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BY BRIAN LEMKAYMacTier News

The MacTier Legion empty bottle drive was quite successful last Sunday despite the rainy, stormy weather. Thanks to all who donated to the “Put on the Roof” cause for the legion.

Another legion fundraiser takes place on Sunday, Aug. 16. This is a mixed horseshoe tournament at the legion. Start time is 1 p.m. and teams will be drawn.

Prizes are awarded and the cost is $15 per person, which includes a meal. Support your local legion.

MacTier Figure Skating Club registration takes place again on Sept. 9 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can sign up at the arena lobby.

Another firearms safety course will take place on Aug. 28, 29 and 30. This is for Parry Sound and MacTier area. For full details, phone Gerry (705) 375-5618.

Boat Safety operation courses and licenc-ing are underway here in MacTier during August. For details on location, dates, and times phone Bill Demkiw at (705) 375-5219.

Remember you must be licenced to operate a motorized boat by Sept. 15 of this year.

Friday Aug. 14-16 is the weekend of the North Muskoka Lightning Minor Hockey 30th Annual Slow Pitch Tournament.

The tournament will be played at the Hum-phrey Community Centre and it costs $250 per team to enter. Phone Terry Clayden (705) 378-4567 or Jamie Jacklin (705) 378-0957.

There is a change in the MacTier Railroad Heritage Society fundraising day on Aug. 29. They are still holding a soup kitchen lunch, but the silent auction is dropped and in its place is a large garage sale of donated items.

All this takes place at the MacTier Lions Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. While there, drop by the museum upstairs at the back. Tuesday night euchre games take place at the Mac-Tier Curling Club starting at 8 p.m. Thursday night men’s horseshoe league play is winding

down and nearing the playoffs. Back to school is fast approaching and the

summer “School’s Cool” program for kids starting kindergarten has just wound up.

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Boyle recounts a story about one family visiting the area from Scotland in the 1880s and a mother’s worst fear realized.

A young son sees boys playing on the logs across the Seguin River. He tries to do the same and drowns.

His father builds him a coffin and his dev-astated mother refuses to leave her son, and so the family decides to stay in Parry Sound. Their last name? Logan.

Another family was headed north to start a logging company on the French River when they stopped for rest in the sheltered harbour. There, they met the Gibson family, who sold them their mill, land and timber. The Beattys stayed in town and in 1865 William Beatty laid out what would become downtown Parry Sound.

As dusk falls, those on the tour are encour-aged to take pictures of the alleged haunted houses in Parry Sound. Though Boyle says its present inhabitants haven’t noticed any spiri-tual activity, many believe the Moore house — across the street is the site of an ancient native village that Boyle says still exists in a different dimension – has spiritual activity as does the Beatty house, nestled in the hills along Belvedere Avenue, where the ghost of one of the William Beattys is believed to live.

Here and there at houses along the tour, the cameras start to pick up the first glints of what Boyle says are spirits — white, circular, seemingly unexplainable blobs of white light, called ‘orbs,’ caught in one frame and then disappearing in the next.

At first, as one catches one in the point and shoot, the crowd surrounds the screen in shock.

They become more and more frequent, especially at the Parry Sound courthouse and the former jail. The jailer’s house once stood here, explains Boyle. An entity in the building used to levitate the dog. Once, as the story goes, it picked up a cup of tea and turned it over and dirt flowed out. The next morning the grandmother who lived with the jailer and his family was dead.

Boyle tells the brave tour takers to press their cameras against the glass of the base-ment of the courthouse.

A young woman and her friend walk up to the window. Later, a grainy image appears in the bottom of the left corner of her cell phone camera. Look closely, and you can see two black eyes, a mouth, a face.

That’s the ghost of the malevolent spirit that lived with the jailer, says Boyle.

“You’ll sleep with the light on tonight,” says her friend.

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