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12 Coming Events & Announcements Stop by Green Acres Campground at 30553 Hwy. 48 in Pefferlaw on Saturday, July 13 for their Annual Flea Market. 7:00 am to 3:00 pm. Vendors welcome at $15 per table. Call Cathy (705) 437-9946.

The Georgina Training Centre on Baseline Rd. would like you to buy a ticket to their East Coast Lobster Party on Saturday, July 13 from 6:00 to 11:00 pm. Don’t forget your bib!

Yard/Art/Bake Sale & BBQ on Sat. July 13—9am –4pm. Virginia United Church, 28280 Hwy. 48, Virginia. Sponsored by Ardeleana Chamber Music Society in sup-port of the arts in Georgina. Drop by the Briars Resort on Saturday, July 13 between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm and Sunday, July 14 between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm and peruse the 36 artists and arti-sans who will be exhibiting at the Purple Turtle Arts Festival. It is one of our pre-mier art events of the season.

Even though the new Egypt Hall isn’t open yet, it won’t deter the community from hosting their Homecoming Weekend and the Annual Great Camel Races on Satur-day, July 20 from noon until 4:00 pm. BBQ and lots of fun and activities for the whole family. The weekend wraps up with

a special presentation to Carl Stevenson at the Egypt Church at 11:00 a.m. Sunday. A heritage vehicle display and BBQ will fol-low church services.

The Lake Simcoe Gardeners are having an Open House/Drop In Garden Party to cele-brate their 40th Anniversary on Sunday, July 28 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the Kes-wick United Church.

Grab the kids and head off to the Udora Community Hall on Sunday, July 21 be-tween 11:00 am and 4:00 pm for a pirate-themed breast cancer fundraising event. Games, crafts, BBQ, bake sale, hair dona-tions to Locks of Love and a silent auction. If you are unable to attend but want to do-nate visit: www.endcancer.ca/goto/nicoleb

Dock Aide is a beach-community-based fundraising event to be held on Saturday, August 3 at 1:00 pm at Cronsberry Rd. and Lakeshore. There will be crafts, bake sale, silent auction, music and vendors (spots still available). Email jo-hunter40@hotmail.com

The Georgina Training Centre wants you to sign up for their 3rd Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament to be held at the Briars Golf and Country Club on Wednesday, September 11. There are only 100 spots and the event sells out early so don’t delay.

IS FOOD A PROBLEM FOR YOU? CALL OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS. (705)437-1928 or (705)437-1307 — Tues & Thurs. 7:30 pm — Salvation Army Youth Centre—20898 Dalton Rd. Sutton—Across from No-Frills.

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July 10, 2013 Volume 9, Issue 13

Working with an operating budget that will see the ROC costing taxpayers $600,000 in 2013, staff has released the first quarter re-sults for the $18 million recreation facility. In the plus column, the facility achieved 58 per cent of its annual revenue forecast in the first quarter totaling $116,052.04 of the $200,500 budgeted for 2013. The Tube and Terrain Park was initially fore-casted to bring in $60,000 but that number was bumped up to $85,000 when sales reached $78,798.00 by the end of March. Chalet concession sales were also brisk and have reached $34,790 or 53 per cent of the annual budget of $66,300 in the first quarter. Operating expenses for the ROC were budg-eted at $802,220 for the year and during the first quarter the Town has paid $308,708 to operate the facility—nearly 40 per cent of its total annual budget. The biggest bite in expenses for the ROC will be payroll and contracted services which are budgeted to be $464,000 in 2013. As of March 31 the Town has spent 47 per cent of that combined budget. Should the facility meet its revenue and ex-pense budgets for the year, the ROC will have cost taxpayers $1.3 million to operate during 2012 and 2013. ROC capital expenditures in 2013 are budg-eted at $210,900.00. But the ROC is not the most expensive recrea-tional facility to operate in Georgina. Once 2013 revenues of $876,600 are factored in,

the Ice Palace in Keswick will cost $754,060 to operate in 2013 and when added to the 2012 costs, the Ice Palace will have taken $1.5 million in two years out of the Town’s treasury. Capital expenditures for this facility in 2013 are budgeted at $378,760.00. The net operating costs in 2013 for the leisure pool in Sutton are budgeted at $738,410 and if it comes in on budget, Georgina will spend $1.35 million to operate the pool for two years. The 2013 capital budget for the pool is $458,000.00.

First quarter results on ROC performance are in

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The Perch Challenge is back!

Facility 2012 Actual

Operating (Net)

2013 Operating Budget (Net)

2013 Capital Budget

Keswick Ice Palace

$764,989 $754,060 $378,760

Sutton Leisure Pool

$620,406 $738,410 $458,000

ROC $706,000 $602,000 $210,900

It’s time to paint the town perch again! The Jackson’s Point Busi-ness Improvement Association is hosting the 2nd Annual Painted Perch Chal-lenge on Saturday, August 17 from noon to 8:00 pm in the Jackson’s Point Parkette. “Last year’s event was a huge suc-cess and this year promises to be big-ger and better with something for the entire family,” says organizer Kathy Taylor from Kat’s Gallery. Participants are encouraged to purchase one of 100 blank adult perch cutouts for $20 and children can buy one of 50 blank minnow cutouts complete with four com-plimentary paints. The decorated perch will be displayed in the par-kette on August 17 and visitors will be asked to judge their fa-vourite perch and minnow designs or buy one at the Silent Auction. Cutouts can be purchased at Eus-tace Pharmasave and Kat’s Gal-lery in Jackson’s Point.

I was chatting with one of my readers the other day and he made an interesting comment. He and his family have owned a cottage here for a couple of generations and this is what he said… “I have driven up here for years and I keep trying to find a town called Georgina and I’ve never been able to find it.” Those words have been niggling away at me ever since and every time I hear a discussion about “branding” or “economic devel-opment” or “tourism” at the Civic Centre, I wonder about our use of the word “Town” to describe Georgina. In the minds of most people, the common usage of the word “town” brings forth images of a single colonized entity and not a collection of settlement areas. Usually, again in the minds of most people, when describing a collection of towns, villages and hamlets in a geographical area, we would use the word “township” or “municipality” or “region”. Perhaps one of the reasons it is so difficult to capture the es-sence of Georgina in these dis-cussions is because we are us-ing a word that doesn’t fit what we are. We are not a “town” in the strictest sense of the word. I would suggest the “Municipality of Georgina” or “Township of Georgina” would more accurately describe what we are. When North Gwillimbury and Georgina Township were amal-gamated in 1971, the amalga-mation by-law decreed we would be known as the “Township of Georgina” and we continued on that way until July 1, 1986. I have often won-dered why we changed our name from “township” to “town” and after doing a bit of research, here is what I found out. The Township of Georgina was receiving a road subsidy from the Ministry of Transpor-tation and they were advised that if they changed their status from Rural to Urban, they could collect an additional $45,000 a

year in road subsidies and so the “Town of Georgina” was born. For me, the name “Town of Georgina” felt foreign then and it still does now. When someone asks me where I am from, I say “Pefferlaw” and when they ask where it is I say “it’s a little town located on the south shore of Lake Simcoe.” In my travels around Georgina snapping photos at various events, I will usually ask where my subject lives. Without fail, they respond by saying “Keswick, Sutton, Pefferlaw, Port Bolster etc. etc. They have never said “Georgina”. When I hear the word “township” used now I think it sounds out-dated and definitely rural but I don’t believe the word “Town” is representative of what we are either. I tend to like “The Municipality of Geor-gina”. For me, it is a word that speaks to our governance infra-structure and in a modern way, it suggests we are a collection of individual communities. Voila, and so we are.

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Don’t cut your hair until August If your locks are 12” long or longer and you are considering a new look, Crystal Pagman-Carriere is urging you to hold off until the Sutton Fair. The 25-year-old, 2012 Sutton Fair Ambas-sador runner-up has been cutting her hair and donating it to Angel Hair for Kids since she was 12. This year she will be hosting the Angel Hair for Kids booth at the fair where she is the force behind the 1st Annual Angel Hair for Kids Georgina Challenge.

Ms. Pagman-Carriere has arranged for professional hair stylists to be available at the booth to cut and collect clean, pony-tailed hair from donors to be used to pro-vide wigs to financially disadvantaged children in Canada who have lost their hair due to a medical condition or treatment. Hair donors can either have their hair cut at the fair or in advance of the event and bring it to the Angel Hair for Kids booth. The booth will be open from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm daily and in addition to the hair

cutting services, Ms. Pagman-Carriere will be accepting financial donations plus do-nated gifts or prizes for a raffle and silent auction. Earlier this year, Ms. Pagman-Carriere was the recipient of the York Region 2013 Community Character—Citizen of Charac-ter Award to recognize her many volunteer efforts to support Big Brothers, Big Sis-ters, the Secret Santa for Seniors charity and others.

“Rubber Ducky you’re the one…”

The Downtown Sutton Merchants Asso-ciation is inviting tourists and residents alike to their summer “Festival on High” —a celebration of all that Sutton and the surrounding area has to offer. In addition to the shopping, food and entertainment all along High Street on Saturday, July 27, there will be the ever-popular Annual Duck Race. Racers can purchase a rubber ducky for $2 from participating mer-chants in Sutton and cheer as their entry sprints over the dam to the finish line be-low. The first five finishers will receive prizes in merchant vouchers starting at $300 for the winner. This year organizers will feature live mu-sic, drumming and storytelling activities on the main stage located on Market

Street. Martial Arts demonstrations by the White Dragon Warriors, face paint-ing, tea-leaf readings and children’s ac-tivities will be available together with an Outdoor Market. Shoppers will be able to

browse through Native art, hand-crafted soaps, jew-elry, African sculpture, local produce and maple syrup among oth-ers. New this year will be a chance to par-ticipate in a His-torical Walking Tour of Sutton conducted by the Georgina Pioneer Village and Ar-chives. A new wall mural entitled “I See a Town” will be unveiled after

the tour and depicts the words and images drawn from children’s visions of their ideal town.

This little guy won’t be part of the Fes-tival on High Annual Duck Race this year. After years of competition he re-tired to make way for hundreds of newer and younger challengers.

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Finalists for Georgina Idol

They aren’t suffering from any jitters in this photo but 10 of Georgina’s top vocalists are preparing for their chance to win $1,000 and bragging rights as the winner of the 2013 Georgina Idol contest taking place at the Sutton Fair on Au-gust 8. These contestants were chosen to vie for the title from a field of 43 who tried out dur-ing auditions on June 9 at the Stephen Leacock Centre.

So don’t forget to catch the talent when they square off at 8:00 pm at the Entertainment Pavilion behind the Kin Hall. Pictured are: (Front Row—L to R) Emily Shepherd, Sarah Tru-del. (Middle Row—L to R) Maya Sibbald, Brianna Paxton, Alexia Spataro, Claudia Mor-gan. (Back Row—L to R) Col-leen Crevier, Taylor Piotrowski, and Jacob Szabo. Absent was Emily Keen.

Swimming with his fishes Long-time angler and winner of numerous angling awards and citations Wil Wegman will come face to face with his aquatic adversaries when he attempts to swim across Lake Couchiching later this summer to help raise money for Sol-diers’ Memorial Hospital in Orillia. Mr. Wegman, who admitted he was not a long-distance swim-mer, began training for the event last year when his home-town of Bradford opened a new pool. “Unlike so many other forms of exercise that just seem like so much work and not a lot of fun, swimming has always

been enjoyable and relatively easy for me so adopting a new routine hasn’t been that big of a deal,” he says. The 2013 Sun City Swim gets underway at Fern Resort on August 10 when Mr. Wegman will join swimmers of all skill levels (including Annaleise Carr, the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario) for the four kilometre swim. “I don’t know for sure that I’ll be able to swim the four kilo-metres but I’m sure going to give it all that I have,” he says. “I just hope that I won’t be too distracted by all the nice bass I may see swimming below me along the way.”

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Plans for 12-acre pond concerns neighbours On July 15, neighbours within a 400 ft. radius of a farm lo-cated at 127 Country Mile Lane will deliver their concerns to council over a site-alteration application to build a 12-acre pond on the property. Specifically, Philip Poyntz who owns property adjoining the farm in question, is not con-vinced a 12-acre pond for use as a private “wake-board park” is the best use of productive farmland. “For one thing, it is twelve acres and that is a huge, huge amount of land to be excavat-ing for a private water park,” Mr. Poyntz said. He is also uncomfortable with future uses for the farm after the “novelty” of the private wake-board park wears off and he worries about the noise and loss of privacy. “It’s the noise and water,” he said. “Water is the prime com-modity for farming and if you don’t have water you are out of business. The big thing is it sits on top of a hill and the talk is that they are going to drill three wells to fill this 12-acre pond.” Wake boarding is a spin-off of surfing and involves a person riding a board and performing tricks while being pulled by a motorboat. More recently, wake-board parks have been constructed on man-made lakes throughout the U.S. and Can-ada and are equipped with a cable system to pull the boarder along the surface of the water. A public wake-board park with a cable towing system on a man-made lake opened in May on Highway 48 just north of Mount Albert. Mr. Poyntz has found out that staff will submit a report to council on July 15 recommend-ing approval of the site-alteration application so the work on the pond can go ahead. According to Mike Baskerville, the Engineering Manager at the Town of Georgina, the prop-

erty, owned by Westdale Con-struction Co. Limited c/o Mi-chael Kimel, requires a site-alteration application to permit the relocation of 180,000 cubic metres of fill material for the construction of a 12-acre pond and berms. He says because the pond is being constructed for personal recreational use, no other ap-provals are required. “Staff will be recommending approval based on technical information submitted and well monitoring program recom-mended,” Mr. Baskerville said in response to a query he re-ceived. Larry Pegg is a farmer and op-erates Homestead Orchards on Old Homestead Road not far from the proposed pond site. Mr. Pegg is also concerned about the impact of the pond and the collateral harm it could do to the farming community. “They are taking away very good agricultural land and turn-ing it into something we don’t need,” Mr. Pegg said. “And to think they are putting it into a farming community..He (Mr. Kimel) has the whole lake up there. He lives on the lake and that is the place to have it. The water is there and he won’t have to worry about it affecting anyone’s wells, or worry about the bright lights or the noise.” Mr. Pegg estimates approxi-mately 180,000 cubic metres of water will need to be drawn to initially fill the pond plus regu-lar top-ups as the water evapo-rates. “And where will that water come from?” he asks. Mr. Poyntz and Mr. Pegg are intending to address council with their concerns on July 15 but neither of them are happy with a process that does not allow them to see the staff re-port until the Friday before the Monday council meeting. “It’s all done backwards,” Mr. Pegg said.

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More than a year ago on April 12, 2012 during the 2012 budget negotiations at the Town, coun-cil was presented with a list of staff recommendations for side-walk construction. On the list were sidewalks for Morton Road ($500,000), Ravenshoe Rd. ($260,000) and Woodbine Ave-nue ($122,320) in Keswick and for Station Road ($380,000) in Pefferlaw. Council moved through this list of sidewalks in Keswick and approved them but when the Station Road sidewalk came up for discussion, Mayor Grossi said, “If we set a precedent now we better set aside about $10 million for sidewalks in the next couple of years because every-one and their brother will want a sidewalk.” His solution was to remove the $380,000 from the Station Road sidewalk project and ask for a motion to conduct a sidewalk needs assessment so council could prioritize the construction of sidewalks across Georgina. Further discussion at the meet-ing found Councillor Wheeler and Councillor Smockum both justifying the Station Road side-walk project due to its popular use by pedestrians and vehicles and the dangerous curves in the roadway. Staff described the project in the budget document by saying “Construction of a sidewalk along Station Road has been requested over the years. This is a busy road that connects the Forestry Subdivision and the rural roads with downtown Pef-ferlaw.” Councillor Szollosy responded to the Mayor’s suggestion and put a motion on the floor to re-move the $380,000 Station Road project and go ahead with a side-walk needs assessment. The motion was carried. However, despite the resolution to conduct a sidewalk needs assessment to prioritize sidewalk construction projects, council went on to approve another side-

walk project on Metro Road in addition to the ones they had previously approved during the meeting. Fourteen months later, at the June 24, 2013 council meeting, Councillor Szollosy raised the question of the sidewalk needs analysis study and asked for a status report on the project. No one at the meeting was able to provide an update and the matter was turned over to the CAO to report back to council at a future meeting. In a discussion with Operations Manager Bob Fortier the Peffer-law Post has learned that there has been no movement on the sidewalk needs assessment study at the Civic Centre but sidewalk projects are being completed without one. Shirley Jakonen, a life-long resi-dent in Pefferlaw and an active proponent of the Station Road sidewalk agenda, has canvassed residents to sign a petition in the past and remains adamant that Station Road needs a safe walk-way for pedestrians. “We need sidewalks because it is unsafe for any one to walk up Station Rd. It is unsafe because of speeding traffic and we have nowhere to walk except the road,” she said. As a participant in a recent dog walk organized to raise money for guide dogs, she said it was “terrifying because we all had to walk on the road.” Ms. Jakonen said the new 404 highway will only increase the risk as more motorists will use Station Rd. to access Ravenshoe Road from Weir’s Side Road. “It will increase traffic big time and they need to fix the problem now before it is too late and someone gets killed,” she said. “I drive to Keswick and see those nice beautiful roads with bicycle lanes on them. But I have never seen anyone riding a bicycle and it drives me right around the bend because we have nothing.”

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Congratulations go out to Amy and Andrew Menezes on the birth of their new son, Declan (5lb. 6oz.) who was born on Canada Day. Proud sister is River and grand par-ents are Wanda and Bill O’Neill and Suzanne and Mario Menezes.

Cheers to Andrea Roberts and Jeremy Verdoold. The happy couple exchanged wedding vows at Belcroft Estates on June 21 and Mom Tammi says she was the most beautiful bride ever! Congratulations to you both!

The Udora Leaskdale Lions Club and their contributors are to be congratulated for raising over $70,000 which has been donated to various charities over the years as a result of their Annual Pefferlaw River Canoe Run. During their most recent run this spring they raised $2,500 to support the

renovation of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Department at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.

We want to send out a special birthday greeting to Joseph Zammit Sr. who will celebrate his 80th birthday on July 21. So if you see him, wish him the best.

Oh, and I can’t forget to send birthday greetings to Wendy Schell who turned on June 30. (She threatened to stop helping me deliver the paper if I printed her age.) Cheers kiddo!

If you see Jack Beaudrow around stop and wish him a Happy Birthday. He cele-brated on July 7. WOW! Kim Scott-Ohlis will turn 50 on July 13. I’ll bet that makes a few people feel older than they thought they were. Right, Barb! I know I do!

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Hospice Georgina announces Photovoice Project for seniors

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A new Georgina Hospice initiative called “Connecting in a Caring Community via Photovoice” is designed to increase public awareness and encourage greater volunteer support. Photovoice is a unique approach that mar-ries photography with the written word so Georgina’s seniors, the disabled and the seriously ill have a chance to tell their sto-ries and have their voices heard. “The Photovoice project is a great opportu-nity for participants and the community to explore their perceptions of living well with a serious illness, disability or advanc-ing age through the expression of images and stories,” said Marie Morton, Program Director for Hospice Georgina. Hospice clients, senior volunteers and other interested seniors across the commu-nity including elders from Georgina Island will be invited to participate in the project. As a Photovoice participant, individuals will be encouraged to share their concerns and their ideas about their experiences and

their community. It is expected that the photographs, complete with a narrative, will illustrate stories that identify concerns, depict struggles and show a particular view of a community. The photographs may also offer insight and teach others about the experience of seniors, the disabled and the seriously ill. “Often the lack of meaningful social con-

nections can contribute to hospitalization, especially when many in our community face barriers of low income, rural isolation and lack of family support,” Ms. Morton said. The project will take 10 months to com-plete and will culminate in public presenta-tions and exhibits throughout the commu-nity of Georgina.

Keswick library is being renovated

From July until September, various sec-tions of the Keswick Library will undergo renovations that will see the Children’s/Youth Services office being moved to the Rotunda area of the facility. The eServices staff offices will be recon-figured to provide easier and more direct access to staff. “A partial glass wall and carpet will be added to the fireplace lounge to provide a quieter atmosphere for those who want to mellow out,” says Mary Baxter, the Direc-tor of Library Services. “The Board Room will also be available for quiet, independ-ent study when not booked for meetings.”

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Canada Day in Georgina

Hessel Pape works on a chair in front of the Log Cabin at the Pioneer Village as hundreds strolled through on Canada Day to get a sense of pioneer living in Georgina.

The Witherspoon family from Keswick takes time out from the Canada Day festivities at the ROC for a fam-ily picnic.

(Above) The ROC was bouncing on Canada Day as revelers from across Georgina gathered for a fun-filled afternoon while waiting for the fire-works display in the evening. There was plenty to do for the kiddies as guests strolled throughout the facility and the Pioneer Village. (Right) Madelyn Houston from Kes-wick takes a huge bite out of cotton candy provided by one of several concession booths available at the ROC.

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Awakening the Dragon

Mayor Rob Grossi (left) and MPP Julia Munro (right) were in attendance on Satur-day, July 6 when Marguerite and Dave Rickards (centre) celebrated their 50th wed-ding anniversary at the Kin Hall. Dozens of friends, relatives and well-wishers dropped in to help the couple celebrate.

Cathy (left) and Brian Carter (right) were beating the heat on Saturday, July 6 when they drove up from Newmarket to one of their favourite Lake Simcoe beaches at Holmes Point. Brian is enjoying a novel by Jean Auel and Cathy says her read “Secret Daughter” is excellent. Brian says the Holmes Point beach is one of Lake Simcoe’s best kept secrets.

Under clear blue skies on June 24, the Georgina Dragon Club conducted their Annual Awakening the Dragon ceremony at the Boston Pizza dock in Keswick. Adding to the festivities was the presentation of an On-tario Trillium Foundation Grant Plaque which signified financial assistance provided by Trillium to purchase a new BuK International Standard Racing Dragon Boat for the team. The $1,140 proceeds from the fundraising event were donated to the Georgina Community Food Pantry. (Left to Right) Cris Zavarace (on dragon boat drum), Janice McDonald-Zavarce (ceremony lead), MPP Julia Munro, Mei-Lan Shepherd (Club president), Savi Singh (York Simcoe Ontario Trillium Chair), Catherine Cooke (Georgina Community Food Pantry and Trish Kosar (the MC of the event).