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Emily Iob of Stittsville sits on the Partridge Acres’ pony Pippins as she is joined by her coach Veronica Grajewski, owner and head trainer at Partridge Acres, at the Vermont Summer Festival national level horse show last year. Emily and Pippins were a class winner at the show.

Emily rides to great 2012John [email protected]

EMC news - 2012 was a year to re-member for twelve year old Emily Iob of Stittsville.

That’s because it turned out to be a magical year thanks to her successful partnership with “Pippins,” a seven year old pony owned by Partridge Acres who is a super show pony who is best known on the equestrian show circuit as “Par-tridge Zero to Hero.” And for Emily, Pip-pins lived up to this show circuit name, taking her to the top as she and Pippins claimed multiple championships at Ot-tawa area competitions and fi nished off the year as overall grand champions in three divisions. The pair was also a class

winner at the Vermont Summer Festival national level horse show.

This ride to the top all began at Christ-mas time 2011 when Partridge Acres, which is an equestrian lesson and show stable located on John Kennedy Way west of Upper Dwyer Hill Road, selected Emily Iob as the winner of its Partridge Talent Search for 2012. This is not easy to do. Interested riders must submit an essay detailing their riding experience, competitive experience and future goals in the sport. The entry must also include a video. Top submissions are reviewed and an additional interview or even a riding trial may happen. The winner is selected based on riding ability and potential for development over the course of the ensu-ing year. The goal of the Talent Search

is to select a hard working, passionate young rider who has the talent to succeed at a higher level.

As the winner of the Partridge Talent Search for 2012, Emily received an all-inclusive one year lease including lessons and the opportunity to compete in both Canada and the United States with Pip-pins, Partridge Acres’ top show pony.

Pippins, a seven year old pony owned by Partridge Acres, is a pony who brings out the best in riders and, indeed, teaches them the way to succeed in the show ring. He himself has qualifi ed twice for the North American Sport Pony Star Search at the Royal Winter Fair where he has earned third and sixth place fi nishes.

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Road linkOK’dJohn [email protected]

EMC news - The long-awaited road linking Jinkinson Road with the Canadian Golf and Country Club and Coun-try Club Village in Goulbourn is closer to reality.

That’s because the Ontario Ministry of the Environment has given its approval for the construction of the road, albeit with seven conditions.

City of Ottawa Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott Moffatt says that there is “nothing insurmountable” in the seven conditions, although one such condition is that the road must be built as a gravel road.

Another condition involves incorporating mitigation mea-sures in the road’s construc-tion so that the glare of head-lights from vehicles using the road does not impact motorists travelling on the adjacent four-lane highway seven.

“Getting the approval is huge,” councillor Moffatt says, noting that construc-tion of this connecting road between Jinkinson Road and Country Club Village, running parallel with highway seven, is important not only for the Canadian Golf and Country Club and residents of Country Club Village but also to quarry operators in the area who will have a more direct route head-ing west.

This new road link will also mean that there will be less truck traffi c from the quar-ries on Fernbank Road to the south.

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EMC news - Four hundred meals for the homeless will be served by The Ottawa Mission thanks to the fundraising ef-forts of students at Goulbourn Middle School.

The generosity and true Christmas spirit shown by the students in holding a Christ-mas bazaar at the school, with the proceeds going to The Ot-tawa Mission, resulted in a to-tal of $1,202.97 being raised. This will fund the provision of 400 meals for those in need at The Ottawa Mission in the New Year.

This Christmas bazaar was held on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in the library at Goulbourn Mid-dle School, running from 8:15 a.m. through to 1:30 p.m.

Students organized the Christmas bazaar as a way of helping those in need at The Ottawa Mission, with the goal to raise enough funds to pay

for 300 to 400 dinners for those who are served by The Ottawa Mission. This goal was achieved.

With regard to the bazaar, students made all of the ar-rangements including room bookings, phone calls, pur-chases, decorating and contact with the school administra-tion. They created a commit-tee, explained the project to fellow students and asked for volunteers. All students asked stepped forward to volunteer.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the students orga-nized eight different themed tables for the bazaar. These included a Christmas decora-tions table of gently used or new decorations; a bake table; a costume table where student customers could buy reindeer antlers as well as elf and Santa hats; a bracelets table where student-made bracelets were on sale; a crafts table featur-ing candles and origami; a mystery gifts table; a silent

auction for items such as a glass chess board and leather portfolios; and a raffl e table with prizes from Best Buy, iTunes and Tim Hortons.

Students talked up the ba-zaar throughout the school.

They were excited to be thinking about the less fortu-nate at Christmas time and to be doing something about the needs of those at The Ottawa Mission.

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opened its doors in 1906, it was a place where homeless men could go to eat, sleep and get a change of clothing. The Mission still provides these basic services and there is still a need.

The front desk at The Ot-tawa Mission is staffed every hour of every day of the year. It is the fi rst point of contact for men seeking shelter and services.

The front desk staff is trained in fi rst aid, security and suicide intervention. In addition, the front desk staff handles daily room book-in and handing out basic toilet-ries to residents, as well as other duties.

In 2011, an average of 226 people used The Ottawa Mis-sion for shelter every night of the year. This represents an

occupancy rate of 96 percent.A total of 1,629 different

people stayed at The Ottawa Mission in 2011, with the av-erage length of stay being 51 days.

The Ottawa Mission also serves more than 1,200 meals a day on average and more than double this fi gure during the holidays. That’s a total of close to 460,000 meals a year. A lot of the food served is do-nated but some still has to be purchased in bulk to meet the demand.

In the clothing room at The Ottawa Mission, volunteers help organize and distribute hundreds of items of donated clothing each month. Having clean, respectable clothing al-lows the homeless and needy to retain some dignity and confi dence.

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Online voting for awards begins on Jan. 7Special to the News

EMC news – Voting time for the 2013 Peo-ple’s Choice Business Awards organized by the Kanata Chamber of Commerce is just about here.

Online voting to determine the winners fro those businesses nominated in the different cat-egories will open this coming Monday, Jan. 7 and continue through until Friday, Feb. 1. The online voting, open to everyone, will take place on the Kanata Chamber of Commerce website. The categories are community supported/non-profi t organization, best restaurant, tourism business, health and wellness business, new business, small business (up to ten employees), large business (over ten employees) and retail business. All of these categories will have a re-cipient from Goulbourn (including Stittsville) as well as one from West Carleton and one from Kanata. The Kanata Chamber of Com-merce covers all of these areas.

There are also two categories for nomina-tions that apply to the whole Kanata/Goul-bourn/West Carleton area with only one win-ner for the whole area. These two categories are technology business and professional ser-vices business.

There is also a citizen of the year award

which is meant to recognize an individual for making a signifi cant contribution to benefi t the community in some exceptional way either through volunteer activity or by carrying out work-related duties beyond what would nor-mally be expected in paid employment. The person must live or work in the Kanata, Goul-bourn or West Carleton area.

This citizen of the year award is selected by a committee from the nominations received. It is not determined by online voting as are all of the other awards.

The six nominated for citizen of the year are Daniel Alfredsson of the Ottawa Senators, Kathleen Ellis of the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Kanata Sunrise, John Curry of the Stittsville News EMC, Dr. Agatha Sidlauskas of Venta Preparatory School, Sam Spataro of the Vi-soneering Group and Brian Mason of the West Ottawa Soccer Club.

Nominated businesses in the categories for Goulbourn (including Stittsville) includes a wide range of businesses.

In the community supported/non-profi t or-ganization category for Goulbourn, nominees include the Richmond Village Association, the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville, Main Street Community Services and the Stittsville

Branch 618 of the Royal Canadian Legion.Saunders Farm of Munster has been nomi-

nated in the tourism business category for Goulbourn, as have the Canadian Golf and Country Club, the Amberwood Village Golf and Country Club, the Richmond Agricultural Society (Richmond Fair) and Sixty Four Hun-dred Celebration Centre.

In the health and wellness business category for Goulbourn, nominees include Canadian Sport Martial Arts Academy and Mahogany Salon and Spa, both of Stittsville, Spotlight Hair and Spa and Sue’s Hair Advantage, both of Richmond, Simply Spa and Nu Healings Nutrition.

The new business category for Goulbourn has four nominees – Bistrofi ftyfour at Amber-wood, Food Basics, Kungfu Bistro and Com-plete Hockey Development Centre.

In the large business category for Goulbourn, the nominees are Kerr Karpentry of Richmond, Saunders Farm of Munster and Mahogany Sa-lon and Spa, Re/Max Affi liates Realty, Laury-sen Kitchens Ltd., Stittsville Sobeys, Bradley’s Insurance and Tennant Jackson Peters LLP, all of Stittsville.

In the small business category for Goul-bourn, nominees are Bayview Windows, Ca-

nadian Sport Martial Arts Academy, Century Roofi ng and Siding, Complete Hockey De-velopment Centre, Dandelion Kids, Dragon’s Lair Beads, FaveQuest, Guardsman Insurance Services Inc., inGenius Engineering Inc., Jabu-lani Vineyard and Winery, Main Street Optical, Memories 2dvd, Oil Changers (Stittsville), Stittsville Automotive Service Centre Ltd., Sue’s Hair Advantage, The Co-Operators and Webshark Media Inc.

Nominees in the best restaurant category for Goulbourn include Bistrofi ftyfour, Cabotto’s, Kungfu Bistro, Mojo Fresh, Napoli’s Café and The Glen Scottish Restaurant, all in Stittsville.

In the retail business category for Goul-bourn, nominees are Brown’s Your Indepen-dent Grocer, Dragon Lair Beads and Gaia Java Coffee Company, all of Stittsville.

The nomination period, which began on Monday, Nov. 26, ran until midnight on Fri-day, Dec. 21.

Last year’s People’s Choice Business Awards of the Kanata Chamber of Commerce drew a record number of nominees as well as a record number of votes.

The awards will be presented at a gala awards night in the ballroom at the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata on Thursday, Feb. 21.

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Pre-school programSpecial to the News

EMC news - Duffer Doo. What’s that?No, it’s not a golfi ng program as you might suspect. Rather,

the Duffer Doo program is a play-based pre-school program for children aged 2 to 4 years.

And, while it has been offered in the Nepean area for over 30 years, it has never been offered outside the Nepean boundaries – until now.

Starting on Monday, Jan. 7, the Duffer Doo program is com-ing to Richmond. It will be offered at the Richmond Memorial Community Centre on Monday mornings as of that date.

The Duffer Doo program is designed to encourage and en-hance a child’s development with crafts, songs, games and theme-related activities. In the program, youngsters get to so-cialize with their peers and with caring staff in a fun environ-ment.

For more information about this Duffer Doo program, please contact Mary Lou Davidson, program coordinator for Rich-mond/Goulbourn for the Community Programs Branch of the city of Ottawa’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services De-partment at 613-580-2424, ext. 33271 or via email at [email protected] .

Additional information about this Duffer Doo program and about rural recreation programs in general can be obtained by visiting the website www.ottawa.ca/ruralwest .

Trivia Challenge Nightcoming on Friday, Feb. 22Special to the News

EMC news - Trivia will once again be running wild at the Lions Hall in Stittsville on Friday, Feb. 22.

That’s when the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville will be hosting its eighth an-nual Trivia Challenge Night – ten rounds of ten questions each, all trivia-related.

Each round has a prize while there are also three grand priz-es - $500 for fi rst place, $350 for second place and $150 for third place. Teams of eight people are able to compete for these prizes.

The funds raised by the Ro-tary Club of Ottawa – Stitts-ville through holding this an-nual Trivia Challenge Night help the Club with its commu-

nity and international projects which have included helping fund the Dave Smith Drug Treatment Centre and the Ot-tawa Rotary Home, a fresh water well in Ghana, a library and community centre in Lu-weero in Uganda, building a gazebo at a women’s shelter and developing youth leader-ship.

For more information about the eighth annual Trivia Chal-lenge Night being held by the Rotary Club of Ottawa- Stitts-ville on Friday, Feb. 22, or for information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Rotary Club members There-sa Qadri at 613-620-6245 or at [email protected] or Brad Spriggs at 613-836-1637 or at [email protected]

Time for fi nalswim and skateSpecial to the News

EMC news - Swimming or skating at the Goulbourn Rec-reation Complex (GRC) in Stittsville is a fun activity as this Christmas holiday time winds down.

Public swims with the slide available will take place at the pool at the GRC in Stittsville this Thursday, Jan. 3 and this Fri-day, Jan 4, all from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

There will also be family swims on Thursday, Jan. 3 and Fri-day, Jan. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon.

As for skating at the GRC, there will be a public skating ses-sion on Friday, Jan. 4 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m.

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January 7th 2013UPCOMING MAPLE GROVE ROAD CLOSURES!

IAs part of the Maple Grove Road construction upgrades the City has granted permission for additional construction of Maple Grove Road in two areas. The contractor, Taggart Construction Ltd., has been contracted by Mattamy Corp. to reconstruct Maple Grove Rd. Work includes sanitary, storm, watermain and road reconstruction.

Maple Grove from Alon Street to Johnwoods Street

The section of Maple Grove Road from Alon Street to Johnwoods will be reduced to one lane for required watermain work from January 7, 2013 to March 29, 2013. During some of this construction period the intersection of Johnwoods and Maple Grove Road will be completed closed requiring residents to follow a detour. This work will also entail some blasting and Mattamy Homes has been requested to notify nearby residents of this work. Local traffic and emergency vehicles will continue to have access on the temporary roads from Johnwoods to the open section of Maple Grove Road (east of this road closure).

Maple Grove Road from Rosehill Avenue to Silver Seven Road

The section of Maple Grove Road from Rosehill Avenue to Silver Seven Road will be completely closed for required watermain work and storm sewer upgrades from January 16, 2013 to April 6, 2013.

As part of the requirements for these road closures, the roadway must be reopened to the public once it is feasible to do so. If the roadway is reopened before asphalt is available, the contractor must open the road with a smooth hard packed granular surface. The roadway surface must be to the satisfaction of the City. The contractor is responsible for all roadway maintenance (inc. snow removal, filling potholes) until such time as all work is complete (inc. paving).

For general information on the Maple Grove Road construction project please visit: http://www.shadqadri.com/plan_trans.htm.

For more information on this closure and construction work please contact Daniel Potechin, Construction Manager, Land Development, Mattamy Homes at 613-831-3506 or [email protected]. Please feel free to copy me on any correspondence you send to Mattamy Homes on this matter.

STITTSVILLE MAIN STREET COMMUNITY DESIGN PLANOn November 1, 2012, a visioning workshop was held in Stittsville to kick off the Stittsville Main Street Community Design Plan. Residents, business and land owners, and community members were all welcome to attend this public meeting and provide input for the vision and guidance for the growth of the area. For more information on the visioning workshop please visit the below brief summary document.

Feedback collected from round table discussions lead to some common themes. Stittsville Main Street should:

small commercial enterprises at grade and residential above in low-rise buildings;

network connections;

A draft vision statement for the project has emerged and reads as follows:

A community destination with a commercial and residential main street that preserves heritage and village character and is pedestrian and cyclist friendly.

For more information visit http://www.shadqadri.com/plan_gen.htm and http://ottawa.ca/en/stittsville-main-street-community-design-plan

Have your say! Your input is essential in creating a framework for future development along Stittsville Main Street. Please contribute and send your ideas to [email protected] and to stay up to date on the project, subscribe now!

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PLEASE REMOVE ALL DECORATIONS.DID YOU KNOW? EARLY ROADS & SLEIGHSIt was the development of roads that made social life possible in the settlement. Although they were at first primitive, they served the purpose of improved communication. The transition from a footpath to a wagon road was gradual and usually obstacles such as hills, rocks or swamps were avoided by going around them wherever possible.

It was in the winter that social life was most vibrant. This was because people could travel with much more ease over the snow in their home-made sledges than they could over the difficult roads encountered through other seasons. They also had more leisure time in the winter as opposed to harvest season earlier in the year.

even shod with iron. There were also fancier versions of these sleds called

*Information regarding the “Did you know…” story was taken from the book Stittsville a Sense of Place

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It was Partridge Acres own-er and head trainer Veronica Grajewski who introduced the Partridge Talent Search in or-der to give deserving young riders a chance to shine by linking them up with Pippins for a year. Emily Iob took this opportunity and the results speak for themselves. She says that she entered the Tal-ent Search because she saw it as an amazing opportunity for a rider.

“Emily exceeded our ex-pectations, facing every chal-lenge with determination, a smile and a positive attitude,” Veronica Grajewski says about Emily’s equestrian per-formances in 2012.

“Time after time, Emily was put to the test and always came out on top,” she adds.

She notes that from the time that Emily teamed up with Pippins, she was a de-termined and bold rider who took instruction and feedback well, always pushing forward without letting a diffi cult ride set her back in her determina-tion to form a bond with Pip-pins.

Ms. Grajewski notes that as 2012 progressed, the partner-ship between Emily and Pip-

pins “clicked” and they soon became the team to beat at equestrian competitions.

She points out that the performance of Emily and Pippins in the season-ending horse show was “magical” as they won all of their classes that day, clinching champion-ships in three divisions in the overall year-end awards in the Ottawa region.

Emily herself knows that 2012 became an unforgettable year for her.

“Veronica has been an amazing coach and remained very positive throughout all of the ups and downs we faced,” Emily says. She praises her coach, noting how she makes every lesson fun. She realizes that her experiences in 2012 allowed her to take her riding to a new level.

“Overall the team at Par-tridge Acres went above and beyond to make this a year I will never forget,” Emily says while thanking her coach Veronica and all of the other riders at Partridge Acres for all they did to support her in 2012. And don’t forget Pip-pins, that wonderful pony who was her mount throughout the year. Emily says that her most memorable experience dur-ing the year with Pippins was

when they won their class at the Vermont Summer Festi-val national level horse show. She also remembers how the judges at some shows com-mented on how great Pippins’ jump was. Emily came to re-alize that Pippins has quite a personality and she feels that they bonded as a team.

Coming off this spectacu-lar year, Emily will have a new partner in 2013, replac-ing Pippins, but she is look-ing forward working with her coach and her new mount as she continues her equestrian development. Her ultimate goal is to ride at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.

And as for Pippins, he will be linked up with a new rider, 14 year old Katie Lefebvre of Stittsville, winner of the 2013 Partridge Talent Search. Un-der the guidance of Veronica Grajewski, they will be un-dertaking a journey similar to that enjoyed by Emily Iob and Pippins this past year.

Partridge Acres, located on John Kennedy Way (take highway seven to Upper Dw-yer Hill Road and then go via Hamilton Road to John Ken-nedy Way), considers itself more than just an equestrian lesson and show stable. It also tries to be a home away from

home for its riders where they can learn important life les-sons, can form friendships and can develop good sports-manship.

It serves pony, junior and adult amateur riders and com-petitors of all ages and skill levels from two year old “pre-pony garten” students to com-petitive A/AA circuit riders.

The coaching team at Par-tridge Acres includes owner and head trainer Veronica Grajewski as well as her daughter Eva Grajewski. Jen Eastwood-Fisher is the stable manager at Partridge Acres.

The Partridge Acres eques-trian centre is designed to provide quality, comfort and happiness to every equine in-habitant, rider and spectator. Partridge Acres has heated, insulated and well ventilated stables as well as a full insu-lated indoor year round train-ing arena that is attached di-rectly to the stables. There is also an outdoor sand ring as well as a complete show ring, two hunter derby courses with natural jumps and elements and a grand prix fi eld with natural elements including a bank. Partridge Acres can be contacted at 613-864-4168. The Partridge Acres website can be found at www.par-tridgeacres.com . Partridge Acres is also on Facebook and Twitter.

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Councillor Moffatt notes that the Canadian Golf and Country Club and residents of Country Club Village always had a direct eastward road connection until highway seven was reconstructed and made into a four lane, restrict-ed access road. He said that this reconstruction was done at the expense of the golf club and Country Club Village residents, something that has

taken about 15 years to fi x. But there is still no defi nite

timeline for construction of the road.

Councillor Moffatt says that design work and tender-ing will be a task for 2013, with money identifi ed for the project in the city of Ottawa’s budget for 2014. The condi-tions set for by the Ministry of the Environment for the road’s approval will have to be satisfi ed to allow construc-tion to go ahead.

Councillor Moffatt met with Ministry personnel sev-eral months ago to explain the project in an attempt to speed up the approval which has now come through.

He admits that this new road may impact only several hundred residents but that this is an issue that has consumed community interest over the years. He lists getting Minis-try approval for this new road connection as one of his big-gest achievements in the fi rst

two years of his term as city of Ottawa councillor for the area because of its importance to the affected community of Country Club Village.

This road connecting Coun-try Club Village and the Cana-dian Golf and Country Club to Jinkinson Road, providing a direct route to and from the east, has been an issue since the planning stages for the creation of the four-lane high-way seven.

Construction of this new

road ran into opposition dur-ing the planning process for the expanded highway seven not only in that other routes in and out of the Country Club Village community were con-sidered as perhaps adequate alternatives but also from en-vironmental advocates who opposed the road which would run through a wetland area.

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Senior programs in Richmond John [email protected]

EMC news - Attention, all seniors in the Richmond area.

The Rural Ottawa South Support Services, which is offering senior programs in the Richmond community, has several programs which it is offering for seniors in the Richmond area.

Starting in January, the Rural Ottawa South Support Services will be offering a breakfast club, a diners pro-gram and a caregivers support group program in Richmond.

The breakfast club will be held on the second Monday of each month and it will be-gin on Monday, Jan. 14 at 9 a.m. at Royals Restaurant on Perth Street at Lennox Street in Richmond. Those planning to attend should call Bonnie Smith of the Rural Ottawa South Support Services by Thursday, Jan. 10 at 613-692-4697, ext. 238.

There’s also a diner’s club program which will begin on Monday, Jan. 21, running

from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church Hall on Fowler Street in Richmond. This will take place on the third Monday of each month.

The cost is only $7.50 per person but those attending must register a week before by calling Bonnie Smith of the Rural Ottawa South Sup-port Services at 613-692-4697, ext. 238.

A caregivers support group program is also being offered. It will be held on the fourth Monday of each month, with the initial session being held on Monday, Jan. 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church Hall on Fowler Street in Rich-mond. This caregivers sup-port group is for anyone who is caring for a spouse, parent or family member. It will deal with effective strategies that can be engaged to help in this caregiving task.

Those interested in being part of this caregivers sup-port group should call Bon-nie Smith of the Rural Ot-

tawa South Support Services at 613-692-4697, ext. 238 to register.

The Rural Ottawa South Support Services also has an offi ce right in Richmond that will be open on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and also on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Located at the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church Hall on Fowler Street in Rich-mond, this Richmond offi ce can be contacted by phone at 613-219-6982.

For more information about the Rural Ottawa South Support Services and the pro-grams and services which it offers, please contact program coordinator Bonnie Smith at [email protected] or by phone at 613-692-4697, ext. 238.

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EMC news - Sacred Heart Catholic High School grade eight student Lauren Treffers already knows that she wants to be a teacher. And not just any teacher.

“I want to be a grade two teacher,” she says, recounting how her grade two teacher at St. Philip Catholic School in Richmond, Ms. Butler, is the kind of teacher that she her-self wants to be like.

“I really enjoyed grade two. She just made it special,” Lauren says.

She also points out that teaching grade two means dealing with students who tend to be good listeners and are at a nice age, seven and eight years old.

“I like being with kids,” the 13 year old says, indicating another reason why she wants to be a teacher. Indeed, she currently babysits two young-sters after school and also this past summer was a babysitter all day long for a youngster. So, as you see, she puts into practice her liking to be with kids.

Lauren has also been in-

volved with her youngster sister Holly, who is now 11, and others over the past seven years in holding a fundraising lemonade stand on a day dur-ing the summer where they raise funds for a charitable cause.

This past year the funds raised went to the Wild Bird Care Centre.

In previous summers, the causes supported have ranged from children in Africa to sav-ing polar bears.

Fundraising and helping in the community is nothing new for Lauren. At the Art in the Park event at Memorial Park in Richmond last June, she and her sister set up a lemon-ade stand to raise money for the Richmond Food Bank.

Indeed, she volunteers at the Richmond Food Bank and even though she has already achieved the community ser-vice hours that she needs as a grade eight student, she con-tinues to volunteer there.

Last spring, Lauren was among those who joined a si-lent vigil at Memorial Park in Richmond to protest Canada’s exporting of asbestos to other countries. The Canadian gov-ernment has since then taken

action to halt the mining of asbestos in Canada.

Every spring Lauren helps out with a spring clean-up in Richmond, picking up the winter litter from some loca-tion in the community.

She used to be in Sparks and Brownies where she says she had a lot of fun and she still treasures her badge-cov-ered sash.

At Sacred Heart, Lauren is involved with the Free the Children organization which recently raised over $1,500 in a penny drive at the school. The funds will help provide clean water to people in Af-rica.

Lauren has also signed up for the Red Maple Reading Club at Sacred Heart, a Club whose members read books written by Canadian authors. She admits to liking to read and although she has an e-reader, she still prefers read-ing paper books.

At school, she is playing the fl ute in music class which she is enjoying. She used to take piano lessons and can still play piano.

Lauren is in the French Im-mersion program at Sacred Heart and plans to stay in

the program as she continues through high school. She is taking her parents’ advice that having a fl uency in French will help her in the job market later in life.

She attended St. Philip Catholic School in Richmond until grade four when she moved to Holy Spirit Catho-lic School in Stittsville for the French Immersion program.

Lauren uses email but has no Facebook or Twitter ac-counts since she believes that there is a lot of cyber bullying that takes place there and she does not want to have any part of it.

Lauren likes to travel and has enjoy family trips to Prince Edward Island, Florida and St. Lucia. She is looking forward to a family Mediter-rean cruise later this year and being exposed to the differ-ent cultures and languages to which she will be exposed on the trip.

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EMC news - It’s business but it’s also a time for socializing. That’s the annual general meeting of the Goulbourn Town-ship Historical Society which is coming up on Saturday, Jan. 19.

The tradition has developed that this annual general meeting (AGM) rotates around the various communities of Goul-bourn and so this year this AGM is be-ing held in Stittsville. Specifi cally, the AGM will be held at the Stittsville United Church on Fernbank Road just west of Stittsville Main Street on Saturday, Jan. 19, beginning at 12 noon.

A dinner prepared by the ladies of Stittsville United Church will be served at noon. This is an opportunity not only for a delicious meal but also provides an opportunity to socialize and chat before the business portion of the AGM gets un-derway.

Cost of the dinner is only $15, with all Historical Society members urged to at-tend if possible. However, those planning to attend are asked to indicate your atten-dance by reserving a ticket by emailing [email protected]. As for paying for the dinner, you can pay

at the door that day.It is important that the Historical So-

ciety know how many are planning to at-tend so that the ladies at the church can prepare the correct amount of food for the dinner.

In the business portion of the AGM, the Historical Society will be dealing with two proposed changes to its bylaws. One raises the number of Board members elected from the current seven to eight. If passed, the Board of Directors would consist of eight Directors elected at an AGM plus the Society’s immediate past president who would be a non-voting member.

The second proposed bylaw change deals with the reasons why a Board mem-ber may opt to leave the Board of Direc-tors before the expiry of his/her term. It adds “health issues” to the list of reasons why a Board member may opt to leave the Board. The existing bylaw cites “per-sonal choice” and “poor attendance” as reasons for leaving the Board.

The proposed new bylaw would also allow the Board to appoint a replacement for a departing Board member either for part or for all of the remainder of the term of the departing Board member. The ex-isting bylaw calls for the appointment to

be for the remainder of the term of the departing Board member.

Present members of the Board of Di-rectors of the Goulbourn Township His-torical Society are Barbara Bottriell, who is president, Rev. Jim Kirkpatrick, Deb-bie Proulx, Mike Bryan, Lee Boltwood, John Brummell, Tina Cockram and Rob-in Derrick.

The Goulbourn Township Historical Society promotes local history. Among its activities are identifying and mark-ing heritage buildings in the community, encouraging historical research and pro-moting interest in local history. The His-torical Society also runs an annual photo contest and holds regular monthly meet-ings featuring guest speakers.

The Historical Society also publishes books featuring local history. In 2012, the Society reprinted Bernie Shaw’s “Ghosts of Goulbourn” book and also published a new book entitled “Goulbourn Stained Glass” which features photographs of the stained glass windows in Goulbourn churches. The text was researched and written by Bernie Shaw.

For more information about the Goul-bourn Township Historical Society, please contact Historical Society president Bar-bara Bottriell at 613-836-2305.

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The thing about anticipating a great event is that the event is always great in anticipation. It’s only when it becomes a real event that

it risks being disappointing.So bring on the 150th anniversary

celebrations, Canada’s next big birthday, scheduled for 2017, unless government cutbacks cause it to be postponed. Already, the government is said to be putting out feelers to Canadians, asking them for ideas on how the event can be properly marked. According to reports, cross-country con-sultations are beginning this month.

The aim is to make the 150th as memo-rable as the 100th was. Those who were there remember it as a pretty good one, but it might be different this time. It’s pretty diffi cult to imagine this government or any future one laying out the kind of dough that was spent in 1967. Expo 67 was only the biggest of many large expenditures.

Don’t forget the hundreds of centennial projects that were built across the country. If not for the centennial there would be empty spaces where a lot of the arenas and concert halls are in Canadian cities.

Not to say that our present-day govern-ments, at all levels, are stingy, but is there another word that describes them better? Furthermore, our taxpayers are far less ad-venturous in spirit than they were in 1967.

It’s with these facts in mind that we have to consider the contribution we will make to the cross-country consultations. In order to gain government acceptance, proposals

to celebrate the 150th have to be, let’s say, modest in scale.

Better still, they have to include provi-sions for corporations to pay for them.

So where does that leave us, here in the capital? Under different circumstances we might think of the 150th as the perfect occasion for the unveiling of the long-discussed portrait gallery, which was once to be located on Wellington Street across from Parliament Hill. But we won’t get that now. Maybe, instead, a PowerPoint presentation sponsored by a bank.

There are some possibilities in the idea of re-enactment. This year there were re-enactments of key battles in the War of 1812. Maybe some of that could be done in 2017, re-enactments of key moments in the national capital’s history, with due consideration of budgetary realities.

Actors, as long as they are not paid too much, could portray Charlotte Whitton battling with city councillors, Thomas D’Arcy McGee breathing his last, Pierre Elliott Trudeau walking in the snow.

Celebrations of this sort should also look forward. Peering into the future is always interesting. In 1967 it may have been imagined that the Ottawa of 2013 would have public transit fl ying through the air, hologram movies projected into the night sky and an enlightened government capable of anticipating the needs of the people. None of this has come true, but the exercise is still worth the effort.

So let’s think about Ottawa 2117 as presented this year at Expo 17. Public tran-sit fl ying through air, except in a tunnel. Hologram movies available to elite cable subscribers. Still no portrait gallery, but they’re thinking of using the last building in the city that isn’t a condo.

In other 2117 developments, the 19-digit telephone number comes into effect, ad-ditional parking is on Mars and another bridge to the Quebec side still under review.

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December 2012 ended with a bang not a whimper.

That is if you don’t count the moans and whines from various residents after they were hit with two big snowstorms and 50-plus centimetres of snow.

Ottawa residents haven’t seen weather like this for years and it’s understandable that it will take some of us a little time to adjust.

First and foremost, the inclement weather has been

accompanied by a rise in the cases of colds, the fl u and other illnesses.

But that is mostly a product of people huddling together inside and sharing their germs.

The fi rst part of any intelligent person’s survival guide for the Great Canadian Winter must begin with an old adage you probably heard from your mother: wash your hands.

Wash them frequently.And if you’re sick, stay

home and recover.Many workaholics will

show up at the offi ce even while fending off a bad bout of the bubonic plaque.

While their work ethic is commendable, it only serves to spread the sickness to co-workers.

Stay home, rest up and return to work recharged and healthy.

But the cold weather and heaps of white stuff aren’t all doom and gloom.

Winter is a season of play

for ski and skating enthusi-asts.

Owners of ski hills in Quebec and Ontario are bub-bling with jubilation over the recent snowfall.

Skiing on real snow, you see, is a whole new experi-ence compared to gliding down the artifi cial stuff.

As for Canada’s national sport, volunteers across the country are out in force clear-ing the ice pads and outdoor rinks to make way for the legion of children hungering

for a game of scrimmage hockey.

The average 10-year-old boy or girl’s eye’s light up when they see the thermom-eter dip below zero and hear that the roads are choked with snow.

Of course that can only mean one thing.

A school snow day and a morning spent chasing a piece of vulcanized rubber with their buddies on the lo-cal rink.

January also sees the ar-rival of the Bell Capital Cup, bringing together hundreds of teams, both from Ontario and Quebec and other countries and thousands of atom-age

hockey players.This year, the cup features

the Capital City Condors, a team with players with intellectual and physical dis-abilities.

For these children, the winter and the opportunity to play hockey is a thing of joy. An emotion that can’t help translate to the hearts of volunteers who run the team and onlookers who watch them play.

For those who hate the winter, let your Grinch hearts defrost a little and take notice of the opportunities that pres-ent themselves.

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EMC sports - Lindsay Kavanagh of Stitts-ville is playing for the Carleton Ravens wom-en’s basketball team this season.

The 6 foot, 2 inch forward is one of fi ve new additions to the team’s lineup this sea-son.

The Ravens have a record of six wins and two losses in regular season play going into the Christmas break, including fi ve straight wins in their last fi ve games.

Wearing jersey number 22, Lindsay, as a rookie, has seen limited action, ranging from ten minutes to two minutes per game.

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EMC news – Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren is betting that selling off Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) won’t land his Progressive Conservative party in hot water with legal authorities.

MacLaren’s boss, PC leader Tim Hudak, made public last month an election-style white paper called “Paths to Prosperity”. He proposes changes to health care, energy production, la-bour relations, and items such as selling off the LCBO and OLG.

However, critics claim privatizing OLG would be illegal, since the Criminal Code of Canada says gambling must be “conducted and managed” by the province.

MacLaren doubts that will make a differ-ence.

“I don’t think it is illegal,” MacLaren said.

“We would have the regulatory authority. All the laws and regulations would remain.”

He said a PC government, which could come as early as spring if the Liberals call an election and lose, would continue to collect signifi cant tax revenue from a privatized OLG. But Ma-cLaren shrugs his shoulders at the notion that 9,000 people working in the province’s casinos would be paid less were a private owner to take over.

“We don’t know they are going to pay them less,” he said.

OLG is in the midst of selling off almost ev-ery facet of its operation.

The PCs would disband the foreign-owned monopoly behind the Beer Store. They would also allow corner stores to sell beer and wine, an idea fi rst proposed in the mid-1980s by Lib-eral leader David Paterson.

More contentious is their idea to sell off the LCBO, which brings an added $1.6 billion to

government coffers. After the white paper was made public, the PCs admitted they had no idea how much more money the province stood to gain from privatizing the LCBO. A 2005 re-port commissioned by the Liberal government, penned by the Beverage Alcohol System Re-view Panel, concluded that greater competition would bring in about $200 million or more per year.

Social opponents say boosting alcohol sales will lead to greater domestic violence, drunk driving accidents and more. Fiscal opponents say selling off a revenue generator is short-term gain for long-term pain. Champions of the mid-dle class say good-paying LCBO jobs, some of the best jobs in rural Ontario these days, would be replaced by lower end convenience store clerk jobs. Still, according to the Canadian Tax-payer Federation, the number of liquor stores in Alberta has increased by 613 per cent since privatization came into effect in 1993.

MPP sees no legal problem with OLG sale

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EMC news - The Stittsville Village As-sociation once again in 2012 presented its Award for Excellence in Community Lead-ership to three high school graduating stu-dents.

The award is presented to a graduat-ing student at Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Stittsville, South Carleton High School in Richmond and Frederick Banting Alternate Program School in Stittsville.

This year the name of the award was changed from “Civic Leadership” to “Com-munity Leadership” to make it clear that the award is for student leadership shown in the community.

Another change this year was that the se-lection of the recipient at each school was done by a school committee. In previous year a committee of the SVA had made the actual selection. Most high school awards are selected by the school committee ac-cording to the criteria for the award and now this SVA award follows this same practice.

This year, as in the past, the three students receiving the award were given a commem-orative plaque as well as the accompanying $200 monetary award.

A representative of the SVA presented the award at the graduation ceremony of each of the schools.

SVA director Jamie Lynn Young present-ed the award at the Sacred Heart Catholic High School graduation ceremony while SVA director Laurie Scheer presented the award at the South Carleton High School graduation ceremony.

SVA immediate past president Metin Akgun presented the award at the Freder-ick Banting Alternate Program’s graduation ceremony.

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Newspaper clipping wallpaper at A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary SchoolChris Toivonen, vice-principal at A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School in Stittsville, is in a meeting room at the school where the walls are covered with newspaper clippings featuring articles and photos that deal with activities, accomplishments and achievements involving A. Lorne Cassidy students. And why does he plaster the walls of the room with these clippings. Here’s the reason in Mr. Toivonen’s own words: “I think that students in the school need to be recognized in a lot of diff erent ways, whether it’s in school or in the community, and we really like to see our students succeed in all aspects of their lives and to celebrate that in the school it really brings the connection from community to school that we can all work together and have kids thrive.”


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EMC news - “Goulbourn Stained Glass” is a recently published Goulbourn Township Historical Society book authored by Bernie Shaw,.

Stained glass windows have been a feature in churches for centuries. Evidence of stained glass windows in Britain can be found as early as the seventh century. Stained glass designs became more elaborate during the Middle Ages and in the following Renaissance and Refor-mation periods. And it has continued through to the present, with many new techniques and types of glass used.

Goulbourn churches are part of this stained glass window tradition. In fact, there are more than 100 such stained glass windows in 12 Goulbourn township churches or former churches.

In her foreword to the book, Historical So-ciety president Barbara Bottriell notes that this was more than a book about stained glass win-dows.

“This is a book about windows,” she writes, “but it is really about the families to whom the windows were dedicated and their ancestors who fi rst crossed the seas to come to Goul-bourn Township.”

The connection of each window to Goul-bourn township is outlined in the book.

Author Bernie Shaw, in his preface to the book, notes that the book attempts to give a representative picture of early life in Goul-bourn Township illustrated through the lives of the families remembered in the church window memorials.

Churches and their stained glass windows

which are dealt with in the book include Stitts-ville United Church, St. Thomas Anglican Church and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, all in Stittsville; St. Paul’s United Church, St. John’s Anglican Church and St. Philip Catho-lic Church, all in Richmond; St. Clare Catholic Church at Dwyer Hill; Munster United Church and St. Stephen Anglican Church (now the Munster branch of the Ottawa Public library) in Munster; and Christ Church Anglican, Ash-ton United Church and Melville Presbyterian Church (now a private residence), all in Ash-ton.

The book also contained a brief description of the history of church stained glass windows as well as a map showing the location of the various churches in Goulbourn.

The three photographers who took the pic-tures of the church stained glass windows which appear in full colour in the book are John Brummell, Mike Bryan and John Bottriell.

Bernie Shaw did all of the research and writ-ing for the text of the book while John Bottriell did all of the design and layout of the book. Barbara Bottriell was also involved with the production of the booking terms of overseeing its production as overall editor.

Proof reading was done by Joan Darby and Georgia Derrick.

The book features full colour photos of 105 stained glass windows found in Goulbourn churches.

The book is selling for $20 a copy and can be ordered with a cheque sent by mail to the Goulbourn Township Historical Society, P.O. Box 621, Stittsville, Ontario K2S 1A7.

The cheque should also include $3 for post-age for one copy or $5 for postage for two cop-ies.

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EMC news - Wednesday, Sept. 16 is a date of signifi -cance in Stittsville’s history.

It is particularly important in the community’s railway history as Sept. 16, 1870 was the day when the fi rst train steamed along the newly built line and past the newly con-structed Stittsville railway sta-tion at the site of what is now Village Square in downtown Stittsville. The rail line from Ottawa to Carleton Place fol-lowed the route which is now the Trans Canada Trail.

This would mark the begin-ning of 120 years of railway service through the commu-nity, ending on Jan. 14, 1990 when a westbound VIA pas-senger train swept through the village on its way to the west coast. This was the last day of train traffi c through Stitts-ville as railway crews started ripping up the track the very next day.

Of course, the Stittsville railway station, once the hub of community life, had been long gone by the time this last train passed through Stitts-ville. The railway station had been demolished in 1969, just one year shy of the 100th an-niversary of the fi rst train ser-vice to the community.

Imagine what it must have been like on Sept. 16, 1870 when the fi rst train, suitably decorated for the occasion, passed through Stittsville? This was the newest and latest form of travel and what an im-provement over the horse and buggy age that had predomi-nated local transportation up until that time.

The Canada Central Rail-way, which built the line from Ottawa to Carleton to link up to its existing line from Brockville to Carleton, was taken over by the Cana-dian Pacifi c Railway in 1882, which retained ownership un-til the track was removed in 1990 and the right of way was eventually sold to the then re-gional government of Ottawa-Carleton, eventually becom-ing the Trans Canada Trail.

In any case, on Sept. 16, 1870, the fi rst scheduled train to run along the track came steaming along from Ottawa, headed for Carleton Place.

This fi rs train involved eight coaches, pulled by a power-ful steam locomotive named H.H. Abbott after the con-tractor who had built the rail line. The engine apparently was a sight to behold with its shining steel jacket, brass trimmings and its wooden fi t-tings painted bright red and all decked out with Union Jack fl ags and red, white and blue bunting. Yes, to be standing at the Stittsville station and watch the arrival and depar-ture of this celebratory fi rst train would have been a mem-orable day to be sure.

This fi rst train was pass-ing through Stittsville and Goulbourn just a month af-ter the disastrous Carleton County Fire of 1870 had lev-eled much of the surrounding land, killing two people in the Stittsville area and destroying many buildings. Indeed, the railway line under construc-tion had been used to trans-port water in barrels from the Mississippi River at Carleton Place to Goulbourn, carrying 40 barrels per trip. In addi-tion, railway workers scurried about the countryside, help-ing local farmers battle the quickly advancing blaze. It all helped but this blaze, later known as the Great Fire, de-stroyed everything in its path and only some quick thinking in releasing a dam at Dow’s Lake in Ottawa prevented the fi re from consuming Ottawa as well.

The Great Fire destroyed much of Stittsville which was at the time centred in the area of what is now the Carp Road between Hazeldean Road and Stittsville Main Street. When Stittsville rebuilt, much of it happened not at the former location but in the vicinity of the new railway station which emerged as the heart of the village as the years went on and train traffi c increased. Hotels and stores sprung up around the railway station, forever changing the hub of the village.

An extensive system of tracks came to be established at Stittsville, with switches and sidings as the railway be-came the vehicle by which lo-cal farmers got their produce to market.

The rail line also served passenger traffi c, with many

travelling from Stittsville to either Ottawa or Carleton Place for shopping, school, visiting or work. Mail was carried by the trains as well as freight of all kinds.

Up to eight trains a day passed through Stittsville at one time. The station was a busy, busy spot, made even busier when the Canadian Pa-cifi c Railway completed its cross-Canada telegraph lines in 1886, adding Canada-wide telegraph services to its offer-ings at its stations including Stittsville.

While the new railway line

brought lots of joy on that September day in 1870 and resulted in much daily activity throughout the years, the rail line did bring tragedy as well.

In 1898, early on a foggy October morning just east of Stittsville, a westbound freight train collided head-on with a train from Toronto. Two of the train crew died and several were injured. Both locomo-tives were so badly damaged that they were written off. Fortunately none of the pas-senger cars were overturned although the passengers were shaken up.

Two years later, in 1900, an 18 year old girl, daughter

of James Butler who built the three storey red brick ho-tel that now houses Hudson Insurance at the corner of Stittsville Main Street and Abbott Street, fell in front of a slow moving engine and was killed.

As the years went by, the train remained a transporta-tion staple for the Stittsville and Goulbourn community, although the coming of the automobile and its increasing popularity did infl uence train travel. The construction of a provincial highway through Stittsville in 1922, crossing the track right at the railway station, was a sign of the

growing use and popularity of the automobile. However, during the years of World War Two, troop trains were a com-mon sight along the rail line.

However, after World War Two, the growing popularity of automobiles brought about a gradual decline in train traf-fi c, eventually leading to the discontinuation of local rail service and the removal of the train station in the late 1960’s.

Rail traffi c was to continue for another two decades un-til that day in January, 1990, when the last train passed through, ending 120 years of train travel through Stittsville.

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This scene shows the railway track system in Stittsville sometime before 1911 as it shows Mann’s store at the corner of Abbott Street and Stittsville Main Street at the far right which burned down in 1911. The railway station’s platform can be seen at the left while the three storey brick building which is now the home of Hudson Insurance at the southwest corner of Abbott Street and Stittsville Main Street can be seen in the centre of the scene. The railway line now serves as the route for the Trans Canada Trail through Stittsville.

This photograph shows Stittsville’s railway complex around 1895, with what is now Stittsville Main Street crossing the tracks in the foreground. It shows the original railway station that was situated near the street, with the water tower in the distance. A new station was built a little further east where the station building is now located at Village Square Park in present-day Stittsville.



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EMC news - To give an idea of the activities which went on at the camp-grounds in Stittsville, following is an ex-cerpt from The Stittsville News on June 1, 1961, entitled “Historic Year At Stitts-ville Camp”:

“The year of 1961 for Stittsville Free Methodist Campground gives prospects and promises of being a most historic year. The regular ten day family camp, open to everyone of the public, opens on June 30 and continues until July 9 with outstanding speakers and singers in at-tendance.

This year, for the fi rst year, there is to be three children’s camps with children from Stittsville and surrounding area welcome. The fi rst camp opens July 10 and continues until July 17 for ages 7-9;

the next is from July 17-21 for ages 9-12; and the third camp from July 24-31 is for ages 12-15. The camps are well su-pervised and each day is full of interest for children with singing, Bible stories, swimming, games, etc. Those interested for further particulars should write Rev. W.C.A. McFarlane, 85 McGill Street, Smiths Falls, Ontario.

The regular Youth Camp will be held from August 20-27 with a hearty wel-come to all teenagers with a program geared to the interests of youth. Rev. Gor-don Hammand of Haley’s Station, Ontar-io is in charge of this camp and will be glad to hear from interested youth. The evening services and Sundays are open to the public of all ages.

The outstanding event of the year will be the entertaining of the Eastern On-tario Conference of the Free Methodist Church when approximately 100 min-

isters and delegates from all points of Eastern Ontario including the Muskoka district and Western Quebec will be in at-tendance with hundreds of church people attending. This will be the fi rst time that the Stittsville Camp has held anything of this magnitude. The conference will commence on Wednesday, August 9 and will fi nish on Saturday, August 12 with a special Sunday with three services.

With many people coming a great distance, the Stittsville Camp billeting committee is greatly concerned to secure help in billeting these people. Therefore the committee is calling on the people of Stittsville and surrounding area who have a spare room to write Rev. C.H. James, Box 1154, Carleton Place, giving further particulars. This will be greatly appre-ciated by the committee which in turn shall do its best to comply with people’s wishes.”

Children’s and youth camps at Methodist Campground in ‘61

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Two singers/guitarists: two stylesJohn [email protected]

EMC news - Both were singers who accom-panied themselves on the guitar. But the simi-larity stopped there as their musical offerings were quite different, not only in style but also in content.

Michelle McGruer has a country style to her music. Even her non-country songs are done with a country feel.

But veteran singer/musician Michael Pol-lard delivers his songs with a pop/rock fl avour, with a harder-edged delivery.

And whereas Michelle McGruer featured songs mainly from newer generation stars such as Taylor Swift, A Fine Frenzy and Miranda Lambert, Michael Pollard drew most of his songs from more legendary singers like Johnny Rivers, Wilson Pickett, Pete Seeger, The Mc-Coys, the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel.

So, same tools, a voice and a guitar, but thanks to style and material, there were two different segments to the Friday Music Night on Friday, Dec. 21 at the Gaia Java Coffee Company shop at the Stittsville Shopping Cen-tre (Shoppers Drug Mart plaza) on Stittsville Main Street.

Michelle McGruer, singing behind a poster promoting Project Upstream, an Ottawa or-ganization that provides support services and housing options for adults with mental ill-ness and an organization which she supports, showed her country fl avour right off the bat to the capacity audience with two country songs, following it up with the Kid Rock hit “All Summer Long” from the 2007 album “Rock n Roll Jesus.”

Michelle then drew from American alterna-tive singer A Fine Frenzy aka Alison Sudol in singing “Almost Lover,” a 2007 single that was a hit in Europe. Michelle dedicated the song to her mother who was in attendance.

And not to forget her father, who was also there, Michelle next sang “Father and Son,” the 1970 hit by British singer Cat Stevens, a folk rock song featured on his legendary “Tea for the Tillerman” album. She dedicated the song to her father.

And, as snow could be seen falling outside through the coffee shop’s front window behind her, Michelle followed this up with a string of songs including “Are you going to kiss me or

not?”, a Grammy nominated song by the Amer-ican country duo Thompson Square, another by American country singer Miranda Lambert and fi nally a seasonal song “Christmas Must Be Something More,” out of the songbook of American singer Taylor Swift.

After an intermission break, it was then singer/guitarist Michael Pollard who took the performance microphone, accompanied by an-other guitarist who has performed at the Gaia Java shop in the past, Neil Bateman.

Michael began with “Secret Agent Man,” a song associated with Johnny Rivers which was the theme song for the 1960’s television series “Danger Man.” He then sang “Darling, Darling, Stand by Me,” a standard that over the years has been sung by such stars as Ben E. King, John Lennon, The Temptations and Mar-vin Gaye.

Michael sang two auto-themed songs, “Mer-cury Blues,” (“Going to buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road”) and “Mustang Sally,” the rhythm and blues song which was a hit for Wilson Pickett in 1966.

Michael also delivered the Pete Seeger writ-ten “Where Have All The Flowers Gone,” per-haps his best known song and one which be-came a hit for the Kingston Trio back in 1962.

And so it went, as Michael Pollard sang a bevy of memorable hits such as “Walking on Sunshine”, a 1985 hit by the English/Ameri-can pop rock band Katrina and The Waves, “Hang On Sloopy,” a number one hit for the pop group The McCoys which has become the offi cial rock song of Ohio State University, “She Was Just Seventeen,” by the Beatles from their debut album in 1963, and songs associ-ated with Elvis Costello as well as Simon and Garfunkel.

So, two singer/guitarists – two different mu-sical presentations – but with one common ele-ment: entertaining, enjoyable music. No won-der robust applause followed every song.

For Michelle McGruer, a Sacred Heart Catholic High School graduate who is now in her second year at Carleton University, it was a big night as it was her fi rst performance out-side a school setting.

It was the musical theatre class that she took in grade 11 at Sacred Heart that got her inter-ested in music and also in playing the guitar. The country edge to her music came naturally as she has loved country music since she was

very young and is a faithful listener to the country music radio station Y101.

Michelle also works as a barista at the Gaia Java Coffee Company shop.

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Paul Melsness, left, of the Gaia Java Coff ee Company shop at the Stittsville Shopping Centre in Stittsville, introduces guitar/vocalist Michelle McGruer, right, at the Friday Music Night at the coff ee shop on Friday, Dec. 21 where she was performing to raise funds for Project Upstream, an organization which provides support services and housing options for adults with mental illness.



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Funds raised for Project UpstreamJohn [email protected]

Over $370 is going to Proj-ect Upstream from donations received at the Gaia Java Cof-fee Company shop in Stitts-ville.

Project Upstream is an or-ganization that provides sup-port services and housing op-tions for adults with mental illness.

It became the charity se-lected for tips and donations given throughout the day and ensuing Friday Music Night at the coffee shop on Friday, Dec. 21 thanks to the sugges-tion of Michelle McGruer, one of the performers at the Music Night who also works at the coffee shop..

She herself became aware of the Project Upstream or-ganization through a contact which her father had in his work. In addition, she has been impacted by mental ill-ness in her own life through a family situation and is also aware of the ongoing impact of mental illness in society such as the recent mass school shooting in the United States. She laments that while other diseases like cancer get lots of charitable support, mental health lacks this high level of support even though mental illness is a struggle and chal-lenge for many in today’s so-ciety.

Ruth Maxwell, a Project Upstream Board member, who spoke about Project Up-stream at the Friday Music Night at the Gaia Java Coffee Company shop where Mi-chelle McGruer, a singer/gui-tarist, performed with a Proj-ect Upstream poster in front of her, noted in her remarks that mental illness strikes one in fi ve people in society.

She said that there are many forms of mental illness but la-mented that when those being treated with medications are discharged from care, they frequently have no supports in the community.

Project Upstream is one organization which provides continuous support for those with mental illness. She said that the name “Upstream” is appropriate as it is more dif-fi cult to swim upstream than downstream, refl ecting the challenges faced by those with mental illness in society.

Ms. Maxwell said that if it were not for Upstream and its program, many with mental illness would be living on the streets instead of in appropri-ate housing.

Project Upstream provides a choice of ongoing fl exible support services and perma-nent affordable housing op-tions to individuals with long-term mental illness to assist them to function at their opti-mum level in the community.

With regard to housing, Upstream provides afford-able and supported housing, either one or two bedroom apartments or group homes for men.

Project Upstream practises a family-focused approach to mental illness, providing information and support to those with mental illness and

their families. It provides life skills teaching and coaching and also provides practical support to help those with mental illness to carry out the tasks of daily living.

Project Upstream also provides support to help its clients actively participate in the community through paid work, volunteering or further-ing their education.

Project Upstream receives funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care for salaries and ad-ministration. In addition, the Community Foundation of Ottawa contributes to Project Upstream’s group programs.

But Project Upstream re-lies heavily on donations to ensure that its programs are meeting the needs of clients. Donations support programs

that help clients overcome isolation, build their self-es-teem, enhance their housing and provide social outings in the community. All donations go directly to benefi t clients.

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The organization’s 2012 fundraising golf tournament was held at the Glen Mar Golf Club on Fernbank Road west of Stittsville.

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Kurt Johnson tells about ‘exceptional’ womenJohn [email protected]

EMC news - The stories of four women, early settlers in Richmond and survivors with their husbands of the War of 1812, came alive at the Richmond branch of the Ottawa Public Library recently thanks to Kurt Johnson of Munster.

Mr. Johnson, who has researched the lives of these four women, told an afternoon gathering on Wednes-day, Dec. 12 about these four women whom he termed “exceptional” based on what is known of their lives.

But before he told about these four women – Lydia Burke, Cath-erine Lyon, Jane Vaughan and Maria Hill – he set the stage by giving a capsule account of the War of 1812 which affected all of these women, their husbands and families.

Mr. Johnson himself calls the War of 1812 “a war of many nations” and he identifi ed them – the United States, Britain, dozens of First Na-tions and the various Canadian colo-nies such as Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec). In his view, the objective of the war for the United States was to conquer the Ca-nadian colonies and so on July 12, 1812, less than a month after war was declared, an American army did invade Upper Canada.

And this American aggression, backed by 13,000 soldiers and thou-sands of state militiamen, went up against a force at that time of only a little over 7,000 soldiers in Canada, both British regulars as well as poor-ly trained Canadian militia who were expected to defend a border stretch-ing from Quebec City to what is now Windsor.

The Americans were after Can-ada’s land in the view of Mr. John-son.

A peace treaty was signed on Dec. 24, 1814, but who had won?

Mr. Johnson said that the United States thinks that it won this war which it called a Second War of In-dependence since the new republic stood up to Britain in combat.

Britain, for its part, felt that it won the war since it kept its North Ameri-can colonies intact and with the treaty was then able to direct all of its resources to the task of defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

For the First Nations, they did not get what they were looking for, namely a separate homeland. So they could be considered losers in the War of 1812.

Mr. Johnson feels that the loyal British citizens in Upper and Lower Canada rejected American repub-licanism in the War, supporting in-stead the British monarchy.

“We survived by defending our lands and our homes,” he said, be-

coming united and going on in future years to seek responsible government under a constitutional monarchy.

“I believe we won – remaining British and working together to cre-ate a new nation which we did in 1867,” he said.

But, so much for the War of 1812, its beginnings and its winners or losers. Mr. Johnson went on to tell about four women who were part of the War of 1812 but also were among the fi rst settlers of Richmond and Goulbourn.

There are very few records about women at that time. Few women could read or write and it has been the efforts of family genealogists and their detective work which has resulted in much of the knowledge about women at that time.

Mr. Johnson told about Lydia Grant, who was born in Ireland and who had a long relationship with Captain (later Colonel) George Burke of the 100th Regiment of Foot and later Superintendent of the Rich-mond military settlement.

George Burke and Lydia Grant were not married until 1817 but their fi rst child was born in Mon-treal in 1808. Baptism records of the couple’s fi rst four children reveal that George and Lydia moved from fort to fort over the years – 1808 in Montreal, 1810 in Grimsby, 1812 in Quebec City and 1814, probably in the Niagara frontier. All these four children were born out of wedlock but were baptized by the church as “child of the people” with Lydia list-ed as the mother.

Why were George Burke and Lyd-ia Grant not married initially?

Mr. Johnson said that the British army prohibited offi cers from marry-ing so-called colonial women which Lydia was considered and so while they were a devoted couple, they did not marry. For Lydia, this situa-tion meant that if George Burke had been killed in battle, she would have been left unmarried and hence desti-tute, with four children. And George Burke very well could have been killed in battle because he fought with General Isaac Brock at Queen-ston in 1812, at the Battle of Chateu-guay in 1813 where he was praised for “his distinguished bravery and coolness on the fi eld of battle” and even with Wellington at Waterloo in 1815.

However, in 1817, George Burke, “bachelor,” and Lydia Grant, “spin-ster,” were married with a special marriage license issued by Sir John Sherbrooke, Canada’s governor and commander-in-chief. He is also the person who appointed George Burke as superintendent in charge of the Richmond military settlement in 1818.

George and Lydia Burke raised

nine children in Richmond, with Lydia dying in 1825 at the age of 37. George Burke never remarried and died in 1854 at the age of 78.

Mr. Johnson then told about Cath-erine Lyon who was born Catherine Radenhurst at Fort William Henry in Sorel, Quebec and grew up sur-rounded by army life as her father was a garrison commander.

She married Lt. George Lyon of the 100th Regiment in June, 1813 at her father’s fort, only ten days af-ter Lt. Lyon had helped capture two American armed schooners on the Richelieu River near Montreal.

Later in the War of 1812, Cath-erine accompanied her husband to the Niagara area where in July, 1814, Lt. Lyon was on the plains of Chip-pawa near Niagara Falls when the 100th Regiment and other British regiments were “cut to pieces” by American fi re. Although Lt. Lyon was later cited for bravery, he him-self was shot through the thigh.

The wounded, including Lt. Lyon, accompanied by his wife Catherine, were evacuated to York (now To-ronto) where Catherine nursed the injured George at her aunt’s log house.

With the War of 1812 ending, George and Catherine Lyon start-ed their family which eventually amounted to 15 children – eight sons and seven daughters. He became a leader of the Richmond settlement and even served as an MP for the area, as well as owning mills, a gen-eral store and a distillery.

Two of the sons went on to become mayors of Ottawa while another was a reeve of Goulbourn.

Catherine Lyon died in 1857 at the age of 64, six years after George had died in 1851 at the age of 71.

Jane Vaughan, another of these “exceptional” women of the War of 1812 and early Richmond, died in 1870 at the age of 63.

Mr. Johnson believes that the his-torical novel written by Carol Ben-nett entitled “Woman of Ireland” gives a somewhat reliable story about the life of Jane Vaughan.

They were married with her fami-ly’s disapproval and were in Quebec City. Her husband, Sergeant Wil-liam Vaughan, saw action in an 1813 nighttime commando raid on Fort Niagara in New York State and he was shot in the leg at the Battle of Chippawa in 1814.

The Vaughans were among the fi rst settlers in the Richmond area, coming up the Ottawa River in the summer of 1818 and camping on Le-Breton Flats before moving on to the new settlement of Richmond. They had two children with them at the time and would eventually be par-ents to nine children, settling along what is now the Franktown Road at

Stapledon west of Richmond.Mr. Johnson wound up his pre-

sentation on exceptional women by telling about Maria Hill, whom he called a “fascinating character” who was very religious and dedicated to both her country and her family.

She was raised from infancy among the British army, living in barracks and in the forts of Upper Canada. She had been brought to Fort Amherstburg at what is now Windsor by her stepfather, a recruit-ing sergeant for the army. She mar-ried Sgt. Andrew Hill of the 100th Regiment of Foot at this fort in 1811. They had two children there.

Mr. Johnson is confi dent that, based on a couple of sources, Maria Hill did meet and assist the famous Laura Secord at the Battle of Queen-ston Heights in the War of 1812.

He also accepts the legend that Maria Hill disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her husband to the battlefi elds including at the Battle of Chippawa in 1814.

Once the War of 1812 ended and the Richmond settlement began, Ma-ria Hill and her husband Andrew Hill opened a tavern in Richmond. Sgt.

Hill died in 1830 at the age of 45, with the tavern closing soon after-wards.

Maria then married Andrew Tay-lor who was the postmaster of Rich-mond.

Margaret Hill, a daughter of Ma-ria’s, married Edward Malloch, a land speculator, early MP and Car-leton County sheriff.

A granddaughter, also named Ma-ria, married Dr. James Grant who was the personal physician to eight governors-general and also was an early Canadian MP. He was knight-ed and they raised seven of their 12 children in an Elgin Street mansion that at one time was Friday’s Steak House.

Mr. Johnson, who is on the Board of Directors of the Goulbourn Muse-um, urged everyone to visit the Goul-bourn Museum at Stanley’s Corners where there is a permanent exhibit about the “Exceptional Women of the War of 1812.” He noted that the Museum also has a display about the 100th Regiment of Foot which was the regiment which provided most of the early military settlers to the Rich-mond and Goulbourn areas.


Kurt Johnson of Munster holds a poster listing the four “Exceptional Women of the War of 1812” which he spoke about at a recent presentation at the Richmond branch of the Ottawa Public Library. All four were also early settlers in the Richmond/Goulbourn area.


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EMC news - Road paving will be happening in Rich-mond in 2013.

Thanks to funding under the city of Ottawa’s “Ottawa on the Move” program which is aimed at improving the city’s infrastructure, both Ot-tawa Street east of McBean Street and King Street south of the Jock River are being re-paved this year.

City of Ottawa Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott Moffatt says that Ottawa Street’s resurfacing is at least 15 years overdue.

“That road is just a night-mare,” he says about its cur-rent condition, adding that the repaving project is also in-cluding King Street from Ot-tawa Street north to the Jock River.

Councillor Moffatt ac-knowledges that there are many more streets in Rich-mond that need attention, such as Strachan Street and Colonel Murray Street.

He also notes that road re-paving in the Rideau-Goul-bourn ward in 2013 will include repaving Flewellyn Road from Munster Road west to Ashton and also pav-ing both Ormrod Road and Ashton Station Road in Ash-ton itself.

“So lots of improvements for Ashton,” he notes.

Councillor Moffatt says that the Ottawa on the Move program has meant an in-crease in road resurfacing in the Rideau-Goulbourn ward. He notes that only one road in the ward was slated for resur-facing over a four year time frame before the Ottawa on the Move initiative was undertak-en. That’s why in 2012 a num-ber of roads in the ward saw resurfacing including a por-tion of the Dwyer Hill Road in Goulbourn and portions of McCordick Road, making it a totally paved road.

The coming year will also see major renovation work done at the Richmond Memo-rial Community Centre, with the concrete ice pad being re-placed and upgraded.

2013 is also going to see the planning process resumed for proposed new housing on lands along the western boundary of the village of Richmond.

Councillor Moffatt says that any construction is not expected to begin until at least 2014, with an expected 50 to 100 homes being built per year. Councillor Moffatt notes that this number of new homes being constructed has been the norm in Richmond since about the year 2000. He wants to ensure that the community is as heavily involved in the planning process as possible. An initial public meeting is being planned for February.

A major hurdle for this proposed new development is upgrading the sanitary sewer system to accommodate such growth and, more importantly, who will pay for it.

He says that the existing sewer system has the capacity to accommodate the current growth projected for the vil-lage but not for this proposed

new development. This means that developers will have to be involved in some way in paying for any sewer system upgrades.

Councillor Moffatt says that the opening of the new Richmond Marketplace shop-ping area at the corner of Perth Street and Shea Road in Richmond was a most posi-tive development in 2012. He worked with the developer to ensure that this new shop-ping area, where King’s Your Independent Grocer (YIG) and Tim Hortons are located, would open by this past De-cember.

He says that people are excited that they can do their shopping in Richmond at the new King’s YIG and that the new shopping area is provid-ing more jobs in Richmond, including for both youth and seniors.

But councillor Moffatt has not forgotten the older Rich-mond Plaza.

He says that he plans to meet with a potential new owner of the plaza in 2013 to try to convince the devel-oper of the potential of a re-furbished plaza in a growing

community like Richmond.He says that growth of a

community is benefi cial be-cause it results in better ser-vices in the community.

He acknowledges that peo-ple love living in Richmond but says that the community can be even better and this is an ongoing goal.

The past year 2012 saw the implementation of a free “shoppers” bus service run-ning from Richmond to the Carlingwood Shopping Cen-tre one day a week. The rural express rate for commuters was also cancelled in 2012, resulting in savings of about $300 a year for those who use the express bus service.

Councillor Moffatt feels that Ottawa city council made more progress municipally in 2012 than in the fi rst year of its term in 2011. He cites the opening of the Rink of Dreams at Ottawa city hall, the beginning of construction for the revitalization of Lans-downe Park and the signing of the light rail transit contract as achievements in 2012.

He also notes that 2012 saw changes made in garbage collection services which

will save $60 million over six years, reducing the gar-bage tax rate. In addition, the changes have resulted in fewer garbage trucks on city streets, helping preserve the streets.

He acknowledges that there are always “growing pains” when changes like this are made but he feels that most residents have not been too af-fected by the garbage collec-tion changes.

Councillor Moffatt also notes that 2012 saw the launch of a review of the city’s Of-fi cial Plan. He will be moni-toring how input from rural residents is considered in this review.

An issue which came, in councillor Moffatt’s words, “almost out of nowhere” in 2012 was the possibility of a casino in Ottawa with its im-pact on the Rideau Carleton Raceway.

He says that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corpora-tion (OLG) seems to want to increase revenue by establish-ing casinos in urban areas like Ottawa while putting “rural communities in the crosshairs” by closing facilities such as the Slots at Rideau Carleton.

Councillor Moffatt claims that a similar approach was tried previously in the prov-ince of Quebec with poor re-sults.

The OLG is to return to the city of Ottawa in 2013 with a preferred location for a new casino.

“I would be shocked if that location were the Raceway,” councillor Moffatt says.

He says that the closing of the Raceway would not only impact the horse racing in-dustry and reduce jobs in the area but also that community fundraising initiatives linked with the Raceway such as the “Richmond Night at the Rac-

es” would be lost.The city of Ottawa’s budget

for 2013 calls for a 1.98 per-cent increase for rural taxpay-ers. This is the third year in a row that the tax increase has been kept below 2.5 percent.

A reduction of 139 posi-tions at Ottawa city hall is be-ing implemented in this 2013 budget, helping to reduce on-going operating costs.

As for the expansion of the Carp Road landfi ll, councillor Moffatt sees a need for land-fi lls for waste disposal until such time as the province either enforces its desired di-version rates more strongly or until it allows for incinera-tion.

“The waste has to go some-where,” he says with regard to having a new landfi ll at the Carp Road site. He notes that the city of Ottawa’s role in the decision making process for the new landfi ll at the Carp Road site is purely one of providing comments. It is the province which will be mak-ing the decision.

Councillor Moffatt is hope-ful that the Plasco initiative will eventually be successful but feels that there will be nothing substantial happening with regard to the Plasco proj-ect in 2013.

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EMC news - July 19, 1938 saw a three-member masked and armed gang rob the Bank of Nova Scotia in Richmond.

A total of $12,478 was tak-en in the robbery along with securities and postal stamps.

The robbers could have had even more as they overlooked nearly $10,000 worth of nego-tiable bonds owned by bank customer William Hemphill, head of the Richmond cheese factory. The bonds were lying on the desk of bank manager Collis Lewis as coupons from the bonds were being clipped.

There were only three em-ployees and one customer in the bank when the three bandits struck, leaving their unguarded car and entering the bank. With handkerchiefs covering their faces and armed with revolvers and a sawed-off shotgun, the three bandits of the notorious “Campbell gang” confronted the teller, 28 year old William Adam, and the ledger keeper, 21 year old Mervin Brown, ordering them to “put ‘em up”. The ledger keeper screamed.

It was then that one of the three burst into the offi ce of manager Collis Lewis and barked to both Mr. Lewis and the customer, William Hemp-hill, “Hands up! This is a holdup!”

The bandit then shouted “Do as you’re told and no-

body will be hurt!”.While this masked bandit

was in the manager’s offi ce, a second masked bandit was close behind, holding a sawed-off shotgun. Meanwhile, the third bandit, who was wearing heavy smoked black glasses, was intimidating the teller and ledger keeper with a large revolver.

Mr. Hemphill and the manager were herded behind the bank’s wicket and were forced to lie on the fl oor with the rest of the staff while the gang gathered up all the cash and securities that they could fi nd in the place. At the time, the bank’s vault was open so that the robbers scooped up the cash box, securities and even postage stamps. They also grabbed stacks of cur-rency from the drawers in the cashier’s cage of the bank.

When the ledger keeper had screamed and the bandits had announced the holdup in a loud voice, this was overheard by the two daughters of the manager, Ruth and Alix Lew-is, who were in the family’s living room in an apartment at the rear of the bank build-ing which at that time was the two-storey stone building at the corner of McBean Street and Strachan Street in Rich-mond.

On hearing this, Ruth ran to the kitchen to tell her mother who then rushed out of the back door and across the street to Brown’s Store where

they phoned the police and asked the operator to activate the fi re alarm to alert people about the robbery.

At the same time, daughter Alix ran for her brother’s 22 caliber rifl e, loading it. Just as the last bandit was leaving the bank, Alix entered through the door into the bank from the living quarters. Manager Collis Lewis grabbed the rifl e from his daughter but by the time he reached the front of the bank, the bandits’ car was speeding southward over the Jock River bridge.

Apparently bandits whizzed past Mrs. Lewis as she stood near the getaway car, shouting that she had the license plate number and that they would be caught, advising them to drop the money.

It had taken about two and a half minutes for the bandits to carry out the holdup.

One of the largest drag nets in provincial police history in the area was thrown over the entire district following this holdup. The police, though, were hampered in their efforts to trace the getaway car by the fact that one license plate seen by witnesses was stolen from another vehicle at Malakoff while the second license plate had been twisted upwards to prevent the number from be-ing seen.

The police drag net was not too effective, although Oscar Campbell was captured in a cottage near Manotick 13 days

after the robbery. He ended up getting 12 years in prison in the Kingston penitentiary.

His brother, Melville Campbell, eluded the drag net in the area but was arrested in Windsor about 20 days after his brother was captured. He was sentenced to seven years in penitentiary in connection with a bank robbery at Mount Brydges near London. At the completion of his prison term, he was brought to Ottawa to stand trial for his part in the Richmond holdup.

The third member of the “Campbell gang”, Donald Ed-wards, was not arrested until nearly fi ve years later, in June,

1943, when he was arrested in Oregon City, Oregon. He was arrested by a deputy from the United States Marshal’s of-fi ce while he was at work at a foundry in Oregon City. Ex-tradition proceedings returned him to Canada to stand trial for his part in the Richmond bank robbery.

He was arrested as a result of a lengthy investigation led by Inspector George McKay, head of the Criminal Investi-gation Branch of the Ontario Provincial Police.

Donald Edwards and Oscar Campbell had both escaped from the Erie County jail in New York State only fi ve

months before the Richmond robbery took place on July 19, 1938. It was felt that the bandits had thoroughly cased the Richmond bank and were aware that the Richmond bank on the day of the robbery had much more currency on hand than normally since three lo-cal cheese factories had just issued cheques for milk sup-plied.

Oscar Campbell, who was arrested at a cottage near Manotick, was found with Mary Donnelly. She was tried in County Court on a charge of being an accomplice to the robbery but the charge was later withdrawn.

Masked, armed gang robs bank in Richmond in 1938

This stone building at the corner of McBean Street and Strachan Street was the location of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Richmond where the robbery took place in July, 1938.


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EMC news – The Stittsville Diners Club for seniors and adults with disabilities, pre-sented by the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre happens on the third Tuesday of each month from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at the Stittsville United Church on Fernbank Road just west of Stittsville Main Street. Cost to at-tend this monthly luncheon is $7. For more information, please call Carol at the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre at 613-591-3686, ext. 272…For all those who are

Scottish and those who wish they were, there’s going to be a Robbie Burns Dinner spon-sored by the Stittsville United Church on Saturday, Jan. 26 starting at 7 p.m. at the Lions Hall on Stittsville Main Street. Of course, the Ode to the Haggis will be recited. Entertain-ment will include the McNab Pipes and Drugs as well as highland dancers. Tickets are $25 per person if purchased before Jan. 21 and $30 per person after that. Tickets are avail-able from Marion Gullock at 613-836-5254

or Shirley Pretty at 613-836-2760 or from the Stittsville United Church offi ce at 613-836-4962…The Dec. 15 concert in downtown Ottawa featuring the a cappella vocal groups Quintessence and Harmonic Generation, both of which have performed recently at the Gaia Java Coffee Company shop in Stitts-ville, raised over $1,000 for the “An Early Start” school health and education project in Guatemala. Paul Jay and Susan Mayo of Stittsville both sing with Quintessence while

Paul also sings with Harmonic Generation….The Ralph Street Park rink was up and run-ning in time for Christmas thanks to the efforts of nearby resident and rink volunteer Jim Mc-Connell…Residents on Whalings Circle got an early Christmas present when a Christmas Elf or perhaps more fi ttingly Christmas Angel plowed driveways for free after the big snow storm just before Christmas. This gener-ous act of kindness was most appreciated by those residents who benefi tted...

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senior bands at South Carleton High School presented a Christ-mas concert on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The junior band under the di-rection of music teacher Roberta Archibald played songs such as Great Locomotive Chase, Na-than Hale, Pixar Movie Magic and Jingle Bells Fantasy. The senior band under the direction of teacher Sarah Woods played songs including Southern Hymn, Gypsy Dance and Two Imps. The school’s jazz band also per-formed at the concert, playing songs such as I Feel Good and Sing Sing Sing….For those who enjoy that Scottish delicacy hag-gis and even for those who don’t, there’s a Robbie Burns Dinner

coming up on Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Richmond Legion Hall….The Friday pasta nights hosted at St. John’s Anglican Church hall on Fowler Street are re-suming as of this Friday, Jan. 4. These Friday pasta nights, which began on Friday, Sept. 21 and ran through to Friday, Dec. 14 before taking a Christmas break, will now continue through ev-ery Friday until Friday, March 22. Everyone is welcome to at-tend these Friday pasta nights running from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and enjoy a plate of spaghetti at the end of a long week. Glu-ten free pasta and also take out are available as well. For more information, please phone 613-838-5328…

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EMC news - The Richmond Village Association (RVA) is in danger of folding.

It all depends on whether a number of Richmond residents step forward and offer to be involved with the RVA going forward or not. If this does not happen, current president Don Flanders sees no option but to disband the organization.

“We are now at a critical juncture in the history of the Richmond Village Association,” Mr. Flanders states in an e-mail outreach to the community.

He states that if the positions of president, secretary, trea-surer and two directors are not fi lled at or before the RVA’s annual general meeting in February, then the organization will have to disband.

And even this may not be enough, as he points out that the RVA does not have at present a suffi cient number of vol-unteers to run the community activities that it has organized over the years. For example, the garden contest which the RVA has organized in past years has already been cancelled for 2013 due to this lack of volunteers.

Other community events and activities which the RVA or-ganizes but which depend on volunteer help include the an-nual Richmond Village Garage Sale, the Christmas parade,

the “Lighting of the Park” ceremony, the winter street ban-ner contest, maintenance of the Richmond village website, spring cleanup day in Richmond with its associated poster contest for students and beautifi cation of Richmond through the hanging of fl ower baskets in the summer.

The RVA, as per its mandate to represent the views of Richmond residents on issues of concern, also plays a role in commenting on development proposals in Richmond and in monitoring initiatives such as the source water protection plan.

The RVA also tries to be a community information source for the community through its website and facebook page and also through the distribution of fl yers outlining upcom-ing community events and activities.

But all of this community involvement and work is now at risk as the RVA faces this leadership and volunteer crisis.

At the upcoming annual general meeting this February, the executive positions of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer will all be vacated. If they are not replaced, then the future of the RVA looks bleak. The positions of president, secretary, treasurer and at least two director positions must be fi lled at the annual general meeting for the RVA to be able to continue.



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That’s because in the com-ing year, city of Ottawa Stitts-ville ward councillor Shad Qadri says he will be working with city staff trying to create an off-leash dog park in Stitts-ville.

At present dog owners are using an area of the Fernbank lands south of Abbott Street near Granite Ridge Drive as an informal off dog lease park.

Once development begins in the Fernbank lands, coun-cillor Qadri wants to try to formalize an off dog leash park in that area.

This is only one of the ini-tiatives that councillor Qadri hopes to undertake in 2013.

He hopes to see the com-pletion of a planned on-ramp from the Scotiabank Place parking lot to the Queen-sway. This will enhance the park-and-ride lot which was established at the Scotiabank Place parking lot with the co-operation of the Ottawa Sena-tors organization in 2012 and increase its viability.

Councillor Qadri is looking forward to the completion of the Maple Grove Road recon-struction in 2013, from Terry Fox Drive westward.

This will lead to two ini-tiatives by councillor Qadri. Once Maple Grove Road’s reconstruction is completed, he will be asking city staff to look at the possibility of link-ing Maple Grove Road with the northern end of Stittsville

Main Street in the Jackson Trails subdivision. He says that the reconstructed Maple Grove Road will have the ca-pacity to handle the traffi c that this connection would create. He did not push for this before because Maple Grove Road as it was could not handle any increase in traffi c.

Councillor Qadri acknowl-edges, though, that this would only be a short term solution with the real long term solu-tion being to link Stittsville Main Street from Jackson Trails to the future north/south arterial road planned for the area.

Councillor Qadri is also hoping to push for installation of traffi c signals at the inter-section of this reconstructed Maple Grove Road and Hunt-mar Drive. He says that the traffi c volumes do not yet justify traffi c signals at this intersection but says that the numbers are very close.

The 2014 city budget will have the funding for these traffi c signals and council-lor Qadri says that he will be pushing to make sure that the signals are installed and that he will be trying to get them installed earlier i.e. in 2013 if possible.

He says that a traffi c circle was studied for the intersec-tion but a decision was made to go with traffi c signals be-cause the number of lanes on Maple Grove Road east and west of the intersection is go-ing to be different.

Speaking of traffi c circles, councillor Qadri is looking for the installation of the traf-fi c circle at the intersection of Fernbank Road and Shea

Road in 2013.This had been planned

for 2012 but delays caused by property acquisition have moved the project to 2013. The Environmental Assess-ment and design work have been completed for the traffi c circle and the funds for it were already earmarked in the 2012 city budget.

Councillor Qadri hopes to see the completion of Briga-tine Park in the Fairwinds community in 2013, along with a foot bridge there across Poole Creek.

“It will be a good link for the community,” councillor Qadri says about this foot bridge, as it will provide a pedestrian link from the Fair-winds development north of Poole Creek and east of Huntmar Drive with the area south of the creek, including the new Shoppes of Fairwinds shopping area (where Food Basics and Toys R Us are lo-cated). This project is being funded by the developer.

The Stittsville Main Street Community Design Plan, a process which began in 2012, should carry forward through 2013, councillor Qadri says, with the plan to be ready for implementation by mid-2014.

He hopes to webcast a pub-lic meeting about this Com-munity Design Plan so that more people have the oppor-tunity to participate in the pro-cess. He also wants to involve the community’s youth in the process, perhaps by work-ing with Sacred Heart High School.

He feels that it is important to get the youth’s perspective on what Stittsville Main Street

should be like in the future.Councillor Qadri says that

in 2013 he will continue to push the local public school trustee and local MPP to get provincial funding for a new public high school in Stitts-ville, an issue which he says has been around for 13 years. He suggests that the site for such a new public high school in the community will prob-ably be in the Fernbank lands that are being developed.

Councillor Qadri also wants to work in 2013 on es-tablishing a local bus service in Stittsville to help residents get around the community, noting that with over 27,000 people now, the community needs such a service. It would help youth get to part-time jobs in the community as well as help residents who want to shop in the community or who work themselves in the com-munity.

He also wants to see the community’s express bus ser-vice improved even more.

An Environmental Assess-ment to improve the Carp Road from the Queensway to

Hazeldean Road is now un-derway but councillor Qadri wants to try to push forward any related construction date when the city’s Transporta-tion Master Plan is reviewed this year.

Councillor Qadri also hopes to have the future im-provement of Fernbank Road from Shea Road to Terry Fox Drive included in the city’s Transportation Master Plan when it is reviewed this year. At present this project is not included in the city’s Trans-portation Master Plan.

Councillor Qadri sees the issue of a casino in Ottawa coming forward in 2013. He says that he will not support a casino being located in downtown Ottawa, citing the lack of suffi cient free parking which he says is an important component of a casino opera-tion.

He says that he would sup-port a casino at the Rideau Carleton Raceway where a casino would complement the ongoing horse racing indus-try. However, he does admit to concerns about traffi c get-ting to the Rideau Carleton Raceway since there are not major four-lane arterial roads serving the site.

He in fact believes that Scotiabank Place would be a better location yet for a casi-no, with its easy access to the Queensway and highway 416. He said establishing a casino at Scotiabank Place would be the beginning of the creation of an entertainment hub there, adding that the Ottawa Sena-tors organization, owners of Scotiabank Place, are “mas-ters of entertainment” in the community.

He also notes that Scotia-bank Place is well served by

buses for hockey games and other events and a casino there could be similarly served. In addition, Scotiabank Place will be served by light rail transit in the future.

Councillor Qadri is happy to see the light rail transit project moving forward with shovels in the ground in 2013. He says that it is a project which is going to defi ne the city of Ottawa while noting that the approved work is only phase one of the project. Light rail eventually will be extend-ed farther west and east in the future depending on funding.

Councillor Qadri, though, says that both city council and city staff will have to monitor the light rail transit project very closely as it moves ahead. The same needs to be done for the Lansdowne Park revital-ization project, he adds.

Councillor Qadri is also working with city staff regard-ing regulation of the tow truck industry in the city. He expects that there will be something coming forward early in 2013 dealing with how this industry should be managed munici-pally going forward.

He also is looking for the Plasco waste-to-energy proj-ect to begin to come to frui-tion in 2013.

“Plasco is the technology of tomorrow,” he says, adding that when it gets working, it will be able to solve some of the garbage issues facing the city.

Councillor Qadri hopes to work in 2013 with city staff on planning a youth and seniors centre for the Stittsville com-munity. Such a facility would not be put in place in 2013 but he is hopeful of getting a city commitment to proceed with such a project.

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The next Friendship Club luncheon will be on Wednesday, Jan. 30 where there will be an election of the Club executive and the fi nancial statement for 2012 will be presented.

Note that the Club’s January, February and March luncheons will be held at the hall at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena in Stittsville. Club luncheons are held on the last Wednesday of each month at 12 noon.

Friendship Club activities at the Johnny Le-roux Stittsville Community Arena are shuffl e-

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EMC news - The year 2012 saw a success-ful Artists and Authors in the Park event pre-sented by the Stittsville Village Association (SVA).

It happened on Sunday, May 27 at Village Square Park in the heart of Stittsville, with 39 exhibitors, both artists and authors, present. This included about a dozen new exhibitors.

An estimated 1,200 to 1,400 visitors at-tended the event including city of Ottawa mayor Jim Watson.

The Stittsville Dance Band performed at the event.

The Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville

hosted a BBQ while the Stittsville Youth As-sociation featured student art.

Tim Gordon of General Store Publishing House presented a lecture to aspiring writers wanting to know more about the publishing industry and how to get a book published.

The Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public library hosted a storytime for children in a tent on the site. The storytime included reading, guitar music and singing and seed planting.

Youngsters also had the opportunity to cre-ate Maud Lewis-inspired clay cats thanks to Rochelle James of Elemenopaint of Stittsville. Maud Lewis, who died in 1975, is a renowned Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia.

Tanya Hein and Metin Akgun were co-chairs of the event on behalf of the SVA.

Stittsville library programsfor the youngest of patronsSpecial to the News

EMC news – The Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library has programs for the youngest of patrons.

Babytime is one of the drop in these programs. Taking place on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., this 30 minute program features stories, poems, songs and more for the youngest of children, from newborns to those 17 months of age.

Another drop in program is storytime, happening on Tues-

days at 1:30 p.m. for young-sters aged 3 to 6, along with their parents or caregivers. This 30 minute program features stories, rhymes and songs.

There’s also a “Baby Ex-press Drop-In” on Wednes-days. From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., parents can drop in to the Stittsville library and ask ques-tions to a public health nurse.

Now for a program that re-quires registration. Children must have a library card to reg-ister for this program.

Toddlertime is one reading program for youngsters that requires registration. This pro-gram features stories, rhymes and songs for toddlers aged 18 to 35 months and their parents or caregivers. It will be hap-pening on Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m., lasting 30 minutes.

Note, though, that while registration is required for this program, this registration should be done by phone by calling the Stittsville library branch at 613-836-3381.


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EMC news - It was a time of awards but it was also a time of thanks at the 2012 year-end 4H banquet.

It all happened at the Dining hall at the Richmond fairgrounds where 4H members from three area 4H Clubs – Ashton, Richmond and Ashton Horse 4H – and their families gath-ered for the year-end celebration on Monday, Nov. 19.

Richmond 4H Club president Craig Wyten-burg thanked all the people and locations that hosted Club meetings during 2012 – Fallow-

fi eld United Church, Valley View Little Animal Farm, Sam Wilson, the Graves sheep farm and the home of Nolan and Shannon Arthurs where the Club developed its “beach theme” for the tie up competition at the Carp Fair.

“Twenty twelve was a very fun and success-ful year for the Richmond Club and none of this would have been possible if it weren’t for our family members and leaders,” Craig said.

He also praised the Club members for the interest that they showed in the 4H program in 2012.

“The great performances that they made at judging night and the Richmond and Carp Fairs showed how much they took away from all the

meetings we had this year,” he said about the Club members.

Chad Henderson, president of the Ashton 4H Club, likewise thanked the many farms and families that hosted Club meetings over the course of the year. There were meetings for judging grains and identifying weeds and seeds as well as for judging dairy cows.

Chad thanked the Club’s leaders for their dedication and support and for sharing their knowledge with Club members.

“I would also like to thank everyone who had volunteered to give us demonstrations and helped us improve,” he said.

These remarks were made following a meal

prepared and served by members of the Rich-mond Agricultural Society. 4H Club members Bobby Mowat, Sidni Hobbs and Jessica Wood led everyone in the 4H Grace before the meal.

Those at the head table for the banquet in-clude Richmond 4H Club president Craig Wy-tenburg and Club secretary Bethany Mowat; Ashton 4H Club president Chad Henderson and vice-president Justin McLaughlin; Jamie Barclay, acting president of the Ashton Horse 4H Club and the Club’s secretary Johanna Ka-vanagh; and Mrs. Kelly Barclay, president of the Carleton 4H Association. The banquet con-cluded with the presentation of awards mark-ing their achievements in 2012.

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Larry Monuk, right, president of the Richmond Agricultural Society, presents the Glen Scott Award for top junior member of the Richmond 4H Club to recipient Bethany Mowat, left, at the recent 4H awards banquet in Richmond.

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Jane Walsh, right, presents the Raymond Faulkner Memoiral Award for the top judge in the Richmond 4H Club in 2012 to recipient Craig Wytenburg, left, at the recent 4H awards banquet in Richmond.



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Awards are handed outat year-end 4H banquetSpecial to the News

EMC news - Awards were handed out at the recent year-end 4H banquet at the Dining Hall at the Richmond fairgrounds in Richmond.

Awards went to deserving members of all three of the 4H Clubs represented at the ban-quet – Richmond, Ashton and Ashton Horse Club.

The top novice 4H member of the Richmond 4H Club was Shannon Arthurs who received the award annually sponsored by Brian Cath-cart.

The Glen Scott Award for top junior mem-ber of the Richmond 4H Club went to Bethany Mowat.

Craig Wytenburg received the award for be-ing the top intermediate member of the Rich-mond 4H Club.

The Raymond Faulkner Memorial Award honouring the top judge at the 4H judging night in the summer was presented to Craig Wytenburg as well.

The Isaac Wallace Award for Fellowship went to Hannah Sample and Bethany Mowat.

The top dairy showperson award sponsored by Hendercroft Farms was presented to Craig Wytenburg.

Receiving awards as fi rst year members of the Richmond 4H Club were Shannon Arthurs, Tyler Kantor, Rembrandt Baptiste and Pascal Baptiste.

Second year novice members of the Rich-mond 4H Club who received awards were Sam Wilson, David McConnell, Jacob Kramer and Nolan Arthurs.

Junior members of the Richmond 4H Club who received awards were Dante Baptiste, Bobby Mowat, Bethany Mowat and Curtis Stuyt.

Intermediate members of the Richmond 4H Club who were honoured were Hannah Sam-ple, Braden Stuyt, Craig Wytenburg and Taylor

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dairy breed awards sponsored by the Ontario Holstein Association were Nolan Arthurs, Dante Baptiste, Rembrandt Baptiste, Pascal Baptiste, Tyler Kantor, Jacob Kramer, David McConnell, Hannah Sample, Shannon Arthurs, Braden Stuyt, Sam Wilson, Craig Wytenburg and Curtis Stuyt.

Richmond 4H Club members who received crop awards were Bethany Mowat and Bobby Mowat.

For the Ashton 4H Club, the Bill Smith Me-morial Award for top overall member was pre-sented to Courtney Henderson.

Courtney was also honoured as the Ashton 4H Clubs top dairy showperson.

The champion beef showperson at the 4H Achievement Day at the Carp Fair was Sidni Hobbs of the Ashton 4H Club.

Chad Henderson was honoured as the top judge of the Ashton 4H Club while Scott Carss received the award as the top junior member.

The Leaders’ Award was presented to James McLaughlin of the Ashton 4H Club.

Members of the Ashton 4H Community Club in 2012 were Chad Henderson, Brett Hender-son, Courtney Henderson, Sidni Hobbs, Justin McLaughlin, Johanna Kavanagh, Mikhaila Ka-vanagh, Brianna McDonald, Meagan McDon-ald and Scott Carss.

For the Ashton Horse 4H Club, Johanna Ka-vanagh received the award for being the most improved member.

Honoured as the Ashton Horse 4H Club’s top judge at the 4H Judging Night was Jamie Barclay.

Members of the Ashton 4H Horse Club in 2012 were Jamie Barclay, Lindsay Wiggins, Gina Mazzolin, Jessica Wood, Johanna Kava-nagh, Mikhaila Kavanagh, Charissa Osbourne, Krista Simpson and Dantee Baptiste.

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Cory Smith, left, presents the Bill Smith Award for top overall member of the Ashton 4H Club in 2012 to recipient Courtney Henderson, right, at the recent 4H awards banquet in Richmond.

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EMC lifestyle – For reasons which escape me today, I was always home from school on the day Father went to the Bon-nechere to bring ice in for the ice house. I think now, it was be-cause Mother knew how very anxious I was when Father went to the river, and in my childish mind, I was sure I could save him from any disaster if I too was on the Bonnechere.

Father had been watching the river for weeks. And then one day he went down with the auger and burrowed a hole to see how thick the ice was in the very centre of the river where the water was the deepest. It was ready. It was time to bring in the blocks of ice for the ice house.

Through necessity, the ice house was always built on the north side of the barn. This protected it from the sun. It was a small, black building, not much bigger than the smoke house, with no windows, only a narrow door just wide enough to allow one body inside with the big iron ice-tongs.

Now the day had arrived when Father would go to the river with the fl at bottom sleigh and the team of horses, and the tools he needed for cutting out the ice. I was fi lled with both dread and admiration. I lived in fear that Father would slip into one of the holes from which he had taken a block of ice, and be lost forever. And at the same time, I marveled at how this single day would provide us with ice for the rest of the winter, and if we were lucky, until this same exercise was repeated the next year.

If I was with him, I fi gured I could look after him and make sure he was safe. What I could do, I had no idea. But just being with him, I knew would keep him safe.

I was bundled up like a mummy, and Father wore a second pair of bib overalls over his winter clothes. His big cowhide mitts covered two pairs of wool mitts, a fur hat with the ear lugs down was tied securely under his chin, his pipe, as always hung loosely from his mouth, and we were ready for the trip to the Bonnechere.

The ice on the river cracked and snapped under the sleigh. I fervently prayed the horses, sleigh and Father and I wouldn’t end up on the bottom of the river.

We came to the very centre of the Bonnechere. And then the long process began. Father, using the auger, burrowed four holes, forming a square into the ice. Then, with the needle-nosed saw, he cut a swath from one hole to the other three. This was when

I was fi lled with dread, because I knew what was coming. Once the square was freed from the water, the block instantly fl ew from the water, sometimes rising above the very ice we stood on, splashing great gushes of water all around. Most of it landed right on Father.

Now the block was ready to be hauled out and put on the sleigh. This step was repeated until the sleigh was covered with blocks and they were piled three deep.

Here, I took on a new fear. What if the sleigh was so weighted down, the horses, the sleigh, the cut blocks of ice, and I went to the bottom of the Bonnechere?

By the time the last block was heaved onto the top row of ice, Father’s overalls were slick with frozen water. It was all he could do to climb onto the front of the sleigh and head the horses back to the ice house.

As soon as we were on fi rm ground, I said my silent prayer of thanks that we had been saved from a freezing death in the bottom of the Bonnechere. But Father’s work was far from over. Once back at the ice house, he had to unload the blocks, one at a time, each probably weighing in at 100 pounds, and place them in rows inside. Father could hardly walk upright with the weight of his frozen overalls. But he was not ready to change into dryer clothes yet. The horses had to be put in the barn, fed and bedded. Only then did he head for the house and the warmth of the kitchen.

Mother had to strip him of the frozen outer layer, and the overalls were draped over the wood-box to melt and dry.

The brothers would be pressed into service on Saturday, as they headed to the sawmill, to bring back load after load of saw-dust and cover the blocks in the ice house. The sawdust was free, the owner of the mill glad to be rid of it.

And so, for another winter, and hopefully well over the sum-mer, we would have ice for the ice box in the kitchen of that old log house. We considered ourselves very privileged indeed to have the big oak Barnett bought by grandfather who couldn’t understand how anyone could survive without an ice box.

After that day on the Bonnechere, and after his supper, Fa-ther, completely spent of every ounce of energy, would go to his usual spot in the kitchen. He would settle into the rocking chair in front of the Findlay Oval, lift his stockinged feet onto a cushion on the oven door, and promptly fall asleep.

Gathering ice blocksis a chilly memory

‘Ghosts of Goulbourn’Special to the News

EMC news - Bernie Shaw’s book “Ghosts of Goulbourn” is now available once again.

The book did sell out but the Goulbourn Township His-torical Society has arranged for another printing and now the book is available once again.

In this book, you can read about “The Mischievous Ghost” of Stittsville, “The Jealous Ghost” of Munster and “The Odiferous Ghost” of Dwyer Hill, among others, all residents of Goulbourn ex-cept for “The White Ghost” of Ashton, found at The Old Mill which is on the Beckwith township side of the town line in that community.

The book leaves you won-dering about ghosts which have never been proven to exist but nonetheless many people believe in ghosts. Can the recent presence of a young girl in a Stittsville apartment have anything to do with Lala Butler, killed by a train out-side the apartment early last century? Did the suicide of a Richmond man in 1893 trig-ger a series of strange hap-penings in his family home? Did a ghostly Munster fam-ily throw a party after their strict parents passed on? Did a man who died in 1870 warn a young girl in 1970 that atree was about to fall on her chair? Was the daughter of a native woman killed by settlers re-united with her mother? Did the White Ghost at Ashton die

in a grain bin or when making potash? Did a ghost object to the introduction of television to Stittsville? Did a mischie-vous ghost turn on the shower or bake muffi ns?

The book is available for sale at $10 per copy at Stitts-ville Sobeys in Stittsville, at the Gaia Java Coffee Shop at the Stittsville Shopping Cen-tre (Shoppers’ Drug Mart pla-za) on Stittsville Main Street, at the Goulbourn Museum at Stanley’s Corners and at the Ashton General Store.

The book, fi rst printed in 2004, contains 17 ghost sto-ries, all but one located in Goulbourn, either Stittsville, Richmond, Munster, Ashton or Dwyer Hill.

In his introduction to the book, author Bernie Shaw notes that Goulbourn town-ship itself is what could be termed a ghost township since it disappeared from offi cial view in 2000 with the creation of the new amalgamated city of Ottawa. He explains in the introduction that the stories in the book have been collected from many sources, acknowl-edging that while factual in-formation on ghosts is scare, the people who shared their stories found in the book did recount experiences that they genuinely believe to be true.

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Duck is readily available at butchers and some grocery stores; it is a lean and fl avourful meat choice.

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Score duck breast skin crosswise, then lengthwise to form a cross-hatch. Place duck breast in shallow bowl and turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour or up to four hours.

In ovenproof skillet, heat half of the oil over high heat and sear duck breast skin side down until golden brown and crisp. Turn duck breast over and place skillet in 425°F (220°C) oven for about fi ve minutes or until thermometer reaches 155°F (68°C). Set aside.

Meanwhile, in large nonstick skillet, heat remaining oil over medium high heat and sauté bok choy, cabbage, mushrooms, pepper and remaining ginger and garlic for two minutes. Add reserved marinade and cook, stirring oc-casionally for about fi ve minutes or until tender crisp.

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Stittsville Main StreetCommunity Design PlanSpecial to the News

EMC news - The Stittsville Main Street Community Design Plan process which is now underway is the result of city of Ottawa Stitts-ville ward councillor Shad Qadri working with city of Ottawa planning staff to ensure that development along Stittsville Main Street in the future retains the community feel of Stitts-ville.

The Community Design Plan that will arise from this process will provide a 20 year vision and guidance for development along Stittsville Main Street.

It was back in Nov. 2010 that councillor Qadri brought a motion to Ottawa city council asking for a work plan to develop a Commu-nity Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street.

This request was as a result of a city approv-al for a fi ve storey mixed residential/commer-cial building and related townhomes at a site on Stittsville Main Street. Councillor Qadri and some residents had argued that the scale of this development was inappropriate for the community.

Stittsville Main Street is designated as a Tra-ditional Mainstreet in the city’s Offi cial Plan, making it a site for intensifi cation of develop-ment, creating a compact, mixed use and walk-able environment supporting transit, cycling and walking. However, Stittsville Main Street is also covered by Policy 13 which relates to the Master Plan and Urban Design Guidelines of the former Township of Goulbourn. The re-lationship of this Policy 13, which requires any new construction on Stittsville Main Street to be evaluated in terms of the existing charac-ter of buildings along Stittsville Main Street, to the direction of the Traditional Mainstreet designation for Stittsville Main Street in the offi cial Plan has created some ambiguity with respect to how the former Goulbourn planning

documents are to be interpreted today. The Community Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street will try to solve this apparent ambiguity and confl ict.

Traffi c on Stittsville Main Street is also a consideration as the street is meant to contin-ue to function as a primary north/south route in the community. This means that Stittsville Main Street development must be of a type that will encourage a compact mixed use and walk-able environment rather than the auto-oriented, low-rise pattern of development which has pre-vailed to this point.

Stittsville Main Street must evolve as an ac-cessible service hub for the surrounding com-munity rather than its current limited function as a conduit for traffi c movement. This is the kind of development pattern that the city’s Of-fi cial Plan policies tries to encourage.

This Community Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street is being undertaken by the city’s planning and growth management staff in col-laboration with a public advisory committee comprised of community organizations, land-owners, businesses and other interested par-ties.

Following the initial Nov. 1 public work-shop and the creation of a vision for the street, a public open house presenting this vision and the existing conditions that prevail along Stitts-ville Main Street will be held in the fi rst quarter of 2013.

A draft Community Design Plan document will be produced in the second quarter of 2013. In the third quarter of 2013, a community open house will be held to present the fi nal Com-munity Design Plan and to receive comments from the public.

It is envisioned that the Community Design Plan will go to Ottawa city council for approval in the fi rst quarter of 2014.

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Historical Society agenda for 2013Special to the News

EMC news - What do the Rotary Club, fi re-fi ghting and Masonry have in common? Well, the connection for them is that they will all be topics dealt with in programs offered by the Goulbourn Township Historical Society in 2013.

The history of the Rotary Club will be the topic at the Saturday, May 18 while the history of fi refi ghting will be the topic at the meeting on Saturday, June 15.

The Goodwood Masonic Lodge in Rich-

mond will be the topic at the meeting on Sat-urday, Oct. 19.

On Saturday, March 16, the Historical So-ciety’s program will welcome Linda Preston and Cheryl McCoy of Richmond who will tell about their writing and publication ef-forts dealing with the publication of “Voices of Goulbourn.”

On Saturday, April 20, Grant Perry of Stitts-ville will make a presentation on antique time pieces.

On Saturday, Nov. 16, Dave Brown will

make a presentation on “Military Men.”On Saturday, Feb. 16, the Historical Society

meeting will be centred around Heritage Day while on Saturday, Dec. 15, the Historical So-ciety meeting will have a Christmas theme.

Goulbourn Township Historical Society memberships are available for $15 a year for one person and $20 a year for a family mem-bership.

Members can be obtained by contacting the Historical Society at [email protected] .

Promoting historySpecial to the News

EMC News - The Goulbourn Township His-torical Society promotes local history.

Among its activities are identifying and mark-ing heritage buildings in the community, encour-aging historical research and promoting interest in local history.

The Historical Society also runs an annual photo contest and holds regular monthly meet-ings featuring guest speakers.

For more information about the Goulbourn Township Historical Society, please contact Historical Society president Barbara Bottriell at 613-836-2305.

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EMC news - The Holiness Movement Church, which founded and operated the campgrounds in Stittsville for almost 60 years, is quite a story in itself.

Ralph C. Horner, who was the founder of the Holi-ness Movement Church, was certainly familiar with camp meetings, as he himself was converted in 1872 at the age of 17 at a Methodist camp meeting near his Shawville home. Although he became an effective evangelist, he was expelled from the Method-ist church in 1895 as church leaders became antagonistic to him and his tent campaigns.

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This was why the name was changed to the Holiness Movement Church in Canada, with Mr. Horner designated as Bishop of the new church, a post which in 1926 became General Superintendent.

Even early on, such as in 1896, the Holiness Movement Church had its supporters, with 36 circuits, 1090 mem-bers and 4553 adherents.

Evangelistic fervor saw the Holiness Church establish churches in Ottawa, Stitts-ville, Munster, Carsonby, Fallowfi eld and other places, eventually spreading across Canada.

Although there was a split in 1916 with the emergence of the Standard Church, the Holiness Movement Church continued to grow. To pro-vide a trained ministry and a missionary force, Annesley College in Ottawa fl ourished for years. There was also an-other such training school in the West. Mission work received special emphasis in the Holiness Movement Church. The church’s fi rst foreign work was in Egypt, beginning in 1899. By 1959, when the Holiness Movement Church merged with the Free Methodist Church, the Holi-ness Movement Church was

the second largest Protestant mission in Egypt, with 5000 members in 80 churches.

The Holiness Movement Church also had foreign mis-sions in Hong Kong and Bra-zil. It established a church in Ireland in 1904. Bishop Horn-er himself died in 1921.

For many years, the Holi-ness Movement Church had a publishing program centered in Ottawa, with a book store, Sunday School paper and two magazines.

As early as 1953, there is a report of a secret ballot among the Holiness Movement of the Eastern Conference to discov-er which holiness denomina-tion the adherent of the Move-ment would prefer to affi liate with should they feel it was in their interest to approach any. The vote was strongly in favouring of joining with the Free Methodist Church.

In September, 1957, the General Conference of the Holiness Movement Church meeting in Winnipeg went on record as favouring union and in 1958, the annual confer-ence approved it.

In Kingston in October, 1958, the leaders of the two churches – the Holiness Movement Church and the Free Methodist Church – met to work out the details of the merger. The fi nal agreement was approved and signed in December in Ottawa.

The Holiness Movement Church gave the Free Meth-odist Church greater national coverage, fi lling in some geo-graphic gaps in its network across the country. The Free Methodist Church, as a re-sult of the merger, possessed extra campgrounds – Stitts-ville, Cobden, Shawville and Killarney in Manitoba.

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Smiths Falls- Renovated, 3 bedroom house, 1,300 sq. ft. lots of living space and large carport. 4 appliances. $975/month plus utilities. Call or text 819-923-0558.

Cedar (white), quality lumber, most sizes, decking, T&G, chan-nel rustic. Also huge bundles of cedar slabs ($45) and large bags of shavings ($35). w w w. s c o u t e n w h i t e c e d a r. c a(613)283-3629.

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Cabinet Installer -Installer of cabinets and interior trim. Com-pany in business twenty-seven years in Perth, Ontario. Fax re-sume to 613-264-1135.

EARN EXTRA INCOME! Carrier contractors needed for early am newspaper home delivery in Kanata and Stitts-ville, 7 days/week. Vehicle a must. $500-$950+/MONTH 613-592-9786

Looking for persons willing to speak to small groups, 1 on 1 presentations. A car and internet necessary. Diana (866)306-5858.

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Thursday evening euchre parties hosted by the Stittsville District Lions Club at the Li-ons Hall on Stittsville Main Street in Stittsville will begin for 2013 on Thursday, Jan. 3, with the doors opening at 7 p.m. and the euchre be-ginning at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

The Friday pasta nights at St. John’s Anglican Church Hall on Fowler Street in Richmond will resume on Friday, Jan. 4 after a Christmas break. Spaghetti will be served between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. with everyone wel-come. Gluten free pasta and take out are also available. For more information, please phone 613-838-5328.

The Ottawa West Arts Association (owaa) will be launching a new exhibition of work by local artists on Saturday, Jan. 5 at the owaa gallery at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex on Shea Road in Stittsville. Called “Halcyon Days,” this new exhibit will run through to Fri-day, March 1. The gallery is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. This new exhibit, like all exhibitions at the owaa gallery, will in-clude a People’s Choice balloting to determine the favourite artwork as determined by view-ers. Fill out a People’s Choice ballot when you visit this new exhibit.

The 2013 Richmond Road Races will take place on Sunday, Jan. 13, based at South Car-

leton High School in Richmond. 10K race at 10 a.m. 5K race a few minutes later. Registra-tion is at www.runottawaclub.com

The Stittsville Royals of the Eastern Ontar-io Junior Hockey League will host the visiting Renfrew Timberwolves on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the Goulbourn Recreation Com-plex on Shea Road in Stittsville.

The Breakfast Club seniors program of-fered by the Rural Ottawa South Support Services will be held on Monday, Jan. 14 at 9 a.m. at Royals Restaurant on Perth Street in Richmond. This Breakfast Club will be meet-ing on the second Monday of each month. Please call Bonnie Smith of the Rural Ottawa South Support Services by Thursday, Jan. 10 to confi rm attendance at the Jan. 14 Breakfast Club.

The annual general meeting of the Goul-bourn Township Historical Society will be held on Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Stittsville United Church on Fernbank Road just west of Stittsville Main Street in Stittsville. Dinner at 12 noon, followed by the business portion of the meeting. Historical Society members are asked to reserve their dinner tickets by email-ing [email protected]. Payment can be made at the door on the day of the meeting.

The Stittsville Royals will play the Ottawa Junior Canadians in an Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League game on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 2:30 p.m. at the Goulbourn Recreation Com-plex on Shea Road in Stittsville.

A Diners Program for seniors offered by the Rural Ottawa South Support Services will be held on Monday, Jan. 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church Hall on Fowler Street in Richmond. This Diners Program will be meeting on the third Monday of each month. Cost is $7.50 per person. Registration at least a week prior to the event is required by phoning Bonnie Smith of the Rural Ottawa South Support Services at 613-692-4697, ext. 238 or via email at [email protected]

The 2013 annual meeting of the Rich-mond Agricultural Society will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. in the upstairs hall at the Richmond Memorial Community Centre arena in Richmond.

A Robbie Burns Dinner will be held on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Lions Hall on Stittsville Main Street in Stittsville. Enter-tainment will include the McNab Pipes and Drums and highland dancers. Tickets are $25 each if purchased before Jan. 21 and $30 each after that. For tickets, please contact Marion

Gullock at 613-836-5254 or Shirley Pretty at 613-836-2760 or the Stittsville United Church offi ce at 613-836-4962.

The Stittsville Royals will play the Shawville Pontiacs in an Eastern Ontario Ju-nior Hockey League game on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Goulbourn Recreation Com-plex on Shea Road in Stittsville.

A caregivers support group meeting host-ed by the Rural Ottawa South Support Services will be held on Monday, Jan. 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the St. John the Baptist Angli-can Church Hall on Fowler Street in Richmond. This caregivers support group will be meeting on the fourth Monday of each month. Please call Bonnie Smith of the Rural Ottawa South Support Services at 613-692-4697, ext. 238 to register for this program.

The eighth annual Trivia Challenge Night hosted by the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville will be held on Friday, Feb. 22 at the Lions Hall on Stittsville Main Street in Stittsville.

The Goulbourn Jubilee Singers and The Junior Jubilees will present their spring con-cert “Alphabet Soup” on Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Cairn United Church in Kanata.

Special to the NewsEMC news - How does $1

become $6? Easy. Just donate the money to the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville to sup-port Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign.

That’s right! A one dol-

lar donation can grow to six dollars thanks to a couple of commitments that have been made.

First of all, the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville has committed to matching the fi rst $1,600 donated by mem-

bers of the public to the End Polio Now campaign.

So, your $100, for instance, is now $200.

But there’s more.The federal government,

through the Canadian Interna-tional Development Agency (CIDA), will match any dona-tions made to Rotary for this cause. So, the $200 now be-comes $400.

And, on top of this, the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda-tion has made the same offer, so add another $200 to those Rotary funds, bringing the to-tal to $600.

That’s how a $100 initial donation, for instance, be-comes $600. It is matched by

the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville (up to $1,600). This amount is then doubled by CIDA and then also dou-bled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. There is a one million dollar cap on the CIDA and Gates matching funds donations. This offer of matching funds from CIDA and the Gates Foundation is good until March 1, 2013.

This End Polio Now cam-paign is meant to be a fi nal push to get rid of polio in the world. This will be happening in the last three countries in the world where polio is still epidemic – Nigeria, Afghani-stan and Pakistan.

All donations of $20 or

more will be issued an income tax receipt as well.

Those wishing to donate to help eradicate polio in the world once and for all should send cheques to 28 Renshaw Avenue, Stittsville, Ont. K2S 1G9. The cheques should be made payable to the Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville.

For more information, please contact Rotary Club member Leo Maiorino at 613-371-6975.

Since the introduction of vaccines in the 1950’s, signifi -cant progress has been made in eradicating polio. Even in 1985, polio infected about 350,000 children in more than 125 countries around the world. However, today, polio is endemic in just three coun-tries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan – and only in small pockets in these coun-tries.

Last February, India, which had half of the world’s polio cases just a few years ago, was removed from the list of infected countries after going

a year without a single new diagnosed case.

In Afghanistan today, where Canada has been the single largest donor to polio eradication, the virus is now largely restricted to the south of the country. Thanks to the support of the Canadian Inter-national Development Agen-cy (CIDA), more than seven million Afghan children are being vaccinated against the disease.

There was something of a setback in Pakistan recently when the United Nations sus-pended its polio vaccination drive there after eight people involved in the effort were killed in a two day period. The suspension is in place un-til the Pakistani government has completed its investiga-tion into the shootings. It is believed that militants respon-sible for the killings acted in the belief that the vaccination workers were acting as spies for the United States and also believe that the vaccine will make children sterile.

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