
The Ontario East Econom-ic Development Commission (OEEDC) is a group of over 124 Ontario East economic develop-ment professionals and business leaders who are working co-op-eratively to promote eastern Ontario as a premiere business location.
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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Looking for adult newspaper carriers to deliver
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If you are an energetic, independent, self-mo-tivated individual with three to fi ve plus years experience in the fi nancial/legal/credit sector we may have a job for you. Pillar Financial Services Inc. has an immediate opening for an administra-tion assistant for our busy mortgage underwriting department. The successful applicant will have a post secondary diploma and will have or be willing to take the Introduction to the Canadian Mortgage Industry course. Experience with the legal interface between mortgage underwriting and solicitors will give the applicant an advantage. We are a growing mortgage brokerage and mortgage administration company located in Sharbot Lake, Ontario. If you would like to make a change to a family owned business, staffed with mortgage professionals that offers an exciting career potential, please submit your résumé to david@pillarfi nancial.ca or go to our website at www.PillarFinancial.ca and look at the “Our Team” page to send us an email.
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TelemarketerEzipin is seeking an en-ergetic, target-driven in-dividual to identify, qualify and develop prospective customers for our electronic pre-paid solutions and ser-vices across Canada and the U.S. This indi-vidual must possess a professional phone manner, the ability to work to deadlines and superior communica-tion skills. Call-centre experience is an asset, but demonstrated cus-tomer-relation skills are a must. This is a full-time position in a small, friendly environment, with base salary, com-missions and extensive benefits. Please for-ward your résumé, cover letter and salary expectations to: [email protected] or fax 613-831-6678.
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If you do, tell us in a few words what her accomplishments are. Our panel of judges will pick a
total of six women – one each from Carleton Place, Kemptville, Mississippi Mills, Perth, Smiths Falls and Winchester – who will be profi led in our InternationalWomen’s Week section to be published in the Thursday, March 3, 2011 issues of the Canadian Gazette, Perth Courier, The Advance and Smiths Falls This Week in conjunction with International Women’s Week.
Please submit your nomination by e-mail to [email protected] Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.
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Belles ring
Ladies fi lled Hanley Hall on Sunday afternoon for the Smiths Falls Bridal Show. The day featured dresses by a variety of designers, caterers, stylists and other wedding services for brides-to-be.
Bride-to-be Ashley Kerr watches intently as models made their way down the catwalk at the Smiths Falls Bridal Show at Hanley Hall on Sunday afternoon. Kerr was joined by dozens of other women looking for dresses, stylists and caterers for upcoming weddings.
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Photos by Ryan Holland
The Smiths Falls Bridal Show and those with wed-ding plans were a perfect match on Sunday at Hanley Hall.
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Toy show fundraiser Jan. 29ANDREW SNOOK
Parents, kids and col-lectors get ready to shop ‘til you drop in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lanark County at its fourth-annual Collectible Toy Show and Sale on Jan. 29 at 9 a.m.
The BBBS fundraiser will showcase between 20 and 25 vendors at the Al-monte Civitan Hall.
“There will be every-thing from teddy bears to trains to NASCAR,” said executive director Jenni-
fer Miller. “Someone said they’re
bringing Star Wars collect-ibles this year. It’s going to be really neat collection to see for sure.”
The toy show will also showcase a variety of con-temporary and vintage diecast replica farm toys, construction equipment and truck replicas.
Last year’s toy show had just under 300 people in attendance from all over eastern Ontario.
Admission is $5 at the door, or free for children aged 12 and under.
There will be door priz-es and the Almonte Civi-tan Club’s canteen will be open.
All proceeds will go towards mentoring pro-grams for the BBBS of La-nark County.
The BBBS provides one-on-one and group mentor-ing programs for more than 200 children through-out the county.
For more information, contact Jennifer at 613-283-0570, [email protected], or visit www.bigbrothersbig-sisterslanark.ca
SMITHS FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Smiths Falls Public Library is pleased to announce that e-books have been added to the library’s permanent collection.
These electronic books are available to any patrons of the Smiths Falls Public Li-brary (including citizens of Smiths Falls, Montague and Drmmond/North Elmsley townships) free of charge.
Patrons can access this new collection from the comfort of their own home by logging on to the library’s website and following the links to the Overdrive Me-dia Center. Books can then be transferred
to an eReader (Kobo, Nook, etc.) or read directly on the computer. Anyone with eReaders or smart phones with wireless or 3G Internet access can download books directly to the device from the library’s website. An app is available for Apple and Android users.
The service has been available since late December and has been extremely well received; early in January almost all e-books had been checked out of the vir-tual library.
Interested patrons are invited to check out the service for themselves at home by visiting the library’s website www.smithsfallslibrary.ca.
E-books now available at Smiths Falls library
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To advertise a non-profi t com-munity event, e-mail [email protected] and we would be happy to include it in the Community Bulletin Board as space allows.
SATURDAY, JAN. 22
- The Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind will host an awareness display at Andress’ Independent Grocer (25 Fer-rara Dr.). Stop by to learn more about the organization and how to volunteer to raise a future guide dog or assistance dog. Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind provides the food and veterinary ex-penses. For more information, contact Steven Doucette at 613-692-7777, [email protected], or visit www.guidedogs.ca
- The Westminster Presbyterian Church (11 Church St. W.) will host a Robbie Burns Day supper from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. It will be a roast beef haggis dinner. Tickets are available at 613-283-2318, 613-283-6987 or 613-283-7527.
SUNDAY, JAN. 23
- The Knights of Columbus Rideau Council 2444 will host a pancake and sausage breakfast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall (18 William St. W.). Admission is $7, with children aged six and under free when accompanied by an adult. For more in-formation, contact 613-205-1255, 613-283-7166 or 613-283-1550.
- In honour of Robbie Burns’ Day, an afternoon of Scottish celebration will take place at the Middleville Community Centre from 2 to 4:30 p.m. There will be bagpipes, highland dancing, Celtic fi ddle tunes and a Scottish songfest, along with a taste of haggis, cock-a-leekie soup, des-sert, coffee, soft drinks and a wee dram of whiskey as well. For more information, contact Margo at 613-256-5474 or Heather at 613-259-2904.
- The Smiths Falls Royal Canadian Le-gion Branch 95 will host its traditional Robbie Burns Dinner. The event is a fundraiser for Legion Branch 95 and the Smiths Falls Gordon Pipe Band. Social hour is from 5 to 6 p.m. and dinner will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. The Kingston Ceili Band and Smiths Falls Gordon Pipe Band will provide live entertainment. Tickets are $20. For more information, contact 613-283-9792 or 613- 283-2845.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26
- A ladies’ lunch and skate (or walk) will take place from noon to 2 p.m. at the Smiths Falls Memorial Community Centre. Come out and enjoy the new fa-cility. The cost is $7 per person. All pro-ceeds go towards funding the new arena. To book a spot, call 613-283-4124 or email [email protected]
- The Knights of Columbus Rideau Council 2444 will host a roast beef din-ner from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall (18 William St. W.). Ad-mission is $10, with children aged nine and under free when accompanied by an
adult. There will be a $50 door prize. For more information, contact 613-205-1255, 613-283-7166 or 613-283-1550.
- The Montague and District For-get-Me-Not Club will hold its an-nual general meeting at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held at the clubhouse (658 Rosedale Rd. S.). All members are encouraged to come out. For more in-formation, contact 613-283-8482 or 613-283-6965.
- The Smiths Falls Toastmasters Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the Courtyard Café (7 Russell St. W.) for its regularly sched-uled meeting. All are welcome to attend.
THURSDAY, JAN. 27
- The Montague and District Seniors’ Forget-Me-Not Club (658 Rosedale Rd S.) will host Crokinole starting at 1:30 p.m. All Tuesday games have been cancelled. Cost is $2 and there will be a light lunch. For more information, contact 613-283-8482 or 613-283-6965.
FRIDAY, JAN. 28
- The fourth annual Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Small Business Plan competi-tion will take place at the Lanark
North Leeds Enterprise Centre (91 Cor-nelia St. W.). The deadline for the event is Jan. 28, at 4 p.m. For more information about the event, visit www.lnlenterprise-centre.ca/Home
- Snow Road Snowmobile Club will host a meeting at 7:30 p.m. at its clubhouse (1106 Gemmills Rd.).
SATURDAY, JAN. 29
- The fourth annual Smiths Falls and District Crime Stoppers fundraising dance and silent auction will take place from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Smiths Falls Royal Canadian Legion Branch 95. There will be a musical performance by the Doherty Brothers Band. Tick-ets are $10. Tickets are available at the Smiths Falls and District Chamber of Commerce (77 Beckwith St. N), Impres-sion Printing (55 Abbott St. N) or at the door.
- The Civitan Club of Perth (County Road 43) will host the Dignity House Hospice dinner and dance from 6 to 11 p.m. There will be a live performance by Beatlejuice, a silent auction and dancing. Tickets are $50, with a $25 charitable tax receipt to be issued at the door. Tickets are available at Bayshore Home Health (94 Beckwith St. N.), Royal LePage (22 Beckwith St. S.), Joe’s Clothes (39 Foster St., Perth) and all Community Home Sup-port Lanark County offi ces.
- The Snow Road Snowmobile Club will host a fundraiser breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at its clubhouse (1106 Gemmills Rd.) Everyone is welcome to attend.
SUNDAY, JAN. 30
- Club Optimiste francophone de Car-leton Place will host French family mov-ies, “Où est le cheval de Winky?” and “Charlie et la chocolaterie” at 4 p.m. at Carleton Place Cinema (17 Albert St.) in Carleton Place. Admission is $5.
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