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To that end, he’s put the draft Waste Recy-cling Strategy up on the South Frontenac Town-ship website and would very much like residents to comment on it (by emailing [email protected]).

“We’re looking for some feedback,” Seg-sworth said last week.

“We know that changing your pick-up day doesn’t sit very well.

“I don’t expect to hear from everybody but it is helpful and will give us a chance to re-flect on and improve the strategy”

Segsworth said the document is very much a “work in progress” and will receive comments until March 31. They’re looking at September for a finished plan because they’d like to have a full season (with seasonal residents) of curbside pickup in Bedford Dis-trict and see how that went before making any final decisions.

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pering people’s enthusi-asm for recycling with marketing opportuni-ties,” he said. “We ben-efit from being close to the facility in Kingston (KARC) so our contrac-tors can direct haul but we can’t recycle things they don’t accept.

“KARC is very ag-gressive in seeking out markets, which we benefit from but every municipality is out rein-venting the wheel with this.

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Segsworth would like to see a public “ed-ucation” program that would hopefully make residents aware of the challenges facing recy-cling efforts in the 21st Century.

“The end markets have become so de-manding,” he said. “That now requires us to have dedicated resources and a consistent message of ‘what you can do to in-crease diversion of ma-terials from landfills.’”

Segsworth said, he’d like to see a system whereby residents view waste pickup as a util-ity.

“The idea is recycle more and you pay less for garbage,” he said. “What we need to know now is how we can re-move the obstacles to people recycling.

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EMC News — There seems to be a buzz in Ar-den these days.

At one time, when logging and the railroads ruled the area, Arden was a going concern, with businesses, hotels, stores, and everything that goes along with that.

When the railroad left, things started to decline. Roadways, sidewalks and bridges fell into disrepair and things deteriorated to the point where there isn’t even a place to buy milk and bread any more.

But the residents aren’t going down any further without a fight.

Last Thursday night, about 60 of them met at Kennebec Hall to discuss and prioritize ideas, and to build on momentum.

About a year ago, a few community members, at the invitation of senior Dorothy Proctor, met in-formally to discuss what might be done to save what’s left of the hamlet

and what could be done to restore some of its former vitality.

That resulted in Adrian O’Connell, Patrick Malo-ney and Shirley Hornbeck going to Central Fron-tenac Council to ask for some roadwork, including sidewalks and bridge re-construction.

Despite trying eco-nomic times for the mu-nicipality, they got their infrastructure projects and last September, about 70 people met to toss around ideas to keep the community improvement momentum going.

“Arden had been economically neglected and marginalized,” said O’Connell Thursday night. “But a $300,000 contract to repair and con-struct roads and sidewalks and got all sorts of ideas floating around, such as a covered bridge and walk-ing paths.

“Now we’re asking where, when and how do we go?”

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they are taking steps to get wherever it is they’re going.

For example, former Kennebec Reeve Glen Matson has come up with an idea for a biking trail around “the Mini Grand Canyon,” a small gorge familiar to local hunt-ers. The trail could con-ceivably link up with the Circle Square Ranch and Dave Daski’s Bread and Breakfast.

Other ideas they’re looking at include a picnic area overlooking Arden Lake, and work groups are looking at roads, bridges and public washrooms, involving younger people (led by Proctor, the most senior resident involved), a bakery/coffee shop, cleanup and property standards, and mapping, signage and website. Area artists have already begun selling posters to aid the cause.

“We have to change the downward spiral of a place time has left be-hind,” said Gary Smith,

former councilor and one of the organizers. “We’re hoping for slow but steady revitalization where the

Township plays a role but most of the heavy lifting is done by residents.

“We’re looking at

small steps in the right direction, which is giving people a reason to come here.”

Arden looking to revitalize one small step at a time

Photo/Craig BakayDorothy Proctor welcomed about 60 people to a productive meeting in Arden Thursday for community improvements.

By Craig Bakay

EMC News — It looks like the question of a berm and landscaping at the Hartington Car Wash may have been settled as Coun-cil asked for, and got, an agreement for a “security” of $5,000 (refundable upon suitable completion) before allowing a new site plan to go forward.

The car wash, owned and operated by Scott Assel-stine, was constructed four years ago. In the original site plan agreement, there was a provision for a berm at the south end to shield neigh-bours as well as the planting of trees. The berm was never built and the vegetation that was planted wasn’t accept-able to many members of South Frontenac Council.

However, Asselstine re-cently proposed to go with a mini-storage unit on the south end of the property, which planning officials

feel negates the need for the berm.

Asselstine told Council at the regular meeting last week in Sydenham that he had agreed to the site plan originally, not realizing its implications and apologized for his inexperience.

“That was my first time even coming to Council,” he said.

He said he was fine with the security deposit, which some councilors found a bit high.

“Why is it so exorbi-tant?” said Coun. Bill Rob-inson.

“It’s a staff estimate for the amount of work we re-quire him to do,” said Clerk/CAO Wayne Orr. “It’s total-ly refundable when the work is completed.”

Coun. Larry York also supported a lower amount.

However, Coun. Al McPhail, John McDougall and Mark Tinlin supported the $5,000 deposit.

“I think it’s appropriate,” said McPhail.

“The actions over the past three years have been inappropriate,” said Mc-Dougall.

There had been a sug-gestion that a traffic study should be conducted to de-termine if a turning lane was required but there was also general agreement that that was an unnecessary expense at this time.

“I’d like to point out that there are only two houses north of the car wash, one 400 feet away and the other 500 feet away,” said York. “To the south of the car wash, there is a hay field 1,000 feet long which he owns.”

The neighbour the berm was required for lives 700 feet away and on the oppo-site side of Road 38. There are no buildings to the east and none directly across from the car wash. The church is to the north and on the opposite side of Road

38. “He’s his own neigh-

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Robinson. “It’s a straight stretch of road.

“We’ve already chased two businesses away from this area.”

“If anybody could dem-onstrate to me that a storage building would increase traf-fic, then yes,” said McPhail. “Otherwise, no.”

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EMC News – If you’re a South Frontenac resi-dent that still has yet to buy a calendar for their home or office now is your chance to do so while also supporting a worthy cause.

The Harrowsmith Free Methodist Church re-cently released Churches of South Frontenac, a traditional 12-month cal-endar featuring each of the 13 churches within the township, with Har-rowsmith Free Method-ist gracing the cover.

The calendar project was spearheaded by the church fundraising com-mittee as a means to raise funds for the church’s gymnasium project. In September of last year, the church celebrated the completion of its new 5,000 square-foot facil-ity intended for both church and community use.

“They (the fundrais-ing committee) thought this would be a nice proj-ect to highlight churches in the community and to encourage families to become involved in a church…This is a way of seeing what churches are available, and it also can serve as a keepsake for people who have memo-ries of these churches,”

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Funds from the sale of the calendar will support features that have yet to be added to the new gym facility at the church.

Bull noted that while last September’s dedica-tion ceremony marked

the completion of the gymnasium’s structure, there is still work to be done indoors, includ-ing installing a kitchen, soundproofing and a stage.

“Those are three proj-ects that we’re raising money for.”

According to Bull, the size of the new facility at Harrowsmith Free Meth-odist is second only to the gymnasium at Syden-ham High School, which allows for many uses by the church and commu-nity at large.

“They (the church) was wanting to have a facility that would serve the community for large functions…The Fall Trade Show was held in that gym, the Fall Fair was held in that gym, and we had our annual Christmas Banquet there, which up until now had to be held in two sittings in the Fellowship Hall,” Bull said.

He revealed that so far the church has raised over $19,000 towards the additions it hopes to implement into the facil-ity. He estimates their to-tal cost at approximately $25,000.

“So (the sale of) lots of calendars would help us get closer to that goal,” he said.

Churches of South Frontenac are avail-able for $12 at each area church, Sydenham One Stop, Sheldon Cook Chi-ropractic Office, Perth Road General Store, Inverary Corner Store and Trousdales General Store.

“And we have lots here, so if they can’t find them, they come here,” Bull said.

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EMC News — Bar-ring any unforeseen cir-cumstance, the Syden-ham Triathlon, Duathlon and Run will a summer fixture in Sydenham for the next five years.

Following a presen-tation by Recreation Coordinator Ashley Brown, South Frontenac Council agreed to enter into a letter of agree-ment with Somersault Event Series, promoters of the event, at its regu-lar meeting last week in Sydenham.

“This (2011) will be the third year for the triathlon and there were about 400 involved last year,” said Brown. “The numbers have grown each year.”

She said Somersault wanted the agreement so they could continue the event for five years.

“There is an opt-out clause for both parties and the date is always negotiable,” she said. “I think it’s a great deal

for them.” The other big con-

cern they had was en-suring that the boat launch at The Point was closed for the event, something Mayor Gary Davison was sympa-thetic to.

“The first part of it is a 10K swim so you don’t want boats around that,” Davison said. “I understand they donate back to the community so there’s more in it for us than just the obvious benefits for local busi-ness.”

“Last year, they gave about $1,000 for the football field and to the Legion for athletic programs,” Brown said. “And the year before that, they donated to the Cat Trail.”

Clerk/CAO Wayne Orr said essentially it costs the Township nothing as the event organizers arrange for security, etc.

“If there are direct costs to us, we will bill them for it,” Orr said.

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“Anthony had a lot of different facets to him,” says family friend Ken Dearborn. “He was a de-voted firefighter, but even off duty he was constantly busy working on people’s homes and helping them out whenever they needed it.

“He probably accom-plished more in his years here than most people do in a much longer life-time.”

Over the last couple weeks of his life, Vander-holst’s fellow firefighters kept a vigil outside his room at the Kingston Gen-eral Hospital.

“The firefighters were just tremendous,” says Dearborn. “There was one there in full uniform 24 hours a day. They would come in their spare time at any hour of the day.”

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“Anthony studied very hard to become captain, and was proud of the ac-complishment,” he says. “He wrote the test last year and did very well.”

Children were also a huge part of Vanderholst’s life, and he spent many hours of his spare time coaching his own children and countless others in the Frontenac Hockey and Soccer Associations, as well as the Cataraqui Clip-pers Soccer Association.

“Anthony was really wonderful with children,” says friend Tracey Hol-land. “He was always jok-ing around and finding positives in everyone. He had a real knack for spot-ting different attributes in kids, and was always very encouraging of all of them.”

In 2003, Vanderholst began coaching a travel-ling team for the Fronte-nac Hockey Association, which resulted in many fond memories for the children involved.

“My son was on that team, and it was the first time those young children went away to any tour-nament,” says Holland. “They went to Oshawa and it was such a great ex-perience.”

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“He allowed so many kids to have experiences that they will remember forever.”

Fellow football parent and Vanderholst’s Kings-ton Fire and Rescue co-worker, Vicki Veldman, recalls his enthusiasm for watching his own children play, right up until the end of his life.

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“Words cannot describe how exciting that day was for the players, coaches and their families,” says Veldman. “Anthony had been taking treatment dur-ing football season and missed some of the games. I’m so glad he was there to share in that moment with his family and friends, and then again at the game in Toronto.”

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was very apparent at his funeral last Tuesday.

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The Kings Town Trekkers walk Sunday, Feb. 27 from the Kings-ton YMCA. Registration at 1:30 p.m. in the cafeteria - walk of 5 and 10-kilometre routes begins at 2 p.m.The Kidney Foundation of Cana-da, Kingston Chapter needs your help! March is Kidney Month and we need your help to reach this year’s goal of $60,000. Tele-phone recruiters will be calling your home over the next couple of months to enlist you to join our canvassing team. You may contact us at 613-542-2121/ 613-530-3628 or [email protected] if you wish to add your name to our March Drive Team.The Organization of Kingston Women Artists will be holding their annual show at the Kingston Public Library from Feb 2 to Feb 25, opening reception on Feb. 5. The show will feature works by Su Sheedy, Hanna Bach, J.T. Winik, and Sharon Thompson, among many others.

Friday night Karaoke hosted by Showman’s Karaoke Feb. 25 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the lounge of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560, 734 Montreal St. Party with the Showman. All are welcome. Small cover charge for non-members.

Gospel Only Jam Sunday, March 6, April 3, May 1 and June 5 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Harrow-smith Free Methodist Church. Open mic. Everyone welcome. Musicians sign up early. Open to singers with tracks. Limited space available. Refresements. For more info contact Patsy at 613-376-9815.

Hot Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings at St. Paul`s United Church in Harrowsmith on Sat-urday, Feb. 26 from 4:30-6 p.m. Cost applies. Take-out avail-able.

Upcoming Tryouts for Pegasus Athleteic Club Soccer Youth Divi-sions. U14 Regional boys, Feb. 25, 7-8 p.m. and March 25, 7-8 p.m., Quarry Sportsplex. Boys U12-13 and Girls U10 tryouts also in February. All age groups will also have second tryouts in February. Dates posted at www.pegasusac.ca. Contact [email protected] for more info.

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Friday Feb 25 @ The MansionSpringsteen/ Petty/ Young trib-ute night with folks from Stars, arkells, stills and the Sam Rob-erts Band at the Mansion, Friday, Feb. 25 at 9 p.m. Must be 19. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134965049896406http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157011397680956

Nursery School Open House for Prospective Parents. Complex Cooperative Nursery School will be holding open houses throughout February and March. Phone to arrange a visit during one of our open houses. We are a cooperative Nursery School -operated by parents staffed by E.C.E trained teachers. We offer Toddler, Pre-school and JK-alternative programs Mon-Fri mornings. 47 Van Order Dr., Building 5. Call 613-546-4483. www.ccnskingston.com

3 on 3 youth hockey this spring. This is exciting program with non-stop action and an emphasis on fun begins Wednesday, April 6 at the Invista Centre at 6:30 p.m. No deposit required. Payment due at 1st ice time April 6. Limited number of spaces. No weekends, uses full ice. 6:30 p.m. ice time for 8-12-year-olds and 7:30 p.m. ice time for 13-17-year-olds. Pre-registration required by phone. For further information and to pre-register please call Steve at 613-389-1606.

Kingston Kings junior C lacrosse club will hold six preseason conditioning sessions for junior (born 1990-94) and midget-aged (1995-96) players. The sessions are being held: Sunday, Feb. 27, March 6 and March 12 from 3:30-5:30 - St. Lawrence College Gym. Sunday, March 20 and March 27 from 5:00-7:00 - Quarry Sportsplex. For more info www.kingstonkings.com.

Frontenac Farmer’s Market, Sat-urdays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Lion’s Hall in Verona. Breakfast available. www.frontenacfarm-ersmarket.ca.

Visual Artists of Gananoque & Area invites you to an art show and sale taking place in the Wilson Room and Foyer at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library from March 1-31 during library hours. The show features original art by members of VAGA .Opening reception on March 3 from 6-8 p.m.

Stay Active Workshop. Monday Feb. 28, 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Learn strategies for living well with os-teoarthritis from Trish Beckett, Arthritis Society: osteoarthritis, relieving pain and stiffness, activ-ity and nutrition, and community resources. Register at Seniors Centre (613.548.7810); located at Kingsdale Chateau. Dress for activity. Refreshments provided.

The Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston is accepting funding proposals. Include the following: organization name, address, contact information, description of organization, specific project and budget.Email: [email protected]. Deadline, February 25, 2011.

“Piping” Hot Chili Dinner featur-ing meat, vegetarian, mild and hot chili, buns, caesar salad and homemade desserts, Friday Feb. 25 from 5-6:15 p.m. at Cooke’s-Portsmouth United Church, 200 Norman Rogers Dr., Kingston. Reserve tickets: 542-4545.

The Kingston Arts Council 10th Annual Juried Art Salon May 5 – 30. Artists in all media invited: painting, drawing, small sculp-ture, fibre arts, mixed media, and small digital works, etc. Applica-tions online: http://www.artsk-ingston.ca/juried_art_salon.cfm. Deadline: March 31st 2011.

The Kingston Orchid Society invites you to learn about growing exotic orchids. Monthly meet-ings, discussion and speakers, refreshments – please join us and enjoy our display table of flowering orchids, Sunday, Feb. 27 from 1:30-4 p.m. at the Ong-wanada Resource Centre, 191 Portsmouth Ave. Contact person; Gwenneth Howard, 613-389-2895 or 613-389-0861. Email; [email protected] or [email protected].

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Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manitou Cres, Amherstview hosts a Chili Supper, Feb 26, at 5 p.m. Mild, Hot and Vegetarian Chili will be available. Delicious Desserts and Beverages will also be served. Children under 12 are free.

Kingston Area Race Relations Association (KARRA), in part-nership with Immigrant Services Kingston and Area will be hosting a panel discussion on Domestic Violence Monday, Feb. 28 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 837 Princess St. on the 5th floor. The event will focus on family violence and the unique struggles facing im-migrants in our community. Mem-bers of the public are welcome. For more information, please email Jennifer at: [email protected] or [email protected]

The Community Improvement Plan for Verona will be discussed at a public meeting, Thursday, Feb. 24. Representatives from the County of Frontenac will give a formal presentation and answer all questions. Verona Lions Hall, 4504 Verona Sand Rd., Verona. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Indoor Garage Sale at Harris Memorial Community Centre, 5612 Perth Rd., Feb. 26, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

DivorceCare Group: Find help and healing for the hurt of sepa-ration or divorce. You don’t have to go through it alone. Meets Thursday evenings at 7p.m. Start date: March 3, 2011 at West-side Fellowship Church, 1021 Woodbine Rd., 613-386-5210 or [email protected] for more information.Bluegrass Concert Series in support of LDA Kingston at The Kingston Christian Fellowship Church, 2621 Hwy 38, from 7–10p.m. March 23 Charlie Sizemore, April 13 Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out & Special Guests “The Tebworth Brothers” Opening Act: Bill White & White Pine. Info: Bill/June White 613-372-2400. Tickets: Renaissance Music-613-384-9225, World of Rentals-613-547-4400, www.ldakingston.com

PANCAKE SUPPER at Princess St. United Church, Princess & Albert St. Tuesday March 8 from 5-7 p.m. Call: 546-7151 or 542-6112

Trinity Presbyterian Church , 3 Manitou Cres. W , Amherstview, is hosting a pancake supper on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost apllies. Everyone is welcome.

A Life in Art. This sixth annual fundraising dinner and talk with artist Bruce St. Clair at the Kings-ton School of Art, 647 Princess St., takes place Saturday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. See www.ksoa.info for details. Register by call-ing (613) 529-1528.

Italo-Canadian Club Ladies Asso-ciation presents Kingston’s fourth annual International Women’s Day celebration March 6 at 1174 Italia Lane. Doors open at 11 a.m. For tickets call 613-542-9323.

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EMC Lifestyle - Of all the millions of recipes that exist in cookbooks, there’s one which is found more often than any other. It ap-pears in cookbooks pub-lished around the world - from Eastern Ontario to France to Australia

That recipe is for the ‘Basic White Sauce’, and it’s the starting point for thousands of different dishes ranging from soup to souffle, from creamed eggs to scalloped potatoes.

The sauce can be fla-voured with cheese, herbs, mustard or wine, and served over vegetables, meat, poultry or fish.

The original white sauce is made with three ingredi-ents - butter, flour and milk. You can also make a white sauce using cornstarch and milk, and this is the one I like to use.

I’m giving you recipes for both versions. Made in the microwave oven, they each make 2 cups of me-dium white sauce.

This is one of the col-umns you’ll definitely want to cut out and save.

White Sauce Made with Flour

2 tbsp. butter or marga-rine

2 tbsp. flour2 cups milksalt, pepper to tasteUse a microwave-safe

bowl or measuring cup that holds 4 cups.

In the bowl, melt 2 tbsp.

butter or margarine on High for 40 to 50 seconds. Stir in the flour until it forms a smooth paste. Microwave on High for 30 seconds.

Add the milk all at once, and stir well. Microwave on High, uncovered, for 4 to 5 minutes. During this time, stir the sauce once every minute, scraping around the bottom of the bowl to mix in all the flour paste.

When the sauce is slight-ly thickened, cook it 1 to 2 minutes longer on High. This time, stir the sauce ev-ery 30 seconds to prevent lumps from forming and the sauce from boiling over. The sauce is done when it’s thickened and bubbly.

If you’re not adding oth-er seasonings, add salt and pepper to taste.

White Sauce Made with Cornstarch

2 cups milk3 tbsp. cornstarch3 tbsp. cold watersalt, pepper to tasteMeasure the milk into

a 4-cup microwave-safe bowl. In the microwave, heat the milk on High for 4 minutes.

In a small cup, stir the cornstarch and cold water until completely blended. Stir this into the hot milk.

Microwave for 2 minutes at Power Level 6, then stir.

Microwave again for 2 minutes at Power Level 6. Stir, scraping around the bottom of the bowl.

Microwave for 2 minutes at Power Level 4.

By now, the sauce will have thickened. Stir once more, then add salt and pep-per to taste unless you’re adding other seasonings such as herbs.

Makes 2 cups of medium white sauce.

There’s more than one way to make a white sauce

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EMC Editorial - You’re never too old to learn something.

This isn’t really the column I’d been hoping to write after the KAAS-SA senior girls volley-ball championship this past Sunday at Queen’s. The (Sharbot Lake High School) Lady Panthers were in that final … for the first time ever.

Yes, reporters need to be neutral about the people (and in this case, teams) they cover and during the season, for the most part, we are. But take it from an old grizzly sports ragger, when the team you’ve covered for any signifi-cant length of time gets to the final, screw it,

that’s the one time you get to be a homer.

And like any homer, I too was really hoping for the girls to win.

But you know what, talking to team members after the game, you’d never know they’d just lost the final. To them, getting there was a huge win, and even though the final was 3-1 in favour of Regiopolis - Notre Dame, it wasn’t like in-terviewing a group of losers, far from it.

Trust me, I’ve been in plenty of losing lock-er rooms at every level of sport. And I’ve never seen a bunch like these girls.

Granted, I’ve known many of them since they were in grade school and have followed their high-school athletic ca-reers, but there’s some-thing about this group that’s different.

Superfan Randy McVeety (who despite being the biggest kid at the school also appar-ently is a teacher) said after the game that these girls are excellent am-

bassadors for the school. Amen, Randy. They don’t come any better.

These girls were more dignified, grace-ful and composed in de-feat than most teams can manage in victory.

They fought hard. They didn’t collapse. Hell, they won the first game and the next two were back and forth, back and forth. Either game could have gone either way. Even the final, at 25-18 wasn’t a blow-out although the Lady Panthers were playing with very little left in the tank. The re-lentless Regi attack of power, power and more power, combined with their distinct height ad-vantage wore down ev-ery team this season.

At many times, the match seemed poised to go either way and a couple of bad bounces here and there may have been the biggest differ-ence.

Be that as it may, the Sharbot Lake Side ac-quitted themselves ad-mirably and came away

with silver medals. No other team in KASSAA can say that this year.

And that leads to the lesson.

Coming second in the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup Final is losing.

But coming second in the KASSAA final isn’t a loss, not for this bunch.

They’re the first Sharbot Lake girls vol-leyball team to even make it to the final. Sharbot Lake is an A school, while everybody they had to beat to get to the final were AAA schools. What that boils down to is that most ev-ery other high school in KASSAA has five times the number of students to build a team from than Sharbot Lake does.

And in this case, get-ting to the final and be-ing in it all the way is very much a win. Any other way of looking at it is just semantics.

Thanks for making that crystal clear ladies. And thanks for a great season ride.

Sometimes, just getting there is a huge win EMC Editorial - Like

it or not, it’s tax time in this fine country of ours. Unless you’re one of those rare and wonder-ful people who get a kick out of T1s and ON 479s in all their flimsy, monot-onous glory, chances are you’re either well into procrastination mode, or are frantically search-ing for a knowledgeable, steady-handed tax expert to fill in those pesky little boxes and lines.

Yet taxes are not nearly as complicated as many assume, and we encourage all our read-ers to take an active in-terest in learning what is available to them when it comes to filing personal income tax returns.

Did you know, for in-stance, that the Canada Revenue Agency trains volunteers who work pro bono to help those with low incomes and simple tax situations file their returns? For more information, or to see if you qualify, please check with the local Salvation Army office or call the CRA at 1-800-959-8281.

Something else you may not be aware of is the Ontario Energy and Property Tax Credit

(OEPTC), which was in-troduced this year to help low- to middle-income Ontario residents with sales tax on energy and property taxes. In ad-dition, seniors may be eligible for the Senior Homeowners’ Property Tax Grant, which was introduced in 2008 to offset property taxes for seniors who own their homes and have low or moderate incomes.

The Ontario Chil-dren’s Activity Tax Credit, also introduced this year, is available to those who registered their children in activity programs in 2010. The Child Tax Benefit is an-other subsidy that can be a huge help to young families, and many par-ents may be unaware that they qualify. The Uni-versal Childcare Benefit, which gives parents $100 per month per child un-der six, also should not be over-looked.

All this information and more is available on the CRA website, at www.cra-arc.gc.ca. We advise you to become as educated as possible in order to avoid being short-changed on your taxes.

EMC Editorial – What can one say about the Jus-tin Bieber phenomenon?

This 17-year-old boy wonder from Stratford, Ont., has taken the world by storm; he’s got a plati-num selling album, nu-merous hit singles, a bio-graphical movie, guest appearances on the hit show CSI and a commer-cial spot with Best Buy. The pop star has come a long way since being dis-covered on Youtube three years ago.

While he is loved by

millions of teenybop-pers across the globe, the young artist gets a lot of flack from people of my generation.

I’m not deeply famil-iar with his music – I’ll hear the odd number while driving to and from assignments in my car—I often hear and see rum-blings on Facebook al-luding to his supposed lack of talent.

I must admit that I don’t feel educated enough to make a de-cree as to whether or not these sentiments are true—I’ve never claimed to be an authority on anything music related—but I do think people my age might benefit from a look back on their child-hood and their own pop idols.

If I use my own child-hood as an example, the top three bands I can re-

member listening to up to age 14—Justin Bieber’s target audience—are the New Kids on the Block, the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync. All the lunch hours spent home from school watching Back-street Boys videos and swooning over Nick Carter, oh I can see them now.

No one in my genera-tion can argue that the bands many of us lis-tened to as children were not those of legend, those that would go on to stand the test of time. And I have no doubt, that those 10-15 years my senior at the time were saying the same things about the bands I was listening to that those my age today are uttering about Bie-ber.

Like I said above, I don’t listen to his music, nor do I have kids that

do, so these are not the feelings of a closet Bie-ber fan. Whether it’s Bie-ber, Selena Gomez, Mi-ley Cyrus, or any other teen idol, I find it inter-esting that people of my generation care enough about what the kids are listening to these days to post it on Facebook or rant about it with their friends.

Honestly, you can’t fault the kid for getting his lucky break and run-ning with it, nor should one criticize girls today for swooning over him or boys for wanting to be like him.

Let the kids have their version of the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, and when you hear Bieber’s voice on the airwaves think back to when you were a kid and the fond/funny memories of your own pop star obsession.

Let the kids have their Biebs

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EMC Lifestyle - An interesting thing hap-pens when you mix co-conut shrimp, Shiraz and moms together: The night that’s supposed to be a fun girls-night-out turns into a tell-all con-fessional. Sometimes, mom guilt is completely overwhelming.

The conversation goes a little something like this:

“For an entire week-end when my husband was away, I microwaved wieners for my kids for lunch. And dinner.”

“I lost my kid in the grocery store and they had to lock the place down. He was hiding behind a skid of green beans.”

“I took my kid’s ham-burger and turned it into a Frisbee.”

My brother and his wife are about to have their first baby. The one piece of advice I would give them? When you meet Super Mom, tell her to get lost. There’s one in every group. She puts only organic cloth diapers on her baby. (Disposable dia-pers are the work of the devil.) You must make your own baby food us-ing apples that you pick yourself. (Canned baby food is for lazy moms.) The only safe toy for a child is a homemade one. (There are toys with lead paint, you know!)

(And never, ever, get into a debate about the

pros and cons of an epi-dural.)

The Super Mom should get off her high horse (high chair?) and mind her own business, but if she won’t, it’s up to you to navigate the world of mommydom.

A few years ago, the big deal in my circle of friends was the book written by Jerry Sein-feld’s wife, Jessica Seinfeld. Everyone was using it, so I ran out and got a copy. Deceptively Delicious: Simple Se-crets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food con-tained such gems as ba-nana bread with pureed cauliflower, chocolate pudding made with avo-cado puree and choco-late chip cookies made with chickpeas. One night, I decided to make a special meal for my kid, whole-wheat piz-zas that called for pu-reed spinach as a base. By the time I went out to get the spinach, cooked it, pureed it, made the pizza, fed my kid, cleaned up the kitchen, and washed the blender, I had to wonder, Was it worth it? I could have made something less “deceptively delicious” and then had more play time.

I never used that book again. We just put food in front of our son and asked him to try it. He loves broccoli, but hates blueberries. You win some, you lose some.

The problem is, there’s never much talk about the times you “lose” the battles, but there should be because it would take pressure off moms, especially new, first-time moms.

When my son was three, he went through a period of craziness. It

was probably my fault somehow, because I put him in disposable diapers, fed him store-bought baby food and let him play with toys made in China. But the atti-tude, the constant “nos” and the sass were bring-ing me to my knees. My beloved baby was driv-ing me nuts.

One afternoon, we were having hamburgers in the backyard. I made his burger just the way he liked it – with a slice of cheese and a little

mustard.“I don’t want a ham-

burger. I don’t like any-thing you make. Hm-mph!”

I picked up his ham-burger and whipped it across the backyard. It ricocheted off the sand-box and landed near my son’s T-ball set.

He stood there, look-ing at his Frisbee burg-er.

“OK. I’ll eat it now, mommy.”

It was a moment for both of us. In his toddler

brain, he realized he shouldn’t be mean and I realized I should have given myself a timeout before I started turning burgers into flying sau-cers.

Of course, I’ve made many more mistakes/strange choices since then. Nobody’s perfect. You just do the best you can.

One day, you may not have anything for dinner and you’ll find yourself buying your kid choco-late milk and a cheese-

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EMC News - By day, they feed children’s minds. In their spare time they work to fill their tummies.

Mike and Isabel Chase are teachers. Mike teach-es intermediate grades at James R. Henderson Pub-lic School. Isabel teaches mathematics at Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic High School.

They also work with the Food Sharing Project.

About ten years ago, while teaching at Prince Charles school in Verona, Mike saw an announce-ment about the Food Shar-ing Project.

“I remember reading a poster and learning that [the Food Sharing Project] was responsible for feed-ing 1000 students in the Kingston, Frontenac, Len-nox and Addington area each day,” said Mike. “The number astonished me and, shortly after that, Isa-bel and I were looking for some way to get involved in the community. It was

something we felt called to do. We followed up with this organization and got pretty heavily involved.”

It was important to the couple to be involved in something together.

“You’re married to someone, you like to spend time with them,” said Mike. “We’re homey types and like to spend our free time with each other and our children, John and Da-vid.”

Since the Chase’s ar-rived, the organization has grown and now feeds more than 3800 students in the KFLA area.

As teachers, the couple knows how detrimental hunger can be for a child.

“I can’t imagine a child being hungry,” said Isabel. “The thought of it breaks my heart. If we can help kids in Kingston not be hungry, then we’re doing something worthwhile.”

She explained that a hungry child has trouble focusing on school work.”

Feeding 3800 or more children doesn’t come cheaply.

“Since 2005, The United Way has very generously supported us,” said Mike.

Funding also comes from the Limestone Dis-trict School Board, and the Algonquin & Lakeshore Catholic District School

Board, along with the agency’s own fundraising.

The major in-house pro-motional fundraiser is an auction held annually, early in the year. The Chase’s ar-range for donations for the silent auction held at Bay-ridge High School. They also do the groundwork of collecting and storing do-nations. Their living room, family room, and just about every other room in the house gets utilized. They raise about $30,000 from his event.

They don’t get any down time.

“Once it’s over, then we have to get caught up on all the other things we’ve let go,” said Mike Chase.

They also have to start planning for the next year’s auction, all the while keep-ing up their teaching re-sponsibilities, marking students’ assignments late at night, and being loving parents.

Despite all their hard work, the Chase’s refuse to take credit.

“A lot of the credit goes to Tanis Fairley,” said Mike. “We took over the auction a couple of years ago, but Tanis has been running it for years. She’s the one who got it set up and organized. We owe her for setting up the sys-tem.”

The Food Sharing Proj-ect is available to children in the Limestone District School Board and the Al-gonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board. Children in the pro-gram have the opportunity to enjoy healthy breakfast, lunch and/or snack pro-grams.

The Food Sharing Proj-ect is unique in Ontario, explained Mike Chase.

“It might even be unique in Canada,” he said. “Teachers are aware of children in need. Schools themselves usually coor-dinate gathering food. We operate on a model where we have a coordinator re-sponsible for gathering the food. All a school has to do is identify a need, con-

tact our coordinator and we work to fill the need.”

The Food Sharing Proj-ect has their own employ-ees to buy food and dis-tribute it to schools.

“But the need is al-ways discovered by staff in the school,” said Mike Chase. Every Food Shar-ing Program in a school is supported by a school vol-unteer.

“That might be a teach-er, an educational assis-tant, or a parent.”

The Food Sharing Proj-ect is sometimes confused with the Food Bank, but they are separate organi-zations. The Food Sharing Project rents space from the Food Bank.

All the fundraising, or-ganizing, and staffing is

separate.Without people like

Mike and Isabel Chase, many children in Fronte-nac, Lennox & Addington Counties would not have the full tummies required to learn at their greatest potential. Our commu-nity and schools are bet-ter places because of Mike and Isabel Chase.

For more informa-tion on the Food Sharing Program: www.foodshar-ingproject.org, telephone 613-530-3514, E-mail [email protected]

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Teachers Isabel and Mike Chase are actively involved in Kingston’s Food Sharing Program.

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Jazz: you know it when your hear it, but it’s not easy to describe. In its ongoing evolution—and sometimes revolution—jazz defies definition. There’s the ever-present use of blue notes, syncopation, improvisation, rubato, and swing notes.

The famous (or infamous) blue notes, in themselves, could, and do, take texts to explain. They’re a large part of what gives jazz its distinc-tive sound. There’s even a world-famous jazz club on West 3rd Street in New York City that takes the name The Blue Note.

Syncopation’s important. The best description of syn-copation I’ve ever heard was delivered in an Off-Broad-way production called Tin Pan Alley Rag, a story of a meeting between Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin. In the play, Joplin describes syncopation to Berlin: “It sounds like the em-PHAS-is is on the wrong syl-LA-ble.”

Jazz is rebellious. It turns everything on its head and makes it sound sexy and wild.

The variety of possibilities in jazz is so broad that sounds range from the mellow erotic tunes of Stan Getz to Scott Joplin’s ragtime melodies and modern fusion. Imagine that Dixieland, big-band, be-bop, fusion and ragtime all exist in the same genre. New artists push the limits further than could ever have been

imagined even ten years ago. For example, a few

months ago I saw Ada Ro-vatti and her band, The Green Factor, perform at The Blue Note in New York. Here’s how she describes her sound: Celtic fusion, definitely out there. Ada’s one of the finest tenor/soprano sax players in the world. Her performance opened with Ivan Goff on Uilleann bagpipies (he also plays pennywhistle in the band). Christian Howes plays violin/fiddle. Ada’s from Italy, another great jazz scene, but is now living in New York.

Jazz is an American cre-ation, based on West African musical concepts and Euro-pean traditions. It’s generally agreed to have had its early days in New Orleans and worked its way northward along the Mississippi.

The Canadian jazz scene may not be huge, but it’s high impact. We’ve produced gems likes Oscar Peterson, Moe Koffman, Lenny Breau and Diana Krall. The Mon-treal International Jazz Festi-val is one of the largest in the world. The Port Hope Jazz Festival (September 23 – 25, 2011) features an all-Canadi-an cast.

Here at home, The Kings-ton Jazz Society is alive and well, with a 27 year history. Ben Hall, the society’s presi-dent, is proud of the Kingston and Canadian scene.

Hall said it’s the adaptabil-ity of jazz that appeals to him.

“What draws me to jazz is not only the roots but that true masters of the form are so willing to adapt and change, and that so many different styles of music happily fall into the tent that is jazz,” said Hall. “Just think of the vari-ous stages of Miles Davis’ ca-reer.”

The Kingston Jazz Society

likes to promote young, up-and-coming acts, especially Canadians. In 2009, the so-ciety hosted a jazz festival in Kingston. Last year, they combined jazz and dining.

“We did a really cool thing with Miles Acres,” said Hall. “We had four local bands come together for a show with wine, food and music.”

They hope to have another festival this year.

Upcoming, On March 5 at 7 p.m., you can hear Greg Runions Big Band featuring Vancouver jazz composer, Fred Stride. The show will be held at The Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library.

The society also hosts a successful “Live @ Your Library concert series on Sunday afternoons. Hall said there are two concerts left in this season’s roster. The shows offer Kingstonians a chance to experience some of the best in Canadian music in the intimate Wilson Room of the downtown location of the library.

On March 13, you have an opportunity to hear home-grown artists perform their most recent compositions. The ensemble will include saxophonist Jonathon Stew-art, guitarist Dave Barton, vibraphonist Greg Runions, with Mike Perlin on bass and Mike Cassells on drums.

The final concert of the season, on April 10, will feature Canadian jazz icons Arlene Smith (vocalist) and Mark Eisenman (pianist).

Hall explained that at one of the recent Live @ Your Library shows, drummer Ted Warren and Rich Brown, electric bassist for Autorick-shaw among others, remind-ed the audience that the great Louis Armstrong disparaged the then-new Bebop but that despite this sort of tension, the form evolves over time.

“This to me is the essence of jazz: It is always evolving but is ever aware of, and con-stantly paying homage to, its roots,” he said.

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Saxophonist Ada Rovatti and her band The Green Factor, recently perform Celtic jazz fusion at the Blue Note in New York City. In the background on electric six-string bass is Janek Gwizdala. Ada Rovatti and the Green Fac-tor will be performing at The Blue Note again on March 14, with special guest Randy Brecker (trumpeter and flugelhornist).

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By Craig Bakay

EMC Sports — When does a loss feel like a win?

When you’re the Shar-bot Lake High School Pan-thers and you’re the first girls volleyball team to make it to the finals, that’s when.

Even though the Lady Panthers eventually fell 3-1 to the powerful Regiopolis

Notre Dame team Sunday evening at the KASSAA se-nior final at Queen’s, it was anything but a heartbreak-ing loss.

There was a bit of disap-pointment, sure, everybody would like to win the final, but when you’re a small A school like Sharbot Lake and taking on AAA schools like Holy Cross, Sydenham and Regi, just getting to the final is indeed an accom-

plishment. “It feels like a win,”

said Panthers co-captain Sarah Armstrong. “I’m sick (nursing a cold) but I’m feeling really good about this (silver) medal.

“We maybe could have played better tonight but we fought hard all year.

“We played as a team and nobody outshone any-one else.

“I’m honestly happy we got this far.”

For the record, after finishing second in regu-lar season play (their only loss was to Regi), the Lady Panthers polished off Holy Cross and Sydenham in straight sets.

On Sunday night, they won the opener 25-20, lost the second game 25-17 and ended up on the wrong end

of a tight, back-and-forth third game which could have gone either way but ended up 25-22 for Regi. They battled back from deficits twice in the fourth game, even taking the lead, but Regi’s height advan-tage and wicked power game eventually proved too much and the Sharbot Lake side fell 25-18.

Nobody made any ex-cuses. Regi won fair and square.

But there were no tears, and the smiles and grins were real as the girls re-ceived their silver medals.

“We may not have won the final, but we’re still a great team,” said Dana Mika. “And most of us have been together since public school. I’ve been friends with Sarah since we were three.

“I couldn’t ask for a bet-ter team and we still have EOSSAA.”

(Sharbot Lake was scheduled to travel to Car-leton Place Wednesday for the single A EOSSAA tour-nament. See next week’s EMC for results.)

And they all mentioned EOSSAA but for a little while on Sunday night, it was time to reflect on an ex-cellent season, one they’ll

all remember forever. “I’m fine, I’m just so

happy to be here,” said Jen Cota. “We play every year for EOSSAA so when the season started, we never dreamed we’d be playing in the KASSAA final.”

“Sharbot Lake rules!” said Rachel Neadow, wear-ing several of the Rachel Neadow photos around her

neck that many SL fans were wearing (SLHS hired a fan bus and outnumbered the Regi fans 4-1). “We’ve made history two years in a row (getting to the semi-final last year and the final this year).

“It didn’t go our way tonight and that’s OK. Ev-eryone said we’d never get this far except us.

“We played good to-night and we’re fine with that.”

That includes coach Mark Elliott.

“We’re a small school in terms of numbers and a small team in terms of height,” he said. “But we’ve got the biggest hearts.

“I’m very proud of these girls.”

Oh so close, Lady Panthers fall in hard-fought KASSAA championship final

“ It didn’t go our way tonight and that’s OK. Everyone said we’d never get this far except us. ”Rachel Neadow

The Sharbot Lake High School Lady Panthers made short work of Holy Cross in their KASSAA quarterfinal last week in Sharbot Lake on strong play like this kill by Sarah Armstrong.

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EMC Sports - The KASSAA Senior Girls’ Volleyball Championship was a battle of the Panthers, as the Regiopolis Notre-Dame Panthers took on the Sharbot Lake Panthers at the Queen’s ARC on Sunday afternoon. After splitting the first two sets, Regi went on to win three sets to one. (Left) Nicole Domen serves the ball for the Sharbot Lake Panthers during Sunday’s matchup. (Top right) The Sharbot Lake Panthers celebrate as finalists at the Senior Girls Volleyball Championship.

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EMC News - Tomor-row, Capt. Howard Yu, a Canadian Forces signals officer, is due to return to Kingston for a two-week break from his first tour in Afghanistan. Tomorrow is also the day his wife, Erica, is due to deliver their sec-ond child, a son.

“We’re really fearing that the baby will be late,” says Erica Yu. “What’s real-ly important is for the baby to spend as much time with his daddy as possible.” The couple’s daughter, Mélina, is three years old.

The Yus are one of thou-sands of military families living in Kingston. The Kingston Military Fam-ily Resource Centre (KM-FRC) recently honoured those families with Mili-tary Family Awareness Week. Events included an open house and a Valen-tine’s Day skate at Con-stantine Arena. Military family members were also treated to discounts at local restaurants and on tickets to a Kingston Frontenacs game. One planned event, a family snow day, was cancelled because of wet and mild weather.

“Military families are

unique with the different aspects of military life as opposed to civilian life,” says Terry Telford, Market-ing Coordinator at the KM-FRC. “We wanted to do something that recognizes those families.”

Telford grew up in a military family himself; his father served in the Canadian Forces. Telford experienced the challenges associated with moving frequently and having a parent who was often de-ployed.

“Suddenly, mom or dad is gone for three months, or six months, or a year, and then they come back,” he says. “There are a lot of emotions you go through as part of a military fam-ily.”

Telford grew up in the pre-MFRC era, and admits having the support of a lo-cal resource centre would have been beneficial.

“I think it would have been helpful and fun,” he says. “I had an awesome life growing up, it was fan-tastic, but I think it would have been good to connect with other military fami-lies.”

For Erica Yu, that con-nection has helped her cope with her husband’s

absence.“If you don’t put your-

self out there and try to go to these events, it’s easy to just dwell on the fact that your husband’s gone and you don’t know anyone,” she says. “Having those events and going to them, you meet people and make friends.”

During the final weeks of her pregnancy, Yu has also relied on the KM-FRC’s respite care servic-es, which provide her with some help at home when she needs it the most.

“That makes all the dif-ference,” she says of the service. “And it shows us that we matter too, as mili-tary families. It really took a big weight off my shoul-ders finding out about [the respite care] before my husband left.”

For the next two weeks, she’ll have her husband at home with her and their two children. And after he goes back to Afghanistan for the last five months of his tour, she’ll have the support of the KMFRC and the other military fam-ilies in Kingston.

For more information on the KMFRC’s pro-grams and services visit www.kmfrc.com.

Recognizing Kingston’s military families

Military members and their families attended an open house at the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre (KMFRC) on Tuesday, February 15. The event was one of several included in Military Family Awareness Week.

By Kristen [email protected]

EMC Entertainment – Hun-dreds of local musicians will take the stage over the next 12 days during the annual Kiwanis Music Festival.

The festival, which aims to provide musical talent with the opportunity to perform, hear others perform and gain artistic insight from experienced adju-dicators, is celebrating its 38th anniversary this year.

“We started with the Centen-nial of Kingston, which was in 1973. A few people figured we should have a music festival in town, teachers and a lot of peo-ple from the ORMTA (Ontario Retired Music Teachers Asso-ciation). They had some friends in the Kiwanis Club, and the Kiwanis Club had members who were parents of people who would like to sing or play or something like that, so they got together and decided that this would be a good Kiwanis project to celebrate the tourism centennial,” said festival co-ordinator Martha Clarke.

Since that time, the festival has seen its ups and downs.

What started as a small event with a few categories, including piano and voice, bloomed into a festival with over a half a dozen categories and more than 1,200 entries.

In the recent past the festival has seen a decline in entries, which Clarke said was possibly

linked to the move to a four-year high school rotation rather than five, as well as a similar drop in the number of people taking private music lessons. Today, things are looking up; this year’s festival boasts 680 entries.

“We’ve noticed that the in-terest in pop music and popular jazz and that sort of thing has increased. We’ve added classes to accommodate these genres and they seem to be rising in popularity. That’s a little bit of a reason why we might be see-ing a bit of an increase,” Clarke said.

While the central focus of the festival is educational, al-lowing local musicians to attend classes and receive feedback from an adjudicator, the public is invited to come out and listen to the talent that resides in the Limestone City.

Clarke noted that popular

classes to attend include bands and musical theatre, but that the choirs and competitive schol-arship classes are also worth a look. All classes are free.

And if you miss out on at-tending any of the concerts the Highlights Concert March 9 will provide a look at some of the top performances from the festival.

“They (people) get to find out what the kids are doing theses days, they aren’t always misbehaving you know. Some of them are doing a bang up job, and this gives them a chance to shine,” Clarke said.

For more information about this year’s festival, including scheduling, visit kiwanismusic.ca. Programs listing each indi-vidual performer are available for $4 at Renaissance Music, Limestone Music, Marc Ray-mond Opticians and Xanadu Music.

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EMC Lifestyle - I was recently approached by a member of the Perth Police Service with a request to publicize an error that this particular officer had witnessed in younger drivers in-volved in collisions.

The mistake he spoke of is not a condition exclusive to young or inexperienced drivers, but one that can affect all age groups; blindly following traffic ahead or another driver’s or pedestrian’s directions. This officer wants to warn drivers that if they don’t ensure the safety in making any type of traffic maneuver (such as entering an intersec-tion or making a turn), they and they alone are wholly responsible for the consequences of

their actions. If a driver ahead or

to the side (or a pedes-trian) is signaling an-other driver to turn or make a move, it’s up to the second driver to check his or her sur-roundings to make sure the way is clear. Don’t assume that other driv-ers or pedestrians have a complete and unencum-bered view of all lanes of traffic. If you blindly follow someone else’s instructions and become involved in a collision, you are likely to be the one found at fault, not the one that gave the di-rections.

Some drivers feel pressured by traffic be-hind them to make a turn or pull farther into an intersection than they feel comfortable doing or will follow a line of turning vehicles assum-ing that the way is clear without checking their surroundings.

Unless you can com-plete your turn or move-ment through an inter-section safely without putting any other driver or pedestrian at risk, then don’t do it! Use your mirrors, eyes and ears to complete a thorough review of all the traffic around you before step-ping on the gas.

“Hi Brian: I just read your re-

cent article regarding braking problems with the Subaru. Perhaps you could clarify an-other braking symptom for me; I’ve had many vehicles equipped with ABS (anti-lock brak-ing systems). My 99 Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 truck’s brakes chattered and vibrated on stops. When I took it to Adri-an’s Shell in Bells Cor-ners he diagnosed it im-mediately as an “over-active ABS sensor” which could be cleaned or replaced, no big deal. They cleaned the ABS sensor and it never hap-pened again.

Now I have a 2008

Hyundai Santa FE. It does the “chatter thing” too on slippery surfaces. I took it to the dealership and they ran diagnos-tics on it and said “it’s fine, no problem!” I’m adamant it’s not the way they’re supposed to be or that they are not op-erating properly, many mechanics say that’s “normal” for ABS!! I say that’s BS.

Is it possible Adrian the old school mechanic with his experience is smarter than the “factory trained technicians” with all their high tech diag-nostic scanners?

Is the chatter “nor-mal” for ABS braking systems?

ThanksJim

The answer depends

on a variety of factors. When an ABS computer senses that one or more of the vehicle wheels is about to lock-up during a braking event, the sys-tem will rapidly pulse hydraulic pressure to the wheel(s) in ques-tion to prevent an un-controlled skid or slide. During this pulsation the brake pedal usually vibrates and the driver can hear the operation of the ABS pump as it goes through its routine. The key to whether or not the system activates at all, is the amount of traction each wheel has. This can vary depending on road conditions, tire tread, vehicle speed, car-go load, and the amount of force being applied to the brake pedal.

Each wheel in most ABS systems is equipped with its own speed sen-sor and the distance be-tween the sensor’s face and the tone ring on the wheel hub (which pro-vides a magnetic signal the sensor can detect) is critical to the sensor’s operation. If this ‘air gap’ is too narrow the ABS system can come on prematurely and if it’s too wide, it may not

come on as soon as it’s needed. Sometimes dirt or road grime can nar-row the ‘air gap’ and your private Shell ga-rage did the right thing in cleaning the sensors. It would be wise to have them examine the sen-sors on your Hyundai to see if the same condi-tion exists.

If the sensors check out, you may have to adjust your driving hab-its and expectations. Simply lighten up on the brake pedal to avoid unnecessary ABS chat-ter. Keep a close eye on road conditions. An-ticipate traffic ahead to avoid panic stops. But when a panic stop is re-quired, remember, the only benefit to ABS is that is allows you to continue to steer the ve-hicle during a hard brak-ing event, and this is a feature that most drivers fail to take advantage of. Instead of steering the vehicle away from trouble ahead, they keep their hands frozen on the wheel and plow into whatever it was they were trying to avoid.

“Hi Brian,I read your col-

umn as often as I can. GOOOOOD STUFF! I was just wondering your opinion on sparkplugs. Is one better than the other? GM recommends changing plugs every 160,000 km. This seems like a long time on a set of plugs. I think at 160,000 the plugs would be hard to get out. Any tricks to get the plug wires off without break-ing them? Then try to get the plugs out. Just

wondering your opinion on the e-3 spark plugs.”

Thanks Larry Thanks for the com-

pliment. You’re right when you expect trou-ble getting spark plugs out of an engine after 160,000 km. The way to avoid the heartache and wallet shock of a plug broken off in a cylinder head is to have them all removed for in-spection every 50,000 km. The cost of this maintenance is minor compared to the bills for removing and possi-bly replacing a cylinder head. To remove plug wires without breaking them, buy a set of plug wire pliers. This inex-pensive tool will grip the wire at its strongest point (the base of the boot) and by twisting it slightly as you pull it off, you’ll minimize the risk of damage. As far as different types of plugs, my recommenda-tion is to stick with the type the manufacturer installed when the ve-hicle was built. You won’t find many spark plugs better than GM’s AC Delco brand.

If you have any ques-tions, opinions, or sto-ries on anything au-tomotive please drop me a line, [By email to [email protected] list-ing ‘Question for the Car Counselor’ on the subject line or by post to Record News Commu-nications, 5 Lorne St., P.O. Box 158, Smiths Falls, Ont. K7A 4T1].

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Rattan dining set beveled glass top, 4 large chairs on casters, with large comfortable cushions. Good condition. $250. (705)653-4157.

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Painting by Pete, interior, ex- terior painting. Ceilings, walls, trim, doors. Quaility workman- ship, free estimates, fully insured 613-353-1540.

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COMING EVENTS3rd Annual Lyndhurst Ice Fishing Derby, Saturday 26 Feb 2011. 8 am-5 pm. Hosted by: Wing’s Live Bait & Tackle & The Post. There will be: Cash & Prizes- For each type of Largest Fish. Open to all Lo- cal Lakes. Fish Must be fresh. Tickets are $20 per Person. Fish to be weighed in at the Bait Shop. Prizes to be pre- sented at the Lyndhurst Out- door Education Centre. Call or e-mail for Rules & Info, 413-415 Lyndhurst Rd., Lynd- hurst ON K0E 1N0, 613-928-2382 [email protected]

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Rockport, 1000 Islands- 7 acres with 2300 sq.’ house. Tourist-Commercial or residential. (2 lots). Picturesque, riverviews, many development possibilities. Info: kijiji Brock- ville or (613)659-2250.

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327 feet waterfront paradise. Minutes from Kingston. Spot- less 8 room classy home, garage, workshop and gazebo on cul-de-sac, $299,500. Open Saturday MLS. Gerry Hudson 613-449-1668, Sales Repre- sentative Rideau Town & Country Realty Ltd. Brokerage 613-273-5000.

Kingston in town three bedroom bungalow, two fireplac- es. Huge well treed lot 90 x 160 foot serviced lot, $167,900 $2500 down OAC. Gerry Hudson (613)449-1668, Sales Representative, Rideau Town and Country Realty Ltd. Brokerage (613)273-5000.

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FARMFirewood Processors, Cana- dian Made. Cuts up to 16” di- ameter, 13 h.p. Honda. $8,900. www.blackscreek.ca 1(888)989-3717.

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FARMHay For Sale- Large square bales 3x3x6 dairy or horse quality $40/ea. or beef quality $20/ea. Round bales 4x5 bed- ding or mulch $15/ea. Round bales 4x5 beef hay $20/ea. Round bales 4x5 stored inside $35/ea. Delivery available. 613-267-5772

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Marrello Hairstylists Now Hir- ing: Junior Stylist. Work in a professional and fun atmos- phere! Be a part of a winning team. Call Linda at 613-544-6166.

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HUNTING SUPPLIESLyndhurst Gun & Militaria Show. Sunday 27 February at the Lyndhurst Legion, Half way between Kingston & Smith Falls. Take Hwy 15 to 33 - Follow 33 to the Legion. Bu/ Sell/Trade. Admission $5.00. Firearms, Ammunition, Knives, Military Antiques, Hunting Gear & Fishing Tackle. For Show Info John- (613)[email protected] firearm laws are to be obeyed, trigger locks are required.

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Border Collies cross, Collie puppies. Farm/family raised. Dewormed. Ready to go March 20. $200 ea. (613)387-2225.

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All persons having claims against the Estate of Ronald Calvin Sly, late of the Township of Rideau Lakes, in the County of Leeds, who died at the Town of Perth, on or about the 25th day of January, 2011 are required to file proof of same with the un-dersigned on or before the 24th day of March, 2011. After that date, the Es-tate Trustee will proceed to distribute the estate, having regard only to the claims of which he shall have notice.

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EMC Entertainment – Some stories only get better with age.

In keeping with its tra-dition of re-working clas-sic fairytales and plays, the Not So Amateur Am-ateurs theatre company is presenting Cinderella Complex - a modern spin on the traditional folk tale - for their 8th annual large-cast production.

Cinderella Complex was written by the talent-ed local duo of Christine Harvey and Anna Kidd, who last year won the Frederick Hubert Memo-rial playwriting award for their family-friendly ver-sion of Othello.

“We think Cinderella Complex is our best play yet,” says Harvey.

She explains that the story deals with themes relevant to today’s youth such as parents’ divorces, maintaining friendships and experiencing awk-wardness at dances and parties.

“We’re also very ex-cited to have a hip hop-based music this year, which is something we were able to do because of the story’s modern themes,” she notes.

The musical follows two young people who dream that they are char-acters in the classic fairy tale.

“The dream sequences make everything flow very nicely,” says Harvey. “We have [the female character] telling a friend about her dreams, and then the young man tell-ing a psychologist about how he’s dealing with his mother’s divorce.”

The word “complex” refers to both the multi-layered complexity of the play, and the idea of a psychological complex.

“The [two main] char-acters are experiencing similar things in their lives, and are working through their personal complexes,” explains Harvey. “We play a lot with gender because the girl is actually dreaming she’s the prince, and the boy Cinderella. It’s really worked well. It’s amazing what you can get away with when you’re using the premise of a dream.”

Through their dreams, the two meet up with some familiar characters.

Katrina Pacheco, 16, plays Cinderella’s wicked stepsister Irmagarde.

“My character is always in Cinderella’s face, act-ing all mean and nasty,” she says. “She’s always trying to ruin Cinderella, and make her workload 10 times harder.”

Katrina explains that unlike a traditional wick-ed stepsister Irmagarde is more taunting than de-manding.

“Instead of making Cinderella wash the dish-es or get her breakfast, she’ll [make fun of her for missing a spot when she’s cleaning the floor, etc].

“It’s a fun role to play,” she adds with a laugh.

Katrina notes that the hip-hop songs add a fun twist to the production.

“I get to sing a song called The Mince,” she says. “It’s when my sis-ter and I are preparing

to go to the ball to meet the prince. The song makes you want to dance crazy and you just want to get everybody else in the mood to dance too. It’s an amazing song.” Katrina’s sister, Kendra Pacheco, 9, plays a male servant to the king and queen.

“It’s really sort of fun [to play a man],” notes Kendra, who also por-trayed Sneezy in the Not so Amateur Amateurs’ production of Snow White last year.

“It’s not really that dif-ferent, you just sort of put your head up, get your makeup and costume on and you’re ready,” she says.

Of course, no produc-tion of Cinderella would be complete without mice – or in this case, rats and cockroaches.

Shaelyn Gibson, 8, plays a rat.

“My character is all about being hungry,” she says. “All my lines

are mmm...apple core, mmm...paper, [etc].”

The rat’s love of food leads him to help Cinder-ella.

“Basically what I’m doing is helping her get to the ball because I want to help myself to the ball buffet table,” she says.

Shaelyn will also be ap-pearing in the upcoming movie The Estranged.

“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be in a play and my wish came true,” she says. “It’s even better than I expected.”

Cinderella Complex runs Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.; Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; March 4 at 7 p.m.; and March 5 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Upper Canada Academy of the Performing Arts, located at 260 Brock St. Tickets are available at the door, or by contacting Chris-tine Harvey, who can be reached at 613-542-7445, [email protected] or [email protected].

Not So Amateur Amateurs give modern hip-hop twist to fairytale favourite

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(Left to Right) Shaelyn Gibson is the rat, Katrina Pacheco Irmagarde and Kendra Pacheco the servant in the Not So Amateur Amateurs’ production of Cinderella Complex.

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EMC Entertainment - I thought about going into the theatre with all the screaming girls, but in the end I decided I’d rather see The Eagle. What can I say, I’m just not that big a fan of J.B., or screaming girls for that matter. Though af-

ter sitting through The Ea-gle I’m not sure I wouldn’t have been better off with the ear-splitting shrieks that are the primary symp-tom of those infected with Bieber fever.

In 140 AD the Roman Empire stretches all the way to the isle of Britain though its hold on the is-land isn’t complete. Flavi-us Aquila is ordered to take his legendary 9th Legion into the no man’s land that is Caledonia. Five thousand men march into what will be modern day Scotland, and are never seen again. The Aquila name is from that day forward tainted with shame, and the 9th’s golden standard, an eagle, is lost forever.

Twenty years later Fla-vius’ son Marcus (Chan-

ning Tatum), a centurion in the Roman army, has come to Britain to restore his father’s honour. With only his slave Esca (Jamie Bell) as his guide Marcus intends to go beyond Had-rian’s Wall, and learn the truth about what happened to his father and the 9th Legion. Marcus will either learn the truth of his father and find the golden eagle, or die trying.

I was looking forward to The Eagle. I love this kind of historical fiction and I was especially in-trigued by this story when I first heard about it. The tale is interesting, but the execution of it on the sil-ver screen is poor at best. Visually the film looks like it was a low budget TV documentary. The scenes

are choppy, and very little time is spent of develop-ing characters or themes. Ideas and concepts are thrown at you and you’re simply expected to take it all for granted.

In terms of acting there isn’t much to say. Donald Sutherland is a highlight for sure, but he’s barely in the film. Mark Strong is good as a survivor of the 9th Legion, and I thought Jamie Bell wasn’t terrible. Our hero Channing Tatum is probably the weakest part of the film. I’m guess-ing he graduated from the Keanu Reeves school of acting where being louder is how you express emo-tion.

The Eagle does try to touch on some interesting themes such as how one

nation’s heroes are another nation’s oppressors. The trouble is this and other themes central to the story are just tacked onto the tale instead of woven into it. You could almost see how the novel would have

taken the time to careful-ly develop these ideas. I haven’t read the book one which The Eagle is based, but not all films translate well onto the silver screen, and I suspect that’s much the case here.

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By Rob BrodieOttawaSenators.com

Jesse Winchester is living the dream.

He’s a native of Long Sault, Ont., about an hour’s drive from Ottawa. All of which makes playing for the Senators — he’s in his third full season with the team — about as good as it gets for the 27-year-old forward.

Winchester joined the Senators after spending four years at Colgate University, which he’ll tell you went a long way toward making him the player that he is today. He took some time out talk about all of that and more with OttawaSenators.com:

Q: Your hockey heroes growing up?

A: I loved Patrick Roy and Peter Forsberg. I remember writing a letter to Patrick Roy when I was little. He was my favourite player ever. I had posters of him on my wall and every-thing.

Q: When did you realize you had a shot at being an NHL player?

A: My third year of uni-versity. After it concluded, I had an idea I might get a chance someday. I had a couple of options to pursue, but I chose to stay in school and ended up coming to

Ottawa after that.Q: What’s the best

thing about playing for an NHL team that’s so close to home?

A: Every day is exciting. There’s friends and family everywhere. I’m just living

the dream. It’s what I want-ed to do my entire life. It feels pretty special to be able to do it here.

Q: How much did going to Colgate do to accelerate your development?

A: I can’t say enough

about how well it prepared me. I just needed the extra time to grow and become stronger. I was allowed to play the way I wanted to play there and I improved so much.

Q: How different is Hamilton, N.Y., from Hamilton, Ont.?

A: (Laughs) A couple hundred thousand people maybe. Hamilton, N.Y., is like my hometown. There are maybe 2,500 people there. In the winter, there’s about 2,800 students at Colgate. So it’s about 5,000 total, which is pretty tiny.

Q: Your best memory there?

A: There are so many. On the ice, there were so many special victories we had as a team. Playing in the NCAA tournament was fun. I had a great group of classmates that I lived with for four years and they were really, really special. The memories we have togeth-er go way, way beyond the actual hockey.

Q: If you weren’t a hockey player, what would you like to be doing for a living?

A: I’d love to say pro golfer. That’s typically my answer. But probably some-thing to do with the out-doors, like a researcher. I’d

love to make Planet Earth DVDs, those kind of docu-mentaries.

Q: Your favourite city to visit in the NHL?

A: Montreal, Boston and Chicago are my top three. Boston is where I played my first (NHL) game. Montreal was my favourite team grow-ing up and I just love the area where we stay when we’re there. And Chicago is just a clean, huge city with great places to eat and great places to go out.

Q: If you’re cooking din-ner, what’s on the menu?

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thing.Q: Your favourite thing

to do to relax?A: Definitely fishing.Q: Your favourite

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Q: Your favourite TV show?

A: Californication and Dexter. I also like History Channel and Animal Planet kind of stuff.

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Getting to know… Jesse Winchester

Saturday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m., CBCLast season’s Stanley Cup final-

ists have established themselves as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference once again. The Flyers get goals from all over their lineup, with 2010 playoff standout Claude Giroux carrying that success over into this season. Captain Mike Richards is the team’s heart-and-soul leader, with veterans Jeff Carter and Danny Briere also providing major offensive sup-port. Chris Pronger remains a huge force on the Philadelphia blue line, with Kimmo Timonen, Braydon Coburn and Andrej Meszaros sup-plying plenty of blue-line depth. Surprising rookie Sergei Bobrovsky and veteran Brian Boucher have been a solid goaltending tandem for the Flyers.

Tuesday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. TSN

The Bruins are pushing toward the top of the Eastern Conference behind one of the league’s stingiest defences. Front and centre in that area is goaltender Tim Thomas, who has regained his old form with goals-against and save percentage numbers that are the best in the NHL. He’s well-supported by a blue-line corps headed up by Zdeno Chara that also features veterans Johnny Boychuk and Andrew Ference. Up front, it’s a balanced attack for the Bruins, with the versatile Patrice Bergeron leading the way. Among the other key offensive contributors are Nathan Horton, David Krejci, Mark Recchi and the rugged Milan Lucic.

Captain Mike Richards is the heart and soul lead-er for the Philadelphia Flyers (Photo by Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty Images).

Patrice Bergeron is a key component of the bal-anced attack owned by the Boston Bruins (Photo by Abelimages/Getty Images).

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Jesse Winchester has become a fixture in the lineup of the Ottawa Senators, the National hockey league team closest to his Cornwall-area home town (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images).

UPCOMING SeNaTORS GaMeSPhiladelphia Flyers at Ottawa Senators:Saturday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. (CBC)Boston Bruins at Ottawa Senators:Tuesday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. (TSN)New York Rangers at Ottawa Senators:Friday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. (TSN)

UPCOMING SCOTIaBaNK PlaCe eVeNTSLady Gaga: March 6, 8 p.m.Disney On Ice presents Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey: March 9, 7 p.m.; March 10, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; March 11, 7 p.m.; March 12, 11 a.m., 3 p.m, and 7 p.m., and March 13, 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. (French performance).Music as a Weapon V Tour … featuring Korn and Disturbed: March 30, 7 p.m.Harlem Globetrotters: April 1, 7 p.m.Bon Jovi: May 3, 7:30 p.m.Charley Pride: May 8, 2 p.m.Katy Perry: July 3, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.CapitalTickets.ca, by phone at 613-599-FANS (3267) or 1-877-788-FANS (3267); in person at The Sens Store at Rideau Centre and Place d’Orléans, any Ottawa Sports Experts location, Les Galeries de Hull and at the Scotiabank Place box office.

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Get “Ambush”ed for animals at second annual Fur BallBy Hollie Pratt-Campbell

EMC Events - Get ready to rock out for a great cause at a live show from Eastern Ontario’s favourite rockin’ country band, Ambush.

Mark McDonell, Rig Turner and Jim Wright will take the stage at Zor-ba’s on March 19 for the second annual “Fur Ball” in support of the Kingston Humane Society.

Once again, the spring fundraiser is being orga-nized by devoted Humane Society volunteer Vicki Shaw. The event is also supported by title sponsor State Farm, along with a number of other local businesses such as Sco-tiabank and Thompson Chrysler.

“Ambush assisted last year too,” says Shaw. “We were successful in raising $11,000, and this year it looks like we’re going to exceed that.”

The band is excited to be a part of this important occasion.

“We’ve known Vicki

for quite a while,” says Ambush lead singer Mark McDonell. “We’ve seen her enthusiasm and knew that we’d be involved in a really positive event. She really gets out there and makes it happen, and gets everyone in the commu-nity involved.”

McDonell guarantees a great time for all who at-tend.

“We play a little bit of everything,” he says, “country music, classic rock, new rock. We make sure we play music for everyone. If you like to dance and have fun, we promise you’ll have a good time.”

Shaw explains that all funds raised at the concert will go toward animal en-richment at the Kingston Humane Society.

“I purchase items that are needed that are not within a shelter’s bud-get,” she says. “Things that will make life better for the animals until they find their forever homes.”

Shaw notes that a number of Humane Soci-

ety animals have indeed found a permanent home with her family.

“We have two dogs, four cats and a rabbit,” she says. “I always try to help out around the shel-ter, and when I find one that steals my heart it tends to stay.”

McDonell adds that spending time at the Hu-mane Society in prepara-tion for the show has had a similar effect on him.

“I don’t have any ani-mals at home yet, but my kids would love a dog,” he says. “They’re very little right now so it’s all about making sure it’s the right time, but we will definitely be getting one and it will definitely be a rescue dog.”

Shaw explains that it is a pleasure for her to or-ganize an event that has such an important mes-sage.

“I hope that someday society finally gets the message of how impor-tant it is to be responsible pet owners,” she says. “[People need to learn]

that their animals are not disposable.”

Shaw adds that she is more than confident that the funds raised at the Fur Ball, and subsequent-ly the animal enrichment items purchased with them, will be put to good use by the Kingston Hu-mane Society.

“The staff [there] is just phenomenal,” she says. They work until they’re exhausted every day to make a differ-ence.”

The Fur Ball gets un-derway at 9 p.m. on March 19 at Zorba’s, located at 1474 Bath Road. Doors will open at 8 p.m. Tick-

ets are $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. They can be purchased at the Hu-mane Society, located at 1 Binnington Crt.; the lo-cal State Farm office, at 658 Progress Ave.; or at www.ticketscene.ca. For more information, please contact Vicki Shaw at 613-530-7546.

Fur Ball organizer Vicki Shaw and Ambush lead singer Mark McDonell cuddle up with dog Julius and cat Willow at the Kingston Humane Society.

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