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After a month long campaign creating a buzz around the community, SHHH Media has released the date about Bravesta-tion’s encore performance on July 2nd at Buds on the Bay. The band will be on the main stage at River-fest at 4p.m. with the after party beginning at 5p.m. until close.

After returning from a long tour in the United Kingdom, Bravesta-tion will be ending their spring/summer tour with

a their final date at Brock-ville’s Riverfest, followed by an encore DJ and semi-acoustic performance at Buds on the Bay later that evening.

The group is made up of three Brockville natives; Derek and Devin Wilson, and Jeremy Rossetti, along with Andrew Heppner. The band has seen recent success on the national and global stage with their independently produced video “White Wolves’ ap-pearing on Much Music’s ‘The Wedge’.

The band shared the stage with Iggy and the

Stooges, The Kills & Two Door Cinema Club at Evolution Festival in Newcastle, UK (Northern England’s largest music festival). “Touring the UK was the experience of a lifetime”, said Derek Wilson, adding that the continued support from friends and family over the years has helped make the bands success possible.

The group will be mak-ing their homecoming during ‘Brockville Day’ at Riverfest on July 2nd, a day dedicated to showcasing local talent. “We are look-ing forward to sharing our

new songs with everyone at Riverfest”, said Wilson. “It’s always nice for family and friends not to have to travel to get a chance to see us perform”.

The encore perform-ance is being promoted by SHHH Media, and will take place at Buds on the Bay. Both Kevin Kukk of SHHH Media and John Ackerman of Buds are excited about the show. “Bravestation has made quite a move in the music industry over the last year. SHH! Media is proud to partner with local boys and such a great talent”, said Kukk. “Brock-

ville and area people have been through a lot over the last year, and we wanted to do our part in bringing some fun to the city. What better way to celebrate then to throw a party with great music and cheers. Let’s bring back Giverfest!”

Riverfest has been building the festival over

recent years and events like ‘Brockville Day’ and Bravestation’s encore per-formance will help bring area residents in bigger numbers. “We are proud to have a great local band performing at Buds”, said John Ackerman. “It will be great to see the local sup-port for the party”.

Kelly O’Dell takes off during the drag races at the Wheels a Churning weekend charity event last Saturday. The festival had its best year in history attracting over 3,000 people on Saturday.PHOTO BY AUSTIN DE LUIS

Bravestation encore performanceBy Austin de LuisObserver Editor

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“It’s a matter of paper work versus people work,” explained family services worker with the Leeds and Grenville FCS branch in Ganan-oque, and secretary for the workers’ union local, OPSEU Local 441, Brian Carnovale.

“We simply can’t pro-vide the type of care we see fit with the amount of paperwork we are currently required to do. We are bombarded with cases,” he said, noting that the ministry stan-dard to see “children in care” is once every 90 days.

“It’s an atrocious stan-dard. That would be four

times a year.” Carnovale continued

that the local Children’s Services standard is once a month, but with the high case load num-bers, workers are only able to spend “approxi-mately an hour or less, and sometimes not at all,” with children in care or child protection families.

“So you can imagine what kind of service this is when we’re not able to see our families.”

In June 2010, Carno-vale and the members of local 441 garnered atten-tion from the Minister of Children and Youth Services Laurel Broten, when they hosted a bar-becue in response to Broten’s request that the

agencies should start to take on their own fund-raising.

“We were told that these issues are related to a funding issue. The ministry told us to get creative. We just want the ministry to recognize the importance of the work that we do. We’re protecting society’s most vulnerable people, chil-dren. We think that’s worth investing in.”

Today, approximately one out of four Can-adians will die from can-cer but with continued research, more informa-tion and insight into this disease will be gained.

Cancer will be detected earlier and hopefully, one day be totally prevent-able. Since the discovery of the human genome, cancer research has taken major strides forward, al-lowing researchers to ac-cumulate an impressive amount of data that is

helping to better under-stand the disease at the genetic and molecular level. This research how-ever, is not possible with-out financing. Every year approximately 80 per cent of research applications go unfinanced due to the lack of funds, but with each Relay for Life, more is raised to help support these applications.

The Relay, now in its 6th year in Brockville, is a volunteer-driven, fund-raising and awareness campaign, organized through the Canadian Cancer Society, held world-wide throughout the month of June. This inspiring, community-based event is an over-night non-competitive relay involving teams of 10 people, each of whom take turns walk-ing, running, or wheel-

ing around the track. “It’s quite an experi-

ence,” said last year’s top fundraiser, Annie Fran-cois, who began advocat-ing for the Cancer Soci-ety after witnessing her mother’s heart-breaking battle with lung cancer.

“The track is lit up with luminary candles that are purchased, to be lit in memory of those who have passed away. But the most emo-tional part of the even-ing came at ten o’clock when a hush swept over the crowd as the organ-izers lit the large sign that says ‘HOPE’. I actually got goosebumps.”

Francois continued, adding that she believes that events such as the Relay go “a long way,” in helping to find a cure.

“There’s a cure right around the corner and

events like the Relay bring us one step closer to finding it. My hope is that one day no one will ever have to feel the pain of losing a loved one to cancer like we did.”

The Brockville Relay will take place on Fri-day, June 17th at Row’s Corner’s Fairgrounds on North Augusta Road.

To register, donate or to purchase a luminary, visit www.relayforlife.ca/Brockville, or contact Christina Covey-Shan-non at (613)342-8384.

Facts about Cancer:In their lifetime, 39

per cent of Canadian women will develop can-cer. Breast cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in Canadian women and researchers are currently working on ways to better prevent and treat the dis-

ease. The breast cancer death rate has declined by more than 30 per cent since 1986.

Prostate cancer is the third most com-mon cause of death for men with cancer in Can-ada. Research projects are looking to improve brachytherapy; a treat-ment for prostate cancer patients using radio-active seeds placed dir-ectly in the tumour.

Current funding also supports informational anti-smoking programs targeted towards youth and studies focused on nicotine dependence in teenagers.

Smoking is the ma-jor cause of lung cancer in Canadian men and women and second-hand smoking alone kills more than 1,000 Canadians each year.

Last year’s top fundraiser, Annie Francois lights a luminary in memory of her mother at last year’s Relay for Life.

ERIN CHRISTIE FILE PHOTO

Taking steps toward finding a cure for Cancer

Ontario’s CAS workers urge ministry to “Put kids first”

Nearly fifteen local CAS workers brought their mes-sage to the street last week, during a brief rally held in front of the Leeds and Gren-ville Family and Children’s Services (FCS) offices last Wednesday afternoon.

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The Kinsmen Club of Brockville announced today that Brockville has been selected as one of the stops on the Portraits of Honour National Tour and that their members have begun planning a very special luncheon in honour of its visit.

The Portraits of Honour National Tour is sched-uled to arrive in Brockville on Wednesday June 18, 2011. And the Kinsmen Club of Brockville will hold a luncheon on at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 96 in Brockville. Tickets are $20.00, seating is limited to 300 guests. For tickets, contact Kins-man Club President Don Russell 613-345-2030 or Chairman Rob Smith at 613-498-0827.

The Portraits of Hon-our National Tour is cen-tered on a 10’ x 35’ oil painted mural featuring the hand painted por-traits of the 155 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air-crew who have lost their lives while serving in Af-ghanistan. The mural has taken Kinsmen and vol-unteer artist Dave Sopha over 6,500 hours so far to paint but admits that his work won’t be complete until our combat mission in Afghanistan comes to a close.

The mural will be toured across Canada in a specialized mobile dis-play trailer commencing May 27, 2011 and organ-izers expect to raise over $1.5 million. The funds raised will support the Military Families Fund and established military charities to assist families

of the fallen and to assist the thousands of military personnel who return home with physical or emotional injuries. Or-ganizers will also seek to fund other charities that offer additional troop and family support that falls outside of the Mil-itary Families Fund man-date.

Kinsmen Club of Brockville Chairman Rob Smith hopes to raise $6000.00 when the Tour stops in Brockville.

“There are so many brave men and women who proudly wear the uniform of the Canadian Forces and so many strong fam-ilies who remain behind to support them. Many of them need financial assistance. We need to make sure that ever dol-lar raised quickly finds its way to the people who most need it, and that our contribution will make a measurable difference in their quality of life,” said Chairman Rob Smith.

Kin Canada is Canada’s oldest all-Canadian ser-vice organization made up of men and women serving their commun-

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The magnificent Can-garda/Magedoma ar-rived in Brockville late Friday afternoon for a weekend-long public display to benefit Ful-ford Place museum. The century-old, 126-foot luxury yacht once owned by Brock-ville Senator and busi-ness magnate George T. Fulford, underwent a painstaking res-toration process by a team of experts under the owner-ship of doctor Robert McNeil of California. McNeil graciously agreed to temporar-ily return the ship in order to allow local residents to revisit its former glory.

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Your retirement readiness check-upDebbie McAllister – Division Director, Consultant

Managing your Money

You’ve thought about it for years – the day you move into retirement. But now that ‘the day’ is just around the cor-ner, you may be having other thoughts. Have you done everything you can to prepare for that day? Are there import-ant things left undone? Let’s relieve the stress right now with a review of retire-ment basics.

Your retirement income will derive from public sources like the Canada/Québec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP) or Old Age Security (OAS), from company pension plans and from your personal registered and non-retirement savings. You will need to apply for CPP/QPP and OAS. You can choose to start receiving CPP/QPP benefits any time between 60 and 70 but the benefits are reduced if you receive them before 65 and in-creased if you do so between 65 and 70.

A retiring allowance from your em-ployer that compensates for loss of employment, recognizes long service, or pays out accumulated sick leave benefits. It is fully taxable but you may be able to transfer portions of it to your RRSP and claim a deduction for the amount you contribute.

Your employer-sponsored pension plan may allow you to transfer your ac-cumulated benefits into a locked-in, personally-directed plan. You then as-sume the investment risk but you also reduce the risk of forfeiting some of your pension assets in the event that you and your spouse die prematurely.

Your group health coverage will likely end at retirement. Critical illness, long-term care and other supplemental health and dental insurance coverage may be needed to fill the gap.

Your RRSP income can kick in when you retire or, if you don’t need the in-come, you can contribute until the end of your 71st year when you have the choice of cashing in your plan, con-verting it to a Registered Retirement In-come Fund (RRIF) or buying an annuity.

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plan on attending must register in advance. The event is free of charge although donations are appreciated. To register call (613)342-2974.

Calling all Bands

Crosstown Impact is currently in search of lo-cal music groups to par-ticipate in their first an-nual Battle of the Bands on June 30th at the Pier Christian Church, locat-ed at 137 Church Street, in the Coleman Hall, from 2-9p.m.

The competition will be held in conjunction with this years’ PJ’s for Hope fundraiser, a lo-cal campaign that aims to collects new pyjamas for Interval House, a women’s shelter for vic-tims of domestic vio-

lence and the Family and Children’s Services in Brockville. Grand prizes include $400 value of six hours recording or mix-ing session with Bova Sound Ottawa, a cash prize, gift certificates for the band from Pete’s Music and Revolution Skate & Fashion Shop. The event will also fea-ture special guest band, Hello Kelly from Nash-ville, who will take to the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Band entrance fee is $20. Entries close on June 24th at 5 p.m.

For further informa-tion visit www.cross-townimpact.com or con-tact Greg Houldcroft at [email protected]

Entrance fees for the public is $5.

Proceeds from this event go to support Leeds and Grenville Interval House.

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POLICE BLOTTER

JUNE 2ND, 2011

37 year-old Arrested for Impaired Driving

On the 2nd of June 2011 at approximately 3:15 a.m., the Brock-ville Police received a report of a possible im-paired driver. Officers attended to the area of King Street West

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39 Year-Old Male Arrested for Theft

from VehiclesOn the 1st of June

2011 at 1 p.m., a 39 year-old male was arrested for going through vehicles in the Church Street area. The male is known to police for similar events in the past and was held for a bail hearing. Property was returned to the owners.

The ObserverEDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011 THE OBSERVER

THE OBSERVER EDITORIAL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

If anyone talks about not having anything to do in the Brock-ville area on the weekends during the summer months, they may have to check their schedules to include the great upcom-ing events and festivals.

Beginning this weekend, there are major events both indoors and outdoors, from entertainment to water sports, and of course the lineup of festivals that begins this weekend.

This weekend kicks off with the Jazz Festival’s first perform-ances and the Dragon Boat races, both favorites from years past. You can spend the evenings watching great jazz and the whole day Saturday watching exciting racing out on the St. Lawrence River.

Father’s Day weekend is just as busy, with the Wine and Food Festival, the Kemptville Ribfest and the final performances from the Jazz Festival. The Wine and Food Festival is heading into its second year and has already outgrown its previous facility, having relocated to the Memorial Centre to accommodate the expected crowds. Big Brothers Big Sisters opened an office in Kemptville earlier this year and is bringing the highly popular Ribfest to the North Grenville Community Centre for three days from June 17th-19th.

It is back to the water the following week with the Hydroplane races coming to town from June 24th-26th. The sounds of the roaring engines will catch everyone’s attention over the week-end, with some of the best racers in North America battling our local talent.

The following weekend is Canada Day and Riverfest. With this year’s lineup including INXS and a full day of local performances during ‘Brockville Day’, the festival should attract more locals along with those who will undoubtedly travel to see INXS, Julian Austin and a host of other talent.

Brockville Day on July 2nd will showcase two of the area’s big-gest up and coming bands. Bravestation and Colfax who have been touring across the country and the world over the past sev-eral months and will help bring a more youthful audience back to Blockhouse Island.

There are no excuses for those looking for something to do in the coming weeks. Whether you are a fan of racing, the river, music, wine tastings, ribs or anything else that is encompassed in these great events, get out there and enjoy yourself.

See you there. Austin de Luis

For more information on these great events check out the following websites.

http://kemptvilleribfest.weebly.com/ www.brockvilleriverfest.ca www.brockvilletourism.com/ www.brockvillehydroplaneracing.com www.brockvilleconcert.ca/ www.brockvillerowingclub.ca/support/support.html

YMCA Boston Pizza celebrationThe Brockville and Area YMCA, Board of Directors and Staff and Volunteers held their annual Boston Pizza Team Celebration on Thursday, May 26th at Boston Pizza in Brockville. The mid-campaign gathering helps to support awareness, and thanks all who help out with the campaign to raise funds for memberships and camperships. Big thanks go to Boston pizza for their support in this fun evening. From left to right are; Doris McKewan, Jason Price, James Cooper, Egon Weberg, Sandra Devaney and Beth Steel.

The Editor, It is no surprise to see

CUPE Local 5678 running this ad in an effort to protect jobs. That’s what unions do. What is surprising is that the content of the ad is in such wide variance with the facts. So let’s put the truth on the table.

The ad states: “Don’t let directors, superintendents and trustees reduce your school to an empty shell.”

This misleading state-ment suggests that school board trustees would turn schools into empty build-ings. That’s preposterous! Trustees have a duty to en-sure that the right number of staff members are employed to provide a safe learning en-vironment to meet the needs of students. We will continue to do so.

The ad states: “Schools are more than buildings. Just

imagine schools without Li-brary Technicians, Educa-tion Assistants, Custodians and Office Staff.”

This is also misleading. Why would CUPE want you to imagine something that could never happen? Sup-port staff members are needed to support student learning, as are teachers, psychologists, guidance counselors, etc.

The ad states: “The UCDSB needs to hear from you that any further cuts to support staff will affect your children’s safety and quality of education.”

Such an unfounded state-ment preys upon the fears of the parents of our most vul-nerable students.

The safety of children and the quality of education is not in jeopardy. Rather, and the union knows this, when student enrolment declines

so does per pupil funding received from the province. And guess what? Fewer students means fewer staff members are required in the school.

While our schools are staffed according to the provincial funding formula, at the Upper Canada District School Board we still em-ploy more educational as-sistants than we are funded for. But you won’t read that in the CUPE ad. That ad also doesn’t mention that CUPE negotiated a reduc-tion in educational assistant positions in exchange for 5 per cent more hours for that position.

Let’s keep the facts on the table.

Sincerely,Greg Pietersma

ChairUpper Canada District

School Board

Let’s put the truth on the table

The Editor, My father had bad heart

trouble and needed cardiac Bypass Surgery in 1985. He had this surgery, and lived until 1990, when he passed from a heart attack. Was the bypass surgery worth it? Be-lieve me any amount of extra time we got with him was way more than worth it. But what about the people who don’t have very good (or at least the outcomes expected of them) from cardiac bypass, or other heart surgeries? Should car-diac surgeries just be stopped?

Or, God help me, I am having a great deal of diffi-culty even asking this, and I feel awful about it, but what about chemotherapy and/or Radiation treatments? Some

people pass on despite going through these treatments, or for some poor souls, some-times the cancer comes back. Should Chemotherapy and/or Radiation treatments be stopped?

What about Organ Trans-plant surgery? The organs could be rejected, and the people die.

What about? What about? …. Should we just quit doing anything about anything?

My point is, why are Mul-tiple Sclerosis patients not given the opportunity to have a relatively safe, sim-ple, inexpensive Venoplasty treatment done in our own country? Even if keeping our Internal Jugular and our Azy-gus veins open, just halts the

progression of our disease? Is it not worth it?

Many people do not real-ize that MS is a very serious, sometimes eventually fatal disease, well over 400 Can-adians die from MS each year (not including the ones who commit suicide).

I do not believe hundreds or even thousands of people are having the same “Placebo Effect”. We are disabled, not stupid!

Health Care as well as other issues need to be ad-dressed. Please call, or better still, write your government officials as well as the media and let them know what you think.

Judy ButcherEaston’s Corners

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MAKE IT YOUR OWNBy Peter Yerdon, O.C.T Red Seal, Contributing Writer

Cooking is such a wonderful thing! R e c i p e s

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I always encourage using your own thoughts and inventiveness to explore the greater side of cooking, where the inspiration comes from does not matter. It could be from this column or from a recipe that you read and want to try with a different varia-tion.

A few years ago I was reading a re-cipe or watching a show not sure now, I just remember it was about pasta. The recipe included penne pasta that had been cooked al Dente. They then heated up about 2 - 3 tbsp of oil (Will depend on the amount of pasta) and

sautéed some hot peppers and then tossed the well drained pasta with the now fla-voured oil and peppers, a little par-mesan cheese some ground black pepper and voila an easy and dif-ferent way to serve pasta. Of course I had to try it.

Now pasta is versatile

and oh so easy to manipulate, try this recipe but substitute hot saus-age for the hot peppers, you can add goat cheese just crumbled in the mix-ture before serving. Or make a pasta Prima Vera but use the hot peppers and sauté some egg plant or zucchini or both. Go out on a limb use all of the above and get ready to be praised for your culinary delights. Instead of penne pasta try rotini or even regular spaghetti to prepare this dish and ex-tra virgin olive oil will add a different taste as well. If you take a few minutes to think about it the possibilities are endless and you can “Make it your Own”

Note: Make sure you use a big pot to cook the pasta, big water and that you have a big rolling boil. This will help the pasta cook evenly. Don’t over cook the pasta.

Enjoy!

There are times when being a wine writer in a small city in eastern On-tario is very similar to be-ing stranded on a desert island. Not in terms of readership, heavens no! From that perspective it is the most rewarding of vocations. There are a wealth of loyal read-ers who are interested in wines and provide instant feedback every time I meet them on the street. They also supply input via telephone and e-mail.

The stranded feel-ing comes from the fact that many wineries and agents focus almost sole-ly on the big city mar-kets. They sometimes seem shocked that there is a wine column outside the big city dailies. I pa-

tiently explain that there are people out-side of the big cen-ters that do enjoy a glass of wine and are keen to learn more about it. Then I have to explain where Brockville is!

So you can im-agine I was over-joyed when I got some assistance in promoting the cause of wine and wine knowledge in smaller centers, and specific-ally Brockville. However I was surprised at the source, the Brockville Tour-ism Office. Last year’s launch of the 1000 Islands Wine & Food Festival helped raise awareness amongst the producers and agents that wine culture exists

outside Ontario’s metropolises. The attendance of near-ly 800 helped em-phasize the point.

This year’s Fes-tival takes place on June 17th and 18th

at the Brock-ville Memorial Centre and if you’re a die-hard wine a f i c i o n a d o or just enjoy the occasion-

al glass you shouldn’t miss

it. I have worked and at-tended more wine show than I can remember and

this one matches up with the best of them. It has lots to offer in the way of food, beer and wine ex-hibitors, tastings (includ-ing one by yours truly), events and seminars. Miss it at your own peril!

Now to this week’s wine which will hopeful-ly hold us until the Festi-val. Australia’s Wyndham Estate Bin 222 Chardon-nay 2009 (CSPC# 93401, $12.50) is the best vin-tage of this particular wine in quite a long time, which is high praise as this has always been a well-made product.

The nose is fragrant

and enticing with for-ward pineapple, quince, peach and tropical fruit aromas. This is a medium bodied stunner with all the elements meshing seamlessly to produce a complex, deeply fla-

voured wine. Tropical fruit, peach, green apple and citrus fruit dominat-ed the palate with a little toasty oak spice and van-illa rounding out the fla-vour profile. The toasty oak is a byproduct of the wine undergoing partial fermentation and aging in oak barrels.

The palate’s creamy texture and deep fla-

vours are a result of the malolactic fermentation the wine undergoes as well as the fact that it is aged on lee, which both accentuate the natural fresh fruit flavours of the wine. A fresh, zesty acid-ity nicely balances the rich fruit, keeping it from becoming cloying and making this an excellent food wine. The finish has great length with cit-rus fruit and oak spices showing through.

You will most defin-itely be tempted to use this stylish Chardonnay as a backyard sipping wine, which is fine, but don’t stop there. It will nicely match chicken, pork chops and shrimp grilled on the barbecue. As well, local white-fish with a bit of flavour such as bass, pike and definitely pickerel will thoroughly enjoy our Aussie’s attentions.

Enjoy!

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I recently chose a movie for my wife and I to watch, called “The Cove”..... big mistake. I thought it was about this fellow, and the dolphins he trained. How-ever, it was an expose on a particular location in Japan where dolphins are corralled up in a large net-ted-in cove and slaugh-tered by the thousands. Let me quickly clarify to those of you who may not know, my wife and I are extreme animal lovers, or tree-hug-gers, whichever mon-iker you prefer. The images of that inlet, bright red with the blood of these ani-mals, and their still-moving bodies being dumped out to sea, were enough to make my wife ask me to turn the chan-nel, on the verge of tears. The film simply made me very angry...

Here we are in 2011, and with all the focus on

climate change, stupid ecological decisions are still made each day. The reason for the existence of the cove is relatively sim-ple. The Japanese believe that the dolphins eat fish

which are commercially important to Japan’s fish-eries. Japan coincidently has the largest fish market on earth. Every Septem-ber, despite the outcries from groups and individ-uals worldwide, dolphins

are herded into the cove by the thousands, and killed with long spears.

Japan is certainly not alone in this line of eco-logical stupidity. Right here in this country, wolves were killed by the hundreds in B.C., the Pre-miere of the province is refusing to end it, saying that it was to protect tro-phy game hunting, (by wealthy Americans). Any-

one who knows anything about predatory ani-mals knows that the sickly or weak are usually the prey which falls to these animals, thus strength-

ening the remainder of the herd. But they were shot anyway, from snow-mobiles, planes, and heli-copters, their carcasses left to rot in the snow.

Shark fin soup is in the University of stupid, put-

ting many shark species on the endangered list. I have no problem with someone fishing a shark to eat the entire animal, but you can guess what happens in most cases

one the shark fins are cut off. The rest of the shark is simply discarded over the side and usually still alive. The subject of in-vasive species also brings some dumb moves to

mind. Other animals brought here to Canada to control or eliminate the invasive ones, is just plain idiocy. Let’s bring in a beetle from Asia to eat

We humans have a long and enduring history of stupid

You see them every-where. They come in all sizes, shapes and ages. In an elite running com-munity like Brockville and area (because I have to at least mention Maitland) we have both famed run-ners and well known high school track athletes. For most of the runners a re-cent common goal was to participate in Ottawa Race weekend, which was held on May 28th and 29th. Various family, 5k, and 10k runs and activ-ities are held on the Satur-day, with the half and full marathons being run on the Sunday. Ottawa Race Weekend is a marvel, and a tourist boon to the city. Every hotel room sold out for that weekend, most accepting only a two night minimum stay. Most races capped at 11,000

were sold out in February. Without a major spon-sor since the departure of ING, two years ago, after the long run support of JDS Uniphase, Race Weekend is a marketing marvel and testament to the old adage, “build it and they will come”.

For the fourth year in a row, I tackled the 21.2 km half marathon, which had a new and different route this year. As I have each year, I ran with my same easy going running partner who, like me, has been plagued with in-jury, a busy life, and not enough training time. But… we did it. In the end

we accomplished our goal which was to cross the fin-ish line. The more experi-enced runners enter these contests with timed goals and train accordingly to achieve them, but I don’t think they have as much fun as I do. You know…it’s the journey not the des-tination. John Stanton, founder of the Running Room stores, is always contributing some great motivational quotes, like “it all starts with those first basic steps and soon becomes an adventure of a lifetime.”

Perhaps the Nike slo-gan says it best, “Just do it.” But not everyone as-cribes to this. Others whose training becomes interrupted would bail and not run the race, not revising their goal or fin-ishing time to support a

revised outcome, but not me. As I have in busi-ness, I would find a way to succeed, even with the adjustments. When I told

my friends and associ-ates who have seen me limp around for months that I would be participat-ing, they questioned me. Never for one minute did I hesitate, knowing that the distance would be covered with more walk-ing than running, and that my slow paced jog has generously been con-sidered as running.

Every runner has their own goal, and every run-ner has their own motiva-tion to take up the sport and train during the win-

ter, and into the wet and windy spring. Whether it’s to win, to beat a previ-ous time, to lose weight, stay in shape, or to get out of the house…the list is endless. In the be-ginning, I was looking to tackle and sustain some-thing that was really dif-ficult to me while teach-ing a small business start up program to adults. I

wanted a common de-nominator so that I could relate to their challenges and fears at having to work at something new before experiencing suc-cess. I told them to set goals for their business, work hard and perse-vere and I did the same with my running. As ob-stacles come up, find a way to work around them and get the job done as best as you can and try not to be disappointed when things happen that are beyond your control. Never quit, like the Nike slogan says. With all the challenges and uncer-tainty of where it will take you, starting a business is similar to my recent half marathon experience. I crossed the finish line, upright and smiling and achieved my goal.


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Crossing the finishing line – or getting there is half the fun

The more experienced runners enter these contests with timed goals and train accordingly to achieve them, but I don’t think they have as much fun as I do.

One would think that with all of the technology advances

we have seen, mankind might be a little smarter about things in general.

STEIN continues on page 9

The Brockville Ballis-tic Junior ‘C’ team had a great weekend, domin-ating the scoreboard en route to two wins.

On Thursday evening, the Ballistic hosted the Nepean Knights at the Memorial Centre. After a close first period where the hosts led 4-2, the Bal-listic blew the game wide open during the middle stanza scoring seven goals, taking an 11-4 lead into the final 20 minutes.

Brockville received a huge game from captain Doug Itting, who had six goals and an assist, while Travis Galaway had three goals and an assist, and Jake Fawcett had one goal and three assists. Devin Primeau and Dustin Mc-Inroy scored Brockville’s other goals. Colin Hal-

laday 38 of 42 shots he faced for the victory.

The Ballistic travelled to Mont-real on Friday to take on Kahna-wake. The score line was the same with Brockville coming out on top 13-4. The Ballistic were led once again by Itting, who registered two goals and five assists, while Mark Ferguson had two goals and three assists. Brockville also received goals from Issac Shar-ron, Nick Carbery, Jake Fawcett, Ryan Grimes, Garret Milne and Travis Gallaway had a pair in a winning effort. Halladay stopped 34 of 38 shots he faced for the win.

Brockville’s next home game is Thursday at the Memorial Centre against the Kingston Kings. Game time is 8p.m.

Brockville Ballistic dominate weekend scoreboard


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STEIN continues from page 8

this purple plant that is choking up our wetlands! The idea of course, is that once the plant is eradi-cated, the beetle has no more food to eat, and dies off. Unfortunately, nature doesn’t work that way.

The animal simply

adapts, finding something similar to eat, and thrives. What should we do about gobies and zebra mus-sels threatening the eco-system in the Great Lakes? I’m not really sure, but we shouldn’t compound a situation that happened

by accident, with a stupid decision that makes a new problem, or the existing problem worse.

I am not trying to pick on us as a nation, or Japan. Dumb stuff that affects ecology happens all over the world. I saw the CEO

of GoDaddy.com lean-ing against the dead car-cass of a “problem” bull elephant in Africa, rifle proudly displayed. In this online article, an elephant expert with decades of ex-perience pointed out that, after reviewing the video

of this incident on the popular site Youtube, she believed it was a female that was shot, not a bull.

One would think that with all of the technology advances we have seen, mankind might be a little smarter about things in

general.The one thing said

at the end of ‘The Cove’ that stuck me was, “If we can’t work together to fix THIS, this one thing, then it’s game over.” I couldn’t have said it bet-ter myself.

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Brockville Ballistic forward Todd Fawcett scores a goal during the hosts 13-4 victory over the Ottawa Knights in Junior Lacrosse action on Thursday evening at the Memorial Centre. PHOTO BY AUSTIN DE LUIS

For 24 laps Jessica Power was the class of the Sportsman field on Saturday night at Brock-ville Ontario Speedway. Then defending track champion Dylan Evoy showed up at the front of the field but Power would not be denied as she took the first DIRT Sportsman main event of her career in dramatic fashion on Kemptville Truck Centre night. Power led from the drop of the flag, only to have another restart bunch the field for a three lap dash. Evoy grabbed second quickly and pulled alongside the for-mer Rookie track cham-pion on the back straight on the final circuit. Power pushed her car a little harder through turns 3 and 4, and pulled ahead for a less than a car length triumph. Evoy settled for second in front of Brian Copp, Doug O Blenis and Dana Aikins. Power wasnt the only first time

winner on the night as Joe McNichols blasted by defending Rookie cham-pion Jean Marc Larose before the midway mark and then romped to the 16 lap Rookie feature victory lane. Larose was second across the finish line with Dwight Feltham, Bran-don Henderson and Josh Kirkland in tow. The 30 lap Modified event was by far the tamest, so far in 2011. Stephane LaFrance took his second win of the season by a half a lap over Matt Billings. LaF-rance in his home built chassis lapped all but 6 other cars. The Little Hammer got a little help after Danny O Brien and Todd Stewart got their front and rear bumpers attached to one another while battling for the top spot early. Jason Riddell was third while Tim O Brien and Bobby Her-rington were fourth and fifth respectively. Adam Moore’s crew managed

to reassemble the 35 after last week’s crash and he came home in a solid 6th.

Operation Harvest Sharing food drive NAPA Auto Parts of

Brockville is challenging the fans and race teams of Brockville Ontario Speedway to fill our de-livery truck with non-perishable food items in support of Brockville?s Operation Harvest Shar-ing Food Bank. All those that bring food items or make a donation will be entered in a draw for some great prizes which include two tickets to the NAPA 200 Nationwide race at Montreal. On Sat-urday June 11th at the NAPA Race Night we will have our staff situated at the pit entrance and at the main grandstand entrance to collect all do-nations. We look forward to holding a successful food drive for this worthy cause.

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It has been five years since Jen Grattan wres-tled in front of her home-town fans, and the 23 year-old Shimmer and Anarchy Championship Wrestling veteran is looking forward to seeing familiar faces in the crowd when the Great North Wrestling show hits the Youth Arena on June 23rd.

“I’m very excited to be wrestling at home”, said Grattan, who goes by the name of Portia Perez in the ring. “I haven’t had a show at home since I was 18 and just getting started. A lot has hap-pened since then”.

Grattan fell in love with wrestling at a very young age, going to shows at the Memorial Centre, where her mother Lee Ann used to work. “It was like an obsession for me since I was very little”, said Grat-

tan. “I always knew that this is what I wanted to do with my life”.

Grattan started offi-cially training at the age of 16 in Ottawa, taking the train to the school and later being driven home by her father Alan. She is now entering her fifth

year of touring and has been all over the world. Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania as well as sev-eral stops in North Amer-ica have highlighted her time in wrestling.

Grattan is currently in business school and hopes to start her own business organizing shows and schools in the future.

The show on June 23rd will be headlined by

WWE legend Brutus ‘the Barber’ Beefcake with other up and comers in-cluding; Hannibal, Soa Amin, Jeremy Prophet, Genesis, and Chaz Lovely as well as Grattan’s match against Montreal native Thirsty Domino. “We are very excited about

extending our grand into an area that we feel has been under-served by this kind of family entertain-ment”, said promoter Max Moskal. “East-ern Ontario has been a great market for

professional wrestling. If all goes well, we plan to come back on an annual basis”.

Advance tickets for the show are available through www.ticketweb.ca or at the Brockville Tourism Office at 10 Mar-ket St. W. Ticket prices are as follows: Stands- $10, General Ringside- $15 and VIP Gold Ringside- $20. Prices increase by $5 at the door.

Local wrestler highlights tour in BrockvilleBy Austin de LuisObserver Editor

Jen Grattan aka Portia Perez heads to the ring during a Shimmer show in Chicago. SUBMITTED PHOTO

“I always knew that this is what I wanted to do

with my life”.

Registration for the 1st annual BACF Pro-Am Golf tournament that will be held on Thursday, August 18th at Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course is starting to fill up. Organizers are hold-ing spots for area teams to enter, given the inter-est that is being shown by registrants from out-side Brockville, Leeds & Grenville. Registration forms are available on-line at www.yourcom-munityfoundation.ca.

David Dargie, BACF Executive Director re-marked, “We are experi-encing a high number of enquiries for the Pro-Am from outside of Brock-ville. Our hope is that local golfers will sign up now for this unique tournament that is shap-ing up in its first year to be one of the best char-ity golf tournaments in Eastern Ontario. We will hold several spots open for our local teams during the month of June so that they can ensure a regis-tration for August 18th.”

Ron Healy, recently retired Head Profession-al at the Brockville Coun-try Club and President of the Ottawa CPGA is busily recruiting 36 top notch professionals for

this event. The profes-sional entries will defin-itely have a familiar look with three Brockville area professional golfers entering the $10,000.00 tournament. Doug Wark, Head Profession-al at his home course of Smuggler’s Glen and Derek MacDon-ald, newly appointed Head Professional at the Brockville Country Club are both serving on the tournament commit-tee and playing in the August 18th event. Matt McMahon, a graduate of DePaul University, where he had a success-ful amateur career as an NCAA golfer, has turned professional and plays on several “mini-tours”. He will be joining Doug Wark and Derek Mac-Donald as the three local professional entrants.

Invitations have been sent out to profession-al golfers in Ontario, Quebec and Northern New York. Through the cooperation of a leading golf equipment manu-facturer, several mem-bers of that company’s stable of players will be invited. The latest invi-tation has been sent to Isabelle “Izzy” Beisiegel, the first woman’s profes-

sional golfer to qualify for the Canadian Men’s Professional Golf Tour. Ron Healy commented, “We are assured of a strong field of 36 pro-fessional golfers for this event. This will be a great opportunity for our amateur golfers to see how top players manage their way around a chal-lenging golf course like Smuggler’s Glen.”

The BACF Pro-Am is actually a two day event with a practice round and draw party being held on August 17th. The main event on Au-gust 18th will feature added entertainment value outside of the golf itself. Several items that are being lined up for the silent and live auc-tions, that will be held at the tournament dinner, will be one-of-a-kind that will not be found elsewhere. A major an-nouncement about one of these priceless auc-tion items will be forth-coming as soon as final details are arranged.

Enquiries about the BACF Pro-Am may be directed to David Dar-gie, Executive Director of the Brockville and Area Community Foun-dation.

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Chris Cauley 2nd Senior Boys High Jump

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With OFSAA being exactly one year to the day away, Ron Hun-gerford kicked off the historic date with a breakfast to bring the coaches, community leaders, dignitaries and media together. “We will have a lot of work to do over the next 12 months”, said Hungerford. “It is great to see the support this morning and we will need everyone here to make this a great event”.

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Elaine De Kroon of A & J Urethane bends a shot around Elsa Sante during the opening game of the Women’s Soccer League. PHOTO BY AUSTIN DE LUIS

On Friday June 3rd, 2011 leaders of the Brock-ville business community hit the links at the 23rd Annual Brockville & Dis-trict Chamber of Com-merce Golf Tournament hosted at the Brockville Country Club. The day proved to be especially fruitful for Chamber board member Tom Blan-chard, who won $2500 in the first-ever sponsored putting contest.

The putting contest which was sponsored by Peter Publow of Cobble-stone Realty took place at the end of the tourna-ment on the Brockville Country Club’s putting green. Many onlookers watched as Blanchard set-up for the challenging 50-foot putt.

In order to qualify for the putting contest, Blanchard was required to putt one of three balls through a putting board provided by Publow. Blanchard, along with dozens of other golfers qualified to make the

putt and was chosen by a random draw.

The contest was a new addition to the tourna-

ment this year, an idea put forward by David Keenleyside of the Cham-ber’s Golf Committee.

Blanchard wins first-ever $2500 put-ting contest at Chamber golf tourney

Over the years golf swing theories come and golf swing theories go, but there is a set of fundamen-tals for every golfer out there.

Do you swing your arms around your body or do you swing them up and down in front of your body? Swinging your armsaround your body is con-sidered to be a one plane golf swing. Swinging your arms up and down in front of your body is considered a two plane swing.

This identification was brought to light back in 2003 by Jim Hardy and ever since these swings have been labelled by several different names such as Stack and Tilt,Swing Ma-chine Golf just to name a few. The funny thing here is each golf swing has it’s OWN set of fundamentals. And in many ways they are totally opposite. This has certainly made my job as an instructor so much easier. I simply identify my student’s swing as they are warming up and then apply the appropriate set of fundamentals for that golf swing and away we go.

Mix the fundamentals of the two swings, good luck achieving any con-sistency. I have seen this with alot of my students over the years. Sure there are hybrids out there, players who mix the fun-damentals, but unless you are hitting hundreds of balls a day, you will never achieve consistent ball

striking. I know what you are thinking, prove it to me.

For me it’s easy, once I identify my student’s golf swing as either a one or two plane swing, I will then apply the right set of fun-damentals to my student’s swing. The improvement is usually immediate.You heard that right, im-mediate, not a week, not a month or a year from now, it should be within the next few balls you hit.

The ideas here are that one swing is steep and narrow- a two plane swing- and the other is shallow and wide- a one plane swing. With the one plane swing already shallow and wide, you definately don’t want any weight shift into your back leg. This will make an al-ready shallow swing shal-lower resulting in fat and thin shots. The two plane swing is steep and narrow, so moving your weight

into your back leg will give you the shallowing effect you need to hit great golf shots. Not moving into your back leg in a two plane swing will definately result in a golf swing that is a way to narrow and steep. The key here is to balance the amount of steepening effects with the amount of the shallowing effects, then my friend you will have the answer to suc-cessful ball striking. No-body around here teach-es this. And it certainly sounds Technical doesn’t it? It’s actually pretty sim-ple, not technical, you are going to be concentrating more on feels than on pos-itions in these golf swings.

Jimmy Connors is a good friend of mine and he is a great example of a golfer who mixed fundamentals of the two swings. Jimmy is a one plane swinger who adopted a lifting of his arms with an over handsy

takeaway during his backswing. I simply had Jimmy bend over a little more from the hips and told him to swing his arms as far behind him as he comfortably could. The results were astonishing to Jimmy, he hit the ball dead straight and long, elim-inating his butterball cut shot. The next round he played he shot an impres-sive two under 68 at the Brockville Highland Golf Club. Jimmy didn’t have to wait days, weeks or years to see his improvement. We have recently worked together on his takeaway and what a difference in his ball striking.


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Loyalist convention celebrates local history Descendants of United Empire Loyalists from across Canada visited Brockville and the area last weekend to attend their annual conference, which ran from Thursday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 5th. While here, the 180 delegates, and their guests were able to view the rich history of the area, including the significant contributions of the Loyal-ists who settled in this region during the late 1700s. The conference was hosted by the association’s Colonel Ed-ward Jessup Branch, named after Loyalist Edward Jessup the founder of Prescott. It is one of 27 branches across Canada. (Above, members David Hill Morrison, (left), and Town Crier, Lawrence Levere, (right)

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The popular Island Breakfast extravaganza is back it’s the sixth year on Refugee Island. This picturesque event enables residents and tourists without access to watercraft to visit one of the 16 City-owned Islands, and experience the panoramic vista and atmosphere of the 1000 Islands. The Island Breakfast is the first River-fest event and considered a highlight by past partici-pants. Only 700 tickets will be pre-sold for the three-day breakfast outing scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday June 28th, 29th and 30th as a ramp up to River-fest 2011. Rain or shine, the shuttles will travel between St. Lawrence Park and Refugee Island roughly every 15 minutes between 7:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Ticket prices are $10 each for adults and $5 for chil-dren (non refundable).

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• Genealogist to hear about latest developments in computer use in Canadian family history during their last scheduled meeting of the season on Monday, June 13th the Leeds & Grenville Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. At the Brockville Tabernacle, 2nd Conc. east of North Augusta Rd at 7:30 pm. The public is invited to attend.

• Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Leeds & Grenville 1st Annual Kemptville Ribfest Friday, Saturday, Sunday, June 17, 18, 19. Live music, kids shows, live pro wrestling, pony rides, boat shows, etc. Contact Big Brothers, Big Sisters for info. 613-258-4440.

• Social Ballroom Dance Club. Couples dance, Brockville Rowing Club, Friday, June 17, 8 pm. Info: 613-345-1073 or 613-342-3181.

• Front of Yonge Library presents local author Dave Wells to talk about his book Fact, Folklore and Fiction The History of Mallorytown on Friday, June 10th, 1:30 pm at the Library. Everyone welcome!

• WaterWorks - The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour present an important national exhibition at the Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Thursday, June 9 - July 20. Opening Reception Friday, June 17, 2-4. Info call 613-341-8892.

• Huge Indoor Yard Sale. Wall Street United Church, Brockville. Friday, June 10, 3-7 pm. Saturday,June 11, 9 am-2 pm. Bargains, treasures, baked goods. “Good Stuff for a Great Cause” in support of ‘Our Kenyan Kids’. Info: 613-342-9161.

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Flags were at half staff last Friday at the Upper Canada District School Board in honour of for-mer superintendent of education, Ted Kennedy, who tragically passed away last Thursday, fol-lowing a sudden collapse days before, while partici-pating in the annual Ot-tawa half-marathon.

“Ted Kennedy was a very talented colleague who brought grace and dignity to his work with our board,” stated Direc-tor of Education David Thomas.

“No matter what the challenge, Ted would al-ways return with the re-search and recommenda-tions that made the most sense. In my thirty years working in education, I have met very few people like Ted.”

“I admired Ted for his work and his work ethic. When many of us might want to wait for another

day to revisit the chal-lenge at hand, Ted would continue with a zest and a verve that were truly unique,” added Board Chair, Greg Pietersma .

“Our school board has lost a wonderful profes-sional but we’ve also lost a dear friend.”

In 2005 Kennedy cre-ated the Terry Fox Staff Challenge to inspire school board employ-ees to put on their run-ning shoes to walk, run, or roller blade to support the cause of Terry Fox. Kennedy single-handedly organized the entire chal-lenge that meandered throughout the board’s 12,000 square kilometer area culminating on Terry Fox National School Run Day.

At the time, Kennedy was quoted as saying, “The goal of the challenge is to celebrate the legacy of Terry Fox, to raise funds through donations for

cancer research, and have staff act as role models for our students demonstrat-ing the benefits of healthy living.”

“That will be Ted’s leg-acy to our board,” said Thomas.

“He inspired us to participate in the chal-lenge every September and he had every detail covered from planning the route to monitoring the progress to supplying bottled water. And often he would have his dogs along for the ride in his vehicle. This fall will be our opportunity to hon-our our memories of Ted.”

Kennedy, 58, served as superintendent of edu-cation from 2004 until March this year when he retired from the board. However, in April he began a new role as the executive director of the Upper Canada Leger Centre for Education and Training.

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Participants Bruce Spantor of Canarm LTD. and Mar-garet McDonald of Maple Leaf Environmental, en-gage in a friendly compe-tition during the United Way’s 9th annual Pricedex-EIT Corporate 8 Ball Chal-lenge, held at Sam’s Brass Racks in Brockville, last Fri-day.Twelve thousand dollars was raised in support of the United Way of Leeds and

Grenville and its 27 member agencies, during this years’ 9th Annual Pricedex-EIT Corporate 8 Ball Challenge, held recently at Sam’s Brass Racks in Brockville. More than 80 participating play-ers, representing 16 teams, and 25 sponsoring organ-izations participated with the teams representing BFI Canada Inc. and the City of Brockville, taking home the grand prize.

“I think the reason this event is successful every year is that it’s universal, everyone can come out, it’s friendly competition,” said United Way of Leeds and Grenville executive direc-tor, Judi Baril. “You don’t have to be good at pool, people just come down and have a good time raising money for a good cause.”

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Rotary awards four area students The Brockville Rotary Clubs awarded one student from each high school in Brockville with an achievement scholarship of $500. The criteria was students who excelled in every area of school including community involvement, after school activities, as well as academics. Each recipient must be graduating and headed to post-secondary school next year. From left to right are Erika Lamon of Ange-Gabriel, Hilary Geneau of St. Mary, Kim Van Assel-donk of Brockville Collegiate, and Joel Loiselle of Thousand Islands.

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In the first movie we were introduced to Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto), and his friend and his philo-sophical nemesis, Profes-sor Charles Xavier, the wheel-chair bound leader of the X-Men. In First Class we are told tales of their childhood, their first encounters with others of their kind and then each other. Theirs is a complex relationship and a tenuous friendship built on their outsider status as fellow mutants. The way they look at the world, and their place in it is built by their personal experiences as youth. Erik was a victim of Nazi cruelty, both as a Jew

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