April 10, 2010 Volume 6, Issue 7

Georgina Pioneer Village hosts Easter Egg hunt

Close to 400 youngsters were on hand Saturday morning to take part in the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Geor-gina Pioneer Village on April 3. According to organizers, dozens of volunteers were kept busy hiding eggs and exchanging the collected eggs for treats. The Easter Bunny was the star attrac-tion as kids gathered to pose for pho-tos and give him a hug. The Georgina Historical Society pro-vided hot chocolate and popcorn and raised close to $200, the proceeds of which will go toward supporting the Village.

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(Left Photo) Fifteen-month-old Taylor Craig from Keswick col-lects an Easter egg and adds it to her stash. (Below L to R) Aurora Per-rault, Damian Tyson, Brae-dyn Tyson and Alexander Per-rault stop by to greet the Easter Bunny.

(Left to Right) Smiles all around for Markus Morgenroth, 2, and Cassidy Hearn, 2, as they begin their search for Easter eggs.

Mosquito control program to start next week

With nearly 960 consent forms from Pefferlaw area residents agreeing to have their property treated for mosquito control, the contractor for the program will begin ground and aerial appli-cations (via helicopter) of Bti on Tuesday, April 13. Only 41 residents have objected to the treatment and the town has still not heard from 495 property owners. Unless the outstanding consent forms are returned by Monday, April 12, those areas and buffering properties around them will not be included in the program. Area residents are upset at having to provide consent for the program when in past years only objectors were required to make their feel-ings known. In an interview with the Pefferlaw Post regard-ing the requirement to provide consent to treat mosquito larvae with Bti, Ministry of the Envi-ronment Pesticide Specialist Herman Ploeg said the requirements may change for next year. “This is an issue I am fully aware of and I’ve had discussions with other people in the Minis-try and we are looking at a way to get around that. We are looking very closely at this and I expect for next year that requirement won’t be there.” According to Kevin Taylor with Pest-Alto, con-tractors for the Bti program, more areas will need to be treated with ground applications this year compared to last year due to the number of consent forms still outstanding.

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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Thanks so much for the terrific job that you do and the valuable local news that I read about in the Post. I look forward to each is-sue and read it cover to cover. Sometimes I have to arm wrestle it from my husband so I can read it first. I’ve never written a letter to the editor before, but felt I must do something to alert our commu-nity to what’s happening with our library, the Pefferlaw Branch at 76 Pete’s Lane. As of last Sep-tember, new reduced hours be-gan, as a pilot project, which meant that the library was less accessible to moms and tots in the morning and less available to commuters like me who like to borrow books or go to yoga and others who like to use the com-puters with their high speed Internet access in the evening. This experiment /pilot project was advertised that it would end in April 2010 – that’s this month. Well I hear that that is not the case, that the reduced hours are continuing at least into May. This concerns me as the Geor-gina Library Board, who ap-proved this project, does not seem to have had any consulta-tion with library users and com-munity members over the impor-tant service in our community. The library has changed a lot since the days when it was pre-dominantly a source of books. Now I see people borrowing magazines, music CDs, DVDs as well as downloading ebooks into their iPods or computers to read electronically. In Pefferlaw, the seniors use the photocopying facilities of the library quite of-ten. Heck, I often go there to get my copy of the Pefferlaw Post, too! Why am I so upset about the reduced hours? Why do the re-duced hours need to be restored? It’s a matter of integrity! Our end of town, Pefferlaw, is not growing at the rate of Keswick and Sutton, but we still pay taxes and want to see our essential services, of which the library is one, maintained and growing based on our needs and interests.

I would be thrilled to see the library embarking on initiatives that suit the locations and needs of each of the library branches. The Pefferlaw branch is different from both Sutton and Keswick branches. It’s like when you consider your children. Do you treat them all equally or provide fairly for each one according to their needs and interests? I read that after the last election in 2006, our mayor, Mr. Grossi, said, ”We have to do a better job of telling our residents what we are doing, how we are doing it and why we are doing it.” I’m all ears, Mr. Grossi. It sure doesn’t feel like that is happening with this situation. Please join me at the Georgina Council Meeting on Monday, April 12th at 7 PM in the Annex at the Keswick Library Branch. Be present and show your sup-port when I ask Council to re-quest the Library Board to restore the hours at the Pefferlaw library! Wendy Hardman

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Walleye in upper Pefferlaw River Members of the Pefferlaw Anglers and Hunters, Aurora Bass Masters and Ministry of Natural Re-sources staff were electro-fishing in the lower Peffer-law River on Wednesday, March 31 to catch walleye and release them to the upper Peffer-law River to spawn. According to Rob Hare, president of the Ontario Anglers and Hunters, the effort to transfer mature pre-spawn walleye to the upper Pefferlaw will hopefully en-courage the fish to return to the Pefferlaw River on an annual basis to spawn. “Right now, they only return to the Talbot River and if there was ever a catastrophic event, we would lose those stocks,” he said. “We are trying to give them the maximum opportunity to spawn and an opportunity to grow before they come back below the damn.”

Mr. Hare said the presence of mature walleye in the Pefferlaw River will prove they are spawning there and are return-ing. “It means the transfer of fish here has been successful,” he said. In addition to walleye, the elec-tro-anglers were also on the look-out for bass and invasive species. In total, the group caught and transferred 24 mature walleye, the largest of which was 15 lbs.

Jason Borwick from the Ministry of Natural Re-sources transports a walleye from the lower Pef-ferlaw River into a tank located on an electro-fishing boat. The fish were later released into the upper Pefferlaw River at the dam.

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Happy Birthday to Kevin Shier who turns 15 on April 12. Best from Grandpa and Grandma Shier.

We would also like to send birthday greetings out to Trystin Verdoold who will celebrate a 3rd birthday on April 17.

Cheers to Ron Scott who cele-brated his 66th birthday on March 29.

Happy Birthday to Randy Marchand who celebrated a special day on April 4. Cheers Randy.

Cheers to Olivia Gordon who celebrated her 18th birthday on April 2. Congrats Olivia from Mom, Dad, Meredith and Emma.

On April 20, if you see Amy O’Neill wish her a very Happy 29th Birthday. Gettin’ up there kiddo! Also about to celebrate a birth-day in the O’Neill clan is Carter O’Neill. He will turn two on April 24.

Congratulations to Frank and Angela Cicchillo who cele-brated their 40th Anniversary

on Apr. 1. Cheers to you both.

If you would like to see our very own Canadian Boxing Champion Melinda Watpool in a boxing match, there will be an Olympic style boxing event at the Celtic Supporters’ Club in Brampton on Friday, April 16. Currently Melinda is with the national team in Turkey for a boxing event and will return April 13. On Saturday, April 3, Chloe Knox walked into Jagged Edge in Sutton and had 13 inches of her hair cut off to be donated to Angel Hair for Kids—A Child’s Voice Foundation. An initiative of the Canadian Cancer Society, Angel Hair for Kids provides wigs and hair replacements to financially disadvantaged children who have experienced medical hair loss.

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Congratulations to the York 4H Club who held a square dance at the Egypt Hall on Sat. March 27 to raise money to support 10 youth who will be par-ticipating in an exchange pro-gram this sum-mer. The group is trying to raise $14,000 so they can play host to their exchange partners from Kyle, Saskatche-wan when they return here for 10 days in July. The square dance fund raising event, called by Morley Batt of

Kettleby, Ontario, put close to $3,000 in their coffers and more events are planned. The York 4H members involved in the exchange program and their chaperones are pictured above.

York 4H members in fund-raising mode for exchange program

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Second Annual Character Matters Conference at MGPS Honesty, empathy, re-sponsibility, fairness, courage and integrity are only some of the charac-ter traits students at Morning Glory Public School are encouraged to display on a daily basis. And on Thursday, March 25 they were given an opportunity to attend a variety of workshops led by invited guests who demonstrated the value of being of good charac-ter and how it can lead to success both profession-ally and personally. The full-day program included 19 workshops and included speakers from York Regional Po-lice, Georgina Island First Nations and Sand-gate Women’s Shelter. Melinda Watpool talked about how positive char-acter traits helped her become successful in her boxing career. Susan V. Bosak, the award winning author of her book “Dream” was the keynote speaker and also gave a workshop where she discussed the obstacles that sometimes get in the way of achiev-ing dreams and she shared her secrets for goal-getters.

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An environmental social net-working initiative that began in the U.K. in 1989 and which has spread to more than 480 cities world wide, now in-cludes Georgina. Local residents met last month at Boston Pizza in Keswick for an inaugural meeting of like-minded citizens to discuss sustainable ideas on an infor-mal basis over cocktails. The Georgina Chapter of Green Drinks was the brain-child of Lindsey Pullin, Deb-bie Gordon and Renee Blake. According to a Green Drinks Georgina press release, the group has no agenda except to offer a chance to mix with other like-minded adults to share information and make friends. “We had 17 people come out

and Steamwhistle Brewery sponsored this first gathering by giving out free samples of their locally brewed beer,” said Renee Blake. “It was a great networking opportunity and a venue to engage with people who share the same values.” The group has set up a website at www.greendrinks.org/ON/Georgina and are taking ad-vantage of internet social net-working with a page for fans on Facebook. There are no membership dues or commitments. Those want-ing to socialize with other “green” adults are encouraged to drop into Boston Pizza Kes-wick the second Wednesday of each month from 6 till 8 p.m. to enjoy a drink and half price appetizers.

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Residents work out stewardship plans

More than 60 Lake Simcoe watershed landowners were on hand at the Pefferlaw Lions Hall on Wednesday, March 24 to attend the Pefferlaw River Landowners’ Workshop. An initiative of the Commu-nity Stream Steward Program which is a multi-partner con-servation and stewardship initiative, the workshop was hosted by the Ontario Federa-tion of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) and gave residents advice on stream bank stabili-zation projects.

Presentations made by OFAH staff, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Lake Sim-coe Region Conservation Au-thority covered available fund-ing programs, restoration pro-ject planning and successful restorations that have been completed in the area. Stream bank restoration is one of the priorities of the federal government’s Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund as it moves toward improving the water quality by removing excessive amounts of phosphorus.

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New EMS station in Pefferlaw A new, 2,500 sq. ft. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) station is being constructed on Hast-ings Rd. in Pefferlaw and am-bulance crews can be expected to occupy their new home by the end of 2010. Since 2001, ambulance crews have been responding from leased space in the Pefferlaw Medical Centre. According to Iain Park, Man-ager of York Region’s EMS Logistics, the Pefferlaw station is one of two new stations to be built in Georgina—one adjacent to the Keswick fire hall will be completed in 2011. The new two-bay station in Pefferlaw will include a crew lounge area and change facili-ties for eight permanent full-time paramedics. Since last year, Pefferlaw para-medics have been on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Prior to that they were only available 12 hours a day.) They assisted in responding to 4,301 ambulance calls that were han-dled in all of Georgina in 2009 which represents seven per cent of the overall call volume in York Region. York Region EMS maintains 19 stations across the region and in Georgina they have an average response time of seven minutes and 40 seconds, a time which is consistent with other stations within the region, Mr. Park said. “The ambulance system in On-tario is actually provincially regulated and it is funded 50

per cent from regional tax dol-lars and 50 per cent by provin-cial tax dollars,” Mr. Park said. “It is a requirement that the closest ambulance always re-spond,” he said “even if that ambulance is from Durham Region.” In 2010, Mr. Parks said, the EMS ambulance service is par-ticipating in a six month pilot project with the region’s fire chiefs to better identify high priority calls. In the past, the fire department was called out on every medical call but ac-cording to Mr. Park, new proto-cols implemented by the Minis-try of Health will better identify patients in life threatening situations. “Not every call that comes in as an emergency is actually an emergency call so the Ministry of Health which runs the ambu-lance dispatch portion, has im-plemented a new protocol that better identifies these patients and we are working with the fire chiefs to align that.” Plans are also underway to con-struct a new Keswick EMS station. Currently, crews re-spond from leased facilities at the Keswick fire hall but York Region has purchased an ad-joining lot and will construct a two-bay, 2,600 sq. ft. facility there in 2011. There are three EMS stations in Georgina with secondary cover-age being provided by Beaver-ton, Uxbridge, Mount Albert and Queensville.

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Georgina Youth Basketball season finale

The culmination of a season of basket-ball by the Geor-gina Youth Bas-ketball League was played out at Sut-ton District High School on Wednesday, March 31. In the 9-12 age category, the Cel-tics took on the Cavaliers before a generous crowd of fans and won a very close game by scoring a basket in the final seconds to win 15-13. In the 12-15 year-old division, The Raptors came out victorious against the Wizards. The Georgina Youth Basketball League is a pro-gram of the Town of Georgina and has attracted ap-proximately 75 Georgina youth over the past two seasons. Play starts in Janu-ary and runs until March 31 with one practice and one game per week.

(Back Row L to R) Amanda Kent, Jes-sica Stuart, Michael Vanstone, and their coach. (Front Row L to R) Maddie Blot-nicky (Most Sportsmanlike), Stephen Sorenson (Most Improved), Riley McPhail (Most Dedicated).

(Back Row L to R) Coach Sarah Fike, Jason Clarke, Robbie Wilkinson, Allyson Sauve, Taylor Coakwell. (Front Row L to R) Evan Antic-Price (Most Dedicated), Ethan Cochrane (Most Improved), Kaya Manuel (Most Sports-manlike).

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Bedroll mats from milk bags People in need in third world and under-developed countries will sleep easier thanks to the efforts of Carole Wetheral from Can-nington, Ontario. Ms. Wetheral was a special guest at a recent Pefferlaw Arts and Craft Club meeting at the Lions Hall in Pefferlaw and showed members how to crochet bedroll mats from plastic milk bags. The mats are placed on the ground under a bedroll and are effective in keeping out moisture and parasites, Ms. Wetheral said. It takes between 300 and 350 outer milk bags to make one mat measuring 48 inches long for a child. Adult-size mats require between 350 and 400 bags and can take up to 30 hours to com-plete. Each bag is cut into one long strip and used as the material to cro-chet the mat. To date, Ms. Wetheral has recycled approxi-mately 10,000 outer bags during two years of making mats. The project was initiated by the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fish-erville, Ontario and has been adopted by a UCW in Minden. Once the mats are completed, they are shipped to Fisherville where they have an additional use as wrapping for medical supplies en route to countries around the world. Anyone wishing to donate their outer milk bag packaging is in-vited to drop the bags off at the Pefferlaw Arts & Craft Club on Wednesday mornings.

(Photo above) Carole Wetheral from Cannington, Ontario demonstrates how to make a bedroll mat out of an outer milk bag. The mats are used by under-privileged children and adults living in third world countries to keep their bed-rolls dry and free from parasites.

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MGPS raises money for Haitian orphanage

Students at Morning Glory Public School raised over $950 to support an orphanage in Haiti that was de-stroyed by a devastat-ing earthquake earlier this year. The students held a coin drive, sold tick-ets for a gift basket, held a jelly bean counting contest, sold candy grams and competed against staff in a charity bas-ketball game. A Haitian family, which has immi-grated to Canada but lost a 21 year old daughter during the quake, were invited to the school on Wednesday, March 31 to accept a cheque for $956.90. The fund-raising activities by MGPS sup-port the efforts of the Georgina

Gospel Assembly in Keswick which has raised over $7,000 to support the reconstruction of the orphanage.

(Back Row) Marie and Audunor By and children, Rodney, Rebecca and Ricardo accept a cheque from Tyler Galle (front row right) and Jack Carr (second row right).

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The Georgina Minor Hockey Association hosted their year-end banquet over two days at the Sutton Arena on April 6 and 7. Geor-gina’s up and coming NHLers and coaches for both rep teams and house league in all divisions were recognized for their contri-butions in the 2009/2010 season. The Georgina Silver Stick Scholarship of $1,000 was presented to Adam Chilvers. The award is presented to a player who has participated in Silver Stick Tournaments and shows excellence in academic grades and is pursuing a post-secondary education. Rep Teams Awards: The top OMHA player in Bantam AE was Ernie Godden; Brandon Babcock won the Kevin Bright-man Memorial Trophy for Most Dedicated in Midget AA; Austin Blake picked up the Verdoold Top Defenceman award for Mi-nor Bantam AE/ David Stephens was given the Ridell trophy for Most Sportsmanlike in Bantam AA; Eric Gold won the Kevin O’Shell award for Best Overall OMHA player in Bantam AE; Marko Pierides was recognized with the Jordan Bones award for Top OMHA Goaltender for Midget AE; Patty Brewer won the Deryck Minielly award for Top Goltender for all of GMHA in Bantam AE and Ian McDougall was rec-ognized as the Rep Coach of the Year for Novice AA. House League (HL) Awards: The Ken Hackenbrook Trophy for Most Dedicated Jr. HL player was Tyler Koyan for Novice #5; Josh Keppo won the Randy Flicker Tro-phy for Most Dedicated Sr. HL player in Midget LL#2; Connor Phillips, Peewee #1 and Avery Wannamaker, Peewee#2 picked up the GMHA Most Sportsmanlike player award; Kaden Anderson was awarded the Justin Grozelle Memorial Plaque for Tyke #5; Douglas Carr was given the Top Over-all Points award for Tyle #4; and Rob Dett-man was recognized as the house league coach of the year for Midget.

GMHA banquet

Above left: Kaden Anderson wins Justin Grozelle Trophy. Above right: Douglas Carr wins top overall points award.

Photos Below: #1 (l to r) Ethan Jhons (most dedicated), Alex Joss (most sportmanlike), Isaiah Poole (MVP), Sasha Shaveler (most improved). #2 Tyke Orange were the Regu-lar Season Champs. #3 (l to r) Joey Cox (most sportsmanlike), Cameron McClachrie (MVP), Kaden Anderson (most dedicated), Tho-mas Big Canoe and Hannah Hirstwood (most improved).

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Catch the Spring Fashion Show by “Threadz Fashions” and sponsored by the Keswick United Church on Fri. Apr. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 (905) 476-5532.

The Georgina Pioneer Village will host a day- long workshop on the Myths, Misinter-pretations and Mysteries of the Rebellion of 1837 on Saturday, Apr. 17 from 9:30 am to 3 pm. Tickets $10 and light lunch pro-vided. Call (905) 476-4301 ext. 284 to regis-ter. The Udora/Leaskdale Lions Club is hosting Yuk Yuks at the Udora Hall on Sat. Apr. 17. Tickets $20 at General Stores in Udora and Leaskdale. Doors open at 7:00.

The Georgina Brock Garden Youth and 4H Club will meet at the Udora Hall on Sat. Apr. 17 to get their seeds to grow giant plants. Start 1:30 p.m.

Christ Church ACW of Roches Point is hav-ing a bake, garage and rummage sale on Sat. Apr. 17 from 8:00 am to noon at Cayley Hall in Roches Pt.

The Virginia United Church is hosting a FREE chili dinner for the community on Wed. Apr. 21 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.

The Beaverton Horticultural Society will discuss garden planting for birds on Thurs.

Apr. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Church at 383 Osborne St.

It’s that time again! The 4th Annual Grate Groan-up Spelling Bee will be held at De La Salle Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 23. Form a team with two friends to compete or just come and watch the fun and enjoy the food. Silent auction and cash bar. Contact Lorna Gardner (905) 722-5702.

Crochet Your Own Wire & Bead Jewelry at the Pefferlaw Library from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Sat. Apr. 24. Instruction and supplies included for $25. Call 705-437-1514.

Now this is a sign of Spring. The 13th An-nual Pansy Sale and Open House at Hos-pice Georgina will be held on Sat. Apr. 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 152 High St. in Sutton. Pansies are $15 per flat and can be pre-ordered by calling (905) 722-9333 or (905) 476-3331.

There is a new gallery in town! “La petite galerie—ArTremblay Studio” will feature “A Duet in Colour” by Diana Ellis and Line Tremblay on Sunday, Apr. 25 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. The show runs until July 11 at 72 Market St. in Sutton.

Sign up now for the Annual Pefferlaw River Canoe Run on May 1 sponsored by the Udora Lions Club. Call Jacquie at (705) 437-2773.

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