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A Rock ‘n Roll Concert commemorating Buddy Holly’s last winter tour Jan-Feb 1959! MUSICwestport 2012 fundraiser includes Buffet dinner, show and donation to the festival $50/person. Advance tickets are available at The Cove, Artemisia, and Murphy’s Barber Shop www.buddyholly.ca
This is a great opportunity to take a tour of beautiful Camp Iawah; try some camp activities – climbing, canoeing, swimming, and archery. There’s a free beach BBQ served from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. If you have kids interested in summer programs, be sure and visit the OPEN HOUSE Sat, May 19 from 10 am – 4 pm. Camp Iawah is located on Wolfe Lake; info@iawah.com or 613-273-5621.
The Dandelion Gardens Studio Tour runs the May long weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; visitors can meet 20 artists at 6 locations; unique fine art including magical photographic art, elegant flowing sculptures, traditional rug hooking, gorgeous comfortable clothing, rustic birdhouses and mirrors, stained glass, garden sculptures, recycled farm equipment; pottery and painted items, architectural sculpture www.artatwork.ca/westport_studiotours.
The 2012 Ontario Rural Summer Jobs Service is accepting applications from employers who plan to create summer jobs for rural youth. Eligible businesses and community organizations in rural Ontario can apply for a hiring incentive of $2 per hour to create student employment. Online application forms are available here for eligible employers. The online application form takes less than 10 minutes to complete and ensures that your information is uploaded quickly and accurately. Call 1-888-588-4111 for details.
After 3 long decades of a successful marriage, 47-year-old year old Paula and 54-year-old Jeff Banks are banking on the experience they’ve gleaned from their respective careers as they set their sights on winning seats as councilors on Rideau Lakes Township council.
According to Paula Banks, when you survive being married to the same person after 30 years and living in a household with growing teens like she and her husband has, there’s nothing you can’t negotiation on. Paula, who works as a materials manager in one of the factories in Kanata, says that their experience in mediating and listening to arguments would give them an edge in council—which she points out needs all the help it can get when it comes to resolving issues.
For the Banks, part of the reason that spurned them to run for council is their beef with the township.
One memory that still irks Jeff, who operates a dairy distribution business, to this day is when he accidentally cut his finger off some years ago. After phoning for help, the ambulance arrived at the wrong address, and asked them for a fee of $45 to correct the mistake.
The husband and wife team are running against each other in different wards, but they say that this isn’t causing problems with their marriage. Over the years, they’ve apparently learned to leave business out of their relationship.
Senator Bob Runciman, the senator from Ontario -Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, was recently bestowed the honor of being Brockville’s 2010 Citizen of the Year in. Runciman served as the area’s MPP for a good number of years before being appointed to the Red Chamber earlier this year.
The announcement was made by the Brockville and District Chamber of Commerce on Friday, continuing the tradition of declaring the area’s top citizen before the Awards of Excellence, an event that takes place every year.
In a phone interview from Parliament Hill, Runciman said that the honor of receiving such a title is still sinking in. It’s just another highlight in a year that’s been nothing but eventful, he adds.
Senator Runciman, born and raised in Brockville, added that he always thought his father should’ve been Citizen of the Year—the thought of receiving the award just never occurred to him. With Sandy Runciman’s exemplary record of community service, the senator always thought his late father was more deserving.
In some ways, Bob Runciman’s persona and stature in politics has overshadowed the achievements of his father. In fact, some people make the mistake of thinking that the Broome-Runciman dam is named after him, instead of his father, causing him to lament the fact that the older Runciman never quite received the recognition he deserved.
Senator Runciman will be presented with the honor at the Awards of Excellence Gala on the 4th of November at the Memorial Centre.
Ontario Senator Bob Runciman of the Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes area moved to pass a motion in the Senate that would call on the federal government to cover the tuition costs for the post-secondary education of children and spouses of peace officers who passed away while serving the country.
The senator proposed a motion that would have the Senate introduce a tuition fund that would accommodate the post-secondary education needs of the family members of officers who died in the line of duty. According to Runciman, setting up a tuition fund is the least the government can do to help these families that have been affected by the problem of violence.
If the motion is approved, the tuition fund will be set up in the same way as the Const. Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers’ Survivors Scholarship Fund, another fund which the senator initiated himself when he was still the province’s solicitor general.
Const. MacDonald was killed in the line of duty when he stopped Peter Paul Pennett and Clinton Victor Suzack while on patrol. The two individuals, who were on parole that time, beat up and killed MacDonald, and were later sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree murder.
While the Township of Rideau Lakes may have its own brand, as well as its own logo, it’s yet to design a flag of its own.
In an effort to do just that, Rideau Lakes Council is holding a Township of Rideau Lakes Flag Competition, and everyone in the public is encouraged to express their creativity and join the contest.
Before submitting their entries, participants are advised to include in their flags a representation of the community’s numerous distinguishing landmarks as well as the five wards—Bastard & South Burgess, South Elmsley, Newboro, South Crosby, and North Crosby—that combined and now make up the current Rideau Lakes Township.
Entries will be judged through the following criteria.
1. Creativity and uniqueness
2. Representation of the Township of Rideau Lakes
3. Visual impact and overall design
4. Distinctiveness
Again the competition is open to everyone of all ages, both artists and those who have simply want to join for fun. Entries to the contest must be submitted before 12 noon on the 1st of October. You can send your entries in PDF format through email to susan@twprideaulakes.on.ca, or hand them off at the Municipal Offices.
Clark Nichols was one of the first few residents to live in the South Elmsley ward here in the Township of Rideau Lakes. Today, his descendants, Myrtle Johnston and George Wood, are proud to restore and place the gravestone of the man widely regarded as South Elmsley’s first settler who did not arrive from the Perth military settlement, in a cemetery located here in town.
Upon his death in 1856, Nichols was laid to rest on a small part of the 100-acre land he purchased and later sold a part of in the 19thcentury.
One of Nichols’ handful of noteworthy historical achievements is his opening of Lombardy’s first licensed tavern, which he kept open from 1817 to 1822.
Johnston who was told by her grandmother, a granddaughter of Nichols himself, that his remains were buried under an apple tree somewhere along Highway 15, had been searching for the gravestone relentlessly, only to come back with no results.
Johnston, who’s also a member of the Ontario Genealogical Society’s Leeds and Grenville Branch, finally had a solid lead in 2007 when she met Wood, another of Nichols’ descendants, who told her that his dad had led him to the gravestone almost 50 years ago.
One thing led to another and Johnston finally found what she had been searching for in vain. On July 10, Nichols headstone was rededicated and put in its final resting place.
Are you interested in naturalizing your piece of waterfront through planting? The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority’s Shoreline Naturalization Program provides simple, cost-effective advice and hands-on guidance on how to naturalize your shoreline through planting efforts. The program provides on-site visits by qualified staff, with the know-how to plan, order the plants you need and provide extra muscle for the planting.
Waterfront owners, lake associations, river groups and other not-for-profit groups can all take advantage of this program which provides up to 75 per cent funding (to a maximum of $1,000) for the planning, purchasing and planting of approved projects. To learn more, or to set up a site visit, contact ANDREA at 1-800-267-3504 ext 1173 or andrea.klymko@rvca.ca.
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