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Another season of look-ing after others began at the Campbellford Commu-nity Resource Centre with this event which took place last week.

This event is something we look forward to as an organization and were so happy to have the resource centre to be part of this, said Dawn Lee, quality as-surance manager, Commu-nity Living Campbellford/Brighton, which hosted the celebration.

This annual event is thanks to the person who started it all, Dave Mont-gomery, a longtime vol-

unteer with The Salvation Army.

He is supported by Com-munity Living Campbell-ford/Brighton to lead this initiative.

Families throughout Trent Hills are helped as hundreds of toys are col-lected to be distributed later in December and if enough toys are donated then some are also given to The Salvation Army.

The toy and food drive has been operating for sev-eral years and two years ago Community Living col-laborated with the Camp-bellford Fire Department to bring together all their resources for the drive.

The Trent Hills Fire De-partment has already set up boxes around town for people to drop off their do-nations.

By Bil FreemanEMC News - Norwood Could the Norwood Fire Station and municipal of-fices be moved to the new public works building on Highway #7?

Township council received a preliminary facilities re-view that explored potential options involving the town hall, public works building, municipal office, fire hall and Pine Street Centre with a small portion related to the community centre.

Council wants to inves-tigate a little further an option that has municipal administration and the com-plete fire department shifted to the public works building despite the fact there would be a reduction in fire and rescue response times.

It is not an option sup-ported by staff.

This is just exploring the EMC Events - St. Marys CWL Campbellford held its Christmas bazaar last Saturday celebrating the theme Canadian Christmas Eh! Gloria Caruana of Campbellford, left, and Theresa Miller of the CWL, display two of the seasonal baskets for sale. Crowds filled the auditorium at St. Mary Catholic Elementary School for what was a very successful festive day. Photo: Sue Dickens

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Santa Claus met members of the Lions Club of Campbellford who stopped by the Community Resource Centre to donate to the Christmas Wish Toy and Food Drive, from left, Fred Lee, Peter Danielsen and Doug Hagerman. Photo: Sue Dickens

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options, there has been no consultation with the user groups, facilities co-ordina-tor Chuck Pedersen stressed. If there are options council would like us to further ex-plore, communication would have to happen with these groups.

Im just looking for you to receive it for information [but] I hope there will be some thought back on some of these options.

We put six options out there hoping youd take a look at more than one, CAO Rob Browning added. There might be a couple we could bring back with more detail.

Accommodation issues at the municipal office have been discussed by council in the past with the public works building mentioned. Pedersens report indicates staff feels there are better options.

In the report an option that moves the municipal offices into the Community Centres Millennium Room with the empty space above the arena lobby converted into a public viewing area wins staff support.

The community centre option, with the possibil-

ity of a new fire hall near-by, intrigued Mayor Doug Pearcy.

If I had a choice Id take a look at moving perhaps the fire hall and administration offices [to the community centre] there if we have to move them out of the town hall, Pearcy said.

The wide-ranging dis-cussion included thoughts about moving the Asphodel-Norwood Historical Society out of the Pine Street Centre basement without upsetting the Norwood Lions long-time use of the town hall.

Much of the review is triggered by inadequacies at the municipal office, includ-ing lighting and air quality, and impending accessibil-ity upgrades, estimated at $80,000 alone for the mu-nicipally owned Pine Street Centre.

The municipal offices central location is a signifi-cant plus, Pedersen says. Its current location is good for downtown businesses and enhances customer service for walk-ins.

The biggest challenge to moving the fire hall is in-creased response times.

Pedersen estimates an av-erage of one minute extra driving time by firefighters

to the public works building.There are also concerns

about safe access on and off Highway #7.

Being out there has some advantages operation-ally but it comes down to why do we exist.

If the intention is to keep the response time the same there is the option of moving part of the fire ser-vice to public works. There are obviously inefficiencies in splitting the service and at what cost, he added.

Everything we try to do is going to affect somebody somehow, Pearcy said of all options. Hes not in favour of anything that affects the Lions Clubs use of the town hall.

The historical society going upstairs would prob-ably signal the end of the Lions and that is something we need to be awful careful about.

Pearcy said the report opens up the conversation and doesnt put anybody on short notice.

I think theres lots of things you need to think about when you start change. Its easy here discussing it but when the firestorm starts you had better have a plan than not to.

Fire department, municipal office moving?

This is a very good cause and wed like to beat the 500 this year, said Fire Chief Tim Blake.

Trent Hills Mayor Hec-tor Macmillan was on hand for the kickoff and placed the first toy in a sleigh in the lobby.

Thanks to all the stu-dents who came out here today to help the commu-nity, he told everyone.

Fred Lee, treasurer with the Lions Club of Campbell-ford, was also at the kickoff with two Lions members, Peter Danielsen and Doug Hagerman. They had bags of new toys the club has purchased with money from fund-raising events throughout the year.

Students from the Youth Advisory Council of Campbellford District High School are also hold-ing their own toy drive and these will be added to those being gathered for distri-

Mayor kicks off toy and food drive

Joining other schoolchildren for the official Christmas Wish Toy and Food Drive kickoff held last week are: from left, Madison Meier; Alyssa West; Cassidy Tizzard; and Josee Stephens of St. Mary Catholic Elementary School. Photo: Sue Dickens

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Co-ordinating with the three local elementary schools Chief Tim Blake develops a recipient list.

On December 10 teach-ers stop by the fire hall in Campbellford, which becomes toy central, to pick up the toys.

Donated food will go to the food bank.

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Trent Hills Mayor Hector Macmillan with the help of Santa Claus places the first toy(s) in the sleigh set up in the lobby of the Campbellford Community Resource Centre. Photo: Sue Dickens

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By Sue DickensEMC News - Camp-bellford - I dont think people are doing enough, said Marion Avieson, of Campbellford.

She was one of only eight people who showed up for a public informa-tion centre (PIC) set up at the arena last Monday from 3 to 7 p.m. by Nor-thumberland County to provide information and invite comments for its Long-Term Waste Man-agement Master Plan.

A resident of Campbell-ford she spoke with EMC about what she would like to see happen.

A strong advocate for recycling, Avieson said,

A lot of people arent as concerned as I am. I wash and clean everything that goes into recycling. Its my conscience that gets to me.

Recycling accounts for approximately 40 per cent of all residential waste which the County diverts from landfill.

With Seymour landfill (5th Line) reaching capac-ity by April 2013 at which time it will become strict-ly a Waste Transfer Sta-tion and Brighton landfill (where waste from here will have to go) with four years of disposal capacity remaining (an environ-mental assessment is un-der way to try to extend

the life of the landfill to 2023) options have to be investigated by the Coun-ty.

Avieson said she is will-ing to pay for enhanced services.

Somebody has to pay for the services. Who else but the taxpayer as long as its reasonable and so long as its done proper-ly, she said.

Waste management costs $11 million annual-ly. A revenue of $8 million means that municipalities now pick up the differ-ence with a levy that gets paid for through private property taxes that filter through the municipali-ties up to the County.

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The PIC in Campbell-ford was one of three, the others were in Colborne and Port Hope.

There were 16 people at the one in Colborne (for Cramahe Township).

The one in Port Hope happened after press time so no stats were available.

I had hoped a few more people would attend. I expect that we will have more people out at the Port Hope venue, said Adam McCue, manager of planning and technical support for Northumber-land County. He attended all three.

Were here to look at how we can optimize the existing services that we provide such as curbside collection of garbage, pro-cessing of recyclables etc., he explained while waiting for folks to drop by.

Last year the county managed over 52,100 tonnes of waste, of which 18,700 tonnes were di-verted through recycling and composting.

The diversion rate is 40 per cent and the county hopes to increase that to 60 per cent.

One of the big driv-ers behind us develop-ing a long-term plan is to figure out what it is were going to do with our garbage so were looking at, in ten years time, do you [the public] want us to expand one of our existing landfills, do you want us to develop a new landfill in the county, do you want us to look at taking it to a private sec-tor landfill somewhere in Ontario or the States, do you want us to look to thermal treat garbage, what do you want us to do? said McCue.

A draft plan for review by the public is expected to be ready next spring/summer with additional public meetings sched-uled.

A recommendation is to be presented to Coun-ty Council by the fall of 2013.

For more information or to fill out the survey go to: or contact McCue at 905-372-3329, ext. 2299 or email .

Marion Avieson, of Campbellford, met with Peter McCann, left, chair of the Brighton Landfi ll Liaison Committee, and Adam McCue, manager of planning and technical support for Northumberland County, at the public information centre in Campbellford to discuss options for the Northumberland County Long-Term Waste Management Plan. Photo: Sue Dickens

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings Hastings residents got a chance to provide input and learn more about a proposed second river-crossing water main to serve the south side of the village during an open house last week.

The information centre was part of a municipal class environmental assessment to identify and recommend a second water main crossing the Trent River that would provide redundancy for the current 30-year-old main which traverses the river sus-pended to the County Road 45 traffic bridge.

Its the only source of water for the south side of the community, says Scott White, Trent Hills general manager of infrastructure renewal and public works ad-ministration. A second water main crossing would give us redundancies so we dont in-convenience or go without water on the south side.

White says he can recall at least six occasions in the past 20 years where that water main has become unavailable for supply due to mainte-nance items or breaks.

A second water main run-

ning under the river would provide additional security to the current water main which White says is in good shape.

[But] if something should happen, and it can, we have redundancy with the second main. Typically with any mu-nicipal infrastructure, partic-ularly water and wastewater, we like to have redundancy and this will give us that.

The municipality has made no decision on the water main.

Right at this point there isnt necessarily a time frame, says White. What councils directive to staff up until this point is getting a preferred location for a sec-ond river crossing and get it up to a point where it is con-struction ready.

The public meeting is part of the process to get it to the next stage to move on in terms of design, White ex-plained.

Engineering consultants AECOM are conducting the environmental assessment.

This is just a key part of getting it to the next step of getting it ready.

White says theres a short list of four possible locations

By Bill FreemanEMC News - Hastings - The Hastings Lions made like Santa Claus during a pre-Christmas visit to Com-munity Cares Hastings of-fice last week. Sporting their distinctive yellow vests, presi-dent Jim Dowell, treasurer Ian Wilkins and secretary Doreen Dowell dropped off a cheque to program assistant Sarah McKeown.

Its fantastic; its so great to be so well-supported by the community, McKeown said in accepting the generous donation from the small, six-member club which contin-ues to punch above its weight class when it comes to giving back.

We try to do our best to donate as much as we can each year, Dowell, also a Community Care volunteer driver, told the Northwest EMC. Community Care ap-preciates it and we do do our

best.The Hastings Lions are al-

ways looking for members to help with its endeavours. The club does receive help from volunteers as it runs major fund raisers like the Victoria Day Weekend road toll and lunches at Hoards Station. They also run bars at wed-dings and other functions.

The money will be used to help the office with its gen-eral needs, says McKeown.

Just to help us to keep do-ing what were doing, she says.

Community Care in Hast-ings serves approximately 150 clients on and off and could also use more volun-teers to help in the office and also with its well-used trans-portation program.

The Hastings office has eight volunteer drivers, says McKeown.

McKeown says she is qui-etly working on a couple of

new programs for the new year.

We always hope to devel-op new things in the future, she said.

The organization has had tremendous success with a series of activity programs at the Civic Centre including line dancing, yoga and Latin dance. The newest entre is Thursday morning belly dancing.

McKeown says she had people ask if there was a chance of running a belly dancing class at the centre.

As luck would have it I contacted a few people and found an instructor.

She agrees that the activity programs have become very popular and chalks the suc-cess up to affordabilitythe classes are $3 per visitand the fact that people like to have things happening in the community in which they live.

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I like to keep it fresh and new.

The Thursday afternoon knitters continue to thrive and remain one of the most

The Hastings Lions Club presented a $500 cheque to Community Care in Hastings last week. On hand to present the money to Sarah McKeown were club president Jim Dowell (left), secretary Doreen Dowell and treasurer Ian Wilkins. Photo: Bill Freeman

Scoping out a second river water main in Hastingsand maybe our strong rec-ommendation at this point but basically theyre all still on the table at this point.

The top-rated location, pegged at $760,000, is an un-der-river crossing west of the County Road 45 bridge near the water treatment plant.

The other possible under-water locations are: west of the bridge near the intersec-tion of Hope and Front Streets on the north crossing to the Argyle and Water Street in-tersection on the southside, estimated cost, $680,000; east of the County Road 45 bridge near the Park Street and Wa-ter Street intersection which is estimated to cost $580,000; east of the bridge structure nearby the northern limit of the Trent River priced at $470,000.

The municipality will look toward future infrastructure funding to pay for the project,

says White.Theres all kinds of infra-

structure money being talked about coming down the line.

Having the project ready to go will enhance its eligibil-ity, White added.

Well have to wait; it cer-tainly wont be in 2013. Were still in a freeze with our water and sewer rates at this time.

Going under the river bed with directional drilling is how the water main would be constructed.

Its fairly complex because you never know what youre going to find underground but the method is done rou-tinely all over the world, says engineer Doug Timms of AECOM

A project of this nature would take three to four months to complete, Timms said.

This project really is to address the vulnerabilities.

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TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen adopted the Official Plan of the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen by By-law No. 2012-54 on the 12th day of November 2012 under Section 17(22) of The Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose and effect of the Official Plan is to provide the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen with updated comprehensive land use policies; which maintains conformity with the County of Peterborough Official Plan as well as applicable Provincial policies.

KEY MAP: The Official Plan has application to all lands within the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, and therefore a key map has not been provided.

INFORMATION: The complete Official Plan is available for inspection at the Township Municipal offices during regular office hours; and may be viewed on the Townships website (www.hbmtwp.ca).

ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS/APPROVALS: Concurrently with the preparation of this Official Plan, the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen has also passed Zoning By-law No. 2012-55 which serves to amend the Comprehensive Zoning By-law of the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen.

NOTICE OF DECISION: ANY PERSON OR PUBLIC BODY is entitled to receive notice of the decision of the County of Peterborough in respect of this Official Plan provided a written request to be notified of the decision is made to the County of Peterborough at: The Planning Department, County of Peterborough, Court House, 470 Water Street, Peterborough, Ontario, K9H 3M3.

Dated at the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen this 27th day of November 2012.

Mr. Glenn Girven Clerk Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen P.O. Box 10, 1 Ottawa Street East Havelock, ON K0L 1Z0 (705) 778-2308 (705) 778-5248 (fax)

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AND TAKE NOTICE that any person or agency may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board in respect of the By-law by filing with the Clerk of the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen not later than the 17th day of December 2012 a notice of appeal setting out the reasons for the objection to the By-law. The notice of appeal must be accompanied by a cheque for $125.00 made payable to the Minister of Finance.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT The purpose and effect of By-law No. 2012-55, which amends the Comprehensive Zoning By-law of the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, introduces textual changes and introduces new schedules in order to implement the approved policies contained in the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen new approved Official Plan; which was also adopted by Council on November 12, 2012.

KEY MAP Zoning By-law No. 2012-55 has application to all lands within the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, and therefore a key map has not been provided.

Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a Zoning By-law to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf.

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Dated at the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen this 27th day of November 2012.

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structured, seniority-rules environment, not subject to depressions or severe reces-sions.

2. Wonderful (civil service) benefi ts like defi ned benefi t pension plans, accumulated sick leave, (at least until now), and medical, eye-wear, hear-ing and dental assistance of which the great unwashed can only dream. (Dont look at their collective bargaining agreement; it will make you crazy).

3. An incestuous adminis-trative hierarchy that them-selves benefi t from the gains made by their unionized counterparts. Together, these goodies add up to one sweet deal. (If it wasnt, why are thousands of young accred-ited teachers waiting in the wings to get in on this good thing? And why arent the retired teachers forced to ac-tually retire and let the new kids take the available fi ll-in positions?)

So the bad guys, (assuming

you pay property and income and other taxes), are the union representatives who are forc-ing the teachers to drink the Kool-Aid of rebellion about their wage levels and the per-ceived new takeaways. Lets just see how demanding the teachers job really is. Start in September, get two weeks off at Christmas, another week in March, all the normal stat. holidays, and fi nish up in June. (No allowance being made for additional adjustments like professional development or sick days.) Wyley generously calculates 195 actual working days. Divided into an average gross wage of $75,000, (the grid is $40,000 to $90,000), that works out to an average of $385 per day. One hundred and ninety-fi ve days, by the way, is just over one-half a year of work, 53.4 per cent to be precise. Oh wait!

You say you also get to re-tire in your mid-fi fties with a full indexed pension? That, my son, is some good as

they say in Newfoundland.I know, I know. She can

be a tough job teaching fi dg-ety little Johnny. But theres enough compensation there to choke a horse. Dont lis-ten to those union reps who themselves have created a pretty cushy empire. There is no more money! Period, exclamation mark. If they tell you to walk, and worse, try to develop some asinine undemocratic penalties if you dont conform, DONT GO ALONG. If you listen to

them and strike, your NEXT premier will make Mike Har-ris and/or Dalton McGuinty look like tooth fairies. The union feels threatened, (and rightly so for all the reasons mentioned above), so they are doing what unions do: yell and vigorously rebel.

But the cookie jar is truly empty and the jig is up with parental hostage-taking. You still want to strike? Hosta la vista to $385 per day because that defi cit dictates rollbacks no matter what baby! Parents

will ask for compensation if teachers choose refrigera-tion. (Theres a rallying cry for parents and taxpayers!)

You teachers have been, and are presently, getting bad advice from your union. Dont drink the Kool-Aid but rather agree that you have been do-ing a good job for which you will continue to be very gen-erously compensated.

Yours truly, Wyley Canuck,

aka Ken Leavens, Stirling

MPs should be ashamedDear Editor,

The worst among us hurt the least among us.

Parliament voted on Bill-C398 this week. The bill would have saved millions of lives by simplifying the pro-cess to send generic drugs to developing nations.

We are highly disap-pointed with the result of to-nights vote. This Bill would have helped get lifesaving medicine to the worlds most vulnerable children without any additional costs to the government or Canadians.

This is a missed opportunity and it is children who will suffer most, says UNICEF Canadas President and CEO David Morley.

Currently only 42 per cent of the estimated 1.5 million infants born worldwide to mothers with HIV receive the antiretroviral (ARV) treatments needed to prevent transmission of the disease.

Rick Norlock and Dean Del Mastro voted against the bill. They should be ashamed of themselves. They represent our voice in Parliament and I

dont like what I am hearing.I researched this issue and

I cannot fi nd a comment from their caucus with any valid reason why they voted against this bill. When you see these men out and about this holiday season, I encour-age you to respectfully ask them why they voted to not save the lives of the worlds neediest children? I certainly would like to know why. For more information on this bill you can contact the Grand-mothers Advocacy Network.

Tom Smeraldo, Warkworth


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EMC Editorial - In other parts of the world, separatist movements are usually violent (e.g. Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the various Kurdish re-volts) and they some-times succeed (South Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor). Whereas in the prosperous, democratic countries of the West,

they are generally peaceful, frivolous, and unsuccessful.

A case in point is the various separatist movements in the European Union. Scot-land will be holding a vote on independence from Britain in 2014, and both Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain have just elect-ed nationalist governments that promise to hold referendums on independence. But it will probably never happen.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but no-body else does. They are self-governing in most matters except defence and foreign af-fairs, they have their own budgets, and they maintain separate education systems and cultural institutions.

The Scots get more money back from the central government in London than they pay in taxes, while Catalonia and the Basque country (Euskara, in the Basque language), claim that they contribute more to Madrid than they receive. But the sums are relative-ly modest, and in any case it is not necessary to break up the country in order to renegoti-ate fi scal imbalances.

What really drives the separatism is emo-tion, which is why popular support for it is so soft. Rectifying the historic defeat of (insert name of centuries-old lost battle here) by declaring independence in the here-and-now has great emotional appeal, but most people put their economic interests fi rst. Nationalist leaders therefore always promise that inde-pendence will change nothing important on the economic front.

The way they do this in both Scotland and the separatist regions of Spain is by insist-ing that membership in the European Union would pass automatically to the successor state. The opponents of secession, however, argue that theres nothing automatic about it.

The arguments are not just directed at the home audience. Last month, when Scot-lands First Minister, Alex Salmond, agreed the terms for the 2014 referendum with the British government, Spanish Foreign Minis-ter Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo promptly declared that an independent Scotland would NOT automatically be an EU member, and that any one of the 27 EU member states (like Spain, for example) could veto it.

In the hypothetical case of indepen-dence, he said, Scotland would have to join the queue [for EU membership] and ask to be admitted, needing the unanimous approval

of all member states to obtain the status of a candidate country. The European Com-mission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, also said in September that an independent Scot-land would be seen as a new state and would have to apply to join.

This was furiously disputed by Alex Sal-mond, who knew his chances of winning the 2014 referendum were nil if the Scots believed they were voting to leave the EU. For months he insisted he had sought the opinion of his governments law offi cers, who had confi rmed that Scotland would inherit EU membership automatically, and would not even have to adopt the euro. Alas, he was lying.

Late last month, it became known that Sal-mond had not actually asked for the law of-fi cers opinion at all. Now he has been forced by public opinion to pop the questionand he may not like the answer.

An even bigger defeat for Salmond came in his negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he had to agree that the referendum would ask a simple yes-or-no question: in or out? This goes against the instincts of all separatist leaders, who prefer a fuzzy, feel-good question that doesnt men-tion the frightening word independence.

The most famous formulation of this question was in the 1995 Quebec referen-dum on secession from Canada: Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the fu-ture of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995? Not exactly clear, is it?

That referendum was very close, but in 2000 the Canadian federal government passed a law generally known as the Clarity Act. It said negotiations between the federal government and any province on secession should only follow a clear expression of the will of the population of a province that the province cease to be part of Canada.

This requirement would not be met, it added, if the referendum question merely focuses on a mandate to negotiate without soliciting a direct expression of the will of the population of that province on (indepen-dence), or if the question envisages other possibilities ..., such as economic or political arrangements with Canada, that obscure a direct expression of the will of the popula-tion on (secession).

This law drastically reduces the likelihood that the separatists could win any future referendum in Quebec, and its obviously what David Cameron had in mind in his negotiations with Salmond on the Scottish referendum. As for Catalonia and Euskara, the national parliament in Madrid must ap-prove of any referendum on separation, and the current Spanish government has made it abundantly clear that it has no intention of doing that.

So its mostly just hot air and hurt feel-ings, really.

Separatist Dreams

Dear Editor,The Liberals placed a moratorium on offshore/onshore

wind farms in February 2011. The reason given accord-ing to the press release was further study was needed re. the impact on health and the environment.

There is no indication when the studies might be com-pleted.

In April of 2010, Windstream Energy Inc. of Burling-ton, Ontario, was awarded a Feed-In-Tariff contract by the Ontario Power Authority to build a 100 turbine, 300 megawatt off-shore wind project west of Wolfe Island. They have recently fi led a $475-million lawsuit against the provincial government for damages. Businesses like Windstream invested millions in wind projects. The Windstream president says the company has been backed into a corner and has no option but litigation.

Since the Green Energy Act was brought into being, there has been strong public objections to wind projects in rural areas. McGuinty was aware of this its a gen-eral consensus in rural Ontario. The cancellation of the wind farms in 2011 was a vote getter a costly one.

Then there is the gas plant fi scal disaster. McGuinty felt he needed Oakvilles votes for a coveted majority in 2011 and Oakville didnt want the gas plant. Ooh la la

lets just cancel that. We will move this gas plant 210 ki-lometres east to the Bath area. No consultation of course. The public will pay. Latest dollar fi gures for those few votes are pegged upwards to $1.3 billion and the count is still on.

Fast track to November 21, 2012, and a press release by the now lame duck Minister of Energy Chris Bentley: Ontario is aiming to provide electricity consumers with greater access to information about their energy con-sumption and help save electricity costs. A plan to help us lowly taxpayers to conserve and save. An oxymoron in Liberal language.

I ask you, what is the incentive for consumers to con-serve and save when those at the wheel are blowing our billions on highly suspect outcomes or to further the Liberal party?

I really resent the implication that we who pay the bills are so gullible.

We need to follow Quebecs lead and have an inquiry into corruption in Ontario. The Liberal regime of the past nine years has created many areas to investigate.

Shelby J. Lawrence,Stirling

A corruption inquiry is in order

By Terry BushEMC Editorial - Poor Justin Trudeau. Make that poor, rich Justin Trudeau.

The guy just cant seem to catch a break nor should he. Its a good thing he got his mothers looks because he certainly didnt inherit his fathers brains or political savvy.

Trudeau once again fi nds himself scrambling this week to take his foot out of his mouth. This time hes angered his own party with comments about the gun registry and gun owner-ship.

While admitting that he supported the registry and voted for it, he considers it a failed public policy and has no intention of bringing it back if elected. This statement angered members of his party who continue to defend the registry and consider it part of the Liberals legacy, on par with the Charter of Rights and offi cial bilingualism. Funny, given the Liberals showing in the last election that they would consider one of their most divisive policies something they should restore if elected.

But thats the feeling of Martin Cauchon, a former Liberal justice minister who has gone so far as to say contenders need to show theyre on board with Liberal values and should stand up for the principles that defi ne the party. As you may have guessed, Cauchon is also considering a run at the partys lead-ership. If this is how the Liberals plan to renew their party, they might as well bring back Stephane Dion.

Cauchon also took exception to Trudeaus comments made in Hawksbury last week where he said that gun ownership was part of the culture of Canada. Perhaps Cauchon has never spent any time away from the big city because if he took two steps into the country, hed soon realize that gun ownership isnt limited to our friends south of the border. One would be hard-pressed to fi nd a farmer who doesnt own a gun and the farther you travel north, the more fi rearms youll fi nd.

Trudeau did manage to barely get his head above water when he said his comments about the gun registry didnt apply to Quebec, the only province to use the courts to keep its records from being destroyed by the Harper government. Trudeau didnt feel it was a divisive issue in that province.

Good thing Trudeau has a few more years to hone his politi-cal skills if the mantle of leadership is bestowed upon him by the Liberal Party. Hell certainly need to improve, given the fact that he only has the life experiences of the wealthy to draw from and hasnt even held a cabinet post yet aside from the shadow variety. Good hair and a recognizable name do not a Prime Minister make.

Poor Stephen Harper. He really needs to pick his friends more carefully.

Having stuck his (and unfortunately our) neck out at the United Nations last week during the vote to upgrade the UN status of the Palestinians, our PM has some splainin to do. With global powerhouses, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and couple of other U.S. beholding countries in his corner along with the Czech Republic, Israel and the States, Harper bucked world opinion once again and voted against the motion.

Harper feels, despite decades of failure, that the Palestinians and Israel should just sit down at a table and come to an agree-ment about boundaries for a Palestinian state. Nobody should be allowed to make a unilateral decision says Harper. Given that negotiations havent worked in the past and more and more of the West Bank has been swallowed up by Israel and its settlers from around the world, the Palestinians arent exactly on even footing when it comes to reaching an agreement. Who usually wins when one party is always dealing from a position of strength with a superpower in its corner?

The day after the vote to upgrade the Palestinians to an ob-server state, Israel unilaterally declared that it will be building more illegal settlements, this time in an area which will deal a death blow to any two-state agreement. The Palestinians broke off negotiations long ago stating they wont come to the table until Israel stops building settlements on their territory so a sit down wont be happening.

And because the Palestinians had the gall to go to the UN to request a vote so the whole world could have a say in the mat-ter, Netanyahu has unilaterally decided the Israelis will once again withhold millions of tax dollars collected on the Palestin-ians behalf making good on the threats of the U.S. and Israel before the vote. Harper is also considering stopping aid to the Palestinians for being so uppity.

While the U.S., Britain and France denounced Netanyahus promise of more illegal settlements, Stephen Harper relayed that Netanyahu had called him on the phone to thank him for his vote. No condemnation, no symbolic recall of ambassadors, nothing but a blurb on a web site saying Canada doesnt believe in unilateral decisions. Talk about being out of step with the rest of the world.

On Monday, the UN general assembly held a vote that basi-cally asked Israel to join most of the nuclear world in signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and opening up its nu-clear facilities to inspection. Canada was one of only six coun-tries to vote against the resolution. You can guess the rest.

There is plenty of blame to go around in this mess called the Middle East and pressure should be put on all sides. Apparently, double standards are just fi ne with the Harper government. And thats an embarrassment to all Canadians considering the whole world will suffer if things arent soon resolved.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood The Township of Aspho-del-Norwood could face a source water protection bill of $160,000 over the next fi ve years yet the provincial government remains silent about funding to help mu-nicipalities implement the program.

Otonabee Region Con-servation Authority CEO Allan Seabrooke provided the $32,000 a year rough estimate to council last week based on calculations related to costs munici-palities will incur once the province approves the Trent Conservation Coalition source water protection re-gions plan in mid-2013.

Seabrooke and ORCA board chair Terry Low re-iterated the lack of answers from the ministry of envi-ronment on direct funding to municipalities although the ministry has agreed to provide an undisclosed amount to the coalition re-gion through March 2014 for staff working at conser-vation authorities on source water protection.

We recognize there are concerns raised by mu-nicipalities about funding, Low said.

The ORCA board and the Coalition continue to lobby the MOE stressing the im-portance of providing initial funding to municipalities for the implementation of the plan, he said.

At a recent Peterborough forum on source water at-tended by four MOE offi -cials, including the director of the source water protection branch, Low said they would not confi rm funding.

They did commit tem-porary funding to make sure there are conservation authority staff with experi-ence on source water pro-tection available to assist municipalities, he added.

ORCA and area mu-nicipalities have spent the past year putting together a business case identify-ing the local costs related to source water protection; that package is in the min-istrys hands again high-lighting the importance of further funding.

Thats been the key all along. [Weve spent] the past fi ve years pounding on this, Low said.

A lot of letters have been sent, a lot of lobbying has been done at various levels, Seabrooke agreed. The message has been made loud and clear to the ministry.

Theyve emphasized the fi nancial stresses placed on smaller townships.

The ministry is aware of the estimated costs to local municipalities for the work they have to complete, Sea-brooke said.

That money has not been confi rmed or discussed at this point, thats what theyre telling us.

Source water bill could be $160,000One signifi cant cost

will be the hiring of a risk management offi cer to help develop risk management plans with landowners af-fected by identifi ed threats in the source protection pol-icies. In Norwood there are 13 threats identifi ed for the drinking water system that have to be managed. In Hastings there are 58.

Its expected that the cost of the RMO, working out

of ORCAs offi ce, will be shared regionally by mu-nicipalities. Six area munic-ipalities have already agreed to do this.

Other costs include add-ing source water policies to offi cial plans and zoning updates, education and out-reach, environmental com-pliance and sewage system inspections.

Under the Act, munici-palities can recover costs

through water rate increase, property taxes and reason-able fees for service.

There are a number of different ways it can occur, Seabrooke says.

A yearly $42.85 charge to Norwoods 750 water system users, for instance, would recover the $32,000, Seabrooke noted.

So its not an onerous amount on an annual ba-sis.

Seabrooke believes theres also a good chance the cost estimates are at the high end of the scale and remains con-fi dent things will run well.

The implementation of source water protection and the work put in front of us, I dont see that as an onerous task. I think it can be done very smoothly. I think its pretty doable.

Its a little scary, Mayor Doug Pearcy said.

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor,One of my biggest beefs

with the former McGuinty government is its fanatical desire to impose signifi cant-ly higher energy costs on his fellow Ontario citizens with the Green Energy Act.

Many of the people, in-cluding a lot of senior citi-zens on fi xed incomes, are being forced to pay those higher rates.

However, the Liberal government couldnt care less because Premier Dal-ton McGuinty sees green energy as a twisted way of establishing his legacy.

My problem with wind turbines and solar power was reinforced recently with a very astute editorial writ-

ten by Norman Rogers, a senior policy advisor of the Heartland Institute, a Chi-cago-based think tank. Rog-ers writes extensively about global warming and green energy subjects.

What does he think about wind power? He describes the left wing experiment as a total joke. Rogers says government could create more jobs at far less cost by training dogs to walk on treadmills to generate elec-tricity. However, windmills do underline the hypocrisy of the liberal left who never admit being wrong even if an overwhelming majority of the population disagrees with them.

That hypocrisy of envi-

ronmentalists is astonishing. Previous to wind turbines, the killing of birds, particu-larly the eagle, was close to a criminal offence as far as ecologists were concerned. In the post-wind power era all that has changed. Now the environmentalists are silent as windmills kill thousands of birds all over North American, including the iconic American eagle.

Solar and wind energy, when combined with stor-age, is eight to ten times more costly to produce than traditional sources of energy such as coal, natural gas and nuclear.

As Rogers points out, wind power gets really ex-pensive when you add elec-

tricity storage. If not for massive government sub-sidies, nobody would even think of building wind tur-bines.

Its amazing that suppos-edly educated politicians put two and two together on this issue and get three. Dont get me wrong. I be-lieve alternative sources of energy are a good thing but only to augment the proven energy sources that would keep costs as low as possible for the consumer. That way innocent taxpay-ers wouldnt be paying for the mistakes of people we elect, supposedly to look af-ter our interests.

Rolly Ethier,Campbellford

Blowing your dollars in the wind

Dear Editor,The Nexen sale to China

should be an open book to Canadians. Canadians would not appreciate Chi-nese customs and human rights abuses. In the British colonial era, native Canadi-ans had no rights and were put on reservations with unjust treaties. The Cana-dian taxpayer is now paying to right this injustice. I wish

the native Canadians every success.

Human rights denial is not new to the Brits. Brit-ains Gulag, a recent book tells the story of a non-democratic British Empire. Canadas Mackay condones Israel for defending their country but excludes Pales-tinians for defending their country. The three wise men, Mackay, Baird and

Harper, never travelled out-side North America. Pres-ently as politicians, they travel internationally at our expense, assuring us what is best for Canada!

I respect the remembrance of our veterans. There never should have been veterans past and future. The leaders in the world with their pea-sized brains lack the knowl-edge to avoid war although

they can and do develop war material to destroy human-ity. History glamourizes these leaders. War for cor-porations is money, for poli-ticians, power and resources and for soldiers, death.

Women have the power to end the carnage no more children. Leaders would have to rely on robots.

H. Howarth,Tweed

Thoughts on a few di erent subjects

EMC News - Brighton - Christmas is a special time for all Christians and Trinity St. Andrews United Church in Brighton will once again be celebrating the blessed event throughout the month of December.

The celebrations started December 2 with the light-ing of the hope candle on the fi rst Sunday of Advent. This will be followed in suc-ceeding weeks with the joy,

peace and love candles, cul-minating with the Christ candle.

December 16 will be White Gift Sunday to support the Brighton Food Bank. Also, during this service, our fi rst Christ-mas tree, decorated with handicrafts provided by our members, will be lit. Every-one is invited for this special occasion and to stay for lun-cheon afterwards in the new

community hall.On December 23, the

third Sunday in Advent will be celebrated at the 10:30 a.m. morning service. That same evening at 7:30 p.m. the senior choir, junior choir, chimers and a brass ensem-ble will again offer the tra-ditional Nine Lessons and Carols, which has proven so popular in recent years.

On December 24, there will be two evening services,

a family service at 7 p.m. and a candlelight service at 9 p.m. at which Communion will be offered. Unrelated to the church services but in a popular seasonal offering, local entertainers Ian Simp-son and Stephanie Bird will again be combining their considerable talents to pres-ent Christmas Songs for a Winters Night. This event will take place at Trinity St. Andrews United Church on Saturday, December 22, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 each.

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By Bill FreemanEMC News - Norwood - Large volume mailers will be allowed to use the ab-breviated Asphodel in the new civic addressing system Canada Post is unveiling. Under the new civic ad-dressing protocol, residents and businesses served by rural routes from the Pe-terborough Delivery Centre must use the name Aspho-del-Norwood in their mail-ing address.

The new civic addressing regimen is expected to affect 120 local customers, says Mark Randall acting Huron/Rideau DSO co-ordinator.

Randall has told Aspho-del-Norwood council that under the addressing chang-es some databases for large volume mailers will not be able to handle municipal names of 14 characters or more (Asphodel-Norwood has 16 characters) and will need to use an abbreviated name.

Canada Post has sug-gested using the truncated Asphodel in cases where a mailer has a limited space for the municipal name.

Township council ap-proved using the word As-phodel in those special cases.

Meanwhile, Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro has come out strongly against the proposed Canada Post changes.

I am deeply concerned that these changes could pose a threat to my local economy and the businesses that employ local residents, Del Mastro says.

I cannot justify to lo-cal families, business and residents why this change should require them to in-cur expense for updated identification cards, licences, web sites, advertisements and stationery.

Del Mastro says the changes will mean that the Peterborough Munici-pal Airport will no longer have Peterborough in its ad-dress.

He also says the costs re-sulting from the changes are being born (sic) entirely by local residents and busi-nesses.

Local businesses, includ-ing resort operators, manu-facturers and retailers, will no longer have Peterbor-ough addresses despite mar-keting themselves as such.

The current addresses, he says, have historical local significance related to the post office that distributes its mail as opposed to being anchored by the municipal-ity, he adds.

There are also issues re-lated to municipalities now in the process of changing their names.

This implementation complicates those discus-

Abbreviated Asphodel allowed for large volume mailerssions and considerations, says Del Mastro.

As well, he adds, custom-ers will now have to contact

all their account providers to have billing addresses changed. This could lead them to switch from ordi-

nary mail to e-billing which will cause Canada Post to experience further erosion in postal business.

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By Sue DickensEMC News - Warkworth Within six months the fi rst rural residential hospice in Northumberland County could be operational.

That is the hope of Gwen Cleveland, resident care co-ordinator for The Bridge Hospice.

She and a crowd of volun-teers, donors, visionaries and supporters gathered recently for the offi cial ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the com-pletion of the building.

Aureen Richardson, a long-time resident of Warkworth and the fi rst major donor, was on hand to cut the ribbon.

Now the next stage in the journey to reality has begun training volunteers, recruit-ing more and putting policy and procedures in place.

At the moment we have 100 volunteers. About half have indicated they will do resident care, she told EMC.

With the dates of the next accredited 30-hour volunteer courses being lined up for the new year, Cleveland is active-ly recruiting.

Three more courses will be offered, she explained.

We still need to make sure that the combination of professional and volunteer care will be available, said Sarika Diljohn-Maharaj, ad-ministrative assistant.

That is the next step so our focus will be working with local agencies putting together our care model so that we have the professional care as well as recruiting more volunteers.

Not yet ready to take in residents the intake process will also be a part of this jour-ney to completion, a journey that has taken several years.

This lovely and welcom-ing home is the result of years of planning and hard work made possible by the generous support of many individuals, corporations and granting agencies and the tireless efforts of a host of volunteers, said The Bridge Hospice Board Chairman Bob Henderson.

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Aureen Richardson, centre, longtime Warkworth resident and the fi rst major donor to The Bridge Hospice cut the ribbon along with other supporters including Neil Graham, right, a volunteer and member of the design team and Brenda Partridge, (next to him) another longtime volunteer. Others include Ken Partridge, left; and Richardsons son Ray (behind). Photo: Sue Dickens

Dr. Bob Henderson, chair of the board of The Bridge Hospice emceed the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony. So it is to all the Bridge Hospice volunteers and donors that we take off our hats; without you none of this would have been possible, he said. Photo: Sue Dickens

Sarika Diljohn-Maharaj, administrative assistant, from left, joins Mary Henry a volunteer with The Bridge Hospice who put together a video presentation of photos taken through the years as the project came together. Photo: Sue Dickens

Hospice volunteers and do-nors that we take off our hats; without you none of this would have been possible.

MP Rick Norlock was among the politicians bring-ing congratulations.

It could only have hap-pened by people in a commu-nity that care for each other and think of other people before they think of them-selves, he said.

MPP Rob Milligan said, Its a testimony of the spirit here in Northumberland and Quinte West.

Trent Hills Mayor Hec-tor Macmillan spoke of the huge effort, of everyone involved.

For many of us when we think hospice, we think per-haps seniors and something Ive learned in the last two years you dont have to be a senior to be in need of a hos-pice, he said.

Brenda Partridge, who was at the fi rst town hall meeting for the hospice, spoke to the media after the ceremony.

I believed in the concept. I had experienced several deaths in my own family sit-ting in a hospital wishing that I could have done something different.

She spoke of how emo-tional the event was for her.

Its is very emotional. Its the second last step before

were going to have residents and its been a very long time for mebut what a team ef-fort.

She and her husband Ken donated offi ce space in their home until the building could be completed.

Now the push is on to fi nd more volunteers.

Roles for volunteers can be anything from helping out with offi ce administration support to stuffi ng envelopes to helping out at events such as this celebration, to doing hands-on resident care, said Cleveland.

Anyone wanting to learn more can call 705-924-9222 or email .

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By Bill FreemanEMC Lifestyles - Hastings - The digital world has opened up new possibilities for the Hastings Historical Society.

The digital world has just opened up communications, ex-ecutive member Jim Coveney told the Northwest EMC during the Hastings indoor Christmas Farm-ers Market hosted by Northum-berland Tractor Parts where he was selling much-coveted HHS calendars, post cards and copies of Stewart Richardsons biography of Hockey Hall of Fame player Dit Clapper.

We have shipped calendars to Ohio and Hawaii to families who had connections to Hastings one way or the other, he explained.

One family cottaged in Hastings for 50 years and scooped every-thing to do with Hastings.

The people from Hawaii now want us to do a digital copy of the Coughlan family history and thats part of our digital project for the

year, said Coveney.The HHS is busy with projects

and ideas and Coveney says efforts like the well-received calendar (theyre already working on a 2014 edition) has led to the acquisition of a number of interesting artefacts.

The calendar has raised the or-ganizations profile and provided an entre into local collections; it has also eased any concerns people might have about the respect and care personal memorabilia receives from members of the societys dig-itization team.

Now were getting people offering us collections of Hast-ings things that will make photos and other forms of communica-tion [like the calendar]. People are happy to have a place to keep these things. Our goal is to make digital copies of everything thats of his-torical interest.

Were looking for more inter-esting photos for cards and calen-dars in the future, he said.

The Dit Clapper project spear-

headed by historical society has produced a number of interesting photo finds including long-sought-after images of the outdoor arena that Clappers father managed.

Coveney continues to look for photo images of the Hastings rail-way station, once one of the busiest hubs in the village but a site that has proved tricky for photo-track-ing sleuths.

The Internet has opened the world to people who are interested in Hastings, he says.

He is excited about the societys acquisition of old eight-millimetre movies from 1950 to 1975 that have been converted to DVD for-mat.

Were seeking more to make an interesting record of that time. We want to produce an audio overlay while there are people here to tell the story.

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