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By Bill Hutchins

News – City council wants to shine some light on the top salaries paid to employees of external agencies that receive most of their funding from local taxpayers.

Councillors voted unanimously on a motion re-questing any board or agency that receives at least 50 percent of their operating budgets from the city to publicly disclose salaries of $100,000 or more on the so-called Sunshine List.

Coun. Jim Neill, who introduced the motion Dec. 15, says it’s in keeping with Kingston’s push for a more open and transparent government.

“There’s an expectation from the community,” he argued.

The Sunshine List already includes top paid earners who work for the city and its various internal depart-ments.

Of those external agencies that receive most of their funding from municipal taxes, Kingston’s police service already reveals the salaries of its top earners. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington public health and Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority also disclose top salaries.

But there are a handful of municipally-funded boards and agencies that are governed by other laws, such as the Corporations Act and Libraries Act, that don’t require public salary disclosure, including Kings-ton’s economic development agency and the Kingston Frontenac public library board.

KEDCO’s board has already indicated that it in-tends to comply with the Sunshine List disclosure pending a thorough review of its operations, expected to be completed this summer.

“KEDCO got out in front of this and they will, in fact, be doing this,” Coun. Neill added.

He says council can’t order boards and agencies to

comply with his motion. “It was beyond our ability to say ‘thou shalt.’ So we are requesting this.”

The list of doctors, teachers, public administrators, fire fighters, police officers and other civil servants earning six-figure salaries continues to grow each year.

The annual disclosure of public sector salaries is based on a 1996 provincial law that’s been in place since Mike Harris was premier. It requires hospitals, schools, municipalities, judiciary, crown corpora-tions and other public sector employers to disclose the $100,000-plus salaries at the end of March.

However, critics say the 20 year old law has never been updated to reflect inflation and other factors that are putting more civil servants on the disclosure list. Coun. Neill says the salary threshold should be ad-justed to $125,000.

More than 100,000 people were on the expan-sive list in 2014, based on figures disclosed in March 2015. More than 185 employees with the City of Kingston were also on the six-figure list, including police officers and fire fighters.

The highest paid municipal employee in 2014 was City Hall chief administrator Gerard Hunt, who made $214,343. Police chief Gilles Laro-chelle had the city’s second highest tax-funded sal-ary at $197,716, while former fire chief Rheaume Chaput made $144,587.

Kingston’s highest paid public servant was Leslee Thompson. The outgoing president and chief executive officer of Kingston General Hospi-tal had a salary of $511,377 in 2014.

Coun. Rob Hutchison acknowledges a certain amount of public envy and curiosity with the Sun-shine List - along with privacy concerns of those individuals with listed salaries - but says the finan-cial disclosure law is still important to show trans-parency to taxpayers.

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By Craig Bakay

News — Organizers of the first ever Fron-tenac Christmas Bird Count (Dec. 19) at the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre were delighted with the results, so much so that they plan to make it an annual event.

“For something I was kind of talked into and only had a week to organize and pull off,

it went really well,” said Manager Carolyn Bonta. “We had 21 people come and hun-dreds of birds from 38 species were counted.

“But perhaps more gratifying than that was the realization by several ‘novice’ par-ticipants that they are actually familiar with more birds than they thought, as well as the insights and knowledge gained by those who might never before have thought to identify

— let alone count — the birds around them,” Bonta said. “As one participant put it, ‘I may have earned my Bird Counting 101 credit all in one afternoon.”

The count was coordinated with Bird Studies Canada, which uses the data collect-ed to learn about and hence conserve wild birds in Canada.

“We’re part of that circle,” she said. “And, as the public outreach arm of the Queen’s University Biological Station, the ELEEC’s mission is to provide outdoor programs to enhance conservation biology teaching in the community.”

They also ran two free Christmas Bird Count for Kids events on the same day.

“All of the usual resident birds made an appearance on Count Day,” Bonta said. “A notable exception was the wild turkey.

“Too close to Christmas dinner perhaps?” She said the count was reflective of the

unseasonably warm weather in many re-spects.

“There were 35 American robins, one red-shouldered hawk and one turkey vulture that had remained in the area,” she said. “Of the anticipated winter visitors, only one northern shrike and two pine siskins were counted.”

But the highlight of the day was the ap-pearance of a mature golden eagle, an endan-gered species in Ontario and a rare spring and late fall/early winter visitor.

“That was really special,” she said. “They can be hard to identify because a lot of peo-ple may think they’re looking at an immature bald eagle.”

The highest count was for common mer-

gansers at 357. There were 136 black-capped chickadees, 121 ring-billed gulls, 106 hood-ed mergansers and 93 blue jays.

There was also one common loon, seven bald eagles and a pileated woodpecker.

Buoyed by this year’s success, Bonta said they plan to get started organizing much ear-lier for next year’s event.

For more information and count totals, you can visit elbowlakecentre.ca. They also have links to the national Christmas bird counts.

Success of first Frontenac Christmas Bird Count will lead to annual event

Bird counters lined up on the Red Trail at the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre for the first ever Frontenac Christ-mas Bird Count recently. Photo/Laurie Swinton

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By Bill Hutchins

News – It’s been said that Kingston has two seasons – winter and construction.

And the two will collide this month when the Big Dig 3 gets underway along several blocks of downtown’s Princess Street.

Len Corcoran Excavating Ltd. has the $12.9 million contract to undertake the com-plex work, the same firm that completed the previous two phases of lower Princess

Street’s reconstruction in 2009 and 2012.The latest phase of the Big Dig is also the

biggest. It involves replacing the century-old underground infrastructure and repaving the surface of Princess Street, between Bagot and Clergy Streets, plus reconstructing the cross-streets and sidewalks.

The work will be done in stages. Princess Street from Bagot to Montreal Streets will be closed to vehicle traffic between Jan. 4 and April 29. Princess Street from Montreal to

Sydenham Streets will be closed to traffic between Jan. 4 and May 30. And the remain-ing section of Princess Street from Sydenham to Clergy Street will be off-limits to traffic between May 2 and June 24.

The storefront-to-storefront work is ex-pected to be substantially completed by June 30, 2016. Work on the cross streets - Mon-treal Street (Brock to Queen), Sydenham Street (Princess to Queen) and Clergy Street (Princess to Queen) - will continue until the end of 2016.

Company president Dan Corcoran says beginning the work in the middle of winter is a “nightmare” for any company given the

anticipated sub-zero temperatures, snow and ice.

“Think about trying to dig a hole in your backyard in the frozen ground. Before we can dig we have to put heating blankets onto the ground to thaw the ground.”

There’s no telling how long the unusually mild start to winter will last. But the con-struction company has to be ready to work in some of the worst conditions. That means running temporary water lines above ground when the excavation begins with plenty of insulation to prevent the lines from freezing.

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By Bill Hutchins

News – Residents of Kingston’s west end could soon have their own urban walking trail.

A feasibility report on constructing a paved pathway along the west branch of the Little Cata-raqui Creek concludes it can be done at a cost of nearly $2 million. But there are several factors that would need to fall into place, including pri-vate land access, in order to complete the pathway project.

Public enthusiasm for the project appears to be strong.

“The proposed trail project scope and alignment was met favorably and the majority of respondents were in agreement with the study approach and

proposal,” according to a report by Luke Follwell, the city’s director of recreation and leisure services.

The proposed pathway would extend from Days Road just south of Bath Road, to Vista Drive and Bath Road along the west branch of the Little Cat-araqui Creek.

A city-hired consultant found a series of in-formal footpaths in the area have been used as a recreational and pedestrian corridor for decades to access parkland, residential areas and Frontenac Secondary School. The recommendation is to cre-ate a more formal 2.5 metre wide asphalt pathway system.

However, the study’s recommendation and bud-get must still be approved by city council.

The previous council launched the feasibil-

ity study in 2012, done by MMM Group, to look at the existing physi-cal features, op-portunities and constraints to con-structing a trail along the creek’s west branch.

Staff recom-mend the proposed $1.975 million project be divided into four sections for construction, starting as early as 2018. Two pathway areas are already owned by the city and two others cut across private property and require land access permis-sion from the Limestone District School Board and a private land owner, Brock-King Properties;

-Phase 1 of the trail route would start at Days Road, through LaSalle Park, and go along the south side of the creek to McEwen Drive at a cost of $440,000,

-Phase 2 would extend from McEwen Drive and cross to Castell Park at $648,000,

-Phase 3 would connect Castell Park to Canter-bury Crescent and Frontenac Secondary School at a price of $398,000,

-Phase 4 would connect Canterbury Crescent and Frontenac Secondary School to Monterey Court at a cost of $487,000.

Each phase would require various improve-ments such as paved pathways, footbridges and culvert crossings. However, staff are not recom-mending the pathway be cleared of snow and ice during the winter, nor have trail lighting installed along the route described as having “tight geog-raphy.” The creek is also routinely prone to high volume flows.

Consultants say phases 3 and 4 rely on private land access permissions.

One of the landowners is the Limestone School Board where the trail’s implementation would require access permission across the Frontenac

Secondary School site. The other landowner is Brock-King Properties, which owns and manages apartment buildings at 480-485 Canatara Court.

“Staff have discussed the proposed trail plan with the land owners and received support, in principle, for the plan and no major concerns were expressed. The school board and apartment man-agement representative identified that they were attracted to the opportunity to increase access for their students and residents respectively,” said Follwell’s Dec. 9 report to the arts, recreation and community policies committee.

There are other factors which could either de-lay the project or increase the overall cost, namely, clearing any soil contaminants during the trail’s construction and the need for future utilities work along the proposed trail corridor.

The city would also have to shoulder ongoing trail maintenance costs.

“Public Works has estimated an additional an-nual cost of $5,500 for future maintenance of the pathway, if fully built out, along the west branch of the Little Cataraqui Creek. This cost includes grass cutting and trimming, forestry management, litter and waste collection, and graffiti removal,” explained Follwell.

Council recently approved spending $3.4 mil-lion to extend the K&P Trail by 6.5 kilometres into the downtown core.

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By Mandy [email protected]

News – Growing up, Dave Savage loved playing outdoors, getting dirty and exploring nature. Now, he and the rest of the Odessa Lions Club, hope to provide those same fun experiences for kids growing up in the area today.

“Playgrounds are a bit different for kids now and are all about plastic and artificial elements,” explained Savage. “Those things can get boring for kids and real-ly aren’t the greatest in terms of cost, durability or func-tion. We really want to focus on a natural approach.”

Brainstorming for the project started a few years ago when the Odessa Lions were looking for a project that they could start in the community. They had origi-nally thought about a splash pad, but after looking into cost and benefits of that idea they looked for a different approach.

“My sister has two small kids and was over in Eng-land and saw a natural playground,” said Savage. “She suggested the idea to me and we thought it was really interesting. We connected with recreation services of the township and after a bit of back and forth we started looking into the project more seriously.”

Through research, Savage and the Odessa Lions found Earthscape, a Canadian group that works to cre-

ate these natural plays spaces and recently built one in Batawa.

An Earthscapes natural playground focuses on incorporating natural elements and materials into the design of a friendly play space. The goal is to provide opportunities for growth and play for children of all ages, abilities and play styles through the use of com-plex and challenging structures, with dynamic features encouraging climbing, balancing, jumping, mobility, strength, imagination and coordination.

“We found some research and we actually found that the play value of the natural playgrounds is actu-ally better than those other plastic playgrounds,” said Savage. “It has logs and stumps and natural areas and that is what kids like to play with, that is what I liked to play with as a kid and that is what our kids should have.”

The Odessa Lions Club presented these ideas at their monthly meeting to two councilors from Loyalist Township and after positive feedback they brought the idea to the rest of council at the meeting on Dec. 14.

“We are proposing a natural play space at the Babcock Mill,” explained Savage. “But we do need the support of council and the community to get our ideas going.”

Council was very positive in their feedback

on the project and Savage hopes that bodes well for them in the New Year. Next, the project will go through recreation services and then hope-fully back to council for further support.

The Odessa Lions Club is asking for 50 per cent support from Loyalist Township, or $50,000 with the other $50,000 coming from community fundraising and the Lions Club itself.

The group already has $25,000 ready for the

project and while costs for the project could range from $100,000 to $150,000, the play space could be completed in phases over time.

“We are fully committed to the project and we are applying for a charitable tax number to hope-fully raise even more funds,” said Savage. “It would be really unique for the area and I think that is really appealing. This is just the initial stage, but we are really hopeful.”

Odessa Lions Club hope to bring a natural play experience to the area in the New Year

Example of an E a r t h s c a p e s Natural play-ground. Photo/Submitted

AVIS DE PRÉSENTATION, RAPPORT D’ÉTUDEENVIRONNEMENTALE SUR LES TRANSPORTS

Conception préliminaire et étude d’évaluation environnementaleAméliorations opérationnelles à l’échangeur de l’autoroute 401 et

de la route 15 (GWP 4059-11-00)

L’ÉTUDE

Le ministère des Transports de l’Ontario (MTO) a retenu les services de WSP | MMM Group pour effectuer laconception préliminaire et l’étude d’évaluation environnementale sur les améliorations opérationnelles à l’échangeurde l’autoroute 401 et de la route 15 (échangeur 623), dans la ville de Kingston. L’étude a prévu des améliorationstant à court qu’à long terme. Les améliorations à long terme recommandées sont les suivantes :

• une nouvelle configurationd’échangeur, avec denouvelles bretelles au nordde l’autoroute 401, et desbretelles élargies au sud decette autoroute;

• l'ajout de voies de virage surla route 15;

• le remplacement du passageinférieur de la route 15 selonun nouveau tracé; et

• un déplacement mineur del’actuel terrain de covoiturage.

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L’étude a été effectuéeconformément au processus deplanification approuvé pour lesprojets du groupe « B » en vertude l’Évaluation environnementalede portée générale pour lesinstallations provinciales detransport (2000) et le public aural’occasion d’intervenir pendanttoute la durée de l’étude.

Le présent avis a pour butd’informer le public qu’un rapport d’étude environnementale sur les transports (REET) a été rédigé et sera disponiblepour examen public pendant une période de 30 jours, soit du 7 janvier au 8 février 2016.

Le REET pourra être consulté aux emplacements suivants pendant les heures d’ouverture :

Hôtel de ville de Kingston216, rue OntarioKingston (Ontario) K7L 2Z3Du lundi au vendredi,de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30

Ministère des Transports,région de l’Est1355, boulevard John CounterKingston (Ontario) K7L 5A3Du lundi au vendredi,de 8 h 30 à 17 h

Bibliothèque publique de Kingston,succursale Pittsburgh80, chemin GoreKingston (Ontario) K7K 6X6Du mardi au jeudi, de 10 h à 20 hLe samedi, de 9 h à 17 h

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Bottle Tree Productions launches its tenth season on February 24 with Ghost of the Tree, a poignant play about mothers, daughters, and fam-ily secrets.

The show’s window card features the words, “The roots of sin run deep.” Sounds intriguing.

Ten years ago, playwright and director Charles Robertson, who founded Bottle Tree Productions, wrote a play to feature the acting skills of young KCVI actor Mack-enzie Gruer in the Sears Festival. The play became Ghost of the Tree and made it to the finals of the fes-tival.

“I wanted to create the kind of show that would only work with a virtuoso character,” said Robert-son. “Mackenzie won best actress in the Sears Festival, as well as ex-tra awards. She has to play seven roles. The play opens with a young girl coming back to the old fam-ily home, a big Victorian mansion that’s falling apart and empty.”

Robertson described the play as a history thriller in which you get the viewpoint of people from differ-ent generations, including the girl’s mother and grandmother.

“In life, people tell stories to get by. They tell these stories to them-selves and to others. Ghost of the Tree looks at these stories from the girl’s past. The audience finds out the truth at the end, but none of the characters knows the whole story.”

Robertson explained that it’s a show that should have universal ap-peal, but he has found that wom-en often like it more than men do. One of the issues dealt with is what women really think about men, and sometimes men don’t like to hear that.

“It’s interesting; a lot of women will talk to me and say, ‘You’re a guy, how can you be so into how we think?’ But I think it’s actually about how anyone thinks. All peo-ple think differently, but it’s neat if I write what I believe in and people say they can identify with it.”

In addition to the girl who returns to her family home, there is also a tree (Sasha French).

“This tree is very ethereal and haunting,” said Robertson. “She represents the female line of the house and occasionally comes in to be a character.”

A musician (Darryl Bryan) ac-companies the character on stage. In previous productions, the musician has played such instruments as a violin and a guitar. In the upcoming Bottletree production, Darryl Bryan plays a flute.

“Music is always good to enrich the emotional experience of the show.”

Robertson said he was stunned by audience reactions during the play’s early performances.

“By the second scene, people were laughing, and at the end they were crying, so we knew it had worked.”

During the show, the audience experiences the house being built as well as the planting of the tree. By the end, the tree is falling apart and so is the house.

Robertson explained that the show is called Ghost of the Tree be-cause the tree is related to the origi-nal sin of the family line.

“The tree is an active participant and has hurt people through the family line.”

Robertson said the play involves an epic story.

“You don’t necessarily go to see this show for great acting, although it has that. “It’s a very emotional story. It could almost be seen as a huge soap opera over the centuries.

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THE STUDY

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) retained WSP | MMM Group to complete a Preliminary Design andEnvironmental Assessment Study for operational improvements to the Highway 401 interchange at Highway 15(interchange 623) in the City of Kingston. The study identified both short-term and long-term improvements to theinterchange. The recommended long-term improvements include:

• A new interchangeconfiguration, with new rampsnorth of Highway 401 andwidened ramps south ofHighway 401;

• The addition of turning laneson Highway 15;

• Replacement of the Highway15 underpass on a newalignment; and

• A minor shift in the location ofthe existing carpool lot.

THE PROCESS

The study was carried out inaccordance with the approvedplanning process for Group‘B’ projects under the ClassEnvironmental Assessment(Class EA) for ProvincialTransportation Facilities (2000),with the opportunity for publicinput throughout.

The purpose of this noticeis to inform the public that aTransportation EnvironmentalStudy Report (TESR) has been completed and will be available for a 30-day public review period fromJanuary 7, 2016 to February 8, 2016.

The TESR can be reviewed at the following locations during normal hours of operation:

Kingston City Hall216 Ontario StreetKingston, ON K7L 2Z3Monday to Friday:8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Ministry of Transportation –Eastern Region1355 John Counter BoulevardKingston, ON K7L 5A3Monday to Friday:8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Kingston Public Library –Pittsburgh Branch80 Gore RoadKingston, ON K7K 6X6Tuesday to Thursday:10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

COMMENTS

Interested persons are encouraged to review the TESR and provide comments by February 8, 2016. If, afterconsulting with the Ministry of Transportation, you have serious unresolved concerns, you have the right to requestthat the Minister of the Environment (11th Floor, Ferguson Block, 77 Wellesley Street West, Toronto, Ontario,M7A 2T5) issue a Part II Order (“bump-up”) for this study. A Part II Order may lead to the preparation of an individualenvironmental assessment. A copy of the “bump-up” request should be forwarded to the addresses below. If thereare no outstanding concerns after February 8, 2016, the study will be considered to have met the requirements ofthe Class EA. If you have questions or comments please feel free to contact either the Consultant Project Manageror the MTO Senior Project Manager listed below.

Mr. Michael Chiu, P.Eng. Ms. Tina WhiteConsultant Project Manager MTO Senior Project ManagerMMM Group Limited Ministry of Transportation – Eastern Region2655 North Sheridan Way, Suite 300 1355 John Counter Blvd., Postal Bag 4000Mississauga, ON L5K 2P8 Kingston, ON K7L 5A3tel: 905-823-8500 tel: 613-545-4871toll-free: 1-877-562-7947 toll-free: 1-800-267-0295fax: 905-823-8503 fax: 613-540-5106e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

Information will be collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA).With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record. If you haveaccessibility requirements in order to participate in this project, please contact one of the Project Team memberslisted above.

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Big Dig 3: Massive reconstruction of Princess Street about to begin

And, Corcoran says worker pro-ductivity in the outdoor elements will also be put to the test.

“Think about the productive hours that your workforce gets. Go stand outside for an hour in Janu-ary. After 10 minutes it’s time to get warm. So those things chase the costs up significantly for the winter work,” he explained.

Downtown businesses have been well-briefed on the construc-tion disruption that’s about to start. Many are already planning to down-size their staff in anticipation of a drop in customers. But the contrac-tor must make accommodations for those merchants on the front lines of the road work to keep their busi-nesses accessible for store deliver-ies and customer foot traffic.

Corcoran says the combination of construction in the winter and ac-commodating stores is what drove up the contract price beyond the city’s initial project estimate of $10 million. He says extra staff, also called greeters, will be brought in to guide shoppers around the construc-tion zones.

“There’s a whole lot of bodies there who aren’t doing any physi-cal work. People come to a cor-ner and have a blank look on their face. And one of our staff comes up and says ‘Excuse me sir, can we help you? Where are you trying to go?’ That’s what our folks will do.”

The contract given to Corco-ran was one million dollars

higher than a competing bid from Taggart Construction, but city of-ficials say Corcoran’s bid was su-perior in detail and addressed many of the finer details such as working in cold weather, aggressive comple-tion timelines, pedestrian safety and public relations, continued access to businesses and risk management plans.

Officials with Taggart have sug-gested they may pursue legal action against the city for not accepting their lower bid.

Corcoran says the project is in-credibly complex but his firm’s experience on previous Big Digs made the difference. “Taggart is an excellent company. I have so much respect for them but they have not worked in that environment - not with the bar raised as high as we have in the last couple of years. That’s where the gap in the price is.”

Whether the weather cooperates or not, Corcoran is confident of meeting a tight timeline to complete Princess Street’s reconstruction by Canada Day.

“That’s the commitment. It’s an incredibly aggressive schedule but we are confident we can get it done.”

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A few things I learned in 2015A buffet for cable watchers –

good or bad?

I think I will always remember 2015 as the year I aged 10 years in 365 days. There are lines under my eyes that I’m pretty sure weren’t there a year ago. Or maybe I’m just noticing them now because I feel older. 2015 was also the year I grew a backbone, after all, and learned some key facts about human nature that have left me feeling wise. Most notably:

1) Toddlers are smarter than you think. If you underestimate them, they will trick you into getting their way.

2) People absolutely hate it when you correct their grammar. Just don’t correct people’s grammar if you want to be well liked. Shut up and feel su-perior in silence. (Yes, I should have learned this lesson long ago but it never fully sunk in until now.)

3) People really, really like to read news stories about death and destruc-tion - even when they say they want to read good news about nice things happening in the community. People are liars, basically.

4) People don’t like to think too hard about things. They will ‘like’ and share things on social media based on the headline alone, without actually clicking on the link to read the story. What will make them click on a link? A photo of a car engulfed in flames on the 401, ideally if someone has been taken to hospital with life threatening injuries.

5) It’s okay to cry at work. If other people don’t like the fact that you are crying at work, that’s their problem, not yours. Maybe they should try a good cry themselves, it’s actually very cathartic.

6) Having a healthy work/home life balance is important. I haven’t fig-ured out how to accomplish this yet, but have concluded it’s something I need. I think it might be a good goal for 2016.

Some other goals for the new year?1) Be healthier. I got a Fitbit for

Christmas and am already obsessed with it. I am not overweight, but I am interested in being more ‘fit’ – drink-ing less wine and more tea, paying closer attention to my activity vs. calories I eat, etc. I’ve never really thought about this sort of thing be-fore; it’s kind of alarming how many calories are in basically everything I like to eat. Except kale, but telling

people you love kale will make them hate you even more than correcting their grammar will.

2) Read more books (while pacing around the house, getting my Fitbit steps in). My reading goal for 2015 was 12 books, and while I stopped counting at some point during the summer I know I blew this goal out of the water. This year I’ve decided on 20 books: setting the bar a little higher but still keeping it manageable.

3) Be more present for my family, especially Summer. This is related to the whole work/life balance thing. She deserves a mom who can physi-cally and mentally step away from monitoring web traffic to read a bed-time story.

4) Learn to accept and make the most of circumstances, such as not be-ing bitter about a lack of tropical va-cation. This is the ultimate first world problem, I know, but for the past several years we’ve briefly escaped winter/very early spring to spend a week in the Caribbean and it was glo-rious. We can’t this year because all our money is going to the new house/mortgage and, to be frank, it sucks. At the same time, this is the only win-ter of 2016 I’ll ever get. Other good things can still happen and I want to make the most of it.

Editorial - According to BBM Canada, the average Canadian watch-es a whopping 30 hours of television a week or about four hours and 20 minutes a day. Many of these hours are spent watching television through a cable subscription, or at least they used to be.

In recent years, basically since the emergence of Netflix, cable sub-scribers have become more and more vocal about their dissatisfaction with cable companies. Many feel they are paying too much for what they get and feel as though they are being forced into channel ‘pack-ages’ that may not suit their tastes. Some, especially in younger genera-tions, have even gone as far as cancelling cable and just using stream-ing services.

These changes have inevitably had an impact on cable companies and just like the music industry and even taxi companies, cable com-panies have been forced to adapt to their consumers and revaluate how they do business.

Beginning March 1, 2016, all Canadian TV providers will have to offer a basic package of channels for no more than $25 a month and give consumers the option of ordering individual channels à la carte or in small bundles. By December, TV providers must offer both à la carte ordering and small channel bundles.

This seems to be good news, but major companies are still tiptoe-ing around the details of these options, leaving us skeptical about the outcomes.

Both Bell Media and Rogers Media have yet to release details about their so-called ‘skinny’ plans and whether the add-on options will actu-ally allow for a cheaper cable bill. The fear is that cable companies may try to make up the difference by not allowing cable, internet and phone bundles and some may up their internet costs in order to capitalize on consumers who choose to stream instead of buy into cable packages.

On top of all this, various niche channels might not be able to sur-vive such a system. Smaller, less popular channels that benefit from being a part of packages will no longer see those benefits and may have to adapt accordingly or may be forced to shut down.

It is clear that the system needs to change, but at what cost? A cable buffet seems to be a step in the right direction, but only time will tell. Perhaps it is time to revaluate how you spend those 30 hours a week.

One thing all guitar players have in common is a wish list

Column — It’s been said that there are fourteen hundred and ninety-two guitar pickers in Nashville.

Now it’s unlikely we have that many in Frontenac County given that the population of Nashville is about 660,000 and we’re about 29,000. But we certainly have our share.

Now a great percentage of both the Nashville and Frontenac County guitar pickers are country types

but there are still a few of us old rockers around (let’s say country rockers). And judging by all the Facebook posts mourning the death of Motorhead’s Lemmy last week, there are more than a few closet metal-heads as well.

But regardless of genre leanings, there are two things all guitarists have in common — callouses on all four fingers of the left hand and . . . a wish list of guitars we’d like to have (all I want is a brand new bus full of old guitars).

I’m no exception and there are a number of axes I’d like to own one day.

Here’s my wish list.1. Rickenbacker 360/12 . . .

The only decision to be made

would be whether to go with black like John Lennon or natural like Roger McGuinn. Either way, that jingle-jangly sound is unmistakable and I’ve always wanted one.

2. Fender Telecaster . . . I’ve never played a Tele I didn’t like but I’d want a very traditional American (standard or deluxe) with a classic set of single coils. Blonde would be OK, but I think I’d prefer a tobacco burst. I could be talked into a B-bender on it though as I love Clarence White’s stuff with The Byrds.

3. Gibson ES-335 . . . Black or dark Brown, it’s what the original Lucille was and they

play like a dream. I had a red one for a short time, . . . too short.

4. Baby Taylor . . . I’ve fallen in love with every Taylor I’ve ever played but I especially like the Baby Taylor for some strange reason.

5. Martin D-45 . . . My best buddy has a D-35, which may well be the nicest axe I’ve ever played. Of course, you always want one better than what your best buddy has.

6. Gretsch White Falcon . . . Just like Neil Young’s . . . four dead in O-Hi-O.

7. Gibson Les Paul . . . Black or cherry burst . . . decisions, decisions. They weigh a ton

but they’re excellent.8. Gibson EDS-1275 . . . I’d

revoke my ban on playing Stairway To Heaven if somebody gave me one of these double-necks.

9. ’57 Strat . . . I’ve often said no guitar is worth paying more than two grand for but if there were such a thing as a time machine, going back to 1957 for one of these would be my first stop.

10. An Oskar Graf . . . Again, they’re very expensive but man, Oskar makes a nice guitar. He brought my ’64 Fender Malibu back to life and he has a special touch with archtops.

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Editorial – Councillors will face a million dollar dilemma at their first meeting of the New Year.

They’re expected to resume a debate over awarding a costly contract to complete the preliminary bridge design for the much-touted third crossing of the Cataraqui River. It’s a key component to getting the project shovel ready within the next two years.

A political debate was touched off in De-cember when senior staff recommended a $2.3 million contract be awarded to the J.L. Richards design team, even though two of the four other competing bids said they could do the job for a much lower price of $1.3 million.

The optics of selecting the highest bid cer-tainly look bad on a city that’s trying to save money where it can, even though the $2.3 million is still within the project’s budget envelope.

So why should the city spend an extra mil-lion bucks? Why seek competitive bids when the lowest price doesn’t win?

Those are among the questions and con-cerns the city’s in-house engineering staff started to address before the debate was deferred. Confused councillors shelved the bridge design report to Jan. 12 to try and bet-ter understand the rationale behind the con-troversial recommendation.

You’d expect those kind of questions from critics who still aren’t convinced the 1.1 ki-lometre east-west transportation link is nec-essary given the recent widening of Highway 401 and a greater investment in public transit to reduce traffic congestion. Instead, it was bridge supporters leading the charge for fis-cal justification and accountability.

Coun. Adam Candon, much to the chagrin of east end councillor and staunch bridge advocate Ryan Boehme, struggled to un-derstand what makes the J.L. Richards bid so much better than the rest. After all, staff admitted all five bids come from reputable firms that have built bridges before, includ-ing across the Rideau Canal waterway that is a UNESCO world heritage site.

“I feel if you’re going to be double the price you need a heck of a sales pitch and I don’t think that sales pitch was there,” ex-plained Candon.

Coun. Boehme countered that cost isn’t the only deciding factor, noting staff are looking for creative ways to make sure the bridge design meets heritage, environmental, active transportation and a raft of other stan-dards that will be demanded by the provin-cial and federal governments. The city may own the bridge, but other governments have jurisdiction over the waterway.

“Different companies bring different methodologies,” said Boehme.

Mark Van Buren, the director of engi-neering tasked to explain the higher-priced contract, insisted J.L. Richards’ plan is the best qualified and got strong marks for its non-financial details such as experience, work plan, creativity, innovation, vision and accessibility. The same firm did, in fact, prepare the complex environmental assess-ment a few years ago that recommended a bridge connecting John Counter Blvd. to Gore Road, so it’s already done much of the legwork.

Kingston’s conundrum – similar to the city’s go-with-the-highest Big Dig 3 con-tract bid – is that councillors approved the terms of grading the Request for Proposals that they are now questioning. The evalua-tion process, which was outlined in detail in the RFP document, was based on the follow-ing evaluation criteria: Experience, Qualifi-cations and Availability of Team Members – 20 per cent, Understanding of Objectives, Proposed Work Plan, Schedule, and Level of Effort – 22 per cent, Creativity, Innovation and Vision, Quality of Approach and Meth-

odology – 30 per cent, Accessibility – 3 per cent, and Financial Proposal – 25 per cent.

Based on the ranking system, J.L. Rich-ards achieved a score of 80 out of 100. GHD Limited, whose $1.7 million bid wasn’t even the lowest, scored 74, while MMM Group, which produced the lowest financial bid, scored 69. The results, as decided by the city’s engineering team, are somewhat sub-jective and may be open to criticism once councillors learn more details about how each bid was assessed.

In analyzing the details, councillors can

demonstrate their own due diligence to watch out for taxpayers’ money, as they should. But they also risk kitchen-style poli-tics of becoming amateur engineers while undermining the credibility of their own ex-perts.

If councillors want to hire the compa-nies that simply offer the lowest price for this and future third crossing contracts (and there will be more) then they should make that point clear far in advance – not after the RFP is issued and the preferred selection is made.

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Column - “Wow, it sure is beautiful out for December.” I had conversations like this again and again during the early holidays, as temper-atures around the Kingston area soared to 16 degrees Celsius. Almost inevitably, these ex-changes would be followed by some acknowl-edgment of global warming: an awkward joke, a grimace, or nervous laughter.

“What terrifyingly nice weather we’re hav-ing.” Reports from Central Park in Manhattan

announced over the holidays that the previous record high for Christmas Eve had been bro-ken—by the 2015 low temperature.

The past year, 2015, broke the record to be-come the warmest year on record. Of course, this has become almost a yearly routine. Ho-hum. Yet another record-breaking warm year. It piles up. The last five year period is the warm-est five year period ever recorded.

We did break one record that doesn’t come around every new year, however. A very in-nocuous sounding record: we passed the one degree mark. That is, the world’s average tem-

perature was for the first time more than one degree higher than the pre-industrial tempera-ture. One degree higher than the temperature before we started burning all of that oil and gas and everything else.

This record sounds so undramatic as to be laughable. “Only one degree,” we might chor-tle. “Ho-hum. That’s nothing!” It might not seem like much, except for two problems.

The first is that we aren’t just dealing with global warming, we’re dealing with climate change. With a climate that is becoming not just warmer, but also more extreme and unpre-dictable. Like a pot of water coming to a boil, our world isn’t just getting hotter, but also more turbulent.

The warm holiday weather this year is one symptom of climate change. But so was the po-lar vortex, the frigid winters we saw over the last two years in part because of disrupted air currents. Many people have remarked not only about how warm it has been in December, but also how different the temperature was from last year. “It’s forty degrees warmer than this day last year!”

And, of course, that’s the number to worry about: not one degree averages, but forty de-gree extremes.

The other problem is runaway global warm-ing. As the Earth gets hotter, the trends become self-sustaining. Arctic ice melts, so that instead of white snow reflecting sunlight the dark ocean absorbs it. Greenhouse gasses frozen at the bottom of the sea warm and bubble up into

the atmosphere. The Amazon, a global air con-ditioner, withers from drought.

It wouldn’t take much more. Even the con-servative political consensus out of the recent conference in Paris was that more than two de-grees of warming would lead to catastrophe for all of us. (Even knowing that, they produced a climate agreement that is non-binding and es-sentially unenforceable.)

It took us centuries to reach that first degree. But our climate emissions—from the tar sands, in particular—have grown so explosively that we’ll lock in that second degree within decades.

Already, there are troubling signs that the ability of the oceans to buffer climate change is breaking down. We may have to deal with an-other half a degree of warming from that alone.

As a farmer, one of the first things I worry about is global warming’s impact on food. We live in a temperate climate in Ontario, and we can cope for a while. But most of the world is far more precarious, and millions of people are already becoming climate refugees.

It’s unsettling to ring in another new year to record-breaking temperatures. But what I find truly frightening is the notion that we might one day find the effects of climate change routine.

Record numbers of refugees? Oh well, just like last year. Record droughts, yet again? Ho-hum. Ho-hum.

Or we can break that routine. We can act. But we don’t have much time.

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While the raccoon rabies strain is highly prevalent in New York State, it hasn’t been seen in Ontario since 2005. Ac-cording to the City of Hamil-ton, a total of 10 cases of rabies were found in that city during the month of December; while that might seem far away from us here in the Kingston area, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be careful.

In order to prevent the spread of rabies, the Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry (MNRF) distributes an edible rabies vaccine in bait in regions with high populations of foxes,

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Still, pet owners and resi-dents in our area are urged to exercise caution by keeping dogs and cats up to date with rabies vaccinations; preventing dogs and cats from roaming off-leash; and avoiding all contact with wild animals, including contact between pets and wild-life.

There are two main ways in which animals can exhibit rabies symptoms: “furious ra-bies”, where the animal will exhibit aggressive behaviour

and seem vicious, and “dumb rabies”, where the animal be-comes paralytic and docile, but seems to be having trouble with movement and maybe is drooling; however, animals can be infected with the virus before they start showing any of these symptoms. Rabies is transmitted through the saliva of an infectious bite, or possibly through an infectious scratch.

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News – Kingston resident Maxine Cupido has always been an active walker; she walks as many as eight kilometers on an average outing, but last winter she found this daily activity a bit challenging.

“Last year I fell on the ice and I hurt my wrist and that really made me want to come indoors this year and play it safe,” she ex-plained. “I decided to volunteer with the Walk On program to motivate myself and others and to keep safe walking this year.”

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Health. This year, the program will celebrate 12 years of providing opportunities for peo-ple of all ages to increase their physical ac-tivity and Cupido is happy to be part of that.

“The experience has been so great and the hour goes by so quickly and if you throw in some stairs it is a great workout,” she said. “ I also love seeing the regulars that come each week and connecting with them, it really is quite social too.”

The goal of the program is to provide a space for people to keep up their physical activity during the winter months, November to March.

“We know that most people aren’t very ac-tive in the winter and physical activity levels

drop and there is a decrease in the amount of places to walk safely,” said Stephanie Sciber-ras, physical activity specialist with KFL&A Public Health. “This program works to rem-edy that and really motivate people.”

There is no registration required for Walk On, but walkers are welcome to sign in and track their progress week to week. The pro-gram also sets a fun goal for individuals to work towards collectively.

“This year we are trying to walk to Rio,” said Sciberras, “It is a fun motivational tool and the regulars really enjoy it.”

There are six Walk On locations through-out the city including the Invista Centre, Me-morial Centre, Rideau Heights Public School and La Salle Secondary School, but there are also locations in Napanee and Inverary.

“The locations allow us to reach different demographics and they also make it so peo-ple don’t have to travel very far,” said Sci-berras. “We also run at different times with some programs in the morning and others in

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walking with Walk On for the past eight years and walks 50 minutes, five days a week with a group of friends. He used to skate at the Invista Centre, but as he got older he had to give it up.

“I wanted to stay active and walking seemed like a good option,” said Laird. “It is supposed to be better for you if you remain active and you don’t really know if that will be the case, but I hope to be here when I am 99 still walking the laps.”

Cupido enjoys interacting with Laird and his friends each week and encourages others to come out and do the same.

“The health benefit is great, the social as-pect is great and it is just a lot of fun,” she said. “It is a great program and I really hope we make it to Rio this year.”

For more information about the Walk On program including specific times and loca-tions please call 613-549-1232, ext.1180.

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Heritage- As the year draws to a close, it is fair to say that 2015 was a busy one for the Frontenac Islands Mayor Denis Doyle. He also served a term as Warden of Frontenac County during what was its 150th An-niversary year. In a year end review, Mayor Doyle highlighted transportation as both a high and a low of his tenure thus far.

”The first high that comes to mind involves our local MPP, Sophie Kiwala, who arranged a meeting with Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca, where Loyalist Township Mayor, Prince Edward County Mayor, and myself had an opportunity to explain our inadequate regional ferry capacity issues, especially with the Wolfe Islander III out of service for 7 months, rather than the usual 2.” Doyle said. “Our friends on Amherst were more severely impacted,” he added.

“As a result of the discussion Minister Del Duca came to a meeting on Wolfe Island, announced and chaired by MPP Sophie Kiwala, and committed to building a backup ferry which will be used to replace the Wolfe Islander-III and the Frontenac II when they are out of service (5 year inspection, etc.) We took this as an opportunity to work together with the MTO rep-resentatives who listened to our ferry service propos-als and have committed to many improvements and of course, with MPP Kiwala.”

Mayor Doyle noted that since then the Preliminary Design and Environmental Assessment to commission a second, larger ferry for Wolfe Island has also for-mally started.

There were other issues pertaining to transportation during the course of 2015. One involved the Federal Department of Transport, that because of the Lac Megantic situation, barring passengers and vehicles on a ferry trips carrying dangerous goods. “By work-ing through former MP Ted Hsu, and his work with then Federal Minister of Transportation, Lisa Raitt, we can once again carry passengers and other vehicles on these trips,” Doyle said. “It was heart warming to see federal representatives from different parties set aside their differences and work cooperatively to solve prob-lems that affect individuals lives, and we owe those two professionals a great deal of thanks.

Mayor Doyle also noted that during 2014 the bub-bler system on Howe was one of the worst issues that had to be dealt with. “But with MTO’s committed as-sistance we are now satisfied that the bubbler system issues for the Howe Island County Ferry have been ad-dressed and the system is better than ever before. We

are also working with them on resolving maintenance requirements for the docks on both Howe and Simcoe Islands,” he said.

“ The Howe ward established a Ferry committee which has been very successful in working with MTO and we have recently decided to do the same in the Wolfe ward with the prime objective of helping with the EA underway and determining how we can cope with the traffic until we get the new and larger second ferry in operation. We will also be working with the province political representatives, and MTO staff, to prioritize building the backup ferry which hopefully will be available in the two year time frame, while the larger ferry may realistically take 4 to 5 years. It’s ob-vious by working with our provincial partners to solve the issues we can come up with positive and significant improvements,” Mayor Doyle said.

Mayor Doyle was enthusiastic in his thanks to the Wolfe Island Waste Management Committee. “We have successfully transitioned the Wolfe waste site to a transfer station within budget. We are also diverting bio-waste to the De Bruin bio digester, an improve-ment which other municipalities have told us, can reduce normal waste by 35 to 40%. If everyone partici-pates in this program that means up to 40% fewer trips to haul garbage across on the ferry.” There was men-tion of road improvements and of course the estab-lishment of a community Keylock Gas pump station. Aspirations for the future of Frontenac Islands include moving forward on as much road work as is afford-able, the senior housing project, improvements to the Howe Foot and Simcoe Island Ferry systems, increase of By-law enforcement, continuing to implement best management/business practices, and continuing to improve waste management and recycling, and look-ing for more cost effective ways to provide policing, which has increased by nearly four times our previous cost ( of major concern to all townships.) ”We hope to do all of this while keeping tax increases close to the inflation rate and will continue with the special levy of setting aside 1% of the overall budget to assist with asset replacement to address our current infrastructure deficit,” Doyle said.

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In October, Rose Etheridge, a Milton mother of two Deaf girls, met with PSB Director Dr. June Rogers, and discovered that the ministry was in

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Etheridge encouraged the director of PSB to hire a superintendent who was culturally and lin-guistically Deaf.

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ing across Canada and the United States for the job, which means the pool of experts, was limited to just one.”

“Cheryl Zinszer cannot sign at all,” she said. “She (Rogers) isn’t culturally aware and hires a “hearing” person, with minimal ASL skills. Deaf students can’t even communicate with her.”

“The interview panel did not consist of any Deaf people. No input was sought from any stakeholders such as parents, present and former students, teachers, staff and the community. In-stead the PSB hired Jeanne Leonard, a person who is not Deaf as the superintendent and in ad-dition created a new position, assistant to the su-perintendent.”

“They appointed Heather Gibson, a Deaf per-son, to this secondary role. Gibson, who is equal-ly qualified for the position of superintendent, was appointed to the Order of Ontario, awarded with Premier’s Award for Excellence in Leader-ship, and is internationally recognized for her work with an ASL curriculum, the first of its kind in North America.”

Gibson’s position as assistant to the super-intendent is being seen by members of the Deaf community as tokenism, in an attempt to pacify the parents, students and the community.

The first school for the Deaf was established 145 years ago in Belleville. Years later, two oth-ers were added in Milton and London.

All Deaf children were originally sent to The Ontario School for the Deaf (now Sir James Whitney) with the understanding that these chil-dren would learn to become “hearing” as they were forced to speak and lip read. Language de-velopment was an after thought.

Since, sign language was forbidden in class, children would sneak around to communicate outside of classrooms using sign language. Over time, sign language was introduced in classrooms but it was either Signed Exact English (signing word for word) or SimCom (broken English and broken sign language at same time) limiting the students to a Grade 4 academic level upon gradu-ation.

About 26 years ago, Deaf teachers began to be hired who used American Sign Language, ASL, as the visual language of instruction. With signing, the brain processes linguistic informa-tion through the eyes. The shape, placement, and movement of the hands, as well as facial expres-sions and body movements, all play important

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of grammar and syntax; like all languages, this is a living language that grows and changes over-time. When ASL was introduced in some of the classrooms, students thrived well past the Grade 4 levels of the past. Although the schools for the Deaf claim to be bilingual (ASL and written Eng-lish), this is not always the case. SimCom is still practiced in classrooms as there are still many non-native signers teaching and working in the schools.

“Deaf people are a linguistic and cultural minority,” explained Riddell. “A cultural group held together by core values, history and lan-guage. Deaf people don’t consider themselves disabled. Deaf people are capable of doing any-thing, be it doctors, accountants, photographers, teachers, and best of all ASL instructors. Some of us use tools such as hearing aids, interpreters, video conferencing, emails, closed captioning and so much more to ‘hear’. But those tools cost so much that there is never a level playing field for those of us that can’t hear and those that do.”

Current and former students, hearing and Deaf parents, and members of the Deaf community showed up to march, rally and protest at all the Deaf schools peacefully between Nov 10-13, de-manding three terms be met.

The Deaf Superintendent Now movement asks that:

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- a new fair, inclusive and transparent superin-tendent selection process must be set up

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try of Education offices in Toronto with 200=plus protestors participating. Dr. June Rogers met with Etheridge again on Nov 17 and refused to meet the three demands.

“We want the schools to be self-governed by Deaf, fluent in ASL and culturally aware profes-sionals,” Riddell says. “The schools will prosper if Deaf language and culture are celebrated, hon-oured and loved at every level within the system. The schools will be places of excellence if they are led by values that are the core of Deaf cul-ture.”

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Riddell knows all to well the day-to-day struggles and challenges of being Deaf.

She was born deaf, but her parents didn’t find out until she was two years old. Doc-tors clapped and Riddell saw movement, so they assumed all was fine with her.

“I imagine they thought I was a little devil ignoring them,” joked Riddell. “I have an older hearing sister and younger deaf sister. No one else in the history of my family was deaf, but two of us were, with no reason why.

“Once doctors discovered I was deaf, they had a home teacher from SJW come in on Mondays to train my mom to teach me to speak and lip read while doing different activities throughout the week.”

During one family car ride where her mom made her repeat speaking “What does the cow say, the cow says Moo,” her eyes rolling as she recalls this memory.

Riddell’s parents and family learned some signs, but only basic ones. They didn’t have a professional Deaf role model to look up to at the time. Parents listened to medical professionals and the Ministry of Education on how to raise a deaf child.

“Thank goodness that has changed for the kids today. But, the fight is still on to be bilingual. Speech is an option.

“I think I represent both the hearing and Deaf community very well,” she said. “I am Deaf, I’m connected to the Deaf community, and I teach sign language. But, I also have a hearing husband, was raised in a hearing family, have a deaf sister, and work with a hear-ing business partner. So my expe-rience is very broad and I can see both sides of the issue.”

Riddell is a former student of the Deaf school in Belleville and graduated with BA at Rochester Institute of Technology, majoring in Fine Arts. Today, as an ASL in-structor, she helps others commu-nicate with Deaf and hard of hear-ing, workers and parents of special needs (Down syndrome, autistic, non verbal children) teaching weekly sign language classes.

Today, a wife of a signing hus-band and mother of CODAs (chil-dren of deaf adult), Riddell also meets with a group who get togeth-er once a month to meet old and new friends, who are eager to com-municate in sign language.

“We are a united signing com-munity offering support and guid-ance to Deaf children.”

Most of the parents who have Deaf children are hearing. The medical professionals from whom they get the majority of their infor-mation would try to influence them to focus on using speech instead of ASL. It’s a proven fact that lan-guage development in young chil-dren is critical for brain and early childhood development. Speech cannot be accessed in the same way in a Deaf child’s brain, therefore putting them at a disadvantage at a

very young age. “It is ironic to me that teaching babies

who can hear sign language is a trend and seen as a huge benefit to communication, however it is discouraged for Deaf babies,” explained Riddell. “These are the very children that would benefit the most, and whose natural language it is.”

There are currently about 10 children from Kingston attending Sir James Whit-ney School for the Deaf. It’s a four hour commute there and back by bus to get the education they require. “They deserve to have a role model to look up to, someone who is culturally Deaf and advocates bi-lingualism. These Deaf children will influ-ence the dynamics of our Deaf and signing community in the years to come.”

Growing up Riddell felt she was in be-tween and alone. Neither Deaf or able to hear, over time she accepted being Deaf and has embraced the best of both worlds.

“If I could have a redo and I’m sure my parents would too, I would start with bilin-gual language (ASL and English) and know that it’s ok to be Deaf.

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“We’ve been doing very well,” said Lesley

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“They seem to be growing and we’re getting new people performing and participating all the time.”

Through the Oso Rec Committee, Smith-Merrigan along with Dave Willis and a host of others have been raising funds to build an outdoor rink in Sharbot Lake adjacent to the ball field by GREC. The idea is to put down a concrete pad that can be used for tennis, basketball, whatever in the summer and then morph into a full-scale outdoor rink in the winter.

“We started out with a donation from the snowmobile club and we used some of that to purchase boards when they became available at a good price,” she said.

The fundraising began in earnest with a series of open mikes at Oso Hall. Then they moved to the Legion in Sharbot Lake.

“The Legion people have been very good to us,” Smith-Merrigan said. “And it works out well for us for several reasons.

“For example, at Oso Hall we had to make snacks ourselves and if we wanted to have alco-hol, we’d have to get a permit and the Legion has all that.

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And then there was a dance when a group of musicians from Cobourg took up the cause.

“The dance was a great fundraiser and we’ve been talking to Stephen Frances and Stephen Beebe about doing another one of those, or something similar,” she said.

And the open mikes will continue with the next one at the Legion on Jan. 16 from 1-4 p.m.

“Then in February, we’ll be partnering with the Frontenac Heritage Festival for an open mike at Oso Hall on the 13th,” she said. “We’re still working out the details because there’s a Lions Breakfast there in the morning so we don’t know when we can get set up but if people are hanging around it could go to 5 p.m. or later.”

Then the plan is to move back to the Legion in March but the date hasn’t been set.

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“I was around five when I started and then I started taking it seriously when I went to Paris and we went to the Louvre,” he ex-plained. “It was so inspiring and after that I wanted to start taking it more seriously.”

It was around that time that Evan’s parents also started to take notice and instead of re-sisting his requests for art supplies and can-vases, they started to embrace them.

“One time he got birthday money and went and bought himself a canvas. He used it and then he bought more and used them and soon we were buying him painting supplies and canvases for Christmas or birthdays,” said mom, Susan. “We were impressed with how good he was so we wanted to encourage it. Painting is a great way for him to use his time and entertain himself and he is so happy do-ing it.”

Others in the community started to take notice of Evan’s talents too and after show-ing his paintings to the manager of Days on Front, a favourite family destination, Evan became a displayed artist with his pieces adorning the walls of the restaurant.

“It felt great to see them up on the walls,” said Sharma. “It inspired me to paint more and now I have pieces on display at the Tett Centre too.”

While his talent is evident, Sharma hasn’t had any formal art training and is purely self-taught. He describes his self-developed style as a mix of realism and abstract with vibrant colours.

“I like the colours and I like how you can start with nothing and keep building to something big. Locations inspire me and famous people do too. I really like working with colours and then I incorporate them into dif-ferent elements of my paintings. I enjoy using colour to shade and do different effects.”

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Recently, Sharma applied to a prestigious art show in Toronto and was selected from a jury of independent art professionals to dis-play at the show alongside 200 other artists from around the world.

“I’m not sure what I am going to take yet, but I am thinking about taking a few land-scapes and a few portraits to the show,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to meeting different artists and asking them questions about their styles and techniques.”

The show takes place in February and un-til then Sharma will continue to display his art locally at both Days on Front and the Tett Centre, where his interpretation of Peggy’s Cove can be seen as community members go down the stairs.

He hopes to continue working on his paint-ing skills and learning more, but he is unsure whether or not painting will become a career in the future.

“I love it and it is a great activity where you can really express yourself and put what you want onto canvas,” he said. “I’m not sure if it will turn into a career or a hobby just yet, we’ll see.”

His parents feel the same way and are happy with the recognition he has received so far.

“It is lovely for us and for him,” added mom. “We are surprised by the attention but also very proud.”

12-year-old artist already making a name for himselfEvan Sharma, 12, with one of his paintings of Bob Dylan. Photo/Laura Kaufmann

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The Force Awakens tops crit-ic’s list of top films of 2015

With 2015 closing out it’s time to look back on the year in film. It’s one more oppor-tunity to give a nod to those films that really deserve it, and it’s one more chance for me to prevent any ocular massacres in case you lost your senses and thought, “Hey how bad could Hot Tub Time Machine 2 be anyway?”

Looking back there’s been some truly awful films this year. More so than in most years. From Fantastic Four to Hot Pursuit and from The Gunman to Krampus, there was no short-age of terrible movies. Though in case you missed it, the worst of the worst for 2015 was by far Hot Tub Time Machine 2. It was offensive, it failed to be funny, and if I ever have the pleasure of meeting Rob Corddry, I’m ask-ing for my $12 back.

Despite the larg-er than usual pile of suck there were some stand-out films this year.

First off is Woman In Gold. It’s an eloquent and powerfully moving film about a woman seeking justice for wrongs committed against her family by the Nazis. With the unlikely but in-credible pairing of Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds,

this film was a must see.Next I’d like to give a shout

out to Pitch Perfect 2. It opened against Mad Max and I chose to see unadulterated joy over blood soaked post apocalypse, and I still stand by that choice. Pitch Perfect 2 was clever, quick, and one of the funniest films of the year.

The best surprise of the year has to go to American Ultra. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I walked into the theatre, but I know I wasn’t expecting a surreal action-comedy spy-flick. American Ultra was shockingly good. It’s rare that this level of violence and humour are so suc-cessfully combined.

For outright spectacle the hands down winner is Aveng-ers Age of Ultron. It has it all. Superheroes, robots, explo-sions, a battle to save the world. It doesn’t get any better, expect that Age of Ultron is more than spectacle. It’s tightly written, with incredible performances,

and a cast of actors any director would kill for.

That just leaves the best of the best. Probably to no one’s surprise I’m calling Star Wars The Force Awakens the best film of the year. Full disclosure I am a huge Star Wars fan, but even so I believe The Force Awakens is something special. It’s the kind of movie in which you lose yourself. In today’s age of high definition TVs and sur-round sound home theatres, not a lot of movies are worth seeing on the big screen. The Force Awakens is. It most definitely is.

Those are my top picks for 2015. If you saw them see them again, and if you missed them go see them. And if you’re still thinking Hot Tub Time Machine 2 can’t be that bad, go ahead and see it. Just don’t come cry-ing to me after you rip your own eyes out.

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While in the depth of winter, I expected the barns to be bitterly cold inside. But I was always amazed at how warm the cow byre was when the temperatures dipped well be-low zero. Certainly, there was no stove in there to take off the chill.

It seems to me now, so many years later, that our Fall days were numbered. It felt like we went from crisp days, certainly not freez-ing cold, and then right into seeing mounds of snow that soon covered the twenty acre field and all but closed in our long lane lead-ing to the Northcote Side Road.

When Father was sure the snow was here

to stay, he piled mounds of it all around the base of our old log house in the hope it would help cut out some of the chill that seeped in-side. There was no foundation and no cellar, and it didn’t matter how much snow Father stacked around the house, our feet in the win-ter, were always cold.

He did the same thing around the barn. It would take him days. I often wondered if he would finish before Spring came. But by the time the winter had really settled in, the outside of the barn would have snow piled and packed around its base, just like our log house across the yard.

And I would think that was why the cow byre was always so warm inside when it was so cold outside. But Father, one day ex-plained to me what helped make the barn so cozy.

It was after the milking was done, the separating finished, and everything washed and cleaned away. This was the time of day I liked being in the cow byre. I never tired of watching the barn cats sitting in the mid-dle of the barn, waiting for what they knew was coming. Every few minutes or so, one of the brothers would aim for a cat’s open mouth, spraying a gush of warm milk their way. They knew more would be coming, and so they sat, sometimes taking the full brunt of

the spray all over their faces, and that would send me into fits of laughing.

The boys were heading for the house, and Father held back. “You wonder why the byre is warm in the winter, now do ya?” And he took my hand and walked me over to Bess, the most gentle of the entire herd.

He told me to put my hand on her flanks. I was reluctant, as I was always a bit fright-ened of the cows...so big…and never did they respond to any kind gesture I made towards them. Not like the sheep, or the horses.

And so I held back. So Father took my hand and pulled it towards Bess. Her hide was warm to the touch. Almost like it had been heated with a hot water bottle, or the bricks we used in our beds at night to warm the sheets before we crawled between the feather tickings.

“She is so warm,” I said, in amazement. And Father said all the animals in the barn were the same. The horses too, were warm to the touch, he told me.

And together they gave off this wonderful heat that filled the cow byre and made it fit for the cold winter nights in Renfrew County. And I thought, they all had their own little

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Happiness helped warm the heart during a cold winter’s day

“stoves” on their bodies. How else could the barn be so warm?

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of what I had just learned. And once again, even though I was much too young to fully understand or appreciate what happened to make our livestock give off enough heat to keep them warm when Fall changed to Win-

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Just like all the others that hap-pened every day around me. Like the miracle of milk changing to cream, and cream changing to butter, how there was always enough to eat even though the Depression raged around us, and how there was always a neighbour around to give us help when we needed it.

Yes, I thought, a warm barn, in the dead of winter, with the wind howling around us, was surely just another miracle of the Ottawa Val-ley. I fell asleep thinking of what I had learned, my head filled with what Father had just shown me, and a deep feeling of utter contentment, and a happiness that warmed me deep inside.

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