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f there is a state of mind that winter seems to encourage more than any other, it must be stoicism. January is to be endured. February is a month-long test of our capacity for abnegation.

Which is not to deny the season’s majestic beauty and many joyful opportunities. But even they test our resolve before yielding their icy diversions. Few things are more enjoyable in winter for instance than skating on a pond or the quiet bay of a lake. But only very rarely is the ice naturally smooth and free of snow.

Anyone who has maintained a backyard

rink knows that decent ice takes hours of shovelling and flooding in sub-zero temperatures.

It is therefore fitting that this current issue gives pride of place to some of these challenging pursuits. Few can equal ice-climbing in sheer stoicism.

Climbing itself seems to be a risky way to test the iron law of gravity. Add to it freezing temperatures and slippery ice, and, well, we’ll admire the feat from down here, thank you very much. But it’s hard to think of a more graceful, fiercely beautiful winter sport.

Winter camping is not for the faint of heart either, although it at least tends to stick to horizontal surfaces. And, as one of our articles reveals, there are ways to actually enjoy spending time in a tent when there is half a metre of snow outside.

For the less stoic among us, we have articles on affordable housing and community solutions, historical writing, food security and the importance of seeds, museum exhibits, library promotions, winter-themed poetry, and much more.

All photos contributed, unless otherwise noted.

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An Alpine Club of Canada member winter ice climbing at Calabogie Eagle’s Nest.

Photo by Geoff Schimmel.

For more information about the Alpine Club of Canada Toronto Section, you can visit their website at www. alpineclubtoronto.ca, or send them an email at info@ alpineclubtoronto.ca. If you would like to speak with someone in the Stone Mills area about climbing, please reach out to Geoff Schimmel at geoff.schimmel@gmail.com.

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enie Thai’s musical background is deep. Raised in a musical household of six, Jenie’s blues and folk education began young when she fell asleep to the music her parents played while entertaining guests downstairs.

Her training on the piano began at age five, and she took private lessons for fifteen years.

In 2008, Jenie diversified her education attending the Grant MacEwan Jazz and Contemporary Music Program as a performance major. Upon graduation, Jenie was offered a part-time teaching position at Grant MacEwan University and gained acceptance into Paul McCartney’s international music school based in Liverpool.

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Jenie has released three recordings: “Lady Flower” in 2011, “Over the Moon” in 2013 and “Night on Fire” in 2018.

These have resulted in some serious recognition including a nomination for Female Artist of the Year in 2014 at the Edmonton Music Awards, and in 2014, being semi-finalist at the Memphis Blues Challenge. In 2016, she was a nominee for Best New Artist at the Maple Blues Awards, appeared as a featured performer at Massey Hall in 2017, and is currently nominated for Pianist of the Year for 2018 at the Canadian Maple Blues Awards.

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What Doesn’t Kill You …? seven to one, his vote seems to count the most as the rest of us are disinclined to walk home.

Alyce Gorter

September 7 & 8, 2018

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ou can save your breath because I know exactly what you’re going to say, “that I had gone there twice before so I should have known what I was getting into and you, personally, don’t want to hear any more about it.” I understand that.

But, you see, every trip is different in some way and, since we never climb the same mountain, there is always hope that this time it will all be a whole lot easier. Besides, after a year has gone by my memories have faded and I start to think that it really couldn’t have been as bad as all that and maybe I really did enjoy it. Also, I have invested a small fortune in proper hiking gear and need to get my money’s worth out of it — there isn’t much need for a Platypus water reservoir in my day to day life. AND I’m getting the hang of what to take so that my backpack doesn’t weigh enough to stagger a pack mule.

And, last but not least, not only were my 14 – and 15-year-old granddaughters going this year, but my ten-year-old granddaughter as well and her 9-year-old friend and his parents. Come on, —how hard a trail would a loving father —our stalwart Trip Coordinator — pick for such a novice group?! See, I’m always hopeful.

That’s why I went again this year. I’m a slow learner.

First, there is always the fear that I will end up as a traffic statistic on the trip down. Call me chicken, but it unnerves me to see someone drive with their knee while they manually deal with some apparently more important matter than steering a fast-moving automobile jammed with eight fragile bodies. It’s a tough decision — do I try to sleep so I don’t have to see death approaching, or do I stay awake in hopes that I can somehow avert the crash? So far, staying awake and screaming at appropriate times seems to have worked. As an added benefit, it is quite effective in keeping the rest of the passengers on their toes. It’s a very long four-hour drive. Having someone else take the wheel doesn’t seem to be an option that the Trip Coordinator is willing to consider. On the other hand, it’s his vehicle and, although the vote may be

What I haven’t factored in before this or (what is much more likely) was afraid to acknowledge, is that my son may be genetically geared through his Grandfather Ackerman to always choose the hardest way to do anything. Whereas my father always picked the most difficult method because he believed that if it were easy it would lead to some sort of trap, my son takes the demanding route because he likes the challenge.

Different motivation, same frustration for those nearest and/or dearest.

The plan, he said, was for us to scale Mt. Wright on the day we arrived. At a measly elevation of 1398 meters, it can only claim to be the 16th highest mountain in the High Peaks of the Adirondack Park. Since we had climbed Mt. Marcy — Numero Uno of the High Peaks — two years ago, this will be a cakewalk for us seasoned climbers. We will then camp for the night. The following day, after a refreshing night’s rest and a delicious, hot breakfast, we will climb Algonquin Peak, the second highest mountain in New York State at 1559 meters. And, oh, by the way, we will climb it with full packs, underscoring the need for a good sleep before starting such a trek. And, if we haven’t died or given up by then, we will also climb Iroquois Peak (eighth highest peak) after that. A second night of camping and then we will head for the parking lot and home. It was a warm, sunny day; we had survived the ride down; we had eaten a good last meal in Lake Placid; we had indulged in huge ice cream cones at Ben and Jerry’s; everyone was enjoying themselves; it all sounded okay to us.

Our two youngest trekkers, with twelvepound packs bouncing jauntily off their bony shoulders and skinny bare legs propelling them up the slope at a rapid pace, took off like gazelles. The two men hoisted their 55-pound packs containing tents, sleeping bags, bear cans, food, water, etc. and strode off without a glance behind. The rest of us followed in their wake with packs of various weights determined to keep up the pretence that we were totally keen on every aspect of this venture. We were certainly not going to have our trekking skills eclipsed by those of a knock-kneed, blond wisp of a

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Everything went according to plan. We reached Mt. Wright at 4:30 in the afternoon and the campsites were still available. There were plenty of clean, flat spaces for us to pitch the tents; lots of time to prepare and eat a leisurely meal; hours of sunlight to just sit and enjoy the great outdoors and each other’s pleasant company; and an excellent opportunity to rest and prepare for tomorrow’s conquest of Algonquin Peak.

Or, we could keep on hiking and try to scale that mountain TODAY. There would be no campsites until we reached the other side of Algonquin, so once we started the climb, we would have no choice but to continue until we were down and had located a lean-to or tenting site. It was hard to know exactly how many kilometres we would have to go before being able to settle for the night. We might have to travel in the dark. Other trekkers shook their heads and strongly advised against us continuing up Algonquin Peak, saying it was too long and too difficult a trek to attempt at this hour of the day. Ah, thank you, that tipped the scales and made the decision easy.

And that’s how we came to be stumbling down the back side of the second highest peak in the Adirondacks at night; headlamps bobbing in the darkness; slip-sliding down sheer, slippery, slopes; tumbling over boulders; losing our way in streambeds and having to retrace our steps; hungry bellies rebelling at the thought of yet another protein bar; and a distinct, mutinous aura rising from the group toward a certain trek leader.

It was 10:30 before we finally dragged our way to a lean-to — dejectedly finding it already inhabited. But we could go no further. We pitched one tent on the sloping, uneven, rocky ground, threw the other tent up inside the lean-to beside our neighbours’ tent and tossed in sleeping bags. Some prepared a hot meal of freeze-dried whatever over a Bunsen burner; some actually ate whatever it was; some simply scurried into pyjamas and crawled into sleeping bags hoping they would wake up in their own beds in the morning laughing at the nightmare they had just had.

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They didn’t.

The next morning dawned clear and cold. We apologized repeatedly to our neighbours for our late night, noisy intrusion as they quickly pulled up stakes and hit the trail, forgetting some of their gear in their haste. A hot oatmeal breakfast may have helped our attitudes a bit but did nothing to salve our strained muscles and insubordinate legs. It was still six miles to the parking lot — through the mountains and Avalanche Pass. No, we did not feel like adding Iroquois Peak to today’s agenda. Yes, we wanted to go home. The Trip Coordinator wisely kept his mouth shut.

So, what’s it like to climb two mountains in one day (well, one day and one night) with full packs? It was a solid eight hours of climbing — two and a half of it in the dark. You can compare it to four hours on a Stairmaster (without resting) immediately followed by four hours on a sharply downward-sloped treadmill. The knees are the first body parts to surrender to the strain with the quadriceps of the upper thigh throwing in the towel right alongside them. You have to find a way to keep moving that does not involve bending your legs. Not easy to do but there aren’t a lot of options available in that situation which makes you pretty inventive. Especially when the Rangers have made a point of warning all hikers of increased bear activity in the area and the huge piles of berry-filled bear poop found along the trail provide evidence of that.

So, we made it home safely. Most of us can now speak civilly to the Trip Coordinator.

Oh, and by the way, now that my knees are working again, and I’ve had time for the memories to dim, that gruelling two-mountain climb? Well, it was risky and certainly not fun to have to keep moving when our bodies were so weary and aching, not knowing how much farther before we could stop, not sure under the cover of darkness how safe our next step would be. But, to have completed the challenge with only a few minor scrapes as a three-generation family with an extremely good companion family beside us all the way was awesome!

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Creating Community Solutions to Provide a Home for All Katherine Burrows

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ousing is a key measure of community success. Affordable housing may take many forms, but helping tenants achieve successful long-term housing depends on removing two key barriers. “Our focus is on removing not only barriers to affordability, but also barriers to healthy tenancy,” explains Annette Keogh, Manager of Prince Edward-Lennox & Addington Social Services (PELASS).

As discussed in the December/January issue of The SCOOP, many people who are homeless or precariously housed are challenged by abuse/conflict with a family member, mental health issues, addiction/substance abuse, chronic/ acute illness, physical disability, and/or police interaction/incarceration. It is important to look at the whole person and not just their financial circumstances. Maintaining independence and basic dignity are key factors in successfully battling life’s challenges. When a person or family can access the support they need in all areas of their life, they are more likely to achieve success as a long-term tenant.

Obviously, providing access to necessary

River Ski at Sundown pick pick of the poles brisk batting of the wind crisp crunch underfoot blazing sun ricocheting off a window off the snow still diamond flecked ballast of the chocolate bars

Ballast of the Chocolate Bars It may be just a trifle.

Pardon me while I stifle a laugh, and I muffle my feet as they shuffle.

On my skis a kerfuffle from more than just one truffle.

Bring on Spring Enough of your boxing sparring ways, bluster and fluster and chilling days.

Your snow and sleet are remiss you know.

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Look ahead.

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supports is not as simple or easy as it sounds. There can be many complicating factors, not the least of which is the need for a safe, affordable place to call home while the person/family gets the help they need in other areas of their life.

It may lead service providers to question which comes first, the chicken or the egg.

But keep in mind that to hatch a successful chick, you need both the egg (that the chick comes from) and the chicken (to incubate the egg).

Service providers must work to help people find both housing and life supports at the same time. As each person has a unique situation and needs, it seems at times like a quest for some elusive magical formula that continues to remain just out of reach. The patience, persistence and determination of people searching for stable, affordable housing, and those service providers who work daily to help them is not to be underestimated.

For people to achieve healthy, long-term tenancy, such housing units must be constructed and located to facilitate both financial and life success. Keogh notes energy efficient units that keep monthly bills down are great, but another significant consideration is the availability, proximity, and access to essential services, such as grocery stores, schools, and medical care. She gives the example that putting affordable housing units in Centreville (near our Township Office), without also adding essential services, could be very isolating and prevent any tenant without a vehicle from accessing necessary services. It follows then that affordable housing needs to be strategically located and intentionally added to community planning, especially in communities without public transportation.

All three levels of government have begun to tackle this challenge. The federal government has built a National Housing Strategy and implemented a National Housing Co-Investment Fund.

The goal of this fund is that “By working with our partners at all levels, more middle-class Canadians — and those working hard to join it — will find safe, accessible, affordable homes, in vibrant and inclusive communities where families thrive, children learn and grow, and their parents have the stability and opportunities they need to succeed,” according to The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Mike Bossio, local MP for Hastings – Lennox and Addington adds, “You can’t grow a community if you don’t have houses for people to move into.” Bossio recently hosted workshops to encourage more affordable housing development in our riding. He notes, “This new era for housing in Canada must include rural communities like ours, and we are actively seeking partners to create more affordable housing in our community.”

Using provincial funding allocated to the counties, PELASS currently has 120 units (up from 29 units in 2000) with rent geared to income (RGI). The tenant pays 30% of their income toward rent and the County subsidizes the remaining amount. Keogh admits, “we need more units.” She shared that her agency also provides $100 per month to people on the waiting list for the RGI units.

Keogh says a lot of time has been spent to entice developers to the area. PELASS also provides a support program for landlords renting to vulnerable people and a tenant support program to ensure safety and communication for both parties.

The PELASS Community Homelessness Prevention Fund can be allocated to pay for hydro arrears, or first and last months’ rent, to prevent tenants who currently have a home from becoming homeless. There has also been funding provided to the Warming Centre, notes Keogh, “as we try to help as many homeless people as possible.”

Many people in Stone Mills struggle with questions about what they can do to help. The highly publicized, ongoing struggle of one Napanee man to provide affordable housing via the use of trailers on his Loyalist Township property has yielded discouraging results to those who want to make a difference and improve our community. While by-laws vary among the municipalities, I have focused on Stone Mills by-laws, because The SCOOP is based here.

For information pertaining specifically to the by-laws in Stone Mills, I contacted Roger Hogan, Deputy Clerk, Township of Stone Mills to find out what private individuals or families can do if they would like to offer housing on their Stone Mills property to someone who is currently homeless or precariously housed.

In answering my questions about options for Stone Mills property owners, Hogan noted, “Although a complete second dwelling is not permitted on the same lot, most zones permit the use of a second dwelling unit.” A housing unit could be added to a new or existing barn, garage, basement, or attic in most cases.

He further explains, “the planning act was amended to ensure that adding an additional suite to an existing dwelling was possible in all municipalities.”

Think in-law suite.

Hogan is not aware

of any funding available to assist with any of these endeavours at this time.

Trailers may be stored only and not lived in. However, in the document “Township of Stone Mills Zoning By-Law No. 2014-744”, on pages 42 and 43, the document states that both a Mobile Home (“Means any dwelling that is designed to be made mobile, and constructed or manufactured to provide a permanent residence for one or more persons but does not include a travel trailer, motorized home, a tent trailer or trailer otherwise defined.”) and a Mobile Home Park (“Means land which has been provided and designed for the location thereon of two (2) or more mobile homes.”) are permitted in Zones RMH. According to the document “Township of Stone Mills Zoning By-Law – Schedule 1”, there is no zone within the entire township that bears the designation RMH. Hogan clarified, “Township would not pre-zone any lands to provide for this use nor would we develop any zone for this particular use. Instead, should someone want to develop lands for this purpose then such a proposal would require a zoning amendment and it would be considered on the merits of that proposal. Land use planning by its very nature is restrictive and we have to be cognizant at all times of the impacts of planning on affected properties. Housing is indeed a problem and I think most municipalities are attempting to get a handle on it. The Council for Stone Mills has had several discussions on the matter.”

With the knowledge that Stone Mills Council and residents are already exploring viable options, may we collaborate toward realizing a future that includes providing safe, affordable, accessible housing in a welcoming community to improve quality of life for all Stone Mills Township residents.

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On Winter Camping Lillian Bufton

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amping in any season other than summer tends to be an unpleasant prospect for all but the most committed outdoors enthusiast. Late spring or early fall camping can, of course, provide some of the most rewarding natural experiences. Falling asleep and waking up under canvas to the sounds of life returning to the wild after months of winter torpor or to the blaze of autumnal colours are some of the most exhilarating adventures this writer has enjoyed.

But the mere suggestion of camping in February is enough to strike primal, bone-chilling fear in most of us. To everything, there is a season. Winter is for reading, streaming, knitting, or curling by the fire. Not roughing it. Until that is, one realizes that the term camping can encompass a broad array of possibilities. The humble tent alone takes multiple forms. The wall tent has been the preferred shelter of adventurers, prospectors, hunters, and many other outdoors folks for generations. Many camps and resorts offer a variation on this heated, moderately comfortable tent.

But probably the most popular today is the modernized version of the Mongolian nomad’s mobile residence: the yurt (or ger as it is actually known in Mongolia).

While still technically a tent, the yurt offers all manner of comforts, including heating, furniture, and so on. Our region abounds in winter camping facilities equipped with yurts, including nearby provincial parks and several private providers, now easier to find with the various online hospitality platforms available.

So, if sleeping on the ground, under paper-thin fabric in a blizzard is not at the top of your list, consider camping at a yurt this winter. Enjoy the pristine wilderness without the nuisance of bugs; watch the northern lights dance in the crisp sky; fall asleep to the sound of distant wolves howling at the moon.

Pack your bags and strap on your snowshoes - it’s time for winter camping!

One of many yurts available for winter camping in nearby provincial parks.

Photo courtesy Ontario Parks.

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Frozen River in February Snowflakes fluffing white, floating to a whitening ground.

Fine etchings of frosty flowers emboss my window panes.

Juncos flock to the feeder.

Fastening skis on, frozen river beckons.

Fresh skidoo tracks set the stage.

I follow the riverbank, avoid black-pooled edges where ever-so-thin ice floats.

Flurry falls furiously now, thickly wet on my upturned face.

Picking up pace, laying track faster and faster on the Apanea, winding into the future.

Squares of shoveled snow in the sheltered bays.

Click of hockey stick filling the air and, fleet of foot, red-cheeked boys with snow flecked toques call triumphantly across the frozen riverscape.

Now hush, all is hush, as a husky hurries along broadside, tongue lolling merrily.

Leaving white capped houses behind, undulating tree clad landscapes, frozen reeds tinkling in the wind.

Suspended deep below the ice sheet, burrowed turtles, and slumbering fish, frogs.

Wind picks up, whipping snow around my ankles.

Then higher still. It would help to have windshield wipers for eyeglasses.

Where does river end, white sky begin?

Which way the river tiding, sloshing to and from the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario Skanadario?

Ice booms, races across the river, startlingly close.

Heart a-flurry, hurrying back, laying fresh track again.

Skis flying, poles clicking, ice booming. Fleeing past houses now all in a blur.

Wind dies down. The river she sings friendly now.

Fat snow falls slowly, silently.

Wiping off skis, wiping off glasses, trudging on home.

Layer firewood in the fireplace. Rubbing frozen fingers.

Forage in the fridge and fill the teakettle.

The juncos have stopped feeding.

Fat robin takes their place.

—Barbara Roch

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Good times sitting around the toasty woodstove inside a yurt.

Photo courtesy Ontario Parks.

Sentinels in the Snow The world is full of exacting morning light, clouds billowing above the strata of smooth white.

Sentinels standing, are the barren trees – grey severing the azure in a guarded wintery way.

The west wind an axiom, this breezy ardent truth, of winter’s frigid, steadfast azimuth.

The arc of the horizon, sliced and sprinkled with crisp snows, has frost decorating some branches as a westerly zephyr now blows.

Spring is still in full hiding, like the green kiss of youth, is fast asleep until it is ready for your soul to sooth.

Remove yourself, beautiful sinister white ash from the frozen ground, uncover the earthed green glory as you retreat without a sound.

—E. D. J. Morel

Food for Now and for Tomorrow Susan Rehner

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ave you noticed that food has been featured in the media lately?

There have been many discussions and articles about the new Canada’s Food Guide, food security, the effects of climate change and global warming on food crops, the new Planetary Health Diet (and other plant-based diets), and the need to reduce food waste. These are the areas I’ll focus on. But other recent food-related news which you may have seen or read about concerned contaminated produce, the safety of GMO foods and pesticides, and organic foods and local food production.

HEALTH CANADA’S GUIDE TO EATING In 1942, during World War II, Canada’s Official Food Rules (note the use of the word Rules) were published. Malnutrition in Canada was widespread, the result of the poverty and unemployment endured during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the inadequacy of food rations.

Consequently, of the first 50,000 Canadian recruits considered for military service, 43% had to be rejected – they were physically unfit for action. So, Canada launched a campaign to improve the health of Canadians for the war effort. The campaign included Canada’s Official Food Rules, which was aimed at producing “strong soldiers, efficient workers, and good mothers” according to historian Ian Moseby. The graphics for the food rules included a milk bottle hefting a rifle to strengthen the message.

In later years, the language was toned down: “official” was dropped in 1944, “rules” became “guide” in 1961, and in 1992 it became Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating, picturing a friendly rainbow road of four food groups. The Canadian Meat Council, the Dairy Bureau of Canada, and the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency successfully lobbied to have the amounts of certain foods increased in the final version of the 1992 guide. As a result, some critics of the 1992 guide charged that it encouraged overeating and that the interests of certain food industry lobby groups carried more weight than the health of Canadians.

The New 2019 Guide: On January 22, Health Canada launched the 2019 version of the food guide, which takes a different approach to healthy eating. It has not been influenced by lobby groups. The new guide emphasizes plant-based foods, discourages unhealthy food choices (those high in sugar sodium, and saturated fats), and recommends water as the drink of choice. Instead of the four food groups of the old guide, the new

guide shows a plate with one half occupied by fruits and vegetables. The other half is divided into two equal sections. One section contains whole grain foods, and the other section a mixture of protein foods. Among the protein choices, meat, eggs, and dairy share the space with plant-based proteins, such as chickpeas, tofu, beans, nuts, and seeds. Canadians are now encouraged to “choose protein foods that come from plants more often,” such as pulses (dry beans and peas, chickpeas, and lentils). Pulses are affordable, low in fats, grown in Canada, and environmentally friendly, in that they fix nitrogen and improve soil. For the first time, the guide looks at the environmental impact of food production, processing, and distribution.

FOOD SECURITY Food security, a relatively new term, was explained by the UN in 1996: “food security exists when people are able to access enough safe and nutritious food to live a healthy life.” In 2015 when a UN Sustainable Development Summit was held in New York, 193 countries pledged to end hunger by 2030, and later that fall at the Climate Change Conference held in

In our part of eastern Ontario, various organizations and communities have established farmers’ markets, community gardens, co-ops, good food boxes, the Grow a Row program, community kitchens and freezers, gleaning programs, school lunch programs, fresh food market stands, and low-cost nutritious meals for those in need, among other initiatives. Kingston has 38 community gardens and Napanee has four, with more planned.

Martha’s Table, the Loving Spoonful, and the Boys and Girls Club are very active in the Kingston area, promoting food security through their many food-related programs. Most of their invaluable work is done by volunteers and funded by donors.

Canada’s new (2019) food guide.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE Throughout the world, research is being conducted to predict how climate change will affect food production. With climate change, severe events — droughts, floods, strong winds, heat, and fires — are more

Among the aims of the Planetary Health Diet are a reduction of chronic diseases (coronary heart disease, stroke, and several types of cancer), a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the prevention of species extinctions, and the preservation of water. According to Tim Lang of the University of London, one of the co-leaders of the research, “Feeding a growing population of people, 10 billion by 2050, with a healthy, sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production, and reducing food waste.”

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Gardens to Go, Napanee Project lead Marsha Beebe (left) and Mayor Marg Isbester (right).

Paris, 195 countries recognized food security as a priority area for action.

In Canada, it is estimated that one in eight households is food insecure due to joblessness, precarious work, or lowwage jobs. Some of the measures put in place to combat food insecurity in Canada include the Child Care Benefit, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, social assistance benefits, and food banks. An additional measure that many have been calling for over the years is a national school food program that will ensure that healthy meals are available to all school children.

Loving Spoonful’s school-garden based GROW Project in Kingston.

Ontario developed a Provincial Food Security Strategy (published in 2017 and updated in April 2018) which looked at the affordability of food and at initiatives to reduce the rate of food insecurity. This report stressed the value of community approaches rather than a provincewide approach and emphasized the need to support communities dealing with food insecurity.

likely. Weather patterns have already become less predictable. In Ontario, we are told we can expect increasing temperatures and a longer growing season. However, the warmer summer temperatures will mean increased evaporation and dry periods.

Unpredictable weather patterns and extreme events will make planting, growing, and harvesting more difficult for farmers. Adaptations to farming methods may be necessary, such as seasonal adjustments to seeding and planting, use of different varieties or species, and more efficient water conservation and irrigation techniques.

THE PLANETARY HEALTH DIET In January 2019, the Planetary Health Diet, a three-year project, was published in The Lancet (eminent British medical journal) by an international team of 37 scientists from 16 countries. Their expertise ranged from farming to climate change to nutrition. The diet they recommend to the world is meant to improve people’s health, while at the same time ensuring sustainable food production, and reducing further damage to our earth. It is based on cutting down on red meat and sugar consumption and increasing the intake of fruits, vegetables, and nuts. For protein, the diet stresses a greater reliance on beans, lentils, and nuts.

The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste, Second Harvest’s important study on food waste in Canada, was also published in January 2019. Second Harvest is a charitable organization that collects surplus food and distributes it to social service organizations and schools.

Second Harvest’s study found that 58% of all food produced in Canada is lost or wasted – enough for 34,000 meals per day and a monetary loss of $49 billion.

Yet one-third of that food could be rescued and sent to communities who need it. There are several reasons why so much food is wasted in Canada.

Consumers and retailers may throw food away when it is surplus or it is near or past its best-before date, although it could often be used or donated. Produce sometimes rots in the fields because there are too few labourers to harvest it, or at times of low prices the crop is not worth the cost of harvesting. Consumers often reject “imperfect produce” and supermarkets end up throwing it out.

When food is thrown out, not only the food is wasted, but also the resources used in growing, processing, packaging, and transporting it.

There are several measures we can take to help our planet and improve our health. We can support organizations that work to reduce food insecurity, buy locally grown and organic produce, grow some of our food at home or at a community garden, modify our diet to emphasize healthy foods and reduce the amount of food we waste. Let’s try.

Tamworth/Erinsville GrassRoots Growers is a community-based group. Our mission is to encourage interest in local and organic gardening for both the home garden and the market garden; to raise awareness of issues surrounding food production; to improve our practical knowledge of all aspects of plant life; and to provide networking opportunities for gardeners. We welcome new members.

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A Natural View: Look Dear – We Have Deer!

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love the nature trails that the new owner and I have created together on our former farm. There must be at least 10 km of them, four of which I keep groomed for my own use. Sometimes I wander with my Shih Tzu along some of the less maintained sections of the maze of trails that zig-zag and meander over this old farm. Early this winter, I strolled along one such trail, much of which had succumbed to Red Cedar. It was a quiet morning and other than a Northern Harrier who floated over on its daily search for Meadow Voles, the trail seemed uncharacteristically deserted.

Across one fence, a Red-tailed Hawk decided on a more casual approach and remained perched in an oak tree, preferring to let the voles come to him, rather than expend energy as the harrier had done.

Suddenly, a herd of five White-tailed Deer — no, six — thundered across the trail in front of us and crashed noisily into the thicker growths of cedars and tangles, the crackle of breaking branches fading away as the deer continued on their way. It was one of those cardiac moments, not unlike when a Ruffed Grouse explodes without warning in front of you.

From what I could see in the brief moment they were visible, so close I could almost reach out and touch them as they roared by, these deer were not hurting; December and January had been kind to them and there was food aplenty.

Many of us who are fond of wild animals are tempted to feed deer in the winter to lend them a helping hand. But, are we helping or just interfering? After all, we feed birds, a few may even offer feed to squirrels and chipmunks, but how about the deer that might drop in for a backyard visit? Do we feed the occasional deer that ventures into our backyard?

What do we offer, and how much? Are we apt to attract such a high number that they may become a smorgasbord and a feeding ground for predators? What do we offer? There are examples of large amounts of hay being fed at deer yards that actually result in starvation when stomachs became packed with indigestible hay. However, let’s just talk about the few that may wander into our backyard, if we live near where deer are known to frequent, and we choose to feed them. Right or wrong?

Let’s start by saying that deer seldom need our help. Occasional ice storms might be an exception, but deer are pretty much designed for whatever winter throws at them. Deer shed their hair coat in the fall. The summer hair has solid shafts and lacks an undercoat, but the grey-brown winter coat has hollow hair shafts and a dense, wool-like under fur, providing effective insulation. They also have special muscles that can adjust the angle of their hair shafts to obtain maximum insulation.

In the fall, deer gorge and increase fat accumulation by as much as 30%. I think my deer must have done just that. They

White-tailed deer in winter. Photo by Sydney Smith. seek out protein-rich food sources in the spring and summer for growth, and start looking for more starches and sugars in the fall and winter to help them build fat stores. Protein-rich foods include alfalfa and clover. Starchy or sugary foods include corn, grapes, and acorns. During the winter, they reduce food intake (regardless of availability), relying on their fat reserves for as much as 40% of daily nutritional needs. Deer conserve energy during winter months by becoming sedentary and restricting their movements to the deer yard where they have access to cover and survive on woody browse – twigs, buds, and stems.

That is until someone like me comes along and startles them into fleeing.

So, by offering food at this time of year, their digestion process can be upset, unless you know what you’re doing, and understand the digestive requirements of deer in winter. For example, while deer may consume corn in the fall, offering large amounts in the winter can be fatal as a deer’s winter digestive system is not equipped to handle a high carbohydrate diet such as corn.

Deer photo by Jeff Moore.

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Terry Sprague lives in Prince Edward County and is a retired interpretive naturalist and hike leader. See his website at www.naturestuff.net. He can be reached at tsprague@xplornet.com.

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Deer became overcrowded, cleaned out the understory and its native wildflowers in a desperate search for food, and became weak with malnutrition. A cull was put in place to reduce the herd to a sustainable level and the understory returned and the resident deer became healthy again. Nature is not kind, but she is knowledgeable. The best manager is nature herself who will guarantee that only the strongest and healthiest individuals survive, ensuring a healthy breeding stock.

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Winter Ice Climbing with the Alpine Club of Canada Geoff Schimmel

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evered for millennia by Indigenous peoples, the Rock on Lake Mazinaw has drawn the wonder and intrigue of countless visitors. Some view it from afar as a soaring ridge rising from the water into the sky as others paddle close to view the ancient pictographs. Members of the Alpine Club of Canada – we climb the Rock.

The personal challenge, mental exertion, an extension of our own limits, technical requirements and the camaraderie of friends are all reasons we do it.

Throughout all four seasons, members of the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) come from around the world to experience multi-pitch climbing on the 100-metrehigh granite cliff rising vertically out of the water. The exposure and length of routes at Bon Echo make for an adventure unlike any other in Ontario.

-The routes are all traditional style, ranging from 5.0 (akin to climbing a steep ladder) to 5.11 (imagine dangling by two of your fingertips upside down), with the most popular routes in the 5.4 to 5.9 range. The term “multi-pitch” means that in order to reach the top, climbers must lead-climb involving one person going first up the face, placing gear such as “nuts” and “cams” into crevices and cracks temporarily as they ascend. As the second climber follows, he or she removes the devices, leaving no trace or impact on the natural environment.

Today, the Toronto Section of the ACC remains a vibrant and influential centre point for the climbing and outdoors community in Southern Ontario. We’re

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one of about two dozen regional sections that make up the Alpine Club of Canada, Canada’s national climbing and mountaineering organization. Our members climb cliffs, frozen waterfalls, and mountains, they ski back-country, cross-country or downhill, hike and generally enjoy the more vertical aspects of nature. As an active community of members, we come from all walks of life, all genders and represent a full range of ages; from the early teens right up to the late 80s. Entirely governed and operated by volunteers, we are passionate about outdoor pursuits and do everything we can to foster the growth of our members in many aspects of vertical.

The Alpine Club of Canada Toronto Section operates the Wally Joyce Hut, a comfortable cabin on the Mazinaw that is an excellent place to meet other climbers and get information on the climbs. The hut also offers excellent swimming, hiking, and a wood-fired sauna. We operate a boat to ferry climbers from the hut to and from the base of the rock at the waterline.

Yury Yakubovich, ice climbing south of Bancroft. Photo by Geoff Schimmel.

Each year we run a host of courses including basic climbing techniques, ice climbing, leadership development, mountaineering, wilderness first aid and other related training programs. A series of trips to the Rockies, Adirondacks and even overseas are coordinated among the members.

In recent years, the rapid growth of indoor climbing gyms has significantly impacted the relevancy of the ACC Toronto Section. New climbers that want to take their new passion outdoors need the mentorship and training that our club provides to ensure that the erratic and unpredictable nature of the outdoors is made as safe and accessible as possible.

To clear up a bit of a misconception about climbers, we aren’t “adrenaline junkies”. In fact, we are probably more risk-averse than the average person. Our primary objective in this sport is to not fall and to not get hurt. The rocks and mountains afford us a place to connect to the natural world in an intimate way not found in many other outdoor pursuits.

We take calculated, measured, and well thought out approaches to each movement and each element of nature we touch. Patience is truly a virtue, and nothing hones it like climbing.

Jerrod White, ice climbing at Bon Echo. Photo by Geoff Schimmel.

For readers who may have seen the recent feature film “Free Solo” by Jimmy Chin that chronicles the climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park by Alex Honnold; while it is truly a remarkable feat of human endurance and skill, it does not represent the type of climbing that we do at Bon Echo or other cliffs. Safety and fall protection are paramount to everything we do on the rock face. Climbing unaided without ropes is not permitted by the ACC Toronto Section.

Stewardship is at the heart of the ACC’s considerations to the Bon Echo area. Our strict policies prevent any access near the pictographs, avoidance of nesting sites, and any contact with the trees or shrubs growing on the cliff face. Over the decades we have come to realize that our presence on the Mazinaw Rock serves to help protect the delicate ecosystem. The ACC had long been involved with the Peregrine Falcon Release Program at Bon Echo and Killarney Park. The ACC helped with a survey of native rock pictographs at Bon Echo, trained fire and rescue personnel within the Halton Region Conservation Authority (HRCA) area and assisted in clean-up days to remove decades of garbage from the base of the

Michelle Sault at Bon Echo. Photo by Geoff Schimmel.

HRCA cliffs. The researchers involved with the Bon Echo Cliff Face Study and the University of Guelph Cliff Face Ecology Group were trained climbers.

For more information about the Alpine Club of Canada Toronto Section, you can

visit our website at www. alpineclubtoronto.ca, or send us an email at info@alpineclubtoronto.ca. If you would like to speak with someone in the Stone Mills area about climbing, please reach out to Geoff Schimmel at geoff. schimmel@gmail.com.

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Remembering Mazinaw Lake’s Johnny Bay Marcella Neely

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he Cloyne and District Historical Society meets every third Monday in January, February March, April, May, September, October, and November.

We focus on local history, enjoying talks, videos, and presentations from the past.

Of special interest was a presentation a few years ago by Laura Schwager, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Johnny Bay. Schwager, who has numerous relatives in the Mazinaw Lake area, lives and teaches at the Quinte Mohawk School in the Tyendinaga Mohawk territory. She became interested in her Mohawk ancestry after hearing stories from her grandparents, Earl and Cora Davison. “My interest in my Mohawk ancestry comes first from a photograph of my great grandmother, Matilda Bay Schwager ... and what would stand out perhaps most for me ... was an image described for me of the day Matilda was buried ... how a huge flock of geese in their V formation flew down low and loudly above everyone, as if to carry away her spirit.”

Schwager’s research with family members, local historians, and genealogists brought to light the lives of Johnny Bay and his wife Anne Laforce, who eventually settled on the shores of Mazinaw Lake on Levere Road (Indian Point). During his time there, Bay helped build numerous cottages including the Obornes’, Blatchfords’ and Pearsons’ cottages, and also Skootamatta Lake Lodge. Schwager’s research uncovered Bay’s earliest roots, which originated with the Hotinonshonni People of the Longhouse, also known as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy who lived on land in Upper New York State and southern Ontario. Each longhouse was comprised of a married couple, the wife’s extended family, and was led by a clan mother.

Johnny Bay was born in 1850 and died around 1924. He is buried in the Flinton Catholic cemetery along with his wife Anne, his daughter Matilda, and his son John. Laura said that she is not sure how he died. There are two canoes in existence that he made, one at the museum at Bon Echo Provincial Park,

and one that was used in the Tyendinaga landing ceremony for many years and that is now stored at a private residence on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve.

Schwager was able to trace Bay to the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve, which “consisted mostly of Mohawk people wary of warfare between the French and the English, the British and the Americans, and Canada and the United States, and that was formed to ‘identify, categorize and control the people that lived off the land through the area that would become ‘Akwesasne’’.” Schwager was able to find records of Johnny Bay’s grandparents on both sides of his family from the late 1700s and records of his parents from the early 1800s. Bay’s parents, Peter Bay and Mary Cook had 11 children, all born on the reserve. One of the questions that Schwager was most interested in was why Johnny Bay eventually left the reserve, where she believes he lived from 1850-1876, to end up on Mazinaw Lake. Part of the answer she said was based on her academic findings. In her presentation she highlighted the plight of Aboriginal peoples throughout the country as “new diseases swept through the reserve and the Canadian government worked to build a nation without ‘Indian interference’, a time when rapid changemaking procedures were run to guarantee types of culture extinction,” which she said likely played a large role in Bay’s move off the reserve.

“By the time Johnny Bay was married he was faced with definitions foreign to his ancestors; he was forced, though he might not have known to the extent that I am aware of today, to fall from a place he knew, and into categories of ‘identity,’ ‘community,’ and ‘ownership’ as defined

by Euro-Canadian society.” Schwager also cited unrest within the reserve as a motivating factor for the Bays to leave it.

“I am told by the genealogist at Akwesasne that the Mohawk people had asked the Canadian government to assist them in having the families who were of mixed nations leave the reserve in order to keep the Mohawk bloodline pure.”

She also referred to the book The Oxen and The Axe, and said, “It is around the same time that the Bay family was

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This picture of Johnny Bay paddling his birch bark canoe adorned the cover of several Bon Echo Inn brochures when Dr. Weston A. Price was the owner. known to have considered an offer made to them by the Canadian government to move to a large area of land around Effingham and Weslemkoon Lakes – if 24

families would agree to settle there. The project was dropped because only five families wanted to go. But apparently, the Bays liked the area and decided to stay.”

Schwager also pointed to how the move likely led to Bay and his family losing their native status. “The Bay family, having left Akwesasne, were now enfranchised, which legally or by government definition means – to lose one’s identity, breaking up a so-called community (reserve) to ‘own’ land. There would be no distinction between an enfranchised non-status Indian and other non-Native citizens. The Bays would be protected from alienation and would supposedly escape the ‘baggage’ of having ‘Indian status’ or being of the ‘Indian problem.’ There are records of information that suggest to me that Johnny Bay may not have even been aware that he had lost his status ‘identity’ and that the land he had acquired would never really be ‘owned’ by him or his family.”

Thanks to Schwager, many have now come to know the history of a man who means so much not only to Laura Schwager and her family but to countless residents of the Mazinaw Lake area. Her extensive work and research have helped to keep both the legend and the life of her great-great-grandfather Johnny Bay alive.

For more information, please visit the Cloyne Pioneer Museum & Archives website at cloynepioneermuseum.ca.

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Seeds: Metaphor and Treasure Dianne Dowling

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am re-reading, for the third or fourth time, Janisse Ray’s beautifully written book, The Seed Underground. As Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature) says about Ray’s book, “If I get to feeling a little blue about our prospects, I’m liable to reach down one of Janisse Ray’s books just so I can hear her calm, wise, strong voice.” I feel like that when I read her book, too.

In The Seed Underground, Ray, a poet and life-long seed saver, tells about her search for old varieties of seeds and for people who are saving and growing them out. Every story is about love, commitment, hope, and sometimes, loss.

My copy of the book is underlined, dog-eared, sticky-noted, and on the inside covers, annotated with references to my favourite passages, like “Small farmers are a threat to the consolidation of absolute power” and “...there is no despair in seeds. There’s only life, waiting for the right conditions — sun and water, warmth, and soil — to be set free. Every day millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings.” Her book is a call for people to look for, grow out, and save regional seed varieties, and so to put seeds in the hands (and cupboards) of people, building selfreliance and resilience into our food system.

Seeds have been seen as both treasure and metaphor for millennia. They represent so many ideas about life — dormancy, regeneration, potential, hope, beginnings, fruitfulness, change, growth, cycles, patience, and more. Put “seeds of...” into an internet search, and you’ll get phrases like seeds of hope, seeds of peace, seeds of light, seeds of despair, and seeds of change.

A powerful and multi-faceted symbol in many aspects of our lives, seeds are also

on the minds of gardeners this time of year. Across Canada, there are Seedy Saturday (and Seedy Sunday) events held from January to May, organized locally to celebrate regionally-grown seeds and to make them available to gardeners and farmers.

I have attended the one in Kingston for several years — it is an affirming, “feel good” event, with lots of positive energy.

It’s still too cold to garden, but we can dream and plan and stock up on regionally grown, regionally adapted seeds, from small regional seed companies.

Seedy Saturday events in this region:

• Picton Seedy Saturday: Saturday,

February 23, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Prince Edward Collegiate Institute • Kingston Seedy Saturday: Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute • Quinte West Seedy Saturday: Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Prince Charles Public School in Trenton • Westport Seedy Saturday: Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Knox Presbyterian Church • There are also Seedy Saturday/Sunday events in Ottawa (March 2), Brockville (March 2), and Peterborough (March 10).

Go to the events page at seeds.ca for more details about these events, and for listings across Canada, searchable by location and date.

KINGSTON SEEDY SATURDAY, MARCH 9 At the Kingston Seedy Saturday, there will be several regional seed vendors, as well as displays by community groups related to food and gardening. Local seed companies include Bear Root Gardens (Verona), Edible Antiques (Prince Edward

County), Kitchen Table Seed House (Wolfe Island) and Mountain Grove Seed Company (Parham).

There will be free workshops on seed saving:

• Seed

saving for kids at 10:30 a.m., with Marie Bencze of Rad Kids Camps, where young gardeners will have the chance to get messy with seeds! Kids bring your adults along — fun learning will be had!

• Seed saving 101, including a video inviting us into Kevin Christy’s summer self-sufficient garden near Godfrey, where he saves the seeds for the vegetables he grows for food.

Following the short video, Kevin will answer questions about how and what he saves for seed every year. Take home a packet of his home-grown “Russian Hunger Gap” kale seeds to grow yourself! Professional seed saver Pat Joslin of Bear Root Gardens will also be on hand to answer questions.

• Advanced seed saving techniques, by Annie Richard of Kitchen Table Seed House.

A fun part of Seedy events is the seed swap table. Anyone can bring seeds to the swap table, and then choose some varieties to take home; contributors to the table should package their seeds in envelopes, labelled with the name, type, year grown, and a brief description of the

plant. Usually, there are plenty of seed packages at the table so that, even if you didn’t bring seeds, you can take a package or two home with you.

A bread and soup lunch prepared by St. Lawrence College culinary students will be available for purchase, and there will be drinks and muffins available for purchase throughout the event.

Admission by donation (suggested $2), to help cover costs for the event.

The event is organized by the Seedy Saturday committee of the Kingston Area Seed System Initiative (KASSI), a not-for-profit organization committed to helping build the regional seed system.

For more information about the Kingston Seedy Saturday or about KASSI, go to seedsgrowfood.org.

Dianne Dowling and her family have a certified organic livestock farm on Howe Island. She is involved in several local food and farm organizations, including Local 316 National Farmers Union (KFL&A), the Food Policy Council for KFL&A, and Kingston Area Seed System Initiative.

Museum Passes Now Available at the Library Catherine Coles

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id you know the County of Lennox & Addington Libraries are now offering a wide range of passes for free or reduced admission to museums and other local and regional educational attractions? With the help of our library pass program, you and your family can explore new places and revisit favourites.

This program was started a couple of years ago, but we continue to add to this collection. We have some great attractions available for families of up to five people to check out with your library card. Keep in mind that each pass has its own borrowing stipulations (borrowing periods, for example) and given the popularity of these passes, you may need to nab one at just the right time. They are available on a first come, first serve basis at our Amherstview and Napanee branch locations.

We began circulating passes to the Lennox & Addington County Museum & Archives in 2016. This local gem provides insights into everyday life from the late 18th through the 20th century and focuses particularly on telling the story of Lennox and Addington County. The Museum, an 1864 limestone building, was once the County Jail. The Museum’s rotating exhibits highlight local history and the artifacts collection contains approximately 10,000 items including artifacts, furniture, clothing, toys, glass, ceramics, tools and household goods.

This facility also houses a research

library and extensive local archives documenting County history, as well as genealogical files for those who want to find their personal connection to the past. General admission is $3 per person but is free for a family to access with their library museum pass.

Brockville’s Aquatarium is a 27,000+ square foot climate-controlled aquarium and discovery centre on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Their mission is to cultivate awareness and appreciation of the beautiful and historically rich 1000 Islands of Ontario by offering a full range of interactive exhibits and activities for kids of all ages. Normally admission is $20 for adults and $10 for children under 12, but if you check out a museum pass your admission is reduced to $5 per person.

The National Gallery of Canada is in Ottawa in view of Parliament Hill. The Gallery has a large and varied collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs. Although its focus is on Canadian art, it holds works by many noted American and European artists, including some of Andy Warhol’s most famous works. A family pass is normally $23 dollars, or free with your library pass.

The Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum can both be accessed by borrowing a single family pass from the library. The Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization) is

Canada’s national museum of human history. Located in Hull, this museum’s primary purpose is to collect, study, preserve, and present material objects that illuminate the human history of Canada and the cultural diversity of its people. The Canadian War Museum, also located in the Capital region, features exhibits that cover all facets of Canada’s military past. It includes major permanent exhibitions on wars that have been fought on Canadian soil, the total wars of the twentieth century, the Cold War and peace support operations abroad, and Canada’s history of remembrance. A family pass for the War Museum is normally $43 and a family pass for the History Museum is normally $50 but both are free when you check out a pass with your library card.

Added to the collection last year was the Ingenium Pass. It allows borrowers access to an assortment of different Ottawa museums. Canada Agriculture & Food Museum, Canadian Aviation & Space Museum and Canada Science & Technology Museum are all included in this pass – all for free!

The Ottawa Museum Network Pass, another one of more recent additions to our collection, gives free access to the following sites: Cumberland Heritage Village Museum, Vanier Museopark, Bytown Museum, Billings Estate National

Historic Site, Osgoode Township Museum, Watson’s Mill, Nepean Museum, Fairfields Heritage House, Pinhey’s Point Historic Site, Goulbourn Museum and the Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum.

The Museum Pass program is part of the County of Lennox & Addington Libraries’ Beyond Books collection, which allows library card holders to check out bikes, telescopes, GPS units, sewing machines and all sorts of other non-book things that you might not expect to be available from your library.

For more information, visit your local library branch or check us out online at CountyLibrary.ca.

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Do You Remember These Classic Commercials?

Glen R. Goodhand

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tephen Leacock once opined that advertising was “the science of arresting human intelligence to get money from it.” Originally, advertising appealed to the eye-gate—a two-inch square in bold print in a newspaper or magazine. It graduated to radio where it assaulted the ear-gate. Television was next, where it appealed to both those senses.

Some classic TV commercials readily come to mind. Remember Pepsodent?

Whether it was Suzy Q, flattered by two male admirers, followed by her cute little poem about her winning smile; or Maxwell Smart sharing a top secret with “Agent 13,” the climax was always that distinctive jingle: “You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!”

Without a doubt, Colonel Sanders’ Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials had a distinct advantage over all the rest.

They appealed to a basic human yearning—to eat—especially if it tasted good. These ads varied greatly. Keeping

the kids happy at mealtime is a challenge in any home. Another tactic was to promise escape for the harried housewife—escape from the mundane task of providing meals for the family.

According to one commercial, millions escaped hard labour to take advantage of the Colonel’s “finger-lickin’ good” repast, flavoured with his “secret recipe” of “11 different herbs and spices.”

From the dinner table to the highway, thousands of followers of Hockey Night in Canada were urged to turn in at the Esso sign of “Happy Motoring.” The sales pitch was introduced by the claim that everyone likes something extra for a dollar: the florist pops a carnation in the buttonhole to go along with the dozen roses; the baker tosses in an extra roll; the butcher has a bone for Buster. And Imperial Oil offered Esso Extra gasoline— extra quick starting, extra power, and extra anti-knock (with no mention of the extra cost).

Who can forget the catchy jingle promoting the most recognized soft drink in the world—Coca Cola? Borrowing from the pop song, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” it claimed that what the world craved was reality and that Coke was “The Real Thing.”

The slogan “Cleanliness is next to godliness” has seemed to inspire a plethora of hand soap companies vying for customers. Lifebuoy’s “singin’ in the bathtub” ditty

promised that its soap “…really stops B.O.” Ivory was “smooth enough for baby’s skin.” Camay, being part cold cream, boasted “soap for beautiful skin,” and Palmolive “leaves hands feeling silky smooth.”

Maxwell House coffee was “good to the last drop”; Kool-Aid’s claim to fame was that it “tastes great!”; and the Gillette Razor Company challenged men to “look sharp, feel sharp, and be sharp!”

Advertising has not been without its hitches though, especially when ads were translated into other languages. For instance, when Clairol introduced the “Mist Stick” curling iron and attempted to make it appeal to the German public, it was literally translated as “Manure Stick.” Pepsi didn’t have much better luck when they tried to capture the market in China. Their slogan, “Come alive with the Pepsi generation,” in Chinese came out as “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave!”

But probably the two most memorable advertising promotions involved a couple of “plain Jane” ladies posing significant questions.

One ad zeroed in on a homemaker kneeling before her kitchen stove, displaying some tell-tale smudge marks on her cheeks. “Mother told me, ‘Be a good cook and you’ll get a man!’ What’d I get? Twenty-five years with my head in a dirty oven!” But, after applying Mr. Muscle Oven Cleaner (with a self-scouring foam formula—which leaves surfaces

Actress Clara Pellar, angrily exclaiming “Where’s the beef?” in a 1984 Wendy’s television commercial. sparkling clean), she praised the product as a “good man to wake up to!”

Then, of course, there was Clara Pellar, pictured staring at her anaemic hamburger patty and complaining, “Where’s the beef ?” Not only did Wendy’s glean scores of new patrons, but Ms. Pellar became a celebrity overnight. Who knows – with half a try, she might have earned an Academy Award!

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Confessions of a Curator: Exhibits That Connect JoAnne Himmelman, Curator, Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives

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useums strive to emotionally connect with their visitors, become a cultural hub, and help to define community values, but within this, be a source of education and entertainment, a new word was dubbed from this thought “edu-tainment”.

“The nation’s museums face a tall and challenging order, increasingly called upon to be civic anchor, community gathering place, and stewards of our most prized artistic and cultural heritage. Museums are visited by millions of people each year — more than those that attend all major sporting events and theme parks combined.” (National Endowment of the Arts) What a challenge! So what is a curator to do?

My first thought – I cannot do this alone.

I need to talk to my peers and I need guidance from my community. I need to engage and have conversations with them. If we are truly a community gathering place – the “stuff” within the museum walls has to be about that – the moments that have captured a piece of our history, given us a sense of place, and has led us to change for better or worse.

In today’s museum, the moments captured are not always about our long dead residents, much of our story telling is about the living. That can be a challenge in itself, because you have to get it right 100% of the time.

How do you choose the stories to tell?

Well you need to review your collection and talk to your people to discover the stories that need telling. Planning is key!

Long term plans help you navigate the waters of exhibit development including – design, resource outreach – artists, collectors, museum objects, archival materials, and most of all time to piece the puzzle together.

You establish how many exhibits in the museum need to remain more or less permanent. What does permanent mean?

I look at these as the nuts and bolts of the museum exhibitions – they explain who we are, where we came from, and what was developed – they are critical to the museum mandate. Secondary exhibits permits me to explore a little differently.

These stories are not here for long, they are displayed and enjoyed for a short period of time – they can be fun and whimsical or they can be haunted and poignant. Whatever the stream, the story should build on that sense of place, who we are, where we came from, and perhaps where we are going.

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Believe it or not – this is the thought behind every single exhibit – no matter how small, no matter how big.

The New Year usually welcomes a flurry of change. Exhibits need to be rotated and new deadlines met. The development of the long-term exhibition plan helps every curator in this crunch period. As an example – in 2019, I will be circulating nine new exhibits through the museum. I engage with my co-workers, private collectors, local artists, savvy techies, and creative carpenters for this to happen.

Shirley Miller is ready to get going with the install. It is with excitement she reconnects to some of these paintings. Photo courtesy Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives.

Over the past month, I have been removing exhibits in preparation for two new exhibits launching in February.

Saying goodbye to temporary shows can be difficult. As the curator, you partner with many people to make the exhibit happen. I have compared my exhibit development with giving birth. You plan, and plan, and plan for months, the show is installed and you reach the sense of joy to see it finally unveiled. To see it come down is rather anti-climactic. But alas – change is good!

Our two new exhibits have me partnered with the community in different ways. In February, artist Shirley Miller will open her show “Revisiting Special Moments”.

Shirley is an artist who has spent the last 50 years on Amherst Island – becoming part of its community and landscape.

Over the past few months, we met and reviewed the work, we agreed that the show would be a retrospective. As the installation date draws nearer, Shirley is more reflective and a window has opened and I understand the art just a little bit more. She captures people, places, and moments filled with happiness, adventure, and awe. This show demonstrates her life journey with art, and you are invited to enjoy these memories with her. The official opening is February 19th, which is also Heritage Week, a nice coincidence. The exhibit will run until the first weekend in April.

The next exhibit launching in February highlights the work of 300 students from area schools. The launch of a new exhibit “Museum @ Play” depicts a series of ideas and moments where the museum demonstrated a sense of fun and wonder.

The first in the series is titled “Snow Expressions”, students were invited to the museum to learn about snow and its uses in our Canadian climate. Along with this came the tradition of the snowman.

Snow, if you think about it, is an amazing artistic medium and it is FREE. We asked the students to create clay snow people in their likeness and the result is stunning. These little snow

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Preparing the text and photos of the students who contributed to “Snow Expressions”. Photo courtesy Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives.

Trying to decide placement for the snow people – it has to be just perfect!

Photo courtesy Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives. people are so charming – you will find yourself staring at them and tuning into the personalities that sculpted them. The sculptures will be on display for the month of February and then returned to their creators. This exhibit demonstrates that museums are relevant, fun, educational, and provide community value. “Museum @ Play” will cycle through four series throughout the year – themes include – LEGO, Model Boats, and Christmas.

While each new exhibit is different in design and story, they all allow for

community engagement. The museum space becomes theirs and the stories they tell become part of the community mosaic. In the end, that is what today’s museum really is – a communal space for story-telling, gathering, activity, and engagement that ultimately gets locked into the memory of the museum and preserved for the future, just like the objects it holds so dear.

To find out more about what’s on exhibit,or to learn about upcoming events at the museum, please visit www.

CountyMuseum.ca or call 613-354-3027.

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Dr. Dianne Saxe is the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), a watchdog over Ontario’s environmental performance. On February 14, Commissioner Saxe will focus on the loss of forests and wetlands in Ontario and the growing importance of citizen science. The presentation is based on her 2018 Environmental Protection Report, Back to Basics. “Small changes can better protect Ontario’s water, wetlands, woodlands and wildlife,” says Dr. Saxe.

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Chris will present the latest information on energy efficient building and materials and tell us about the Endeavour Centre (endeavourcentre.org) and their Sustainable Building School.

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“My presentation, Algonquin Wild, is a visual exploration of the changes in Algonquin Park’s flora and fauna through the course of a year,” notes Runtz.

“Highlights include elusive orchids and carnivorous plants, and little-known snow insects in addition to the more famous large animals such as wolves and moose.” Michael has received many awards, written numerous natural history articles, hosted the international television series Wild by Nature, and is a wildly popular teacher at Carleton University.

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